Chapter 229
It was almost unbearable to look at.
Yu Xunge gazed at the group of adorable creatures, replaying the day’s battle in her mind.
The biggest issue was that her offensive skills were indeed lacking. She needed to find a way to prepare a skill that could directly harvest a target's health based on their life percentage.
Even though she had been incredibly lucky today against Mi Yasi, managing to successfully use her skills only once after smashing eight skill crystals, the overwhelming power gap meant that no matter how impressive her skills were, they would be suppressed. But she couldn’t afford to be without them.
Then there was the problem of dealing with sleep-inducing potions and escaping binding skills…
Mi Yasi, what a sea demon! Not only did she grant divine talents, but she also came to help Yu Xunge identify her shortcomings.
Perhaps the biggest pity was that she only dropped a single item, the "Mind Catcher," upon her death.
Thinking about the barrels of seawater mixed with her own blood and Mi Yasi's ashes, she felt troubled about how to dispose of it. Should she dump it into the ocean of Zelan? No way, what if the sea demon noticed? What about pouring it into the ocean of Blue Star? That wouldn’t work either; there were sea demons lurking there too.
Suddenly, she remembered her divine talent called "Renewal."
Could this "Renewal" refresh the seawater?
With that thought, she could no longer sit still. She jumped to her feet.
Wait, what if it fails? Maybe she should wait until Tu Lan's "Thieving Baby Dragon" is unsealed before trying to renew it. That way, if something goes wrong, she could revert back, unless the situation was urgent. She didn’t want her luck to drop too low.
What does low mean? If her luck wasn’t maxed out, she felt like stepping outside would get her killed.
With that in mind, Yu Xunge slowly sat back down.
But it was only the 5th; she had to wait until the 10th of next month for Tu Lan’s skill to be unsealed. Even if she failed, the wasted luck would return in a week. The time spent waiting for Tu Lan would be enough for her to try four or five times. Besides, Tu Lan’s skill could only be used once every 150 seconds. Who knew if using it twelve times in a short span would cause more problems…
Yu Xunge stood up again, determined. She would try it now!
She looked around, and all the cats in the courtyard were staring at her, while the mini dragon had taken off its eye mask, looking at her as if she were a fool.
Yu Xunge said, “You keep playing. Once I’m done, we’ll go out for dinner and then play mahjong!”
Tu Lan stood at attention and saluted, “5!”
Yu Xunge thought… In 2079, you’re going to drive me to the ground!
**Chapter 250: Voldemort, Is That You? Speak Up**
In the living room, Yu Xunge took out a bucket of "Complex Seawater" and placed it on the floor, starting to rummage through her backpack for less valuable items.
In the end, she spread out a collection of scraps and junk.
Discarded equipment, broken dragon scales, magazines, a whistle, a compass, and even leftover coffee, along with the "Fate Coin" and "Mind Catcher," all made their appearance.
She realized that most of the time, she didn’t believe in fate. Whenever she wanted to do something, she would think it through herself. She had only used the "Fate Coin" once since acquiring it, just to test its effect.
She rarely faced indecisive moments. Beneath her cautious exterior lay immense confidence. Once she decided on a path, she seldom changed her mind.
If she deemed something dangerous and the potential reward didn’t justify the risk, even if someone told her it was a sure thing, she wouldn’t go. Conversely, if she truly resolved to do something, the outcome—success or failure—wouldn’t be her primary concern.
And this coin often divined the choice her heart leaned towards the most.
But sometimes, crises liked to strike when least expected. She couldn’t toss a coin before every decision; that would be ridiculous.
A chicken rib, something to renew and melt away.
As for the "Mind Catcher," she wanted to see if she could uncover any issues through her skills.
After arranging all the dispensable items, she finally added a box of dragon dung. With a thought, she activated "Renewal."
In an instant, all the props and equipment in the room were enveloped in a layer of light, each glowing in different colors and intensities. Some items even displayed multiple colors, yet these chaotic hues came together in a surprisingly harmonious way.
Yu Xunge felt as if she had stepped into an old-fashioned bar, the kind with disco balls overhead…
A glance revealed a hint of understanding: similar colors had the highest synthesis rates, but it wasn’t absolute. As long as the balance was right, many attributes could come together?
Yu Xunge picked up a piece of leather armor made of two colors and found she could easily deconstruct it into several parts.
Setting the leather armor down, she spotted something glowing with the same light as the box of seawater—was that a magazine?
