Versatile Sword Cultivator

Lin Jichen's equipment, aside from his weapon which has always been decent, was rather outdated. Most of his gear was still at the Foundation Establishment Realm, Mysterious Grade set.

Many average players were already using equipment from the Crystal Realm or even the Golden Core Realm.

Top players, like Jiang Luoyu, were decked out in luxurious sets. At the very least, she had Golden Core Realm, Mysterious Grade purple equipment, and her staff was a costly acquisition, Earth Grade and purple.

But Lin Jichen was still wearing his Foundation Establishment Realm Tide Sound Robe and Spring Thunder Belt, all Foundation Establishment Realm items.

These pieces were at least purple quality within the Foundation Establishment Realm, but they couldn't keep up with his current realm.

It was like using level 10 gold equipment compared to level 30 bronze equipment; aside from passive skills, the attribute increase was definitely inferior to the level 30 bronze gear.

Lin Jichen had never paid much attention to his equipment, focusing solely on his realm and skills, so he didn't care much about armor.

Otherwise, his equipment shop and auction house had plenty of excellent Golden Core Realm sword cultivator sets, but he never bought them.

Partly because he was too lazy to change, and partly because none of them were particularly outstanding, only adding a bit of attribute, which wasn't very useful.

Moreover, even though Lin Jichen's equipment was outdated, the passive skills were quite good, so unless he found something significantly better, he was too lazy to switch.

These two Soul Heaven sets had excellent attributes and skills, which finally made Lin Jichen consider changing his gear.

Once he donned the two Soul Heaven sets, the Earth Grade purple set boosted his attributes significantly.

His health broke through ninety thousand, and his defense, thanks to the Soul Heaven Battle Robe, rose to 860 points, just slightly behind his speed.

Strength was at 915, defense at 860, speed at 870, with a resilience of 30%, and various other minor attributes, all quite impressive.

Now, Lin Jichen's attributes were nearly perfect in every aspect.

Among the remaining equipment, the few Mysterious Grade golden pieces also had excellent attributes, and Lin Jichen generously distributed them to everyone who could use them.

After distributing the equipment, they freed all the prisoners on the second floor of the prison.

Now, only the third floor remained.

But Lin Jichen didn't rush to lead everyone up.

The third floor would be the toughest challenge, so he had everyone recover and waited for some crucial skills to cool down and refresh.

At this moment, Lin Jichen began asking everyone about their skills, especially Spirit Skills and Ultimate Techniques, and noted them down, starting to ponder strategies.

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Half an hour later, Lin Jichen led the team to the third floor of the prison.

The scene on the third floor was the same, but the formation on the stone staircase corridor was different from before.

This time, the formation was much more dangerous than the previous Wind Ghost Formation; it was the Blazing Fire Formation.

This was a Mysterious Grade formation with considerable power.

Lin Jichen warned everyone to be careful and stepped onto the stone steps first.

Boom!

The moment he stepped into the formation's range, a sea of fire erupted ahead, and scorching energy surged from the corridor.

A wave of heat rushed towards everyone.

Everyone's health bars started to drop, with Zhao Baige's falling the fastest; as a Qi Refining Realm cultivator, she was as fragile as paper.

Fortunately, Lin Jichen was prepared. He took out a large batch of fire-resistant elixirs and distributed them to everyone.

"Little Lin, how did you know there'd be fire here and even have fire-resistant elixirs ready?" Ren Lan asked curiously.

Lin Jichen had already prepared an excuse, explaining, "These are a new batch of elixirs from my pharmacy, temporarily stored in my ring."

Everyone understood and quickly took the elixirs, temporarily resisting the burning heat of the fire waves.

However, in the next second, fire spirits continuously flew out from the sea of fire, all transformed from flames, attacking everyone.

Lin Jichen was the first to draw his sword, easily slaying a fire spirit.

The other women quickly followed suit, dealing with the surging fire spirits.

These fire spirits were very fragile, shattering at a touch.

But their numbers seemed endless. The ten of them fought for a long time, but the number of fire spirits showed no sign of decreasing, while their mana was being gradually consumed.

"If this is a formation, these fire spirits are probably created by it. There are likely two ways to break it."

Jiang Luoyu analyzed, "The first is to keep fighting until the formation's mana is exhausted, and the fire spirits will disappear automatically. The second way is to enter the formation and destroy the formation's core."

The women all agreed. Lin Jichen was slightly surprised; he was hesitating whether to suggest the simplest method of exhausting the formation's energy or to propose destroying the formation, but Jiang Luoyu had already figured it out.

Lin Jichen seized the opportunity and said, "My clothes can resist fire, so I'll go in and take a look."

Without waiting for a response, Lin Jichen charged into the sea of fire.

The deeper he went, the more terrifying the fire damage became, and the fire-resistant elixirs were of little use.

Lin Jichen activated the water and fire resistance skill of the Soul Heaven Battle Robe, allowing him to proceed safely.

Without fire resistance skills, it would be very difficult to enter this formation.

Most teams would probably have to use the most cumbersome method of enduring until the formation's mana was exhausted to pass.

But Lin Jichen didn't want to waste that much time.

Inside the formation, Lin Jichen didn't encounter any wind-type ghost kings like in the Wind Ghost Formation on the second floor.

In the Blazing Fire Formation, there was nothing but a terrifying sea of fire, like being inside the Grand Supreme Elderly Lord's alchemy furnace.

At the center of the formation, a massive spirit stone floated, continuously emitting heat.

Lin Jichen eyed the spirit stone greedily.

This was a high-grade spirit stone, the core of the entire formation.

A medium-grade spirit stone could be exchanged for a thousand low-grade spirit stones, and a high-grade spirit stone could be exchanged for a thousand medium-grade spirit stones.

One high-grade spirit stone was worth a million low-grade spirit stones and was priceless; you couldn't exchange for it even if you wanted to.

High-quality spirit stones had transcended the realm of currency and had immense value; only a fool would exchange high-grade spirit stones for lower-grade ones.

Unfortunately, such a valuable item couldn't be taken.

Once a formation was set, even supreme-grade spirit stones would be consumed.

They couldn't be recovered, only destroyed or left to deplete their mana.

Lin Jichen could only reluctantly take a few more glances before drawing his sword to strike!

Clang!

The sword clashed with the spirit stone, producing a crisp sound.

However, the spirit stone remained unmoved, only a white mark left on its surface.

High-grade spirit stones were extremely sturdy, so Lin Jichen began slashing rapidly.

After several minutes of relentless attacks, the high-grade spirit stone finally couldn't hold on and shattered into a pile of debris.

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The Blazing Fire Formation disappeared, along with the sea of fire and the fire spirits.

The formation on this floor was finally broken.

The women all breathed a sigh of relief, each drenched in sweat, their faces flushed from the heat, looking radiant and alluring, much to Lin Jichen's delight.

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