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Chapter 1515 - Chapter 1515 Chapter 1517 The Barbarians Technique

Chapter 1515: Chapter 1517: The Barbarian’s Technique Chapter 1515: Chapter 1517: The Barbarian’s Technique Song Jian darted in the direction indicated by the mission map, witnessing countless skirmishes along the way. There were battles between the proud elite of the Human Race and the divine sons and daughters of other races, conflicts between barbarians and the Human Race’s elite, and even saw alliances of the Human Race’s elite and divine sons and daughters ganging up on barbarians.

At this point, Song Jian finally understood what had mysteriously increased in his body after killing the dying divine son of another race.

It was a system similar to ranking points, a sort of emblem. Killing a Demi-God Level divine son actually awarded him five hundred points.

These points only accrued from slaying members of the Human Race or other races, and not from killing barbarians.

However, killing barbarians offered a very small chance of obtaining the Vitality Domain orbs Song Jian had seen before, treasures even more precious than the points.

Throughout his journey, Song Jian also ambushed and killed numerous barbarians and even a few divine sons of the Legendary Realm, raising his points to one thousand three hundred. Unfortunately, other than the points, he gained nothing else.

“The drop rate of Vitality Domain orbs is too low, only one in a thousand, or even one in ten thousand. The previous battle where I annihilated a barbarian tribe was really just dumb luck…” Song Jian thought to himself.

After spending an entire day and night, Song Jian finally reached the destination indicated on the mission map.

From a distance, within a pitch-black mountain range, he spotted a hidden gorge. Inside this gorge was a massive barbarian tribe, which at a glance, was comparable in size to a town. It had walls and towers built of black stone and was teeming with countless barbarians, including those with three heads and six arms. Song Jian even saw a towering barbarian leader with five heads and ten arms, over three meters tall, his feet ringed with a crimson halo that unabashedly emitted waves of light outwards.

This was a Demi-God Level barbarian who had condensed his understanding of the Vitality laws into a halo, constantly activating its effects. It was as if an active status-enhancing skill had been transformed into a passive one, increasing his strength by at least thirty percent.

In front of a Demi-God Level powerhouse, Song Jian dared not delve too deep with his Perception Eye for fear of being detected and losing any chance of escape.

Fortunately, the barbarian standing atop the glowing halo made only a cursory patrol on the city wall before leaving, which gave Song Jian the opportunity to infiltrate the barbarian city.

The position indicated on the mission map was merely this barbarian city; as for the specific location of the Life and Death Grass, Song Jian had to find it himself.

Using his Earth Escape Skill, Song Jian carefully probed beneath the city, keeping his Perception Eye close to the ground and daring not rise into the air to avoid drawing the attention of powerful beings.

Inside the barbarian city, there were numerous Legendary Realm fighters with three heads and six arms, each potentially capable of dropping Vitality Domain orbs. Seeing so many strong barbarians, Song Jian couldn’t help feeling envious. If he could find an opportunity to hunt here, even with a low drop rate, he might still obtain one or two orbs.

Beyond the Legendary Realm fighters, there were even more of the second and third tier barbarians. The probability of these lower tiers dropping Vitality Domain orbs was almost negligible, and with Song Jian’s current level, slaying them would be a waste of time and bring no benefits.

Song Jian searched cautiously underground, gradually moving deeper into the town. The deeper he went, the more barbarian fighters he encountered, and soon he rarely saw any of the second or third tier. Most barbarians were of the Legendary Realm, with three heads and six arms, at around level one hundred and thirty.

“Another Demi-God Level barbarian boss!” Suddenly, Song Jian’s body stiffened, and he quickly retracted the Perception Eye that skimmed the ground. In the distance, a barbarian over three meters tall with five heads and ten arms was slowly approaching.

This barbarian boss was not the same one as the one who had patrolled the city wall earlier. The previous patroller had worn armor, but the one now in sight was bare-chested, with only an animal skin belt around his waist, his muscular build covered in scars, giving him a fierce appearance.

Below his feet, there was no red halo of Vitality, but the fierce aura he exuded was even more intense than that of the barbarian leader who had been patrolling the city walls, stronger by a good measure of three points.

As this Demi-God Level barbarian approached Song Jian, he suddenly stopped in his tracks, looking around warily, while his nostrils fluttered constantly as if sniffing the scent in the air.

His actions sent Song Jian’s heart into his throat. He lay hidden underground, not daring to move an inch. After a long while, the barbarian, still looking puzzled, continued to walk forward while scanning his surroundings.

Song Jian waited until he was far away before he let out a sigh of relief and continued to move forward cautiously.

It took him over three hours to reach the large hall located at the rear of the town, backed against the mountain cliff. This hall was enormous, taking up almost half the area of the entire town. The outer hall was a vast square where countless armor-clad barbarian warriors roamed continuously.

Song Jian carefully made his way through the outer hall to the edge of the inner sanctum. There, rows of stone columns entered the range of his senses.

These stone columns, seventy to eighty meters tall and requiring five to six people to wrap their arms around, provided a strong visual impact from afar.

At the entrance of the inner sanctum, a flight of stone stairs led up beyond the range of Song Jian’s perception.

“These stone columns seem to be engraved with the barbarians’ cultivation techniques…” After scanning these stone columns with his senses, Song Jian suddenly noticed something.

The surfaces of the columns depicted humanoid figures in various poses, next to which were lines of strange script, somewhat similar to the cuneiform writing on Earth. However, to Song Jian, they were completely indecipherable, like reading an unknown language.

“What kind of technique is this? I don’t understand what’s inscribed here…” Song Jian thought to himself, but still used the photo-taking feature of the videogame system to start snapping pictures of the columns.

Click, click, click~

Just as Song Jian finished photographing all the patterns and text on the stone columns, a system prompt suddenly appeared before his eyes.

System: You’ve obtained a “Barbarian Technique Diagram.” Hand it over to the Xuan Tian Sect’s Star Hall to receive 30,000 merits.

At this moment, the previously scattered technique photos mysteriously converged into one, forming a tome which became a quest item.

“Thirty thousand merit points?” Song Jian’s eyes brightened. He knew that a Promotion Pearl only cost three thousand merits. Thirty thousand merits were enough to exchange for ten Promotion Pearls.

Song Jian was quite satisfied. He hadn’t expected such a pleasant surprise and looked at the photo album worth thirty thousand merits with a smile on his face.

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