My stats are higher than yours!

However, the value of this exclusive treasure chest is significantly lower than that of the normal exclusive treasure chest, because most other exclusive treasure chests are obtained after defeating a powerful overlord, and there are two factors involved in obtaining a treasure chest by defeating a powerful monarch.

Firstly, Bai Shuodong has not yet become a psionicist, so killing a king-level powerhouse grants him a bonus for defeating opponents of higher ranks.

Secondly, Yanshan itself has a high enough status and strong enough strength in the world. Even if it is not at the overlord level, it is still a top combat force among the monarch level, so the reward itself is high enough.

When the two are combined, the treasure chest's value reaches the level of an exclusive treasure chest. Even if its value is not high, it is still an exclusive treasure chest, guaranteeing the quality of its contents.

Exclusive treasure chest!

open!

Suddenly, golden light flashed!

Congratulations on obtaining: Skill Advancement Book

[Skill Advancement Book]

Rank: None

Type: Consumables

Effects: After use, it can improve the quality of the skill. If the skill quality is too high, multiple skill advancement books will be needed to advance it.

This is really good stuff!

Skill Advancement Book!

It can directly improve the quality of skills!

At this very moment, Bai Shuodong happens to have a skill that he can use to improve the quality of his weapon, which is the skill he obtained through decomposition: [Slash].

Its quality improvement needs only require one skill advancement book.

use!

This skill is quite effective; the instant-cast invisible slash is very easy to use. After the quality is improved, the effect should become even stronger!

[Hint: Confirm whether to use the skill upgrade book on [Slash]?]

[Advanced Requirements: None]

Yes Yes Yes!

Bai Shuodong quickly confirmed, and at the same time couldn't help but think to himself: It must be because the quality of the basic skill is too low. There are no other requirements for advancing the [Slash] skill. If you were to advance other skills, you would at least have to consume some spiritual energy points or have attribute requirements.

However, [Slash] is only a two-star skill, so it's normal that there's no demand for it. Once the skill's quality is upgraded to three stars, there should be additional demand for it.

Soon, the skill advancement book transformed into streams of light that flowed into Bai Shuodong's body. The invisible power was released in an unobservable dimension, further transforming the effects of his skills.

Soon after...

[Hint: Skill quality upgrade complete]

【Slash (Active)】

Rank: First Rank

Skill Quality: [★★→★★★]

Skill Level: 10

Skill Origin: Slash

技能效果：生成斩击，斩击威力【（0.5×力量+0.3×精神）→（0.8×力量+0.5×精神）】，技能等级每提升1级，斩击强度提升5%。

Skill Cooldown: None

Upgrade Requirements: Not Upgradeable

Advanced Requirements: Skill Advancement Book

"hiss..."

Bai Shuodong's eyes changed slightly.

After the skill quality was upgraded, [Slash] did not gain any new characteristics; it only increased the multiplier and added only numerical values.

To some extent, this kind of bonus isn't very strong; additional trait enhancements would be a better bonus. But the problem is that the [Slash] skill itself is powerful; it's an instantaneous slash with almost no wind-up, so a simple numerical increase would be the most powerful.

The Strength bonus is increased by 0.3, and the Spirit bonus is increased by 0.2. Overall, the slash power can be increased by at least 60%-70%.

Pure numbers, pure power.

This slash would break even the armor of Rock Mountain, who is using the Slow Burst Rock Heavy Armor!

Bai Shuodong's smile deepened, and he was in a very good mood. [Slash] is not just about slashing; it also includes various derivative skills such as [Dispel] and [Sever]. The strength of these skills depends entirely on [Slash]. As the most basic [Slash] is improved, the strength of these skills will also increase accordingly.

Their strength has improved significantly!

Excellent!

At the same time, Bai Shuodong gradually realized what kind of profession he should look for. Although he was a warrior, his spiritual energy was high and his skills were also dependent on mental strength. It would be best to find a profession that could be good at both mental and physical strength.

After opening the treasure chest, Bai Shuodong looked at the Blood Demon Armor on his body again. After the battle just now, the quality of the Blood Demon Armor had been improved, and its basic attributes had also become much stronger.

Blood Demon Armor

Rank: First Rank

Quality: Bronze (Upgradeable)

Equipment type: Armor

Defense: [12→18] (Applies only to armored areas)

Durability: ∞

Equipment requirements: None

Equipment effect: [(Strength +2, Agility +2, Constitution +2, Max HP +100) → (Strength +4, Agility +4, Constitution +4, Max HP +200)]

Equipment characteristics:

① Blood Thirst: The Blood Demon Armor craves blood constantly, consuming it once every hour. If the host cannot satisfy it, the Blood Demon Armor will directly devour the host's [100→200] life force until the host dies.

Additional information: As the Blood Demon Armor grows, the life force it absorbs will also increase.

②The Blood Curse: Omitted.

③The Sorrow of Blood: Omitted.

④ Blood Protection: Blood Demon Armor is a special piece of equipment formed by combining the strongest blood and armor. When the user is injured, Blood Demon Armor will automatically release [Demonic Blood] to the wound, keeping the wound in a [normal] state, allowing the user to fight normally.

If a disability occurs, the Blood Demon Armor will automatically generate a replacement limb using [Demonic Blood].

【Demonic Blood】 will protect wounds and damaged flesh. When injured, it will reduce damage by a range of (10%-30%) → (15%-30%), depending on the type of injury.

If life force is injected into the area covered by [Demonic Blood], it will enter a [High-Speed ​​Regeneration] state.

[Demon Blood]: 854

Additional information: It can be replenished by consuming blood; the effect is better with the user's own blood.

⑤ Growth through Blood: The Blood Demon Armor can grow and improve its quality by consuming blood.

Brief introduction: It has had countless owners, but has never been truly owned by anyone.

Very strong!

The attribute boost is quite good!

The Blood Demon Armor is extremely powerful, greatly enhancing Bai Shuodong's attributes and boosting his vitality to a terrifying level. Without the Blood Demon Armor, Bai Shuodong would have been killed by Yan Shan long ago.

Although the armor appeared to be of the Iron grade at the time, its actual strength had long surpassed that of Bronze, and it might even have been comparable to Silver.

The 12 points of defense and 100 maximum health directly tripled Bai Shuodong's tankiness.

Even a king couldn't kill him with a single punch.

Thankfully, he had the Blood Demon Armor; otherwise, he would have been killed instantly by Rock Mountain's punch long ago, and [Adaptive Evolution] would have had no chance to take effect.

hiss...

From this perspective, when choosing a profession, I also need to choose one that improves survivability. If I only have high output but no increase in survivability, I will be able to get killed instantly and thus fail to trigger the "Adaptive Evolution" effect, which makes me stronger as the fight progresses.

The Blood Demon Armor is indeed very powerful, but it is also quite uncontrollable. Who knows if it will suddenly release the [Laughing Blood Mist] and infect everyone around it with the [Laughing Factor]? That would be too troublesome.

Survival cannot rely too much on the Blood Demon Armor, after all, it is a cursed piece of equipment and not reliable enough.

[Note: Grain transport mission completed]

Task completion rate: 25466%

【。 ？ 】

[Note: The numerical deviation is too large, which may indicate a system error. Detection function has been enabled.]

[Test complete, no abnormal values ​​found]

[Secondary detection initiated...]

[Test complete. No pre-prepared food or equipment was used. No abnormal values ​​were found.]

[Activate three-stage detection...]

.....

And so, Bai Shuodong watched as the spirit realm checked the values ​​three times, and finally...