Chapter 184, Level 249
Lin Yi left the cave and opened his system panel fully before the first Heaven Step.
He had not done a complete inventory review since before the engagement with Cang Yutian. The weeks of grinding under the slave mark, the conversion of Long Tianyu, the four Cataclysmic assimilations, the Upgrade Altar, all of it had accumulated changes across his profile that he had been tracking in pieces rather than as a unified picture. He wanted the complete picture before the final push.
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Host: Lin Yi
Class: Laborer
Rank: E
Level: 230
EXP: 0 / 36,200,000,000
(EXP generation active — Celestial Slave Mark redirecting all EXP to: Cang Yutian)
[Attributes]
Strength: 7,124
Agility: 6,408
Constitution: 6,564
Spirit: 6,131
Free Attribute Points: 0
(Sovereign’s Blood Crystal integration: +1,200 to all attributes — applied)
Effective HP Pool: Constitution-derived × 2.5 multiplier (Guardian’s Undying Core)
Second Wind Restoration: 60% of effective HP pool
Soul Anchor Invulnerability Window: 8 seconds
Eternal Spirit Core Combat Regeneration: ×1.8 rate during and post-engagement
[Class Skills]
Titan Grip — Enhances grip strength and weapon stability. At current Strength scaling, effective weapon control extends to weapons far beyond standard mythical-grade weight classifications.
[Acquired Skills]
Phantom Void Step | Eternal Spirit Core | Celestial Sword Qi | Heaven Step | Void Severance | Iron Body Fortification | Predatory Instinct | Blade Domain | Resonant Strike | Soul Anchor | Celestial Refraction | Attribute Surge | Eclipse Slash | Spatial Lock | Flow State | Gravity Inversion | Phantom Image | Absolute Silence | Dao Sense | Dragon’s Roar | Thousandfold Pressure | Second Wind | Lightning Reflex | Convergence Blade | Barrier of Heaven | Chain Void Step | Devouring Edge | Soul Rend | Dimensional Tear | Unbroken Will | Absolute Slash | Stellar Burst | Thousand Mile Reach | Time Fragment | Celestial Armor | Infinite Edge | Heaven’s Judgment | Mirror Stance | Domain Expansion | Null Field | Blood Rush | Fracture Point | Sovereign Step | Eternal Guard | Star Collapse | Phantom Army | Unbreakable | Void Walk | Celestial Absorption | Heaven’s Will | Absolute Domain | Limitless | Void Monarch | True Sight | Eternal Flame | Heavenly Appraisal | Heaven’s Echo | Convergence Point | Dragon Sovereign | Final Cut | Sovereign’s Presence | Dao Integration | Celestial Overwrite | Absolute Precision | Boundless Step | Void Emperor’s Seal | Heaven’s End
[Passive Enhancements Applied]
Dragon God’s Eye — Predatory Instinct range extended, True Sight penetration increased, Dao Sense radius doubled, weak point identification upgraded to precise spatial mapping
Void Step Compression Stone — All spatial technique range +60%, energy cost -40%, chain window extended to 12 seconds, spatial distortion residue undetectable up to level 220
Guardian’s Undying Core — HP pool ×2.5, Second Wind 60%, Soul Anchor 8 seconds, Eternal Spirit Core ×1.8 combat rate
[Equipment]
Celestial Lord Blade
Rank: Abyssal
Base Attack Power: 2,400
Set Attribute Core Bonus: +4,500
Total Listed: 6,900
Grand Defense Ring
Quality: Legendary
Physical Defense: +311
Magical Defense: +302
Seven Star Immortal Conversion Halo
Slots occupied: 2 (Slot 1: Depleted | Slot 2: Dragon Knight Guardian — Active)
Remaining slots: 5
[Inventory]
Celestial Emperor Note
[Spatial Storage Token — Active, contents: amplified drops]
[Long Tianyu’s Storage Token — acquired]
Celestial Jade collection — substantial quantity
Half of Heavenfall Guild’s jade collection — transferred
Nine Yin Demon Guild jade collection — transferred
High Energy Core ×extensive
Advanced Energy Potion ×extensive
Superior Recovery Elixir ×extensive
Beast Core (various levels) ×extensive
Rare Material Bundle ×extensive
Empty Slots: 40
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He closed the panel.
