Born Sacred-Chapter 49: Undercurrent

Passive skills meant their effects were permanent. If it were an active skill, it would revert to its original state once canceled. Noah would have been somewhat interested then, as this skill was still quite useful in certain situations. But now, forget it.

He didn’t want to become a meat shield like the Virus Source Entity.

Advancing together, possessing defense, Life Force, and recovery speed, was his path.

"Learn Mountain River Collapse."

Countless memories of practicing Mountain River Collapse surged into his mind, allowing Noah to quickly master this skill.

[Skills: Swordplay Specialization Lv2+1, Thunder Shadow Step Lv2+1, Rank Suppression, Scarlet Blood of the Wild Bull Lv0+1, Stomp Lv1+1, Mountain River Collapse Lv0+1]

At this point, all six skills were learned. To learn new skills, he would have to wait until promoting to Tier 2.

"It’s a shame Swordplay Specialization is ineffective against Mountain River Collapse." Noah felt a bit regretful.

Swordplay Specialization added to the power of sword techniques, while Mountain River Collapse was a close-combat fist/palm skill. Otherwise, Noah’s killing move power would have reached another level.

"Later, I can consider broadening the scope of the Swordplay Specialization skill." Skill slots were limited, and Noah couldn’t learn a passive skill for each of blades, swords, spears, fists, etc. Therefore, broadening this skill was the best choice.

Previously, he only had swords in hand, so he chose to develop deeply. Now the situation was different, so it was naturally another matter.

Next, Noah checked his other gains.

They were the Meteorite Remnant and Aberrant Serum from the Difficult instance first clear reward, as well as the Eye of Investigation and sword sect disciple cultivation experience obtained from the lottery.

The first three rewards were all Excellent grade.

Among them, the material Meteorite Remnant made Noah’s heart pound a bit. After all, the source of the beginning of the Disaster was this meteorite that fell from outside the sky.

Fortunately, the material description clearly stated that this piece of Meteorite Remnant had undergone deactivation treatment and did not carry any viruses.

Aberrant Serum was a one-time use item. After use, one could obtain certain attributes, but the cost was that the body would undergo partial aberration. As for whether it was extra hands, extra feet, or other aberrations, it varied from person to person.

Became ugly, also became stronger.

Noah was completely unable to accept bodily mutation. Therefore, even though this item could increase several hundred points of attributes, he directly ignored it.

The Eye of Investigation was quite useful. It could detect a target’s basic information, including name, rank, attributes, and skills, etc. The essence of Talent was very high and could not be peered into by it.

The Excellent grade Eye of Investigation could basically see all the information of zero-order targets, only a part of First Order targets, even less for Tier 2, and starting from Three-order, it was beyond its detection range.

This piece of equipment was still somewhat useful.

What Noah valued most was another Rare grade item.

[Sword Sect Disciple Cultivation Experience]

[Quality: Rare]

[Type: Special Item]

[The cultivation experience of a core disciple of Sword Sect for many years, containing a large amount of profound sword principles. Reading it can grant Sword Dao experience.]

This was the second special item Noah obtained. According to the description, simply by reading it, he could gain Sword Dao experience.

Sword Dao experience was exactly what Noah needed. Immediately, he took out this cultivation experience.

This was an old book with a slightly yellowed cover, seemingly read countless times. Waves of unparalleled sharpness emanated from the book.

Noah’s spirit lifted. He carefully turned to the first page. He didn’t recognize any of the characters written inside, but the moment he opened it, he felt as if he had turned into a young man in ancient clothing, practicing his sword with focused expression on cliffs, by mountains and rivers, and under the moonlight...

He didn’t know how much time had passed. Noah slowly came back to his senses, a cold light flickering in his eyes. After a long while, they returned to normal.

Looking at the skill bar again.

Swordplay Specialization had gone from Level 2 to Level 5.

Leveled up three times consecutively.

One had to know that this was a Rare grade skill, requiring a lot of experience to level up. This one reading saved Noah at least one or two days of time.

Noah looked at the cultivation experience again. The sharpness emanating from it was still keen but had weakened slightly compared to before.

Noah understood that when he read this cultivation experience and no longer felt any sharpness, it meant he had completely absorbed the profound sword principles within it.

"Rest for a while."

Although he wanted to continue absorbing the profound sword principles, Noah’s spirit was a bit tired. Clearly, this method of gaining a large amount of sword dao experience in a short time consumed a considerable amount of his spiritual energy.

Noah was reviewing his gains, immersed in the joy of increasing his strength, completely unaware that the outside world was surging with undercurrents.

...

Returning to the Supernatural Management Bureau, Rose didn’t even have time to draw lots. She opened her friend list, found Lucian, and sent him a message: "Why didn’t you tell us that the first clear of the Difficult instance would have a nationwide reward?"

This time’s nationwide reward caused too much of a stir, and she didn’t know what kind of aftermath it would trigger.

As a reborn person, Lucian didn’t even reveal such information, which made people have to doubt his intentions.

"If I said I also didn’t know there would be a nationwide reward, would you believe it..." Lucian quickly replied.

In fact, he was even more bewildered than Rose.

In his previous life, he never remembered any benefit that blessed over a billion people. The first clear of the Difficult instance was no different from other difficulties.

The difference between his previous life and this life was undoubtedly due to Noah.

"Let’s meet in the Director’s office." Rose sighed. If this change wasn’t handled well, it might affect the trust between their Supernatural Management Bureau and Lucian.

"Okay."

Just as Rose was about to get up, the door was suddenly pushed open, and Zara ran in, shouting.

"Captain, look outside quickly, that Disaster countdown."

Hearing this, Rose’s heart tightened. She quickly rushed to the window and looked towards the sky.

She saw that the countdown representing the coming Disaster had, at some point, astonishingly changed to [Demonized Monsters (Ghost Rank): 59 days].