"I can't bear to part with it! I can't bear to part with it!"
Jiang Yuan muttered with some heartache, then turned around and bought another 100 [Three Sovereign Dao Bodies].
As expected, a few minutes later, thirty thousand vanished again, exchanged for a measly 300 points of health increase.
"What a rip-off. I can only start washing from the first attribute. If only I could directly wash for Ignore Reduction!"
Jiang Yuan grumbled inwardly, then steeled himself and pulled out all six hundred thousand he'd earned from selling equipment earlier, dedicating it entirely to maxing out his Nascent Soul attributes!
Two hours passed, and after sinking six hundred thousand into it, Jiang Yuan had only managed to pull the first attribute halfway up!
"Brother Cangsheng, I need to ask you something."
Jiang Yuan paused, opened his friend list, and sent a message to Wen Ding Cangsheng.
"Are you trying to ask how much Ao Shi Long Huang spent on his Nascent Soul?"
"What the hell! How did you guess that in one shot?"
"Haha! Including you, over a dozen big shots have asked me that. I asked him too, and he said it was about twelve million, but I reckon it's not that much."
After finishing the conversation with Wen Ding Cangsheng, Jiang Yuan closed the chat window, shut his eyes, and took a few deep breaths!
After hearing what Wen Ding Cangsheng said, only two paths lay before Jiang Yuan now!
Either give up outright, letting the six hundred thousand go down the drain!
Or go all out and max it completely!
Having come this far, Jiang Yuan had no way back. If he begrudged the money and hesitated to invest, then he'd have to directly abandon this portion of the Nascent Soul's bonus attributes!
"The Ignore Reduction attribute is way too important to me. Without it, I might not even be able to damage bosses later on!"
After weighing the pros and cons, Jiang Yuan felt this money had to be spent!
Many might wonder—without this so-called "Ignore Reduction" attribute, would everyone just be unable to play the game?
The answer was obviously no!
There were countless players across the entire Dragon Kingdom server, but only a handful could break into the top ten of rankings like the level leaderboard!
Jiang Yuan could certainly choose to give up on the Nascent Soul attributes, but he'd inevitably drop out of the top tier and slowly fade into obscurity!
By the late game, even with his super-mythical talent, Jiang Yuan would become utterly mediocre!
"Damn it! Let's do this!"
Jiang Yuan gritted his teeth, made up his mind, and directly maxed out all eight attributes of the Nascent Soul!
Five hundred thousand!
One million!
Two million!
In an instant, the savings in Jiang Yuan's bank account flowed like water, pouring into the trading hall, transforming into batches of [Three Sovereign Dao Bodies] handed over to the Three Officials.
[Ding! Fellow Daoist Wen Ding Arrow God, through relentless effort, Nascent Soul quality has reached the Dong Ming Gui Xu Divine Ability Realm!]
[Ding! Fellow Daoist Call Me War God, through relentless effort, Nascent Soul quality has reached the Lian Gang Hua Shen Golden Core Realm!]
[Ding! Fellow Daoist Grant You a Lifetime of Splendor, through relentless effort, Nascent Soul quality has reached the Lian Gang Hua Shen Golden Core Realm!]
[Ding! Fellow Daoist One Blade Breaks All Laws, through relentless effort, Nascent Soul quality has reached the Wu Qi Chao Yuan Creation Realm!]
About ten minutes later, a series of world announcements popped up in the chat channel, catching Jiang Yuan's eye. The top ten big shots on the level leaderboard were all starting to make their moves!
Jiang Yuan opened each of their Nascent Souls for a look and found that, without exception, they'd all washed out the Ignore Reduction attribute. This only strengthened his conviction that he was on the right track!
[Ding! Fellow Daoist Jiang Yuan, through relentless effort, Nascent Soul quality has reached the Wu Qi Chao Yuan Creation Realm!]
After another half hour or so, the world channel, which had been quiet for a while, broadcast another world announcement related to Jiang Yuan.
