Envy, jealousy and hatred!

When Yang Jian and the others logged in, Mo Suqing had already been waiting for a while.

“Sometimes, I feel like the distance from Yun Province to Linhai City stretches before us like a chasm…”

Yang Jian watched her sighing, a little unsure what she was talking about.

Bai Xiaobai secretly leaned in and translated for him.

“She’s saying we’re late…”

Yang Jian was a little hesitant. Had she expressed that meaning just now?

He then checked the time.

It was only a few minutes late?

He ignored this overly sentimental person and let her be self-indulgent!

Suddenly, Yang Jian felt something was off!

He looked at the innocent-faced Bai Xiaobai.

“How do you know what she’s thinking?”

“Hmph, women understand women best…”

“You’re just a little girl, do you count as a woman?”

Yang Jian shook his head. This was unbelievable; children these days were too precocious… Bai Xiaobai rolled her eyes where Yang Jian couldn’t see her.

Such a dense man, he doesn’t even understand veiled sarcasm. It serves you right to be single at your age!

Yang Jian couldn’t be bothered with her. She still didn’t know that he was already her little uncle-in-law!

On Zhou Yue’s side, she now had a goal and purpose.

She was noticeably more proactive when leveling up.

She also began to join in the monster-pulling.

Of course, she had her own set of monster-pulling methods.

Otherwise, her leveling speed wouldn’t have dramatically surpassed Bai Youyou, who was in third place!

However, she hadn't quite grasped the rhythm.

The batch of wild monsters she pulled didn't quite synchronize with Yang Jian and Mo Song.

They arrived a little too early… This is going to be the death of me!

When Zhou Yue arrived near the team's waiting spot, she realized Yang Jian and Mo Song hadn't arrived yet.

Behind her, a dense swarm of about two hundred wild monsters followed.

Bai Youyou, who was holding Bamboo Leaf's arm, stiffened and stood up with a dark expression.

“Prepare for battle…”

Bamboo Leaf, seeing this scene, immediately cheered up!

Finally, it's my turn to perform, isn't it?

Zhou Yue looked at the scene.

Alright, it's better to rely on herself than on others.

She controlled her body to slow down.

She felt the nearest wild monsters were already close to her back.

Zhou Yue controlled the casting range of Frost Nova by regulating the amount of mana released.

One Frost Nova later, an area of several hundred meters around Zhou Yue was frozen.

Behind her, a massive ice chunk appeared, with over a hundred wild monsters frozen inside.

Once the closest wild monsters behind her stopped pursuing, Zhou Yue began her calm monster-clearing activity!

Blizzard, Ice Storm, Frozen Orb!

All of Zhou Yue's ice spells, as an Element Controller, came with slowing and freezing effects.

Coupled with Zhou Yue's incredibly high luck value, it was practically a BUG!

Normal wild monsters had no room to move, almost all of them were rendered immobile by these triple spells.

When I say 'almost,' of course, there were exceptions.

This was her first time participating in pulling monsters, and Zhou Yue hadn't coordinated well.

Since she didn't know she would arrive too early, she hadn't considered the issue of monster levels.

Zhou Yue was currently Level 23, while the highest-level wild monsters in the Southeast Plains were Level 40!

When Yang Jian was Level 23, encountering Level 40 wild monsters, he could only find ways to disengage and protect himself.

Or rather… wild monsters Level 37 and above could wipe out the few girls here!

Discovering that her skill effects had little to no impact on high-level wild monsters, Zhou Yue stopped trying to be strong.

She began leading the wild monsters behind her in large circles.

In the distance, Yang Jian and Mo Song began rapidly approaching.

After a standard monster-grinding routine, the ground was once again littered with monster corpses.

“How are you? Are you alright?”

He had been shouting in the team channel for a long time.

Yang Jian already knew what had happened here.

“I’m fine, it was my first time and the coordination wasn’t good. Next time, I’ll control the timing!”

“You’re still going to pull monsters?”

Isn't it nice to level up while lying down?

Look at the world chat right now, how sour are they?

Regarding this, Yang Jian really wasn't lying!

