novelraw Chapter 254-1: Legendary Ninja Shell, Flower of Evil (1)
Chapter 254-1: Legendary Ninja Shell, Flower of Evil (1)
[You have possessed the Fire-Worshipping Heartless Ninja Master Shell!]
[Shell – Fire-Worshipping Heartless Ninja Master]
[True Name: Tisi Atsushi]
[Compatibility: 118% (+55%) Compatibility exceeds the threshold, shell quality upgraded!]
[Shell Quality: Legendary]
[Shell Level: 65]
[Shell Equipment: Legendary Ninja Garb (Epic Grade): A sleeveless tight-fitting ninja suit made of black sharkskin. Its skin-tight integrated design ensures it does not make the slightest sound during movement. Wearing this equipment reduces the noise produced when the shell moves, thereby enhancing the effectiveness of stealth skills.]
[Shell Skill: Heavenly Concealment Escape Art (Epic+ Grade): Requires extremely advanced ninja mastery to command this ultimate stealth technique. Using this skill maintains a long-duration invisibility/stealth state. After attacking an enemy, you will become visible.]
[Shell Skill: Moonlit Sixteenth Night (Epic+ Grade): A sword technique inherited from the Heartless Flow Ninja lineage, reaching a pinnacle of mastery. When this skill is used, the blade is sheathed, and after an extremely brief charge time, it unleashes an unmatched, ferocious attack.]
[Shell Skill: Heartless Flow Ninjutsu (Legendary Grade): The ninja way of the Heartless Flow school, incorporating the usage of Qi passed down from the Vermilion Empire. After countless years of arduous training, every movement is accompanied by the surge of Qi, granting a vast enhancement to overall power.][The original skills of this shell are all affected by the Karmic Fire Stacks. The higher the stack count, the stronger the skill effects.]
The Ninja Master Shell had the same quality as the Palace Master of Iya Palace, and with the compatibility bonus, both had reached Legendary rank.
Lin Xun began transferring equipment, moving the Iridescent Scaled Wing Boots, Phantom of the Night Cloak, Mask of Diabolos, and other items into the Ninja Master’s equipment slots.
Among them, the Dragon Sword Masamune and Golden Roc Raptor Claws could be equipped simultaneously, that is, dual wielded.
In the dual-wielding state, attacks could trigger the effects of both weapons.
However, the Hidden Blade – Widowmaker and the Golden Roc Raptor Claws could not be equipped together. Both belonged to the wrist equipment category, and the Golden Roc Raptor Claws occupied the forearm and lower leg slots, creating a conflict.
After this round of equipment enhancement, the Ninja Master shell became even more powerful.
It was worth mentioning the Dragon Jade, this Legendary item.
[Dragon Jade (Legendary Item): A piece of jade that was once brilliantly green, now dulled after exhausting its stored power. It must be nourished through slaughter to regain its glow.]
[You need to undergo continual slaughter to charge this item. When fully charged, you can embed it in the hilt of the Dragon Sword Masamune, upgrading the weapon’s quality and unlocking the mighty special technique – Heaven and Earth Flash.]
[Heaven and Earth Flash: Unleashes an endless aura of slaughter, massively amplifying your next attack or skill! This skill will consume all the accumulated slaughter aura within Dragon Jade, causing it to separate from the weapon.]
“The Ninja Master wasn’t joking about wiping out all the onmyoji in Iya Palace at the slightest provocation…”
Dragon Jade could be set to charging mode right in the inventory, though Lin Xun didn’t know how many small monsters it would take to fill it.
At this moment, aside from the monsters bound in chains and Tsukishiro Murasakiyo, there were also two unconscious True Shrine Maidens in the hall.
All of them were unconscious and unlikely to wake up anytime soon.
Lin Xun simply performed a transplant surgery, installing the Subterranean Shadow Fiend King’s Eyeball into the Ninja Master shell.
After thinking a moment, he decided this shell might later trigger related storylines in Sakura Falls Kyoto, so he didn’t implant the eyes in the head, instead embedding them in the chest, hidden under the clothing.
Skills like Pleasure-Hazed Sight required targeting enemies and thus had to be installed in an exposed location on the shell to activate instantly.
The Subterranean Shadow Fiend King’s Eyeball, however, served to enhance stealth skills and didn’t have this limitation.
The Valkyrie labored for quite a while and successfully completed the surgery.
This otherworldly eye seemed to be highly compatible with the Ninja Master shell.
