bioinnovel Chapter 41: Successive Breakthroughs, Proficient Level "Sands of Time" S-Rank Space-Time S
Chapter 41: Successive Breakthroughs, Proficient Level "Sands of Time" S-Rank Space-Time S
[Defeat the second-tier, level-3 Shadow Panther monster, gaining 90 Ability Points and 12 Points]
[Proficiency in "Thunder Across the Nine Heavens" +10]
[Sands of Time Proficiency +6]
The Rock Armor Giant Lizard has thick, tough skin; its second-tier, level 4 rock armor is even harder than a city wall.
It took Lin Yuan a full ten minutes to wear it down. It wasn't that he couldn't beat it, but that breaking through its defenses was too difficult.
The tip of Zidian's spear poked dozens of white spots into the rock armor, finally piercing through the eye socket.
[Defeat the Tier 2, Level 4 monster, Rock Armor Giant Lizard, Psychic Points +110, Score +14]
[Proficiency in "Thunder Across the Nine Heavens" +12]
The Windwing Python can fly, coiling around the treetops and spitting out wind blades.
Lin Yuan can't fly, but he can climb trees.
The lightning-type ability user used the tree trunk to propel himself faster than a monkey, quickly leaping up to the treetop, with purple lightning piercing through the python's head.
[Defeat the Tier 2, Level 3 monster, Windwing Python. Ability Points +90, Score +12]
[Proficiency in "Thunder Across the Nine Heavens" +10]
By evening of the following day, Lin Yuan leaned against an old pine tree that had been broken in half by the Windwing Python.
While munching on his third and last tea egg, he opened the system panel and took a look.
[Host: Lin Yuan]
[Weak Lightning Strike (Lightning Element): Rank E, Tier 1, Level 7 (Peak)]
[Herrscher of Time and Space (Time-Space System): S-Rank, Tier 1, Level 4]
[Muscle and Bone Tempering: 9 rounds (99% progress)]
【Combat Skill: Thunderclap Across the Nine Heavens (Proficiency: Mastery)】
[Combat Art: Sands of Time (Proficiency: Beginner)]
[Special Ability Points: 1746]
One thousand seven hundred and forty-six points.
When he set off from Donghai City, he only had a little over a thousand ability points. After two days of hunting, he earned more than a thousand.
The ability points given for second-tier monsters are indeed generous; one of them is equivalent to more than a dozen first-tier monsters.
Thunder Walks Through the Nine Heavens increased his proficiency by over 200 points, and Sands of Time also increased by over 160 points.
The score has soared to 286 points.
Although he didn't know the scores of the other candidates, according to Jiang Ran and the others, the champion in the actual college entrance examination in Hangzhou in previous years only had a little over two hundred points.
He had already exceeded the limit before the second day was even over.
However, these are not his biggest concerns right now.
Starting this afternoon, the lightning-type superpower within him started acting strangely.
Like the surface of a lake before a storm, calm on the surface, but something is churning beneath, with the energy fluctuations sometimes strong and sometimes weak, and sometimes suddenly becoming agitated.
This is a sign that a breakthrough is imminent.
He's been stuck at the peak of Tier 1, Level 7 for a few days now.
His foundation, forged through nine rounds of bone tempering, is much more solid than that of ordinary ability users, but this also means that each breakthrough requires more accumulation.
The intense battles in Hangzhou these past few days, coupled with the residual effects of the ten top-grade ultimate bone-tempering pills, have finally pushed the accumulation to a critical point.
I need to find a quiet place to break through.
Lin Yuan glanced at the map—his phone had no signal, but the screenshots he had taken earlier were still there.
He is currently located at the edge of the area marked by the red diagonal line. If he walks east-southeast for about forty minutes, there is a lake marked "Clear Water Lake".
The lake is located in the central-outer part of the danger zone, and the density of monsters around it is not high, making it a good place to rest.
He put his phone away, carried the Purple Lightning towards the direction of Clear Water Lake.
