He gathered his focus, pulling his attention away from the qualitative change in Painting Mastery and Cooking Expert.
"Ti is running out..."
Indeed, it wasn't that he didn't want to continue exploring culinary and painting, but rather that ti was truly scarce.
Twelve million Passive Points couldn't be fully allocated to the qualitative change brought by a re one million Passive Points.
This would be like picking up sesa seeds while losing waterlons!
Another key point was that Jin Ren on the mountain had no insurance against unexpected events.
Various powers of the ancestral source, Dragon Painting Spear, Shattered Shield, etc., were all with the main body and couldn't be given to Jin Ren, after all, dying could possibly lead to understanding...
Caught in a vicious cycle, the only thing Jin Ren could do was to "adapt spontaneously".
But this powerless adaptation clearly risked being seen through by Ai Cangsheng's empty city plan, with the potential of getting shot dead by an arrow at any mont.
"Awaken, awaken!"
Xu Xiaoshou patted his head to cool down his excitent and returned his focus to the second awakening.
This was the main event!
He planned to spend most, if not all, of his Passive Points on the second awakening of the Extended Passive Skill.
So the question was, which one to awaken first?
"Recoil, Perception, Transformation, Sharpness, Toughness, Conversion..."
"If each second awakening skill costs about a million, it seems... I could possess them all?"
For the first ti, Xu Xiaoshou clearly felt the sense of affluence that cos with a tamorphosis in strength.
Things once yearned for but unattainable, could they now all be obtained just by standing on the sacred mountain and flirting about?
"Wuu wuu wuu..."
Xu Xiaoshou was moved to tears.
He had waited too long for this day!
"So the first one, let's... muster the troops, and it's... you, Perception! My beloved!"
He casually chose, no longer bothering to consider the pros and cons, since Perception was divine, and it was inevitable to awaken it sooner or later.
It helped grow from a baby to an adult with every defecation and urination, awakening the Soul Reading in its first awakening, marking the beginning of turning war thods into dirty thods, transforming a crazed fool into a dirty man.
I'll entrust this first second awakening of the Divine Relics to you, my Perception!
Exchange ten Awakening Stones, starting with a million Passive Points.
Xu Xiaoshou was quite generous with Perception, secretly hoping his million-point investnt would yield a tenfold return.
"Granny Tianling, Granny Earthling..."
"Ptui, I don't need to deal with these mysterious crap anymore, I'm rich! Very rich!"
Skill bound, he approached the Awakening Pool and with an "uh-huh", gleefully threw stones to make them skip.
"Second awakening failure."
"Second awakening failure."
"..."
"Second awakening failure."
...
Ten consecutive defeats!
Xu Xiaoshou's fervour suddenly vanished.
His soul felt like it had been extracted, his eyes were vacant, his hands limply hanging by his sides, and he stood petrified.
His jaw stiffly lifted, his lifeless eyes gaze forth.
The Thirty Three Heavens of the Divine Relics, as it turned out, had a breeze, a strong one, chilling to the core.
All the excitent brought about by the qualitative changes in Cooking Expertise and Painting Mastery cooled down with this tenfold kneel.
With a saint mode-like complete cooldown, he lost all interest in everything in the world.
"I'm sorry."
Xu Xiaoshou silently apologized to the Passive System, and to his previously unruly self.
Just ten million Passive Points, what are you boasting about, Xu Xiaoshou? Are you sick!
He looked around and had an epiphany that the resurrection ground of the evil god definitely had a fengshui issue.
Xu Xiaoshou didn't believe in such things.
He just whimsically decided to change locations to... ptui, to throw the Awakening Stones!
So, holding the Heavenly Realm Core, he traveled to the Eighteen Heavens.
The Eighteen Heavens were also in ruins.
There wasn't a single good place in the Divine Relics.
"It's just a filthy... ptui ptui ptui!"
Xu Xiaoshou imdiately spat in disdain and, as if to compensate, he opened a path to the Second World with a slash, sketched out a beautiful Shangri-La filled with emotion, and began to recite aloud:
"Initially so narrow, only permitting people through, after serving decades of sentences, it suddenly becos bright and spacious..."
This is the mont!
This is the light at the end of the tunnel, the turn for the better, the sudden clarity!
Xu Xiaoshou, like a robot, had his eyes beaming with spirit, aiming at the Awakening Pool, and fiercely tossed a pretty Awakening Stone.
Co on!
My baby!
"Second awakening failed."
"Damn!"
Xu Xiaoshou, not willing to accept failure, grabbed another one and threw it over.
"Second awakening failed."
He stopped his awakening actions, beginning to suspect if becoming affluent, the Passive System was ssing with him...
Should he switch to the Mang Great Dao Disc?
After all, that's a substantial improvent...
"No."
Xu Xiaoshou quickly shook his head, returning to calmness: "It's just a bit of frost."
He concluded his ti in the Second World and didn't want to deceive himself any longer.
The grey and dim surroundings gave an extrely oppressive ambiance, as if within the Divine Relics..."Ruins"; in such a place, how could there be good luck?
"Wait, luck?"
Xu Xiaoshou suddenly froze, his lips twitched, his teeth chattered, and he fiercely slapped himself.
"Xu Xiaoshou, are you a pig?!"
He blinked out of Divine Relics and into the Apricot Realm.
...
The vibrant Apricot Realm, the bustling Jade Capital City, the delectable cuisine of The Beginning of Chaos, the sweet and dicinal fragranced air...
"Wuwuwu."
Xu Xiaoshou — Swish — started crying twin streams of tears, yowling as he sought out Dragon Apricot, "I want blessings, luck blessings, wuwu dragon borp, wail at you..."
The Dragon Apricot Spirit was slightly taken aback.
Still soundly asleep in the Herb Garden of Divine Farr, it initially felt sowhat emotional for not being the first to et the return of the Lord of the Apricot Realm.
One month is not particularly long, but for humans, it's not short either.
But from the current look of it, Xu Xiaoshou showed no sense of estrangent from it at all, if anything, their intimacy seed to have increased.
Clearly, it was still his one and only Ancestral Tree lord!
The emotions of the Dragon Apricot Spirit quickly lifted, and with a casual flick of its claw, it bestowed a golden light upon Xu Xiaoshou, it had done similar things before, and blessed him saying:
"May branches disperse far and wide, with apricot luck forever blooming."
"Do good deeds and fragrance will co of its own accord."
Xu Xiaoshou's spirits were instantly refreshed.
Without reason, he felt this was the mont; he was sure it was this mont.
He lightly tossed the Awakening Stone onto the surface of the water.
Just like that!
It must be right!
"Second awakening success."
"Perception (Awakening: Soul Reading)."
"Perception (Second Awakening: Intent Stripping)."
Hit!
Yes! I hit it!
Xu Xiaoshou raised his fists high, his face showing madness, and circled the Dragon Apricot three tis, then held it and planted two kisses on it.
Intent Stripping?
What is this?
Can it strip other people's intents, read others' consciousness? Isn't this a divine skill among divine skills?
Just as he was about to experint with this thought...
Suddenly!
Luck cos to a prepared mind!
Xu Xiaoshou had this thought: "I can still", the Awakening Stone "score high in one more subject"!
Go for it!
Young man!
Give it your all!
Whoosh—
A beautiful arc broke the serenity of the Awakening Pool, the stone's impact created ripples.
"Second awakening success."
"Sharpness (Awakening: Close-bounds Force Field)."
"Sharpness (Second Awakening: Li Country Blade)."
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