Anyway, I can’t afford to raise her!

Continent of the God-Forsaken, outside the East Capital Ruins, Buried Bone Trench.

Qin Feng had just cleared out a dense pack of skeleton monsters and was releasing 'Greedy Hand' along the way, looting the corpses for more rewards.

Suddenly, a streak of white light flew in from the distance.

Qin Feng reached out and grabbed it, holding a soft hilt; it was the 'White Sprout Blade' that had completed its task.

“Not bad, finished in less than an hour.”

Qin Feng nodded with satisfaction.

According to the situation of the KEY Guild, in his previous life, even with the presence of that musical genius Totsuka, it probably took nearly a day to get it done.

From this, it could be seen that this female assassin White Sprout, from the Haitian Star Civilization, still had some musical talent.

Hearing Qin Feng's praise.

White Sprout still looked a bit tsundere, circling around Qin Feng, but as usual, she didn't speak, remaining very quiet.

This made Qin Feng click his tongue in wonder.

From previous circumstances, this girl really didn't have such a quiet personality…

Is it because she really doesn't have much lifespan left?

“However, there's nothing I can do about the lack of lifespan.”

“Anyway, I can't afford to raise her.”

Qin Feng thought to himself.

A moment later, an old man dressed in gaudy clothes trotted over eagerly from the red mist nearby; it was exactly Evil Sound Old Ghost.

“Lord Shadow, congratulations, congratulations! You succeeded!”

Evil Sound Old Ghost congratulated him with a smile as he ran over.

“Stop the nonsense, isn't it normal for me to succeed?”

Qin Feng scolded him, then opened Evil Sound Old Ghost's NPC function list.

It could be seen that this old ghost could 'Sound-Enchant' any active skill, enhancing the skill's effect, but the cost was not low, and… it surprisingly wasn't permanent, but time-limited!

For example, to Sound-Enchant the current Legendary, level 27 'Instant Shadow Slash', it required 14,040 days, which converted to 38.46 years of lifespan.

The effect of Sound-Enchanting had some randomness.

But the same skill could only have one 'Sound-Enchant' at a time.

And the duration after Sound-Enchanting was three hours.

“What exactly is the use of this function…?”

Qin Feng was still quite expectant.

After thinking for a bit, he directly Sound-Enchanted the Ancient-Grade 'Greedy Hand'!

Previously, the officials gave Qin Feng a level 22 Greedy Hand skill book, so this skill now had the effect of level (22+7=29), but whether extracting it to reality or performing 'Sound-Enchant', it was calculated based on the base level of 22.

Therefore, the lifespan consumed was 45,232 days, which converted to 123.92 years, and the Sound-Enchant effect only lasted for 3 hours.

“If I want the Sound-Enchant effect to be active 24 hours a day, it would take nearly a thousand years… so expensive!”

“Fortunately, I can set a 50% tax rate.”

“Half of my Sound-Enchanting fees will be returned to my own pocket.”

It's expensive, but that's because Qin Feng's skill grades are too high.

If it were just some Emerald or Diamond-Level skills, the cost for one Sound-Enchant would only be three to five years of lifespan.

It's a price that average players could afford.

Furthermore, there's no limit to the number of times the old man can Sound-Enchant.

So, it could be foreseen that the old man would be quite busy next…

“Let's start with Greedy Hand.”

Qin Feng spent 123.92 years of lifespan.

After more than 60 years were returned, Evil Sound Old Ghost raised his hand and took out his pitch-black music box!

Immediately after, the pitch-black music box released a burst of sound waves that sounded very ancient, surrounding Qin Feng…

——

【Your skill (Greedy Hand (Ancient-Grade)) has been granted a sound effect!】

【Current Sound-Enchant effect: 21% chance for the effect to double upon release. Duration: 3 hours.】

——

“…”

“A twenty-one percent chance for the effect to double?”

“Sounds pretty good.”

Qin Feng did a quick calculation.

Currently, his efficiency in farming mobs here yielded between 1000-1200 years of lifespan per hour.

