Mercenary Tao, His Fame Spreads Far and Wide

You completed a refinement. Effect: Good

Trait · Death Intent Senluo (Extremely Rare) received a slight enhancement.

Trait · Death Intent Senluo—Your bloodline contains the power of Yellow Springs. Every attack you make has a small chance to subject the target to an instant-death check. Any target whose will to survive is insufficiently strong will be consumed by the power of Yellow Springs. This trait may trigger multiple times on the same target. Once Death Intent triggers, it can be launched from the body to strike a target. The greater the distance, the more Death Intent is weakened.

You completed a Spirit Awakening. Effect: Good

Mental attribute additionally +2. Current: 61

Bai Cangshu spent another two B-rank Anomaly Points to further purify the Myriad Tribulations Yin Spirit Yellow Springs Physique.

Perhaps because Bai Cangshu’s self-healing had now reached the stage of instantaneous regeneration, after fusing Tyrant Sky Blood, the Goddess did not stop him from carrying out bloodline Spirit Awakening and refinement.

The refinement results were quite good, strengthening Death Intent Senluo, the trait that could be called the most useful aspect of this special physique for Bai Cangshu.

As Bai Cangshu entered the Magnetic Field Rotation realm and his qi grew increasingly powerful, he was already capable of launching remote attacks to a considerable degree.

After activating Kaio-ken, even the aftershock of his punches could cause widespread destruction.

After Death Intent Senluo advanced, Death Intent could likewise leave his body to attack. In this respect, the trait had already surpassed the Title Ability of Death Sword Thought Silk.

Although it still lacked some controllability, when combined with Bai Cangshu’s Violent Storm-like attacks, its killing power far exceeded Death Sword’s.

"Next, I want to learn this ability."

A golden feather appeared in Bai Cangshu’s hand.

Ten Phoenix Nirvana Art (Special): A special Nirvana art created by imitating a certain ancient secret art, containing the essence of phoenix Nirvana; requires high-level immortality or True Phoenix Blood to cultivate.

This Ability Scroll, which used an extremely special feather as its material, was highly unusual. It only stated the requirements for learning it.

Yet although Bai Cangshu now possessed high-level immortality, he still could not use it directly. Thus, he made the request to the Goddess.

Fuse the True Phoenix Feather to learn Ability · Ten Phoenix Nirvana Art (Special). Requires S-rank Anomaly Point ×1, 80,000 Dimensional Points. Learn?

Looking at the golden feather in his hand, Bai Cangshu understood why learning this ability was so unusual.

Learning this ability was probably not a matter of imparting knowledge at all, but rather something akin to fusing a trait—directly integrating this True Phoenix Feather into his body.

Moreover, the price of learning it was shockingly high.

Looking at the "ransom" he had earned from a great battle, which was nearly about to be drained by a single enhancement, Bai Cangshu could not help but feel that in the Goddess’s Abode, no matter how many resources one had, they could be quickly spent away.

But accordingly, one’s strength would also be rapidly enhanced.

Looking at the two B-rank Anomaly Points he lacked, Bai Cangshu did not hesitate much before directly withdrawing them from Li Qingzi’s Anomaly Points.

That woman had probably gained quite a lot in the previous mission world. Bai Cangshu had originally planned to let her strengthen herself again due to the abundant ransom, but he directly took the points now.

"Learn!"

The golden feather emitted a brilliant light. The next moment, flames ignited and directly swallowed Bai Cangshu, enveloping the black flames behind his back as well.

Intense vitality and terrifyingly high temperatures appeared in Bai Cangshu’s body at the same time.

East District, Slum Area. Information Brokers continued to appear before Mercenary Tao’s stall.

Most of them were Information Brokers seeking intelligence on resources and trades at the various stalls in the Slum Area for high-level teams and gatherings.

Although those large gatherings and high-level teams gained plenty, in order to trade more efficiently, they would also choose several fixed Information Brokers to search everywhere for enhancement items and abilities their teams needed.

And now, Mercenary Tao’s stall from E District seemed to have become popular overnight.

Although the most eye-catching items at the stall had already been traded away before the last mission, these Information Brokers continued asking the same questions.

"May I ask when His Excellency Mercenary Tao will return? The XX team I belong to hopes to conduct a trade with His Excellency Mercenary Tao."

"…"

"We hope to cooperate with His Excellency Mercenary Tao. The target is a Third Tier team…"

Some sought trades, some wanted to hire someone for murder, and some simply wanted to befriend this rising star whose ascent had been far too rapid.

Not long ago, news emerged from the Finality Empire that His Majesty Great Sun of Finality believed Mercenary Tao was qualified to contend for the Crown of Supremacy in the next Space Title Competition.

