Chapter 66: Promotion Under Fire

The Killing Star Soul has been upgraded to level 2, obtaining the level 2 skill – Soul Devouring!

As the Killing Star Soul ascended to level two, its secondary skill has now been unlocked.

When Lu Yu saw the name of this skill, he was instantly taken aback. In that moment, something seemed to occur to him.

“Soul Devouring? That can’t be serious,” Lu Yu muttered in disbelief. A fragment of memory surfaced from his limited recollections, leaving him utterly astonished.

“It’s impossible. It must be a coincidence in names. It can’t be the same skill!”

Lu Yu spoke through his teeth. But his hands were clenched into tight fists, still hoping this was the skill he remembered!

Soul Devour: When you kill an enemy, you can extract and consume the enemy’s soul. At the moment the soul is devoured, all wounds will instantly heal, and your health will immediately restore to your maximum health.

The soul devourer will gain the enemy’s maximum HP, attack power, and stamina for the next ten minutes. After those ten minutes, the soul fusion effect will disappear, and all acquired attributes will be lost.

The Soul Devour ability can only absorb the soul of one enemy at a time. After the effect wears off, it can be used again on the same or another enemy!

A second-level killing star soul can absorb souls only from level-two lives at maximum, and is incapable of absorbing souls from lives above level two!

Lu Yu looked at the skill description in front of him and felt that his eyes might be having some issues.

“This is real, it’s really that skill!” Lu Yu blinked his eyes and then rubbed them hard. He was determined that the words in front of him wouldn’t disappear or change.

“It’s true! This is actually true! So my own Killing Star Soul is actually that!” Lu Yu himself could hardly believe it, and suddenly stood up in shock.

He clenched his fists tightly, and it took a long time before he finally calmed down.

“It’s him… It’s really him!” Lu Yu’s body trembled, his mind in chaos.

Lu Yu’s mind went blank, and it took quite a while before he could sort out his thoughts.

“If it’s that item, even if I don’t have any skills, as long as I have a high level, I won’t fear any monster.”

Lu Yu, still speaking, laid out all the valuable items he had collected this time from the Demon Hunting Plains.

The first thing taken out was the mutated Star Spirit Pearl related to the Silver Armor.

The second set of Silver Armor skills has been completed, although fifty Star Spirit Stones are still needed to upgrade it to level two.

“Upgrading one skill requires fifty Star Spirit Stones. I’ll bet that their effect is top-notch,” Lu Yu gritted his teeth and placed fifty Star Spirit Stones beside him.

One by one, the mutated Star Spirit Beads were crushed.

Several beams of light shot into his forehead together.

At the moment the last part of the Silver Armor’s ability was drawn into his body, a faint silver light began to shimmer across Lu Yu’s body.

These silver lights transformed into thousands of silver threads, piercing into the Star Spirit Stone placed beside him.

Fifty Star Spirit Stones simultaneously emitted silvery光芒 (glows) over ten zhang long.

Bang!

All the spirit stones exploded at once, countless streams of starlight merging into the silver threads.

Thousands of silver threads began to retract and then wove together, forming a silvery armor-like covering over the body. Finally, once the silver armor was complete, it faded into the body.

Silver Armor: Passive Skill

Level: 2 (non-upgradable). Using 500 Star Spirit Stones will enhance the skill level to 3.

Attribute: Increases basic physical strength by 2,000 points. (This is the limit for a level two skill enhancement.)

Special Effect: The Silver Armor completely negates all damage from attacks with a power of 2000 or less.

Activation Effect: When the Silver Armor is attacked, it automatically stacks the maximum HP and current HP. This stacking occurs a total of fifty times! Each stack increases the maximum HP and current HP by 1,000 points. The maximum HP can be stacked up to 50,000 points. The stacking effect lasts for ten minutes.

The Kill Promotion effect has been activated—

Skills gain additional attribute bonuses —— basic physique increases by 2,000 points.

Special effect: The Silver Armor will completely negate the additional 2000 points of attack damage.

Activation Effect: When the Silver Armor is attacked, it automatically stacks the base maximum HP and current HP. The number of stacks remains unchanged, with each stack increasing maximum HP by 1,000 and restoring 1,000 HP. Additionally, it grants an extra 50,000 maximum HP. The stacking effect lasts for 10 minutes.

“Ten, ten thousand life points?” Lu Yu almost bit his tongue, his heart pounding violently as if it were about to burst.

The Silver Armor’s innate ability can stack up to 50,000 maximum HP.

The effect of Slaughter Promotion, which did not activate at level one, activated at level two.

That’s already an improvement of 4,000 basic physical strength.

Not yet!

The combined effect of special effects and Kill Promotion makes attacks with less than 4,000 attack power ineffective against him.

As for the upper limit of life, it was increased to one hundred thousand points at once!

What does that mean?

Your health points have increased tenfold!

Meanwhile, the attribute of the Silver Armor’s tendons and bones instantly quadrupled, making the improvement extremely rapid.

When the Silver Armor is attacked, it gains 2000 additional maximum health points and restores 2000 health points.

After being attacked fifty times, you will have a maximum life limit of one hundred thousand and one hundred thousand life points for the next ten minutes.

The more I attack, the more blood he has—it’s like he has a hundred thousand hit points. His health is way beyond just a little!

Defeating the Blood Demon Bear instantly replenished his maximum life by 100,000 through the stacking effect of Soul Devour. He could once again challenge stronger foes, even hunting down even more powerful monsters.

Following this pattern, he can continue challenging endlessly without worrying about his health points.

However, there’s no time to let myself get too happy now.

He still had an unused mutated Star Spirit Pearl.

