CHAPTER 195: CHAPTER 191: TRUE NATURE OF THE GIANT BEAR

"This Level 11 Spirit Essence, if used for alchemy, would certainly be like adding wings to a tiger, very useful. But I don’t need to rush; I must first deceive that spy away,"

Wang Wu’s heart was set. Right now, what he lacks most is time. When it comes down to it, he is still just a Seventh Grade Little Demon. Even though circumstances allow him to handle most Sixth-Grade Demons above his level, it truly doesn’t mean he can rush headlong before Fifth Grade Demons.

Yet now his Spiritual Qi reserve limit has reached 3,600 points, which is good news. In the summer of this year, with the help of Xiong Shiliu’s Spiritual Essence Banner, he had already filled the Spiritual Qi in his Spiritual Essence Gourd to 200,000 points.

Now it’s just right for upgrading Basic Attributes and some Bloodline Talents.

It’s worth mentioning that the Spiritual Essence level and Spiritual Qi reserve limit are not entirely causally related.

What’s more important is the area of fur.

For example, Xiong Shiliu’s Spiritual Essence Banner is only Level 10 in Spiritual Essence level, far inferior to Wang Wu.

But the reality is that it’s at least a five to six hundred-year-old adult Giant Bear, the size of a mountain, and its fur spreads out to over a dozen square kilometers.

As for Wang Wu, now he only weighs one ton; if all his fur were spread out, would it even cover ten square meters?

Yet, Xiong Shiliu’s Spiritual Essence Banner, when hoisted, is up to two hundred square meters.

In conclusion, patience is required; this is a long-term plan.

At this moment, the first thing Wang Wu upgrades is Self-Healing. At this stage, each upgrade requires 2,500 points of Spiritual Qi.

He upgrades straight to Level 15, which is quite impressive.

The effects of the three Self-Healing modes are more potent.

Among them, Rapid Self-Healing can quickly restore 1,000 points of Life Value in 7.5 seconds by consuming 1,500 points of Satiety or 150 points of Vitality, depending on the fullness of vital Qi blood inside, and can be activated continuously up to nine times before falling into deep weakness.

Medium-speed Self-Healing can restore 1,000 points of Life Value in 15 minutes by consuming 1,500 points of Satiety or 150 points of Vitality, and can be activated continuously up to nine times before falling into moderate weakness.

Low-speed Self-Healing can restore 1,000 points of Life Value in three hours by consuming 1,500 points of Satiety or 150 points of Vitality, can be activated indefinitely continuously, and does not fall into any weakened state.

The activation thresholds for the above three modes are, respectively, Life Value falling below 50%, 75%, and 85% for each activation.

Overall, this is very good, coupled with Wang Wu’s current Life Value of 2,200 points, it is quite advantageous.

Next, he begins upgrading Basic Defense, each point also requires 2,500 points of Spiritual Qi.

Unfortunately, he can only increase it by 3 points, capping Basic Defense at 90 due to the stage limit.

If he wants to upgrade further, it’s 12,500 points of Spiritual Qi per point.

So, he can only upgrade Basic Power, which currently stands at 75 points, continuously raising it to a cap of 90 points, costing just 37,500 points, which is no big deal.

Once Basic Power hits the cap of 90 points, a surprising benefit emerges: he automatically acquires a Bloodline Secret Technique from the Strength Specialty, essentially a free attribute point.

"Because your Basic Power has reached the current limit, and because your Bloodline Evolution Level has reached and surpassed 41%, you have awakened the corresponding Bloodline Secret Technique—Turn the Tide Level 1."

[Turn the Tide: Level 1, can be instantly activated when needed; each activation requires consumption of 300 points of Vitality. Depending on your vital Qi blood fullness, it can be activated at least once and at most five times; currently, it can be activated three times.]

[After activation, you gain three seconds of Immobility, during which most attacks at the same level will not affect you, and you have high immunity against immobilizing, paralysis, and binding attacks. Additionally, your strength doubles in these three seconds, maintaining Basic Power at 180 points, providing the chance to deal two to five-fold damage to enemies.]

[Note: Because you have already awakened Qi Gathering and Transformation Level 1, the two Bloodline Secret Techniques can be used together for an additional second of Immobility.]

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"I see, Old Niu and Yuan Bupu must both possess this Turn the Tide Bloodline Secret Technique!"

Wang Wu suddenly realized that with this, he would be able to better handle Immobilizing Talismans in the future.

However, upgrading further requires 5,000 points of Spiritual Qi, which is temporarily unfeasible.

Next, he eagerly starts upgrading Basic Agility, once again rapidly moving from 74 points of Basic Agility to 90 points and, unsurprisingly, also acquires the corresponding Bloodline Secret Technique.

Undoubtedly, all demons can theoretically awaken basic secret techniques related to Basic Attributes.

Life, Physical Strength, Basic Agility, Basic Power, Basic Defense.

This constitutes the Five Secret Techniques from the start.

Only by awakening them all can one be considered to have graduated from elementary school.

"Because your Basic Agility has reached the current limit, and because your Bloodline Evolution Level has reached and surpassed 42%, you have awakened the corresponding Bloodline Secret Technique—Thunderous and Swift Level 1."

