My skills have mutated again!

Chapter 321 Life-or-Death Battle (Inferior)

The black light flashed and disappeared in an instant, indicating that Xia Lin had already initiated the act of deceiving the heavens and changing fate!
With his fraud points completely reset to zero, Xia Lin had no more tricks up his sleeve to change his fate.

The moment the ability to deceive fate took effect, Xia Lin immediately began to multitask.

With a wave of his right hand, a divinely bestowed source essence was activated.

The light flashed for less than a second, and then the notification sound rang in my ears...

However, Xia Lin ignored the notification sound in her ear.

He's doing something more important.

"Buy back Cooldown Reset and the Unpredictable Dining Hall of the Shadow".

The cooldown reset skill is very cheap and can be bought and sold freely.

The Shadow's Unscheduled Dining Hall is one of the skill components of the Shadow's Recipe Book.

Although Xia Lin combined this skill, it still remains in Er Ying's recipe book and can be bought back by Xia Lin.

[Shadow's Unpredictable Dining Hall (Racial Heritage Level): Active Skill, exclusive to the Unpredictable Shadow. Consumes 1000 Spirit Points. Upon activation, you can choose one of ten random skills you have ever possessed to replace a specific skill on the Twin Shadows! This skill has a 3-day cooldown!]

The authentic, unpredictable canteen costs 15 evolution points.

It's a bit pricey, but for Xia Lin right now, it's just a drop in the bucket.

In the blink of an eye, Cooldown Reset and Shadow's Unpredictable Dining Room appeared in the second and third slots of the regular skill bar.

The first field contains the probability that the value does not exist.

Without saying a word, Xia Lin immediately activated the Shadow's Unscheduled Dining Hall!

[The Shadow's Irregular Dining Hall is now in effect!]

You have regained the following skills:

[Part 1: The Five-Wheel Devouring World Demonic Art!]

【two……】

There's no need to read any further.

The first option is Xia Lin's must-choose option!

Compared to the 372 evolution points required to buy back the Five-Wheel Devouring World Demon Art, this operation is incredibly cost-effective!

This is the method Xia Lin came up with to bypass fair trade and the exploitation of the recipe book.

With the effect of deceiving heaven and altering fate, this method is entirely feasible!
The illusory image of the scales flashed by and disappeared.

Xia Lin sold the Five Signs of Decay of Heaven and Man on E Ying's body to make room for the Five Wheels Devouring World Demon Art.

With a thought, Xia Lin removed the Five-Wheel Devouring World Demon Art from E Ying and added it to his regular skill bar number four.

A notification sounded indicating that the unstable mutation had taken effect; select "Do not mutate" immediately.

Just after the regular skill bar (numbers one through four) was occupied by the probability of non-existence, cooldown reset, and E'ying's Unpredictable Dining Hall and Five-Wheel Devouring World Demon Art, Xia Lin heard the familiar notification sound.

[The probability of non-existence taking effect!]

[Your skill: Shadow's Unpredictable Dining Hall has completed its cooldown!]

"open!"

Without saying a word, the Shadow's Irregular Dining Hall was activated again.

[The Shadow's Irregular Dining Hall is now in effect!]

You have regained the following skills:

Part One: The Rebirth of Heaven and Earth!

That's how awesome it is to deceive fate and change destiny! No wonder Xia Lin is so fixated on the deceitful evil god.

Find the Rebirth of Heaven and Earth and place it in the 5th regular skill slot.

But this time, Xia Lin did not trigger the non-existent probability.

It doesn’t matter anymore.

He still had a considerable number of high-level CD reset items in his possession. Although these items were expensive, Xia Lin was currently very wealthy.

[The Shadow's Irregular Dining Hall is now in effect!]

You have regained the following skills:

[Part 1: The Blast Furnace!]

Without a doubt, we must choose it.

The Five Wheels Devouring World Demon Art, Heaven and Earth Nirvana, and Transformation Furnace are complementary skills; you either don't need any of them, or you have to select all of them.

[The probability of non-existence taking effect!]

This saves another CD reset item.

"open!"

[The Shadow's Irregular Dining Hall is now in effect!]

You have regained the following skills:

Part One: All Martial Arts!

It remains a mandatory option.

