If I don’t become the last one, I will be immortal!

Chapter 79 The Limit of the Skill Pool

Before Xiang Liu could react, he heard Yan Ling say, "Don't move!"

Then he really couldn't move. This is the power of words.

Yan Ling's strength is stronger than Xiang Liu's, so Xiang Liu has no way to break free from Yan Ling's power.

Then Xiang Liu saw that Yan Ling put his hands on his body, and the golden power rushed from Yan Ling into his body frantically.

Xiang Liu didn't know what method the Word Spirit used, but it was probably some kind of power of sacrifice.

The Word Spirit has lost its desire to live. It tried so hard to protect Lin, but the opposite happened. Lin's parents died, and Lin almost died... This made him feel extremely guilty.

It couldn't protect Lin, so it wanted to entrust Lin to Xiang Liu.

As the power disappeared, the spirit of words began to dissipate, and Xiang Liu's consciousness gradually became confused, and he soon fainted.

When he woke up again, the word spirit had disappeared, and he had mutated from an ordinary willow tree into a willow that could turn death into rebirth.

At this moment, Lin has also woken up. He leans beside Xiang Liu without saying a word, unaware that the spirit that has been silently protecting him has disappeared.

Xiang Liu opened his mouth, wanting to tell Lin about the existence of the Word Spirit, but suddenly felt that the Word Spirit might not want Lin to be sad for it, so he closed his mouth silently.

Seeing Xiang Liu wake up, Lin was stunned and asked him, "A Liu, why is this happening? Dad is dead, Mom is dead, and the mountain temple has become like this? Am I really not aware of this?"

Even if he didn't want to admit it at this moment, one fact after another told him that all these disasters were caused by him.

Xiang Liu hugged Lin's young body and comforted him softly, "No, it's not your fault. You are good, better than anyone else."

Lin didn't know whether he believed Xiang Liu's words or not. He just leaned silently in Xiang Liu's arms, crying silently until he fainted.

From that day on, the two of them lived together in hiding in the mountains.

They rebuilt the mountain temple as their residence, opened up fields on the mountain, and planted crops and vegetables...

Because the mountain's earth veins have been drained, the entire mountain has become extremely barren, so they often don't get much harvest after working hard for a year.

But it doesn’t matter, it’s enough to support Lin.

Besides, Xiang Liu will help with hunting.

They spent what was a long time for Lin together. Lin grew from a child to a teenager, from a teenager to a young adult, and from a young adult to a middle-aged man and then to an old man...

Xiang Liu kept his promise to Yan Ling and accompanied Lin like a father and a friend.

But Xiang Liu overlooked one point. Lin was a human being with a lifespan of only a few short decades, while the special spirit species he mutated into, Xiang Si Feng Sheng Liu, was a very long-lived spirit species.

Although Lin lived a long life compared to other ordinary people under Xiang Liu's careful care, he died at the age of 108 due to exhaustion of his lifespan.

Xiang Liu found it difficult to accept this fact, so after burying Lin, he kept guarding Lin's grave silently.

Another hundred years passed in the blink of an eye.

Without Lin's company, Xiang Liu had no intention of taking care of the home he and Lin had built together, so the fields they had opened up had long been abandoned and the mountain temple had collapsed.

However, the mountains have gradually regained their vitality in the past two hundred years, and new villages have gradually begun to appear at the foot of the mountains.

Later one day, Xiang Liu was pleasantly surprised to find that Lin's body was actually transforming into a spirit. He was overjoyed, so he thought about how to speed up Lin's transformation into a spirit.

Later, he discovered that human yang energy could accelerate Lin's transformation into a spirit, so he began to secretly lure humans into the mountains.

But he would not go too far, because the human village at the foot of the mountain is very different from two hundred years ago and is no longer unattended.

The administrative agencies of Longxia Kingdom have already settled here, and the alliance of the inner world has also joined in the management of this area.

Even with the tacit approval of the alliance, he became the master of the mountain.

Therefore, he would only attack one or two people at a time, and there would be a long interval between each attack.

