My skills have mutated again!

Chapter 383 The wheel of fortune turns, the Crimson King, the artificially created spiritual treasure immortal!
[You used a wisp of the power of the Six Pillars.]

[Your skill: Shadow's Recipe Book has been enhanced!]

[Enhancement begins!]

Unlike the previous instantaneous completion, this enhancement was somewhat slow, and the subsequent notification sound from the Ash Zone remained silent for a long time.

Just as Xia Lin was getting impatient, he suddenly felt his soul twitch and was in excruciating pain, and his brain went completely dizzy!
[Due to the conflict between two classes, an unknown mutation has occurred in this enhancement.]

[Due to a conflict between two classes, this enhancement attempt failed, and all your attributes have been reduced by 50%!]

[Twin Shadows talent activated! You are immune to the negative effects of this dual-class conflict!]

[Enhancement complete! Your skill, "Shadow's Recipe Book," has been upgraded to Level Six!]

Xia Lin felt a sense of relief.

The Shadow's Recipe Book is an Unstable Shadow class skill, and can be considered one of its core skills.

Any changes to this skill could cause conflicts between dual classes—this was within Xia Lin's expectations.

The Twin Shadows withstood the pressure, but their level dropped from Foundation level to A level... It doesn't matter, they can just spend evolution points to level them up again.

After raising the level of the Twin Shadows again, Xia Lin opened the attribute panel and looked at the recipe book for the new six-pillar level Shadow.

The skill descriptions came into view.

【Shadow's Recipe Book (Level 6 Pillar): Passive Skill, Fusion Skill of Unseen Shadow and Pillar of Eternity. All your skills and mutated skills will be recorded in this skill! You can spend Evolution Points at any time to buy back the recorded skills! The purchase cost depends on the relevant skill level and strength.】

Additionally, when you repurchase a skill, the first purchase requires you to pay the full price; the second purchase halves the price; the third purchase halves the price again; and the fourth and subsequent purchases are permanently free!

[Note: This skill can only be placed in the constant skill slot.]

Xia Lin breathed a sigh of relief.

"awesome!"

The changes are quite encouraging.

Strictly speaking, what Xia Lin needs is only to improve the access to this skill, so as to gain the qualification to purchase a six-pillar level skill!

But unexpectedly, after the upgrade, this skill gained an additional attribute—a purchase discount.

Given Xia Lin's current system, constantly adjusting skills before battle is his fighting style, which requires a considerable amount of evolution points. If the target of adjustment is a six-pillar level skill, the cost becomes even more outrageous.

That martial arts mastery skill requires 43 evolution points... Even if Xia Lin poured all his evolution points into it, it wouldn't be half of that number.

As the number of six-pillar level skills inscribed increases in the future, the expenses in this area will inevitably be a bottomless pit... However, the six-pillar level recipe book offers a discount, which is equivalent to saving Xia Lin a huge amount of resources!
"Wait a minute... this skill has a bug!"

Xia Lin's mind raced, and she suddenly realized a problem.

After glancing at the skill descriptions in the Shadow Reaper's recipe book, he looked at his other skill: Fair Trade...

"After four times it's all free... but if I sell the skill to Fair Trade, I have to charge, otherwise I'll lose money, right?"

Free sourcing, low-price selling... this business is a sure-fire way to make money!
Do it when you think of it.

Look at the skills recorded in the cookbook.

The repurchase price of the skill is unchanged from the foundation level – the six-pillar level skill "Martial Arts Divine Transcendence" still requires 43 evolution points.

Xia Lin couldn't afford it, so she simply stopped looking.

He looked at another high-priced skill on the manual: Heaven and Earth Nirvana!

This is a skill that Black Star possessed in the past, a skill that comes with the Five Wheels Devouring World Demon Art.

It was simply because it didn't fit Xia Lin's system that Xia Lin ignored it.

The recipe book lists the price of this skill as 1348 evolution points!
Xia Lin can't afford 43, but she can easily afford 1348.

I might as well buy it back and place it in the Shadow skill bar.

Without even trying out the skill's effects, they simply initiated a fair trade and sold the skill...

95 evolution points will be recycled.

In this back and forth, Xia Lin lost over 1200 evolution points.

