With her fellow tribesmen being bullied, Ah Li had completely forgotten her fear.
Using her own body, she protected the helpless celestial foxes behind her.
Around them, several Level 77 cat demons locked onto Ah Li. Green light flashed in their pupils as they prepared to release [Demonic Fire] at her.
Suddenly, the surrounding air dropped to zero degrees.
The next second...
Crash!
Endless ice and snow fell from the sky, covering the group of cat demons.
The SSS-rank Elemental Mage ultimate...
World Destroyer · Ice and Snow!
-1145236!
-1139764!
-1146732!
Ning Xi's damage was still absurdly high.
Even against monsters six levels higher than herself, she killed them instantly.
And with all three stages of damage hitting for a total of over 3 million damage, it was even enough to kill the cat demons four times over.
"Insane," Lin Mo couldn't help saying.
At this moment, Ah Li could be seen huddling together with the rescued celestial foxes.
A short while later, Ah Li ran over, raised her head, and pleaded with Ning Xi, "Master, there are still other members of my tribe trapped on the mountain. Can you help me save them?"
Ning Xi reached out her hand toward Ah Li.
Ah Li's light body leaped up, landing on Ning Xi's arm before climbing onto her shoulder.
Ning Xi turned her face toward Ah Li and said, "Don't worry, Ah Li. I'll save all your people."
The objective of this stage of the quest was to eliminate all the cat demons on Peach Blossom Mountain and rescue the celestial foxes trapped here.
At this moment, Lin Mo took an E-rank magic scroll from his inventory and was about to evolve it into the SSS-rank Fatal · Spatial Annihilation to quickly clear the map.
After thinking about it, he decided against it.
Because Fatal · Spatial Annihilation could only annihilate mobs no more than five levels above the user. The cat demons were exactly six levels higher than Lin Mo, already outside the annihilation range.
There was another magic scroll suitable for clearing maps.
World Destroyer · Thunderous Might dealt true damage equal to thirty times the user's base attack.
Combined with Lin Mo's 21,687 base attack, it could deal at most 650,000+ damage, which wasn't enough to instantly kill the cat demons with 750,000 HP.
He would need two scrolls to clear the map.
And Peach Blossom Mountain was a fairly large map. The attack range of World Destroyer · Thunderous Might might not be enough to cover the entire map.
That meant that even four SSS-rank World Destroyer · Thunderous Might scrolls might not be enough.
"Four SSS-rank scrolls would stack four layers of the permanent passive already."
That would be such a waste.
At this rate, when would Lin Mo ever be able to stack the permanent passive effects of all these SSS-rank magic scrolls, attack, defense, HP, damage, attack speed, and so on, to one hundred layers?
So, next, he turned off automatic mode.
And switched to manual mode.
Whoosh!
Whoosh!
Set Skill Thunderous Might activated.
Set Skill Hellfire activated.
Divine Descent Seraph · Siya's buffs maxed out.
"Clearing operation, begin!"
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
-113548 (Critical Hit)!
-113469 (Critical Hit)!
-114637 (Critical Hit)!
With the 200%+ basic attack damage and basic attack speed bonus from the SS-rank Divine Artifact Black Dragon Emperor Ring, Lin Mo fired three attacks per second, easily taking down a cat demon every two to three seconds on average.
Without comparing himself to anyone else, Lin Mo was still very satisfied with his damage output.
But once he compared himself…
BOOM!
BOOM!
BOOM!
-1823647!
-1809743!
-1818881!
Ning Xi's SSS-rank talent Nine Five Supreme's tenfold damage effect, combined with an S-rank single-target skill, made her damage absolutely explosive.
She left Lin Mo ten streets behind.
At this moment, looking at the damage Ning Xi was dealing, Lin Mo had only one thought about her, 'Fortunately, she's my wife.'
With two SSS-rank talent holders working together, the cat demons on Peach Blossom Mountain faced total destruction.
[Ding~ You killed Level 77 monster Cat Demon. EXP +2.6 million!]
