Sanctuary Paradise

Chapter 458-Awakening
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[Basic Passive Power Source: LV.30]

Upgrade prerequisite: True Strength attribute above 80 points

Skill effect: Increase basic attack power by 10%
Upgrade cost: cannot be upgraded
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[Basic Passive: Extreme Shadow: LV.30]

Upgrade prerequisite: True Agility Attribute 80 points or above

Skill effect: Basic speed increased by 2%
Upgrade cost: cannot be upgraded
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[Basic Passive·Physique: LV.30]

Upgrade prerequisite: Real physical strength attribute above 80 points

Skill Effect: Increases base health by 10%
Upgrade cost: cannot be upgraded
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[Basic Passive Source: LV.30]

Upgrade prerequisite: Real intelligence attribute above 80 points

Skill Effect: Increases base mana by 10%
Upgrade cost: cannot be upgraded
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[Basic Passive·King: LV.30]

Upgrade prerequisite: Real charm attribute above 80 points

Skill Effect: All basic effects derived from the Charm attribute are increased by 10%. At the same time, the temperament direction derived from the Charm attribute is constant at [Majesty].

Upgrade cost: cannot be upgraded
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[Basic Passive·Heavenly Heart: LV.30]

Upgrade prerequisite: All basic physical attributes above 80 points

Skill Effect: Increases basic perception by 10%
Upgrade cost: cannot be upgraded
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"Have you reached the attribute limit?"

In the upgrade cabin, Xin Lailai glanced at the prompt at the edge of her vision, and looked at the six passive skills in front of her that had become unupgradeable. She lowered her eyes slightly, without showing any surprise.

The basic passive is not something that should be upgraded in the early stage. This sentence does not simply mean that the cost of upgrading the basic passive is too expensive later. Another important reason is that when the attributes are not enough in the early stage, the level of the basic passive cannot be upgraded at all.

Just like him now, because he has not yet broken through the 80 real attribute barrier, now except for the basic passives of soul and willpower, the other six basic passives are all stuck at LV.30 and cannot be upgraded, so they can only be stuck here temporarily.

Apart from the upgrade cost and attribute restrictions, the reason why basic passive is considered the most critical ability in the later stage is actually this:
[Hint: Basic passive Psychic Perception is detected and can be awakened once. The awakening cost is 5 Soul Coins. Yes/No to awaken immediately]

Xin Lailai looked at the two passive skills on the screen that could still be clicked with the "+" sign. The moment he pressed the "+" behind Spiritual Sense, a prompt suddenly popped up.

A wake-up call.

This is the key to why the basic passive is called a late-stage ability. When its own attributes reach the third and seventh level standards respectively, the basic passive can be awakened once and twice respectively, which will bring about a qualitative change in the effect of the basic passive.

As for what kind of qualitative change it is...

"wake."

[Confirmed, 5 soul coins have been paid, and the basic passive · spiritual perception awakening has begun]

[Awakening...]

[Awakening completed, Basic Passive Sense has been changed to Basic Passive Sense (one awakening)]

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[Basic Passive: Spiritual Perception: LV.30 (One awakening)]

Upgrade prerequisite: Soul strength is not less than 50 points

Skill effect 1: Increase basic soul energy by 10%
Skill effect 2, soul energy strength level +1
Upgrade cost: Soul Coin*5 pieces

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That’s right, the basic passive skill after awakening can directly add an additional skill effect, and it is an extremely rare rank upgrade.

You should know that this kind of improvement basically only appears when the core passive ability like Spell Master is improved or when the attribute barrier reward is only given a few times in a lifetime. From this, you can understand why the basic passive becomes so popular in the high-level of Paradise.

After all, although the cost of upgrading the basic passive skill is expensive, if you compare it with the later technical passive skill, it will become extremely cheap. It can even be said to be the most cost-effective means to significantly improve strength in the later stage.

——Although these have nothing to do with him now.

[Confirmed, 3 soul coins have been paid, and the basic passive Hundred Tribulations awakening has begun...]

