Chapter 308: Xue Jing's Encounter in Qing City, the Aftermath (4K)

Chapter 308: Xue Jing's Encounter in Qing City, the Aftermath (4K)



[Killing a Divine-Centric Creature: Divinity +4027]



Four thousand Divinity points?!

Xue Jing's eyes widened slightly at this unexpected massive gain.

He had slain many creatures imbued with divinity, and according to his memory, the stronger the creature, the more divinity he gained upon killing them.

In his estimation, the Parasitic Wax's ability was troublesome, but it wasn't particularly powerful. Based on his past experiences with divine creatures, he expected a yield of around 2000 Divinity points.

In comparison, the True Dragon Cub he killed in the borderlands of the Roaring Waterfall had only granted him around 2500 Divinity points.

If that True Dragon Cub hadn't been weakened by the Serpent Slayer Elite, Xue Jing, at his current full strength and with his numerous abilities, could still defeat it, but the process wouldn't be easy.

And this Parasitic Wax... It didn't feel as powerful as the True Dragon Cub, yet it yielded nearly half more Divinity.

"It seems the formula 'Stronger Strength = More Divinity' isn't accurate; it depends on the specific situation."

Xue Jing rubbed his chin, feeling rather pleased.

He was in dire need of Divinity, and this unexpected gain of four thousand points just relieved his urgent need. He already had a plan for how to use it.

Currently, he possessed 4568 Divinity points. He intended to use two thousand points to upgrade his True Martial skill to Lv4, which would not only enhance his strength directly but also accelerate his martial arts growth. The sooner the upgrade, the better.

Another thousand points would be used to enhance his Teaching skill.

As for the remaining fifteen hundred... He'd decide later.

Xue Jing opened his skill panel and glanced at the divinity skill bar.

"Killing this special monster didn't activate a new divinity skill..."

He had hoped for a new skill similar to the Parasitic Wax's ability, one that could mutate and activate matter, a Cthulhu-like divinity skill.

"Oh well, it's a bit disappointing not to have a new skill, but I already have so many divinity skills that I can't keep up. If more come, the divinity gap will only widen. For now, my existing skills are more than sufficient, and I should focus on leveling them up."

Closing the panel, Xue Jing lifted his head to gaze at the sky.

After destroying the Parasitic Wax's host body, the massive spherical body was gradually crumbling into ashes.

From the disintegrating body, Xue Jing felt a sense of rejection, as if the world was expelling it.

However, above, the steel bars that had been altered by the Parasitic Wax's ability seemed unaffected by its death. They continued to actively battle the Shadowflame army without rest.

"Could the effect of this ability be permanent alteration?"

Xue Jing furrowed his brows.

The ability's effect didn't dissipate even after the user's death... Could the principle of this ability's alteration be a direct change in the altered matter's fundamental structure? He vaguely understood why the Parasitic Wax yielded so much divinity.

Xue Jing quickly descended from the sky and landed on the ground.

He had just thrown the Nightscythe, which had been altered by the Parasitic Wax, into the ground.

After a brief search, despite the entire Abandoned District being in disarray from their intense battle, Xue Jing's exceptional vision allowed him to quickly locate the small hole created by the Nightscythe.

Black airflow converged, and Shadowflame formed a spiral black drill on Xue Jing's right hand, spinning at high speed.

Xue Jing aimed the drill at the hole, and in an instant, dirt flew as the ground was rapidly excavated. He burrowed deeper like a groundhog.

Within a few seconds, he had dug several dozen meters underground but still couldn't find the Nightscythe.

"Damn, how hard did I throw it, and where did it end up?"

Xue Jing cursed under his breath.

Earlier, when his clothes had 'betrayed' him alongside the Nightscythe, the situation had been too urgent for him to hold back.

His current strength was formidable, and the Nightscythe's sharp tip easily pierced through dirt and rocks. It was hard to tell how deep it had penetrated.

Moreover, Xue Jing had another concern. After being altered, the Nightscythe seemed to have taken on a life of its own and might be burrowing deeper on its own.

Xue Jing wasn't sure of the true value of this spear, but he personally cherished it. Losing it would be a real pity.

Fortunately, the situation didn't seem as dire as he had feared.

After digging about seventy to eighty meters underground, the initially straight hole created by the Nightscythe began to twist and turn, confirming Xue Jing's worry—the Nightscythe was indeed moving around on its own.

