My skills have mutated again!

Chapter 281 Randomized Release Flow, Ghost Five Elements Black Slash

In the settlement space that was like the vast starry sky, the system prompt sounds of the Cinder Zone rang continuously.

【Settlement starts:】

[Main mission: Escort, completed! ]

[You have obtained three God-given essences. ]

[Clearance mission: Black Treasure, completed! ]

[You have obtained the Black Source and the Black Flag, and received the clearance reward. ]

[Evaluation of clearance contribution in progress...]

【Evaluation completed.】

[Your contribution to the clearance mission is 100%! ]

Xia Lin chuckled.

So this contribution data can be used for fun as a reference, but it cannot be fully trusted.

Because the clearance mission: Black Treasure is a single-player clearance mission - there is only one copy of the Black Source Black Flag, which means that only one person can complete this clearance mission.

There is another clearance quest: Black Iron Glory, which is a team-based clearance quest.

Therefore, this scoring system really alienates the efforts of the Joker and Silver Axe - without these two teammates, there would be no various operations that Xia Lin could perform in this Ashen Zone.

I also thought of the 15.3% contribution rating I got in the Dream Robbery Ashes area in January.

Xia Lin shook his head and continued to listen to the prompt sound of the Ashes area.

[Reward screening in progress...Screening completed! ]

【You can choose three from the following five options! 】

[50: w points in the Jhin zone.]

Pass directly.

【Two: Evolution points*10. 】

【Three: God-given essence*5. 】

[Four: Random professional skill above S level*1.]

[Five: Uncertain Shadow Exclusive: One chance to combine skills! ]

The choice is simple.

After a simple weighing of the two and three options, Xia Lin gave up the evolution point reward of option two.

Firstly, it is more in line with deceiving fate and changing one's destiny and the source of nature bestowed by heaven.

Secondly, Xia Lin has more and more convenient channels to obtain evolution points.

So the options are determined: three, four, five.

Before the rewards were distributed, Xia Lin took out the Eternal Cage from his personal space.

Nelson could see the inside of the Eternal Cage, motionless as if frozen in time - in the settlement space of the Cinder Walker, the flow of time was different. Nelson could not sense the passage of time, nor could he see Xia Lin's settlement scene.

But this brought up another question for Xia Lin.

"So what should we do about this Ash Walker?"

"Can I bring him back to my main world?"

"Is he also doing the settlement in the Cinders now?"

Xia Lin's doubts were answered by the Jhin District system.

[It is detected that the Cinder Walker in your hand is in a sealed state, so he can be brought back to your main world. 】

[Ashe Walker: Nelson's personal settlement has been completed. 】

Xia Lin nodded in understanding.

Nelson in this state is equivalent to Xia Lin’s trophy... The whole person has been objectified and is considered Xia Lin’s private property, but at the same time he also retains certain attributes of a Cinders Walker.

After carefully thinking about the logic behind it, Xia Lin suddenly frowned.

"It seems like there's a loophole in this rule..."

Xia Lin thought of the promotion task from level nine to level ten.

The battlefield between the two worlds...

But this time, the Jhin Zone system no longer gave Xia Lin any response.

Xia Lin did not ask any more questions, but put Nelson away again and looked at the five God-given source essences that had already been condensed in front of him.

[Reward three has been issued.]

Xia Lin put away the God-given essence.

[Reward 4 is being drawn. The drawing is complete. 】

[You have obtained the Uncertain Shadow occupation skill: Randomized Release Stream (SS level).]

[Randomized Release Stream (SS-level skill): Active skill, exclusive skill of Uncertain Shadow. Consume 100 points of mental power to release a large-scale energy field! Everyone in the energy field (including the user) will immediately release all their active skills that are not on cooldown! The target is random! The cooldown time of this skill is 1 month. ]

Xia Lin: “Hmm~~”

This skill can be classified as a shuffling mechanism, and from the name it means randomly combining a set of numbers.

But this skill is not as powerful as the random combination, and it is difficult to change the strong and weak situation. The main feature is to disgust people...

But Xia Lin likes it.

Because the skill slots were full, the random release flow turned into a skill crystal and fell into Xia Lin's hands.

It also did not trigger unstable mutations.