The recipe book of Fair Trade + Shadow of Calamity, which once ruthlessly absorbed Xia Lin, is just a glimpse into its power.

"But damn it, what goes around comes around. Today, your brother Xia is going to have a serious talk with you!"

Buy back Nirvana, spending 674 evolution points, and sell it for 95 evolution points.

After another round of operations, 337 evolution points were spent, and 95 evolution points were sold.

One more round of operations... cost 0, net gain 95 evolution points...

Then, the loop begins.

Two hours later, Xia Lin stared at the rapidly increasing evolution points on his personal information panel and fell into deep thought.

"Come on, let's have a fair trade and see where your limits are!"

The first purchase of the six-pillar level skill: Martial Arts Proficiency, cost 43 evolution points.

Sell ​​it and you'll get 1 evolution points.

Continuing to grind using the Nirvana of Heaven and Earth as a base... An hour later, I purchased the Martial Arts Divine Skill for the second time, spending 21.5 evolution points.

Sell ​​for 1 evolution points.

Half an hour later, the third purchase of the Martial Arts Divine Skill was made and then sold.

Ten minutes later, the evolution points began to increase at a rate of 1 per second...

Xia Lin smiled.

"I knew it! Prioritizing upgrading the Shadow's recipe book was the right thing to do..."

Although it was just a lucky accident, Xia Lin did achieve the freedom to allocate evolution points at this moment.

……

"Actually, it's not just about the freedom of evolution points; the skill of fair trading also offers a lot of room for manipulation."

The Demon Emperor himself said before that the foundation of fair trade comes from the Demon Emperor's trump card system - the Balance System.

From a conceptual standpoint, fair trade is a very high skill with enormous potential to be developed.

"For example, I can use free six-pillar level skills, use fair trade to improve my combat power in battle, or use them to remove debuffs."

These fair trades are all possible, but they require a lot of resources—and a six-pillar level skill is a very, very heavy resource!

Meanwhile, in Xia Lin's case, level six skills are free...

This skill has its own set of judgment logic; as long as you pay, you can really treat it as a half-wish-granting machine.

"Why isn't it a whole wish-granting machine? I guess it's because the skill level isn't high enough."

Thus, Xia Lin had a direction for improvement—he wanted to try raising Fair Trade to the sixth pillar level and see what changes would occur...

However, upon further reflection, Xia Lin hesitated again.

Because originally, his second target for promotion was pseudo-random permutation...

After weighing the pros and cons, Xia Lin finally sighed.

"Don't think about these things for now, let's check the rewards and examiners for level 993 first."

……

Welcome to the 993rd floor!

[The final reward for floor 993 is now revealed. There are three rewards available for now, and those who clear the floor first will choose their reward first.]

[One: Reincarnation (Six-Pillar Level Skill): Passive Skill. With this skill, upon your death, you will carry the memories of this life and three skills of your choice, and be reincarnated! All karmic entanglements from your previous life will be erased!]

【II: Soul Battlefield (Six-Pillar Level Skill): Active Skill. Consumes 1 point of Spirit Power to bring both allies and enemies into the Soul Battlefield. The Soul Battlefield has special rules that suppress certain skills and systems. Please explore the specific effects yourself.】

【Three: A Strand of Six Pillars Power (Six Pillar Level): A strand of power originating from the Six Pillars, which can be fused into any Foundation-level skill or Foundation-level item to elevate it to the Six Pillar level and enhance its inherent attributes!】

Two level-six skills, and one old option.

At this moment, no matter how Xia Lin looked at it, he felt that the option of a wisp of the power of the six pillars was just to make up the numbers...

But even if it's just to make up the numbers... Xia Lin actually needs this reward the most.

As for the other two reward items, they do not seem to be able to strengthen Xia Lin's existing system, and rebuilding the system around them would be somewhat counterproductive.

As the awards were announced, the examiners appeared before Xia Lin.

The crimson aura surged instantly, and immense pressure erupted.

The familiar taste made Xia Lin gasp.

The moment the "Battle Start" notification sounded, a heavy fist stained with his own blood reached Xia Lin's face and smashed Xia Lin's head apart!
993rd examiner, Limit Breaker, Ancient Inhuman Race Sequence One, Crimson King, NO.7!

