[Increase Soul Ring Age]: 10 Emotion Points/year;
Sword Hardening: Li Jing's longsword's hardness increases by 50% for 5 seconds!
Slogan: Harder and thus stronger!
Even though, if the enemy could crush Li Jing's longsword...
...they would be defeated by an empty-handed counterattack, and the attack would be broken.
But…
'System, what is the base hardness of Li Jing's longsword?'
[Li Jing's longsword is a God-level Martial Soul. It cannot be destroyed by God-level, strong-attack Martial Souls within level 10, and cannot be destroyed by non-God-level, strong-attack Martial Souls within level 20!]
Understood.
Qian Renxue needed to be 20 levels higher than Li Jing and use a powerful Soul Skill to damage his longsword.
With the Soul Skill Sword Hardening activated, Qian Renxue would need to be 30 levels higher.
As for regular Martial Souls... Unless you were 40 levels higher, you'd just have to kneel.
This is specifically designed for surpassing levels.
I'm currently level 35, so I'd need to be level 75 to damage Li Jing's longsword.
Impressive!
10 Emotion Points per year, huh? I'll buy it!
[Consuming 10 Emotion Points, Soul Ring lifespan increased to 101 years!]
[Consume 10 Emotion Points, Soul Ring lifespan increased to 1000 years!]
Then he looked at the description.
[Increase Soul Ring Lifespan**: 10 Emotion Points/year; "Sword Hardening": The hardness of Li Jing's martial soul sword increases by 200% for 20 seconds!;
——Not broken: During the duration of the Soul Skill, the sword body can be forcibly gathered to prevent breakage by consuming soul power!;
Tagline: Harder, thus stronger!;
Not bad!
Harder, and more durable.
It also gained an "Unbreakable" property.
Worth it.
Looking at the cost to increase the soul ring's age, it was still 10 emotion points per year.
Zhuge Lan was somewhat surprised.
But on second thought.
It made sense.
The increase in later years was a tenfold increase, if the cost also increased, it would be multiplication.
The final number will be quite exaggerated.
Unlocking this thousand-year soul ring cost a total of 10,000 emotion points.
He still had over 90,000 emotion points left, which could be used to upgrade it to a ten-thousand-year level.
But he still had four soul rings that hadn't been activated yet, which would cost at least another 40,000 emotion points to get them to the thousand-year level.
'Let's unlock all the soul rings first.'
'Since I can increase their lifespan later, it's better to enjoy them sooner.'
As for how to explain it later?
Heh! He'd deal with it after taking a sword strike.
Zhuge Lan activated the third soul ring of Li Jing's longsword.
And increased it all the way to 1,000 years.
[Increase Soul Ring Years]: 10 Emotion Points/year; "Sword Fever": Allows the martial soul Li Jing's longsword to have a burning effect, lasting for 20 seconds!; Slogan: Meat lovers rejoice!;
Zhuge Lan: "…"
He hadn't noticed it just now.
What's up with these Soul Skill names?
Sword Hardening? Sword Fever? Looking at the first Soul Skill, it's 100% guaranteed to be caught barehanded. The style is consistent, so it's fine.
Zhuge Lan scratched his head, activating his Thorn Armor Martial Soul's first soul ring.
He looked at the new first Soul Skill and smiled.
[Increase Soul Ring Years]: 10 Emotion Points/year; "Hatred Curse": After activating the Soul Skill and being attacked, the attacker is cursed with a harmless negative status for 1 second!
Motto: If you want to hit me, you have to pay a small price first!
It's just like Li Jing's longsword's Soul Skills, the style is completely off! It's practically tailor-made for farming Emotion Points.
But... 'System, what does harmless negative status mean?'
[Nasal congestion, itching, eye irritation, and difficulty breathing.]
The sheer number of over ten thousand different states opened Zhuge Lan's eyes.
Although each one only caused discomfort and wouldn't affect combat or anything.
But!
Didn't this soul ring enhance its age?
Zhuge Lan, full of anticipation, tapped his index finger again.
[Enhance Soul Ring Age]: 10 emotion points/year;
"Hatred Curse": After activating the Soul Skill, when attacked, the attacker will undergo a curse judgment. They will inevitably receive a harmless negative status, or a small chance of suffering a minor negative status for 10 seconds!
Tagline: Want to hit me? Be careful of losing face~
It really changed!
"System, list the minor negative status effects."
[Diarrhea, Hemorrhoids, Blindness, Menstrual Cramps, Appendicitis, Wisdom Tooth Inflammation, Bone Spurs.]
"Feel—"
Zhuge Lan instinctively leaned back, as if afraid of being contaminated by something unclean! Any one of those listed effects, if encountered during a fight...
Diarrhea? Or a sudden hemorrhoid attack, forcing you to run with your legs spread wide? Menstrual cramps for a guy, shuffling forward with his legs clamped together? And appendicitis... could anyone really endure it without tearing themselves open?
Just thinking about it sent a chill down his spine! It would be so mortifying!
Compared to those...
Blindness, deafness, and muteness were almost unremarkable.
'I mourn for my future enemies.'
Zhuge Lan grinned, activating his second soul ring.
It was unexpectedly ordinary.
He directly increased it to 1,000 years.
[Increase Soul Ring Years]: 10 Emotion Points/year; "Revenge of Light": After activation, absorbs 10% of damage and stores it. Can be used once to trigger a maximum of two light attribute lightning bolts, attacking random weak points of any target!
Slogan: The harder you hit me, the more viciously I retaliate!
A very ordinary defensive Soul Skill.
It was seriously out of sync with the other styles.
He was just pondering when…
"Dong dong dong——"
A knock sounded.
"Sir, your meal has arrived. Please open the door."
Upon hearing this, Zhuge Lan got up, and casually unlocked his third soul ring.
He glanced over.
He froze!
Oh ho!
Another fun thing has appeared!
Two days later, at the entrance of Shrek Academy.
Having devoured another large meal, Zhuge Lan strolled over.
The admissions teacher, Li Yusong, was currently examining the last applicant.
Zhuge Lan stopped and sized up the applicant.
Her face was cold, and her long black hair cascaded down her shoulders, making her fair skin seem to glow.
But what was most eye-catching was her voluptuous and fiery figure! Despite only being around eleven or twelve years old, she was more mature than a peach.
A cold demeanor, a fiery body.
Such an extreme contrast could only be Zhu Zhuqing.
Such an amazing girl, wasted on that Dai Mubai.
System, any suggestions?
The system only provides exchange services, not dating advice!
"Tch," Zhuge Lan thought to himself, "Can you let me and Zhu Zhuqing have a Martial Soul Fusion Skill too? Something even better than Ghost White Tiger?"
[1,000,000 Emotion Points to unlock a Martial Soul Fusion Skill with the "Martial Soul: Netherworld Cat"! ]
Whoa!
It actually works?
But I definitely don't have a million Emotion Points right now.
"System, can I pay in installments?"
[20,000 Emotion Points to pre-unlock resonance with the "Martial Soul: Netherworld Cat" Martial Soul Fusion Skill. After that, paying 490,000 Emotion Points unlocks one Martial Soul Fusion Skill! ]
Still charging for a dual Martial Soul, huh.
Zhuge Lan glanced at the system interface.
[Emotion Points: 25657;]
—He had previously spent 50,000 Emotion Points to upgrade the Hatred Curse to a 5,000-year duration, extending the duration of the negative status to 20 seconds.
There was just over 10,000 left originally.
But in the past two days, Xiao Wu and Tang San hadn't stopped "talking" about Zhuge Lan.
It was just enough.
However...
(End of Chapter)