However, Nightscythe didn't get far. It seemed to get lost beneath the ground, wandering in circles within a certain range, eventually digging out a complex three-dimensional passage like a city's sewer system. Xue Jing followed the passage and dug his way through, successfully locating it after about twenty minutes.

Shadowflame burned in the pupils of his eyes, allowing him to perceive the shape of the gun's tail in the lightless underground environment. Xue Jing immediately reached out and grabbed it.

Nightscythe struggled, but Xue Jing's gaze intensified, and he cast 'Feather Ascension' on it.

With a single grasp, it was instantly refined!

As an 'item' that belonged to Xue Jing in concept, Feather Ascension naturally took effect.

However, unlike when he usually cast Feather Ascension, Nightscythe's weight was barely a hundred kilograms, so in theory, refining it should have been a piece of cake.

But on the panel, the blue bar representing Feather Ascension rapidly depleted, and in no time, more than half of it had been consumed, turning a dull, dark shade.

At this moment, Feather Ascension finally took effect on Nightscythe.

The dark blue gun body, which had been struggling, instantly straightened up and returned to its original form.

Seeing this, Xue Jing heaved a sigh of relief, "Phew."

Fortunately, Feather Ascension still worked on it... Otherwise, if it had remained in that awkward state, this gun would have been useless.

Using the Shadowflame drill, Xue Jing dug upwards and soon broke through the ground with Nightscythe, returning to the surface.

Just as he was thinking about how to deal with the countless mutated steel bars in the sky, Xue Jing shook the Nightscythe in his hand and suddenly realized something.

"Hmm? Wait a moment."

He reached out and touched the dark blue gun body, feeling that the gun seemed to have changed somewhere...

With a thought, Xue Jing twirled Nightscythe, creating a gun flourish, and then thrust it forward! The sharp gunhead tore through the air, surging ahead, and then... The gunhead made a U-shaped, exaggerated bend, stabbing towards Xue Jing's back.

"What the...?"

Xue Jing was taken aback.

The effect of Parasitic Wax's mutation... was preserved?

The item that had undergone Feather Ascension was equivalent to an extension of Xue Jing's body.

He controlled it as if it were his own limbs, manipulating Nightscythe at will.

Under his control, the dark blue gun body first elongated, stretching from its original nine-foot length to over ten meters, and that wasn't even its limit.

Furthermore, the elongated gun body could be twisted and turned freely, as flexible as a soft snake.

"Night Sauce, did you sneakily eat the Rubber Fruit?"

Xue Jing's expression turned peculiar.

He hadn't expected Nightscythe to be mutated by Parasitic Wax... and to gain such an unexpected benefit.

After retrieving it, it had transformed into this unique weapon.

"Damn, I should've kept my clothes instead of burning them," Xue Jing smacked his forehead, feeling a bit regretful.

When his clothes had 'attacked' him earlier, making him angry, he had used Shadowflame to burn them to ashes.

If he had kept them, he could have just used Feather Ascension to purify them.

Xue Jing sighed, extended his finger, and snapped it against Nightscythe's gun body, producing a crisp ringing sound.

He nodded, "Hmm... The original strength hasn't changed; it just gained the peculiar ability to elongate and bend."

He slightly channeled his vital energy into the gun body, and Nightscythe instantly emitted a dark blue glow.

"The clarity of the vital energy flow hasn't changed either; excellent."

Xue Jing was very satisfied.

This mutated long gun, which had consumed the Rubber Fruit, could perform many mischievous techniques.

Just the ability to suddenly bend the gun tip was enough to give opponents a hard time.

Xue Jing summoned the Non-Existent Beast, placed Nightscythe into the invisible gap, soared into the sky, and donned the Shadowflame armor. He began to deal with the mutated steel bars.

These steel bars, in concept, did not 'belong to him,' so he couldn't use Feather Ascension on them, and keeping them would serve no purpose.

Even if he could use Feather Ascension, it wouldn't be of much use... After all, they were just steel bars. Their material had already determined their limitations, and even if they grew mouths to bite, their function would still be limited.

...

In the Abandoned District, the Xu Jian and White Raven members in the distance gazed in the direction where Xue Jing was.

Since almost all the equipment had been destroyed by the Dimensional Seismic when Parasitic Wax appeared, the battlefield currently lacked any surveillance, and the crowd followed Xue Jing's instructions, staying far away and having no idea what was happening over there.

They only heard the continuous loud explosions, indicating an intense battle taking place.

"Look over there! The mountain... It's been cut off!"

A White Raven member pointed at a small mountain in the southern suburban area, exclaiming in surprise.

