Survival in the Underground Palace: Get the instant kill skill at the beginning

17: Book TowerTime and space shifted.

In the blink of an eye, Liu Yang found himself in an unfamiliar place.

Blue sky and white clouds, Youyou green grass, a hundred flowers in bloom, their fragrant scent surrounding him.

And he was lying prone on clean and tidy steps made of white jade.

He had escaped the danger, but his injuries still remained.

Waiting slowly for his body to recover here was completely impossible.

Because in the upper right corner of Liu Yang’s vision, a row of numbers was displayed.

47:58:32

It was clear that these numbers represented the amount of time he could stay here.

”What should I do now? Just wait idly for two days like this?”

”Not to mention that opportunities are rare, if I just do nothing like this, things will probably be the same after two days.”

Liu Yang understood that to recover quickly, he needed potions to treat his injuries.

He brought up the game interface and entered the auction page.

Searching for healing medicine, there was nothing.

Switching to a few other keywords like injury, medicine, wound, treatment, etc., it was equally blank.

Then Liu Yang entered the regional chat and called out to purchase.

He then switched to world chat and did the same.

After waiting quietly for an hour, there was no activity.

”Heh heh, thinking about it, it makes sense. No one who gets healing medicine would trade it away. This stuff can save lives at critical moments.”

He entered his warehouse to see if there was anything overlooked that he could use.

Suddenly, an item caught Liu Yang’s attention.

It was the half bottle of basic wound powder (small) he had left from last time.

”Last time it was an external injury, but this time the injuries are mainly to my internal organs and the bones throughout my body. Can it be useful?”

”Whether it’s useful or not, I’ll use it first.”

Clenching his teeth, steeling his heart, he decided to treat a dead horse as if it were alive.

With a thought, the small porcelain bottle appeared by Liu Yang’s mouth.

Biting open the stopper, he held the bottle opening in his mouth and tilted his head back to pour the powder into his mouth.

His hands and feet couldn’t move, so he had to do it this way.

As the powder went down, a faint coolness spread downwards from his throat, diffusing towards his limbs and bones throughout his body.

The pain slowly disappeared, and control over his body gradually returned.

Liu Yang was dumbfounded, his face full of shock, inexplicably shaken.

”Could it be... this is the correct way to use wound powder?”

Two hours later.

Liu Yang stood up, stretched his muscles and bones, feeling no discomfort at all.

He took out a pile of food and water.

After filling his stomach, he crafted a steel knife.

With everything ready, he finally looked up at the tall tower behind the steps.

Calling it a tall tower, it was only about 5 meters high.

Compared to the Giant Octopus, the difference was not small at all.

”This should be the Book Tower, then, let me go in and see how strong the Bookworms actually are.”

Kicking the door open with one foot, Liu Yang retreated and ran wildly.

Only after running very far and finding that nothing was chasing him did he finally relax.

Having had a close encounter with death once, being a little more careful is fine, right!?

He advanced with his crossbow, cautiously, fearing a powerful monster might suddenly appear.

However.

By the time he reached the door, no monsters had appeared either.

Looking inside from outside the door, there were no monsters around the entrance either.

And the small figures moving in the distance seemed extremely weak.

”Since there’s no danger at the entrance, going in to take a look should be fine, right? If something happens, I can just retreat in time.”

Thinking this, Liu Yang stepped into the Book Tower.

Bang!

A loud noise.

The Book Tower door automatically closed.

The figures in the distance simultaneously stopped moving and turned to look towards the entrance.

[Bookworm lv5: A creature unique to the Book Tower, usually idle, but once someone enters the Book Tower, they will definitely attack in groups.]

When the Bookworms discovered Liu Yang, he also clearly saw the Bookworms’ information and appearance.

This was a creature resembling a worm, only much larger.

”Only level 5? Then what do I have to be afraid of.”

”Although my leather armor is a little damaged, defending against their attacks shouldn’t be a big problem.”

”If I hadn’t been wearing it before, I probably would have been turned into meat paste by that blow.”

Although he thought this, there was no reason to wait to be hit before retaliating.

He aimed with his crossbow and pulled the trigger.

[Your arrow hit the Bookworm’s vital point, the Bookworm died.]

[Congratulations on killing the Bookworm, you gained skill book page x1, Spiritual Energy x1.]

An Second Kill with one arrow, and without using the Second Kill skill.

This greatly encouraged Liu Yang.

Arrows began to pour out, each arrow taking the life of a Bookworm.

Occasionally, he would even string them together, killing two with one arrow.

[Second Kill skill upgrade conditions met, upgrade?]

”Upgrade.”

[Second Kill skill upgraded successfully.]

[Second Kill lv2: Unique skill, can 100% Second Kill creatures of the same level as the skill level, for each level jumped, the success rate decreases by 20%, each use requires a certain amount of energy, the switch can be freely controlled, upgrading to the next level requires skill skill book page x30.]

In just this short time using the Second Kill skill, his own level had also risen by one.

Liu Yang was surprised, delighted, and even more motivated.

Aiming, shooting, loading arrows, his movements were seamless.

Except when loading arrows, during which the Bookworms could close the distance a little, at other times, they shouldn’t even think about it.

Before long, the prompt sounded again.

[Second Kill skill upgrade conditions met, upgrade?]

”Upgrade.”

[Second Kill skill upgraded successfully.]

[Second Kill lv3: Unique skill, can 100% Second Kill creatures of the same level as the skill level, for each level jumped, the success rate decreases by 20%, each use requires a certain amount of energy, the switch can be freely controlled, upgrading to the next level requires skill skill book page x40.]

[Experience points full, level automatically increased.]

[Congratulations on your level increase, current level lv5.]

”666666, this treasure spot, I love it, I love it.”

”And Feifei, the great beauty who gave me the teleportation scroll, I love you.”

”Just wait, if I can meet you someday, I’ll marry you.”

”Find a picturesque place with mountains and water, build a beautiful and cozy courtyard, and then have a few cute little babies...”

Liu Yang attacked while talking nonsense.

Soon, all the Bookworms on the first floor were eliminated.

And the Bookworm closest to Liu Yang was still nearly three meters away.

Looking at the Book Tower from the outside, it indeed wasn’t large.

But after coming in, he realized the space inside was much larger than imagined.

But then again.

Getting here relied on a space teleportation scroll.

So it wasn’t surprising that there were methods here that utilized spatial power or similar means.

After searching carefully, there were no Bookworms left.

Looking at the books on the shelves, Liu Yang had a wild idea.

”Could these Bookworms have materialized from these books?”

”If so, taking the books away means I won’t lack skill book page in the future.”

Thus, Liu Yang excitedly reached out his hand.

Picking up a book from the shelf, the text on the cover was completely illegible.

He tried to open it to take a look, but couldn’t.

When he walked a few meters away with the book, it automatically returned to the bookshelf.

He planned to use the power of the game system to put it in his warehouse and take it away.

But the all-powerful warehouse remained unresponsive at this moment.

”Damn, weren’t you quite active when the Bookworms dropped skill book page? Why are you silent now?”

After some effort, Liu Yang gave up.

These books...

He couldn’t take them away!

”Never mind, never mind. I originally only had 7 skill book page, and I gained enough to level up twice just on this first floor, with 3 left over.”

”When you’re a person, you can’t be too greedy.”

Liu Yang glanced over the surrounding books.

Enduring immense heartache, he walked towards the stairs to the second floor, looking back with every step.

But with every step, the heartache deepened a little more.

Until his heart ached so much he couldn’t breathe, seemingly on the verge of shock.

He finally stepped onto the second floor.