Just like Wu Kang before her, Xiao Lu was completely stunned, to the point that she failed to receive any of the experience from the first wave of monsters.
Liu Xuan had no choice but to remind her again. Only then did she hurriedly nod.
“If I clear them this quickly, will you still be able to enter combat?”
“That’s fine. I can put a slow healing spell on you. As long as the HoT doesn’t get interrupted, you’ll automatically enter combat whenever I do.”
“Good.”
After Xiao Lu cast a healing spell on him, Liu Xuan turned and charged into the monster pack.
At first, Xiao Lu was worried that constantly maintaining the healing spell would consume too much mana.
But she soon realized she had been overthinking it.
Liu Xuan was clearing the monsters far too quickly. The healing spell lasted for twenty-four seconds—more than enough time for him to clear over ten waves.
He barely needed to cast the spell a few times during the entire dungeon.
Moreover, he was leveling at incredible speed. Every time he leveled up, his mana was restored to full.
.....
Outside, Wang Fangcai had just found a place to sit down and was preparing to wait patiently for Liu Xuan and Xiao Lu.
But just over three minutes later, he saw the two of them come out.
“What happened? Did you fail the run?”
Some parties would immediately leave the dungeon if they couldn’t clear it.
Some parties would immediately leave the dungeon if they couldn’t clear it, and Wang Fangcai assumed they had run into the same problem.
He had just stood up and was about to ask them when he saw Liu Xuan and Xiao Lu enter the dungeon again.
“.....”
Wang Fangcai could only sit back down.
The more he thought about it, the more something felt wrong. How could a powerhouse like Liu Xuan possibly fail?
Could they have cleared a run in just three minutes?!
That couldn’t be possible.....
But it didn’t take long for Wang Fangcai to change his mind. Just three or four minutes later, Liu Xuan and Xiao Lu came out again.
After this happened several times, Wang Fangcai still hadn’t even warmed his seat when Xiao Lu sent him a private message:
“Brother Wang, where are you? We’re done.”
“You finished all five runs?”
“Yep. You said you wanted to see how strong Brother Xuan is, so hurry over. It’s your turn now.”
“I’m nearby. I’ll be there soon!”
Wang Fangcai quickly got up and ran over. Even after arriving in front of the two of them, he still found it hard to believe.
“You really finished all the runs? It hasn’t even been twenty minutes!”
Xiao Lu wore a delighted smile. “Brother Wang, guess what level I am now.”
“What level?”
“Open the level rankings and take a look.”
Wang Fangcai opened the Blue Star level rankings, confused.
The first place was Legendary Liu Xuan. That was perfectly normal.
But second place was..... Xiao Lu?!
“Huh? You’re level ten already?”
“Not quite. I’m only one-third of the way from level ten to level eleven.”
“That’s way too fast!”
“Of course it’s fast. Brother Xuan clears every single monster in the dungeon, and we get such a huge experience bonus from the battleground. With that combination, leveling is practically like riding a rocket.”
Wang Fangcai couldn’t help looking at Liu Xuan. He felt almost embarrassed to have Liu Xuan carry them like this.
That was level ten!
If they had hired someone else to carry them, they had no idea how much it would have cost—and there was no guarantee anyone would even agree.
Having someone else clear every monster and the boss in the entire dungeon would definitely take at least an hour or two.
“Boss, how about we pay you? Carrying us like this.....”
Liu Xuan waved his hand. “No need. Your dungeon reset attempts are payment enough. It’s a fair trade. There’s no need to stand on ceremony. Let’s form a party.”
“Sure, sure!”
Wang Fangcai quickly joined Liu Xuan’s party and finally experienced the rocket-like leveling speed Xiao Lu had described.
After carrying both of them through their runs, Liu Xuan sent the two away and began calling out again:
“Looking for an experience partner! No equipment requirements, no level requirements!”
.....
When Zhang Meng woke up, his mailbox had exploded!
There were dozens of messages inside, all sent by Liu Xuan.
More than seven hundred pieces of equipment filled the mailbox. Among them were even the Great Sawblade and Door-Panel Shield, items dropped only by the Porcupine Chief.
Those were Fine-quality pieces of equipment, and there were eight of them in total!
There were also more than fifty pieces of Porcupine Thick Hide, a precious material.
As for other materials such as Coarse Leather, there were countless more—probably over ten thousand pieces!
When Zhang Meng saw the contents of his mailbox, he couldn’t help rubbing his eyes.
How many dungeon runs had he done?
Could it be that he had slept for several days?
Zhang Meng began to question his entire existence and quickly sent a message to one of his comrades:
“How long was I asleep?”
“About six hours.”
“Only six hours?”
“Uh, if you haven’t had enough sleep, you can keep sleeping.....”
“Never mind.”
Zhang Meng closed the conversation with his comrade and sent Liu Xuan a message instead:
“Brother Liu, what’s going on with this mailbox?”
Liu Xuan had already finished his dungeon runs. Seeing Zhang Meng’s private message, he replied:
“I just went to run some dungeons, level up a bit, and picked up a few things.”
“.......”
“Is there a problem?”
“No.....”
What else could Zhang Meng say?
Once Liu Xuan put this batch of items up for auction, the equipment market across the entire battleground would probably shake.
