My stats are higher than yours!!

The Holy Sword can slay the Demon King, but it cannot eradicate all evil in humanity. You must rely on your companions, wisdom, courage, and faith to continue fighting against evil, carve out a path to survival in dire straits, and annihilate the dark side of the kingdom.

"..."

Bai Shuodong looked at the newly promoted powerhouses below and suddenly felt it was a bit absurd. In the previous twenty years, those corrupt old nobles from the beginning had long since died.

If they don't die or leave the battlefield, the human kingdom won't last twenty years at all.

I really want to laugh.

This is a bit hard to adapt to.

Chapter 53: SSS+ rating! Generous rewards await!

[Note: The third trial has been detected as having met the completion criteria. Do you want to submit immediately?]

Yes.

[Submission Complete]

[Note: The old human aristocratic forces have been completely wiped out. The human kingdom enjoys an excellent atmosphere, with a surge of talented individuals and a peaceful and prosperous life for its people. It has officially entered the new era.]

[Mission Completion: 500% (Mission completion has reached its limit and cannot be increased)]

[Note: Congratulations! You have completed all three trials and may leave the trial at any time.]

leave.

...

After a brief moment of disorientation, Bai Shuodong returned to the boundless starry sky he had just been in.

At this moment, his face and figure remained unchanged; everything during the trial did not affect him in reality, meaning...

Was the trial really a sham?

[Note: The cost of achieving the grand vision is being tested...]

[Heckler Kingdom not detected, Grand Vow Price ineffective, activate Profit Settlement]

[Profit settlement completed]

Trial of Courage

Difficulty: Hell level

Main quests: All completed.

Basic mission rating: SS-

[Bonus Points]

[Loan King]: Gain 200 Courage Points directly in the early stages through a grand ambition.

[Hell Killer]: During the trial, a total of 50 lives were successfully killed.

[Ascetic]: One who persists in practicing asceticism for 20 years.

【The King Returns】: Become the king.

【Hehe, I want to survive!】: Countless times entering death traps and surviving.

...

Final rating: SSS+

[The quality of rewards for completing tasks has been improved, with the richness of individual rewards increased by 300%, and the number of reward items available has increased by 2.]

You can freely choose five of the following seven rewards.

A: Basic physical potential +4

B: Soul Potential +2

C: Special Skills and Experience (Extreme)

D: All elemental resistances +20

E: Increased resistance to abnormal states

F: Increased resistance to control effects

G: Deep Healing Access (once)

"These are all good things!"

Bai Shuodong's eyes shone.

First, physical potential is the most crucial attribute that directly determines how high your attribute ceiling can be and how difficult it is to improve.

Within the spirit world, there are very few ways to improve one's basic physical potential. Improving one's basic physical potential by 4 points is an option of immeasurable value.

Secondly, there's the enhancement of soul potential. This is the basic physical potential at the soul level, and it's a very important attribute. However, the general type is somewhat inferior to the basic physical potential, since Bai Shuodong is not a soul cultivator.

The Special Skill Experience Book (Ultimate) is an incredibly powerful treasure, capable of providing a massive amount of special skill experience at once, which can greatly enhance overall combat power before entering the Spirit Realm.

I've heard that if you have good talent, this thing can directly upgrade a level 1 talent to a level 5 talent.

What does a Level 5 Special Skill mean?

Apart from Xia Yanxin, no one in the entire Warrior Department academy in the first year of high school has reached level 5 in terms of special skills.

Absolutely a baby!

The DEF option is also extremely valuable, providing a simple and direct boost to stats, and these stats are extremely rare. Both elemental resistance and dual resistance are very difficult to improve, and most people can only improve them through passives and equipment. The permanent boost is very valuable.

The final option, G, is a deep healing treatment. This option may seem useless, but its actual value is very high. When people train and use medicine to improve their strength, they will inevitably suffer some hidden injuries. These hidden injuries will accumulate and affect the realization of their strength and potential.

Deep healing can remove hidden injuries and restore the body to its best condition, which is quite good.

Some people who use too many harmful medications develop pointed heads, enlarged bellies, widespread acne and hair loss, and even high-level users may experience atrophy.

"I choose ABDEF".

Bai Shuodong said.

While skill experience books are valuable, they can consume training weapons to acquire temporary skills and improve training efficiency, so not choosing them won't have a significant impact.

It has a strong deep healing effect, but it has an "adaptive evolution" ability that directly adapts to deep hidden injuries, making these two features relatively less useful.

[Rewards are being distributed]

Suddenly, an invisible force surged into Bai Shuodong's body. This force was peculiar; although the quantity was large, it didn't cause the unbearable pain of an injection. On the contrary, Bai Shuodong felt very comfortable, as if he were undergoing a transformation.

