Su Yu instantly knew that this wave had knocked off 1320 points of the Magical Treasure's defense, with each water arrow averaging slightly over 100 damage.
"I can't take it head-on."
With a thought, mana flowed through his entire body, making him incredibly light as he soared backward. With both hands clasped together, he quickly formed a spell, chanting under his breath. His body's mana rapidly dissipated, turning into strands of fire that gathered in his palms and erupted into a fire pillar that shot into the sky, forming a thirty-meter-diameter burning Fire Cloud a hundred meters above the fish school.
About five or six seconds later, fist-sized fireballs flew from the Fire Cloud, crashing into the rushing group of Carp Spirits, immediately displaying massive damage numbers.
Fire Rain Skill: Summons three waves of fire rain, each wave dealing 50+10% magic damage bonus, damage area 10 meters +1 meter per level, casting distance 200+20 meters per level, every ten levels +1 wave of fire rain, mana cost 600 points.
Golden Finger bonus, each wave's damage is 100+20% magic damage bonus, damage area is 20 meters +2 meters per level, totaling four waves.
Normal Fire Rain damage is 50+5+10, with each wave causing 65 fire damage.
With the Golden Finger bonus, it becomes 100+20+20, within a 40-meter diameter, each wave deals 140 fire damage.
As a wave of fire rain fell, the scorching steam rose, and the Fish Spirits frantically leaped around.
The second wave of fire rain descended, causing many Fish Spirits to float belly-up.
"Notice: Killed level 12 Carp Spirit, gained 12 slaughter experience points."
"Notice: Unknown factor influence, gained an extra 12 slaughter experience points, you actually received 24 slaughter experience points."
This group of Carp Spirits comprised nearly thirty, and after three waves, he gained 720 slaughter experience points, at the cost of only 600 mana.
Su Yu landed from the air, reaching out to grab the two glowing orbs among the slain carp group; they were loot.
Yet, he didn't pay much attention to this loot; casually opening it, it was just as expected, materials.
One loot orb contained over ten pieces of First-Grade thick fish scales, which could be used to craft First-Grade equipment Fish Scale Armor that adds ten points of defense, something he never considered buying.
They were very cheap in the market, purchased in batches of 100 at a price of 1 copper.
Still, any little thing adds up, and since his personal space was empty anyway, these items only occupied one slot and could be stacked infinitely, better to collect them first.
In the otherworld, wild monsters drop loot like in a game, theoretically, anything could drop, such as a Flying Sword Magical Treasure, or even a Daoist Scripture, but the drop rate is incredibly low.
Good items can only drop from a BOSS; regular small monsters dropping a Flying Sword Magical Treasure is ridiculously low; usually, they only drop basic materials at prices that aren't worth thinking about for getting rich.
After collecting the loot, he swallowed a Top-Grade Rejuvenation Elixir to recover 600 mana, then injected mana into the Profound Iron Bell to restore the defense taken down by the fish group focusing fire.
The Profound Iron Bell's defense is 2500, with a mana conversion rate of 10, meaning every point of mana he injects can restore 10 points of defense.
During combat, he could also inject mana to continually restore the Magical Treasure's defense, generally able to inject up to 1% of his own mana per second, so the higher the mana, the faster the Magical Treasure's defense recovers.
Moreover, a Defensive Treasure's defense is capable of blocking equivalent damage before breaking. With 360-degree protection before the Magical Treasure's defense is breached, it offers absolute safety — no chance of sneak attacks from below — unless a Magical Treasure only defends one side.
The Profound Iron Bell, though suspended overhead, emitted trapezoidal Treasure Light protecting his whole body, actually offering all-round protection.
Once recovered, Su Yu's gaze shifted, fixing on another group of creatures.
He injected mana, sparking fierce flames in the Three Yang Fan.
For small groups of creatures, he relied on the Three Yang Fan, tackling three in one move, typically resolving them within two or three rounds, with high efficiency and low mana consumption.
The Fire Rain Skill is only used when encountering groups of 20 or 30 or more.
However, group farming carries tremendous risk; if the monster group is too large, a single mistake could lead to disaster.
The aquatic creatures by Chensha River were all around level 10; his Qi Refining Heart Skill was also only level 10, but with the Golden Finger bonus, it was equivalent to other people's level 20, definitely a level suppression, making killing efficiency astonishingly fast.
Meanwhile, continually casting spells honed his skills, making his casting speed increasingly fast.
The Fire Rain Skill initially took five or six seconds to summon Fire Clouds, but after only a few releases, he'd already compressed it to about three seconds — nearly twice as fast.
Actual combat is the best catalyst; concepts his teachers once discussed in textbooks he rapidly converted into practical experience after personal attempts.
Su Yu didn't know if it was his inherent talent or the Golden Finger, but he found himself learning anything remarkably fast, becoming proficient enough to multitask comfortably within an hour, maneuvering the Three Yang Fan while evading oncoming water arrows simultaneously.
Slaughter experience accumulated very quickly, but mana consumption was extremely rapid, requiring three to four dozen High-grade Spirit Recovery Elixirs every hour.
And the loot was practically nothing, gathering only a few thousand fish scales, a dozen monster scales, and some fish bones, meat, etc., totaling less than 100 coins.
But there was no helping it; at such a low level, leveling was a pure loss, as level 10 monsters' materials weren't worth much, not even covering the cost of elixirs.
He could only endure through this phase, waiting until he could farm level 40 or 50 creatures. The material quality would improve, prices would rise somewhat, allowing him to barely balance out income and expenditure.
In a breath, he'd farmed for almost five hours, accumulating 220,000 slaughter experience points, but gained no Daoist Camino; that required farming BOSSes to gain.