A Bountiful Harvest, a Gift for Jingliu

Awesome!

Killing Tang Hao had increased the main storyline's Honkai Points by 5% in one go, and the rewards that followed were even more generous!!

Although there were only four items in the reward list, there were...

Xu Yuan knew that, strictly speaking, there were five rewards.

After triggering the main storyline's Honkai Points time and again, Xu Yuan had more or less figured out the cheat's reward system.

Roughly every 1% on the progress bar equaled one completed reward.

Among this batch of completed rewards, every single one was immensely useful based on its name alone.

But the third reward was particularly intriguing. Xu Yuan decisively touched it with his mind to inspect its details.

[External Soul Bone Drop Card*1 (Thousand Year)]

[Type: Consumable (Three-Star)]

[Effect: After use, may designate any Thousand Year Soul Beast, which will definitely drop an External Soul Bone.]

[Note: A thousand years comes but once, comes but once!]

Ignoring the joke in the note, Xu Yuan was still quite pleased with this reward.

As everyone knew, External Soul Bones could be cultivated from a weak state and would evolve alongside every advancement of the Soul Master.

The most famous example was the Eight-Spider Spear from the original work.

It had evolved from a Thousand Year External Soul Bone from a Man Faced Demon Spider into the Sea God's Eight Wings.

The value of an External Soul Bone was second only to a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring. During the era of the first Douluo novel, they had been exceedingly rare.

Of course, this reward could only designate a Thousand Year Soul Beast, so it still depended greatly on the Soul Beast's species and talent.

Besides that, the other four rewards were equally precious.

Two Exclusive Spirit Rings. These could perfectly match a Martial Soul and automatically grant the Soul Master an ultimate-limit Soul Ring.

With Xu Yuan's current physical condition, the age limit for his third Soul Ring had already reached...

The level of a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring!

A Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring represented tremendous power. It could provide a Soul Master with greater tempering and enhancement, while also granting two soul skills.

For an ordinary Soul Master, the limit for a third Soul Ring was 1,700 years.

But to be precise, Xu Yuan felt that the true limit for his third Soul Ring should be somewhere between 180,000 and 190,000 years.

Ice-Fire Body Tempering, the enhancement of two black Soul Rings over fifty thousand years old, and the cleansing transformation brought by multiple immortal herbs.

With so many fortuitous opportunities piled onto him, his starting point was extremely high.

However...

His obsessive tendencies made that ten-thousand-year gap hard to bear. So, Xu Yuan planned to use another reward to temper his body.

He would raise his Soul Ring absorption limit to 200,000 years.

That was right. He meant the Large Ten-Thousand-Year Black Ice Marrow Vein*1.

It was a famous heavenly treasure from Douluo II, an incredible tonic for all ice-attribute Soul Masters and Soul Beasts.

Most importantly, wherever a sufficient quantity of Ten-Thousand-Year Black Ice Marrow existed, there would definitely be Ice Extremity Divine Crystal.

Ice Extremity Divine Crystal was the hardest and most resilient ice-attribute metal. It could be used to forge Soul Tool equipment.

Although neither Xu Yuan nor Jingliu knew how to forge, Xu Yuan knew of a young woman who could.

In Star Rail, she was the foremost figure of the younger generation on the Xianzhou Alliance's Zhu Ming Xianzhou, the eldest daughter of a family of swordsmiths.

Yunli.

Unfortunately, the [Contract Summoning Card] summoned randomly. It was far too early to think about that.

Besides, since the rewards included treasures from Douluo II, perhaps he could even draw Baiye skill books from Star Rail.

What was Baiye?

Blade's former self, Yingxing, had been the Baiye of the Xianzhou Luofu, also known as a divine craftsman!

Blade had once forged five of the most famous weapons.

The first was the Shattered Sword, forged for Jingliu.

The second was the Jue Bow, forged for Baiheng.

The third was Flintforge Dream, forged for Jing Yuan.

The fourth was the Cloudpiercer spear, forged for the Vidyadhara High Elder, Imbibitor Lunae.

As for the final weapon...

