Su Fu closed the door to her room.
Before her was a standard single dormitory: a single bed, a wardrobe, and a desk.
On the desk sat a pot of lush green tail palm, looking especially vibrant under the light.
She casually placed her backpack on the desk and flopped heavily onto the bed, staring blankly at the ceiling for a moment.
Time was tight; the official exam was the day after tomorrow.
Tomorrow, she could pass at most two D-grade dungeons, so she had to decide in advance which types of dungeons to choose to use in the exam.
With this in mind, Su Fu summoned her willpower and sat up, then opened her personal star map to quickly skim through her current skills.
There was no need to say much about the standard skills.
This time, she felt the Conceptual Divine Skills would play the biggest role—whether it was Nuwa’s Power of Creation or Gonggong’s Mountain-Crashing Divine Technique.
The greatest feature of these skills was their ability to harness the environment for terrain bonuses.
In suitable environments, the same divine power could exponentially amplify the skill’s effect, gaining several times the power beyond the skill’s own rank.
Like a butterfly flapping its wings, eventually triggering a tornado.
Conceptual Divine Skills were truly the perfect tool for overtaking on curves.
So right now, she had three advantageous terrains: first, mountain environments, to control bursts with Mountain Collapse and violently disrupt the battlefield.
Second was the ocean environment, using the Divine Ability: Ocean – First Wave to manipulate water with ease.
And finally, volcanic terrain, which could amplify the effects of the Six Ding Divine Fire skill.
Besides these, she also had the universally versatile elemental damage skill, Divine Ability: Thunder – Resonant Thunder, usable on any terrain.
Su Fu sighed, “No wonder these Chinese gods are so amazing.”
The divine skills bestowed upon her were all useful.
This was true power—not just destruction, but an understanding of the world’s conceptual rules and control over natural laws.
It had to be her five-thousand-year-old Chinese civilization with its profound grasp of concepts—simply unbeatable.
However, despite their strength, these divine skills also had obvious limitations.
For example, the Mountain-Crashing Divine Technique was powerful but required specific terrain.
On a plain battlefield, Mountain Collapse lost its greatest advantage.
As for special terrains like sky or desert, it was even harder to utilize these skills—the environmental dependency was very strong for single-element skills.
Fortunately, the Chinese divine system had numerous gods, and over thousands of years of mythology, there was a god presiding over every terrain and environment.
She didn’t need to stubbornly stick to one skill.
That was precisely the greatest strength of the Chinese pantheon—and her advantage.
Moreover, the huge influence of the environment on the exam papers gave her a new insight.
Since everything on the exam paper interacted with each other, why not use skill combinations?
She already had water, fire, and thunder elemental skills; she could completely use the chemical reactions between elements for synergy.
Water conducts electricity, thunder can electrolyze, fire can evaporate…
What if she combined all three elemental powers?
She activated her divine power, a thread of water rose from the cup, then—
“Divine Ability: Thunder – Resonant Thunder!”
Crackling, tiny arcs of electricity danced at her fingertips.
She manipulated these arcs into the water flow; instantly, the water was wrapped in electric light, transforming into a domain full of thunder and lightning.
“As expected, the conductivity of water can be controlled by divine power.”
At this moment, the water was no longer just a conductor but became a carrier that expanded the thunder’s reach.
The once wild and unruly thunder became as manageable as an extension of her limbs under the water’s embrace.
Meanwhile, the water became more active due to the thunder’s activation, making the effect greater than the sum of its parts.
Now, if anyone touched her controlled water, they would be instantly paralyzed by electricity.
If this was in an ocean environment… then the opponent would have nowhere to escape.
With this synergy, it turned into an incredibly strong form of control.
“Now let’s try the Six Ding Divine Fire.”
She placed the divine fire beneath the water flow.
The surface of the water immediately boiled, rapidly turning into white steam that filled the room with a hazy fog.
With the high temperature creating steam, all that was left was a little compression…
She immediately summoned the Wind Fire Wheels and flew into the air.
The rapid spinning compressed all the fog into one dense mass.
High temperature, high pressure, ionization—all three states instantly reached their critical point—
“Boom!”
With a muffled roar, the compressed steam exploded violently under the fury of her divine power.
The blast wave overturned the green plant on the desk, and Su Fu was startled by the force.
“This is too fierce! It literally turned into explosive damage?”
With the explosion, damage doubled.
If anyone dared to confront this head-on… tsk, tsk.
Su Fu gathered herself.
So, with these skills combined, it became a complete combo, ending with a wide-area AOE burst skill.
The area could become ridiculously large—the bigger the water domain, the stronger the thunder, the more steam produced, and the larger the explosion radius.
“This combo’s strength lies in each skill dealing damage individually, then erupting into a combo burst. In other words, with the same divine power, I will get a burst skill for free!”
Su Fu realized how terrifying this combo was—it countered every single elemental skill user in the exam.
“If the opponent is water-based and immune to Divine Ability: Ocean – First Wave, I’ll just inject thunder into the water for control.”
“If it’s a thunder-based opponent, though they may be immune to thunder, they won’t resist the superheated steam. Even if they could endure thunder and heat, the final explosion would be enough to finish them off.”
The key was, this was not a single-target skill.
As long as there was enough water, a large-scale control field could form.
