28: First time at the abyss (Part 2): disagreements and struggles!

Lin Qingyan jumped down from the giant boulder, stepping lightly on the stones like a dragonfly skimming the water as she arrived beside Jiang Yuan.

"Mediocre."

"If I had made a move, it wouldn't have taken nearly this long."

She said proudly.

The future Empress Qingyan would never submit to anyone.

"Yes, yes, yes, you're amazing."

Jiang Yuan chimed in casually, looking at his increased Rank and the sixteen merit points on his record card, a smile unable to help but spread across his face.

As expected, killing monsters to level up was the fastest way!

Seeing his expression, Lin Qingyan felt annoyed in her heart and made up her mind to find an opportunity to let him witness her strength and give him a severe shock.

"What should we do with these Vicious Beast corpses?" Jiang Yuan asked.

"Throw them away, of course. Do you still want to carry them away?"

"It feels such a waste..."

"You can carry them with you," Lin Qingyan sneered, "or start a fire and eat them right now, then it won't be a waste."

"..."

He hadn't expected her tongue to be quite so venomous.

The two continued to push deeper, setting down rules along the way.

"When we encounter a Vicious Beast, both sides will take turns attacking, and the dropped equipment and Materials will be exclusively enjoyed by the killer."

"The other person can only watch from the side and must not interfere with the opponent or steal experience points."

This was also to avoid the two of them coming to blows over experience points.

"Speaking of which, Lin, School Beauty, aren't you a healer? Do you have a way to kill a Vicious Beast alone?"

"Aren't you the same? I've never seen an ordinary assassin job change able to deal forty thousand damage at LV2."

"It seems we both have quite a few secrets."

As the two spoke, they suddenly flashed to the side at the same time.

"Swish!"

A one-meter-long sharp black thorn shot out from the ground.

"Rumble."

The ground ahead suddenly shook violently, soil and rocks split open, and a two-meter-tall giant lizard crawled out from within, its back covered in sharp barbs.

[Abyss monster]: Earth-Cracking Lizard.

[Grade]: Ordinary.

[Rank]: LV6.

[Skill]: Fire Barbs.

[Remarks]: A creature possessing some intelligence, despicable and cunning, that likes to launch sneak attacks from underground.

"It's my turn this time."

Lin Qingyan put her hands in her jacket pockets and stepped forward.

Looking at her outstanding and beautiful back, Jiang Yuan was also somewhat curious what kind of confidence allowed her to dare go down into the abyss alone.

Lin Qingyan stood ten meters in front of the Vicious Beast.

Although she was only wearing casual jeans and a black hooded jacket, it still could not hide her wonderful figure, with long legs, a lifted buttocks, and a slender waist that could be grasped with a single span, especially the hint of snow-white jade neck revealed against the backdrop of the black jacket, which was mesmerizing.

However, the Abyssal Beast wouldn't care whether you were beautiful or ugly; in its eyes, humans were all food.

"Hiss hiss..."

A sharp sound came from the Earth-Cracking Lizard's mouth, and its thick front limbs slapped forward.

The ground vibrated, and a fissure rapidly spread toward Lin Qingyan.

Lin Qingyan raised her head, her three thousand strands of dark hair fluttering in the wind.

Her peerlessly beautiful face beneath her baseball cap was calm, and her dreamy ice-blue eyes carried a hint of indifference, majesty, and overbearing aura.

Her cherry lips moved slightly.

"Stop."

That fissure spreading to her feet seemed to have heard the will of a god and stopped instantly!

The Earth-Cracking Lizard was clearly stunned for a moment, tilting its head in confusion and not understanding why.

Jiang Yuan's gaze also flickered slightly.

Lin Qingyan spoke again.

"Freeze."

The temperature around the Earth-Cracking Lizard suddenly plummeted, freezing starting from its limbs and then spreading to completely ice-seal it.

"Shatter."

Clang!

Like shattering crystal, the ice encasing the Earth-Cracking Lizard instantly shattered into countless pieces, and the health bar above its head was cleared to zero.

Until its death, this Earth-Cracking Lizard didn't know what had happened, completely scratching its head in confusion.

