Absolute Destiny Game-Chapter 850 - 63: Mountain Lord, Death of the Scholar

System prompt: You have refined the [Weakened Tiger Demon Inner Core], you have gained 325 Spiritual Energy Value. You have gained 10 Tiger Demon Essence.

System prompt: You have refined the [Weakened Tiger Demon Inner Core], you have gained 289 Spiritual Energy Value. You have gained 8 Tiger Demon Essence.

System prompt: You have refined the [Weakened Tiger Demon Inner Core], you have gained 312 Spiritual Energy Value. You have gained 9 Tiger Demon Essence...

In a quiet room, Xiao Jie is refining the Tiger Demon Inner Core obtained from this great battle.

He refined five Weakened Tiger Demon Inner Cores in one go, Xiao Jie gained over fifteen hundred Spiritual Energy and 44 Essence Value.

Indeed, the quality is not impressive, these weakened inner cores dropped by the Elite Monster are far inferior compared to those dropped by the Boss.

Not only do they give little Essence Value and Spiritual Energy, they don’t even refine any attributes, let alone any Demon Art Skills.

The only advantage is that there are plenty to satisfy the hunger.

Luckily, the real treasure is still ahead.

Xiao Jie opened the backpack, took out the Divine Tiger Inner Core, and prepared to refine it again.

However, before refining this Divine Tiger Inner Core, he needs to consume some Spiritual Energy first.

Previously, after refining the Green Flood Dragon King Core, his Spiritual Energy Value was almost close to advancement, at the seventh tier of Qi Refining Technique, plus over six thousand Spiritual Energy Value.

With daily consumption over time, plus the consumption from using Qi Refining Secret Technique during several battles, he has consumed over four thousand Spiritual Energy, now down to just over two thousand.

There is still 6000 Spiritual Energy Value to go from Qi Refining Technique’s eighth layer Golden Core completion.

One might say, the risk of advancing Qi Refining Technique is not too high.

Back when the Green Flood Dragon King gave a full four thousand Spiritual Energy Value, and the Green Flood Dragon King was a Level 58 Boss.

This Divine Tiger is a Level 50 World Boss, with status enhancement from being a World Boss, its power should surpass the Green Flood Dragon King.

What can be refined from here will only be more.

To be safe, Xiao Jie once again deployed various Qi Refining Secret Techniques, consuming over a thousand Spiritual Energy, dropping his Spiritual Energy Value to just over 1000, only then did he feel at ease.

With a difference of seven thousand, it probably won’t lead to an advancement, right?

Thinking this through, Xiao Jie right-clicked on the Divine Tiger Inner Core and started refining.

This World Boss’s inner core is indeed extraordinary; as soon as refinement began, various phenomena started to reveal.

The golden inner core slowly floated in mid-air, spiritual light surrounding it, spiritual energy gushing out, as the Demon Refining Technique began to operate, strands of Spiritual Power began to be absorbed by Xiao Jie from the inner core into his body, refining further, another layer of Black Death aura appeared around the inner core, along with golden Divine Will Power.

Xiao Jie didn’t have the capability to wield Divine Skills, and his Faith attribute was pitifully low, causing the Divine Will Power to dissipate instantly, while the Black Death aura was entirely absorbed by Xiao Jie into his body.

What a waste—

As the demon refining was about to complete, suddenly a ferocious tiger’s shadow appeared on the inner core, seemingly unwilling to completely vanish, it let out a roar and then leapt fiercely at Xiao Jie.

Xiao Jie didn’t dodge or evade, allowing the Divine Tiger remnant spirit to thrust into his body, this Demon Refining Technique refines not only the demon’s Spiritual Power, but also the demon’s memory and Spiritual Sense.

Such matters, he has experienced far too many times.

System prompt: You have refined [Divine Tiger Inner Core], you have gained 5315 Spiritual Energy Value.

System prompt: Due to your talent [Demon Spirit Manifestation], you have gained 3 Strength, 3 Agility, and 3 Faith.

System prompt: You have gained 13955 Experience Points, you leveled up, now at Level 36.

