booktalesy Chapter 41 : Chapter 41
Chapter 41 : Chapter 41
Chapter 41 Soul Burst! Multiple Martial Kings Felled in an Instant!!
The fact that they could not catch Xiao Xuan did not mean that Xiao Xuan had failed to notice them.
"Are these people planning to rob me? They actually sent five Martial King-level powerhouses. Quite a show of force."
The moment Xiao Xuan saw this, his expression turned cold.
"Silverwing, mark them. Once my strength grows, I'll come back and settle the score with them."
Xiao Xuan spoke coldly to the AI Core.
"I have already locked onto their battle armor, but they are using identity encryption. I cannot parse their identity information."
The Silverwing AI Core's voice quickly rang out.
After his Talent had upgraded to Purple, the AI Core's capabilities had also risen dramatically.
Even so, it could only lock onto those Martial Kings' battle armor.
But that was enough.
A set of battle armor was not something a person could replace whenever they pleased.
"In that case, I'll collect a little interest from them first."
With that thought, Xiao Xuan instantly closed his eyes.
In the next moment, he suddenly opened them.
BOOM!!!
In an instant, violent Soul power surged toward the several Martial King-level powerhouses behind him like a great tide.
That tidal wave of Soul power instantly transformed into a hundred Soul blades that radiated strange fluctuations.
With the support of Soul Blade Mastery, the power of those Soul blades had already reached an extremely terrifying level.
Those Martial King-level powerhouses had originally already stopped and were preparing to head back.
Suddenly, the leader's pupils constricted.
"Not good! A Soul attack—"
He cried out, trying to warn his subordinates.
SHNK SHNK SHNK SHNK!!
But in the next moment, those violent Soul blades slammed directly into the Souls of those Martial King-level powerhouses.
In an instant, one expert whose strength was only at the Fourth Heaven of the Martial King Realm had his eyes go blank, and his entire body fell straight from the sky.
"AAAH!!"
"My head!!!"
The remaining Martial King-level powerhouses also clutched their heads and screamed in agony.
Even the leader, that Martial Emperor-level powerhouse, gritted his teeth. Clearly, his Soul had suffered a slight injury as well.
Although it was not serious, this was an injury to the Soul. The pain was dozens of times worse than any injury to the body.
As he watched his subordinate plummeting wildly from the sky, he looked in the direction Xiao Xuan had departed, his expression turning incomparably ugly.
More than anger, however, what he felt was horror.
"Was that brat's attack? Impossible. He's merely in the Innate Realm, and I'm a Martial Emperor. How could he possibly injure me?! Could there be an expert protecting him from the shadows, and this was only a warning for us?"
The leader's expression changed.
Only then did he remember that Xiao Xuan should now be at Nanhai University. He was effectively one of Nanhai University's students, and he was about to represent Nanhai University in the Hundred-Province Genius Tournament.
It was not impossible for the university to have an expert protecting him.
Fortunately, he himself had once been a student of Nanhai University. Otherwise, he might already have died.
At that thought, every notion of robbery or revenge instantly vanished.
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Far away, Xiao Xuan merely let out a cold snort and left at once.
Although he had killed a Martial King, he still had no intention of going back to pick up the dropped Trait.
That was because he had discovered that this was not the only group secretly chasing him.
If he turned back now, he would definitely be caught on the spot. With his current strength, even dealing with opponents above the Seventh or Eighth Heaven of the Martial King Realm was already somewhat difficult.
Let alone a Martial Emperor-level powerhouse.
Better to play it safe. In any case, the Traits dropped by a few Martial Kings were only worth a few tens of thousands.
As things stood, even if he sat idle and did nothing, the hourly income brought by the Bloodthirsty Demonic Art was already well over a hundred thousand.
In a single day, earning more than two million was effortless.
With that in mind, he pushed his battle armor's speed to its limit and flew toward Nanhai University.
Thankfully, this time he had chosen to upgrade his battle armor first before leaving. Otherwise, there truly had been a chance that a Martial Emperor would have caught up to him and intercepted him.
"All of these people have already been marked through their battle armor. The next time I come back will be the day every single one of you dies."
Xiao Xuan let out another cold snort. He did not care what reason these people had for chasing him. Since they had been tailing him, it could not possibly be anything good.
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Before long, relying on his terrifying speed, he finally returned to Nanhai University.
And once he was back at Nanhai University, that meant he was temporarily safe. Here, forget Martial Emperors—even Martial Venerables and ordinary Martial Thearchs would not dare act recklessly.
After all, this was the territory of the strongest expert in Shanhe Province.
By then, the sky had already brightened.
Xiao Xuan headed to the Weapons Complex.
Now that he was carrying the enormous sum of 100 billion, he naturally intended to buy some good weapons.
Of course, the first thing he had to do was verify whether his earlier guess had been correct.
"Silverwing, connect to the complex's shopping webpage and search for weapons that can devour materials and rapidly upgrade themselves. Limit the results to items currently in stock in the Weapons Complex, and sort them starting from the lowest grade."
Xiao Xuan spoke directly to Silverwing.
"Yes, Master. I have already connected to the webpage and listed the items you need."
The Silverwing AI Core's voice rang out at once.
At the same time, a projected interface appeared before Xiao Xuan's eyes. On it was the shopping page, and the very first item at the top was a spherical object.
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Item: Light Element Orb
Grade: Peak First-Tier
Base Weight: 20 kilograms
Base Stats: Body-Tempering Tenth Layer
Traits:
【Light Element! White】 (Light-element damage ×130%, 0/10)
【Light Absorption! White】 (It can absorb light, slowly restore energy, and has an extremely low probability of upgrading its grade after absorbing sufficient light.
Upgrade limit: Peak First-Tier)
Price: 80,000
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After reading the description of this Light Element Orb, Xiao Xuan was immediately speechless.
Judging by its weight, this Light Element Orb had originally only been a Low First-Tier weapon.
It had reached Peak First-Tier entirely because it had absorbed enough light.
In other words, it had already upgraded to its limit.
It could not be upgraded any further.
So what use would there be in buying it?
With that thought, Xiao Xuan immediately gave up on it and looked at the weapons and equipment below.
Many of the remaining pieces of equipment were similar to the Light Element Orb as well—elemental orbs that strengthened themselves by absorbing the same type of element. Weapons like these were generally used only by those who followed a pure elemental-caster path.
Xiao Xuan quickly found fire-element and lightning-element absorption Traits that could be used for upgrading.
Fire and lightning were easy enough to obtain.
All he had to do was tap into the power grid, and he would have an endless supply of electricity at a very low cost.
Moreover, there were also elemental energy crystals that could be used for upgrading.
That meant that in the future, both his battle armor and his weapons would be able to raise their grades without limit.
However, he still had to test whether it was cost-effective. If using crystals to upgrade them cost more money than directly buying higher-grade battle armor and weapons, or if it took too long,
then there would be absolutely no need to waste Eco Points upgrading the battle armor's Trait grades.
Of course, Xiao Xuan still bought a fire-element orb first.
He wanted to test whether it could drop Traits. If it could not, then all of his previous guesses would have been wrong.