184: The sweep begins, the power of the black spirit!

The moment the popping message appeared, the blue energy that was supposed to be on the Xiling Rune Beast instantly filled the entire space.

At the same time, Ye Xiao also felt his body become weak.

He glanced at his attributes.

His HP dropped directly from over 15 million to 470,000.

His Intelligence also decreased from 23446 to 703 points.

Ye Xiao's heart tightened; such weak attributes made him feel extremely insecure.

However, the Xiling Rune Beast was also gone, its entire body transforming into a sky full of faint blue light.

Ye Xiao was somewhat at a loss regarding the Xiling Rune Beast's puzzling behavior.

It had ridiculously high damage and could ignore his attacks, so why did it suddenly self-destruct for no reason?

At this moment, Xiao Jin's voice came through.

"Milad said this: 'Kid, this is the truly terrifying aspect of the Xiling Rune Beast. Through my past research, this Xiling Rune Beast is constructed from an energy body and possesses no intelligence. It only acts according to pre-set commands. Its damage is indeed very high, but it seems it can only launch two attacks each time it appears.'"

"However, after its attacks are ineffective, it will directly choose to self-destruct, covering the entire space with its energy and simultaneously casting a special curse on all objects within the space. Last time, Boqi barely withstood two attacks from the Xiling Rune Beast, and then encountered the same situation as you, eventually having to flee in a sorry state."

Upon hearing Milad's explanation, Ye Xiao finally understood the full story.

He felt somewhat fortunate. If the Xiling Rune Beast could have maintained its previous state and continued attacking, he truly would have had no way to deal with it.

Wait!

Ye Xiao suddenly realized that Milad had just mentioned that Boqi had fled in a sorry state after encountering this situation last time.

But the Xiling Rune Beast's curse only reduced attributes; it wasn't fatal at all?

Ye Xiao was about to ask, but then a sudden chaotic commotion came from not far away.

The next moment, Ye Xiao understood the reason without Milad's explanation.

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【Xi Ling Guardian】

【Level: 150】

【HP: 100000】

【Attack: 7000】

【Defense: 3000】

【Description: Remnant souls from the Xiling Ancient Clan, born from the energy of the Xiling Rune Beast. They have no consciousness, only the lingering obsession from their past lives, using their lives to guard this place.】

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Looking at the groups of black humanoid monsters rushing towards him not far away, Ye Xiao felt a headache.

To be honest, although these Xi Ling Guardians were Level 150 monsters, their attributes weren't very strong.

If it were the previous Ye Xiao, one Ice Spear could wipe out a whole group.

But now...

Ye Xiao looked at his weak attributes, feeling a bit helpless.

Although he somewhat blamed Milad, that old fellow, for always being an afterthought, Ye Xiao also knew that even if he had known beforehand, he wouldn't have been able to do anything about it.

However, Ye Xiao did not intend to give up just yet.

Compared to the Xiling Rune Beast's bizarre abilities, these guys in front of him were clearly just small fry.

While these Xi Ling Guardians were still some distance away, Ye Xiao launched his attack first.

Ice Spear!

Whirlwind Slash!

Fireball!

Due to theOverlay of Wolf's Eye, Ye Xiao's attack range was a full 300 yards.

And these Xi Ling Guardians seemed to be all melee.

Using the slowing effect of Ice Spear and the knockback effect of Whirlwind Slash, Ye Xiao began to unleash a large number of Fireballs.

Fireballs filled the sky, smashing towards the Xi Ling Guardians one after another.

However, each Fireball could only deal two to three hundred points of damage to the enemy.

Although Ye Xiao's current attributes were only 3% of his original, the power of Fireball should be more than this, which was enough to prove that these Xi Ling Guardians had extremely high magic resistance.

However, Ye Xiao had not originally expected these Fireballs to completely kill the Xi Ling Guardians.

A few seconds later.

Despite the delay caused by Ice Spear and Whirlwind Slash, the Xi Ling Guardians still broke through Ye Xiao's blockade and reached him.

Looking at their ferocious, pale faces up close, Ye Xiao's expression remained unchanged.

He delivered a direct blow to the Xi Ling Guardian at the very front.

“Bang!”

Under theOverlay of thousands of skill powers.

Without exception, that Xi Ling Guardian was directly exploded, leaving not even a speck of dust.

However, at this moment, other Xi Ling Guardians had already rushed up, and with Ye Xiao's current physique, he couldn't withstand many hits.

