104: The cleanup is over, Liu Hong's mutation

Inside Linhai Village.

“Bang bang bang!”

Dozens of Ocean Magic Frogs were shattered by Fireball.

From last night until now, nearly 20 hours had passed.

The sky had also changed from night to day, and was now about to enter night again.

Although these Ocean Magic Frogs were like targets for Ye Xiao, easy and pleasant to deal with.

But he couldn’t endure 20 continuous hours of monotonous combat.

Fortunately, the only thing to be thankful for was that the improvements these Oceanic Monsters brought to Ye Xiao were visibly increasing.

Currently, Ye Xiao’s Water Resistance had been stacked to 15832 points, while Ice Spear was a bit of a surprise, having accumulated a total of 185 orbs.

According to calculations, at least seventy to eighty thousand Ocean Magic Frogs in Linhai Village had been roasted to death by Ye Xiao.

If Qi Fei hadn’t lied to him, in about two or three more hours, he would be able to wipe out all these Ocean Magic Frogs.

During this period, Ye Xiao also tried to find out where these Ocean Magic Frogs were coming from.

However, after circling around Linhai Village, he found nothing.

These Ocean Magic Frogs seemed to appear out of thin air, which was very strange.

Ye Xiao couldn’t help but feel a little disappointed, but this didn’t stop him from continuing to clear out the Ocean Magic Frogs here.

Thus, another nearly two hours passed.

Ye Xiao gradually felt that the appearance rate of these Ocean Magic Frogs had significantly slowed down.

This discovery invigorated Ye Xiao.

It seemed it was almost over.

Thinking of this, Ye Xiao swept away his previous drowsiness and immediately perked up.

Boom boom boom!

Piles of Fireball were thrown out as if they cost nothing.

The newly appeared Ocean Magic Frogs didn’t even have time to croak before they met a tragic end.

Another while passed.

Finally, when the last Ocean Magic Frog in front of him completely fell.

Ye Xiao found that the Ocean Magic Frogs were no longer spawning.

At this time, his Water Resistance had harvested an additional 20323 points.

His total resistance even reached 31114 points, second only to Fire Resistance among all elemental resistances.

And such resistance, at this current stage.

Was almost equivalent to being immune to all damage from water elements.

Ye Xiao hadn’t expected that by accidentally taking on an impossible advancement quest, he would gain such an unexpected harvest.

In addition to the surge in Water Resistance, these nearly 100,000 Ocean Magic Frogs also provided him with a total of 347 Ice Spear orbs.

With the influence of his Talent, after learning 347 Ice Spear spells, his Intelligence also broke the 8000 mark, reaching 8065 points, and his maximum Health Points simultaneously reached 386990 points, nearly 400,000.

Such terrifying Health Points brought Ye Xiao an extremely satisfying sense of security.

The only pity was that these Ocean Magic Frogs were no longer spawning.

At the same time, with the disappearance of these Ocean Magic Frogs, he glanced at his quest progress.

Sure enough, the progress had changed; it showed that the monsters had been cleared, and prompted him to go to the Linhai Village chief to submit the quest and collect the reward.

Unfortunately, Ye Xiao walked around the village, but not to mention NPCs, he didn’t even find a single living creature.

Ye Xiao was extremely unwilling in his heart.

After all, with his potential, if he could advance normally.

He believed it wouldn’t be long before he would possess the strength to directly confront the Eight Great Families.

For a moment, Ye Xiao couldn’t help but sigh.

“Is there really no other way?”

And just as Ye Xiao’s mood gradually sank to rock bottom.

Suddenly, a voice came from not far away.

“Huh? You’re really here?”

Ye Xiao composed himself and quickly looked over.

Just as a figure walked over from outside.

Ye Xiao naturally recognized the person; it was Liu Hong from the Ziqiang Society.

At this moment, a hint of vigilance flashed through Ye Xiao’s heart.

With his current combat power, the every move of a Level 90 Professional who hadn’t yet completed his third advancement couldn’t escape him.

Unless he was a stealthy assassin-type Professional.

But Liu Hong wasn’t; according to what he learned yesterday, Liu Hong was a warrior.

However, precisely because of this, Ye Xiao became alert.

He hadn’t even noticed Liu Hong’s presence just now.

This point seemed a bit intriguing.

Liu Hong was slowly walking towards Ye Xiao at this moment, a simple and honest smile on his face.

“Xiao Xiongdi, I was calling you for a long time earlier and you didn’t respond. Fortunately, the President was worried about your safety and sent me to check, otherwise you would have been in danger.”

“I know you’re eager to try and complete the quest. We all felt the same way back then, so I understand, but it’s too dangerous here. You should come back to the camp with me first, and as for the quest, we can plan it long-term.”

