[13 Skill (Unranked): Devouring Space (0\10000)]
With 41,600,000 points currently, these three skills are worth upgrading.
Zhang Chen pondered for a moment and decided to upgrade the Devouring Space first, as it’s still unranked and its level is way too weak.
Plus, if he doesn’t find new sources of points in the future, he’ll have to seize the Mysteries from various families, and by then, this Devouring Space will be extremely useful.
Zhang Chen spent the points directly:
[13 Skill (First Stage): Devouring Space (0\100000)]
[Note 1: Area of ten cubes]
[Note 2: Can devour First-Stage Mysteries]
The description on the interface was simple; Zhang Chen already figured out the gist: "It actually just increased by ten cubes, and then the maximum level of devoured items was slightly raised."
Zhang Chen then looked at the points on the Golden Finger Interface; requiring 100,000 points, an exponential increase of ten times, so he decisively spent more points:
[13 Skill (Second Stage): Devouring Space (0\1000000)]
[Note 1: Area of one hundred cubes]
[Note 2: Can devour Second-Stage Mysteries]
At this point, the point accumulation needed reached one million; without hesitation, Zhang Chen continued to spend the points, and then he saw the Devouring Skill upgrade once more:
[13 Skill (Third Stage): Devouring Space (0\10000000)]
[Note 1: Area of one thousand cubes]
[Note 2: Can devour Third-Stage Mysteries]
At this moment, Zhang Chen paused and looked at the skill suffix regarding the points needed for further upgrades, which was actually a whole ten million. After a little contemplation, Zhang Chen still hit the button without hesitation.
[13 Skill (Fourth Stage): Devouring Space (0\100000000)]
[Note 1: Area of ten thousand cubes]
[Note 2: Can devour Fourth-Stage Mysteries]
"A hundred million!" Zhang Chen secretly clicked his tongue in his heart, but he felt no regret because he already thought of the use for Devouring Space, which was to combine it with the Five-Colored Divine Light.
With the Five-Colored Divine Light, Mysteries are swept in, directly taken into the space for devouring and decomposition, transforming into Zhang Chen’s power.
As for the Fixed Rune and Sealing Rune, Zhang Chen looked at the two runes and suddenly felt that there was no need to upgrade the Sealing Rune because no matter how mysterious, once in his hands, it would be hard to escape being devoured.
However, Devouring Space also has limitations, as it cannot devour living beings; otherwise, Zhang Chen would soar into the sky, and the bloodlines of the Human Race would be his food.
At this point, Zhang Chen still had 34,900,000 points left, and he didn’t want to keep too much, so after a little thought, he chose to add them to skills.
[1 Skill (Fifth Stage): True God Golden Light (0/20000000)]
[2 Skill (Third Stage): Dragon Qi (0/2000000)]
[9 Skill (Fifth Stage): Sealing Rune (2000000)]
The only skills currently worthy of upgrading are these three. Zhang Chen sized up the True God Golden Light; it was already enough to make a Tenth-Stage Evil retreat three times, but the True God Golden Light didn’t significantly enhance his combat power. Besides, he only had over three million points left, and once spent, more than half would be gone, which was a bit uneconomical.
So Zhang Chen’s gaze fell on the Dragon Qi and Sealing Rune. After a little thought, he still chose to spend points on Dragon Qi, as for why?
Because the points required for Dragon Qi were too few, only a mere two million.
[2 Skill (Fourth Stage): Dragon Qi (0/20000000)]
[Note 1: Beast Taming Skill, can be activated six times a day, each time for one interval. Can control Fourth-Stage Beast-class anomalies (within one thousand hundred meters).]
[Note 2: Lifebound Baptism. Bestows ordinary beasts with fortunes, aiding their rapid transformation into Demon Beasts]
Zhang Chen glanced over the new interface, finding little change after the upgrade; the number of times the skill could be activated didn’t change, nor did the control duration, or even the control area. The only addition was the ability to bestow fortune.