Before finally leaving the Demon Hunting Plains, he saw a mutated Star Spirit Pearl, but by then there was no more time. He only briefly glanced at the beginning of the skill, and upon seeing its attribute was “None,” immediately suspected that this skill was very special.

Therefore, at the moment the spirit stone was thrown away, he was immediately transported back to the mine.

Now, he carefully examined the Mutated Star Spirit Pearl, and the expressions on his face became increasingly vivid and varied.

This mutated Spirit Star Pearl needs to consume either a second-level skill or two first-level skills to be activated.

Undoubtedly, without seeing the attributes of the skills, no one would be willing to give up two skills just to activate a single Star Spirit Pearl.

However, after Lu Yu examined the attributes within the Mutated Spirit Pearl, he realized that he would be willing to give up not just two, but even three skills.

“Oh, the Eye of Truth! What a divine technique! This skill is no less impressive than the Fire Dragon Regeneration!”

Lu Yu muttered to himself with some excitement, and then, when crushing the mutated Star Spirit Pearl, a list of all skills appeared before his eyes.

Lu Yu thought for a moment and chose to abandon enhancing the blood shield and the berserker strike.

The one or two hundred points of health provided by the Blood Shield enhancement no longer had much effect on him during this period.

Therefore, giving up this skill to acquire a better one was exactly what he wanted.

However, the One Strike of Rage consumes too much—1000 HP is way too high. With the skills of Wolf Rush and Slaughter’s Heavy Strike, that’s already enough.

As the mutated Spiritual Star Pearl gradually fused, Lu Yu had already seen all the texts describing the Reinforced Blood Shield and the Rampage Strike beginning to vanish.

He watched as faint blue light streaks swept across his body, and the skill activation was completed——

Deceased’s Body: (Passive Skill) Unique.

Level: Two.

Attribute: None.

Special Effect: When your health is above 100, no damage—including lethal damage—can kill you. Any severe injuries you sustain, even those involving head or limb severance, will be instantly healed.

Unique!

Lu Yu could not grasp the sole meaning of it.

However, at the very last moment, when the fusion of the Corpse’s abilities was completed, Lu Yu had already finished reviewing all the attributes of the Corpse’s body.

“As long as my health remains above one hundred from now on, even if you were to blow my head off, I still wouldn’t die,” Lu Yu laughed loudly, clenching his fists tightly and swinging a powerful punch toward the air.

This is the ultimate item; it’s the best skill.

Such skills are no worse than Xiaoxiao’s Fire Dragon Regeneration. In fact, in terms of practical combat, they might even be superior.

Lu Yu didn’t know how the monster was killed to obtain this Star Spirit Pearl. But at the very least, this monster might be of the same level or even the same type as that fire serpent.

Lu Yu set the soldier’s soul aside and instructed the魔猿 to accelerate the mining process.

Because the second-grade military soul he purchased with seventy Star Spirit Beads at the Demon Hunting Plains required fusion with second-grade Star Spirit Stones.

“It should take no more than three days to mine out a Grade 2 Star Spirit Stone.”

Number One’s response left Lu Yu very satisfied. He had already begun to require Grade Two Star Spirit Stones.

At least we can make it in time.

With just this second-grade star weapon, he could exchange it for at least five hundred more star spirit stones at the Monster Hunting Plains.

After giving instructions to the magic apes, Lu Yu was resting while eating something.

After all, the events of the day and the commotion at the Demon Hunting Plains had drained him of too much energy.

Not until the sun was high in the sky did Lu Yu wake up first. He ate something and tidied his clothes, then left the mine with twenty-three star spirits stones on his back.

At the campsite, many people were already waiting eagerly for Lu Yu’s arrival.

When Lu Yu arrived again with his backpack, many people immediately cheered.

Yesterday, the Star Soul Stone showed them the meaning of miracle for the first time, and also allowed them to witness the process of a soldier’s soul transforming into a star soldier.

A person’s Soul of War successfully fused into a powerful battle blade with an attack power of 780, which made many people even more excited.

Who wouldn’t want to possess powerful weapons, who wouldn’t want to become stronger!

Lin Ting saw Lu Yu arrive at the camp and handed him a backpack, saying, “One thousand Star Spirit Pearls; this is the money from selling the Star Spirit Stones.”

“Here are today’s twenty Star Spirit Stones, and this is your reward,” Lu Yu said, handing over the Star Spirit Stones he had brought to Lin Ting.

This time, before Lu Yu could even step away, the crowd had already surged forward, surrounding Lin Ting.

Lu Yu quietly stepped back.

Within less than a minute, all twenty Star Spirit Stones were snatched up.

Someone looked at Lu Yu and said somewhat discontentedly, “Twenty coins a day are too few. Mr. Lu, don’t you think there’s a way to get a bit more?”

“Yeah, Mr. Lu. It’s not that we’re short on money, but we just don’t have any Xing Ling Stones. We’re holding onto Xing Ling Beads, but they’re practically impossible to spend.”

Someone proposed the idea, and immediately the surrounding people became bolder, one after another expressing their hope that Lu Yu would bring out more Star Spirit Stones for sale.

“This seems a bit difficult. After all, the Star Soul Stone doesn’t belong to me. Don’t you agree?”

Lu Yu hesitated for a moment and said, “However, if any of you have anything special, I can help you take it to him for appraisal. Perhaps you could exchange it for some Star Spirit Stones.”

With the gains from the Demon Hunting Plains, Lu Yu had already realized that an individual’s ability to collect resources would always be limited.

However, if the entire camp is involved in the collection.

It will surely bring him something unexpected.

For example, the body of the deceased and that second-level soldier soul!