Xia Lin was not in a hurry to use the skill crystal, but put it into his personal space.

The reminder sound of the Jhin area sounded again.

[Reward 5 is being distributed...Distributed! 】

This reward five is exactly the reward Xia Lin is most looking forward to.

[You have a chance to combine skills. Please select the base skill first...]

Combining skills is like mixing cocktails.

Choose the base first, then the ingredients.

Xia Lin roughly understood the principle, but since it was the first time to trigger this reward item, Xia Lin did not make any additional attempts. He just followed the system prompts step by step.

Open your personal information list and look at your skills column.

After careful consideration, Xia Lin made a decision.

"Let's choose nourishing the five elements..."

This is a prudent decision.

Because it was the first time to trigger this reward item, Xia Lin did not dare to use the core skills as the basis, for fear of breaking the logic of his own skills.

However, nourishing the five elements is a bit useless at present.

It’s said to be a defensive skill, but it’s not strong enough and it’s also picky about opponents.

It is said to be a limit-breaking skill, but its effect is average, not as good as East Wind Lord, Backstab, or even Breath of the Abyss.

It's the kind of skill that you'd be reluctant to throw away, but it's not very useful to keep.

Just after Xia Lin made his choice, the reminder sound of the Jhin area rang again.

【Please select the functional tendency of the combined skills. 】

At present, Xia Lin’s skill system focuses on disgusting people.

Big move system: random combination to destroy the enemy's carefully configured skill set.

Main combat system: Lord of the East Wind, a property that permanently weakens the enemy, like cutting flesh with a blunt knife.

The subsidiary systems of Dongfeng Lord: ergonomics and the Bomb Boy Legion, are similar to the summoning flow.

On the contrary, Xia Lin himself does not have any direct killing skills that can decide the outcome with one strike, nor does he have a systematic defense skill system.

Direct attack and defense are Xia Lin’s current weaknesses.

After weighing the pros and cons, Xia Lin felt that the defense and the East Wind Lord were still useful, but in terms of direct killing, he was really lacking.

“Aggression.”

Xia Lin made a choice, and the omnipotent Jhin Zone system gave the answer.

There are three options:

[One: Based on nourishing the five elements, combined with skills: fair trade, energy conversion, combined into a new foundation-level skill: destroying the five elements! ]

[Destroy the Five Elements (Racial Heritage Level Skill): Active skill. Consume 1 points of mental power to release this skill. If the person hit by this skill is a fairy-type professional, the five elements will be disordered and unbalanced, the foundation of the fairy will be destroyed, and the soul will be destroyed and die on the spot! The cooldown time of this skill is 5 days. ]

A skill that can be used to launch special attacks against immortal cultivators.

But Xia Lin didn't even look at it.

How could I not want a fair trade?

[Two: Based on the nourishment of the five elements, combined with the skills: Immortal Slaughter Sword Formation, Universal Use, a new foundation-level skill: Destroying Yang and Destroying Yin Sword! ]

[Mie Yang Jue Yin Sword (Racial Heritage Level Skill): Active skill. Consumes 2000 mental power to release the Mie Yang Jue Yin sword energy, ignoring the enemy's defense, causing amazing direct damage to the enemy. This skill has no cooldown time.]

This skill does meet Xia Lin's needs... but Xia Lin still shook his head.

The Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation is an indispensable part of the Dongfeng Immortal-Slaying Formation, and at least there is still room for improvement. Replacing one main combat method with another is called a flat replacement, which is completely meaningless.

[Three: Based on the nourishment of the five elements, combined with the skills: Heart of Fire, Heart of Black Source, a new foundation-level skill is formed: Ghost Five Elements Black Slash! ]

[Ghost Five Elements Black Slash (Racial Heritage Level Skill): Passive Effect: You can use the power of the Black Source and the mutated Black Source. Active Effect: After being activated, it starts to store energy. Depending on the length of the storage time and the amount of mental energy consumed, it will release an energy slash wave of varying power, shape, and size! This skill ignores the five elements defense methods, and this skill has no cooldown time! ]

This is exactly what Xia Lin wants.

First of all, it retains the effect of the Heart of Black Source and does not affect the Bomb Boy system.

Secondly, it is a direct attack ability that Xia Lin needs, but its power still needs to be tested.

