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Chapter 167 Loading Successful!! [Snow-Treading Wuzhui]!!

"Witchcraft?"

Sun Po pinched the koi in his hand and asked doubtfully, "You mean witchcraft turned the powerful enemy that captured [Snow-Treading Wuzhui] into this small fish?

A monster standing a hundred zhang tall with at least an orange quality starting point, what kind of witchcraft could turn such a giant into such a tiny koi?"

[Wuzhiqi] said, "Although it sounds bizarre, according to the inherited memories left to me by the previous [Wuzhiqi], I'm afraid it is indeed witchcraft, and it's witchcraft from ancient times."

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Sun Po was surprised in his heart. He was not unfamiliar with the word witchcraft; whether in his past life on Earth or in the card world of this life, witchcraft existed. However, although the names were the same, their essences must have diverged greatly.

Because in Sun Po's impression, witchcraft on Earth seemed to be more of a sacrificial activity, achieving communication with deities or accomplishing certain purposes through some rituals. Meanwhile, witchcraft in this world was more of a secret technique similar to spellcraft and sorcery.

There were a few ancient aristocratic families in the southwest region that passed down some witchcraft, and besides that, the Northern Ice Bear Kingdom also seemed to have some witchcraft heritage.

But Sun Po had never known witchcraft to have such great power, and he inwardly heightened his vigilance against such mysterious methods.

This world was full of bizarre secret techniques, and there might just be such insidious tricks similar to legendary transformation spells. In the future, he still had to be careful to guard against them and avoid capsizing in the gutter.

[Wuzhiqi] continued, "Master, although my [Divine Golden Eyes] have a restraining effect on curses and illusions, they are powerless against witchcraft. Therefore, I cannot see through the true form of this small fish."

Sun Po said, "It's fine. We were originally going to help [Overlord Xiang Yu] retrieve [Snow-Treading Wuzhui]. This small koi and this wind cluster are both unexpected gains, so we'll just take things as they come."

It was not yet dawn, but Sun Po could no longer sleep, so he decided to continue loading the [Snow-Treading Wuzhui] MOD for [Overlord Xiang Yu].

"MOD [Snow-Treading Wuzhui] loaded successfully!! Obtained 100 system experience points! Current remaining: 6306 / 10000 points"

This loading was very smooth without any twists or strange phenomena; the loading was completed almost instantly.

This was also normal. The card quality of [Overlord Xiang Yu] was already far higher than [Snow-Treading Wuzhui], and the two were old partners and comrades who knew each other well, so the loading was naturally a matter of course.

Previously, when [Spirit Monkey] loaded [Changyou] or [Warrior] loaded [Double-Pupil], the reason there was such a big commotion was mainly because the gap between the card and the MOD to be loaded was too large. It was like a small snake trying to swallow an elephant, which was naturally extremely strenuous, and the commotion would naturally be much larger.

Sun Po also glanced at [Overlord Xiang Yu]'s panel. Other aspects hadn't changed much, except for two new traits and two new skills. The two traits were as follows:

"[Resonance]: [Snow-Treading Wuzhui] carries a trace of bloodline of the same origin as Xiang Yu. When [Overlord Xiang Yu] rides [Snow-Treading Wuzhui], he gains a slight attribute buff. At the same time, when [Overlord Xiang Yu] rides [Snow-Treading Wuzhui], all skills and trait effects used gain a slight buff.

[Cavalry Form]: [Snow-Treading Wuzhui] is a rare steed in the world. When riding [Snow-Treading Wuzhui], [Overlord Xiang Yu]'s agility and perception attributes receive a significant buff, while unlocking a cavalry form better suited for raids."

As for the skills, they were two active skills:

"[Riding the Wind]: [Snow-Treading Wuzhui] can ride the wind with its four hooves, gaining flight capabilities while drastically increasing the damage and speed of its charge.

[Surging Wind Passage]: The bloodline of [Snow-Treading Wuzhui] possesses the ability to devour wind. By sheer coincidence, [Snow-Treading Wuzhui] absorbed a massive amount of [surging wind].

This allows [Snow-Treading Wuzhui] to summon a massive amount of [surging wind] during a charge to enhance its charging power."

Sun Po was overjoyed. This MOD truly lived up to being transformed from [Overlord Xiang Yu]'s old comrade, boasting a compatibility rate of a whopping two hundred percent.

First was [Resonance]. Sun Po hadn't expected that a mere horse could actually possess a trace of the chaos demon god bloodline of the same origin as [Overlord Xiang Yu], and could even provide all-around buffs to [Overlord Xiang Yu].

It was probably precisely this trace of bloodline that made [Overlord Xiang Yu] search the entire world and finally decide to use [Snow-Treading Wuzhui] as his mount.

