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Chapter 712 Breakthrough in Strength Limits? No! I want to break through in both Strength and Agility!
Veteran players who have fought Behemoth or Kushala Daora have surely experienced this: when you're not careful and get pushed into a corner by the giant vortex, it's equivalent to being physically sealed.

In that state, players can only endlessly cycle between falling, getting up, staggering, and falling again, unable to perform any additional actions. Only when the vortex dissipates on its own or the player is carted by a monster can this endless cycle be stopped.

The Furious Golden Lion clearly experienced a death ending that is usually only available to players... and it was even more tragic.

He was trapped in a corner by four exploding vortexes, like a bouncy ball in a pinball machine, and was blasted away to his death by endless explosions. This was indeed a death worthy of being written into the Golden Lion's Book of Hatred.

Of course, this move is a combination of multiple coincidences, and it's not too difficult to break. Whether it's flying or burrowing underground, it can be easily broken. Alternatively, if someone's strength attribute is higher than Cheng Tian's mental attribute, they can also try to break through.

Unfortunately, the Golden Lion, with his self-inflicted severe injuries, recovery block, and resentment-induced skill seal, died with a sense of unfulfilled grievances.

But it's alright, Cheng Tian can let it rest in peace.

The arms of the Holy and the Demon lit up simultaneously, and the golden lion, its eyes wide open in death, began the sacrificial process.

You have redeemed the "Golden Lion Spirit". Your Agility attribute is permanently increased by 4, and your body hair is more susceptible to the movement of electric charges.

You have received a special reward—4 Large Fanged Beast Tears, 1 Fine Fur, and 4 Large Innocent Souls.

[You sacrificed the broken body of the Furious Golden Lion, your Strength attribute is permanently increased by 4, and your hair color will change depending on the infusion of different attribute spiritual power.]

You have obtained the following materials/offerings: Heart of the Golden Lion *2, Golden Mane of the Golden Lion *3, Wrathful Mane of the Golden Lion *3, and Azure Horn Fragment of the Mythical Beast.

Good heavens, it's a two-hearted golden lion!

After completing the sacrifice, Cheng weighed the enormous heart in his hand and grinned.

In the Monster Hunter world, it's true that you can find materials from a single corpse but with multiple organs. And the two hearts in Cheng Tian's hands are clearly the result of the Holy Grail mission taking effect.

For every additional Elite or higher-tier Dragon Beast unit redeemed or sacrificed, the drop rate increases by 10%, and this increase in drop rate is reflected in this aspect.

But at that moment, a special pop-up window suddenly appeared in Cheng Tian's field of vision.

Your Strength attribute has reached its maximum value, currently at 50 (52) points.

You can find Akuma and talk to him to trigger the subsequent quest to break through the maximum power attribute.

[Additional Note: The Extreme Breakthrough Trial from Akuma, the Ultimate Fist Master, is inherently extremely dangerous. As the wielder of Orochi's power, you have a fateful and special connection with the wielders of "Killing Intent Wave." Therefore, the Extreme Breakthrough quest you receive from Akuma will have special characteristics and will inevitably be treated differently.]

The smile that had appeared because of the sacrifice of the golden lion vanished quickly upon hearing this news.

Because Cheng Tian had been maintaining his strength attribute at around 40 to 50 points thanks to the bonuses from his equipment talents, and because he hadn't made any extreme breakthroughs, his overall attribute couldn't truly break through 50 points. So until now, he hadn't really felt any improvement in his strength attribute.

But as soon as the old man selling fruit appeared, the taste was obviously different.

A person's name is like a tree's shadow. Among many game works, Akuma is certainly not the strongest one, but he is undoubtedly a tenacious being who, with a mortal body, never stopped on the path of Asura.

He is obsessed with martial arts, he is possessed by demons, he kills his fellow disciples to prove his path, and he tempts his junior disciples to fall into depravity. He is a complete villain, running counter to justice.

However, he did not kill indiscriminately, steal, or rob. Outside of martial arts, he was willing to abide by worldly order, consistently confronted his own desires, and dedicated his life to striving for the pinnacle of martial arts.

Akuma is worthy of the title "Grandmaster." And there is only one way to persuade such a being, who confronts desire head-on and is difficult to sway—

That is to persuade him with your fists!

The law of the jungle prevails, and there is no second place in martial arts. As long as you are stronger than him, whatever you say is right!
Therefore, Cheng Tian hesitated at this moment.

There are two points of hesitation.

One is the Extreme Value Breakthrough Challenge itself. As previously mentioned, as long as you raise either Strength or Agility to the maximum value of 50, you can trigger the subsequent Breakthrough Challenge.

From another perspective, if you raise both attributes to their maximum level at the same time, can you achieve a double breakthrough?

And the other one is Akuma himself...

Cheng Tian had some doubts. Did Akuma have a tendency to use him as a enhancement material, leveling up by killing him, just like he did with Rugal, who also possessed the power of Orochi, in the game?

He wasn't afraid of Akuma, but rather he liked the character and, if possible, certainly didn't want to have a conflict with him.

However, if the other party really has the tendency to kill him to level up, Cheng Tian wouldn't mind letting him taste the flavor of the Time-Stopping Wood.

Since I'm not the kind of person who uses a mortal body to prove the way of martial arts, I'll just use whatever works best for me.

If you can crush your opponent, then you should let them experience what mechanical modification is all about.

Zero Akuma can't be created yet, but using Akuma as the base material to modify a mechanical Akuma shouldn't be too difficult.

I wonder if physical modification will break Gouki's Dao heart.

After careful consideration and confirming his development direction, Mr. Cheng made his decision.

He planned to seize the time in the coming days to hunt and sacrifice high-agility dragon units, in order to quickly accumulate the remaining 20 agility points.

This will likely require competing with other players in your own legion for prey.

Under the influence of the Soul Sacrifice rule, dragon units on the New World only receive permanent bonuses the first time they are sacrificed. That is, after Cheng Tian sacrificed Bear Grylls, Deer-Headed Lion, and Golden Lion, other players, even if they defeat monsters of the same caliber and then sacrifice them, will only receive rewards and offerings, not attribute bonuses.

In other words, the permanent attribute bonuses of the current instance are actually subject to a disguised inventory limit.

In addition, all players will retain a percentage of the permanent bonuses gained through sacrifice at the end of the main storyline, based on their main storyline evaluation.
There are too many monks and not enough porridge; it all depends on human effort.

As the leader of the faction, of course I should eat more, otherwise all my legion benefits would be for nothing!

Having managed to retain some semblance of rationality, Cheng suppressed the urge to issue the "hand over the prey" task.

But at that moment, the voice of the half-elf heavy gunner came through the Modern Army's communicator.

"I've killed the Barioth Dragon, are you going to offer yourself as a sacrifice?"

(End of this chapter)