Chapter 260
**Chapter 337: Feng Ran - Interest-Free for 12 Months - I Overslept Again**
**Interest-Free for 12 Months (S-Rank):** Every arrow or bullet you shoot into a target restores 10% of their health, with no upper limit on the healing amount. However, for the next 12 hours, the target must repay an equivalent amount of health. After 12 hours, for every five minutes overdue, the health debt increases by 50%. Each time you empower an arrow or bullet, it costs 50 mana points, has a casting time of 1 second, and no cooldown.
The brilliance of this skill lies in the fact that the loan is issued by Yu Xunge, but the repayment is on them...
Moreover, this skill can be prepared in advance. Yu Xunge had spent several long nights empowering two thousand arrows with this skill. When these healing arrows struck a target, they transformed into healing light and vanished within them.
So even if all healing skills on the field were on cooldown, as long as there were arrows left in the quiver hanging at her left hip, the players on the battlefield would not die—what was even more terrifying was that they had grown accustomed to not dodging Feng Ran's arrows.
Yu Xunge unilaterally declared that the treasure within the tower was undoubtedly Feng Tang.
In the year 7201 of Ruin Core, Feng Cang was assassinated by traitors from the alien coalition known as "Afternoon Tea." Among those present was a Grand Leader of the Wan Xiao, and Feng Ran was there too. However, at least half of the oak owls present had been saved by that Grand Leader, and they respected him far more than Feng Cang.
They united to force Feng Ran to abandon Feng Cang and resurrect the Grand Leader of the Wan Xiao.
The twelve-year-old little oak owl was surrounded by them as they recounted how Feng Cang's contributions paled in comparison to Feng Heng's. Saving Feng Heng was far more valuable than saving Feng Cang; Feng Heng was the only other SS-rank in "Afternoon Tea" besides Feng Tang.
This was a battlefield, not a dungeon with a limit on numbers. There were at least three thousand oak owls present, all elite troops, and their levels were generally 2 to 3 levels higher than Yu Xunge's.
Yu Xunge did not argue with them. She guarded the body of Feng Cang, which they had kicked into a corner, using the advantageous terrain, relying on the half-formed "Cheers" and the shooting skills that Feng Tang, Feng Mu, and Feng Cang had taught her. With the mindset of someone who had fought for their life on the battlefield, she held out for seven minutes until Feng Mu arrived.
When Yu Xunge fell, her wings had been chopped in half by those oak owls.
She missed her "One-Person Party" so much... If only she could steal attribute points, those rookies wouldn't be so arrogant...
Her healing skills had long been exhausted. She took out healing arrows and poked herself a few times to fill her health, continuing to guard Feng Cang's side, watching as Feng Mu unleashed a massacre, occasionally drawing her bow to shoot arrows to heal Feng Mu.
Feng Mu killed at least half of the oak owls present and directly impaled Feng Heng's body into the air with her whip, shattering it with "Cheers." The remaining oak owls fled, retreating from "Afternoon Tea" as they ran.
When Feng Mu, who seemed to have just crawled out of a pool of blood, approached, Yu Xunge, under her protection, used "I Say Marshmallows Aren't Expired" on Feng Cang. After a five-minute casting time, Feng Cang opened her eyes.
She looked at Yu Xunge, whose wings were half gone, and a glimmer of wild joy flashed in her eyes. After a long time, she smiled with red-rimmed eyes and said, "Looks like I overslept again."
Three days later, Feng Tang returned from the world battlefield and issued a bounty on the more than a thousand fleeing oak owls, bringing their heads back to "Afternoon Tea." Feng Tang could help them upgrade any skill to a "level-up" state.
Feng Tang's "Butter Beer" had already risen from SS to SSS rank.
It was time for her to prune the branches.
She embraced the healed Feng Cang and Yu Xunge, asking them which skills they wanted to upgrade to a "level-up" state.
Yu Xunge: "All of them!"
Feng Mu: "Speak properly!"
Yu Xunge leaned closer to Feng Tang and shouted, "All of them!"
Feng Cang echoed, "All of them!"
Feng Mu: "..."
Feng Tang laughed as she pulled Feng Cang and Yu Xunge closer, then took out nine maple leaves, distributing them among her three daughters: "Each of you can use three times. Take them and use them as you wish; all skills except for divine talents can be upgraded."
Yu Xunge took three leaves, each containing a skill.
**Level-Up:** Can switch a skill to "level-up" status, allowing it to break its limits as you continue to use and comprehend it. After use, this status will cause the skill's current level to drop by one.
She couldn't take this out of the tower, so without hesitation, she used one on "Who Will Cut the Moonlight."