Saying that, he was about to step forward and pull Ye Xiao.

Just then, Ye Xiao suddenly attacked Liu Hong without any warning.

As soon as he attacked, it was hundreds of scorching Fireball spells.

The stance was almost as if he intended to directly obliterate Liu Hong.

Ye Xiao’s sudden attack.

Clearly caught Liu Hong somewhat by surprise.

However, he had always been on guard against Ye Xiao, so he wasn’t too surprised.

What truly surprised him was the number of Fireball spells Ye Xiao cast.

He had never seen Fireball spells of such a scale.

However, the next moment, an extremely dense barrier suddenly rippled in front of Liu Hong.

The Fireball and the barrier instantly collided, continuously emitting “sizzling” steaming sounds.

Then Ye Xiao saw that his Fireball spells were directly extinguished after coming into contact with that barrier.

A moment later, 600 Fireball spells disappeared.

The entire Linhai Village was immediately covered by a thick layer of steam.

At the same time, Liu Hong’s voice came.

“Xiao Xiongdi, it seems you’re full of surprises. Fireball spells of such power, if I hadn’t reacted quickly, I’m afraid I would have died on the spot.”

He paused, then Liu Hong’s tone carried a hint of grimness as he said, “I came to find you because I was concerned about your safety, so why did you attack me? You’re making things very difficult for me.”

However, just as his words had not yet fallen.

A large mass of black energy struck without warning.

Netherflame Embrace!

Facing Ye Xiao’s unscrupulous attack, Liu Hong’s expression immediately turned cold.

“Good, good, good! It seems you really don’t know what’s good for you!”

At this moment, Ye Xiao’s voice finally came, accompanied by the reappearance of Fireball.

“Idiot!”

Liu Hong was furious, “Hmph! Your Fireball spells can’t break my barrier! My barrier is…”

However, he hadn’t finished his sentence when the barrier in front of him shattered without any warning.

This sudden scene greatly alarmed Liu Hong.

Looking at the Fireball spells that had suddenly arrived in front of him, he didn’t have time to think and tried to dodge.

The next instant, his expression drastically changed.

“My speed!!”

A slight smile played on Ye Xiao’s lips.

Liu Hong actually blocked his Fireball spells just now, which truly startled Ye Xiao.

The power of Ye Xiao’s Fireball spells now was difficult for even ordinary five-turn Professionals to resist, let alone Liu Hong, a common Professional stuck at the third advancement.

However, although he was shocked, Ye Xiao’s actions in his hands showed no hesitation.

Although he wasn’t sure what that barrier of Liu Hong’s was, that it could block his attack.

But Ye Xiao understood one thing: there was no unbreakable barrier in this world.

If there was, it meant your damage wasn’t enough.

The previous 300 Fireball spells, although not all hit Liu Hong, were enough to fully stack Lava Blade, directly reducing Liu Hong’s Fire Resistance by 5000 points.

Afterward, he threw out 35 Netherflame Embraces, which further increased the damage Liu Hong received by 525%, equivalent to 5.25 times the original.

Finally, the first effect of the shadow skeleton king's wind bone staff reduced Liu Hong’s dual resistances by another 20%.

At this moment, the power of Ye Xiao’s Fireball spells was several times stronger than before.

Facing such an unreasonable increase in damage and reduction in resistance, Liu Hong’s barrier naturally couldn’t hold up.

And after the barrier shattered, Netherflame Embrace and the first effect of the staff, Wind Entanglement, directly reduced Liu Hong’s speed to a negative number, which led to Liu Hong being unable to move an inch at present.

Unless the opponent had a crowd control removal skill, he simply couldn’t escape.

Clearly, Liu Hong didn’t have such an ability, so he could only watch helplessly as countless Fireball spells continuously enlarged in his vision.

However, just as the Fireball spells were about to hit him.

A strange black light suddenly burst forth from Liu Hong’s eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.

After the black light appeared, it instantly dispersed Ye Xiao’s Fireball spells.

Immediately following, Ye Xiao heard a “crunch, crunch, crunch” of painful wailing.

“You forced me… I’m going to tear your head apart…”

Accompanied by Liu Hong’s extremely suppressed pain, Ye Xiao, through the steam, quickly discovered with shock that the other party’s body was constantly swelling.

In the blink of an eye, he grew to three meters tall.

Suddenly, a roar, seemingly suppressed for a long time, erupted.

Instantly dispersing the surrounding steam.

At the same time, Liu Hong’s figure reappeared in front of Ye Xiao.

However, the Liu Hong from before was long gone, replaced by a massive, disgusting monster covered in rotten flesh.

Looking at this monster, Ye Xiao couldn’t help but widen his eyes.

What the hell?