Blade forged himself into a weapon worth 8.13 billion credits, then repaired the Shattered Sword that Jingliu had severed and used it himself.

The divine craftsman of the High-Cloud Quintet, his name immortalized in history!!

Back to the point, those were matters to consider after advancing the main storyline's Honkai Points in the future.

The important thing was the final reward.

[This Body Is a Sword: Destruction +1]

[Type: Five-Star Light Cone (Garden of Recollection)]

[Attributes: HP/Attack/Defense +100%]

[Effect 1: Increases the wielder's damage by 20%.]

[Effect 2: When an ally is attacked or loses HP, the wielder gains one stack of [Moon Eclipse], up to a maximum of three stacks.

Each stack of [Moon Eclipse] increases the wielder's damage by 14%. At three stacks of [Moon Eclipse], the next attack ignores 12% of the target's defense, after which the stacks are removed.]

[Effect 3: Consumes one stack of [Moon Eclipse] to create a Moon Avatar with 10% of the wielder's power to assist in battle for three minutes.]

[Note: Because the moon is about to suffer Destruction Damage.]

Not bad. It was much stronger than being stuck in prison in the game.

In terms of Light Cone effect values, it rivaled the specialized Light Cone Xu Yuan had obtained earlier. That third effect was quite interesting too.

As long as an ally was attacked or lost HP, Jingliu could gain a stack of [Moon Eclipse] and begin a human-wave strategy.

But given Jingliu's strength, Effect 2 would produce more immediate results. It could only be said that each ability had its own strengths.

At that thought, Xu Yuan snapped out of inspecting the rewards and looked at Jingliu, who had been silently guarding him at his side.

"Big Sister, I Trailblazed something good this time."

"I would like to hear the details."

Jingliu's beautiful crimson eyes turned toward him, her tone as cool as ice.

"This is a treasure from the Garden of Recollection, the [Five-Star Light Cone—I Shall Be My Own Sword]. It suits you very well, Big Sister."

Xu Yuan smiled faintly, preparing to give Jingliu a gift.

Then, Xu Yuan opened his inventory panel and took out the exquisite Light Cone card, offering it to her.

On the Light Cone's illustration, a white-haired, icy woman in an ancient battle dress stood beneath a bright moon, still as a secluded lotus.

"This is... a Light Cone construct formed from memetic power?"

Jingliu took the Light Cone. The moment her slender fingers touched it, she understood the information contained within.

The next second, the Light Cone sank into Jingliu's palm.

"Bzzz—!!"

A vast wave of moon-white energy erupted. The ground was instantly covered in solid ice, transforming into a frozen wasteland.

Light blazed across Jingliu's body, and her aura surged explosively.

Only after a moment did Jingliu slowly open her eyes.

Feeling the doubled power within her body, as well as those three effects, a flash of delight crossed Jingliu's face.

Any cultivator would pursue greater strength.

The next moment...

Jingliu looked at Xu Yuan with her crimson eyes, her voice growing somewhat gentler. "Thank you, little brother."

"From now on, when you use the Martial Soul Fusion Skill, I will fight alongside you as well."

Having witnessed Xu Yuan transform into the blazing sun of Destruction with her own eyes, Jingliu had likewise had her battle-hungry Sword Heart stirred.

To fight side by side—this was a personal promise from one of the High-Cloud Quintet.

"Thank you, Big Sister. But a battle just took place here, so it isn't safe to stay long. We should leave first."

"While we're at it, let's go to Notting City and buy a few things."

After making some calculations, Xu Yuan said this to Jingliu.

The two then set off.

Only halfway along the road did Xu Yuan finally have time to inspect the spoils Tang Hao had dropped—

Six Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones.

One was a shrunken right arm bone, entirely black, with faint black radiance contained within. It was around seventy thousand years old.

The other was a shrunken left leg bone, dark cyan throughout, its energy fluctuations likewise around seventy thousand years old.

These two were both exceptionally complete inherited Soul Bones of the Clear Sky Sect.

The other four Soul Bones were also at the Ten Thousand Year level.

It was truly a bountiful harvest.