[Thunderous and Swift: Level 1, can be instantly activated when needed, consuming 300 points of Vitality for each activation. Depending on your vital Qi blood fullness, it can be activated at least once and at most five times; currently, it can be activated three times.]

[Upon activation, you gain three seconds of Flash Stance, during which most same-level lock-type secret techniques and Daoist Divine Techniques cannot lock on, and your agility doubles in these three seconds, maintaining Basic Agility at 180 points, with a chance to deal a disabling blow effect to the target.]

[Note: Because you have awakened Qi Gathering and Transformation Level 1, using the two secret techniques together will add an additional second to Flash Stance.]

[Note: Because you have awakened Turn the Tide Level 1, activating the three techniques simultaneously will gain Qi Gathering Strike effect, with a chance to deal fatal damage to the target.]

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This was indeed an unexpected surprise; Wang Wu really wanted to find an opponent to test it out.

But he restrained his eager thoughts and then focused on the Life Value attribute. Currently, this attribute also requires 2,500 points of Spiritual Qi for each upgrade, with each increase adding 10 points to Life Value.

As one of the five Basic Attributes, with the others already having corresponding Bloodline Secret Techniques, this one certainly can’t be left behind.

However, this is a bit difficult.

The current maximum life value should be 3,000 points, which means he needs to upgrade 80 times, and just for spiritual qi, it would require 200,000 points.

Can’t afford to provoke, can’t afford to provoke!

He’s already consumed nearly 80,000 points of spiritual qi now, he can’t keep consuming like this. The upcoming daily consumption of the spirit field, the alchemy attempts, and the cultivation of the Ice and Fire Dual Spirit Roots all require spiritual qi.

This cultivation and practice are like living life; one must budget carefully, and have short-term, medium-term, and long-term plans. Now he still has 120,000 points of spiritual qi left.

According to the next ten years of hiding and cautious survival, he must at least cultivate the Ice and Fire Dual Spirit Roots to the level of an Intermediate Spirit Root.

He also needs to cultivate his Lifebound Demon Soldiers to Celestial Ninth Grade.

Just these two tasks are enough to drain him dry.

Next, Wang Wu’s gaze fell on his sixth Bloodline Talent.

This, like the Passive Concealment, Danger Perception, Self-Healing, Spirit Essence, and Heart of the Earth, are all the main talents.

But the description of this Bloodline Talent in the attribute bar is relatively minimal; at present, it seems to be a talent skill for switching to a Berserker.

The effect of Level 1 Fury is to consume 1,000 points of vitality or qi blood, designate a basic attribute, and increase its maximum limit by 50% for 60 seconds.

To be honest, as a demon that mainly focuses on playing it safe, Wang Wu is not really interested in this seemingly purely offensive talent.

He doesn’t even want to enhance it.

However, considering that the unremarkable Spiritual Talent once deemed useless by Wang Wu could suddenly become a hit after changing paths, he has to consider that his perspective might not be broad enough.

Main talents cannot be useless.

Anyway, whether it’s useful or not, it’s better to upgrade it first.

As it turns out, upgrading this new talent is quite difficult.

It actually requires 3,000 points of spiritual qi to upgrade one level.

But it’s not as abnormal as the Heart of the Earth, which is the only exception.

Next, Wang Wu upgraded Fury to Level 5 in one go, but couldn’t upgrade any further because it would require 15,000 points of spiritual qi to reach Level 6.

Upon looking at the attribute bar’s description again, it’s still very concise.

"Consumes 3,000 points of vitality or qi blood, designates a basic attribute, increases its maximum limit by 90% for 60 seconds, and can be stacked with Bloodline Secret Techniques."

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"Holy crap!"

Wang Wu was silent for three seconds and suddenly realized!

Because he suddenly understood what this meant.

It’s equivalent to, within 60 seconds, his life value can become 4,180 points.

Or, within 60 seconds, his basic power can become 171 points.

And what if the Turn the Tide effect is stacked on top?

It’s simply explosive!

points of power!

Although, in reality, it can only last for 3 seconds, but that’s really frenzied!

Wang Wu was so excited that he was breathing heavily.

Really, he’d been a little Dog Bear for almost five years, and it wasn’t until this moment that he finally felt vindicated; he should be the forest overlord!

This is how it should be!

It is foreseeable that when Wang Wu reaches the next stage of life, post-maturity, and his basic attributes once again significantly increase, then stacking this Fury Talent could showcase its true terror.

What’s this about pulling up mountains and overshadowing the world, I’ll make the heavens collapse and the earth sink!

It’s really doable.

Because this is the true nature of the Ancient Giant Bear!

Moreover, the Fury talent doesn’t just cover power but encompasses all five basic attributes.

It can be customized according to the situation.

For instance, if a Lifebound Flying Sword comes shooting in, and it seems necessary to endure significant damage, specify the life value for a Fury operation. If the Bloodline Secret Technique of life value can awaken and combine it with the Qi Gathering and Transformation Secret Technique, life value might directly rage to over 10,000, especially when reaching the middle to late stages, when basic attributes increase.

A life value of over 100,000 is not out of the question.

Of course, that requires Wang Wu to survive to that middle-late stage.