Missed another five hundred million!
Ye Yun looked at his experience points, filled with helplessness. Now that he wanted to catch up with others in terms of level, relying solely on Double EXP cards was useless, unless he could enter a higher-level world like last time.
Ye Yun stood in the Qi Tian Tower, staring blankly at the gray leaderboard and couldn't help but complain.
The Cosmic Talent Ranking, a function he unlocked early when his talent reached max7, but when he clicked on it, it prompted that the required level was 25.
With the current experience points needed for his level progression, reaching level 25, even if he used Double EXP cards to kill dungeon monsters twenty levels higher, would probably take half a month.
And according to historical trajectories, the first round of the Talent Ranking would likely be over in half a month.
Unless…
Ye Yun suddenly thought of a place, also a map unlocked early, the Great Desolation. It was also a level 70 dungeon map unlocked during talent advancement.
"System prompt: Congratulations to the player for leveling up, currently level 21, rewarded with 30.72 billion free attribute points!"
Under Ye Yun's unrestrained use of Double EXP in the fourth-floor dungeon and relentless grinding, after three days, his level finally increased!
From level 21 to level 22, at this rate, it would take another 6 days!
"Although the attribute points are very tempting, this experience value is really too soul-crushing."
Exiting the game pod, Ye Yun came to his nutrient solution bath and turned on the valve.
At this moment, Ye Yun's mind was constantly thinking about the Great Desolation map, as if possessed. But he didn't know how to get to this Great Desolation world. At the time, it only prompted that the map was unlocked, but it didn't explain how to get there.
"Uncle Ning, help me inquire about how to get to a map called the Great Desolation world." Ye Yun had checked all the places he could access, but he couldn't find anything related to the Great Desolation. Helpless, he had to seek help from Zhou Ningdong.
"Boss, this map is in our village's teleportation array. It just says that players need to be level 70 or above to enter," Zhou Ningdong said speechlessly. He had no idea that Ye Yun had never used the village's teleportation array.
...
"Uh, then it's fine. Also, help me buy more Double EXP cards. Buy as many as you have!" Ye Yun said, while allocating his attribute points.
In these three days, Ye Yun had bought over two hundred Double EXP cards! The usable time reached 262 hours, but Ye Yun felt it was far from enough, as his need for experience points was simply too monstrous.
He used to think about suppressing his level to increase his talent, but now, he had suppressed it to an unimaginable extent.
"Add 100e attribute points to HP! 100e physical defense, 100e magic defense, 10e magic attack!"
This time, Ye Yun added a total of 310e experience points at once. The nutrient solution, which was already almost full, rapidly decreased at a visible speed, even with the nutrient solution valve open.
After adding attributes, Ye Yun headed directly to the teleportation array in Fengle Village.
Although the teleportation array in Fengle Village couldn't teleport tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people at once like those in the cities of the Mountain Sea Realm, it was a level-two teleportation array that could simultaneously teleport two thousand people. This cost Fengle Village a full 20 billion gold coins!
As Ye Yun stepped into the teleportation array, destinations popped up before his eyes.
Ye Yun looked around. The places he could currently teleport to were mostly level three or four towns with similar levels to Fengle Village. Higher-level level five and six small cities were all grayed out.
The option for the Great Desolation world was at the very bottom of all transportable directories, marked with "Extremely Dangerous" in red.
"System prompt: The 'Great Desolation' destination chosen by the player is an extremely dangerous area. Once the player enters, they will need fifteen full days to be able to teleport back to the major cities of the Great Desolation. Please choose carefully whether to proceed."
"Confirm!"
"System is scanning the player's attributes, detecting a total of 95 billion attribute points added. It is recommended that the player choose the New Mortal Continent (Recommended) and Longevity Mountain Range (Moderate Danger) in the Great Desolation world map."
"New Mortal Continent!"
Ye Yun made his choice, and his entire being plunged into endless darkness. When Ye Yun's vision recovered, he was stunned by the scenery before him.
"System prompt: Congratulations to the player for discovering the New Mortal Continent's Desolate Wood City."
Trees hundreds of feet tall stood in dense forests, and leaves the size of buses floated in the air.
Through the system's built-in vision, Ye Yun could clearly see tree hollows the size of seven or eight meters on the branches or main trunks of some trees, with signs hanging on them.
Desolate Wood City Alchemy Pavilion (2)
Desolate Wood City Spirit Weapon Tower (2)
Desolate Wood City Mercenary Guild (2)
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"This feels weird, what the hell," Ye Yun muttered, looking at the tree hollows ten meters off the ground.
"Yo ho, a little tender new friend is here. But your luck is really good, teleporting directly to our camp." Suddenly, a hoarse voice sounded. Under Ye Yun's astonished gaze, a new species stood at the entrance of a tree hollow more than twenty meters off the ground, looking at Ye Yun and couldn't help but tease.
"Hey, newcomer, what race are you? Why are you so small? But you dare to come to the Great Desolation world. Even though it's a new continent, I have to say you have courage!"
"Haha, Lemideng, do you think every race can be as huge as your Titan race? If that were the case, the Desolate Wood City I just built would have been destroyed long ago." A person with overgrown weeds on his head and a stiff face jumped down from the top of a giant tree, extended a withered vine towards Ye Yun, and a palm-sized moth in the grass on his head pushed aside the grass and timidly looked at Ye Yun.
A deathly aura permeated from the withered vine, while life surged from the grass on his head, full of contradiction.
"Heh heh, don't be nervous. Although we are not of the same race, and we are enemies, in this Great Desolation world, I think we should be friends, or allies, or teammates."
"Let me introduce myself. I am Mu Tuo, from the Withered Wood race, level 82, Emperor Realm titled expert, currently the City Lord of Desolate Wood City and the commander of the Desolate Wood Legion."
"Haha, boss, you've been extending your hand for a long time. It seems the other party doesn't know that your vine is your hand. Kid, my name is Lemideng, Titan race, level 86, Emperor Realm, deputy city lord of this broken city, and deputy commander of the legion," Titan Lemideng teased, looking at Mu Tuo's raised withered vine.
"Bovur, Beast Frog race, level 86, Emperor Realm titled."
"Yulu, Feathered race, level 83, Spirit Archer profession, Emperor Realm."
"Moon Queen, Spirit race, level 88, Emperor Realm. Your pet is very strong!"
The few people were stunned when they heard Moon Queen's words. They all turned to look at the black ant standing behind Ye Yun, lost in thought.
Ever since Ye Yun used the Materialization Card on the black ant, the black ant had not disappeared. In order to prevent the black ant from disappearing when he went offline, Ye Yun would almost always keep it online using the 'Heavenly Dao Ring' after exiting the game pod.