Chapter 57: Gathering All Five Elements of Talent, Unlocking the Swamp King's Tomb!

[Killed Level 9 Rock King (King Tier), obtained Energy Points +5000.]

[100% Drop Rate triggered, items have been automatically placed into your storage space, please check them.]

"Is it dead just like that?"

Ye Chuyun looked at the corpse of the Rock King with absolute calm in his heart.

Compared to the previous King-tier fierce beasts, winning this battle was simply too effortless.

Perhaps it was due to the overwhelming disparity in combat power between the two sides.

He opened his storage space to inspect the spoils of war obtained this time.

First were the loot drops from the rock giants.

[Rock Giant's Essence: Consume to increase Physique by 10 and Strength by 6.]

[Hundred-Refined Stone: An excellent material for forging equipment.]

He had harvested over a hundred essences and hundreds of catties of Hundred-Refined Stones.

In addition to these, there were more than a dozen Tier 1 pieces of equipment, several Tier 1 skill books, and a number of Earth Spirit Orb fragments.

It was another bumper harvest.

He had to admit that his storage space had long been at full capacity.

Before coming to the plains, Ye Chuyun had anticipated that his storage space might not be enough.

He had no choice but to spend Divine Demon Coins once again to expand his storage space.

Finally came the loot from the Rock King.

[Talent Imprint: Use to acquire E-rank Earth Manipulation.]

[Talent Imprint: Use to acquire E-rank Super Strength.]

[Stone Bracers: Defense +30, Physique +20, Earth-attribute abilities increased by 30%, Tier 2 Supreme-grade, requires Level 9 and Physique of 300 or above.]

[Quicksand Vortex: Tier 2 skill, causes the ground to collapse when used, forming a vortex to suck enemies in. Learning requirement: Must master E-rank Earth Manipulation.]

[Prompt: You have learned the Tier 2 skill, Quicksand Vortex.]

Ye Chuyun looked at the skill, and instant realization dawned upon him.

No wonder he had never seen the Rock King use this skill.

This was because the skill was only effective when enemies were on the ground.

However, during his battle with the Rock King, he had remained airborne the entire time, making it impossible for the Rock King's skill to harm him.

As expected, caution is always the right course!

[Prompt: You have acquired the talent, E-rank Earth Manipulation!]

"Earth-attribute talent, I've finally gathered them all!"

With this, he had collected all five basic elements: Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth.

Perhaps a brand-new talent would be born from this.

[Prompt: Detected that you already possess the five elemental talents of Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth. Awakening a new talent.]

[Prompt: You have awakened the E-rank talent, Wind Manipulation.]

[Prompt: You have awakened the E-rank talent, Lightning Manipulation.]

[Prompt: You have awakened the E-rank talent, Ice Manipulation.]

"My guess was right; it really can derive new talents!"

Ye Chuyun was immensely excited.

This conjecture was something he had learned from casual chats in his past life.

As long as one gathered all five elemental talents of Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth, new elemental talents could be derived.

However, back then, he simply lacked the capital to even try.

Even the lowest F-rank talent imprint was far beyond his reach.

People who could gather all five elemental talents were extremely rare.

Even if someone did gather them and discovered that obtaining new talents was possible, they would never make the information public.

There is a huge difference between one person's conjecture and one person's verification.

When it's just a guess, people treat it as a mere joke.

But once someone proves the conjecture to be true, the nature of the matter changes entirely.

If the news spread, the price of talent imprints would only become even more terrifying.

After his rebirth, Ye Chuyun had never expected to gather all five elemental talents.

Yet ever since he acquired the SSS-rank 100% Drop Rate talent, every step of his development had become so effortless.

Ye Chuyun glanced at the Wind Feather Wings behind him.

Having awakened [Wind Manipulation], he could now use the Wind Feather Wings to launch attacks.

At this thought, Ye Chuyun felt a mild headache.

Sigh, he had far too many offensive methods; he didn't even know which ones to use.

If others were to learn of his thoughts, they would surely pass out from sheer anger.

Everyone else was desperate to acquire more offensive options.

Yet Ye Chuyun actually complained that he had too many.

Truly, comparing oneself to others can be infuriating.

Aside from the E-rank Earth Manipulation, Ye Chuyun had also obtained an E-rank Super Strength talent imprint.

Since he already possessed this talent, he could use it for fusion.

"Whatever, it's either failure or success. Charge!"

Ye Chuyun closed his eyes and used the talent imprint.

[Ding! Fusion successful. E-rank Super Strength has evolved into D-rank Strength Enhancement.]

[Strength Enhancement: Permanently increases strength by 40%.]

"Huh? It actually succeeded?"

Having failed so many times before, Ye Chuyun had grown somewhat numb to it.

He never expected it to succeed this time.

As expected, luck is conserved.

He swallowed the Rock Giant Essences up to the limit and equipped the Stone Bracers.

Then, he eagerly checked his stats.

Name: Ye Chuyun

Level: Level 10 (63020/200000)

Reputation: 180

Title: Favored by the Heavenly Dao

Strength: 1104 (D-rank, Strength Enhancement +442)

Agility: 768

Physique: 1177 (D-rank Physique Enhancement, +471)

Spirit: 1229 (E-rank Super Spirit, +246)

Free Attribute Points: 5

Combat Power: 8926 (8556 + 370)

"Very good, my combat power went up by several hundred points again!"

"It looks like I need to find a way to push my combat power above ten thousand before entering the Heavenly Mandate Temple."

After reviewing his stats, Ye Chuyun felt a surge of confidence.

Synthesizing the Earth Spirit Orb fragments into an Earth Spirit Orb, he finally collected all five elemental orbs: Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth.

"Time to turn in the quest!"

Overjoyed, Ye Chuyun flapped his Wind Feather Wings and flew toward the altar.

...

Half an hour later, Ye Chuyun returned to the Five-Element Altar.

The entire altar was pentagonal, with a pillar standing at each of its five corners.

There were a total of five pillars, each of a different color, corresponding respectively to Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth.

In the center between the pillars was a circular recess.

As long as all the spirit orbs were placed into this circular recess, the altar's seal would be broken, opening the Swamp King's Tomb.

Ye Chuyun stepped onto the altar and walked up to one of the golden pillars.

This was the metal-attribute pillar, which required the Metal Spirit Orb to be inserted.

He looked at the recess on the pillar, took out the Metal Spirit Orb, and placed it inside.

Click!

A crisp sound echoed.

The Metal Spirit Orb slid into the recess, fitting together perfectly.

Hum!

The next second, the golden pillar burst forth with golden light and slowly sank downward.

Only four pillars remained on the altar now.

Ye Chuyun repeated the process, placing the different elemental spirit orbs into their respective pillars.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

One pillar after another sank into the ground.

In the blink of an eye, all five pillars vanished underground, and the seal of the altar was completely lifted.

The entire altar trembled violently.

Ye Chuyun noticed that the dark mist behind the altar was gradually dissipating, revealing the architecture hidden within.

[Announcement: Ye Chuyun has broken the seal of the Five-Element Altar and opened the Swamp King's Tomb!]

[Announcement: Contestants above Level 5 can now enter the Swamp King's Tomb for exploration.]

As soon as this announcement echoed, the chat channel instantly exploded into chaos.