[Ding~ Your teammate Liuli killed Level 77 monster Cat Demon. EXP +2.2 million!]
[Ding~ You killed Level 77 monster Cat Demon. EXP +2.6 million!]
At nine in the evening, the clearing operation was complete.
Lin Mo did the math.
In two hours, he had saved at least four SSS-rank magic scrolls.
It was quite worth it.
After all, it took 512 scroll evolution points to evolve four SSS-rank magic scrolls.
That was equivalent to 512 E-rank magic scrolls.
At Lin Mo's purchase price, which was slightly above market price, these scrolls were worth one million RMB, which wasn't a problem.
The biggest problem was that it would take at least half a day to collect that many scrolls.
Lin Mo had only one thought now.
That was to quickly max out all the passive skills he needed.
Once he could freely use SSS-rank magic scrolls, he would never have to worry about these problems again.
Right now, until there was not a single cat demon left anywhere on Peach Blossom Mountain, the system's pleasant notification finally sounded in Ning Xi's ears.
[Ding~ Congratulations, you have completed Pet Ah Li's third-stage growth quest. Please submit the quest to receive your reward!]
"Finally done!"
Ning Xi opened the quest panel and chose to submit the quest.
[Ding~ Congratulations, you have completed Pet Ah Li's third-stage growth quest. The C-rank hidden quest Traces of the Tribe has triggered the tenfold reward amplification effect of the SSS-rank talent Nine Five Supreme. 186,975 Reputation has been consumed. You have obtained ten times the quest rewards, EXP +500,000,000 (EXP cannot trigger tenfold amplification), Gold Coins +12,000, Reputation +250,000 (cannot trigger tenfold reward amplification, but has already triggered the hundredfold talent amplification), Obtained Ah Li's exclusive equipment · Heaven-Slaying Ring +1 (This item is unique and cannot be amplified), Obtained Ah Li's exclusive skill · Heaven-Burning Flash +1 (This item is unique and cannot be amplified), Level 70 Tier-5 Red Equipment · Demon Lord Legguards +10, S-rank Random Magic Scroll +10, S-rank Random Skill Book +10!]
Each stage of Ah Li's growth corresponded to a hidden quest.
Not only could it increase Ah Li's quality, it also provided generous rewards from the hidden quest.
Combined with Ning Xi's tenfold reward amplification, it was equivalent to the rewards from ten hidden quests.
This part was really nice.
At the same time, another notification sounded in Ning Xi's ears.
[Ding~ Congratulations, your Rare-grade pet Six-Tailed Demon Fox has grown into an Epic-grade Nine-Tailed Divine Fox!]
As soon as the system finished speaking, three more tails grew from Ah Li's original form as a white fox with six tails.
From a Nine-Tailed Divine Fox evolving into a Fox Immortal, Ah Li's presence had clearly risen by an entire level.
Ning Xi eagerly opened Ah Li's talent interface.
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[Heavenly Fire] (Nine-Tailed Divine Fox Exclusive Talent)
Quality: Rare-grade → Epic-grade
Effect 1: Every time Ah Li deals damage to an enemy, she will release Heavenly Fire to burn the enemy's soul, dealing additional true damage equal to 3% → 5% of the enemy's maximum HP (this damage cannot exceed 50% → 80% of Ah Li's attack power).
Effect 2: Enemies damaged by Ah Li have their HP recovery effect reduced by 30% → 50% for 3 seconds (cannot stack).
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Previously, when Ah Li had grown from Normal-grade to Elite-grade, and then from Elite-grade to Rare-grade, each increase in quality had only increased the percentage HP-cutting effect of the Heavenly Fire talent by 1%.
But this time, it had actually increased by 2%.
And if it was combined with the exclusive effect of her exclusive weapon, the Heaven-Slaying Blade: each attack additionally gained 50% of the talent's damage effect.
That meant that every time Ah Li attacked, she could already deal additional true damage equal to 7.5% of the enemy's maximum HP.
"It's only Epic-grade, and she's already this terrifying?", Lin Mo couldn't help saying.