"I never expected... that the war would come so soon…" a teacher sighed, gazing up at the sky. "It seems I should propose to my girlfriend. Perhaps there is still time to leave a descendant for the Yu Family before the war arrives."

Hearing this, Wu Shaohua's face darkened in the crowd.

"I promised to take my mom to see the South Heavenly Gate, but I just haven't had the time... Next month on my vacation, I should really take her to visit."

Wang Lan didn't go home to Phoenix Plaza to sleep; instead, he slept for a whole day in the dormitory. When he woke up, he immediately felt uneasy—it was only four in the afternoon. Night was approaching again, time to sleep, damn it!

He had planned just to lie down on the bed, having agreed not to sleep. To fight off the sleepiness, Wang Lan had even downloaded the hottest online game to play. He really couldn't understand how others could play games without sleep for days and nights and still remain spirited. I fell asleep after just a few minutes of playing.

After waking up and brushing his teeth and washing his face, Wang Lan returned to his bed and sat cross-legged. Having received the Eternal Friendship Medal, he was rewarded with two hundred thousand skill points, and he could finally indulge a little.

Plunging into the system, Wang Lan's current Gold-level Star Martial Skills included the Star Cloud Sword Dance, Thunder Snake, Water Severing Knife, Weight Exchange, Gate of The Underworld, Sentient Beings, Wind Capturing Net, Universal Decomposition, and Basic Skills like Inch Strength Fist, Spiritual Engraving, Basic Body Skill, Basic Swordsmanship, Basic Evasion, and Basic Combat.

Apart from Basic Swordsmanship, Basic Sword Skill, Basic Evasion, and Basic Combat, Wang Lan planned to upgrade all the other Star Martial Skills to Platinum level. Even the one considered the least useful, Universal Decomposition.

You don't realize until you calculate it, and when I did, I got quite the shock. So many Star Martial Skills, all to be upgraded to Platinum level—even two hundred thousand skill points wouldn't be enough.

Scanning over each Star Martial Skill, he finally settled on Sentient Beings. Sentient Beings, a wood attribute, offensive and defensive in one, covers an area of three hundred meters. Basically, any enemy that enters is as good as dead.

The few close-range Star Martial Skills Wang Lan mastered are suitable for quick kills, and the Heavenly Fire Extinguishing World, Earth Fire Roar, and even the super Star Martial Skill created by combining the two were suitable for sieging and raiding. Hence, Wang Lan didn't yet have a Star Martial Skill for defending territory.

If there was a need to station at a certain strongpoint and hold the ground, relying on offensive Star Martial Skills would be inappropriate. Then Sentient Beings would be the perfect choice.

It hurt to spend over fifty thousand skill points just to upgrade Sentient Beings from Gold One to Platinum One. How painful! As the white light flashed before him, Sentient Beings also completed its sublimation from Gold to Platinum.

The name of the Star Martial Skill changed as well, evolving into a name full of Zen—Mandala Flower!

Wang Lan focused his spiritual power on the Star Martial Skill. Mandala Flower, born in the underworld, grown in the Yellow Springs. When the Star Martial Skill is activated, within a five-hundred-meter radius, vines of Mandala Flower will bloom. Flowers blossoming in the human world, spreading intoxicating pollen that pulls those who inhale it into the illusionary realm, sinking into oblivion.

In short, it still worked the same way as Sentient Beings, except the range had expanded from three hundred meters to five hundred, and in addition to entangling and absorbing Star Power, the vines would now bloom. The flowers would release hallucinogenic Star Martial Toxins that could pull people into illusions and easily capture them.

As everyone knows, Star Martial Toxins are the hardest to deal with and the most feared. Before Wang Lan invented the Star Martial Toxin Vaccine, Star Martial Warriors would flee as far as possible from Poisonous Beasts.

At this moment, Wang Lan suddenly felt like he was shooting himself in the foot. I invented the method for producing the Star Martial Toxin Vaccine, and you turn around and give me a Star Martial Skill that releases Star Martial Toxins?

In the future, as more and more countries master the Star Martial Toxin Vaccine, Star Martial Toxins will become a conventional attribute and be countered.

That mental image…

He pictured himself bringing his hands together. Star Martial Skill, Mandala Flower.

Don't panic everyone, let's get vaccinated first!

The vaccine is even produced by my aunt's Jiayi Biotech Company. Thinking about this mental image, Wang Lan felt screwed.

Shaking the image from his mind, he dared not think further.

One Mandala Flower has already spent a quarter of my skill points; it's too damn expensive. I need to be more selective with the Star Martial Skills below and not waste them.

Gate of The Underworld? Let's exclude that for now. With Holy Shield and Saint Cloth, I don't need defense. Weight Exchange... This skill is quite useful. Although I mostly use it to fly, if I were to throw a rock or something, it could create a meteorite effect.

With this Star Martial Skill, in the future, I could do the work of dozens of people alone just moving bricks... Pfft, I'm getting carried away.

But for now, he wasn't lacking in offense: close-range with Extreme Heat Light Beam and long-range with Star Sky God Arrow. Plus, with another fifty thousand skill points needed to upgrade, he had to painfully exclude it and consider upgrading later if there were leftovers.

Water Severing Knife... This can work; only ten thousand skill points are enough to upgrade. Adding ten thousand skill points, the Water Severing Knife was upgraded to Platinum, and its name also evolved into Whirlpool Water Blade.

The previous Water Sword was formed by emitting a high-pressure water jet from his mouth, the formidable impact force coupled with unmatched speed to slice through the target. After the completion of the upgrade, the point of release was no longer from his mouth but could come from the palms of both hands.

