My skills have mutated again!

Chapter 271: Miniature Abyss, Spirit-Possessed Legion, New Ash Zone
Standing there thinking, Xia Lin quickly thought of Shenglin.

In the past, Shenglin made extensive operations in the sequence ranking battles in order to obtain the promotion task from eight to nine.

At this stage, the promotion task may involve reality, so it is not strange that Xia Lin triggers the promotion task at this moment.

After calming down, Xia Lin continued to listen to the next prompt tone.

[You have triggered three different promotion tasks. If you complete any one of them, you can successfully be promoted to a ninth-level professional. ]

[One: I Am the Only One: On your main star (the shining blue star), obtain the title of Sequence One in three consecutive Sequence Rank Battles, and survive as Sequence One for no less than three years!]

Xia Lin raised his eyebrows, feeling that this promotion task was not as troublesome as he had imagined.

His strength is unmatched on the Blue Star, and he can easily defeat the third-level Sequence One.

But after obtaining the Sequence One title for three consecutive years, you still have to wait three years before successfully completing the promotion task... This takes a long time.

[Two: Stabilize the rear: On your main star (Shining Blue Star), build a force and develop it into the strongest force on Shining Blue Star. At the same time, protect no less than 5 million people on Shining Blue Star, and solve the disaster on Shining Blue Star, making its impact intensity less than 10%. ]

[Note: The current intensity of the Blue Star disaster is 73.5%.]

Compared to the mission itself, this is much more troublesome...and forming a faction is even less in line with Xia Lin's personality.

But after communicating with Wenrou, Xia Lin realized that this task was closely related to the promotion task from level nine to ten, which was the last step for the Ash Walker to leave the Novice Village.

"There is only one promotion from nine to ten."

"On the battlefield between the two worlds, a fight to the death, two stars to survive and one to live."

This is no longer just a matter of a single Ash Walker, but a life-and-death battle between two planets covered by the Ash Zone!
The loser will be reduced to ashes, and the winner will be liberated.

[Three: Mighty Power: Increase your attributes to 10 billion (not counting temporary gains), and you can automatically complete the promotion tasks from level eight to level nine.]

The requirements of the three tasks are more demanding than each other, but in fact, the difficulty is not very great for Xia Lin, just very troublesome.

Considering that Xia Lin was not in a hurry to leave the novice village of the Ashes District and there was no penalty for the mission, he simply ignored it for the time being.

"But obviously, I may have to stay at level eight for a while."

……

But being stuck at a certain level doesn’t mean your strength can’t be improved.

Xia Lin also has a preliminary plan on how to improve his own strength.

A familiar feeling of teleportation flashed by, and when Xia Lin opened his eyes again, he had returned to the Flashing Blue Star.

Beside him, Fang Xiang appeared at the same time.

In front of them, Wang Lien, Nina, Gu Hua and others stood up to greet them, with happy faces.

The entrance to the ash zone behind him shrank rapidly, and eventually turned into light and disintegrated, disappearing without a trace.

Xia Lin took the initiative to greet them, hugged everyone one by one, and said, "Let's talk while we eat."

Then he turned to look at Fang Xiang and took the initiative to invite him: "Together?"

Fang Xiang nodded without thinking: "Thank you for bothering me then."

This man became the biggest winner in the January Dream Ashes Zone, and his strength grew explosively after he completed the climb.

From an observation perspective, Fang Xiang's strength is even stronger than Wang Lie, who has achieved the status of a third-grade warrior - he is already the second best person on the Blue Star.

Xia Lin and Fang Xiang had no grudges against each other, so when Xia Lin took the initiative to express his goodwill, there was no reason for Fang Xiang to refuse.

——Even if his strength increased dramatically after successfully climbing the stairs, Xia Lin was still someone he couldn't afford to offend.

On the Blue Star, Xia Lin is the real big brother. If you don’t pay homage to him, your life will be difficult.

……

"That's what it is."

The first base in the West, and also Nina's direct base.

