Muscular Rabbits Legion: “No one can escape from the novice village!”
Chapter 279 - Chapter 279 Chapter 269 Activation of the Mountain Protection

Chapter 279: Chapter 269: Activation of the Mountain Protection Array Chapter 279: Chapter 269: Activation of the Mountain Protection Array With the prior experience, the fusion process was a lot smoother.

“Ding! Congratulations on obtaining the new cultivation technique ‘Hellfire Saber'”

Yi Zheng was astonished for a moment and quickly checked the details, then he burst out laughing crazily!

Skill Name: ‘Hellfire Saber’

Skill Type: Cultivation Technique

Skill Level: Tier 4

Skill Grade: S Grade

Skill Introduction:

Cultivation: Each practice of the Hellfire Saber increases Power by 30 points, Agility by 10 points, Constitution by 10 points, and spiritual power by 10 points. Can be practiced up to ten times a day.

Moves:

Hellfire Saber Technique: A normal attack that causes base damage of 120% of external power attack plus 120% of weapon attack power. Includes 50% penetration damage, and pain notifications increase damage by an additional 30%!

No cooldown, each slash consumes 1,000 Inner Power values.

Hellfire: The blade burns with flames from hell, causing mixed damage of 150% of external power attack, 150% of inner power attack, and 150% of weapon attack power. Additionally, enemies killed by Hellfire will turn into Hellfire Rabbits and fight alongside you.

No cooldown, each slash consumes 10,000 Inner Power values.

Hell Descending: The big saber slashes a cross with 500 meters in length and width, causing mixed damage of 180% of external power attack, 180% of inner power attack, and 180% of weapon attack power. It also opens the Gate of Hell, summoning 3,000 Hellfire Rabbits to fight alongside you.

No cooldown, consumes 500,000 Mana values.

Note: Hellfire Rabbits possess 50% of your own combat power but only have one-tenth of your blood volume and defense power.

Hell Dusk: The saber technique triggers an atmospheric phenomenon, creating Hell Dusk. Within Hell Dusk, your own attack power increases by 50%, all Hellfire Rabbits’ combat power increases by 10%, normal attacks with the Hellfire Saber Technique turn into Hell Dusk Saber Technique, causing 1 second of blindness to the enemies touched, and Hellfire ignites the target, causing continuous damage of 500,000 points per second for 3 seconds, stackable up to 3 times.

Targets set on fire experience a 20% reduction in healing effects and self-healing capabilities.

No cooldown, consumes 1,000,000 Mana values.

Hell Return: After death, be reborn with Hellfire, with 50% of life value, and an attack power increase of 10%. The skill cannot be used again within one hour.

Evil Spirit Transformation: Transform into a Hell Evil Spirit, with increased movement speed, attack speed, defense, magic resistance, inner power resistance, and all other resistances by 100%. Duration: 1 minute, extended by 1 minute for each player killed.

Consumes 50% of your own Inner Power value.

Upgrade Requirements: 2 billion Negative Energy values, Level 51.

Yi Zheng was stunned; he had not expected that the fusion of four Tier 3 Level 3 skills and cultivation techniques would produce a Tier 4 S Grade technique!

This was indeed a surprise for Yi Zheng.

And what surprised him the most was the terrifying power of the Tier 4 technique; the attributes it enhanced were ten times that of Tier 3 techniques!

At that moment, Yi Zheng truly understood how vast the gap was between tiers.

Given enough time, it was the difference between a divine dragon and an ant.

Then, Yi Zheng began to extract all the skills and cultivation techniques he owned and started various fusion attempts.

This time he started with the cultivation techniques he deemed unworthy since it didn’t matter if they failed. What he sought was the experience of fusion.

Then…

“Ding! The attributes of the cultivation technique and skill clash, fusion failure, skill disappeared.”

Yi Zheng used an Ice Cold Palm Technique and a Flame Skill to attempt a fusion, only to have both skills vanish completely.

Yi Zheng wasn’t upset, as these skills and cultivation techniques were looted from bandit dens, and their grades were not high. They were purely experimental materials. He wasn’t even ready to use the Life-Stealing Copper Coin.

The Life-Stealing Copper Coin was to be saved for a critical, heaven-defying moment. He would only keep it for the skills and techniques he cared about.

Though fusion seems simple, in reality, it consumes a lot of time.

Fusing two Tier 3 skills was quick, but combining three skills required three hours! Due to the slow speed, Yi Zheng had plenty of time to observe and gained more experience in fusion.

As days passed…

The valley echoed occasionally with the angry roars of a rabbit: “Damn it, another failure!”

And the rabbit’s excited shouts: “Success! Damn, it’s crap though!”

“Awesome, this one is good!”

“Continue!”

…

While Yi Zheng was squatting in the ravine, frantically developing new cultivation techniques and skills, Old Cao paid a visit, asking if he was still taking in disciples as there were more people wanting to join the Confucian Sect outside.

Yi Zheng had originally planned to leave two spots open, but realizing that the sect was about to reach Tier 4, he waved his hand nonchalantly: “Accept!”

The next moment, the sect’s member count was full.

Simultaneously, the system indicated that the conditions to upgrade to a Tier 4 Sect had been met.

Yi Zheng was dumbfounded. If he remembered correctly, each person could only provide Faith Power once a month, and it’s been over three months so far, which amounts to, at most, just over four million Faith Power from 1.44 million wild monsters, right?

