Chapter 1 Choosing Evolution Materials

As Shi Feng finished selecting the evolution materials, the Abyssal Blade didn't react for quite some time.

"Does it really need Magic Source Crystals?" Shi Feng frowned.

He had only obtained Magic Source Crystals by chance last time. It would be impossible to find them if he were to search deliberately. It would depend entirely on opportunity and luck.

Just as Shi Feng was about to give up, a system notification suddenly rang in his ears.

System: Discovering Eternal Ice Crystals as an alternative evolution material. Is the player willing to discard the Frost Power within the Eternal Ice Crystals to allow the Abyssal Blade to evolve?

"Discard the Frost Power within?" Shi Feng was overjoyed and immediately clicked Continue.

Instantly, the ten Eternal Ice Crystals in Shi Feng's hand turned into fragments, forming a cloud of black mist and a cloud of white mist. The black mist flowed directly into the Abyssal Blade, which then trembled, emitting bursts of dragon roars that echoed throughout the wilderness. Blood-red magic patterns gradually began to appear on the Abyssal Blade's body.

As the blood-red magic patterns spread across the entire sword, the pressure emanating from the Abyssal Blade grew stronger and stronger. It felt less like a sword and more like an angry dragon standing before him, making it difficult to breathe.

After lasting for more than ten seconds, this terrifying aura gradually subsided, returning to its previous calm.

The appearance of the Abyssal Blade had also changed slightly. Its entire body became jet black, faintly emitting black gas. The hilt seemed to be entwined with a lifelike black dragon, and the blade was engraved with dense blood-red magic patterns, making it look very eerie.

"What powerful attributes!" Shi Feng exclaimed as he looked at the Abyssal Blade's displayed attributes.

Abyssal Blade, One-Handed Sword, Magic Weapon.

Attack Power +1720

All Attributes +130

Attack Speed +24

Ignores Monster Level +18, 60% chance to deal 2.2x damage on hit, 37% chance to deal 3x damage. Each time damage is dealt, attack speed increases by 2%, up to a maximum of 20%.

For Swordmaster class holders, all skill levels +5, and free attributes gained per level increase by 2 points.

Equipment Level 45, Equipment Requirement: Tier 2 class, Upgradable (Devour one hundred Level 50 Fine-Gold weapons and thirty Level 50 Dark-Gold weapons to upgrade to Level 50), Tier 2 Evolvable (Requires devouring one hundred Magic Source Crystals or Eternal Ice Crystals to evolve to Tier 3).

Attached Skill 1, Phantom Kill (Tier 2): Instantly create a clone with 90% of the main body's attributes and all skills, lasting 90 seconds, cooldown 5 minutes.

Attached Skill 2, Abyssal Shackles (Tier 2): Can simultaneously shackle up to three enemies, preventing them from moving and reducing their defense and magic resistance by 100% for 5 seconds. The higher the target's tier, the weaker the effect. Cooldown 40 seconds.

Attached Skill 3, Nine-Headed Dragon Slash (Tier 2): Instantly create sixteen Abyssal Blade phantoms for the holder to use. Each phantom sword deals 80% damage, lasting 30 seconds, cooldown 5 minutes.

Attached Skill 4, Abyssal Curse (Tier 2): Prevents targets within a 50-yard radius from moving and attacking for 6 seconds, then reduces their attributes by 20% for 10 minutes. When there is only one target in range, the effect is doubled. Cooldown 20 minutes.

Attached Passive Skill Abyssal Will: The higher the magic density of the environment the holder is in, the more the physical fitness is improved.

Attached Inheritance Profound Meaning Black Emperor (Tier 2): After dealing a critical strike to the target, accumulates a layer of Death Qi. Each layer of Death Qi used can increase the user's All Attributes by 3%, Attack Speed and Movement Speed by 2% for 12 seconds, or reduce the cooldown time of one skill by 4 seconds, stacking up to 30 layers, lasting 10 minutes, cooldown 8 hours.

