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Chapter 116 Rank 7 Warrior, A Brand New Legacy!

Chu Xiu was very much looking forward to the inheritance that could be obtained at level seven.

According to previous patterns, the inheritance obtained in the end is usually the best. For example, the Heavenly Demon Hand of the Mortal Rank is still an extremely powerful skill even when it is placed in the Warrior Rank.

However, as night fell, the attributes of the ferocious-rank ghouls began to increase.

But Chu Xiu didn't care. Even if he couldn't kill the Fierce Rank, he could just kill the Warrior Rank.
With the Vampire Earl's Wings, he could easily save his life.

This made Chu Xiu once again marvel at the power of this [Legendary] equipment.

Although searching for ghouls in the vast central city by himself was somewhat troublesome, Chu Xiu quickly spotted his prey thanks to the wide field of vision he had from flying in the sky.

Just after he had swiftly killed another wave of Warrior-class ghouls, the pleasant notification sound finally rang out.

[Level Up!]

Current Rank: Warrior Level 7

As streams of warm energy appeared out of thin air, Chu Xiu's body was further strengthened, and his three-dimensional attributes continued to increase.

He clenched his fist. Now equipped with the Vampire Earl's Wings, his physique had exceeded two hundred! A casual punch could unleash a terrifying force of tens of tons! His skin's defensive capabilities alone were enough to easily withstand rifle bullets!

Of course, the most important thing is the completely new legacy!
Chu Xiu's eyes were filled with barely suppressed anticipation, and he quickly began to examine the object carefully.

After a long while, he let out a long breath, and a look of joy appeared in his dark eyes.

He guessed correctly. This last inheritance, just like the Heavenly Demon Hand, is indeed of a higher rank than the previous ones!

The three newly granted inheritances are all at the [True Inheritance] level!
First is the automatically unlocked Supreme Demon Lord's Legacy.

[Unjust Death Substitute: After taking damage, you can sacrifice any summoned creature, converting all of its life force into a shield that absorbs up to 70% of the damage.]

This is an incredibly powerful skill, and it doesn't require any additional Causality Points to upgrade!

Its effect is almost equivalent to the god-level talent [Damage Sharing] of summoner classes, which makes Chu Xiu's already ridiculous defense level even higher, turning him into a super tank!

"If one only cultivates the Supreme Demon Lord's inheritance, this skill is undoubtedly worthy of being called a true inheritance. Although it requires sacrificing the life of the summoned creature, it can greatly improve the survivability of the user, which is equivalent to getting a top-level talent for free!"

This made Chu Xiu marvel once again at the abnormal nature of the demonic profession.

However, for Chu Xiu, who cultivates all three paths, this skill is probably only useful when facing a powerful creature like the Corpse King.

"It's a skill with an extremely high skill ceiling," Chu Xiu silently concluded in his mind.

It further increases the tolerance for error, allowing Chu Xiu to make more aggressive choices in his subsequent actions.

With such a powerful skill as a foundation, Chu Xiu was even more excited about the remaining two inheritances.

He focused his attention, and two panels appeared before him.

【Demonic Energy Infusion (Innate God and Demon)】One of the prerequisite inheritances for the incarnation of the Heavenly Demon. It can strengthen the whole body with demonic energy in a short period of time, but the demonic energy will also erode the body and cause damage. There are three levels, and the higher the level, the greater the strengthening effect.

【Spirit and Flesh Storage Pouch (Ten Thousand Treasures Demon Lord)】A storage pouch nourished by the essence of flesh and blood, with a huge capacity. As long as the energy is replenished regularly, it can automatically repair the equipment, items, and summoned creatures with physical forms placed inside.

"hiss--"

These two inheritances made Chu Xiu gasp and stroke his chin.

All very strong!
Needless to say, the infusion of demonic energy into his body, as a prerequisite inheritance for the Heavenly Demon Incarnation, similar to the Heavenly Demon Hand, can greatly enhance his combat power.

The spirit and flesh storage bag has an extremely wide range of uses.

The storage space of a warrior-level character is only eight cubic meters, which means that Chu Xiu didn't take many low-quality equipment, but these are all a lot of resources!
And this thing can also store summoned creatures!

This means that he can now carry his resurrected army of ghouls with him, instead of having to hide from the world like he does now.

Even if you get injured in battle, putting it in will slowly restore your health!

Most importantly, Chu Xiu checked the refining method. Its main ingredient is high-grade flesh and blood, and even if some auxiliary ingredients are not available, theoretically, as long as there is enough flesh and blood, they can be used to refine it.

Imagine how terrifying it would be if Chu Xiu refined all the ferocious-level enemies in the central city into resurrected corpses and then released them all at once when fighting!

