booktalesy Chapter 62 : Chapter 62
Chapter 62 : Chapter 62
Chapter 62: The Prodigy Farming Plan! What? You’re a Man?
In the distance, Gu Xuan could not help crying out in shock when he saw that scene.
Xiao Xuan also descended. Looking at Zhao Ziyun, whose aura was steadily weakening, he was a little stunned as well.
“This kid is actually not bad. It would be a real pity to kill him. He can serve as a walking trait vault in the future. I can’t let him die.”
With that thought, Xiao Xuan did not hesitate. He immediately searched through his Recycle Bin for a Healing-Type Trait.
After spending ten thousand Eco Points to upgrade it to Purple, he directly pressed that trait into Zhao Ziyun’s body.
Hum!!
In an instant, a faint life force flowed into Zhao Ziyun’s body.
A Purple Healing-Type Trait was already considered extremely good.
Not only were Zhao Ziyun’s injuries stabilized at once, they also began to heal rapidly.
As for Xiao Xuan, he merely glanced at the few Silver traits that had dropped.
【Spear Technique! Silver】 (Spear technique power +5000%)
【Speed Enhancement! Silver】 (Speed +4800%)
【Defense Enhancement! Silver】 (Defense +4100%)
【Mad God Battle Body! Silver】
Several high-grade Silver traits had dropped, along with a top-tier trait like Mad God Battle Body.
Moreover, dropped traits were different from traits directly plundered from someone.
If he plundered Zhao Ziyun’s traits directly, then Zhao Ziyun himself would lose those talents.
But when they dropped naturally, Zhao Ziyun still retained his original traits.
That was the remarkable part.
Unfortunately, the Gold trait had not dropped.
“It looks like I’d have to kill Zhao Ziyun outright, or directly plunder his traits, if I want to get that one. Still, high-grade Silver traits are already excellent. Once I deal with Tian Ji, I can keep Zhao Ziyun around and farm him a few more times!”
Xiao Xuan chose not to strip Zhao Ziyun of his traits.
During that half-hour battle, Zhao Ziyun alone had already produced more than twenty million Eco Points for him.
More than twenty million from a single fight. Ten fights would be two hundred million.
Five hundred fights would equal a Gold trait.
By that logic, keeping him alive and farming him once a day would be far better than slaughtering the hen for its eggs.
What Xiao Xuan did not know was whether Zhao Ziyun would drop these top-tier Silver traits every time he was severely injured.
If he did, then this one person alone could be worth hundreds of millions, or even tens of billions, of Eco Points.
Even if only one such trait dropped each time, that was still tens of millions of Eco Points. Reaching a hundred billion would take only a few months.
For that reason, farming these prodigies was something he could genuinely try.
With that thought, Xiao Xuan recycled all four traits except Mad God Battle Body.
【Congratulations, you recycled the trait: 【Spear Technique! Silver】. Eco Points gained: 100 million!】
【Congratulations, you recycled the trait: 【Speed Enhancement! Silver】. Eco Points gained: 80 million!】
【Congratulations, you recycled the trait: 【Defense Enhancement! Silver】. Eco Points gained: 10 million!】
【Congratulations, you recycled the trait: 【Near Death! Silver】. Eco Points gained: 10 million!】
In just a few moments, Xiao Xuan’s total Eco Points had already broken through two hundred million.
At that instant, even Xiao Xuan could not help sighing in amazement. These so-called prodigies really were valuable.
For the first time, he began looking forward to reaching Imperial Capital University. Everyone on the Heaven Ranking possessed Gold traits.
When that time came, his Eco Points would truly soar.
With more than two hundred million Eco Points in hand, just how far could he raise his strength if he used them all for upgrades?
Of course, the first thing Xiao Xuan did was directly fuse Mad God Battle Body into himself.
Boom!!!
In an instant, a powerful force poured into Xiao Xuan’s entire body.
Because his body was not injured, the boost Mad God Battle Body gave his combat power was not especially great.
But the advantage of this trait, unlike Gigantification, was that Gigantification only raised his combat strength when actively used, whereas Mad God Battle Body raised it by tenfold even in its normal state.
“No, that boost should be more than just tenfold!”
Suddenly, Xiao Xuan realized that his overall strength had risen by more than eight times.
