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

Liu Nian was stunned... Had he not used the Body Tempering Technique ten times already?

It seems he had only used the Body Tempering effect three times before: a 10% increase in area-of-effect skills, a 10% extension in the duration of rage-type skills, and a 5% increase in armor.

Because the effect wasn't particularly strong, Liu Nian didn't use it often and saved it up instead.

Who would have thought that after ten uses it would produce an additional effect?

One body tempering session may not be very effective, but if you accumulate ten sessions, the effect will be considerable. For example, if your armor increases by 50% at once, that would be an epic upgrade.

As for Prismatic Body Forging... Liu Nian doesn't know the specific effects of this, but there's a possibility that a powerful special option might appear?

However, it might not be as effective as 10 times the body tempering effect...

Liu Nian figured he could stack them infinitely in the future anyway, so he decided to try out this prismatic color first!

[Duang~, Body tempering successful. Please choose one of the following three options to enhance:]

[Option 1, Extraordinary Speed: All your movement abilities gain a 50% cooldown reduction.]

Option 2, Aftershocks: Extends the duration of all control effects you inflict on enemies by 1 second.

Option 3, Divine Protection: Increases the shield and healing effects you receive from all sources by 30%.

Looking at these three options, Liu Nian realized they were indeed far more effective than ordinary body-tempering methods!

All three effects could bring significant enhancements, but Liu Nian ultimately chose option one.

Because he doesn't have many control skills, just the Axe Roar.

As for shields and healing, they are merely icing on the cake.

Halving the cooldown of all movement skills is still more cost-effective.

After choosing the body-forging method, Liu Nian continued to grind monsters. The two of them fought their way forward through the fog until they cleared the entire island, but they still didn't see any Boundary Trees with dead bodies hanging on them.

Liu Nian thought to himself: Could it be that I was really tricked by the person who gave me the mission?

He frowned in thought.

After thinking for a moment, Liu Nian summoned Little Blue.

"Explore this island," Liu Nian said, pointing around. "Look for any hidden entrances."

Little Blue turned into water and disappeared.

Liu Nian and Shi Ri took a break.

After this fierce battle, Liu Nian reached level 136.

Sun Devourer then broke through to level 125.

This speed is definitely much faster than him leveling up by grinding all day!

Just five minutes later, Xiao Lan sent a message.

"Found it?"

A stream guided the two, and Liu Nian and Shi Ri followed the current until they arrived at a rocky area on the east side of the island.

It looked no different from other places—black reefs, blood-red waves, and occasionally a few rotting seabirds washed ashore.

But the water that Little Blue transformed into drifted straight to a crevice in the reef and then flowed into the sea.

Liu Nian and Shi Ri exchanged a glance, and then jumped into the water one after the other.

The blood-red seawater had very low visibility, but following the faint blue light emanating from Xiao Lan, they didn't get lost. They descended for about twenty or thirty meters until an opening appeared in the rock wall. The opening was quite large, about five or six meters high, and it was pitch black, making it impossible to see what was inside.

The two swam in one after the other, and after passing through a narrow waterway, the water suddenly opened up ahead.

At this moment, part of Xiao Lan's body enveloped the two of them, and Liu Nian felt himself floating upwards—a light appeared above his head, a hazy white feeling.

Then, he and Devourer of the Sun were suddenly thrown out of the water by Little Blue, one after the other.

Liu Nian stopped and found himself in a huge cave.

There is air here, but it is filled with a thick fog.

The fog was grayish-white, different from the fog outside; it was thicker and more viscous, flowing slowly like a living thing.

Devouring the Sun sniffed the air and immediately shook his head in disgust: "It smells of death! It's very unpleasant!"

Liu Nian's gaze also kept sweeping across the thick fog.

Something's definitely wrong here; the fog is incredibly thick, and visibility is less than three meters.

After arriving here, Xiao Lan was taken back by Liu Nian, and the two of them were left to explore the rest of the way.

The two exchanged a glance and decided to proceed cautiously. They each took a deep breath and entered the fog.

Shortly after they entered the mist, Devourer of the Sun discovered that the cave walls beside them had suddenly disappeared, as if they were in an endless gray space.

"Let's go," Liu Nian said, "be careful."

The two walked slowly, one in front of the other. Shi Ri curiously reached out to touch the rock wall beside him, but couldn't find anything.

Strangely, the rock wall was clearly not far from the Sun Devourer before, and the Sun Devourer had already moved several meters to the side, but it still couldn't touch it!

Shi Ri didn't believe in superstitions. He had a genuine heart and felt he shouldn't be fooled by mere mist, so he walked a few meters to the side.

At that moment, Liu Nian suddenly felt something was wrong—he turned around, but there was no one behind him.

The sun-devouring creature has disappeared.

"Devouring the sun?" he exclaimed.

"Here." The voice of Devourer of the Sun came, sounding very close, only four or five meters away.

"I can't see you anymore," Liu Nian said. "I'm waiting for you here, hurry up and take a few steps!"

Ten seconds later...

Liu Nian still did not see the sun devoured.

"Where are you?" asked the Sun Eater.

"It's right in front of you!" Liu Nian felt that the voice of Devouring Sun came from the thick fog behind him, no more than five meters away.

Strangely, no matter how close the two got, they couldn't see each other!

"Report the coordinates," Liu Nian said, frowning.

The Daily Report sent out coordinates. Liu Nian opened the map and his pupils contracted—those coordinates were a full two hundred meters away from his current location!

The sound was right next to my ear, but the coordinates were hundreds of meters away?

What the hell is this?

"Let's move closer to each other according to our coordinates!"

"good!"

Liu Nian kept his eyes on the coordinates as he walked carefully.

Strangely, there was nothing around... no rock walls, no seawater, no obstacles...

When Liu Nian had walked about a hundred steps, Shi Ri suddenly said:

"Huh? I touched something..."

"What the heck..." Liu Nian hadn't finished speaking when he suddenly heard a system notification:

Your teammate "Sun Eater" has died.

[The bond between the two kings has been activated, and the Sun Eater has been reborn!]

The Sun Devourer actually died!

"What's going on?"

Devourer of the Sun was equally bewildered: "I don't know! I just touched a round ball and then... I died!"

"What kind of sphere?"

"It's like one of those energy balls, not very big... it gives me a tingling sensation... I..."

Before Shi Ri could finish speaking, another system notification popped up in front of Liu Nian's eyes:

Your teammate "Sun Eater" has died.

[The bond between the two kings has been activated, and the Sun Eater has been reborn!]

Liu Nian was stunned.

dead again?

He just died like that?

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