Every move he made now contained terrifying power.
This surge of power left Lin Ye feeling both thrilled and captivated.
Lin Ye didn’t venture any deeper.
Instead, he found a rocky cliff that sheltered him from the wind, where he stopped to examine his newly unlocked skill.
Lin Ye selected [Horizontal Slash] and opened its preview.
[Horizontal Slash Level 1]
[Skill Type: Active]
[Cost: 100 Physical Strength Value to activate / 30 Physical Strength Value per second to maintain]
[Effect: Your attacks beco wide and sweeping, dealing a percentage of splash damage to surrounding targets when you damage your primary target!]
[Current Horizontal Slash Range: All other targets within a 0.5-ter radius of the primary target.]
[Current Horizontal Slash Damage: 30%]
Lin Ye’s eyes lit up.
This was an active skill that could turn his single-target attacks into area-of-effect (AOE) attacks!
It cost 100 Physical Strength Value to activate.
Maintaining it cost an additional 30 Physical Strength Value per second.
With his current cap of 4,800 Physical Strength Value, he could easily keep this skill active for an extended period.
Lin Ye knew this skill was almost useless in one-on-one combat against other Martial Artists.
It was essentially a dead skill in that scenario.
’But it’s a true god-tier skill for leveling!’
Its effects would be amplified exponentially, especially when facing overwhelming hordes of monsters.
If he could go back to the ti of the insect swarm outbreak in Linchuan, he estimated he could kill far more than just ten thousand of them in a single night.
’Maybe even hundreds of thousands!’
Lin Ye opened the skill’s upgrade preview.
The skill cap for [Horizontal Slash] was Level 15, just like [Frenzy] and [Instant Body].
Once maxed out, the activation and maintenance costs would increase to 200 and 60 Physical Strength Value per second, respectively.
But the effects would also undergo a qualitative transformation.
The Horizontal Slash range would expand from a 0.5-ter radius to a 3-ter radius!
The Horizontal Slash damage would also change from a fixed 30% to a value that fluctuated based on distance from the primary target.
Enemies closest to the primary target could take up to 100% of the original damage!
Even enemies at the edge of the area would still take 40% splash damage!
’This is practically a god-tier skill tailor-made for grinding!’
He had accumulated so skill points recently, which, added to the five points from the mission reward, gave him a total of seven.
He had originally planned to put these points into [Frenzy] to further enhance his burst damage.
But at this mont, he changed his mind.
Without a mont’s hesitation, Lin Ye dumped all seven skill points into [Horizontal Slash]!
[Ding! 1 skill point consud. You have unlocked the P2 skill: Horizontal Slash!]
[Ding! 6 skill points consud. The skill ’Horizontal Slash’ has been upgraded to Level 7!]
[Horizontal Slash Level 7]
[Cost: 120 Physical Strength Value to activate / 40 Physical Strength Value per second to maintain]
[Horizontal Slash Range: 2-ter radius]
[Horizontal Slash Damage: Deals 85% damage to enemies within 0.5 ters of the primary target, 55% damage to enemies within 1 ter, and 40% damage to enemies at the outer edge of the range.]
After raising it to Level 7, both the range and damage of [Horizontal Slash] had improved significantly.
After allocating the points, Lin Ye readjusted the Life Value distribution between his P1 and P2 phases.
He raised the Life Value for his P1 phase from 1,000 to 5,000.
The P2 phase was left with the remaining 27,880.
He could switch between phases at will now anyway. Allocating more Life Value to P1 increased his margin for error, preventing him from wasting the automatic phase-shift chanic on a simple ambush just because he only had 1,000 Life Value.
After doing all this, Lin Ye felt the changes within his body.
This racial evolution, aside from the surge in power, also brought a good problem to have.
He could clearly feel that the amount of unrefined, surplus Qi and Blood in his body had nearly doubled.
This Qi and Blood was pure and vast, surging restlessly through his ridians and even making him feel faintly bloated with power.
’I have to refine all this Qi and Blood through combat as soon as possible, then use it to open my Eight Extraordinary ridians!’
Lin Ye’s gaze fell upon the deeper reaches of the great rift.
Fortunately, he was in a fallen zone.
This place lacked everything.
The only thing it didn’t lack were the ans to refine his Qi and Blood.
’Source Crystals are everywhere here!’
Lin Ye took out the simple map that Chan Jiale had given him.
According to the map, his current position was already very close to the core of the great rift.
The straight-line distance was less than ten kiloters.
mbers of the Shadow Scale Race were appearing more frequently in the sandstorm, and they were growing stronger as well.
Lin Ye was certain there had to be a sizable Shadow Scale Race tribe in the deepest part of the rift.
From his previous battle with the Doctor, he could infer that the Celestial Abyss Race also needed Source Crystals to survive on Blue Star.
Therefore, it was highly likely that a massive Source Crystal Vein existed where this tribe was located.
Even if a vein didn’t exist there naturally, the Shadow Scale Race would have scoured the fallen zones and stockpiled Source Crystals there, like ants building a nest.
Whether it was to continue leveling or to obtain more Source Crystals, he had to go there.
Having reached this conclusion, Lin Ye no longer hesitated.
He put away the map, his body sinking slightly, the muscles in his legs instantly tensing like two fully drawn longbows!
The next mont, explosive power erupted from him!
BOOM!
The imnse force kicked up the yellow sand beneath Lin Ye’s feet, creating a wave that shot toward the sky.
His figure vanished in an instant, leaving only a faint afterimage behind.
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