"You! You touched that egg?"

"Mm!"

Inside the City Lord’s Mansion, Li Guowei felt somewhat helpless; he also blamed himself for not warning the other party sooner.

If he had warned him earlier, things wouldn’t have reached this point!

Looking at Lucien now, Li Guowei’s expression was full of sympathy.

More than that, he felt helpless. With that detection skill, it was easy to see the -100 Luck attribute (this Luck reduction isn’t fixed; it changes slowly over time!). Yet, he still dared to touch it casually and even boldly took it out from the Xuanming Pagoda.

Lucien found it strange. How did the other party know there was a dragon egg inside the Xuanming Pagoda?

But then he relaxed. Didn’t that immortal artifact Ouyang Zi showed him last time prove that these Native Residents possessed many methods?

If Ouyang Zi could enter the Xuanming Pagoda, then surely the City Lord of Wing Province could too!

He must have his own ways of entering the Xuanming Pagoda; it was just unclear why he didn’t bring his disciple back himself.

And what was the meaning behind the other party looking at him with such sympathy?

Lucien couldn’t figure it out for a moment, so he stopped thinking about it.

He spoke up, "Old Li, what do you think of this Soul-Devouring Bottle?"

Seeing that Lucien wasn’t worried at all, Li Guowei didn’t say anything more.

Some things were inconvenient to say, and besides, this dragon egg involved that person; it wasn’t something he could discuss casually.

He took the Soul-Devouring Bottle, inspected it in his hand, and then nodded in satisfaction.

"Very good. I will remove the restriction on the magic artifact for you now."

Li Guowei just waved his hand, and the restriction on the magic artifact was erased.

But then he seemed to remember something.

"Look, do you want to trade for another piece of equipment? How about that ’Whimsical Thoughts’ I showed you last time?"

"You are not suitable to carry this magic artifact right now. Once the carrier of this magic artifact has a Luck value lower than one and uses the magic artifact’s skills, their soul will be taken away by the Demon God."

Hearing that the other party was willing to trade that immortal artifact for the magic artifact in his hand, Lucien immediately refused, "I think this magic artifact is pretty good; it suits me very well!"

Just kidding. Although Lucien coveted ’Whimsical Thoughts’ very much, compared to this magic artifact, he still favored this one more.

It could increase his own attributes tenfold and provided ten seconds of invincibility.

Even if someone gave him a divine artifact, he wouldn’t trade it.

Tenfold attributes allowed him to easily kill monsters above his level.

Especially that ten seconds of invincibility; whether for fighting or escaping, the effect was too great.

Seeing that Lucien was so determined, Li Guowei just sighed and didn’t say anything more.

"Fine, I understand. Go ahead and get busy; I still need to go resurrect my disciple!"

Just as he was preparing to leave, Lucien suddenly remembered something.

"Old Li, I plan to take action against the Nine Great Guilds in the next few days. But if they hide in the city and don’t come out, I expect it will be very troublesome!"

Hearing what Lucien said, Li Guowei thought for a moment and then said, "I understand. Give me seven days, and I will have everything arranged!"

"Good, then I will take my leave."

After speaking, Lucien left the City Lord’s Mansion and went directly to the Class Changing Temple.

Stepping into the Class Changing Temple, it was still the familiar scene.

He touched the statue of the Daoist.

Ding, detected that you have reached level thirty and can advance. Do you wish to advance?

"Yes!"

"Ding, advancement successful. You have become a Five Elements Daoist Master."

"Ding, your growth attribute: all attributes +20."

"Ding, free attribute points gained per level +5."

Originally, for every level gained, because of the 30 initial attribute points, Lucien gained +6 to all attributes per level.

After changing class to Five Elements Daoist, he gained +10 to all attributes per level.

Now, advancing to Five Elements Daoist Master, he gained another +20 to all attributes per level.

Plus Five Elements Dao Body, which adds 5 points to all attributes per level.

Calculating it this way, he gained 41 points to all attributes per level.

Plus ten free attribute points; this improvement was truly terrifying.

The attributes he gained from leveling up once were enough for an ordinary player to level up a dozen times.

However, the higher the level, the slower the leveling speed.

The experience required to go from level thirty to thirty-one was more than ten times higher than the experience required to go from twenty-nine to thirty.

At his current leveling speed, it would likely take a year and a half or even longer.

This was why, even though Battle Online had descended for more than five years, the highest level was only over forty.

And during this period, one could not die even once; otherwise, leveling would be even slower.

"I want to learn skills!"

Soon, a skill list appeared on the class-changing statue.

Five Elements Manipulation (Passive): When using any Daoist series skill, you can transform it at will into any attribute you have mastered, automatically mastering the five attributes of Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth.

Learning requirement: 10,000 gold coins.

Seeing this, Lucien was almost drooling.

If this could be transformed into the lightning attribute, his attack power would be greatly increased.

The two skills with his highest attack power currently were Thunder God Help Me and Lightning Fist.

Especially Thunder God Help Me; the electrified attribute it carried could only take effect with lightning attacks. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶

However, Lightning Fist was ultimately a melee skill, and it was very inconvenient for him to use.

After all, he didn’t need Thunder God Help Me for small monsters, and he wouldn’t easily get close to a BOSS.

This led to him often having to rely on his talent, Nine-Fold Spell Casting, to trigger the electrified effect, thereby causing massive damage to monsters.

This was almost equivalent to him having only this one lightning-attribute skill.

If he learned Five Elements Manipulation now, didn’t that mean his Soul Fire Talisman could also trigger the effect?

This would directly double his combat power!

However, looking at the high price of 10,000 gold coins, Lucien could only hold back; he only had 1,000 gold coins left now.

He couldn’t afford to learn it at all. It seemed he would have to wait until the income from the Goblin Dungeon arrived tomorrow.

However, the price for learning skills was too expensive!

He remembered that in his previous life, at level thirty, the highest-priced skill at the statue was only 500 gold coins.

Now the skills here actually cost 10,000 gold coins; this was too much discriminatory treatment!

Fortunately, he still had the income from the Goblin Dungeon; otherwise, if he wanted to learn this Five Elements Manipulation, it would probably take a very, very long time.

However, 10,000 gold coins to double his combat power was still very cost-effective.

He then looked at the other skill provided by the statue.

Summon Five Elements Spirit Beasts: Summon a Five Elements Spirit Beast of the same level and attributes as yourself.

Learning requirement: 5,000 gold coins.

This—wasn’t this no different from the zombie he summoned?

How could it actually cost 5,000 gold coins?

Summon Zombie only cost him one gold coin; this cost 5,000?

But looking at the fact that there were only these two skills, Lucien could only wait until his income arrived to buy them.

What if this Five Elements Spirit Beast happened to be exactly what he needed?

After all, no matter how many gold coins he had, if they couldn’t improve his combat power, they were useless.

As long as it improved his combat power, these gold coins could be considered money well spent.