Fusion with the Mist Wraith Spirit Stone

The next moment, the Mist Wraith Spirit Stone melted into Lin Yi's heart like White Mist.

"Ding! The Strange Stone has absorbed the Mist Wraith Spirit Stone and is undergoing transformation..."

Around noon, Liu Bo made a few adjustments to his appearance before arriving downstairs at Lin Yi's apartment building.

To find out who had been following Brother Yi, Liu Bo identified himself at the Security Room and retrieved the Apartment Complex surveillance footage.

In the footage, a young man in a black hoodie slipped into the apartment around twenty minutes after Lin Yi had left.

The man in black stayed in the room for only a few minutes. No one knew what he did, but he soon disappeared from the Residential Area.

Although many Surveillance Cameras had captured him, the man in black kept his head lowered the entire time, making it impossible to see his face clearly.

"Heh, do you really think this is abroad? You think covering your face means no one can find you?"

Liu Bo sneered, then left with the Surveillance Video.

It was already two in the afternoon when Lin Yi received Liu Bo's message.

"Brother Yi, I found the person who followed you this morning. He's an Apocalypse World player, one of the Black Card Alliance."

"The Black Card Alliance? The organization connected to your father?"

"That's right, them. They should be coming for me. After all, I only returned to Linhe City yesterday. They probably followed you because they saw me having dinner with you last night."

"Xiao Bo, what are you going to do? Do you need my help?"

"No need, Brother Yi. Those Black Card Alliance people act without restraint. You don't have an Official identity, so it wouldn't be appropriate for you to get involved. Leave this person to me. I guarantee he'll leave Linhe City soon."

After they finished talking, Lin Yi could not help but sigh. Sure enough, death was the easiest way to temper a person.

Just over half a month ago, Liu Bo had still been a high school student whose father had just died, someone who could only come to him to cry and pour out his feelings.

Who would have thought that after half a month, Liu Bo would return from training so changed? He handled matters with remarkable composure, hardly seeming like a child at all.

After returning to his apartment dormitory, Lin Yi made a brief search and found no additional surveillance equipment in the room.

Moreover, everything in the room was exactly as it had been before he left. If Liu Yuxi had not warned him, Lin Yi truly would not have suspected that someone had entered his room.

"People from the Black Card Alliance. Good. I'll remember you."

Afterward, Lin Yi entered Apocalypse World.

Half an hour later, Gu Chenghu and Lin Yi appeared outside the Ancient Tomb Valley Core Zone.

"Captain, we've been circling around for quite a while, but there isn't a single Corpse Fiend nearby. Why don't we enter the Core Zone to hunt?"

"Fine."

Gu Chenghu nodded.

Ever since they and the Militia Fifth Team had stationed themselves in the valley, the number of Corpse Fiends in the valley's outer region had decreased at a visible rate.

Now, finding a lone Corpse Fiend was as difficult as ascending to heaven.

Gu Chenghu said, "Same thing as before. Once we enter the Core Zone, listen to my commands. Don't act recklessly. The Corpse Fiends in there aren't like the ones outside."

"Understood!"

Lin Yi had some confidence in his own strength. With Gu Chenghu working alongside him now, even if they encountered a Level 10 Corpse Fiend, they would have the strength to fight it.

Besides, after fusing with the Mist Wraith Spirit Stone today, he had gained a new ability.

He really wanted to try out his new ability in the valley and see whether it worked well.

Compared with the outer region, the vegetation in the Ancient Tomb Valley Core Zone was denser.

Ancient trees towered overhead, while unknown Broken Bones and withered yellow leaves covered the ground.

Since sunlight could not reach this place, Miasma filled the entire Inner Valley.

Just as Lin Yi stepped onto a patch of soft dead leaves, a black shadow suddenly burst out from underground.

Ancient Tomb Valley Mutant Corpse Monster Green

Life Value: 510

Status: Hungry

Level: 9

Skill: Vajra Art

Description: This is a Corpse Fiend that was deeply buried for many years. When the commotion outside becomes too great, it emerges to feed.

"A Level 9 Corpse Fiend, and it even has an External Martial Skill. Not bad, not bad."

Seeing the massive Corpse Fiend standing over two meters tall, Lin Yi was not afraid in the slightest. Instead, excitement appeared on his face.

Having hunted several hundred Corpse Fiends, Lin Yi had more or less guessed the pattern behind External Martial Skill drops.

Generally, External Martial Skills could only drop from Corpse Fiends above Level 7, and the skill carried by a Corpse Fiend was the External Martial Skill it had learned while alive.

Corpse Fiends carrying External Martial Skills often had a much higher drop rate.

"Captain, let me handle this one. It's only Level 9. I should be able to deal with it."

"Alright. I'll keep watch around us."

Gu Chenghu nodded, put away the Dragon's Roar Saber, and retreated several meters away.

As the Corpse Fiend roared and charged toward him, Lin Yi flicked his wrist, and the Gleaming Silver Long Saber appeared in his hand.

A streak of golden light slashed out and smashed viciously into the Corpse Fiend's right shoulder.

"Life Value -220!"

A single move of the Blazing Sun Saber Technique had directly taken away half of the Level 9 Corpse Fiend's health.

It had to be said that the 512% boost from the Level 8 Blazing Sun Saber Technique was terrifying.

Probably not even the elite members of the Militia Team throughout Ancient Pool Village's generations had raised the Blazing Sun Saber Technique to such a level.

Although he could kill this Level 9 Corpse Fiend in two strikes, Lin Yi did not do so. A Level 9 Corpse Fiend possessed enormous strength and size, making it perfect for grinding saber technique Proficiency.

Next, Lin Yi stopped using the Blazing Sun Saber Technique and instead tangled with the Corpse Fiend move by move.

At that moment, the Blazing Sun Saber Technique's Proficiency on his Attribute Panel began to slowly tick upward.

Several minutes later, the Level 9 Corpse Fiend let out a crack as Lin Yi's fierce saber technique sliced off its head.

Then, two items dropped. One was a Green Quality Corpse Oil Block, while the other was a Green Quality material, a Corpse Fiend Chest Bone.

Although the External Martial Skill Lin Yi wanted had not dropped, two green Drops were still quite good.

Over the next two hours, Lin Yi and Gu Chenghu carefully roamed the Ancient Tomb Valley Core Zone, searching for Corpse Fiends to hunt.

Although the Corpse Fiends here were more spread out, any one they encountered was at least Level 8.

Furthermore, because some lingering aura in the Core Zone was denser, the Corpse Fiends here had clearly mutated in size and were larger than Corpse Fiends of the same level in the outer region.

Within two hours, Lin Yi and Gu Chenghu found three Level 8 Corpse Fiends and two Level 9 Corpse Fiends.

Other than one Level 8 Corpse Fiend that suddenly sprang out from the shadows, which Gu Chenghu helped kill, Lin Yi personally chopped off the heads of the other four Corpse Fiends.

During this time, Lin Yi not only gained a large amount of Experience Points, but also increased the Blazing Sun Saber Technique's Proficiency by several dozen points.

The only regrettable thing was that no External Martial Skill book had dropped. Only three or four Green Materials had been dropped.

Lin Yi felt that his luck was rather bad.

So many Corpse Fiends had died by his hand, yet so far, only one ordinary-quality Swift Steps had ever dropped.

Once he had more talent solidification slots in the future, he would definitely solidify a talent that could increase luck and raise item drop rates.