In the New Mortal Continent, Ye Yun, who had been meditating on the throne, suddenly opened his eyes. Since suffering a professional setback yesterday, Ye Yun refused to miss any opportunity to become stronger.
He could forgo the attribute points gained from practicing in reality and only in the game, but he would not miss out on the 'Burning Heaven Art' practiced while AFK in the game, which could promote the enhancement of his real-world strength!
Ye Yun first used the mansion's function to increase the cost of entering Sky Cloud City. He then gave all of his more than two hundred Hong Beast essence blood to Jin Wu.
"System prompt: Player used 237 pieces of Level 1 Hong Beast essence blood and 38 pieces of Level 2 Hong Beast essence blood on mount 'Jin Wu'. Mount 'Jin Wu' HP +121, Defense +126, Speed +17, Attack +53, Carry Capacity +11."
"System, I want to add 200e physical defense and 120e magic defense!"
Since he intended to enter the Cloud Forest Highland, there was no need to hoard attribute points.
"Little Black, let's go, big brother will take you to the lair of your kind." As soon as Ye Yun exited the mansion, he saw Hei Yi standing outside and said spiritedly.
With physical defense exceeding 500e and magic defense at 495e, he dared not say more, but Hong Beasts below Level 3 probably couldn't break his defense! Dealing with those Cloud Devouring Ants now was incredibly easy.
Tens of nests forming a clan? Today, I'll make you extinct!
Ye Yun summoned Jin Wu. Jin Wu's current speed reached 184 meters per second. It would take less than ten minutes to reach the Cloud Forest Highland, which was a hundred kilometers away.
As soon as Jin Wu left the territory, Ye Yun saw some movement from the dozen red dots at the edge of the Cloud Forest Highland, and then, like foraging beasts, they slowly flew towards Ye Yun.
Ye Yun paid no attention. He only killed them when the dozen Cloud Devouring Ants entered his ten-kilometer range.
Within fifty kilometers of the Cloud Forest Highland, the interior of the plateau was like a pot about to explode. Ye Yun saw four to five thousand red dots rapidly gathering.
"I guess I don't even need to reach the Cloud Forest Highland; those Cloud Devouring Ants have already been attracted by Little Jin's divine beast aura!" Ye Yun controlled Jin Wu to fly a thousand meters above the ground. The closer he got to the Cloud Forest Highland, the more red dots appeared on the map.
One minute later, Ye Yun was less than thirty kilometers from the Cloud Forest Highland. By now, over ten thousand Cloud Devouring Ants had gathered. They had even dispatched two thousand as a vanguard force to attack Ye Yun.
"No wonder this place is listed as a moderately dangerous area on the map. With this number and unity, very few people would dare to come. There are over a dozen types of Cloud Forest Highland Ant Beasts, and if each type has ten nests, that's 15,000 of them."
"Based on the drop rate, if I kill all the Cloud Devouring Ants in one cycle, I can probably obtain about three thousand Cloud-Expanding Tokens and Myriad Manifestation Stones each."
Ye Yun was fortunate that his first landing spot was here. Firstly, the Hong Beasts in the vicinity were all Level 1 and 2, which he could easily handle. Most importantly, the Hong Beasts here, except for Griffins which were fewer in number, were all gregarious, including the Ancient Golden Toad and the Ant Beasts.
Especially the Cloud Devouring Ants, which could drop Cloud-Expanding Tokens, numbered as many as fifteen thousand.
"I'll stop here." Ye Yun saw figures appearing in the distance and found a clear area, descending directly and standing on the ground. Hei Yi's massive celestial form hovered a thousand meters high.
'Heaven-Splitting Fire Rain'
'Rocket Sky Net'
'Arc Lightning'
'Demonic Flame Ground Fire'
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The swarming ants paid no attention to the alert Hei Yi, directly attacking Jin Wu on the ground! This startled Ye Yun into recalling Jin Wu with a speed honed over twenty years. At the same time, he continuously cast skills.
