Heart of Steel, Here

[You counted.]

[Even counting these two Half-step Martial Gods, you are still short of one.]

[However, there are still decades left, and everything in the future is hard to say.]

[Not long after, an elder of the Sword Sect arrived with a storage ring filled with spiritual materials for refining pills that increase cultivation in the Spirit Sea Realm.]

[For you, what you refine is for the Spirit Sea Realm, but once out of the furnace, they will become Condensing Spirit Realm pills. You won't have to worry about pills for a while.]

[For the Sword Sect, taking out a batch of Spirit Sea Realm resources isn't difficult.]

["The journey to the Great Wilderness is long and far. Be careful in everything."]

["Thank you for your concern, Sword Master. Speaking of which, I caused trouble in the Star Domain previously, and I'm afraid it has implicated the Sword Sect..."]

["It doesn't matter. The Shen family hasn't pursued the Sword Sect, and even if they did, is our Sword Sect somehow inferior to them?"]

[The Sword Master gave you another exquisite little flying sword, called the Voice Transmission Flying Sword.]

[This item can only be used once for communication, no matter how far apart you are, even at the ends of the earth.]

[You thought of something and specially requested a favor from the Sword Master.]

["I would like to ask the Sword Master to send someone to keep an eye on someone for me: Li Lingyue of the Li imperial family. If she is arranged to be married off, please contact me immediately with this item. If she is in danger, please look after her a little."]

[Because the King of Dashi died, Li Lingyue's fate has already changed.]

[But she is the number one beauty of the Five Domains!]

[The imperial family doesn't know she has a Sealed Holy Body and thinks she is just a mortal.]

[So it is almost foreseeable that she will be subjected to a political marriage in the future.]

[You didn't reveal this to the imperial family, naturally out of selfish motives.]

[If Li Lingyue stays with the Li family, the best outcome for her would only be becoming an ordinary Martial King within this huge imperial family.]

[Without the Southern Border's Shaman Granny guiding her to develop her Holy Body, cultivating the Path of Incense, and the war-torn environment of the Southern Border, it would be impossible for Li Lingyue to break through to the Martial Saint realm within a few decades.]

[Therefore, you have to let the Empress's fate return to its right track and send Li Lingyue to Shaman Granny when she grows up.]

[Especially now that it is clear that Shaman Granny is a Dao Protector.]

[With a Dao Protector as a master, what more could one ask for?]

[As the Sword Master had said, he was willing to do anything that could help you.]

[Consider it as being for the future of the Human Realm.]

[He naturally wouldn't decline such a small matter.]

[But the Sword Master still emphasized that he would go and verify the things you said through multiple channels.]

[In order to prove that what you said is not false, to establish a close and flawless trust with you, and to jointly deal with the crisis.]

[At the same time, the Sword Master also decided that after the verification was completed, he would contact the Li family, the Shen family, and the Southern Border's Shaman Granny during the time you went to the Great Wilderness.]

[Things like predicting the future and the Dragonkin invasion.]

[If you go and tell them these things, they might not believe it, and convincing them would be a huge waste of breath.]

[But if the Sword Master went to tell them, even if they didn't believe it, they would at least put on a show of taking it seriously.]

[By the time you go and speak to them again, their cost of understanding will be much lower.]

["As for God Xiaoyao, I will go and contact him."]

[The Sword Master nodded.]

["I will talk to the people here in the Five Domains. You and I will act separately. Hopefully, the Human Realm can survive this crisis."]

[You and the Sword Master clasped hands tightly, like an arm-wrestling posture. At this moment, you seemed to be connected in mind and spirit.]

[However, the Sword Master gave you a heads-up.]

[The others are easy to talk to, but the current Dao Protector's whereabouts are hard to find, like a divine dragon whose head is seen but not its tail. Even the Sword Master might not have the chance to see her.]

[You knew this was a small problem for you; you knew she had a fixed spawn time and location.]

["I'm leaving!"]

[You stepped on the flying sword—this flying sword was also given to you by the Sword Sect, specially used for sword flight, saving time and effort.]

[And flew towards the east.]

[The Sword Master watched you leave until your figure turned into a small black dot on the horizon and finally disappeared.]

["Sect Master, do you really believe his words?"]

[The one speaking was the Grand Elder of the Sword Sect, the person who raised the Sword Master. They were like father and son, and there was no need to hide anything between them.]

["I'll believe it for now. As long as it's not detrimental to the Sword Sect or innocent people, running some errands is no big deal."]

["But what if he's telling lies just to trick us out of some cultivation resources? Sect Master, if you go telling others about some Dragonkin and future crises, won't you make yourself a laughingstock to the world?"]

["It is indeed possible that I might lose a lot of face. But as a dignified Martial King, would he go through all this trouble just to get some Spirit Sea Realm resources? I'm afraid the possibility of his words being true is greater. I will investigate first; Grand Elder, you don't need to worry."]

["I will follow the Sect Master's arrangements."]

[The third year, twenty-two years old.]

[Extracting traits...]

[Extraction successful!]

["Heartsteel" (Golden Legendary):

After entering a combat state, when there is an enemy within a hundred meters of you, you will enter a charging moment lasting 3 seconds.

After charging is complete, you can launch a powerful basic attack on the enemy, causing ten times the destructive power, recovering 1% of your injuries, and providing you with a 1% all-around combat power boost.

This boost will also cause your body size to increase to a certain extent.

Gaining a layer of steel from the same enemy requires a 1-minute cooldown.

After leaving combat, this boost decreases by 1% every two hours until it completely disappears.

The maximum number of layers for Heartsteel is related to your realm. Current realm maximum layers: 1000 layers.

Wait for me to initiate the team fight! I'll stop once I stack two thousand layers!]

[Do you want to adjust your traits?]

[Yes/No]

It was another moment of dazzling golden light.

Chen Yi knew.

It was here, it was here, the golden trait was coming with its face full of invincibility!

"Heartsteel!"

Chen Yi narrowed his eyes slightly.

That running under the sunset represents my lost days as a Top Laner!

Anyone who has played knows that in a certain classic 5v5 game, the item Heartsteel makes people both love it and hate it.

Mainly, the person who builds it loves playing with it, while their teammates hate it to death.

You stack two hundred and fifty layers of steel in a match, but one look at your score and it's zero and five.

But, the joy of stacking steel, you all understand.

"This trait isn't for burst damage, but in battles of attrition and large-scale fights, it will be an absolute killer! Equip it, equip it, stack steel anytime, anywhere!"

Chen Yi's addiction to steel flared up on the spot, wishing he could end the simulation immediately and go stack some steel himself.

Truly the direct disciple of the Steel Sect!

[You replaced "Man and Sword as One" with "Heartsteel".]

[You replaced "Treasure-Hunting Nose" with "Serious Punch".]

[You replaced "Playing the Pig to Eat the Tiger" with "Badminton Expert".]

In "Heartsteel", the basic attack after meeting the conditions will have its destructive power enhanced, which is ten times, just like "Serious Punch".

Equipping both traits at the same time means a hundred times!

And Badminton Expert can increase the strength of the right arm by another two times!

Although what it stacks isn't destructive power, it is still an enhancement that will only make the punch more powerful, not less.

Therefore, to use "Heartsteel", it must be paired with "Serious Punch" and "Badminton Expert" to maximize the benefits.