And every time they would disguise the disappearance of the victims as accidental loss in the mountains.

Sometimes, outsiders appear here, and once he succeeds in getting his hands on them, he will be gone forever, never to be found again.

Lin's spiritual transformation took a long time. In the blink of an eye, another two hundred years passed, and the spiritual transformation finally reached the final stage.

But before that, Lin's consciousness had already awakened, and he is now the Lord of Sinking Bones.

Of course, when the Lord of Sinking Bones just transformed into a spirit, his race was not the Lord of Sinking Bones, but was called the Rotten Bones Corpse.

But Xiang Liu never knew that it was not Lin himself who turned into a spirit, but just the bones of Lin's decayed body.

After the undead species successfully transform into spirits, the ones that retain their original personalities are often soul-type spirits, such as the hanged ghost that Fanxing once ate, and Fanxing's original body, Painted Skin (Painted Skin is a type of spirit that combines soul and body).

But Mr. Shenshui Baigu was obviously not one of them.

It was not until many years after Lin's death that it began to transform into a spirit, and by then Lin's soul had already dissipated.

It was simply born from the corpse of Yu Lin, the Lord of the Submerged Bones, and perfectly inherited Lin's memories.

The birth of Bai Gujun was the result of Xiang Liu's companionship for hundreds of years. Xiang Liu was the only and most important existence to him, so he naturally did not want Xiang Liu's wish to be unfulfilled.

So since the birth of consciousness, he called himself Lin and imitated Lin according to his memory.

His imitation was so similar that Xiang Liu never doubted it.

So, this deception lasted for nearly two hundred years.

Until his death, Xiang Liu never knew that the person he resurrected was not Lin.

No, maybe Xiang Liu also noticed it, but Bai Gujun didn’t find it.

But what the facts are doesn’t matter now.

About a year ago, a group of tomb robbers accidentally broke into the mountains and came to Lin's tomb.

Xiang Liu and Bai Gujun did not kill the intruders, but allowed them to enter Lin's tomb.

The reason they were able to come to this mountain was all because of Long Yixiang.

That’s right, Long Yixiang is a member of this group of tomb robbers.

When he was injured and could no longer work to support his family, he accidentally came into contact with this group of tomb robbers, so he took the initiative to join them and became a small fry who helped them sell the stolen goods.

So why did Long Yixiang appear in the mountains?

It turned out that when he was just injured, he was mentally depressed and had thoughts of suicide, so he went into the mountains once, and by chance he came to Lin's tomb.

However, that time, due to the secret obstruction of Bai Gujun and Xiang Liu, his many attempts to enter the tomb failed.

But this also made him realize that this tomb might be very unusual.

So why didn't Bai Gujun and Xiang Liu kill him, but let him go instead? Of course, it was to play the long game and catch the bigger fish. So, he brought the tomb-robbing gang with him.

Over the past few hundred years, Xiang Liu had collected some human belongings, which he stored deep in Lin's tomb. Then these belongings were taken away by tomb robbers.

Xiang Liu and Bai Gujun did not stop him.

What the group of tomb robbers didn't know was that all the treasures contained the power of the Bone Lord. The moment they touched the treasures, they were eroded by the power of the Bone Lord, and the Bone Lord could control them at any time.

By controlling the tomb robbers, Xiang Liu came into contact with a group of human traffickers. Through the traffickers, the abducted people were sent into the mountains one after another.

Because human males have more yang energy, all those abducted here are men, and hundreds of years ago, most of those killed in the mountains by Xiang Liu were also men.

As he absorbed more and more Yang energy, Lord Bai Gu was getting closer and closer to successfully transforming into a spirit.

However, it was not until recently that Xiang Liu found something in the river that completely changed their fate.

It was a blood bead (made from Jingwei's blood), a blood bead that exuded powerful strength.

Miraculously, after coming into contact with the blood bead, Lord Bone underwent a mutation. Flesh grew on his bones, and he became the current Lord Bone Sinking in Water.

