I Have 10 Equipment Slots-Chapter 77 - 71: Demon Points +252

"Hahaha!"

Yuan Qianjun burst out laughing. "Talk is cheap. No matter what I say, it’s not as good as seeing it for yourself. What do you think? Believe me now?"

Gu Zheng, wearing his Stretchable Clothing, had unlocked 30% of his Bronze Elephant Body’s physique. The most noticeable change was in the muscles of his limbs, which had swelled by a size, but not much of his bronze-colored skin was exposed.

But people like Qing Yixiao, Yuan Qianjun, and Xiao Dutian were hardly simpletons.

Yuan Qianjun was now also an Alien Body: Shadow, and his eyesight was astounding.

Spotting the color of Gu Zheng’s skin as he moved from a hundred meters away was a piece of cake.

One look was all it took for the bronze arms and bronze face to immediately fill their vision.

Qing Yixiao’s eyes went wide, his face a mask of utter shock and astonishment.

Qing Yimei, beside him, had a similar reaction. Her jaw dropped as she murmured in disbelief, "He really is from my Qing King family. Which clan uncle is his father?"

"You’ll have to ask your clan uncles that," Yuan Qianjun said with a shrug.

"With the support of a King’s Body, plus his Perfection Realm Saber Technique, it’s really not that hard for Gu to fight his way through the swamp," Xiao Dutian said, crossing his arms and raising an eyebrow.

WHOOSH!

Qing Yixiao took a deep breath to steady himself, his expression turning serious. "Alright, get ready. We’ll go in as the second group!"

...

SHWING~

THWACK! THWACK! THWACK!

The blade’s light formed a line, slicing through the void and shredding tentacles that were over ten meters long.

WHOOSH—BOOM!

A Sword Gang plunged downward, cleaving through the filth and sending mud flying everywhere as it bisected a Terrain Monster the size of an adult water buffalo.

Spirit Capturing!

[Demon Points +6]

SWOOSH~

With a flicker of his body, Gu Zheng, having acquired the Demon Points, raised his blade and dashed forward more than ten meters. He stepped on the corpse of a Terrain Monster and leaped about ten feet high.

WHOOSH! WHOOSH!

A tempest of energy howled around him as seven or eight thick, long tentacles swarmed him, cutting through the air and blocking his path forward.

SHLICK!

While still in mid-air, Gu Zheng spun on the spot, unleashing one slash after another.

Frenzy Battle Continuous Blade Slash!

"SQUELCH! SQUELCH! SQUELCH~"

Empowered by his Perfection Realm Saber Technique, the Celestial Frost Blade’s killing power easily severed the Terrain Monsters’ tentacles.

A foul, stinking liquid splattered through the air.

Gu Zheng ignored a cloud of mist approaching him. He activated Water Manipulation, using it to propel himself in mid-air, and slashed down into the swamp below.

TSSSSS~

Spirit Capturing!

[Demon Points +5]

His feet never touched the ground. He leaped through the air, his blade moving with him. As he spun, his Sword Gang formed a line that tore through the air, delivering one slash after another.

Each slash either severed a tentacle or plunged into the mud, annihilating a Terrain Monster.

[Demon Points +4]

[Demon Points +5]

...

Sprinting, treading on air, slaying, and reaping rewards.

Gu Zheng didn’t stop for a moment, the light of his blade constantly surrounding him.

Everywhere he passed, he left behind a field of Terrain Monster corpses and severed tentacles.

At a certain moment, a crystal-clear fruit suddenly materialized above the corpse of a Terrain Monster, glowing with a dazzling light.

’Source Fruit?’

Gu Zheng, who had already flown past, seemed to sense something and turned to look behind him.

As his gaze locked onto the fruit, he simultaneously activated Spirit Capturing.

SWISH!

He took the fruit from a distance and placed it in his equipment slot.

[Source Fruit: Strong Body]

Another one that could push a person’s strength and Constitution to the limit.

Gu Zheng understood its function, marked it, and transferred it into his Storage Leaf.

WHOOSH~

Without pausing, he leaped up, passed through a sky full of foul mud, and used his Powerful Qi to shield himself, not letting a single drop touch him as he shot forward several dozen meters.

SWOOSH! SWOOSH! SWOOSH!

More than a dozen tentacles followed close behind, viciously closing in on him.