Even the ultimate boss of the world quest, the Corpse King, could be turned into his henchmen!
"However, comparatively speaking, the [Demonic Energy Infusion] provides a more direct boost."

"Unlock this inheritance first!"

Chu Xiu made up his mind.

But then they discovered they had no food left at home!
Unlocking these two inheritances requires a whopping four thousand causal points each!
Even after a day of large-scale hunting, Chu Xiu only managed to restore his total number of karma points to around 2500.

This is already considered incredibly wealthy for an ordinary Awakened One, but compared to the astronomical sums required to unlock and upgrade their inheritance, it's insignificant.

"We need to find a way to generate more causal points."

Chu Xiu pondered for a moment, then stopped leveling up and headed towards the stronghold.

At night, the ghoul's attributes will be further enhanced. If you can't kill a fierce-level monster during the day, you'll be even less able to kill it at night, and there's a very small chance of failing.

As for ordinary warriors, they have far too little experience and causal points.

Chu Xiu still remembered that when he was at level 7 of the mortal realm, he would have to kill hundreds of ordinary level 3 black-haired corpse demons to level up.

More importantly, he suddenly remembered that the government would be hosting a trade fair tonight.

In the past two days, a large number of awakened individuals have successfully advanced to the next rank, and the total number of awakened individuals of the Warrior rank in the entire Shiki world has now exceeded fifty.

Therefore, under the government's leadership, various forces will jointly hold a large-scale trade fair, where they can trade equipment they no longer need for others in exchange for causal points, integrate and optimize resource allocation, thereby improving overall combat power and better preparing for the upcoming operation to kill the Corpse King.

He has a lot of spare equipment now, which he can use for exchange.

Without giving it any further thought, Chu Xiu rushed back to the stronghold and mingled with Lin Wanyue's group, arriving together at the designated trading location.

This is an abandoned stadium. The site, which was originally a football field, has been cleared into a large open space and divided into many stalls where awakened individuals can trade freely.

The largest stalls were naturally occupied by Ye Junlin, Lin Wanyue, and the government.

Chu Xiu went to browse around and found that most of the equipment was of the [Standard] quality or lower. For example, Ye Junlin's stall had hundreds of [Standard] quality equipment and items spread all over the ground.

However, truly high-quality pieces are practically nonexistent now; only the three major furniture and pharmaceutical companies own a few, and most of them are only moderately versatile.

As for the "Collector's Edition" quality, there are only eight pieces in the entire plaza.

Group hunting has both advantages and disadvantages.

The advantages are a wide hunting range, a high safety factor, and a large number of items that can be obtained. However, the disadvantage is that high-quality items will be consumed internally first.

Theoretically, the three major factions should have dropped more [Rare] and [Excellent] equipment than Chu Xiu, given their larger numbers. However, after dividing it up internally, there would be nothing left. Since their own people were short of supplies, why would they sell it?
Therefore, a very strange situation occurs: even equipment of "standard" quality can be priced at tens of cause points, and some highly versatile equipment can be priced at hundreds!

There's no other way; these are extraordinary times. Having more good equipment means a higher chance of survival, which in turn means a greater probability of gaining an advantage in the upcoming battles.

The value of an item varies over time. For example, the 2500 million investment that Chu Xiu received before would be nothing under normal circumstances, but he was able to generate that much money in less than a month.

But it becomes extremely important on the eve of entering the abyss! Without these 25 million, Chu Xiu's upgrade progress will be greatly reduced!

This situation made it hard for Chu Xiu to keep his smile on his face.

The lack of competitors means he won't be pressured to lower prices, allowing him to maximize the selling price of his equipment!

And
Chu Xiu suddenly stopped and looked at one of the stalls.

The stall owner turned out to be Chu Qin.

Of the eight [Treasured] equipment items in the entire event, four were at Chu Qin's stall, and these four happened to be the four items that Chu Xiu had given her.

Almost instantly, Chu Xiu understood what she was thinking.

In Chu Qin's eyes, Chu Xiu would only be able to sell these four pieces of equipment for money after taking them back, so it would be better to sell them for him in advance while the market was still special.

"She and Aoyama are both good people."

With a slight smile, Chu Xiu stopped thinking about it and began considering how to maximize his gains.

Finally, he decided to take the simplest and most brutal approach.

He swaggered straight to the center, where several roads converged and several large stalls were located nearby, making it the area with the highest foot traffic.

Chu Xiu casually found a wooden chair, stood on it, and shouted, "Everyone look over here, I have something to announce!"

His distorted voice came from under the mask, and with his extraordinary physique, it carried far like a high-powered loudspeaker, immediately attracting the attention of everyone present.

After attracting attention, Chu Xiu didn't hesitate. With a wave of his hand, a large number of items were scattered all over the ground, directly surrounding him!

In an instant, a dazzling light illuminated almost his entire body.

