Alone and Infinite.

Chapter 647 The Sigh of the Map of Mountains and Rivers
Li Xia took out a square, jet-black box. The box was made of a material that looked like some kind of stone, with a luster similar to obsidian.

【Destiny Paint Box】

[Grade: Destiny]

【Category: Consumables】

[Effect: Upon opening, you will receive 100 points of Destiny Paint]

[Synopsis: Broken destinies, after being specially ground, condense into destiny powder. When used as pigment in painting, the artwork possesses incredible power.]

One hundred points!!!

Happiness is like overflowing water, gradually flowing through the body. How wonderful is the Hall of Light!

What a magnificent hall! How did a bunch of guilds manage to ruin it like this?

All it takes is a word from the Temple of Light, and a grant of permissions.

It wouldn't be a bad idea to scan through the guilds at every tier!

However, it will cost extra!

"Meow?"

Hei Tan watched Li Xia holding the stone box with satisfaction and keenly noticed the blind spot.

Aowu nodded and said matter-of-factly:
"It must have been deliberately given to the boss by the Hall of Light. This is a reserve substitute, and the hidden rating is frighteningly high."

For apostles at the level of the leader, it's no longer a matter of them using whatever the temple provides.

Instead, it's necessary to find suitable resources based on one's own needs; the Temple of Light definitely has some biases.

Black Charcoal nodded thoughtfully, "That makes sense."

Just like in the Palico Academy, the teacher also gave me extra lessons, because I'm a top student!

"Boss, open it quickly and take a look!"

"Ah."

Li Xia gently pressed the clasp on the box, and the moment it opened, an extremely dazzling pale golden light seeped out from the gap in the box.

The lid was pushed open by an invisible force, and fine, sand-like pigments lay inside. They seemed to be a mixture of various colors in the void, forming an extremely rich palette.

"Buzz!"

The "Map of Mountains and Rivers" automatically emerged from Li Xia's body, slowly unfolding to reveal a completely blank scroll. The fine sand seemed to be drawn by something, flying from the box towards the scroll, and upon contact with it, it was dyed into layers of brilliant halos.

A long, sigh-like sound echoed in Li Xia's mind.

Li Xia suddenly raised his eyebrows and looked around warily, but found nothing unusual.

"Boss?"

Aowu and Heitan immediately tensed up, scattering and switching to battle mode to scan their surroundings.

Am I hallucinating?
Li Xia raised a hand, closed his eyes, and searched carefully. The voice he had just heard seemed to have echoed directly in his mind.

He sat cross-legged, circulating his qi throughout his body, his breathing gradually becoming longer and deeper, and he entered a state of tranquility where he forgot himself and the world around him. Li Xia had been practicing this meditation and qi cultivation technique in the Time Chamber for at least twenty years, and he was already extremely familiar with it.

Gradually, a vague voice became clearer in my mind.

The mumbled mutter carried an unusually familiar feeling.

"So delicious, I'm slurping it up!"

Li Xia:
This is absolutely a doomed piece of junk!
One point of absolute luck isn't enough to satisfy bad luck; it's more like a lollipop, and you're lucky if you can suck on it a couple of times.

But gradually, another voice sounded in my ears.

That sounds like a woman's voice?

Li Xia held his breath, and the woman's voice became clearer and clearer.

Until a pleasant, mature voice echoed in my mind:
"Good heavens! I almost choked! I can't do it!"

???

Li Xia suddenly opened her eyes, startling the three little ones, who looked at her nervously, thinking something serious had happened.

After listening to Li Xia explain what had happened, the three little ones couldn't hold back anymore.

"Boss, are you saying that the Mountain and River Map, like the Misfortune, actually has a faint sense of self and can express its own emotions?"

Awoo opened its mouth, its whiskers waving rapidly, indicating a faint sense of self. This wasn't actually that far-fetched; powerful weapons and equipment all had this effect.

Putting aside other things, let's talk about the third brother. In fact, the third brother was initially just summoned by a talisman, and was also an object in a certain sense.

However, he later fused with the Mythical Zoan-type Tengu Fruit, and by awakening the Tengu's fruit, he was given intelligence, which is equivalent to reinstalling the system, and that's how the current third brother came to be.

"It's normal that Misfortune and the Map of Mountains and Rivers can speak Chinese, since they are actually communicating through consciousness. It's just that my brain instinctively translates the information they send to me into Chinese."