However, Ye Xiao remained calm about this.

Absolute Evasion!

Activate!

The next moment, countless long spears pierced forward, but all struck nothing but air.

With the help of Absolute Evasion, Ye Xiao once again unleashed a barrage of skills without restraint, accumulating damage for the next wave of monster weapons.

At the same time, he also took a moment to check his information panel.

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【Ding! You killed a Xi Ling Guardian and gained 3843 experience points.】

【Ding! Congratulations, you have leveled up to Level 2.】

【Ding! Congratulations, you have leveled up to Level 3.】

...【Ding! You killed a Xi Ling Guardian and gained 1 Black Spirit Power.】

【Ding! You killed a Xi Ling Guardian, and the curse power has been slightly weakened.】

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Upon seeing the experience gained and the leveling up messages, Ye Xiao couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief.

As long as he had levels and experience, it was like having an extra life.

According to Ye Xiao's original plan, as long as he could gain experience after killing a Xi Ling Guardian, he could completely rely on Nourishment of the Earth to wear down this group of humanoid monsters.

However, upon seeing the last two messages, Ye Xiao was somewhat surprised.

Black Spirit Power? What is this?

While wielding skills, Ye Xiao asked Milad.

However, Milad's answer was that he didn't know, only saying it was a unique energy from the Xiling Ancient Clan, similar to the magic power of Human Job Holders, both being a form of energy manifestation.

Ye Xiao was very speechless about this, feeling that ever since entering the pile of rocks, this ancient ruins researcher, highly praised by Boqi, hadn't helped at all.

Ye Xiao couldn't help but wonder if this old fellow had really been here before.

However, Ye Xiao didn't have time to complain, because he found that he could actually see the introduction of Black Spirit Power.

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【Black Spirit Power: A new energy formed by the Xiling Clan using their unique energy, fused with the power of the Black Dragon. When enough Black Spirit Power is collected, it can be injected into equipment and skills, causing them to be amplified by curse power. While amplifying, it will also come with some negative effects, please use with caution.】

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Ye Xiao, seeing this, was clearly somewhat surprised.

He hadn't expected this Black Spirit Power to have such an effect.

After a brief thought, Ye Xiao tried to inject Black Spirit Power into Fireball.

However, the message indicated that the required Black Spirit Power was insufficient, and the injection failed.

Helpless, Ye Xiao shook his head and could only temporarily suppress his curiosity.

Then, his gaze was drawn to the last piece of information.

Upon seeing this message, Ye Xiao immediately looked at the icon representing the weakened attribute in his status bar.

He was surprised to find that the 97% attribute reduction status had now become 96.9%.

Seeing this, Ye Xiao instantly understood.

It turned out that the Xiling Rune Beast's special curse could be removed by killing Xi Ling Guardians.

Although he didn't understand why there would be such a strange rule, it didn't stop Ye Xiao from regaining his confidence.

At this moment, the effect of Absolute Evasion was still active. After accumulating and unleashing thousands more Fireballs, Ye Xiao successfully killed another Xi Ling Guardian.

Sure enough, in addition to experience and Black Spirit Power, the debuff status changed again, becoming 96.8%.

With this, Ye Xiao's confidence instantly surged.

Taking advantage of Absolute Evasion, Ye Xiao began to continuously release skills, auto-attack to harvest, release skills, auto-attack to harvest... In the blink of an eye, he easily dealt with 20 Xi Ling Guardians using magic weapons. At the same time, although the damage of Fireball was not high, Ye Xiao's release speed and quantity were too great.

Even though the Xi Ling Guardian had 100,000 HP, it unfortunately had no HP recovery ability.

So next, one Xi Ling Guardian after another fell before Ye Xiao.

When the duration of Ye Xiao's Absolute Evasion ended, a clear space also appeared in front of him.

At this moment, Ye Xiao's level had also reached Level 20 again.

Although this leveling speed was not as fast as killing Professionals, it was still quite quick. This was also because the experience provided by the Xi Ling Guardians was less than outside, otherwise it would have been even faster.

Of course, the most important thing was that with dozens of Xi Ling Guardians falling, Ye Xiao's attributes had now recovered to 8.3% of his original.

His Intelligence attribute also increased to 1946 points, and his HP to over 1.3 million.

This amount of HP finally brought Ye Xiao some sense of security.

