Abyss invasion? As a demon cultivator, I laughed.

As the giant fell, a large number of prompts flashed in front of Chu Xiu's eyes!

This made him breathe a sigh of relief.

Before he could digest it properly, a strong force surged into his body!

With the bonus of 100% experience value increase, this soldier-level elite directly promoted him to the next level!

[Name] Chu Xiu

[Level] Ordinary Level 8 (714/1600)

[Constitution] 20.27

[Spirit] 10.24

[Energy Level] 31.74

[Others] Slightly

All attributes were improved again, and there was a lot of experience overflow! He was only halfway to the next level!

At the same time, new inheritances continued to be unlocked as usual.

[Qi Condensation Technique]

[Level: Ordinary]

[Quality: Superior]

[Description: Mobilize the mana in the body to hinder others from exploring and reduce one's own presence. ]

[Evaluation: Once cultivated, it can automatically operate according to the user's mind.

[When used actively, the interference detection ability and concealment ability are greatly improved.

[As a sinister and cunning demon cultivator, how can he not steal, assassinate, and play the pig to eat the tiger? ]

"Did you give me a secret technique for hiding?"

Chu Xiu touched his chin thoughtfully.

This secret technique can be said to be extremely important.

The ability to hide can greatly improve his safety factor in subsequent explorations and greatly increase the abundance of decision-making.

Such as sneaking into the monster camp to scout and find out the bottom line, waiting for others to beat the monster half to death, he suddenly appeared to pick peaches, etc., all these operations are possible.

And the ability to hide strength, in a sense, is even more important than the former.

Both his talent and his profession are too amazing. Once exposed, he will be like Tang Seng who strayed into the monster cave and will be eaten alive sooner or later!

This world does not have strong enough legal constraints, especially for those high-level awakeners.

Think about it, after all, the cost of maintaining social order is far greater than the cost of crime!

Take the country where Chu Xiu lived in his previous life as an example. The police force in the country exceeds two million, but there are still about 30,000 criminal cases every year.

And this is when the police have overwhelming equipment advantages. Such a big gap has created a relatively safe living environment for the people.

If you focus on a certain big country next door where the police equipment suppression is not so exaggerated, you will find that with nearly one million police officers, 42,000 people died from gun violence in 2023 alone! Since 2014, the number of people who died from gun violence each year has exceeded 39,000!

And high-level awakeners are equivalent to individuals with the most advanced tank fighters. Just imagine how much it costs to capture an awakener who can move at the speed of sound!

And if the arrest leads to a fight in a densely populated area, what a terrible disaster it will be!

In this case, if the government does not allow any gray area buffer, the order of the entire society will collapse!

The abyss is such a gray area.

The abyss is not bound by law, and it is also the place where all grievances, disputes, and interests are resolved.

"In the abyss, there are all kinds of strange props. It is no exaggeration to say that it is a miracle wishing pool. It can do anything you can't think of."

"Among them, there are many props that can plunder talents and professions!"

"Although professions and talents will be reduced by 2 to 3 levels after being stripped, even the perfect refinement of A-level is enough for countless high-level awakeners to fight for!"

"My profession and talent must not be exposed!"

Although professions with exploration skills are very rare, they will easily attract exploration after returning to Blue Star.

So Chu Xiu added a large number of causal points to the Qi Condensation Technique without any hesitation!

[Consume 47 causal points, and the proficiency of the Qi Condensation Technique is increased to entry! ]

[Consume 132 causal points, and the proficiency of the Qi Condensation Technique is increased to proficient! ]

[Consume 501 causal points, and the proficiency of the Qi Condensation Technique is increased to minor success! ]

The consumption of the Qi Condensation Technique is greater than that of the Phantom Step. It took nearly 700 causal points to increase it to minor success.

He consumed most of the large amount of causal points he had just obtained, and now he only had 420 causal points left.

However, all these efforts were worth it.

Chu Xiu's mind moved, and he felt as if he had turned into a stone. The sound of his breathing, heartbeat, and blood flow were all blocked by a mysterious force, thus greatly reduced. In terms of visual effects, he also seemed to be integrated with the environment, and it was difficult to find without careful observation.

This skill is not only very useful in sneak attacks and evasion, but also helps in frontal battles! It can make Chu Xiu's actions more ghostly and elusive!

