When the sun sets and the moon rises, and the stars are dotted.

Leo sat in the dojo inside the Heavenly Sword Temple, preparing to absorb the soul of the Salary King dropped by the Spider Empress Christale.

His original residence, the Tower, had been destroyed in the previous Great War, or rather, there was not a single intact building left in the vast inner city except for the Heavenly Sword Temple.

Looking at the brilliant golden soul dancing above his palm, Leo's eyes lit up.

This is the first soul above the "hero" he obtained, from the demon god-level existence that has been sealed for an unknown amount of time, the [Corrupt Demon God] Spider Queen Christale.

According to the introduction of the character panel, if it is the Spider Queen Christale in her heyday, her soul level is the real Salary King level.

However, because of the long-term seal, and the fact that the seal had just been broken, she suffered heavy damage to the origin one after another, causing her soul level to fall to the salary king level (pseudo).

It's also wonderful.

The highest quality soul that Leo obtained before was the "Hero's Soul (3)" that fell from the [Hidden One], and he didn't even know what the title of the soul level dropped by a demigod-level existence was, but he didn't expect to get the Demon God-level Salary King's Soul in advance.

Although this soul of the salary king has a "pseudo" word, the belt is still essentially a salary king.

Even if he held it in the palm of his hand, Leo could feel the powerful power contained in this brilliant golden soul group.

For [[Corrupt Demon God] - Spider Queen Christysdale's Soul of the Salary King (Pseudo)], Leo has already decided how to use it.

That is, direct absorption.

When the Soul Fire brightness reached 15.0, he received a prompt from the character panel that the Soul Fire brightness had reached the limit of pure white souls.

According to his last experience, if he wants to break through the soul fire color, the known way is to absorb higher-level souls.

Aside from that, if there is any other way to transform the color of the soul fire, the answer is yes, there is.

However, Leo didn't know.

Therefore, he can only use this method.

The strength of the soul fire is the foundation of Leo's strength. Whether it is sword intent or magic power, it is closely related to the strength of soul fire. If the brightness of the soul fire is limited by the color of the soul fire and cannot continue to increase, then the speed at which he becomes stronger will be greatly slowed down.

This is something that Leo cannot tolerate no matter what.

Looking at the brilliant golden soul in his palm, Leo shook it hard.

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After a silent shock, this group of Salary Kings (pseudo) exploded into countless brilliant golden soul streams, like a large torch that suddenly expanded, and the brilliant golden streamers almost filled the entire Heavenly Sword Temple, and they circulated around Leo and flowed into his body.

The soul qi flowed into the body, and at the beginning it was as warm as the morning light, which made people extremely comfortable, but it didn't take long for the indescribable pain of soul tearing to sweep through the whole body.

Leo gritted his teeth, and the muscles all over his body burst out, and the sweat soaked all his clothes in an instant, and the sharp pain that penetrated deep into his soul was far more terrible than the pain in his body.

The will strength of up to 18.0 made Leo unable to pass out even if he wanted to fall unconscious, so he could only endure this inhuman pain stubbornly.

But even if it was pain, Leo endured it to the death, without the slightest thought of giving up.

Compared to the dead silence of falling into distortion, compared to the despair of being trapped in a bottleneck and unable to move forward, compared to the mourning of being unable to do anything when you want to protect someone important, what is the pain?

The clothes on his body were dry and wet, wet and dry, and I don't know how long it took, when Leo's consciousness began to become numb to the pain, the pain in his soul finally slowly subsided.

A sense of freedom after breaking out of the cocoon and becoming a butterfly emerged from the heart, and a warm current was born from the depths of the soul, gently smoothing Leo's tense body and soul.

Lying on his back on the dojo, with a gray-blue wall in front of him, a blurry picture suddenly flashed in front of Leo's eyes.

In the endless darkness and loneliness, a dark blue light suddenly appeared.

Even if it's not as bright as the sun, it's not as bright as the sun

Dark creatures are more precious than sunlight.

The dark blue light broke through the darkness of eternal silence, and through the small gap, faintly, a semi-illusory soul body covered with various faces slowly withdrew its hand, and the body gradually became transparent until it disappeared.

At this point, the picture stops.