Even Gigantification, when pushed to its limit, only provided its normal thirtyfold boost. Because his strength had already been enhanced to the extreme, even that only raised his combat power by five or six times.
Yet Mad God Battle Body had increased it by seven times in one go.
It did not take long for Xiao Xuan to understand why.
Mad God Battle Body had actually strengthened his physical body by several times at the most fundamental level.
As a result, the compatibility of all his other stacked traits had increased again.
“So even at only a tenfold boost, it’s already this terrifying. If it reaches an eightyfold combat boost, then the compatibility will rise even further. And if I add Gigantification on top of it, the power Gigantification gives me should surge again as well!”
At that thought, Xiao Xuan could not help smiling.
“No wonder body-constitution burst traits are said to be stronger than ordinary burst traits.”
It’s because of this essential enhancement from the deepest layers of the body itself.
Of course, a constitution-type trait like this still has to be stimulated before it can unleash its full power. Mad God Battle Body is the same. In ordinary circumstances it only provides a tenfold increase. Only under specific conditions can it reach its strongest combat state.
Bloodline traits are different. Bloodline traits are entirely passive. They do not need to be stimulated at all in order to raise the user’s strength to its peak.
“They should provide an even stronger boost to one’s bodily combat ability!”
At that moment, Xiao Xuan sank into thought.
There were three kinds of Burst-Type Traits.
The first kind was purely active.
A purely active trait provided almost no improvement to one’s strength in ordinary circumstances, or so little that it was close to zero.
Only when activated would it unleash its true power.
The greatest advantage of such a trait was that, in ordinary times, its side effects had no impact whatsoever.
But its effect on the essence of the body was close to nonexistent.
The second kind was semi-active.
Mad God Battle Body was this type. Under normal conditions, it did not raise one’s strength very much, but once certain conditions were met, it could unleash its full combat power.
The third kind was purely passive.
This was the kind that could not be switched off. Its greatest advantage was that it changed one’s body at its very root.
Gigantification, in truth, was also purely passive. Xiao Xuan had simply turned it into something like an active trait through the way he used it.
Of course, the greatest drawback of these purely passive traits was that most of them were bloodline traits.
Gigantification was the bloodline of the Giant Race.
There were also transformations of that kind that would directly turn one into another race from the depths of one’s bloodline.
For example, as had been mentioned before, among humanity there had eventually appeared a supreme expert with Dragonification.
But having gone to the future, Xiao Xuan now knew the truth.
That was not a human becoming a dragon.
It meant that, from the deepest level of his bloodline, he had already become a member of the Dragon Race. He could no longer truly be counted as human.
The reason he appeared human in ordinary times was that, once a person’s strength or trait reached a certain level, they could assume human form.
In other words, that expert was, in essence, a member of the Dragon Race who had taken human shape, not a human who had transformed into a dragon.
Of course, such power was unquestionably supreme.
And once one became strong enough, that drawback would eventually cease to matter. Even so, in essence, one was no longer human.
However, none of that was a problem for Xiao Xuan.
If he did not want to use such a trait, he could simply throw it back into the Recycle Bin.
“Are you all right, Xiao Xuan?”
By this time, Su Qingwu and the others had already flown over.
Gu Xuan, meanwhile, looked at Zhao Ziyun’s corpse-like body on the ground and curiously poked him with a stick.
Slap!!
Suddenly, Zhao Ziyun’s bared, bone-white hand shot out and grabbed the stick.
At the same time, he abruptly sat up.
“He came back to life!”
Gu Xuan let out a shriek of fright and hurriedly kicked Zhao Ziyun, sending him tumbling across the ground several times.
Even so, Zhao Ziyun, still covered in wounds, soon struggled back to his feet.
He looked around in a daze before finally fixing his eyes on Xiao Xuan.
Only then did he remember what had happened.
“I lost. Kill me or do with me as you please.”
In the end, he spoke softly.
Although some of his strength had returned, he knew very well that even at full strength he would not have been Xiao Xuan’s match.
“If I wanted to kill you, you would already be dead. Earlier, I only fooled you because I was afraid you wouldn’t go all out. I’m chasing Tian Ji. He isn’t human.”
Xiao Xuan smiled as he explained.
The moment those words came out, Zhao Ziyun froze.
