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"Dungeon countdown: 3… 2… 1…"

As time ran out, Shi Yan's vision blurred.

"Calculating dungeon rewards."

"Your slaughter points +3000."

"You have obtained A-rank skill: Day Shadow Field."

"You have obtained title: Black-Hearted Apothecary."

"Your level has increased to LV8, mana increased by 40 points."

"Attribute points +10."

"Mission rating S, reward obtained: naraku pot."

Shi Yan appeared in the system's settlement space.

In the center of the system settlement space was an exquisite black ceramic pot continuously spewing red gas, its surface adorned with strange and intricate golden patterns.

Looking closely into the red gas, one could even see a distorted, hideous face. The red gas, after floating out of the pot, slowly dissipated into the air, its nature unknown.

Shi Yan frowned slightly upon seeing it. This thing looked very strange, but since it was a system reward, there shouldn't be any major problems.

Shi Yan reached out to touch the naraku pot, and a system panel popped up.

"naraku pot: Spend 100 slaughter points for a lottery draw. Anything can be drawn."

Shi Yan raised an eyebrow. This item was quite good, though he didn't know the probabilities. However, he wouldn't draw yet; his current slaughter points had other uses.

Shi Yan used the Soul Crystal, and a warm current flowed through his body, then he summoned his personal panel.

"Name: Shi Yan."

"Level: LV9."

"Mana: 96."

"Constitution: 205."

"Soul: 70."

"Attribute Points: 10."

Shi Yan decided to put all ten attribute points into Soul, as his Constitution was already strong enough.

As his Soul grew stronger, Shi Yan felt a significant improvement in his mental faculties and processing speed.

This dungeon also yielded an A-rank skill and a title. Skills were categorized from E-rank to SSS-rank, with significant differences between each level.

Titles came with additional bonuses and extra skills.

Shi Yan opened his ability panel and saw no changes, meaning the ability panel and system panel were not interconnected.

Shi Yan clicked on the skill system to view the detailed skill description.

"Day Shadow Field (A-rank): Releases a scorching field based on mana strength, centered on the user. Only the user is immune to its effects."

It was a very good area-of-effect damage skill, and crucially, it could grow with mana.

Shi Yan clicked on the title system to view the title.

"Black-Hearted Apothecary: When equipped, others are more likely to trust you, and the effectiveness of potions you create increases by 50%."

"The effects of this title are quite good."

Both effects of this title were very useful to Shi Yan. Increasing others' trust meant he could interact with them better.

The 50% increase in effectiveness was also excellent; in the future, he could not only sell potions but also use them himself.

Shi Yan immediately equipped the title.

Shi Yan first converted all his magical coins into slaughter points, then opened the Slaughter Market and began shopping. The Slaughter Market was filled with a dazzling array of items, but Shi Yan's goal was clear.

Shi Yan first purchased a spatial storage item with a fifty cubic meter capacity.

"Redsmith Brand Spatial Ring (D-rank): Can only store inanimate objects, has a size of fifty cubic meters. Price: 2000 slaughter points."

Redsmith was an organization in Slaughter Paradise that specialized in crafting equipment. Craftsmen could initially name equipment after crafting it, and players could rename it once after obtaining it.

Then he bought a detection skill, as currently, he could only see others' levels but no other information, which was quite annoying.

"Information Detection (B-rank): Can observe the species and basic information of creatures whose level is not more than 20 levels higher than your own. Price: 12000 slaughter points."

Among many skills, this one was only considered average. There were many other powerful detection skills that could show specific skills, but unfortunately, they were all sky-high prices, completely unaffordable for Shi Yan.

Finally, Shi Yan bought a small knife.

"Surgical Scalpel (D-rank): The blade comes with a sharp, intangible effect. Price: 1000 slaughter points."

After buying these items, Shi Yan still had over 30,000 slaughter points left, then he put the previously obtained [Charged Hammer (D-rank)] into the auction house.

Shi Yan fell into thought, his wandering gaze finally settling on the naraku pot. Shi Yan decided to test the waters with 10,000 slaughter points, starting with a hundred draws.

Shi Yan clicked on the naraku pot, and a deep black lottery panel popped out from its front. In the center of the panel, five options were arranged in order: Ten Draws, Hundred Draws, Thousand Draws, Ten Thousand Draws, and Custom Draw.

At the very top of the panel, there was an empty progress bar, with "0/100,000 draws" written in the bottom right corner of the progress bar.

Shi Yan's eye twitched slightly upon seeing this. Did this naraku pot also have a guaranteed reward? It was as if it had thoroughly studied human psychology.

Shi Yan reached out and clicked on "Hundred Draws." Instantly, 10,000 slaughter points disappeared, and the slowly flowing red mist above the naraku pot suddenly accelerated its flow.

"This hundred-draw obtained: Men's shoes, men's underwear, automatic toothbrush, iron dagger, gold necklace, silver bullet… Strengthening Potion… Holy Light Fist… Black Gauntlets."

Shi Yan was initially speechless when he saw that most of the items were common and extremely cheap, but he breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the Strengthening Potion and Holy Light Fist.

"Strengthening Potion: Permanently increases Constitution by 10 points after consumption."

"Holy Light Fist (A-rank): Can attach Holy Light to the fists. Damage increases with mana. (Can deal damage to ghosts and ethereal enemies)."

Shi Yan first consumed the Strengthening Potion and felt his body become a few points stronger.

Then he used Holy Light Fist. Streams of pure white light gathered on Shi Yan's fists. Shi Yan felt a warmth in the covered areas, and his strength increased slightly. Other than that, there was no change.

"This lottery result was quite good, giving two useful items."

Shi Yan's lips curved slightly, and he nodded in satisfaction.

Then he sold all the trash from the other ninety-eight draws to the market.

Shi Yan rummaged through the Slaughter Market but couldn't find anything useful or worth buying. After all, truly useful items would never be sold by others; they would definitely use them themselves first.

Finally, Shi Yan exited the Slaughter Paradise's settlement space and returned to his room in reality.