My skills have mutated again!

Chapter 342 Unbelievable Brush Combo!

Resources are always a necessity on the road to becoming stronger.

What's currently blocking Xia Lin's path is this power of deception.

[Current deception power: 3849 points.]

It looks like a lot, enough to launch 7 fraudulent operations.

However, this value is insufficient to supply the cost of the Deception, Life and Death Battle (inferior) skill combo.

"Two aspects: how to save money and how to earn money."

Resources are money, and when it comes to money, it all boils down to saving and earning.

"First and foremost, it's the province."

"Based on this combo logic, I should be able to operate like this."

"By temporarily reducing one's own attributes or deliberately injuring oneself to make one's condition less than perfect, one can reduce the consumption of this new combo."

This idea cannot be tested at the moment, but it is likely feasible.

The cost of using Deception to determine life and death depends on the target's current state and strength. Temporary increases or decreases will affect the cost of Deception.

Thinking of this, Xia Lin inevitably thought of E Ying.

The negative skills on the Shadow can not only be used to annoy opponents, but also seem to be involved in this new combo.

Of course, the details still require deeper thought and careful consideration, but this is the general idea.

Then I shifted my focus back to making money.

Xia Lin took out the Spirit World Book again and looked at the first page: The Kingdom of Deception.

……

How to earn fraud points depends entirely on the country of fraud.

Behold the land of deception, where light and shadow dance, bringing the entire planet to life and depicting a high-tech, cyberpunk-esque daily life.

As Xia Lin observed carefully, he saw the 3D printer, which was essentially a deceitful evil god, located at the core of the Kingdom of Deception.

At this moment, the 3D printer is working.

It actively absorbs free matter in the air and transforms it into scattered black snowflake-like spots—this is the XR3-type spike nanorobot, and also the manifestation of the power of deception.

After observing for a while, Xia Lin finally understood the logic behind the Kingdom of Deception's production of deception power.

"To put it bluntly, it's all about using this 3D printer to produce deceptive power... The amount of raw materials determines how much deceptive power this printer can produce."

Currently, because the Land of Deception lacks the raw materials to produce XR3-type Spiral Nanobots, this printer can only extract substances from the air to provide Xia Lin with deception points.

—The speed is 10 points/day.

"I wonder if there's any limit to how efficient this thing can work."

Whether there's an upper limit or not, you'll find out once you try.

At Xia Lin's command, the Eight Guardian Sword Clan retrieved what he needed.

Various metallic minerals, and silicon crystals.

Eight Guardians of the World, in the Suburbs.

Minerals piled up into mountains.

Only after the bystanders had left did Xia Lin take out the Book of the Spirit Realm.

Without Xia Lin needing to do anything, the Spirit World Book automatically opened to reveal the first page: The Land of Deception.

Then, a strange power surged forth, transforming into a pitch-black vortex that sucked all the resources in front of Xia Lin into the Kingdom of Deception.

He retrieved the Book of the Spirit Realm and looked at it again.

Then they saw that these absorbed minerals had appeared in the country of fraud.

Virtual inhabitants, composed of XR3-type spike nanorobots, operate various machines to feed these foreign minerals into the printer.

So the printer started running at full speed...

Um, Xia Lin thinks you don't really need to go through this process for your Spirit World Book.

Xia Lin really doesn't mind if it's made a bit fantastical...

Unfortunately, the Book of Spirits has its own set of operating logic.

These tedious, manual steps seem impossible to omit.

More XR3-type spike nanorobots were created by the printer, but as soon as they left the printer, they vanished into nothingness and disappeared into the air.

It may seem like it's gone, but it has simply turned into fraud points, which continue to accompany Xia Lin.

As Xia Lin watched, she found the answer to her previous question.

This 3D printer does indeed have a production capacity limit.

There was no need to wait; the Book of Spirits naturally provided the answer.

100 points/day.

It went from 10 points to 100 points.

And this seems to be the limit of the deception nation's efficiency in producing deception power.

Xia Lin frowned, deeply dissatisfied.

This production efficiency cannot meet Xia Lin's requirements.

"Could you get a few more printers?"

The answer is yes.

Just as Xia Lin had this thought, the XR3-type spike nanobots that had vanished into thin air and turned into fraud points reappeared.

They assembled themselves, and soon, a second, incomplete 3D printer took shape.

Xia Lin finally understood.

"To put it bluntly, the production efficiency limit of a single printer is 100 points per day, but I can create more 3D printers by consuming the power of fraud, thereby greatly improving the production efficiency of the Fraud Kingdom."

It's like an alternative farming game.

"And the cost of manufacturing a 3D printer is 1 fraud points..."

The remaining 3,000 fraud points were used up, but these fraud points were not enough to build a second printer.

To fully assemble a printer, 1 fraud points are required.

Not many.

