Chapter 61: Monster Drops?
Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, training room.
Luo Wu Shang held the Test Single-Handed Sword, standing quietly less than two meters away from Instructor One. She suddenly snapped her eyes open; the Test Single-Handed Sword in her hand instantly turned into scattered starlight that all landed precisely on Instructor One’s body.
“Finally reached Nine Stars.”
Luo Wu Shang looked at the nine marks on Instructor One’s body, her face full of excitement.
These past days, by frantically following Instructor One’s guidance, her Point Star improvement speed had been extremely fast, from the initial Six Stars to finally reaching Nine Stars now.
It might not seem like much going from Six Stars to Nine Stars, but in terms of Point Star alone, Nine Stars already counted as the Second Level of Point Star. Ordinary experts could hardly keep up with such an attack frequency.
“Data comparison in progress…”
“Martial Skill Point Star, result is Rank Five 1%. This martial skill has reached Martial Artist level.”
As Instructor One gave the final conclusion, Luo Wu Shang could not help but clench her fist, joy clearly shining in her eyes.
“Wu Shang, you really are a monster, to break through to Martial Artist level skill so quickly.” Zhang Qing Wei, who was preparing to test at the side, could not help but sigh. She had not expected Luo Wu Shang to improve so fast.
She had clearly still been at the Eight Stars level just yesterday, and today she directly stepped into the Nine Stars realm of the Second Level. The speed of improvement was simply terrifying.
The skills they now used were completely different from when they were on the Pilgrimage. Normally, their martial skill level would not be this high. For example, when she exerted force with her Rippling Wave Saber, it was only double strength, comparable to the Apprentice-level Crushing Stone Fist, which was merely Apprentice-level.
But both of them had integrated the explosive muscle power of Crushing Stone Fist into their own martial skills, allowing them, while using martial skills, to also gain the explosive power of Crushing Stone Fist. Only then did their martial skill level directly break through to Quasi-Martial Artist level.
However, becoming Martial Artist level was clearly a huge threshold. Before they fully fused the Second Level of their martial skills with Crushing Stone Fist, they probably could not reach Martial Artist level at all.
“Luckily, these days those two teams did not fight us over Instructor One, or I really wouldn’t have been able to improve so fast,” Luo Wu Shang said with a smile. “By the way, have Twilight of the Gods and the others come back? Right now some newcomers who do not want to join a team are contacting me, saying they want to go to Grizzly Mine to cut trees and are willing to hand over thirty percent of the profit. I am thinking of having them and our team members work in two shifts, so we can rotate for 24 hours to gain points and contribution nonstop.”
She still did not know what Fang Zhen’s and Yi Ye Fu Yun’s teams had been doing during this time, but thanks to them not competing for Instructor One, her team had been able to occupy him all day long, and she herself had spent half her days hanging around the training room.
Now that she had spent most of her contribution points, she had finally become an Inner Disciple and could start the second step of her plan: renting the hall’s only Medium Transport Vehicle, heading to Grizzly Mine to make a huge profit.
As long as she had enough points, she could go Redeem that A6-grade long sword.
She had long been yearning for that A6-grade long sword; as for Black Steel Arrows, she no longer had any interest in them.
“That is what I was thinking too. Recently the Hall Master has significantly increased the Reward for wood, it really is already more profitable than repairing the martial arts hall. It is just that previously there were only three Tricycles, with limited transport capacity, so I refused them. Now if we can rent the Medium Transport Vehicle, our team’s profit should be able to triple,” Zhang Qing Wei said with a smile, already experienced in this.
Watching from the side of the training room, Lin Qi was briefly stunned.
He had to admit that the players really knew how to play. They used people in two 24-hour shifts, afraid the rented vehicle would have even a moment of rest. They were simply more capitalistic than he was.
“The second one. Now there is only the last one left.”
Back in the lounge, while copying Lightning Palm, Lin Qi looked at the hidden task at the bottom of his vision. Two-thirds of it had already been completed, and he was very pleased.
Once the “Heaven-born Talent” task was completed, he would instantly gain forty more quotas, greatly easing the manpower shortage at the martial arts hall.