He had noticed that something about Tian Ji felt off. He had assumed it was because Tian Ji had awakened some unusual bloodline trait. He had not expected Tian Ji not to be human at all.
“My name is Zhao Ziyun. Thank you for sparing my life. May I know the names of the three of you…?”
By now, Zhao Ziyun had gotten back to his feet. He cupped his hands solemnly toward Xiao Xuan.
He was not afraid of death, but that did not mean he wanted to die.
If he could survive, then naturally that was for the best.
“My name is Xiao Xuan. These two are Su Qingwu and Gu Xuan.”
Xiao Xuan introduced them.
At the same time, he felt speechless. The way Zhao Ziyun spoke was just like the future Gu Xuan, as though he were a man from ancient times.
He was probably a hopeless martial arts novel fanatic too.
“Greetings, Brother Xiao, and greetings to the two young ladies.”
Zhao Ziyun nodded as he spoke.
“I’m a man. A man!”
The moment Zhao Ziyun said that, Gu Xuan, though still looking like a stunning beauty, was so furious that he shouted at once.
“What? You’re a man?”
Zhao Ziyun went completely blank.
That voice, that face, even what was on his chest... everything about him looked female.
Could it be that...
“I see. I understand now!!”
Zhao Ziyun immediately put on a look of sudden realization.
“Wait, what do you mean you understand? Do not start imagining things!”
The look on Zhao Ziyun’s face infuriated Gu Xuan even more.
After saying that, he rolled up his sleeves and started marching toward Zhao Ziyun.
But in the very next instant, Xiao Xuan’s Telekinetic Force immobilized him where he stood.
“Brother Xiao, let me go! I want to duel him! Once he’s recovered, I won’t be able to beat him anymore!”
Gu Xuan immediately panicked.
“So you do understand the idea of kicking a man while he’s down? He’s still a Martial King. Even in his current state, he could kill you instantly, so stop humiliating yourself.”
Xiao Xuan felt utterly speechless.
At those words, Gu Xuan was shocked and could only glare resentfully at Zhao Ziyun.
“If Brother Gu Xuan wishes to fight, I can certainly accompany him.”
Sure enough, Zhao Ziyun smiled faintly and clenched his right hand in the air.
The spear that had fallen into the ruins nearby instantly gave off a sharp cry and flew back into his hand.
Yet the moment he grasped the spear, Zhao Ziyun realized something was wrong.
“My body!?”
His pupils contracted violently.
At last, he realized that his body was recovering at astonishing speed.
At the same time, he glanced at his Supreme Will interface and instantly saw that he had gained an extra Purple Healing-Type Trait.
The moment he saw it, his eyes shone with excitement.
“So you finally noticed, did you? Good. Make proper use of the trait I gave you. That way, you can drop even more traits in the future!”
Naturally, Xiao Xuan had noticed Zhao Ziyun’s reaction and knew that he had discovered what had happened.
In truth, once Zhao Ziyun’s life had stabilized, Xiao Xuan could have taken the trait back immediately.
But after thinking it over, he chose to leave the trait in Zhao Ziyun’s body.
A Healing-Type Trait was not especially useful on an ordinary person. It hardly improved one’s strength at all.
But on someone with a constitution like Mad God Battle Body, which relied on injury to raise combat power, it was practically a divine ability.
It could raise his injury-threshold upper limit by a tremendous margin.
Of course, at only Purple grade, at most it would merely let Zhao Ziyun survive after burning out.
Its effect on his strength would not be overwhelmingly great.
“What is that aura!?”
Suddenly, Xiao Xuan frowned and looked up into the sky.
“An aura?”
Zhao Ziyun froze for a moment, then he, Su Qingwu, and Gu Xuan all looked up at the same time.
Hum!!!
Suddenly, a streak of fire fell rapidly from the sky toward a place not far from Xiao Xuan and the others.
Rumble—!!!!!
With a heaven-shaking crash, the ground was smashed open into a massive crater.
The shockwave kicked up a curtain of dust and slammed into Xiao Xuan and the others.
Fortunately, the force was not especially great. Under the protection of Xiao Xuan’s Telekinetic Force, even Su Qingwu was unharmed.
“What happened? What just fell down from the sky?”