"I should have known better than to rush into experimenting with the Deception: Life and Death Battle (Inferior) skill combo!"

Xia Lin felt a little regretful upon realizing what had happened.

Because 5 fraud points means 5 printers, which also means a continuous stream of subsequent income.

But the feeling of regret was fleeting.

The new combo is of great significance and needs to be tested as soon as possible.

As for the fact that the efficiency of acquiring fraudulent power was slowed down due to incorrect operations...

"It won't be much slower."

……

The main quest and completion quests have been completed.

The strategy to defeat the deceitful evil god has also come to an end.

The remaining six months or so in the Ash Zone will be Xia Lin's free time.

And this time is more than enough for the country of deception to expand its productivity!
After all, the production efficiency improvement model for this thing is exponential!

Two months later, the second fraud printer was completed, and the fraud country's production efficiency increased to 200 per day.

Fifty days later, the third fraud printer was completed, and the production efficiency of the fraud country increased to 300 per day.

One month later, it will be 400 per day.

In 25 days, it will be 500 per day!
There is no shortage of minerals.

After all, Di Yun's entire corpse had been metallized and could be used as raw material for producing XR3-type spike nanorobots.

Meanwhile, as the deadline for the end of the Ash Zone approached, the productivity of the Kingdom of Deception had already surged to 500 per day.

This is equivalent to launching a fraud operation once a day.

Just days before Xia Lin was about to leave the Ashes District, he finally stopped focusing on the production efficiency of the Kingdom of Deception and instead accumulated a portion of Deception Points to realize his own plan.

In the quiet room of the Xia family, Xia Lin opened the attribute panel, took out the Spirit Realm Book, and began to operate it.

……

Fraud. Transport.

Fraud. Life.

Fraud. Simulation.

The Kingdom of Deception currently possesses three capabilities.

First, Xia Lin made a simple grading of the priorities of the three abilities.

"The least important one is deception simulation... It's not that it's weak, but compared to the other two abilities, it's not that impressive."

"As for the two abilities, Deception and Deception, they are equally important."

Fraud. Fate involves a new combo envisioned by Xia Lin.

The effectiveness of deceiving fate, which is essentially the same as deceiving heaven and changing one's destiny, is self-evident.

But there is also this logic at play.

Fraudulent. The package contains a built-in CD—this built-in CD contains three days and 10 minutes of data.

Without eliminating the negative effects, Xia Lin has no way to restart the fraudulent operation.

Moreover, Xia Lin will find it difficult to replicate his previous actions of opening blind boxes under the "Lucky Sky" state.

Firstly, Xia Lin doesn't have many blind boxes to open right now. He used up all his Heavenly Source Essence in one go, and he only has a few skill crystals left.

Secondly, Xia Lin's skill set is already quite good. Most of his skills are products of the "Great Fortune" state, so using them again might not necessarily make them any stronger.

There's no reason to say that the next "Great Fortune" will necessarily be more effective than the last one.

If the same ability produces the same effect, where would there be any difference in intensity?
"But right now, we really have to run a fraud operation."

Because Xia Lin is preparing to create his new combo!

He called it: The God-Defying Brush Combo!

Percentage increases to racial stats and attribute strength, no need to repeat.

As long as this combo can be formed and the consumption can be reduced to a level that Xia Lin can afford, then this combo will inevitably become the foundation for Xia Lin's rise!

Its significance is probably greater than all the skill sets Xia Lin currently possesses.

The effects of Deception and Luck are perfect for creating new skill combos!

"To put it bluntly, the lack of skill slots is a big problem."

"Hopefully, this scam will give me the results I want."

After muttering to himself, Xia Lin didn't say a word and used 500 points of Deception Power to activate Deception.
……

Black snowflake-like spots flew out from the book of spirits and covered Xia Lin's entire body.

As if by divine intervention, the effects of the deception have taken hold!

Skill crystals had already piled up like a small mountain around Xia Lin. And the moment the Deception skill took effect, Xia Lin immediately began to manipulate the crystals with both hands!
You have acquired a skill...

[Unstable mutation activated...]

You have acquired a skill...

A series of notification sounds were heard in quick succession.

However, almost everything is not worth elaborating on.

Because it makes no sense.

When Xia Lin last activated his "Deceitful Fate" skill set, he had already perfected it.

Resuming gambling at this point would have a rather mediocre effect.

Perhaps due to some unseen force, Xia Lin is blessed with extraordinary good fortune, and there is no possibility of further optimizing Xia Lin's skill set at this juncture.

Therefore, this time, the direction of the fraud is not Xia Lin's constant or regular skill bar.

Instead... it's the Shadow skill bar!

One minute later, the first key change occurred!

You have acquired the skill: Three Flowers Gather at the Top (S-rank).

[Unstable mutation activated!]

