Sanctuary Paradise

Chapter 457 Upper Limit
Why the hell did Paradise arrange their vision to be this guy? !
In the endless light blue soul space, Xin Lailai looked at Shan Xi in front of him, and the expression on his face was as uncomfortable as if he had eaten shit.

"Hehe~! Judging from your expression, it seems that you are surprised to see someone here?"

On the other side, Shan Xi looked at Xin Lailai who was maintaining the state of elf assimilation, narrowed her eyes, and walked to Xin Lailai with enchanting steps, not caring about the scenery leaking between her legs. She just sat in the air with her legs crossed, looking down:

"However, it is a bit surprising to see you two in a place like this."

"..."

Xin Lailai felt his head rising uncontrollably and the scene that came into view. He didn't have any romantic thoughts in his mind at all. He just wanted to evacuate this damn place as soon as possible.

"Oh, so you are upgrading to Gun Master now? Haha, you are obviously upgrading to Gun Master but you sent it to me. It seems that you are quite ambitious?"

Shan Xi covered her mouth and chuckled, her fingertips tracing along the curves of her body. Finally, she blew the air gently, glanced at Xin Lailai and the other person below her, and said playfully:
"What do you think I should show you? How about... I teach you how to use soul energy to arouse other people's lust for you~?"

"..."

Still silent, Xin Lailai looked at Shan Xi in front of him without saying a word. After experiencing this several times, he was very clear about Shan Xi's perverted nature. At such times, the angrier he was, the more excited the other party would become. Therefore, keeping silent was the best way to deal with it.

Besides, they were teleported here by Paradise this time. Even if Paradise would not explicitly interfere with the process of understanding the vision, it was impossible for them to just watch Shan Xi do something to them.

"Tsk, what a boring guy. Tell me, what do you want to learn? Don't tell me that you want to change from a gun master to a soul master, but you haven't even thought about the development direction of the soul master?"

After staring at Xin Lailai for a while, Shan Xi clicked his tongue in displeasure, and the charming aura on his body that was enough to make ordinary men fall in love with him instantly calmed down. He glanced at Xin Lailai below and urged impatiently.

——Very good, this guy really can’t do anything too extreme!
Xin Lailai looked at the unhappy expression on Shan Xi's face, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly said:

"We need to learn about using soul energy to stabilize or suppress the activity of extraordinary energy!"

After learning that his Gun Master would develop towards Soul Master in the future, he took advantage of his spare time to use the communication channel to consult 83203 and Kagus on many things, including the specific development direction of their Soul Masters.

First of all, in the plan of 83203, they will practice both techniques and magic in the future, and the Soul Master will play a crucial mediating role in it.

Simply put, after having learned two techniques and two passive spells, their fifth passive should preferably be able to take care of the coordination capabilities of the other four passives at the same time, and Soul Master is one of the most perfect choices.

Secondly, considering that they already possess too many abilities that enhance damage, as well as extremely unstable killer moves such as annihilation energy, their soul masters are better off developing towards stabilization... or even suppressing the activity of extraordinary energy.

In this way, their Soul Master can not only take into account their other passive skills, but also play an important role in their future career path, and it can also enhance the effect of the Soul Seals they create, truly killing three birds with one stone.

"Use soul energy to suppress energy activity? Haha~ Based on your vision, you must have heard this suggestion from 83203, right? After so many years, that girl still likes to advocate her theory."

Shan Xi chuckled, but her purple eyes drooped slightly for some reason. Then she glanced at Xin Lailai, narrowed her eyes slightly, and smiled charmingly:
"Now that we've made the decision, let's get started. Remember, this is what you asked for!
Wow——! !

As soon as he finished speaking, the ocean made up of soul energy under Shan Xi suddenly surged up, giving Xin Lailai no time to react, and swallowed up his body with a snap.

In an instant, a huge sense of oppression began to surge wildly from all directions of Xin Lailai, making him subconsciously want to mobilize the soul energy in his body to resist, but he suddenly found that his soul power energy was like a dead body, no matter how it was stimulated, there was no reaction at all, so he could only watch his body fall into darkness, sinking deeper and deeper, until he completely lost consciousness.

[Hint: Upgrade completed, Gun Master LV.50 additional ability - Energy Steady State has been realized]

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Sanctuary Paradise, skill upgrade hall.

"How long has it been since I last saw you?"

When Xin Lailai opened his eyes again, he stood up in a daze and looked around himself.

This is... a skill upgrade cabin?

Strange...why is he here?

Hmm…this is!?!
Xin Lailai looked at the silver-white cabin in front of him in a daze, feeling that the memory in his mind was completely empty, until he saw the Gun Master LV.Max displayed on the screen and the prompts at the edge of his vision, he suddenly woke up.

He remembered!
They had upgraded their gun master level here before. When he and Ling Yuzi were guessing whether there would be any strange phenomena this time, they were suddenly knocked unconscious by Paradise and then teleported to...

"Mountain!"

That’s right, they met that guy Shan Xi, and with his help they successfully broke through from Gun Master LV.50 to Gun Master LV.MAX!

