Chapter 62: Full of Vitality

Over eighty thousand passive points! The sheer act of refining those two "Cinderflame Seeds" had contributed more than forty thousand to that total.

Xu Xiaoshou was astonished. Had it not been for the immense danger and excruciating pain of keeping such things within him, he truly might have considered letting them burn for days and nights. However, he wasn't a masochist... well, not in that sense. While he was adept at pretending to be pummeled by dozens of people, secretly enjoying it as a body massage, carrying a volatile time bomb within him with an unknown detonation time was a different matter entirely. That was only good for imagining; actually doing it was out of the question. Xu Xiaoshou treasured his life. Snapping back to reality, he casually redeemed fifty passive keys. That's right, fifty!

With the two keys remaining from his last draw, he now had a grand total of fifty-two passive keys. Xu Xiaoshou wore a silly grin, feeling quite flush with power. There was a time when he’d been hesitant to even redeem a few passive keys; he never imagined he'd reach a point where he could perform fifty consecutive draws. Wasn't all that arduous grinding precisely for a moment like this? As for why he'd reserved thirty thousand passive points... "Heh heh, a person always needs to have dreams," he mused. "Last time, I got a 'double yolk egg' – a double rare draw; what if this time I get triplets, and then I can use those thirty thousand passive points to redeem skill points, pushing directly into the Innate realm..." "That would mean six plus three, nine great Innate passive skills!" "Heh heh, haha..."

Lost in his joyful vision of the future, Xu Xiaoshou punched the table, nearly shattering the low wooden furniture with his uncontrolled strength. "Let's get this done!" His expression turned solemn as his consciousness moved to the red roulette wheel. With a decisive thought, he inserted ten keys. "Hmph!" "Lucky Emperor, possess me!" The cramped guest room echoed with the young man's chuunibyou-esque roar. Xu Xiaoshou pressed his palms together, gazing with utter devotion at the information panel:

"Thank you for your patronage!""Thank you for your patronage!""Thank you for your patronage!""One more key!""Thank you for your patronage!""Thank you for your patronage!""Thank you for your patronage!""Thank you for your patronage!""Thank you for your patronage!""Thank you for your patronage!"

"Oh, come on!" A ten-draw only returned one key, and nothing else? "I..." Xu Xiaoshou clenched his fists, nearly bringing them down in a furious smash. "Calm down, calm down!" he told himself. "No need to get angry so soon, there are still forty draws left!" Xu Xiaoshou adopted an expression of feigned foresight. This system was becoming increasingly predatory; the drop rate was plummeting, and critically, the roulette wheel was shrouded in a gray mist, making its mechanics utterly opaque. Xu Xiaoshou forced himself to calm down. He was a man with a strong heart, capable of maintaining an unruffled demeanor. *Bang!* The low wooden table shattered, and Xu Xiaoshou himself sprang to his feet.

"Hmph!" "Lucky Emperor, possess me!" He initiated another ten-draw without warning, intending to catch the system off guard!

"Thank you for your patronage!""One more key!""Thank you for your patronage!""Thank you for your patronage!""Thank you for your patronage!""One more key!""Thank you for your patronage!""Thank you for your patronage!""Thank you for your patronage!""One more key!"

"Holy crap!" Xu Xiaoshou's face turned green, and a chilling sensation ran through his body, making him feel as if he could barely stand. Twenty consecutive draws, and he had only received four keys in total? "Show some respect!" he thought. "After all the agony I endured refining that wretched Cinderflame Seed..."

"It must be bad feng shui!" Xu Xiaoshou took a deep breath, then opened the room's door and windows before moving to a different spot. Immediately, he felt his mind clear considerably, becoming more open and serene. *Hmm*, he thought, *surely good fortune can enter now!* He initiated another ten-draw. Xu Xiaoshou leaned casually against the wooden window frame, feigning composure as he watched the information panel:

"Thank you for your patronage!""Thank you for your patronage!""Thank you for your patronage!""Thank you for your patronage!""Thank you for your patronage!""Thank you for your patronage!""Thank you for your patronage!""Obtained Basic Passive Skill: Full of Vigor!""Thank you for your patronage!""Thank you for your patronage!"

*Click!* At the sight of that lengthy line of text, Xu Xiaoshou's body jolted violently. The wooden window frame was directly dislodged, getting wedged between his waist and the wall. "Something dropped?!" He rubbed his eyes hard, confirming he hadn't misread. Not only had something dropped, but it was a Basic Passive Skill! "Explosive!" Xu Xiaoshou snatched the window frame from behind him, giving it an excited slap that shattered the wood into several pieces. Even so, he couldn't calm his racing heart. The last Basic Passive Skill he'd drawn, "Unending Life," was a true divine skill among divine skills. He couldn't even count how many times it had saved him. Combat sustain, refining Cinderflame Seeds... With it, Xu Xiaoshou barely needed to consume Crimson Gold Pills anymore. And now, he had another Basic Passive Skill! "'Full of Vigor'..." That name sounded rather intriguing! Xu Xiaoshou carefully pondered the four-character phrase, seemingly grasping something. "Vitality?" He immediately scanned his entire body, focusing intently on his Qi Sea. Generally, Basic Passive Skills manifested directly in the body, and judging by its name, this passive skill was highly likely for spiritual energy recovery. "As expected..." The smile on Xu Xiaoshou's face was so wide it almost blossomed. Just as he had anticipated, the recovery rate of spiritual energy in his Qi Sea had significantly increased! Previously, when he cultivated Cinderflame Spiritual Energy, his spiritual power underwent a qualitative change, and correspondingly, the natural recovery rate of his spiritual energy had decreased considerably. After that, a "Cinderflame Heaven Incineration" strike not only burned down the house but also drastically depleted his spiritual energy. Yet now, the natural recovery rate of this spiritual energy, which had transformed into a viscous liquid, had surprisingly climbed again, essentially on par with his previous spiritual power state. "This is going to let me truly max out my combat sustain!" Xu Xiaoshou instantly recalled his previous battle with Mo Mo. He remembered being close to winning midway through, but his third "Sword Drawing Style" couldn't be unleashed due to insufficient spiritual power. If he'd had this passive skill then, the battle might have ended much earlier, without all the subsequent trouble and nearly dying from magma burns. "This is definitely a divine skill too..." Xu Xiaoshou murmured. Perhaps its current recovery speed wasn't very noticeable, but what about after it was upgraded? Xu Xiaoshou, still gripping the broken wooden board, chuckled, his laughter spilling out from the windows and door, blending into the boundless night.

"Breathing Technique, Unending Life, Full of Vigor..." "Autonomous cultivation, health recovery, mana recovery..." "I've essentially collected all three fundamental divine skills! Who the hell can stop me now?!" The smile on Xu Xiaoshou's face was utterly uncontrollable; he looked like a complete goofball. He seemed to envision... himself cutting a bloody path through a myriad of soldiers, charging in and out seven times. The enemy tried to overwhelm him with human wave tactics, but after several rotations of their formations, they discovered he hadn't lost a single drop of health or used a sliver of spiritual energy. Everyone was stunned, eventually forced to surrender helplessly and dutifully contribute passive points... ...that very scene! "Oh haha..." "Oh haha..." "Oh hahahaha!" Xu Xiaoshou threw his head back and roared with laughter, his voice brimming with wild arrogance. "Who can possibly stop this? I'm absolutely unstoppable!" "Alright!" He instantly regained his composure, as if nothing had happened. With a burst of spiritual energy, the wooden board crackled before being casually tossed out into the rain-streaked night beyond the window. "Heh heh!" Xu Xiaoshou gave a cheeky grin. "And I still have twenty more draws!"