Upon receiving the system’s prompt, Zhang Yue suddenly remembered: the upgrade quest for the Demon Contract required killing monsters of a level not lower than his own.
Previously, with the help of the Infinity Guild, Zhang Yue had killed 9,800 monsters to clear his Sin Points. While doing so, he had also completed 98% of the upgrade progress for this quest!
Zhang Yue then checked the upgraded Demon Contract.
[Demon Contract] (Growth-type Treasure)
[Type: Versatile]
[Quality: Elite Grade (Upgradeable)]
[Host: Zero]
[Effect 1: Energy Contract (When the host gains Psionic Energy, the Demon Contract will additionally absorb 8% of the energy, which can be transferred)]
[Effect 2: Experience Contract (When the host gains Experience Points, the Demon Contract will additionally absorb 8% of the experience, which can be transferred)]
[Effect 3: Unlockable upon upgrading to Rare Grade]
[Upgrade Quest from Elite Grade to Rare Grade: Accumulate 80 million damage (Progress 0/80 million)]
[Description: Signing a contract with a demon comes at a price. Do you want to be the demon’s slave or its master…?]
The increase of 3% in Psionic Energy extraction might not be significant for ordinary Professionals.
But for Zhang Yue, who had the Ten Thousand Times Psionic Energy buff, it was a massive boost!
The next task, accumulating 80 million damage, wasn’t difficult for Zhang Yue; it would just take some time.
The group continued hunting demons, reaping a bounty of experience and Psionic Energy.
During this time, the purity of the demon blood in Zhang Yue’s Death’s Eye continued to rise from 60%.
This meant that the maximum number of people he could authorize wasn’t limited to just ten!
In essence, as long as he had enough demon blood purity, he could infinitely authorize others to enter the Gate of Hell!
After hunting about a hundred demons, they finally reached the destination indicated by the Death’s Eye.
A large number of demons were gathered around a building entwined with countless vines.
Clearly, the item they were looking for was inside that building!
Without hesitation, Zhang Yue raised his staff and, leading the Dark Skeleton King and Apocalyptic Black Dragon, along with Lin Tian and Wu Haotian, launched an attack on the demon horde…
Minutes later.
The area around the building was littered with demon corpses.
Zhang Yue stepped over the bodies and entered the building.
Inside, he found a dusty, long-abandoned black chest.
With a creak, Zhang Yue opened the unlocked chest and saw a necklace inside, pulsing with a red glow like a heartbeat!
Picking it up, he saw: Heart of Death (Level 35, 5-star necklace, part of the Grim Reaper Set)!
It was formed from the heart of the Grim Reaper, Tila.
However, the equipment was currently sealed and unusable.
Clearly, he needed to find the other five parts of the Grim Reaper Set, resurrect the Grim Reaper, and kill it to unseal and use the equipment!
Next, the Death’s Eye provided another hint.
But by now, it was already midnight, and everyone was yawning with exhaustion, so they decided not to continue exploring.
Planning to return the next day, they exited the Gate of Hell.
After all, they had three days to complete the quest, so there was no rush!
It was clear that finding the parts of the Grim Reaper Set in Hell City wouldn’t be difficult.
The real challenge would be the final boss, the Grim Reaper!
Returning to the Safe Zone, they logged off.
The next day, before the Global Professionals Tournament at 10 AM, Zhang Yue contacted a broker and spent five million to buy an office building in the city center.
Ouyang Ling’er went online to find a reliable renovation company to start the renovation, fully establishing the Temple of Destiny Guild headquarters!
The renovation was left to the workers.
After logging back in, Zhang Yue distributed the Psionic Energy collected by the Demon Contract to Lin Tian and the others.
Although the current amount of Psionic Energy wasn’t enough to fully enhance Lin Tian and the others, they could wait until the unique hidden quest [Death Terminator] was completed, which would yield 800 million Psionic Energy from the Demon Contract.
At least, it was enough for Lin Tian and the others to each upgrade to an S-rank skill.
After all, last night in the Gate of Hell, each demon provided 2 million Psionic Energy, allowing the Demon Contract to extract 160,000!
Thus, in today’s provincial championships intermediate match, Lin Tian and the others, armed with S-rank skills, crushed all the Professionals in Zhening Province. Even Ouyang Ling’er and Ning Tiantian achieved an astonishing nine-win record!
As for Lin Tian and Wu Haotian, they maintained a steady ten-win streak.
Zhang Yue, of course, was even more dominant.
Zero had already become the unanimously recognized top new Professional in Zhening Province!
