Universal Skill Draw, Soul-Reaper Blade Abilities

The domain expansion consumed an enormous amount of spiritual power.

Mo Shiyu's face instantly turned much paler, having used up fifty percent of her spiritual power.

Because Xiao Hei had broken through, her ability to reduce spiritual power consumption had grown much stronger.

Combined with the fact that Mo Shiyu's spiritual power reserves kept increasing every time she was drained dry in battle,

things were much better than before.

Time was running out.

Xia Yuan snapped his fingers. Purple light containing terrifying energy gathered at his fingertips like a lit purple star. "I originally had a lot of questions to ask you, but it seems there's no time now..."

"Hollow Purple..."

Within the domain, skills were guaranteed to hit.

Xia Yuan did not hold back. This Hollow Purple used all the power he currently possessed.

It had to be said that the Deep Sea King was one of the smartest and strongest dungeon bosses Xia Yuan had encountered so far.

So Xia Yuan gave it a little respect.

The entire space was covered in dazzling purple light.

Hollow Purple struck the completely defenseless Deep Sea King head-on. The powerful ball of purple energy blasted a huge hole through its muscular body!

Its health bar was instantly emptied!

The Deep Sea King never regained consciousness before its death. It did not even know how it had died...

The seawater filling the sky receded like a tide.

The secret realm had been cleared successfully!

Rewards were being calculated!

[Contract Spirit Xia Yuan, level increased: Lv.38 → Lv.43]

[Contract Spirit Black Cat Spirit, level increased: Lv.50 → Lv.60]

Mo Shiyu was somewhat surprised. Generally speaking, secret realm dungeons should not give much experience, yet Xia Yuan had gained five levels!

That was truly an unexpected delight!

"It looks like this red-name boss, the Deep Sea King, was no simple opponent!"

Xia Yuan also glanced at his system reward bar, which had reached 25%.

At the same time, the system unexpectedly displayed a prompt:

[Congratulations, Host. You have successfully accumulated the system reward bar to 25%, obtaining one chance to draw a universal skill (usable by any character template). This skill pool encompasses characters from countless anime worlds, but its strength is below the combat power ceiling.]

[Begin the draw?]

[Note: Each time the reward bar increases by one quarter, this reward will be triggered. Please accumulate more reward progress, Host!]

What was a surprise?

This damn well was a surprise!

"Thank you for your contribution, Deep Sea King!"

Xia Yuan sincerely praised it.

A universal skill might be below the ceiling, but it was still pretty good.

After all, it could expand his combat options!

Besides, among the major anime worlds from his previous life, plenty of characters below the ceiling had incredibly powerful and useful skills!

He could barely wait to start drawing!

"Start the draw!"

A magnificent roulette wheel appeared before Xia Yuan and began spinning.

Xia Yuan felt a little excited, hoping for a powerful and cool skill!

Hmm...

Something like Saber's Excalibur, Aizen's Flower in the Mirror, Moon on the Water, or unrestricted Eight Gates Might Guy...

If not, he could accept Doraemon's magical pocket too...

The system was speechless. Were you making wishes to me?

[Ding!]

[Congratulations, Host! You have obtained all abilities of Thousand Cherry Blossoms, the Soul-Reaper Blade of Byakuya Kuchiki from the Soul Reaper World, including Shikai, Bankai...!]

Xia Yuan raised an eyebrow, while inwardly he was already grinning from ear to ear!

Not bad luck!

Of course he knew this ability—the Bankai, Vibrant Display of a Thousand Cherry Blossoms!

Though it was not the strongest Bankai in the Soul Reaper World, it was insanely cool, and its destructive power was far from low.

In an instant,

Xia Yuan felt an unfamiliar power appear within his body.

From now on, regardless of which ceiling-level character template he used, he could use the abilities of the Soul-Reaper Blade Thousand Cherry Blossoms!

This time, his gains had been substantial, all thanks to the Deep Sea King!

This fight had not been for nothing.

The crisis of death had passed.

Su Yun and Su Hang collapsed onto the ground, still shaken as they took huge gulps of air.

If their team had not hidden top-tier powerhouses like Mo Shiyu and Xia Yuan, they would have died in the secret realm!

The two looked gratefully at Mo Shiyu and Xia Yuan. Their voices were sincere, and their eyes were full of admiration and respect.

