Jin Wu's level has now risen to 23, and its size seems to have increased as well.
Ye Yun looked at Jin Wu, his mount, with a face full of resentment. He glanced again at the red dots in the surroundings that were beginning to approach them, and then used all the Grade 1 Hong Beast Essence Blood from his inventory on Jin Wu.
Jin Wu was currently the weakest and most unimpressive pet on his side. Apart from the title of divine beast, everything else was quite embarrassing.
"System prompt: Player used 463 drops of Grade 1 Hong Beast Essence Blood on mount 'Jin Wu'. 256 drops were successfully used. Player's mount 'Jin Wu' Flying Speed +59, Health +151, Double Defense +341, Magic Attack +286, Carrying Capacity +25."
"Nani? This thing also has a success rate? Didn't one drop give 5 attribute points?" Ye Yun looked at the system prompt, stunned. He knew he had been deceived by the game's facade once again.
But it didn't matter. It would just mean killing a few more rounds. With seven days remaining until the end of this cycle, Ye Yun also wanted to know how many points he could accumulate within these seven days.
The point competition in this cycle was also interesting. Players could only see their own points and were completely unaware of everyone else's. All players would have to wait until the end of the cycle for 'Heavenly Dao' to announce the point leaderboard to know their ranking.
"Master, they're here, and it's not just one race." Black Ant had once again transformed into a massive, flying ant.
This guy seemed to gain a thousand times its weight whenever it left its territory.
"It's good they're here. I don't need to go looking for monsters. How convenient," Ye Yun said with a smile as he looked at the three waves of Hong Beasts appearing before him.
Cloud-Devouring Ants, these were old adversaries, so he was naturally familiar with them.
However, coming from the south this time were a group of winged beasts with the bodies of lions and heads of eagles. Each of their wings spanned a thousand kilometers.
Griffins!
And coming from the west were swarms of frogs, yes, golden frogs! Their in-game name was Golden Flower General! They were what people on Earth commonly called Golden Toads!
These creatures were only twenty to thirty meters tall, but they could leap as high as three hundred meters. What was even more disgusting were their tongues, which were like fifty-meter-long whips!
There were flying creatures and ground-dwelling ones. Ye Yun looked at the black dots on the map and quickly calculated their numbers. Cloud-Devouring Ants: over seven hundred. Griffins: over fifty. Golden Toads: over eighty.
The total was around nine hundred!
"Little Black, fly towards the Cloud-Devouring Ants. We'll deal with them first. We'll slowly take care of those two Grade 2 Hong Beasts later."
The Cloud-Devouring Ant nest was relatively closer, so this group arrived the fastest.
This group shouldn't be from the same nest as the last one, because a single Cloud-Devouring Ant nest only had 1500 individuals. Ye Yun had already killed over twelve hundred from the last nest, and it would take until the next cycle for them to recover!
'Sky Shattering Fire Rain'
'Rocket Heaven Net'
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Terrifying damage values popped up from the Cloud-Devouring Ants, and their bodies quickly shrank and shriveled like deflating balloons, turning into spirit stones and drops of essence blood that flowed into Ye Yun's inventory.
A rain of fire struck, instantly killing over a hundred Cloud-Devouring Ants! Unfortunately, this skill wasn't like Demonic Flames, which had continuous damage; it was a one-time damage skill.
"This is the beautiful sound, better than any singer's song. This is the feeling, more addictive than a massage." Ye Yun couldn't help but close his eyes, savoring the dense system notification sounds.
What a shame, he didn't get a sword when he entered. Otherwise, he could have tested the power of Sword Control Art!
Squeak squeak squeak...
Suddenly, a Cloud-Devouring Ant let out a deafening screech. Its entire body seemed to be ripped from the ground and rapidly disappeared from the air.
Squeak squeak squeak...
Hundreds of Cloud-Devouring Ants suddenly rose in altitude, ascending to two thousand meters before stopping?
This is...
Ye Yun felt a prickle of unease as he witnessed the scene. Below, in the jungle, over eighty Golden Toads were hopping in place, extending their long tongues to pull down and swallow the Cloud-Devouring Ants one by one!
A creature thirty meters in size swallowing a hundred-meter-tall Cloud-Devouring Ant was something that could only happen in a game.
Ye Yun stood on Black Ant's head, watching the tongues occasionally shoot out from the ground, accompanied by splashing saliva, feeling unprecedentedly disgusted.
'Demonic Flames Ground Fire'!
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Immediately, strings of numbers popped up from the group of toads.
"I'll let you hop around, I'll let you steal my kills!" Ye Yun watched the countless ground fires surge below and then commanded Black Ant to ascend to three thousand meters, charging into the Cloud-Devouring Ant swarm.
"System prompt: Congratulations to player for defeating Grade 2 Hong Beast 'Ancient Golden Toad', gaining 100 billion experience points (double), 2 Spirit Stones, 1 Grade 2 Hong Beast Essence Blood, and 1 Weak Water Thousand Ribbons Shard."
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The area covered by Demonic Flames was only six kilometers in radius, and the damage per second was only 1% of Ye Yun's magic attack damage, which was over 98 billion. It took a full three seconds to kill a Golden Toad.
Monster: Golden Toad
Level: Grade 2 Hong Beast
Health: 2460e
Attack (Physical): 289e
Defense: 322e
Skills:
1-Lingering Sting: Deals 120% of attack damage to a single enemy within 2 kilometers and causes a 2-second paralysis effect.
2-Golden Toad Heavenly Decree (Passive): Upon taking damage, automatically activates Golden Body Toad Shield, Defense +20%.
3-Sunset (Passive): Attack range against flying units +50%.
4-Bloodthirsty (Passive): 5% of damage dealt to enemies heals the user's HP.
As expected of a Grade 2 Hong Beast! Out of the four skills, one was active and three were passive, each more formidable than the Cloud-Devouring Ants!
However, Ye Yun didn't care at all. With his current health and defense, he could stand there and let them attack for three days and three nights without them dealing significant damage to him, because they simply couldn't break his defense!
"System prompt: Congratulations to player for leveling up, currently level 24, awarded 30.72 billion free attribute points!"
Rank 175,366,584 on the Earth level leaderboard! One level increase propelled him tens of millions of ranks forward! This showed how intense the competition was among Earth players.
Looking at the accumulated 62.3 billion attribute points, Ye Yun had grown quite indifferent. Now, he felt that these attributes were just a pile of numbers, no longer his spiritual sustenance.
Only one level left!
Ye Yun had not forgotten about the Cosmic Talent Ranking that was unlocked in advance when his talent improved! However, the strict requirement for this ranking was level 25!