Chapter 1605: Chapter 1605

After finishing their tasks, Du You and the two sisters returned once more to their lives of cultivation.

This was a state of regular cultivation, but not fully confined. It involved intermittently understanding and dealing with external affairs. The effects and speed of cultivation in such a scenario were not as effective as dedicated, perfect cultivation.

However, what Du You didn’t expect was that even under such circumstances, his skills were still advancing. It couldn’t be helped—he and the two sisters possessed too many Law Crystals they hadn’t yet absorbed, and their foundational groundwork was excessively solid. Rapid progression was only natural.

First, there was the skill Du You had casually chosen back then, the Devouring Swamp. Not to say this skill was useless—on the contrary, every skill had its use. But since Du You had a plethora of skills, many of them ended up unused most of the time, which was why he had picked it so casually. As for his strongest skill, Destruction Flames, advancing it was no simple task.

As for his other skills, the requirements for advancement seemed less stringent—at least more or less manageable.

Devouring Swamp: Forms a vast area of dark energy through a spell, creating a Devouring Swamp. This slows down enemies trapped inside while subjecting them to a state of dark corrosion, continuously depleting their vitality and energy. Capable of devouring spiritual entities. Maximum range (level × 300) kilometers, duration 180 days. (Level 63, 10 stars)

The Devouring Swamp still focused on generating large amounts of corrosive sludge, but the effects were now significantly more potent.

After all, this was a Tier-Seven skill. Just one dose of the corrosive sludge could render even a Tier-Seven professional in shambles by the time they escaped. If they lacked special abilities, suffering serious injuries in the process would be completely normal.

Moreover, the current Devouring Swamp could even corrode and devour Law energy.

Of course, clearing away other Laws would result in residual effects from his own, leaving behind widespread contamination.

Du You experimented with it, discovering he could now produce a single mass of sludge as large as an asteroid. If fully spread out, it could envelop an entire planet, transforming it into a lifeless wasteland.

Even against a fully shielded interstellar fortress, if he wrapped it with the swamp, that fortress would eventually succumb.

Faced with such large-scale sludge attacks, interstellar fortresses were left without viable solutions. Powerful Defensive Barriers, being nothing more than energy-consuming shields, ironically became the best fuel for the Devouring Swamp.

Du You found that the original range was more like a label without significant constraints. While the summoning followed the range specifications, the spread of sludge could be controlled thereafter, making range limitations irrelevant.

In conclusion, this was an immensely powerful star-level skill, offering both area restriction and sustained offensive capabilities.

For the combat style of this world, it appeared to have its uses.

That said, against smaller, highly agile, and powerful enemies, this move seemed less practical. Of course, this lack of practicality was from Du You’s perspective—other Tier-Seven professionals wouldn’t see it the same way.

Next, the two sisters also saw advancements in their skills. Perhaps because resources didn’t have to be allocated to supporting the Bubble Entity, the sisters, now receiving more resources, progressed at a steady pace.

Additionally, the two of them had fewer responsibilities to juggle and could focus entirely on advancing their skills.

Following this, Lin Yucha’s Ultra-Range Sniping and Lin Yushi’s Blood God Quench Body Spell both underwent advancements.

Ultra-Range Sniping: Expands an archer’s attack range tenfold, enhances vision, and increases target locking capabilities. Arrow penetration is improved, allowing precision strikes based on intuition even beyond perception range. (Level 63, 9 stars)

Ultra-Range Sniping was a skill shared by both sisters. Initially, their descriptions were identical, but as they advanced, the skills seemed to be evolving in different directions—an entirely normal phenomenon.

The attack range increase had doubled from fivefold to tenfold, a staggering improvement based on their current shooting distances.

This attack could also stack with other attack-related skills. If combined with Brave Eagle’s Arrow, the results would be terrifying—capable of striking targets across multiple planets, something unimaginable even among Tier-Sevens.

The accompanying vision enhancement, paired with Lin Yucha’s Law Vision, made the effect even more fearsome. Improved arrow penetration could also be applied to other skills, dramatically boosting Lin Yucha’s attack power.

It was worth noting that Lin Yucha’s development focused on stealth and single-target assassination tactics.

The final upgrade was what truly embodied ultra-range strikes. Even without perceiving or seeing the target, Lin Yucha could rely on this mysterious and almost metaphysical sense to deliver precise attacks. It was akin to a Law but not entirely so.

This meant Lin Yucha would be able to strike others while remaining virtually untouchable herself.

Even if someone used advanced methods to block her perception ability, while other archers might be left groping in the dark, Lin Yucha wouldn’t. On the contrary, her combat power might even increase under such circumstances.

Blood God Quench Body Spell: Enhances strength, agility, constitution, and stamina recovery rate while improving eyesight and control. Effectively increases an archer’s accuracy. Upon injury, strength, agility, and attack power surge substantially, with the increase proportional to the severity of injuries. Attacks infuse Burning Blood infused with lightning, causing blood to burn continuously while corroding opponents. (Level 63, 9 stars)

Lin Yushi’s Blood God Quench Body Spell also offered holistic improvements, but the enhancements differed slightly in focus from her sister’s.

This spell leaned more toward enhancing constitution and stamina recovery, whereas her strength and agility boosts were somewhat weaker in comparison. Ultimately, it aligned perfectly with her personal progression path.

The post-injury power surge aspect was untested—Du You wasn’t willing to see Lin Yushi get hurt just to see its effects.

Moreover, with Lin Yushi’s double-layered defenses, it was unlikely for her to sustain injuries under normal circumstances.

The skill’s final addition was Burning Blood infused with lightning, akin to Lin Yucha’s Divine Flame of Extinction. Where the Divine Flame focused on burning energy, particularly excelling against evil creatures, Burning Blood was effective against all life forms—anything with blood.

By igniting blood, the skill exacerbated Law erosion, making enemy wounds harder to heal. The longer this persisted, the more devastating the repercussions, until reaching a point of irreversibility.

Both skills featured persistent, hard-to-cleanse effects, likely causing future enemies to prefer facing the more powerful Du You over the two sisters.

Speaking of which, being able to advance skills in this world was something Du You hadn’t anticipated before. Newest update provıded by 𝙣𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙡⚑𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚⚑𝙣𝙚𝙩