From Abyssal Invasion to Bursting Stars with a Single Sword-Chapter 79 - 78: Return, Skill Crystal Core: Bullet Time (Three updates, ten thousand words, subscription requested)

"I heard that a part of the Evil God's Finger has gone missing," Su Muyu hastily deployed a scouting eagle, scouring the entire temple, but still couldn't find it.

She shook her head at Lu Heng and asked, "Could it have been taken by a demon?"

"Hopefully."

Lu Heng thought of another possibility in his heart. If it was as he suspected, it would be more troublesome than being taken by a demon.

The countdown to return was almost up.

After completing all the main quests, there would be a one-hour countdown to return, or they could choose to return early.

"Let's head back first. We'll talk about it later," Lu Heng decided to return first.

The two waved goodbye to Mia and chose to return, teleporting away from this world.

Mia, seeing the two disappear, ran up to the spot where they had stood, looking left and right before finally looking up at the sky and waving goodbye to it.

...

Upon returning, the view before their eyes brightened then darkened.

Then, the settlement data from the Abyss Battlefield appeared.

[End Abyss Battlefield, returning to the main world...]

[Completed Main Quest 1: Escape the dungeon before the resurrection ceremony begins. Gained 200 points of Divine Energy.]

[Completed Main Quest 2: Attack the demon team transporting Source Essence Sacrifice. Gained 200 points of Divine Energy.]

[Completed Main Quest 3: Survive until the end of the resurrection ceremony. Gained 200 points of Divine Energy.]

[Completed Challenge Task 1: Find the most important Source Essence Sacrifice of the resurrection ceremony, preventing Evil God's Servant from obtaining it. Gained 600 points of Divine Energy.]

[Completed Challenge Task 2: Complete Source Fusion, obtain a First Transition Class. Gained 600 points of Divine Energy.]

[Completed Challenge Task 3: Destroy the resurrection ceremony, preventing Evil God Barton from returning to the Abyss. Gained 600 points of Divine Energy.]

The next second.

Lu Heng opened his eyes, finding himself back on the rooftop terrace of Jinxiu Yujing District.

He heard soft sighs around him.

"Phew! Finally back," Su Muyu let out a long breath. Having experienced so much in the Abyss World, there were many emotions in her heart, but she didn't know where to begin.

The clock on her phone had just struck 12:00:01 AM, the date was October 15th.

Having gone through so much in the Abyss Battlefield, it felt like a long time had passed, but back in the real world, the time was still the same as when they were drafted.

The two had returned to the main world, but their minds were still constantly revisiting events from the Abyss World.

Both couldn't help but wonder, what would happen to the Bansel Tribe in the future?

Could the Iron Arm Leader's injuries heal?

Would Mia miss them?

"Alright, gather your thoughts; we still have tasks to handle. Let's tally up the spoils of war we gained," Lu Heng snapped his fingers in front of Su Muyu, helping her gather her thoughts.

"Okay, I've completed my main quests and challenge tasks, gaining a total of 2400 points of Divine Energy..."

Su Muyu started tallying up the gains: "I've leveled up to 18 now, and my attributes are: Strength 32, Agility 33, Constitution 33, Spirit 38, Perception 38."

"Additionally, I obtained five Crystal Cores; two of them are Skill Crystal Cores, both of Rank D, average in strength. The other three are regular Energy Crystal Cores."

Lu Heng glanced at the two Skill Crystal Cores she had received, which were of no substantial improvement to them both, hence he decided to split the Crystal Cores.

"You absorb these three Energy Crystal Cores and quickly advance to Level 19. I'll hold onto the Skill Crystal Cores to see if we can exchange them for other resources."

During the fight, the demons that Su Muyu killed with her Elemental Arrow were mainly low-rank, hence the low-grade Crystal Cores she obtained.

Lu Heng had killed two Commander Level demons, and the Skill Crystal Cores he harvested were of much higher grade.

Among them, the Winged Demon Commander Sagers had released a Skill Crystal Core, which had not been inspected at the time; now taking it out, he couldn't help but show a trace of a smile.

[Thunder Prison Crystal Core]

[Skill Level: B]

[Skill Consumption: 80 points of Source Energy]

[Skill Range: 5 meters in diameter]

[Skill Effect 1: Summon the Power of Thunder and Lightning, weaving a cage made of thunderous lightning in the target area, imprisoning all targets within the Thunder Prison. The Thunder Prison continuously strikes down lightning, bombarding the targets inside, dealing X thunder damage with a paralysis effect every second. Thunder Damage = 1×Spiritual Power/second.]

[Skill Effect 2: If targets forcibly break the Thunder Prison, it will detonate the Power of Thunder, whipping up a violent thunderstorm. Thunderstorm Damage = 3×Spiritual Power.]

The second Skill Crystal Core had been dropped by the Fiery Flame Horned Demon Commander, and it had particularly absorbed a part of Evil God's power after the implantation of Evil God's Heart, rendering the skill extremely dominant.

[Bullet Time Crystal Core]

[Skill Level: A]

[Skill Consumption: 100 points of Source Energy]

[Skill Effect: Upon activation, the user enters a Super-sensing State, significantly increasing neural response speed. In the perception layer, the actions of surrounding objects greatly slow down, granting the user more reaction time. Duration: 10 seconds.]

This skill had no attack power, but its effect was even more impressive than [Thunder Prison].