……

Outside the building, Xia Lin uttered a curse, feeling slightly aggrieved.

It's really unethical of that No. 7 to sneak attack Xia Lin, a junior.

At least Lingbao has some foreplay, why are you different?!
Hey, you know what, this No. 7 is really special.

"Limit Breaker, attribute limit, core skill: Six Pillar Level, Crimson King."

Victor, who was perched on Xia Lin's head, slowly spoke.

Xia Lin's testimony has already received feedback.

[Crimson King (Six Pillars): Passive Skill. Your all attributes are passively increased by 100 times! You gain Crimson Power! Crimson Power possesses extremely strong corrosive properties, greatly enhancing your melee power! Furthermore, with this skill active, you will not face any injuries resulting in limb mutilation, permanently maintaining your combat effectiveness. The more severe your injuries, the greater the temporary attribute boost you will receive! This skill's amplification has no upper limit, exceeding the 100x boost limit!]

In the early days, Xia Lin received a buff called Crimson Descent.

This six-pillar level Crimson King is an advanced and enhanced version of this buff!
Victor continued, explaining the origins of this No. 7.

“He is one of the earliest Ember Walkers, and also one of the first Limit Breakers in the Ember Zone.”

"He caused quite a stir in the former Ash District... well, the kind of thing that was pretty bad... but after leaving the Ash District, he disappeared without a trace. He probably completed a glorious evolution and became one with his master."

Unlike magical treasures and martial arts, No. 7 is no longer a real person in the current main universe. If Victor hadn't clarified things, none of the Ashes Walkers present would have recognized who this examiner was.

Donald, standing nearby, smirked and leaned in.

"Brother, this is a tough one for you. Watch me."

"But the condition is that you have to help me get the spirit treasure sorted out..."

The present is not necessarily inferior to the past.

As a fellow Limit Breaker, Donald was confident that his strength was no weaker than No. 7's, and he had an 80% chance of crushing No. 7 with his fists.

Unfortunately, he really had no way to deal with the magical treasure.

There's no need to elaborate on the issue of systemic restraint.

Donald's strength is definitely greater than Xia Lin's; that's a fact, no question about it.

Xia Lin thought for a moment, nodded, and immediately began adjusting Donald's skill set. ...

Xia Lin already had a ready-made solution for helping his partners adjust their skill sets.

There are still two types.

One method is permanent: use pseudo-random replacement to obtain skills, activate the Lucky Draw mutation, and after the skill's duration expires, return the mutated skill to your teammate—this back and forth changes the skill and allows it to be permanently retained.

That's how the county magistrate's "end of this realm" came about.

The second type is temporary.

—Using pseudo-random swapping, the skills of both sides are adjusted, transferring the skills that teammates need to teammates. At the same time, teammates discard some unsuitable skills.

After the one-hour skill period ends, the skill resets, and nothing changes.

This is equivalent to temporarily transferring Xia Lin's impending change mechanism to teammates, giving them the same adaptability as the Unpredictable Shadow.

Considering that Xia Lin had always been a loner, these two mechanisms were rarely used.

Now that Donald had come knocking on her door, Xia Lin decided to experiment with him, using him as the first experimental sample for the second plan.

"I don't need these three skills for now... but don't sell them to me, I still need them when dealing with No. 7."

All three skills are buff skills.

Two skills provide a 100x boost, while the other is an ability similar to that of the Crimson King.

[Desperate Struggle (Racial Heritage Level): Passive Skill. Upon entering combat, your attributes will continuously receive temporary buffs, growing stronger with each attack! Furthermore, the more severe the injuries you sustain, the faster the attribute bonuses accumulate! This skill's amplification has no upper limit, potentially exceeding a hundredfold increase!]

All I can say is that those who break limits are all the same...

This profession is inherently like this; it doesn't have any fancy systems or unsolvable mechanics. It's all about going all out and fighting. The skill styles are quite similar.

Xia Lin replaced these three skills with three other abilities.

This was Donald's own request.

"Detection skills, stealth skills, and spatial teleportation skills."

The lack of interest in fighting Lingbao gave Donald inspiration.

Find it first, then get close, and then use your attribute advantage to kill it quickly.

