155: Equipment fully upgraded, with a gratifying increase

Ye Xiao exchanged all his points.

At this moment, a new prompt suddenly sounded in the Endless Trial space.

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【You are the first challenger to complete fifty layers of the trial, and are hereby awarded a random Skill Stone.】

【The difficulty of the Endless Trial mode has been fully upgraded, point rewards have been completely refreshed, point rules have been reset to zero, and challengers can obtain a Guardian Light. After receiving a fatal blow, they will automatically be teleported out of the Endless Trial space.】

【The Guardian Light only exists once. A second death will not result in revival. Do you wish to continue the challenge?】

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“There’s more?”

Ye Xiao frowned slightly upon hearing the prompt.

He wasn't sure what kind of boss he would encounter after the difficulty upgrade.

Given his previous encounter with the Polar Blood Fly, even with all his confidence, Ye Xiao had to proceed cautiously.

According to the information, the upgraded difficulty no longer offered infinite revivals; there was only a single, one-time Guardian Light, which would be gone once used.

Since the point streak rewards had also been reset, he decided it would be better to challenge again when he was more confident.

After a moment of contemplation, Ye Xiao made his decision and shook his head, saying, “No challenge.”

As his voice fell, his vision shifted, and Ye Xiao reappeared before the Endless Trial stele in Liyue City.

After coming out, Ye Xiao let out a slight breath, then opened his backpack.

He had unexpectedly received a random Skill Stone just now, and he was eager to see what skill it would be.

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【Ding! You used a random Skill Stone. Congratulations, you have obtained the skill — Absolute Evasion.】

【Absolute Evasion: After activation, you gain 100% evasion rate for 1 minute. Cooldown: 15 minutes.】

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When Ye Xiao saw the words Absolute Evasion, his eyes lit up, but after seeing the skill description, he felt a slight disappointment.

He had initially thought it would be a passive skill like the Polar Blood Fly's, which would make him invincible. He didn't expect that after all that, the Absolute Evasion he obtained was an active skill.

The duration was only 1 minute, while the cooldown was as high as 15 minutes. Even with his maximum cooldown reduction, it would still have a 4 minute and 30 second cooldown, leaving a 3 minute and 30 second gap.

However, Ye Xiao quickly realized that although Absolute Evasion only lasted for 1 minute, that 1 minute was equivalent to being invincible.

In a truly evenly matched battle, 1 minute could almost decide the winner, or even life and death.

Moreover, he still had several life-saving methods. If he used them all, he could likely last until Absolute Evasion's cooldown ended.

This effectively gave Absolute Evasion a two-minute duration.

With this thought, Ye Xiao swept away his previous disappointment and began to examine the items he had just exchanged.

There were 80 Endless Forging Stones and 80 divine wind ingot stones. This seemed like a lot, but if distributed among each piece of equipment, the number of uses would be very small.

His weapon, shadow skeleton king's wind bone staff, was currently a Level 90 equipment, while dragon's sigh robe was a growth-type equipment, its level increasing with Ye Xiao's level.

So, Ye Xiao planned to first raise the levels of his other three Mythic-grade pieces of equipment. As for other slots, Ye Xiao naturally had no intention of using Endless Forging Stones.

It would be too wasteful.

As for the remaining Endless Forging Stones, Ye Xiao planned to save them for later, to be used when his level had increased to a certain extent.

As long as he used them sparingly, they would be enough to keep his Mythic equipment levels on par with his own.

Having made his plan, Ye Xiao directly pulled out three Endless Forging Stones.

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【Ding! You used an Endless Forging Stones on endless chain of life (Mythic). Your equipment has been upgraded.】

【Ding! You used an Endless Forging Stones on ring of plague origin (Mythic). Your equipment has been upgraded.】

【Ding! You used an Endless Forging Stones on phantom amulet (Mythic). Your equipment has been upgraded.】

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Three consecutive prompts sounded.

With the equipment upgrades complete, Ye Xiao quickly checked the attributes of the three items.

The endless chain of life's all-attribute bonus of +220 points directly increased to +500 points with the equipment level increase.

It more than doubled in one go. Calculating this, one Endless Forging Stones added 1120 attribute points to the endless chain of life.

Similarly, the ring of plague origin's original attributes were Agility +640 and Intelligence +320. After upgrading, they became Agility +1300 and Intelligence +680.

The phantom amulet was originally a Level 60 equipment, so its attribute increase was less than the other two items: Constitution went from 780 to 970 points, and Agility from 840 to 1030 points.

In total, the upgrade of these three Mythic-grade pieces of equipment brought Ye Xiao a total attribute increase of 2520 points.

Of course, these equipment attributes would normally not have such significant changes.

But because Ye Xiao possessed Water Nourishment and Purification Spring, this situation occurred.

Overall, Ye Xiao was quite satisfied with the effect of the Endless Forging Stones.

Next, Ye Xiao took out a divine wind ingot stones. Given the prior effect of the Endless Forging Stones, he was quite expectant of this stone that could change equipment effects.

His primary target for forging, naturally, was the endless chain of life.

This necklace had two effects.

Effect One: All your professional skills gain +100 damage.

Effect Two: For every skill you possess, your maximum health increases by 200.

At Ye Xiao's current combat power, Effect One of the necklace had almost become a mere decoration, but Effect Two was crucial for Ye Xiao's health. Ye Xiao could lose anything but that.

So, he wanted to see if he could improve Effect Two of the necklace.

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【Ding! You used a divine wind ingot stones on endless chain of life (Mythic). Your equipment's Effect One has been enhanced.】

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After looking at the enhanced effect, which stated, “All your professional skills gain +200 damage,” Ye Xiao fell silent.

He had wanted to enhance Effect Two, but his luck was so bad that he enhanced a useless effect.

300,000 points just for a 100-point damage increase? Ye Xiao couldn't help but inwardly complain.

However, complaining aside.

Ye Xiao gritted his teeth and continued to take out another divine wind ingot stones, using it on the necklace.

He refused to believe it.

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【Ding! You used a divine wind ingot stones on endless chain of life (Mythic). Your equipment's Effect Two has been enhanced.】

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“It worked!”

Ye Xiao's eyes lit up when he saw the prompt.

He quickly checked the attributes of the endless chain of life.

Upon seeing them, Ye Xiao's eyes widened, and he felt his breathing quicken.

This effect was heaven-defying!!!

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【endless chain of life (Mythic)】

【All Attributes +500】

【Smelting Effect: Increases the projectile speed of all fire-type skills.】

【Blessing of Wind Effect: Increases the projectile speed of all wind-type skills.】

【Effect One: All your professional skills gain +200 damage】

【Effect Two: For every skill you possess, your maximum health increases by 400】

【Equip Level: Level 90】

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