Diverting trouble

Before long, both of their weapons were successfully enchanted.

Lie Tian Spear: Adds 6.0% Fire attribute damage, adds 60% Dark attribute damage...

Chaos Scythe: Adds 2.5% Fire attribute damage, adds 2.5% Dark attribute damage...

After the enchantment was completed, Ye Chen's Enchanter Rank also successfully reached Yellow Rank Stage 8.

He proceeded to decompose those intermediate skeletons.

An Alchemist can not only refine Materials and upgrade them, but also perform decomposition, breaking down one intermediate skeleton into ten lower-level skeletons.

However, refining requires a refiner, and decomposition requires a decomposer.

These items, even if they are one-time use, are quite valuable in the Monster Shop.

For Ye Chen, however, he didn't need to worry about it at all; after all, he had the Points Mall, which provided permanent versions.

When using them, he only needed to use some water-cooling fluid.

This cost was almost negligible.

Refining one intermediate skeleton could yield 300 experience points, while an Advanced skeleton yielded 600 experience points.

And decomposing one yielded two hundred experience points.

Ye Chen immediately discovered a bug: he could continuously refine and then decompose a single skeleton.

By repeatedly cycling through this process, he could farm experience points.

Upon discovering this bug, Ye Chen was overjoyed.

After two hours of repeated decomposition and refining, he finally raised his Alchemist Rank to Profound Rank Stage 1.

Reaching Profound Rank Stage 1 meant that he could now refine Profound Rank Materials.

For example, a Profound Rank Ice Snow Bead could be refined into Ice Snow Essence, and then multiple Ice Snow Essences could be subjected to Fusion to obtain higher-ranked, rarer finished products.

After finishing all of this, Ye Chen went to sleep.

At seven o'clock the next day, Ye Chen was awakened by a series of urgent knocks on the door. He opened the door and found Zhang Zheng standing outside with an anxious expression.

"What's wrong?"

"It's bad, Ye Chen! Outside, outside there are many monsters gathered!"

Ye Chen was startled and quickly walked toward the door.

Hongye was standing by the door, observing the situation outside through the peephole.

"Senior Brother Hongye, what's going on outside?"

Hongye's expression was grim as he stepped aside.

Through the peephole, Ye Chen noticed over a dozen monsters pacing back and forth outside the door. Their eyes were fixed on the house, their bodies tense, as if they were ready to attack at any moment.

"I've been observing for a while. There are a total of sixteen monsters: one LV43 Lord-Rank monster and fifteen LV40 Advanced monsters," Hongye said in a low voice.

Sixteen monsters above LV40, plus one Lord-Rank monster; the situation was not good.

"What should we do, Ye Chen? Should we run?" Zhang Zheng said, looking somewhat panicked.

Jiamu stood to the side without saying a word.

Ye Chen thought for a moment, then nodded and said, "Break through the roof, and we'll fly away directly."

With that, Ye Chen took out the Thunderclap Blade, leaped up, and slashed at the roof. A hole large enough for a person instantly appeared.

"Hurry, go!"

Ye Chen did not leave immediately; instead, he let Hongye and the other two go first.

The three of them didn't stand on ceremony, knowing that now was not the time for politeness.

The three of them flew out of the hole one after another, and Ye Chen followed closely behind.

Just as they came out, a monster shouted sharply, "There's prey, children! Charge!"

The sixteen monsters lunged toward the four of them in perfect unison.

"Myriad Thunderbolts!"

Ye Chen brandished the Thunderclap Blade, and a cage of lightning enveloped the sixteen monsters.

Myriad Thunderbolts not only possessed strong offensive power but also had a binding effect, capable of trapping the monsters within it.

After unleashing Myriad Thunderbolts, Ye Chen turned and left!

"Go there!" Ye Chen pointed toward the direction of the outskirts of the Thousand Star Great Forest.

Over the past two days, the further they went in, the stronger the monsters became. With pursuers behind them, continuing to venture deeper was a very unwise choice.

The four of them flew rapidly toward the outskirts.

During their flight, Ye Chen noticed several figures below ahead; it was Meng Fan and his group of four, whom they had met yesterday.

Although they were on bad terms with Meng Fan, Peng was still among them.

Hongye called out, "Brother Peng, hurry! Monsters are chasing us!"

Meng Fan sneered indifferently, "Heh, trash indeed. Being chased around by monsters, what trash!"

You can't save someone who is determined to die!

Hongye stopped speaking and fled at full speed.

"My god! Sixteen monsters! All above LV40, and there's a Lord-Rank monster! Oh no, hurry and run!" Meng Fan shouted in a panic.

The four of them turned and ran!

"Haha! Found four more! Today, brothers, we can feast! Hurry! Kill them all, eat them!"

Roars and laughter rang out continuously from behind.

Meng Fan's group of four was running in the same direction as Ye Chen's group.

The sixteen monsters behind were still in pursuit.

[Kami]

Rank: LV41

Class: Lord-Rank

Attribute: Wind

Combat Power: 58000

HP: 880000

Race: Gale Race

The Gale Race is a Tier 3, lower-class race known for their speed; whether running or flying, they are extremely fast.

Kami had two pairs of blue feathered wings and a round head, with thick feathers growing on top of its head.

Overall, it resembled a bird-man.

Seeing Kami flying closer and closer, Zhang Zheng said worriedly, "Ye Chen, this won't work. We'll be caught by them sooner or later!"

Ye Chen glanced backward and sneered, "What are you afraid of? If they catch anyone, it'll be Meng Fan and his group first. They're just right to draw fire, and we can take the opportunity to escape."

Zhang Zheng was stunned; she hadn't expected Ye Chen to say such a thing.

"I didn't expect that someone who looks so amiable would actually have such a dark side."

"Heh, I'll take that as a compliment!"

Ye Chen continued flying forward.

Their flight along the way attracted the attention of quite a few monsters.

The monsters below let out roaring sounds.

"Damn it! We're about to be caught!" Meng Ren's anxious voice rang out.

"Oh no! Ah!" A scream from Meng Ren rang out.

Meng Ren's pet was Earth-attribute and had the slowest flight speed, so it was the first to be caught by Kami.

"Hongye! Come help!" Meng Fan stopped to help Meng Ren and shouted at Hongye.

Hongye was slightly taken aback.

"Senior Brother Hongye, don't bother with him. This kind of person deserves what's coming to him!"

Hongye nodded and continued flying forward.

"Hongye, I'm telling you to come over and help, dammit!" Meng Fan said, his face full of anger, using an imperative tone.

This Meng Fan must have been used to being high and mighty, thinking everyone was his subordinate.

But Ye Chen wouldn't indulge him.

"Your Excellency Meng Fan, you'd better pray for your own luck!"

"Ye Chen, Hongye! F*** you!"

Peng and Peng Xiang glanced at each other and said somewhat awkwardly, "Brother Meng Fan, take care!"

"Peng! F*** you too!"

Peng didn't have a close relationship with Meng Fan to begin with, and holding the mindset of 'better a Fellow Daoist dies than me', he continued to flee outward.

Meng Fan's roars and curses rang out continuously.

Ye Chen and the others pretended not to hear and continued flying.

They didn't know how much time had passed, but seeing that Kami hadn't caught up, they finally stopped.