"It can't be, Lady Providence, you're such a peerless immortal. How could the Revered One ignore you?"
Su Chen's voice was filled with shock, and his expression was one of disbelief.
His acting was a bit exaggerated, but it was still within reason. After all, everyone would think that with Lady Providence's status, she could easily get any man she wanted.
"That senior apprentice-brother of mine …" Lady Providence started to speak, but stopped abruptly. She shook her head and said, "It's not something you should inquire about."
Su Chen was terrified. He hurriedly said, "Lady Providence, please forgive me."
"Sit down and drink with me."
"As you command."
… …
When he woke up again, Su Chen had already returned to Spirit Knight Peak. He was clutching his hungover head with a headache.
The Lady Providence's wine was too strong. Every time he drank it, he would collapse.
Just as he was about to sober up, Su Chen heard a chime in his mind.
"Ding! System upgrade successful. Restarting."
"Ding! System reboot complete. New functions will be unlocked."
"Ding! Congratulations to the host for breaking through to the Clear Heaven Realm. Reward: 100 billion skill points. Reward: 10 chances to draw a high-grade roulette wheel."
"Ding! Congratulations to the host for overcoming the Tribulation of Heaven's Jealousy. Life force has evolved, lifespan has doubled. Reward: 500 billion skill points."
"Ding … …"
A series of system notifications cheered Su Chen up, and he immediately sobered up.
He immediately checked the changes after the upgrade.
As soon as he opened the system interface, it was indeed very different from before.
First of all, the interface hadn't become complicated. On the contrary, it had been simplified. The main interface only had four columns.
Skill Tree — — Mission Library — — Shop — — Pet.
Su Chen first opened the skill tree. The original skill column disappeared, replaced by a large tree. The tree was divided into several branches, each representing a skill system. They were mainly divided into nine major systems, and were distributed according to the attributes of the nine spirit roots.
Su Chen's skill tree was mainly red, which meant that the fire attribute skill branch was the main one.
Next was blue, representing the lightning attribute.
Once again, it was the Soul Element that was not part of the nine elements. The ethereal Immortal Soul was faintly discernible and extremely mysterious.
Every single one of Su Chen's current skills were placed in a corresponding position on the skill tree. Different ranks represented different skill levels. Currently, the highest ranked skill was still the Innate Origin Skill. However, this skill did not belong to any branch. Instead, it was placed directly in the main branch of the skill tree.
Su Chen looked at it carefully for a while and realized that other than the change in the form of the skill library, there were no fundamental changes. There were only some additional support buttons around the skill tree. It was about the same as before. There was nothing to study.
Su Chen directly skipped it and entered the mission library to check.
There were a lot of changes to the Quest Library. Firstly, the Quest Distribution System had been changed. It had changed from the original method of using Skill Points to trigger Quests to a passive mode.
There was no need for Su Chen to do it himself. As long as the system detected a suitable mission, it would automatically release it. Whether or not to accept it was up to Su Chen.
Not forcing Su Chen to do quests was probably a setting of the system.
The Mission Library was empty, and there was nothing to see.
He directly skipped it.
Su Chen entered the shop and found that there were no changes to the shop itself. However, there was an additional weekly lucky item cabinet. This cabinet would refresh once a week and sell different lucky items that could be purchased according to demand.
Currently, there was a lucky item for sale in the cabinet.
"10 Blazing Roses: 10 billion Skill Points per rose. Give the Blazing Roses to the opposite sex. Each rose can increase favorability by 1-10 points. A member of the opposite sex can accept a maximum of 10 roses."
Roses that increase favorability?
The favorability increase was random. The minimum was one point and the maximum was ten points.
If it was ten points of favorability every time, then wouldn't the ten roses be enough to fill up a member of the opposite sex's favorability?
This was really a godly tool for picking up girls. There was a reason why it was expensive.
Moreover, Su Chen currently had 70 trillion Skill Points. A mere 10 billion was nothing.
Without saying anything, Su Chen spent 100 billion Skill Points and bought all ten Blazing Roses in the cabinet.
When he took out the Blazing Roses, Su Chen sighed in admiration at their beauty. There was absolutely no one who could resist such a beautiful object.
But who should he give the Blazing Roses to?
It had to be Lady Providence.
If Su Chen wanted to hug Lady Providence's thigh tightly, gaining her favorability was a must. If he could directly push her favorability to 100 points, wouldn't that be even better?
That's right. Su Chen suddenly remembered that he'd previously obtained a Favorability Upgrade Card. It could directly increase a member of the opposite sex's favorability by 20 points.
It would be a waste if he didn't use it. He definitely had to use it on Lady Providence.
With so many items, even if Lady Providence's favorability wasn't enough, it would still greatly increase. Even if it only rose to 70 or 80 points, it would still be quite useful.
Moreover, he might have a chance to buy more Blazing Roses in the future. Even if each rose only increased favorability by one point, if he used a hundred of them, the Ice Maiden would still melt.
For now, Su Chen put away the Blazing Roses and checked his pet interface.
"Huh?"
Su Chen was surprised to find that the pet system had a new, powerful function.
Pet Fusion!
You could spend skill points to fuse two different pets, combining their strengths and weaknesses. You could retain all of the pets' skills, bloodlines, and battle prowess. Moreover, there was a chance that a mutated pet would appear during fusion.
Su Chen still didn't understand what a mutated pet was. He'd have to fuse them to find out.
Another thing worth mentioning was that pet fusion didn't have any racial restrictions. The only requirement was that the fused pet couldn't have high intelligence.
For example, most humans couldn't be fused, and some highly intelligent Yao couldn't be fused either.
It seemed that the chances of fusing a top-grade pet weren't very high. After all, a pet without intelligence definitely wasn't a top-grade pet.
But he couldn't think of it that way. There was another rule for fusion, and that was that fused pets weren't restricted by other rules.
A single pet could be fused multiple times until it reached the peak of its stats, and then fused no more.
As for the specific rules, Su Chen estimated that he'd have to conduct tens or hundreds of experiments before he could fully grasp them.
But overall, this new pet fusion system still had a lot of potential to be unearthed. Perhaps through this fusion system, he'd be able to cultivate one or even a whole batch of powerful, top-grade pets.
After a cursory inspection of the system's new functions, Su Chen stopped probing.
"Next, it's time for the lottery."
Su Chen was filled with anticipation. He had a total of ten chances at the lottery.
"Come out, Dragoness."
Following Su Chen's call, Dragoness appeared in Su Chen's arms.