"You have completed the mission and successfully assisted the Joker in planting bombs on the ferry. Reward received: Shard of the God Stone x1."
"Teleportation will begin in 30 seconds."
"10, 9, 8, 7, 6..."
As the countdown continued, the surrounding scenery quickly blurred. Then, Bai Ye's body began to shake, gradually fading until he finally disappeared.
In a moment, when the surroundings became clear again, Bai Ye found himself back at the place he was before entering the City of Sin.
A desolate ancient road, with a breeze occasionally blowing, carrying a hint of coolness and swirling sand.
Looking towards the distance, one could see towering city walls.
The winding Great Wall resembled a giant dragon.
Bai Ye shifted his steps, coming to sit by a withered tree beside the ancient road. Then, a light screen appeared before his eyes.
The exchange interface had arrived!
Bai Ye's Sin Value was 1210 points, directly overflowing.
The overflow portion was from accumulating Sin Value after reaching maximum capacity by continuing to kill Chosen Ones of the Order faction, and from killing Jiemas in the final mission.
However, it was useless.
The World Battlefield did not make any mistakes, allowing Bai Ye to exploit loopholes, as the Sin Value available for exchange remained one thousand.
Bai Ye had already known this. Otherwise, he could have used his Sin Value to max out, and during the time between completing the mission and finishing, he could have gone on a rampage hunting Chosen Ones of the Order faction, or gone on a spree of destruction to make his Sin Value overflow, thereby obtaining more Sin Value.
However, the maximum Sin Value that could be exchanged was 1000. As for the meaning of the extra two hundred...
Perhaps it was to prove that Bai Ye was a very bad villain?
Bai Ye shrugged self-mockingly and began to browse the items.
The exchangeable items were similar to those in the hidden forbidden zone during the full city chaos last time. Although the items were different, their tier and prices were comparable.
The best items only reached Black quality, with the lowest exchange price being 500 Sin Value and the highest being 1000 Sin Value. Among these, items starting at 500 were threshold items of Black quality, like the Pulse Dual Guns, while 1000 Sin Value was roughly the intermediate tier of Black quality.
Without hesitation, Bai Ye first exchanged for the Phoenix Perch Wutong Wood.
This item had been available during the full city chaos last time. However, Bai Ye only had fifty million at the time, and after exchanging for it, he had no extra money for other items, so Bai Ye chose not to exchange. This time, due to having a surplus, Bai Ye decisively exchanged for the Phoenix Perch Wutong Wood, upgrading his Phoenix ability from Blue to Black quality.
Phoenix (Ability) (Black): A power bestowed by the legendary phoenix, capable of burning everything with flames. If Phoenix Feather, Undying Flame, or Phoenix Perch Wutong Wood are obtained, the ability can grow and evolve. Effects: Phoenix Flame (Burns targets with fiery attacks), Flame Burst (Can detonate Phoenix Flame at will, causing secondary damage).
The Black quality Phoenix gained the Flame Burst effect. It had been temporarily enhanced using Loki's Lucky Roulette last time, and the power increase was quite significant.
With the remaining five hundred Sin Value, Bai Ye pondered for a moment before choosing a Blue quality magic spell – Teleportation.
Teleportation (Magic) (Blue): Uses the magic energy dispersed in the air to locate and then magically pull, instantly teleporting to that position. The caster's mental power determines the pre-teleportation duration and the number of consecutive casts. Current pre-teleportation duration: 2.5 seconds for each location lock. Current consecutive cast count: 3 times.
Bai Ye realized two problems during his trip to the City of Sin.
The first problem was that "Soru" (剃) was quite useful, so Bai Ye wanted a similar movement ability. If there were Six Styles among the exchangeable items, Bai Ye would have exchanged for Soru. Unfortunately, there were none.
The second problem was defensive capability, which was a reminder from Yong Zhen Nan Huang. Yong Zhen Nan Huang was a Red quality flying sword, but it had not unleashed its full power. The biggest issue was its strongest ability, "Heng Dao Li Ma" (横刀立马), which could not be triggered due to Bai Ye's lack of defensive means, causing Yong Zhen Nan Huang to be mainly used for physical enhancement.
And Yong Zhen Nan Huang's physical attribute enhancement, a base increase of 30 points, while not low, was definitely not up to Red quality standards. However, Yong Zhen Nan Huang had an additional percentage-based physical attribute increase, but it was closely related to the user's physical attributes, and thus also did not perform as expected.
However, Yong Zhen Nan Huang was ultimately a product of the gacha machine. Although it gave Bai Ye a reminder to pay attention to defensive abilities to avoid a situation where a good item was obtained but could not be used effectively, it was not urgent for now, so Bai Ye chose Teleportation.
Teleportation was excellent. Although it was Blue quality, because it was related to mental power, as long as the mental power was outstanding, Teleportation would definitely be above Blue quality standards. Moreover, auxiliary abilities did not have very high quality requirements; they primarily needed to be suitable.
After spending three hundred Sin Value to exchange for Teleportation, Bai Ye chose to exchange for medicines with the remaining two hundred Sin Value.
Golden Ring Pill (Item) (Green): Can heal injuries to a certain extent and remove all negative effects.
Drugs that instantly revive to full status, like the Chocolate Bar, were too expensive for Bai Ye. For pure healing potions, Bai Ye still had Cheese Sticks on hand, so Bai Ye chose the Golden Ring Pill, which could heal injuries to a certain extent and clear negative effects.
After all, Bai Ye was only 100% immune to poison; other negative statuses were still troublesome.
The Golden Ring Pill consumed one hundred and fifty Sin Value for Bai Ye. With the last fifty Sin Value, Bai Ye exchanged for two stacks of 99 Taoist talismans and a box of six energy blocks.
He no longer needed to be stingy with the Pulse Pistol.
However, the exchange items were not the main event; Bai Ye still had a good item in hand.
Initial Gene Modification Cell Fluid (Item) (Blue): A gene fluid that can strengthen the body by altering gene sequencing. After consumption, all physical attributes will randomly increase by 5-30 points. There is a 50% chance to unlock the first gene gate. If the first gene gate unlock fails, there will be side effects from gene sequencing recombination.
Anything that directly increased physical attributes was good stuff.
After all, personal strength was the foundation of everything and the most valuable form of power improvement.
However, in the City of Sin, Bai Ye did not dare to use this. If the physical toll was too great, or if side effects occurred, that would be a big problem.
And now...
Bai Ye glanced around. The wind was bleak, desolate, and uninhabited. It looked quite safe, so he could naturally inject it.
As for the side effects...
A fifty-fifty chance!
Betting might mean losing, but...
Not betting means never winning!
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