Xin Xin Xiang Rong and Lu Dan Tou come to visit
For Yang Jian, who was already level 46, a level 55 Golden BOSS without level suppression was nothing but a weakling.
If he struggled and found it difficult to defeat such a monster, he wouldn't be able to dream of anything else.
Becoming a god? He might as well wash up and go to sleep; everything happens in dreams!
So, when the Centaur Chieftain wailed and collapsed, the explosion of various loot all over the ground was nothing out of the ordinary.
Purple equipment, building blueprints, various rare materials around level 55—hundreds of items in total were scattered on the ground.
For ordinary players, equipment was, of course, more important.
After all, a good piece of equipment could not only determine current strength but also future potential.
However, for Yang Jian, various materials were what he valued most at the moment.
After some thought, the Diamond BOSS in the Royal Court wasn't something he could fight right now.
He directly used the 'Designated Acquisition' skill.
On the first page of the drop list, a semi-finished orange greatsword was prominently displayed.
It just hadn't dropped for Yang Jian through natural means earlier.
He flipped through many pages, but there was nothing good that Yang Jian could really care about.
So, he decided to exchange for this.
【Dull Greatsword (Orange)】 (Quest Item)
【Description: ...】
An orange-tier starting quest.
It involved traveling back and forth for six or seven rounds, with his footprints covering the entire territory of Zhenhai City.
It required over fifty purple and orange materials of various level 50s, and finally, a sacrifice quest to obtain a level 55 orange equipment!
To be honest, for ordinary players, obtaining an orange weapon this way was not a loss, especially a level 55 orange weapon.
If one were stuck at level 60 for life without further progress, then a level 55 orange weapon could be considered a family heirloom.
But for Yang Jian, spending so much time to get such a piece of equipment was simply too uneconomical.
When Yang Jian crafted the falling star arrow (Orange), the actual forging of one falling star arrow only took two and a half hours.
The reason it took nearly a month from start to finish was due to the lengthy time spent practicing forging skills in the early stages.
However, the forging skill he developed would stay with him for life, and he could continue to forge other high-tier equipment in the future.
In the future, Yang Jian's golden talent might need to advance to red, and that hope would likely rest on this forging skill.
Therefore, that couldn't be considered a waste of time. But if he spent so much time running around, doing quests, and making sacrifices to get an orange weapon... Yang Jian felt it was unnecessary.
Aside from the special attributes that orange equipment always came with, numerically, an orange equipment was only equivalent to three... purple pieces of equipment?
After a quick calculation, he found there was still a bit of a difference!
Or... should he assign his subordinates to do it?
Never mind.
He would put it away for now and deal with it later.
After clearing the loot from the scene, Yang Jian began to hunt down the hiding Centaurs.
Although these Centaurs were a bit brutal, they were also intelligent beings; they would be afraid and hide... When the last Centaur fell to Yang Jian's arrows, Yang Jian found the camp monument and directly destroyed it.
The moment the monument was destroyed, Yang Jian heard the system notification sound.
【Ding, World Announcement: The residents of Zhenhai City in the Eastern Continent have united to become the first in the world to open the path to the White Stone Highland Royal City! Players in Zhenhai City can now travel through the Stone Forest Mountains to the Eastern Continent Royal City! Note: White Stone Highland is a level 55 to 60 monster zone; please proceed with caution!】
【Ding, World Announcement: The residents of Zhenhai City in the Eastern Continent have united to become the first in the world to open the path to the White Stone Highland Royal City! Zhenhai City's...】
【Ding, World Announcement: Eastern Continent...】
Three consecutive world announcements broke the long-lost calm!
But Yang Jian's side wasn't over yet.
The system's notification continued to sound in his ears.
【Ding, detected that you participated in the entire pioneering of the Centaur clan, opening the path to the Royal City, and will participate in the equal distribution of pioneering rewards! The system is currently calculating; please wait!】
Yang Jian was stunned!
Equal distribution of pioneering rewards?
Doesn't that mean... it's all mine?
Can my inventory hold it all?
The system stalled for quite a while.
It probably thought there was a bug.
After a long time, Yang Jian heard the system sound again in his ear.
However, this time, the voice clearly carried a hint of emotion.
【Ding, congratulations! You have single-handedly pioneered and opened the path to the Royal City! You are hereby rewarded with 100,000 gold coins, 3,000 various level 55 blue materials, 300 various level 55 purple materials, and 30 various level 55 orange materials!】
Yang Jian couldn't help but secretly click his tongue. How many people's standard was this reward based on!
And now it all benefits me?
Yang Jian thought his inventory wouldn't be able to hold it.
Even though his current inventory had one hundred slots!
His talent inventory had 278 slots, and he didn't even have to consider the issue of arrows.
After all, he also had a 12-slot talent quiver!
But the quantity of these materials was simply too much.
Crucially, Yang Jian's current inventory wasn't empty.
After several days of fighting Centaurs in the Stone Forest Mountains, his inventory was already almost full!
