Lockpicking
Name: Lockpick
Grade: Epic
Introduction: Some unseen entity sought to break through the Hundred Treasure Box's protection mechanism and conducted extensive research, resulting in numerous failed attempts. This is one of them; although its functionality is still unstable, it has already achieved a preliminary crack.
Quantity: 9/9
Function 1 Anchoring: Once activated, it can anchor the Hundred Treasure Box of the deceased's body and summon it to your presence.
The owner of the anchored Hundred Treasure Box cannot have died more than 24 hours ago. Each Hundred Treasure Box can only exist for a maximum of 1 hour. There is no Cooldown Time for anchoring, and it consumes Ten Breaths Vital Energy.
Function Two: Lockpicking: Consumes one Lockpick to randomly open one of the slots in an unclaimed Hundred Treasure Box. If a treasure is present in that slot, it can be retrieved. There is no Cooldown Time to activate this function, but it requires One Hundred Breaths Vital Energy.
Note: Murder and robbery are considered perfectly justifiable.
Although he had anticipated the device's function, Luo Jun still gasped when he actually saw it.
This is truly the first time I've seen a treasure that can open Hundred Treasure Box!
Moreover, according to the description, this thing is a failure, and the creator is someone who is "unapproachable"!
This title is on par with "Supreme," both representing Deity level!
Even the Deity can't completely crack the Hundred Treasure Box? It seems this thing's mechanism is of a very high level.
Luo Jun picked up the Lockpick and fiddled with it. The nine small parts etched into it should be the nine Lockpick themselves. As for the anchoring function, it is used through the outer frame of the card.
Why don't you give it a try?
Luo Jun looked at the three corpses in front of him. Normally, the Hundred Treasure Box would dissipate the moment its owner died, and its contents would return to Chaos, and no one could retrieve them. But according to the instructions, this thing should be able to retrieve the dissipated Hundred Treasure Box.
Since there were no restrictions on the anchoring function, he used it on all three corpses, and three ornaments immediately appeared in front of him.
Blood Caltrop's Hundred Treasure Box contains a ring, Mountain Shaking Ghost's contains a bracelet, and Wu Youcai's contains a watch, just like Luo Jun's, only the style is different.
Looking at the three Hundred Treasure Box, Luo Jun considered for a moment, broke off a Lockpick, and picked up the ring from the Blood Caltrop.
Then, Luo Jun activated the Dice of Heavenly Secrets and used the Fate Peering Glasses.
"A legendary or higher-ranking Noble Phantasm has been obtained!"
Fate Peering Glasses, the Event Difficulty is 93 points!
There really is!
Judging from this level of difficulty, if he has one legendary item in his Hundred Treasure Box, his total inventory slots should be thirteen or fourteen. If he has two legendary items, his total inventory slots should be twenty-seven or twenty-eight...
The number of slots in the Hundred Treasure Box is related to the total amount of Yuan Qi, and it is not affected by the Yuan Qi reduction effect of the Foundation Establishment Realm. According to Luo Jun's experience, as the number of slots increases, the amount of additional Yuan Qi required for each new slot will be higher.
Normally, including the three basic slots, most ordinary Cultivators have only six or seven slots in total, while experts may have more than ten slots. Luo Jun remembered that when he had just started cultivating and his Yuan Qi reserves had just exceeded one thousand, he only had seventeen or eighteen slots. To have twenty-seven or twenty-eight slots, one would need at least three or four thousand breaths of Yuan Qi.
A thousand Breath Vital Energy is an unimaginable amount for ordinary Cultivators. Without the enhancement of strong Root Bone talent and Body Tempering Art, it is impossible to reach three or four thousand breaths of primordial energy, even for the top ten most wanted criminals on the leaderboard.
Therefore, Luo Jun guessed that this guy should have thirteen or fourteen slots, one of which was filled with Legendary Treasure Item.
Incidentally, Luo Jun currently has over four hundred slots...
Having determined the difficulty level, Luo Jun immediately started rolling the dice.
The two pairs of dice were rolled, and one pair ended up with 76 points and the other with 61 points.
Luo Jun decisively used the Advanced Point Correction.
"Ding! Event Difficulty: 93 points; Final Points: 76 + 20 points; Event Success!"
As the dice revealed the result, Luo Jun decisively activated the Lockpick. The slender little part transformed into a beam of light and entered the Blood Caltrop's Hundred Treasure Box. A moment later, a bottle was opened from it.
It really was this!
Luo Jun smiled slightly, picked up the bottle, and scanned its attributes.