Wait, what additional ability did they finally realize?

Xin Lailai reacted with a start, and quickly opened the skill interface and looked at the detailed introduction of Gun Master LV.Max:
……

[Gun Master Lv.MAX (Skills and Passive)]

Skill Effect: Increases the attack power of firearms by 260% (increased by 120%), and greatly improves the proficiency in firearm use.

LV.10 additional ability, precision shooting: improves dynamic vision according to the agility attribute, currently increased by 16%.

LV.20 additional ability, energy construction: can consume energy to construct or strengthen bullets. The damage and strengthening range are determined by the amount and level of energy consumed.

LV.30 additional ability, energy penetration: When attacking with energy bullets, 50% of the enemy's defense will be ignored, and an additional 100% damage will be caused to energy barriers and shields.

LV.40 additional ability, energy reconstruction: the already constructed energy bullets can be further reconstructed, and the types of energy that can be used for reconstruction are expanded.

LV.50 additional ability, energy stability: When performing extraordinary energy manipulation, a certain amount of soul energy can be consumed to improve the stability of extraordinary energy.

Upgrade cost: cannot be upgraded
……

Lines of text prompts appeared, and Xin Lailai looked at the additional abilities of the Gun Master LV.40 and LV.50, with a hint of joy in his eyes.

It’s not crooked! It’s done!!

Since the Gun Master needs to change his job later, he originally didn't have much expectation for the additional ability of LV.40 of this thing. He just wanted to ensure that the additional ability of LV.50 could be as close to the soul as possible. Unexpectedly, the additional ability of LV.40 is to expand the construction types of energy bullets!

In fact, ever since he upgraded his Gun Master to Level 30, he had hardly used this ability to construct any bullets. He basically just compressed the energy, stuffed it into the Star Breaker Cannon, and fired it.

It's not that Xin Lailai doesn't want to develop this ability, but he found that a LV30 gun master alone is not enough to support him in building various special ammunition structures on the technological side.

Especially when he replaced the energy for constructing bullets with energy other than magic power, the ammunition could basically not be formed stably or it was extremely easy to explode.

This forced Xin Lailai to give up the in-depth development of the Gun Master and could only use it as a simple Star Breaker Cannon enhancement tool, which could be said to be a serious waste of the value of this technique.

——Of course, this is also closely related to the fact that he has already mastered four techniques and passive skills.

Although he admitted that it felt great to use the Star Breaking Cannon to fire a shot ten kilometers away, to be honest, in most of the time, his enemies had no chance of escaping within two kilometers of him. And if he wanted to prevent the enemies from getting close, the Star Breaking Cannon consumed too much durability. After just a few shots, Yuan Mo's durability would be basically exhausted. It was not suitable for continuous fire suppression. It would be more convenient and cost-effective to directly switch to spells.

Fortunately, this situation should be able to change to some extent now.

Apart from anything else, just being able to put those bullet formulas on the technological side that he had memorized to good use would be a huge improvement for today's gun master. For example, if a certain armor-piercing bullet that Xin Lailai had memorized could be constructed, combined with the energy penetration effect of the gun master, it would be possible to easily penetrate a wall made of extraordinary alloy with one shot. There were also explosive bullets, dragon sniper bullets, air-blast bullets...

It can be said that after this upgrade, his gun mastery has truly undergone a small qualitative change.

——Although it is estimated that he will not need this qualitative change in the next world.

After all, once he is promoted to the third level, he will immediately start several passive promotion items. At that time, the gun master will have to be transferred to the soul master, and all the additional effects on guns and bullets will have to be reshuffled.

"As for the rest, my passive skills have been upgraded to their limits for now. I don't have enough gold skill points to strengthen my spiritual realm once more. I can't upgrade my monarch's breath before it reaches the third level..."

In front of the screen, Xin Lailai was flipping through her skill list, and suddenly she didn't know what else she could upgrade.

“Are you finally reaching your limit?”

Xin Lailai looked at her skill list, which had almost no upgradeable skills except LV.MAX, with a complicated look in her eyes.

His strength finally began to reach a bottleneck.

If any other pioneer was here, even if he had upgraded his technical abilities, he would probably still have a lot of professional skills to upgrade and cultivate. However, apart from five passive skills, he has no other skills that can significantly improve his strength.

——To put it more bluntly, this is his upper limit at the second level.

A set of +12 gold and legendary equipment, a five-door master LV.MAX level passive, aura strength of over 100 points, top perception ability strengthened twice with gold skill points, and annihilation energy that can be used as a surprise move.

This is everything about him. Among the contractors, his panel is definitely that of an external-level big boss. But when compared with Dao Ji and the Death Bearer, one can see at a glance how obvious the gap is.

Of course, he could continue to invest resources to improve his strength, such as learning a lot of common passive skills like breathing techniques that would gradually become ineffective as his strength increased, or buying a lot of gems and embedding a legendary gem in all his equipment, or buying alchemical potions that would permanently increase his health or defense as much as possible...

However, these practices are definitely not as effective in converting resources as improving passive skills or exclusive abilities.