A famous sword crafted by the master craftsman Olissis using the fangs of the Black Dragon King as materials. It is one of the thirty-six famous swords of God's Domain, ranked thirty-first. However, this sword is cursed by the Black Dragon King. In addition to giving the holder amazing power, it will occasionally backlash against the holder. However, it has been modified by Jack, who added Starlight Stones, greatly reducing the power of the backlash. If the backlash cannot be suppressed, the holder will be cursed by the Black Dragon King, permanently reducing all attributes by 50%, and will be undroppable, untradeable, and indestructible.

The Abyssal Blade, evolved to Tier 2, is much stronger than ordinary Epic weapons, whether in terms of basic attributes or skill effects.

In particular, the strengthening of the Shackle skill, a Tier 2 skill, has a good effect on Tier 3 Bosses. Although the effect on Tier 4 Bosses is much worse, at least it has an effect, and this effect can help a lot.

"With this, the chances of clearing the Ancient God Temple have increased by another 10%." Shi Feng held the Abyssal Blade, feeling very satisfied.

As for advancing to Tier 3, Shi Feng didn't plan to think about it for the time being.

100 Eternal Ice Crystals would take more than a month even with the help of a Lesser Divine Artifact. Moreover, by that time, there would be many players clearing the Great Ice Valley, and the efficiency would be much slower.

What he needed to do next was to have the Asura adventurer team continue to grind Bosses, then collect Ice Crystal Shards. In the remaining time, he just needed to collect the 10 Eternal Ice Crystals required for the quest. As for the Eternal Ice Crystals needed to advance the Magic Weapon, he would take his time.

Next, he just needed to quickly improve the team's level and strength, and then prepare to clear the Ancient God Temple.

Just as Shi Feng put away the Abyssal Blade, the cloud of white mist that had been the Eternal Ice Crystals gradually condensed into a crystal clear crystal.

Shi Feng held it in his hand and immediately felt a burst of cold all over his body. Even his health began to drain at a rate of 1,000 points per second.

"What is this thing?"

Shi Feng was shocked and quickly put it into his spatial backpack. In this short period, the arm holding the crystal was directly frozen into ice. If it had been a few seconds later, he would probably have been frozen into an ice sculpture.

Fortunately, only his arm was frozen, and without a continuous supply of the crystal's power, his arm quickly returned to normal.

"What powerful Frost Power! Fortunately, my Frost Resistance is high enough. If it were someone else, they would probably have been frozen to death instantly." Shi Feng looked at the crystal in his backpack and clicked to view its properties.

His Frost Resistance was not necessarily the best in God's Domain, but it was definitely among the top tiers. Moreover, he had inlaid a Intermediate Azure Source Stone on his equipment. Tier 1 Frost skills probably wouldn't work on him. Only Tier 2 Frost skills would have a little effect.

Now, just a crystal in his hand could not only freeze him, but also drain 1,000 points of health per second. For ordinary players, that would be tens of thousands of health gone in an instant. It would only take four or five seconds to freeze a Level 45, full-health MT to death.

After Shi Feng clicked to view the crystal's properties, a display bar suddenly popped up in the system, showing "Decoding requires 10 seconds. Please wait."

As the decoding bar ended, before Shi Feng could even check what was going on, he suddenly heard one system notification after another in his ears.

System Announcement: A player has opened the new expansion pack, Ice Crystal Awakening.

System Announcement: This new expansion pack requires a system upgrade. Please prepare to log off. The estimated time is four hours.

System: You have five minutes to prepare to log off. Please prepare to log off in advance.

"What on earth is this thing?" Shi Feng was stunned for a moment.

This new expansion pack, Ice Crystal Awakening, seemed to be related to the crystal in his hand. Otherwise, it wouldn't be such a coincidence that the system would directly announce the new expansion pack just as he was about to check it, and it was even an offline update.

However, Shi Feng didn't think too much about it. He immediately opened the crystal's attribute bar to see what exactly this thing was that was so powerful.