Chapter 206

Chapter 206

Double… doubled?!

And it’s the shadow quantity that’s been doubled?!

Su Xiaobai checked again and again.

When he was finally sure he hadn’t heard or seen wrong, he stood there slack-jawed, his face full of shock and complete bewilderment!

What did doubling the shadow count even mean?

Right now, he had 30 shadows.

Once merged, his strength would increase by thirtyfold.

If you added in the overflow bonuses between various techniques, it could go up to fortyfold!

But now—it was even more terrifying.

Doubling the shadows meant he instantly gained 30 more, bringing the total to 60!

And if he merged them all again, his strength wouldn’t just rise sixtyfold…

It might spike to eightyfold, even a hundredfold!

Granted, the gap between each stage in the Martial Emperor realm was massive.

But if the amplification reached 100x, Su Xiaobai might very well leap straight into the Half-Saint realm, or even kill a Half-Saint on the spot!

And it wasn’t just a boost in combat strength.

There were also revenue implications.

With 60 shadows at his disposal, his Auto Hunting output had now completely exploded— to the point where it was even more lucrative than alchemy, forging, gathering, or mining!

Most importantly, this doubling of shadows wasn’t just a one-time thing.

Future upgrades would still increase the number of shadows by two each time!

“This surprise came out of nowhere—I was completely unprepared!”

“But… I love it! Hahahaha!”

Once he recovered from the shock, Su Xiaobai couldn’t hold back his loud laughter, fully venting the excitement and joy in his heart.

This one newly unlocked feature had already given him the most visible, the most practical, and the largest boost yet!

With 60 shadows— Su Xiaobai would be even more unshakable in combat.

A 100x amplification spike in power would leave his enemies completely dumbfounded, unable to react before he turned the tables in a flash!

And when using possessions or substitutions, he could afford to be much more liberal.

Take the last battle with Qi Chan: He’d only used 10 shadows.

If he’d had this doubled ability back then, he wouldn’t have held back—he’d have summoned twenty or thirty and crushed Qi Chan instantly!

“But upgrading Auto Hunting gets harder from here on out…”

“It already cost 274.5 billion, and the next level jumps straight to over 800 billion.”

“Who the hell can afford that?!”

“Looks like the wealth from First-tier and Second-tier Martial Emperors is far from enough for me to splurge… I’ll need to start targeting stronger people!”

The 9,000+ billion low-grade Origin Stones Su Xiaobai had now— most of it came from Qi Chan and the top brass of the Siwu Clan.

Each of them had contributed hundreds of billions, and Qi Chan alone had forked over 2 trillion!

But even that wasn’t enough for Su Xiaobai.

Second-tier Martial Emperors? Useless.

Then target Third-tier.

Third-tier not enough? Then Fourth-tier. Fifth-tier. Even Half-Saints!

As for who to target?

Didn’t he have the Karmic Records?

That thing was filled with evil-doers of immense sin, and they had definitely amassed far more wealth than ordinary Martial Emperors.

Hunting them down might even be more profitable than wiping out entire clans!

“Still got over 400 billion left—let’s see if I can unlock a brand-new cheat system!”

Right now, aside from Auto Hunting, none of the other system functions were particularly useful to Su Xiaobai anymore.

And although 400 billion looked like a lot, it’d be gone in just a few clicks…

So rather than upgrading old stuff, better to spend big and unlock something new!

“System, how many levels do I need to unlock the next system function?”

“Host, to unlock the next system function, you must first upgrade all current functions to level 15.”

“Level 15…”

“Everything else is done, only One-Click Mining, One-Click Enhancement, and One-Click Synthesis aren’t there yet.”

“All right then! Let’s get those done and bring out my new cheat plug-in!”

At Su Xiaobai’s command, the system immediately began upgrades:

“Deducting 78.12 million low-grade Origin Stones—One-Click Mining upgraded to level 14.”

“Number of mining goblins increased to 14!”