Name: Soul-Seizing Bottle
Grade: Legendary
Introduction: This is a magical Law Treasure once used by a mysterious and unpredictable being. When his cultivation level was low, he relied on this Law Treasure to greatly enhance his cultivation, growing at an astonishing speed, and eventually becoming a regional overlord, where he personally slew his enemies!
Function 1: Blood Brew: When used on a recently deceased corpse, once activated, it can absorb the soul and Essence Blood of the deceased and transform them into Blood Brew, which is stored in the bottle. The stronger the deceased's cultivation level, the more Blood Brew be transformed. However, because the soul of the deceased often carries resentment, the transformed Blood Brew contains Fierce Aura, and excessive consumption may cause uncontrollable negative consequences.
Activation consumes five breaths of vital energy; there is no Cooldown Time.
Function Two: Soul Extraction: When used on a living person, once activated, it can forcibly extract the soul from the other person. It can directly kill units with insufficient Mental Power and lack of protection. Units that resist the extraction will also have their consciousness weakened to a certain extent, causing a temporary decline in their action and cognitive abilities.
Activation consumes twenty breaths of energy; Cooldown Time five minutes.
Note: Death brings strength!
This Soul-Seizing Bottle is exactly what Luo Jun wanted!
I'd heard Ailongtan mention before that the Blood Caltrop constantly drained blood by killing people during missions, so I guessed it was a magical artifact to aid in cultivation. Considering the Essence Stabilizing Pearl, this type of artifact must be of a high grade. I rolled the dice to see what would happen, and sure enough, I got it!
Luo Jun dragged the small bottle, feeling the Fierce Aura emanating from it. He shook it, and found that only the bottom of the bottle was inside, from which he could faintly hear a mournful wail.
Luo Jun activated the Blood Brew ability, absorbing three more streams of Essence Blood containing souls from the three corpses on the ground and storing them in the bottle. After a short while, the Blood Brew inside had increased significantly, almost three times the original amount, and its Fierce Aura had also become stronger.
Luo Jun tried putting a drop into his mouth. The Blood Brew released a strong fishy smell as soon as it entered his mouth, and then transformed into a violent power that entered his body. It immediately reacted with his original energy and instinctively tried to erode Luo Jun's meridians. However, in the face of Luo Jun Jun's vast and boundless energy, it was almost instantly eliminated and transformed into pure energy that merged into Luo Jun's body.
This stuff does have side effects, but for someone like Luo Jun with such a unique attribute, the impact is negligible. However, he keenly sensed that a significant amount would be lost during the assimilation process, making it seem like a bit of a loss no matter how you looked at it...
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Luo Jun's eyes lit up. He flipped his hand and took out the Essence Stabilizing Pearl, placing the two items together. Blood Brew could be seen as a concentrated essence of vital energy, but with side effects, while the Essence Stabilizing Pearl could purify energy into the purest form of vital energy. If these two were combined...
With that in mind, he opened the bottle and placed the Essence Stabilizing Pearl on it, activating the absorption function.
One of the functions of the Essence Stabilizing Pearl is to absorb the primordial energy in the environment. It cannot directly extract the soul essence from a corpse, but the extracted Blood Brew can be considered as primordial energy in the environment.
Sure enough, as the function of the Essence Stabilizing Pearl was activated, the Blood Brew at the bottom of the bottle began to atomize, rise, and eventually surround the Essence Stabilizing Pearl, being absorbed into it at an extremely fast speed!
Luo Jun immediately placed his hand on the Essence Stabilizing Pearl. Sure enough, the purest Yuan Qi flowed continuously from the pearl, entering his body and beginning to strengthen his Inner Breath!
This energy is completely unconsumed, and its concentration is much higher than that dissipated from the environment! The amount of vital energy converted is also extremely high!
Soon, all the Blood Brew in the bottle was completely transformed and absorbed into Luo Jun's body!
He estimated that the dozen or so people the Blood Caltrop had killed during the mission hadn't had time to drink it yet, and the essence of the three of them was also stored here. Luo Jun felt that after absorbing them all, his cultivation progress increased by about 1%!
It's important to understand that even if you drained all the vital energy from these dozen or so people and added it all together, the total amount and concentration would probably be far less than one percent of Luo Jun's. This shows that Life Essence and the vital energy of the deceased are not the same thing. Refining a person's Life Essence is clearly more beneficial than draining their vital energy!
Based on this calculation, considering the average level of Tier B contestants, Luo Jun could instantly advance to the next level by absorbing approximately three thousand people. However, considering the levels of these three, he would need to absorb around four or five hundred people...
It sounds convenient, but where are there so many experts for him to absorb that knowledge...?
Luo Jun shook his head. By his calculations, he could normally cultivate for about twenty days. These two treasures, when combined, might allow others to increase their cultivation level by killing a few people, but for Luo Jun, they were rather useless.
