Chapter 401: Tier 2 Attribute: Holy Contamination (3.5k)
“Gratitude has reached Tier 2 already?”
Su Jiu’s face showed obvious joy. After the call on the other end of the phone ended, she opened her phone to the official app interface and looked at the interface showing over 500,000 contribution points.
“Ice Attribute is here. Excluding the special nature of the Blood Clan, I’m currently missing Fire Attribute, Dark Erosion Attribute, and Light Attribute. For Fire, I’ll wait until evolution. For now, I’ll focus on exchanging for Dark Erosion and Light Attributes.”
“Dark Erosion can have a special effect on enemies with strong defense, like those with high defense such as Kyoungde, essentially acting as armor-piercing. Light Attribute can provide high defense, compensating for my weakness of high offense and low defense.”
“I’ll take a look before making a decision.”
Su Jiu pondered for a moment, then paused and continued to scroll down the interface. She saw that several attribute enhancement options, which had been blacked out, had lit up. She locked her search to attributes that suited her: [Holy Light and Dark Erosion].
[Holy Sigh: 1.8 million contribution points…]
[Demon Spirit User: 660,000 contribution points…]
Soon, strange products began appearing in the phone’s store, mostly items costing upwards of 600,000. Although Su Jiu was extremely tempted, she didn’t have that much money.
“Should I look at the more common ones?”
Su Jiu clicked her tongue and then clicked on the one with the highest overall rating – yes, the interface design was similar to Taobao.
Ranked first: [Hound Demon: 258,000 contribution points, for Tier 2 Dark Erosion Attribute advancement, taken from the War God Level monster [Nightmare Hound], no special effects… (No additional requirements).]
Ranked second: [Yang Lie: 314,500 contribution points, for Tier 2 Light Attribute advancement, taken from the artificially cultivated [Blazing Sun Flower], special effect: blinding… (No additional requirements)]
…
Su Jiu went down the rankings one by one and roughly understood why these items had such high overall ratings. A large part of the reason was the three words: “High Adaptability.” And the price was only around 300,000, focusing on being cheap.
“The ones before are the Pro version, and this is the youth version. Are you crazy? Are there any normal ones?”
Su Jiu shook her head, her mouth twitching, and sighed.
These items were too mediocre. After Su Jiu obtained the special green Ice Attribute, she discovered that among Extraordinary Attributes, some were powerful and even came with purification-type special effects, while others – like her orange fire, were useless except for being hotter.
“These are cheap, but for me, it’s not worth saving. I will be using Tier 2 attributes for a long time – but I don’t have that much money. Do defective attributes come with discounts?”
Suddenly, an idea struck her. Su Jiu changed the overall rating to discounted products. As expected, Dragon Country’s design was very practical, and it immediately displayed the products with the highest discount. The picture showed a dark light, with a line of text in the upper right corner – Down 70%.
[Holy Contamination: 500,000 contribution points, for Tier 2 Light Attribute advancement, taken from the Dark Erosion Attribute Black Dragon…]
Looking at the product before her, Su Jiu’s eyes moved down the description, and she gradually started to not understand. She furrowed her brow and muttered to herself, “Obtained from killing a special Dark Erosion Attribute Black Dragon a century ago, transformed from its heart. Special effect: Corrosive damage attached with dragon’s breath. Special effect 2: Powerful effect to break through Holy Attribute shields.”
“There is a significant negative effect: The Black Dragon, before its death, bestowed a fatal curse upon it – Dark Fall. If used by a human, it is highly likely to cause the Bloodline Attribute to reverse into the Dark Attribute.”
As is well known, if a bloodline undergoes attribute reversal, a large part of the previously cultivated skills become unusable, and it might even backfire, shortening one’s lifespan. Normal people would not consider such a thing – but, Boss Su’s eyes suddenly widened…
Isn’t this a gift from heaven?
You revert if you want, but if I blink, I lose. It’s best if it even boosts my Dark Erosion Attribute.
Su Jiu immediately chuckled and clicked to place the order. Given the speed of the Gratitude-level products in the contribution point store, it would probably be delivered by a Special Envoy tomorrow.
“It’s nine o’clock, time to go to the competition venue – today is apparently the competition for 12 to advance to 6. I wonder who our opponent is?”
She stretched, glanced at the time on her phone, and tidied up the room a bit.
Then she walked towards E Huo, who was hugging his legs on the bed watching anime, and said with a smile, “E Huo, it’s time to compete.”
“Mom, I can’t walk, I need a hug!”
E Huo blinked its golden vertical pupils and looked over. It stretched out its hands towards the departing Su Jiu, with a hint of longing in its eyes.
“You could get potato chips yourself yesterday, right? You have to do things yourself, you can’t rely on Mommy for everything…”
Su Jiu’s face instantly turned into a dead fish eye, and she directly refused. She had watched this little foodie go to the door to get snacks like potato chips.
Boss Su was counting on E Huo to become an emotionless second looting machine. Faced with E Huo, who wanted to be spoiled…
Boss Su’s answer was –
“But in the anime, Shin-chan can walk without getting hurt – but his dad carries him!”
E Huo suddenly tugged at Su Jiu’s clothes, pointed at the TV, and said very seriously. Although its voice was girlish, there was always an unremovable milky tone.
Following its gaze, Su Jiu was slightly stunned. She looked at the plot in the anime, pointing at the scene where the father carried his son home from school. The setting sun looked very leisurely and joyful.
“…Alright, alright.”
Su Jiu pursed her lips, then gently stroked E Huo’s head, picked it up, and held it on her shoulders, chuckling, “Let’s go high, E Huo, hold on tight…”
She realized that she had been called “Mommy” for so long, but she had never truly considered E Huo as family. Now that it had transformed, looking at it, it was no different from her daughter.