......
As night fell, Lin Yuan arrived.
Clearwater Lake was much larger than he had imagined.
The lake is about half the width of a football field and is an irregular oval shape.
The lake water is light blue-green and crystal clear. The shore is covered with fine sand and pebbles, and a ring of reeds grows around it.
There was no trace of monsters.
The lake's water is too clear, and the surrounding vegetation is too short, making it unsuitable for monsters to ambush, so even monsters are too lazy to set up camp here.
Lin Yuan found a flat, large rock by the lake and sat down.
The stone, having been exposed to the daytime sun, still retained a little warmth, making it quite comfortable to sit on.
He leaned Zidian against the rock, drank a few mouthfuls of water, and then sat cross-legged.
The fluctuations of lightning-type supernatural abilities are becoming increasingly intense.
Deep within my dantian, it felt like a thundercloud, compressed to its limit, was expanding and churning, searching for an outlet to release its energy.
His lightning-based powers began to operate involuntarily, and silvery-white lightning appeared and disappeared on his body, casting the surrounding reeds in alternating light and shadow.
Lin Yuan closed his eyes and guided the restless power to flow according to the path of lightning-type supernatural abilities.
One lap, two laps, three laps.
Each cycle was smoother than the last, and the lightning became more concentrated.
The bones, tempered by nine rounds of energy, heated slightly under the influence of lightning-based power, revealing golden bone patterns that intertwined with the silvery-white lightning.
I don't know how much time has passed.
The thundercloud deep within his dantian finally expanded to its limit. Then...
"Buzz..."
A deep, resonant sound emanated from his body.
It's not sound, it's resonance at the energy level.
The invisible ripples swept across the lake, spreading out in concentric circles towards the center, causing the reeds to rustle.
Breakthrough successful!
[Lightning-type Ability: Rank E, Tier 1, Level 8]
Lin Yuan opened his eyes.
A silvery-white lightning flashed for a moment deep within his pupils before slowly receding.
He could feel a qualitative change in his lightning-based ability; it wasn't an increase in quantity, but in density.
A level 8 lightning-type ability is much more solid than a level 7 one. With the same amount of ability reserves, the power that can be released has increased by at least 10%.
Moreover, his control over lightning-based abilities has improved significantly. Previously, lightning was scattered, but now he can focus it more precisely and tightly.
Lin Yuan didn't rush to stand up; breaking through to the 8th level of the first rank was just the first thing to do tonight.
He opened the system panel, and his remaining ability points were 1746.
It takes 1000 points to advance the Space-Time system from Tier 1, Level 4 to Tier 1, Level 5. It takes 500 points to advance the Sands of Time from Beginner to Proficient.
"Upgrade the spacetime system."
[Consuming 1000 Ability Points, the Space-Time Ability has been upgraded from Tier 1, Level 4 to Tier 1, Level 5]
[Remaining Ability Points: 746]
The warmth of the spacetime ability surged from his dantian, completely different from the restlessness he felt when breaking through to the lightning element; it was quiet, profound, and silent.
His spatial perception range expanded from fifteen meters to twenty meters.
The tracks of fish swimming at the bottom of the lake, the direction of the wind in the reeds, the movement of the clouds overhead—all this information surfaced in his consciousness in a way that transcended the five senses.
"Upgrade the Sands of Time".
[Consuming 500 Ability Points, the proficiency level in "Sands of Time" has been increased from Beginner to Proficient]
[Remaining Ability Points: 246]
【Sands of Time Proficiency: Proficient (0/2000)】
[Effect Update: Slowdown rate 15%-35%, range 4 meters, duration 6 seconds, cooldown 25 seconds]
The proficient level of Sands of Time is significantly stronger than the beginner level.
The deceleration limit has been increased from 30% to 35%, the range has been expanded from three meters to four meters, the duration has increased by one second, and the cooldown time has decreased by five seconds.
In battle, a five-second difference can mean the difference between life and death.
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