Your skill: Three Flowers Gather at the Top, mutated to: Three Fires Vanish Simultaneously (Mutated).

【Three Fires Vanish (Mutation): Passive Skill. The human body possesses three fires: the Sovereign Fire, the Ministerial Fire, and the Life Gate Fire! With this skill active, all three fires completely vanish. The effects of any negative skills or statuses that may affect you are doubled!】

It seems very strong, but the fact that it's not a foundational skill says it all.

This is a support skill. It doesn't involve skill permission checks, so for it to take effect, the negative skill or negative status must first break through the opponent's defense system.

But this skill can meet Xia Lin's needs.

It remains on E'ying.

After the Twin Shadows talent was upgraded to the Foundation level, it has eight negative skill slots, but right now it only has Shrimp Bro, Sacrifice for Life, Grand Appearance, and three negative skills.

The three fires vanished, making it the fourth.

Another minute later, the second component arrived.

You have acquired the skill: Superhuman Form (S-rank).

The skill crystals that Xia Lin still possesses are generally of low level.

Why?
Because the higher-level ones were already used up in the previous wave of Deceiving Heaven and Changing Fate.

However, skill crystals of lower levels are actually more suitable for gambling on negative skills.

Just like this Superman form!
[Unstable mutation activated!]

[Your skill, in Superman form, has mutated into: Maggot Power (Racial Foundation Level).]

【Maggot Power (Racial Heritage Level): Passive Skill. The will of the maggots is bestowed upon you! With this skill active, your fighting spirit and will be greatly weakened, making you timid and cowardly. Simultaneously, your attributes and racial stats will be reduced by 30%.】

Shrimp Bro's brother's skills.

The effect is undoubtedly strong, and it doesn't have the kind of effect that interferes with judgment like the one with Shrimp Bro.

If Shrimp Bro is good at disgusting enemies, then this Maggot Power is more suitable for Xia Lin to use himself.

Place it in the fifth slot of the Shadow skill bar.

In the fifth minute, the third component appeared.

And this is also the most crucial component!

You have acquired the skill: Shadow Clone (Rank A)!

[Unstable mutation activated!]

Your skill: Shadow Clone, mutated to: Twin Fusion (Racial Heritage Level).

[Twin Fusion (Racial Heritage Level): Active skill, exclusive to the Shadow of the Uncertain. Requires the Shadow of the Uncertain to possess the Twin Shadow of the Uncertain to use! Consumes 1000 Spirit Points to activate this skill. After activation, you will merge with the Shadow of the Uncertain, gaining access to all skills in the Shadow of the Uncertain's skill bar! Simultaneously, all negative skill effects on the Twin Shadow of the Uncertain will be forcibly transformed into positive effects after Twin Fusion!]

[Note: Shadow: We are one, I will not harm you.]

The Unseen Shadow class, with its key skills within the Shadow system!
However, Xia Lin at this moment was no longer fixated on the inherent system and mechanism of the Uncertain Shadow.

Therefore, this skill does not actually meet Xia Lin's needs for creating an overpowered brush combo.

"But I have another trick up my sleeve..."

Xia Lin muttered to himself as he removed the Backstab skill from his regular skill bar...

Poor Backstab, even after being promoted to the racial foundation level, became the object of Xia Lin's skill replacement because of its cheap price.

After completing this operation, Xia Lin started the fair trade while simultaneously crafting skill crystals!

"Use attributes to forcibly lower the level of the Twin Fusion skill!"

With a base stat increase of 290 points, this operation didn't cost Xia Lin much in terms of attributes—just a few dozen points in all attributes.

Four times in a row, Xia Lin directly lowered the level of twin fusion to A-level!
This counterintuitive, reverse operation didn't cost much... Fair Trade was probably also confused by Xia Lin's tactics.

And the new twin fusion turned out like this...

【Twin Fusion (Rank A): Active skill, exclusive to the Shadow of the Uncertain. Requires the Shadow of the Uncertain to possess the Twin Shadows talent to use! Activates this skill by consuming 100 points of Spirit Power. After activation, you will merge with the Shadow of the Uncertain and gain access to all skills in the Shadow of the Uncertain's skill bar!】

It lacks an extra attribute and note.

Thus, this skill became a purely harmful skill to its master!
But that's exactly what Xia Lin wants!

In the following time, some good skills appeared. After Xia Lin completely filled all eight skill slots of the Shadow of Calamity, the effect of this Deception.Luck disappeared.

At the same time, Xia Lin's reserve of skill crystals also disappeared.

But that doesn't matter, he still has 150 billion Ember Zone points and 7853 Evolution Points (some of which were obtained from this Ember Zone, and Xia Lin had collected some skills over the previous ten years).

I opened the attribute panel and took a look at my own attributes.

Xia Lin decisively sold another skill: Deterministic Release Flow!

