[Class: Pastor of the Sea lv.3 (30,000/30,000) (+)]

The point-farming plan was a huge success!

A night of slaughter, and the experience bar is full!

"The city gate getting breached this time was actually a stroke of luck for me... In just one night, I gained over ten thousand experience points..."

Su Ye gazed at the iridescent, golden, shimmering "+" sign, a look of joy on his face like that of an old farmer after a bountiful harvest.

"Upgrade!"

With a flicker of thought, he lightly tapped the "+" sign.

HUM!

The panel burst with light.

A cool aura emerged from the void and surged into his body.

Like a hot spring, it seeped into his flesh and bones, optimizing and improving Su Ye’s physique.

This process was already extremely familiar to Su Ye.

[Class: Pastor of the Sea lv.4 (0/40,000)]

[Class Attribute Bonus: Damage +45, Defense +25, Evasion +12, Arcane +12]

But besides the usual class attribute increase, this level-up also brought other changes for Su Ye.

"Hm?" Su Ye’s gaze shifted slightly.

As his [Pastor of the Sea] class rose to lv.4, a "+" sign appeared after his two exclusive skills, [Heart of the Vast Sea] and [Monarch of Calamity]!

’Can these two exclusive skills be upgraded too? Will they also be granted new attributes?’

Su Ye was surprised.

Previously, when his [Pastor of the Sea] class leveled up, these two exclusive skills had remained unchanged.

This had led Su Ye to believe that they couldn’t be upgraded.

After all, they were already very powerful!

’But now, it seems that’s not the case?’

’Could it be... that the Pastor of the Sea’s skills upgrade every four levels?’

Su Ye pondered, making a guess.

While he was thinking, his thoughts flashed, and he touched the "+" sign after the skill.

HUM!

In an instant, the sound of ocean waves crashed inside Su Ye’s mind.

Su Ye narrowed his eyes, sensing the feedback transmitted by the skill upgrade.

After a long while, a deep and vast azure light rose within his pupils before fading away.

’So that’s how it is...’

Su Ye’s eyes sparkled with excitement.

Then, his expression turned a bit strange.

’So, does this mean that before this, both of my skills were just ’passive skills’?’

’But now... they can finally, just barely, be considered ’active skills’...’

Su Ye smiled, his grin radiant.

Aside from [Soul-Chasing, Life-Reaping], which was on cooldown,

he finally had another method that could threaten a Tier 3 existence!

Su Ye mused, ’If I plan it right, maybe I could even fight a Tier 3 under certain circumstances?’ 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎

Immediately, he shook his head, dismissing the thought.

Su Ye did not like fighting opponents of a higher tier.

’Isn’t it better to just bully the weaklings at my own tier? Why go looking for trouble by fighting up a tier?’

Instead of thinking about how to fight above his tier, it was better to focus on cultivation and advance sooner.

’Based on my performance last night, it shouldn’t be hard to trade for a few more rare Spiritual Objects that help break through one’s limits...’

’Once I refine them, my cultivation level can rise again...’

Su Ye’s eyes flickered as he looked inward at himself.

Within his Dantian Qi Sea, his Magical Power had pooled into a viscous, dense ocean!

Three hundred and thirty drops of Liquid Magical Power!

Only thirty drops short of a full Circulation!

The corpses of the Reverse World monsters were refined by the Ghostly Flood Dragon into pure spiritual energy!

And the limit-breaking Spiritual Objects had expanded his upper limits, reducing the spiritual energy requirement...

By stacking resources and consuming Spiritual Objects, Su Ye had cultivated his Magical Power to this level!

’Next is Circulation Magical Power, a Tier 3 spirit ship, and then... Crystallization!’

Su Ye set a goal for himself.

...

Dawn was breaking. Outside the Immortal City, the Beast Tide continued its relentless assault on the city walls.

ROAR!

However, compared to before, the Beast Tide was much sparser now.

It mostly consisted of the old, weak, or injured and disabled.

These dregs were at the bottom of the Beast Tide’s food chain.

Lacking food and driven by hunger, they launched suicidal charges at the Immortal City.

Meanwhile, the main force of the Beast Tide was licking its wounds and regrouping.

In last night’s battle, the Immortal City’s side had killed or heavily wounded dozens of Tier 2 demon beasts, and even the Demon King, the Evil Celestial Auk, had one of its "chicken wings" chopped off.

For the Beast Tide, this was undoubtedly a devastating blow!

As a result, the intensity of the Beast Tide had dropped significantly.

But the Immortal City’s side had no intention of counterattacking either.

After all, the defense last night had also caused enormous losses for the Immortal City.

Near the city gate, numerous buildings had collapsed and disintegrated.

Several city blocks had been reduced to rubble, and the Immortal City’s cultivators were clearing the ruins and counting the dead...

The area near the section of the wall breached by the Rock-Crowned Crocodile Dragon had suffered especially heavy casualties!

By a conservative estimate, at least a thousand cultivators from the City Guard Army and participating Loose Cultivators had been killed.

At the base of the wall lay bodies that had been cleared away and covered with white cloths, the pungent smell of blood lingering in the air.

From time to time, family members would arrive at the wall, anxiously searching around, before finally breaking down in tears before one or more of the bodies.

However, most of the living cultivators were in a relatively relaxed state of mind.

After all, in their view, the most dangerous moment had already passed.

The Beast Tide had suffered heavy losses; it wouldn’t be long before it dispersed.

However, Su Ye knew this war was far from over!

"Time to go back and cultivate," Su Ye murmured to himself.

...

「Just as Su Ye was returning to the Ghostly Flood Dragon to continue his cultivation.」

In the Immortal City Sea Region, the one-winged Evil Celestial Auk fled through the sky, its body surging with cyan qi as it rode the Wind-Elemental Spiritual Qi.

"Hehe... My luck is quite good. I’ve been waiting for a heavily wounded Tier 3 Demon King..."

An old woman’s voice echoed in midair.

A female cultivator in a bright yellow Daoist robe slowly materialized.

She had the appearance of a sixteen-year-old girl with delicate skin, but her voice and eyes showed the vicissitudes of a long life.

SCREECH!

"A human at the Crystallization realm?!" the Evil Celestial Auk shrieked in terror and tried to turn and flee.

"Still trying to escape...?" The woman in bright yellow sneered.

With a flick of her sleeve, she took out a brass bell.

CLANG!

An invisible sound wave rang out!

The Evil Celestial Auk’s body froze, and the cyan qi around it began to dissipate!

Feathers flew and blood rained down as its speed dropped drastically!

"Little bird, I am Shenling. Hand over your Demon Pill..." the woman in bright yellow said with a laugh.

Shenling, a Crystallization Master from the Cyan Profound Sect!

The Evil Celestial Auk was already heavily wounded. How could it possibly fight a Crystallization Master who was in perfect condition?

Within half an incense stick’s time, Shenling knocked it out of the sky, and it plummeted toward the sea.

"It’s over..." Shenling smiled.

But suddenly, her pupils contracted.

Out of nowhere, a slender, gaunt young girl in a dark robe had appeared not far away.

Her eyes held not a trace of black; they were pure white, as if she were blind.

"A native?!" Shenling’s expression turned grave.

’Where did a Tier 3 native come from in this sea region...?!" She had a very bad feeling.

"You..." The blind saintess tilted her head.

"Aren’t you going to run?"

...

「A few minutes later.」

CRACK.

A fragment of a brass bell sank to the bottom of the sea.

Number of Fallen Tier 3s: 1 (for now)