When Leo came back to his senses, he saw the gray-blue wall in front of him.

Just that is?

Spider Queen Christdale's shattered memories? Is it her memories before she broke the seal?

That soul body!

Leo stared.

Not long ago, he had just seen it in the [Dark Moon Priest's] soul memory screen!

It was a fusion soul body that was forcibly condensed by the Chief Councilor by unknown means by hundreds of Darkmoon Cultists who had crossed the Spatial Gate to come to the Moster continent to die!

It turned out that he was the mastermind behind the destruction of the lives in the ancient city of Sam......

Originally, Leo thought that the Spider Queen Christale's breaking of the seal was just an accident, but he didn't expect that it was deliberately done by the chief councilor!

How dare he!

What is his purpose in doing this?

The burning anger accumulates in his heart, and then precipitates into suppressed killing intent.

Regardless of why the Chief Councilor did such a thing, since he did so, for the sake of so many tragic deaths in the ancient city of Sam, for the sake of the Twilight Sword Saint and the High Priest who died in this battle, Leo must "ask for an explanation".

After a long time, Leo, who had finished adjusting his state, looked at the character panel prompt that appeared in front of him.

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[Absorb [Corrupt Demon God] - Spider Queen Christdale's Soul of the Salary King (Pseudo)......]

[Detected that the current soul fire has reached the limit of "pure white......]

[Condition Determination...... ...... to meet the promotion requirements】

【Promotion......】

[Soul Flame Color: Pure White → Bright Gold]

[Based on Soul Fire Color: Cangold, gain passive skills - [Soul Resistance], [Heart Meditation]]

[Soul Fire Brightness: 15.0→17.0]

[Current Status: Healthy, Aberrant (Malignant 27.6%)]

[Mana Attribute: Wind]

[Mana: 4508/4508→5108/5108] (Affected by [Mana Core (God's) Wind], the maximum mana per 0.1 Soul Fire Brightness Increase has been increased from 10 to 30)

[Sword Intent Strength: 180.0→204.0] (Will Strength: 20.4)

[Acquired Skills: Royal Swordsmanship (Celestial 3700/10000), Storm Swordsmanship (Grandmaster 1832/3000), Thousand Flame Swordsmanship (Grandmaster 1691/3000), Sword of Light (Grandmaster 1488/3000), Yoel Archery (Master 730/1000), Light Spell: Low Rank (Beginner 81/100), Body of Magic (Wind Passive), Low Dragon Blood Body: Passive, Sword Intent Lv.3, [Heart of Celestials], [Embrace of the First Wind: High Passive], Wind Realm (String Moon), Mana Core (God-given), Wind, Soul Resistance, Heart Meditation

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[Soul Resistance]: A golden soul, even in the deepest darkness, is enough to light up the light. A powerful soul, even if it is out of the body, can exist for a long time, you have a certain resistance to various ailments, the strength is based on the brightness of the soul fire, the current abnormal resistance: 17%. (Ailments: Toxin, Stun, Knockback, Burn, Freeze, Corrosion, etc.)

[Meditation of the Heart]: A powerful soul that allows you to have a more nuanced feeling of everything in the outside world. When performing meditation practice, the efficiency is increased by 1700% based on the current soul fire brightness.

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Looking at the hint of the character panel in front of him, the corners of Leo's mouth outlined a smooth arc.

The feeling of becoming stronger is so wonderful that it is enough to make people suffer at all costs.

Absorb [[Corrupt Demon God] - Spider Queen Christysdale's

The Soul of the Salary King (Pseudo)], which brought more harvest than Leo believed.

First of all, it is a breakthrough in the color of soul fire.

The transformation from "pure white" to "bright gold" has broken through the shackles of soul fire, and the upper limit has reached a new height, and the current soul fire brightness has also increased by 2 points from the original 15.0 to 17.0.

What is the concept of increasing the brightness of 2 Soul Fire?

Each point increase in the brightness of the soul fire is a difference of 1.5 times the total attribute. 17 is 2.5*2.5=6.25 times compared to 15!

With such an exaggerated improvement, Leo at this moment could not accurately predict his combat effectiveness.

Even if he has a celestial-level kendo cultivation, this level of physical fitness improvement will not be able to be completely controlled by him in a short period of time.

