Full health is the kill threshold, no matter if you're a god or a demon!

Rift Scales continued to speak:

"You've only recently been promoted, so you don't have any of those messy factional entanglements. Therefore, cooperating with you is the best option for me right now."

Regardless of whether Lie Lin was telling the truth or not, Liu Nian was not afraid, because his strength gave him enough confidence!

Therefore, he intends to agree to cooperate with Riftscale.

So he asked, "What's inside the dungeon?"

Lie Lin said, "At least one piece of Eternal-grade equipment, and several pieces of Legendary-grade equipment. There are also a large quantity of rare materials, skill books, and possibly even rarer items of Legendary grade or higher!"

She stared at Liu Nian.

"So? Interested?"

Liu Nian thought for a moment.

"When are we leaving?"

Lie Lin said, "I have some other things to take care of recently, which will probably take about a month!"

Liu Nian thought to himself, a month is fine, it'll give me time to lead my guild members to fight a few regional bosses...

Since both parties had finalized the cooperation, they added each other as friends and then left, thus averting a conflict.

Anaxim, the floating city.

After becoming no-man's-land, this region no longer restricts entry and exit levels.

In fact, even level 999 players can now teleport here after discovering the coordinates.

This means that if those few Fogborn or even the level 499 Insect King discover this, they might very well appear and invade the floating city!

This is a huge hidden danger.

Therefore, Liu Nian did not dare to easily place his belongings in the floating city, but instead temporarily placed his important items in Otawien, which was protected by the system rules.

Fortunately, the psionic core will be repaired in about a week, at which time the floating city will regain its main energy source.

With the powerful strategic weapons and teleportation capabilities that city possesses, there is nothing to fear if faced with an invasion by a few Mistfolk.

What we need to worry about is facing a large-scale, high-level player invasion.

But there always needs to be a reason for an invasion.

The monsters in this area are mostly below level 99, so they have no value to players who are level 400 or 500.

The reason they invaded last time was actually because their target was Miya.

Now that Mia'er belongs to the Dragonborn and is highly bound to the Floating City, she can no longer serve as the key nutrient for the Insect King's evolution.

As for other resources, the only ones that advanced players would value are Dragon City and the surrounding magic-free rock mines.

However, Dragon City is a place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack. As long as someone can block the only entrance and exit to the outside, there is basically no way to invade.

With Liu Nian's current combat strength, he might not be able to handle a large group of high-level players, but in that kind of terrain, in a magic-free environment, if he blocked someone in a one-on-one duel, Liu Nian didn't think he would be afraid of others.

As for the Insect King... considering Mia'er's current size, it's questionable whether the Insect King could even fit inside...

If all else fails, the floating city can take the people and teleport away.

Liu Nian toured the floating city and gave Miya a warning, telling her to be vigilant for the next week and to notify him immediately if she noticed anything amiss.

On the other hand, he had also made arrangements with the centaurs.

Liu Nian killed the Mistborn by transforming into the centaur Theshu'an, so it's possible that if the enemy were to invade again, they would seek out Theshu'an.

Of course, Theshu's own identity was kept in the dark... Liu Nian only told the centaurs to be aware of a possible invasion...

After arranging this matter, Liu Nian returned to the guild headquarters in Altavian.

The B-grade tower can accommodate over a thousand people, but the current members of the Divine Dragon Guild are less than a hundred, so each person has their own room.

As for Liu Nian, as the president, he naturally has his own private office.

Most of my important personal belongings are kept here.

As for some less important equipment and materials, Liu Nian stored them in the guild warehouse.

At this stage, due to the small number of members, the guild has not yet started formal management.

Administrative management and revenue and expenditure systems, as well as guild contribution rewards, were not established.

Liu Nian wasn't particularly good at or interested in these things. He figured that once Wu Zhan and Wang Mian came up to the top, they would take care of it.

As for Wu Zhan's original dream of forming 36 warbands and launching a grand expedition... let him do it if he wants to when he has the chance.

Anyway, Liu Nian didn't have the energy to mess around. He preferred to work alone, keeping things simple and conquering all the worlds by himself.

