Sanctuary Paradise

Chapter 650 "Catfish Effect"

Half an hour later, at the Lailai Cult training ground.

[Tip: "Advanced Training Mode" has been enabled. The current activation fee is: 60000 Park Points/hour]

On the empty silver-white training ground, Xin Lailai stood in front of the control terminal. After adjusting the various training settings he needed, he nodded slightly, looked at Ling Yuzi, who was already sitting in the middle of the training ground flipping through the [Soul Training Manual], and walked towards him.

In the half hour before coming here, he exchanged a lot of information related to the battle with Dong and Yamu. He basically figured out the specific rules of the battle and reached a consensus. They decided to use each other's channels during the preparation period of the battle to trade various intelligence and resources, so as to ensure that they can quickly get the needed materials or information.

As for the secondary members of the battle...that is, the selection of their respective teammates, it is temporarily on hold because the paradise has not submitted the list yet.

After all, before Paradise clearly announces the quotas they each need to occupy in the battle, no one can guarantee whether the quota of the teammate they have chosen in advance will exceed 10 points when combined with themselves. In this case, it is better to wait until the preparation stage is settled, and then look for suitable teammates based on their own specific quotas and needs.

By the way, in addition to the confirmation of teammates, there is another thing that can only be determined after the preparation stage is over, that is, the difficulty that each of the main participants in this expedition to the world battle will face.

According to the information in the announcement, in this battle, even if the four worlds directly allocated to their paradise are excluded, there are still 8 high-resource worlds + 2 super rare resource worlds for them to fight for. According to the information from Yamu, there are only 3 outer-level contractors in the Samsara Paradise this year, and there are only 2 outer-level contractors in the Death Paradise. Together, they cannot meet the demand for fighting for three worlds.

Given the style of Samsara Paradise, it goes without saying that the other party will give priority to competing for the two super rare resource worlds. Although Death Paradise is not so radical, it will at least send an outsider-level team member to the super rare resource world. In other words, there is only one outsider-level team member that Samsara Paradise and Death Paradise can send to compete for the high-resource world.

In this situation, given the nature of their Paradise, one can tell with their eyes closed that they will definitely send 7 of their 5 outsider teams to compete for the world with high resources, and they will definitely be staggered with the two outsider teams sent by Samsara and Death to compete for the world with high resources, and let them fight against the top and super top team contractors of Samsara and Death Paradise.

As for the camp with 1 teammate from the outside echelon and 1 teammate from the super top echelon facing off against a camp with a high probability of 6 team members from the super top echelon, what are the chances of winning?

Regarding this point, Xin Lailai could only say that just look at those lord-level and sub-overlord-level creatures on the White Frontier Star who were killed like chickens by the Death Keepers and you will understand.

The reason why the super-top echelon is the super-top echelon is that its comprehensive capabilities in all aspects are stuck in this category, and the reason why the outside-level echelon is the outside-level echelon is that its strengths in all aspects have exceeded the highest standards under the conventional definition.

Of course, if you really want to say that this kind of battle is going to be a foregone conclusion, that's not the case. It's just that the probability of failure is much lower than them getting epic full-rated equipment from a legendary treasure chest. After all, that requires the other two sides to be able to produce a perfect team of 6 people who cooperate perfectly with each other, complement each other's abilities, and have no shortcomings after the combination.

If this was when they were facing Overwatch or their own paradise, he might still believe it, but if they had to ask the Paradise of Samsara and the Paradise of Death to produce 6 contractors who could cooperate with each other... it could only be said that the situation was more like the other way around.

Therefore, considering all kinds of information, it can be basically confirmed that this battle will be a combination of five weak games and two high-end games. As for which two lucky people will be sent to the two high-end games, according to their guess, the most likely ones are Dao Ji and them.

Well, yes, they are among the most likely candidates to be sent to fight for the world of super rare resources.

After all, leaving aside Dao Ji, who is obviously a level above the outsiders in terms of strength, when everyone's strength is in a similar range, they possess the passive abilities of the Five Gates Grandmasters, have taken the path of techniques and mages, and have the advantages of dual souls + soul system, they are indeed the most suitable ones to be used as countermeasure cards.

Perhaps in terms of direct combat power alone, they are indeed not as good as Dao Ji and Zhi Shi Zhe, who are outer-level teams, but in terms of the comprehensiveness of their means, all other pioneers present combined may not be as comprehensive as theirs. If you really want to count, they only lack a stable table-turning means like the Seed of the Netherworld or the Seed of Realm Thunder, but those world-destroying means were all banned in this battle.

And even if the other party really overturned the table, he could just throw out the Filthy God's Skeleton. Although this thing was not stable, but from the perspective of overturning the table alone, the effect was absolutely great, and the main purpose was to make sure no one had an easy time.

[Tip: The active effect of the title "Diligent Scholar" has been activated. During this period, 16 mana and soul energy are consumed per second. The learning efficiency bonus and fatigue accumulation speed provided by "Diligent Study" are doubled, and the maximum duration is 16000 seconds.]