When Lu Heng saw this skill effect, his eyes gleamed.

Even for the sake of learning this skill, deleting a skill and freeing up a Skill Slot was worth it.

This was the awkward part about having a limited number of Skill Slots.

It was in moments like these that the third reward option of the Abyss Battlefield world task manifested its purpose, removing a skill.

Lu Heng's Skill Slots were currently full, so he couldn't absorb this Skill Crystal Core.

As for fusing it with the existing three skills, it was basically impossible.

The "Divine Evolution" Skill Fusion involved merging similar types of skills to achieve a better Skill Effect.

For example, "Invisibility Veil" and "Mist Escape" were both invisibility skills, so they could fuse easily.

"Bullet Time" and the existing three skills were not of the same type.

Forcing a fusion would only result in a defective skill.

With no possibility of Skill Fusion and Skill Slots all occupied, what was to be done?

The solution was simple, the Gong Family had a "Skill Slot Expansion Crystal Core."

This "Skill Slot Expansion Crystal Core" was a treasure of immense value and its value only increased as time went on.

Two years later, major powers would even deploy mercenaries to vie for a "Skill Slot Expansion Crystal Core."

Since the Abyss invasion had only begun a month and a half ago, Superpower Users hadn't yet fiercely competed for skills, which is why the Gong Family was willing to trade this "Skill Slot Expansion Crystal Core."

Originally, Gong ZhenTeng intended to trade this Super Crystal Core with Lei Jinhao in exchange for finding his son's killer.

Now, Lei Jinhao had died on the Abyss Battlefield.

It was time to settle the scores with the Gong Family.

Currently, Lu Heng couldn't absorb the "Bullet Time" Crystal Core, but "Thunder Prison" was usable.

"Thunder Prison" and "Thunderous Strike" were both Thunder Skills and could be fused.

During that Abyss Battlefield quest, a total of 2400 points of Divine Energy was harvested.

At Stone Hammer Castle, after melting Barton's Ring, the obtained Divine Energy had been depleted.

So, the total Divine Energy now was 2400 points.

Since "Thunder Prison" was a B-level skill, fusing it required 1200 points of Divine Energy.

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Lu Heng thought briefly and used his Talent to unlock "Thunderous Strike"'s Skill Lock, then absorbed the energy of the "Thunder Prison" Crystal Core.

When the two Crystal Core energies violently repelled each other, he introduced 1200 points of Divine Energy and successfully completed the fusion.

"Skill Fusion Complete, evolved into 'Thunderous Heavenly Prison'."

He was very lucky that the fusion of C-level and B-level skills ended up as a B-level skill, and not only that, the resulting "Thunderous Heavenly Prison" was even stronger than "Thunder Prison."

This skill possessed both the power of thunder and control effects, the thunder damage of "Thunderous Heavenly Prison" was higher, its range larger, expanding the skill coverage area from a 5-meter radius to 6 meters.

While Lu Heng was fusing skills,

Su Muyu was also tinkering with her skills and items. The crossbow given by Mia had been stored in her inventory.

Since this crossbow wasn't assimilated with basic laws, it couldn't be brought to Blue Star.

She pursed her lips, contemplating whether to assimilate the crossbow with basic laws.

"What are you thinking about?" Lu Heng, having successfully fused his skills, flashed a big smile.

"Hmm, I'm considering whether to perform law assimilation on the crossbow Mia gave me..."

Su Muyu spoke while pondering, "Actually, I could manage without it. Next time we enter the Abyss World, I can still use it.

"When on Blue Star, I can use a modern crossbow, one for each world, it saves Divine Energy."

Being thrifty was already ingrained in her nature.

However, Lu Heng disagreed with her idea, "No, let's perform law assimilation. You can afford the 600 points of Divine Energy now."

"Why though? Isn't it good to save a bit?" Su Muyu felt she could accept using different weapons across different worlds.

Lu Heng shook his head with a smile and explained, "Later on, you might need to quench the weapons, and if you perform Spirit Injection too, the power of the weapons increases significantly.

"And most importantly, weapons assimilated with basic laws can be stored in the inventory and can be taken out at any time.

"You can't always carry a crossbow around in the real world, right?"

Su Muyu did indeed own a crossbow in the real world, but since it wasn't law-assimilated, she couldn't store it in her inventory and had to carry it around all the time.

Thinking it over, she realized he was right. A weapon that could be stored and taken out of the inventory at any time was indeed too important.

"Alright then. I'll take out the crossbow Mia gave me."

She then spent 600 points of Divine Energy to perform law assimilation on Mia's crossbow before withdrawing it.

After tallying up the loot,

Lu Heng then moved on to a serious topic, "We need to wrap up the matter with the Gong Family soon, I need that Super Crystal Core. When do you have time to investigate Gong ZhenTeng's movements and also look for that Super Crystal Core?"

Su Muyu nodded in agreement, "Okay, that sounds good. I want to visit my mom and see how she's doing, I'll be back tomorrow evening, then I'll investigate the Gong Family's situation."

Having been on the Abyss Battlefield for so long, she suddenly missed her mother and the meals she made.

"That's fine, I need to go home for a visit too. There's no rush; we can stay at home for a couple of days. Later, we'll reconvene." After planning the timing with her, Lu Heng went back to his room to rest, preparing to go home the next day to see his parents.