After a long while, Bai Shuodong stretched his body briefly, clenched his fist, and found that the power within his body had not changed much.

However, he has already undergone a qualitative change.

"I feel like I can fight wizards now."

Bai Shuodong muttered to himself.

+20 to all elemental resistances is strong, but the mage's spell power is even stronger; it's just a matter of casting a few more spells.

He has a strong ability to adapt and evolve, but the mage's output leaves him no time to adapt.

But what if the two factors are combined?

When the Master realizes something is wrong and tries to control and restrict, he will be surprised to find that he also has increased resistance to control effects and can trigger short-term adaptation ability, which is not necessarily possible with ordinary control.

When the mage tries to find another way and attempts to interfere with abnormal statuses, it will be found that he has also added abnormal status resistance. At the same time, short-term adaptation can adapt to more than one effect, which is completely ingenious.

but...

The prerequisite for him to be able to fight is that his strength is about the same as Master Fa's, but that's unlikely.

"Right, psionic control."

Bai Shuodong closed his eyes and concentrated on sensing the spiritual energy within his body. The energy within him was extremely scarce, and his mental strength was also not high. Under normal circumstances, it would be impossible for him to control spiritual energy.

However, he has twenty years of cultivation experience!

Over the past twenty years, Bai Shuodong has continuously improved his control over psychic energy and his mental control, and has tried his best to suppress the mental attribute control over psychic energy, so that he can still control it when he comes out.

To possess psychic abilities before officially becoming a psychic is extremely valuable. Under normal circumstances, only a sorcerer can achieve this; many powerful spiritual assistants cannot. It requires exceptional talent and innate ability.

As he focused his mind, a pale blue light gradually emanated from Bai Shuodong's hand—the light of psionic energy.

I can feel it!

Psychic!

Bai Shuodong opened his eyes, stared at the psionic energy in his hand, and revealed an incredibly radiant smile.

"Success!"

"I really did it!"

"I have finally mastered psionic power!"

"Hehehe, hahaha, hahahahaha!"

He burst into laughter in the space, then transformed it into flames through his understanding of the elements and the precision of his psionic manipulation.

Soon, intense flames ignited on Bai Shuodong's fist, the high temperature scorching it and causing a slight pain, but the overall impact was minimal. Any psychic possesses an innate resistance to their own psychic energy, making them less susceptible to injury when facing their own psychic power.

The slight stinging sensation he felt at that moment was mainly due to his intense understanding and the high intensity of the flames, which his body's elemental resistance couldn't keep up with.

"Okay!"

"It's good that you didn't keep up!"

"As long as I don't keep up, I can use the adaptation skill to build up my resistances in the training room!"

"Hahaha!"

Chapter Fifty-Four: Return

Then, Bai Shuodong took off his clothes in the trial space and set himself on fire.

[Note: Fire elemental damage detected, triggering short-term adaptation]

[Hint: Fire resistance increased]

After increasing his resistance, Bai Shuodong could no longer feel any pain. Even releasing his spiritual energy with all his might was useless, since his spiritual power was only so high and could not penetrate his fire resistance at all.

Bai Shuodong sat in the fire and sighed, muttering helplessly to himself, "Even my best element, fire, is like this. I guess it's even more impossible to increase resistance to other elements. At most, I can only increase a small amount of fire resistance. I might as well not bother."

His time is precious, and he has to consider the cost-effectiveness of everything he does. Boosting resistance takes a lot of time, but the benefits are not high, so the cost-effectiveness is too low. It would be better to practice his skills.

Speaking of techniques...

Bai Shuodong looked at the special skills.

[Level 5 Long Weapon Specialization]

Over the past 20 years, he has not neglected to hone his skills, and his marksmanship has improved significantly compared to before, thus raising his skill level.

As for the use of sealed firearms...

What does that have to do with me using a staff?

I simply used earth magic to put a shell on the staff. Essentially, it's still a staff, not a gun. You can't just put a shell on a staff and expect it to become a gun, can you? As a mage, it's perfectly reasonable for me to use a staff to hit people in a fight, right?

[Level 5 Melee Specialty]

[Level 6 Boxing Skill Specialty]

emmm...

There's no way around it, playing a fistfighting character with high stats is just too fun. Before I knew it, I had leveled up to a certain level, and my melee prowess had also been upgraded to level 5.

Get out of the tower!

...

Tower of Trials

Bai Shuodong walked out of the tower and immediately saw Qin Hanwu, who had brought him here earlier. This guy must have been waiting for him.

"Two hours have passed, why have you been inside for so long?"

Qin Hanwu rested his chin on one hand and asked suspiciously, "You wouldn't have stayed inside for twenty years just to take advantage of the situation, would you?"

"almost."