[Ding!] [System Task: Self-Defense Counterattack, completed!] [Task Rewards: Ten Task Points and one Fragment Roulette draw. Rewards have been credited to the host's account. Please check them yourself.]
A crisp notification rang out abruptly in Lin Jing's mind.
He had just leaped down from the tree branch.
He was about to go over and search through his spoils.
But the system notification caught him off guard.
"Hm?"
"A task?"
Lin Jing blinked.
When had the task been issued?
How could he have no memory of it at all?
With a thought, the system panel appeared before him.
Sure enough, in the task list,
there was a task called "Self-Defense Counterattack," with the words "Completed" marked beside it.
Lin Jing examined the task details carefully, then calculated how much time had passed.
When the task was issued... he seemed to have already started absorbing his Spirit Ring.
No wonder he hadn't noticed it.
"Good thing I completed it by sheer luck."
Lin Jing patted his chest, looking as though he'd narrowly avoided disaster.
If he'd only found out about this uncompleted task after returning to Holy Soul Village...
that would've been a huge loss.
Ten Task Points!
That was enough for one Mall Roulette draw!
And with the Fragment Roulette draw, which cost one hundred Task Points...
that made a total of one hundred and ten Task Points.
If he'd missed out on that, Lin Jing would've lost sleep for days.
Having cleared up his doubts, he didn't rush to draw.
He continued toward the three corpses and crouched beside them.
Your Uncle Lin Jing was about to engage in an activity known as "looting the bodies."
He started with the leader.
Inside his shirt... nothing.
In his sleeves... nothing.
In his belt... nothing, either.
Lin Jing frowned, then searched the second and third men.
The result... was the same.
Nothing at all.
Lin Jing stood up and clapped his hands with a disappointed look.
"Those three good-for-nothings..."
They didn't have a single thing of value on them.
How could they be so poor and still go around imitating bandits, killing people and stealing their goods?
How embarrassing.
And the worst part was...
he couldn't even find the Gold Soul Coin he'd spent on Beast Repellent Powder that afternoon.
Those three must've stashed their money somewhere else...
Lin Jing shook his head in disappointment.
Oh well. At least his Soul Power had risen by two levels, and he'd gotten a Fragment Roulette draw.
He casually raised a hand, and a faint flame gathered at his fingertip.
The flame was tiny, no bigger than a fingernail.
Lin Jing flicked his finger, sending the flame flying toward the three corpses.
The instant the flame landed on them, it roared to life, blazing fiercely.
The fire burned so violently, it was as though it were consuming gasoline rather than corpses.
This was the fire element granted to Lin Jing by his Vast Sea Glazed True Dragon Martial Soul. It was more than enough to burn the bodies and erase the evidence.
Lin Jing paid no further attention to the blazing fire.
He walked to the center of the clearing, found a clean spot, and sat down cross-legged.
His gaze turned toward the system panel, which stood out vividly in the night.
The panel gave off a faint glow, floating half a meter in front of him.
Though it was conspicuous, no one else could see it.
Lin Jing silently calculated.
He now had two chances to draw.
One was the Special Opportunity Roulette draw, which the system awarded him every time he broke through a ten-level threshold.
The other was the Fragment Roulette draw he'd just received as a task reward.
"Fragment Roulette... The drop rate for it in tasks seems pretty high..."
Lin Jing stroked his chin, deep in thought.
He'd only dealt with one Soul Grandmaster and two Soul Masters, yet such a simple task had given him a Fragment Roulette draw.
What if he got a more difficult task...
Wouldn't he get ten draws in a row?
As Lin Jing thought about it, the smile on his face gradually grew rather unhinged.
He'd started fantasizing for no reason again.
"System-chan!"
With no one around, Lin Jing called out loud.
"Fragment Roulette draw, start!"
The moment he finished speaking, the system panel before him changed in an instant.
The original task list, shop interface, and everything else vanished.
In their place, four large characters slowly floated up from the bottom of the panel:
"Fragment Roulette"
Beneath the words was a colorful wheel that looked quite ordinary, even a little plain.
Red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and violet.
"Oh?"
Lin Jing raised his eyebrows.
"You even made an opening animation?"
"Not bad, System-chan. You're getting more and more advanced."
Seeing that the Thunder System wasn't responding, Lin Jing reached out and slapped the "Start" button.
"Let's get right to it."
He'd already memorized all the rewards on the Fragment Roulette, so there was nothing to hesitate over.
The next moment,
the wheel began to spin slowly.
At first, it moved very slowly, turning one slot at a time. He could clearly make out the name of every reward.
But soon, it spun faster and faster.
Faster and faster.
In the end, Lin Jing could see only a rapidly whirling ring of color. He couldn't make out the words on it at all.
The wheel spun at a terrifying speed for a full three seconds before finally beginning to slow down, little by little.
Its speed decreased.
The pointer moved slowly past one slot after another.
Wild Dog Overlord...
Ideology Yinglong...
Human Emperor Banner...
Sacrifice Kid...
Technique Sea Serpent's Unyielding Spirit...
The pointer swept across the reward slots one by one.
Lin Jing's heart began to race along with it.
At last, the wheel came to a complete stop.
The pointer settled firmly on one slot.
—Formless God!
The instant the pointer stopped, a massive flood of information poured into Lin Jing's mind like a rising tide.
All the details of Formless God's abilities, along with the tales and legends about him, were etched into Lin Jing's memory.
Lin Jing closed his eyes and spent a long while absorbing it all before opening them again.
Then his expression turned... somewhat peculiar.
Formless God had an extremely special... trait.
Lin Jing couldn't think of a better way to describe it than "trait."
Or rather—the rule by which it killed...
"No one may look upon this face. Whoever sees it dies!"
No one could escape it.
Not even a god!
In Formless God's original timeline, he had once relied on that face to cross countless levels of strength and directly... kill Sword Douluo Chen Xin of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect with his handsomeness.
That was right.
He'd died from being too handsome.
He'd taken one look and dropped dead on the spot.
There was also a memory fragment about Formless God that Lin Jing found rather surreal.
It showed Formless God traveling and training in his youth.
He'd only wanted to use the river water to wash his face.
But then...
as he leaned over, he accidentally saw his own face in the river's reflection...
Just one glance.
Formless God immediately fell into a near-death state.
His Soul Power Level even dropped by two levels...
Lin Jing: "..."
It was just too surreal.
After digesting Formless God's information, Lin Jing smacked his lips.
Someone could be killed by sheer handsomeness. Honestly, Lin Jing really wanted to see what kind of peerless beauty that face was.
He shook his head, casting all those bizarre thoughts aside.
Lin Jing's gaze returned to the system panel.
He'd finished drawing from the Fragment Roulette. Next...
it was time to draw from the Special Opportunity Roulette.
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