Chapter 462: Chapter 388: Fire in the Eye, Blink of the Gaze, Dream Incarnation
"Chongming Pupil"
"Grade: Fourth-Turned Legendary"
"Durability: 300/300"
"Basic Attack Power: 10~50 points of candle fire damage."
"Equipment Requirements: 150 points of Qi Blood, 150 points of Spiritual Soul"
"Equipment Effect: Any of your attacks receive a 20% minimum hit correction."
"Effect: Pupil Fire: When you open the Chongming Pupil and stare at a target, as long as the target is within your line of sight, you can ignore distance and let the target suffer the erosion of ’Candle Tear Red’ fire. You can attack only once per second, but activating three times continuously within ten seconds will reduce durability by 1 point. If you spend 10 Spiritual Essence and 5 points of durability, you can create a ’Candle Tear Red’ fire wall at the target location."
"Effect: Eye Blink: You can teleport to a location within your sight. The basic consumption is 5 Spiritual Essence; the more chaotic the Dao Pattern around, the more Spiritual Essence will be consumed, but you can always consume all your Spiritual Essence (>5) to activate Eye Blink."
"Effect: Dream Body: Sigh in the gaps between horses, fire in stone, dream body.
You must consume 100 Spiritual Essence and 100 durability to activate.
You need to stare at the target for at least three seconds before you can activate it, continuously consuming Spiritual Essence and durability during the period. If you lose the target in between, the consumed Spiritual Essence and durability are not refunded.
After satisfying all conditions and successfully activating, the target will appear three times in the following sequence within the next five seconds—
Gap Horse: The clone quickly flees from the target’s side, disappearing after 0.5 seconds. If you can hit the Gap Horse, the target will be forbidden to move for five seconds and locked in the current space;
Stone Fire: The clone jumps out of the target with sparks flashing, lasting 0.05 seconds. If you can hit the Stone Fire, the target’s defense barrier will instantly shatter;
Dream Body: The clone appears next to the target, completely consistent with the target’s status, lasting for 3 seconds. All damage you deal to the Dream Body will be returned to the target’s main body after the Dream Body disappears."
"Evaluation: Lament your fate for not having the Chongming Pupil!"
Looking at this pupil, flickering with candle fire in the item bar, Yan Qing felt the Foundation Establishment Demon Pill was truly worth the expense. Just the effects that this Legendary Token can unleash far surpass the Infinite Divine Power of the Rabbit Heroine!
Perhaps many people will focus on ’Eye Blink’ and ’Dream Body,’ but the value of this Legendary Token, "Chongming Pupil," is at least 80% in ’Pupil Fire’!
After players reach the Foundation Establishment Fourth Transition, their evaluations of tokens may not necessarily align with the game system, because everyone’s Divine Techniques are different. Some Legendary Tokens have higher values, but if they can’t unleash the advantage of Divine Techniques, they are perhaps worse than some rare tokens or Rare Tokens.
But among all tokens, there is one authority that, whenever it appears, is recognized by players as a T0 level token, even if it’s just ordinary grade, it can sell for a good price.
That is ’Eyewitness’!
As long as players equip tokens with similar authority, even if their Divine Techniques are as bad as crap, it will still be crap that can instantly smash into the enemy’s face!
Not to mention, if Yan Qing had "Chongming Pupil" in the Demon Gathering Land, he could have instantly imprisoned Ying Su in ’Tombstone Inscription’!
Everything within sight is within shooting range, unable to intercept without any starting delay. ’Pupil Fire,’ paired with any Divine Techniques, can achieve tactical breakthrough effects, genuinely a universal tool!
Of course, ’Eyewitness’ is powerful but not invincible. After all, the official will perform balance adjustments. Not to mention ’Pupil Fire’ frequently used will drop durability; if Yan Qing wants ’Pupil Fire’ paired with Divine Techniques for long-range casting, the Divine Techniques will likely consume Spiritual Essence heavily, making them impossible as regular methods, at most as a trump card.