Li Xia's face showed a mixture of confusion and bewilderment:
"But why is it in Henan dialect?"

The three little ones shook their heads vigorously. They weren't locals, so they had no idea why they were speaking Henan dialect.

After racking his brains for a while without any results, Li Xia put the matter aside.

He then looked at the "Landscape Map" and thought that since he had the pigments, he should be able to make a rubbing of it.

He tried to copy his personal space, and a prompt immediately appeared in front of him.

[Executioner, would you like to consume 16 points of Destiny Pigment to create an imprint?]

16 PM?
It seems quite small. Li Xia quickly calculated in his mind that his current personal space was 2 square meters, which is about 80 meters in radius.
If we consider the largest possible scope, the Shanhe Sheji Tu (Map of Mountains and Rivers) can be printed over a radius of 1 kilometer.

Exactly one hundred points!

This refers to the upper limit of the Fate Pigment in the Tier 1 Mountain and River Map.

Not bad!

Unfortunately, upgrading the Mountain and River Map also requires Destiny Pigment; upgrading from Tier 1 to Tier 2 requires 100 Pigment.

We can't upgrade it now; the most important thing is to imprint it, at least to make the equipment usable before anything else.

In that case, killing the boss when the scroll is unfurled will at least yield more paint.

Li Xia weighed the painting in her hand with satisfaction and put it away. As for whether it was in the south or not, let her be; it wasn't a big deal.

After opening these items, there aren't many left.

"Boss, shall we open the box?"

"open!"

Keeping the treasure chest won't create more treasure chests. Although the current misfortune doesn't offer any fate rewards (killing the projection Li Xia in the trial doesn't allow him to devour fate), he is no longer the lucky 0 he used to be.

He is the first acting leader of the Transcendence Hall, the third-in-line candidate acting leader of the Light Hall, a three-star executioner, and has achieved two perfect advancements and one fundamental advancement.

You have 1 point of absolute luck!
"Wait, let me put on that bracelet first."

Li Xia pulled out that rather unconventional piece of equipment from his pocket.

A lucky red string that wasn't so lucky

As soon as she put it on her wrist, Li Xia felt a chilling aura emanating from the bracelet, trying to rush into her body. However, as soon as it touched her skin, it was dispelled by the warm light naturally emanating from within her body.

A demigod's body and the Eight-Nine Arcane Arts—neither of these are things that demons or monsters can easily possess. A long, low sigh reached Li Xia's ears. The sound was melodious and plaintive, like a sob, and even sounded somewhat poignant and sorrowful.

"Ok?"

Li Xia's expression froze, and she looked down to see that her clothes had been undone at some point, and a slender, long hand with red nail polish was gently resting on her chest.

This hand is connected to an arm that is as white as snow. Just by looking at this hand and arm, one can imagine that the owner of the arm is an extremely beautiful woman.

The three children stared in astonishment as the hand gently rubbed and kneaded, then they saw the eldest's face gradually darken, and a strong light suddenly burst forth from his body, causing the graceful arm to be repelled.

Suddenly, a cry echoed in the air, and the three little ones felt a chill run down their spines as faint, illusory shadows appeared before them.

A cold smile crept across Li Xia's lips. A mere female ghost—

Ok?
Under the stunned gazes of the three little ones, Li Xia and the female ghost stared at each other, feeling somewhat awkward for a moment.

Except for special areas such as the deathmatch, arena, and training ground, the hall cannot be attacked or damaged.

As for the caress just now, the hall judged it as normal contact and it had no impact.

The female ghost was even more miserable. She tried to absorb the luck from the red string she wore, but no matter what she did, she couldn't absorb any. In fact, if she tried too hard, the ghost would impatiently grumble at her, as if she were being dismissed as a beggar, and tell her to get lost.

The female ghost manifests by absorbing luck points, essentially using the fate of the equipment user to form a physical form, since luck points are a manifestation of fate.

This is why the female ghost cannot be completely killed no matter what method is used, and will always be reborn.

Because one cannot control one's own destiny except through death.

However, the female ghost who cannot absorb fate can only be a phantom, without any physical form, yet she exists because of the pull of fate.

So, we really don't know what to do with her?

The little dragon circled the female ghost a few times, and to be honest, her little face was quite pretty.

"Yes, at least that's how it is inside the hall, but she can't touch us; she can only be a phantom, and..."

It seems the female ghost got beaten up by misfortune because she tried to steal its lollipop.

