Chapter 771 - 470: Mermaid King’s Treasure [2]

Ordinary mystical items might possess Spirituality, but once it’s depleted, they either need a Professional to actively infuse them with more or must be left to recover slowly over a long period.

They could never absorb ambient Spirituality as rapidly as this.

What’s more, Hu Qi could clearly sense that this sword was not an inanimate object.

It was as if the sword were another one of his limbs.

However, he did not interfere.

He merely watched the scene quietly.

Soon, the sensation of being strengthened subsided.

The once-blurry text on the panel became clear again.

[Professional Path: Godslayer]

[Sequence Eight: Ten Thousand Slash Disciple△ (Mastery of Swordsmanship. Wields Sword Artifacts as extensions of one’s limbs. Physical attributes amplified tenfold. Eradicates all foreign Extraordinary Traits within the body, converting them into fuel for oneself.

Trait One: [Eye of Tempered Blade] Can see through the weaknesses of weapons and movements.

Trait Two: [Blood Fury] Briefly increases the blade’s sharpness after it draws blood.

Trait Three: [Sword Heart Spirit Communication] With a mind as still as water and clear as a mirror, one can perceive an enemy’s move before it is made.

The three-foot blade was once a lifeless thing, but with the birth of Spirituality, it becomes like a spring sprout breaking through the soil, containing infinite opportunities for creation.

Fourth Trait: [Slashing] As one who has swung a sword ten million times, when executing a slash, one can unleash double the destructive power and possess a certain degree of the Power of Demon-Breaking.

(Advancement to Sequence Seven: Blood Swordsman. Ritual Requirement: Slaughter one hundred Professionals and use their Extraordinary blood to complete the baptism of a Blood Swordsman!)]

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[Modification Points: 112,797 (1%)]

It had consumed 450 Modification Points.

He had now successfully advanced to Sequence Eight, Ten Thousand Slash Disciple.

The Sequence information had changed quite a bit.

The physical amplification had increased from the original three-fold to ten-fold.

Furthermore, Trait One, Eye of Tempered Blade, was enhanced again, gaining the ability to see through weaknesses in movements.

Trait Two didn’t change much.

Trait Three had the biggest change.

It changed from the original Sword Heart Clarity to the current Sword Heart Spirit Communication.

It even caused Dusk to birth a trace of Spirituality, giving it the potential to grow and become stronger along with him.

This was also the reason why the sword, Dusk, was actively absorbing Spirituality.

This situation was to be expected.

The nature of a Godslayer was such that a Longsword was required to unleash their full power.

Some other individual Professionals also required specific weapons to be effective.

However, from what Hu Qi knew about the Professional paths in this world, there were no known cases of a weapon or mystical item growing stronger alongside its user.

’Perhaps such cases exist, but they must be extremely rare.’

Usually, Professionals had to spend Secret Spirit Silver to commission someone to forge such items, or they had to take on a secondary professional path like Alchemist to refine one themselves.

In addition to that, this time, he had also gained the Slashing Trait.

It allowed him to exert double the power when slashing and even granted him a trace of the Power of Demon-Breaking.

All in all, the boost to his strength was significant, even shockingly so.

Thinking of this, he gripped the hilt and swung the sword forward in a slash!

SHING—!

This time, the sound of the blade cutting through the air was exceptionally sharp.

A silvery-white, crescent-shaped wave of Sword Energy suddenly formed, shooting out like a meteor.

Ten meters away, a tree as thick as a water bucket snapped on impact.

The Sword Energy possessed an unstoppable momentum, causing the trunk to break and topple on the spot. The residual force even shattered the bark, sending splinters flying like snowflakes.

The accumulated snow rustled down, kicking up a cloud of white mist in the silent forest.

Once everything settled, Hu Qi strode forward.

He saw that the cut on the broken trunk was shockingly smooth, with only a layer of bark as thin as a cicada’s wing barely holding it together.

The power of this single strike far surpassed anything he could do before.

His swinging speed had now reached eighty strikes per second, more than double what it was before.

When the blade cut through the air, he could even hear a faint sonic boom.

Normally, without relying on Extraordinary Power like Inner Energy, one would have to reach at least a hundred strikes per second—nearly a third of the speed of sound—to generate Sword Energy with physical speed alone.

Hu Qi was able to do it because of his precise control over his body and his vast Martial Arts experience.

In the instant he swung the sword, he used an extreme vibration of his wrist to make the blade oscillate at a high frequency, forcibly compressing the air to form a vacuum slash!

The sword wasn’t just fast; it was sharp. The ultra-high-speed vibration could allow a blade to cut through steel. His slash was at a critical point where it literally tore the air apart!

The wave of Sword Energy just now was a perfect manifestation of this unique method of force application.

Suddenly, his movements came to a sudden halt.

His gaze shifted to the shadows under the eaves to one side.

The next second, a figure slowly emerged from the darkness.

The newcomer was none other than the cowboy, Dick, whom Hu Qi controlled by having planted the Fire of Sin in him.

Although he only had the Cultivation of a Sequence Eight, Dick’s intelligence network was extremely well-informed.

Hu Qi had been able to accurately track down those other Professionals entirely thanks to the information Dick provided.

And the investigation into the Silver-faced Demon had never implicated him.

After all, the abilities the Demon displayed were vastly different from his own true strength.

As for the suspicion regarding his eye color? That was utter nonsense.

That particular eye color wasn’t rare in this world, and for a Professional, changing one’s eye color was a trivial matter.

If anything, it was likely misdirection the Demon had intentionally set up.

"Master, in three days, Night Crow Harbor will experience the sea retreat phenomenon that occurs once every five years."