Furthermore, the construction of the Water Sword changed from a simple jet to four thin water blades intertwined and woven together. Upon discharge, while retaining the original impact force and cutting ability, the blades spun rapidly.

Its cross-section was like a four-flute mill cutter. Such a water blade's cutting power increased by more than tenfold. Compared with before, if the previous Water Sword took three to five seconds to cut through a ten-centimeter thick steel plate, now, it wouldn't even take one second. A ten-centimeter thick steel plate could be sliced instantly.

As long as one is hit by the Whirlpool Water Blade, I reckon even the most formidable defenses would be ineffective. Only defensive types like my Holy Shield can handle it; not even my own Gate of The Underworld could withstand a light cut from the Whirlpool Water Blade.

Afterward, Wang Lan's gaze settled on the Thunder Snake. A Gold-level Thunder Snake could already undergo multi-form transformations. Particularly, the Thunder Activity ability had given Wang Lan a significant boost in power at the beginning.

However, it was only after he learned Phantom Tracer that Thunder Activity was replaced. The Thunder Snake was now at Gold Level Seven, and it took three thousand skill points to upgrade to the Platinum level.

Even at the Gold level, Wang Lan sensed that the Thunder Snake's later transformations should lean towards a thunderous constitution. Sure enough, after successfully upgrading to Platinum, the name of the Star Martial Skill evolved into Thor.

Upon using Thor, one's body turns into a body of lightning, capable of releasing and controlling thunder and lightning. It also grants super-fast movement speed and the ability to travel through any conductive material.

This ability was truly interesting, and Wang Lan's eyes gleamed with excitement.

After upgrading these three skills, there were still about one hundred and thirty thousand skill points left. In the end, Wang Lan's eyes shifted back and forth between Universal Decomposition and Star Cloud Sword Dance.

Universal Decomposition, dubbed an S-level Star Martial Skill without offensive power by Sun Li, didn't mean it was useless. Without Universal Decomposition, the Star Martial Toxin Vaccine would never have come into existence. Without it, many substances that could not be analyzed would still be enigmas.

But it's a Star Martial Skill. As a Star Martial Skill, as an S-level Star Martial Skill, isn't it a shame to lack offensive power?

In the hands of others, Universal Decomposition was destined for such a fate. Coupled with scientific research, the skill could be used for decomposing things, such as the special metals used to repair Wang Lan's Saint Cloth, to see if they could be artificially synthesized after decomposition.

But in Wang Lan's hands, all things were possible. Haven't you seen an A-level Flame Sword that was upgraded all the way to an Extreme Heat Light Beam? Out of curiosity or recognition of an S-level Star Martial Skill, Wang Lan ultimately decided to spend fifty thousand skill points to upgrade it.

Spending fifty thousand skill points still hurt a bit. It was like spending money on loot boxes: thrilling to do a ten-pull, but painfully expensive to recharge one's account.

After the flash of white light faded, Universal Decomposition was reborn.

Annihilation!

The rejuvenated Star Martial Skill had just two simple words, but these words carried a profound and unfathomable aura.

"Everything under the heavens has a beginning and an end. With rebirth, there also comes annihilation! All matter touched, including but not limited to elements, will swiftly be annihilated into nothingness in the darkness."

The skill description was cryptic, leaving Wang Lan momentarily bewildered. To comprehend the mysteries of Annihilation, Wang Lan channeled his Star Power, and instantly, a black glow converged in his palm, rapidly dissipating.

Yet, with the advent of Annihilation, Wang Lan's internal Star Power was being consumed crazily. In just under three seconds, half of his internal Star Power was gone.

Fucking hell!

This Star Power of mine, which has been upgraded to the mid-stage Galaxy Stage thanks to the inheritance from The Whirlpool Clan, can sustain a Star Martial Skill for less than ten seconds?

Damn it, not even the combined use of Heavenly Fire Extinguishing World and Earth Fire Roar is as terrifying in its consumption! Apart from an R-skill like Star Sky God Arrow, none of my Platinum-level Star Martial Skills exhaust power at such a frightening rate.

Hurriedly, Wang Lan took out a Soul Bead to replenish himself.

But in those three seconds, Wang Lan grasped the effects of Annihilation.

Annihilation, as the name implies, erases all things in existence into oblivion. Moreover, Annihilation leaves no trace of disappearance, only an instantaneous spectacle.

No matter the material or substance, anything that comes in contact with Annihilation would melt into nothingness. Unfortunately, the Annihilation Wang Lan could control was too insignificant, only the size of a pot lid, not even as good as the former Holy Shield.

Although the power of Annihilation was indeed impressive, the consumption was simply too brutal. Using Annihilation once depleted his resources in under ten seconds. Even with the replenishing effect of Soul Beads, it was feared that the replenishing rate couldn't keep up with the consumption.

Indeed, Universal Decomposition was not the end of this skill, but the beginning. Or perhaps, the original goal of the great mind behind creating Universal Decomposition was Annihilation. It's just a pity that it ended up as Universal Decomposition in the end.

Because this Star Martial Skill lacked offensive power, and due to its high learning difficulty, naturally, few people were willing to learn it. With fewer learners, even fewer would research and improve it. A Star Martial Skill with far more potential than the Phoenix Form ended up collapsing halfway.

Although Wang Lan's current strength wasn't enough for Annihilation to be utilized in real combat, once he reaches the Star Sea Stage, or a level like that of the Five Emperors, Annihilation would shine brightly in his hands.

With the remaining skill points, Wang Lan upgraded Star Cloud Sword Dance and Inch Strength Fist to Platinum. The purpose of Inch Strength Fist was to counter any special ability user with a bizarre power like Silence. If silenced, all your fancy Star Martial Skills would be rendered useless, and that's when Inch Strength Fist could break the silence.

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