This was practically an open acknowledgment that Mercenary Tao’s strength had reached that level.

Though many initially did not believe it, more and more details about the battle that erupted in Myanmar were gradually revealed.

Mahakala, Death Sword Thought Silk, and The Heaven Qingqiu—three great experts—had joined forces with rising vicious figures such as Great Demon Azi to surround and kill Mercenary Tao alone.

Yet they had been utterly defeated.

It was said that within mere seconds, Mercenary Tao had forcefully slaughtered a squad made up of seven or eight Title-level Reincarnators. When the three top Reincarnators joined forces, he had even activated some transformation suspected to be Super Saiyan and beaten Su Qingqiu into a human stick.

Had His Majesty Great Sun of Finality not appeared, all three would most likely have been killed and turned into Scarlet Drop Cards displayed at this stall.

Such news was far too horrifying, but after some time had passed, those high-level gatherings and teams had begun accepting the fact that Mercenary Tao’s true strength had reached the threshold of that crown.

Looking back at the tragedy in B711 World now, many felt they had grasped a new truth.

Tang Sanzang had fallen in B711 World, the Chaos Sage’s team had nearly been wiped out, His Majesty Eternal Destiny had disappeared, yet Mercenary Tao emerged completely unharmed.

What was the reason?

Naturally, it was because Mercenary Tao was truly powerful!

Faced with a future great figure who would likely rise forcefully to the top before long, quite a few Reincarnators naturally chose to make contact in advance.

Moreover, word had spread that Mercenary Tao had taken control of Korea in the real world and was using Ability Users’ cognitive interference to gradually allow Reincarnators to use their abilities in reality.

Quite a few gatherings had already foreseen that Mercenary Tao would stir up new waves in the real world.

Perhaps before long, even the Finality Empire would be unable to compare.

He was a truly great figure capable of shaking up the future.

What was more, who was Mercenary Tao? Unlike the likes of His Majesty Great Sun of Finality, Mercenary Tao had fought and killed his way to where he was today!

The Scarlet Drop Cards, one after another, had forged his fearsome reputation.

Those Third Tier teams and gatherings were even more eager to establish a good relationship with Mercenary Tao.

Crimson Lotus Mage · Luoxi leaned sideways against an unattended stall on the other side, her arms folded and her eyes filled with pride.

Crimson Lotus had been rebuilt. Thanks to Mercenary Tao’s previous cooperation and interactions with her, as well as the news she had deliberately released that Mercenary Tao had exterminated the Chaos Sage for their sake, Crimson Lotus had received unprecedented respect.

The only regret was that Her Majesty Life of Silence had made no major moves. She remained as unconventional and solitary as ever, ignoring Luoxi’s proposal to recruit Mercenary Tao in advance.

Luoxi even felt that if she were Her Majesty, she would have extended an olive branch to Mercenary Tao two mission worlds ago. Perhaps in the future, they would soon witness the grand sight of two Supreme Experts belonging to the same team!

At that time, it might not even be impossible to dominate East District, just like that woman in West District!

Luoxi felt somewhat regretful, but then suddenly saw Black Butler hurrying back.

"Who is the representative of Aminos’s team?"

An Information Broker immediately stepped forward.

"I am, I am."

Black Butler assessed him before saying,

"His Excellency Mercenary Tao asked you to inform your people to bring the Dragon Bone Remains material to meet him. He is willing to hear out your trade."

The others immediately caught this piece of information as well. Clearly, Mercenary Tao was most likely searching for suitable fusion materials.

Mercenary Tao’s battle style had always been martial arts-oriented, so materials that enhanced the body or power output were definitely what he wanted.

A group of Information Brokers immediately began making contact.

This scene made Black Butler sigh as well. As Mercenary Tao truly began gaining fame throughout East District, his own usefulness was gradually decreasing.

Tap, tap, tap.

A dense series of footsteps sounded as a group arrived before the stall. The leader was none other than Hound Xian.

He merely glanced at Luoxi and the others before saying,

"I’ve agreed on a trade with Mercenary Tao. I’m here to wait for him."

Black Butler was about to say that Mercenary Tao was cultivating when he saw a figure in a pink robe appear before him.

Bai Cangshu tilted his head. He did not look at Song Xian, instead meeting the gaze of the person behind Song Xian.

He was not too surprised that Chu Qi had not died, since he had already analyzed that possibility beforehand. Yet the fact that the other man only appeared now made him feel that something was unusual.

He had thought East Xia would continue concealing this matter until one day they discovered his true identity and wished to persuade him to return to East Xia’s camp.

"Chu Qi~"

"What, do they think now is the time to send you out?"