Although the description of the [Resonance] skill wrote "slight buff", one must know that this slight buff included traits. For stackable and growth-oriented traits like [Breaking the Ranks], [Hating Heaven Without Handles], and [Hating Earth Without Rings], even a slight improvement, accumulated over time and days, would become a huge enhancement.

Especially because [Overlord Xiang Yu]'s [Demon Gods Mighty Power] trait made the power of Demon Gods Mighty Power stronger the higher the physical strength and blood essence attributes were.

[Hating Heaven Without Handles] and [Hating Earth Without Rings] could be said to be the core traits of [Overlord Xiang Yu]. Every single point of improvement could increase [Overlord Xiang Yu]'s growth speed. Therefore, based on this point alone, [Snow-Treading Wuzhui] already had immense value, not to mention that [Snow-Treading Wuzhui] could also help [Overlord Xiang Yu] unlock the cavalry form.

All along, [Overlord Xiang Yu] had a shortcoming, and that was speed.

This had been the case since the [Double-Pupil Warrior] period, and there was still no improvement after awakening his true name. It was just that [Overlord Xiang Yu] was too powerful and had always adhered to the path of breaking all laws with sheer force and brute strength flying bricks.

This was also because Sun Po had always possessed extremely powerful stats, incomparable to anyone among his peers. The path of brute force was only suitable for use when crushing with stats.

Once a day came when he encountered an enemy whose stats were on par with Sun Po, then this weakness of [Overlord Xiang Yu] would likely be targeted.

Under the [Cavalry Form], the agility and perception attributes gained by [Overlord Xiang Yu] were both his own shortcoming attributes, which could be said to specifically make up for his weaknesses. At the same time, Sun Po believed that under the [Cavalry Form], there were many hidden buffs not shown literally. For example, a cavalryman's combat style must be vastly different from that of infantry, and many attack methods that couldn't be used as infantry could be unlocked in the cavalry form.

The improvement of this seemingly unremarkable [Cavalry Form] to [Overlord Xiang Yu]'s tactical choices and killing efficiency was definitely not as simple as it looked on paper.

Secondly, the two active skills were also extremely powerful, powerful enough to make Sun Po find it hard to believe that these were skills a purple-tier MOD could provide.

Needless to say about the first one, [Riding the Wind]—you could fly directly just by riding it, what else was there to say?

You must know that even now, if Sun Po wanted to fly, he still had to rely on the Water Control methods while wearing the [Black Rhino Armor] to achieve a disguised flight effect; he couldn't hope for speed or durability at all, barely managing to get into the sky.

As for [Snow-Treading Wuzhui], it stepped on the wind with its four hooves and went straight up into the sky, while also greatly enhancing the speed and damage of its charge.

You must know that the most terrifying thing about cavalry was the charge. Since ancient times, cavalry had been the ace among all branches of the military. A thousand-man heavy cavalry could easily rout infantry ten times its own number.

And the reason cavalry could securely sit as the ace of all military branches and win against the many with the few relied entirely on the single hand of a charge.

It could be said that the charge was the most practical combat tactic of cavalry and also the soul of cavalry, and the power of the charge was largely determined by the speed of the cavalry.

On cavalry, the saying "Of all martial arts under heaven, only speed cannot be broken" was completely applicable. Then on this basis, what if the cavalry rode the wind and descended from the sky to charge back and forth? Sun Po no longer dared to imagine it.

Regarding the final active skill, [Surging Wind Passage], Sun Po did not understand it very well.

As for the term [surging wind], Sun Po happened to have heard of it in his past life.

According to the records of "Lüshi Chunqiu: Beginning", [surging wind] was one of the eight winds between heaven and earth, born from the "trembling Qi" between heaven and earth, also called [Mingshu Wind], corresponding to the east wind.

The Eight Winds were the classification method for wind in ancient China, integrating the systems of Yin-Yang, the Five Elements, and the Eight Trigrams. In addition, there were [lao wind] corresponding to the west wind, [ju wind] corresponding to the south wind, [han wind] corresponding to the north wind, [yan wind] corresponding to the northeast wind, [xun wind] corresponding to the southeast wind, [qi wind] corresponding to the southwest wind, and [li wind] corresponding to the northwest wind.

Among them, the characteristic of the [surging wind] possessed by [Snow-Treading Wuzhui] was that the wind force was fierce and turbulent like waves. If [Snow-Treading Wuzhui] could summon a massive amount of [surging wind] to attack the enemy together when summoned, that power—tsk tsk.

Sun Po suddenly thought that in the [Chibi Purgatory] secret realm, besides the boiling river water, another major feature seemed to be the endless, unceasing gale.

"[Surging wind], east wind... Zhuge Liang borrowing the east wind, Zhou Yu burning Chibi. Could this [wind seed] be something left behind by Zhuge Liang? The [boiling fire] in the [Chibi Purgatory] secret realm?

Then with this [wind seed], would there also be a [fire seed] left behind? Wait, if what [Snow-Treading Wuzhui] described was a Flame Demon, would the [fire seed] have any relation to the Flame Demon?"

