Chapter 598: Upgrading the Dragon Soul Armor
Chapter 598: Upgrading the Dragon Soul Armor
September 25, 2017
Jiuzhou, Julu County, outside Jule City.
After using the Hundred Mile Escape Talisman, Lu HaiKong did not immediately leave the small mountain forest. He needed to rest for a while in this area.
As the user of the Celestial Deity Talisman, Lu HaiKong could already sense the signs of the impending side effects.
After all, the Celestial Deity Talisman was merely a legendary-grade talisman, not an incredible artifact like the Phoenix Tear. While it provided an explosive boost to Lu HaiKong's strength, the side effects were inevitable.
With his current strength and understanding of martial arts, Lu HaiKong's knowledge of his body far exceeded that of ordinary people.
Before the side effects of the Hundred Mile Escape Talisman kicked in, Lu HaiKong could already sense what he was about to face.
He estimated that within the next day, his attributes would definitely decrease to some extent, but more importantly, after the effects of the Celestial Deity Talisman faded, Lu HaiKong would feel an intense exhaustion. In that state, it was not suitable for him to travel at all.
Therefore, Lu HaiKong did not plan to rush his journey during this time. Instead, he casually found a relatively secluded and comfortable spot in the forest to rest, enduring the period of exhaustion from the side effects, and also to inspect his spoils of war.
The rewards from the Tranquility Secret Realm Dungeon were enormous, but Lu HaiKong had no intention of opening the treasure chests in this place.
After all, the contents of the treasure chests were random, and if something huge came out, like several million gold, it would be a pity to leave it behind or discard it on the spot, possibly revealing his current location.
So, Lu HaiKong simply took inventory of the items dropped by the three bosses, as well as the three items he obtained from Zhang Jiao's secret chamber.
First, Lu HaiKong examined the items dropped by the three bosses, and to be honest, he was slightly disappointed by their drops.
Perhaps due to the dungeon bosses or some other reason, none of the three bosses dropped Soul Stones, but they did drop a few secret manuals.
Three manuals in total: Flame Dragon Technique, Earth Escape Technique, and Earth Overturning Technique, all of them were spell-type secret manuals.
Lu HaiKong took a look; the cultivation requirements for these three spell-type secret manuals were quite high. Even the one with the lowest requirement, Earth Escape Technique, needed a single attribute of Political Cunning above 80, and one had to cultivate an Earth-attribute Taoist heart method first. Currently, Lu HaiKong did not have a suitable person to practice it.
"Well, even if they gave me spell manuals, they didn't provide a matching heart method. What use are these three manuals?"
Despite saying this, Lu HaiKong still kept the three secret manuals. After all, he had personally experienced the terrifying spells recorded in these three manuals, and he was quite covetous of their power.
Apart from the three secret manuals, the three bosses also dropped two System Building Upgrade Tokens, a Bean Sprouting Army Talisman, and a Yellow Turban Divine General Summoning Token for Lu HaiKong.
There was no need to mention the System Building Upgrade Tokens; even with these two, Lu HaiKong already had five of them, but he would never reject more of these useful items.
The attributes of the remaining two items were also quite good.
Bean Sprouting Army Talisman
Item Type: Consumable/Mystical Item
Item Description: A talisman personally crafted by Zhang Jiao of the Yellow Turban Sect, a variant of the legendary summoning spell, with unimaginable power.
Item Effect: Randomly summons a random number of high-level troops.
Usage Count: 1/1
Golden Divine General Summoning Token
Item Type: Consumable/Mystical Item
Item Description: Obtained by slaying a Yellow Turban Divine General...
Item Effect: Summons a Yellow Turban Divine General with a strength attribute between 85 and 95.
These two items required Lu HaiKong to test his luck, as they involved random troops and strength attributes.
Although the word 'random' could sometimes be a letdown, these two items also had a baseline guarantee. One offered random high-level troops, and the other assured a minimum strength attribute of 85, which was still quite good.
In addition, the three bosses actually dropped some other small items, but due to their inconvenience to carry, Lu HaiKong eventually left them behind, discarding them along the way, only bringing back the items that interested him and were easier to carry.
Although Lu HaiKong discarded some items, the fact that the three bosses only dropped these items made him feel a bit underwhelmed.
The outer dungeon guardian boss with a strength attribute of just 87 could be excused for dropping trash items. The remaining two were a Zhang Bao clone with an intelligence attribute of 90 and a Zhang Jiao clone with dual attributes above 95, and the items they dropped were surprisingly meager, which was quite unscientific and a bit depressing.
Fortunately, this unscientific and depressing situation was balanced out by Zhang Jiao's collection.
In Zhang Jiao's collection, Lu HaiKong took only three items besides the Heaven-Altering Life-Changing Pill, partly because he could only carry that many at the time, and partly because these three items were the most suitable for him among all the items.