The significance of this skill has already been mentioned; it greatly benefits the Black/Red form and is very expensive.

[The probability of non-existence taking effect!]

[The Shadow's Irregular Dining Hall is now in effect!]

You have regained the following skills:

[Part One: The Eighteen Forms of the Evil Sword!]

Select and place it in the 8th regular skill slot.

Thus, Xia Lin only has one skill slot left...

[The probability of non-existence taking effect!]

[The Shadow's Irregular Dining Hall is now in effect!]

You have regained the following skills:

【One: Supreme Sword Body!】

Select and place it in the 9th regular skill slot.

In this way, all nine skill slots are now complete!

1. Probability of non-existence, 2. Cooldown reset, 3. The Shadow's Unpredictable Dining Hall, 4. Five Wheels Devouring World Demon Art, 5. Nirvana of Heaven and Earth, 6. Furnace of Transformation, 7. All Martial Arts, 8. Eighteen Forms of the Evil Sword, 9. Supreme Sword Body.

But this is not enough.

There aren't enough skill slots.

The illusory image of the scales flashed by and disappeared.

"The probability of selling something that doesn't exist and the cooldown reset!"

Without these two skills, the worst that can happen is to use a foundational cooldown reset item to tough it out.

Compared to that, the two empty skill slots and what Xia Lin is about to do are obviously much more important!
[The Shadow's Irregular Dining Hall is now in effect!]

You have regained the following skills:

[1: Burial! 】

Select and place it in the 8th regular skill slot.

Thus, all of Black Star's skills that were meaningful to Xia Lin fell into Xia Lin's hands.

The cost is much cheaper than using evolution points to force it.

At this moment, the effect of deceiving fate had only been in effect for 30 seconds!

The phantom of the scales flashed again.

"Sell the Shadow's Unstable Dining Hall!"

Yes, Xia Lin simply sold off Er Ying's unpredictable canteen...

The regular skill slots are now freed up again, with skill slots 8 and 9 completely empty.

Xia Lin calmed his mind, picked up a skill crystal with his left hand, and crushed it.

You have acquired the skill: Thirst for Blood.

[Bloodthirst (S-rank): Passive skill. Increases all your attributes by 10%, but this skill will slightly affect your sanity.]

[Unstable mutation activated!]

[Your skill: Thirst for Blood, mutated into: Killing Form!]

[Killing Form (Racial Heritage Level): Active Skill. Upon activation, all your attributes increase tenfold, significantly enhancing your combat instincts! This skill lasts for 10 minutes and has a 3-day cooldown!]

This is the allure of deceiving fate and unpredictable mutations!

I can buy expensive skills from cookbooks—this highlights the certainty.

But I can also gamble on skill mutations—that's where the randomness of the Unseen's mechanics comes in!
"Preserve the mutations!"

Keep one skill slot and place it in the 8th regular skill slot. This way, only one skill slot will be available.

Then Xia Lin continued gambling!
However, it's not about gambling on high-level mutated skills to exchange for evolution points.

He already has enough evolution points.

He's trying to gamble on a skill combination!
……

Skill slots are limited; this is an immutable law.

To maintain a minimum standard, Xia Lin hid ten unchangeable skills in the constant skill bar—to activate them would be to destroy Xia Lin's foundation.

Therefore, he can only operate within the 9 regular skill slots.

Using the unpredictable cafeteria to retrieve Black Star's skill is also a way to ensure a minimum level of performance.

Black Star's skills greatly enhanced Xia Lin's combat power, so there was no way he wouldn't try to retrieve them.

Anyway, Xia Lin felt that after this series of actions, this round of deceiving fate had already been worth the price of admission.

But Xia Lin was greedy.

He also has the ability to be greedy.

Trying to create the perfect skill combination with only two remaining skill slots is like trying to find the limit!

Whether Xia Lin can succeed in his greed is unknown, but for now, let's believe in this attempt to change fate.

Xia Lin greedily obtained the Killing Form in his first move.

Scanning the skill panel, Xia Lin decided not to sell it—because he felt that this skill matched Black Star's skill set in the current regular skill bar quite well, and there might be a possibility of triggering a skill combination.

Crush another skill crystal.

[You have acquired the skill: Nine Defeats Rebirth!]

This is a skill that Xia Lin obtained from Tao Jing.

