King of the Undead? King of the Marathon!

What appeared before Su Li was none other than a twisted, rotting tree-like creature.

It was like a conglomerate forcibly kneaded together from countless moldy rotten flesh and dead tree roots. Its skin was a sickly grayish-white, covered in disgusting pustules and rotten moss.

In its hand, it gripped a massive, rotten wooden staff, whether it was a limb or a weapon, Su Li couldn't tell.

[Corrupted Avatar] (Area Elite), Level: Lv25

[Quest Triggered: Battle for Three Hundred Rounds]

[Description: The Revered Skeleton has encountered the Corrupted Avatar. Will you show it respect, or will the brave prevail in a narrow encounter? It's time to test your mettle.]

[Option One: You are but a fool who sells his head for a price!]

[Description: A mere piece of rotten wood dares to block my path? Use your wits and skill to crush it! Difficulty: B, Reward: Strength +10, Faith +5, Experience +1000.]

[Option Two: Friendly fire, don't shoot!]

[Description: Attempt to disguise yourself as part of the corruption and sneak past. Difficulty: D, Reward: Strength +3, Faith +1, Experience +200.]

[Option Three: You're blocking the road!]

[Description: The enemy is too strong, time to flee! If the green hills remain, there will be wood to burn. Difficulty: E, Reward: Agility +1, Experience +100.]

"What the heck? The Revered Skeleton is supposed to respect this thing, right..." Su Li muttered as he quickly scanned the three options.

"Option One is only difficulty B?" Su Li mused.

"What does that mean? It means this thing isn't just beatable, but I have a high chance of winning!"

With that realization, Su Li's eyes instantly settled into the calm focus of a professional gamer facing a boss.

"Pipi Dragon! Target directly ahead, charge for me!"

"Roar--!"

Tina Sanks, unable to contain her fighting spirit, unleashed her four limbs and charged forward like lightning.

The Corrupted Avatar on the other side was clearly enraged. A mere little skeleton, and it dared to charge instead of fleeing?

It raised its massive wooden staff and was about to bring it down on the charging Su Li!

"Whoosh--!" The giant wooden staff stirred up terrifying wind pressure. If this blow landed, Su Li and Pipi Dragon would be reduced to pulp.

"Too slow!"

Su Li remained completely unfazed, counting down the enemy's attack wind-up in his mind.

"Three, two, one... Hard to port!"

The telepathic Pipi Dragon, at the exact moment the staff descended, performed a ninety-degree right-angle drift that defied all laws of physics.

"RUMBLE!!!"

The wooden staff slammed into the lake, stirring up a tempest of red waves, but Su Li had already maneuvered Pipi Dragon to its flank.

"Now! Prayer!" Su Li fiercely swept his left hand across the sword's body.

"Hum!"

The patterns on the Revered Corrupted Dragon Sword instantly lit up. In an instant, a fan-shaped torrent of flame shot out with Su Li's swing.

"Sizzle sizzle sizzle--!"

The flames met the bark, greasy and corrupted, and instantly erupted in fierce combustion, like a hot knife cutting through butter.

The Corrupted Avatar thrashed violently.

"Got it! Retreat!" Su Li knew that lingering to attack was a common cause of death for beginners.

The Corrupted Avatar angrily swung its staff in a sweeping motion, but Pipi Dragon's agility of 70 points was no joke. A nimble leap dodged the attack range.

"Come on, chase me, if you can catch me, I'll hehehe."

For the next few minutes, a textbook marathon battle unfolded on the Corrupted Lake.

Su Li rode Pipi Dragon and ran, and the Corrupted Avatar chased, but could never catch up.

Witnessing this scene, Su Li couldn't help but recite a poem: "Swallow, how could I live without you, Swallow!"

Although the Corrupted Avatar possessed terrifying strength, its slow turning speed was full of openings in Su Li's eyes.

"To the right! Spit on it!"

Pipi Dragon opened its massive maw, and a torrent of Nether Breath erupted.

The deep chill instantly froze the base of one of the Corrupted Avatar's legs, followed closely by Su Li's Prayer.

The alternation of extreme cold and heat caused the tough bark to instantly crack and splinter, blasting away large chunks of wood.

"Roar!!!" The Corrupted Avatar was completely enraged.

It suddenly stopped chasing and slammed its wooden staff into the ground.

"Gurgle gurgle..."

The surrounding Corrupted Lake Water began to boil violently, and then, countless sharp Corrupted Ground Spikes erupted from the lakebed.

"Area attack? I know this move!"