At the dinner table, Xia Lin slowly told everyone what happened in the Cinder District, attracting everyone's attention to Fang Xiang.

Gu Hua exclaimed in amazement: "One step to heaven, one step to heaven! Your luck is not bad, you are worthy of being valued by the two six pillars!"

Xia Lin had just briefly explained the matter of the Six Pillars Agreement and the Soul Light, and therefore, everyone present knew vaguely what had happened to Fang Xiang.

Logically speaking, this matter should not be mentioned, as it would seem like exposing someone's scars, but Gu Hua really didn't think before he spoke.

Fang wanted to be generous.

He shrugged and smiled, "Now they can't see me even if they want to."

With soul light in hand, you are immune to interference from heaven.

Wang Lie was also a talkative player: "The Soul Light was designed by the King of Kings. He said that if you have the Soul Light in your hand, you will not be interfered with by God's will. Do you really believe it?"

Xia Lin coughed twice hurriedly: "The character of the King of Kings is still trustworthy."

As he said this he rolled his eyes at Wang Lie.

He and Fang Xiang have soul light, but the remaining three do not have soul light.

Aren't you afraid of retribution for discussing the Six Pillars in this way?

Wang Lie quickly slapped himself twice and then listened to Xia Lin continue.

"Besides that, there is one more thing I want to ask you guys."

"Are you familiar with the SSS-level disaster of our Blue Planet, the Miniature Abyss?"

When Xia Lin said the words "miniature abyss", the corners of his mouth curled up, showing great interest.

……

As one of the two remaining SSS-level disasters on the Blue Star, the Miniature Abyss is quite famous.

It is located on the sparsely populated southern continent. Its appearance is a bottomless cemetery with a diameter of nearly ten kilometers. No one knows how deep and wide its interior is. Because it is so big and dangerous, no Cinders Walker can understand all the information about the Miniature Abyss.

On the second day after Xia Lin returned to the Flashing Blue Star, he appeared in front of the Miniature Abyss.

Standing on a nearby hilltop, he looked down into the pit, with a gleam of observation in his eyes.

This allowed Xia Lin to clearly see the evil energy rising from the pit and the shadowy figures inside the pit.

Known information:

The miniature abyss is of unknown depth and size, and is home to a large number of monsters.

The monsters are bloodthirsty and murderous, and anyone who enters will be attacked by them.

Because it is impossible to explore the entirety of the Miniature Abyss, Flash Blue Star does not know the number and quality of the monsters inside, and cannot find a solution to this SSS-level disaster, so it just allows it to exist.

Fortunately, apart from the occasional monster crawling out of the Miniature Abyss and wreaking havoc on the Southern Continent, the Miniature Abyss has not shown any signs of expansion. The influence of this disaster is therefore limited to the Southern Continent and cannot become a world-destroying calamity.

This is the information Nina provided to Xia Lin.

But in Wenrou's mouth, the miniature abyss is not that simple.

……

Wenrou mentioned before that monsters and demons are two different concepts.

Among them, the Demon Clan of the Demon Palace is the direct descendant of the Demon Emperor Yuhun, and is an intelligent life recognized by the universe and even the Six Pillars.

The item Breath of the Abyss cannot absorb the essence and breath of the demons in the Demon Palace.

But the monsters of the abyss are different.

In essence, the abyss monsters are derivatives of the twelfth-level evil god: the abyss evil god, and the relationship between them is similar to that between the abyss evil god and the original dark side.

Therefore, the monsters in the abyss can be simply compared to the grandchildren of the original dark side, and the evil gods are the sons.

Only these monsters evolved from the twelfth-level evil god, the abyss evil god, can become the nutrients of the abyss dark breath.

At this point, Xia Lin’s purpose became clear.

On the one hand, he wanted to use the power of the miniature abyss to improve his racial value.

On the other hand, I also want to try to deal with this SSS-level disaster.

Let's not talk about the issue of how the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility. Right now, Xia Lin and Shanlanxing are bound together and depend on each other. Even for his own sake, Xia Lin has to have a sense of ownership.

