168: Harvest and a New Journey

Chu Yixing then looked at the irregular fragment in his hand, which was made of some unknown animal's hide, with intricate patterns on it.

He took out the previously acquired Fragment 1 of the mysterious Instance entrance ticket and placed the two fragments together; they fit perfectly, but half of the bottom was missing.

It seemed there were still Fragment 3 and Fragment 4. Chu Yixing put both fragments into his backpack.

Next was the SSS-grade material, "moon god's tear."

Chu Yixing looked at the teardrop-shaped light blue gem in his hand and checked its attributes.

moon god's tear (SSS-grade material): Can be used to craft seven-colored equipment or be inlaid into a weapon to imbue its attacks with moon-element damage.

Chu Yixing solemnly placed it into his backpack. The harvest this time was significant, and Chu Yixing went to sleep content.

When Chu Yixing woke up again, it was already afternoon.

The the five people finished clearing this week's experience Instance and skill experience Instance, and after clearing the fixed-level Instance, they returned to rest, preparing to accept guild missions for tempering tomorrow.

Chu Yixing opened his attribute panel, recalling the equipment he had obtained earlier and his new skills.

It seemed he would need to add points to Intelligence to increase his magic attack power next.

Chu Yixing allocated all his free attribute points to Intelligence and checked his current attributes; there wasn't much change.

Name: Chu Yixing

Nickname: Li Taibai

Age: 18

Profession: Sword Immortal (Unique)

Talent: Sword Heart (Unique Growth Type):

1. Gain additional free attribute points with each level up. (Levels 41-50, gain an additional 25 points per level up)

2. Sword-type skill power increased by 100%, sword-type skill proficiency gain increased by 100%.

3. Attack range/area of all skills increased by 100%.

4. Each time an attack hits an enemy, there is a 10% chance to gain one layer of "Sword Heart Mark."

Each mark can increase Chu Yixing's physical attack power by 10%.

Five layers of marks can be actively released to form a Sword Heart Impact, dealing 150% physical attack power of sword-element damage to targets in a frontal fan-shaped area and stunning them for 5 seconds.

The maximum stack limit for marks is 10 layers.

5. Unlocked

6. ...Level: 48 (45,000,000 / 50,000,000)

Health: 13980 / 13980

Energy: 9880 / 9880

Physical Attack: 13148

Magic Attack: 258

Physical Defense: 11000

Magic Defense: 11000

Speed: 768

Strength: 348+800

Intelligence: 258

Stamina: 198+400

Spirit: 188+400

Agility: 168+100

Free Attribute Points: 0

After adding the attribute points, Chu Yixing opened the [Skills] panel again.

Since he leveled up to 45, the skill panel had changed.

For low-tier skills that lacked experience to advance, skill points could be used to compensate.

Chu Yixing looked at his 20 skill points and advanced the two skills, "Sword Domain" and "Sword Lock of Qiankun," to Level 2 skills.

5. green lotus sword Domain (Level 0 0 / 10)

① Sword Domain: Consumes 1000 energy, centered on self, releases a domain composed of countless crisscrossing sword Qi, dealing continuous high damage to targets entering the Sword Domain, dealing 200% physical attack power of sword-element damage per second, and reducing the target's movement speed and attack speed by 35%. The Sword Domain lasts for 15 seconds, with a cooldown of 10 minutes.

② Green Lotus Body Protection: Consumes 2000 energy, summons a giant Green Lotus array centered on self within the "Sword Domain," which can negate one fatal blow.

After being triggered, the array transforms into Green Lotus Sword Qi, repelling surrounding enemies and dealing 300% physical attack power of sword-element damage + 300% magic attack power of wood-element damage. Cooldown: 15 minutes.

8. green lotus sword Lock (Level 0 0 / 10)

① Sword Lock of Qiankun: Consumes 500 energy, generates a sword chain composed of sword Qi, immobilizing a single hostile target for 5 seconds.

During this period, the target cannot move or attack. Cooldown: 1 minute.

② green lotus sword Rain: Consumes 2000 energy, summons a Green Lotus phantom in the void, transforming into a green lotus sword Rain, dealing 300% physical attack power of sword-element damage + 300% magic attack power of wood-element damage per second to targets immobilized by "Sword Lock of Qiankun," lasting 5 seconds. Cooldown: 3 minutes.

The advanced skills once again increased his survivability and single-target attack capability, and Chu Yixing was very satisfied.

Afterward, he looked at the joint skill he and Ji Linghan had comprehended: Divine Punishment Sword Shadow, and the joint skill he and Han Ruoxue had comprehended: moonlight sword Array.

Divine Punishment Sword Shadow (Joint Skill): Consumes 3000 energy and is released together with Divine Punisher Ji Linghan.

The Divine Punisher summons the power of thunder to pierce the target's limbs, dealing 600% magic attack power (Ji Linghan) of lightning-element damage to the target, and applying "Shield Break" and "Paralysis" debuffs.

The Sword Immortal summons twelve sword Qi phantoms to pierce the target, each sword Qi dealing 600% physical attack power (Chu Yixing) of sword-element damage and applying a "Thunderstorm" effect, dealing 300% magic attack power (Ji Linghan) of lightning-element damage to the target each time.

Cooldown: 60 minutes.

moonlight sword Array (Joint Skill): Consumes 5000 energy and is released jointly with Moon God Han Ruoxue.

Innumerable light swords are summoned from the ground, forming a pincer attack with the pure moonlight beams descending from the sky, dealing 600% physical attack power (Chu Yixing) of sword-element damage + 600% magic attack power (Han Ruoxue) of moon-element damage per second to all hostile targets in the sword array.

This skill ignores shields and directly attacks the main body. The sword array lasts for 8 seconds. Cooldown: 60 minutes.

Chu Yixing looked at the joint skills thoughtfully.

Each joint skill was very powerful and would definitely be a trump card at critical moments.

He would pay more attention to this aspect in the future, striving for every team member to have joint skills.

Chu Yixing then had a sudden thought: since there were joint skills for two people, were there also joint skills for three, four, or even all the five people in the squad?

He could focus on this in future battles.

Chu Yixing tidied up and then rested.

The next morning, the the five people, Chu Yixing, gathered in the front hall of the Courtyard House.

They were discussing what kind of missions to take for tempering.

"I looked at the joint skills yesterday, mine with Ling Han and mine with Ruo Xue, and their effects are very powerful.

We can pay more attention to this area in the future," Chu Yixing said.

The others all nodded; they all had one or two joint skills, more or less.

"We can also research joint skills for three, four, or even the five people," Chu Yixing added.

"If two-person joint skills are already so powerful, wouldn't three or four-person ones be even stronger? And five-person ones would be heaven-defying, wouldn't they?" Xu Bai's eyes lit up.

"I love these kinds of novel things the most."

After the the five people finished discussing joint skills and understood what joint skills the current squad possessed, they began to research the missions on the guild mission panel.

The the five people opened the guild panel, and a dazzling array of missions instantly came into view, ranging from the lowest D-grade missions to the highest SSS-grade missions.

Chu Yixing's squad was currently Level 4, so the available mission level range was D-A.

Chu Yixing clicked on the filter, selected the D-A range, and the number of missions on the panel significantly decreased.

The the five people began to study them carefully.

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