"Jing... What kind of creature is he fighting against?"

Everyone was filled with awe.

"Haven't we obtained the satellite imaging rights yet?"

Xu Jian furrowed her brows and turned to the White Raven member in a white lab coat beside her.

The White Raven member wiped the sweat from her forehead and quickly replied, "We haven't received a response from above yet... Captain."

Xu Jian sighed.

Due to the presence of the super-being 'Dragon Mother' hovering in Earth's orbit, all satellites launched by humans in the early days had been completely destroyed.

It wasn't until about two decades ago that the 'Dragon Core Satellite,' which the dragon species considered as one of their own, was developed, and new satellites were gradually launched into orbit.

However, the dragon cores suitable for manufacturing satellites were extremely rare, and there weren't many dragon core satellites in the sky, including those belonging to the Sixth Bureau.

Within the White Raven organization, only those at the level of major or above had the authority to call upon satellites at any time.

"Captain, it's a call from the Qingcheng government," a White Raven member shouted to Xu Jian.

Xu Jian reached behind her ear and tapped a few times.

"Hello? Representative Pei..." she said in a calm voice.

"..."

"Yes, something happened, and we're handling it..."

"..."

"Tell Chief Chu not to worry. The person handling the matter is Xue Jing..."

As Xu Jian finished speaking, the person on the other end of the line suddenly changed their tone, becoming more polite. Representative Pei Xiaoen's expression seemed odd.

"Anyway, that's the situation. You guys calm the people down, and leave the rest to Xue Jing."

After hanging up the phone, the Mountain Ape next to her spoke up in jest, "It seems that the newly appointed Representative Pei has a lot of trust in Xue Jing, even to the point of trying to curry favor."

"Are we now able to borrow and use the government's helicopter at will, as long as we mention that Xue Jing is one of us from the White Raven?" The Mountain Ape pinched her chin.

"A few months ago, he was just a nobody." Xu Jian spoke calmly.

"Now, he's someone who can make a city representative, even the head of a city, fawn over him."

The Mountain Ape sighed, "Qingcheng has become his base of operations. I'm afraid he could even directly implement some not-so-outrageous new policies. But I don't think he'll value this power much. For someone like him, only the pursuit of personal strength matters."

As he spoke, he scratched his head, "Damn, and he's only seventeen years old."

Xu Jian looked towards the direction of the abandoned district, listening to the continuous loud noises from the battlefield, and said leisurely, "Seventeen isn't the key... There are others his age who are as strong, or even stronger than him... But the crucial point is that it's only been a few months since he was an ordinary person."

"It's truly amazing, Xue Jing... I wonder what kind of person he'll become in the future?"

...

By the time everything was over, it was already past 6 pm, and the sky was darkening.

Xue Jing cleaned up the battlefield, completely eliminating all the mutated steel bars, and then found the White Raven members to tell them about the entire incident. They went together to celebrate with a victory banquet.

During the banquet, Xu Jian mentioned that she had basically handled the incident on her own, and her contribution was significant. The Sixth Bureau should offer a good reward.

Xue Jing casually mentioned that he was very interested in the 'Divinity Factor'...

Ever since he learned that the 'Divinity Factor' was what the skill panel referred to as 'Divinity,' he no longer had to solely focus on Divine Relics.

The chief commander of the Sixth Bureau's 'Halt' division was a martial artist who had broken through limits three times using the ultimate limit-breaking method. They should be able to provide the 'Divinity Factor.'

Xu Jian naturally understood the implication and expressed that although this item was rare, even rarer than Divine Relics, she would mention it to her superiors.

After the banquet, Xue Jing received a call from Pei Xiaoen, who thanked him profusely for protecting Qingcheng once again.

Pei Xiaoen wanted to directly transfer money to Xue Jing's account as a token of gratitude, but Xue Jing declined.

He didn't lack money at the moment, and he still had doubts about the parasitic wax that had crossed over from another world.

This thing was very likely targeting him, and its appearance in Qingcheng could only be considered a collateral casualty for the city. Qingcheng hadn't been saved by him.

Of course, he couldn't say this to Pei Xiaoen, who then assumed that Xue Jing was considering the government's finances and didn't seek any rewards for his actions. Pei Xiaoen was moved and promised to try to find more Divine Relics for Xue Jing.

In the evening, Xue Jing didn't go home but instead went to the Qingcheng University Library.

He had many questions that needed to be answered by the great Little Qing A Dream.

...

(End of Chapter)

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