Chapter 144 - 123: Fang Xiu’s Rewards (2)
Chapter 144: Chapter 123: Fang Xiu’s Rewards (2)
However, they were all Passive Skills, so Fang Xiu had no way to study them in depth.
Of the three Passive Skills, only the Nether King’s True Eye showed any effect from time to time.
As for the other two Passive Skills, Fang Xiu had yet to feel any significant effect from them.
The Fire Immunity was easy enough to understand.
But the Enlightenment was too abstract.
Fang Xiu wasn’t a fan of relying on things left to chance.
’There’s still a Gold Level Treasure Chest? I’ll take it home and have a look!’
Fang Xiu never opened things like Treasure Chests on the spot.
Unless it was a Treasure Chest that couldn’t be moved.
Otherwise, he would cautiously take it back to his Gate World at home.
To open it where no one else was around.
Besides, at that moment, Fang Xiu’s body was already immobilized.
It was just like what happened to Ye Fan earlier.
He figured he would be ejected soon.
Sure enough, just as Fang Xiu expected.
The next moment, his vision blurred.
When he opened his eyes again, he was back in the outside world.
"Brother Fang, why are you out so soon?"
Ye Fan looked confused when he saw Fang Xiu.
He had thought Fang Xiu would be in there for two days.
But now, he was out after just over two hours.
"That thing tricked me. At the end of the sea of flowers, there was an invisible wall."
Fang Xiu shook his head helplessly.
He gave Ye Fan a brief rundown of what happened inside the Demon Beast Tombstone.
As for what rewards he had obtained, Fang Xiu didn’t say.
"ROAR!"
Just then.
The Eight-armed Octopus Demon Beast let out a low growl at Fang Xiu.
As if to express its innocence.
"Still playing innocent, are we?"
Fang Xiu chuckled as he looked at the Eight-armed Octopus Demon Beast.
"ROAR!"
The Eight-armed Octopus Demon Beast, as if sensing danger, let out another roar.
Its body began to slowly back away.
Ye Fan could tell that the Eight-armed Octopus Demon Beast’s voice held a trace of fear.
’In other words... this Demon Beast is afraid of Fang Xiu?’
’According to Fang Xiu, he walked a hundred kilometers.’
’That means Fang Xiu gained ten Levels at most.’
’Fang Xiu was Level 16 before, so he should be Level 26 now.’
’Is that why this Demon Beast is afraid of him?’
"Are you afraid of me?"
Fang Xiu could naturally sense what Ye Fan had sensed.
The Eight-armed Octopus Demon Beast spread its tentacles, forming them into the shape of a person, and shook its head.
"Not afraid?"
Fang Xiu asked again.
This time, however, the human shape outlined by the Octopus’s tentacles neither shook nor nodded its head.
Instead, the Eight-armed Octopus Demon Beast retreated by nearly a meter.
"You really are afraid of me!"
Fang Xiu smiled at the Eight-armed Octopus Demon Beast, which had retreated another meter. "Let me think... why would you be afraid of me? My Level rose to 26, but that shouldn’t be enough to scare you!"
"Then, it can only be... my Skill!"
Fang Xiu looked at the Eight-armed Octopus Demon Beast and said with a wicked grin.
He was also eager to test out his Netherworld Thunder Fall, which had just evolved into a Forbidden Curse.
’Why not try it on this Eight-armed Octopus Demon Beast right in front of me?’
"Netherworld Thunder Fall!"
Fang Xiu barked.
He instantly felt half of the Spiritual Power in his body drain away.
’Hiss... does this Forbidden Curse really require so much Spiritual Power?’
After all, Fang Xiu was now Level 26.
His Spiritual Power was at least a third stronger than before.
He never expected to lose half of his Spiritual Power the instant he used the Forbidden Curse.
At this moment, Fang Xiu was glad he had always saved Star Punishment as a life-saving trump card.
And hadn’t used it.
Otherwise, if he had used a Forbidden Curse like Star Punishment back when he was Level 15 or 16...
...he probably would have fainted instantly from the lack of Spiritual Power.
However, now that Fang Xiu had used the Forbidden Curse, Netherworld Thunder Fall...
...no dark clouds or Thunder appeared in the sky.