Su Li's eyes narrowed. "Pipi Dragon, Brutal Charge!"

"Roar!" Tina Sanks's bone armor tensed, activating [Brutal Charge].

But this wasn't for offense, it was for that burst of speed!

It shot out of the attack zone before the earth spikes could rise, like a runaway train with no brakes.

"Close one, almost got skewered like candied hawthorns." Su Li then looked at the Corrupted Avatar and jumped off Pipi Dragon.

"You used your big move, now it's your weak phase, right?"

The Corrupted Avatar was in a brief stun state from using its ultimate.

"This is the final round! Pipi Dragon! Death Roll!"

Pipi Dragon suddenly leaped, its massive body curling into a ball in mid-air, like a high-speed spinning saw blade, charging towards the Corrupted Avatar's chest.

The Corrupted Avatar seemed to sense the threat, weakly raising its wooden staff to block.

"Trying to defend? Did you ask me?! Fus--Luo!!!" Second Stage Dragon Roar! Unwavering Force!

"Boom--!!!" The semi-transparent sonic wave slammed hard into the Corrupted Avatar's massive torso.

This blow didn't blow it away, but it directly interrupted its defensive action, even causing its body to lose balance and stagger backward.

Immediately after, Pipi Dragon, transformed into a spinning wheel, slammed fiercely into its embrace.

"Crack!!!" Wood chips flew, a large chunk of the Corrupted Avatar's chest trunk was smashed apart.

The immense impact force sent it toppling backward, crashing heavily into the Corrupted Lake.

"While you're down! I'll take your life!" Su Li instantly leaped up, his sword tip pointed straight down.

"Burn to ashes for me!!!"

"Pfft!"

The long sword, carrying a prayer of flames, accurately pierced the golden-glowing core in the Corrupted Avatar's chest.

"Boom!" Flames surged in, instantly igniting its decaying internal structure.

The Corrupted Avatar struggled violently, then a dazzling firelight emanated from within.

A few seconds later, this Corrupted Avatar, which had occupied the underground for who knows how many years, began to slowly dissipate.

[Congratulations! Successfully killed the Corrupted Avatar! Experience +2500, Strength +5, Faith +5, Physique +5]

[Quest Complete: Three Hundred Rounds of Battle]

[Reward Obtained: Strength +10, Faith +5, Experience +1000]

Golden light flashed continuously on Su Li.

[Strength: 47 → 50 (Reached current rank cap), Physique: 39 → 44, Faith: 8 → 18, Experience: 5700/6200]

"Huh? Capped at 50 points?"

He had originally thought that attribute points in this game could be stacked infinitely, as long as he had experience and equipment, stacking to 99999 wouldn't be a dream.

"Does this mean that without undergoing a second evolution, my individual attributes can only reach 50?" Su Li stroked his chin.

System prompts continued to pop up:

[Detected Strength attribute overflow, automatically converted to 12 Free Attribute Points]

"It can be refunded? What a conscientious system!" Su Li was overjoyed.

"How should I allocate the points?" Su Li looked at his panel, lost in thought.

"More HP is the hard truth! How can a man not last long?" Su Li waved his hand, unhesitatingly maxing out Physique first.

[Physique: 44 → 50 (Reached current rank cap)]

With these 6 points added, Physique also reached 50 points. Now, Su Li felt his bones were incredibly hard.

"Still 6 free attribute points left..." Su Li examined the remaining data.

[Spirit: 41, Faith: 18, Agility: 18]

"Spirit is enough for now, Dragon Roar and skills don't consume much mana. 18 Faith is enough for basic Prayers."

"On the other hand, this Agility..."

Su Li recalled the previous battle. Although he dominated the field with Pipi Dragon's mobility, when he jumped off the dragon's back to deliver the finishing blow, he clearly felt a bit out of sync.

If the Corrupted Avatar hadn't been hit with a major stun, and if his sword had missed, or if he hadn't landed steadily, the consequences could have been dire.

"As a magic swordsman who needs to fight in close combat, how can I not be fast enough?"

"All martial arts are invincible if you're fast enough! All points into Agility!"

[Agility: 18 → 24]

As the points were allocated, Su Li instantly felt his body become much lighter.

"Comfortable!" Su Li stretched his joints, producing crisp popping sounds.

Now, with both Strength and Physique maxed out, Spirit not low, and Agility also improved, he was a true six-sided skeleton!

After allocating the points, Su Li looked at the spot where the Corrupted Avatar had disappeared.

A treasure chest emitting a faint golden glow lay quietly there.

"Holy crap? Golden Legend?"