Chapter 37: Skill Fusion, Sword Qi Storm
When the crowd saw that they failed to slaughter a fat sheep, their eyes were filled with resentment and jealousy.
At this moment, they all directed their hatred toward Zhou Han, even declaring that they would teach him a lesson.
If fighting hadn't been forbidden in Azure Thunder City, they would have already made a move.
At this time, Zhou Han had no idea that he had inexplicably been targeted with hatred.
Even if he knew, it wouldn't matter—he didn't take this bunch of trash seriously at all.
[Detected an unlearned cultivation method. Do you want to learn it?]
When Zhou Han found a deserted corner and took out the "Primordial Ancient Scroll," a system prompt appeared.
"Learn."
[You have successfully learned Primordial Ancient Scroll (Fragment). Please check.]
Zhou Han didn't check it immediately. Instead, he first performed six enhancements, since his enhancement points were running low.
[Fusion Skill +6]: Merge any skills. The newly generated skill has a 90% chance to increase in quality.
After checking, Zhou Han's eyes lit up.
He clearly remembered that the previous description required two similar skills.
Now, that condition was gone. Any skills could be fused together, and there was no limit to the number.
Originally, the chance for the new skill to improve in quality was extremely low.
But now, the probability had increased to 90%. As long as his luck wasn't terrible, it would basically succeed every time.
Zhou Han felt very satisfied. Now he needed to test how the fused skill would turn out.
But he hesitated a little—what skills should he choose to fuse?
His current skills: Air Slash, Eight-Direction Heaven-Cleaving Slash, Falling Leaf Sword, Shadow Soul Stab.
Skills that came with Sword Soul: Cross Slash, Levitation, Sword Mastery.
After looking through them, Eight-Direction Heaven-Cleaving Slash had a stun effect, so he couldn't touch that for now.
Shadow Soul Stab was a soul-type attack with unexpected effects, so that couldn't be touched either.
He decided to fuse Air Slash and Falling Leaf Sword with Cross Slash first. After all, these skills' damage output was starting to fall behind.
[The selected skills have been successfully fused. Skill initialized. Enhancement points have been returned.]
Hmm?
Enhancement points could be returned? Not bad—that saved quite a bit.
[A new skill, Sword Qi Storm, has been generated. Please check!]
The enhanced effect was also displayed.
[Sword Qi Storm +6]: Summons hundreds of sword qi to form a storm, dealing 15x true damage to all enemy units within a 20-meter radius. Cooldown: 20 seconds.
Damn, 15x true damage!
The god-tier cultivation method, Primordial Ancient Scroll, was truly heaven-defying. Just a casual fusion, and it produced a true damage effect.
Looking at the remaining skills, Zhou Han had the urge to fuse them all immediately.
But he restrained himself. These skills were still very useful for now—recklessly fusing them might actually reduce his combat power.
After organizing everything, Zhou Han went to line up for registration in the selection tournament.
After an hour of waiting, it was finally his turn.
"This is your number plate. You will be randomly matched against different opponents. Only by winning all matches can you enter the preliminary finals…"
After recording Zhou Han's information, the receptionist handed him a wooden token and explained the relevant details.
Zhou Han nodded and looked at the number on it—19.
[Competition Token]: Quest item. With this token, you can qualify for the selection tournament.
I wonder what effect it will have after enhancement.
Now, Zhou Han had developed a reflex—whenever he saw anything, his first reaction was to enhance it.
He enhanced it once—nothing special.
Twice.
Hmm? Something changed.
[Competition Token +2]: Quest item. With this token, you directly enter the top 100.
Three times.
[Competition Token +3]: Quest item. With this token, you directly enter the top 10.
[You are currently ranked 10th in the talent selection tournament. You have met the task completion requirement. Do you want to complete the task immediately?]
After the third enhancement, the system prompt sounded immediately.
This was awesome—after enhancement, his rank was directly raised to tenth place.
"Don't settle the task yet!"
The rewards were based on ranking. Tenth place rewards were too low—Zhou Han's goal was first place.
"One more enhancement!"
[The item has reached its enhancement limit. Enhancement failed.]
"Failed?"
Zhou Han didn't feel disappointed. If it kept working like that, he might as well have been directly handed the championship.
After asking the staff, he learned that the top ten would proceed directly to the final round.
Today was just the preliminary round. The real finals would be tomorrow.
"That works too. No need to waste time here. I can go grind monsters outside the city now."
Zhou Han didn't waste any time and entered the Undead Canyon.
Soon, through constant clearing, his experience level reached level 20.
He also earned tens of thousands of enhancement points.
Most of the monsters he encountered were silver-grade, with a small number of gold-grade ones.
"Without experience bonuses, leveling up is indeed a bit slow. But today's gains are still pretty good!"
Zhou Han found a tree, sat down, and began reviewing.
While killing monsters, he had just stuffed all the dropped items into his inventory without checking them carefully.
Now that he had time to rest, he sorted through his gains.
He obtained over 1000 gold coins, 12 silver-grade equipment pieces, and 3 gold-grade equipment pieces.
But now that Zhou Han already had the Phantom Set, gold-grade equipment wasn't very useful to him.
"Sigh, too bad no gold-grade sword-type weapon dropped."
Just as Zhou Han was sighing, two system announcements suddenly rang out.
[Global Announcement: Player Han Xiangning is the second to reach level 10. Reward: 200 gold coins, 1 gold treasure chest.]
[Global Announcement: Player Han Qinxue is the third to reach level 10. Reward: 100 gold coins, 2 silver treasure chests.]
Hearing the announcements, Zhou Han smiled faintly.
"Looks like without me, their leveling speed is pretty slow!"
He remembered that yesterday they had already reached level 9.
He didn't expect that it would be almost nightfall today before they reached level 10. That was quite slow.
[You have received a message from a friend. Please check!]
A friend message?
He only had two friends—the Han sisters.
Looks like they were reporting the good news to him.
"Open friend panel!"
After opening it, he saw messages flashing.
Both sisters had sent messages.
Han Xiangning: I finally reached level 10! I'm so happy!
Han Qinxue: Zhou Han, thank you. We both reached level 10.
Zhou Han: First of all, congratulations. What class are you planning to choose?
Han Qinxue: I haven't decided yet. Let's discuss it tonight.
Han Xiangning: Zhou Han, can you open my gold treasure chest for me? I'm afraid my luck will be as bad as last time.
Last time, after she opened a common-grade item, it left a psychological shadow on her.
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