Right now, he took out the skill stones, combined them into a prismatic skill stone, and prepared to start enhancing his skills.

But which skill should you strengthen?

It can be said that whether it's the skills he comes with or the skills he chooses later, each one is quite good.

After searching for a while, Liu Nian settled on three options.

The first is the curse of hell.

Liu Nian believes that this infinitely growing skill has a certain probability of developing other permanent growth effects after being enhanced by Prism.

The second is the newly acquired protection of the snake-headed god.

After all, it's a permanent skill, so Liu Nian felt that upgrading it would be a win-win situation.

The third is the Dragon Seal of Ten Thousand Borders.

This is one of Liu Nian's few large-scale magic attack skills.

During this battle with Riftscale, he also realized that if he didn't transform, he would be easily kited and lacked the ability to attack from a distance.

Since he was first pierced by the long-range attack of the Pigman's Bloodsworn Amna, he has been consciously or unconsciously strengthening his long-range dash ability. So after acquiring Unstoppable Force and Night Raid, he also learned Sky Leap and Night Veil, all in order to deal with enemies at a distance.

But while a charge is a charge, Liu Nian only has this one type of long-range attack with such a wide reach.

However, the ability to transform into a divine dragon could compensate for this, so after much consideration, the decision was made to abandon the Dragon Seal of Ten Thousand Borders.

To be on the safe side, Liu Nian first used a silver skill stone to strengthen the Serpent God's protection, just to test the waters first.

[Ding! Silver skill stone activated]

[Effect 1: Devour Expansion: The spell damage of a single Devour is increased to 200% of your maximum health.]

[Effect 2: Spell Backlash: After absorbing damage, the enemy who cast the spell will suffer 30% of the damage dealt as a bonus.]

[Effect 3: Mana Crystal: After passively absorbing spell damage equal to your health, a Mana Crystal is generated. Using it immediately restores your energy and charge to full. (Single combat)]

"So that's how it is..." Liu Nian looked at the three enhancement effects.

The first one isn't particularly noteworthy; it's just a boost to the base stats. However, Liu Nian has a lot of health points, so the boost will be quite significant.

However, precisely because Liu Nian has enough health points, he doesn't really need this effect.

The second one is essentially a spell version of Thornmail, which can reflect damage from enemy spells.

Don't be fooled by the fact that it only rebounded by 30%; it's actually a very high figure!

Because the damage dealt by most magic-based classes is far greater than their own health!

This skill could very well kill him instantly!

As for the third one, it is equivalent to producing a one-time "Gift of the Goddess of Shadows".

However, the triggering conditions are a bit harsh. Given Liu Nian's health, it's difficult for anyone to reach 100 billion damage in a single battle, especially since this number will continue to increase in the future...

However, this enhancement option allowed Liu Nian to see the potential enhancement effect of this skill in the Prism stage.

Is it possible that, during the Prismatic stage, this effect will turn into producing skill stones or something similar?

After thinking for a moment, Liu Nian chose option two.

He gritted his teeth and continued to enhance this eternal-level skill! Anyway, he could get more skill stones later, and if he gambled correctly, he would make a fortune!

[Ding! Prism Skill Stone activated]

[Effect 1: Serpent God's Protection: In any situation, if you suffer a fatal blow, the Serpent God will take the hit for you and immediately reset you to full status: full health, full energy, full battle spirit, and all skill cooldowns will be reset. However, you will lose Serpent God's Protection for the next 24 hours.]

[Effect 2, Hydra: The Serpent God evolves into the Hydra, losing its conversion ability. However, each head can now devour any magical attack launched against you (calculated independently). If a head devours energy equivalent to 100% of your maximum health, that head immediately transforms into a Serpent God avatar to fight for you. You can have a maximum of nine Serpent God avatars at the same time.]

[Effect 3, Divine Crystal: The Serpent God can now absorb divine spell effects. When fighting enemies of divine units, it will hatch a Divine Crystal after accumulating a sufficient amount of divine spell damage (100 times). (Note: Divine Crystals can be used to enhance divine units or add divine power effects to skills.)]