Universal Ascension: Starting with SSS-Level Talent - Chapter 45

Chapter 45: Temporarily Stopping at Super

After the dungeon challenge ended, Li Chengfeng and Shu Fuyao went straight home.

Now, the Xiaoyao Sect is their home.

Although all injuries were healed at the entrance upon exiting the dungeon, both of them were very tired after the challenge.

A lot of their Qi was depleted, requiring a day to recover and adjust.

The 1 million yuan entry bonus promised by the sect was quickly deposited into their accounts.

Shu Fuyao instantly felt like a little rich lady.

She started to splurge on a few nice outfits for herself.

Nowadays, many major countries practice a chivalry system.

Traditional-style clothing is popular in various countries, so Shu Fuyao also picked out one or two sets of traditional-style outfits at the marketplace.

Beautiful clothes always need someone to appreciate them, so she called out to Li Chengfeng from his room:

“Chengfeng, come out and see if this outfit looks good on me.”

Li Chengfeng came out of his room.

He saw a figure in flowing white robes, like an immortal, standing on the balcony.

A gentle breeze played with her long hair.

Her eyebrows were like a painting, her teeth white and lips red.

Graceful and elegant, with a captivating demeanor.

She looked like an immortal who had stepped out of a painting, or a celestial maiden who had descended to the mortal world.

Li Chengfeng couldn’t help but be stunned.

This immortal was… Shu Fuyao?

He didn’t recognize her for a moment and almost thought he had traveled through time.

“Does it look good?”

Shu Fuyao twirled around, her pure white dress spreading out like a flower.

“It looks great, absolutely stunning!”

Li Chengfeng had to admit that Shu Fuyao looked incredibly beautiful in traditional-style clothing.

He suddenly felt as if they weren’t living on the ninth floor, but in the heavenly palace above the nine heavens.

“Let’s go out for a walk, and also update our scores.”

Shu Fuyao suggested they go to the personnel department to register their latest achievements.

It would also help to improve their status points.

After all, these points are related to their salary.

They receive their salary on the 32nd of each month, which is in two days.

Registering their status points as soon as possible would help them earn more money.

Shu Fuyao originally had 21 points, which meant she would receive 21,000 yuan this payday.

The addition of two excellent achievements would increase her salary by half.

The excellent Braving the World Society achievement replaced her previous ordinary achievement.

So Shu Fuyao now had two achievements worth 5 points each, updating her status points to 30.

With the addition of his level and new achievements, Li Chengfeng’s status points reached 86.

Combined, their status points would allow them to get a better house.

However, they had just moved into their new home a couple of days ago and didn’t want to keep moving.

Besides, moving would only provide a slight improvement, not a significant change.

They had successfully cleared the hard mode of Braving the World Society.

And both of them had passed with high scores.

Such high scores indicated that their strength was quite good.

Li Chengfeng felt that as long as they upgraded their equipment a bit more, challenging the super difficulty of Braving the World Society should be achievable.

So, each of them selected and assembled a set of superior battle armor from the marketplace.

After resting and adjusting for a day, the two of them set off again to challenge the super difficulty of Braving the World Society.

However, this time, they were quickly defeated by Nie Feng and Bu Jingyun.

Under the super difficulty, Nie Feng wielded the Snow Drinking Mad Blade, and Bu Jingyun used the Peerless Sword.

Moreover, the attributes, combat intelligence, and martial skills of the two bosses had significantly increased.

Li Chengfeng and Shu Fuyao managed to hold on for over sixty rounds,

but were ultimately killed by Nie Feng and Bu Jingyun.

Of course, being killed in the secret realm challenge allows for resurrection.

Upon resurrection, Li Chengfeng and Shu Fuyao were immediately ejected from the dungeon.

Experiencing death firsthand was not a pleasant feeling at all.

Although death in the dungeon allows for resurrection, it shortens one’s lifespan by one year.

One year— even if their bodies had been modified to have a lifespan of 100 years.

If they kept dying like this, they would end up dying young.

Both of them agreed that they never wanted to be killed or die again.

The super difficulty was indeed as Ding Cheng had said, it was not something that could be easily challenged and cleared.

Whether it was their coordination or their martial skills, they were not yet at the level needed to pass the super difficulty.

Failure is the mother of success.

After returning, Li Chengfeng reflected on the lessons learned from their failure.

There were several reasons for their failure.

First, Shu Fuyao’s martial skills were not proficient enough.

Second, his own martial skills were also not proficient or strong enough.

Third, the coordination between him and Shu Fuyao in the Golden Youth and Jade Maiden Sword Technique had hit a bottleneck, and was not as seamless as the combined skills of Nie Feng and Bu Jingyun.

They needed to find a way to break through this bottleneck.

Fourth, in the previous two challenges, they had succeeded on the first try, which made them somewhat overconfident this time. He was still using the good-quality Jade-Breaking Sword for close combat. To clear the super mode, they needed to upgrade their equipment as much as possible.

Even if they couldn’t afford the best premium equipment, they should at least have a full set of superior gear.

With these reflections, Li Chengfeng knew what he needed to work on.

After resting for two days without fighting, Li Chengfeng took out the “Northern Darkness Divine Skill” he had received from the sect to practice.

Although this martial art was intricate and profound, Li Chengfeng had an SS-level martial skill talent, with extremely high comprehension, and a progress-boosting buff.

In just two days, he had practiced this skill to level one proficiency (Beginner).

He could basically use the Northern Darkness Divine Skill, but at his current proficiency level, absorbing others’ Qi was relatively slow.

As proficiency and the user’s internal skills improve, the speed of Qi absorption will also increase.

A week passed.

“Sign-in.”

【Ding! Weekly check-in successful.】

【Choose one of three rewards.】

【Reward 1: Internal skill progress speed increased by 500%.】

【Reward 2: Martial skill progress speed increased by 500%.】

【Reward 3: Random martial skill reward, quality not guaranteed.】