["Is Rulebound and Liuli even human? Our club had over a hundred people and still couldn't take down a Tier 3 Boss in ten minutes, but the two of them killed it in a few seconds?"]
["What kind of damage are they doing? Damn! Have you ever seen a critical hit of over 300,000 damage? That's insane!"]
["If Rulebound is human, I'll eat him!"]
["If Liuli is human, I'll eat her too!"]
["Always trying to get free food! If the two people upstairs are human, I'll eat them!"]
Looking at the flood of explosive messages in the chat, Ning Xi couldn't help knitting her brows.
"Brother Lin Mo, aren't we being a little too high-profile?"
Lin Mo had just finished killing a Lion King Boss.
Using the Blood Crystal to extract the Lion King's blood, he successfully replaced the dark red dead blood inside the crystal with living blood that flowed like quicksand.
Shaking the crystal and watching the blood move inside, Lin Mo smiled indifferently, "If we're not high-profile, how can we attract attention?"
Ning Xi's mind worked quickly, and she immediately understood.
"Brother Lin Mo, are you trying to use this chance to draw out the person behind the scenes who's been directing Tyrant against us?"
Becoming stronger in Divine Oracle was certainly important.
But Lin Mo was constantly thinking about how to find this mastermind as soon as possible and remove this ticking time bomb.
The problem was that the boss was hiding in the shadows, leaving Lin Mo with no way to take the initiative.
So he thought back to what Tyrant had said before killing him in his second life after finding him in the real world, ["If you want to blame someone, blame yourself for being too high-profile."]
Since being high-profile was what made that mastermind target him in the first place, he might as well make himself even more noticeable.
Maybe this would be a chance to lure the snake out of its hole.
After failing several times, the boss definitely wouldn't give up.
What would he think when he saw Lin Mo rapidly growing stronger by hunting Bosses on a large scale?
Following normal logic, he would surely want to act before Lin Mo became even stronger and eliminate him as quickly as possible.
The longer he waited, the harder it would become.
So on the surface, Lin Mo calmly took Ning Xi around to farm Bosses.
But in secret, he kept a close watch on his surroundings, carefully observing every person they encountered wherever they went.
Although the main purpose of this Boss hunt was to replace the blood in the Blood Crystals while helping Ning Xi accumulate reputation, one had to admit that killing Bosses really did level you up fast.
Even though almost all of these Bosses were below level 60 and lower level than Lin Mo, causing him to suffer experience penalties when killing them.
Based on a 10% experience reduction per level difference, Lin Mo could only receive 40% of the combat experience reward from a level 55 Boss.
Even so, after killing more than a hundred Bosses in a single day, Lin Mo still advanced at an astonishing pace, jumping from level 61 to level 64.
Three levels in one day.
Besides that, all one hundred Blood Crystals had successfully completed the blood replacement process.
Recalling his previous life, Lin Mo muttered, "Next, I just need to return to the city and find that follower of the God Clan. He can use these Living Blood Crystals to forge the Key of God."
This operation had been extremely successful.
Of the one hundred Bosses purchased, ninety-five were Tier 2 and Tier 3, while the remaining five were Tier 4 Bosses.
The total purchase cost was 57.5 million yuan.
The gold coins, equipment, skill books, magic scrolls, and other resources dropped by those Bosses were worth around 40 million yuan in total.
That was only because Ning Xi needed reputation to boost the rewards of the Tenth Hall of Yama Hall.
Otherwise, if all the Bosses had received the tenfold reward boost, the total value of the drops would have increased ten times over the current amount.
After deducting the value of those resources, Lin Mo's actual spending wasn't very high.
Spending 20 million yuan in exchange for a Key of God that could activate the rare hidden dungeon Divine Tomb, plus the 950,000 reputation points Ning Xi gained after her talent's hundredfold bonus, it was worth it.
And in reality, Lin Mo's actual expense was zero.
Because Ling Xue had reimbursed all the money spent on purchasing the Bosses.
Whether it was the vice president position and exclusive K8-level benefits he received when joining the Divine Nation Guild, or the two sets of Tier 5 equipment worth 160 million yuan, or the Practice Makes Perfect Magic Scroll capable of upgrading an E-rank ultimate skill all the way to SSS-rank, or even today's reimbursement of more than 50 million yuan worth of Boss purchases, Lin Mo could truly feel that in this life, Ming Yuexin had treated him very well.
The firm desire to take revenge on Ming Yuexin that once filled Lin Mo's heart had gradually been shaken loose by her actions.
'When I find out the truth, Ming Yuexin, if what happened in my previous life was truly because you were controlled and used by someone else, then I won't blame you. I'll even help you remove that threat as repayment for your full investment in me.'
'But if I find out you weren't being controlled, and everything was done for your own selfish desires, then no matter how well you've treated me, I will kill you.'
Determination and killing intent filled Lin Mo's eyes.
Back to the main topic.
While Ning Xi gained 950,000 reputation points through the hundredfold reputation bonus of her SSS-rank talent Supreme Emperor, Lin Mo, although lacking a hundredfold multiplier, still had the double reputation bonus from the golden title Famous Across the World.
In the end, he also gained more than 19,000 reputation points.
Adding his original 5,700 reputation, Lin Mo's total reputation had now reached 24,700 points.
"My SSS-rank talent Soul Flame is currently at the fourth stage. The original reputation requirement to advance to the fifth stage was 30,000."
Looking at his talent panel, Lin Mo said excitedly, "But thanks to the effect of the golden title Famous Across the World, which reduces reputation consumption by 30%, I only need 21,000 reputation to upgrade my talent."
"I already have enough reputation to advance it."
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First Stage: Equipment Incineration.
Second Stage: Skill Incineration.
Third Stage: Pet Incineration.
Fourth Stage: Title Incineration.
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The powerful abilities granted by these four stages of Soul Flame, each capable of changing one's fate, filled Lin Mo with anticipation for the new ability about to unlock in the fifth stage.
Without hesitation, Lin Mo upgraded his talent.
[Ding~ Consumed 21,000 reputation points (the golden title Famous Across the World has offset 9,000 reputation points). Congratulations! Your unique SSS-rank talent Soul Flame has advanced to the fifth stage. New talent effect unlocked!]
A flash of golden light swept across the talent panel.
Lin Mo looked at the fifth stage of the talent, which had previously been marked as "Locked," and saw a new entry appear.
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[Soul Flame] (Unique SSS-Rank Talent · Fifth Stage)
Description: Burn the soul and release Soul Flame. It can incinerate all things in the world and transform them into the power of evolution for the host's use.
Effect 1: Equipment Incineration
Effect 2: Skill Incineration
Effect 3: Pet Incineration
Effect 4: Title Incineration
Effect 5: Scroll Incineration (The talent holder can gain Scroll Evolution Points by incinerating any magic scroll and can use those points to evolve magic scrolls up to SSS-rank. Magic scrolls that have been evolved become bound and cannot be dropped or traded.)
Effect 6: Locked
[Advancement Requirement: 210,000 reputation points (the golden title Famous Across the World has already reduced the requirement by 90,000 reputation points)]
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Lin Mo was stunned.
"It's actually..."
"Scroll Incineration?"