In game time, starting from yesterday afternoon, when Yang Jian and his team began their first wave of monster grinding, the experience gain status of these few people was abnormal!

The world chat, having experienced this once before, immediately erupted in wails of lament!

It's a simple principle: the level leaderboard is a free publicity channel.

For example, for guilds formed by various major forces.

No matter how much you shout and promote your guild daily, it's not as convincing as having your guild's name on the leaderboard.

The level leaderboard ranks the top fifty players globally.

But each page only shows ten people!

If you really get pushed off, then sorry!

Few people will bother to check who else is on the second page… Last time, Yang Jian pushed several Star Palace members onto the leaderboard, causing a huge stir worldwide.

Unexpectedly, just a few days after things settled down, it happened a second time!

Now, other forces no longer thought of anything else.

They only hoped that Star Palace wouldn't be too excessive and would at least leave two spots for everyone to maintain their image!

After Zhou Yue participated in pulling monsters for the second time, her coordination with Yang Jian noticeably improved.

Such things always require a period of adjustment.

Back then, when Yang Jian first gathered monsters for area-of-effect attacks, he couldn't even coordinate well with Mo Song!

Accidentally pulling high-level monsters, accidentally pulling a BOSS!

It was quite common.

For Zhou Yue, a Demigod Seed, as long as she didn't die, it wasn't a big deal!

And with Zhou Yue's class characteristics, as long as she didn't act foolishly, she wouldn't die… As the two became more and more coordinated, Yang Jian gradually began to attempt pulling half the field of wild monsters with three people!

This was not an easy and comfortable task.

The Southeast Plains were vast and boundless; even half of it was incredibly large.

Once the distance and battle line were stretched too long, wild monsters were more likely to disengage!

Yang Jian made up his mind to fight like this!

One half of the field at a time, no matter how many were pulled, once done, they would directly move to the other side.

Although the number of monsters killed might be significantly less, it also saved time and cost.

They cleared the entire field in about an hour and a half.

After 12 hours of game time, the leaderboard had once again completely changed.

First place: Tianmu Zhenjun, Level 32 81%, Class: Hunter, Guild: Star Palace (Guild Master).

Second place: Yueyin Qingya, Level 25 9%, Class: Element Controller, Guild: Star Palace (Vice Guild Master).

Third place: Thousand Years of White Clouds, Level 23 25%, Class: Void Hunter, Guild: Star Palace (Vice Guild Master).

Fourth place: Qingqing Zijin, Level 20 83%, Class: King of Beasts, Guild: Star Palace (Vice Guild Master).

Fifth place: Bai Xiaobai, Level 19 89%, Class: Element Summoner, Guild: Star Palace.

Sixth place: Thunder God Envoy, Level 18 20%, Class: Thunder Mage, Guild: Asgard (Guild Master).

Seventh place: King Arthur, Level 18 18%, Class: Arcane Mage, Guild: Norse Pantheon (Guild Master).

Eighth place: Western Cowboy, Level 18 10%, Class: Mechanic.

Ninth place: Freedom of America, Level 17 98%, Class: Necromancer, Guild: Skull Society.

Tenth place: Templar Knight Borg, Level 17 89%, Class: Paladin, Guild: Light Church (Vice Guild Master).

The world chat was now somewhat accustomed to it.

“I knew it, Star Palace won't rest until they achieve their goal!”

“What do they want? Do they want to kick all of us off the leaderboard?”

“They’ve been leveling up for over 30 hours straight, aren’t they tired?”

“It’s just a game, why are you risking your life?”

“I just want to know when they’re going to die from overwork?”

Sakura Country, in a mountain cabin far from the city's hustle and bustle.

Ibe Jiro, the Sakura First Sword Saint, whose real name was Ibe Jiro, had been hiding here for over ten days.

“I’m being mocked by the entire Sakura Country here, while you guys are doing better and better over there?”

“Just wait! The gift I arranged for you should be arriving soon! I want to see if you’re still so arrogant in reality!”

Ibe Jiro was the type to get angrier the more he thought about it.

Ever since he was killed and corpse-camped outside Zhenhai City, he had fallen out of the first echelon.

After returning to Dongji City, he was again mocked and cursed by various right-wing extremists with twisted minds!