"Fine, let her come if she wants. Anyway, opening chests usually happens in the main hall."

Li Xia stopped paying attention to the floating female ghost and instead placed the two boxes side by side in front of him.

open!

Without a flash of light or any black smoke, the lids of Im's treasure chest and Whitebeard Jr.'s treasure chest both jumped into the air.

A thick book appeared above Im's treasure chest, while a series of numbers appeared above Whitebeard Jr.'s treasure chest, continuously rising upwards.

This happened because instead of getting anything, it gave you Hall Points, which is quite common when opening treasure chests.

The three little ones let out a collective sigh. Ever since Li Xia started having bad luck, almost every time they opened a box, it was a flash of light. They had even forgotten what it was like to open a box normally.

Returning to a normal unboxing experience now feels a bit strange.

"With 1 point of luck, it's already good that there was no black smoke."

Li Xia recalled the billowing black smoke when she first opened the box, followed by the heartbreakingly empty reward.

I think this 1 point of luck is absolutely amazing.

"That's true. It's nice to have a change of pace once in a while, so that the constant flashing raises the threshold and makes people think that treasure chests should always be like this."

Just as the three little ones were trying to comfort themselves, the female ghost who had been floating curiously beside them suddenly flew towards the treasure chest.

With both arms reaching directly into the treasure chest, and to the astonishment of the three little ones, they began to grope around, clearly trying to pull something out.

Aowu and Heitan immediately got excited and jumped up from the floor:
"Sis! We were talking too loudly just now! Sorry!"

"Meow! Meow meow meow meow!"

"Sis! You should pick the big ones, preferably long ones. We don't want the small ones that don't feel good! Pick the big ones."

Wow, so clever! The most valuable weapons in the treasure chest are mostly long, and they feel especially good to hold.

Amidst the exaggerated and unrestrained praise from Aowu and Heitan, the female ghost slowly withdrew her arm, even Li Xia couldn't help but become curious.

Amidst the expectant gazes of the three little ones, this woman forcefully pulled an extremely long rope from Im's treasure chest.

As for Whitebeard Jr.'s treasure chest, it was something like a test tube, with a pale purple liquid flowing inside.

The female ghost presented the item to Li Xia as if it were a treasure, then swayed and flew behind him. She placed her hands on top of his head and rested her head on her arms. In a very good mood, she gently shook her head, humming a little tune, while her two smooth, long legs swayed back and forth behind her.

Li Xia:
Oh well, let her be. There's nothing I can do if she doesn't agree, so I might as well just ignore her and avoid the trouble.

He brought several items to his eyes, the first being the book he had opened from Im's treasure chest.

Im's Magic Book

[Grade: Light Orange (Tier 4)]

[Equipment Type: Support Equipment]

【Origin: One Piece】

【Durability: 3/3】

Book of Magic: Can summon contracts within the book; each summon will consume 1 point of durability.

Current Contracts: Giant Shotgun, Giant Axe, Giant Sword, Giant Knife, Giant Shield, Giant Helmet, Pentagram Magic Circle.

The damage dealt by the summoned contract weapon is positively correlated with the wearer's spirit and intelligence.

Pentagram Magic Circle: Allows for quick teleportation between two pentagram magic circles. Each pentagram requires 1 point of durability.

Book of Repair: Restores 1 point of durability every 3 days.
[Description: Im's favorite spellbook, quite practical, perhaps not that powerful, but a good tool]

"Pretty good!"

Little Dragon smacked its lips and gave its assessment; its discerning eye had long been honed through repeated bargaining with vendors.

"Yes, it's really good."

Li Xia set the book, which looked quite old, aside.

Summoning contract weapons is useless. Li Xia had already seen Im's weapons before. Even if you stand still and let Im hit you, you can't break through their defenses.

In the end, Im, having completely broken down, never took the book out again.

The most important part of this magic book is the pentagram magic circle, a very useful tool for teleportation. As long as you stand on the pentagram magic circle, you can be teleported to the other side.

It's quite good for both support and escape; this attribute alone makes it no cheaper than a regular light orange weapon.

Large teams, in particular, will be thrilled to see this book.

This item may not be the most valuable item in Im's Treasure Chest, but it's good if it's useful.

Great start!

Li Xia rubbed his hands together, then picked up another item, which was what the female ghost had taken out.

With just one glance, a look of suspicion appeared in his eyes.

What is this?
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1. Monthly pass 2. Recommendation vote

(End of this chapter)