Zhao Ziyun said gravely.
As the dust gradually settled,
Xiao Xuan and the others approached the edge of the crater.
Very soon, a figure covered in severe burns appeared before them.
That person was none other than Tian Ji.
“It’s him!”
Zhao Ziyun’s expression turned cold. He seized his weapon and immediately prepared to rush over and kill Tian Ji.
“There’s no need. He’s already on the verge of death.”
Xiao Xuan stopped him.
Because Xiao Xuan could already see several Silver traits that had fallen from Tian Ji’s body, including a Silver 【Near Death】.
“He’s about to die? Then this assessment truly is filled with hidden monsters. Apart from Brother Xiao, there is actually another expert this powerful! It seems I truly underestimated the world before.”
At that moment, Zhao Ziyun’s expression also grew grave.
Of course, if this had happened before, it might have shaken his confidence badly. But now that he had awakened a Purple Healing-Type Trait, he felt that he could rise again.
He might even want another battle with Xiao Xuan one day, though likely not until the final round.
By now, Zhao Ziyun was watching the surroundings warily.
“Sister Ying, since you’re here, why not come out and speak?”
Looking at the Tian Ji lying on the ground, Xiao Xuan raised his head toward the sky and spoke with a smile.
“What? Senior Mu?”
Su Qingwu was stunned the moment she heard Xiao Xuan.
Although Xiao Xuan had already said that Mu Xiying was very strong, Su Qingwu had never truly witnessed it.
After all, in Su Qingwu’s understanding, Mu Xiying was only the greatest prodigy Blackwater Martial Hall had ever produced, the one who had entered Nanhai University with Mid Purple talent.
Logically speaking, after Su Qingwu awakened High Purple talent, she should already have surpassed Mu Xiying’s talent.
And yet now, Xiao Xuan was saying that this terrifyingly powerful Tian Ji had actually been defeated by Mu Xiying.
Hum!!!
In the next moment, space trembled.
A terrifying figure radiating the pressure of supreme imperial majesty stepped out of the void.
The instant they saw her, Zhao Ziyun and Gu Xuan both felt an irresistible urge to kneel.
Even her breathtaking beauty was so transcendent that it inspired not the slightest profane thought.
Mu Xiying’s eyes, like those of one who looked down upon all living beings, swept over the people below before finally settling on Xiao Xuan.
“Xiao Xuan, your talent and your strength have risen again.”
At that moment, Mu Xiying was finally truly shocked.
Xiao Xuan had actually defeated even Zhao Ziyun at full power. In the life she had once lived, Zhao Ziyun had always been a legendary figure.
After entering Imperial Capital University, he had relied on that terrifying talent to rise all the way to the top, becoming the number one student on the Heaven Ranking in just two years.
Unfortunately, by the time Mu Xiying entered Imperial Capital University through the Hundred-Province Genius Tournament, Zhao Ziyun had already graduated.
Later, in the life Mu Xiying had lived through, and even in the next two lives after that, Zhao Ziyun had died in battle against the Other Races.
Yet without exception, Zhao Ziyun’s combat talent ranked within the top hundred in all of human history.
And yet an existence like that had lost to Xiao Xuan.
Mu Xiying remembered it clearly. In the previous cycle she had just experienced, Xiao Xuan could not even defeat Tian Ji.
“Could some new variable have appeared again? He fought Tian Ji earlier.”
Could it be that something changed in him during that battle?
No. Impossible. A change in talent cannot also raise one’s realm from the First Heaven of the Great Grandmaster Realm to the First Heaven of the Martial King Realm.
“That is a full major realm of improvement. There is definitely something strange going on.”
Mu Xiying immediately dismissed the possibility that Xiao Xuan’s talent had changed because of battle.
Because she could clearly sense that the level at which Xiao Xuan’s Bloodthirsty Demonic Art was operating had become terrifyingly high, reaching something around the seventh- or eighth-tier level.
“In the future, even when Xiao Xuan had grown to the peak of the Martial Saint Realm, his Bloodthirsty Demonic Art had only reached peak sixth tier.”
Why can it now reach such a level?
Could it be that his Healing-Type Talent has risen to Gold?
Only that could explain such an increase in his talent.
As for his realm, could it be that awakening a Gold talent caused his strength to surge so rapidly?