If the same 1000 million Paradise Points are invested in passive skills or professional abilities and the conversion efficiency in resources is 1000, then if they are invested in the things he mentioned above, it will only be around 100 to 500.

This approach is undoubtedly a serious waste of resources. It may not be a big deal in the short term, and may even bring powerful strength, but over time, the gap in resource utilization will cause the gap between him and others to widen, and in the end he will be completely left behind.

"Although I've known this for a long time, but when it comes to this moment, I can't help but feel a little disappointed, right?"

Xin Lailai looked at the skill list in front of him, sighed, then shook his head without saying anything more.

He had long known that the gap between him and people like the Death Bearer and Yamu would become larger and larger. After all, even with the help of 83203, the gap between him and these people in terms of talent and profession was still irreparable.

After all, being surpassed and left behind by these people is not a shameful thing. Xin Lailai is also very open-minded about it. At most, she just feels a little emotional.

It’s just like the top student in the class in junior high school, but when he entered high school, he found that he was easily overtaken by the second place, and the gap was even getting further and further away. Finally, one day he recalled the delicate feeling when he recalled that he had surpassed the other person.

"Forget it, now is not the time to think about these things. Ling Yuzi, how is Xiao Bai doing?"

"Hmm...it seems like he's still playing with Xiao Pu. It will probably take some time for him to stop."

"Is that so? Then we can go back directly after upgrading the basic passive ability. Speaking of which, Ling Yuzi's talent has not been awakened yet, right?"

"Well, I wonder what it will be like after awakening, Lailai, what do you think?"

"It will definitely be great. After all, Ling Yuzi is the cutest spirit in the world!"

Xin Lailai joked with the girl in his mind, a gentle smile on his face, and at the same time glanced at the skills on the screen and began to operate:
[Prompt: Do you want to pay Paradise Points*20000 to increase the basic passive power source LV.1]

[Prompt: Do you want to pay Paradise Points*20000 to increase Basic Passive Perception LV.1]

[Prompt: Do you want to pay Paradise Points*5000 to upgrade the basic passive ability to Extreme Shadow LV.1]

[Prompt: Whether to support...]

He now has all eight basic passives. Among them, the Basic Passive of Strength Attribute·Power Source obtained from the Death Bearer, the Basic Passive of Soul Attribute·Spiritual Perception opened from the Basic Passive Treasure Chest, and the Basic Passive of Charm Attribute·King obtained from the Black Clover World are all full-potential basic passives with the most expensive upgrade cost, starting at 20000 Paradise Points.

The remaining five passive skills that Shan Xi helped him open from the blue treasure chest were all top potential basic passive skills that were just stuck at 80 points. The cost of upgrading them was relatively cheap, and only 5000 Paradise Points were required to start.

However, with his current financial resources, this cost difference can be ignored for the time being.

So, without any hesitation, Xin Lailai pulled the "+" sign behind the eight basic passive skills on the screen to 9 times in one breath and pressed the confirm button.

[Upgrade begins...]

The next second, a series of cold prompt sounds rang out, and then quickly faded away. The 82.5w Paradise Points disappeared, leaving only a series of prompt sounds of successful upgrades, and the basic passive skills that all changed from LV.1 to LV.10.

Xin Lailai took a look at the upgrade costs which became 10000 and 40000 Paradise Points respectively, and still directly maxed them out in one go and pressed the confirmation button.

[Upgrade begins...]

This time, 170 million Paradise Points evaporated instantly, causing the second and third numbers on Xinlailai Paradise Points to fluctuate slightly. As the light fell, the basic passive on the screen also changed from LV.10 to LV.20.

"Is it now 5 and 20 per level this time? It turns out that the early stage enhancements of this thing are a waste of money."

Xin Lailai glanced at the enhancement costs from LV.20 onwards and nodded slightly, without any surprise in her eyes.

He had already understood the cost of strengthening the basic passive skill. Before reaching a high level, the upgrade benefit of this thing could be said to be pitifully low. If he did not have no other skills that could be upgraded, and the situation in the next world was too special, he would never have invested resources in it now.

[Upgrade begins...]

This time, a full 850 million Paradise Points disappeared in an instant, successfully causing the first digit of the Paradise Points balance at the edge of Xin Lailai's sight to jump, and the numbers on the screen began to change rapidly.

[Tip: Upgrade completed, basic passive power source has been upgraded to LV.30]

[Tip: Upgrade completed, basic passive: Spiritual Perception has been...]

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[Tip: Upgrade completed, basic passive King has been upgraded to LV.30]

[Tip: It is detected that the current attributes of the pioneer do not meet the conditions. Basic Passive · Power Source, Basic Passive · Physical Strength... Basic Passive · King cannot be further upgraded.]

A cold reminder sounded, and as the strengthening light fell, this time, the "+" signs behind six of the eight basic passive skills on the screen disappeared, leaving only the "+" signs behind [Basic Passive·Spiritual Perception] representing soul strength and [Basic Passive·Hundred Tribulations] representing willpower still lit.

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(End of this chapter)