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Chapter 904: Chapter 905: Skill Advancement_1

Skill Mutation Secret Manual, such an item was something Song Jian had never encountered before; yet a golden-quality manual was clearly valuable, and the higher the quality of an item he had never seen before, the greater the probability of it being exceptional.

Song Jian’s gaze fell onto the thin manual in his hands, and quickly, the attributes of the book appeared before his eyes.

“Skill Mutation Secret Manual, rare, single-use consumable, usage effect: can induce positive mutation in skills above the gold quality, enhancing skill power, improving skill effects, with a chance of upgrading the skill level! Usage requirement: a gold-quality or higher item must be consumed when using;”

“Damn, it requires the consumption of gold-quality or higher equipment to use?” Song Jian was taken aback, his face showing a look of surprise.

“Enhancing the skill power sounds good, should I give it a try?” Song Jian opened the skill pane, examining it carefully; of the few skills he possessed, the Thousands of Swords Flying Immortal Decision was the one he used most often, followed by the Mysterious Moonlight Sword and Soul Wander. As for the Sword Control Skill, it was a passive skill that slowly increased in proficiency anytime he executed any offensive sword technique. At that moment, the proficiency of Sword Control Skill had just risen from level 2 to 87% of level 2, and once Song Jian leveled up again, he should be able to advance to level 3.

After much thought, Song Jian decided to use the manual on the Thousand Swords Art, as its power was already tremendous, and focusing on one skill rather than many would be more efficient for improvement.

However, the challenge was which item to use as a sacrifice. Song Jian had not a few gold-quality items in his pack, and even two epic-quality items.

The Skill Mutation Secret Manual only specified the item had to be gold-quality or above, but it did not mention that a higher-tier item would enhance the skill’s effects better, causing Song Jian to wonder whether to use a gold-quality item or an epic-quality item.

After a moment’s hesitation, Song Jian’s eyes fell on the Epic Quality weapon, Death’s Scythe, that he had obtained in Abyssal Hell. It was a weapon limited to the Abyss occupation, and he originally planned to take it apart for materials, but he couldn’t bear to. After all, it was an epic-quality weapon, and the materials would be worth less than a tenth of the weapon’s value. Thus, he kept the weapon in his pack as a collectible.

Now, it seemed like using this weapon as a consumable for enhancing the Thousand Swords Art was appropriate. Perhaps the higher the quality of the consumed item, the more powerful the mutated skill would be?

“Let’s gamble!” Song Jian clenched his teeth and used the manual. When the system prompted him to choose a consumable, he locked his gaze on Death’s Scythe in his inventory and pressed the confirm button firmly.

The manual turned into a golden vortex, and Death’s Scythe, drawn by a mysterious force, flew towards this golden swirl.

Plainly, Death’s Scythe seemed to resist entering the golden vortex, struggling desperately against the invisible restraint, as if it possessed its consciousness.

The mysterious force appeared not very strong, barely holding a shred of Death’s Scythe in place. Therefore, no matter how fiercely Death’s Scythe struggled, it still inched towards the center of the golden vortex.

Watching Death’s Scythe’s desperate struggle, Song Jian thought to himself, “It’s fortunate that there aren’t any Legendary Items in my inventory, or else if I impulsively used a Legendary Item, it might have resulted in a failed mutation. Considering the power of this manual, it probably couldn’t pull a Legendary Item.”

In the end, Death’s Scythe was pulled into the golden vortex. A series of “crack, crack” crushing sounds emanated from within the vortex, as if something was chewing on Death’s Scythe.

Soon, the golden vortex transformed into a dark golden light that flew toward Song Jian’s skill pane.

The Thousand Swords Flying Immortal Decision, which originally emitted a purple-red glow, slowly became blurry. In a short while, a streak of purple-gold light appeared in the skill column;

“Did it really just rise by one grade?” Song Jian was pleasantly surprised, and an involuntary brilliant smile spread across his face. It looked like he had made the right bet; the previously epic quality Thousand Swords Art had indeed ascended to a legendary quality;

“The Karmic Fire Red Lotus Ten Thousand Swords Art?” Song Jian looked at the skill shimmering with purple and gold light, a smile forming at the corner of his mouth;

The original Thousand Swords Flying Immortal Decision had transformed into the Karmic Fire Red Lotus Ten Thousand Swords Art. In the skill description, the number of Spirit Swords summoned hadn’t changed, but there were added lines stating “Each Spirit Sword inflicts an additional one thousand points of fire damage to the target” and “When the number of summoned Spirit Swords reaches the limit, they will form the Karmic Fire Red Lotus Sword Formation, dealing a devastating blow to the target!”

Song Jian’s Thousand Swords Art now dealt one thousand eight hundred points of damage with each Spirit Sword, and that didn’t even include the passive effect of his innate skill “Holy Sword.” Now, each Spirit Sword inflicted an additional one thousand points of fire damage, effectively boosting the damage by 50%. This was already considered an extremely formidable enhancement for the skill.

Most importantly, if the number of Spirit Swords summoned reached the limit, which for a level five Thousand Swords Art meant sixty Spirit Swords, these sixty Spirit Swords would autonomously form the Karmic Fire Red Lotus Sword Formation to “deliver a destructive blow to the target.”

Although Song Jian did not know the specific damage of this Karmic Fire Red Lotus Sword Formation, he could feel the terrifying aura oozing between the lines of the skill description;

“I really want to try out the power of this Karmic Fire Red Lotus Sword Formation, to see just how powerful it is!” Song Jian, looking at the Karmic Fire Red Lotus Ten Thousand Swords Art gleaming with purple and gold light, revealed a hint of satisfaction on his face;

Having done all this, Song Jian’s gaze fell on the ironwood coffin that still had a nail sticking out. The coffin looked exceedingly sturdy, and its pitch-black surface shimmered with a metallic luster. In Song Jian’s eyes, thick streaks of blood-red aura were continuously wafting out from the gaps of the coffin;

Remembering the words of the dying boss, the Angelic Battle Servant Trosso, Song Jian became even more curious about what was inside the coffin;

With this thought in mind, Song Jian walked over to the ironwood coffin, reached out, and grabbed the nail that Trosso had smashed halfway in, giving it a forceful yank, though the nail did not budge;

Song Jian’s brow furrowed slightly. With his current strength attribute, he could wield over a ton of force even barehanded, yet he couldn’t pull out such a small nail?

“Come out!” Song Jian exclaimed in a low voice, exerting all his strength and gripping the nail firmly with his right hand, he pulled upward;

Creak, squeak~

A grating sound of friction erupted as the nail in Song Jian’s hand began to rise slowly and was eventually completely pulled out by him;

Looking at the red mark in the palm of his hand that was close to bleeding, Song Jian laughed softly and continued to move towards the other corners of the coffin;

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