“Impressive…”
Bai Qiu was surprised.
The military had indeed been banned at the very beginning, and it wasn’t until the last major update—when new monsters were deployed—that the restriction was lifted.
Yet in just a few short days, several safe zones had already been taken over by the military.
Moreover, each of these military-controlled zones had several “special forces” players above level 15.
It was hard to imagine just how far they would have progressed if they hadn’t been banned during those earlier days!
Since Bai Qiu had gone viral in the zone channel and was recognized as the undisputed top player, the military leaders had known about him from the start.
After taking control of their safe zones, they immediately tried to contact him.
However, at that time, Bai Qiu had already been overwhelmed by a flood of private messages and friend requests, so he naturally never saw them…
The content of their messages was predictable—inviting him to join the system.
It was similar to the recruitment pitches from other safe-zone factions: promises and incentives, offering positions, resources, and various benefits if he joined.
Bai Qiu shook his head slightly.
He was different from others—every hour of his day, every minute, every second was occupied.
There was no way he would join these organizations and waste his time and energy.
As for friend requests, he accepted them all.
After all, these were all outstanding individuals; there might be opportunities to interact in the future.
But when it came to private messages, he rejected every invitation one by one.
“Hm? Miracle Fruit?”
Bai Qiu kept scrolling through his messages.
After declining more than a dozen invitations, he finally saw Ye Lingtian’s private message.
It was also the last message, sent over three hours ago…
Ye Lingtian: “Boss Bai Qiu, after you left, I found a Miracle Tree. It had several Miracle Fruits on it. Take a look—do you need them? If you do, I can list them on the marketplace for you.”
After reading the information about the Miracle Tree and Miracle Fruit, Bai Qiu’s eyes widened.
It wasn’t that he was surprised Ye Lingtian had found such a rare opportunity.
After all, while reviewing the system logs earlier, he had already learned that at midnight yesterday, the system had randomly deployed heavenly treasures across the world and added some interdimensional passages.
What truly shocked him was the effect of the Miracle Fruit—a C-rank heavenly treasure with a chance to grant a pseudo-transcendent physique.
What did that mean?
Having a transcendent physique himself, Bai Qiu understood it better than anyone!
As for Ye Lingtian finding such an opportunity, it wasn’t too surprising either.
After all, Bai Qiu had killed more than twenty Lord-class monsters in that area—so the appearance of a heavenly treasure there made perfect sense.
This also matched the system log’s mention of newly added interdimensional passages.
In other words, if an interdimensional passage spawns a large number of Lord-class entities, then there will almost certainly be heavenly treasures like the Miracle Tree placed there as well.
Bai Qiu replied: “I need that. Are you in Safe Zone 2246? I’ll come over later and we can trade in person.”
When Ye Lingtian saw Bai Qiu’s reply, his heart skipped a beat.
He’s not planning to… take it for free, is he?
Fortunately, Bai Qiu’s next message quickly dispelled his doubts—and filled him with excitement.
Bai Qiu: “I’ll send you what I currently have. Pick whatever you want and tell me directly. Two skills or one weapon in exchange for one Miracle Fruit.”
After all, he had killed nearly thirty Lord-class entities, so he had quite a lot of drops.
As for why Bai Qiu chose to trade offline, he had his own considerations.
Ye Lingtian didn’t have many people watching him, but there were probably quite a few players monitoring Bai Qiu’s marketplace activity.
If he listed these items at a low price on the marketplace, there was a high chance someone would snipe them.
To eliminate that risk, a direct offline trade was the best option—no middlemen taking a cut, and no chance of being undercut.
Bai Qiu didn’t like scheming, but he wasn’t foolish enough to test human nature either.
After a while, Ye Lingtian replied: “Alright!”
Some time later, Bai Qiu received another message.
After nearly ten minutes of consideration and comparison, Ye Lingtian chose two skill books—[Origin Flame] and [Dark Will]—along with a C-rank weapon, the Meteor Spear.
Origin Flame (C Rank)
Special Skill: After learning Origin Flame, all of the user’s mana is converted and condensed into Origin Flame stored within the body. It can be used at any time to enhance the body or weapons, or fully released to deal massive magic damage.
Side Effect: If the stored Origin Flame drops below 5%, all attributes decrease by 20%. If it reaches zero, the user enters a weakened state.
