Chapter 81: Three-Star

“This is no longer a secret. Ten kilometers east of Linhai City, there was originally a small county town. But someone recently discovered that the place had turned into a swamp. It was now called Blackwater Swamp. Last month, a person with the Stealth skill sneaked into the swamp. In the deep part of the swamp, there was a ruined small village full of monsters. As he approached, a prompt told him it was a dungeon.” Xie Jing did not hide anything and spoke openly.

“Blackwater Swamp? Village of Sacrifice?” Xu Feng was inwardly startled. He hadn’t expected the famous Village of Sacrifice from his previous life to appear so soon.

In his previous life, the Village of Sacrifice was also near Linhai City. However, the owner of the Village of Sacrifice at that time wasn’t Thunder Martial Hall. Instead, it was obtained by the Doomsday Ark Alliance. After they occupied the Village of Sacrifice, they used the Altar at the village center to communicate with another alien invading race, the Dark Devourer race. This was an extremely disgusting race. Every Dark Devourer was like a slug, with octopus tentacles and covered in slime. They had no bones to support their bodies, couldn’t walk upright, and moved by wriggling.

Because of this, many people called them snot monsters.

And the Doomsday Ark Alliance became hated by all Earthlings, like a rat scurrying across the street.

However, relying on Blackwater Swamp, the Doomsday Ark Alliance repelled several attacks from other forces. Even Earth’s Will issued a mission to exterminate the Village of Sacrifice, but it still didn’t completely destroy the Doomsday Ark Alliance.

In this life, he absolutely must not let the Doomsday Ark Alliance obtain the Village of Sacrifice.

But thinking of Blackwater Swamp and the Village of Sacrifice, Xu Feng suddenly remembered a rumor about Blackwater Swamp.

It was said that when Blackwater Swamp first appeared, a Three-Star Flood Dragon was lurking inside the swamp. One day, an Ancient Castle suddenly appeared at the edge of the swamp, filled entirely with Undead Creatures. The aura of death began to spread outward.

Soon, the death aura, dark as ink, started to corrupt Blackwater Swamp. This disturbed the Flood Dragon hidden in Blackwater Swamp. The two sides had a fierce battle. The Death Fortress was razed to the ground, and that Flood Dragon was severely injured. Later, a lucky guy took advantage, killed that Flood Dragon.

Xu Feng once suspected that the appearance of the Death Fortress was related to one of the alien races, the Undead race. Because the monsters in the Death Fortress were almost all Undead race. These Undead were powerful. Unlike the Void Insectoid Race, as long as their Soul Flame wasn’t extinguished, even if their bodies were crushed to pieces, they still couldn’t be killed. Only by extinguishing their Soul Flame could they truly be killed.

Xu Feng didn’t care much about killing the Three-Star Flood Dragon. But it was said that the Flood Dragon actually dropped three drops of its own Essence Blood. Using them could change a person’s bloodline, giving them the Black Dragon Bloodline. This made Xu Feng feel eager.

“I don’t know when this happened, but it should be before the Doomsday Ark Alliance obtained the Village of Sacrifice,” Xu Feng muttered to himself.

No matter what, Xu Feng had to try to get the Black Dragon Bloodline.

“Right now, my strength is only Two Stars. I’ll strive to reach Three-Star first, then go to Blackwater Swamp.”

Arriving at the small courtyard prepared for him by Thunder Martial Hall, Xu Feng didn’t bother looking around. He went straight into the main bedroom, locked the door tightly. This left some apprentices who wanted to befriend him and visit him bewildered. They thought Xu Feng was arrogant and looked down on associating with them. Immediately, rumors began to spread within Thunder Martial Hall that Xu Feng disdained making friends with ordinary disciples.

Xu Feng didn’t know about such rumors. But even if he knew, he wouldn’t care. No matter how others saw him, he just did his own thing. He didn’t care about others’ looks or comments.

Inside his Storage Ring, over ten Insect Crystals shimmering with black light lay quietly.

These were all the Two-Star Insect Crystals Xu Feng had collected during this time.

With his previous experience absorbing Insect Crystals, this time, Xu Feng planned to first break through the Constitution Attribute from Two Stars to Three-Star.

“Others need to raise one attribute’s points above 120 to reach Three-Star. But I only need to raise it to 50 points.” Xu Feng smiled slightly. He held an Insect Crystal in each hand and began slowly absorbing the energy inside the Insect Crystals.

It took him all morning. The over ten Insect Crystals turned into more than thirty Free Attribute Points. Xu Feng was drenched in sweat, as if he had just come out of a water basin. A small puddle of sweat had accumulated beneath him.

The feeling of absorbing Insect Crystal energy wasn’t pleasant. Various sensations of soreness, numbness, pain, and itching felt like torture. Ordinary people could only absorb one Insect Crystal per day at most, then needed to rest properly for a while before continuing to absorb.

However, Xu Feng always accumulated a batch of Insect Crystals and absorbed them all together.

“Absorbing Insect Crystals together, although the process is more painful, can train my will. It also lets me feel more clearly the path and speed of the energy flowing inside my body. It lets me feel how my body absorbs this energy. This will have unexpected benefits for future advancements,” Xu Feng thought.

These were all accumulated experiences from his previous life. Some were Xu Feng’s own feelings, but more were experiences he absorbed from other experts, converted into his own experience.

“Phew, with such a long time of accumulation, at most I can only upgrade Constitution to Three-Star. To upgrade all my other attributes to Three-Star, reaching Three-Star Peak, I still need to hunt hundreds of Two-Star or above monsters,” Xu Feng calculated silently.

After taking a bath and changing into dry clothes, Xu Feng first went to the Martial Hall’s mission board and accepted several missions related to Blackwater Swamp. Then, without stopping, he left the Thunder Martial Hall gathering place and headed towards Blackwater Swamp.

Xu Feng went to Blackwater Swamp partly to wait for the appearance of the Death Fortress. On the other hand, a special plant grew in Blackwater Swamp: the Blackflame Vine.

This plant appeared along with Blackwater Swamp and wasn’t found anywhere else. Its peculiarity was that after killing it, using the Lumberjack skill on its corpse could yield one to three units of high-quality wood.

Also, deep in Blackwater Swamp, there were three Mine Caves containing large amounts of various ores. In his previous life, after the Doomsday Ark Alliance occupied the Village of Sacrifice, they took these three Mine Caves for themselves, not allowing others to enter and mine. Just these three Mine Caves made the Doomsday Ark Alliance extremely rich.

The gathering mission issued by Earth’s Will, Xu Feng had never completed it. Perhaps because Xu Feng was the Child of Earth, every time Earth’s Will issued missions, Xu Feng’s tasks were several times harder than others’.