[Awakening completed, Basic Passive Hundred Tribulations has been changed to Basic Passive Hundred Tribulations (one awakening)]

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[Basic Passive: Hundred Tribulations: LV.30 (One awakening)]

Upgrade prerequisite: Willpower no less than 50 points

Skill Effect 1: Increases mental and spiritual resistance derived from willpower by 10%
Skill Effect 2: Willpower Strength Level +1
Upgrade cost: Soul Coin*3 pieces

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The cold reminder sounded again. They now had 63 soul coins left, so if they only awakened two basic passive skills, they could still hold on.

"Should we continue to ascend..."

Xin Lailai looked at the two passive skills that had been awakened and weighed them in his mind.

Starting from LV.30, the upgrade cost of basic passive skills starts to become outrageous, but if it is just one or two, he can still afford it with his current financial resources.

"Lai Lai, how about we just upgrade our spiritual perception and ignore the Hundred Tribulations for now?"

"Yeah, that's what I thought too."

Ling Yuzi's voice sounded in Xin Lailai's mind. She looked at Xin Lailai and suggested. Xin Lailai nodded slightly and affirmed in her mind.

Now that Lingjue and Baijie have both completed an awakening, they can obtain extremely rare rank bonuses if they are upgraded further. However, considering that Baijie improves their resistance to mental and spiritual control, the combat power gain brought by the upgrade is obviously not as great as Lingjue, which can directly improve the rank of soul energy intensity.

Taking resource utilization into consideration, it is obviously more appropriate to upgrade only Spiritual Perception to LV.40, rather than upgrading both basic passive skills to LV.40, and then use the resources saved by giving up upgrading Hundred Tribulations to exchange for other items or skills that can increase your strength.

With this thought in mind, Xin Lailai no longer hesitated and started to operate quickly on the screen.

[Reminder: Soul Coin*50 has been paid, and basic passive perception has been upgraded: LV.30 (one awakening)]

[Tip: Upgrade completed, basic passive · Spiritual Perception (one awakening) has been upgraded to LV.40]

[Basic Passive: Spiritual Perception: LV.40 (One awakening)]

Upgrade prerequisite: Soul strength is not less than 80 points

Skill effect 1: Increase basic soul energy by 15% (increase by 5%)

Skill effect 2, soul energy strength level +2 (increase +1)

Upgrade cost: Soul Coin*25 pieces

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The enhanced light fell, and a few minutes later Xin Lailai opened his eyes again, looked at the skill introduction at the edge of his vision, sensed his soul energy that had obviously become much more condensed, and nodded with satisfaction.

Very good, with their current soul strength level, if they cast the soul seal, they will probably be able to subdue a unit with a soul strength of less than 50 in an instant, and no matter how the opponent resists, it will not be able to break free.

——Although most of the time when you encounter an enemy with a soul strength of less than 50 points, you can probably just crush them with Wang Wei and they will behave themselves.

"Let's go, it's time to go back and awaken your talent, Ling Yuzi."

"Ah."

After completing the upgrade, Xin Lailai didn't even spare a glance at the "+" sign that he could continue to click on. After upgrading to LV.40, each level of spiritual perception required a full 25 soul coins, which was almost twice as much as the gun master who upgraded to LV.40!

If he really had the spare money, he might as well just buy a few permanently enhanced alchemical potions. The improvement brought by this would definitely be much greater than spending soul coins equivalent to 5000 million paradise points to upgrade the level 10 basic passive.

Then, Xin Lailai opened the permission interface, selected the transmission permission, and started the operation quickly.

[Transfer begins, destination: exclusive room]

The blue light fell, and the two people's vision was distorted briefly. When they opened their eyes again, they saw the scene in their exclusive room.

"Are Xiaobai and Xiaopu not back yet?"

After glancing at the empty blanket, Xin Lailai looked at Ling Yuzi beside him. Ling Yuzi nodded and took something out of the storage space:
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【Awakening Certificate】

Origin: Any Paradise/Void Tree
Quality: Special Category: Credentials
Effect: After use, you can enter the talent awakening process and perform a talent awakening based on the completion of the awakening task.

Synopsis: It's time to...awaken the power hidden deep within your soul!

Price: No trading

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This is the certificate they obtained at the world settlement, and it is the reward for Ling Yuzi after completing the talent awakening mission.

