Lu Yin pressed the Ghost Marquis tattoo on his arm. Ghost Marquis looked bewildered. "What are you doing? Seventh Brother, I didn't mean to insult you. Don't take it to heart, okay? Don't hurt me..."
Lu Yin blocked Ghost Marquis again. A shadow appeared on the die's five-dot face—the shadow was Ghost Marquis's innate gift.
Just as he'd thought, he could borrow Ghost Marquis's innate gift. In other words, he now had a chance to use the shadow gift. It hadn't gone to waste.
Again. Lu Yin took out a cubic meter of Star Energy Crystals to restore the die's glow, then tapped it.
This time, he wasn't disappointed. The die landed on three dots, confirming his theory: the longer he waited between rolls, the more likely he was to get the result he wanted.
Lu Yin decided not to roll too often from now on. He would save it for the right moment.
Two screens of light appeared before him, one above the other.
Lu Yin took a deep breath and placed the chip on the screen. Then he took out five thousand cubic meters of Star Energy Crystals and stared at the chip.
Ten seconds passed, but the chip didn't react at all. It didn't seem to sink even a little.
Lu Yin was speechless. The last time, upgrading the Body Sculpting Technique from four uses to five had cost three hundred thousand cubic meters of Star Energy Crystals. Five thousand cubic meters should have been enough to make the chip sink by one-sixtieth of its total distance—not much, but enough to notice. Yet it hadn't reacted at all. Either it couldn't be upgraded, or the resources required were so exorbitant that five thousand cubic meters weren't even enough to make it budge...
After all, it was a