The changes brought about by the soul fire color breakthrough are not only this, but the soul of the bright gold level has actually derived two extremely powerful passive skills.

Soul Resistance and Meditation of the Heart.

The effect of both is very simple and brutal.

The former increases Leo's resistance to ailments, and if Leo had this skill in his previous battle against Spider Queen Chrissdale, he would not immediately lose his combat ability in the face of poison.

The latter, on the other hand, has greatly increased the speed of Leo's meditation practice. 1700%, a full 17 times faster!

After the cultivation of swordsmanship has reached the grandmaster level, it is no longer focused on the superficial moves, but on the cultivation of the heart. And meditation is the best way for Leo to practice swordsmanship now.

Leo has always had some trouble with kendo.

Although the speed at which his swordsmanship level had improved was fast enough, he felt a little suffocated when he saw that the celestial-level wanted to advance to the proficiency level of up to 10,000 points again.

Even if he finds someone to fight for life and death every day, spends all his free time meditating, and wants to reach 10,000 proficiency points, he doesn't know how young he is.

What's more, finding someone to fight for life and death every day is unrealistic in itself.

Most of the people who drown are good swimmers, fighting to the death every day, and no one can guarantee that they will always be the winner.

Therefore, seeing the skill of [Meditation of the Heart], Leo's inner joy was indescribable.

With this skill, his proficiency improvement speed in various swordsmanship will usher in a qualitative change in the future.

The level of swordsmanship is related to the level of kendo coefficient, and the level of kendo coefficient determines the strength of sword intent.

After summing up the harvest of absorbing [[Corrupt Demon God]-Spider Queen Christdale's Soul of the Salary King (Pseudo)], Leo raised his hand and took out nine fist-sized spherical crystals from the bag next to him.

Eight [Black Blood Crystals (Activated)] and one [Black Blood Crystal].

This is the harvest of the previous kills of those [Black Dead Lords] Flesh Flowers.

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[Black Blood Crystal (Activated)]: Life Alienation Condensation. After the aberration secondary pollution - [black] erodes the living body, the original vitality of the living body is decayed and extinguished, and then alienated into a xenomorphic life crystal, which has a certain flesh-and-blood fusion property, and the activity is greatly increased due to the implantation of a very small amount of special flesh and blood.

Effect:

1. Direct use. Increases [Basic Defense].

(Acceptance of both soul and will, failure to pass either will cause the body to be [blackened] mutation, with unknowable consequences.) Soul Fire Brightness ≥ 12.0 and Will Strength ≥ 12.0, this judgment must be passed. ）

(Current Will Power: 20.4)

2. Fusion. Collect three [Black Blood Crystals (Activation)] and place them together to fuse them into [Black Blood Pure Crystals (Activation)], which will increase its effect and appear additional special amplification effects, but the judgment conditions will be increased to a certain extent, so be cautious.

(Decaying life and soul, bringing about the deformation and transformation of the physical body, is this evolution, or disaster?) What is the mystery between life, soul, and body? ）

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Speaking of which, those two were taken by the Fresh Wind Knight Chang Ai

The [Black Death Lord] Flesh and Blood Flower that Ersen killed, the [Black Blood Crystal (Activation)] in his body after his death was not taken out by the Fresh Wind Great Knight Chief, and the New Wind Great Knight Leader Elsen, who was eager to support at that time, was eager to break one second into two seconds to spend it, how could he have spare time to take this kind of black thing that he didn't know the purpose of.

These two [Black Blood Crystals (Activated)] were found by Leo after he killed the Rotten Demon God and went to the frontline battlefield to support, and found them from two black dead minibosses who were approaching the legendary level.

Presumably, it should be that they were attracted by the aura of [Black Blood Crystal (Activation)] and took it for themselves.

However, now they are all owned by Leo.

Looking at the black spherical crystal in front of him, Leo's eyes flashed with thought.

The previous battle situation was urgent, and he didn't have time to fuse it, but now that he was idle, he was finally able to test it well.

Take out three [Black Blood Crystals (Activated)], stack them on top of each other, and then wait quietly.

Five minutes later, the three [Black Blood Crystals (Activated)] still showed no signs of fuse.

