Chapter 9: An Ice Spear Hundreds of Meters Long! Mastering Both Ice and Fire!!

Mu Long was instantly alarmed.

It was not that he objected, but now was absolutely not the time for that!

“What? No way. Ying’er is so cold, and Xiao Xuan has always been all timid and shrinking in front of her since he was little. Ying’er even said before that what she hated most was Xiao Xuan acting like that! I have no idea what is wrong with those two. They are perfectly normal in front of us, but the moment they see each other, something goes wrong!”

Su Qian immediately denied it. Given her daughter’s personality, that was absolutely impossible!

“The moment they see each other, something feels off? Doesn’t that prove the problem? They must have had feelings for each other for ages and were just too embarrassed to admit it! But now is not the time to talk about that. This is a Fifth-Tier beast tide. If we run too late, we’ll both die!”

The moment Mu Long heard Su Qian say that, he became even more certain.

Those two had definitely gone out on a date in the middle of the night.

He immediately picked up his smartwatch and tried to contact them.

Unfortunately, neither of them could be reached.

At once, Mu Long’s face turned pale.

“Honey, what do we do now?!”

Su Qian panicked.

“We leave first. In a situation like this, protecting ourselves is the most important thing. Besides, with Xiying there, Xiao Xuan is actually safer with her than with us.”

Mu Long spoke slowly.

Though Mu Xiying was still young, she was a prodigy of Imperial Capital University. Her strength was definitely far greater than his, a mere Vitality Realm martial artist.

【Stop fucking running! Reinforcements from a powerhouse have arrived. The Fifth-Tier beast in the beast tide has already been slain, and the beasts have been blocked outside the Second District—they can’t get in!

All of you, get your asses back here and kill the enemy!】

Just then, an irritable voice blasted from the citywide broadcast.

It belonged to the City Lord of Blackwater City.

“What? A powerhouse came to help?”

Mu Long’s eyes lit up.

“You’re going to help? What if the City Lord is lying to us?”

Su Qian looked at Mu Long anxiously.

“He wouldn’t do that. The City Lord isn’t that kind of person. It should be safe enough here for now. Stay home and wait. Don’t run around, or the children might come back and not find you! I’m going out to help. I’ll be back soon.”

Mu Long gave Su Qian a few final instructions.

Then he picked up his weapon and left.

“These two children... where on earth did they go?”

Looking at the empty room, Su Qian let out a helpless sigh.

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...

Meanwhile, Xiao Xuan was racing through the city at top speed.

He was moving so fast that he left afterimages behind him.

In complete contrast, the crowds around him were fleeing in the opposite direction, away from the oncoming beasts.

Of course, there were also quite a few martial artists who had picked up their weapons and were charging toward the beast tide.

Before long, Xiao Xuan arrived at the wall of the Second District.

At that moment, the sounds of killing and battle were pouring in from the other side of the wall.

Xiao Xuan raised a brow.

Blackwater City had already existed for more than two hundred years.

Over the course of those two centuries, it had expanded twice, and each time it did, an even taller and sturdier city wall was built to hold back the ferocious beasts.

Because of those walls, the city had been divided into three districts.

The First District was naturally the very center of the city.

It was where those above the Vitality Realm, along with the families of the wealthy, lived.

It was also the safest area of all, because the outer districts had to fall before the First District could be reached.

As for the Second District, it was where ordinary martial artists and the middle class lived.

It was relatively safe as well.

The Third District, however, was extremely dangerous.

As the outermost ring, its city wall was indeed the sturdiest, but once a Fourth-Tier beast tide appeared, it was usually breached.

Ten years ago, the Third District had been broken through by a Fourth-Tier beast tide.

At the time, Xiao Xuan’s parents had both been combat personnel, so they went to reinforce the area.

Originally, nothing would have happened. The beast tide had already been suppressed.

But then Xiao Xuan’s parents suddenly received a message from their good friend Mu Long, saying that his daughter had gone to a classmate’s house in the Third District, and that area happened to be near where they were.

The moment Xiao Xuan’s parents heard that, they immediately went to look for her.

Then, on the way back, they were attacked by a ferocious beast at the peak of the Second Tier.