As for why he didn't clear out his inventory?
Yang Jian was also afraid that if he left, these Centaurs would respawn!
To be honest, the Centaur clan in the Stone Forest Mountains was not easy to deal with!
Yang Jian never looked at their strength when fighting monsters now.
Anyway, none of them were stronger than him.
He only looked at whether the monsters were easy to fight!
After his level increased, he planned to find a place like the Southeast Plains on the White Stone Plateau... Yang Jian, who couldn't leave, only had about 20 empty slots left!
While still wondering whether to call for external help, the reward arrived!
Unexpectedly, the reward he received was an extra-large orange backpack.
【Pioneer's Courage Backpack (Orange)】
【Capacity: 50 slots】
Opening the backpack, it was crammed full of various high-tier materials.
Eternal Air, water of life, Undying Flame, Flame Essence, Active Branch... and other various purple and blue materials.
These were all high-tier goods only seen when fighting level 55 monsters like Centaurs in recent days.
Actually, Yang Jian felt that just this one 50-slot Courage Backpack was already quite valuable.
As for the 100,000 gold coins, they went directly into Yang Jian's inventory!
With these 100,000 gold coins, Yang Jian's total gold coins officially surpassed one million!
The price of gold coins had not depreciated.
Or rather, there were too many places where gold coins could be used.
Among players, there was even a faint tendency for them to replace the currencies of various countries on Blue Star.
Yang Jian's gold coins were excessively high because his strength was too great.
He fought high-tier monsters, and he fought them in groups.
Even just selling the dropped junk he didn't need was enough for Yang Jian to get rich.
And this didn't even count the equipment and materials he had thrown into the guild warehouse.
Of course, the bulk of it still came from the hundreds of thousands of gold coins he earned when he was a blacksmith outside.
Yes, the gold coin system was universally applicable across all worlds in the entire game!
With gold coins, one could travel through all the myriad heavens.
And as players' levels increased, although expenses also increased, it was undeniable that players had more and more gold coins in their hands.
Lingyun Studio, despite being very wealthy, had never stopped the process of acquiring gold coins.
Ordinary players felt they were very rich because they lacked channels to spend gold coins.
Yang Jian was different.
If he really went out and made a big purchase, it could make him return to pre-liberation overnight.
However, with the increase in level and the approaching Abyssal Monster, Yang Jian also had to consider when to go out and make a big purchase.
Only money spent is truly money.
While he was lost in thought, Yang Jian's private chat notification sounded.
Bai Youyou: Nick Fury, Deputy Director of the U.S. Department of Homeland Defense and Strategic Assurance, is visiting.
Yang Jian: Visiting?
Bai Youyou: Literally. He's already at the commercial park. Chief Secretary Chen of Linhai City, as the local second-in-command, personally accompanied him to the studio.
Yang Jian: ...?
Bai Youyou: Do you want to meet him?
Yang Jian didn't think much and could probably guess the purpose of their visit.
After all, in recent days, Star Palace's activities challenging the Abyssal Monster had been in full swing.
Almost all teams that met the requirements in Star Palace had tried.
Some teams that were previously reluctant to split due to reputation had also disbanded and reorganized this time!
After all, helping you level up was not a big problem, but you couldn't block his path to transcendence!
Level 40 blue or even green talents were completely unqualified to challenge Abyssal Monsters... It wasn't that Star Palace was stopping them from challenging.
As long as you were willing to contribute points and met the requirements set by the guild, Yang Jian wouldn't stop anyone who wanted to fight.
There was no reason to judge people by talent level.
Even teams with all purple talents, or even mixed purple and orange talents, could still fail if their cooperation wasn't seamless!
This team challenge not only greatly enhanced the guild's cohesion—after all, this kind of welfare opportunity was unique globally—but also greatly stimulated the enthusiasm of guild players.
Previously, many people in the guild just scraped by, doing the few daily tasks mandated by the guild.
For the rest of the time, they would complete tasks released by the guild, but they weren't active or proactive.
They simply logged in every day, did guild dailies, fought monsters, and leveled up.
When they had free time, they would go fishing or enjoy the scenery!
If Star Palace had other requirements, they would respond, but they just lacked a certain spirit... And now, that spirit had been replenished.
A broad path that could realize superhuman abilities in reality was laid before them.
Few people could remain unmoved.
Therefore, the various teams in the guild had been much more active recently!
Yang Jian did not restrict talent levels.
There was only the hard requirement of having defeated a Silver BOSS.
Thus, the news that two mixed blue teams had defeated the Abyssal Monster shocked the entire guild!
After all, even Bai Youyou's Purple-Gold Squad had almost failed theStrategy!
Star Palace was in full swing.
Various forces in Xia Kingdom occasionally paid high prices to experience the Abyssal Monster.
East King could no longer sit still.
So, he exhausted all means to facilitate Nick Fury's rapid visit to Xia!
For high-ranking officials, it was truly rapid...