SHLICK~

"THWACK!" "THWACK!" "THWACK~"

[Demon Points +5]

[Demon Points +6]

...

「A quarter of an hour later.」

Gu Zheng stood at the foot of a thousand-foot-tall black mountain. He popped a Rejuvenation Pill into his mouth, swallowed it, and circulated his energy to absorb and digest it, restoring his depleted Divine Wondrous.

He had fought his way through the swamp!

In total, he had earned 252 Demon Points.

And along the way, he had also acquired a new Demon Technique.

Earth Manipulation!

It was the Terrain Monster’s signature ability, allowing one to control soil, making it soft or hard. It also allowed for short-distance, small-scale burrowing into the earth, forming an armor, and concealing one’s aura.

In other words, on his way back through the swamp, Gu Zheng wouldn’t have to go through the trouble of slaughtering his way through again.

Of course, killing one more Terrain Monster meant one more reward.

With 252 Demon Points, he could add more stats.

First, he directly spent 132 Demon Points to raise his agility to the limit of 99.

With the remaining 120 Demon Points, he added 10 points each to strength, Constitution, and Spirit.

Which meant—

[Gu Zheng]

[Realm: Alien Body: Shadow]

[Strength: 97/99]

[Agility: 99 (+1)/99]

[Constitution: 98/99]

[Spirit: 96/99]

[Divine Wondrous: 40.5]

[Demon Points: 2]

[Demon Techniques: Super-speed Self-healing, Spirit Capturing, Dark Vision, Triple Jump, Fire Manipulation, 100% Absorption, Steel Claw, Water Manipulation, Earth Manipulation]

[True Skills: (Perfection), (Mastery), (Perfection)]

[Equipment Effects: Bronze Elephant Body (Inactive), Nether Heart Slave Seal, Deceptive Appearance]

...

Spirit, strength, Constitution, and agility were all over 90.

’This really is the peak of the Alien Body realm!’

"Hoooo..."

He took a deep breath, adjusting to the surging power that had blossomed within him, and wisps of mist rose from the top of his head.

After a long moment, Gu Zheng finished digesting the all-around enhancements from allocating his points.

With 99 agility plus the +1 bonus from , his speed and nerve responses were now so fast that his brain could barely keep up.

SWISH!

With a single stride, his body felt light as a feather as it broke through the air with a dull THUD, covering more than ten meters in an instant.

’At this speed, if my Constitution hadn’t also been enhanced, my body would have snapped on the spot.’

He slowed his pace and tried walking around.

Gu Zheng quickly adapted.

As he walked, he observed his surroundings.

Black Mountain wasn’t tall, but it was very wide. There wasn’t a single tree or weed on it—not a trace of green, only black, scorched earth and rocks everywhere.

Walking on it, he could smell a faint burnt scent, as if the black soil under his feet had been baked.

Just as Gu Zheng was observing his path forward, a crystal-clear fruit silently materialized out of thin air, hovering atop a three-meter-tall boulder.

’A Source Fruit!’

Gu Zheng’s eyes lit up. He leaped into the air, landed on top of the boulder, reached out, and collected the Source Fruit into his equipment slot.

[Source Fruit: Divine Wondrous]

He absorbed the information. As the name suggested, consuming this Source Fruit would double his existing Divine Wondrous.

This was far easier and more convenient than painstakingly practicing a True Skill or even spending Demon Points.

’Double my base amount?’

’If my Divine Wondrous gets much higher...’

’Uh, no, that won’t work.’

Just as he was about to look for a loophole, a piece of information suddenly surfaced in his mind.

There was a limit to the increase in Divine Wondrous!

Only Divine Wondrous accumulated within the Super Body Realm could be doubled by consuming the Source Fruit.

This was a rule-based restriction that no one could break.

"It can only be doubled within the Super Body Realm... that’s still pretty good..."

’Huh!?’

Suddenly, Gu Zheng leaped seventy or eighty feet into the air, launching himself off the boulder he was standing on.

He saw the boulder abruptly begin to vibrate as if it had come alive. It started rolling forward with a rumbling sound, crushing smaller rocks in its path as it headed toward a distant ravine.

Under the dim sky, the boulder’s surface glinted with a metallic luster.

’Metal?’

’Rolling on its own?’

"Fuck."

Magic Gold!