The other two leaves required careful consideration.
What she gained from her efforts and investments was not just these three "level-up" leaves.
In the year 7203 of Ruin Core, on Feng Ran's birthday, Feng Tang, Feng Mu, and Feng Cang gifted her an SS-rank escape skill as a birthday present for her 14th birthday.
**Wind Blows Dandelions (SS-rank):** Instantly transforms into countless dandelions; wherever the wind can blow, it becomes the path beneath your feet. You cannot confine the existence of the wind, nor can you confine yourself; using this skill incurs no cost, but any damage the dandelions take will be reflected back to you; cooldown time is 0.5 hours.
It was the top-tier version of Mist Arrival, capable of not only escaping but also serving as a defensive skill when necessary.
She immediately used the second "level-up" leaf on this skill.
However, Yu Xunge also died that year, on the second day after her 14th birthday.
That day, she got up to pick fruits, planning to return and try making some preserved plums. Recently, Feng Cang had given her a recipe for preserved plums, which, when made, could be enjoyed without being affected by time-stopping skills.
But as soon as she flew out of the wooden house, she saw Feng Gao, whose expression was calm to the extreme. She had waited too long for this day.
This was Yu Xunge's second death since entering the tower...
In that moment, Yu Xunge had countless ways to escape; even using the newly acquired "Wind Blows Dandelions" would have saved her.
Unfortunately... it was now the year 7203 of Ruin Core, precisely the year "Feng Ran" died. At this time, the timeline likely coincided with the historical moment of "Feng Ran's" demise.
Whether Yu Xunge wanted it or not, "Feng Ran" had to leave, especially since Feng Gao was clearly prepared.
She only had time to use the last "level-up" leaf on an S-rank skill she had previously obtained, "Silent Hill," before her health was completely drained by Feng Gao.
In her final moment, she saw the sorrowful, desperate, and numb eyes of Feng Mu, and she also saw Feng Cang, whose eyes held not only pain but also a glimmer of expectation and joy beneath that pain.
**Chapter 338: Feng Ran - The Greedy Dragon - Doubt**
When Yu Xunge regained consciousness, she found that only forty-seven days remained until she could leave the tower. Had she really been in a daze for ten days before "waking up"?
Her first instinct was to check which skills she had lost this time.
It was another B-rank skill—**Time Off**!
She was lucky to have full health, but losing two skills starting from B-rank... what were other players losing?
However, Yu Xunge couldn't say she felt heartbroken. Not to mention that over the years she had acquired more than forty B-rank attack skills in the tower, losing just two B-rank skills wasn't a huge loss. Besides, with the "Wind Blows Dandelions" that Feng Tang had found for her, her need for "Time Off" was no longer pressing.
At that moment, she was assigned to clean up the corpses on the battlefield due to her "foolishness." Yu Xunge continued to maintain this foolish persona, spending her days either cleaning the battlefield or stealing attributes, always looking for divine talents that could save her life, trying to find ways to enhance her strength for self-protection.
She couldn't afford to get into trouble again. Not only did she not want to lose any more skills, but she also needed to keep herself in the best condition to leave the tower.
When the opportunity arose, she found a hidden spot and released Tu Lan.
After obtaining the identity of Feng Ran, she had slipped a note to Tu Lan, asking her to stay inside for the time being. Now that Tu Lan emerged, she curiously asked, "What's wrong? Did something happen? I was so worried!"
Yu Xunge silently looked at the phone between Tu Lan's two paws, the screen still displaying a match-three game that hadn't been closed.
Tu Lan followed her gaze and casually hid the phone, saying nonchalantly, "I felt uneasy and couldn't eat, so I needed to distract myself."
Yu Xunge didn't press the issue. She let Tu Lan stay by her side, keeping an eye out for her safety.
Tu Lan knew Yu Xunge wouldn't really be angry. This was one of the things she loved most about Yu Xunge—her demands of those around her were always minimal. Her happiness, safety, ideals, and pursuits were never dependent on others, not even on Tu Lan, her contracted partner.
Even when she took her to the battlefield to train, it was more for the sake of the snow pile's request.
Before entering the tower, she had secretly boasted about this to the communication dragon tooth and the Holy Grail, saying that her contractor was truly wonderful.
But the Holy Grail had said, "The fact that she never demands anything from you shows that she is prepared to lose you at any moment."
Tu Lan had been so angered by this remark that she nearly cried. She wanted to refute the Holy Grail but couldn't come up with any strong evidence to counter it.
She even snapped at the Holy Grail, "But I would never leave her!"
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