Chapter 138: Ancient Tomb (Part 1)

“A Seventh Rank Supreme Fivefold Mist! This Long-Legged Lady probably has more wealth than some bosses.”

Ye Rong stole a glance at Graceful Dream Butterfly and muttered quietly to himself.

Seventh Rank Magic Treasures generally required an equipment Level of at least sixty to seventy. Such a Level was not only beyond Graceful Dream Butterfly, but no one in the entire Far Shore had reached it yet. The fact that she could equip it now meant she possessed an extremely rare method to lower the equipment Level requirement, allowing her to use it in advance.

If her defensive Magic Treasure was already Seventh Rank, he couldn’t believe that her other treasures would be much worse.

Even if they wanted to defeat this Long-Legged Lady boss, they still had to see if they had the capability. Ordinary attacks probably couldn’t even shake the Seventh Rank Supreme Fivefold Mist, posing no threat at all.

Under the protection of the Supreme Fivefold Mist, the seven of them strode forward. Hundreds or even thousands of insignificant demons, with unstable forms and displaying various ferocious, hateful, and venomous expressions, charged toward them.

These demons were transformed from the vengeful spirits of deceased creatures, possessing no killing power but carrying strong negative resentment. If even one demon entered your body, it would reduce your maximum Qi and Blood by 50 points for one hour.

With so many demons rushing over, an ordinary person would likely see their Qi and Blood drop to only half of its original amount after passing through this section.

But under the five-colored misty light, no number of demons could impact or damage the Supreme Fivefold Mist.

“Good! The Supreme Fivefold Mist is indeed uniquely miraculous! Successfully passing this section increases our confidence for the next steps by another twenty percent. In our previous two attempts, our team members suffered greatly here, their Qi and Blood drastically reduced by too many demon invasions.”

Blood Colored Poppy clapped his hands in admiration for the Supreme Fivefold Mist. He held a map in his hand, which was the Ancient Tomb map obtained by that Mechanist Player.

According to the map’s description, this Ancient Tomb had three underground levels. The best Herbal Hall team from the previous attempts only reached the second level before suffering heavy losses and being unable to proceed further. When they tried to retreat along the original path, the entire team was wiped out.

After walking a bit further, large swarms of zombie ants slowly approached from all directions. Hundreds of pairs of palms carrying corpse poison struck the five-colored misty light, but only caused slight ripples without affecting its color.

“Attack! Kill all these zombies!”

Graceful Dream Butterfly rubbed her hands together, and a pale flame rose from her palms. She flicked her ten fingers, transforming it into ten smaller pale flames that shot into the zombie bodies.

Whoosh! The zombies were burned from the inside out by the pale flames, leaving not even ashes behind; they were completely eradicated.

Then the ten pale flames shot out again, charging toward other zombies. Each strike eliminated ten zombies, and the flames showed no signs of weakening or fading, remaining exactly as before.

The others also employed their methods simultaneously. While the Supreme Fivefold Mist defended against all external attacks, it didn’t hinder their own offensive capabilities from within.

Blood Colored Poppy didn’t use his Starry Sky Flying Sword to attack. Instead, he unleashed a series of Divine Thunder of Yi Wood, which spun and exploded consecutively, blasting a clustered group of zombies to pieces.

The Wutai brothers, Yue Zu and Dai Pao, each flicked out a point of emerald-cold radiance. It looked inconspicuous but darted swiftly, killing at a very fast rate. The zombies pierced by it were left with arm-sized holes and completely devoid of any life force.

“Another Flying Needle Magic Treasure!”

Ye Rong observed from all sides and had ample energy to take in these details. He recognized at a glance that those points of emerald-cold radiance were Flying Needle Magic Treasures.

During the Sect Minor Competition, Yu Shuangxue’s Celestial Maiden Needles had left a deep impression on him, as it was his first time seeing such a peculiar Magic Treasure.

However, there were differences between the two. The Celestial Maiden Needles relied on quantity to gain an advantage, capable of forming Flying Needle formations. In contrast, the emerald-cold radiance was just a single Flying Needle but of a higher Rank, allowing it to exert considerable power even alone.

Breeze Clear and Clouds Light and East Sea God of Wealth each launched their Flying Swords, sweeping and striking, though nothing particularly special stood out.

Ye Rong paid extra attention to Fang Geyin. When Fang Geyin attacked, he used an earthen heavy sword followed by three small swords. The zombies, with bodies harder than iron, were directly severed in two when the three small swords gathered and collided with them. As for the earthen heavy sword, it carried immense force and shattered all zombies in its path with brute strength.

“Blood Colored Poppy said the people he invited were all skilled experts. It seems he wasn’t exaggerating.”

Based on their displayed strength, even excluding Graceful Dream Butterfly’s overwhelming power, the others could still hold their own in Qingcheng and become strong opponents for him in the Sect Minor Competition.

However, judging their true strength based on the few techniques they showed now was impossible.

What Ye Rong didn’t know was that his own performance had greatly shocked the others, causing them to view him in a new light.