This was because he had the 'Flower Opening Curse' and two 'ghost fire bells', which significantly increased his lifespan gains from killing monsters.

If there was a 21% chance for the effect to double, that would be an additional 200+ years of lifespan gain.

Farming for the full three hours would be 600 years.

“It's a profit.”

“But it doesn't seem like much of a profit.”

Just then, a Gold-grade mini-boss 'Undead Bone Witch' appeared in front of Qin Feng, having just been shot dead by one of his Shadow Blades.

He reached out to loot it.

‘Ding!’

Accompanied by a crisp sound effect.

Qin Feng was somewhat stunned to find that this time, he actually triggered the double effect!

What was originally nearly 10 extra rewards was now nearly 20 at once!

Even the lifespan doubled from the original 10-odd years to 23 years.

Most importantly, it actually dropped a decent skill book—Shadow Blade (Lv29)!

Originally, Qin Feng's Shadow Blade was only level 14.

“Overwrite and learn.”

Qin Feng learned the skill book directly.

——

【Shadow Blade (Ancient-Grade): Lv14→Lv29! Shadow Blade adds 15,000→30,000 Dark element attack】

【…】

【Ancient-Grade effect: Upon hitting a target, it will bounce to attack other enemies within 20→35 meters (can bounce infinitely, but the same Shadow Blade will only attack a single target once)】

——

Higher attack, further bounce distance!

“Not bad.”

Next, Qin Feng tried to Sound-Enchant the 'Shadow Blade' skill.

After consuming another hundred-plus years of lifespan, his Shadow Blade skill gained a Sound-Enchant special effect.

Releasing Greedy Hand had a 'ding' sound.

Releasing the Shadow Blade skill was a 'whoosh whoosh whoosh'.

However…

As long as Qin Feng entered stealth, the sound effects of these skills would also be hidden, while the Sound-Enchant effect would still remain active!

And this time, the Sound-Enchant effect for Shadow Blade was a 21% chance for multiple releases each time it was cast.

According to the probability, if five Shadow Blades were released, six would attack the enemy.

“Equivalent to increasing my sustained output by 21%?”

Overall, Qin Feng felt that Evil Sound Old Ghost's Sound-Enchant ability didn't offer him much of an improvement.

Mainly because the effects had a time limit.

That greatly diminished Qin Feng's interest.

In the future, if he had time, he'd just maintain the Sound-Enchant on 'Greedy Hand'. If there was a boss to fight, he'd Sound-Enchant his other main output skills.

Fortunately, this NPC had one more primary function: he could convert items from other worlds into items of this world!

Qin Feng's 'old days catastrophe snake tooth' was still gathering dust in the storage box at the Evil Spirit Academy.

He'd take it out when he returned.

As for now, Qin Feng was in no hurry.

“Since I'm already here, I'll finish up before leaving.”

Buried Bone Trench was currently the best leveling spot for Qin Feng!

Although the mob respawn rate couldn't keep up with Qin Feng's killing speed, he was too lazy to run around.

“You go back first.”

Qin Feng waved his hand, sending Evil Sound Old Ghost back to the Evil Spirit Academy Hideout.

At the same time, on the guild Hideout interface, he commissioned the Thunder Fairy, Sister Yuan, to help keep an eye on Evil Sound Old Ghost, lest the old fellow do something…

Although he was an NPC member of the 'Shadow' Guild, Evil Sound Old Ghost wouldn't threaten the Shadow Guild.

But the main active personnel of the Evil Spirit Academy belonged to the Sky Vault Guild.

So, it was necessary to keep an eye on him first.

As for Qin Feng, he 'settled down' in the Buried Bone Trench.

Meanwhile, Qin Feng's Abyssal Puppet was also farming at a fixed point in an 'Underground Demon City' outside the Magic City Ruins of Great Xia, causing Qin Feng's experience points to skyrocket.

He farmed for about seven days…

Qin Feng's experience points were finally enough to reach level 35.

At the same time, the unsealing progress of the divinity armament ring 'Bone Authority' had finally reached 100%!