And once such a control field formed, the opponent would inevitably suffer the explosion.
“Unless someone has high resistance to every element, there’s simply no escaping this chained killing formation.”
She thought about how those noble heirs, even with top-tier equipment, couldn’t possibly max out resistance to all elements, right?
‘If not… hehe, then let’s see how they handle a large-scale elemental combo bombardment.’
“Boom.”
Sure enough, Su Fu sighed, “Explosions are truly an art.”
Under absolute damage, any defense was just paper tigers.
But what if there was no water environment in the dungeon?
Very simple—create a water environment first to gain water-based divine skills.
As long as she released a water skill first to produce a water source, she could perform this combo anywhere.
This was a true game-changer.
No matter who the opponent was, once trapped in a water-mist-filled environment, there was no escape from this chained explosion combo.
Its advantages were too obvious: first, the wide coverage was enough to create large-scale control.
Second, the damage types were diverse—paralysis, extreme heat, then explosion.
Almost no one could resist all three simultaneously.
Most importantly, this attack method was almost impossible to defend against because it targeted the entire environment, not just a single target.
However, the combo also had an obvious downside.
Su Fu sighed again, “The divine power consumption is a bit too much.”
She had only just tested this little experiment, yet her divine power was already noticeably depleted.
Not to mention that the full version required creating water, then combining thunder, divine fire, and the final detonation—a total of four divine skills.
One full combo would probably drain her completely.
And right now, she lacked a fast way to recover divine power.
During the exam, it was still manageable—Divine Movement acted like a ‘power bank’ providing continuous divine power, allowing her to use a full combo without issue.
But after using it, a period of weakness was inevitable, which was very dangerous.
Outside the exam, with her current divine power reserves, she could probably only manage a small-scale burst.
“Tsk, poverty really is a hard flaw. But at least it can be used in the exam.”
“So the upcoming exam should ideally solve both problems—gain a water-based divine skill and have fast divine power recovery.”
“This combo is about as good as it gets.”
Su Fu continued to review other weaknesses she had found in the exam.
She realized she clearly lacked spatial lockdown ability.
For example, Bai Yu and Chris kept teleporting repeatedly in the exam, making her unable to catch or control them.
“But there are solutions. Nezha’s Chaos Heaven Silk can lock down enemy movement, and Taishang Laojun’s formations can restrict movement…”
But for now, these were minor problems and not urgent.
She could wait until after the exam to specifically improve in those dungeons.
Su Fu focused her mind.
Her main priority was still that combo—that was the key to maximizing her power now.
She then called out, “Shen Yan AI, I want to see the available D-grade dungeons for exchange.”
The familiar voice of Shen Yan AI responded:
[“Candidate Su Fu, hello. Authenticating permissions…”]
[“Permission authentication successful.”]
[“You can currently exchange for 5 D-grade dungeons. Displaying available options.”]
As the voice faded, a massive luminous screen unfolded before Su Fu.
Countless dungeon names scrolled across it.
Unlike before, when she could only choose from Heavenly Court Series dungeons, this time almost the entire Chinese mythology system’s scenes were included.
“So many…” Su Fu’s eyes started to blur.
Fortunately, the dungeons were categorized by region.
She looked over the categories: Heavenly Court Series, Underworld Series, Great Desolation Series, Mortal World Series…
Each series had countless subcategories.
[“Yaochi Outer Garden: Bone-Eating Flower Demon”]
[“Douniu Palace: Tiangang Star Demon”]
[“Naihe Bridge: Resentful Spirit”]
[“Wangsi City: Rampant Spirits”]
[“Fengdu Outside City: Bone Nightmare Beast”]
[“Buzhou Mountain: Stone Spirits”]
[“Huoyun Cave: Flame Demon Rampage”]
[“Dongting Lake: Lake Demon Rampage”]
[“Taihang Mountains: Sky Silkworm Disaster”]
Su Fu glanced through.
Okay, even with categorization, there were still many.
The environments varied, demons and monsters abundant—she’d probably obtain a lot of different types of divine skills.
But now, her biggest challenge was how to quickly create water environments for consistent output, and secondly, how to rapidly recover divine power during the combo’s weakness phase.
“There are quite a few gods who can create water environments…”
Su Fu quickly thought of some candidates.
‘The Rain Master controlled clouds and rain, commanding the skies with a word. ‘
‘Ying Long could ride the clouds and spread rain, bringing storms wherever he passed.’
‘Xuanming even controlled the nine heavens’ mysterious waters, commanding water vapor from all directions.’
But these only solved the water environment problem.
What she needed was not just creating the battle environment but also fast divine power recovery.
Was there anyone who could do both?
Or was she stuck choosing one?
“Wait…” Suddenly, a bright idea struck Su Fu.
She immediately pictured the compassionate figure sitting on a lotus throne, right hand holding the willow branch wine Sweet Dew, left hand holding Guanyin’s Net Bottle to save all beings.
Guanyin of the Southern Sea.
The Great Compassionate Guanyin Bodhisattva, who saved those in suffering.
Legend had it Guanyin’s Net Bottle was filled with Sweet Dew; a single drop could revive the dead.
The bottle could hold the water of an entire sea without ever overflowing.
“This perfectly matches my needs!” Su Fu sat up excitedly.