In the end, Xiao Xuan’s parents were gravely wounded while protecting Mu Xiying, and were ultimately killed by the beast.

At the thought of that, Xiao Xuan did not feel much anger.

If the positions had been reversed back then, Mu Long would never have abandoned him either.

And over the years, Mu Long and Su Qian had truly treated him very well.

Now, as Xiao Xuan looked at the wall before him—the wall that had once cut off his parents’ last chance at life—he took a deep breath.

Then he broke into a run and leaped.

BOOM!!

The instant his terrifying strength struck the ground, the earth cracked apart beneath him, and his body shot into the air and landed atop the thirty-meter-high wall.

He looked down below.

At once, he saw large numbers of flame-wreathed ferocious beasts rampaging through the Third District.

Seventy percent of the buildings had already been destroyed.

Those buildings looked old and patched together, clearly showing that they were often attacked by ferocious beasts.

Then he looked into the distance and saw that the third city wall, fifty meters high, had already been blasted open with a massive breach.

A great number of ferocious beasts were still pouring in.

ROAR!!!

At that very moment, a shrill, miserable howl from a ferocious beast rang out.

Xiao Xuan immediately saw that outside the shattered wall, a Crimson Flame Demon Lizard over one hundred meters long had been nailed to the earth by an ice spear hundreds of meters long, howling in agony.

Above that spear, a young woman raised her right hand through empty air.

BZZZ!!!!

A gigantic golden fireball one hundred meters across condensed high in the sky.

BZZZ!!!

In the next instant, the fireball plummeted toward the subterranean cavern from which the beast tide had emerged.

BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!!!

With a world-shaking explosion, a towering mushroom cloud of flame rose into the heavens.

The powerful shockwave instantly blasted down the city wall nearby.

Then the shockwave swept through the ferocious beasts that had already made it inside the walls.

The ones nearest were vaporized on the spot.

The ones farther away were hurled backward by the terrifying force.

At the sight of that, Xiao Xuan swallowed hard.

“What the hell? Just what level of martial artist is Mu Xiying? That kind of power is practically on par with a small nuclear bomb. And how can she control both ice and fire at the same time?”

Looking at the mushroom cloud rising several hundred meters into the air, Xiao Xuan was stunned.

He had thought he was already strong enough.

Who would have guessed that she was even stronger?

“So this is the strength of a true heroine of destiny. Absolutely terrifying!”

Xiao Xuan could not help feeling excited.

Now that he had his system, he would probably be able to reach that level himself before long, would he not?

The thought of destroying heaven and earth with a wave of his hand made Xiao Xuan grin.

“So these are ferocious beasts? I’ll start by collecting a little interest from you.”

After glancing at the countless ferocious beasts covering the area, Xiao Xuan did not hesitate any longer.

He jumped down from the wall and charged straight toward the beasts rampaging through the Third District.

His target was a ferocious beast at the seventh layer of the Vitality Realm.

The beast stood seven meters tall and was crashing wildly through the streets.

Every place it struck looked as though it had been smashed by a fireball, instantly scorched black and set ablaze.

CRACKLE CRACKLE!!

In an instant, endless blue lightning erupted from Xiao Xuan’s body.

As soon as he closed in on the beast, Xiao Xuan leaped into the air.

“Die!!”

Xiao Xuan barked as the long saber in his hand slashed downward.

BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!!

In an instant, a ten-meter lightning slash came crashing down.

ROAR!!!

Hearing the disturbance, the giant beast instinctively turned its head.

In the next instant, it saw an intense blue bolt of lightning slashing down toward it.

Its pupils contracted violently.

PFFT!!!

Then, as the blue lightning flashed past, the beast’s massive body was split cleanly in two by the lightning slash.

BOOM!!

BOOM!!!

With two thunderous crashes, the two halves of the beast’s corpse slammed to the ground.

At that moment, two Green traits dropped from its body.

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【Death! Green】

【Flame Control! Green】

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The moment Xiao Xuan saw those two traits, he raised a brow.

There was actually a Death trait. That was something he had not expected.

And there was Flame Control too.