It's not that this skill is bad, but rather that it's relatively cheap, and the cost of replacing it isn't high.

The skill that replaces the deterministic release flow is a skill originating from NO.259.

Humanity, Earth, Heaven, and Gods have all changed!
[Human-Earth-Heaven-God Transformation (Racial Foundation Level): Active Skill. Upon acquiring this skill, you will possess four forms! In Human form, all your attributes are compressed to one-fifth of their original value; this form is permanent. In Earth form, all your attributes remain unchanged; this form is permanent. In Heaven form, all your attributes are doubled for 3 days, with a 5-day cooldown. In God form, all your attributes are increased to ten times their original value for 1 hour, with a one-month cooldown!]

This skill is sold for 4 evolution points.

The buyback price is 18 evolution points.

The price wasn't high, and because the skill slots were too tight, Xia Lin was too lazy to play the money-saving strategy—that is, to first find E Ying's Unstable Diner, and then gamble on good luck.

Xia Lin is now using this skill to replace the fixed release flow, because what he wants is the effect of this skill in human form - the attributes are compressed to one-fifth of the original!

"Then, let me take stock."

After the good fortune ended, Xia Lin opened the attribute panel and muttered to himself.

……

The first thing to happen is the transformation of humanity, earth, heaven, and gods!
In human form, Xia Lin's attributes were compressed by one-fifth.

As a result, Xia Lin's attribute value changed from 5.5 million to 1.1 million.

Next came the activation of eight negative skills following the twin fusion!
The King of Soft-Legs, with a desperate attack, makes a grand entrance. Then, the three fires are extinguished, the maggots' power is gone, he is plagued by serious illness, suffers the five signs of decay, and becomes severely weak!

Among them, the serious illness and the five signs of decay are old friends... not Xia Lin actively sought them out, but rather he gambled on mutations and got them back.

Perhaps luck decided that Xia Lin's incredible brush combo required these two skills, and so it brought them back to Xia Lin.

There are two key points to this.

1. Your own negative skills are not affected by defensive skills and take full effect!

Second: The "Three Fires Vanish Simultaneously" skill, being a negative support skill, is quite powerful.

The first point is the underlying logic of Xia Lin's new combo, while the simultaneous elimination of three fires strengthens the effect of negative skills.

As a result, all sorts of negative skills immediately took effect, further compressing Xia Lin's attributes and racial stats.

An unprecedented feeling of weakness swept over me.

Xia Lin's base stats have changed to 83 points.

The attribute then became: 1158w!

The calculation method for negative skill damage reduction attributes is neither multiplicative nor additive.

Xia Lin spent a long time calculating, but still couldn't figure out what algorithm the professional system used.

But the results were still quite outstanding.

With a single thought, Xia Lin locked himself in with a fraudulent scheme.

The feedback from the Spirit World Book informed Xia Lin of the amount of Deception Points required to activate Deception Fate on himself.

It went from 5 to 2000...

"And considering that some items can also compress my attributes, that means there's still room to lower the number 2000!"

Once you calculate it that way, this incredible brush combo becomes worth using!

—The fraud points provided by the current Fraud Kingdom alone are more than enough to meet the needs of this combo!
This combo has a built-in cooldown of ten days, while the Kingdom of Deception currently offers 500 Deception Points per day!
"Finally, there's the matter of stockpiling resurrection items."

These kinds of things are expensive and rare, and few remain.

However, given the generally high cost involved, it is something that can be bought with money.

The things that can be bought with money (Ember Points) are not actually very valuable to Xia Lin – 150 billion Ember Points are really good at retaining their value.

"Moreover, I can also get a huge amount of Heavenly Source Essence during the settlement, which can be extracted from Heavenly Source Essence."

After the settlement, Xia Lin waits a little while before activating the fraudulent operation to unlock the Heavenly Gift Source.

The loop begins.

And so the snowball started rolling.

He simply put away the Spirit World Book and simultaneously dispelled the twin fusion state.

Walk to the window and look outside.

The world under the Eight Guardians is bathed in sunshine, just like Xia Lin's mood.

Just then, an earthquake struck.

Misfortune begins.

Xia Lin, however, simply activated the ability to transcend the Three Realms and avoid being disturbed by misfortune.

Inside the pure white cage, Xia Lin suddenly realized another problem.

"Breaking free from the three realms is also a key part of the heaven-defying brush combo."

This skill can help Xia Lin get through the temporary period of weakness, but the downside is that this skill has a one-month cooldown.

This method can be solved with a CD reset item, but it also indirectly increases the resource consumption of the overpowered farming combo.

"But it's just about making money, so that's actually quite simple."

……

Three days later, Xia Lin walked out of the white cage.

There are only a few hours left until the end of the Ember Zone.

Summer arrived and appeared before Xia Lin.

(End of this chapter)