105: All Taikoo

Buzz—

An invisible wave forcibly dragged the skill rune of Light of Redemption into the ethereal storage slot of Primordial Snap.

It was done.

Lin Yu didn't rush to cast it.

He quietly sensed the changes brought about by that half-failed, half-successful “trillions of times” casting just now.

Body Control.

Absolute control over one's own life form.

But more importantly, the trash skill Vitality Nourishment had leaped to the level of Origin.

Because of a trillion castings.

Proficiency.

Snap + Nourishment, the information of the two skills proved everything as fact.

As long as a skill was cast enough times, any skill could potentially touch the threshold of Origin.

His trillion self-detonating castings, seemingly insane, had inadvertently pointed him to a broad path leading to godhood.

Origin is still very difficult right now, but it can be stored after Primordial Snap’s instant cast… He wants to level all useful skills to the Primordial tier!

Lin Yu's thoughts once again returned to his core abilities.

Ghost Card Amplification Cycle.

Primordial Snap.

The former could provide amplification, and the latter allowed him to ignore casting time and cooldowns, achieving infinite instant casts.

This was simply a perfect combination born for grinding proficiency!

The problem lay in the cost.

A complete Ghost Card Amplification Cycle, reaching a million-fold amplification, would completely drain his mental energy, requiring time to recover.

Using a million-fold skill to grind proficiency was too extravagant and too inefficient.

What he needed was not extreme single-cast power, but extreme casting frequency!

Cost-effectiveness.

He needed to find a perfect balance point between mental energy consumption and proficiency gain.

Lin Yu opened the software that came with Insect Dwelling and began precise calculations.

One complete cycle was twenty amplifications.

If only four amplifications were performed, it would be sixteen times.

The consumption of mental energy would be almost negligible.

If five amplifications were performed, thirty-two times, the consumption would begin to rise exponentially.

This was it.

Sixteen times!

This was currently the most cost-effective choice for him!

Step one: Use the initial stage of the Ghost Card Amplification Cycle to increase the multiplier to sixteen times.

Step two: Use Myriad Card Creator to solidify this chosen skill into a skill card, releasing it with sixteen times amplification.

Step three: Interrupt the release of this amplified sixteen-times skill and store it in Primordial Snap.

Then, infinite instant casts!

Grind!

Grind it to death!

Grind a single skill billions of times!

Thinking of this, Lin Yu's Ideas completely opened up.

He needed more skills.

Attack, defense, healing, blessing, curse, control, displacement… the more, the better, the stronger, the better.

This was the best way for him to become stronger when his basic attributes and level could not be temporarily increased!

Lin Yu opened the paid skill learning system again.

“Purchase Fire Blast.”

“Purchase Ice Peak Slash.”

“Purchase Wind's Lament.”

“Purchase Stone Shield.”

“Purchase Slow Spell.”

“Purchase Blink.”

...A series of purchase commands caused his account balance to plummet rapidly.

But Lin Yu didn't care at all.

In his room, a bizarre scene began to unfold.

His left hand continuously conjured Multiplication Cards, Skill Cards, and Ghost Cards out of thin air, while his right hand rapidly cycled through card creation, storage, instant casting, and card swapping.

Although he didn't even look at the skills he bought, he still made distinctions when linking them.

Currently, he only trained defensive, enhancement, and functional skills... He didn't want to repeat the tragedy of Lightning Spell.

Even so, Lin Yu estimated that by the end of this cultivation, he would be almost ready to walk around with confidence.

All preparations complete, time for secluded cultivation!

...Meanwhile.

Linzhou, Black Market, Old Ghost Hall, underground.

In the dim basement, a strong smell of potion and overheated electronic components permeated the air.

“Gulp.”

Old Ghost tilted his head back, pouring an entire bottle of blue Clarity Potion down his throat, then picked up another bottle of green Physical Enhancement Potion without changing his expression and drank it all.

After two powerful potions, enough to keep an ordinary person awake for ten days and nights, his bloodshot eyes barely faded a bit.

Before him, there were no medicinal herbs, no alchemy furnace.

Only three heavily modified, encrypted servers arranged side by side, and an enormous curved light screen connected to the servers.

On the light screen, a waterfall of data streamed, refreshing at a speed almost imperceptible to the naked eye.

Old Ghost's fingers flew across the custom keyboard, so fast that they almost left afterimages.

He was reconciling accounts.

Or rather, checking accounts.

Ever since that boss left, the entire Linzhou and surrounding underground world had gone completely mad.

Countless orders, like snowflakes, poured in from every dark corner of the city, converging on his small pharmacy.

Those once-high and mighty professionals, those wealthy individuals who usually cherished their lives like gold, those desperate outlaws who lived by the knife, now all behaved like the most devout believers, clutching cash, just to buy a bottle of potion with the exact same effects as those from the three major pharmaceutical companies, but at only a fraction of the price.

Business was booming.

Money was burning hot in his hands.

In one corner of the light screen, several shocking numbers were updated in real-time.

Average unit price: 100,000.

Average customer spend: 300,000.

Today's revenue: 1.37 billion.

And this was just for today.

Old Ghost couldn't imagine how terrifying the scale of funds that had passed through his hands in just these few short days had reached.

This was a mountain of gold.

And also a volcano that could erupt at any moment.

He dared not entrust these matters to anyone; all order processing, fund transfers, and goods distribution could only be completed by him personally.

As for Seventh Master, he was still busy outside.

Fortunately, before the boss left, he gave him authorization for the black card, allowing him to use funds, so Old Ghost found trustworthy people to create a complete set of absolutely secure customized software and hardware.

Otherwise, he probably would have been overwhelmed by this torrent of information long ago.

Old Ghost stopped his movements, leaned back in his chair, and let out a long, turbid breath.

The money for this life, no, the next life, and the life after that, he had counted it all in these past few days.

This feeling was both unreal and incredibly exhilarating.

At the same time, it also made him feel… this time, he had gambled correctly!

Damn it, so what if he didn't make money in this life?

As long as he followed the right person once, clung to the right powerful figure once!

Forget this life, even the next life would be enough!

Just as he was thinking, the heavy metal door of the basement was pushed open from outside.

Seventh Master had returned.

Behind him followed a figure as massive as a mountain.

Zhao Tianyang.

Old Ghost subconsciously stood up, his movements somewhat stiff.

Today's Zhao Tianyang was like a completely different person compared to before.