After seeing Bai Qiu kill Lord-class monsters more easily than he himself killed elite monsters, Ye Lingtian’s emotions became extremely complicated.
However, after talking with Bai Qiu, Ye Lingtian regained his resolve.
He firmly believed that as long as he kept working hard, he would eventually carve out a path of his own!
…
The golden tree had five main branches, and at the end of each branch hung a plump fruit.
The fruits were also golden, looking like apples.
Each one was fairly large—slightly bigger than a grown man’s clenched fist.
As Ye Lingtian approached, he noticed that these golden apples emitted a faint golden glow along with a subtle fragrance.
This is… a heavenly treasure?
That thought immediately crossed his mind.
His gaze sharpened as he activated his detection ability.
Information about the golden fruit tree appeared before his eyes:
Miracle Tree — C Rank
Description: A miraculous tree that bears Miracle Fruits. Everything in this world longs for miracles to happen, and its existence will attract many powerful beings.
Miracle Fruit — C Rank (Mature)
Description: A fruit born from the Miracle Tree. After consumption, it can trigger a natural miracle. Depending on the surrounding environment, it greatly enhances affinity with a certain element for 24 hours.
If the enhanced elemental affinity reaches a certain level, there is a chance to obtain a pseudo-transcendent physique.
“Hiss…” Ye Lingtian sucked in a breath of cold air.
He hadn’t expected it to really be a heavenly treasure—and a C-rank one at that…
He also hadn’t expected such a tree to be growing in this remote place, and even covered by a large cardboard box!
Subconsciously, Ye Lingtian glanced around to make sure no one else was nearby.
Then he immediately picked all five fruits from the tree.
As soon as the fruits were plucked, the Miracle Tree began to wither at a visible speed, quickly turning into a lifeless shrub.
Only then did Ye Lingtian understand why there had been so many Lord-class monsters in this area—they had all been drawn here by the Miracle Tree.
Thinking of this, he looked again in the direction where Bai Qiu had left…
If he hadn’t been here just now, I might have died today…
After standing there for several minutes, struggling internally, Ye Lingtian finally decided to send a private message to Bai Qiu.
They had only just met and hadn’t added each other as friends.
“Anyway, I’ve sent the message. If you see it, I’ll share it with you. If not… then it just means we weren’t meant to cross paths again,” Ye Lingtian said firmly.
After that, he stopped lingering and continued on his monster-hunting journey.
…
Time passed in the blink of an eye.
After this, Bai Qiu encountered a few more Lord-class monsters, but all were slain by him.
Before obtaining these pieces of equipment and his transcendent physique, Bai Qiu would still need to engage in a tough battle when facing a Dragonfang Lord.
But now, killing them was as easy as slaughtering chickens—it had to be said, the power of a transcendent physique combined with a full set of C-rank equipment was terrifying.
“Whoosh!” A dark crimson arrow of magical energy shot out, extinguishing the soul fire of a Giant Lord, which slowly collapsed to the ground.
Holding the Fallen Dragon’s Bow, Bai Qiu took out the recording cube and checked his mission progress.
Seeing that it was already complete, he put it back into his storage card.
Glancing at the time—11:22—it was already close to noon.
From Zone 2245 to 2250, Bai Qiu had spent over four hours, crossing five zones in total.
Looking at the map marker for Safe Zone 2251, he couldn’t help but pause.
Should I… go take a look? he wondered.
It was only a little over twenty kilometers away.
Currently, cross-zone chat was only available among the fifty safe zones numbered 2200–2250.
He didn’t know if going to 2251 would unlock a new chat channel…
Once he made up his mind, he acted immediately.
Bai Qiu quickly decided and sprinted at full speed toward Safe Zone 2251.
But just as he was about to cross the boundary shown on the map, an invisible wall blocked his way.
“Bang!”
He slammed heavily into the air wall and was sent flying dozens of meters backward.
Crashing onto the ground, his feet carved a long trail across the surface.
At the same time, the system’s voice sounded:
Special Reminder: The area ahead is not yet available for exploration. Please come back later.
“Damn it!” Bai Qiu stomped hard on the ground, crushing a small pit of gravel beneath his foot.
Why didn’t it say that earlier? Only after I smashed into it?!
“Phew…” After calming himself down, Bai Qiu opened the system logs.
He hadn’t planned to check them at first—aside from the first day, he had basically ignored everything afterward.
System Update Log
Holy Calendar, Year 0, January 1st, 01:01:05
Deployed monsters: Dragonfang Soldiers.
Deployed special monsters: Dragonfang Generals.
Began selecting top-tier natives.
Assigned classes.
Distributed starting equipment.
Loaded party system.
01:10:21
Safe zones activated and marked on the map.
01:10:30
Loading Sanctum Black Tower. Summoning [Supporters].
Holy Calendar, Year 0, January 2nd, 01:01:01
Regional chat channel activated. Players entering the Sanctum can access this feature…
January 2nd, 16:05:25
Cross-zone chat channel activated.
Photo function enabled.
Friend and private messaging systems enabled.
January 3rd
Marketplace opened.
Video function loaded…
January 4th… January 5th…
There wasn’t much worth paying attention to in these logs.
However, one useful feature stood out: keyword search.
Whether it was channel chat, cross-zone chat, private messages, or friend chat, as long as you entered a keyword, you could retrieve the relevant chat records.
For example, if you search “nine o’clock + Dragonfang,” the information that appears will start from nine o’clock onward and only display content related to Dragonfang.
There’s also a private messaging and friend request filter function, which allows you to set thresholds for receiving messages and requests.
The conditions can be extremely varied—you can freely define them.
For instance, if you set it to only accept private messages from players with one leg, then all players with two legs wouldn’t be able to message you.
Bai Qiu quickly skimmed through the content.
With the support of his mental power, he rapidly developed a new understanding of the current system update logs and how to use them.
He directly set the private chat and friend request functions so that anyone more than eight levels below him could not initiate private messages or send friend requests.
The threshold would increase further as his level rose.
This was easy to understand—it mainly prevented a flood of spam messages and friend requests.
Without this setting, Bai Qiu would have to actively add others or message them himself; otherwise, he wouldn’t even be able to find where to add people face-to-face.
This situation had only started after he “defeated seven in one night.”
As for players above level 15, their overall strength was on the same tier as Ning Xingxue and the others.
Reaching or surpassing that level meant they were already among the top players in their respective safe zones.
Sure enough, after setting the level restriction, the friend requests and private messages—which could previously take three days and nights to scroll through—instantly became sparse.
He went through them one by one and discovered that Safe Zones 2201, 2209, 2221, 2227, and 2241 were all currently under military control.
Each of these zones had representatives who had reached level 15, and they had sent him friend requests and private messages…
— The end of the Chapter–
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