A Gold talent could indeed let someone rise quickly from the First Heaven of the Great Grandmaster Realm to the Martial King Realm. There have even been people who rose from the late Grandmaster Realm straight to the late Martial King Realm.
“But this has only been one night.”
Mu Xiying was filled with doubt.
Even so, although Xiao Xuan’s rise in strength had been extraordinarily fast,
it still remained within the bounds of possibility, because similar things had happened before.
The only truly unusual part of Xiao Xuan’s case was how little time it had taken.
After all, countless absurd things had appeared throughout Earth’s history over these thousands of years.
Mu Xiying herself had even experienced rebirth. Compared to that, Xiao Xuan’s situation no longer seemed utterly impossible.
And unless Xiao Xuan’s talent continued to rise until it reached the same Dark Gold level as hers—or even surpassed hers—
he would never be able to resolve the all-destroying Evil God of the future.
Of course, the fact that a talent which had not improved in five thousand years had suddenly risen overnight was still highly unusual.
“You’ve grown very quickly.”
Mu Xiying looked at Xiao Xuan with a meaningful gaze.
“So she really has become suspicious of me? It looks like I’ll have to come up with a suitable explanation later. Otherwise my strength will continue to soar too quickly in the future!”
Xiao Xuan pondered for a moment.
“As your younger brother, I can’t very well embarrass you, can I?”
Xiao Xuan smiled faintly.
The moment those words came out, Zhao Ziyun was utterly shocked.
This terrifying girl, who could suppress all resistance in him with a single glance, was actually Xiao Xuan’s elder sister?
Could it be that the two of them were the children of some supreme human powerhouse?
“This Tian Ji is dangerous. Deal with him quickly. As for the Dark Demon Race behind him, we can deal with that later. Once you’re done, come with me. I have something to say to you.”
Mu Xiying glanced at Xiao Xuan and spoke calmly.
The reason she had gone to so much trouble to throw Tian Ji at Xiao Xuan’s feet was simple.
In the previous timeline, Xiao Xuan had lost to Tian Ji twice.
The second time, Tian Ji had nearly sealed him away for eternity.
Although that had nothing to do with the Xiao Xuan of this timeline, Mu Xiying still felt it would be better for Xiao Xuan to kill him personally.
“All right. No problem.”
Xiao Xuan’s pupils narrowed, and a trace of gravity rose in his heart. What did Mu Xiying want to say to him?
Could it be that she had noticed something odd about him and intended to make a move against him?
The possibility was low, but he could not afford not to be cautious.
After all, she was a peerless Empress who, like him, had gone to the future and returned.
In fact, her situation was even more complicated than his. She might be an existence capable of moving freely between future and present.
With that thought, Xiao Xuan walked directly over to Tian Ji.
“Boy, if you dare kill me, I am the prince of the Dark Demon Race! If you lay a hand on me, the Dark Demon Race will never let you go! The Dark Demon Race has Martial Saint-level super experts!”
Tian Ji lay on the ground, letting out one hoarse growl after another.
At that moment, every bone in his body had already been shattered. He could only rely on powerful Mental Power and dark magic to keep himself alive.
Even so, that only barely preserved his life.
Retaliating was completely impossible.
The instant he saw Xiao Xuan, he felt the shadow of death descend upon him.
Mu Xiying had already taken his Storage Ring, so escape was no longer possible.
Xiao Xuan slowly crouched down.
“Martial Saints? If they truly dared attack the human race, they would have done so long ago. There would be no need to go to such trouble sending in a worthless prince like you.”
Xiao Xuan spoke with disdain.
As he spoke, he slowly placed his right hand on Tian Ji’s head.
“Plunder all traits!!”
In the next instant, Xiao Xuan directly tore every single trait out of Tian Ji’s body.
Hum!!!
A wave of agony spread through Tian Ji’s entire body.
To his horror, he discovered that his Dark Demon bloodline was rapidly vanishing.
Not only that, Darkness Control, physical enhancement, and all his other powerful talents were being stripped away one after another, and endless pain engulfed his entire body.
“You... what did you do to me...”
Tian Ji stared at Xiao Xuan in terror. But before he could say any more—
Boom!!
In the next moment, endless thunder and fire poured into his body!