A cold reminder sounded, and Xin Lailai sat down cross-legged. After taking a deep breath, he released his mental strength and focused his attention on the [Soul Training Manual] in Ling Yuzi's hand. He touched a certain soul inscription inside it and entered a state of absolute concentration.

Although I care a lot about this expedition world battle, some things cannot be changed just by caring, so it is better to seize every minute and every second to increase my own foundation and respond to all changes with the same attitude.

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three days later.

[Tip: You have mastered the "Anshen Secret Art", and the current secret art has been automatically integrated into the "Soul Secret Art" list! ]

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[Soul Secret Technique]

1. Secret Soothing Magic: You can consume 10000 soul energy or 1 "Soul Crystal (Complete)" to construct a "Soothing Rune". You can then consume the durability of this rune to release the "Soothing Magic", giving the unit a "Soothing" effect. During this period, the unit will gain a fourth-level "Forced Calm" effect (immune to fourth-level and lower mental and psychological control), and the mental fatigue limit is increased by 150 points (Soul Inscription increases by 50%), and the mental fatigue recovery speed during sleep is increased by 15 points/hour (Soul Inscription increases by 50%), which lasts for 15 hours (Soul Inscription increases by 50%).

*Tip: When the "Calming Rune" is integrated into the soul, the immersion can obtain a permanent "Calming Effect", and the durability consumption of the "Calming Rune" is reduced by 90% (if in a sleeping state, it will be increased to 95%).

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"Huh... I finally finished this thing."

On the training ground, Xin Lailai, who had not closed his eyes for 70 hours, looked at the skill information introduction in front of him, rubbed his eyelids gently, and a trace of obvious fatigue appeared on his face.

In order to master this secret art in one go, he did almost nothing other than reading during these 70 hours, except drinking two sips of water. Ling Yuzi, on the other hand, could not hold on at all after about 60 hours due to the disadvantage of his soul body and had to return to the soul space to rest.

As a reward for their hard work in Soul Studies for so long, during these three days, they not only upgraded their Soul Mysticism to level 20, but also completely mastered the "Secret Art of Anshen", which was as difficult to learn as upgrading Soul Mysticism to the next level.

"After I condense the Calming Rune, I'll go to sleep right away..."

On the training ground, Xin Lailai glanced at the Death Bearer who was fighting with Bai Ye's projection in the distance as if no one was around. He rubbed his temples, took a long breath, closed his eyes, and mobilized the soul energy in the soul space.

In fact, his mental fatigue has now dropped to a dangerous level of -20 to -30. To condense a calming rune that consumes at least 100 points of mental fatigue is a bit too extreme no matter how you look at it.

The problem is that if the effect of the tranquility magic is other than that, it would be fine, but increasing the mental fatigue limit by 150 points and increasing the mental fatigue recovery speed by 15 points/hour is too useful for them at the moment. You have to know that even if their real intelligence attribute is as high as 90 points, the mental fatigue limit derived from it is only about 360 points. As for the recovery speed, with their current sleep skill level, even if they enter a deep sleep state as soon as they close their eyes, their mental fatigue recovery speed is about 30 points/hour.

In other words, by practicing this mysterious art of calming the mind, their upper limit of mental fatigue can instantly increase by as much as 41.7%, and the speed of mental fatigue recovery can instantly increase by 50%, which is equivalent to only needing 4 hours of sleep to get the effect of 6 hours of sleep. This is of great help for both daily knowledge learning and the development of various extremely energy-consuming abilities.

Not only that, as a secret technique with a very high threshold for use, the "Calming Rune" condensed from the secret art of calming the mind is also extremely popular in the market. One of them can easily sell for tens of millions, and it is the standard type that is priced but not sold.

This can be seen from the fact that they had previously commissioned Chijia to help purchase this type of soul runes at a high price, but did not get anything in return. Due to the limitations that the soul system is too rare and soul science requires a high time cost to form, soul runes like the tranquilizing rune cannot be bought on the market, and many times they don't even have the chance to flow into the market.

With their current mental fatigue limit and recovery speed, without engaging in other behaviors that consume mental fatigue, they can stably produce four "Calming Runes" a day. Based on the market price of 10 million per piece, after deducting the cost of 5 million, it is equivalent to a guaranteed income of 20 million Paradise Points a day.

And this is calculated based on the lowest quality "Calming Rune" + they only have one individual. If the quality factor and the factor of two souls in one body are taken into consideration, then the daily income they can get from the "Calming Rune" alone is at least 60 million Paradise Points.

Although realistically speaking, they currently cannot waste their precious mental energy on this, and their ability to master this level of secret techniques is also closely related to their strength and learning efficiency that has been stacked to 1780%, this is enough to prove how huge the profits brought by the development of a secondary profession are.

Om-! !

[Tip: The current special item "Soothing Rune" is in an unbound state. If you use it on yourself, it will be changed to a bound state that cannot be sold! ]

A few minutes later, as a circle of invisible soul fluctuations spread out, a cold reminder sounded from Xin Lailai's mind, but Xin Lailai just glanced at it and ignored it.

