From 9 PM in the evening, Zhang Yue entered the Gate of Immortality, until 5 AM the next day.
After eight hours, Zhang Yue cleared the Gate of Immortality.
This journey could be said to be a haul of great profit.
Affected by the level suppression of the Hell Gladiator Arena, Zhang Yue's level was pulled back to 175. But his actual level still remained at the standard of level 170.
And through this journey inside the Gate of Immortality, Zhang Yue successfully raised his own level, as well as the level of five of his pets, all to level 175.
In addition, there were massive amounts of gold coins, supernatural energy, and equipment.
Among them, the greatest harvest was none other than Resurrection God Stones and Rare Skill Evolution Books.
The Resurrection God Stone is the soul of the Gate of Immortality.
Everyone risks their life entering the Gate of Immortality, without exception, for the Resurrection God Stones that can bring dead professionals from other worlds back to life.
This time, the harvest of Resurrection God Stones exceeded the last time.
From this Gate of Immortality, Zhang Yue collected a total of 8 Resurrection God Stones. And more than twenty Rare Skill Evolution Books.
After coming out of the Gate of Immortality, the first thing Zhang Yue did was send a message to the Ice Emperor, ["Take a look through the professionals of our Dragon Nation who sacrificed themselves over the past hundred years, select the eight most valuable ones, and send me the list later."]
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At 5 AM, the Ice Emperor had not gone to sleep either.
Not only the Ice Emperor, but professionals from all over the world were still fighting within the Hell Gladiator Arena.
While killing monsters and farming medals inside the Arena Level-3, the Ice Emperor saw the message from Zhang Yue, and suddenly felt a shock.
Because of the implied meaning behind those words, it was not hard to imagine.
Combining that with the fact that the Ice Emperor had heard Zhang Yue was currently clearing the World 33, now it could be confirmed: Zhang Yue must have obtained Resurrection God Stones.
["How many Resurrection God Stones did you get this time from the Gate of Immortality?"]
["Eight."]
Zhang Yue's reply made the Ice Emperor, who hadn't slept the whole night, instantly forget all drowsiness. A wave of excitement surged in his heart, so excited he could not be more excited.
Eight. Counting them up, there had only been 18 Resurrection God Stones in total throughout history, and of those, 15 belonged to the Dragon Nation. And all of them were obtained by Zhang Yue alone.
["You mean to contribute all eight Resurrection God Stones to the Nation? You're not keeping any for yourself?"]
["Don't need them for now,"] Zhang Yue said, ["When I need them, I'll go to the 44th and 55th worlds to get more."]
The words were without emotion, without warmth.
But from Zhang Yue's words, the Ice Emperor saw the supreme grandeur of a peerless powerhouse.
["Good!"], the Ice Emperor said, ["I'll immediately have someone gather the list."]
After ending the conversation with Zhang Yue, the Ice Emperor couldn't help but sigh, 'Dragon Nation having Zero, this is truly the great fortune of the nation.'
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[On the Other Side]
Zhang Yue's attention shifted from the Resurrection God Stones to the Skill Evolution Books.
The value of the Resurrection God Stones was undoubtedly far beyond that of Skill Evolution Books.
But what truly excited Zhang Yue wasn't the former, but the latter.
After all, although Resurrection God Stones could be used to revive the dead, they provided no buffs to Zhang Yue himself.
But Skill Evolution Books were different. These were the weapons to enhance Zhang Yue's power.
Rare Skill Evolution Books could be used to evolve any ordinary skill into a rare skill. And ten Rare Skill Evolution Books could be combined into one Unique Skill Evolution Book.
Although the cost of synthesis was high, the value of the latter was more than ten times greater than the former.
So Zhang Yue took 20 out of the 22 Rare Skill Evolution Books obtained from the Gate of Immortality and combined them into two Unique Skill Evolution Books.
Zhang Yue's attacks, combined with [Shatter · Ghost Eye], as long as they could trigger instant-kill effects on enemies, could basically become AOE.
Under the effect of Ghost Eye, all single-target skills could be evolved into AOE skills, making group skills seem a bit redundant in Zhang Yue's eyes.
Zhang Yue's damage was sufficient to instantly kill all monsters or professionals within his current level range.
So the best evolution direction was still single-target skills.
Thus, Zhang Yue chose two of his most commonly used single-target skills, Heavenly Fire Scorches the Wild + Icebound World.
These two were both ordinary-type single-target output skills.
Through the Unique Skill Evolution Books, their nature was evolved to Unique, and their element was forcefully changed to Lightning-type skills.
["Ding~ You used a Unique Skill Evolution Book. Congratulations! Your ordinary fire-type skill [Heavenly Fire Scorches the Wild] has evolved into the unique lightning-type skill [Sanctuary · Thunderfire Scorches the Wild]!"]
Opening the skill list.
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[Sanctuary · Thunderfire Scorches the Wild] (Unique Skill)
— Skill Effect: Converges lightning and heavenly fire dual elemental power, launches a beam of thunderfire on a single enemy within a 50-yard radius, dealing 950% magic attack damage, and inflicting a 5-second burn status, draining 10% of this attack's damage as health per second.
— Special Effect: When using Thunderfire Scorches the Wild to attack an enemy, it absorbs thunderfire energy from the target's body. The next attack using thunderfire energy will deal 20% more final damage (up to 10 stacks).
— Cooldown: 5 seconds.
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In addition to greatly increased damage, the unique skill's special effect instantly boosted this skill by a whole tier.
It meant that this skill could serve as both DPS and support.
In a certain sense, it had a mysterious similarity to the effect of [Lightning Grip].
Lightning Grip increases the damage of the next lightning-type skill after use. And it can stack up to three times.
This Thunderfire Scorches the Wild can also be used multiple times, stacked repeatedly, and then enhanced with other skills to deal even more damage.
At maximum, it increases final damage by 200%, a boost that cannot be underestimated.
Next, Zhang Yue shifted his gaze to another skill.
["Ding~ You used a Unique Skill Evolution Book. Congratulations! Your ordinary ice-type skill [Icebound World] has evolved into the unique lightning-type skill [Thunderstorm · Devour Heaven and Destroy Earth]"]
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[Thunderstorm · Devour Heaven and Destroy Earth] (Unique Skill)
— Skill Effect: Converges the power of heaven and earth. With thunderstorm, shatters darkness, dealing 980% magic attack damage to a single enemy and stuns the target for 2 seconds.
— Special Effect: When Devour Heaven and Destroy Earth kills an enemy, the user gains 10% final lightning damage bonus, lasting for 10 seconds, up to 10 stacks.
— Cooldown: 8 seconds.
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The effect of this skill was even more insane.
Although Thunderfire Scorches the Wild could stack final damage up to 200%, as soon as another non-Thunderfire skill was used, the bonus would immediately dissipate and would only return upon the next use of Thunderfire.
But the bonus from Devour Heaven and Destroy Earth was non-consuming, meaning as long as the effect wasn't interrupted, it could be buffed indefinitely.
The strength of these two new skills was absolutely explosive.
And it meant Zhang Yue's damage was about to rise to a whole new level…
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