Tang Yue pensively walked back to her own chamber and changed into a more comfortable robe.

"Let's not think too much." She slapped her cheeks and cupped her face into her hands.

She then massaged her eyes and temples with her palms and flicked open the system's interface.

There were things still left to do before the contest officially began!

Just like Xander had warned her, the Labyrinth might very well be dangerous, but Tang Yue had no other choice except to participate in it.

She was already far behind the others, and the danger of her hidden abilities getting discovered was only increasing every day.

She had to become stronger as soon as possible and couldn't afford to let even a single chance go to waste.

She had to grab every opportunity irrespective of how dangerous it was.

Besides, numerous people from the nine countries were participating in this expedition. So just how dangerous could it be?

As she was engrossed deep in her thoughts, a small furball landed on her.

Sensing Tang Yue's presence, Little Blue had run over to her from somewhere in a corner and immediately jumped onto her.

The pup licked her distracted face affectionately as if it was wiping away all her worries with its saliva.

Tang Yue giggled and put the saliva monster down on the floor. "Be good, Little Blue."

She then gazed at the System's interface.

She had already opened the system's interface a few dozen times in the royal palace, that too in the close proximity of Xander.

If he was able to detect it, he would have already done so.

Because of this, Tang Yue was sure that Xander was not capable of detecting the System's presence within her.

After the auction house fiasco, she had been exceedingly cautious and meticulous in all her actions.

Even a single slip-up could cost her everything and that cannot happen.

This was why, even though she was inhaling the roasted meat skewers left and right, she still didn't completely finish the bloodlines.

She purposefully left it incomplete, just an inch from the finish line.

She was not sure if Xander would be able to sense her evolution process, so she decided to not trigger any bloodline evolutions at the moment.

She also had to form the beast contract yet but that too had to wait. It was simply too risky to do these things at the moment.

When the labyrinth event begins, then Xander's attention would definitely not be on her. So that would be the perfect moment to finish off all of these upgrades.

For now, she had no other choice but to rely solely on her upgraded mental strength and grab a spot in this contest.

Tang Yue nodded in deep thought and gazed at the System interface.

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Name: Tang Yue

Level 8 (100/51,200)

Species: Blue venomous serpent

Grade: Spirit beast

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Body constitution: Silver-tier Martial Body

Mana constitution: Gold-tier Mortal Core

Soul constitution: Bronze-tier Martial Soul

Mental constitution: Silver-tier Emperor Mind

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Poison resistance: Level 30

Heat resistance: Level 50

Cold resistance: Level 30

Lightning resistance: Level 30

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Agility: Level 30

Strength: Level 30

Stamina: Level 30

Defense: Level 30

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Attributes:

Health points: 5000/5000

Health regeneration: 0.1hp/hr

Mana points: 500/500

Mana regeneration: 100mp/hr

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Contracted companions:

Fire elemental: Level 0

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Bloodlines:

Phoenix (High-grade): 0.001%

Volcanic Turtle King (High-grade): 0.001%

Storm dragon (Epic-grade): 0.0001%

Violet-horned Nether Dragon (Epic-grade): 0.0001%

Completed Bloodlines:

Wild Salamander (Common grade)

Bristle wolf (Common grade)

Fire twin-tailed bird (Low grade)

Crystal Swan (Low grade)

Repugnant Eversong Vine (Low grade)

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Skills:

[Greater Illusion Magic] - Passive skill; Able to cast illusionary disorienting spells; Able to cast spells ignoring the cultivation base of the target up to two realms.

[Evolution] - Passive skill, Able to constantly improve and upgrade the body.

[Lesser regeneration] - Passive skill, Able to regenerate and recover completely over a period of time, provided vital organs are unharmed.

[Higher fire affinity] - Passive skill, Able to manipulate mana into high-grade fire.

[Lesser Ice affinity] - Passive skill, Able to manipulate mana into low-grade ice.

[Venomous bite] - Active skill, Level 30, Toxicity depends on the poison resistance of the body.

[Venom spit] - Active skill, Level 30, Toxicity depends on the poison resistance of the body.

[Startle] - Illusion Magic Spell, Level 15, Able to disturb an enemy's concentration.

[Hide] - Illusion Magic Spell, Level 10, Able to hide the body's presence and aura.

[Disguise] - Illusion Magic Spell, Level 0, Able to mask and morph the body's presence and aura.

[Enslave] - Illusion Magic Spell, Level 0, Able to bend the mind of a lower realm target to will.

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"Ha Ha. That cheered me up." The snake grinned brightly.

Since she had leveled up not once but twice and also upgraded her four constitutions, all her stats were vastly improved.

If not for her mana core lagging behind, she could have already stepped into the Martial realm and shed her mortal status completely.

But there was nothing Tang Yue could do at the moment to improve her rate of mana cultivation any further than she had already done.

So she clicked her tongue and ignored it. It was a passive process and it will increase with time automatically.

The snake also hated her abysmal health regeneration rate.

But there was nothing she could do about this as well at the moment.

She needed appropriate bloodlines to improve these traits.

Only if she completes the necessary bloodline evolutions, she would be able to improve these two important traits.

Till then, just like everyone else, she would also have to rely on health and mana regeneration potions, the two best-selling products of the alchemy association.

It wouldn't be exaggerating to say that the association's main profit came from these two product sales.

As the snake quietly pondered about acquiring these two potions in bulk, her mind casually wandered over to the crimson-eyed devil's last few words.

The man had suspiciously been very generous and allowed her to use the things in his pieces of spacial jewelry.

Tang Yue gulped eagerly. Just what sort of monstrous treasures could be present in the mad man's collections???