[Unstable mutation activated!]

Your skill, Nine Defeats and Rebirth, has mutated into: Rebirth from the Ashes!

[Rebirth (Racial Heritage Level): Passive Skill. With this skill active, you will be exempt from 50% of the resurrection penalty!]

Xia Lin raised an eyebrow, finding it somewhat interesting.

This was the first time he had ever heard of skills that reduced resurrection penalties within the professional system!
Without a doubt, retain the mutation and place it in the regular skill slot 9.

Thus, except for one skill slot for the Shadow skill, Xia Lin's skill slots are all full.

But he still has one more chance!
That's how skill combos work... As long as the conditions are met in the next skill, the skill combo mechanism will still be triggered!

Sit still for three seconds.

The effects of all the skill crystals he had stored up automatically appeared in Xia Lin's mind.

—Long before this, he had already memorized the levels and effects of almost all the skill crystals he possessed, all for this moment!
Skill combinations may seem random, but there is a logic to them.

This involves the issue of skill compatibility, which Xia Lin doesn't fully understand, but he has a vague concept of.

Three seconds later, Xia Lin immediately reached out and took out a Heavenly Gift Source Essence and a Skill Crystal. He crushed them with both hands at the same time, and two notification sounds entered Xia Lin's ears one after the other.

You have acquired the skill: Praise Pain!

【Praise of Pain (SSS Rank): Passive Skill, Exclusive Skill for Limit Breakers, Limit Break Technique. You can draw nourishment from every instance of pain to break through your limits!】

[Unstable mutation activated!]

Your skill, Praise of Pain, has mutated into: Artificial Life and Death Tribulation!

【Artificial Life-or-Death Tribulation (Racial Foundation Level): Passive Skill, Exclusive Skill for Limit Breakers, Limit Break Technique! Every time you are critically injured and on the verge of death, if you successfully survive, this skill will provide you with a large amount of Limit Break attributes and a small amount of racial stats!】
Note: The so-called critical injury must be inflicted by an enemy or by accident. You cannot trigger this skill's effect through self-harm or by an attack from a target with no intention to kill!

When Xia Lin was experimenting with skill combinations, he realized that one of the trigger conditions for skill combinations might be a skill that breaks limits.

Therefore, at this moment, Xia Lin specifically chose a technique that breaks limits.

However, the notification sound indicating that the skill combination had been successfully triggered did not play.

Instead, the reward of divinely bestowed source material came first.

You have activated a divinely bestowed source material.

[You have received a reward: a half-level boost to your skill!]

[Note: The skill bonus provided by Heavenly Essence cannot exceed one level, and the bonus effect will be randomly applied to one of your skills; you cannot choose which one to apply it to!]

This reward has a limit; it can only be applied to the same skill a maximum of two times, and the skill to be weighted cannot be specified independently.

But this is still the most awesome reward in the Heavenly Gift Blind Box, and this is the first time Xia Lin has triggered it.

The notification tone sounds again.

[Random selection complete.]

[Your skill: Heaven and Earth Rebirth grants a buff!]

Xia Lin frowned.

obsolete.

Ideally, the skill-weighted reward should fall on attack/defense skills.

These skills are what lead to frequent competition for authority.

For auxiliary skills that affect oneself, permissions are completely irrelevant—such as universal skills, energy conversion, etc.

Xia Lin wasn't in a hurry to upgrade these skills because these types of skills didn't require high-level permission checks.

The same principle applies to the skill of Nirvana.

However, just as Xia Lin was feeling a little regretful, the third notification sound appeared.

[Skill combination conditions met!]

Xia Lin's eyes lit up, and he immediately perked up!

[Based on the Five Wheels Devouring World Demon Art, and aided by Heaven and Earth Nirvana, your skills—Heaven and Earth Nirvana, Furnace of Rebirth, Supreme Sword Body, Burial, Slaughter Form, Nirvana Rebirth, and Artificial Life and Death Tribulation—can be combined into a single skill set!]

You will receive: Battle of Life and Death (Inferior) (Racial Foundation Level).