The only pity is that the Heart Fire was sacrificed... but it's not a big problem, because the price of this skill in the recipe book is very cheap.

After the selection was made, Ghost Five Elements Black Huang Slash appeared in Xia Lin's skill bar, replacing Nourishing Five Elements.

At the same time, because the Black Source Heart skill disappeared, Xia Lin had a regular skill slot vacant.

Take out the random release flow skill and crush it.

【Unstable mutation takes effect.】

[Your skills are released randomly and transformed into unstable force fields.]

[Unstable Force Field (Mutation): Active skill, exclusive to Uncertain Shadow. Consumes 1000 points of mental power to release an unstable force field in a certain area. The physical rules in the force field will change every moment.]

“No variation is preserved.”

Master the randomized release flow and place it in the regular skill column.

So Xia Lin's current skill combination becomes:
Occupational talents: indefinite constant, unstable mutation, twin evil shadows.

Constant skill bar 10/10: Random combination, Lord of East Wind, Fair Trade, Immortal Sword Formation, Observation, Ghost Five Elements Black Huang Slash, Shadow's Recipe Book, Probability of Non-existence, Universal, Energy Conversion.

Regular skill bar 8/8: Ergonomics, Mental Tide, Randomized Release Flow, Cooldown Reset, Backstab, Cluster Tactics, Shapeshifting, and Spirit Attachment.

Doom Shadow Skill Bar 0/3: Empty.

Among them, the core skills are: random combination, East Wind Domination, human-machine effectiveness, observation, and probability of non-existence.

Random combination is the ultimate move, and fair trade is the auxiliary skill of this system.

The East Wind Overlord is a conventional combat method, combined with the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation, the Ghost Five Elements Black Huang Slash, the All-purpose, the Energy Conversion, the Mental Tide, the Cluster Tactics, the Shapeshifting, the Attachment and other skills, formed Xia Lin's most important combat system - Xia Lin called it: the East Wind System!
It can summon the east wind to annihilate the enemy, create an army of explosive boys, and combine them into the East Wind Immortal Killing Formation, which also has the effect of breaking the limit.

In short, with one core skill and several subsidiary skills, Xia Lin made great use of the East Wind Lord.

The human-machine effect is a big move, which requires the assistance of the Border Star Battleship and the Mental Tide.

Observation is an intelligence skill and is very useful.

The probability of non-existence is the core of the miracle mechanism - and now Xia Lin still has three times of cheating fate, this move is very compatible with the miracle mechanism. The remaining skills are all key auxiliary skills.

Shadow's recipe book, randomized release flow, and backstab.

Right now, Xia Lin’s level is stuck in the ninth-level promotion task. It can be predicted that Xia Lin’s skill bar will not increase in a short period of time.

"If I find another skill I like, I can only sell backstab and random release..."

Or you can change your thinking, sell and then buy, and constantly reconstruct your own skill set to adapt to different scenarios.

But this path consumes a lot of evolution points.

"Anyway, let's leave it like this for now..."

Taking a final look at his skill set, Xia Lin muttered, clenched his fists, and activated the Ghost Five Elements Black Slash skill.

A faint black light bloomed from Xia Lin's hands.

After an almost imperceptible delay, as Xia Lin opened his hands, an arc-shaped, knife-like black energy wave shot out from Xia Lin's hands and swept into the distance.

Observe and experience.

Soon, Xia Lin had a fairly deep understanding of this new skill.

"It is indeed quite powerful, far more powerful than punching and kicking with the same physical fitness. Even in terms of single-point lethality, it is more powerful than the Dongfeng missile with the largest equivalent."

The destructive effect of the Dongfeng missile cannot be completely concentrated on one point.

Therefore, Dongfeng Lord's skill can be considered a magical skill for clearing the field and bullying weak enemies, but it is difficult to deal with powerful single targets.

The Ghost Five Elements Black Slash made up for Xia Lin's shortcomings in this aspect.

This is under the premise of not charging power. If you charge power and consume more mental energy, the power of Ghost Five Elements Black Huang Slash will be even stronger.

Moreover, Xia Lin discovered that he could change the energy properties of the Ghost Five Elements Black Huang Slash - for example, the rotation of the Five Elements.