Leo thought about it for a moment, and thought that there might be some kind of "catalyst" missing.

But the Character panel only says that they can be fused when placed together, but it doesn't say exactly how it needs to be done.

Leo thought about it, and first tried to invoke a little magic power, close to the three [Black Blood Crystals (Activation)], but this move had no effect at all, [Black Blood Crystals (Activation)] seemed to have a strong resistance to magic power, and now his normal 5000+ strength magic power could not invade the surface of the spar in the slightest.

The magic power didn't work, Leo changed to sword intent, but as a result, it was still useless.

[Black Blood Crystal (Activated)] is obviously inferior to magic power in its resistance to sword intent, but the problem is that Leo doesn't dare to forcibly break the spar with sword intent, in case this thing is broken, wouldn't it be worth the loss?

Magic power doesn't work, and neither does sword intent, Leo enters the [Transcendence State], condenses the [Transcendence Power], and uses it to forcibly squeeze the three [Black Blood Crystals (Activation)] together.

A few minutes later, looking at the three black spherical crystals that had not changed, Leo reluctantly withdrew [transcendence].

Transcendent energy has proven to have no effect on the fusion of this thing.

Leo thought for a moment, opened the character panel for the introduction of [Black Blood Crystal (Activation)], read it several times, and soon, he locked his eyes on a line of words.

"After the aberration secondary pollution - [black] erodes the living body, causing the original vitality of the living form to decay and die, and then alienate into a xenomorphic life crystal, which has a certain flesh-and-blood fusion nature."

"It has a certain flesh and blood fusion nature......" Looking at this introduction, a bright light appeared in Leo's eyes.

He raised his hand and condensed a trace of sword intent, wanting to cut the skin of his right index finger, but he never thought that this cut could not be cut.

The 20.4% damage reduction brought by Sword Intent Lv.3, the 10% damage reduction brought by the low-level dragon blood body, and the physical defense power of 17.0 Soul Fire Brightness made Leo's body defense reach an extremely terrifying level.

With just a wisp of sword qi, it was impossible to cut through the epidermis!

As a last resort, Leo had no choice but to increase the output power of the sword intent, and when he used about 40% of the maximum power of the sword intent, he finally successfully cut through the skin.

A bead of blood, as clear as a ruby, dripped from the wound.

Leo dropped a drop of blood on each of the three [Black Blood Crystals (Activated)], and then waited quietly to observe.

It didn't take long for the three pitch-black spherical crystals to finally change.

I saw that the blood dripping on the surface of their bodies was slowly inhaled by them, and then, on their pitch-black surface, there were veins like blood vessels, and faintly, you could see the liquid flowing between them.

The parts of the three [Black Blood Crystals (Activated)] that had changed drastically began to merge with each other, and after about a minute, the three [Black Blood Crystals (Activated)] disappeared and were replaced by an extremely dark spherical spar with an extremely deep color.

Leo picked up the hedron and looked at the introduction of the character panel.

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[Black Blood Pure Crystal (Activation)]: The purified crystallization of the life alienation condensate, purified by special blood.

Effect:

1. Direct use, can greatly increase the [Body Basic Defense], the effect decreases with the increase of the number of uses, after using three, you can obtain a passive skill - [Black Blood Body].

2. Special Effect: Wind Attribute Mana Utilization +3%. (Originally, the effect was a constitution attribute increase, but because the blood used as the "introduction" covered the factor of the special flesh in [Black Blood Crystal (Activation)], the effect was mutated.) ）

(Acceptance of both soul and will, failure to pass either will cause the body to be [blackened] mutation, with unknowable consequences.) Soul Fire Brightness ≥ 14.0, Will Strength ≥ 14.0, must pass this judgment, every time you use it, the next time you use it, the judgment condition will be +1.0 on the original basis, that is, the conditions for passing the second use judgment are Soul Fire Brightness ≥15.0 and Will Strength ≥ 15.0, and the conditions for passing the third use judgment are Soul Fire Brightness ≥16.0 and Will Strength ≥ 16.0,)

(Current [Soul Fire Brightness]: 17.0, [Will Power]: 20.4)

(Note: This is a miracle creation of life, soul, and body!) ）

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