Wasteland Border Inspector - Chapter 948

Chapter 948: Chapter 302: Forbidden Arms State, Field Assignment! (Part 2)

“Although body evolution has approached its limit, there is no upper limit to the fusion of body-related skills. On the contrary, it can continuously enhance my potential and energy digestion capability…”

Cheng Ye was quite satisfied with this, and flipped to the next page of the notebook, where the words “Life Level” at the top were particularly eye-catching.

The fusion of Level 1 and Level 2 skills brings benefits far beyond the special utilities of the skills like Vortex Lung and Sandbone.

The steady improvement of the life level is the true core gain.

The expansion of the skill bar is a direct reflection: it adds two independent slots, unlike the skills like Heart-Protecting Fire and Shrinking Earth Giant Louse, which enhance life levels but occupy slots. The slots brought by body evolution are genuine permanent benefits, existing even without equipping those special skills.

This means that even though the Small Natural Physique and Immortal Blessing from the Moyu Fir Tree are in a semi-permanent state, he still has three skill slots free to allocate.

While spending daily time in the town, these slots can be used to equip skills that assist learning.

For example, Jiang Chuan’s Twelve Limit-Breaking Tendon Gates have all been searched and recorded, and now three can be equipped simultaneously for parallel practice.

Ordinary people need to use special postures to open the tendon gates, practicing hard for more than three hours a day. Even for those exceptionally gifted, it takes two months to open one gate, while ordinary people take six months at least. The Twelve Tendon Gates in total require six years.

But according to the notebook records and his insights, although it takes him about two months to open one tendon gate, he can practice several simultaneously, equipping three skills at once, which is equivalent to three times the speed.

He estimates that by mid-next year, he can open the Twelve Tendon Gates and officially enter the Embryo Realm, far exceeding those so-called geniuses in efficiency!

When heading out on missions, the three skill slots can instantly switch to three combat skills, maximizing combat power.

Cheng Ye opened the panel again and unfolded the skill bar.

The previously intricate and complex skills have been refined to the utmost through multiple rounds of fusion.

With “Hundred Martial Students” as the basic framework, incorporating Breaking Limits, Cold Weapon Mastery, and other related skills, he ultimately constructs a new combat power enhancement skill:

[Forbidden Martial State (Level 3; Perfect): Greatly enhances weapon mastery, unlocking additional strength and speed]

Through practical tests, the new “Forbidden Martial State” not only fully retains the original “Hundred Martial Students” locking and aiming capability but also achieves breakthroughs in effective range and duration.

The current maximum locking distance extends to 250 meters, the longest maintenance time increases to 12 minutes, and the cooldown time is reduced to 45 minutes.

The additionally granted strength and speed increase by roughly thirty percent, realizing a qualitative leap in comprehensive combat power.

With “Adaptation” as the core, after integrating multiple survival skills such as Wave Shuttle, Perception, and Disguise, he constructs a new survival enhancement skill:

[Wilderness Walking (Level 3; Perfect): Receive additional ability enhancements in different environments]

[Current enhancement items:

Land (fixed endurance increased by 15%; fixed speed increased by 5%)

Underwater (fixed vision increased by 5 meters; Water ability slightly improved)

Cold regions (triggered below minus 20 degrees; slightly increased cold resistance)

Hot regions (triggered above 40 degrees; slightly increased heat resistance)

Harsh terrain (fixed increase in stamina recovery speed by 15%)]

Judging from the enhancement attributes alone, Wilderness Walking might not seem particularly outstanding, but its core advantage lies in its extremely strong inclusivity.

No matter what type of survival skill is found in the future, it can be directly incorporated, converting into new environment enhancement items, making it a sustainable evolutionary survival trump card.

Besides these two core skills, the enhancement effect of Mountain Body is self-evident.

After boosting with material decomposition, Cheng Ye has thoroughly tested it while repaying the cost, confirming the skill significantly enhances body defensive power, despite not improving the pain shielding ability.

Combined with the inherent defense characteristics of a Silver Dragon Fish physique, ordinary materials’ cold weapons can no longer penetrate his defense, greatly improving close-combat survivability.

The four skills acquired from Matthew Lee have also yielded results after fusion.

Regrettably, despite various mutation attempts, no new blessing type has been unlocked.

More importantly, the existing blessings conflict with Immortal Blessing and similar types, causing cooldown times to stack rather than refresh independently.

This fundamentally cuts off his plan of collecting dozens or hundreds of Praises of Tenacity to achieve unlimited Life Value recovery.

Except for these, the skills yet to be fused all come from Liu Bi.

Namely: [Divine Conception], [Tiger Roar Blade Technique], [Heaven’s Rule Spearmanship], [Xiacang Skill]

Level 4 skills have a high fusion threshold and lack sufficient material support, thus Cheng Ye has temporarily set aside related attempts.

Since Tiger Roar Blade Technique and Heaven’s Rule Spearmanship can be gradually learned through long-term equip use, ultimately internalizing as instinctual combat techniques, there’s no urgent rush to fuse them all at once.

“In direct cold weapon combat, equip Divine Conception, and form an offense-defense system with Xiacang Skill and Mountain Body. If encountering hot weapon attacks, switch Xiacang Skill to Forbidden Martial State, and Mountain Body to Heaven’s Rule Spearmanship to enhance long-range counterattack capability.”

“During daily travels, the three skill slots can all be used for skill learning, such as parallel breakthroughs in Breaking Limits Tendons, and switching to Wilderness Walking to adapt to special terrains upon entering.”

As Cheng Ye considered, his planning became increasingly clear.

Under conditions where skill slots are limited, blindly piling up skills is far inferior to precise matching.

Only through flexible scene-based switching can the effect of 1+1>2 in combat power enhancement be truly realized.