Dull and silly, satisfied with a bit of food.
“Let’s go! Mommy!”
E Huo’s dragon pupils slowly widened, its hands resting on Su Jiu’s head, grinning foolishly and waving its arms. However, one of its fingernails emitted an orange-red glow, like a fierce flame.
…
When Su Jiu arrived outside the competition venue carrying E Huo, she looked at the crowd that had almost completely blocked the entrance to the plaza. With her petite figure, she squeezed her way in and felt a bit fortunate that she hadn’t arrived too late.
Passing through the passage and arriving at a seat in the front row, she met up with Li Yi and the others. She saw the relaxed and contented expressions on their faces and then sat down with E Huo, asking with a playful tone, “Are our opponents very weak? Seeing your expressions.”
Nodding slightly, Li Yi’s dark face broke into a brilliant smile. He held an electronic tablet and pointed to the information on it, saying, “We’ve been matched with Aers’ team. This is a team from a small country. Normally, they shouldn’t have been ranked this high, but their reckless fighting style made a top university regret it within 24 hours.”
“Aers… Yisha University, huh.”
Su Jiu recalled the female student she had traveled with on the plane, but then she curiously asked, “Putting that aside, do we have any other teams from our country in the top 12?”
This time, Chen Jia’er, who was beside Li Yi, spoke up. She analyzed the current situation in the competition venue quite seriously for Su Jiu: “Besides us, there’s also a team from Magic City that has entered the top 12. Their captain’s surname is Mo, and she’s likely a battle fanatic. Her strength is around Initial Stage Battle King, and it’s said she can reach Intermediate Battle King when she bursts out.”
“However, she’s definitely not as good as you, Captain. After all, Captain, you even defeated someone as powerful as Ms. Suzuki Yoshiko.”
She paused again, looking at Su Jiu with admiration. She noticed that someone seemed to be missing next to Su Jiu and continued, somewhat curiously, “Hasn’t Miss Yun Xi, who has always been in contact with Captain, come? The last match of this morning is ours.”
“Her? She went home for something.”
Slightly stunned, Su Jiu smiled casually. Her gaze returned to the stage, but the shimmering in her eyes proved that her heart was not as calm. However, she wasn’t a seventeen or eighteen-year-old youngster, so she didn’t show it.
Without strength, all are so-called powerless rage.
Chen Jia’er nodded, then suddenly thought of something. She tapped her chin with a finger, her eyes wide open, and said, “Oh right, Captain, a representative from Dragon Country’s judges came to find us this morning to ask if you were out ‘scavenging’ the night before.”
Hearing this, Su Jiu turned her head, her eyes filled with curiosity, and asked, “Then what did you tell him?”
“We clearly stated that Captain, you were in the room – (6) ⊙{z栮II⒊罒8爸司mian, cultivating.”
Chen Jia’er waved her hand and said helplessly, “But judging by his expression, he still seemed quite convinced. He probably has some evidence.”
“It’s not a big deal. He was just here to help me clear up trouble.”
Su Jiu waved her hand casually, resting her chin on E Huo’s green silk. The matches passed by like a blur. These seemingly dangerous matches were basically like children playing house for her, apart from being a bit flashy.
“Stanford University wins! Next up is the final round this morning, Magic City University, represented by the ‘Moyu’ team, against Yisha University, represented by the Aers team.”
The match in the arena was also drawing to a close. Following the referee’s announcement of victory, the two contestants in the arena, one lightly injured and one seriously injured, were helped away.
As the referee’s voice fell, the noisy plaza fell silent for a moment, and then countless gazes suddenly shifted to Su Jiu, who was half-asleep, and then quickly moved to Mo La in Aers’ team. Those gazes held various meanings, but the expressions of amusement were the most prevalent.
They were originally the weakest team, and they actually encountered the absolute dark horse of the competition. Wasn’t this a complete loss?
“~! Wu Yi Qi Ba Ba Ling Qi ⑥ Yi Rang Ni Men Lian He Qi Ta Guo Jia Fan Gong, Hai Xiang Zai Shi Jie Sai Shang Fa Sheng, Qu Si Ba…”
Among them, Yela, the representative, was smiling the most happily. His country’s team had been eliminated early, and he had been somewhat displeased. Now, he could already imagine Mo La being severely taught a lesson by Su Jiu.
“Captain, do you still need to personally handle it? I feel like I can do it too.” Ah Hu from the team began to rub his fists together. His gaze fell on Aers’ team, and he grinned and asked.
“I’ll go down and try first. If anyone wants to go, they can switch with me at the Priest position.”
Su Jiu smiled slightly. Under the gaze of everyone, she slowly stood up, lightly tapping her toes on the stands, and her body floated down to the arena, then slowly walked towards the referee.
Only a moment after Su Jiu entered the competition field, Mo La turned into a red stream of light and landed on the side of the ring. In her hand, she held a paper tube less than a meter long, and she walked towards Su Jiu very seriously, her gaze lowered, seemingly carrying inexplicable emotions.
One step, two steps…
The referee also frowned and reminded, “Captain of Yisha University, carrying dangerous items into the competition is not allowed.”
Su Jiu looked at the cylindrical shape and was stunned for a moment. This was…
At the same time, Yun Mo on the judges’ stand was also stunned. He looked at the exclusive Dragon Country logo on the tube and muttered:
“This seems to be…”
Ten steps, eleven steps…
Mo La finally arrived in front of Su Jiu. She suddenly bowed slightly, holding the cylindrical object high, and said in rather awkward, as if practiced for a long time, Chinese:
“We forfeit this match. Mo La of Yisha University, on behalf of Aers, extends the highest respect to you and Dragon Country, and will always treat you with the courtesy of a national scholar.”
“Your country’s flag, returned to its owner!”