Although Liu Xuan had only run about fifty dungeons in total, he had cleared every single monster inside them. He hadn’t let even one slip away.
As others had said before, most people simply cleared a few waves of monsters before dragging out the boss and killing it.
What they mainly wanted were the Porcupine Thick Hides dropped by the boss.
If they were lucky enough to get a Great Sawblade or a Door-Panel Shield, they would strike it rich.
Naturally, this method produced far fewer drops.
On top of that, Liu Xuan had been using the upgraded Lucky Rabbit’s Foot, which increased monster equipment drop rates by 3%.
So, excluding the boss drops, the items Liu Xuan had obtained from fifty runs were more than what others might get from five hundred.
Once this batch of equipment and materials entered circulation, practically everyone would be able to equip themselves with gear above level seven.
Liu Xuan had already finished running the dungeons and was making his way back to the Novice Village.
The main reason was that he had already reached level thirteen. The level-seven monsters in the dungeon no longer gave him any experience at all.
In fact, after reaching level twelve, a single dungeon run only gave him two or three hundred experience points in total. But he cleared them so quickly that it still added up at an impressive rate.
With the help of the two passives, Voodoo Heart and Fear Heart, Liu Xuan’s attributes had become downright terrifying after gaining these two levels.
Name: Liu Xuan
Faction: Human Empire (Blue Star—Huaxia)
Class: Pacifist
Level: 13
Strength: 55
Agility: 69
Intelligence: 1617
Armor: 60
Health: 227,700/227,700
Mana: -/-
Experience: 14/9,600
Skills: Giant’s Blood, Source of Plague, Corpse Explosion..... Destruction Aura, Fleet as Wind, Free Will
Among these attributes, his Intelligence and health had both increased to terrifying levels.
With 1,617 Intelligence, the Fear damage from Nightmare Incarnation had reached more than 4,800 points—enough to instantly kill the vast majority of monsters.
As for his more than 220,000 health, it meant that the poison damage from Source of Plague dealt a full 11,000 damage with every tick!
A full duration amounted to more than 40,000 damage!
After leaving combat, his health regenerated by 2,200 every five seconds. Even in combat, Troll’s Blood allowed him to regenerate 1,100 health over the same period.
At this point, Liu Xuan could completely shout:
Who dares kill me?!
As for the two new skills in his skill list, he had obtained them after leveling up.
【Fleet of Foot: Whenever you continue moving for one minute outside of combat, your movement speed increases by 50%, up to a maximum of ten times your normal speed. Entering combat or stopping for more than five seconds restores your speed to normal.】
【Free Will: Whenever you are affected by a control skill, it is treated as being attacked.】
There wasn’t much to say about the first skill—it was a god-tier travel ability.
From now on, Liu Xuan could run all over the place without wasting so much time on the journey.
The other skill, 【Free Will】, was more interesting. On this battlefield, the distinction between control effects and attacks wasn’t quite so clear-cut.
Take the previously seen skill 【Boar Charge】, for example.
【Boar Charge: Consume 10 mana to charge at an enemy within 30 meters, knocking back enemies along the way and stunning the target for 2 seconds. Cooldown: 20 seconds.】
The skill didn’t mention dealing any damage. At first glance, it seemed to have only movement and control effects.
In reality, however, anyone hit by 【Boar Charge】 was considered to have been attacked. When the 【Porcupine Chief】 used the skill on Liu Xuan, the instant it collided with him, it was afflicted with 【Poison】 and 【Fear】.
But the Priest had a skill called 【Binding Steps】 that prevented an enemy from moving for three seconds.
That skill only applied a control effect. Previously, if someone used it on Liu Xuan, it wouldn’t have triggered 【Source of Plague】 or 【Nightmare Incarnation】.
But things were different now. As long as someone used a control skill on Liu Xuan, it would count as “attacking” him.
This passive should prove extremely useful when he fought other people in the future.
s + Rent Collection Wealth】 At the start, he inherited a rundown house in the urban village from his grandfather. The house had no tenants, but the moment he was diagnosed with a terminal illness, a self-proclaimed empress from the Tianxuan Continent arrived as his first tenant. Ye Chuan soon discovered that with every new tenant moving in, not only did he receive massive daily payments, but he also obtained unique items related to their backgrounds. 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Tiger Strength Pill—dramatically enhances physical power!】 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Deer Blood Pill—significantly boosts vitality!】 …… From that day on, all sorts of bizarre tenants began appearing in the house: the empress from Tianxuan Continent, an apocalyptic sorceress from the Magic Realm, a mysterious scientific girl who fell through a spacetime rift… Every single day, he received strange, powerful items and endless money. Then one day, he suddenly realized—he had become invincible. Enough, enough! Stop giving me more!
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
and couldn't return to the real world. Finally, I gave up and decided to go with the flow, only to discover that writing a diary could make me stronger. Since no one could read it, Su Luo wrote freely, daring to pen anything and everything. Female Lead #1: "Not bad. This diary helped me steal all the protagonist's opportunities. I just want to get stronger." Female Lead #2: "I don’t care about reaching the peak of the cultivation world. Right now, I just want to enjoy the chaos." Female Lead #3: "What? Everyone around me is a spy? I’m the Joker Demon Lord?" ... It’s so strange. Why is the plot completely off track, yet the ending remains the same? Are you all just messing with me?!
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