System prompt: You have comprehended 3 Demon Art Skills [Tiger Roar Soul Shattering Shout (learned: Skill Level+1)], [Lying Tiger Stone Form (learned: Skill Level+1)], [Black Death Wind Control Technique].

System prompt: You have gained 59 Tiger Demon Essence, your progress in Tiger Demon Essence has advanced, current progress is 100%.

System prompt: You have successfully refined a complete essence [Essence: Mountain Lord], gaining Demon Race talent: [Mountain Dominator]. You unlocked a Transformation Skill — [Mountain Lord Transformation].

[Mountain Lord Essence (100%)]

Essence Effect 1: Mountain Suppressing Technique. The Mountain Suppressing Divine Tiger Essence within your body grants you mountain protection, when battling in mountainous terrains, your Mountain Suppressing Class Magic power increases by 40%.

Essence Effect 2: Mountain Lord Transformation (Legendary Creature). You can activate the Tiger Demon essence within, transforming into a mighty Mountain Lord for 30 minutes, cooldown time: 24 hours.

Skill Cost: 500 Mana Points.

During this period, you cannot use your original skills, only using Mountain Lord’s skill module; post-transformation you will gain the following attribute boosts:

Constitution increase: 250%, Strength increase: 225%, Agility increase: 210%, Endurance increase: 200%, Faith increase: 200%

Basic Combat Skills: Tiger Claw Strike, Life-stealing Pounce, Mountain-shattering Claw Strength, Tiger Roar Soul Shattering Shout, Skull-breaking Bite.

General Demon Skill: Black Slaughter Wind Control Skill, Summoning Chong Ghost, Hundred Beasts Spirit Communication.

Innate Demon Technique (Mountain Suppressing Skill): Lying Tiger Stone Form, Mountain Collapse and Earth Split, Summon Mountain Demon, Observing Mountains and Wild.

Essence Introduction: Comprised with the Divine Tiger Star Pool Mountain Lord Remnant Spirit as the main body, combined with many Tiger Demon remnant spirits to form a potent demon beast essence, the strong among the Tiger Demons often holds the name of Mountain Lord. It is said in ancient times, there was a tribe of Tiger Demons that obtained the divine duty to guard mountains and rivers. Despite being unverifiable with the collapse of the Immortal Road, truly some extraordinary Tiger Demons are born with such mystical power.

These Tiger Demons are called Mountain Lords.]

Nice, nice, the transformation effect of this Mountain Lord Essence isn’t any lesser than the Jiao Long Transformation, its abilities are better suited for melee combat, now with a new trump card for direct confrontations.

Seeing the time wasn’t early anymore, Xiao Jie logged out of the game.

Stretching lazily, Xiao Jie was quite satisfied with today’s gaming experience, he indeed reaped full rewards this day.

Oh right, wonder how Gu Feiyu is doing with his gameplay.

Xiao Jie thought, glancing towards Han Luo’s bedroom.

Earlier, the two were gaming in the living room, but later, to prevent mutual interference, Gu Feiyu moved the computer into Han Luo’s bedroom.

Now that his game was over, he couldn’t help but feel a bit curious.

Thinking it over, it’s time to pay attention to this little brother’s game progress.

Xiao Jie stood up and walked to the bedroom door, lightly knocked, just in case the other was at a critical moment.

"Come in." A brief voice from Gu Feiyu sounded inside.

As Xiao Jie entered, he saw Gu Feiyu intently staring at the screen, not turning his head at all.

Xiao Jie wasn’t bothered; playing games naturally requires full immersion, especially at critical moments, not allowing any distraction, he understood this well.

He quietly walked behind Gu Feiyu, observing the other’s screen.

Huh, this is—

Gu Feiyu was searching for something in a dilapidated ancient temple.

The ancient temple looked somewhat like a Daoist Temple, yet also like Mountain God Temples or Earth God Temples, with a dilapidated divine image on the decrepit temple hall, not even visible what god it was, and some faded frescoes on surrounding walls, mostly some Immortals, Divine beings, Taoists, mountains, and waters.

Xiao Jie looked at Gu Feiyu’s level—Level 7, still hasn’t left Newbie Village, right?

Seeing Gu Feiyu walking around on screen just looking for stuff, confirming there was no monster or danger, Xiao Jie finally asked.