The power of the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire and earth can be transformed at will to deal with different enemies and different scenes.

Among them, the Fire Slash is the most powerful, and the slashing wave also has the effect of mental interference - this seems to be derived from the Heart Fire skill.

At the same time, Xia Lin can also consume the power of black source or mutate the power of black source to add additional characteristics to the Ghost Five Elements Black Huang Slash.

——Activate metals and metalize flesh and blood.

Thinking of this, Xia Lin decisively used his energy conversion skills to create energies of different attributes such as spiritual energy, blood energy, and scarlet power.

It was discovered that using energies of different attributes to activate the Ghost Five Elements Black Huang Slash can bring about a variety of different magical benefits.

“Very flexible skills.”

Yes, this skill is very flexible and has considerable lethality.

It is absolutely worth sacrificing the nourishment of the five elements and the fire in the heart for this.

"Without the nourishment of the five elements, my already weak defense system has become even weaker..."

There are gains and losses, and there is nothing you can do about it.

Moreover, Xia Lin’s current growth time is too short compared to the Clown, Silver Axe and others.

It is indeed impossible to be comprehensive...

Also, because the professional system has skill slot restrictions, few professionals can do everything.

Shake your head to dispel the distracting thoughts in your mind.

After standing in the settlement space and pondering for a moment, Xia Lin decisively chose to return.

With a flash of light, Xia Lin appeared in front of the entrance to the Cinders area of the Canbella gathering place.

……

Due to the particularity of the settlement space, the Soldier Cave did not absorb Xia Lin's mental power when he was in the settlement space.

But with Xia Lin's return, the Hidden Soldiers Cave began again...

There were so many things in it that his mental power was depleted at an incredibly fast rate. In two minutes, Xia Lin's mental power was drained out, triggering a mental power tide.

Xia Lin had already thought about how to place the Border Star warships and the Bomb Boy Legion.

Turning around and leaving the Canbella gathering place, Xia Lin reappeared in front of the miniature abyss in less than a minute.

Looking at the miniature abyss in front of him, Xia Lin raised the corner of his mouth.

This is what he came up with.

……

The SSS-level disaster, the Miniature Abyss, has been introduced before.

This place is equivalent to a dimensional space attached to the shining blue planet. Xia Lin had been in there for a walk before, and his first impression was that this place was too big.

I don’t know how deep, I don’t know how wide…

Anyway, Xia Lin didn't explore the boundaries of this place.

"I don't know if you can let go of my big babies..."

Muttering this, Xia Lin had already jumped into the miniature abyss.

The spirits of Dongfeng that were still in the miniature abyss sensed the arrival of their master and lined the way to welcome him, but Xia Lin always felt that something was missing.

After thinking for a moment, Xia Lin suddenly understood.

"Where are the monsters?"

As he asked this, a shark-faced Dongfeng screamed, "Blow them up to the sky! Shoot out their houses!"

Well, it looks like the place was cleared out by the spirits of Dongfeng...

But doing so is actually risky.

As mentioned before, the Miniature Abyss is a part of the twelfth-level evil god, the Abyss Evil God.

Xia Lin possesses two soul lights, which naturally attract the attention of evil gods.

It's okay if it's a minor incident, but Xia Lin would be worried if it got serious.

And this is exactly why Xia Lin brought Nelson to the Blue Star.

As a demon warlock, Nelson not only knows the abyss very well, but he certainly knows more about it than Xia Lin.

This demon warlock is not in contact with the demons in the Demon Palace, but with the monsters in the Abyss, which just happens to be compatible with the miniature Abyss.

Arriving at the previous temporary residence, Xia Lin took out the Breath of the Abyss, continued to collect the essence of the Abyss, and took out the Eternal Cage.

Just as Nelson's eyes swept over, their eyes met, and everything was said without words.

"Sign the contract first, work for me for ten years, and I'll give you your freedom."

This was the condition that had been agreed upon before, so Nelson naturally had no reason to refuse.

As he spoke, Xia Lin took out a contract.

The contract originated from the Joker's gift of friendship, and the terms were already listed above.

The conditions include a ten-year agreement, Nelson must be available at any time, their lives are bound, Xia Lin will not take the initiative to harm Nelson, etc.

