Despite having speculated about this before, Zhang Yue found it hard to believe when he saw Dragon Two’s tombstone with his own eyes.
For a long time, he stood in silence before finally asking, “When did it happen?”
“Six years ago.”
Hearing Wolong’s response, Zhang Yue’s heart skipped a beat as he seemed to realize something. He immediately asked, “Did he also enter the Gate of Immortality in the Eighty-Eighth World?”
Wolong let out a deep sigh and said, “To be precise, it was Senior Sister Xuan, Dragon Two, and I who entered the Gate of Immortality together.”
“But in the end, only I came out…”
Wolong’s aged face was etched with endless sorrow.
It was after this event that Wolong withdrew from the Otherworld, retreating to the mountains. Yet every time he thought of it, his heart felt as if it were being cut by a knife, cursing himself for not dying with Xuan Lan and Hidden Dragon in the Gate of Immortality.
Often, it is the living who suffer the most.
Zhang Yue was even more puzzled, “Why did you enter the Gate of Immortality in the first place?”
Wolong remained silent for a moment, just about to answer.
Zhang Yue suddenly interjected, “Forget it, don’t tell me.”
“When I reach the Eleventh World, I’ll find the answers myself.”
For Zhang Yue suddenly realized: anyone who exits the Gate of Immortality and reveals its secrets will die!
Wolong’s next words, filled with deep meaning, once again shook Zhang Yue: “Master, since you have come back to life, I think there’s no need for you to enter the Gate of Immortality again.”
“Entering the Gate of Immortality is a path of nine deaths and one life; don’t go in, just let it be!”
Wolong’s words only strengthened Zhang Yue’s resolve: “I must enter the Gate of Immortality!”
The master and disciple parted ways.
Zhang Yue returned online.
Now, Zhang Yue had a clear goal.
That was to clear the Tenth World as soon as possible and enter the Eleventh World!
The main purpose was to conquer the Gate of Immortality within the Eleventh World and uncover the mystery behind the disappearance of Xuan Lan and Dragon Two.
Additionally, the level cap in the Eleventh World could reach Level 70.
At Level 70, third transition, all skills could be upgraded to S-rank!
The Demon Contract could be upgraded to Legendary Grade!
The Evolution Scroll, an Epic Grade treasure obtained from the hidden dungeon Snow King’s Palace in the Sixth World, could evolve the third transition Apocalyptic Black Dragon from Legendary Grade to Mythic Grade!
Li Li was likely handling family affairs, as Zhang Yue didn’t see her in the afternoon.
He spent the afternoon alone, farming Parasites!
Through the collected energy crystals, Zhang Yue easily upgraded his wings from blue to purple!
Under normal circumstances, it might take an ordinary Professional two to three months to achieve such an accomplishment, but Zhang Yue did it in just one day.
The three pairs of wings previously bought from Li Li were used for himself, the Shadow Predator, and the Apocalyptic Black Dragon.
The newly upgraded purple wings were intended for the Skeleton King.
However, it was only then that Zhang Yue realized he had forgotten to resurrect the Skeleton King, who had died that morning!
Just in time for dinner, Zhang Yue returned to town and resurrected the Skeleton King in the spring.
After dinner, when he logged back in, Li Li appeared before Zhang Yue with a large group of Professionals, saying they were there to thank Zhang Yue for helping their family return to the Li family and to assist him in collecting energy crystals!
Zhang Yue gladly accepted.
However, the combat power of the Professionals Li Li brought was not even a tenth of the Skeleton King’s!
They couldn’t really help, so Zhang Yue simply had them pick up trash…
With so many people helping to pick up trash, Zhang Yue indeed found it much easier.
The task of killing monsters was left to the Apocalyptic Black Dragon and the Shadow Predator.
Next, Zhang Yue focused solely on upgrading his wings.
By ten o’clock in the evening, the wings’ upgrade progress reached 50%!
It was estimated that by tomorrow morning, he could upgrade to orange wings!
That night, Li Li’s family warmly invited Zhang Yue and everyone from the Temple of Destiny for a late-night snack.
It was a joyful evening.
The next morning, news about the new events in the Global Professionals Tournament World Finals swept across the internet!
It turned out that the finals for the new Professionals were scheduled to start at ten o’clock tomorrow morning!
And tonight, all participants needed to head to the Realm of Gods to prepare for the competition.
However, Zhang Yue’s mind was not on this competition at all.
Fortunately, for Zhang Yue, this competition should be a breeze.
After logging in, Zhang Yue continued to hunt Parasites to collect energy crystals.
Zhang Yue’s goal was not just to upgrade to orange wings.
Because when Professionals break through the Tenth World, they can consume Psionic Energy to fuse the wings into their body, permanently gaining the wings’ attribute bonuses!
A person can only fuse one pair of wings in their lifetime.
Naturally, Zhang Yue aimed to use the highest-grade golden wings as his fusion target!
In less than a morning, nearing eleven o’clock, Zhang Yue finally accumulated 2000/2000 experience for the purple wings.
Consuming 10 million points of Psionic Energy.
“Ding~ Congratulations on upgrading to orange wings!”
Upgrading to red wings required 5000 experience points and an additional 50 million points of Psionic Energy for a breakthrough.
So essentially, orange wings were the limit for 99.999% of Professionals!
It’s not a matter of experience points; as long as one is willing to spend time, they can always collect enough energy crystals.
But the Psionic Energy required for higher-grade wings is just too high!
Most people don’t even have enough Psionic Energy for regular refining and skill upgrades, let alone for wing breakthroughs.
At this point, having killed tens of thousands of Parasites, the number of lord Parasites that occasionally spawned had already exceeded double digits. The world tasks of “killing ten lord monsters” and “upgrading a pair of orange wings” were both completed.
From entering the Tenth World until now, it had only been two days.
This was probably Zhang Yue’s fastest world clearance yet!
However, Zhang Yue didn’t rush to immediately challenge the world boss.
Because once the world boss was defeated and the Tenth World was cleared, he wouldn’t be able to upgrade his wings or fuse higher-grade wings anymore!
Previously, he had farmed personally to complete the task of killing lord monsters.
Now that the task was complete, the only goal was to upgrade to golden wings.
To speed up the wing upgrade process, Zhang Yue directly spent 1000 gold coins to issue a world announcement.
Instantly, a panel forcibly popped up in front of all Professionals in the Tenth World—
[World Announcement] (Tenth World, Issuer/Zero): “Buying energy crystals at ten gold coins each, unlimited purchase!”
Once this message was released, the entire Tenth World was in an uproar…
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