If he wanted to upgrade, Golden Scale Iron Spine and Spirit Smell needed the least amount of Spiritual Origin Ability.
[Golden Scale Iron Spine (Third Level 72/1327)]
[Spirit Smell (Third Level 5/503)]
Ji Xinghuo thought for a moment and felt it was worth a try, but his Spiritual Origin Ability had already been used up.
"We’ll go hunt down some enemies to help you upgrade." He smiled and reached out his hand, and Qing Hong immediately shrank down and climbed up, her small eyes brimming with excitement.
Ji Xinghuo put on his ceramic-steel armor, shouldering his composite bow and sword, and not long after leaving the house, he boarded an airship headed for Sword Valley Fortress.
His Dimension Stomach was prepared with a large number of various arrows, tents, sleeping bags, tools needed for the wilderness, as well as food, spare clothes, a medical kit, and so on—everything that might be needed. He had purchased plenty of supplies, enough to last a year or two.
Qing Hong’s Dimension Stomach also had a lot of stockpiled supplies; lacking for nothing, they could set off at a moment’s notice.
The airship landed in the Sword Valley Fortress.
Ji Xinghuo did not look for Yuan Chongzhen but went straight out of the fortress.
He had been hunting in this segment of the defense line for nearly two months and was as familiar with the terrain and enemies here as the back of his hand—even in the daylight, it had no impact on his hunting.
It wasn’t long before.
Ji Xinghuo found a suitable target to strike.
A small team from the Beiluo Shimen Clan, three members all Dagon people, and from their weapon equipment, it was clear they were bounty hunters as well.
Bounty hunters who dare to hunt during the day are much stronger.
The three Dagon people, one Fourth Rank, two Third Rank.
Their strength was not to be underestimated.
Ji Xinghuo did not intend to make a move originally, but this three-person squad was returning to the Beiluo Shimen from the human buffer zone. He saw several ears’ magnetic fields in one Dagon’s backpack, earthling ears, all right ears.
Just as earthlings would cut off the scalps of the Dagon people as trophies, the Beiluo Shimen Clan did the same; they cut off the ears of humans.
The Dagon people have a method of identifying the ranks of Mutants through their ears,
Usually, when Ji Xinghuo encountered enemies who had hunted earthlings, he would not let them off as long as there was an opportunity, and today was no different.
He silently said inside his heart, quickly keeping up with the three Dagon people.
Activating the Stealth Ring to conceal his form, he gradually quickened his pace, closing the distance with his targets, and soon, the figures of the three Dagon people appeared in his line of sight.
This was a valley situated between two mountain peaks.
The terrain in the valley was open, and there were Beiluo Shimen sentry towers on both mountainsides, but they were quite far away, all more than three to four kilometers out, not a great distance.
Because they were behind their own clan’s defensive line, the three Dagon people were quite relaxed.
Ji Xinghuo climbed to the top of a boulder, lifted the Invisible Stab, with a silent arrow nocked on the bow, aiming at the strongest among the three Dagon people—the Fourth Rank expert—and drew the bowstring.
The distance between them was about 330 meters, and the effective killing range of the Invisible Stab was 420 meters.
An arrow shot out, silent and swift.
The arrow speed of the Invisible Stab was 350 meters per second; it took less than a second for the silent arrow to hit the target.
However, something unexpected happened!
Because Ji Xinghuo had not activated Myriad Phenomena, he did not anticipate this scene.
Almost at the moment he shot the silent arrow, that Fourth Rank Dagon suddenly became alert, as if he knew of the attack in advance. His body turned transparent, and the arrow passed through him without harm, deeply embedding itself into the mud, kicking up a large swath of soil and stones.
The two Dagon people beside him were startled.
Immediately understanding, they seemed to have been reminded, turning their heads toward the boulder where Ji Xinghuo was, but it was still half a step too late.
Ji Xinghuo, paying no mind to the vanished Fourth Rank Dagon, rapidly shot two silent arrows.
Microscopic Perception, Thousand Spirit Skillful Hand, High-frequency Thinking from the Acceleration Ring!
With three effects stacked together, he was able to shoot four arrows within a second.
Two silent arrows almost simultaneously struck the two Dagon people who were still standing guard in their spot. They had no time to react, the arrows piercing through their heads, instantly killing them.
Spiritual Origin Ability +8
Spiritual Origin Ability +10
After Ji Xinghuo killed two enemies, he lifted his right leg and stepped forward; his entire figure vanished.
A dark sharp blade sprang from the shadows almost the instant he disappeared; next, the figure of a Dagon appeared.
The Dagon ducked back into the shadows, leaping behind Ji Xinghuo.
Ji Xinghuo was quite surprised.
This Dagon was an extremely skilled Phantom Assassin, a profession advanced from Evil Spirit and Shadow Blade, and together with the Phantom Assassin, it was called one of the two most powerful classes of Assassins.
"Such a high-level Shadow Escape!"
"No wonder he could jump behind me so quickly."
Shadow Escape of Third Level or above allows one to jump between shadows within a certain range after ducking into them. With a "Phantom Body" state during Shadow Escape, the jump distance is even farther, unpredictable and ghostlike.
Moreover, this Dagon’s reactions were fast as lightning, and he was capable of premonition of danger.
In the Beiluo Shimen, he was definitely not an obscure member; with such strength, if he were on Earth, he would surely be able to enter the Global Ladder and rank very high.
In the brief fractions of a second, many thoughts flashed through Ji Xinghuo’s mind, but he was not at all perturbed by the proximity of the Phantom Assassin.
He lifted his right hand; electricity danced.
A burst of lightning erupted from his fingertips, immediately splitting into hundreds of pulse arcs, forming together with the Electromagnetic Pulse into a Pulse Arc.
The Dagon’s reaction surprised Ji Xinghuo yet again.
The opponent vanished once more, narrowly dodging the pulse arc and avoiding being slowed down. At the same time, six afterimages emerged, surrounding Ji Xinghuo from all sides to attack him.