Sword God of Ten-Mile Slope's Path

Demon Hunter Academy, boys' dormitory.

The moment Su Ming, Lei Hao, and Ye Bai returned, those who needed showers took showers, those who needed to wipe their asses wiped their asses. Before long, they were all sprawled on their beds, snoring away.

Su Ming lay down as well and closed his eyes. At first glance, he seemed to have fallen asleep, but he was actually browsing the interface in his mind.

It was neither a scene imagined by Su Ming nor a hallucination in his head.

As a transmigrator, even if he had merely transmigrated into a parallel world and had no idea whether he had replaced his counterpart in this world or whether this world's Su Ming had awakened the memories of another world's self, Su Ming had still received the cheat he was supposed to have.

His cheat was simple: this interface.

The interface was also extremely straightforward. At a glance, it looked like the Marketplace in some game. Not only were there products, but prices were marked beneath them as well.

However, the products offered by this Marketplace were neither varied nor dazzling. There were only package after package.

Yes, packages.

"I completed another Rank C Mission today. I should have saved up enough Crystals to open a package by now, right?"

As Su Ming thought this, his attention shifted to the lower corner of the Marketplace interface.

There were two small icons there, one on each side.

The icon on the left was a backpack.

As its name suggested, it was a backpack that could store all of Su Ming's possessions. As long as it was not a living thing and there was enough room inside, any item could be stored within it.

The icon on the right was a diamond-shaped crystal.

A string of numbers was displayed to the right of the diamond-shaped crystal—"1000."

"I really have saved up a thousand Crystals."

Su Ming grew slightly excited.

These Crystals were the only currency recognized by the Marketplace.

Only by using these Crystals could Su Ming purchase the corresponding packages.

And each of those packages could randomly yield three to five items.

None of these items were ordinary. Even the worst of them would be materials of extraordinary quality; mundane objects would never appear.

If his luck exploded and he opened an exceedingly rare, ultra-rare item from a package, Su Ming could immediately gain the chance to contend for the pinnacle of the world.

Therefore, after coming to this world a year ago and learning what this cheat did, Su Ming had made a decision.

"I'll quietly save Crystals and open packages. Unless I possess enough strength to guarantee my safety in any crisis, I will never step into the spotlight."

After learning just how dangerous this world was, and what kinds of dangerous missions and battles excessive displays of talent would bring, Su Ming had gradually formed this resolve.

But before his cheat appeared, Su Ming would not have dared make such a decision.

The reason was simple.

Just as Lei Hao and Ye Bai had said, lying low and developing in obscurity was certainly not a bad thing. The scary part was failing to make it until the day one rose to prominence.

How could you be certain that your strength would continue improving?

How could you be sure that your talent was great enough?

Besides, didn't improving one's strength require guidance from others?

What if you had no resources?

What if you had no connections?

If you hid away without anything to rely on, could you truly develop?

That was completely unrealistic, wasn't it?

In this crisis-ridden world, if one did not want to be kidnapped by Phantom Demons as blood food one day and die in confusion, or if one wanted to protect those around them forever, then they could only keep climbing upward, displaying their value as much as possible so that humanity's upper ranks would be willing to invest in them.

Only then could they obtain resources and guidance, allowing themselves to grow stronger faster.

This was everyone's common understanding.

Unless one was already content with the status quo and could accept the possibility of dying at any time in some Phantom Demon invasion disaster.

Otherwise, one could only climb upward.

Su Ming had originally thought the same, until this cheat appeared.

"As long as I have enough Crystals, I can open all kinds of rare items from countless packages."

"High-grade Phantasmal Demon Bloodlines."

"High-grade Spiritual Arts."

"Even high-grade weapons, high-grade materials, and high-grade Alchemy Potions."

"The resources others can only dream of will sooner or later be available in abundance to me."

Only after realizing this did Su Ming officially embark on the path of training himself into the Sword God of Ten-Mile Slope.

To others, Su Ming was merely an extremely inconspicuous student among the many students at Demon Hunter Academy. His grades were neither high nor low. It was not that he had no merits, but he had no highlights either.

This was the persona Su Ming deliberately maintained.

Yet in secret, Su Ming had been quietly saving Crystals all along.

The method of obtaining Crystals was simple: exchange other items with the Marketplace.

Naturally, ordinary items would not do. They had to be extraordinary items from the Spirit Fiend Abyss, including but not limited to materials dropped by Phantom Demons.

Thus, over the past year, Su Ming had silently cultivated his persona. While hiding his uniqueness and avoiding being pushed into the spotlight to face danger, he completed all sorts of missions and skimmed off a little profit from them to exchange for Crystals.