He was also currently the number one on the Zhening Province Glory Points leaderboard!
After the match, Zhang Yue and Lin Tian’s group returned to the Gate of Hell.
Additionally, Zhang Yue used the extra demon blood to authorize Liu Yao, Li Xiaoyao, Tian Xin’er, and Su Jinyan to enter the Gate of Hell.
He also reluctantly authorized Infinity Phantom and Infinity Sword Saint.
After all, they had worked for Zhang Yue all night, and even if they didn’t achieve much, they had put in the effort.
Infinity Sword Saint was clearly dissatisfied, maintaining an attitude of “I’d rather starve to death than bow to Zero” before being authorized.
But after being authorized and entering the Gate of Hell to kill demons, he lucked out and got a 4-star Dark Set equipment: “Oh my, this is awesome! Thanks, Zero!”
So, who would have thought:
Former mortal enemies, Zhang Yue and Infinity Phantom, were now teaming up to clear maps!
Through a day’s effort.
Zhang Yue found three parts of the Grim Reaper Set in Hell City: [Demon’s Head] (hat), [Demon’s Foot] (shoes), and [Demon’s Word] (ring).
Only two parts were left to complete the Grim Reaper Set!
Soon, the Global Professionals Tournament’s provincial championships: advanced match arrived.
With all participants giving their best, the match ended at 11 AM.
At this time, the provincial Glory Points rankings were announced online!
Distinguishing between new and veteran Professionals.
Guangyue Province’s new top: Handsome Bin, Level 36 Knight, Glory Points 400 (full score), belonging to the Handsome Club!
Chongyu Province’s new top: Spicy Hot Pot, Level 36 Assassin, Glory Points 400, belonging to the Spicy Soup Guild!
Zhening Province’s new top: Zero, Level 39 Beast Tamer, Glory Points 400, belonging to the Temple of Destiny!
Tianjing’s new top: Luo Chen, Level 38 Warrior, Glory Points 400, unaffiliated!
…
At this stage of the competition, the top 1 in each province’s Glory Points rankings began to attract widespread attention.
Netizens from all over shared their opinions online:
[Little Prince of Chongyu] (Chongyu Province netizen): “Haha! Just ask if our Chongyu Province’s top guild name is awesome!”
[Bro, Call Me Handsome] (Guangyue Province netizen): “Is it more awesome than our Guangyue Province’s top guild?”
[TM… Where’s My Knife?] (Liuchuan Province netizen): “Zhening Province’s top… a Beast Tamer? Did I see that right? Are Beast Tamers still this powerful nowadays?”
After the provincial championships, the elimination rate of Professionals in each province was as high as 99%, with only 1% advancing to the national challenge in seven days!
Zhang Yue, as the provincial champion, received the top prize: 1 million!
Lin Tian, Wu Haotian, Ning Tiantian, and Ouyang Ling’er each received 800,000, 600,000, 400,000, and 300,000 respectively for their ranks of third, fifth, ninety-seventh, and one hundred and tenth in the province!
This delighted Ning Tiantian and Ouyang Ling’er, who had never had more than ten thousand in savings!
Before this, they never dreamed they could make it to the national challenge in the Professionals Tournament!
The Fifth World.
On their way to the Gate of Hell.
Wu Haotian analyzed the leaderboard, saying, “The top in Tianjing isn’t from the Tian Family or Radiant? An unaffiliated solo player?”
“Don’t underestimate this solo player; his strength is greater than anyone here!” Ouyang Ling’er said.
Wu Haotian pointed to Zhang Yue, “Stronger than him?”
“On par with our Guild Leader!” Ouyang Ling’er’s evaluation even surprised Zhang Yue.
Then, Ouyang Ling’er found a PK video and showed it to Zhang Yue and the others.
In the video, a silver-armored warrior was surrounded by dozens of Professionals!
The next moment, countless sword shadows erupted around the silver-armored warrior, sweeping through the surrounding crowd.
In an instant, the dozens of Professionals were all slain by the sword shadows!
This was a video shot from a bystander’s perspective, lasting only 3 seconds!
And that silver-armored warrior was Luo Chen, the top in Tianjing, Level 38 Warrior, just one level lower than Zhang Yue!
“So strong!”
“What profession is this? I’ve never seen it before! It looks amazing!”
As everyone, including the usually composed Lin Tian, was shocked by the silver-armored warrior’s formidable strength in the video.
Zhang Yue watched the silver-armored warrior in the video, a figure involuntarily appearing in his mind, causing his heart to tremble!
After a long time, he murmured, “Legendary Profession, Sword Emperor.”
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