Bai Ye's mood was quite poor, his plans shattered.
However, there was some good news to soothe his "wounded" spirit.
The first piece of good news was the improvement of his Five Spirit Sorcery.
The second piece of good news was the improvement of the Rumble-Rumble Fruit.
Half-good news was that after midnight, Bai Ye could continue drawing from the gacha.
As long as the item from the golden quality gacha drawn with Divine Stone Fragments this time could be consumed by the Steel Slime, the Steel Slime would surely evolve into red quality.
The Five Spirit Sorcery had improved.
"You have completed Spirit Gathering cultivation. Your Strength, Speed, Stamina, and Spirit stats have increased by 8 points."
"You have completed Spirit Gathering cultivation. Your Five Spirit Sorcery has been improved."
"As your Five Spirit Sorcery has improved, Warm Mist has evolved into Immortal Wind Cloud Body."
Immortal Wind Cloud Body: Allows the user to gain 30 Speed for 15 minutes, and increases Speed by 5%. Movement Speed will gain an additional 15 points, and Movement Speed will increase by 10%.
Bai Ye's eyes widened. Finally, there was a useful, powerful technique within the Five Spirit Sorcery.
All along, Bai Ye had been a mix of surprised and disappointed by the Five Spirit Sorcery.
The Five Spirit Sorcery was very potent. Despite its not-so-high quality, the value of growth-type techniques couldn't be solely determined by quality.
On one hand, Bai Ye's core reason for needing the Five Spirit Sorcery was its continuous improvement of physical attributes.
Physical attributes were undoubtedly the most valuable form of strength growth. Nothing was more useful than strengthening oneself; it was a consensus among all masters.
The Five Spirit Sorcery had indeed satisfied Bai Ye. Relying on Spirit Gathering cultivation, his physical attributes had been continuously increasing.
On the other hand, Bai Ye had also greatly anticipated the five different elemental Daoist arts that complemented the Five Spirit Sorcery, but these arts had always been somewhat underwhelming.
They were very versatile, encompassing attack, debuffs, buffs, and healing...
But perhaps because they were too versatile, they didn't stand out. As Bai Ye's strength grew, the Daoist arts of the Five Spirit Sorcery became increasingly less useful.
Take the lightning Daoist art, for example. Bai Ye had already cultivated to the third stage, Sky Thunder Rupture. While its attack power wasn't low, wasn't the Rumble-Rumble Fruit more appealing?
Other buff and debuff Daoist arts were similar. They were useful, but not *that* useful, only being employed in specific situations occasionally.
Now, there was finally a Daoist art that Bai Ye could consistently use. This speed enhancement was an obvious improvement for him.
Despite Bai Ye having instantaneous movement with his Electric Field, in a real fight, relying solely on elemental lightning attacks wouldn't be enough. This was because in an elementalized state, he couldn't use other abilities or items.
When he was not elementalized and relied on his own movement, the value of the Immortal Wind Cloud Body would become apparent.
The Five Spirit Sorcery had given Bai Ye a pleasant surprise. Furthermore, with the appearance of the Immortal Wind Cloud Body, only two more Daoist arts were needed for the Five Spirit Sorcery to enter the fourth stage.
Bai Ye had witnessed the power of the Five Spirit Sorcery in his previous life. The current Five Spirit Sorcery was not at its peak and still needed time to accumulate.
After this further enhancement, Spirit Gathering had also increased to (0/20000).
With the Five Spirit Sorcery off to a good start, the Rumble-Rumble Fruit also performed well.
Rumble-Rumble Fruit (Devil Fruit) (Item) (Gold): Upon consumption, it grants the user the top-tier Logia-type fruit that allows the body to elementalize, capable of transforming the body into lightning...
Weakness: Cannot come into contact with seawater and Seastone.
Current Proficiency: 0/22000
Skills Unlocked: 6/12
Effects: Teleportation...
Lightning Bolt...
Thunder Shock...
Raikou...
Raijin...
Ryu: Enhances lightning attacks, forming a lightning dragon that combines the power of Raikou and the speed of Raijin.
The improvement in the Rumble-Rumble Fruit's proficiency meant an increase in lightning power, which was fundamental. This was the terrifying aspect of the Rumble-Rumble Fruit. When proficiency reached MAX, its lightning power would be formidable.
Even the most ordinary lightning attack, as a super-quality ability, was a terrifying existence.
However, the Ryu technique was somewhat of a disappointment, essentially an enhanced Raikou and Raijin.
But considering that Raikou, Raijin, and Ryu could be summoned simultaneously, it wasn't that bad. The value of these three techniques lay in their ability to materialize lightning, allowing for sustained attacks.
Therefore, a pure increase in summon quantity would not result in overlapping effects.
It was just that the power of the Rumble-Rumble Fruit made Bai Ye even more eager for more formidable techniques. As it stood, he needed to continue increasing his proficiency.
Finally, there was the Steel Slime, which required drawing from the gacha first.
"Can consume, can consume, can consume..."
Bai Ye was quite content. He didn't desperately need the gacha machine to improve his combat power at the moment. As long as the Steel Slime could consume something, Bai Ye would be satisfied. With red quality so close, Bai Ye didn't want to be stuck for another twenty-four hours.
And the result...
The first blue gacha yielded a martial art without surprise or joy, called the Kongming Flying Dragon Staff.
Bai Ye didn't discriminate against martial arts. Powerful martial arts could even contend with the Daoist arts of the cultivation world, but blue quality...
Bai Ye pretended he hadn't drawn this item.
The second black gacha was an old friend, the Plasma Cannon...
Even trash items couldn't help the Steel Slime reach red quality, nor could they be recorded by the Gate of Babylon.
One black and one blue gacha. The luck was decent, but utterly useless.
Bai Ye could only place his hope in the last Divine Stone Fragment.
Chengying Sword (Weapon) (Gold): An ancient famous sword, one of the Ten Famous Swords of China. Legend has it that upon its forging, the dragon of shadow was divided, and the wild goose forgot to return.
Effect...
The effect of the Chengying Sword was no longer important.
As one of the Ten Famous Swords of China, its reputation was considerable, though it was still a notch below immortal flying swords. Among gold quality weapons, it was at the lower end, but it was enough to allow the Steel Slime to advance!
Steel Slime (Item) (Red): A very rare mutated slime that can consume all objects, and after integrating the characteristics of these objects, it can transform into and use these objects.
Effects: Consume...
Condense...
Steal...
Synthesize...
Reinforce...
Congealable Items...
Enchantment: Can enchant its mastered elemental abilities onto condensed weapons. The weapon's effects will increase by 10%, weapon attack power will increase by 15%, armor attack power will increase by 15%. Attacks can add enchantment effects. If elemental abilities are not mastered, this effect cannot be used.
Steel Slime Growth Value: 0/1000000
The Steel Slime had taken off when it was black quality, and red quality...
It soared into the heavens!