For any beast in the world to become a Demon Beast, they need to gain the mysterious fortune between Heaven and Earth, and now Zhang Chen unexpectedly had the ability to bestow such fortune.
"So with this, my Hornets and Hunting Falcons can directly transform into Demon Beasts?" Zhang Chen mused: "But there’s still a fatal flaw. If the demon beasts betray after baptism, it’ll be nurturing a tiger to bring about trouble."
Zhang Chen pondered, eyes falling on the Golden Finger interface, contemplating for a moment, then looked at his Golden Finger interface again. At this point, Zhang Chen had 28,490,000 points left, barely enough for another skill upgrade.
"Just hope the upgrade can cover this flaw, or else it would really be uneasy to use. After all, humans and Demon Beasts are two different beings, and Demon Beasts are the most cunning and insidious..." Zhang Chen thought to himself: ’Alright, I was thinking of upgrading the Sealing Rune, but let’s upgrade Dragon Qi instead.’
With a flick of thought in Zhang Chen’s heart, twenty million points vanished, and the Golden Finger Interface changed again:
[2 Skill (Fifth Stage): Dragon Qi (0/200000000)]
[Note 1: Beast Taming Skill, can be activated six times a day, each time for one interval. Can control Fourth-Stage Beast-class anomalies (within one thousand hundred meters).]
[Note 2: Lifebound Baptism. Bestows ordinary beasts with fortunes, aiding their rapid transformation into Demon Beasts]
[Note 3: Lifebound Mark (five marks). Lifebound Marks increase with level, and once a Demon Beast is planted with a Lifebound Mark in its soul, its life and death are at one’s command.]
Looking at the Lifebound Mark, Zhang Chen shook his head, feeling the skill was useful, but also quite a burden.
Lifebound Marks require the opponent’s willingness to accept them.
Want the other party to willingly accept his mark? Unless Zhang Chen could overpower them!
A demon beast that can be overpowered by Zhang Chen would be worthless to capture, and those he wants, he can’t beat.
At this moment, Zhang Chen had 8,490,000 points left.
Looking at the other skills, none were worth upgrading further, so Zhang Chen thought about saving some points for any new skills he might acquire in the future, so he could quickly level them up.
At that moment, the sky lit up, and Zhang Chen harvested abundantly, looking at the barren ground where the scales or bones of the Ba Snake, everything had been cleaned away.
"Let’s return for now, and I’ll join the fun whenever Mysteries appear." Zhang Chen made up his mind, and his figure flickered into mist, disappearing in the morning light, quietly returning to Huangli Temple, where he saw Xiaodouding meditating solemnly inside the room.
You have to admit, when Xiaodouding sits there meditating, he really looks the part.
Zhang Chen took a glance at Xiaodouding, transformed into droplets, and snuck underground into the secret chamber, seeing the Pool of Faith as dry as before, without any Power of Faith gathering.
"It seems Yellow Heaven Dao has squandered all the Power of Faith." Zhang Chen pondered, surveying the area before quietly resurfacing in the room, just as there was a knock at the door: "Senior Brother Zhang Chen, there’s a letter for you."
Zhang Chen opened the door, thanked the child, then returned to the room and opened the letter, finding it with just three simple words: ’It’s done!’ and a single character signature ’Xu’.
Looking at the peculiar letter in hand, if seen by outsiders, it would surely seem nonsensical, but Zhang Chen immediately thought of Chen Xu and their plot concerning the ancestral tomb of Prince Pingbian.
"Could it be that Chen Xu found Prince Pingbian’s lair, and things worked out?"
Zhang Chen speculated with excitement in his eyes, as this was undoubtedly good news for him.
He had been plotting against Prince Pingbian’s ancestral tomb for a long time, and his conflict with Prince Pingbian had reached a point of no return. What better way to exact revenge than to dig up the other’s ancestral tomb?
Moreover, Prince Pingbian’s ancestral tomb was certainly no ordinary place, with various burial goods that could make him rich, and he could also manipulate its Feng Shui to accelerate its decline, completing his grand design.