After the transplant, the enhancement text for Dim Shadow flickered, clearly indicating the shell’s stealth skills had been greatly strengthened.
Having completed the reinforcement of the Ninja Master, it was time to review the spoils of war.
This boss battle had yielded a tremendous harvest, like playing on a private server, one strike had produced a screenful of equipment and items.
The Celestial Demon – Nurarihyon dropped four hundred thousand Spirit Essence, restoring Lin Xun’s recently depleted funds back to a million.
[Coiling Cloud Dragon-Patterned Censer (Epic Item): This censer had been filled with Incense Power many times and just as often drained. Even now, with only a trace of Incense Power left, it somehow still retains Epic quality.]
[Using this item will significantly increase your Incense Power (Faith Power).]
Lin Xun still had a Rare-grade censer in his inventory, so he decided to use them both now.
[You used the Coiling Cloud Dragon-Patterned Censer (Rare Item)…]
[Foul, polluted smoke billowed forth, flowing straight into your body…]
[Your Calamitous Fallen Dragon Embryo stack increased!]
[You have reached the tenth stack of Calamitous Fallen Dragon Embryo!]
[…]
[You used the Coiling Cloud Dragon-Patterned Censer (Epic Item)…]
[Foul, polluted smoke billowed forth, flowing straight into your body…]
[Your Calamitous Fallen Dragon Embryo stack increased!]
[You have reached the thirteenth stack of Calamitous Fallen Dragon Embryo!]
For story characters, absorbing Incense Power could enhance their overall strength and perhaps even allow them to ascend to godhood.
For Lin Xun, he had so far discovered only two uses for Incense Power.
The first was to treat it as a special consumable, which could be spent to learn related yokai arts.
The second was that while increasing Incense Power, it would also incidentally raise the unique Calamitous attribute of that faction.
Lin Xun decided that after he finished exploring the No-Illusions Shrine, he would return to Dragon Marsh Temple to see if the Dignitary Bull Demon had spawned any new yokai arts.
[Beak of Nurarihyon’s True Form (Material): The sharp, sturdy beak of a sea monster. It can be used to forge armor or craft weapons, a rare, highly versatile material.]
This chapter didn’t yield much material; so far, he had only collected three pieces, most of them dropping from yokai.
If he wanted to freeload powerful forged weapons and equipment, he still lacked a strong blacksmith shell.
For now, Lin Xun could only pack away the materials and leave it for the future.
[Unfinished Divine Idol (Legendary Item): A small divine idol that has not yet been fully carved. It depicts an old man with a strangely shaped head and indistinct features. Because it remains unfinished, the elder it represents has already perished. Therefore, even if incense is burned and offerings are made before it, no response will come.]
[However, the materials used to create the idol are extremely rare and precious, so even after losing its offering function, it possesses a unique suppressive property.]
[Using this item, along with the proper supporting skills, can subdue and capture yokai-type summoned beasts.]
“So it’s basically a Pokeball!”
When Lin Xun had captured the Snow Woman, he’d used an Epic-grade suppressive item. Now he had only a single Legendary suppressive item left, the Killing Stone.
Obtaining another Legendary suppressive item was an unexpected delight.
“Now I don’t have to agonize over whether to pick Shuten Doji or the Nine-Tailed Fox, I’ll just take them both into my harem!” Lin Xun grinned ear to ear as he looked at the next item.
[Nurarihyon’s Yokai Heart (Legendary Item): A yokai heart left behind by a Celestial Demon after death, containing a portion of Nurarihyon’s power essence.]
[Using this item will grant you a certain number of Calamitous Fallen Dragon Embryo stacks!]
Lin Xun immediately pressed the use option.
[You used Nurarihyon’s Yokai Heart (Legendary Item)!]
[You have gained twenty stacks of Calamitous Fallen Dragon Embryo!]
[A bluish-black Dragon Embryo aura briefly appeared on your shell, then vanished into it. In that instant, you seemed to sense you had broken through some boundary.]
Lin Xun quickly opened the panel to check.
In the attribute panel of the little dragonkin, every yokai art skill name was faintly tinged with a bluish aura.
At this moment, he was still within the range of the shrine’s divine power, so it was inconvenient to switch to the little dragonkin shell to test it.
Once he left this place, he would try out how far the Art of Transformation had progressed.
“I wonder if the Art of Transformation has a beauty filter effect…”