Chapter 70: Reward Settlement

Chapter 70: Chapter 70: Reward Settlement

Lin Ji walked straight up to Su Qingyue.

A warm, green glow lit up in his palm.

It was the [D-grade Purification] he had synchronized from Shen Manyun.

He gently placed his hand on Su Qingyue’s shoulder, and a gentle surge of life energy quickly flowed into her body, repairing her damaged internal organs.

Feeling the intense pain within her gradually subside, Su Qingyue looked at Lin Ji, who was so close, her heart tangled with conflicting emotions.

Just thinking about those embarrassing, heart-pounding absurd things he had done to Shen Manyun earlier, she couldn’t help but curse this shameless scoundrel ten thousand times in her mind!

But reason told her that this man had indeed been protecting everyone, and he had nearly lost his life just moments ago.

Moreover, he was now healing her without holding anything back.

All sorts of complicated emotions intertwined within Su Qingyue’s heart.

In the end, she bit her lower lip and lowered her head slightly.

"Thank you."

Her voice was soft, still carrying a trace of her usual coolness.

But it lacked the sense of distance that had always kept others at bay.

This time, Lin Ji did not mock her sarcastically as he usually did.

He simply nodded faintly and reached out to pat her slender shoulder.

His gaze briefly swept over the perky swell of her chest.

Then he walked past her and headed straight toward the mutated mantis pinned to the ground.

By now, nearly forty minutes had passed since the battle ended.

But that Level 3 Withered Wood Reaper still hadn’t breathed its last!

Its massive body was firmly pinned to the ground by Gu Yihan’s bone arrows, green bodily fluids pooling around it.

Yet when it saw Lin Ji approaching, its crimson compound eyes still flickered with an extremely vicious light.

Its barbed claws continued to scrape at the ground, and it even opened its terrifying, grotesque mouthparts.

It looked as if it were ready to pounce and tear Lin Ji to shreds!

Such terrifying vitality was enough to make anyone’s scalp tingle.

"Quite tenacious, aren’t you?"

Lin Ji looked down at it from above and snorted coldly.

"Too bad, I’m the one who ended up luckier!"

With that, Lin Ji formed his right hand into a blade, and [C-grade Wind Blade] instantly condensed along the edge of his palm.

"Swish! Swish! Swish!"

He mercilessly slashed several times, cleanly severing the mantis’s already riddled abdomen from its upper body!

However, something even more bizarre happened next.

The mantis, now cut in half, did not die.

Instead, freed from the burden of its lower body and the restraint of the bone arrows, its upper half briefly regained a sliver of freedom!

Using only its two forelimbs, it crawled frantically toward Lin Ji like a demon clawing its way out of hell!

This sudden turn of events startled Lin Ji, and he instinctively took a step back.

"Seeking death!"

Gu Yihan, who had been following closely behind Lin Ji, saw this and her eyes instantly turned ice-cold.

She abruptly raised her Storm Hunter Bow, aiming a sharp bone arrow directly at the mantis’s eye!

Just as she was about to release the bowstring—

"Wait! Don’t shoot!"

Lin Ji suddenly reached out and pressed down on Gu Yihan’s bow.

He stared at the half-mantis still struggling in its death throes, a gleam flashing in his eyes.

"Don’t rush. This is just its final flicker of life—it can’t pose any real threat anymore."

"Its compound eyes are premium materials, highly useful for crafting equipment or synthesizing other items!"

"If you shoot them to pieces with that arrow, it would be a terrible waste."

Just as he said, it wasn’t long before the struggling mantis collapsed to the ground with a thud.

Its life force drained away rapidly, and it spewed foul-smelling fluid from its mouth.

Its ability to block detection finally failed as well.

Lin Ji’s Eye of Insight now clearly scanned the complete information of this LV3 Withered Wood Reaper!

[LV3 Withered Wood Reaper (Mutated Hidden-Wing Mantis · Larval Form)]

[Danger Level: Lethal]

[Core Ability One: Perfect Mimicry (Passive). When stationary, the body fully assimilates with the surrounding environment, capable of blocking most energy detection, thermal imaging, and life scans.]

[Core Ability Two: Overclock Hidden Wings (Active). By vibrating its concealed wings at an extremely high frequency, it can burst into supersonic sprints over short distances, making its movement trajectory difficult to track with the naked eye.]

[Core Ability Three: Reaper Slash (Active). The serrated forelimbs are equipped with high-frequency oscillating cutting effects, granting exceptional armor-piercing capability.]

[Current Status: Life force completely depleted; nearing death.]

Lin Ji didn’t rush to approach, instead watching coldly as it feebly writhed on the ground.

He waited a full five minutes more.

Only after the Eye of Insight’s passive scan confirmed the creature’s vital signs had completely vanished did Lin Ji finally relax.

"Tang Ling, come do your job!"

Lin Ji turned and waved toward Tang Ling in the distance, signaling her to come over.

Just as Tang Ling excitedly ran over, ready to loot the corpse—

The crisp System Notification Tone he had long awaited suddenly rang out in Lin Ji’s mind!

[Ding! Detected that the host has successfully eliminated an extremely high-potential mutant creature—[LV3 Withered Wood Reaper (Larval Form)]!]

[Warning: This creature’s theoretical growth limit is LV10. The host has achieved the feat [Eliminating a Future Overlord of the Primary Sea Zone]!]

[System Rating: Perfect Kill (Out-Leveled)!]

[Congratulations to the host for receiving the following special rewards:]

Hearing the phrases "Perfect Kill" and "Eliminating a Future Overlord of the Primary Sea Zone," Lin Ji’s heart skipped a beat.

Sure enough, the reward information that followed made his breathing quicken.

[Reward One: Hidden-Wing Mantis Exoskeleton Blueprint (Red Quality)]

[Traits: Lightweight, form-fitting bio-armor. Equipped with concealed "High-Frequency Oscillating Bone Blades" on both arms (extremely strong armor piercing). Triggers "Optical Camouflage" mimicry invisibility when stationary.]

[Reward Two: Exclusive Title—Lurking Reaper]

[Title Passive: Permanent 30% increase to burst movement speed; 30% boost to Concealment Effect in darkness (stackable with similar Skills).]

[Reward Three: Energy Micro-Cycle Pressure Valve (Red Quality)]

[Function: Significantly reduces transmission loss; fuel combustion efficiency increased by 50%!]

Seeing these rewards, Lin Ji’s tense nerves finally relaxed, and he let out a long, heavy sigh.

At this moment, he had completely put the earlier dangers behind him, feeling only joy over obtaining these rewards.

The exoskeleton blueprint, if crafted, would undoubtedly greatly enhance the combat ability of his non-Combat-type talent!

Although the title seemed unremarkable, it was undoubtedly the most useful.

Finally, there was the Red Quality supercharger valve!

That 50% efficiency boost would surely push his Vessel Power Value, stuck at 90 points, past 100 in an instant.

With this, one of the requirements for upgrading to a lv4 Vessel was now fulfilled.

Just then, a sound pulled his thoughts back to reality.

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