Which meant that if he took that Flame Control trait, would he be able to wield the power of fire from now on as well?

At that thought, Xiao Xuan’s breathing quickened.

He walked over and casually stepped on the two traits.

【Ding... Congratulations, you recycled the trash 【Death! Green】 and obtained Eco Points: 75】

【Ding... Congratulations, you awakened the trait 【Flame Control! Green】 (Can use Vitality or mental power to unleash the power of flame, producing might equal to 270% of one’s Vitality or mental power!)】

...

The prompt sounded immediately afterward.

BOOM!!!

At the same time, a violent surge of flame erupted through his meridians.

After coursing through his body for quite some time, it finally poured into the depths of Xiao Xuan’s sea of consciousness and formed a flame ability core.

Without hesitation, Xiao Xuan directly injected 100 Eco Points into that core.

BOOM!!!

In an instant, the strength of the flame core began rising wildly.

Very soon, the ability advanced to Blue grade.

【Ding... Congratulations, you awakened the trait 【Flame Control! Blue】 (Can use Vitality or mental power to unleash the power of flame, producing might equal to 500% of one’s Vitality or mental power!)】

Xiao Xuan did not hesitate. He directly activated the power of fire.

BOOM!!!

In an instant, violent flames erupted from his hand and flowed into the long saber he held.

The moment he saw that, Xiao Xuan smiled.

“That’s another ability. So if I want to, I can actually wield every kind of ability, can’t I?”

That was what Xiao Xuan thought.

But he quickly dismissed the idea.

Rather than wasting Eco Points on that many abilities, it was better to specialize in one.

“That beast just now was a Second-Tier, Seven-Star beast. And the Death trait it dropped after being killed gave me 75 Eco Points.

Then if it were a Third-Tier, One-Star beast, wouldn’t it be worth over a hundred?”

“Let’s keep testing. I wonder whether every ferocious beast drops a Death trait when it dies!”

Xiao Xuan’s gaze shifted to the other ferocious beasts.

Without hesitation, he charged straight at them.

Very quickly, one beast after another fell beneath his blade.

【Ding... Congratulations, you recycled the trash 【Death! Green】 and obtained Eco Points: 35】

【Ding... Congratulations, you recycled the trash 【Flame Control! White】 and obtained Eco Points: 3】

【Ding... Congratulations, you recycled the trash 【Death! Green】 and obtained Eco Points: 17】

【Ding... Congratulations, you recycled the trash 【Flame Control! Green】 and obtained Eco Points: 66】

...

Sure enough, the Eco Point value of what each slain beast dropped was related to its rank.

And he discovered that killing a Second-Tier beast seemed to guarantee a Green Death trait.

Then did that mean killing a Third-Tier beast would guarantee a Blue Death trait?

Another thing was that the traits a beast possessed would generally drop after it was killed.

As a result, Xiao Xuan’s gains were even greater than he had expected.

“Right. Mu Xiying killed so many beasts just now. Did they all drop a whole pile of traits?”

That thought suddenly occurred to him.

Might there be a huge number of traits in that enormous crater nearby?

With that in mind, Xiao Xuan rushed straight toward it.

Along the way, every ferocious beast he encountered was killed instantly.

Even a Third-Tier, Two-Star beast in the Innate Realm was no exception.

And after killing one of those beasts, he picked up four traits!

One of them was a Blue Death trait, which yielded 235 Eco Points when recycled.

Of the other three, aside from Strength Enhancement, the other two were both quite good.

They were 【Speed Enhancement! Green】 and 【Stamina Enhancement! Green】.

Most ferocious beasts possessed body-type traits.

After all, it was universally acknowledged that ferocious beasts had stronger bodies than humans.

Xiao Xuan directly chose to fuse them and then upgraded both traits to Blue.

【Ding... Congratulations, you have successfully fused the trait 【Speed Enhancement! Blue】 Speed increased by 500%!】

【Ding... Congratulations, you have successfully fused the trait 【Stamina Enhancement! Blue】 Stamina limit increased by 500%!】

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It had to be said, upgrading traits to Blue really was cheap.

It only cost a mere 100 Eco Points, which was equivalent to just 1 point of Vitality.