The group of awakened individuals who were browsing and selecting items at nearby stalls widened their eyes in shock and immediately surrounded the area!
"Holy crap! What's going on? One person has so much equipment?"

"And the quality is all very high! This sword is [Excellent], this axe is also [Excellent], and this armor is even [Collector's Edition]!!!"

"My God, these dozens of items, even the worst ones are [Excellent]! There are also more than a dozen [Treasured] items! Wait, look at that knife! Look at that bow!"

"Perfect!!! They're actually perfect quality weapons!!! And there are two of them!!!"

The moment these words were spoken, the entire square erupted in commotion!

"Who is this guy? Where did he get so much equipment?!"

"It seems to be a man named Chen Ce under Lin Wanyue. At the time, the Lin family offered an investment contract of 2500 million to recruit him!"

"Ah! I remember him! He even alarmed the old butler of the Lin family! There were rumors before that his strength was no less than that of the Seven Knights, but now it seems that he is even stronger!"

The entire trade fair caused a sensation, with all the awakened ones crowding around. One of the staff members responsible for maintaining order said with difficulty, "Student, setting up stalls here is not allowed."

Before he could finish speaking, he was pushed aside by the group of awakened beings who had surrounded him.

Not only the newly promoted Awakened Ones, but also the sellers came over out of curiosity.

However, their expressions turned rather grim.

After all, with Chu Xiu's large collection of high-quality items, no one would bother to look at the "trash" left over from their picking and choosing.

At this moment, Chu Xiu's leisurely voice rang out: "[Excellent] equipment is 200 Karma Points per piece, [Treasured] is 600, all items are half price, first come first served, no bargaining, as for the two [Perfect] equipment pieces, please inquire privately for the price."

Chu Xiu's words once again made the sellers lose their composure.

This is completely destroying the market!

Their original "excellent" equipment sold for four hundred each! They've cut it in half!
However, they also know that this is a saturated market, and everyone has only so many causal points. With so many high-quality equipment suddenly flooding in, price reductions are inevitable.

Didn't they previously raise prices by exploiting scarcity?

In contrast, the buyers were overjoyed! Some immediately took out their money to pay without hesitation, fearing that if they were a step too late, the equipment they wanted would be snatched away!

Left with no other option, sellers had to lower their prices.

Even so, it couldn't dampen the enthusiasm of the others. After all, Chu Xiu's actions were too astonishing. The high-level equipment he released was almost as good as the entire trade fair! There were even two [Perfect] pieces!
In particular, these pieces of equipment are highly versatile and cannot be compared to the leftover items found at other stalls!
In less than half a minute, a large number of transactions were completed.

Looking at the ever-increasing amount of cause and effect points, Chu Xiu couldn't help but smile broadly behind his mask.

"As expected, going it alone is not as satisfying as taking advantage of the group!"

He can't really be considered to be exploiting the collective yet, since it's a fair trade. Just think about those Heavenly Kings, those who established the order and benefited from it. Even if they don't do anything, they can earn hundreds of thousands of karma points every day just by staying at home! That's truly awesome!
Of course, Chu Xiu didn't think too much about it and quickly focused on busily collecting money, his smile growing wider and wider.

But just as he was secretly pleased, a discordant voice suddenly rang out: "Wait! That's Shen Tu Hu's horse-slaying sword, why is it in your hands?"

Chu Xiu looked up and saw Lin Wanyue walking over with a frown on her face.

Because of Chu Xiu, the Lin family's stall was practically deserted, and they even had to grit their teeth and lower their prices, so her expression wasn't good at the moment.

Her words immediately stopped everyone who was about to make a deal, and they looked at Chu Xiu with suspicion.

Many people exclaimed in surprise, "It really is Shen Tu Hu's knife!"

Shen Tu Hu was a boastful person by nature. The number of [Perfect] equipment was extremely small, and many people had seen it and echoed his sentiments.

At this moment, someone whispered, "Could he be a 'Yakuza'?"

Upon hearing this, everyone's expression changed.

Chu Xiu was so engrossed in grinding monsters that he didn't realize that quite a few people had died at the hands of the Extreme Path during this period. In fact, various factions had even formed special teams to hunt down the Extreme Path, but unfortunately, they had little success.

This has made the term "Yakuza" almost a universally hated term, and awakened individuals both hate and fear it.

Hearing the commotion, Zhang Qingshan, who was not far away, also came over. He was the one responsible for maintaining order. After hearing what everyone was saying, he immediately looked at Chu Xiu with a suspicious and scrutinizing gaze.

Hiding their heads and tails, sneaking around, perfectly fits the style of the Yakuza.

but
For some reason, Zhang Qingshan felt a strange sense of familiarity when he looked at that figure, especially those dark eyes.

(End of this chapter)