But this is enough; the existence of the trump card alone is enough to give immense confidence.
Interestingly, ’Pupil Fire,’ this authority, is even strongly related to ’Candle Tear Red.’ Obviously, it’s because the Rabbit Heroine used ’Candle Tear Red’ to unleash 90% of the damage, so that "Chongming Pupil" also got polluted by ’Candle Tear Red,’ just like how in ’Breath of the Wild,’ when you kill animals with fire, you directly get roasted meat.
Yan Qing once saw this kind of situation in a game forum. Although very interesting, as if different players clearing the same Secret Realm can get different spoils, few people deliberately do so because this ’peculiarization’ most times produces degrading effects, and the original ’Pupil Fire’ value should be somewhat higher.
However, ’Pupil Fire’ is strong in its eyewitness casting method, its value is merely conversational, and Yan Qing naturally wouldn’t feel regret, instead feeling rather satisfied getting a unique Legendary Token, as if the Rabbit Heroine signed her name on it.
The instant transfer of ’Eye Blink’ looks good, but only just good.
After all, Foundation Establishment is either jumping up and down or flying and escaping, this kind of instant transfer needing Spiritual Essence consumption can only be used for escaping, even shifting on the battlefield it’s not suitable, because it will also be affected by the Dao Pattern environment.
The so-called Dao Pattern is the twisted patterns of the environment caused by Foundation Establishment using Divine Techniques, like ’Candle Tear Red’ leaves a lot of Flame Dao Patterns, which will return to normal after a period. The more Divine Technique Dao Patterns, the more Spiritual Essence is spent to activate ’Eye Blink.’ So unless it’s extremely urgent, using ’Eye Blink’ on the battlefield will quickly deplete one’s Spiritual Essence.
As for the seemingly strong ’Dream Body,’ it is indeed strong, but Fourth-Turn Foundation Establishment finds it hard to unleash its effects. Not to mention the 100 durability, using it twice you need to find ways to repair this token; the bigger issue is it first costs 100 Spiritual Essence, and the Spiritual Essence limit for Fourth-Turn Foundation Establishment is about two hundred, so after using ’Dream Body,’ they may not have enough Spiritual Essence to inflict damage.
Besides, ’Dream Body’ with ’Gap Horse’ and ’Stone Fire’ are obviously clones that are difficult to hit. If this authority is used on a tense and thrilling battlefield, players would likely just have an extra ’Dream Body’ target to freely inflict damage.
20% accuracy correction isn’t bad; it means that any attack by Yan Qing that would’ve originally missed can be corrected to hit directly as long as it’s within the correction range.
The most unfortunate part is that, as an eye-related token, it lacks scouting abilities. If it had appropriate scouting abilities, Yan Qing might be able to unlock the true power of the [Tombstone Inscription], which is the fundamental reason it ranks among the top ten profound items!
Nevertheless, with this Fourth-Turned Legendary "Chongming Pupil", Yan Qing’s control over the fourth case suddenly increased by 50%!
After finally calming his excited mood, Yan Qing had the mind to check other spoils of war.
"Mystic Bird Heart Blood"
"Usage Condition: Limited to tokens of Sixth Transition and below"
"Effect: Restores 200 durability points of the token and increases the durability limit by 50 points. Each token can only use this item once for increasing the durability limit."
"Evaluation: Mystic Bird Heart Blood, its blood is Profound Yellow."
Yan Qing knew that the value of this item wasn’t much lower than that of a Fourth-Turned Legendary; any rare item that can increase the durability limit is extremely valuable.
Seeing the "Blood-Spitting Copy of the Alluring Dance Wheel", Yan Qing was stunned for a moment because this was a Mastery Book of the Master of Flying Rings realm.
It wasn’t beginner level; it was mastery level, and using it would directly max out the Master of Flying Rings realm!