And with the increase in Intelligence attributes, the single Fireball damage now returned to over 13,000 points. Although the Xi Ling Guardians had extremely high magic resistance, Ye Xiao only needed less than 20 Fireballs to take down a Xi Ling Guardian.

With the increase in damage, the subsequent battles became extremely easy for Ye Xiao.

He didn't even need to use magic weapons, just pairing them with the crowd control of Ice Spear and Whirlwind Slash.

Ye Xiao only took about 10 minutes to kill all the Xi Ling Guardians in front of him.

And his level also reached Level 30, with his attribute status recovering to 33%.

Although he still couldn't recover to his peak state, with Ye Xiao's already extremely exaggerated attribute combat power, even 33% was enough for him to cope calmly.

After these hundreds of Xi Ling Guardians were eliminated, this layer of space also experienced a brief period of calm.

At this moment, Ye Xiao finally had time to check the Black Spirit Power he had just collected, which amounted to a full 300 points.

Ye Xiao planned to experiment with Fireball to see the effect.

Anyway, he had a lot of Fireballs, so even if the effect after injecting Black Spirit Power wasn't good, the impact wouldn't be significant.

In fact, it wasn't that Ye Xiao didn't want to experiment with equipment, but at his current level, the only mythical equipment he could take off and put back on was the endless chain of life and the ring of plague origin.

The former provided him with a massive amount of HP, while the latter allowed him to cast spells twice.

Before thoroughly determining the effect of this Black Spirit Power, he absolutely dared not act recklessly.

After making his decision, Ye Xiao began to try injecting Black Spirit Power into Fireball.

The next moment, a hint of black energy surged out.

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【Ding! You injected 300 Black Spirit Power into Fireball.】

【Ding! Your Fireball has undergone a mutation.】

【Ding! Affected by your Talent, all your Fireballs have undergone a mutation.】

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Ye Xiao's eyes widened, and then his heart was startled.

A single injection caused all Fireballs to mutate, which was somewhat beyond Ye Xiao's expectation.

What if the mutated Fireball's effect wasn't good? This was no laughing matter.

Thinking of this, Ye Xiao hastily opened his skill panel to check the effect of Fireball.

However, after seeing it...

Ye Xiao was completely stunned, and his breathing became rapid at that instant.

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【Fireball (Mutated): Consumes 50 mana, deals 480 + 1.0 * (Intelligence) fire damage to targets in a 10 * 10 range, and reduces target's fire resistance by 20%, but your Fireball cast count decreases from three to one. Cooldown: 1 second.】

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No wonder Ye Xiao was so excited after seeing the effect of Fireball.

The mutation amplification of this Black Spirit Power was simply too abnormal.

Although there was no damage amplification, and the mana cost increased to 50 points, for Ye Xiao, with his current mana of over 23,000 points, it had little impact.

The most important thing was that Fireball, which was originally single-target damage, directly transformed into 10 * 10 area damage.

In fact, this damage amplification was a solid several-fold increase.

At the same time, the mutated Fireball also came with a 20% fire resistance reduction, which also significantly increased the damage of Fireball.

As for the original evolved Fireball being able to cast three at a time, Ye Xiao had always used it as an area skill.

Now that the mutated Fireball comes with a larger area damage, this negative effect is simply insignificant, not to mention that the original three Fireballs only had 80% effect, and now that it has returned to one, the damage naturally returns to its original damage.

With all theseOverlay, after the mutation of Fireball, in Ye Xiao's eyes, there were no negative effects at all, only terrifying amplification.

How could this not excite Ye Xiao?

Of course, what initially made Ye Xiao uneasy was that this Black Spirit Power would simultaneously change all skills with the same name. Now, in Ye Xiao's eyes, it could only be described with two words: 'truly fragrant.'

Now, his overall combat power could be said to have increased significantly.

His only current concern was that he had used up all his Black Spirit Power, and he didn't know if he could collect more.

If he could mutate all his skills, the increase would definitely be described as terrifyingly powerful.

It seemed that the heavens heard Ye Xiao's prayer, and soon responded.

The ruins, which had been briefly peaceful, began to vibrate again.

Ye Xiao's heart stirred, and he looked forward with immense anticipation.

Sure enough, soon, dense humanoid monsters once again rushed towards him.

However, compared to before, Ye Xiao was incredibly relaxed now.

The appearance of these monsters was simply a delivery service for his Black Spirit Power.