And the consumption is very small, basically only 1 energy point is consumed per minute.

The consumption of automatic operation is even closer to 0

In terms of hiding strength, his current Qi-collecting technique is enough to block the prying of most of the same-level detection skills, and when it is used actively, even the soldier-level awakeners can't see through it!

With the automatic operation of the Qi-collecting technique, Chu Xiu adjusted his breath to level 6.

"Huh!"

He let out a long breath and felt that his inner sense of security was sufficient.

"Once I have the power to crush everyone, I won't have to hide anymore. I'll have to speed up my upgrades."

Shaking his head, Chu Xiu stopped thinking and continued to check other gains.

Two pieces of equipment exploded. Although the armor was also of collectible quality, it was far inferior to the +7 heavy energy-absorbing armor. Chu Xiu planned to sell it.

As for the ring, it was not bad. After wearing it, it could increase the energy recovery by +1.0 per hour and the energy reserve by +25.0.

Using this equipment directly doubled Chu Xiu's energy! It greatly improved his combat endurance, and it was worthy of being a collectible quality equipment!

As for the last violent hormone, just like the skill used by the soldier-level ghoul at the end, it could greatly improve physical ability in a short period of time and become more like a berserker. However, the effect would gradually weaken within 10 seconds, and then it would fall into a weak state, which could be used as a trump card for desperate efforts.

What surprised Chu Xiu the most was

"It actually exploded a trait!"

The so-called trait is a weakened version of a talent, which is usually one to three levels lower than the talent of the same name.

But even so, it is precious enough! After all, even a D-level talent can be a great help! Think about Wang Long's power burst, which can directly burst out three times the power in a short period of time! This is even more powerful than the violent skill of the soldier-level corpse ghost! And there are no side effects!

Of course, the absorption of traits is not unlimited.

Otherwise, directly absorbing hundreds of traits, even if a single one is a little worse, the combination is amazing enough, even if it is given to a pig, it can be comparable to an SSS-level genius!

The biggest problem with traits is that there will be unavoidable [alienation].

Alienation has extremely high randomness and uncertainty. Although in theory, it is possible to give birth to beneficial alienation, most of the alienation is negative buff, and there are even people who die suddenly due to rejection!

In addition to rejection with the body, there will also be rejection between different [traits].

In other words, the more [traits] are fused, the easier it is to have a larger and more uncontrollable [alienation].

Therefore, the core that determines the value of a [trait], in addition to the level, the most important thing is the stability of [alienation].

Generally speaking, some common [traits], such as power burst, life recovery, endurance enhancement, etc., have the highest stability of alienation.

Secondly, check whether they are of the same race, related to the same profession, whether there is fusion big data, etc.

For example, the most common trait [Strength Enhancement (E)] has an average alienation deviation rate of only 0.0037%. Through big data, we can know that the alienation rate is about 5.7%, and most of them are insignificant side effects. It is a very stable trait.

But if a human insists on fusing traits such as [Multiple Eyeballs] and [Resurrection Tentacles], the alienation rate will definitely go off the charts.

Finally, there is an extremely rare situation, that is, obtaining a trait that can be upgraded.

This type of trait may have a poor initial fusion degree, but each upgrade will make it more adaptable to the body of the absorber, and finally become no different from a talent.

It's just that this type of trait is extremely rare, and each one is sky-high.

Chu Xiu lowered his head and checked the trait in his hand.

[Tough Skin]

[Level: C]

[Attributes: Skin Protection +3.6, Heat Insulation, Acid Resistance and Impact Absorption are greatly enhanced]

[Alienation Deviation Rate: 0.15%]

The effect is quite good, 3.6 points of protection for free, and what makes Chu Xiu most excited is the various resistances, which can greatly enhance his ability to deal with different monsters.

His heavy bone armor has high defense, but it still lacks heat insulation and corrosion resistance. It can withstand bullets, but a flamethrower can carbonize it.

However

Looking at the 0.15% alienation deviation rate below, Chu Xiu touched his chin.

This is not low.

There is at least a 30% chance of alienation.

However, thanks to the fact that this seems to be a universal trait, the side effects of alienation should not be very large.

Without thinking too much, Chu Xiu's mind moved, and this trait began to merge.

As an awakener, who doesn't have some alienation?

I don't want to be a human!