Even though the Chongming Bird is the boss of a Fourth-Turn difficult secret realm, equivalent to a Fifth-Turn Demon King, it’s still unbelievable to directly drop a master mastery book. But once Yan Qing thought about it, he realized that weapon skills become essentially a roadside specialty after Foundation Establishment, and a niche weapon like the flying rings is even lower, at the level of a gutter on the roadside. Learning it might pollute the job change pool, so it’s no surprise to drop a master mastery book.
Shang Xinlei is really lucky.
Besides these, there were only some materials and True Spiritual Jade, as well as the Celestial Spirit Inverted Yin Yang Mirror. The Inverted Yin Yang Mirror is also a rare celestial spirit that can point directly to a Perfect Dao Foundation, and with an additional Earth Fiend, Ying Rushi’s Dao Foundation would be in place.
Unfortunately, there wasn’t another drop of the Chongming Robe.
While Yan Qing was checking the spoils, the True Man of Locking Dragon had already taken his share from the treasure chest and left with the corpse of the Chongming Bird tied up in lock chains.
When the Rabbit Heroine and Pharmacist’s Wish left the secret realm, they heard a collapse behind them. Turning around, they found the cave inside the vortex was collapsing into a spring eruption. The mountain collapse and underground spring erupted simultaneously, completely sealing off the cave, and the rocky springs surged all the way to the entrance of the secret realm, scattering the light blue vortex entrance, leaving only a pile of stones blocking the cave.
"It’s truly a natural disaster."
The True Man of Locking Dragon stood guard nearby, with no one else around. She had come out early and driven people away from near the entrance to prevent anyone from seeing this scene.
"It really destroyed the secret realm thoroughly from the inside out, leaving no trace."
"Do you regret it?" the Rabbit Heroine asked.
"A little, but not much," the True Man of Locking Dragon said. "I’m considered one of the more diligent among Foundation Establishment, opening a secret realm once every month, but today’s harvest is enough to equal two years’ worth of effort. If every time yielded this kind of return, I’d be happy to help you find those Fourth-Turn secret realms in the wild."
Thinking about it made the True Man of Locking Dragon a little dazed.
They had run the first half more than twenty times, although they had to share the treasure chest, the problem was the True Man of Locking Dragon had almost no consumption; the total Spiritual Essence spent was less than a few hundred, but the gain was over ten thousand.
If it had been her regular task of attacking secret realms, she would have needed to spend five hundred to make a thousand, and that’s based on a long payback period; even with hard work for a year, the income would be less than six thousand. Therefore, when she said she earned two years’ worth of money, her estimate was still quite accurate.
"You can start looking now," said the Rabbit Heroine. "I can promise on behalf of my brother that, for every secret realm you find that we can purify, we’ll bring you no less than today’s returns. Of course, Aunt Yue, you’ll also have to participate, as you are indeed a very important force."
"Truly, the river pushes the waves ahead," the True Man of Locking Dragon said, half-smiling. "Even as a Fifth Transition True Man, I have to accept being driven by you youngsters."
"Didn’t your uncle say strong people know how to earn money?" the Rabbit Heroine said. "You can’t just not earn money for the sake of face, right?"
The True Man of Locking Dragon glared unamusedly at the Rabbit Heroine, much like an elder confronted by a child who talked back without a rebuttal.
"I won’t keep you any longer. You have chosen a difficult path, and it seems you are not inclined to listen to advice from an old aunt like me." The True Man of Locking Dragon, with hands clasped behind her back, gazed up at the stars, exuding an elegant demeanor: "I wish you a safe journey."
Although the Wolf Rabbit Sisters never disclosed anything, the True Man of Locking Dragon was experienced and could easily notice the hidden anxiety in Pharmacist’s Wish. And since Pharmacist’s Wish was a member of the Thief’s House, it was quite easy to guess what they were worried about.
The last case almost got this Foundation Establishment Zhenren involved, and this case would be even more dangerous.
Pharmacist’s Wish had a crazy but feasible idea pop up in her mind.
But before she could suggest going back to Thief’s House to discuss it with Yan Qing, the Rabbit Heroine directly asked: "Aunt Yue, how much would it cost to hire you to assassinate an Emperor?"
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