Abyssal Invasion, I Wield Dark Authority – Chapter 18

Ch 18: A Bountiful Harvest

However, this shadow spread out with Qin Jin-nian as the center, so the shore behind him also had a large area of shadow.

This startled Qin Jin-nian, and he instinctively turned his head to look around.

After discovering that no one was around, he finally breathed a sigh of relief, and then quickly devoured the fish at the bottom of the lake.

More than ten seconds later.

Shadow Devour retracted.

The panel began to refresh…

【You activated ‘Shadow Devour’, devouring the flesh and blood of extremely weak ordinary creatures, attribute points +0.02, mental and physical strength slightly recovered. 】

【You activated ‘Shadow Devour’, devouring the flesh and blood of extremely weak ordinary creatures, attribute points +0.15, mental and physical strength slightly recovered. 】

【You activated ‘Shadow Devour’, devouring the flesh and blood of extremely weak ordinary creatures, attribute points +0.37, mental and physical strength slightly recovered. 】

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In an instant, one or two hundred lines of text refreshed, and Qin Jin-nian couldn’t keep up with the reading.

In the end, he simply looked at the location of the attribute points.

After taking a look, his eyes immediately lit up…

【Attribute Points: 28.34】

This haul, more than 25 attribute points!

He grinned…

“I can add 5 more points to my mental strength!”

Without any hesitation, he began the point-adding mode.

【You use 5 attribute points, mental strength +1……】

【You use 5 attribute points, mental strength +1……】

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After five consecutive screen refreshes.

Qin Jin-nian’s mental strength had already reached 46 points…

Looking at the 46 points of mental strength, Qin Jin-nian was in a daze, as if in a dream.

Last night, his mental strength was only a pitiful 6 points.

It’s only been a day…

“Indeed, having a cheat is the way to go!”

Without any hesitation, Qin Jin-nian’s mind moved, and the shadow suddenly stabbed out…

The feedback from Shadow Devour had already allowed him to instantly recover all of his consumption.

I have to say, Shadow Devour is truly a skill for endurance. With Shadow Devour, and given enough corpses, he is a genuine perpetual motion machine!

A day passed by, unknowingly.

As the sun set in the west, and a gentle breeze blew, Qin Jin-nian, with a satisfied smile, looked up at the setting sun in the sky.

On the panel, his mental strength had already reached 57 points.

“The mental strength limit brought by the Primary Sense Level I is really not low, at 57 points and still not at the limit… Could it be heading towards a hundred?”

He thought with some emotion.

This day was a bountiful harvest. There were many creatures in this Qinghe Lake, not only fish, but also some turtles and other aquatic animals at the bottom of the lake… As a result, as long as he encountered them, they all became Qin Jin-nian’s food.

Of course, Qin Jin-nian wouldn’t do that kind of thing that would exhaust the resources, and he wouldn’t catch small fish, only those big ones that weighed more than ten catties.

But even so, it still forcibly piled his mental strength to 57… One can imagine how big the harvest was.

After all, now it takes him a full 6 or 7 attribute points to increase his mental strength by 1 point.

Even so, he still increased it by 16 points… Converted into attribute points, that’s already over a hundred.

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If someone knew about his rate of improvement, they would probably be stunned.

Normally, improving mental strength through meditation, those with better talent would need at least a month. And the higher you go, the harder it gets.

But Qin Jin-nian only spent a day.

And the process was also extremely easy and carefree…

One can only say… He deserves the name of a cheater.

Well, it’s not that there are no worries, it’s just that when using Shadow Devour, the movement feels quite big… Suddenly, a large mass of shadows appeared out of thin air, which was really a bit eye-catching. It made Qin Jin-nian have to find a shady place to devour every once in a while…

Fortunately, there were many trees nearby, and there were also many areas with large shadows, otherwise, Qin Jin-nian might really have a headache.

And on this day, besides catching fish to increase his attribute points, Qin Jin-nian was also familiarizing himself with his shadow superpowers.

After all, it hadn’t been that long since he obtained the shadow superpowers. Even though he had a mysterious connection with the shadow, he only understood the general idea, but Sun Tzu said, know yourself and know your enemy, and you will never be defeated.

He couldn’t know his enemy for the time being, but at least he had to know himself, right?

So, in the gaps between catching fish, he did some tests on the various limits of the shadow. Besides the range limit and the splitting limit, he also found some giant stones at the bottom of the lake and did tests on attack power intensity, strength, speed, the transformation between reality and illusion… and so on.

Although because he was at the bottom of the lake, there was interference from buoyancy, he could only get a rough data.

But even so, Qin Jin-nian expressed extreme satisfaction with the test results.

“I still need to test the shadow’s strength sometime…”

Qin Jin-nian thought.

Last night when he killed the Good Sister Weird, he later turned the shadow into a cover to protect himself, which was enough to show that the shadow’s performance on the defensive side was also quite pleasing.

But because the attacking side at that time was only some small bugs, he naturally couldn’t fully test the shadow’s strength limit, so Qin Jin-nian still had to study it specifically.

Without realizing it, he had been thinking for a while, and the sun had completely set. The late autumn wind in October already felt a bit cold. Qin Jin-nian shivered slightly from the cold, and only then did he come back to his senses.

Seeing that it was getting late, and that he had perfectly achieved his goal for today, Qin Jin-nian no longer stayed. He got up, put on his shoes and socks, and prepared to go home.

When he passed the fitness equipment square, he realized that the square, which had only had a few old men before, was now filled with people, and the willow-lined embankment was also full of people out for a stroll and recreation.

It was as if the whole world had returned to liveliness…

There were very few people during the day because yesterday was the Night of the Blood Moon. Most people had gone to deal with mental pollution or abyssal aura infection during the day.

At night, life had gradually returned to peace, so those who should come out to play all came out.

And as the most beautiful scenery in the city center, Qinghe Park was the most popular place to play in the central area. From four or five o’clock in the afternoon until eleven or twelve o’clock at night, this place was the peak period for people flow.

Walking all the way to the bus stop, the bus soon arrived, and Qin Jin-nian got on the bus…

Well, everything about Qinghe Lake was good, except that it was a bit far from his rented house. He didn’t have a car, and each time he had to transfer several buses, not to mention that it was also extremely time-consuming.

“It’s a pity that although the shadow superpower is very strong, it doesn’t provide much enhancement to my own self… Sigh, if only I had a skill like ‘Shadow Escape’ to move quickly…”

Qin Jin-nian thought, a bit insatiably.

From the looks of it, he was a typical fragile mage.

Relying on the shadow superpower, he could fight and kill Weirds. With the current strength of the shadow superpower, he could already kill the Good Sister Weird at that level very easily.

But he himself was very fragile.

Once someone got close to him, or launched a sneak attack, he might be instantly GG.

…In the end, it was I who held myself back.

“It seems that cultivation really needs to be put on the agenda… But to cultivate Blood Moving, you first need to have Blood Moving Potion. The school’s Type I and Type II Potions will be distributed for free. But the premise is that the vitality and mental strength meet the standards… But if I go to get them, I will inevitably expose the fact that I have awakened superpowers…”

Sitting on the bus, Qin Jin-nian had a bit of a headache.