It was this mutation that brought him only one step away from spiritual transformation.

In order to speed up the transformation into a spirit, Xiang Liu decided to let Bai Gujun absorb the yang energy of the tomb-robbing gang directly. After all, once Bai Gujun's transformation into a spirit was completed, the tomb-robbing gang would be useless.

He didn't know that the tomb-robbing gang had been spotted by patrols in Hongguang City because of their recent activity and exposure to spiritual seeds. Xiang Liu had originally thought that absorbing the tomb-robbing gang's yang energy would be enough for Bai Gujun to transform into a spirit, but he hadn't expected that there was still a little shortfall.

It was just a little bit short, and he no longer had the patience to act as cautiously as before, so he set his sights on the villagers at the foot of the mountain, and the first one to bear the brunt was the survivor of the tomb-robbing group - Long Yixiang.

Long Yixiang was not originally controlled, after all, he was just a small fry in the gang.

But unfortunately for him, when he was helping the gang sell stolen goods, he secretly stole a jade bracelet. He then gave the bracelet to Long Shangshui and asked Long Shangshui to find him a wife.

In order to make up the number of people, Bai Gujun controlled Long Yixiang and tricked Long Yishi, who wanted to get rich, into coming.

However, Xiang Liu and Bai Gujun did not expect that it was only a little bit short of the mark. After absorbing the yang energy of Long Yixiang and Long Yishi, it was still not enough, still just a little bit short. That led to the disappearance of Long Shangshui and the going up the mountain of Long Xiaofeng.

Originally, Xiang Liu planned to let Lord Bai Gu transform into a spirit as soon as possible and then take him away, but he didn't expect Fanxing and Yu Ruoxue to act so quickly.

If it weren't for the blood bead that accelerated the spiritualization of Lord Bai Gu, perhaps Xiang Liu wouldn't have been so anxious to achieve success.

At this time, Fanxing had already tracked Yedou and the others to the depths of the tomb.

Here, they found several sarcophagi, inside which lay the bodies of the tomb-robbing gang and Long Yixiang, Long Yishi, and Long Shangshui.

Because of the spiritual nourishment of Lord Shenshui Baigu, their bodies have not yet shown signs of decay, but they have not had time to turn into the living dead.

Ignoring the corpses, Fanxing took Yato, Hsinchu, Yakushi and the remaining 108 zombies and continued to walk deeper into the tomb.

This tomb had been built by Xiang Liu for hundreds of years and was already filled with various mechanisms.

Fanxing had just opened the door of the next secret room and hadn't even stepped in when she saw a barrage of arrows coming towards her.

Fortunately, several zombies flashed and stood in front of her.

These arrows were used against ordinary people and naturally had no killing power against the zombies. So after several waves of attacks, several of the zombies didn't even have their skin broken.

After passing dozens of mechanisms, Fanxing finally arrived at the deepest part of the tomb.

She originally thought that there would be a mechanism here, but in fact there was not. There was only a lonely red coffin lying in the middle of the secret room.

She walked forward cautiously, but still saw no mechanism. She only saw the bodies of the mountain master and Chenshui Baigujun lying quietly inside.

All dead?
Seeing this surprise from Fanxing, she carefully sensed that the two spirit seeds had indeed completely lost their vitality.

Her true form is that of the undead, and she is naturally very sensitive to the breath of life.

After hesitating for a moment, her right hand suddenly turned into a tentacle, wrapped around the bodies of Xiang Liu and Bai Gujun, lifted them out of the coffin, and then swallowed them.

Without any surprises, Fanxing digested the two B-rank spirit seeds smoothly. Her only disappointment was that, having long since died, the spiritual energy contained in them had been lost. Otherwise, her strength would surely have been further improved.

But now it has only improved slightly.

It’s a pity, it’s better to kill and eat it immediately!

But she soon became happy again because three dimpled stones actually fell from them.

What Xiang Liu dropped was Rooting and Sprouting [growing roots and taking root in the earth, restoring life while greatly increasing its own attack].

