Holy Fist
Chapter 439 - 222 Enhanced Options: Master!

Chapter 439: 222 Enhanced Options: Master!

"Finally, it’s here..."

Bai Xiao leaned back in his seat, silently waiting.

Taking a deep breath, he slowly opened his eyes, his gaze sharpening slightly.

An information prompt quickly popped up.

[Would you like to use this professional enhancement?]

"Yes."

With a thought, his vision suddenly underwent a tremendous change.

[Below are the occupational enhancements for Dark World Martial Arts Competition contestants]

Mist filled the air and gradually dissipated.

’Enhancement 1: Phoenix (If you are in a critical and heavily injured state, you will gain a brief resurgence effect, during which you will return to your peak strength. However, the Phoenix effect stems from stimulating human potential and will consume the upper limit of it. Multiple activations may bring unknown consequences.)’

’Enhancement 2: Talent Evolution (You may choose any one of your talents and increase its level by +2. This is equivalent to enhancing the actual effect of that talent.)’

’Enhancement 3: Struggle of Trapped Beast (Targets locked by your aura and spirit will fall into a sluggish state, whether in movements or thoughts. This effect depends on the strength of your aura and spirit relative to the opponent’s. If the gap is significant, it can even cause complete stasis. Conversely, the smaller the gap, or if the opponent’s aura and spirit are much stronger than yours, it might not trigger the effect at all.)’

’Enhancement 4: Master (You are an undisputed master of Secret Martial Arts and Cultivation Techniques, able to keenly perceive the strengths and weaknesses of a Secret Martial Art or secret technique. Moreover, you have a considerable understanding of yourself. Therefore, you can integrate and fuse Secret Martial Skills that you’ve practiced to perfection! However, masters also have limits. Your limit is to extrapolate only similar types of Cultivation Techniques, to merge no more than three skills, and to select Secret Martial Skills of only third-rank or lower.)’

Bai Xiao’s gaze paused, full of energy. Indeed, compared to the city-level Dark World Martial Arts Competition, the provincial Shadow World Martial Arts Championship offered more substantial rewards. There was an extra enhancement option, and they seemed to have better effects. If the three enhancement options at the city level were considered ordinary, then the four at the provincial level might reach elite status.

The first one, Phoenix, is simple in its description: it can save your life when critically injured and restore peak strength. It’s a very good life-saving choice, and Bai Xiao would have seriously considered it if there were no side effects. After all, danger can befall anyone.

However, the side effects of the Phoenix will consume the upper limit of human potential, and multiple uses may bring unknown consequences, which makes it a bit unacceptable for him.

What if these unknown effects are severe?

Bai Xiao thought it’s best not to be rash with the unknown.

So, he put the first enhancement option aside. Looking at the second enhancement, Talent Evolution, it was an old friend to Bai Xiao, as he had chosen a similar enhancement during his upgrade in the Fighter profession.

But back then, it targeted only the Pure Heart talent and required step-by-step progression with professional levels to upgrade. The Talent Evolution now appearing allowed any talent to be chosen for enhancement. And, it increased by two levels immediately, with a direct and time-efficient effect.

However, Bai Xiao was still not fully satisfied with this.

Frankly speaking, Bai Xiao only had two talents now. One is the Pure Heart from his Secret Martial Arts Expert profession, and the other is Monster’s Friend from his Armored Knight profession. First of all, the Monster’s Friend talent actually doesn’t need the Talent Evolution. Its effect is to have a certain chance to absorb Monster Cells from Biological Mecha Masters killed by Bai Xiao and seize their Biological Armor. After evolution, it seems at most the chance to seize Armor would increase.

And this, Bai Xiao could compensate by killing more enemies.

Using a large base number to swap for chance.

Moreover, even if Bai Xiao chooses to enhance Monster’s Friend and the seizure chance skyrockets, he doesn’t have enough resources like mercury blood to instantly max out these Armors. Bai Xiao’s thought is that the speed of acquiring Biological Armor should keep up with the speed of obtaining mercury blood. Otherwise, extra Armors would just be wasted, unable to be used immediately.

"Ultimately, the Armored Knight profession is just to support the Secret Martial Arts Expert profession. The advancement of Monster’s Friend talent is to be left to chance; one can upgrade when there’s an opportunity. When it comes to decision making, it can be completely forsaken..."

Bai Xiao mused internally and then considered the Pure Heart talent. If the Pure Heart talent was elevated by two more levels, it would surely bring significant benefits to him. His Martial Arts perception and talent would be further strengthened. However, Bai Xiao’s Pure Heart had already been enhanced four times and was sufficient for now. He still had to look at the other enhancement options.

Enhancement Three, Struggle of Trapped Beast, seems like a classic case of bullying with power, looking similar to the Fierce Bird Secret Technique’s Three-Transformation Water Sky Form. However, it appears to be slightly weaker in potency, but longer in effect. It’s a passive, diluted version of the Water Sky Form, constantly pressuring and constraining the enemy.

Moreover, its effect is related to Bai Xiao’s momentum and spirit, obviously a growth-type enhancement. Even as he keeps getting stronger, it remains useful. Not bad.