"Where are you at now in the game?"

"I just triggered an odd encounter, working on a follow-up quest, if everything goes smoothly, I should advance to Taoist at Level 10."

Damn, so impressive? Xiao Jie was somewhat surprised.

"Care to share your odd encounter? Weren’t you tagging along with the scholar earlier? How come it’s just you now."

"That scholar was already taken out by me." Gu Feiyu said smugly.

"Taken out?"

"That’s right, the scholar was just an accessory to trigger the odd encounter, since the encounter is triggered, he became useless."

Gu Feiyu continued searching in the ancient temple while explaining his previous odd encounter to Xiao Jie.

Earlier, he learned Swordsmanship Introduction and Academic Introduction from the scholar for a while in the village.

Seeing there’s nothing left to learn, he persuaded the scholar to travel the Nine States to broaden knowledge, as the saying goes reading ten thousand books is not as good as traveling ten thousand miles, also to widely spread the Saint’s Dao.

The scholar was swayed enough and decided to leave Newbie Village with Gu Feiyu to venture.

Unexpectedly, before the two even left the map where Newbie Village is located, they encountered a beautiful woman in the wild.

That beautiful woman was heavily injured, begging for their help, saying a great villain was chasing her, hoping they could drive him away.

The pair found the great villain, surprisingly it was a Traveling Taoist, who told them the beauty was a Fox Demon, and he came especially to exorcise demons, hoping they could assist in taking her out.

This odd encounter was clearly prepared for the scholar because at that time Gu Feiyu didn’t trigger any storyline dialogue; all the storyline was driven by the scholar.

The scholar thought the Fox Demon, though a demon, might not necessarily harm people, hence refused to help the Taoist, furthermore persuading the Taoist to leave.

It was at this moment, Gu Feiyu decisively seized the opportunity, quickly took down the scholar with a combo.

His action of killing naturally shocked the Taoist, instantly triggering the subsequent storyline dialogue, the Taoist asked what was he doing, why kill his own master.

Gu Feiyu had his reasoning, explaining—this scholar can’t differentiate good and evil, blinded by female lust, I disdain to associate with such a person, thus eliminated him, the Evil Woman is just ahead, Daoist please join me to exorcise demons.

"I actually used some gaming tricks here. Indeed, I could have talked the scholar into exorcising demons together, but I felt at that point the protagonist of this odd encounter was the scholar, even if perfectly completing this encounter, the best reward would probably be his."

"So I decisively took action, since the scholar was of no use at this moment, might as well take him out, exactly inserting my character into the storyline, this way the encounter becomes mine, and the following opportunities becomes my own."

"This move is called borrowing a chicken to lay eggs, I think you could refer to this technique upon triggering odd encounters in future."

Xiao Jie nodded in admiration, indeed, this move was worth referencing, Gu Feiyu this kid, has some talent.

"And then?"

"After helping the Taoist take out the Fox Demon, another dialogue triggered offering reward choices, I decisively chose to become a disciple."

The Taoist said he could introduce me to his sect, although the sect is rather secretive, whether I have this chance depends on my fortune, he asked me to come to this ancient temple to find his school, so here I am."

Xiao Jie marveled, expressing constant surprises, the quality of Gu Feiyu’s odd encounters was indeed high, triggering advancement quests directly related to the Taoist.

Seems Gu Feiyu’s prior analysis was correct, the Newbie Village is a very crucial game stage for newcomers, containing various hidden elements, execute properly there’s a chance advancing directly to Magic System at Level 10.

"Do you need me to help find clues?"

Gu Feiyu shook his head, "No need for now, everyone has their own fortune, I can feel a special mysticism in this game, if it’s not self-earned, there might be impact, I’ll search slowly myself."

Xiao Jie nodded, "Okay, carry on, call me if you encounter danger, advancing to Taoist at Level 10 would be great."

Though all are Taoists, there are disparities, mainly lies upon the sect entered, a giant sect like Xuanxu Palace offers more high-level magic to learn.

Small Daoist Temples fall a bit short.

This broken temple looking so worn out, such elusive sect of the Traveling Taoist, who knows what will it be like.

But as long as it’s a Taoist, they’re Master of Magic after all.