The first enlightenment of an Infant Soul was random, and the quality obtained could be either Two Extremes Transformation, Three Flowers Gathering at the Crown, or Five Energies Returning to the Origin.
If one could hit the jackpot and get an Infant Soul embryo of the Divine Transformation quality, it would save at least ten thousand Dragon Kingdom coins!
"Fellow immortal, if you wish to enlighten your Infant Soul, please pay one Supreme Clarity Jade."
The Three Officials Grand Emperor NPC smiled amiably at Jiang Yuan and said.
"Much obliged!"
Jiang Yuan spent one immortal crystal in the trading hall to buy a Supreme Clarity Jade, handed it over, and bowed in thanks.
[Ding! Infant Soul enlightenment successful!]
The Three Officials Grand Emperor pointed a finger at the [Unenlightened Infant Soul], and a prompt sounded in Jiang Yuan's ear.
[Infant Soul: Three Flowers Gathering at the Crown, Life-and-Death Realm]
Level: 1
Realm Requirement: Ascension
Quality: Crown Gathering
HP +1179
MP +1088
Skill Hit +1
HP Percentage +1%
Attack +504
Opening his backpack to check the newly enlightened Infant Soul, Jiang Yuan felt a slight relief—at least it wasn't the lowest first-tier Two Extremes Transformation quality.
Next, he needed to buy [Return to Origin Spirit Jade] to perform a Tribulation Return on the Infant Soul. Tribulation Return meant refinement; each time, the Infant Soul's attributes would change, becoming 3 attributes, 6 attributes, or the maximum 8 attributes depending on quality.
Opening the trading hall, Jiang Yuan first bought 10 [Return to Origin Spirit Jades], spending a thousand Dragon Kingdom coins to test the waters.
[Ding! Infant Soul Tribulation Return successful!]
Jiang Yuan took a look—well, only two attributes!
Keep going!
[Ding! Infant Soul Tribulation Return successful!]
Another look—four attributes, but all garbage!
Soon, all 10 [Return to Origin Spirit Jades] were used up. Jiang Yuan checked the Infant Soul's current attributes.
[Infant Soul: Three Flowers Gathering at the Crown, Life-and-Death Realm]
Level: 1
Realm Requirement: Ascension
Quality: Crown Gathering
HP +1302
Critical Rate +1%
Skill Dodge +1
"Damn! Only 3 attributes, this trash?"
Jiang Yuan had spent a thousand Dragon Kingdom coins and only refined a 3-attribute Infant Soul, a disappointed expression crossing his face.
Again!
Jiang Yuan opened the trading hall and bought another 10 [Return to Origin Spirit Jades].
The result was still deeply disappointing; the final Tribulation Return only gave the Infant Soul 4 garbage attributes.
Among character attributes, HP, MP, and hit rate were considered garbage, while HP percentage, MP percentage, critical rate, critical damage, skill hit, skill dodge, and ignore reduction were the good ones. Especially ignore reduction, as a newly added attribute, it directly determined a player's output ceiling.
"Heh! I refuse to believe this!"
Jiang Yuan was getting annoyed. This time, he directly spent ten thousand Dragon Kingdom coins to buy a thousand [Return to Origin Spirit Jades], ready for a big push!
[Ding! Infant Soul Tribulation Return successful!]
[Ding! Infant Soul Tribulation Return successful!]
[Ding! Infant Soul Tribulation Return successful!]
...
The system began outputting prompts in succession. The Infant Soul's attributes in the Tribulation Return interface kept changing, but most were 3, 4, or 5 attributes; 6 or more were almost never seen.
[Ding! Infant Soul Tribulation Return successful!]
With a prompt sound, Jiang Yuan paused briefly and took a look—this time, he finally refined 6 attributes.
[Infant Soul: Three Flowers Gathering at the Crown, Life-and-Death Realm]
Level: 1
Realm Requirement: Ascension
Quality: Crown Gathering
HP +1288
MP +1107
Critical Rate +1%
Fire Resistance +5
Critical Damage Reduction +1.5%
HP Percentage +1%
Jiang Yuan glanced at it. Among these six attributes, besides critical rate, critical damage reduction, and HP percentage being useful, the other three were useless.
"Sigh, let's continue."
Jiang Yuan sighed softly and began refining the Infant Soul's attributes again.
For the next half hour, Jiang Yuan buried himself in refreshing the Infant Soul's attributes over and over. With ten thousand Dragon Kingdom coins sunk in, he felt confident!
[Ding! Infant Soul Tribulation Return successful!]
After hearing this prompt for what felt like the hundredth time, Jiang Yuan finally refined an 8-attribute Infant Soul he was satisfied with!
[Infant Soul: Three Flowers Gathering at the Crown, Life-and-Death Realm]
Level: 1
Realm Requirement: Ascension
Quality: Crown Gathering
HP +1066
HP Percentage +1%
Critical Rate +1%
Critical Damage +1.5%
Ignore Reduction +0.5%
Skill Dodge +1
Critical Reduction +1%
Critical Damage Reduction +1.5%
[Ding! Fellow immortal Proud World Dragon King, through unremitting effort, Infant Soul quality has reached Cave Abyss Return to Void Divine Ability Realm!]
At the same time, a world announcement appeared in the chat bar, accompanied by a red-named Infant Soul.
Jiang Yuan clicked to check it and was instantly envious, drooling!
[Infant Soul: Cave Abyss Return to Void Divine Ability Realm]
Level: 20
Realm Requirement: Ascension
Quality: Return to Void
HP +12000
HP Percentage +15%
Attack +5000
Attack Percentage +15%
Critical Rate +13.3%
Critical Damage +50.2%
Ignore Reduction +6.6%
Skill Hit +27
"Truly top-tier! I wonder how much Proud World Dragon King spent!"
Jiang Yuan looked enviously at the Infant Soul posted by Proud World Dragon King on the world channel. For a warrior class, almost every attribute of this Infant Soul was perfectly suited!
But the Infant Soul he had just refined wasn't much worse in terms of attributes; it was just that the potential hadn't been maxed out yet, and the Infant Soul's level hadn't been raised.
Opening his backpack, he saw that only less than 200 of the 1000 [Return to Origin Spirit Jades] remained. In half an hour, he had consumed over 800!
Next, he needed to enhance the Infant Soul's various potentials, which required another item: [Three Sovereign Dao Body]. The price in the trading hall was three times that of [Return to Origin Spirit Jade], which cost 100 Dragon Kingdom coins each!
Sigh!
Jiang Yuan took a deep breath!
The money-burning phase had arrived!
He directly bought 100 [Three Sovereign Dao Bodies], spending 30,000 Dragon Kingdom coins, and began enhancing each of the Infant Soul's 8 attributes one by one.
[Infant Soul: Three Flowers Gathering at the Crown, Life-and-Death Realm]
Level: 1
Realm Requirement: Ascension
Quality: Crown Gathering
HP +1266
HP Percentage +1%
Critical Rate +1%
Critical Damage +1.5%
Ignore Reduction +0.5%
Skill Dodge +1
Critical Reduction +1%
Critical Damage Reduction +1.5%
Soon, the 100 [Three Sovereign Dao Bodies] were all used up. Jiang Yuan opened the Infant Soul interface and saw that the first HP attribute had only increased by 200 points!
"Damn! 80 failures out of 100 attempts, that failure rate is way too high!"
Jiang Yuan finally understood why Infant Souls were such a money sink. 80 failures out of 100 pulls—who could handle that?
What the hell, thirty thousand coins gone just like that?