Little Black Ball's New Function

Over the past three days, Xin Yang used up all the freshman assessment rewards issued by the school.

The freshman assessment rewards gave him another ordinary-quality Specter Skill. Unfortunately, that bottle of permanent curse ability potion did not grant him a new curse ability.

Permanent curse ability potions also had a chance of failure.

Xin Yang had received an R-quality curse ability potion, which had a 20% chance of failure. As it happened, he got unlucky.

The new Specter Skill he obtained was [Night Vision].

[Night Vision Skill Analysis: Consumes specter energy to improve vision at night.]

During those three days of study, Xin Yang learned that Specter Skills came in different qualities as well.

Specter Skill qualities were divided into: ordinary Specter Skills, refined Specter Skills, rare Specter Skills, exceptional Specter Skills, and forbidden Specter Skills.

Although a Specter Skill's quality could not be changed, its proficiency rank could be advanced through training and use.

The higher the proficiency, the greater the skill's effect and power.

Specter Skill proficiency ranks were divided into: proficient, masterful, minor accomplishment, major accomplishment, and perfect.

If someone brought an ordinary-quality Specter Skill's proficiency to perfect, that ordinary-quality perfect-rank Specter Skill could even defeat a refined-quality Specter Skill below the perfect rank.

"Congratulations, my lord. Little Black Ball's strength has increased tremendously. It is truly like adding wings to a tiger for you," Zhou Qian said, once again offering Xin Yang an official-sounding congratulations.

"Big Brother" was still asleep at the moment. Otherwise, Xin Yang would have been the first to tell him that Little Black Ball had advanced.

Little Black Ball kept flying around Xin Yang, as though it had something it wanted to say.

"Little Black Ball, is there something you want to tell me?" Xin Yang asked, holding Little Black Ball in his palm.

Suddenly, a flood of information surged into his mind!

It left him stunned on the spot. It took Xin Yang a full half hour to completely digest it!

The new ability Little Black Ball had gained upon reaching the Calamity rank was the ability to break down unwanted Specter Skills and curse abilities into Specter Skill points.

Specter Skill points had only one use.

That was to raise a Specter Skill's proficiency rank!

Xin Yang was overjoyed. This ability was practically made for him.

He held Little Black Ball and cheered excitedly like a child who had just received a new toy.

After calming down, he realized that tomorrow was the day of his first entry into the Specter World.

He had no time to waste. He had to immediately use this newly acquired ability to strengthen himself.

"Little Black Ball, how do I use this ability of yours?"

The moment he finished speaking,

Xin Yang instantly appeared in a completely dark space.

Pearls of different colors floated before him.

Xin Yang reached out and touched a black pearl.

Information appeared in his mind.

[Ordinary-Quality Specter Skill: Skinning]

[Current Rank: Beginner]

[Disassemble?]

[Yes/No]

Xin Yang immediately chose no. Skinning had already become one of his most important offensive methods, so how could he bear to disassemble it?

He had already decided what Specter Skills he wanted to disassemble: Candy Buying, Poison Mist, and Vine Control.

Those three Specter Skills were too restrictive for him.

The Specter Skills Xin Yang chose to keep were Dream Origin, Skinning, and the newly acquired Night Vision.

As for the curse abilities Drought Demon Form, Bark, and Dream Slumber, he did not want to disassemble a single one. Drought Demon Form was so powerful that he naturally could not disassemble it, while the other two curse abilities were passive. He would not disassemble passive curse abilities either.

Afterward, he touched every pearl.

The Candy Buying Specter Skill was blackish-purple.

[Ordinary-Quality Specter Skill: Candy Buying]

[Current Rank: Beginner]

[Disassemble?]

[Yes/No]

This time, Xin Yang chose yes.

He then disassembled both Poison Mist and Vine Control as well.

After the disassembly was complete, three Specter Skill points appeared in the dark space. They were flawlessly white, seemingly carrying faint traces of holy light.

This time, he chose to touch Skinning first...

[Ordinary-Quality Specter Skill: Skinning]

[Current Rank: Beginner (Upgradeable)]

[Upgrade?]

[Skinning upgrade consumes one Specter Skill point]

Xin Yang thought for a moment and did not rush to decide...

He then touched Dream Origin and Night Vision.

[Rare-Quality Specter Skill: Dream Origin]

[Current Rank: Beginner (Upgradeable)]

[Upgrade?]

[Dream Origin upgrade consumes three Specter Skill points]

Dream Origin required three Specter Skill points to upgrade? That was way too expensive!

He then looked at the Night Vision Specter Skill.

[Ordinary-Quality Specter Skill: Night Vision]

[Current Rank: Beginner (Upgradeable)]

[Upgrade?]

[Night Vision upgrade consumes one Specter Skill point]

From this, it was clear that the higher a Specter Skill's quality, the more Specter Skill points it consumed to upgrade.

Xin Yang pondered in the dark space for more than half an hour before deciding to upgrade Dream Origin first.

The reason he chose to upgrade Dream Origin first was that doing so would use up exactly all three Specter Skill points.

If he upgraded either of the other two Specter Skills first, he would be left with unused Specter Skill points.

Besides, Dream Origin was a rare-quality Specter Skill. His intuition told him that after this skill was upgraded, it definitely would not disappoint him.

Xin Yang allocated all three Specter Skill points to Dream Origin.

[Rare-Quality Specter Skill: Dream Origin]

[Upgraded]

[Current Rank: Proficient]

After upgrading it, Xin Yang could not wait to use the Dream Origin Specter Skill once.

Xin Yang discovered that Dream Origin consumed more specter energy after the upgrade. If a Xin Yang in "full condition" could previously use Dream Origin more than ten times,

then after Dream Origin was upgraded, Xin Yang could only use it six or seven times.

As for whether Dream Origin's effect had changed, he did not yet know.

"How should I verify Dream Origin's new effect after its upgrade?" Xin Yang rubbed his chin as he thought.

At that moment, Shangzhi, who was hugging a washbasin and licking it, felt a gust of cold wind sweep over him.

He turned around and looked, but there was no one there!

His lord was not there either...

He turned back around and happily continued licking Little Black Ball's "bathtub" while hugging it!

Little did he know that he would soon suffer someone's demonic clutches.

The next day

Early in the morning,

Xin Yang got up and washed up.

Because today was the day the school had arranged for the freshmen to enter the Specter World for the first time.

After washing up, Xin Yang picked up his phone and replied to Ning Shiyao's message.

Because ever since they had first attended class together in Calamity Class that day,

Ning Shiyao had sent Xin Yang good morning and good night messages every day.

And every morning, she brought Xin Yang breakfast!

Although Xin Yang, being the hopelessly straight guy he was, still did not understand romance, a girl was messaging him, so he had to at least send a few perfunctory replies.

"I'm a man who will become a pillar of the human race."

"How can I be troubled by romantic entanglements?"

"Unless she's a loli or a mature beauty..."

That was the true portrayal of Xin Yang's thoughts at the moment.

When he arrived in the classroom, Xin Yang saw the pan-fried buns and soy milk on his desk.

He did not stand on ceremony and picked them up to eat...