[Note: After selecting the combination, the following seven skills will disappear: Heaven and Earth Nirvana, Furnace of Rebirth, Supreme Sword Body, Burial, Slaughter Form, Nirvana Rebirth, and Artificial Life and Death Tribulation. At the same time, your skill: Five Wheels Devouring World Demon Art, must be retained in the future. If this skill disappears, then Life and Death Battle (Inferior) will also disappear!]

[Note: The "Battle of Life and Death (Inferior)" skill appears due to a half-level increase in the "Heaven and Earth Nirvana" authority. However, once the skill combination is completed, this skill will no longer receive the effect bonus from this authority increase!]

[Should we combine them?]

Xia Lin: "..."

No, you're just using a combo skill, why do you put "(inferior)" after it? What does that mean?

It was this word "inferior" that made Xia Lin hesitate for a moment.

But soon, Xia Lin simply said, "Let's confirm the combination."

He chose to believe in deceiving fate and changing destiny!

They also chose to believe in the combined, profound skills of the seven races!
Suddenly, light flashed from Xia Lin's body, and at that moment, Xia Lin vaguely felt that time had stopped.

The soul was automatically ejected from the physical body. The seven skill orbs, based on the Five Wheels Devouring World Demon Art, began to rotate, entangle, and merge!
After an unknown period of time, when Xia Lin's soul returned to its place, the skill combination was already complete!
You have acquired the skill: Life or Death Showdown (Inferior).

【Life or Death Showdown (Inferior) (Racial Foundation Level): Passive Skill, Limit Break Skill. Any permanent negative effects from resurrection items and skills will be converted into temporary effects for you, lasting ten days. When you are resurrected and the negative effects disappear, your racial stats and base attributes will permanently increase by ten percent!】
Note: Your death must be caused by an enemy or by accident. You cannot trigger this skill's effect through suicide or by an unintentional target!

Xia Lin stood there, stunned.

He never imagined that there would be this type of limit-breaking technique within the professional system!

You die and are reborn, growing stronger with each death—and by a percentage!
Isn't this pure cheating?!
……

But after thinking it over, Xia Lin immediately realized the limitations of this skill.

"It doesn't seem as strong as I imagined."

Time is an issue.

The negative effects last for ten days before you can obtain the maxed-out attributes and racial stats, which means you can't quickly farm attributes.

The prohibition against suicide and death at the hands of harmless targets is an even greater constraint.

But no matter how many restrictions there are, you can't stop it from increasing attributes and racial stats by a percentage—this limit-breaking logic is the strongest point of this skill, and also the point that Xia Lin finds most cheating!

The stronger you are, the greater the boost this skill can provide.

This will be the most direct and violent snowball effect!

"Why is this skill bound to the Five Wheels Devouring World Demon Art?"

"Is it because the basic skills include Nirvana and Furnace of Rebirth?"

"What about my resurrection skill? Why is my resurrection skill gone?"

"I don't understand..."

The "Deathmatch (Loss)" mode does not provide direct resurrection opportunities...

"And this skill has the word 'inferior' in it... which means it's inferior. So how powerful must the original be?"

"It can't be a zero-loss resurrection, with doubled base stats after resurrection, and you can even use suicide to boost your stats, right? That would be too overpowered."

As Xia Lin pondered this, she chuckled at her own thoughts.

That's way too open...

He shook his head, stopping his wild thoughts.

Because time is precious right now.

Before we knew it, a full minute had passed.

Quickly open the attribute list and look at your regular skill bar.

Of the original nine skill slots, only four remained after skill combinations were completed, leaving five empty.

Five-Wheel Devouring World Demon Art, Myriad Martial Arts, Eighteen Evil Sword Styles, Life-or-Death Battle (Inferior).

The more empty skill slots Xia Lin has, the easier it is for him to continue gambling on skill combinations—of course, Xia Lin never stopped trying to create the Heavenly Gift Source Essence from beginning to end.

It's simply a matter of multitasking.

Time is both long and short.

When the effect of deceiving fate ended, Xia Lin immediately stopped what he was doing and let out a long sigh of relief.

"The profits were substantial, but they were mainly concentrated in the first half."

It's possible that during the period when the ability to deceive fate and change destiny is in effect, certain laws of conservation of luck also apply.

After obtaining all of Black Star's skills and combining them into the Life and Death Battle (Inferior), Xia Lin's subsequent gains were not as surprising as before.

