Chapter 204: Second Round of Force Feature Deductions and New Discovery
Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
“Oh? You’ve finally thought it through?” Liu Lanqing was rather happy. “These two Force Features are indeed the strongest in this batch other than Explosive Flame.”
Not long after, Lin Yan copied the Force Features of Rumbling Thunder and Wind Dance, as well as their corresponding prerequisite cultivation techniques, Listening to the Wind and Shocking Thunder.
After spending six Great Merits, he still had nine left.
Lin Yan recalled the exchange catalog. The Force Features of Rumbling Thunder and Wind Dance required a special Unusual Item called the Wind Thunder Fruit. The exchange price was 20 Great Merits!
Currently, he could not afford it with the nine Great Merits.
However, his goal was not the complete Wind Thunder Fruit.
“Issuer Liu, I remember that Fan Xiaopeng achieved the Force Feature of Wind Dance previously, right?”
“What’s wrong?”
“I heard him mention that the Wind Thunder Fruit is a Twin Fruit. There are two fruits on one branch. He only ate the one that belongs to the wind. As for the other one that belongs to the lightning…”
Liu Lanqing raised her eyebrows. “You want it? You don’t know.
“It’s true that he only ate one of them, but the Wind Thunder Fruit is very special. Under the stimulation of force, one of the Twin Fruits will absorb the other’s nutrition, making one become a true Wind Fruit or Thunder Fruit, while the other will shrink into a useless fruit.
“That Lightning Fruit has long become a useless fruit. It’s not enough to reach the threshold of Unusual Items.”
Lin Yan was not surprised. He had already learned this from Ning Xiaohui.
“Issuer Liu, I wonder if that useless fruit is still there?”
“What do you want that for?”
“I just want to see what an Unusual Item looks like.”
Liu Lanqing shook her head and laughed. “Your idea is quite amusing. However, I can’t give you this useless fruit directly. Even if it’s useless, it can be used as nourishment for Unusual Items. Its value isn’t low. It’ll cost at least three Great Merits.”
“Alright! I’ll exchange for it!”
After deducting three Great Merits, Lin Yan still had six Great Merits in his hands. He simply exchanged for another Unusual Item called the Fire Cloud Flower that was specially used for the Fire Force Features.
Liu Lanqing said earnestly, “I know you want to try to explore the changes in the Force Features and find the Force Feature that suits you the most.
“However, this path is too difficult. Without a large amount of resources, it’s almost impossible to take this path.
“You have to save your merits. A precious Unusual Item like the Wind Thunder Fruit is not cheap!”
Lin Yan cupped his hands and said, “Thank you for your guidance, Issuer Liu, but I still want to… try.”
After returning to his tent, Lin Yan heaved a sigh of relief.
Liu Lanqing’s persuasion was understandable. From the perspective of others, he had no power, influence, or resources. It was completely impossible for him to use this Yellow Grade Force Feature to deduce a powerful feature that was suitable for him.
However, he was a cheater after all, so he naturally could not take the ordinary path.
This time, he specially exchanged for the Force Features of Rumbling Thunder and Wind Dance, as well as the two Unusual Items. It was because his Force Feature deduction experiment had reached a bottleneck.
The first was Unusual Items.
He had deduced many Force Features, but they were all ordinary things. They could not be matched to Unusual Items.
Therefore, he had specially exchanged for the Fire Cloud Flower and the used Wind Thunder Fruit because he wanted to use these two Unusual Items to deduce the Force Features.
In any case, the number of Unusual Items needed by the clones was pitifully small. One Fire Cloud Flower was enough to provide thousands of clones with Force Features. The Wind Thunder Fruit was useless to ordinary people, but the clones could definitely squeeze out what they needed.
Secondly, he realized that the results of this aimless deduction of Force Features were too random!
Even if he experimented more times, he would at most produce a Force Feature of the same level as the Savage Flame. It would depend on his luck.
After using the Enlightenment Spiritual Light several times, he concluded a method. That was to find a powerful ability and use this ability as a benchmark to imitate this ability and experiment with the Force Feature!
That’s right, he was referring to the special effect of his Azure Dragon Riding Wind and Thunder.
This special effect was infinitely powerful. With his current strength, he could not unleash its true power at all.
Based on the power it displayed now, it was clearly far stronger than the Yellow Grade and Black Grade Force Features. It was not inferior to the terrifying strength that Liu Lanqing displayed from time to time!