-1080e
-1080e
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Enormous damage numbers floated above the Cloud Devouring Ants. Many large figures disappeared rapidly before they could even get close.
By the time the first Cloud Devouring Ant reached Ye Yun, he had already killed nearly two hundred of them.
-1
-1
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Five consecutive forced damage values appeared above Ye Yun's head. It was a pity that Ye Yun's physique was ultimately small, while the Cloud Devouring Ants were hundreds or thousands of times his size.
Therefore, the sky and ground around Ye Yun were surrounded by Cloud Devouring Ants, but only a few could actually attack Ye Yun. Instead, they slowly succumbed within the hundred-meter-high demonic flames.
"System prompt: Congratulations to player for leveling up! Current level: 25. Reward: 30.72 billion free attribute points!"
"System prompt: Player has reached the qualification for the Cosmos Talent Ranking. The Cosmos Talent Ranking is the Ten Directions Cosmos Talent Ranking. Player will automatically activate it upon reaching Level 75 and maxing out their talent!"
"System prompt: Congratulations to player for being listed on the talent rankings, becoming the first player on the server to enter the Cosmos Talent Ranking! Reward: Double EXP Card *2, Combat Power Manifestation Card *1."
"System prompt: Congratulations to player for being the first player in the Tenth Cosmos to enter the Cosmos Talent Ranking! Reward: 1 billion free attribute points, Combat Power Manifestation Card *2, Skill Manifestation Card *2, Physical Manifestation Card *1. Human Race Contribution Points *100."
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"Holy crap... these hard requirements are insane! Open the Cosmos Talent Ranking!" Ye Yun ignored the dense mass of Cloud Devouring Ants around him and sat down, leaving everything to Little Hei to handle.
Ten Directions Cosmos Talent Ranking -
1st Place - Dry Leaf Butterfly, Wood Creature Race, Profession: Demon Cloud, Talent Level: max8, Level: 95, Affiliated Cosmos: First Direction.
2nd Place - Space-Time Wanderer, Wanderer Race, Profession: Space-Time War God, Talent Level: max8, Level: 94, Affiliated Cosmos: First Direction.
3rd Place - Old Man Under the Moon, Moon Shadow Race, Profession: Stealth Killer, Talent Level: max7, Level: 94, Affiliated Cosmos: Second Direction.
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10th Place - Jie Ming, Human Race, Profession: Priest, Talent Level: max7, Level: 25, Affiliated Cosmos: Tenth Direction.
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Ye Yun looked at the player information on the leaderboard, his heart filled with excitement. At the same time, he quietly breathed a sigh of relief. This was because he discovered that none of the professions on this talent leaderboard were "suffocatingly" powerful. If those impossibly strong professions were combined with supreme talent, it would be too unfair.
Also, when did the "Heavenly Dao" of the First and Second Direction Worlds open? Ten years? Or twenty years?
Level 94! It would probably take a year of insane monster grinding to level up just once! Furthermore, their talent was a level higher than his? Where did these guys get so much gold? He had worked his fingers to the bone for over a month and only accumulated enough gold to upgrade his talent to the Heavenly level!
"System prompt: The Cosmos Talent Ranking cycle is 30 days. Remaining time for this round: 5 days, 14 hours, 43 minutes. Please players strive to improve their talents and obtain supreme ranking rewards."
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Strive to improve?!
This thing could be improved with just effort?!
Seeing this, Ye Yun became furious.
The gold required to upgrade from a D-class talent to max7 was nearly seventy quadrillion!
Quadrillion, what kind of concept was that? 10 to the power of 20!
Ye Yun himself would be confused calculating it. One could imagine the resources required for max8!
The people on this leaderboard, didn't they all have vast forces helping them farm gold? Otherwise, where would the gold for talent upgrades come from? Did they pick it up?
Even if you monopolized all the Hong Beasts in the New Mortal Continent in each cycle, you would still be tens of thousands of miles short!