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[Killing a special creature with Divinity, Divinity +4027]

Four thousand Divinity!?

The unexpected huge reward slightly widened Xue Jing's eyes.

He had killed many creatures containing Divinity, and according to his memory, the more powerful the creature, the more Divinity he would gain after killing it.

In his estimation, although the abilities of this Parasitic Candle were troublesome, it didn't seem very strong itself; based on his experiences with past kills of Divine creatures, he might have expected to gain at most around 2000.

In comparison, the True Dragon cub he had killed in the Roaring Waterfall Intersecting Boundaries gave him only about 2500 points of Divinity.

If that True Dragon cub hadn't been weakened by the Serpent Slayer Spearhead, Xue Jing, even at full strength and with numerous techniques, could have defeated it, but he estimated the process wouldn't have been easy.

And this Parasitic Candle... it definitely didn't feel as formidable as the True Dragon cub, yet it yielded almost half as much extra Divinity.

"It seems the formula 'the stronger the creature, the more Divinity it drops' isn't quite accurate; it also depends on the specific circumstances."

Xue Jing pinched his chin, feeling quite pleased.

He was in dire need of Divinity, and this unexpected gain of four thousand just solved his urgent trouble; he already had plans for it.

At the moment, he possessed 4568 points of Divinity; two thousand of those were to be used to level up [True Martial] to Lv4, a skill that not only directly boosted his strength but also accelerated his martial arts growth—the sooner he upgraded it, the better.

Another thousand was to be used to evolve [Teaching].

The remaining fifteen hundred... would be set aside for now.

Xue Jing opened his panel to glance at the Divine Skill Bar.

"Killing such a special monster, and I didn't activate a New Divine Skill?..."

He was somewhat hopeful; he had thought he might gain a Cthulhu-style New Divine Skill similar to the ability of the Parasitic Candle, which could cause material mutation and activation.

"Well, as disappointing as it is not to have a new skill, I already have so many Divine Skills that I can't keep up, and if there were more, the gap in Divinity would only grow larger. Currently, I have plenty of techniques at my disposal, so it's better to focus on leveling up the existing skills."

Closing the panel, Xue Jing raised his head to look at the sky.

After he eliminated the main body of the Parasitic Candle, the giant spherical host body was gradually crumbling into ashes.

From the crumbling body, Xue Jing could feel an out-of-place rejection as if the world itself was expelling it.

However, above the sky, those steel bars mutated by the Parasitic Candle didn't seem to be affected by its death; they remained active and were incessantly battling with the Shadow Flame army.

"Is the effect caused by this ability permanent mutation?"

Xue Jing frowned.

The ability's effect hadn't disappeared even with the death of the user... could it be that the principle behind this mutation was by changing the essential structure of the mutated material itself?

He began to understand why the Parasitic Candle had yielded so much Divinity.

Xue Jing quickly descended from the air to land on the ground.

He had just plunged the 'Night Ice' that had been mutated by the Parasitic Candle into the ground.

He looked around briefly; although the entire unfinished building area was a mess from the battle between him and the Parasitic Candle, with his excellent vision he quickly found the small hole created by Night Ice.

Black currents converged as Shadow Flame formed a spiraling black drill on Xue Jing's right hand, which then began to rotate at high speed.

Xue Jing aimed the drill at the hole, and in an instant, dirt flew everywhere, and the ground was quickly dug up; he burrowed down like a mole, going deeper underground.
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In just over ten seconds, he was already dozens of meters down, yet he still hadn't found Night Ice.

"Damn, how hard did I throw it, where could it have gone?"

Xue Jing muttered to himself.

Previously, his clothes and Night Ice had 'defected' simultaneously, and the situation was too urgent for him to hold back.

Now, with his immense strength coupled with the sharpness of the Night Ice's spear tip, cutting through earth and rock was child's play; he had no idea how deep it could have gone.

In addition, Xue Jing was slightly worried... after mutating, Night Ice seemed alive, and it might not be continuously burrowing away..

He wasn't sure of the true value of the spear, but from a personal standpoint, he was very fond of it and losing it would be a huge pity.

Fortunately, things did not seem as bad as he had feared.

After burrowing seventy to eighty meters underground, the originally straight tunnel made by Night Ice started to twist and turn, precisely confirming Xue Jing's fear that Night Ice was wandering off on its own.

But Night Ice hadn't gone far; it seemed to have lost its way below, winding in the same area and carving a complex three-dimensional tunnel like that of a city sewer system. Xue Jing followed the winding path and after about twenty minutes, he finally found it.

With Shadow Flame burning in his pupils, he captured the silhouette of the spear's tail in the lightless underground environment and immediately reached out to grab it.

Night Ice struggled, but Xue Jing's gaze turned firm as he applied 'Feather Transformation' to it.

In a flash, he assimilated it!

As Night Ice was, in concept, Xue Jing's 'item,' Feather Transformation naturally took effect.

However, unlike usual instances of using Feather Transformation, Night Ice weighed only under a hundred kilograms and theoretically should have been easy to handle.

But in the panel, the Blue Bar for Feather Transformation was rapidly depleting, and in a short time, it had consumed most of it, its color dull and dim.