If he could use the Azure Dragon Riding Wind and Thunder as a blueprint and imitate this special effect, not only could he experiment with the Force Features, but he could also refer to it at any time. The efficiency was countless times higher than before!
Coincidentally, the Rumbling Thunder and the Wind Dance happened to have some similarities with the Azure Dragon Riding Wind and Thunder.
Therefore, he specially exchanged for them to create a Force Feature based on the two.
Now that he had both the Force Feature and Unusual Items, he could begin the second stage of the Force Feature test.
Lin Yan took out two wooden boxes from his bag.
First, he carefully opened the wooden box on the left. A weak heat seeped out of the wooden box. In the wooden box, a six-petaled red flower that looked like a peony lay quietly.
The petals were fiery red and a few golden patterns were faintly discernible. They emitted a faint light, as if a layer of elegant fire clouds flowed above the petals.
For some reason, Lin Yan was subconsciously attracted to this Fire Cloud Flower when he saw it. He subconsciously treated it as a treasure and wanted to take it for himself, as if it had a special magic power that could confuse people at a glance.
Lin Yan had asked Liu Lanqing before. The reason why Unusual Items were called Unusual Items was that they had a natural mysterious attraction to humans. It didn’t matter what form, breed, or color. One could sense one’s desire for them at a glance.
And this strange attraction was for no reason. That was why it was called an Unusual Item and not a treasure or herb.
Therefore, identifying Unusual Items was very simple. What could naturally attract people was Unusual Items. The stronger the attraction, the more precious the Unusual Item was.
He closed the wooden box and opened the one on the right again.
In the wooden box was a black fruit the size of an egg. The surface was wrinkled and shriveled, like the surface of an avocado. It clearly looked malnourished.
When Lin Yan saw it, his heart did not palpitate at all. Clearly, it was no longer considered an Unusual Item.
Taking out a sharp knife, Lin Yan scraped off a thin piece from the surface of this useless fruit and summoned a clone that he had prepared. Wind and lightning slowly appeared in his eyes. “Next, it’s up to you!”
For half a month, Lin Yan traveled back and forth between the poisonous fog and the camp on the cliff every day. Other than hunting the Corpse Buddha Cockroaches and finding ways to collect the Spirit Marrows, he was also working hard to deduce the second round of Force Features.
Under the poisonous fog, the genius seeds advanced steadily. Especially with the help of the air bombs, they even opened up a poison-free camp area under the poisonous fog.
During this period, there were also large numbers of Corpse Buddha Cockroaches attacking this camp.
However, the strongest Corpse Buddha Cockroach was only at the Tough Realm. In the camp, other than genius seeds, there were also various Yellow Grade and Black Grade Noble Realms present. They were extremely powerful.
Once they couldn’t win, they could even directly escape up the cliff.
Therefore, the few attacks of the Corpse Buddha Cockroaches were either blocked or the humans escaped.
Later on, for some reason, the poison-free area at the bottom of the cliff became more and more unsuitable for the Corpse Buddha Cockroaches to survive. Once the Corpse Buddha Cockroaches rushed out of the poisonous fog, they would vomit blood and die.
Therefore, the second Insect Hunting Camp below the poisonous fog completely stabilized.
On the other hand, the camp’s exploration of the underground waterways had not been very effective.
The environment of the underground waterway was complicated and filled with Corpse Buddha Cockroaches. Even an expert like Liu Lanqing would be in extreme danger if she entered.
Still…
Lin Yan’s clone’s exploration of the underground waterway was extremely smooth!
He would update the exploration module every two days and replenish a large number of clones.
In the beginning, Lin Yan’s clones had been bumping around. As they walked, they jumped into the Netherworld River and drowned because of the clumsy Underground Waterway Exploration Module 1.0. He slowly progressed to the Underground Waterway Exploration Module 4.0 that allowed them to carefully explore the underground waterways. Now, he had already advanced to the Underground Waterway Exploration Module 9.0, with which they were familiar with the path and flowed like locusts.
Now, almost all the hidden places in the underground waterway were filled with his clones, especially at the intersections.
With just a thought, he could establish a map of almost the entire underground waterway in his mind along with the distribution and trajectory of the Corpse Buddha Cockroaches. He could locate them in real time through the Enemy Marking Module!
Lin Yan had already secretly tried it twice. According to the map of the clones, the entire underground waterway was like his own backyard to him. He could enter and leave as he pleased!
Today, the exploring clones made a new discovery.
In the deepest part of the underground waterway, at the end of the Netherworld River, there was another world.. There was another underground world with a vast space!