After sending the contract into the eternal cage, Nelson took a quick look to make sure there was no problem, then he bit his finger and signed his real name on the contract document with blood.

The contract was established without any wind.

Seeing this, Xia Lin simply crushed the Eternal Cage - this thing is disposable.

As a chaotic light flashed, Nelson broke free from the eternal cage like a wisp of black smoke and appeared beside Xia Lin.

"Ask a question."

Xia Lin asked in a friendly manner: "Can you still enter the Cinders?"

Nelson simply nodded: "Sure, just enter from the Ash Zone entrance on your planet."

"Then can you still return to your home planet?"

Nelson nodded again: "That's fine, I can start the return process anytime now...but the problem is that there is a clause in our contract that says I can come at any time. It's easy for me to leave, but it will be troublesome for me to come again if you call me."

And if there is a breach of contract, the cost will naturally be paid by Nelson itself.

The price will be heavy.

There was no need for Xia Lin to ask any more questions, as Nelson continued.

"Anyway, for now I will stay with you. Ten years is not a long time anyway."

As expected of a veteran Ashlander, a high-level professional...

Ten years is just a tiny period of time in his life.

Xia Lin did not comment on the different concepts of time.

At present, with Xia Lin's strength and racial value, he can be considered an alternative immortal species. He just pointed to the ground and changed the topic to the main business.

"This place is called the Miniature Abyss, and it is an SSS-level disaster on our planet."

"I asked you to come here because I want you to help me look at the Feng Shui of this place..."

Nelson: “???”

Is there Feng Shui in the abyss?
"I want to transform this place into a base, but I don't want to attract the attention of the evil god of the abyss. I am not proficient in demonology and abyssology, so I can only ask you for help."

Xia Lin faintly heard Nelson breathe a sigh of relief.

Looking at his expression, Xia Lin read out two words.

"That's it?"

Yes, that's it.

But this is very important, as it involves Xia Lin’s life safety.

This is the reason why Xia Lin didn't give Nelson a few random combinations in the Jhin area.

The conflicts in the Ashes are merely conflicts over tasks and do not involve personal grudges.

The loser takes the blame and the winner eats the food. This is the rule of the game. If you lose, you must accept the consequences.

Nelson is also a man who can afford to lose.

But if you send him a few random combinations, things will change.

After weighing the pros and cons, Xia Lin chose not to move Nelson, because in his opinion, transforming the miniature abyss and eliminating the gaze of the evil god of the abyss was much more important than a few evolutionary points.

……

The huge three-headed hellhound carried Xia Lin and Nelson and ran wildly in the miniature abyss.

The hellhound can walk on fire and fly at an extremely fast speed, but the miniature abyss is indeed very wide.

Anyway, Xia Lin estimated that this place was more than enough to accommodate the Border Star warships and the Bomb Boy Legion.

On the dog's back, Nelson's pupils were dark, and he used the Devil's Eye skill to observe continuously. As he watched, he spoke.

“It’s a good place.”

Xia Lin: "...It seems that our standards for judging a good place are different."

Nelson smiled and did not respond. He just continued, "In fact, I don't need to do anything to block the sight of the Abyss Evil God... The Abyss Evil God is essentially the widely circulated Abyss Will. His concept of existence is similar to the World Will, but his self-awareness is much weaker than the World Will."

This is a common problem among evil gods. Without a brain, they naturally don't have much self-awareness.

"The Endless Abyss created by the Abyss Evil God is boundless. Compared to the Endless Abyss, this miniature abyss on your planet is just a hair on a nine-headed ox. Even if you blow this place up, it will not attract the attention of the Abyss Evil God."

It seems that Nelson probably doesn't know the existence of soul light...

Xia Lin didn't explain much, just sighed and said: "Don't ask why, just do it. By the way, you have to help me add some ingredients. I feel that the abyss breath here is not strong enough recently. Do you have any way to help me increase the concentration of the abyss breath here?"

The thicker the abyss breath, the more efficient the abyss breath will be in transforming the abyss essence.

Nelson chuckled.

The expression still means: That’s it?

For Nelson, who might be the strongest demon warlock in the entire Jhin zone, Xia Lin's request was indeed a bit too easy.

(End of this chapter)