"Thank you so much, Mo, Xia Yuan!"

"We were blind before. Please don't hold it against us!"

Mo Shiyu helped Su Yun up from the ground. "No need to be so polite. Since we formed a team, it was only natural."

Because Blade God had been extremely worried about the situation outside, Su Hang released him as well.

"Where's the boss?"

"How did it go?!"

"Is everyone alright?"

"Did that guy Xia Yuan win?!"

Blade God looked around anxiously. After recovering in the Contract Spirit Space, his injuries had improved considerably.

Su Hang explained, "Xia Yuan has already cleared it..."

With a mischievous grin, Xia Yuan said, "Hey, is Brother Blade alright? You nearly died just now. That was really a close call!"

Blade God froze where he stood.

He had never imagined that a human Contract Spirit like Xia Yuan—who looked so unserious and unreliable—would be the legendary SSR!

At the way Xia Yuan addressed him as "Brother Blade," an obvious trace of embarrassment appeared on Blade God's lion-like face.

He chuckled and scratched his head, humbly saying,

"Hehe..."

"God Yuan, you really know how to hide your strength. Why call me Brother Blade? How could a little nobody like me deserve that? You're embarrassing me!"

Xia Yuan rubbed his chin. "Then I'll call you Lion King. All your moves are Lion Overlord this and Lion Overlord that. It sounds pretty badass!"

Blade God awkwardly waved his hands. "Eh? What Lion King? Before you, I'm just a little kitty, hehe..."

What a joke!

At level 38, Xia Yuan had cleared a level-90 red-name boss like the Deep Sea King!

At the same level, killing him would truly be no different from crushing a kitten...

The Inscription Divine Tree began growing wildly, its branches extending once again before the three Spirit Masters.

"The inscription rewards are coming!"

"I heard that red-name bosses drop rewards one tier higher. That means five-star inscriptions will drop!"

Su Hang said excitedly.

Su Yun's hands trembled slightly as she received the inscriptions.

Five-star inscriptions were far too rare!

Do not let the fact that they were only one star above four-star inscriptions fool you.

Normally, one had to clear a five-star secret realm to obtain them, and that was incredibly difficult.

For people like them, they would likely need to gather Chongyang Contract Spirit Master High School's strongest Contract Spirits just to barely manage it.

Furthermore, five-star inscriptions were outrageously expensive on the Spirit Master official website. Even then, they were scarce commodities with no market price.

The three began checking the types of inscriptions.

After thinking it over, Su Yun and Su Hang decided to give all the five-star inscriptions they had obtained to Mo Shiyu.

"You saved our lives, so we don't want these five-star inscriptions..."

"Besides, we didn't help at all in clearing this secret realm."

Mo Shiyu pushed the five-star inscriptions back without accepting them. "Didn't we also fail to help much in the first round? Yet you still let us coast. We can just exchange them according to what each of us needs."

The two hesitated.

Xia Yuan teased them with a smile.

"You deserve them. You nearly lost your lives, after all, so take them."

"Those are the rules of teaming up. We're not that stingy."

Although Su Yun and Su Hang had been a little arrogant at first, they had not mocked or looked down on Xia Yuan because he was level 38.

And even when Xia Yuan had coasted through the first round, they had not tried to withhold Mo Shiyu's inscription rewards.

In other teams, someone as low-level as Xia Yuan, coming in just to coast, would probably only get to smell the experience points. Forget about getting any inscriptions...

So naturally, Mo Shiyu and Xia Yuan would not be petty either.

"What are you planning to do next? Rest for a while...?"

Mo Shiyu asked, "I still have extra spiritual power, so Xia Yuan and I plan to keep farming inscription secret realms. What about you two?"

Su Yun and Su Hang exchanged a glance. Though they had just walked through the gates of hell and were still shaken,

with such a powerful SSR as Xia Yuan leading them, who would not want to farm more inscriptions?

"As long as you don't mind us, we can help fill out the team!"

"Yeah. That way, you'll also have a better chance of getting the inscriptions you want."

Afterward,

Su Yun and Su Hang stared blankly at the level-100 secret realm boss and the elite monsters above level 80 in the five-star secret realm before them...

Wait...

You never said the secret realm you wanted to farm was a five-star one!