Dark Will (C Rank)
Active Skill: Upon activation, the user enters a Demonic State. While in this state, all attributes increase by 20%, and there is no stamina consumption.
Demonic State: While in this state, no active skills can be used. However, when passive skills are triggered, their proficiency gain is doubled, and the chance to self-learn skills is also doubled.
Duration: 10 seconds
Cooldown: 60 seconds
Meteor Spear (C Rank)
Minor Strength Increase, Minor Agility Increase
Passive – Meteor Pierce: Wounds inflicted by the spear are difficult to heal and apply a damage amplification effect, increasing additional damage by 30%.
Passive – Night Star Power: Killing enemies at night grants one stack of Meteor Power. Each stack increases Strength and Agility by 1% for 20 seconds, stacking up to 15 times. Each stack has its own duration.
Active – Meteor Strike:
Requirement: 15 stacks of Meteor Power
Consumes all 15 stacks to unleash a Meteor Strike. The spear descends from the sky onto a designated target, dealing massive damage.
Note: Meteor Strike can only be used once per night.
Bai Qiu shook his head slightly.
His luck stat was kicking in again.
Before this, he had never dropped a polearm weapon—but now, right after obtaining the Purgatory Darkflame Spear, he immediately got another weapon of the same rank, albeit a slightly inferior one.
It was that classic kind of situation—whatever he needed would absolutely never drop, and whatever he didn’t need would keep dropping nonstop.
But now Bai Qiu didn’t have to worry about it anymore.
He had already accepted dozens of friend requests—items useless to him might be things others would fight tooth and nail to buy!
At this point, all of Bai Qiu’s base attributes had reached the C-rank threshold, except for Luck.
With the Dragon Slayer Set MAX, the Holy Demonic Physique, and Mana Manipulation, he almost didn’t need to use skills at all.
Skills like [Origin Flame] and [Dark Will], which focused on enhancement, were no longer useful to him.
The reason was simple—they were diluted too much.
Even if he used them, it would just waste a skill slot without significantly increasing his actual combat power.
What he needed now were mechanics-type skills, like Zhang Shiyao’s [Azure Light].
To put it simply, learning any of the skills he currently had might increase his combat power from 100 to around 101–110.
But learning Zhang Shiyao’s Azure Light could boost his combat power from 100 to 200 in a short time!
That kind of amplification was simply absurd.
Sigh… In the end, it really was the downside of having stats that were too high—so many skill books and weapons were practically useless to him now.
…
Safe Zone 2246
Ye Lingtian stood at the entrance of the Sanctum Black Tower.
Although his face showed little emotion, he was extremely nervous inside, constantly thinking about what he should say when he met Bai Qiu later.
“Yo, Ling Tian, what’s gotten into you today? Not out hunting monsters and leveling, but standing here playing security guard instead?” At that moment, a middle-aged [Supporter] walked over and joked.
“Brother [Blacksmith], I’m just waiting for someone. He’s bringing me a huge opportunity. What about you? Not busy?” Ye Lingtian replied.
“Hah, you brats at best bring me D-rank equipment to repair. That’s something I can finish in minutes. But who exactly are you waiting for? Someone who can bring you a huge opportunity?” The [Blacksmith] lit a Zhonghua cigarette—something gifted by players.
After getting hooked, he’d been “farmed for gold” by players quite a bit, though the details weren’t worth getting into…
Ye Lingtian nodded slowly and straightened his posture, standing tall as he said:
“He’s also a native of Earth—the one publicly recognized among us players as the strongest. You know the Dragonfang Lords, right? He killed at least twenty of them just this morning. I was there—he slaughtered them like chickens and dogs!”
Although his face remained expressionless, the trembling in his voice and the fanatic gleam in his eyes made him look like a devout believer.
“Hiss?!” The [Blacksmith] sucked in a sharp breath.
He knew Ye Lingtian’s personality—mature, steady, one of the top players in Zone 2246, and a battle maniac.
Words from others might be taken lightly, but if they came from this kid, then they were probably true nine times out of ten!
“There’s already a transcendent powerhouse this soon?! Who could possibly be that fierce?!” the [Blacksmith] exclaimed.
The term he used caught Ye Lingtian’s interest.
“The ‘transcendent powerhouse’ you mentioned… what is that?” Ye Lingtian asked curiously.
— The end of the Chapter–
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