Before long, this street had been cleared as well, and the progress display in the sky changed to 93%.
Liu Xuan continued toward the next area.
This place seemed to have once been a commercial district. The buildings were packed closely together, and the roads were a tangled mess.
Narrow paths crisscrossed between the shops. From this side of the street, Liu Xuan could even see the Destroyers across the way through the gaps between the collapsed buildings. The thick pheromones emanating from his body had them restless and agitated.
The monsters here were also much more numerous than before. They were everywhere—on the streets and inside the buildings.
After clearing them all out, the progress rose to 87%.
“Excellent. Keep it up and take down the next area quickly!”
Liu Xuan headed toward the next zone, full of fighting spirit. It was quite a distance away, and just as he arrived and was preparing to attack, he suddenly frowned.
The progress bar in the sky now showed 88%.
It had increased by 1%.
“What’s going on?”
Could the monsters respawn?
How was he supposed to complete the quest if that was the case?
No, he had to go back and take a look.
To prevent the buff on his body from expiring, he pulled a few monsters over and refreshed it before hurriedly making his way back.
Fortunately, there were no monsters in the areas he had just cleared, so [Fleet of Foot] could be activated.
Liu Xuan soon returned to the nobles’ district. The moment he saw what was happening there, his face darkened.
Destroyers had appeared again on the street where the White family was located.
The monsters really could respawn!
How the hell was he supposed to fight like this?
There were monsters throughout the entire city. He could clear them out here, only for them to respawn over there. Would he have to keep killing them until the end of time?
The attributes, equipment, and mutagenic essence were certainly satisfying to farm, but the problem was that they slowed down the campaign’s progress.
“Could it be that I have to wait until everyone else levels up before we can tackle this campaign?”
Frowning, Liu Xuan cleared the monsters from the street once more.
He wanted to find out exactly how they respawned—and how often.
Sure enough, the moment he finished clearing the area, two or three Destroyers flew out of an abandoned mansion.
Since he still had a stack of 100 buff layers on him, the moment the Destroyers emerged, they immediately targeted him.
At first, he thought they had simply spawned there by coincidence. But after he dealt with them, several more ran out of the house the moment he turned around.
Liu Xuan raised an eyebrow.
Monsters were continuously emerging from this building. Could it be that they didn’t respawn randomly, but that each area had a fixed spawn point?
After killing the monsters in front of him, Liu Xuan entered the mansion, whose roof had already collapsed. Since the pheromones could lure the monsters out, he had never entered any of these buildings before.
Sunlight streamed through the gaping hole overhead. In the center of the hall, a spatial rift several meters long hung suspended in midair.
The moment Liu Xuan stepped inside, several Destroyers happened to fly out of the rift, and a notification appeared before him.
[You have discovered a one-way portal belonging to the Destroyers.]
[Remain within twenty meters of the portal for three hours. Continue killing Destroyers until they are terrified and close the rift themselves.]
Liu Xuan’s face immediately darkened when he saw the notification.
Three hours?!
He had to guard a single rift for three hours?
How many rifts were there throughout Orlenburg?
If there were a lot of them, he would have to fight for days and nights on end by himself.
The system was targeting him!
Orlenburg had clearly been designed for the entire battlefield to attack together.
With enough people, they could split into multiple teams, with each team guarding one rift.
That way, they could close all the rifts within a few hours.
But that raised another problem. For so many people to have the ability to fight the Destroyers, their average level would have to be around Level 20 at the very least. How long would that take?
After Level 10, the experience bonus disappeared. To train even a few hundred people to Level 20 would take several days at minimum.
And all that time would count toward the campaign duration.
“When you look at it that way, maybe guarding the portals alone is actually faster?”
One portal took three hours. If there were only a dozen or twenty portals in the city, he could shut them all down by himself in two or three days.
It would still be faster—but Liu Xuan was somewhat unwilling to settle for that.
Using this method, his final score definitely wouldn’t be very high.
Besides, the rewards for the Orlenburg campaign were sure to be incredibly generous.
There might even be special rewards!
Otherwise, why would everyone bother pushing the campaign forward? Wouldn’t it be better to stay here and farm Destroyers for mutagenic essence?
There was only one possibility: the benefits of conquering Orlenburg early had to be far greater than simply accumulating mutagenic essence.
