The reward from personal points and territory points was a world of difference, an immense gap. Not to mention the spirit stones; just the guards alone had their attribute values increased by a billion points each, totaling five billion points! Ten guards like this would amount to fifty billion attribute points!
If this were concentrated on a single player on Blue Star, they would be invincible!
"System prompt: Player converts all spirit stones to gold coins. Current spirit stones: 1,823,427. Current exchange rate: 1:103. Player obtains 18,781 trillion 298.1 billion gold coins."
The gold coins obtained seemed like a lot, but compared to the spoils from the Hegemony Event, they were as insignificant as a mayfly's shadow. This disheartened Ye Yun, who had grown accustomed to grand spectacles. Two million spirit stones, and this was it?
Ye Yun turned, took out the 'Dragon Pill,' and under the resentful gaze of the Golden Crow, tossed it to Black Ant. As his life beast, Black Ant's attributes were closely tied to his own. Truth be told, despite many complaints along the way, this fellow had rendered him invaluable service.
If he could advance further, Ye Yun would certainly be happy. After all, this guy was the main force protecting him.
"System prompt: Player's life beast 'Black Ant' is using a Dragon Pill. Black Ant is currently evolving. Evolution time: one hour. Players must ensure Black Ant's safety during this hour. Within this hour, the player must not leave a 200-yard radius around Black Ant. If the player insists on leaving, Black Ant's evolution will fail."
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Damn it, moments ago I was thinking of you protecting me, and now I have to protect you?
Ye Yun looked at the eleven guards scattered around and returned to his mansion. With guards on alert, the protection of level five city walls, and the city built at an altitude of fifty thousand meters, which idiot would be so blind as to come here?
Ye Yun returned to his mansion and looked at the giant screen before his desk. He figured Yue Di and the others would arrive soon, so he set the seven newly acquired affiliated races as friendly races and waived their city entry fees.
Ye Yun was always generous with his own people.
Just as Ye Yun was about to doze off again, a brilliant light suddenly erupted across the entire New Mortal Continent. Even though Ye Yun was in his mansion, he was momentarily blinded. Then, on his screen, within the map representing Cloud Sky City, red dots began to appear within a radius of fifteen hundred miles.
A new cycle had begun! Cloud-devouring Ants, Poison-hunting Ants, Golden Toads, Griffins, and other monstrous beasts had returned once more!
Ye Yun had waited for this moment for three full days. Who knew how boring those three days had been?
Despite the boredom, Ye Yun's strength had been steadily growing. It couldn't be helped; after three cups of fine wine of heaven and earth daily, it would be strange if his strength didn't increase.
Moreover, Ye Yun had used all six of his Strength Manifestation Cards. With two Dew Collection Machines supplying him fully, plus the tens of thousands of tons stored in the Demon City, it would be a waste not to use them.
This caused Ye Yun's strength in the real world to directly double! The higher-ups of the Dragon Palace, seeing this, felt immense pressure. They were currently by Ye Yun's side, and even when Ye Yun did nothing, they felt an aura pressing down on them, making it difficult to lift their heads.
It was important to note that they had all undergone the assessment of the Three Enlightenment Towers, and their Strength Manifestation had reached 6%, entering what Ye Yun called the Spirit Refinement realm. Their strength was comparable to the Divine Gathering realm in ancient martial arts, only one step away from the Grandmaster realm!
Ye Yun sat in his mansion, bored out of his mind.
Damn it, forget those guys. Seeing swarms of red dots made him feel uneasy.
But he had to wait for Black Ant to evolve. It was too agonizing.
"Master, we have arrived at our destination, but we don't see the Master's territory?"
Just as Ye Yun was idly chatting with the Italian cannon on the city wall, he suddenly received a message from Yue Di.
At the time, the coordinates of this world were three-dimensional. Ye Yun had given them two-dimensional coordinates, which were planar. Therefore, they could only reach the ground beneath Cloud Sky City.
"Do you have flying mounts or equipment?" Ye Yun sent his third-dimensional coordinates again.
"Master, your Cloud Sky City is built too high. Our mounts can't fly that high yet."
Seeing Yue Di's message, Ye Yun could only ask them to wait another ten minutes, until Black Ant finished evolving.
"System prompt: Congratulations to player's life beast 'Black Ant' for completing evolution. Black Ant Evolution One: Life form level 5 → Level 6, Agility +20%; Evolution Two: Base HP coefficient 1.5 → 2; Evolution Three: Locked distance with player 200 yards → 600 yards; Evolution Four: Awakened Skill - Share Woes, Share Joys."
Share Woes, Share Joys - Passive Skill: When either the player or the life beast's HP drops below 10%, the other will take on damage, reducing its own HP, until the damage-taker's HP drops below 10%, at which point the damaged party will continue to take damage!
This evolution, in two words: awesome!
Ever since Black Ant awakened its third skill at level 30, Ye Yun hadn't looked at its skills again, as he couldn't bear to. Looking at them was heartbreaking.
However, with the 'Share Woes, Share Joys' skill, Ye Yun's safety was greatly guaranteed!
As for the HP growth coefficient changing from 1.5 to 2, this caused Black Ant's HP to directly change from 1.5 times Ye Yun's to 2 times. Its HP went from the original hundred trillion to nearly 160 trillion, even higher than that of the demon butterfly.
As for the life form level, it was too mysterious, and Ye Yun couldn't quite grasp it. The 20% agility was yet to be tested.
"Little Black, well done! Now, there's a very important task for you. As your first mission after evolving, see those little green dots below? They are my future subordinates. Go and bring them up first!"
There was no other way; not enough Cloud Expansion Tokens to build a teleportation array, so they had to resort to this crude method.
As expected, as Black Ant left the ground, its body quickly changed, its size increasing by more than thirty percent compared to before.