This severely hampered his leveling speed.

As a result, he, the Sakura First Sword Saint, a powerhouse who had long dominated the top ten of the level leaderboard in the early stages, thus fell off the leaderboard and became one of the masses!

Now, he was a lone wolf in the game and a recluse on Blue Star.

A while ago, Yang Jian left the Eastern Continent.

For a few days, without news of Tian Mu, Ibe Jiro could still convince himself to pretend nothing had happened.

But within two days, news of the other party started flooding the world chat again!

Enduring for a moment made him angrier the more he thought about it; retreating a step led to breast hyperplasia!

Ibe Jiro's desire for revenge began to stir!

Speaking of which, the World Will’s protection for civilian players actually had a BUG.

It only issued consciousnessban to the official forces of the Four Great Nations but didn’t regulate the various small countries andfolk forces.

Actually, one couldn't say this approach was problematic.

After all, how would small countries dare to cause trouble in the territories of the Four Great Nations?

Were they tired of living, or did they think their lives were too comfortable?

And there was even less need to worry about civilian forces causing trouble.

If the official forces of the major nations didn't mess around, how would the civilian forces dare to?

It's just that the World Will, seemingly omnipotent, couldn't fathom human hearts.

For example, this Little Japan victim who had been feeling stifled for over half a month.

He was originally hiding alone in an uninhabited corner, silently licking his wounds.

Suddenly, he was thoroughly provoked by the news of Yang Jian's triumphant return… When people are provoked, they easily get carried away!

And when they get carried away, they tend to do irrational things… The World Will at this time actually had nothing to do but passively await the invasion from other worlds.

Its will had been hovering around Linhai City.

After all, the several chosen candidates it favored were all here!

So, when Ibe Jiro’s assassin entered the Linhai City area, it immediately sensed the newcomer’s malice!

It had intended to directly eliminate the other party's malicious thoughts.

But just as it was about to act, it quietly retreated!

No one knew Yang Jian’s true situation better than the World Will of Blue Star… In fact, he was the undisputed number one person in the world!

Both inside and outside the game!

At this stage, even with thermal weapons, as long as large-scale weapons of mass destruction were not continuously fired, it was impossible to cause any harm to Yang Jian!

But to continuously launch large-scale weapons of mass destruction at Linhai City?

Heh heh, such a thing is only to be thought of… So, the World Will retreated and did not continue to manage this matter!

Perhaps, it was time to let the people of Blue Star witness what a superman looked like!

After all, it felt like they had become a bit complacent recently… Yang Jian was still unaware that danger had quietly arrived.

Of course, in terms of strength, this small matter really couldn't be considered dangerous!

He read through all the envious, jealous, and hateful comments in the world chat.

He collected enough emotional value.

Then, Yang Jian closed the world chat.

Just looking at it was enough; after all, there were people praising him everywhere!

“Alright, everyone’s levels are pretty much there! This leveling session ends here!”

After dismissing the other three, Yang Jian kept Zhou Yue, who was already Level 25, alone!

“Did you specifically keep me for something?”

“Can your spatial magic invade subspace?”

Zhou Yue frowned.

“I haven’t tried, but it should be possible! So, the Level 35 Abyssal Monster you know about is in a subspace, right?”

“That’s right… and there are still about one or two hundred Level 35 elite monsters! I killed all the easy ones last time!”

Zhou Yue thought for a moment.

“Don’t you need Abyssal Monsters to improve your strength anymore? After all, Level 35 Abyssal Monsters are hard to find!”

She had quickly reviewed the information regarding Abyssal Monsters and Abyssal Essence in the world of salvation!

She knew many things about the abyss and about the first advancement… Although she coveted Abyssal Essence, if Yang Jian became powerful enough… Abyssal Monsters would be like fish on a chopping block!

Therefore, the most urgent task now was to strengthen Yang Jian first, then talk about other things!

“It’s fine! I’ll be Level 35 soon! The only thing restricting me has always been level suppression…”

Zhou Yue believed this statement!

Although she had never seen Yang Jian’s attribute panel, she knew.

This cheat must be incredibly outrageous…