"But besides that, there is this question..."

"Soul light will attract evil gods. If I enter the miniature abyss, will it disturb the abyss evil gods? Will it attract the attention of the twelfth level?"

After thinking about it, Xia Lin felt that the possibility was small.

After all, the Blue Flash Star is a planet protected by the Cinder Zone system. Even with the soul light as a beacon, it is difficult for a level 12 evil god to locate the specific location of the Blue Flash Star.

"Anyway, it's worth a try."

Even if your level is stuck, there are many ways to grow and become stronger.

Breaking the limits is an obvious way.

In addition, Xia Lin also constantly enters the Ashen Zone to exchange mutation skills for evolution points, attributes, and even racial values.

There are even operations that use random combinations to lock in strong people, exchange them for advanced skills and then sell them for money.

There are many ways to do this, and Xia Lin can try them one by one.

Thinking of this, Xia Lin took a wrong step and appeared above the miniature abyss.

……

When Xia Lin appeared above the miniature abyss, he had already taken out the Abyss Breath from his personal space.

[Breath of the Abyss (SSS-level equipment)]

[Function: Extraction: This item can absorb the breath of abyssal creatures and slowly extract it into abyssal essence. After taking the abyssal essence, your racial value can be slightly increased! ]

The half-meter-long finger bone was like a dagger. As soon as it appeared in Xia Lin's hand, Xia Lin saw the demonic energy gushing out from the miniature abyss. As if it was inspired and attracted, it rushed towards the abyss and was absorbed into the body by the abyss.

The finger bones are slightly hot and there is energy transformation inside.

The Breath of the Abyss can transform these demonic energy into the essence of the abyss, but the transformation speed seems to be very slow, and without a finished product, he has no idea about the effect of the essence of the abyss.

But these are easy to verify.

"The more and stronger the monster aura is, the higher the absorption efficiency will be."

This is for sure.

Therefore, the efficiency of absorbing the monster's breath from the outside is certainly not satisfactory. If you want to improve the efficiency, you still have to go deeper into the miniature abyss.

As soon as he thought of it, a total of seventy-two half-meter-long Dongfeng missiles appeared beside Xia Lin.

They obeyed Xia Lin's will and surrounded Xia Lin, making Xia Lin look like a god descended to the earth with the seventy-two constellations surrounding him.

A piece of Dongfeng swayed in front of Xia Lin.

Xia Lin stretched out his hand and touched the cold steel shell of Dongfeng.

A glimmer of light flashed through his hands.

The spirit possession skill is activated!
The equivalent of these 50 Dongfeng missiles is not amazing, only tons.

Through this, Xia Lin was able to verify the effect of the SS-level skill of Attachment.

Yes, after obtaining this skill, the first application scenario that Xia Lin thought of was to use the spirit to enlighten the Dongfeng missile, so that Dongfeng could dominate this skill and become more flexible and agile.

As the faint light penetrated into the Dongfeng missile, Xia Lin saw the Dongfeng missile twitch slightly.

Then, shark tooth patterns and eye patterns like children's graffiti emerged from the Dongfeng missile.

It opened its mouth wide and uttered a clear sound.

"I can definitely destroy the entire Bikini Beach! Woohoo!" Xia Lin: "???"

Are you the ultimate weapon Mr. Krabs needs?

While observing the newly born Dongfeng spirit, Xia Lin felt the loss of his mental strength.

Creating such a spirit-attached Dongfeng only consumed more than 10 points of Xia Lin's mental power.

"Boom" sound.

The spirit Dongfeng hit its unintelligent compatriots, one after another, as if playing with them.

Soon it turned back to Xia Lin and asked, "Why do all my kind have pointy heads?"

Xia Lin: "...Uh...Actually, your head is also pointy."

Shark Face immediately showed a surprised expression: "Oh? Even if you gain intelligence, your head still retains its pointy shape? Hakibane, you guy..."

Xia Lin sighed deeply.