Xia Lin possesses all these types of skills, but they are all at the racial foundation level, not the six pillar level.

Donald, however, said that it didn't matter. He was already prepared to reveal his trump card and upgrade the relevant skill permissions—in order to pass the Lingbao test, Donald would inevitably have to expend some effort.

An hour later, Donald passed two challenges.

First Lingbao, then No. 7—as it turns out, he did indeed have the fighting power to directly overpower No. 7.

"Which one do you want?"

After finishing the challenge, Donald presented Xia Lin with the rewards for level 992: the Sun Wheel Guardian Sword and the reward for level 993: a wisp of the power of the Six Pillars, as a return gift for the Qingxin Guardian Jade that Xia Lin had given him earlier.

Without Xia Lin having to make a choice, Old Tang suddenly grinned and stuffed both props into Xia Lin's hands.

"Forget it, don't bother choosing, I'll take them all."

Xia Lin was taken aback, not expecting Donald to be so generous.

Donald, however, had something to say: "Without you, I wouldn't have been able to get past Lingbao. Besides, I need your help with something else, brother..."

"For the reward of level 993, you can choose Soul Battlefield... I really like this skill."

Xia Lin found it strange.

"No, you need to clear floor 993 first, then you can get the Soul Battlefield yourself..."

Donald shrugged indifferently: "Sure, but if I don't get the power of the Six Pillars first, how are you going to beat No. 7?"

Before Xia Lin could respond, Donald patted her on the shoulder and said solemnly.

“We are a team, and I am a few years older than you. This is just what I should do as the team leader and older brother.”

Xia Lin wanted to say that even without this wisp of the Six Pillars' power, he was more than 50% confident of passing the NO.7 level.

But meeting Donald's earnest gaze, he ultimately swallowed his words.

Putting everything else aside, this friendship is genuine.

Old Tang is truly a man of great taste.

……

Xia Lin ultimately used this wisp of power from the six pillars for pseudo-random replacements, rather than for fair trading.

In fact, Xia Lin's most desired application is his talent: Unstable Mutation.

Who knows what kind of changes the unstable mutation will bring when it is upgraded to the six-pillar level?
Unfortunately, the reward of "a wisp of six pillars of power" can only improve foundational skills and foundational items, and cannot affect talents.

[Enhancement complete. Your skill, Pseudo-random Displacement, has been upgraded to Level Six!]

There was no conflict between having two professions.

Xia Lin opened his personal information panel and looked at the six-column pseudo-random permutation. He found that the changes were minor, with only one impact.

The current pseudo-random replacement is enough to shake the level of a six-pillar skill!

The skill itself has the attribute that "the more information about the skill that you observe and understand, the higher the additional weighting of the pseudo-random replacement skill."

This means that pseudo-random permutation can bypass Wuxin's judgment authority and shake any of his skills!
Ultimately, everything we do now should aim for the goal of being free from desire.

The pseudo-random replacement at the six-pillar level can indeed be a powerful trump card against Wuxin—provided it hits its target…

But that depends on the wartime situation.

"Moreover, with the six-column pseudo-random permutation, this system is complete."

With a wave of his hand, Xia Lin summoned Scarlett to his side.

Their eyes met, and Xia Lin nodded slightly.

"Let's begin, do it as we discussed before."

……

As Xia Lin's strength grows, Scarlett's support abilities become weaker.

That's always how things are.

The rapid pace of growth caused his comrades to fall behind, and his former helpers gradually became outdated, eventually becoming marginalized and disappearing from the scene.

This is unsolvable for any other profession.

But Xia Lin, being an unpredictable shadow, doesn't fall for your tricks.

In fact, after the martial arts mastery was inscribed with the martial arts divine power, Xia Lin had such an idea.

The skills that Lingbao possesses form the foundation of this idea.

Finally, after acquiring two consecutive strands of the power of the Six Pillars, the pseudo-random substitution and the recipe book of the Shadow of Calamity were upgraded to the Six Pillar level, thus completing the last piece of the puzzle.

At this moment, Xia Lin sat on the sofa and took out the six-pillar-level item he had previously obtained from the Demon Emperor from his personal space.

Dream Soul Forge!

Holding the Dream Soul Furnace, Xia Lin focused his gaze, communicating with the treasure through his will, and made a wish.

