112: A flash of inspiration, time jumps!!!

【 Active Skills: Frenzy Lightning (Rank 5), Nine Heavens Thunderclap (Rank 5), Storm Surge (Rank 5), Lightning Flash, Adhesion, Fire Sea (Rank 5), Flame Dance, Phantom Sword (Rank 5), Thunder Flash · Divine Speed. 】

【 Passive Skills: Energy Reduction, Overall Amplification, Insight Weakness. 】

【 Overall Amplification: All attribute values are amplified twofold. 】

【 Insight Weakness: You can see weakness halos on the target, and attacks on weaknesses deal 200% increased damage. 】

Overall Amplification and Insight Weakness were his two most important abilities.

One could double all attributes, and the other could increase damage to weaknesses.

The skills provided by these two Talents brought a significant boost to Xia Qi.

Especially his sword skills; with the Hundred Percent Empty-Handed Catch Talent, he was almost invincible.

His single-target damage was extremely high, even surpassing the damage caused by elemental Talents.

This made Xia Qi understand a principle: sometimes, support Talents were not necessarily weaker than combat Talents.

When the two were combined, they could unleash astonishing power.

The diverse output methods also made it easier for Xia Qi to solo dungeons.

However, as his Rank increased, Xia Qi, currently at Rank 23, found that the experience gain rate from farming the Bat Cave was starting to decrease again.

To test the exact experience value, Xia Qi teleported out of the dungeon, immediately eliminated the cooldown, and cleared it again.

After clearing the dungeon again, his experience bar only increased by 10.4%.

In other words, he would have to clear it ten times to reach Rank 24.

Well, Xia Qi looked at the drastically reduced experience value with a bit of speechlessness.

If one run could add about 40%, he could have reached Rank 25 today.

But now, it seemed he would need to clear it at least nine more times.

There were two reasons for the reduced experience gain: first, as his Rank increased, the experience gained from monsters would decrease due to the Rank difference.

Second, the experience cap increased, making it harder to advance to the next Rank.

According to common sense, every five Ranks was a threshold, and after every five Ranks, the total experience required for leveling up would change significantly.

Xia Qi hadn't expected to feel the difficulty of leveling up even before reaching Rank 25.

But then he thought about it, and it seemed quite logical.

After all, for other students, from Rank 20 to Rank 30.

The fast ones took a year, and the slow ones even took two or three years.

No wonder Godslayer Academy's requirement was Rank 30.

Those who could reach Rank 30 in a short time were all very powerful individuals.

Xia Qi's current leveling efficiency was already at a monster-among-monsters level.

While Rank advancement was important, similarly, as the dungeon Rank increased, the difficulty would become greater.

Therefore, while his Rank increased, his combat power also had to keep up.

Even if it was a team, unless you were a support class, some teams didn't have strict requirements, but combat classes definitely needed to demonstrate impressive combat power for others to be willing to team up with you to continue clearing dungeons for leveling.

“Although my combat power is very strong now, it’s also very diverse. I need to visit the Cultivation Room when I have time.”

Xia Qi's eyes flickered. He used points to offset the cooldown, pondering while clearing dungeons.

Being diverse but not proficient was always a big taboo.

Don't look at how many Talents and skills he had now.

But the truly useful, or rather, commonly used Talent skills, were just a few repeated ones.

Most relied on attribute suppression, and a small part relied on skill characteristics and attribute counter-effects.

In the short term, it seemed invincible, but Xia Qi knew deeply that Shengjing University still had many hidden Prodigies, and he couldn't become complacent just because he had some strength.

This was a big taboo for many Prodigies.

Just like that, after continuously clearing the Bat Cave nine times and reaching Rank 24, Xia Qi left the Home of Dungeons and headed straight for the Skill Cultivation Hall.

The university had specialized Skill Cultivation Halls.

These Skill Cultivation Halls had Formations set up by Advanced Formation Masters.

In the Skill Cultivation Hall, not only could skill Cultivation be accelerated, but it was also said to increase the probability of comprehending skills.

Xia Qi wasn't sure how reliable this rumor was, but he took a look at the Skill Cultivation Hall.

Indeed, many students chose to Cultivate skills in the Skill Cultivation Hall.

The rumors were no longer important; since so many people chose this place, it must have something unique.

At worst, Xia Qi still had his SS-Rank Luck and SS-Rank Heaven-Defying Comprehension Ability Talents.

With these two top-tier passive Talents, he might truly gain something here.

The Skill Cultivation Hall was divided into Elementary, Intermediate, and Advanced levels.

Each level required corresponding points and professional Rank to enter.

For example, Xia Qi, currently just Rank 24, could only enter the Elementary Skill Cultivation Hall for Cultivation.

The entrance fee was 100 points per hour.

Looking at such a high price, Xia Qi now understood why the single dormitory charged 500 points.

The difference was that the single dormitory had a small Cultivation Room.

Of course, the dormitory's Cultivation Room and the university's open Skill Cultivation Rooms were still not comparable.

The level and profoundness of the Formations were different.

This was just the fee for the Elementary Skill Cultivation Room. The Intermediate Cultivation Room cost 1000 points per hour, and the Advanced Hall reached an astonishing 10,000 points per hour.

Senior Sister Luo Zisheng also told him yesterday that there seemed to be top-tier Skill Cultivation Rooms at Shengjing University, but they were not open to the public.

With Xia Qi's current Rank and strength, he didn't have the authority to access them either.

After paying 100 points, Xia Qi decided to first try out what this Skill Cultivation Hall could do.

Soon, the administrator handed Xia Qi a wooden token. By injecting energy into the token, he would automatically be teleported into an independent Cultivation space.

The space was about thirty meters long and wide, roughly nine hundred square meters, just enough for skill Cultivation.

The Cultivation Room also had some equipment for Cultivation.

Standing in the Cultivation Room, Xia Qi felt a different aura.

First, the elements in the air were very active, much more active than the elements outside.

Secondly, his internal energy recovery speed greatly increased. With every breath, Xia Qi could feel surging energy flowing within his body, and he didn't worry about running out of energy at all.

On the ground, a huge Formation glowed faintly.

This was a Formation composed of several Formations. Any damage caused by students practicing skills in the Cultivation Room could be restored to its original state at any time.

This was also one of the reasons for the expensive fees of the Cultivation Room.

Thinking of this, Xia Qi suddenly had a flash of inspiration.

“100 points an hour, if I use Time Jump…”

“Wouldn’t I be able to extend the time?”

As soon as his voice fell, Xia Qi directly activated his S-Rank Talent, Time Jump.

In an instant, the flow of time throughout the entire space became slow.

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