Instead, black bolts of Thunder began to swirl around Fang Xiu’s body.
’This... what terrifying Spiritual Power!’
Standing to the side, Ye Fan felt the Thunder coming from Fang Xiu.
Though the bolts looked thin...
...he knew that if even a single one of them were to strike him...
...it would likely end his life in an instant.
’So this is what a Forbidden Curse is like?’
Fang Xiu had expected the Forbidden Curse version of Netherworld Thunder Fall to become thicker and blacker.
He hadn’t expected it to become thinner.
However, Fang Xiu could feel that every single one of the black bolts of Thunder swirling around him was several times more powerful than his old Netherworld Thunder Fall.
’But there are no other special effects when I use a Forbidden Curse, and there’s no pressu—’
Fang Xiu was about to think that the Thunder had no oppressive aura.
It looked quite docile.
But then he saw the Eight-armed Octopus Demon Beast in the distance, already trembling with fear.
More importantly, the Demon Beast’s eight tentacles were now draped limply on the ground.
It was as if the Octopus had collapsed on the spot.
’Looks like it does have an oppressive aura after all!’
Fang Xiu smiled faintly at the Eight-armed Octopus Demon Beast.
There were a total of twenty-six bolts of Thunder swirling around him.
Fang Xiu knew this was because his current strength only allowed him to control twenty-six bolts.
As his strength increased in the future, the number of Netherworld Thunder Fall bolts would surely increase as well.
’Twenty-six bolts of Netherworld Thunder Fall, and I’m exactly Level 26. Is it one bolt per Level?’
Fang Xiu could imagine what would happen if his strength reached the Hundred Level.
Would the Forbidden Curse, Netherworld Thunder Fall, become a hundred bolts?
And each one of those bolts would be as strong as a single cast of his old Netherworld Thunder Fall.
When Fang Xiu moved his hand, the bolts of Thunder moved with it.
’Is this control?’
Fang Xiu could feel the bolts of Thunder as if they were a part of his own body.
No matter how he willed them to move, they followed his commands perfectly.
"I’ll give you one more chance. Did you set me up just now?"
Fang Xiu looked at the Eight-armed Octopus Demon Beast, which was now collapsed limply on the ground.
He asked calmly.
"ROAR!!!"
The Octopus let out a roar.
Then it waved a trembling tentacle.
It could no longer control its tentacles to mimic a human form.
Fang Xiu looked at the Eight-armed Octopus Demon Beast.
He spoke again. "Since you don’t cherish the chance I’m giving you, you can just disappear!"
"ROAR!!!"
The Eight-armed Octopus Demon Beast roared once more.
Its voice sounded somewhat aggrieved.
But now, the black Thunder coiling around Fang Xiu began to move at his command.
Watching from behind, Ye Fan saw Fang Xiu as a demon god of Thunder descended from the heavens.
The black Thunder exuded an incredibly powerful sense of pressure.
Ye Fan didn’t know why Fang Xiu’s Thunder had become so terrifying.
He only knew that he couldn’t block a single one of them.
That’s right, he couldn’t withstand even one.
’Is this the source of Fang Xiu’s strength?’
When Fang Xiu was Level 16, Ye Fan knew he was strong.
Back then, Fang Xiu’s Power was already several times his own.
But back then, Ye Fan merely admired Fang Xiu.
Now, however, Ye Fan was genuinely beginning to fear him.
In his mind, Fang Xiu was growing into an impossibly tall, unattainable figure.
In Ye Fan’s mind, the Level 26 Fang Xiu had already surpassed all the other experts he had ever met.
Before, Ye Fan had wanted to make Fang Xiu his goal to strive toward.
But now, forget catching up...
...just standing near Fang Xiu and looking at him filled Ye Fan with a sense of powerlessness.
’This must be the genius who hunted a Level 40 BOSS at Level 15!’
Ye Fan could only give a helpless, bitter smile.
In front of him, Fang Xiu controlled the black Thunder.
He looked at the Eight-armed Octopus Demon Beast collapsed on the ground not far away.
He said calmly, "Go!"
As if receiving a command, the black Thunder shot directly toward the Eight-armed Octopus Demon Beast!
PS: Sorry, I fell asleep and forgot to update. I’m not even sure what I just wrote. Edited! Edited!