[Hint: The "Calming Rune" has been used, and the "Calming" effect has been obtained. The mental fatigue limit is +150 points, and the mental fatigue recovery speed during sleep is increased by 15 points/hour]

An unusually warm feeling spread from Xin Lailai's mind, causing his mental fatigue limit, which had been overdrawn to -120~-130 points, to be restored to 20~30 points. Seeing this, Xin Lailai nodded slightly and looked at his skill interface:
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[Elementary Soul Mysticism: LV.20]

Proficiency: 1/3000
1. Soul-collecting secret method: can be achieved through...

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4. Soul-Destroying Secret Technique: It can consume 50000 soul energy or 5 soul crystals (complete) to construct the "Soul-Destroying Ritual" in the soul space. After the construction is completed, the ritual can be used to release the "Soul-Destroying Gaze", which immediately consumes 5000 soul energy, locks a unit for gaze, and causes 5000 soul damage to it, and this damage will be accompanied by a "Soul Annihilation" effect.

*Tip: Based on the current soul strength of the Pioneer, the "Soul Annihilation" intensity caused by the current "Soul Destroying Gaze" can instantly annihilate the souls of units with a soul strength below 50 points, cause "permanent soul damage" to units with a soul strength within 80 points, cause "deep soul disability" to units with a soul strength within 100 points, and cause "severe soul shock" to units with a soul strength within 120 points (this is the basic effect that does not take into account any soul-related damage reduction and abnormal resistance of the hit unit).

*Tip: After using the Soul-Destroying Ritual, it will enter a 24-hour "overload" period. Using it again during the "overload" period will cause the "overload" duration to be extended by 200%. When the "overload" duration exceeds 108 hours, it will cause the Soul-Destroying Ritual to crash.

*Tip: The "Soul-Destroying Technique" places a heavy load on the soul space. Based on the current soul space strength of the pioneer, only three techniques of the current strength can be constructed (the normal "delusional state" soul space corresponding to 3 points of soul strength is 100 type. Because the pioneer soul space is promoted to the "fantasy state", the upper limit is increased to 1 types).

Upgrade price: 5 Soul Coins

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Unlike at LV.10, there is only one secret technique that appears after Soul Mysticism is promoted to LV.20, and it is an extremely aggressive "Soul-Destroying Secret Technique" that is known as the "Soul-Destroying Secret Technique" in the Soul System.

As for why they unlocked this secret technique, it was certainly not something that happened randomly. The improvement of knowledge-related abilities is not a matter of luck. All unlocked abilities are based on the knowledge that they have learned. They unlocked the "Soul-Capture Secret Technique" and the "Soul-Return Secret Technique" before because they intended to master two soul-related secret techniques that were more auxiliary at the time, so they deliberately studied in this direction.

The same is true for the "Soul-Destroying Secret Technique" this time. Their next world can be assumed to be an expedition world battle, and there is a great probability that they will be sent to fight in the world of super rare resources. In this case, mastering an offensive soul secret technique is obviously more useful than an auxiliary or defensive soul secret technique.

As for why it is the "Soul-Destroying Secret Technique" and not other offensive soul secret techniques, it is because among the secret techniques that can be mastered with a soul strength of 100 points, this secret technique is the most domineering one. Even a sword master with a soul strength of 80 points will suffer from "severe soul shock" if hit by it.

According to the intelligence they had obtained, someone in the outer-level team in the Samsara Paradise happened to be a master of swordsmanship, and there was also a soul sickle master with extremely high soul damage reduction in the Death Paradise. Considering the tricky nature of the outer-level team, he naturally had to make targeted preparations.

Unfortunately, I don't have the energy to build this thing today...

Xin Lailai glanced at the projection of Bai Ye who was fighting fiercely with the Death Master in the distance, a look of regret appeared in her eyes. Finally, she shook her head, opened the branding interface, selected the exclusive room, and pressed the confirmation button.

He hasn't slept for 70 hours. If he doesn't go back and lie down to sleep, he will really die here.

Om-! !

The next second, a blue beam of light fell, and Xin Lailai's figure disappeared from the spot. Almost at the same time as he left, the Death Executioner in the distance seemed to have noticed something, and silently stopped his attack and chose to return.

In fact, according to her plan, she should go back to accompany Shilona after training for one day at most, but after seeing Xin Lailai sitting in the corner with a soundproof barrier on to improve her knowledge level, she continued to practice for another day without saying a word.

Although the Death Bearer never spoke, someone successfully challenged the level 40 White Night Contract as soon as he entered the third level, while she herself was stuck at level 39, which obviously had a certain impact on her decision-making.

As to whether the impact caused by someone's behavior has spread to the entire foreign-level team, or even indirectly improved the quality of this year's foreign-level team, this is a matter of opinion.

Anyway, before a certain person appeared, even those who believed that they never wasted any time had never thought that one day they would have to split a day into 48 hours like in paradise.

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(End of this chapter)