Without hesitation, she grabbed the magazine and tossed it into the water tower. After that, she took out 200 more magazines of the same type, all glowing with a pale blue light, and tossed them into the water tower as well. These magazines were made by her using intermediate engineering skills and weren’t worth much.
Was the "Leftover Coffee" also in the same color scheme? In it went! She was already behind on this; it wouldn’t sell for anything now, and there were hundreds of them lingering in the auction house without a buyer.
She only stopped tossing items into the water tower when it was nearly overflowing, finally turning her gaze to the "Mind Catcher."
At that moment, the white hand bone displayed two colors. Most of the bone radiated a golden glow, while only the nail of the pinky finger was red. Her probing skill "saw" a description above the pinky, something that hadn’t been there before.
**Fragmented Soul Shard**: A soul shard that has fused with the remains after the main body’s death, now completely inactive; it shatters upon contact.
Voldemort, is that you? Come out and talk.
Mi Yasi had hidden another trick!
She didn’t have any skills to attack souls, but it seemed that "Renewal" might work.
Since it was about reconstituting a brand new whole, it would inevitably create some connections and impacts. "Shatters upon contact," let’s hope so.
Yu Xunge didn’t touch the hand bone directly. Instead, she created two mini electric nets to scoop it up and transport it to the edge of the water tower. Then she made a third net to wrap the other four fingers into the palm, adjusting it until the three nets held most of the hand bone, leaving only the pinky submerged.
This operation left Yu Xunge quite exhausted.
In an instant, the red began to flicker violently, and the water in the tower suddenly swirled, rushing toward the pinky nail.
Soon, most of the water in the tower surged into that nail, and the red glow visibly dimmed.
Yu Xunge quickly took out a second bucket of seawater, flew up to the second floor, and poured the seawater from above into the tower.
Third bucket… Fourth bucket…
It wasn’t until the fourth bucket was mostly gone that the **Fragmented Soul Shard** shattered with a loud bang, and the pinky nail turned deep blue, resembling the surface of the sea under sunlight.
In the final minutes, the remaining seawater all rushed toward the magazines.
As everything settled, Yu Xunge manipulated the electric net to remove the hand bone.
**Mind Catcher (Perfect Artifact)**: Entwined with my ten fingers, tell me, truth or dare (You are the sole owner of this artifact; every 30 natural days, you have a chance to skip the game process and directly receive rewards); raise your pinky to your enemy, inflicting shock on their soul. Damage at the soul level cannot be healed by any means; only time can serve as the sole remedy.
There’s even a level of perfect artifact.
And as the sole owner, she could skip the game process—was it because her blood mixed in during the renewal?
Moreover, she now had the means to attack souls, inflicting shock on them. Although she didn’t yet know how much damage it would deal, she had a feeling this new skill would easily drive enemies into a frenzy…
Yu Xunge stored it away, feeling relieved. The current **Mind Catcher** was finally clean.
**Renewal** was almost like a comprehensive scanning skill, uncovering even what the pocket watch couldn’t detect.
She still didn’t know why this soul shard could evade Soros’s probing. She could only speculate and reason that since the hand bone belonged to Mi Yasi and her soul resided in her own bones, it formed a remarkably harmonious whole, making it undetectable.
Just like how she couldn’t detect the existence of souls in any player.
She blew up the water tower and retrieved the magazines inside.
**Bullet: Thief Doesn’t Leave Empty-Handed**: Influenced and collided with some unknown force, the bullets within this magazine have mutated. Each time it hits a target, it randomly siphons 3-5 life points and transfers them to the shooter.
Out of 201 magazines, 139 had mutated, while the rest became scrap.
3-5 life points, and each magazine only had seven bullets—seemed a bit low…
Yu Xunge thought to herself that she might be a bit too greedy. She stored the magazines away and turned her attention to the last item—the coffee cup.
**Sea Salt Coffee**: Delicious, with no effects; automatically produces 500ml daily.
Another failed product.
It seemed that renewal wasn’t a guaranteed success.
**Chapter 298: Power of Mahjong, Level Three!**
After cleaning up the **Mind Catcher** and the seawater, Yu Xunge felt light as a feather. To celebrate her divine talent upgrade, she took Tu Lan to the entertainment room that evening, ordered five large tables of barbecue and drinks to treat everyone to a late-night snack, and played mahjong with the uncles and aunts from "The Nameless Ones" all night long.
As she stepped out of the mahjong hall in the morning, she looked up at the sky and softly declared, “Power of Mahjong, Level Three!”
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