Free Web NovelChapter 327: Chapter 272: Life Element Fusion
’It’s done?!’ Gao Neng was overjoyed.
Two skill upgrades! He’d been waiting for this moment for a long time. Without a second thought, he opened the system’s Attribute Panel.
Name: Gao Neng.
Age: 18.
Basic Information: City of Hope, Eastern Capital Military Academy freshman.
HP: 1056/1998 (Rating: Excellent).
Stamina: 526/788 (Rating: Excellent).
Energy: 1230/3250 (Excellent).
Talents: Iron 100%, Copper 100%, Tin 100%, Silver 100%, Gold 100%, Phosphorus 100%, Sulfur 100%, Silicon 100%...
Special Abilities: 1. Glare at You (Intermediate). 2. Second Magnetic Core (Advanced). 3. Lifeform Transformation (Beginner). 4. Wordless Celestial Book (Beginner), 5. Source (Epic).
Special Skill: 1. Infinite Energy Infusion.
Evolution: 6/10. (Progress)
Since reaching the Tier Five Late Stage, Gao Neng’s HP and Stamina had reached new heights, and his Energy had likewise risen to 3250.
’The evolution points have reached 6 already? Just 4 more missions and the system can evolve a second time, right?’ Gao Neng glanced at his system’s evolution points.
’Not bad. I need to keep pushing!’
Now, the only remaining question was which skill to upgrade.
Gao Neng thought for a moment. ’"Glare at You" is a pretty good skill. It lets me see my opponent’s information. I should upgrade it again when I get the chance. I wonder what it’ll do at the Advanced level?’
’But I’ll put that aside for now.’
’I’ll upgrade the Wordless Celestial Book first,’ Gao Neng decided instantly. ’This skill is incredibly powerful, and its effects only get better. It can directly improve my combat techniques, which is extremely practical!’
He made his choice: Upgrade the Wordless Celestial Book!
DING! "Wordless Celestial Book upgrade successful!" a mechanical voice rang out.
DING! "Congratulations, Host. You have acquired the skill ’Celestial Book Evolution’."
’Celestial Book Evolution?’ Gao Neng looked at his Attribute Panel. Sure enough, the original Wordless Celestial Book skill had been replaced by Celestial Book Evolution.
Special Ability: Celestial Book Evolution (Intermediate)
Gao Neng didn’t wait this time and chose to view the skill description for Celestial Book Evolution. Three rows of extremely complex mathematical formulas appeared before him.
All sorts of X, Y, and Z variables...
There was a huge pile of them, along with all sorts of other symbols.
It was a dizzying array.
An ordinary person would find it very difficult to understand.
But Gao Neng understood it instantly.
Because he wasn’t an ordinary person. He was a super-scholar.
’So that’s what it means. Celestial Book Evolution combines the combat technique evolution function of the old Wordless Celestial Book, and then adds three new, different evolutionary paths on top of it.’ Gao Neng gave it a quick glance. These three evolutionary paths were all extremely radical.
To put it simply, according to the old Wordless Celestial Book’s settings, if you had an attack-type combat technique, the Wordless Celestial Book could help you raise its rank and even fix its flaws.
But if you added the first formula...
It was a different story.
The evolutionary path of the first formula was extreme attack power.
In other words, after using the first formula, this attack-type combat technique would become a "suicide technique," similar to the Seven Injuries Fist.
And make no mistake—this wasn’t a finishing move, it was a *suicide* move!
The kind of suicide technique that would "kill one thousand enemies, but injure eight hundred of yourself"!
Of course, the trade-off was that an originally high-rank attack-type combat technique, after being evolved by the Celestial Book, could now deal the damage of a Secret Technique-level combat skill.
Was this upgrade useful?
That was a matter of perspective.
At least, Gao Neng found it quite useful. Since he had incredible self-healing abilities, he wasn’t afraid of getting injured. He recovered quickly anyway.
The second and third formulas were, in fact, also very extreme.
The second formula was for defensive combat techniques.
The third formula was for Body Technique combat skills.
Of course, what they had in common was that the second and third formulas were also extremely radical, no different from the first formula’s suicide technique.
Gao Neng didn’t read any further.
He was a man of action. Rather than spending so much time reading the description, it was better to just evolve a combat technique he had already learned and see what happened.
For example: what would Half-Step Kill become after evolution?
And what would Supergravity Electromagnetic Storm, the Body Technique "Ghostly Sorrow," and the Sword Drawing Technique turn into?
All of these required direct experimentation.
’What if the experiment fails?’ Gao Neng wasn’t too worried. If he didn’t like the result, he just wouldn’t learn it for now. What was there to lose?
’Hmm...’
’I’d probably lose a little bit of moolah!’
’But, no need to worry!’
’Money is just a worldly possession, and right now, money is the one thing I have plenty of.’
Gao Neng began to choose the second skill to evolve. His gaze fell on "Lifeform Transformation," a skill he used quite often.
It could enhance his attack power and Defense Power.
And it also had resistance attributes.
For example, it could resist electricity, fire, and so on.
It could be considered a combat skill.
It was a shame for a skill like this to still be at the Beginner level.
He made his decision.
Gao Neng chose to upgrade Lifeform Transformation.
DING! "Lifeform Transformation upgrade successful!"
