For the next few days, perhaps spurred by the little girl, Ye Yun spent all his time in the game, except for the fixed two to three hours in the afternoon playing with her.
He annihilated all the Flood Beasts within a thousand-mile radius of his territory! His level smoothly entered 29. He was once again in the top ten of the level rankings!
"System Prompt: The 66th Omni-universe Talent Ranking has concluded. Congratulations to the player for achieving tenth place. Your ranking rewards have been sent to your in-game mailbox. Please claim them at your convenience."
"System Prompt: Congratulations to the player for becoming the first person in the three thousand worlds of the Tenth Omni-universe to enter the Omni-universe Talent Ranking! You have received an additional reward of Battle Power Manifestation Card *2, Physical Manifestation Card *1, 10 billion Free Attribute Points, and 100 Character Contribution Points."
"System Prompt: Congratulations to the player for becoming the first player in the three thousand worlds of the Tenth Omni-universe to enter the top ten of the Omni-universe Talent Ranking! You have received an additional reward of Battle Power Manifestation Card *2, Physical Manifestation Card *1, 10 billion Free Attribute Points, and 100 Character Contribution Points."
...
There were a series of other system prompts for being the first player from Earth to enter the rankings, but aside from attribute points, there was nothing else.
Six or seven consecutive system prompts left Ye Yun feeling inexplicably bewildered.
He hadn't expected there to be so many rewards for entering the Omni-universe Talent Ranking. However, Ye Yun also knew that unless he could climb further up this list, the additional rewards would be gone next time, save for the ranking reward itself.
Ye Yun looked at the remaining cooling time of "Gold Touch," just over ten thousand, and felt a pang of frustration.
Even though he had killed so many Flood Beasts in this Primordial World, it still couldn't compare to his time in the Mountain Sea Realm.
Player kingdoms like the Mountain Sea Realm, or the Human Race Hunting Grounds, were his paradise!
Human Race Hunting Grounds. Suddenly, as if a thought struck him, Ye Yun immediately logged onto the Heavenly Dao Forum.
"Generous offer to purchase - Human Race Hunting Ground tickets! One hundred million gold coins per ticket! Will buy as many as available!"
Then he switched to his skill acquisition thread.
Savage Charge? No!
Hundred Mile Piercing Arrow? No!
Azure Rain Falls? Water element? No!
...
Ye Yun looked at each skill and rejected them one by one. After rejecting over forty skills, Ye Yun himself was getting annoyed.
Because Ye Yun possessed the "Burning Heaven Art" cultivation method, his first choice would definitely be fire-element attack skills. This was because only then, after manifesting in reality, could the skill be more compatible with his own true essence.
Hmm?
Suddenly, Ye Yun's eyes lit up. He had finally found a skill that caught his eye.
Heavenly Fire Refining - Uses true essence as fuel and heaven and earth as a furnace, dealing 20% of attack damage to surrounding enemies. Consumes 1000 true essence per yard of range per second. Duration is player-controlled. Cooldown - 60 seconds.
Price: 200 million gold coins!
Holy crap!
Ye Yun stared at the skill, utterly numb with shock.
This skill was rather niche for current player levels, but in the hands of high-level players, it was an unparalleled divine skill for mass monster slaying!
It was at least several times stronger than Ye Yun's current attack skills! As for the true essence consumption issue, Ye Yun could completely ignore it. After all, he had a massive 35 billion points of true qi.
After paying the gold coins, Ye Yun eagerly returned to the game and learned this newly acquired skill.
The reason this skill was so valued by Ye Yun was its unrestricted attack range, which shared similarities with "Sword Control Art."
However, the biggest drawback of Sword Control Art was its reliance on weapons. In reality, it was fine, but weapons in the game still had class limitations. Finding a sword for a priest would be difficult, let alone multiple swords.
Therefore, the greatest function of Sword Control Art was to eliminate a small number of enemies from afar; it couldn't achieve large-area crowd control.
Although this skill only dealt 20% of attack damage, Ye Yun didn't know about others, but for him, even a level six Flood Beast would be dealt with in a matter of seconds!
"System Prompt: Congratulations to the player for learning the skill 'Heavenly Fire Refining'."
With another skill acquired, Ye Yun was extremely excited. He immediately summoned the Golden Crow and flew out of his territory with the Black Ant, heading further afield. Only the Italian Cannon was left at home, standing solitary on the city wall.
The Golden Crow, after receiving Ye Yun's essence blood infusion over the past few days, now had a speed of 358 meters per second! Its speed was so fast that even the Black Ant could barely keep up.
The skill Heavenly Fire Refining, within the scope of the Primordial World, meant that a ten-yard attack range would expand a hundredfold, reaching about one kilometer. In other words, for Ye Yun to use this skill to cover a one-kilometer radius around himself would consume ten thousand true qi points per second. For ten kilometers, it would be one hundred thousand true qi per second!
The more he calculated, the more Ye Yun's heart pounded with apprehension.
Ye Yun looked at the remaining nine hundred billion attribute points on his person and couldn't help but feel the urge to act again.
This time when he entered the game, he wasn't in a bathtub, but had replaced the entire swimming pool with nutrient solution!
So, he could go all out! He truly didn't believe that one swimming pool of nutrient solution wouldn't be enough for him!
"System, add twenty billion attributes to Attack, twenty billion to True Essence! Twenty billion to Magic Defense, thirty billion to Physical Defense!"
The nine hundred billion attribute points were instantly allocated.
Who would have thought that while most people globally were overjoyed to gain one, ten, or a hundred attribute points, Ye Yun was adding them in units of billions?
"Manifest Skill - Heavenly Fire Refining!"
"System Prompt: Skill 'Heavenly Fire Refining' manifestation successful. Consumed Skill Manifestation Card *1."
Ye Yun looked at the four Battle Power Manifestation Cards in his inventory and, after some thought, held back.
Take it slow. Otherwise, if the nutrient solution in the swimming pool wasn't enough, it would truly be tragic. Not only himself, but the entire Dragon Palace building and everything within a one-kilometer radius would have to accompany him.
Ye Yun knew his current strength.
In his previous life, during the third year, a powerful individual had prepared inadequately for manifesting his strength. When everyone gathered at the scene, all the surrounding neighbors had their life essence completely drained by him. He himself, unable to obtain sufficient energy, had exploded and died.
Therefore, after that incident, public service announcements about this matter would be broadcast periodically on television, reminding everyone to make thorough preparations when manifesting their strength.
The other attributes were fine. Ye Yun had mainly added twenty billion attack attributes this time, considering that attack attributes had over sixteen hundred times the boost from talent!
As a result, Ye Yun was somewhat apprehensive about the more than two thousand tons of nutrient solution in the swimming pool, wondering if it would be enough. He feared the nutrient solution might run out!
Forty-two trillion in attack power! Twenty percent of that would be eighty-four trillion in attack power! Even a level six Flood Beast wouldn't be able to withstand that, right?
Ye Yun looked at his attributes and a hint of pride appeared on his face.