Originally they were planning to awaken immediately after waking up, but they didn't expect that something unexpected would happen with their eyebrows, and they had been delayed until now.

"I always feel a little nervous..."

"Don't worry, you should know that your talent awakening task is more than 100%, and you also have the foundation of the spiritual body. The result of this awakening will definitely be very smooth."

Xin Lailai sat on the bed, hugged Ling Yuzi to her lap, touched his head, and said with a smile.

"That's right... Then Lailai, should I just start right away?"

"Well, don't worry, I will always be here with you."

Xin Lailai held the girl's hand and spoke gently. Hearing this, Ling Yuzi nodded, took a deep breath, and activated the certificate in his hand.

[Prompt: It is detected that the pioneer has activated the awakening certificate and started the talent awakening process]

[Talent Name: Spiritual Body]

[Talent category: Ordinary talent]

[Current talent awakening status: one awakening (50%)]

[Talent Awakening Mission Completion: 169%]

[Task completion evaluation: Excellent]

[Check completed, awakening environment is being generated...]

[Generation completed, awakening begins]

Om-! !

A cold reminder sounded in the two people's heads, followed by the spread of an obscure soul fluctuation. Ling Yuzi, who was sitting on Xin Lailai's thigh, suddenly saw black in front of his eyes and his consciousness fell into darkness.

An unknown amount of time had passed, but when Ling Yuzi opened her eyes again, the scene before her eyes had changed from the clean and tidy private room to a somewhat dim light blue space. She was standing on a circular platform, and in front of her were steps floating in the darkness, emitting faint light.

Is this the environment that Paradise created for her to awaken her talent? It feels a little different from what she saw last time when she took the pseudo-soul fruit?

Ling Yuzi looked around curiously, glanced at the empty edge of his vision, tried to sense the soul space, and found that it was completely imperceptible. Then he turned his gaze back to the steps in front of him and walked up tentatively.

One level... Ten levels... One hundred levels... One thousand levels...

In the darkness, Ling Yuzi just stepped forward one step after another, and the floating steps in front of him seemed endless. With every step forward, new steps would extend out from the darkness at the end, as if there was no real end at all.

But the expression on Ling Yuzi's face did not change at all. He just kept walking forward calmly, completely unmoved by the boring and tedious process.

Ten thousand steps... Twenty thousand steps... Thirty thousand steps...

The steps continue to extend, and if you look back, you can see that the faintly glowing steps have successfully paved a light path in the darkness, like a bond in the darkness, extremely eye-catching.

And when the 100,000th step fell, Ling Yuzi stopped.

Because... the end has come.

"Is this here?"

Ling Yuzi looked at the scene in front of her, and saw a circular platform floating in front of her that was very similar to the one she had set out on. The only difference was that compared to the empty platform when she left, there were three more eye-catching things on the platform in front of her:

——Three statues that look exactly like her.

"Does this mean... there are three directions to choose from?"

Ling Yuzi looked at the three statues in front of him, carefully observing the differences between the three statues.

At first glance, the most eye-catching thing is the statue in the middle, which is wearing a gray nun's robe, with gray pupils, hands folded in front of the lower abdomen, and an expression full of rationality and divinity, especially the light flowing on its body. It even makes Ling Yuzi feel that the statue in front of him is not a dead object at all, but a living god in his own image.

"Hmm... This should be the awakening route towards Godhood that Mr. Kagus mentioned."

Ling Yuzi was thinking, recalling Kagus's teachings and what she had read in the "Soul Cultivation Manual", and making judgments in her mind.

She herself was a life created by Paradise, and her talents were the most common "spiritual" talents given by Paradise at that time according to the standard template.

Normally speaking, for a life like her that exists entirely in the form of a soul, the most suitable path is to first awaken into a "spiritual body", then gather the power of faith, embark on the path of becoming a god after birth, and gradually transform from a "spiritual god" to a "god".

Although it sounds a bit unconventional, in fact, this system of becoming a god has always been a popular path in the god system of Paradise, especially in the Three Thousand Gods Sect. It is called the "Ghost and God System" and has become a popular system second only to cultivating immortals and practicing swords and drawing talismans. Even the "Method of Rebirth by Incense" that Dao Ji told them at the beginning was born from this system.