However, both of these items are Legendary-grade, and their functions are so well-matched that selling them as a package would definitely be quite valuable, so trading them would be a good idea.
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Then, Luo Jun used the Fate Peering Glasses on the other two Hundred Treasure Box. Wu Youcai's Hundred Treasure Box did not contain any legendary items, but the Mountain Shaking Ghost's contained one. The Fate Peering Glasses showed that the difficulty level was as high as 95 points. It could be inferred that this guy had at least seventeen slots, and even if his energy reserves did not exceed a thousand, they were close.
This level of skill isn't something you can achieve through hard work alone; it shows this guy has exceptional talent!
Looking at the mask that had fallen off and the head with its eyes wide open in death, Luo Jun sighed. What a pity for such good material, turned out to be a wanted criminal.
"Don't waste good things, I'll keep them safe for you." With that, Luo Jun activated his ability on the bracelet.
"Ding, Event Difficulty 95 points, Final Points 53 + 5 points, Event Failed."
Had he failed...? Luo Jun considered it for a moment, then decisively used the Regret.
Skills refresh daily, but the number of Lockpick is limited. If you manage to unlock an epic item, that's fine, but if you unlock an empty slot, you'll be at a huge loss!
Let's check again!
"Ding! Event Difficulty: 95 points; Final Points: 97 + 5 points; Event Success!"
Very good!
After receiving the dice information, Luo Jun used another Lockpick and finally obtained a dazzling golden treasure!
"Huh? This is..." Luo Jun was instinctively stunned when he saw this new treasure, then scanned it with his spiritual energy.
Name: Fusion Evolution Component
Grade: Legendary
Introduction: A Profoundly Powerful being created this Noble Phantasm based on Legendary Combination Module in order to gain even greater power. Although the final result was powerful, it ultimately failed to cross that supreme boundary.
Function: Fusion Evolution
Two items of similar type can be Fusion Evolution into a higher-quality item; the fusion of up to two Legendary Treasure Item can be supported.
By fusing Noble Phantasms of Epic rank or lower, the finished product can be promoted to the next rank.
Fusing legendary-grade Noble Phantasms can only make them more powerful, but cannot advance them to higher ranks.
Note: No... this won't work either. It's almost there, just one last step. I've got the knack for it, just one last step. With a little improvement, I'm sure I'll succeed!
When he first saw the familiar design, Luo Jun thought it was another Legendary Combination Module he had obtained before. However, the Legendary Combination Module was only of Epic quality. Realizing something was wrong, he scanned it and confirmed that it was a more powerful, advanced version.
The basic function is the same as the Legendary Combination Module: fusing two Noble Phantasms of similar categories and functions to create a new Noble Phantasm. The difference is that this advanced version can fuse two Legendary Noble Phantasms. However, the final result is that after fusing two Legendary Noble Phantasms, they will not be upgraded to Mythic Treasure Item.
Originally, you could exchange three epics for one legendary, which would have been a good trade overall. But now, you're fusing three legendarys, and it's still just a legendary... It seems like a bad deal no matter how you look at it...
Is the line between Myth and legend so insurmountable?
Just as Luo Jun was feeling sentimental, a groan suddenly came from behind him. Turning around, he saw Ailongtan frowning, touching his neck, and looking puzzled.
"Where am I? What happened?"
"You're finally awake." Luo Jun looked at Ailongtan: "We almost got killed and robbed!"
At this moment, a still somewhat dazed Ailongtan noticed the several corpses on the ground. "Wow, what's going on? Are some treacherous subjects trying to assassinate me?!"
As he spoke, he instinctively tried to mobilize his vital energy, but found it difficult to do so. It seemed that the aftereffects of the toxins would take some time to dissipate.
"Wait... this guy... isn't that Blood Caltrop?" Looking at the head rolling on the ground, Ailongtan recognized the opponent he had recently clashed with.
"Yes..." Luo Jun nodded. "Because you mentioned my name, this guy and his accomplices have tracked you down to Ningdong."
As he spoke, Luo Jun kicked the head of the Mountain Shaking Ghost next to him. "This one is ranked higher than him."
"How dare they covet our great master! They're truly overestimating themselves!" Ailongtan scoffed. "But this is wealth delivered right to our doorstep! The heads of these two wanted criminals are worth at least fifty million, right?"
"It doesn't matter how much money it's worth..." Luo Jun shook his head. "Violence is prohibited in the black market. I can't possibly carry around a few corpses; it's too conspicuous..."
Upon hearing this, Ailongtan's eyes lit up, and he chuckled, "Master, I have a way for you to smuggle the corpse out of the black market without anyone noticing!"
(End of this chapter)