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Chapter 1240 - Chapter 1240 Chapter 1242 An Unexpected Surprise

Chapter 1240: Chapter 1242: An Unexpected Surprise Chapter 1240: Chapter 1242: An Unexpected Surprise As the long axe swung through the air, its massive phantom blade viciously descended toward the golden giant’s neck!

In an instant, Song Jian felt as if the air within hundreds of meters around him had been sucked away, leaving him completely breathless!

The space around him also felt as if it were about to collapse, and Song Jian even saw spatial barriers and cracks that would only appear when space was on the verge of shattering, alongside the golden giant!

Boom~

With a thunderous roar, the ground cracked open with dozens of fissures that were hundreds of meters long, Song Jian clutched his ears tightly, his face still twisted in pain as a trickle of blood slowly seeped through his fingers!

Song Jian was flung hundreds of meters away by the invisible shockwave and violently crashed to the ground. When he struggled to his feet once more, silence enveloped him, and for a moment, he could not hear anything at all.

Even his vision was shrouded in red, as if he had donned a pair of red glasses!

“The golden giant is gone…” At this moment, all of Song Jian’s attention was on the golden giant, the guardian of the secret realm. The sword technique in his mind had triggered the Karmic Fire Red Lotus Thousand Swords Art to evolve once again, surprising and delighting Song Jian!

After all, Song Jian had reached a bottleneck with the Karmic Fire Red Lotus Thousand Swords Art, feeling that even if his level increased, there was no more potential for further evolution; but this time, a technique from the Chaos Sword Canon had broken the limits of the Thousand Swords Art, evolving into a move that even Song Jian had not anticipated, the Sword Qi Sky-Axe!

As Song Jian searched for the golden giant’s figure, a bright golden light burst forth from his body, and messages in the info panel cascaded down like a waterfall!

Combat experience surged wildly, and the levels increased at a rate that left Song Jian dumbfounded!

Sixty-five, sixty-six, sixty-seven, sixty-eight…

Song Jian’s level kept soaring until it reached level seventy, gradually slowing down before finally stopping at seventy level with 65% of the experience filled!

“Six levels at once?” Song Jian’s face was filled with disbelief. He knew that after reaching the second tier of combat power, grinding for combat experience to level up had become a torturous torment. As an example, at level sixty-four, one would have to slay monsters for at least half a year to possibly gain a level!

Thus, when players reach a certain level, their method of leveling shifts from grinding monsters to acquiring purple crystals and extracting energy to level up!

Even then, the combat experience needed to go up a level from sixty-four was still colossal!

“Six levels, I actually gained six levels!” Song Jian’s face broke into an overjoyed smile, which brought him one large step closer to passing the third-tier combat power assessment!

The rise to the sixth tier granted Song Jian six more skill points! This meant he no longer had to expend Purple Crystals to upgrade his level each time the skill proficiency of the Sword Array Atlas reached full!

Similarly, the proficiency of the Sword Array Atlas skill instantly achieved full value, and the original golden full value was once again overlaid by a purple proficiency bar. Then, after the purple proficiency bar reached full value again, it was covered by a black proficiency bar!

In this manner, the proficiency of the Sword Array Atlas skill increased by five or six times in a row. Although there was no increase in skill points so the level did not change, the proficiency of the Sword Array Atlas had actually been boosted by five or six levels!

This was an occurrence that would absolutely not happen under normal circumstances, for after skill proficiency was maxed, no matter how much one practiced, it was impossible to gain even a bit more proficiency. Only after consuming skill points to raise the skill level could one continue to increase proficiency, but now, the proficiency of the Sword Array Atlas skill had been directly elevated by several levels. Song Jian believed that now, with just skill points, he could let this skill level up several times in a row.

Then, Song Jian saw that within the Sword Array Atlas skill, apart from the “Demon Suppression Seal (incomplete)” and “Sacred Lion Demon-binding Seal,” a new formation named “Purple Heaven Thunder Punishing Gods Array” had been added.

Even though the Demon Suppression Seal was an incomplete formation, its name was also in purple-red, signifying that just an incomplete Demon Suppression Seal had reached epic quality. The name of the Sacred Lion Demon-binding Seal was in gold, meaning its tier was golden, whereas the name of Purple Heaven Thunder Punishing Gods Array was also in purple-red. This made Song Jian’s smile grow even broader!

“Due to being incomplete, the Demon Suppression Seal is impossible for me to construct even with all the materials; I can only look on enviously. But the Purple Heaven Thunder Punishing Gods Array is a complete formation. As long as I have the materials, I could create an array plate like I did with the Sacred Lion Demon-binding Seal before!” Song Jian thought to himself, “This is practically like creating another secret realm Guardian like the golden Giant. By then, even the leaders of the various peaks might not be able to take it down easily for a while!”

You should know that all secret realm Guardians have one feature in common: only the force of an array can inflict damage on them. If they encounter peak masters who aren’t adept in arrays, even if they can’t kill them, they would be equally helpless against the golden Giant. For Song Jian, this was a tremendous advantage!

Immediately after, a myriad of differently colored array materials appeared in the information bar–these were most likely the spoils of war obtained from forcefully breaking through the secret realm Guardian, the golden Giant!

The number of these materials was in the hundreds, and it was only because Song Jian’s inventory was large enough; otherwise, ordinary players would probably be reduced to tears at the sight of so many precious materials!

“All these are materials for constructing the Purple Heaven Thunder Punishing Gods Array…” Song Jian took a deep breath, suppressing his wildly beating heart, and began to carefully inventory them.

Indeed, there were even some materials to spare after constructing an array plate for the Purple Heaven Thunder Punishing Gods Array, which gave Song Jian’s confidence an additional boost!

You must realize that the more powerful an array plate is, the more abundant the materials required to construct it. The reason Song Jian had such a fanciful idea to use the Spirit Swords from the Thousand Swords Art as materials for building the array was precisely because of this–collecting array materials is just too time-consuming and laborious!

Just as Song Jian felt he had reaped a great harvest, the name of one item suddenly caught his eye, turning his bloodshot eyes even redder. He couldn’t help but rub his eyes vigorously, reopened his inventory for a closer look, and after a long while, Song Jian let out a triumphant laugh, “Hahaha, unexpected, truly unexpected! To think that I would find you here; what a delightful surprise, a delightful surprise indeed! Hahaha~”

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PS: Thanks to “Yuan Nei Xiao Feng” for the gift of 100 Qidian coins~