The Set Attribute Core dissolved the mont his intent made contact with it.
Lin Yi felt each one land.
Strength first. The existing 1,124 t the incoming 4,500 and the combined value settled with a weight that was different from attribute growth through leveling. Agility. Constitution. Spirit. Each one in sequence, the gap between 596 and 5,096 for Agility producing the specific sensation of a response threshold dropping to sothing that was no longer a threshold in any practical sense. His Constitution hitting 5,242 created a physical awareness of his own body’s durability that was qualitatively different from anything before it.
Spirit at 4,818 reached upward through the skill list and touched every skill that scaled with it simultaneously, the effect like sixty-four doors opening at once.
And the Celestial Lord Blade.
He then opened his system panel.
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Host: Lin Yi
Class: Laborer
Rank: E
Level: 163
EXP: 8,940,231 / 134,000,000
[Attributes]
Strength: 5,624
Agility: 5,096
Constitution: 5,242
Spirit: 4,818
Free Attribute Points: 0
[Class Skills]
Titan Grip
[Acquired Skills]
Phantom Void Step — A spatial movent technique that allows instantaneous repositioning through space distortion. Chained usage available with reduced delay.
Eternal Spirit Core — Passive spiritual regeneration that scales with combat intensity. Internal energy circulation stabilized.
Celestial Sword Qi — Compressed celestial energy released in a ranged arc. Wide-area annihilation capability. Output scaling significantly increased.
Heaven Step — Advanced traversal technique converting Spirit energy into spatial montum. Generates no vibration signature. Compatible with Phantom Void Step.
Void Severance — Releases a precise blade of compressed spatial energy that ignores a percentage of target defenses scaling with Spirit.
Iron Body Fortification — Permanently increases natural physical resistance based on Constitution. Attacks below a threshold are reduced to zero damage.
Predatory Instinct — Enhances sensory range and passively identifies weak points on targets within engagent range.
Blade Domain — Projects a spatial domain that amplifies all blade techniques. Suppresses enemy movent within the domain radius.
Resonant Strike — Single strike generating a resonance wave. Secondary burst occurs from within the target 0.5 seconds after initial impact.
Soul Anchor — Prevents instant-kill chanics. When HP would reach zero from a single attack, reduces to one and activates a three-second invulnerability window instead...
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[Equipnt]
Celestial Lord Blade
Quality: Mythical
Attack Power: 4,905
Grand Defense Ring
Quality: Legendary
Physical Defense: 311
Magical Defense: 302
[Inventory]
Celestial Emperor Note
[Spatial Storage Token — Active]
[All amplified drops stored in spatial dinsion]
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He looked at the panel for a long ti.
Attack power 4,905 on a blade that scaled with his attributes. Strength 5,624 behind it. The combined offensive output will be phenonal. He was aware of this. But each threshold crossed made the awareness more concrete, not abstract.
He closed the panel.
The Greater Qilin was watching him from four ters away, sitting with the settled patience it had developed since the evolution. The transford eyes carried their steady awareness, reading whatever they read when they looked at him. He had stopped trying to determine exactly what it perceived. Whatever it was, the qilin had decided it was worth staying near, and that was sufficient.
He looked out at the Allheaven Expanse. The afternoon light, the ambient glow that passed for daylight in this environnt, was moving toward the cooler spectrum that preceded the expanse’s version of evening. Around him, thousands of floating islands continued their slow drift on patterns he had spent days learning.
He sat with the view for a mont and let his mind move through everything it had accumulated.
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He had entered this expanse several weeks ago through a rift in Celestial City’s outer district, after a worldwide system notice that sixty million registered hunters had received simultaneously.
The event had happened once before. One hundred and fifty years ago. But no confird awakenings.
Nonetheless, the first thing Lin Yi had done after entering was open his system panel, confirm his baseline, and build a plan from what he observed rather than from what he assud.
The plan was straightforward. Other hunters would collect jades. He would level. In a month, or slightly more, he would be at a level where he could collect jades from any source in the expanse, including from the hunters who had spent months gathering them.
Minimum effort. Maximum reward.
The principle that had governed everything since his system first activated in Jianghe had not changed. The scale had changed.
He then thought about Wang Hao. The person who had knocked on his door before six in the morning more tis than Lin Yi had counted, carrying tea, always having sothing to say, staying loyal with an uncomplicated consistency Lin Yi had learned to recognize as rare. Wang Hao was in Celestial City right now, in the academy residential block or a seminar room or at the hunter market, not able to enter this expanse because the level threshold was 100 and he was not there yet.
He thought about Shen Rou. The glasses she had started wearing after two words he said, his thoughts moved to the Celestial Emperor Note in his inventory. The fragnt the girl on Floor 33 of the Dragon God Tower had recognized imdiately, said was left deliberately by soone. He still did not fully understand what it ant. She had said that was what he had to figure out. She had also said they would et again.
He then thought about the academy. Heavenly Phoenix, where Celestial Legion sat first in the current session ranking by a margin other sects couldn’t close because the output difference was beyond competitive. The sect he had built from nothing with Wang Hao and Shen Rou, then five others who had joined because the structure was sound rather than the na impressive.
He thought about the Sub-Class Awakening. The reason sixty million hunters were in instances of this space simultaneously around the world. The thing the historical record described as an opportunity the hunters of one hundred and fifty years ago had not been equipped to receive. A second class structure, parallel to the first, with its own skills and ceiling. And the Talent, described as sothing above class chanics entirely, a permanent enhancent that made its possessor categorically different from peers at every equivalent asure.
He stood up.
The Greater Qilin rose with him, the motion smooth and imdiate.
"Next cluster," Lin Yi said.
The qilin moved toward the island’s edge, its multicolored scales catching the ambient light of the expanse in the deeper spectrum they had held since the transformation. It was ready before he was.
He was ready imdiately after.
They stepped off the island together, Phantom Void Step carrying him across the gap and Heaven Step available if the distance required more, and the next cluster of islands resolved from the ambient haze of the expanse into distinct shapes ahead, each one carrying the energy signature of the monsters that inhabited it.
Level 165 readings on the leading island. Higher in the interior of the cluster.
The Predatory Instinct passive skill registered them before he was close enough to see them with his eyes. Positions, movent patterns, the faint telling of weak points.
He drew the Celestial Lord Blade, as the first engagent of the evening was twenty seconds away.
He had weeks of this ahead.
Level 200 was the goal.
He kept moving.
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