Xia Lin picked up the remaining skill crystals from the ground, opened the attribute panel, and his own attributes came into view.

Xia Lin

【Level: 9】

[Class: Unseen Shadow]

[Race value: 201]

[Basic Attributes: 4.8y]

These basic data points, however, remain unchanged.

Evolution Points: 6739 (originally 2688)

In fact, evolution points are not considered high-end rewards in the Heavenly Gift Blind Box.

Xia Lin, however, produced quite a few...

But as the saying goes, what suits you best is the best.

With the recipe book in hand, Xia Lin's ever-changing fighting style is destined to require a lot of evolution points, and the more of these, the better.

In addition, there are hundreds of other high-level equipment and items, which need not be described in detail. Most of them are useless, but they can definitely be sold for a high price.

The real change lies in skills.

The ten skills in the constant skills bar have been slightly changed.

After unlocking the Heavenly Gift Source Essence, Xia Lin unlocked four more reward items that enhanced his permissions.

And with the added bonus of luck, the randomized result made Xia Lin's smile even harder to suppress than AK's!
Random combination (Heavenly Source Quality Permission +1)!
+1 means that the random combination received the Heavenly Source Quality Permission Enhancement Effect twice!
Dongfeng Dominator (Heavenly Gifted Source Quality Authority +1)!
This main combat skill also benefited from two privilege enhancements!

In addition, he also created a reward called skill upgrade in the Heavenly Gift Essence, which can upgrade any skill to the racial foundation level.

Xia Lin first improved human-machine efficiency.

Thus, the level of human-machine ergonomics was upgraded from mutation to racial foundation.

[Human-Machine Efficiency (Racial Heritage Level): Active Skill. Consumes a small amount of mental energy to merge with any inanimate object, equipment, or other object, gaining related characteristics and even changing one's own form!]

There are only two changes in the description.

One is the level, which changed from mutation to racial foundation level.

One is that the consumption of mental energy has changed from consuming a small amount of mental energy to consuming a very small amount of mental energy.

Promotion reduces the cost of this skill.

Xia Lin hadn't tested the effect before due to time constraints, but now, after a quick test, he was surprised to find that the energy consumption had decreased significantly!

If the original cost was 100, then the current cost is 1.

one percent.

In this way, Xia Lin's energy consumption in the Borderland Star state can be reduced.

Hmm, having the Spiritual Tide skill doesn't seem to be that significant... but Xia Lin's OCD kicked in; all ten skills in the constant skill bar had to be at the racial foundation level for it to look good.

Speaking of this, we can't forget the remaining two basic skills: versatility and energy conversion.

With good fortune upon him, Xia Lin triggered the skill upgrade rewards more than once.

This allowed him to advance his versatility and energy conversion to the racial foundation level without spending any evolution points.

This time, all the skills in the constant skill bar are at the foundational level.

[Versatile (Racial Heritage Level): Passive skill, Unpredictable Shadow class skill. This skill can only be placed in the constant skill slot! With this skill, you can ignore class restrictions and use other classes' exclusive skills and class talents.]

[Note: Because you do not possess the relevant class talent, you cannot use the class talents of other classes; you can only use the class skills of other classes.]

The advancement from S-rank to racial foundation rank resulted in virtually no improvement in the versatile skills...

Because Xia Lin lacks the relevant components.

Xia Lin only just realized that this skill was actually a complementary skill to a certain mechanism of the Uncertain Shadow, which was unknown to him.

"That makes sense when you think about it. The Shadow of the Unpredictable is ever-changing. If it can use the skills of other professions, there's no reason why it can't use the talents of other professions."

Thinking of this, Xia Lin suddenly remembered the Unity Realm Core that the martial artist and Chaoxing had given him.

A rather dangerous thought arose in Xia Lin's mind, but he suppressed it.

"Don't think about those useless things..."

Keep watching.

Energy Conversion (Racial Heritage Level): Passive Skill. You can convert your spiritual energy into any energy type you have ever seen! The conversion ratio is 1:1. Furthermore, you can freely experiment with different energy types to create new energy types according to your will!

Note: This experiment carries risks. Completely conflicting energy types may cause explosions, energy backlash, etc. Please proceed with caution.

Compared to ergonomics and versatility, this change in skills is the real change!
(End of this chapter)