“Deducting 390 million—One-Click Mining upgraded to level 15.”

“Number of mining goblins increased to 15!”

“Ding! One-Click Mining has reached level 15.”

“New feature unlocked: [Evolution]!”

“[Evolution]: Mining goblins evolve. Smell sensitivity doubled. Movement speed doubled. Mining speed doubled!

Just as he expected— just like the Collection Goblins in One-Click Collection, this also unlocked an evolution feature!

That meant mining output would now skyrocket as well!

“Deducting 156 million—One-Click Enhancement Space upgraded to level 14.”

“Enhancement level cap raised to [+14]!”

“Deducting 780 million—One-Click Enhancement Space upgraded to level 15.”

“Enhancement level cap raised to [+15]!”

“Ding! One-Click Enhancement Space has reached level 15.”

“New feature unlocked: [Inheritance]!”

“[Inheritance]: Allows inheriting half of the enhancement level from another enhanced item!”

(Note: if the original is +3, +5, or +7, then the new item inherits +1, +2, +3 respectively.

However, if the item’s grade is too low, the inherited enhancement may be reduced.

If the grade difference exceeds one major tier, inheritance will fail!)

What the hell?!!!

Enhancement inheritance?!

Another god-tier cheat has arrived!!!

Su Xiaobai was overwhelmed with joy, nearly laughing out loud again.

He’d been wanting enhancement inheritance for a long time.

Take his old +7 weapon, Sculpted Moon Azure Dragon— a top-tier spirit weapon stored away in his Qiankun Space.

It had accompanied him through countless battles.

He couldn’t bring himself to dismantle it or fuse it away.

But it had become completely obsolete—Even as shadow gear, its grade was too low!

Now, with this new inheritance feature, he could transfer its +7 enhancement level to a new weapon!

Sculpted Moon Azure Dragon was top-tier spirit grade.

Oblivion Breaker was a high-rank divine weapon.

Peerless Red Lotus was a mid-rank King-tier weapon…

With two conversions, Sculpted Moon Azure Dragon’s +7 could be translated into +1 on Peerless Red Lotus!

Even if it was only a +1 transfer, it still counted as “turning junk into gold”!

Enhancing Peerless Red Lotus was incredibly hard.

Even with the Double Discount buff, gathering the materials was nearly impossible.

Until now, Peerless Red Lotus had no enhancements at all.

To gain a +1 out of nowhere— that was practically a godsend!

Who wouldn’t be thrilled?

And with Enhancement Inheritance, Su Xiaobai no longer needed to worry about wasting materials.

Before, he feared investing materials into weapons or skills that might soon become obsolete after a breakthrough.

But now?

He could enhance freely—because it would never be wasted again!

Once something was enhanced, it had permanent value!

“Mining and Enhancement are done. Now just One-Click Synthesis left!”

“System, upgrade One-Click Synthesis!”

“Deducting 92.87 million low-grade Origin Stones—One-Click Synthesis upgraded to level 12.”

“Synthesis level limit increased to [Mid-Saint Grade]!”

“Deducting 20 billion—One-Click Synthesis upgraded to level 15.”

“Synthesis level limit increased to [Low Immortal Grade]!”

“Ding! One-Click Synthesis has reached level 15.”

“New feature unlocked: [Targeted Synthesis]!”

[Targeted Synthesis]: Combine four identical items to synthesize a specific, higher-grade version of that item!

Nice!

Su Xiaobai’s eyes lit up.

He had long been annoyed by the random nature of synthesis— especially when it came to techniques.

Now that he was trying to synthesize Saint-level techniques, getting a mismatched result like a sword manual, or some obscure skill, would just waste a precious opportunity!

But now—with Targeted Synthesis, he no longer needed to worry about outcome!

When he wanted to gamble on luck or RNG, he could go for random synthesis.

Otherwise, he now had complete control over the results!

“Ding! Since the host has now upgraded all system functions to level 15, the system has specially unlocked a new feature for you—[One-Click Formation Space]!”