As expected, the real snowball effect has begun!

The 5th Treasure Pearl needed only one rest break to get ashore; it took 15 minutes, and Basic Purification Technique leveled up 6 times!

The 6th Treasure Pearl was obtained just as Physical Strength was depleting, Basic Purification Technique level 10! But I still had to rest onshore to fully recover, which took another 10 minutes.

The 7th Pearl was a direct leap—half a bar of Physical Strength consumed without even using up two minutes, Intermediate Purification Technique level 2...

The 10th Pearl, resolved in half a minute, Intermediate Purification Technique level 10...

The 15th Pearl, resolved in just over ten seconds, Advanced Purification Technique level 3...

...

This snowball effect left Chun laughing himself silly; he really never expected skill leveling up could feel this great! Chun was even more interested in seeing if he could outright one-hit KO a shell rather than just scrape them.

But the idea stopped there—by the 16th Pearl, no changes!

By the 20th Treasure Pearl, still no changes—done in just over ten seconds, and Advanced Purification Technique was level 10!

Chun was a bit confused; was there really a cap?

Well, this speed is acceptable. With over a dozen remaining, let's finish them all.

But oddly, efficiency dropped, extended from ten seconds to half a minute, a minute, two minutes!

Chun was stunned! What's going on?

Fortunately, the Purification Technique finally broke through the bottleneck—System notification: Congratulations! Assisted by the filtering of the Sea Light Pearl, your Purification Technique has advanced to Expert level 1! Achievement reward: Physical Strength +2, Life +2, Load Capacity +2, Mana +2, extra achievement reward: Spirit +1, Expert-level Sea Light Pearl Cleansing, able to clean the Sea Light Pearl to restore Sea Light Pearl special skill effects.

Holy shit!

Why did I comprehend that at the expert level?

Chun hurriedly opened the inventory, truly surprised; the previously white, shining pearls had all turned pitch-black! The remaining pearls have various levels of blackening, with only the newly acquired ones still dazzling.

Checking the attributes of the blackened pearls: Divine Artifact-level material, Gemstone, Special Skill: Purification and Filtering (has absorbed a significant amount of impurities, requires purification cleansing)

Chun realized! No wonder it lacks power; turns out these pearls are like the filter cartridges of a water dispenser, needing cleaning!

But there aren't many shells left now, so let's make do; there won't be time to clean later as more shells will need to be broken.

This also reminded Chun that when advancing to Master-level module combination, the reward was indeed related to Magic Mirror Mastery. It's really determined by the auxiliary tools used to level up skills, rewarding the related tool—this narrows the path and makes one reluctant to sell the pearls... Is it possible that for convenience in cleaning pearls, I might also need to practice Jewelry Processing?

...

Finally, Chun cleared off the underwater shells of the Turtle, gaining a total of 28 pearls. Normally, Chun isn't afraid of death—not because he's brave, but because he's poor.

But now, marked as a significant target, with 28 Treasure Pearl Holy Artifact hoe Holy Artifact rope all on him, he's scared stiff, not daring to die at all! Fortunately, the Angel Divine Pet has an invincible ability anytime...

Next, it's time to scrape the shells—this is an advanced Construction Technique rush.

—System notification: It's now April 11th, midnight, Golden Continent time April 10th, noon...

A new day unknowingly begins.

According to the usual routine, time to check rankings.

Chun was feeling anxious, with these 28 Divine Artifact-level Treasure Pearls, won't it boost him up a position or two from the 10 Lords above him?

Upon checking, still at 11th place!!

Besides a sigh of relief, Chun was at a loss to describe his feelings. Are the Ten Lords really that strong? As for other big shots, at least the Seven-headed Serpent that Uriel couldn't handle was dealt with by me; it didn't seem all that formidable.

However, even so, if I were to bring these 28 pearls to battle the Seven-headed Serpent again, I wouldn't manage to win...

In any case, onward...

1 a.m.

Chun finally cleared and transported all 28 underwater shells away, Advanced Construction Technique level 10!

The relieved Old Turtle appreciatively exclaimed, "Feel like quite a bit of power has been recovered, thank you, Warrior! Please keep it up."

No, I'm thanking you! Gifting Divine Artifacts and skills can't fully express the Turtle God's benevolence...

Chun was deeply motivated, "Then I'll get rid of the shells above the water's surface..."

Chun's mind was clear, definitely not going to haul buckets for purification—sticking to the old method, using bottled water to smash.

Upon arriving at Plague Island, I still had 40 bottles of red potion from the sewer task, but after Old Whale's underwater battle against the Sea Abyss Octopus, these 40 bottles turned inadequate for stopping Old Whale's bleeding; but Chun couldn't bear to throw away those bottles—they've been ammunition all along, now they can finally be put to use.

Scanning Turtle Mountain Island, there are over thirty large shells in total... In short, there are still over a dozen empty wine bottles in the Obsidian cockpit. Speaking of wine bottles, Chun remembered unlocking a "Illusion Wine Purification" profession skill in the shipwreck safe—by all means, use it! Mixing water with wine should somehow level up the new skill a bit?

Chun again called out to the Siren, "Goddess, bring over a box of wine from the cabin along with the bottles!"

The Siren was hooked on transporting shells, now being particularly obedient, "Got it! Dear President~~"

Here we go again~~~

Inside the box, ten bottles remained, compared to the 40 small empty potion bottles—Chun suddenly realized there's no need to mix water at all! Ten bottles are enough to fill forty and have leftovers!

Chun got excited; onshore there's the onshore method, let's go for pure wine purification! Hoping it succeeds.

If it fails... then let's reminisce about the 300 boxes in the secret room with a sigh.

Busy for over ten minutes, filled 40 bottles, Chun officially began!

First, one hand lightly pries along the shell's edge with the hoe. After 28 underwater battles, Chun knew this is where the shell sprays black oil; as long as the shell isn't dead, it should react!

The other hand gripped the bottle to exert force, bright vortex swirled inside the bottle resembling a magic grenade! Simultaneously, Chun noticed the Treasure Pearl swirling light flow re-emerging around him.

Is it possible this pearl can purify without needing water?

Now's not the time to ponder this—Chun focused entirely on prying the shell, but no matter how he pried, the shell had no response at all!

Holy shit? Dead? Or playing dead? Or blasted dead last night?

Considering the shell's preciousness, Chun didn't dare pry forcefully—why not, simply try pressing the bottle's mouth into the shell's gap and pour this Vortex Wine inside?

Chun just pressed the bottle mouth against the shell gap, the vortex surged into the shell gap!

In that instant, Chun seemingly heard a sound from the shell—holy shit, alive! Chun instantly alert, swiftly dodged backward!

The next moment, the shell abruptly sprayed a significant amount of oil mist, Chun even dodging early still got stained by the black oil!

—System notification: Warning! You've suffered severe corrosive poison damage...

—System notification: Warning! Your Angel Divine Pet has suffered...

Chun hastily utilized the remaining half bottle of wine to exert force, meanwhile, the encasing black mist was repelled by the Treasure Pearl light stream blossoming on Chun.

Holy shit! This light stream truly works just as effectively without needing water!

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