He didn’t hide his strength too much. Sword Light shot out from both his left and right hands, slicing through any number of zombies instantly upon contact. His Sword Light was agile and lively; in terms of monster-slaying speed, he was second only to Graceful Dream Butterfly’s ten pale flames and well ahead of the others.

If he were too low-key and didn’t show sufficient skill, he would surely be looked down upon by these people, which wouldn’t benefit the upcoming Ancient Tomb expedition. When it came to dividing the spoils, he might even be left out.

“Goodness, Yijian Kurong is indeed a Twin Sword Style Player as the rumors said. I wonder where he got the luck to obtain a Sword Case that can hold two Flying Swords. Such rare items currently number no more than five in the entire Far Shore, and even Kunlun doesn’t have one yet.”

Blood Colored Poppy’s Divine Thunder of Yi Wood was a Kunlun secret thunder technique. After being released, it wasn’t just a simple explosion; it spawned many intricate variations and applications. But when compared to Ye Rong’s exquisite twin swords, his monster-slaying efficiency was surpassed, which inevitably sparked a sense of competition.

“And his sword technique is extremely refined, flexible and precise—it must be what Big Sister referred to as the Free Control Style. It does seem much more agile than my System Sword Moves.”

Due to handling the Herbal Hall’s wrap-up matters from the previous game, Blood Colored Poppy hadn’t participated in the Closed Beta. Like Ye Rong, he entered the Far Shore only at the start of the Open Beta Test. His training in sword control naturally couldn’t match that of experienced Closed Beta Players, and up to now, he still relied on System Sword Moves to kill enemies.

By this point in the game, a large number of high-end Players, recognizing the advantages of the Free Control Style, had started to embrace it.

Even if they hadn’t reached Ye Rong’s level of flawless proficiency, at least they had stepped over the threshold.

Blood Colored Poppy curled his little finger and quietly whispered “explode.” A cluster of Divine Thunder of Yi Wood split into dozens of smaller thunder pellets that shot out in all directions and exploded completely, generating a massive shockwave and cloud of smoke.

After the smoke cleared, the remaining hundred or so zombies were completely annihilated in one blow, not a single one left alive.

Ye Rong reached out and grabbed. A cyan condensed large hand and a pale gold glowing large hand respectively snatched an item from the ground, retrieving them before anyone else could. These two large hands were the Innate Qi Grasping Hand and Kasyapa’s Thousand Hands.

“Using them to collect dropped equipment is indeed a quick and extremely convenient method!”

A step behind him, Fang Geyin’s earthen Sword Light arrived belatedly. But with the help of his three auxiliary small swords, he managed to collect all the remaining equipment on the field, leaving nothing behind. This made Yue Zu, Dai Pao, Breeze Clear and Clouds Light, and East Sea God of Wealth extremely angry, and they glared at him furiously.

As for Graceful Dream Butterfly, she simply retracted her ten pale flames, transforming them back into a single cluster at her fingertips. It no longer exhibited the cruel, life-extinguishing, all-consuming nature it had during the slaughter, instead settling down quietly.

It was unclear whether this pale flame was a Dao Spell or a Magic Treasure, but it was indeed very mystical.

The Long-Legged Lady clearly didn’t care for the equipment on the ground at all and had no intention of competing for it. Otherwise, even Ye Rong wouldn’t have been able to snatch a single item from her.

“Fang Geyin, what do you mean by taking everything for yourself!”

East Sea God of Wealth flung out a golden coin-like Magic Treasure, which emitted a powerful suction force attempting to pull in all the equipment, but it grabbed nothing, leaving him exceptionally irritated.

“That’s right! What you did is too much!”

Everyone’s criticism was directed at Fang Geyin, while Ye Rong, who acted first, wasn’t implicated. After all, he only took two pieces of equipment, which wasn’t considered greedy or excessive, just normal acquisition.

“Alright, alright, it’s just a few low-rank pieces of equipment, no need to spoil the harmony. Fang Geyin, you really… We’re exploring together; how can you hog everything? That’s just unreasonable!”

As the organizer of the operation, Blood Colored Poppy had to step in at this moment to mediate the dispute.

“Hogging? Didn’t Yijian take two as well? They’re just Second or Third Rank Magic Treasures; who even wants them!”

Upon hearing this, Fang Geyin took two pieces of equipment from his Universe Pouch, making as if to throw them away, but Blood Colored Poppy stopped him.

“Let it go this time. To prevent such situations later, we must set some rules.”

They stopped walking and began discussing fervently, as this concerned everyone’s interests, and each point had to be fought for.

Ye Rong took a moment to check the two pieces of equipment he had collected. They really were junk, Second and Third Rank items; Fang Geyin hadn’t lied—

Black Thorn Berry, Second Rank Magic Treasure;

Thousand Spider Silk Pouch, Third Rank Magic Treasure.

As for their specific attributes, he would need to go back and ask Senior Brother Chen Taizhen to appraise them to find out.