"It feels a bit like a Curse Speaker..."

Jiang Yuan thought to himself as he watched Lin Qingyan, on whom the leveling-up anomaly appeared, judging that her changed class was at least Epic grade.

Lin Qingyan bent down and picked up a bracelet from a pile of ice slag.

"Good luck, a piece of equipment dropped, but unfortunately it's ordinary."

She casually threw it away.

Jiang Yuan was startled. "You don't want it?"

"Ordinary equipment has no need to be picked up for me at all," Lin Qingyan glanced at him sideways and said proudly.

"If you want it, I'll just give it to you."

Jiang Yuan actually bent down to pick it up and put it into his inventory slot.

These rich people were truly capable of squandering wealth. You must know that a piece of ordinary equipment could sell for at least tens of thousands of yuan.

Only a fool wouldn't want it.

Looking up again,

he found that Lin Qingyan was no longer in her original spot.

From a distance came the girl's majestic and cold voice, as if commanding the heavens and earth.

"Thunder Strike."

Lightning arcs appeared in the sky, and a bolt of thunder carrying a destructive aura crashed down suddenly.

Jiang Yuan only then reacted and shouted angrily, "It's my turn!!"

[Divine Speed]

Instantly crossing a distance of several hundred meters, he arrived at the area where the lightning fell.

Looking at the Earth-Cracking Lizard that was fried to a crisp by electricity, Jiang Yuan looked at Lin Qingyan and said, "Lin, School Beauty, casually breaking the rules we set doesn't seem very good, right?"

Seeing Jiang Yuan who had arrived as if by teleportation, a flash of shock crossed Lin Qingyan's face, and her small face also revealed a hint of unnaturalness.

She turned her head and said haughtily, "You killed so many Iron-Headed Wolves earlier, so this group of Earth-Cracking Lizards should all be my prey."

"You even took my equipment. If you're not willing, you can go kill monsters somewhere else alone."

Empress Qingyan never reasoned with people.

"Is that how it is?" A friendly smile appeared on Jiang Yuan's face. "Fine, fine, fine."

Suddenly, movement came from a certain patch of ground, and iron thorns shot out.

Lin Qingyan's clear eyes flashed, and her cherry lips parted slightly: "Thun—"

Before she could finish her sentence,

Jiang Yuan instantly appeared above that area and punched downwards.

Boom!

The iron-hard ground within a radius of five meters sank entirely, and the Earth-Cracking Lizard inside was crushed and flattened along with it!

[Ding, you killed an Earth-Cracking Lizard, EXP +50]

"You!"

Lin Qingyan was annoyed and immediately cast her gaze elsewhere, but when she discovered movement from a Vicious Beast, before she even had time to utter the two words 'Thunder Strike', Jiang Yuan would instantly kill it at an even faster speed.

With a speed akin to teleportation, coupled with his perverted single-target damage, making him an Incarnation, a monster-securing expert; no Vicious Beast could take a second punch.

After having seven or eight monsters stolen in succession,

Lin Qingyan also grew angry.

"Bind."

This time the attack was not directed at the Vicious Beast, but at Jiang Yuan.

Jiang Yuan only felt an invisible force like ropes tying up his limbs and whole body, binding him suspended in mid-air.

Lin Qingyan looked at him coldly and said, "I've exercised patience over and over again for the sake of being classmates; don't force me to get serious."

Jiang Yuan smiled.

"In that case..."

Amidst Lin Qingyan's astonished gaze, terrifying Qi and blood fluctuations erupted all over Jiang Yuan's body, directly shattering the invisible bonds and causing him to drop from the air to the ground.

Covered in a layer of crimson ripples outside his body, the handsome youth with fluttering black hair twisted his neck and worked his fists, Lin Qingyan's figure reflected in his light golden pupils.

"Since neither of us submits to the other, let's just have a fight."

Lin Qingyan's eyes narrowed slightly.

"My thoughts exactly."

She certainly didn't think she would lose.

Beneath the dim sky of the abyss, the youth and the girl confronted each other tit-for-tat in a dangerous environment infested with Vicious Beasts, daggers drawn and bows strung.