If the rewards were even better than mutagenic essence, they had to be extraordinary.
At that moment, four more Destroyers happened to fly out of the rift. Liu Xuan casually killed them, then suddenly had a flash of inspiration.
These creatures didn’t seem to emerge from the portal very frequently.
“What if…I kill them faster than they respawn?”
As long as he killed them faster than they appeared, he could still complete the first objective: clear the monsters from the city and reduce their numbers to below twenty percent of the current total.
Moreover, if he stayed here to guard the portal, the Destroyers would eventually close it themselves.
But what if he didn’t guard it? Would the portal remain open indefinitely?
Wouldn’t that give him a permanent place to farm attributes in the future?
Killing several hundred or even a thousand monsters could permanently increase the number of attribute points gained upon leveling up by 1. The efficiency wasn’t high enough for everyone on the battlefield to use this method, but by concentrating the resources, they could completely nurture several top-tier experts.
This shouldn’t count as exploiting a bug, right?
No, even if it was a bug, so what?
If he exploited a bug through his own ability, then even the Jade Emperor himself would have to acknowledge it!
With that thought, Liu Xuan decided it was worth trying. Even if it didn’t work, he would lose at most one or two hours.
At worst, he could come back and honestly guard the portal afterward.
He would be farming these mutated creatures either way, so he couldn’t lose.
Once he had made up his mind, he began gathering the information he needed.
First: the frequency at which monsters emerged from the portals.
That was simple. Liu Xuan blocked the portal for five minutes. A total of 107 Destroyers came out, averaging twenty-one per minute.
Second: the distribution of the portals throughout the city.
This was more troublesome, since he had to search all of Orlenburg.
Still, it wasn’t too difficult. At each location, he cleared out the nearby monsters, then waited in place to see which direction the newly spawned monsters came from.
Liu Xuan began clearing the city district by district. After making one complete circuit, he checked his experience and found that he was about to level up.
The Destroyers only gave one point of experience each, but there were simply far too many of them.
By then, he had accumulated more than 740 mutation points, so Liu Xuan used them all at once.
That way, when he leveled up later, he would gain a full twelve free attribute points.
It took Liu Xuan two entire hours to search the whole city and familiarize himself with every corner.
At that moment, he was crouched on the ground, using a small dagger to draw a rough map of Orlenburg.
Every so often, several Destroyers would charge out of a nearby alley, crash into him, and be killed instantly—refreshing the pheromone buff on Liu Xuan at the same time.
Hmm, this was exactly why he chose this spot to analyze things.
If he weren’t trying to keep up with the schedule, he could simply find a teleportation portal and lie there, idling on AFK.
Looking at the map again, Orenburg could roughly be divided into five districts. Overall, it looked like a large circle enclosing a smaller one, with the inner circle serving as the central district.
That was where the city lord’s family lived, along with several official residences and the garrison barracks.
The four districts surrounding the central area included the Noble District and Commercial District that Liu Xuan had visited before.
After testing, he found that there was only one teleportation portal in the central district, located inside the barracks.
As for the town hall, it was currently blocked by a barrier, making it completely inaccessible.
He had to clear out all the mobs in the city before he could enter.
As for the four surrounding districts, there were eleven teleportation portals in total.
In other words, Orenburg had twelve teleportation portals altogether.
That was quite a lot!
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
orn and Humiliation】【Forced Love】 In his past life, Lin Ran was betrayed and murdered by his girlfriend and family, while the yandere female aristocrat, who had treated him as a mere plaything, avenged him by doing in his enemies. Upon seeing the yandere female aristocrat lying in the same coffin, ready to die with him, Lin Ran realized how profoundly mistaken he had been. Reborn, he abandoned the fickle campus beauty and wholeheartedly embraced the yandere female aristocrat's arms. "Ran! If I dig out your eyes and turn them into a specimen, you'll only be able to look at me!" Lin Ran: "Darling, kiss me!" "Ran! If I break your legs, you won't run away anymore, right?" Lin Ran: "Love, hold me tight!" "Ran! If..." Lin Ran: "Hush now! Love me more!" Luo Yao: ... Seeing his scumbag dad: "Take him out!" Seeing his stepmother: "Get rid of her!" Seeing his brother: "Eliminate him!" Seeing his white moonlight: "Send that to Southeast Asia!"
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.
s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