DING! "Congratulations, Host. You have acquired the skill ’Life Element Fusion’."
’Life Element Fusion?!’ The name alone sounded badass. Gao Neng decisively looked at the skill description on his Attribute Panel.
Special Ability: Life Element Fusion (Intermediate)
Gao Neng remembered that the previous skill description for Lifeform Transformation was a massive wall of text tens of thousands of words long, filled with all sorts of explanations and data.
So, he instinctively felt that Life Element Fusion would also have a massive, long-winded description, probably at least a hundred thousand words.
But the result was...
He only saw two sentences.
"The Host can undergo elemental fusion. Any talent you possess among your hidden talents can be directly fused, and the number of fusions is not limited."
That was the first sentence.
The second sentence was...
"Fusing 1 element: consumes 100,000 Alliance Coins per minute. Fusing 2 elements: consumes 200,000 Alliance Coins per minute. Fusing 3 elements: consumes 400,000 Alliance Coins per minute. Fusing 4 elements..."
"Now this is what you call a fucking robbery!" Gao Neng was utterly stunned.
It doubles each time!
He wasn’t sure yet how strong this elemental fusion would be, but he was certain that this thing really burned through money.
Fusing three elements was 400,000 per minute; four was 800,000 per minute.
It was truly limitless!
’If I had known this skill would be such a rip-off after upgrading, I would have upgraded Celestial Book Evolution again. Or even upgrading "Glare at You" would have been a better choice.’
’What a miscalculation!’
Gao Neng felt a pang of regret.
But he wasn’t one to dwell on the past. Since it had already happened, he just had to focus on the money. Yup, he just needed to earn more.
Since Life Element Fusion cost so much money, its effect must be insanely powerful. Gao Neng was confident about that.
The stupid system was a huge rip-off.
But she still had her principles. At least every skill she provided was ridiculously powerful.
...
The two skill upgrades were complete.
Gao Neng felt refreshed and invigorated.
He was very happy.
So, he immediately "woke" up.
"Where am I?"
"What happened?"
"Who am I?"
After waking up, Gao Neng immediately shouted three questions.
This once again showed the reporters and the disciples of the Huashan Ancient Sect standing below the arena what acting was, and what it meant to be so fake it left people speechless.
CLICK! CLICK! CLICK!
A flurry of camera shutters went off.
The reporters were speechless, but they still had their professional ethics.
Seeing Gao Neng wake up, they immediately swarmed the arena, and microphones were thrust in front of his face from all directions.
"Gao Neng, were you really exhausted just now?"
"Gao Neng, why were you unharmed after being hit by Fang Tangtang’s neutron bomb? You clearly could have knocked Fang Tangtang off the arena, so why did you suddenly hold back?"
"Gao Neng, was there an element of match-fixing in this competition?"
The Dragon List competition was nearly over.
The reporters’ professional ethics had naturally undergone a new evolution. Their questions were no longer "gentle" but had become extremely pointed.
Because after today, it would be impossible for Gao Neng to grant them any more exclusive interviews.
Since there was no possibility of an exclusive interview, why should they hold back?
"Make way!"
"Make way!"
Just then, a Guiding Disciple from the Huashan Ancient Sect walked over. Following behind him were two middle-aged men in professional attire.
At the sight of the two middle-aged men, Sect Leader Hua and the two Elders all stood up from their chairs.
Shen Ning’Er also looked over.
The two men’s appearances were unremarkable, but on the chests of their clothes was a very conspicuous insignia.
The insignia was composed of four different colors.
Red, blue, yellow, and green.
The four colors blended together, forming a four-colored spherical mark.
"Excuse me, thank you," one of the middle-aged men said. He didn’t make any grand gestures, but the reporters who had been surrounding Gao Neng instantly parted.
Sect Leader Hua and the two Elders walked over.
"Hello, Sect Leader Hua." When the two middle-aged men saw Sect Leader Hua and the two Elders, they greeted only the Sect Leader, ignoring the Elders.
"Captain Li, Captain Wang, you’ve come personally. Is it to...?" Sect Leader Hua wasn’t too surprised.
"To issue the Dragon List notices," the two middle-aged men said in unison.
"I see. Cheng Cai and Qu Ran are both injured. Please wait a moment, Captain Li and Captain Wang. I will have them come over," Sect Leader Hua nodded.
"No need to trouble yourself. Cheng Cai and Qu Ran’s notices will arrive tomorrow. We didn’t come for them," one of the middle-aged men said, shaking his head. His gaze then turned to Shen Ning’Er. "Lieutenant Colonel Shen, we’ve brought your Dragon List notice as well. In three days, please report to the location on the notice for an examination."
After speaking, the middle-aged man took out a golden card and handed it over.
"Alright." Shen Ning’Er took the card and nodded.
Meanwhile, the other middle-aged man walked straight onto the arena and up to Gao Neng. "Student Gao Neng, hello. On behalf of the Federation Government’s United Council, I am formally notifying you to report to the location on this notice in three days for an examination!"
"An examination?" Gao Neng took the golden card and casually opened it. An address quickly appeared on it: Federation Government Building, Seventeenth Floor, Special Affairs Research Institute.
"Yes, a physical examination. Rest assured, our examination is extremely comprehensive!" the middle-aged man nodded and said with a matter-of-fact expression.
