Chapter 283: Lottery Moment

His recollection was interrupted. Xu Xiaoshou pulled himself together and looked again at the passive points below the information bar.

One hundred thousand passive points, to be honest, wasn't a small amount. Compared to the difficulty of acquiring passive points before, this was already a huge leap. To get more in one go, he probably had to wait for the appearance of another secret realm similar to Black Falls Cliff.

"So, how should I spend this money?" Xu Xiaoshou pondered.

Spending it all on draws was out of the question. The spinning wheel was precious now; one draw cost five thousand, meaning a ten-draw cost fifty thousand. Xu Xiaoshou wasn't planning on doing a thirty-draw. Even if he drew something good, he wouldn't be able to upgrade it. And passive skills that couldn't be upgraded to the Grandmaster level offered little help to his current strength.

Unless... unless he got incredibly lucky and drew a special passive skill similar to "Passive Fist."

"Passive Fist (Charge Value: π)." Xu Xiaoshou stared at it in silence. This special passive skill had never been activated even once. The accumulated value behind it also remained at the same number as when he last saw it, completely unchanged. This meant that all the various attacks Xu Xiaoshou had endured over the past few days weren't enough to even increase its value.

Terrifying! Xu Xiaoshou found it hard to imagine how terrifying this passive skill would be when unleashed. He really wanted to test it, but he couldn't bear to lose that endlessly significant "π."

"I'll just leave it for now!"

Forcing his gaze away from it, Xu Xiaoshou again considered the previous allocation of passive points. A ten-draw was definitely essential, even if it was just one... Bah, bah, bah! He still had fifty thousand, which he absolutely had to spend on another Grandmaster-level passive skill. This way, after "Everlasting," "Strong," and "Agile," he would have another powerful weapon. As for which one, Xu Xiaoshou hadn't decided yet. Maybe it would be a new one, or perhaps an old one...

"So, that leaves ten thousand passive points."

Xu Xiaoshou looked at the Awakening Pool. If he wanted to significantly increase his combat power, there was no doubt that the Awakening Pool was the most effective. Xu Xiaoshou had fragmented memories of the "Berserk Giant" slamming the Gray Mist figure. But even from those fragmented memories, he could discern the terrifying nature of this awakened skill. Grandmasters were completely unable to withstand the damage from that golden giant. Xu Xiaoshou even wondered if gaining conscious control of "Berserk Giant" would be equivalent to possessing a puppet war god's body like Ah Jie's.

In that case... Xu Xiaoshou salivated, his face filled with longing.

"If that were the case, he would kill anyone who stood in his way, even gods!"

"No, I can't think about it anymore. Everything must be based on practical considerations!"

Xu Xiaoshou snapped out of his reverie and immediately went to the shop to exchange for five "Passive Keys."

"Oh, gods, bless me..."

Standing on his bed, Xu Xiaoshou suddenly jumped off, paced around the room for a long time, and finally stopped at the bathroom entrance. "The bathroom is a place of great yin, gathering all the ill omens of a room. But!" Xu Xiaoshou remembered his usual terrible luck and no longer believed he was a lucky person. Perhaps... when things hit rock bottom, they can only improve; perhaps negative luck would turn positive.

"Hmph!"

"May the Luck King possess me!"

After quickly inserting the five keys, Xu Xiaoshou immediately squatted down, clutching his head, spreading his legs, and hooking his feet to the ground, adopting a posture meant to attract great misfortune. There was no sudden darkness before his eyes, no other unusual phenomena. The room was perfectly silent.

Xu Xiaoshou was disheartened. This meant that "Mastery Passive Skill" was no longer a possibility. His "Spirit Array dream" had woken before it even began. He forced himself to perk up and looked towards the information bar.

"Four keys..."

The young man slammed his head onto the floor, directly making a large dent.

"What a rip-off!!"

"Just like that, fifty thousand passive points... Most of my class time just vanished. Damn system, you owe me!!" Xu Xiaoshou roared heartbreakingly, his voice thundering, even more chilling than Xiao Shiliu's mournful screams. Fortunately, he had already maxed out the soundproofing barrier, so this commotion wouldn't be known to outsiders.

"Four keys!"

After venting, Xu Xiaoshou, startled, immediately inserted the remaining "Passive Keys" into the slots again! Four consecutive useless draws! Xu Xiaoshou dropped to his knees, his spirit utterly broken.

"Just like that, it's all gone..."

Using the passive keys after the price increase made his heart twitch; Xu Xiaoshou was clearly seeing red. He looked at the 130,000 passive points in the information bar and, without hesitation, exchanged them for ten more! The plan was certainly beautiful, but people sometimes act this way. With tickets in hand, how could he not use them all?

"May the Luck King possess me!" Xu Xiaoshou yelled, rolling directly into the bathroom and kicking the door shut with force.

"Acquired Extended Passive Skill: Toughness!"

"Holy crap, something dropped!!"

The red-eyed Xu Xiaoshou almost gouged out his own eyeballs. After rubbing them desperately, he finally looked at the incongruous length and smirked.

"Hahahaha!"

"I knew it! I, Xu Xiaoshou, am the Son of Destiny! Twenty keys were all it took to get a drop! I'm the Luck King! Who can stop me?!"

Overwhelmed with excitement, the guy was too lazy to open the door, so he simply crashed through it and leaped onto the big bed. The bed exploded too...

"Huh?" The red glow in Xu Xiaoshou's eyes finally receded slightly as he silently looked at the bed, which had shattered into four pieces beneath him. A long moment passed.

"Oh, ha, oh hahaha!!"

A bout of wild, ecstatic laughter escaped him, and Xu Xiaoshou rolled on the ground.

"Alright, calm down!"

The young man, still prostrate, glanced at the information bar and instantly calmed down.

"Toughness!"

"What could that mean... flexibility?"

Xu Xiaoshou got up, lifted his leg, and immediately did a split in mid-air.

"Holy crap!"

"Everlasting" began operating wildly... The pain finally made the crazed fellow rub his thighs and sit on the shattered pieces of the bed. Without hesitation, he immediately allocated ten skill points.

"Heh, it's only five thousand passive points. I'll max it out no matter what!"

Xu Xiaoshou was too lazy to think further. When a passive skill reached the Innate level, it would undergo changes and bring great enlightenment. Why bother thinking when he could just directly gain the information? "Anyway, it's from the system. No matter how vague the name, can it be more vague than 'Strong'?"

"Toughness (Acquired Lv.1)."

"Toughness (Innate Lv.1)."

A warm current surged through his body, as comfortable as spring blossoms. A wave of enlightenment surged into his mind, and Xu Xiaoshou's eyes suddenly lit up, filled with surprise!