Just as Lin Qi was copying Lightning Palm, Fang Zhen, Yi Ye Fu Yun, and the others rushed in.
“Master of the Pavilion, we discovered something big underground. Can you see if this thing is useful?” Fang Zhen asked eagerly, holding a palm-sized metal box that had already been heavily corroded.
Yi Ye Fu Yun and the others beside him were also looking at Lin Qi, their eyes filled with anticipation and excitement.
“Where did you find this thing?” Lin Qi looked at the completely corroded metal box, which was giving off a foul stench. He did not reach out to take it, and asked with some distaste.
There were far too many broken metal boxes like this in the martial arts hall. He really could not understand what Fang Zhen and the others were thinking, treating him like an appraisal shop and bringing anything and everything to ask about.
“Master of the Pavilion, this dropped from a monster we killed,” Yi Ye Fu Yun quickly answered.
“It dropped from a monster?” Lin Qi looked in surprise at the metal box in Fang Zhen’s hand and could not help asking, “What monster did you kill?”
Previously, Twilight of the Gods finding a Treasure Chest had already shocked him enough. Now Yi Ye Fu Yun and the others were even more amazing, getting treasure drops from killing monsters, and acting as if it were completely natural.
They had truly started treating the High Martial Arts World as an MMO game.
“Gold-Devouring Unicorn Rat,” Fang Zhen said very seriously.
“You took down a Gold-Devouring Unicorn Rat?” Lin Qi was utterly shocked.
Although the Gold-Devouring Unicorn Rat was the individually weakest Wilderness monster, it was still a genuine monster. It was extremely difficult for non-martial artists to kill. Normally, those who could kill a Gold-Devouring Unicorn Rat were Quasi-Martial Artists wielding B-series weapons.
Previously, when he heard Fang Zhen and the others talking about a Strategy Guide for the Maze Tunnel, he had only taken it as a joke. After all, it was a real monster. How could a bunch of Apprentice-level players without decent weapons possibly kill it?
“Yes. It took three days, and we finally wore it down,” Fang Zhen nodded, still emotional. “This new dungeon is indeed prepared for Inner Disciples. It took us three days just to wear down a guard-type small monster. This is the first time in all my dungeon Strategy Guides that I have encountered such a difficult dungeon.”
“Exactly,” Yi Ye Fu Yun agreed, nodding earnestly. “Back when I played fantasy games, even conquering a super large 100-player dungeon took at most ten days. Without one or two months, this Maze Tunnel is probably impossible to clear. A small monster is harder to kill than a boss. I really do not know what the Game Manufacturer is thinking.”
“Master of the Pavilion, is this thing useful?” Fang Zhen looked again at the somewhat stunned Lin Qi and asked a bit nervously.
The dropped metal box in his hand might have fallen from a monster, but monster drops were not necessarily useful. Many games had trash items dropped by small monsters that could only be sold for a little money.
Although in these three days they had earned quite a lot of points and contribution through Ancient Bronze Ore, if, after three days of effort, this turned out to be a useless item, they would really want to cry.
“Alright, I will take a look.”
Seeing the expectant looks of Fang Zhen and the others, Lin Qi, who had originally wanted to ask where the Gold-Devouring Unicorn Rat’s corpse was, could only helplessly pick up an A6-grade standard long sword from beside him and bring it down in one stroke on the completely corroded metal box.
A flash of sword light.
Under the terrifying spiritual control of the Stellar Explosion Meditation Technique, not only did the metal clasp of the box split cleanly into two, but the metal box itself did not even tremble.
This level of control over the sword left Fang Zhen and the others present filled with shock.
They had not expected Master Lin Qi’s control over strength to be this refined. Even the sword expert Luo Wu Shang would probably find it hard to pull off such a feat.
“No way, there really is something!”
Lin Qi looked at the metal box that had automatically opened. Inside lay an extremely Advanced Smart Watch, made entirely of B6-grade Cloud Iron Alloy. Even in the City Center of the City of Light Chasing, probably only martial artists could afford to use such a thing.
