Deep within the Temple of Faith.
"Three hours. At the speed I explore, that should be about enough..."
Based on his experience from his previous life, that was about all there was to the Temple of Faith.
Anyone else would probably have to die dozens, if not hundreds, of times just to make it down here.
But Qin Feng not only had ample experience, he could also summon a Silver Grade Devout Believer to scout ahead. There was no chance of anything going wrong.
Now!
Qin Feng arrived at a passage filled with starlight.
Star-blue light adorned the entire passage, turning it into an avenue of stars...
The Devout Believer crawled ahead, with Qin Feng following behind.
They made their way toward the end of the starlit passage.
What appeared before him was an ancient bronze gate!
"Open it."
Qin Feng issued the command to the Devout Believer.
The Devout Believer crawled forward to push the gate, only to find that it would not open at all. The bronze gate did not budge...
Qin Feng confirmed that there was no danger nearby.
Only then did he step forward.
He merely raised his hand, and the instant he touched the bronze gate, he felt the entire gate stir. It actually began to open!
As the gate slowly opened, Qin Feng stepped back, ready to fight at any moment...
But what appeared before him was a starlit hall.
An altar stood in the center of the hall.
Beside the altar stood a woman in a white robe. A white head covering concealed her appearance...
The white-robed woman crossed her hands over her chest and bowed slightly toward the starlit altar.
When the bronze gate opened.
Qin Feng did not enter immediately. Instead, he glanced at the white-robed woman...
And discovered that he could not see any information about her whatsoever!
When Qin Feng appeared in the hall's doorway.
The white-robed woman slowly turned around. Her slender, alluring figure beneath the robe lowered as she bent her knees, actually kneeling before Qin Feng on one knee!
She kept her head lowered.
She seemed to murmur something, starlight flickering in her hands...
The next moment, her entire figure dissolved into starlight and vanished!
"She... disappeared?"
Qin Feng frowned.
He immediately noticed that an ancient chest had appeared on the altar in the hall, shining with brilliant golden light!
"A gold chest would give off a pale golden glow."
"This chest is bright gold, which means it'll contain an epic grade item!"
Qin Feng's eyes lit up.
He did not know who that mysterious woman was, but he figured she had something to do with his Eye of Judgment.
Moreover, she had seemed very respectful toward Qin Feng...
"Either way, I should be careful."
Qin Feng did not act rashly.
After spotting the chest, he ordered his Silver Grade summon, the Devout Believer, to approach the altar inside the hall.
The Devout Believer reached the chest and opened it without anything unexpected happening.
Soon, the Devout Believer retrieved a skill book from the chest and handed it to Qin Feng.
"This skill book is..."
"An Assassin's godly skill!"
Qin Feng's pupils contracted.
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[Coup de Grace (epic grade): Assassin skill book. Passive effect: Weakness Hit Adjustment +100%, Weakness Attack multiplier doubled.] [Throat Slit: activate to make your next attack inflict the Throat Slit effect, dealing 100% of that attack's damage per second for 3 seconds. Cooldown: 60 (44.4) seconds.]
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This skill had both a passive effect and an active effect.
The passive effect alone was incredible.
The doubled Weakness Attack multiplier was easy to understand, but as for Weakness Hit Adjustment...
Take this example.
A person's head and heart were both weak points. Other players had to strike those spots precisely to trigger a Weakness Attack.
But after learning Coup de Grace, it was as though the target's weak points had been enlarged!
The higher the Weakness Hit Adjustment value, the easier it was to strike an opponent's weak points.
Even for Qin Feng, this passive effect was very useful.
At this stage, he mostly encountered humanoid Demons, so hitting their heads was easy. But later, he would encounter all sorts of nightmarish creatures... for instance, some Demons had no heads, and their only weak point was a tiny glowing spot on their bodies.
An ordinary player would have no chance of hitting that weak point.
But with Coup de Grace's passive effect, striking that tiny glowing spot would not be difficult.
That was because the system would automatically correct the player's attack, bringing it closer to the target's weak point!
Weakness Hit Adjustment +100% was equivalent to doubling the size of the opponent's weak points!
"As for Coup de Grace's active effect, that's even more outrageous."
"It makes the next attack inflict Throat Slit, essentially a three-second bleed..."
For example, after activating Throat Slit, Qin Feng could casually slash someone and deal 300 damage.
Throat Slit would then cause the target to take an additional 300 damage per second for the next three seconds.
The total would be 300 × 4, or 1,200 damage!
Simply put, Coup de Grace's Throat Slit effect increased the next attack's damage by three times, though it took three seconds to deal the full amount.
"For a skill like Instant Shadow Slash, all nine slashes count as a single attack, so Throat Slit's damage would be calculated from their combined total..."
"This one epic grade skill has multiplied my burst damage several times over!"
"And..."
"Since this skill starts at epic grade, I can spend 10 evolution points to evolve it to legendary tier!"
Qin Feng still only had 3 evolution points.
There had not been a single Demon in this Underground Labyrinth, which had surprised and disappointed him.
After all, in the labyrinths he had explored before, all sorts of Devout Believers and Fanatical Believers had been powerful Demons that obstructed players' exploration.
As for what exactly was going on with this Temple of Faith, Qin Feng did not know either.
"It probably has something to do with my Eye of Judgment..."
Qin Feng shook his head and stopped dwelling on it.
There was no point overthinking something like this.
If he saw that mysterious white-robed woman again, Qin Feng would definitely try to communicate with her...
He had missed his chance this time, but that was fine.
With the Assassin's godly skill Coup de Grace in hand, Qin Feng's damage had become even more terrifying!
If he encountered the level 5 Gold Tier Golden Ghost Ship again, he could probably kill it instantly with a single Instant Shadow Slash!
A few minutes later.
Qin Feng stepped onto the circular stone platform in the center of the starlit hall, and it carried him upward... only after rising five or six hundred meters did he finally return to the surface.
After bringing him up, the circular stone platform turned straight into a layer of blackened earth, as though it had never existed...
"It's been so long. Wang Meng and the others should be online by now, right?"
The main issue was that Qin Feng's inventory slots were almost full.
So before heading out to level up, he had to sell everything he was carrying!
But when he contacted Lin Liyu, he unexpectedly learned something...
"Qin Xiaoyou?"
Qin Feng frowned!
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