The picture was what he had expected from the individual updates he had tracked. Level 230 with EXP generation permanently redirected and zero accumulation showing in his own counter, attributes at a level the hunter classification system had no reference for, a weapon that operated in the Abyssal tier, and sixty-seven skills integrated through mythical-grade cores. The four Cataclysmic items from Long Tianyu’s inventory had changed specific components.
He noted the forty empty inventory slots. He had been selling amplified drops through the Celestial City hunter market before the event and using the Spatial Storage Token’s capacity effectively. Inside the event the selling was not possible, which meant the token’s dimensional space was the active repository for everything. The forty empty regular slots were the residual of items he had consumed or used during the event period.
He activated Heaven Step.
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The Dragon Knight Guardian was on the eastern cluster formation’s third island when he arrived, mid-engagement with a population of level 155 Ashenveil Predators.
It had been operating continuously for three days. The behavioral directive did not produce rest intervals or recovery periods in the way that conscious hunters required them. The vitality mass from a level 192 conversion sustained it through continuous engagement without the diminishing returns that biological fatigue introduced into conventional combat.
It was effective.
The kill notifications for the Dragon Knight Guardian’s output had been arriving in steady intervals throughout the three days, the amplified EXP routing through the slave mark to Cang Yutian at a rate that had maintained meaningful progress on the remaining two levels.
Lin Yi positioned himself at the cluster’s far end, the Dragon Knight Guardian working from the east while he worked from the west, the two clearing patterns moving toward each other through the cluster’s population rather than covering the same ground.
He drew the Abyssal Celestial Lord Blade.
The weapon’s presence was different from the Mythical grade’s in the way he had noted since the Upgrade Altar, the depth of the attack that even the draw produced registering against his own Predatory Instinct passive as something significant. He released Celestial Sword Qi in the wide arc mode.
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[Ashenveil Predator ×24 | Level 155]
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[Ashenveil Predator ×24 Defeated]
[EXP Gained: +32,600 × 24 = +782,400]
[Amplification: ×10,000]
[New EXP Gained: +7,824,000,000]
[EXP Transferred to: Cang Yutian]
[Your level: 230 — No change]
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He moved to the next island.
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[Void Stalker ×19 | Level 152 — Elite Pack]
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[Void Stalker ×19 Defeated]
[EXP Gained: +27,600 × 19 = +524,400]
[Amplification: ×10,000]
[New EXP Gained: +5,244,000,000]
[EXP Transferred to: Cang Yutian]
[Your level: 230 — No change]
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From the east side of the cluster, the Dragon Knight Guardian’s kill notifications arrived in their own stream.
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[Celestial Dreadhorn ×7 Defeated — Guardian Kill]
[EXP: +54,800 × 7 = +383,600]
[Amplification: ×10,000]
[New EXP: +3,836,000,000]
[Redirected to: Cang Yutian]
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Two streams running simultaneously. He crossed the cluster’s central island and the Cluster Guardian registered through Predatory Instinct’s enhanced range, the Dragon God’s Eye integration having extended the passive’s detection radius enough that he was reading the guardian-tier entity’s position from further away than he would have before the assimilation.
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[Heaven’s Warden | Level 174 — Cluster Guardian]
HP: 406,000 / 406,000
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Absolute Domain. One exchange. Done.
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[Heaven’s Warden Defeated — All Bonuses Applied]
[EXP: +162,000]
[Amplification: ×10,000]
[New EXP: +1,620,000,000]
[Celestial Jade ×1000 — Cluster Reward]
[EXP Transferred to: Cang Yutian]
[Your level: 230 — No change]
[Notification: Cang Yutian — Level Up!]
[Cang Yutian: Level 248 → Level 249]
Level 249. One remaining.