Sealing Jutsu: Fire Style: Heavenly Prison

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The buzz from Zhou Fan's livestream was still growing.

Although there hadn't been many viewers in his stream while he was live,

someone had recorded it and uploaded the footage to various video sites.

The view counts had surged again, earning him plenty of emotion points.

[Surprise from Lin Qianqian +500]

[Defiance from Lin Qianqian +1000]

*??*

Zhou Fan had been ignoring those emotion points trickling in one at a time.

Then the system suddenly displayed two more notifications.

What had he done?

Why was Lin Qianqian feeling defiant toward him again?

He hadn't even seen Lin Qianqian today.

What the hell?

Still, thanks to the emotion points Lin Qianqian had provided,

Zhou Fan had finally saved up ten thousand emotion points.

Just enough for a draw!

"System, I want to draw!"

[Consuming 10,000 emotion points. Starting draw!]

[Congratulations, host! You have drawn 'Sealing Jutsu: Fire Style: Heavenly Prison'!]

[Fire Style: Heavenly Prison: Inject fire-attribute spiritual energy into the target's body to form a fiery cursed seal. Whenever the target gathers spiritual energy, the fiery cursed seal will activate and burn them!]

"Sealing Jutsu? Not bad."

Although the name carried the "Fire Release" label, this was a genuine Sealing Jutsu.

Its sealing power couldn't compare with powerful Sealing Jutsu like the Eight Trigrams Seal or the Reaper Death Seal.

But it had no side effects and was quick and simple to use, making it a pretty good Sealing Jutsu.

Take the Reaper Death Seal, for example.

It was badass, but the price was handing your soul over to the god of death.

That thing was purely a way to take your enemy down with you.

Fire Style: Heavenly Prison offered much better value.

"I got quite a few crystal cores today, too. Let's see if I can break through to first tier, four stars."

Zhou Fan took out the mutant beast crystal cores he had collected that day and began absorbing them.

There were three main ways for Espers to cultivate and grow stronger.

The first was absorbing Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy. This was the easiest method, but also the least efficient.

The second was constant combat, tempering the body and unlocking its potential through battle.

The third was obtaining mutant beast crystal cores, natural spirit stones, and anything else containing spiritual energy, then absorbing that energy to grow stronger.

Zhou Fan took out all the crystal cores he had collected that day and began absorbing them.

The smooth, rounded crystal cores resting in his palm were drained dry in an instant.

These few crystal cores contained too little energy.

There simply wasn't enough for him to absorb.

"The spiritual energy in my essence core has filled up quite a bit more. I'm another step closer to first tier, four stars." Zhou Fan was pleased.

A few more days of hunting, and he should reach first tier, four stars soon.

"I'll stream again tomorrow and see if I can earn some more emotion points."

What Zhou Fan wanted to redeem most was the Mangekyō Sharingan.

Unfortunately, it required far too many emotion points.

A full fifty thousand!

Saving up fifty thousand emotion points wasn't actually that difficult.

The hard part was resisting the urge to spend them.

He had already spent twenty thousand emotion points.

He couldn't help it. If he kept saving without spending,

there would be a long stretch where his strength stagnated before he could redeem the Mangekyō Sharingan.

He could only redeem a few other ninjutsu first to improve his strength.

Without enough strength to back him up, whether he could even last until he redeemed the Mangekyō Sharingan was another question.

Early the next morning,

Zhou Fan didn't rush out of the city.

Instead, he planned to visit the city's merchants first to buy some weapons.

He arrived at the busiest street in the heart of Skysea City.

All kinds of shops lined the street, their wares dazzling the eye.

They sold just about everything.

"Step right up, don't miss out! Newly released weapons! Sabers, spears, staffs, clubs-we've got them all!"

"Buying materials and crystal cores!"

"Chickens! Beautiful chickens! They can sing, dance, and even play basketball!"

Weapons, armor, crystal cores, materials-basically anything you wanted could be bought here.

Zhou Fan entered a weapons shop and examined the weapons displayed on the counter.

There was a huge assortment, with every kind imaginable.

Besides the usual sabers, spears, swords, and halberds,

there were also hidden weapons like throwing knives and darts.

In the end, Zhou Fan bought ten throwing knives resembling shuriken, then twenty darts resembling kunai.

Finally, a standard-issue long saber caught his eye.

Its blade was straight, fifty centimeters long, and single-edged. It felt light and handy, not too heavy.

"Just these. How much?"

"Two thousand altogether."

"So expensive..."

Fortunately, Zhou Fan had some savings.

Besides, some big spenders had sent him gifts during yesterday's livestream.

So he could still afford this much.

Finally, he bought a palm-sized weapons pouch specifically for holding his throwing knives and darts.

Only after finishing all that did he leave the city.

He arrived at the city gates.

The same two guards from yesterday were on duty.

They both recognized Zhou Fan, so they didn't stop him this time.

He arrived at the Mutant Beast Forest.

Zhou Fan started another livestream.

As soon as he went live, a few viewers joined.

"Why are you streaming so early today?"

"Back for another steamy romp in the wild?"

"I want to watch the streamer get intimate with a mutant beast."

These were all fans who had followed him after yesterday's stream.

"Morning, guys."

More and more people trickled into the stream.

'Mine's Bigger Than Yours When I Whip It Out' joined the stream!

'Butts Are Only for Pooping' joined the stream!

'This Vice Raid Is All About You' joined the stream!

'Southern Liang Ends in the Northern Dynasties' joined the stream!

Less than three minutes after he went live, the stream already had over a hundred viewers.

"Damn, have you all been camping out waiting for me?"

They'd shown up way too fast.

"Hey, streamer! Are you doing a one-against-six challenge today?"

The viewers only wanted to watch Zhou Fan get beaten up.

"No problem. Once more people join the stream, we'll start the one-against-six challenge," Zhou Fan said.

Whatever made for good entertainment worked.

'Invincible King of Purity' joined the stream!

Paid message: "Hey, streamer, could you turn on the 'Mutant Beast Level Recognition' feature?"

Only then did Zhou Fan remember it.

"Mutant Beast Level Recognition, right? Let me find it."

Zhou Fan found the feature in the livestream settings.

It was a feature specially developed by the Douyang app to help Espers identify mutant beasts' levels.

It was meant to stop people from misjudging their own strength and acting rashly.

"I've turned it on. Not sure if it works."

Zhou Fan pointed the camera at himself, and the system identified his cultivation level too-first tier, three stars!

"Oh, looks like it's working. It even identified my cultivation level." Zhou Fan saw the words "First tier, three stars" appear above his head on the screen.

"Can you guys see it?"

"Yeah! You really are first tier, three stars!"

"I thought you'd be at least first tier, five stars."

"Only first tier, three stars, but he's already this strong? Unbelievable."

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"There aren't that many people in the stream yet, so I'll just warm up a little first."

"Once we hit two thousand viewers, I'll start the one-against-six challenge."