Primary spiritual intelligence is worthy of the prefix of primary...

But even though this spiritual attachment to Dongfeng is a bit tricky, its primary spiritual intelligence is still very useful.

It can understand Xia Lin's commands and do a series of things including but not limited to: automatic alert, automatic enemy search, intelligence exploration and so on.

It even transcended the skill limitations of the East Wind Lord to a certain extent, and launched attacks outside the East Wind Lord's territory, and even beyond Xia Lin's sight!

Seventy-two Dongfeng missiles were possessed by Xia Lin one by one.

This made Xia Lin feel like he was in a mental hospital!

"Rebirth, then destruction! This is the destination I've been waiting for!"

“Art is an explosion!”

"Wow, I don't want to die. I'm just a newborn baby..."

"Be sublimated in the flames, and gain eternal life in the explosion!"

"Stop, stop, stop!"

Xia Lin simply stopped the chatter of those possessed by the spirit of Dongfeng, and then issued the first order.

"Go down there and clear the way for me."

"Yes, sir!"

Untidy sounds were heard, and without Xia Lin having to do anything, these spirit-attached Dongfeng had already turned their pointed heads and plunged into the miniature abyss.

Xia Lin summoned the Dongfeng missiles to continue to possess spirits while following behind the Dongfeng missiles.

……

The powerful monster in the miniature abyss is called the Abyss Demon King.

There are three known abyss demon kings on the Blue Star, and Alfak is one of them.

Unlike its evil god fathers, some of the abyss monsters born from the abyss evil god are intelligent. When their strength reaches a certain level, their intelligence level will be the same as that of mortals, or even stronger.

Just when Xia Lin entered the miniature abyss, Alfak was patrolling his territory.

This famous abyss demon is nearly a kilometer in size, and its overall shape is human-like, except that it has a small head, a big belly, short legs, and a long tail.

The body is made up of flesh and blood of different colors, and the skin is inlaid with different faces.

He had a dull, porcelain-like face, with spiral pupils as small as needle tips, both arms were jade blades, and a chain-like energy cloud was wrapped around his feet.

Alphak, the Heart Eater.

In the crimson miniature abyss, Alphac was like a cloud of mixed colors, moving forward with great momentum.

The low-level monsters seemed to sense Alphak's presence and were unwilling to become Alphak's food, so they hid. However, there were always some who could not escape, and when Alphak approached them within a ten-mile radius, their entire bodies immediately froze.

Soon, the controlled monster's body turned grayish white, became petrified, and collapsed into pieces.

Until one point, Alfak, who was eating, suddenly stopped.

The stiff face fluctuated slightly.

Because it heard a strange sound in the distance.

It was the sound of the tail flame burning and tearing the air, but it was also mixed with strange words that Alphak could not understand.

"Wow~ The big adventure has begun!"

"Boom bomb... poof, bang!"

"We are missiles, not bombs, and I don't want to explode..."

Alphak: “???”

Before Alfak could sort out his thoughts, the pointed heads that blocked out the sky came into his sight.

Each Dongfeng missile is large or small, the small one is only as long as a thumb, while the large one is even larger than the Alphak.

But no matter how big or small, these Dongfeng missiles all have weird shark faces.

At this moment, these shark faces were saying all kinds of weird words. Although the content of their communication was meaningless and irrelevant, it did create a lively atmosphere.

Before Alfaq could react, the largest model Dongfeng seemed to "see" the existence of Alfaq.

"Enemy! There is an enemy!!"

It yelled loudly, and the entire missile group suddenly fell silent.

Countless pointed heads were pointed at Alphak, and pairs of animated shark eyes flashed with various emotions.

Until the slogan "Die in glory! Charge on board!" rang out.

While Alfak was in a daze, fire and steel filled all its senses.

……

Xia Lin arrived at the explosion site five minutes later.

The old spirit-possessed army had been completely wiped out.

Even with the initial intelligence, the Dongfeng missiles still have only one attack method - they can only self-destruct...

But new spirit-possessed legions have been born continuously from Xia Lin's hands.