Sun Po faintly felt that he seemed to have guessed the truth of the matter. Suddenly, he remembered a point: [Snow-Treading Wuzhui] was [Overlord Xiang Yu]'s mount, why would it be in a secret realm of the Three Kingdoms historical era like [Chibi Purgatory]?

Sun Po was puzzled in his heart, so he had [Overlord Xiang Yu] inquire. A moment later, [Overlord Xiang Yu] told Sun Po the real reason.

[Snow-Treading Wuzhui] was originally a monster in another secret realm. One day, it was suddenly sucked into this secret realm by a strong wind. It originally had the ability to control the wind, but in this wind, it was sucked over with zero resistance.

And afterwards, [Snow-Treading Wuzhui] could no longer return to its original secret realm; under human garrison, it could not charge out of the secret realm entrance.

Moreover, because of its bloodline, [Snow-Treading Wuzhui] loved eating wind, and this secret realm was filled with endless [surging wind]. This was just like a mouse falling into a rice vat, so it simply accepted its circumstances as they came.

It ate wind day and night in the [Chibi Purgatory] secret realm, and even cultivated a skill like [Surging Wind Passage] because of it. However, [Snow-Treading Wuzhui] was not skilled in water nature, so it never entered the river and thus did not find this [wind seed].

At this moment, Sun Po had basically concluded in his heart that this [wind seed] was the [wind seed] nurtured by the [surging wind]. Thinking about it, whether it was [Snow-Treading Wuzhui] being sucked over or this [wind seed] nurtured by the [surging wind], both were inextricably linked to that legendary Zhuge Wuhou, only he didn't know what purpose he had in doing so.

Idle thinking was useless. At this time, Sun Po successfully helped [Overlord Xiang Yu] load [Snow-Treading Wuzhui] and enhanced his combat power; this was the real deal.

Even with numerous unknowns, this feeling of growing stronger step by step could give Sun Po peace of mind.

But how to use this [wind seed] and what its function was, Sun Po had no way of knowing. He decided to wait until he finished crafting the [flame dragon armor] before making further arrangements.

It was already morning. Although Sun Po hadn't slept all night, he was still in high spirits. Spending, gathering materials, making MODs, growing stronger—he had extreme enthusiasm for these things.

After returning from the secret realm, he observed the [lotus root of the chaos green lotus] and found that the humanoid facial features on the lotus root actually seemed a bit more blurred than before.

Sun Po felt a sense of foreboding and thought, "Could this thing fail to materialize while exhausting all its energy, ultimately ending up completely ruined?"

Sun Po didn't understand, but the more he thought about it, the more he felt this possibility existed. In his heart, he increasingly felt that crafting the [flame dragon armor], reconciling the [Five Elements Bloodline], and then feeding the lotus root with blood could not be delayed any longer.

He quickly came to the card-making material market in Jinyang City and began searching.

But after walking around a few times, whether at the street stalls or in the shops, there were no suitable fire-attribute-related materials today.

High-quality monsters related to the fire attribute were already scarce in the secret realms around Jinyang, and the materials dropped naturally became even fewer.

Walking around for an entire morning like this, Sun Po saw that the facial features on the lotus root were already much more blurred than yesterday, and he secretly made up his mind:

"Time and tide wait for no man. Having more high-quality auxiliary materials is naturally better, but if there really are none, then even if it costs tens of thousands more spiritual value points, I must hurry and make the [flame dragon armor].

Otherwise, what if this lotus root really loses all its use after a few days? Wouldn't I lose a fortune?

Moreover, previously the creation of [Five Elements Bloodline] plus [Black Rhino Armor] cost a total of 20,000 spiritual value points. Now that I am crafting [flame dragon armor] alone and lacking auxiliary materials, it shouldn't cost that much spiritual value, right?"

Having figured out the crux of the matter, Sun Po immediately returned to his residence in Prince Qins Mansion, closed the door, and prepared to start making the MOD.

He opened his own attribute panel, concentrated his mind, and clicked on the [Five Elements Bloodline] column.

Then he clicked on the custom MOD interface, which rapidly expanded to become the main interface.

As he connected with his materials using his mind, he suddenly heard an angry roar coming from his ear:

"Despicable humans!! My lord, Baal, will not let you off!! You will be burned to ashes by the wrath of the Flame Demon clan—"

This sound came from Tianhe Budu. Sun Po was very curious; could this fish actually speak now?

Last night, he and [Wuzhiqi] couldn't undo the witchcraft on this Flame Demon, so they threw it into the Calamity Heavenly River of Tianhe Budu, thinking to just throw it in and leave it there for now, and make plans later.

He didn't expect that after a night passed, this fish could actually speak?

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration hit Sun Po's mind, and he thought, "Is this fish at this moment just an ordinary koi? Or does it count as a [Flame Demon]?"