Talent Skill: Gold Touch?
Holy crap, this skill with an impossibly long cooldown, is it finally usable again?
If not for the system’s prompt, Ye Yun would have almost forgotten he had such a heaven-defying skill!
“System Overlord, use the skill ‘Gold Touch’ on my lifebound magical artifact, ‘Heavenly Pot Earth Cup’!”
“System Prompt: Congratulations, player, your magical artifact ‘Heavenly Pot Earth Cup’ has been strengthened. Player’s talent skill ‘Gold Touch’ has entered a new cooldown period. Please check it yourself.”
New cooldown period…
Ye Yun looked at the string of numbers, unsure whether to laugh or cry. This setting where the cooldown doubles with each use was truly unbearable. Would there come a time when he wouldn't be able to wait for it to become available even until he died?
Six million seven hundred thousand hours! And that was after he equipped cooldown-reducing gear! This translated to nearly eight hundred years! If his strength were lower, he probably wouldn't have lived to see it.
However, even though the cooldown of this skill was terrifyingly high, it was not useless at all. Not only was his talent the best in the Ten Directions Cosmos, but it could be said that his current achievements were all thanks to this skill!
Heavenly Pot Earth Cup (Auxiliary) – Player ‘Jie Ming’s’ Heavenly Fate Magical Artifact.
Functions:
1- Gathers the spiritual essence of heaven and earth to brew fine wines of heaven and earth. In the game, drinkers can obtain 8% of the player's current total attributes. In reality, one cup can compensate for thirty years of cultivation! Each person can drink at most once per cup per day!
2- First, a toast to heaven, second, a toast to earth, third, a toast to oneself, to the future and gamble on tomorrow.
Looking at the functional changes of his Heavenly Pot Earth Cup, Ye Yun’s emotions were complex. This was the third time he had strengthened this magical artifact. Even for ordinary players, this item could help them rise rapidly, let alone in his hands.
An 8% attribute increase might not seem high, but when extended over time, it was astonishing. It was equivalent to doubling attributes in nine days. This could no longer be described as a divine artifact; divine artifacts paled in comparison to it. For instance, Ye Yun’s True Fire Manifestation, even if it was a strengthened supreme-grade artifact, could increase his attributes by ten billion points daily, which could not compare to this lifebound magical artifact.
With Ye Yun’s current base, even if he did nothing and only watched the attribute boost from the Heavenly Pot Earth Cup daily, he could firmly hold the position of the strongest person in the Heavenly Dao, unshakeable by anyone!
Three days passed in the blink of an eye, and the entire Blue Star experienced earth-shattering changes during these three days. First, the loss of main cities by various countries triggered widespread chaos in the real world. If not for the preparations made by the countries in advance, the current situation would have escalated beyond a world war.
Secondly, in this map fusion, only four out of the nine hundred main cities in the Human Race starfield managed to retain their status as main cities. The remaining 896 main cities were all downgraded to Level Nine towns. Among the retained main cities, the Hua One Nation held two.
“Fengle City Announcement: Congratulations to Fengle City, under the leadership of its City Lord, for destroying the fourth hundred and eightieth Ghost Race city, ‘Black Spring’. Fengle City has gained one evolution opportunity. Fengle City’s permanent residents, ‘Ku Ming’, gain +10,000 free attribute points. Fengle City’s treasury receives +10 billion.”
“Starfield Map Announcement: Congratulations to Fengle City, under the leadership of its City Lord, for destroying the fourth hundred and eightieth Ghost Race city, ‘Black Spring’. Fengle City has gained one evolution opportunity. Fengle City’s permanent residents, ‘Ku Ming’, gain +10,000 free attribute points. Fengle City’s treasury receives +10 billion.”
In the last minute, Ye Yun once again destroyed a Ghost Race city, bringing this expedition to a perfect close.
Over the past three days, Ye Yun had hardly rested, dedicating himself to the task of clearing cities. His speed of destroying nearly seven cities per hour astonished all players, though eventually, they became numb to it. Conversely, the Ghost Race had captured 896 Human Race main cities within two days. Even with their relentless assaults, they could not break through the suicidal defenses of the remaining four main cities. Therefore, on the third day, no Ghost Race forces launched attacks on the remaining four Human Race main cities.
“Damn, the residents of Fengle City are going crazy with joy! Their City Lord is too awesome, destroying nearly five hundred enemy main cities in three days! Each main city rewards ten thousand free attribute points. Their total attribute points must have exceeded five million by now!”
“You’re telling me! I don’t know what the higher-ups are thinking. I’m so excellent, and I applied to join Fengle City as a permanent resident half a month ago, but they just wouldn’t approve me. I missed out on hundreds of billions!” a player lamented with a mournful face.
“Get real, you. Half a month ago is nothing. Do you think anyone can apply to be a permanent resident of Fengle City? I heard that applications for Fengle City have quotas every day in governments across the real world. Even so, after screening, tens of thousands of applications are sent to the Dragon Palace daily.”
At this time, whether Human Race or Ghost Race, everyone was discussing Ye Yun’s feat. The over four million players of Fengle City were extremely envious. Four hundred and eighty cities meant four million eight hundred thousand attribute points! Coupled with the attribute point rewards for defending cities and their original attributes, it could be said that every permanent resident of Fengle City had transformed from a nobody into an absolute powerhouse. Even many Ghost Race players, who had started playing three or four years earlier, had not reached this level.
Among them, the happiest were the five big bosses of the Hua One Nation. After all, more than half of Fengle City’s over four million permanent residents belonged to them. This was equivalent to Ye Yun giving them each 480 billion gold coins!
“System Prompt: The Starfield Map Fusion War is complete. Congratulations to player ‘Jie Ming’ for being the player who killed the most alien races in this Starfield Fusion War. Reward: Heavenly Dao Rune *1.”
“System Prompt: Congratulations to Fengle City for maintaining 100% city integrity after this faction war. Fengle City has evolved into a one-star city. All permanent residents gain +500 attribute points. Fengle City’s area has increased by 200%, with the current area being 2400 square kilometers.”
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A series of system prompts exploded.
Ye Yun, who had intended to capture one more city, was now teleported back to the training ground of the City Lord’s mansion in Fengle City. The four thousand members of the Dragon Palace had already gathered here, their faces filled with the joy of their gains.
This time, they not only gained over four million attribute points but each legion also received hundreds of billions in gold, and their levels universally increased by three to four grades. Most importantly, they accumulated enough combat experience, which would provide valuable insights for their battles in the real world.
Four million attribute points were less than a 10% increase in strength for them at this stage, still a considerable distance from increasing their real-world combat strength.
“General!” Upon seeing Ye Yun return, everyone shouted excitedly in unison.
“Well done. This opportunity was truly rare. You all performed admirably. Everyone take a two-day holiday. Two days from now, report to the domain gate and guard it diligently.” Ye Yun was also in high spirits. For the first time, he smiled in front of over four thousand people. These were the cadres for his future conquest of the cosmos.
“Yes, sir!”
Hearing Ye Yun’s rare praise, everyone, as his loyal subordinates, was overwhelmed with excitement. This time, they not only forged the formidable reputation of their legion but also made the entire Blue Star and the Ghost Domain aware of the Dragon Palace’s might!