Chapter 178 Strengthening Demonic Marks
That night, Zhou Chen opened his equipment panel, and he was going to strengthen his fifth-grade fox pattern.

Before, the most he could strengthen it was level six. Now that he had more strengthening points, he wanted to try out the limit of the strengthening. Now he had more than two thousand points in his hand, and he planned to use them all to strengthen the demon pattern.

As the reinforcement points were consumed, his fox pattern directly reached +5. Unlike the sixth-grade demon pattern, the fifth-grade demon pattern added two years of power for each level of reinforcement. However, the reinforcement points required for reinforcement also increased a lot. Just strengthening to level five had consumed three hundred reinforcement points.

But this was no big deal. Zhou Chen chose to continue strengthening. There was no problem strengthening to eight in one go. However, an accident occurred when he was strengthening to nine.

Because when he tried to enhance from eight to nine, it prompted that the enhancement had failed, but fortunately nothing happened to the demon pattern, it just still retained the attribute of adding eight. After trying again three times, he finally reached nine. Now he has spent 500 enhancement points.

Zhou Chen did not give up and chose to continue strengthening. As a result, he failed five times in a row when he was trying to increase the level from nine to ten. Finally, he reached ten.

Although the cost of adding ten is a bit high, the effect is much better than before. Originally, strengthening one level could only increase the skill by two years, but when it was strengthened by ten, it directly increased by eighteen years. Together with the previous one, it increased a total of thirty-six years.

Zhou Chen was delighted when he saw this. You know, this is not just an improvement in skill. If the martial arts are copied, the power of the martial arts will be greatly enhanced. So Zhou Chen decided to strengthen it again, but an unexpected result occurred again.

Because the system prompts that if you want to strengthen it to eleven, if the strengthening fails, the demon pattern will be directly shattered, or you can spend another hundred strengthening points to protect the demon pattern so that it will not be damaged if the strengthening fails.

Zhou Chen touched his head helplessly. It was really a scam. However, Zhou Chen was itching to try it now. If he didn't try it, he might not be able to sleep well tonight, because he felt that if the demon pattern was strengthened to eleven, the effect would definitely be qualitatively improved.

Zhou Chen then started his own consumption. As expected, the continuous failure prompts made Zhou Chen's mentality almost collapse. Now, the remaining strengthening points he had were only enough for him to strengthen once more.

Zhou Chen gritted his teeth and bowed towards the west, "Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva must bless me to succeed, and I will reward you with a generous gift afterwards." He didn't know whether there was a Guanyin Bodhisattva in this world. Anyway, he had never seen anyone worshiping the Bodhisattva. Let alone the Bodhisattva, there was not even a temple in this world.

Then Zhou Chen gritted his teeth and began to strengthen. The moment he confirmed the strengthening, Zhou Chen did not dare to look, for fear that he would see the failure prompt and lose control. Zhou Chen kept his eyes closed and prayed for a long time. After greeting all the gods he knew in his previous life, he dared to open his eyes to look.

As a result, the moment he opened his eyes, he couldn't help but smile on his face, because he finally succeeded, "Fox pattern +11 (the power of the demon pattern is increased by 2%, the power of copied martial arts is increased by 2%), the right arm's fifth-grade legendary power +80+72, the power of magical space +11, the infinite +11, the copied martial arts are not available yet."

Head: Snake pattern +2 (Sixth-grade mythical power +25+2 Ultimate Eye +2, no martial arts copy yet)

左臂:熊纹+6（六品神话功力+25+6附加神通疾风剑+6，复制武技风云刀+6）

右臂:狐纹+11（神通威力+2%，复制武技威力+2%）（五品传说功力+80+72神通空间之力+11，无量+11复制武技暂无）

Chest: Rat Pattern (Sixth-grade Mythical Power + 24 Magical Ice Qi, no martial arts copy yet)

左腿:蛛纹+5（六品传说功力+30+5神通幻杀+5（冷却1分钟），身外身复制武技风云刀+5）

Right leg: Turtle pattern (sixth-grade legendary power + 30 magical water realm, water sword kill copy martial arts not yet available)

After strengthening to 36, the increased power doubled directly, and the increase of 72 increased the power by years, and the increase to directly reached years. In addition, the most important point is that after strengthening to , an additional attribute is added. The power of magical powers and the power of copied martial arts are increased by %. However, Zhou Chen knows that this effect is limited to the magical powers of fox patterns and the martial arts copied on fox patterns. However, this is already very powerful. Zhou Chen also took a look at the needs of the twelfth family.

Just with one glance, not to mention how many enhancement points are needed for enhancement, the enhancement points for protecting the demon pattern alone have doubled to 200 points.

Zhou Chen also temporarily gave up this idea completely, and then Zhou Chen did not hesitate to copy his strongest martial art, Ao Long You, onto Fox Pattern. At this moment, he felt the difference. The power of Ao Long You is now much stronger than before. Zhou Chen guessed that the power of the martial art is not inferior to the lower-grade earth-level martial arts.

Of course, this is just his guess. Maybe he can come across mid-level earth-grade martial arts himself.

Early the next morning, Zhou Chen received a mission. The content was about a child murder case that had recently occurred in Wu'an County. Because it was too strange and the other party was a master, the county constables could not solve it, so the matter was reported to the Demon Suppression Division.

Afterwards, Zhou Chen took Leng Ningshuang and Leng Yiyao to investigate the case. There was no way because several days had passed since he had promised Leng Yiyao last time, and Leng Yiyao had been urging him during this period.

Originally, Zhou Chen planned to take her there in a few days, but he couldn't bear his urging, so he had to take him along on this mission and promised him that he would let him enter the Demon Town after this mission was over.

It has been a while since this case happened. Although the county constables are no match for the mysterious master, their methods of handling cases are not vague. After several days of investigation, they have roughly found out some clues, otherwise they would not have brought about such a disaster.

The murderer did not kill randomly, but followed a certain pattern. First, he targeted girls under the age of 7, and secondly, children whose horoscopes were Yin.

Although there are many children in the city, there are not many whose horoscopes are of the Yin element. There are only a few dozen of them in total. He killed more than a dozen of them a few days ago, and now there are only about ten children left. These children have been protected now and were just sent to the Demon Suppression Division this afternoon.

On the other side, in Baihu's room, Baihu was sitting in a black robe practicing martial arts, with a blood-red sword floating in front of him. After a few days of feeding, the originally snow-white sword had turned blood red.

At this time, the blood-red sword was continuously infusing Baihu with true energy to help him improve his skills. In just a few days, Baihu's strength had increased by 10%.

At this time, the long sword stopped the infusion, and Baihu opened his eyes, "I haven't sucked blood for several days. I must suck enough tonight, even if it's inferior blood."

"Why are you in such a hurry? Those children whose horoscopes are of the Yin element have been sent to the Demon Suppression Bureau this afternoon. Just hold on for a few more days. I will find a scapegoat to kill in two days. When they send those children back, I promise to let you suck as much as you want."

"Ah, I can't bear it anymore. Hurry up and find me some blood food, otherwise I will suck your blood."

Hearing him say this, Baihu's eyes turned cold and said, "What did you say? Do you still want to rebel?"

As soon as he said this, Baihu felt the blood surging in his body. In his shocked eyes, his blood actually flowed out of his body and floated towards the sword in front of him.

(End of this chapter)