These three items were: a small but hideous-looking mechanical puppet, a blood-red pearl with a seemingly coiled dragon inside, and finally, a bottle of pills.
The grotesque automaton puppet was an extraordinary automaton beast, one that Lu HaiKong had only encountered once before, during Ding Yuan's initial assault on his mountain camp.
On that occasion, the beast was hurled directly at Lu HaiKong's face, nearly breaching his camp's defenses. If not for Lu HaiKong's ability to strengthen the camp's walls with his bare hands, he would have faced a difficult situation.
This experience led Lu HaiKong to value this city-breaching automaton highly. Upon seeing it again, he immediately seized it.
City-Breaching Automaton
Automaton Type: Consumable
Automaton Grade: Top-tier
Automaton Description: A specialized automaton designed for breaching city walls, possessing immense destructive power. Even the walls of a capital city would crumble before this automaton.
With the ability to raze even a capital city, this automaton's grade was evidently far superior to the one previously used by Ding Yuan. For Lu HaiKong, this acquisition was invaluable.
With this automaton in his possession, Lu HaiKong, if he so desired, could easily lead his troops to capture Guangping City, currently heavily guarded by the Yellow Turban Army. Its value to Lu HaiKong's forces was undeniable.
The remaining two items were also of notable quality, though perhaps slightly less impressive than the automaton.
Dragon Soul Orb
Item Type: Consumable/Mystical
Item Description: Contains a fragment of a dragon's soul, its effects unknown.
Life-Saving Pill
In the 16th year of the Kaihuang era, a single glance at the pill confirmed its authenticity!
Pill Quality: Legendary
Pill Description: A life-saving divine pill concocted from various precious medicinal ingredients. With this pill, even the most severe injuries can be survived.
PS: If the injured person's condition is critical, consuming this pill will induce a state of suspended animation, preserving their life for up to a year.
The Life-Saving Pill's effects are evident, and its attributes clearly demonstrate why Lu HaiKong desired it.
Initially, Lu HaiKong had no intention of taking the Dragon Soul Orb, as he preferred not to carry items of unknown use.
However, as he approached the orb, he felt his Dragon Soul Armor growing warm, an intriguing development.
Lu HaiKong's Dragon Soul Armor was a growth-type equipment, currently at the Superior grade. Yes, the Superior grade, and it was precisely because of this grade that it couldn't withstand Zhang Bao's fire dragon attack, resulting in the armor's back being burned.
Lu HaiKong had assumed that the Dragon Soul Armor was permanently damaged after that encounter, but when he encountered the Dragon Soul Orb, his armor reacted. This prompted him to take the orb.
After tidying up the other items, Lu HaiKong paused, then pressed the Dragon Soul Orb directly onto his armor.
As the orb made contact with the Dragon Soul Armor, a system prompt appeared.
[Dragon Soul Orb detected. Can be used to upgrade Dragon Soul Armor. Upgrade now?]
"Yes!"
As Lu HaiKong spoke, the Dragon Soul Orb melted like a wax ball in flames, seeping into his Dragon Soul Armor.
Amidst the orb's infusion, Lu HaiKong faintly heard a dignified and powerful dragon's roar.
The sound was not loud, and perhaps only Lu HaiKong, as the owner of the Dragon Soul Armor, could hear it. Within the dragon's roar, Lu HaiKong's armor emitted a faint crimson glow.
This might be due to Lu HaiKong's daily practice of nourishing the Dragon Soul Armor with his inner strength or simply from wearing it.
As the Dragon Soul Armor glowed faintly, Lu HaiKong felt a force stirring within it, causing the armor to undergo astonishing changes.
Lu HaiKong distinctly felt the armor's shape shifting, and the areas previously damaged by Zhang Bao's fire dragon began to heal.
When the armor's transformation ceased and its glow reached its peak, Lu HaiKong sensed a mysterious force transferring from the Dragon Soul Armor into his body.
This surge of power swept away the fatigue caused by the Celestial Deity Talisman's side effects.
Simultaneously, the system prompt appeared once more.
[Congratulations! Your equipment, Dragon Soul Armor, has been upgraded. Current equipment grade: Legendary!]
Following the system prompt, Lu HaiKong casually opened the Dragon Soul Armor's attributes.
Dragon Soul Armor (Growth Type)
Equipment Grade: Legendary
Equipment Owner: Lu HaiKong
Equipment Skills: Dragon Soul Power, Dragon Scale Defense
Dragon Soul Power: Increases the user's strength by 300% for 30 minutes after activation.
Dragon Scale Defense: Passive skill. Enhances the defense of the Dragon Soul Armor, rendering it impervious to Superior-grade weapons...
(End of Chapter)
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