I Don't Want to Get Hurt, So I'll Max Out My Defense - Chapter 695

Chapter 695: Chapter 696 I am here to experience life

After exchanging pleasantries for a while, he sent the group of prisoners away.

Li Xiaobai turned and entered his cave dwelling. The harmonious atmosphere inside the Celestial Prison was something he hadn’t anticipated; everyone got along so well that it spared him a lot of trouble.

However, when he recalled the “great achievements” these prisoners had once made, Li Xiaobai felt a headache coming on.

If they had committed sins against heaven and caused massive casualties, he would have found it somewhat easier to accept. But these people acted in the strangest ways, getting caught because of bizarre actions they took in the Dragon Palace. Far from taking heed, they seemed to consider it a supreme honor.

“These people’s thought processes are too strange.”

Li Xiaobai shook his head, sat on his bed, and tapped lightly to check his recent gains.

[Host: Li Xiaobai.]

[…]

[Defensive power: Half-step Human Immortal body (11 million / 10 million) (Immortal Spirit Qi: not acquired) upgradeable.]

[Attribute Points: Zero.]

[Skills: Heart of the Blood Demon (Divine Level skill), Demon Sealing Sword Evocation (Divine Level skill), Hellfire (Divine Level skill), Hundred Percent Barehanded Blade Catch (Divine Level skill)…]

[…]

[Achievements: Trouble Maker (45/108) attainable.]

[Pet: Pudong Rooster (Current death count: eleven).]

[Undying Phoenix Bloodline: Activated (0.01%).]

[Store: Opened.]

The Attribute Points had accumulated to the max and even overflowed by a million. After the breakthrough with Immortal Spirit Qi, they should automatically be added to the next realm.

The distribution of Immortal Spirit Qi was now just around the corner, likely less than a month away before it would begin.

With fourty-five Blood Sacrifice Fragments in his possession, once he obtained the ten fragments from this tower world, he would complete over half of the achievements task.

Everything was proceeding in an orderly fashion. Right now, all Li Xiaobai needed to do was locate the Blood Sacrifice Fragments and then quietly wait for the release of the Immortal Spirit Qi.

“I wonder how the Vice Leader’s investigation is going. With her abilities, it shouldn’t be difficult for her to find all the hidden altars.”

Li Xiaobai muttered to himself. He wandered around his cave dwelling, took down all Luminous Pearls in the room, and tossed them into the Hellfire to burn. Everyone in the Celestial Prison had pretty good relations with each other, so he felt a bit ashamed to scavenge for Luminous Pearls from other cells.

[Hellfire (Divine Level skill) current initial coverage area: 9.99 kilometers (Mahayana Realm).]

There was no change to the Hellfire, which was what Li Xiaobai had expected.

He pushed open the door and made his way to the upper levels, planning to check each floor in succession for Blood Sacrifice Fragments, and also to find out the identity of the terrifying being imprisoned on the seventh floor.

The tower’s structure was almost identical to the Linglong Pagoda that Long Xue had; each level had to be ascended by stairs.

The only difference was that each stairway was blocked by a barrier, presumably to prevent prisoners from running around and causing unnecessary harm.

“Young Master Li, that’s the entrance to the second floor over there. We can’t get through with the tokens we carry; they have restrictions.”

A prisoner who saw Li Xiaobai’s actions called out to remind him.

“I know.”

Li Xiaobai nodded and responded with a smile. Then to the astonishment of many prisoners, he walked right through the barrier and entered the space of the second floor, disappearing from everyone’s view.

“Did… did I see that right?”

“He just walked straight through?”

“Isn’t it said that the Token automatically blocks prisoners, could it be that the barrier had problems today?”

“Should we also give it a try? We’re almost fading away on the first layer, and changing the scenery for a bit does seem pretty good for the mood.”

The prisoners gaped as they watched Li Xiaobai’s disappearing figure, with the braver ones quickly jogging up the steps, attempting to cross over calmly just as Li Xiaobai had done.

“Bang!”

A thunderous buzzing sound rang out, and several inmates who tried to force their way through were ejected, thrown far back, tumbling to the ground, stirring up dust and ending up with dirty faces.

“Damn it, there’s absolutely no problem with the barrier, the problem is with that kid, he can actually pass freely, absolutely Yang Tian gave him a backdoor!”

“These days, without some status or background, you can’t even get up the stairs…”

Ignoring the first layer prisoners with their faces full of frustration, Li Xiaobai walked slowly to the second layer.

The Attribute Points on the System panel surged once again.

[Attribute Points +10000…]

The pressure on this layer was twice as high as the one below, and the overall strength of the prisoners held here should also be a step above those below, but for Li Xiaobai, there was no difference, as the System would automatically block all pressure and harm.

“Someone’s coming up!”

“Is it that Yang Tian guy?”

“No, it’s a new face, coming up from the first layer!”

“Who is this person? He looks young, why can he ignore the barrier’s hindrance and come directly to the second layer, is the barrier ineffective against him?”

Seeing a silhouette appear at the entrance to the second layer, seven or eight prisoners were all astonished and crowded around.

For those who lived in monotonous boredom, the arrival of a newcomer was a novelty.

It had been a long time since someone had come to the second layer, and the person appearing was alone. If it was a second layer prisoner, they should be personally brought up by the prison head Yang Tian, but the person before them had come up on their own from the first layer, indicating that he was not a second layer prisoner.

“Don’t tell me it’s the same as upstairs, another underestimated madman?”

“Doesn’t look like it, a new face, has the Immortal Spirit Continent seen the birth of another unrivaled genius in these years?”

The prisoners chattered back and forth, speculating about the origins of Li Xiaobai.

Living on the second layer, they knew more secrets, such as when the ‘Poor’ lord first came in, he was just placed on the second layer, living in the same place as them, but that one was a real skinflint, who would pluck feathers from a passing goose.

On his first day, he had everyone tightly under his thumb, taking away the little savings they had on them, and even stripped the second layer of all its Luminous Pearls. Later, hearing that the third layer was empty, he forced himself through the barrier and ascended to the third layer, never to come down again.

It was also a relief that the lord had gone up, or else their nightmare wouldn’t have known when to end.

But now this newcomer seemed to have come up on his own just like the ‘Poor’ lord had back then, could he also be an extraordinary expert?

“Who goes there, a face I don’t recognize, what did you do to get in here?”

An older prisoner asked tentatively.

They saw the young man at the entrance smiling at them, then he said something unexpected.

“My name is Li Xiaobai, I haven’t done anything, just came to look around, experience life a bit.”