110: The fireball technique evolved again, killing Qi Fei instantly

The battle between Ye Xiao and Qi Fei had already lasted for several hours.

Qi Fei had actually anticipated a prolonged battle.

After all, he could see Ye Xiao's attribute panel and knew that Ye Xiao's magic power was incredibly high.

But he also knew that the more powerful a spell skill, the higher the magic power consumption required.

Based on its power, Ye Xiao's Fireball, which was on the scale of a forbidden spell, would likely consume at least several thousand magic power, possibly even over ten thousand, with each cast.

Even if you had decent mana regeneration, allowing you to last a bit longer.

But the current situation completely exceeded Qi Fei's expectations.

And he saw that Ye Xiao's condition didn't seem to be declining at all. Could he really last for five hours?

At this thought, Qi Fei felt a little panicked.

He had always been cautious, otherwise, he wouldn't have stayed in Linhai Village for so many years without being discovered by the outside world.

After realizing that Ye Xiao's situation was abnormal, he didn't want to, and didn't dare to, gamble on whether Ye Xiao had the ability to last five hours.

So, Qi Fei immediately decided to call for reinforcements.

However, at this very moment...

The situation on the field suddenly changed dramatically.

The originally dense Fireball, for some unknown reason, suddenly expanded by an entire circle.

The color of the flames also changed from the original fiery red to an extreme ethereal blue.

What shocked Qi Fei even more was that his barrier, which had previously been able to block the Fireball, seemed to suddenly malfunction.

The ethereal blue Fireball passed directly through his barrier and smashed heavily into Qi Fei's body.

This sudden turn of events left Qi Fei no time to react.

Countless Fireball, like surging beasts, instantly devoured Qi Fei's tall figure.

In an instant, an incredibly tragic scream erupted from Qi Fei's mouth.

Unfortunately, no matter how he cried out, it was still useless.

Ye Xiao's expression was calm as he cast Fireball again and again.

In a flash, Qi Fei's entire body was completely melted.

As Qi Fei disappeared, the panel information popped up.

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[Ding! You have collected 1 water essence shard. All your water-based skill damage is increased by 20%]

[Ding! You have collected 1 water essence shard. Your water resistance is increased by 20%]

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Ye Xiao was somewhat surprised that two water essence shards had dropped from Qi Fei.

Adding these to the ones he had previously obtained, he now had six.

He was only four pieces away from collecting a complete water element essence.

Ye Xiao was quite happy.

Putting aside everything else, these six water essence shards alone brought him a 60% increase in water element skill damage and a 60% increase in water resistance.

His current water resistance, thanks to this, had surpassed his highest fire resistance, reaching 49,782 points.

Nearly 50,000 points of water resistance meant he could perfectly immune any water-based damage.

Of course, the premise was that the opponent had no means of reducing his resistance.

However, compared to collecting the water element essence, what made Ye Xiao even happier at the moment was that his Fireball had evolved.

Just a moment ago, immediately after learning that Xue Ling had revived the Plague Source Grub and successfully refined an exquisite gem.

Ye Xiao had Xue Ling conduct a transaction through the online exchange, trading over 10 exquisite gems.

In fact, many acquaintances choose this method when conducting remote transactions.

Because newly listed items only successfully appear after thirty seconds, but during this period, traders can search by ID to find the listed product in advance, so there's no fear of being intercepted.

Ye Xiao used this trading method to directly obtain 10 exquisite gems, which were skill upgrade stones, from Xue Ling.

According to Xue Ling, because it was her first attempt, and Ye Xiao provided corpses instead of living people, most of the life force had already been lost.

Therefore, she used a total of 1,800 Dragon Abyss Army corpses, plus the corpses of the five Level 180 Black-Clad Deacons, before successfully reviving the Plague Source Grub.

It was also fortunate to have those five Level 180 Black-Clad Deacons, otherwise, Xue Ling estimated that even if all 2,300 corpses were used, she might not have been able to revive the Plague Source Grub.

After all, according to the records in Snow Phoenix's notes, reviving the Plague Source Grub required the life force of living people.

Deceased Professionals lose their primordial power extremely quickly, so the effect would naturally be much worse.

Because of this, the eternal coins required to revive the Plague Source Grub during this period were much more than anticipated.

The 10 million eternal coins Ye Xiao gave to Xue Ling were basically all spent by her.

Upon learning this news, Ye Xiao couldn't help but secretly rejoice that he had given all the eternal coins to Xue Ling.

Otherwise, it might have ended in failure.

However, no matter what, the result was naturally good.

After reviving the Plague Source Grub, although Xue Ling couldn't contact Ye Xiao, she had received previous instructions.

Coupled with the rapid loss of life essence from the corpses.

So Xue Ling could only seize the time and refine exquisite gems according to the method Ye Xiao taught her.

Finally, using five hundred corpses and the energy from the remaining less than 2 million eternal coins, Xue Ling successfully refined 10 exquisite gems.

And after obtaining the 10 exquisite gems, Ye Xiao didn't hesitate for a moment, using them all on Fireball.

Originally, Ye Xiao thought that the power of Fireball was insufficient to penetrate Qi Fei's barrier, and that simply increasing its power would suffice.

But Ye Xiao never expected that after 10 upgrades, Fireball would evolve again.

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[Fireball: Consumes 10 magic power, simultaneously releases three Fireball. Each Fireball deals 1040 + 2 * (Intelligence) fire damage to the target. Additionally, your Fireball ignores all shield-type skills. Cooldown: 1 second]

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With Ye Xiao's current Intelligence attribute of 8065 points, plus various damage bonuses, the theoretical damage of a single Fireball has now reached 46,629 points.

No one in the novice zone could withstand one of these, let alone Ye Xiao instantly casting hundreds of Fireball; it was simply too violent.

At the same time, what truly allowed Ye Xiao to instantly kill Qi Fei was the last ability of Fireball.

Ignores all shield-type skills.

This ability was the true power of Fireball after its evolution.

From the results, Qi Fei's barrier was clearly also a shield type.

Ye Xiao's evolved Fireball could naturally ignore it, thereby directly dealing damage to Qi Fei's body.

Facing a Fireball whose power had more than doubled, even though Qi Fei's strength had greatly increased after consuming the corpses of Liu Hong and others, he would only die faster than them.

After Qi Fei's death, Ye Xiao also stopped casting Fireball.

But he did not relax his vigilance, instead, he fixed his gaze on Vivi, who was not far away, his eyes filled with confusion.

From beginning to end, this woman named Vivi showed no intention of making a move, not even the slightest hint.

Even after Qi Fei died, her expression remained incredibly calm, a calmness that made Ye Xiao feel a little uneasy.

He didn't know the woman's background, but to be able to remain expressionless after seeing him instantly kill Qi Fei, it was clear without thinking that this woman must not be simple.

Just as Ye Xiao was observing Vivi not far away, Vivi finally spoke for the first time.

"Are you very curious?"