A brand new class skill, Shadow Incarnation!

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[Your Shadow class has advanced!]

[Current: Tier 4 → Tier 5!]

[Class Attribute Bonuses: Strength +108→216, constitution +108→216, Agility +288→576, spirit +180→360!]

[Class Skill Acquired: Shadow Incarnation!]

[Shadow Incarnation: Class Skill. Upon activation, transform into a shadow state. During this time, you will not receive any damage, be unaffected by any Upper Affix, have no collision volume, suffer no lifespan drain, and your movement speed is ultimately increased by 30%. However, you also cannot cast skills or initiate attacks, nor can you affect your surroundings in any way. The shadow state can last up to 3600 seconds, with a cooldown of 3600 (248.24) seconds.]

(Note: The shadow state can coexist with stealth states.)

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Class advancement, Tier Five!

Besides the class attribute bonuses doubling once again, a brand new class skill was also acquired.

"Shadow Incarnation?"

Qin Feng was a bit shocked when he saw this skill.

A 3600-second invincible state?

Isn't that a bit too outrageous?

"However, in this invincible state, I can't attack either. It's mainly useful for scouting."

"It's an absolutely perfect skill for reconnaissance and scouting!"

During the recent seven days of searching in the Atlantic Ocean, Qin Feng had also entered many areas with lifespan flow rates tens of thousands or even millions of times faster.

How much lifespan would it consume to search in such areas?

Fortunately, Qin Feng's 'Dark Depths' skill, upon evolving to Mythic and Ancient-Grade, gained new effects, reducing Qin Feng's lifespan drain rate by 90% twice consecutively while in stealth.

This meant Qin Feng's lifespan drain rate was only one percent of other players at all times.

This significantly reduced most of Qin Feng's losses.

"Moreover, although there aren't many BOSSes in these deep seas that can threaten me, I occasionally encounter environmental disasters…"

"With this Shadow Incarnation skill, my safety is even more assured."

"What's more, this skill can also be used in combat."

If he truly encountered something he couldn't defeat, and could anticipate being killed, he could directly enter the shadow state and make a swift escape.

With the skill's base duration of one hour, as long as Qin Feng didn't harbor murderous intent, he would be almost perpetually in a safe state!

One could say that under divine rules, this was already almost absolute invincibility!

"The downside is, this skill has a cooldown as long as one hour."

"Fortunately, it's affected by cooldown reduction."

"Currently, the base cooldown for this skill is 248 seconds, just over four minutes."

"But if I stack Overload of Thunder to its maximum during combat, the cooldown would only be 133.32 seconds."

"Once every two minutes…"

Qin Feng shook his head helplessly.

With such a long cooldown, it could basically only be used once per battle at most, unless it was a prolonged battle of attrition.

But for now, even a Mythic BOSS was almost incapable of pushing Qin Feng to such a point.

At the same time, there was another rather outrageous aspect.

Qin Feng discovered…

After his class advanced to the fifth tier, his pet Grey Chicken also inherited his new class skill!

"This Hell Phoenix's racial trait is just too overpowered."

Qin Feng could only marvel!

However, Grey Chicken itself had no cooldown reduction attribute, so the 'Shadow Incarnation' skill it inherited had a fixed cooldown of 3600 seconds, unless it later gained some new abilities.

Even so, this ability was terrifying enough.

"Cooldown 3600 seconds, duration 3600 seconds. It's still a state of perpetual invincibility."

"Grey Chicken, split up with me. You search north, I'll search south."

Qin Feng summoned Grey Chicken to his side, sending it off to help search for the Abyssal Demon Eye.

However, as soon as Grey Chicken was summoned, it choked on a mouthful of seawater, spluttering in protest: "Your Majesty, I object! This is the sea, I can't do it!"

Looking at the 'drowned chicken' appearance of this guy, Qin Feng grabbed it by the neck: "You have a new skill and you're not using it, just playing around, right? Hurry up."

Although Qin Feng had underwater breathing potions, such concoctions could only be consumed by players.

So previously, Grey Chicken truly couldn't help with the search.

But now, with 'Shadow Incarnation', what was there to fear?

"…As you command."

Grey Chicken looked utterly resigned to its fate and could only activate the 'Shadow Incarnation' skill.

Instantly, its form turned pitch black!

The fiery patterns on its body all turned pitch black, and even features like its eyes disappeared, leaving only a small, pure black phoenix-shaped shadow!

After transforming into a shadow, Grey Chicken would not receive any damage at all and did not need to breathe!

"Your Majesty, I'm off! Follow my lead!"

Grey Chicken cackled, wings akimbo, looking extremely cocky.

Qin Feng took a look…

This guy was pitch black all over, what 'lead' could anyone possibly see?

"Hold on, there's more."

Qin Feng opened the pet panel and adjusted another skill for Grey Chicken.

As a Hell Phoenix in its growth stage, as a pet, it could inherit one of its master's Bloodline skills.

Qin Feng had it inherit the 'Eye of Fate' skill from the Deathwing Angel Bloodline.

When activated, this skill opened seven Deathwing eyes. Beyond the overt boosts to anti-stealth level and hit correction, there was a hidden effect: it increased vision by several times.

For searching in the deep sea, it was quite suitable!

And the Hell Phoenix inherently possessed darkvision, so in this pitch-black deep-sea area, having Grey Chicken assist in the search was more than appropriate.

"Cackle, this skill is great! It really opens my eyes! I can even observe a 360-degree environment!"

"I shall now become the reconnaissance chicken!"

The creature opened its seven eyes, but from the outside, it still appeared as a bird-shaped black shadow.

Where the seven eyes were located was completely undetectable.

Regardless, its scouting ability was now extremely powerful. Coupled with its race's innate darkvision, its scouting efficiency would be terrifyingly high. Even if it couldn't quite match Qin Feng who possessed Original Shadow Perception, it wouldn't be far behind.

The only downside was that its current speed was relatively slow, not as fast as Qin Feng's. After all, it was a combat pet template, not a mount template like Osirio…

"Let's head out now."

Qin Feng and Grey Chicken split up to act.

After activating the 'Shadow Incarnation' skill, Qin Feng also turned into a pitch-black humanoid shadow, of course, while simultaneously being in stealth and soul stealth states.

Only allies, such as Grey Chicken or Osirio, could see Qin Feng's semi-transparent black shadow.

In this pitch-black deep sea where you couldn't see your own hand in front of your face, Qin Feng, transformed into a shadow, began searching, moving at an even faster speed…

…

Right at this moment.

In reality, on Blue Star, within Great Xia territory, Hai City.

Hai City was the southernmost island city within Great Xia territory. The Phoenix Egg from which Grey Chicken hatched was obtained from this place.

In a vast expanse of deep sea.

A team of over a dozen players from Coconut Country were sneaking towards Hai City territory, moving together while in stealth!