And Mr. Shenshui Baigu dropped two at once.

The first one is Celestial Phenomenon·Rain [clouds gather and rain falls, changing celestial phenomena].

The second one is the Yin Shui Ming Yi [put on the Shui Ming Yi which is a woven combination of water power and Yin power to greatly enhance your own defense].

As expected of a B-level spirit seed, the drop rate is high! Holding the three dense-grained stones in his hand, Fanxing's face was filled with ecstasy.

The Mountain Master's Rooting and Sprouting can be used by Rose (Bloody Lady).

As for Lord Bai Gu Chen Shui, she can use both his Celestial Phenomenon·Rain and Yin Shui Ming Yi for herself.

Fanxing's water control skill is very versatile and can be used for both offense and defense, but it is too dependent on the environment.

In non-aquatic environments, the effectiveness of this skill in Fanxing's hands is very limited, after all, she is not a water-attributed spirit species.

But if you have the skill of Celestial Rain, it will perfectly solve the problem of environmental restrictions.

Then there is the skill of Yinshui Mingyi, which Fanxing had been really coveting before.

Only she knew how hard it was for her to fight after Shenshui Baigujun activated this skill.

Moreover, this skill has Yin attributes (actually it has both Yin and Water attributes), which is very suitable for her.

Without any hesitation, Fanxing swallowed the two dense stones. A moment later, she successfully comprehended the new skill.

Race: Painted Skin (mutated)
Category: Undead
Attribute: Yin

Features: Reality [Under the reality, all illusions are real]

Lord of the Dead [Lord of the Dead is Supreme]

Skill: Skinning [Sharp nails peel skin and bones, with penetrating effect]

Bone Sword【Swing the bone sword in your hand to attack the opponent】

Withering Field [Creates a field filled with Yin power, and all undead species in the field continuously recover their spiritual energy]

Ghost [Transform into a ghost, slightly increase your attack power and speed]

Yinshuimingyi [Put on the Yinshuimingyi, which is a combination of water power and Yin power, to greatly improve your defense]

Grade: C
Positioning: Quick Attack

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Race: Tai Sui

Category: Old Deus
Attribute: evil

Characteristics: Immortality [Immortality and indestructibility]

Skill: Plunder [Seize the skills of a devoured spirit and use them for your own use (2)]

Life Scale [Put your own and your teammates' lives on both ends of the scale, and then divide them equally. Each activation has a cooldown of half a quarter of an hour]

Celestial Phenomenon·Rain [clouds gather and rain falls, changing celestial phenomena]

Water Control [Control the flow of water to attack the opponent]

Rating: Unknown

Positioning: auxiliary type
But when she saw the distribution of her skills, she was stunned for a moment.

Previously, the skills she learned fell on Painted Skin, but this time one fell on Tai Sui, and even the water control skill she learned before was transferred to Tai Sui.

In fact, Fanxing didn't know that the number of skills a spirit species can learn in one stage is limited and it cannot learn indefinitely.

The reason why her newly learned skills fell on Tai Sui was because Huapi's skill pool was full.

The limit of her Painted Skin skill pool is 7, while the skill pool limit of a general C spirit species is 5 (Tai Sui is unknown).

In order to free up skill slots for Painted Skin, she instinctively transferred the Celestial Phenomenon and Water Control skills to Tai Sui.

The reason why Fanxing didn't know about this was because the teacher didn't teach him in class. After all, no one would be as generous as Fanxing to fill up his skill pool when he was a rookie.

Even if rich people have the ability to fill it up, they still have to see if they can find suitable dense-grained stones!

The training time is limited, only one month, so the teacher will naturally only teach what is useful.

Besides, most people know that the skill pool has limits.

Once the skill pool is full, if you want to learn a new skill, you must clear a skill you have already learned.

But the skill cannot be washed away by just washing. It requires the use of special props. Such props are very precious and more valuable than the dense stone itself.

Obviously, Fanxing's plan for Bloody Lady to learn to take root and sprout is not feasible because Bloody Lady's skill pool is already full.