His Wolf Spirit Baby had also been summoned and roamed around, standing by for action.
Xiao Jie, along with Big Orange, started to level up and had just killed a dozen little monsters—
Suddenly, a flash of golden light behind him—It turned out "I Want to Be Immortal" had reaped some rewards, his Mountain-Opening Axe Technique had been at full level for a long time, but previously he lacked enough comprehension to instantly realize the profound skill. Now, having accumulated 20 comprehension points, he succeeded in realizing it after a short while.
"I Want to Be Immortal" was overjoyed instantly.
"Hahaha, Feng, I’ve reached satori! Is this what satori feels like? It’s so cool."
"What sort of skill did you realize?"
"I Want to Be Immortal" didn’t answer but simply released the skill.
"I Want to Be Immortal" suddenly charged towards several little monsters, and when he was still ten paces away, he fiercely grasped the giant axe with both hands and began charging up on the spot. The giant axe in his hands seemed to weigh a ton.
Profound Skill—Five Dings Mountain Opening!
Several skeletal warriors immediately charged towards him.
One second, two seconds, three seconds—just as the skeletal warriors got close.
He swung the axe fiercely—Boom!
-489 (Execution Attack)!
This one axe blow directly shattered the foremost skeletal warrior, instantly killing it and sending several others flying out from the shockwave, all of them falling to the ground.
"That looks quite fierce."
"Hahaha, it’s alright, it’s alright."
"Does it have a domineering body effect?"
"Good eye, Feng." "I Want to Be Immortal" then explained the effects of the profound skill.
[Five Dings Mountain Opening (Profound Skill)
Usage: Enter a charging state, lasting up to five seconds. After completing the charge, launch a ferocious and devastating smash, causing 30% impact damage to a small area around. For each second of charging, weapon damage increases by an additional 100%, up to a maximum of 500%.
Skill Consumption: 150 Inner Power Value. 150 Energy Value.
Note 1: During charging, you gain a lesser domineering body effect, raising resilience value by 500 points.
Note 2: This attack ignores the target’s defense. When deflected or blocked, it causes 1000 points of resilience destruction.]
Xiao Jie immediately made his assessment.
A powerful skill, very useful against tough, heavily-armored targets.
But if dealing with agile enemies, it might be difficult to hit.
Five seconds of charging, unless the opponent charges at him, hitting the target would be too difficult. He must grasp the perfect timing to release the attack, starting to charge before the battle.
It is best used against brainless monsters like skeletal warriors and zombies.
Overall, it’s a PVE-oriented skill.
"Hahaha, profound skills are indeed cool!" "I Want to Be Immortal" exclaimed, using a profound skill for the first time, feeling extremely excited.
"Use it sparingly, it consumes a lot of Inner Power."
"Got it, got it." "I Want to Be Immortal" said and then used Five Dings Mountain Opening again, instantly killing another skeleton spearmen and knocking down a group as well. The skeleton spearmen, hit by the execution effect, were entirely blasted into a heap of debris.
This feeling of slaughtering enemies with one axe blow was indeed exhilarating for "I Want to Be Immortal."
"Ease up a bit; you’re not leaving me any chance to earn Merit Points," Ye Luo couldn’t help but complain.
She was busy killing monsters and burying their bodies.
"Roger that." "I Want to Be Immortal" readily complied, immediately switching from using profound skill to a newly learned Intermediate Axe Technique—Thunder Axe Technique.
However, this set had just been mastered, so realizing a profound skill from it would be a matter for much later.
Xiao Jie also began casually slaughtering little monsters.
Using the Cold Moon Saber against skeleton zombies and switching to the Xuanming Sword when encountering ghosts.
Those elusive ghosts indeed released all sorts of curses.
Some possessed bodies, some cast curses, and some blinded with Ghostly Eye Cover.
However, with Gods and Ghosts Avoid, not a single curse hit Xiao Jie from start to finish.
Although the effect of Gods and Ghosts Avoid is to grant immunity at a certain probability, Xiao Jie felt that as long as it wasn’t an Elite Level powerful ghost curse, he could probably ignore it most of the time.
"I’ve leveled up!" "I Want to Be Immortal" was the first to successfully level up.
However, before he could even celebrate—"Help me!" Bai Ze suddenly shouted, being chased by several skeleton knights and turned tail to run.
He used Shrinking Land into Inches to flash behind Xiao Jie.
"Let me handle this!" "I Want to Be Immortal" immediately charged forward.
Five Dings—Mountain Opening!
Boom! He directly withstood the damage from several little monsters and knocked down a group.
Xiao Jie used his Big Move on the little monsters that were just getting up, swiftly finishing them off.
"Whew, that was scary. Thank goodness you were here," Bai Ze said, still shaken.
In order to boost Weapon Experience, he didn’t even summon Heavenly Soldiers, carelessly drawing too many monsters and had to run.
This was seriously risking life.
"How’s the Weapon Experience growth?" Xiao Jie asked while helping out.
"Not bad, not bad, gained over 900 Weapon Experience in just a short while."
"How much more do you need to reach Sword Master?"
"Uh, still need 16,800." Bai Ze’s voice instantly faltered.
"And how much did the Experience Points increase?"
From Expert Swordsmanship to Master Swordsmanship required 30,000 Weapon Experience.
From Master Swordsmanship to Grandmaster Level Swordsmanship required 50,000 Weapon Experience.
Xiao Jie did a quick calculation, but began to worry about Bai Ze’s pace, clearly not enough. Even with Ye Luo and "I Want to Be Immortal" helping to share experience, Bai Ze’s leveling speed was a bit too fast. At this rate, he’d probably need to be level 30 by the halfway point to Grandmaster Level Swordsmanship.
Bai Ze also felt rather helpless; too high a level could also be a problem. "So, Feng, any ideas? You seemed quite confident earlier."
"Of course, there’s always a way." Xiao Jie was just about to elaborate when he suddenly paused—"Wait, what’s that sound?"
Everyone immediately stopped talking and listened carefully.
From afar, from the direction of the town, came the sound of a bell.
It was the bell! The Yin Tide was coming!
Xiao Jie turned and looked in the direction behind him, on the desolate Ancient Battlefield, countless skeletal arms continuously burst from the ground, the sky seemed to grow even darker, and several Wandering Ghosts appeared one after another, swirling and wailing in the sky.
The bell continued to ring but was quickly drowned out by the undead’s shrieking and the ghosts’ cries.
"Run!" Xiao Jie shouted, taking the lead to flee.