[Nacent Soul: Wu Qi Chao Yuan Creation Realm] Level: 1 Realm Requirement: Ascension Quality: Chao Yuan Health: + Health Percentage: +15% Critical Hit Rate: +15% Critical Hit Damage: +55% Ignore Reduction: +0.5% Skill Evasion: +1 Critical Hit Reduction: +1% Critical Hit Damage Reduction: +1.5%
After nearly an hour of effort, Jiang Yuan had finally maxed out the first four attributes, pushing his Nascent Soul's quality to the next level!
Checking the recharge records in the trading hall, including the six hundred thousand from earlier, Jiang Yuan had already spent a full four million eight hundred thousand Dragon Kingdom dollars!
Two million four hundred thousand had only maxed out two attributes, averaging out to one million two hundred thousand per attribute.
"Maxing all of them would be nine million six hundred thousand. I wonder how Ao Shi Long Huang came up with that twelve million figure?"
Jiang Yuan muttered to himself, figuring Ao Shi Long Huang was probably exaggerating, but saving three million Dragon Kingdom dollars was still a huge sum for him!
A notification sound rang out, and Jiang Yuan felt utterly drained, almost on the verge of collapse!
He'd also planned to spend a few million after graduating college to buy his parents a bigger commercial apartment in Songjiang City.
[Ding! Fellow Daoist Jiang Yuan, through relentless effort, Nascent Soul quality has reached the Lian Gang Hua Shen Golden Core Realm!]
After another forty minutes or so, sinking nearly five million more, Jiang Yuan maxed out six of the attributes, and another world announcement appeared in the chat channel!
[Ding! Fellow Daoist Jiang Yuan, through relentless effort, Nascent Soul quality has reached the Dong Ming Gui Xu Divine Ability Realm!]
Having spent a full nine million six hundred thousand Dragon Kingdom dollars, Jiang Yuan had finally maxed out almost all eight attributes of the Nascent Soul!
All that was left was to use the experience from returning to tribulation to level the Nascent Soul to max, and everything would be set!
[Nacent Soul: Dong Ming Gui Xu Divine Ability Realm] Level: 20 Realm Requirement: Ascension Quality: Chao Yuan Health: + Health Percentage: +15% Critical Hit Rate: +15% Critical Hit Damage: +55% Ignore Reduction: +7.9% Skill Evasion: +27 Critical Hit Reduction: +15% Critical Hit Damage Reduction: +45%
"Wah wah wah!" "Haha haha!"
Jiang Yuan was crying and laughing at the same time—crying because nearly ten million had vanished from his account in one afternoon, laughing because he'd finally finished this money-draining Nascent Soul!
[Ding! Fellow Daoist Wen Ding, through relentless effort, Nascent Soul quality has reached the Supreme True Martial Supreme Realm!]
Just as Jiang Yuan was smugly admiring his Nascent Soul, another announcement appeared in the world channel, but it had nothing to do with him. The announcement's owner was Wen Ding Cangsheng, the guild leader of Wen Ding.
When Jiang Yuan opened Wen Ding Cangsheng's Nascent Soul, he was almost dumbfounded!
[Nacent Soul: Supreme True Martial Supreme Realm] Level: 20 Realm Requirement: Ascension Quality: True Martial Health Percentage: +25% Health Percentage: +25% Critical Hit Rate: +20% Critical Hit Rate: +20% Critical Hit Damage: +70% Critical Hit Damage: +70% Ignore Reduction: +13% Skill Hit Rate: +35
"Holy crap! Double health percentage, double crit and crit damage, and the quality's at the highest level—this is the cream of the crop!"
Jiang Yuan let out an incredulous shout and quickly opened his friend list to ask Wen Ding Cangsheng how he'd done it.
"When you've spent thirty-six million, you can probably roll a Nascent Soul like mine too."
After reading Wen Ding Cangsheng's reply, Jiang Yuan silently closed the chat window.
This couldn't even be described as a whale anymore—this was a god-tier whale!