"I need a skill similar to martial arts mastery, but one that works on cultivators specializing in immortality!"

The Dream Soul Furnace glowed faintly, and soon, energy flowed out from it and entered Xia Lin's body, making Xia Lin aware of the consumption and materials required for this wish.

[Skill Activation: Martial Arts Mastery, Energy Consumption: 5.]

[Finished product, capable of communicating with the divine and invoking the heavens (six-pillar level)!]

The Dreamforge has an initial energy of 100, and this upgrade only requires 5 points.

You can get a six-pillar level skill with just 5 points? It seems outrageous... but it's not.

Because the price Xia Lin paid was not low—his martial arts prowess was also at the sixth pillar level, and this time, it was only equivalent to a replacement of the same level.

The true power of the Dream Soul Forge lies in its ability to customize six pillar-level skills with a large number of foundational skills—this is what consumes a massive amount of energy from the Dream Soul Forge!
However, there is a problem right now.

With the recipe book upgraded to the sixth pillar level, the sixth pillar level skills are essentially free for Xia Lin!
Isn't that cheating?
Xia Lin said, "You opened it so big even without thinking, mine doesn't even count as opening."

After agreeing, the Dream Soul Furnace glowed faintly. Xia Lin felt a sense of detachment from his soul. The Martial Arts Divine Skill in the Shadow skill bar was extracted by the Dream Soul Furnace and disappeared.

The recipe book is activated... Consuming 0 evolution points, the Martial Arts Mastery is back...

Scarlett: No, bro... does this make sense?
Xia Lin: What's unreasonable about it? It's perfectly reasonable, okay...

After waiting for only three minutes, a beam of soul light shot out from the Dream Soul Furnace and landed between Xia Lin's eyebrows. Xia Lin sensed it and opened the attribute panel to look at the skill bar.

A new skill has appeared in the last position of the constant skill bar.

[Divine Intervention (Six Pillars Level): Active skill, exclusive to the Immortal Path class. Consumes half your Spirit Power. Upon activation, you will automatically enter the exclusive form of a level 12 Immortal Path class: Dao Integration Form! This skill has no cooldown and no duration!]

The effect is the same as achieving divine mastery through martial arts.

Once this skill is unleashed, any cultivator on the Immortal path will be envious.

Without saying a word, Xia Lin placed it into the Shadow skill bar.

Along with the Shadow skill bar, a series of skills copied from the Spirit Treasure Immortal Venerable were also placed in the Permanent Skill Bar!
Myriad Treasures Starry Sky Technique (Six Pillar Level), Quick Treasure Refining Technique (Racial Foundation Level), Great Luo Weaving Heaven Technique (Racial Foundation Level), Void Creation Technique (Racial Foundation Level), and the Spiritual Power Tide (Racial Foundation Level) retrieved from the recipe book!

Thus, of the eight skill slots for E'ying, only "King of the Weaklings" and "Grand Entrance" were retained. Then... all the other negative skills were replaced by Xia Lin, transforming them into this system specifically designed for Scarlett!

“In the past, I stored negative skills in the Shadow skill bar, firstly to annoy my opponents, and secondly to refresh the Life and Death Battle.”

"But now, I've changed my mind."

Looking at Scarlett, Xia Lin smiled and said, "I have recorded too many skills and too many useful systems, but my skill slots are limited, and some systems don't fit my style, so it's impossible for me to master them all or have too many systems."

Humans are not omnipotent.

Six pillars are not acceptable either.

"But the six-column level recipe book and the six-column level pseudo-random permutation showed me such a possibility."

"One possibility is that the enemy's super system can be replicated in you, the people I trust!"

A flash of skill light appeared suddenly, and Xia Lin and Scarlett exchanged skills.

After acquiring the skill, Xia Lin smiled at Scarlett.

"Now, you are the Immortal Venerable Lingbao."

Of course, the attribute differences are significant.

However, Lingbao's Myriad Treasures Maze system is not known for its attributes. Judging solely from its strength, the system that Xia Lin configured for Scarlett is not much weaker than Lingbao's.

With that thought, Xia Lin stood up and led Scarlett outside.

"Then let's go try our luck with No. 7!"

(End of this chapter)