Fragment Collection Roulette | The Third Leg That Couldn't Feel a Thing (Please Keep Reading)

As Lin Jing's thoughts raced,

"BOOM—!!!"

the Clear Sky Hammer collided with the arc of lightning Lin Jing had whipped out behind him.

A deafening explosion shook the heavens and earth.

A blinding white light erupted at the heart of the clash between the two forces.

Waves of air rolled outward, uprooting the surrounding trees and sending dirt and shattered rocks flying in every direction.

Yet after just a moment of deadlock, the arc of lightning seized the absolute upper hand.

Like a living thing, it instantly wrapped around the entire Clear Sky Hammer.

Then it spread upward along the hammer's shaft.

It moved too fast for anyone to react.

Tang Hao clearly hadn't expected this.

He'd thought that even if his blow couldn't break through the lightning, the two sides would at least end up mutually wounded.

But he hadn't expected the arc of lightning to be nothing like a straightforward attack.

By the time he tried to respond, it was already too late.

The power of the lightning ruthlessly invaded his body.

The next second,

Tang Hao's entire body stiffened.

He stood ramrod straight, like a spear driven into the ground.

His body began to tremble slightly, beyond his control.

Tang Hao clenched his teeth and struggled to suppress the trembling.

But it was no use.

The lightning power was incredibly strange.

It didn't invade his meridians or disrupt the circulation of his Soul Power.

It merely followed his skin and muscle fibers, spreading with deliberate precision.

And the direction it was spreading in was very bad news.

Alarm bells rang in Tang Hao's mind, and a powerful sense of impending danger surged over him.

He couldn't afford to care about anything else. He frantically channeled the Soul Power inside him, trying to completely stop the invading lightning.

The two forces began a fierce tug-of-war beneath his skin.

Beads of sweat the size of beans rolled down Tang Hao's forehead.

He stared fixedly at Lin Jing in the distance, his eyes filled with shock and confusion.

Just how powerful was this man...

Had he reached the level of...

a god?

Fuck, I overdid it. Why have I only got three seconds left?!

The "god" Tang Hao had just mentioned was now frantic, scratching his head in distress.

Lin Jing casually sent another current into Tang Hao's body, then took off with Blue Silver Grass in his arms.

His figure vanished in an instant, leaving only his voice echoing through the air.

"Tang Hao, today I'm only teaching you a lesson. If there's a next time, don't blame me for showing no mercy."

"Also, don't even think about running off with your son."

"If that boy called Tang San doesn't enter Nuoding Primary Soul Master Academy with Little Jing, I won't mind paying the Clear Sky Sect a visit..."

Lin Jing knew perfectly well what Tang Hao cared about most: Ah Yin, and the Clear Sky Sect.

Tang San didn't even make the list.

Threatening Tang Hao with the Clear Sky Sect was guaranteed to work.

"Ah Yin!"

"No! My Ah Yin!"

Tang Hao staggered a few steps toward the direction Lin Jing had vanished.

Then his face changed drastically, and he hurriedly reached down to feel around.

After a long while,

Tang Hao sat slumped against the wall of the cave behind the waterfall, utterly hopeless.

For the first time in six years, he had felt what it was like to lose Ah Yin again.

And that wasn't all. In his panic when Ah Yin was taken away, he'd forgotten to fight off the lightning inside his body.

As a result... he'd lost a leg.

He had only one left.

He'd checked for quite a while, and there was no feeling at all...

He could even smell something like roasted bird.

"At least it's only unable to move, not severed..."

Tang Hao could only console himself this way. Then he stared blankly at the mound of earth.

Lin Jing had returned to his home in Holy Soul Village.

His heart still raced with lingering fear. Luckily, the system had come through this time; otherwise, Tang Hao would've had him in his clutches.

He patted his erratically beating heart.

"Ugh... I came back to Holy Soul Village to hide from bad luck, but it found me as soon as I set foot in the village."

"But as the old saying goes, the bigger the waves, the pricier the fish!"

"It was dangerous, sure, but the haul was enormous!"

Lin Jing casually picked up the flowerpot on the windowsill, pulled out the Blue Silver Grass, and tossed it aside.

Then he put Ah Yin inside, covered her roots with some soil, and watered her.

Afterward, he sat on the wooden bed and took out Ah Yin's Hundred Thousand Year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone.

He didn't rush to absorb it. Instead, he studied the system's new feature.

[Fragment Collection Roulette unlocked.]

The system interface appeared before him, and this was the first line he saw.

Lin Jing eagerly tapped it.

He'd been wanting these fragments for ages. After all, every one of them was another trump card that could save his life.

The roulette page appeared, and his gaze swept over the various fragments.

Roadside Stray Dog's Path to Godhood, Technique Sea Serpent's Unyielding Spirit, Dead Phoenix Awakens the Inferior King, Formless God...

There were so many that Lin Jing's eyes went blurry, but he still didn't see a fragment for Emperor Jing.

"Could it be too powerful, so it's been sealed?"

Lin Jing wondered if this lousy system was afraid he'd have too easy a time.

[Ding!]

[Technique Sea Serpent's Unyielding Spirit is Emperor Jing. Host, stop slandering this system in your mind!!!]

The system's voice sounded flustered and annoyed.

It had worked so hard for him, and he still suspected it!

"Sea Serpent is Emperor Jing?"

Lin Jing was taken aback, ignoring the system's exasperated outburst.

"Forget it. Never mind."

"How do I get more chances to spin this roulette?"

Lin Jing asked directly.

[Mall Roulette, Task Point exchanges, and task rewards.]

"Are those the only three ways?"

[Yes.]

"How many Task Points does one spin cost?"

Lin Jing pressed on.

[100 Task Points.]

Lin Jing: "..."

"One spin on the Mall Roulette only costs ten Task Points! This one costs a hundred?!"

Lin Jing pointed angrily at the screen. "This is a scam!"

The system paid no attention to his clownish display and ignored him completely.

Lin Jing waited a while. When no reply came, he said sheepishly,

"Um, System-chan, shouldn't you be handing out some tasks? I still owe you ten Task Points. I should pay you back as soon as possible, don't you think..."

[Really?]

The system sounded a little puzzled. Why was its host suddenly so proactive today?

"Really!"

Lin Jing nodded repeatedly. "I don't like being in debt."

[That's the spirit, host!]

The system gave Lin Jing a thumbs-up on the screen.

[Task assigned: Absorb a Soul Bone.]

[Absorb a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone.]

[Reward: 1 Task Point.]

The smile that had just appeared on Lin Jing's face froze.

Unconvinced, Lin Jing asked, "System-chan, are you sure you didn't make a mistake with that one point?"

[No.]

The system's reply was firm and final.

Forget it, Lin Jing thought. One point was one point. Something was better than nothing.

Besides, this was something he'd planned to do anyway.

He closed his eyes and began absorbing the Hundred Thousand Year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone before him.

Holy Soul Village, the back mountain.

Tang Hao abruptly sat up from the ground. It suddenly occurred to him that Emperor Jing might harm Little San.

Then he sat back down again.

He remembered Emperor Jing saying before he left that as long as Tang Hao didn't take Little San away, nothing would happen.

A powerful person like Emperor Jing wouldn't stoop to lying.

Probably...

Tang Hao hesitated, then stood up again and headed toward the blacksmith shop.

The leg that had been injured had suffered internal damage, so it didn't show when he walked.

He had only Tang San left now. Nothing could happen to Tang San...