Just like today. The team formed by Su Ming, Lei Hao, and Ye Bai had acquired the wings of a Screaming Devil and handed them over to the academy, but the Screaming Devil had not dropped merely a pair of wings.

There were so many materials on a Phantom Demon's body. Did they really think Su Ming would burn the creature to ashes?

Not a chance.

When he used Spiral Fire to burn the Screaming Devil to death, Su Ming had actually quietly stored the rest of the Phantom Demon's bodily materials in his backpack, then immediately tossed them into the Marketplace in exchange for Crystals.

"Now it's time for the delightful package-opening session."

Without much hesitation, Su Ming instantly spent all one thousand Crystals.

"Whoosh."

As the Crystal count decreased from "1000" to "0," a large package popped out of the Marketplace interface and fell into Su Ming's backpack.

The price of one package was exactly one thousand Crystals.

Su Ming immediately sank his consciousness into the backpack, opened it, and took out the package inside.

"Hope my luck is better today."

Su Ming's excitement began to turn into unease.

Although he had opened packages many times over the past year, he still could not help feeling nervous every time.

After all, what came out of the packages were not flat characters that could only be looked at but not licked. They were real things that could affect Su Ming's development and improve his strength.

At once, Su Ming could not help licking his slightly dry lips before beginning to open the package.

Very quickly, Su Ming pulled out the first item from the package.

Spiritual Power (Small): Extremely pure ownerless Spiritual Power. Fusing it into the body can increase one's Spiritual Power reserves without any side effects.

"Not bad, I guess."

Su Ming muttered with some dissatisfaction.

The main reason was that he had opened this item quite a few times over the past year.

Still, something that could increase Spiritual Power without any side effects was extremely valuable outside.

"After all, Spiritual Power is the energy Warlocks rely on to cast Spiritual Arts. The stronger one's Spiritual Power, the stronger the Spiritual Arts they can cast, and the greater the number and quality of the Spiritual Arts they can use."

Therefore, one should never complain about having too much of something like this.

Su Ming immediately swallowed the cloud-like Spiritual Power directly, allowing it to merge into his body.

Next, Su Ming pulled out the second item.

Phantasmal Demon Blood (Lesser): The blood of an unknown Lesser Phantasmal Demon. It can be used to refine Phantasmal Demon Elixir.

"Phantasmal Demon Blood?"

Su Ming frowned.

Its value was no less than that of the first item. Depending on the circumstances, it could even be much more valuable.

Because once it was refined into Phantasmal Demon Elixir, there was a chance for a human to gain a Phantasmal Demon Bloodline and obtain the power of a Phantasmal Demon.

After the Spirit Fiend Abyss appeared, only a very small number of humans developed Spiritual Constitutions, allowing their bodies to generate Spiritual Power and use the power known as "Spiritual Arts" to destroy Phantom Demons. Everyone else had no such opportunity at all.

For people like them, the emergence of Phantasmal Demon Elixir was undoubtedly a blessing.

With a Phantasmal Demon Bloodline and the power of a Phantasmal Demon, even ordinary people could fight Phantom Demons.

That was how Hunters came to be.

The Phantasmal Demon Blood in Su Ming's hand could transform a human completely, turning them into a Hunter with great power.

However, Phantasmal Demon Elixir could not be consumed casually. If one could not adapt to the power within the elixir, the outcome would be no different from exploding to death.

For that reason, most people who cherished their lives did not dare take such a risk, gambling with their bodies or lives for power.

Of course, if the Phantasmal Demon Blood used to refine the Phantasmal Demon Elixir was of sufficiently high grade, many people would still be willing to take the risk for great power.

Unfortunately—

"Lesser Phantasmal Demons are just cannon fodder in the Spirit Fiend Abyss. Even if an elixir refined from this blood is successfully consumed and adapted to, the greatest result would merely be becoming cannon fodder among Phantom Demons."

For many people, an item with such low potential was undoubtedly rather useless.

"Forget it. At the very least, it's still a valuable thing to ordinary people."

After thinking it over, Su Ming stored the bottle of Phantasmal Demon Blood in his backpack.

Whether he would give it to someone he found agreeable later or use it to make an equal trade with someone else was something to decide in the future.

For now, Student Su Ming's package-opening event was not over yet.

"Don't tell me this package only has the guaranteed three items."

As Su Ming prayed, he pulled out the third item.

Celestial Revolution (Eighty-Eight Forms): A high-grade Spiritual Art capable of instantly reversing the boundary between heaven and earth, transforming countless forms of kinetic energy, including gravity, into destructive force and delivering a devastating blow to everything within a certain range. Extremely powerful.

When such a book was opened from the package, Su Ming's entire body trembled.

"This is a jackpot!"

That thought lingered in Su Ming's mind, filling him with surprise and delight.

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