It was they who swept across the eight directions, causing a bloody storm in the entire miniature abyss, and also brought Xia Lin racial value and limit-breaking attributes.

Even Xia Lin didn't know that the charred substance on the ground was Alfak, which terrified the entire southern continent and the miniature abyss... He only knew that the aura of monsters in this place was unbearably strong.

"Then I'll stay here for a while."

The light of the abyss in his hand became brighter.

After waiting for a few more minutes, the first abyss essence was finally condensed.

At the end of the finger bone-shaped Abyss Breath, a black sphere rolled into Xia Lin's hand. It was soft to the touch and emitted a strange fragrance.

This is an item recognized by the Jhin system.

[Abyss Essence (SSS grade): A derivative of the Abyss Breath. After taking it, it can increase the racial value by 0.01 points. There is no upper limit to this increase, but taking too much will cause the user to transform into an Abyss creature. The specific upper limit varies from person to person and depends on the user's strength. ]

Xia Lin secretly thought it was a pity.

This thing has negative effects.

A simple calculation shows that it took less than an hour to condense an Abyss Essence after entering the Miniature Abyss, and one Abyss Essence can increase the racial value by 0.01 points - this efficiency is more than ten times that of I am a Tree, and is comparable to the efficiency of the East Wind Spirit Legion in slaughtering Abyss monsters.

Therefore, it is reasonable to have negative effects, otherwise the item Breath of the Abyss would not only have an SSS rating.

"The miniature abyss is a good place for me to settle down."

The Dongfeng Spirit-Possessed Legion cleared the field spontaneously, and every monster that died could provide Xia Lin with racial values and attributes.

There is also the Breath of the Abyss which provides the essence of the Abyss.

The efficiency of breaking the limit was quite impressive, which made Xia Lin decide to live here for a while.

As for whether such a high-profile action would attract the big guys in the miniature abyss.

Xia Lin thought of the abyss demon kings that Wang Lie introduced...

Although he had never met them, Xia Lin also wanted to weigh their weight.

Alphak turned into a paste on the ground: "..."

……

A month later, Xia Lin had to crawl out of the miniature abyss.

Because this is the deadline to enter the Ashes.

Southern continent, Canberra gathering place.

Xia Lin stood in front of the entrance to the base's Cinder Zone and reached out to touch it.

At the same time, Xia Lin spoke slowly.

"Use Sequence One authority to anchor the highest level and highest disaster level Cinders on the current Flash Blue Planet."

Only in high-level Jhin areas can you encounter stronger opponents and gain greater benefits.

The entrance to the Cinders Zone in front of him glowed slightly. At the same time, Xia Lin heard a clear prompt from the Cinders Zone system.

[Anchoring completed, ember zone selection completed. ]

In a flash of light, Xia Lin disappeared.

……

In the Cinders area, in the pre-war preparation space.

When Xia Lin opened his eyes, a new reminder of the Jhin area fell into his ears.

【Reality anchoring...】

[Anchoring completed, reality channel 0375 is penetrated. ]

【The Ashes area has been opened.】

[Dear Blue Star Sequence One, welcome back to the Cinders. ]

[Current Ember Zone: SSS level, black flag, large, confrontation type, real Ember Zone. ]

[Sequence 1 permissions take effect, you get a new prompt. ]

[The confrontation type of Ember Zone is the most direct type of Ember Zone with the highest mortality rate. In this type of Ember Zone, you will face alien Ember Zone Walkers who are as strong as you, so please be careful. ]

The simple reminder made Xia Lin curl his lips.

[You are detected as an Uncertain Shadow, so you have one minute to adjust your skill slot. ]

Xia Lin opened the attribute panel, but instead of adjusting his skills to absorb unstable mutations, he looked at his normal attributes.

【Xia Lin】

【Level: 8】

[Racial value: 30 (originally 14)]

[Basic attributes: 743w (originally 700w)]

This is exactly what Xia Lin has accumulated over the past month.

(End of this chapter)