Then he suddenly realized something–who said each rabbit could only provide one point of Faith Power?

However, Yi Zheng didn’t bother to verify his thoughts, as he was a bit obsessed with skill fusion by now.

He had recently discovered another little trick for fusing skills: just as two skills were about to successfully merge, he could sense in advance the attributes of the skill or cultivation technique that was about to succeed from the inside!

If it seemed good, he’d merge.

If not, he could forcibly disperse the negative energy infused within, which would cause the merge to fail, but the skills involved would be preserved. Most miraculously, one of the skills would change, whether in terms of attack power intensity or its range of effect…

In any case, theoretically, Yi Zheng could gradually adjust a worthless skill into a top-grade one.

However, this process was extremely troublesome, and Yi Zheng still needed to carefully deduce and study the principles and details involved.

With skill fusion being so interesting, where would Yi Zheng find time to study why his faith power had increased?

So, he simply waved his hand, and the sect was upgraded to the fourth tier.

After the sect was upgraded to the fourth tier, Confucian Mountain emitted thunderous rumbles, and its height soared by another thousand meters…

At the same time, the system announced that due to the sect’s upgrade, the land where the sect was located had become harder and could withstand the powerful forces of the fourth tier without being destroyed.

This was good news, yet it was still not enough to distract Yi Zheng.

Because he had made another discovery: every combination of skills and cultivation techniques had different compatibilities, such as the metal, wood, water, fire, earth elements, yin-yang, and so on. These were hidden attributes that required extremely meticulous observation to categorize.

If he could thoroughly understand the theory of inter-promotion and inter-restriction, and then fuse skill pearls, not only would the success rate greatly increase, but he could even guide the direction of the fusion!

Not to mention creating a unique cultivation technique, but at the very least, he could filter attributes during fusion, keeping what he wanted and eliminating what he didn’t need.

After all, the more attributes a cultivation technique had, the more mixed it became, and the lower the success rate of fusion.

So, these discoveries were too important…

Regarding his future development, he was even less likely to care about the minor changes in the sect.

However, what he didn’t know was that the small changes he deemed insignificant were bringing about a disaster of despair for a group of players underground!

…

More than half of the three-month agreement period had already passed.

Qiu He looked at the rocks above, which far from being cleared, had become even harder to dig through, and couldn’t help but curse, “This isn’t just a lid; this is f*cking mountain making! Someone has really compressed an entire mountain down on our heads! This is too damn beastly…”

Old Snake and the others had arrived early. They were here to inspect the progress of the tunnel, and upon seeing this scene, they all fell silent.

Old Cat said, “In three days, it’ll be Tomb-Sweeping Festival when a lot of human players will surely log off. That will be the best time for us to attack. The other Underground Cities have already agreed to make their move during Tomb-Sweeping Festival. Brothers, we’re out of time!”

Qiu He said pitifully, “I can’t do anything about it. We can’t even dig through these stones now; they’re too hard.”

Old Snake said with determination, “I don’t care, we must break through it! If we can’t dig through, we’ll blast it open!

If you can’t blast it open, we’ll all blast together!

I refuse to believe that so many of us can’t break through mere rocks and layers of soil!

To conquer the world of humans, what greater glory could there be?

In countless ages, no creature has ever achieved this, and we might have the chance to do it. This is a once-in-an-eternity opportunity, and we absolutely cannot miss it!

Even if it kills us, we must blast it open!”

“Roar!”

All together, they roared in unison, and at that moment, no one slacked off.

The next moment, all the wild monsters from the Underground City charged over, unleashing all their skills in a frenzied bombardment upwards.

Then…

“Ding! The sect is under attack; the Mountain Protection Array has been activated.”

The system notification rang out, and Yi Zheng was stunned for a moment. This was no small matter; Yi Zheng immediately sent people to check out what was happening, but after Zi Xing and others ran around Newbie Village, they didn’t see a single enemy.

Importantly, though the Mountain Protection Array had been attacked, it had not been shaken, not even a slight tremor. Clearly the attacker’s single hit attack power was not enough to break the array’s defense.

So naturally, they assumed it was a provocation by some worthless individual.

And so, they couldn’t be bothered to handle it and went about their business as usual.

Underground, Old Snake and the others had bloodshot eyes and roared furiously, “Blast it! Blast it with all your might!”

Boom, boom, boom…

Various skills and cultivation techniques were unleashed in a furious bombardment upwards. Then, to their utmost frustration, when they broke through one layer of rocky crust, the layer behind it suddenly became solidified, as if another invisible barrier lay above, unmovable no matter how they blasted!

Everyone was dumbfounded, but also unwilling to give up. After two years of hard labor, while others had already breached their tunnels, could they be trapped underground as mere jokes?

“Brothers! For the face of our Vermilion Bird Dungeon, for our glory, all wild monsters continue the onslaught, nonstop day and night!

I firmly believe in the saying, ‘constant dripping wears away the stone’!” Old Snake shouted, encouraging the beast players to keep trying.

“Roar!”

The first day, their battle intent was sky-high.

The second day, they had dark circles under their eyes, bloodshot and wavering in resolve.

The third day… they were exhausted as dogs, lying listlessly on the ground, gasping, “It’s too damn hard, Gang Leader, let’s try somewhere else, this is really impossible.”

Finally, they saw sense and decided to dig in a different location.

“Old Snake, where should we dig instead?” asked Qiu He, out of breath.

Old Snake said, “A kilometer east, let’s bypass this hard area!”