Xu Yan was clad in golden armor, exuding a strong metallic texture, fully equipped down to his teeth, with sharp serrated edges on his elbows, fists, and shoulders. This was clearly a set of armor, and it was of the dark gold rank. As for its exact name, Fu Guangtao couldn’t recall at all. Anyway, it was of a high level, significantly superior to his own set.
Looking at Xia Tianyu and Fei Zhe, they were also wearing high-level dark gold sets.
Fu Guangtao felt somewhat dizzy. When had dark gold sets become so commonplace?
Regarding levels, Xia Tianyu was one level higher than him, while Xu Yan and Fei Zhe were about the same as him.
Zhao Shiyu was also stunned upon seeing this. She hadn’t expected Xu Yan, Fei Zhe, and Xia Tianyu to appear in such a manner. The equipment they wore made her group feel ashamed of their own. Even Fu Guangtao, who had the best equipment among them, was not in the same league as Xu Yan’s group.
Thinking back now, how ridiculous Fu’s words seemed when he called Xu Yan’s group trash. In front of Xu Yan’s group, they were the trash!
“Damn it, how come Xu Yan, Xia Tianyu, and Fei Zhe have such great equipment!” Fu Guangtao grumbled in the team chat.
“I don’t know either. Their equipment was really poor not long ago. How did they suddenly become so strong?” Zhao Shiyu was puzzled.
With the current equipment of Xu Yan’s group, if Fu Guangtao were to fight them, he would definitely be crushed.
Fu Guangtao was not a person of much integrity. In the face of absolute power, he backed down and swallowed all the harsh words he had wanted to say earlier.
“You claimed you’d kill us every time we met, forcing us to flee the city. Let’s see if you dare to show up now,” Xu Yan said icily. His skills had significantly improved recently, and with the equipment provided by Nie Yan, he was brimming with confidence—no longer the timid person he once was.
“If you want a duel, name the time. We will always be ready to see it through to the end!” Xia Tianyu glanced at Fu Guangtao indifferently. Even before obtaining the dark gold set, he had never feared Fu Guangtao.
Fu Guangtao didn’t reply for a while, nor did Zhao Shiyu. Their group was essentially the kind who bullied the weak and feared the strong. Before, when Xu Yan’s group had poor equipment, they had an easy upper hand. Now, however, there was no way they could defeat Xu Yan, Xia Tianyu, and Fei Zhe, so they became hesitant.
With the current equipment of Xu Yan’s group, leading a team into dungeons would definitely not be a problem. These classmates would definitely have much better prospects following Xu Yan’s group than following them. This was a fact.
“Heard all that big talk earlier, I thought these guys were really tough. Why are they so quiet now?” a nearby mage contemptuously glanced at Fu Guangtao’s group.
“They must be scared. Looks like you guys aren’t all that. Why don’t you keep acting tough?”
Chu Chenghao’s people, who had been holding back their anger, now erupted, ridiculing Fu Guangtao and Zhao Shiyu.
Fu Guangtao and Zhao Shiyu felt somewhat embarrassed. Staying there any longer felt rather shameful.
Zhao Shiyu shot a resentful glare at Xu Yan, Xia Tianyu, and Fei Zhe before coldly huffing and leaving.
Seeing Zhao Shiyu leave, Fu Guangtao had nothing more to say and left as well.
Seeing Zhao Shiyu and Fu Guangtao slink away, Xu Yan’s group felt extremely pleased. Xu Yan clenched his fist, his resolve growing stronger. He was determined to become even more powerful until one day Fu Guangtao, Zhao Shiyu, Bo Jun, and other petty villains would no longer dare to provoke them!
“Let’s level up together,” Xu Yan turned to look at Chu Chenghao and others.
“Okay.”
Xu Yan privately messaged Xia Tianyu and asked, “If you level up with us, will it draw the attention of Zhu Shen Zhi Jian? The leader specifically reminded us.”
“Don’t worry. I know my limits. I have ways to gain the trust of the upper echelons of Zhu Shen Zhi Jian,” Xia Tianyu replied.
“Alright, you handle it yourself,” Xu Yan nodded.
A group of more than ten people set off to level up.
Nie Yan had been in the Ancient World for a total of thirty-six days. He had completed Task Progress 2. Task Progress 3 required killing 500 level-three creatures, and he had completed nearly 60% of that. Besides working on the Holy Shadow Dancer task, his Alchemy skill had improved to level 92 of Advanced, and it would soon reach Master level. Besides Alchemy, Nie Yan had learned all production-related professions, including Smithing, Scroll Making, Engineering, Alchemy, and so on.
Production skills were separated from combat skills in the skill interface, so they didn’t interfere with each other. This allowed him to learn so many production skills.
Nie Yan had gathered many raw materials on this map. Whenever he had free time, he practiced his production skills. All his production skills had reached at least Intermediate level, with Alchemy even reaching Advanced.
All these tasks were very time-consuming. Achieving his current level within thirty-six days was already quite impressive. He had hardly wasted a moment, spending every second either farming monsters or practicing production skills.
The rewards were good. Just like usual, after defeating a level-three creature, Nie Yan extracted its core. This core was pitch black, like a giant black pearl.
The number of cores in his backpack was growing, already reaching over a thousand. Nie Yan noticed these cores were of different attributes: fire, ice, dark, holy, etc., with dark and holy cores being relatively rare, each numbering around a hundred.
The Darkwinged Dragon was a dark-element creature. Would it be better to feed it dark-element cores?
Nie Yan was only guessing, as in his previous life, he had never obtained flying mounts or cores, so he was unfamiliar with these things.
There were too many items in his backpack. Nie Yan decided to feed some cores to the Darkwinged Dragon first.
There were no other creatures active nearby, so it was safe. Nie Yan summoned the Darkwinged Dragon, which appeared on the open ground in front of him.
The Darkwinged Dragon flapped its wings, sending a gust of wind howling past, knocking down nearby trees. After stretching, it slowly lowered its head to Nie Yan.
Nie Yan patted the Darkwinged Dragon’s head. He noticed its body had grown a bit larger than before, and small black scales were starting to grow on its body. It was still in its growth phase, just beginning to develop scales.
Nie Yan wondered how strong the Darkwinged Dragon could become in the future. He took out a black level-one core from his backpack.
This core emitted a black luster, radiating pure dark energy. The Darkwinged Dragon focused its gaze on the level-one core in Nie Yan’s hand and couldn’t look away. Its eyes revealed a hopeful light, drooling with desire.
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