——If this system is adopted, her and Lai Lai’s ability to survive should be greatly enhanced, right?
Ling Yuzi looked at the statue in the middle, and his mind flashed with the thoughts he sensed from Xin Lailai's mind and the words that Meimu told them. The light flowing on the statue was reflected in his scarlet pupils. He raised his arm unconsciously, but after a few seconds he slowly put it down.

Taking the path of gods is indeed the one that will greatly improve their ability to survive in a short period of time, especially with the Three Thousand Gods' incense rebirth method, they can even directly use the power of faith to rebuild their bodies, not to mention that they also have the soul core as a trump card. With this double guarantee, unless they suffer an attack from cause and effect or fate, there is basically no possibility of complete death.

If she chose this route, Lai Lai would definitely smile happily, hug her and say that she was worthy of being Ling Yu Zi, and keep praising her, saying that she had greatly increased their survival rate in the next world, right?
but……

"Sure enough, we still can't do this?"

Ling Yuzi muttered to himself, lowered his eyes slightly, and a smile appeared on his little face.

She wouldn't choose the deity route.

Because... she was very sure that although Lai Lai would be happy to praise her if she did this, this was definitely not the result that she really wanted to see.

This is not because the ghost and god system is too weak or for other reasons, but because any system of gods that is based on the power of faith will inevitably give up part of its humanity and replace it with divinity due to the influence of the power of faith.

And this is exactly what she and Lai Lai cannot accept no matter what.

——They can endure a lot, but they will never allow their human side to be eroded.

"So, we can only choose from these?"

So, Ling Yuzi turned his attention to the other two statues.

The remaining two statues were obviously dimmer than the divine statue in the middle. The one on the left had a gloomy look, with a pair of sharp horns on its forehead. It was making a gnawing motion, and the shadow of its feet stretched long on the platform, as if it wanted to drag everything in front of it into the shadow.

The statue on the right is much more ordinary than the one on the left. It just has a smile on its face and looks gently to the left. She is wearing the same everyday clothes she likes to wear. From her movements, it looks like she is holding something and holding someone's hand as she moves forward.

After seeing the appearance of the two statues clearly, Ling Yuzi fell silent. Her intuition told her that the evil ghost-like statue on the left would most likely give her powerful combat power, and might even change her talent from an ordinary talent to a growable killing talent, but it would most likely cause some negative emotional effects.

And the statue on the right...

She...can't tell for now.

From the features of the statue, she could only conclude that the direction of the statue was most likely related to "people", but she couldn't directly guess the specific route.

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"Oh, there's one more thing I forgot to tell you two. Ling Yuzi, your talent should be awakening soon, right?"

"Well, Mr. Kagus, do you have any suggestions?"

'It's not really a suggestion, it's just some experience.'

"I've also experienced talent awakening. Given your situation, your paradise will most likely give you several choices. If you're undecided, you can ask yourself what you really want, and maybe you'll get the answer."

What is it that she really wants?

Ling Yuzi looked up at the three statues in front of her, recalling what Kagus had said to her. Finally, she subconsciously looked at the statue on the right that looked like an ordinary girl. Her eyes moved and stopped at the ends of her hair that were obviously pressed down by something.

This position... should be Xiaobai, right?
Then here is Xiao Pu, and here is Lai Lai.

Ling Yuzi's gaze moved, looking at the chest and left hand of the statue. A hint of tenderness appeared in his eyes, and a smile appeared on his little face.

Then she stretched out her palm, walked forward with a determined look, and pressed it on the statue on the right.

Although she couldn't guess the outcome of this route, her intuition told her that this was the right choice.

Compared to becoming a god or a demon, she prefers to stay with her family as a human.

Om-! !

The next second, a soft white light bloomed from the statue, engulfing Ling Yuzi's figure.

[Talent awakening tendency selection completed. According to the strength of the pioneer soul, the success rate of this awakening is 100%, the mortality rate is 0%, and the unknown mutation rate is 0%]

[Awakening Begins]

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(End of this chapter)