Chapter 918: Chapter 918 - 421: Charge and Death
Wilderness, Red Mountain.
The entire mountain is a reddish color, even the mountain paths are made of red mud and red stones.
Although it’s so red, this mountain was actually not called Red Mountain before, until a guy with the nickname [Red Immortal] died nearby, then the mountain was renamed Red Mountain.
This renaming serves both as a convenience for memory and as a map marker.
The renaming of Red Mountain happened a long time ago.
And now, at the foot of Red Mountain, there is a team steadily approaching from afar.
This team is none other than Fang Yu’s team.
Ever since leaving the Death Forest, it seems like luck has favored Fang Yu’s team.
They haven’t encountered many demons along the way, and the few that did appear were easily dealt with.
Occasionally, they could see the corpses of Great Demons by the roadside, which kept the team’s members on high alert.
"It seems that someone arrived before us."
This was Zuo Caicai’s original statement.
In the conflict over artifacts, it’s not just the people from Tianyuan Town who are interested. People from other towns, powerful individuals, as long as they got the news, are interested.
"Keep a careful watch on the surroundings, there might be an ambush."
Ling Huxiang whispered.
Throughout this journey, Fang Yu hardly let Ling Huxiang do any work, allowing her to rest and recuperate within the team.
Even so, her health points have just barely recovered to over a thousand.
That’s considered fast, as she mentioned she used some precious secret medicine to restore to her current state.
Unlike traditional game potions, the medicines in this game don’t immediately restore health points and are more akin to ancient Chinese medicine, focusing on conditioning effects. They work by stopping wounds, healing injuries, and stimulating the body’s recovery ability. Through the body’s own regenerative power, health and status are gradually restored.
So at a glance, everyone who consumed medicine pills is slowly regenerating health, as if waiting for the effects to gradually take place.
According to Ling Huxiang, there are some desperate-use medicines that temporarily restore a certain level of power, but their side effects are severe. Not only are these medicines difficult to obtain due to their rarity, but their side effects alone are not something ordinary people can withstand.
Some medicine pills might exhaust potential when consumed, blocking the martial arts path in the future.
At this point, Fang Yu recalled a type of medicine Ding Hui had given him before—the Explosive Demon Pill.
This item should be the medicine Ling Huxiang spoke of for use in desperation.
For Demon Martial Artists, the sudden increase in demonization progress equates to an increase in power, but the ease of increasing demonization makes reducing it difficult, which means it’s gambling with one’s life.
Even with attribute points in hand and room for enhancing spirit attributes, Fang Yu is reluctant to use such a thing casually.
Glancing at the available attribute points, Fang Yu plans to enhance his strength.
After all, Red Mountain is the destination of this journey. The three major artifacts are said to converge here, various factions will arrive one after the other, and turmoil will ensue.
Being a small fry, enhancing some strength to ensure survival is wise.
[Attribute Points: 55→0.]
[Physique: 420→475.]
[Life: 45148/45148.]
Physique increased by 55 points.
Along with the health point increase, power also receives a significant boost.
It’s not that Fang Yu doesn’t want to leave room for demonization, but after the previous battles, he finds his resistance to demonization has indeed improved, no longer experiencing sudden increases of several points in demonization progress.
When fighting the 70,000 health Illusion Realm Fox Demon previously, not only did he use tree transformation attacks once, he also maintained demonization for a considerable duration, resulting in just a 1% progress increase.
Even switching to Yuan Demon Body wouldn’t increase it much.
Looking back, the frequent spike in demonization progress earlier was largely due to low spirit attribute, causing low resistance to demonization, therefore demonization progress rose rapidly.
This underscores the importance of advancing dual attributes synchronously.
Opening the attribute panel.
[Name: Diao Deyi.]
[Realm: High-level Tree Realm.]
[Demon Bloodline: Green Demon Blood [Initial Stage of Withered Level], Demonization.]
[Demonization: 1%.]
[Life: 45148/45148.]
[Physique: 475.]+
[Spirit: 320.]+
[Human-level Skills: Digital Life.]
[High-level Tree Skills: Qi Gathering Technique [Initial Understanding]+, Primordial Body Solidifying Technique [Initial Understanding]+, Primordial White Shadow Leg [Initial Understanding]+, Primordial Heart Guard Bone [Initial Understanding]+, Yuan Body Hammer Head [Initial Understanding], Primordial Body Double Zero Sword [Initial Understanding], Three Thousand Wood-Blood Jutsu [Initial Understanding]+.]
[Middle-level Tree Skills: None.]
[Initial-level Tree Skills: None.]
[High-level Grass Skills: Ice Blood Storm [Reached Transformation Realm].]
[Middle-level Grass Skills: None.]
[Initial-level Grass Skills: Spring Bud Skill [Initial Understanding]+, Rooting into the soil [Initial Understanding]+.]
[High-level Flower Skills: Wood Zither Blade Technique [Mastered]+.]
[Middle-level Flower Skills: None.]
[Initial-level Flower Skills: Moistening Eyes [Initial Understanding]+, Big Kung’s Belly [Initial Understanding]+, Two-Heart Lock [Initial Understanding]+.]
[Attribute Points: 0.]
Some cultivation techniques are beginning to lag behind the times.
But given the limited attribute points, Fang Yu prioritizes breakthroughs rather than improving every cultivation technique.
Native NPCs might be constrained by cultivation technique limits, where reaching high-level Flower Skills marks the end, with no higher realms to cultivate.
But it’s different for players, an attribute point can forcibly push one to the next cultivation method realm, hence there’s no issue of needing to switch cultivation techniques to advance, and efficiency is also faster. Though cultivation techniques may be less comprehensive, yet rather specialized.
Just as Fang Yu was pondering this, he suddenly noticed everyone in the team had stopped moving.