Chapter 307: SLB (1/2)
It had been five minutes since the lich and Ma Moxi had started fighting. Although Ma Moxi managed to hold on, the darkness domain and the lich's natural death element Qi slowly polluted his dantian, causing him to get sluggish.
As for the lich, the golden marks on its forearm expanded and covered a small area, stopping its shadow element Qi circulation. Furthermore, the golden marks hindered its movement, slowly crippling the lich's left arm, which was holding the energy hammer.
The lich glanced at the injured left forearm and glared at Ma Moxi, who had been panting.
Cack!
It decided to go all out. Instead of using the nascent soul's abilities and skills, the lich condensed its soul energy into the green staff and disabled the energy hammer.
Then, it shrank the darkness domain and locking Ma Moxi as its center, imprisoning him into a two-meter black circular cage. As a consequence of using such a technique, the lich was no longer inside the domain of blindness.
Ma Moxi punched and kicked the dark cage, but he couldn't break it. The cage domain continued to shrink, threatening to squeeze and crush him into a meatball.
The protagonist activated his Heaven and Earth Escape technique, but the imprisonment domain prevented him from leaving!
He used everything in his arsenal to attack the cage, but he couldn't put a dent in it.
”Shit!”
For the first time, Ma Moxi was desperate.
…
Liu Bian had been observing the situation through his system screen. As soon as he was certain that the lich had trapped Ma Moxi, he laughed.
”Ha! Take that! I don't care if you're a hero. This is what you get for being my enemy! Once I'm done with you lots, I'll rebuild my underground kingdom from scratch. I won't use any human cultivator as my subordinate next time. All my subordinates will only be my undead minions and my system familiars!”
Liu Bian envisioned his future after this incident. He hoped to lay low and build his strength in secret. Once he could reach the 7th-stage, he would come out to the world and start his little adventure to live his dream life.
After today, he would live alone. He would start over and take everything slowly.
As Liu Bian was daydreaming, the lich's lower body was destroyed. Something bright melted it from behind, and it even stunned Liu Bian.
BOOM
The pocket dimension that the lich had created was broken, and Liu Bian was pushed out of the lich's body.
”WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED!?”
Liu Bian widened his eyes in shock. He opened five system screens at once, checking his status and condition of the lich.
Ding
[Your system sponsor sweats in anxiety while he eats a handful of popcorns.]
[Kishin Douji clicks his tongue in frustration.]
[Yuan Hua bites her fingernails in bitterness.]
[Yuan Hua commands you to flee ASAP!]
[Kishin Douji has gifted you two life-saving bracelets.]
Ding
[Warning, you have been attacked by the hero, Mao Miaomiao!]
[Warning, your familiar, the Lich, has been critically injured!]
…
A minute earlier
”Alright, master. I've read enough.”
Miaomiao had explored a bit of Lu Fengxian's memory. He had learned a lot about this protagonist's background, but Miaomiao only focused on learning one technique.
He was running out of the buff time. From 10 minutes, Miaomiao had only less than five minutes to comprehend the technique and attack the lich. Otherwise, the talisman effect would have been for nothing.
Once in a while, Miaomiao's concentration reached its peak. He went into the zone, processing the new technique, aka Elemental Qi Conversion!
The technique's core focus was the true comprehension of various Element Qi and Element Essence's traits and usage. By altering the characteristics of the Elemental Qi that one had comprehended, they could mimic the traits of each elemental power, copying the elemental Qi's traits and turn ordinary essence into elemental power.
For example, it required a lot of Yin Essence to create one strand of Water Element Qi. As for Fire Element Qi, it consumed a lot of Yang Essence instead.
By mastering the Elemental Qi Conversion technique, Miaomiao could spend Yang Essence instead of Yin, which seemed useless for someone with Life Essence. After all, he could convert his Life Essence to any element Qi as long as he had condensed the specific elemental crystal beforehand.
However, this technique was useful for converting Life Essence into a unique advanced element Qi, such as Light Element, Shadow Element, or Dragon Fire Element, as long as he had a strand of the Qi in his dantian!
The technique allowed Miaomiao to sense the general traits of each advanced element Qi that he had possessed. Then, he could mimic them by converting his Life Essence into Element Qi at a cheaper rate.
Instead of converting a liter of Life Essence to generate one strand of basic elemental Qi, Miaomiao could potentially convert a liter of Life Essence into several strands of Advanced Element Qi without a primary element core as a medium!
In short, as long as Miaomiao had a strand of an advanced element Qi as a base, he could keep converting his Life Essence to copy that advanced element Qi!
This technique bypassed the primary element core requirement. Miaomiao could simply obtain a new element Qi or form a new element crystal in his dantian as long as he had enough Life Essence!
'This technique is HAX!! Why do all protagonists always come with OP skills!? Oh, wait. I forgot that Lu Fengxian is supposed to be invincible type.'
Miaomiao smirked. He spent two minutes learning the basics.
Now, Miaomiao was ready to put the skill to a test. Without wasting his precious remaining three-minute buff, he converted a billion liters of life essence into Light Element Qi!
Because of the lack of mastery, Miaomiao obtained a billion strand of Life Element Qi in return. However, that amount was more than enough.
Since Miaomiao hadn't practiced a technique that required light element as a base, he relied on one of the system skills, which he had fused from leftover system skills during his free time.
Coincidentally, it was a rare skill, which had the same name as a certain famous magical girl's power.
Miaomiao gazed at the lich. At the moment, it had already disabled the darkness domain and imprisoned Ma Moxi inside. At this rate, the assassin would be crushed into a meatball within a few seconds.
Miaomiao tossed a bottle of unified element spring water to Lu Fengxian. Although he could kill this protagonist and rob everything at the moment, he decided to help the latter once more.
”Master, drink this. It's an upgraded dryad's hollow spring. It will heal you instantly!”
”Oh? Ha! You're full of mystery. Very well, I'll gladly take it!”
”Just recover and back me up. I'll try something!”
”Good. But first, borrow me your katana. I'll return it after I kill that lich.”
”…”
Miaomiao passed KQ to Lu Fengxian.