Under the guidance of Bennett’s spirit, Gu Lie soon found the second Dark Treant. Indeed, there were more Dark Treants here!
With the experience gained from defeating the first Dark Treant, defeating these creatures became easier. Following the same procedure, he felled one Dark Treant after another. Although he didn’t find the remaining two fragments of the Nadago legendary items, he gradually collected fragments of the giant crossbow blueprints. After defeating six Dark Treants, he finally completed the set of five blueprints.
In the future, such blueprints would surely increase in number. The guild would require many machinists. Although Bull Tribe had been vigorously cultivating them and had achieved some success, recent financial difficulties had stalled progress in this area. Without substantial investment, even the cleverest woman cannot cook a meal without rice.
The reason Gu Lie had come underground was also to resolve Bull Tribe’s financial difficulties. With money, they could cultivate more talented machinists and produce these giant crossbows.
Spending an entire day, Gu Lie finally collected all three fragments of the Antidote Pearl. When the three fragments were brought together, they emitted a dazzling glow and slowly merged into a single, round, pigeon-egg-sized pearl, radiating a faint green light, faintly visible.
He checked the Antidote Pearl’s attributes:
Antidote Pearl: Special item, quantity 1/3. Occupies one accessory slot.
Item attributes: Increases poison resistance by 30. Ignores all mid-level poisons. Attached skill: Advanced Detoxification, removes all high-level and lower poisons from the body. Skill cooldown time: five minutes.
Limitation: None.
The Antidote Pearl and the Magma Heart each had their own unique uses. Possessing these items was very helpful in emergency situations.
Throughout the day, Gu Lie’s level had risen from level 58 to 63, surpassing Tang Yao, who was currently at level 60 and ranked first on the leaderboard. As for others, the highest was only level 58.
Seeing Gu Lie’s level, Tang Yao was speechless. No matter what, he could never catch up with Gu Lie’s level.
Gu Lie had already made up his mind. From now on, he would widen the level gap with ordinary players significantly. His goal was level 100, Shadow Dancer! Equipping the full Abak set, aiming straight for level 180!
At that time, with top-tier gear, any enemy encountered would be mercilessly eliminated!
As a reincarnator, he must defeat all enemies with such overwhelming momentum that they would not even dare to resist when they saw him!
Of course, this goal would be a long journey. Precisely because he had returned through reincarnation, he understood the difficulty of reaching level 180!
Moreover, once the highest-level player far surpasses others, the system will adjust, making experience easier for lower-level players to prevent too large a gap.
Even with system adjustments, what difference would it make!
As the most powerful central intelligence of humanity, although the Federation uses laws to constrain its program behaviors, it has no authority to modify the central intelligence’s data.
As long as Gu Lie’s actions conform to the central intelligence’s rules, there would be no problems.
Gu Lie logged off and visited the company. Under Achen’s leadership, War God had begun its conquest journey. Bull Tribe dispatched many elite players to assist War God Tribe. With Bull Tribe’s help, War God Tribe forcefully occupied three fortresses of Nisod City. The top-tier players of Bull Tribe were incredibly powerful; wherever they appeared, the battlefield situation was overwhelmingly one-sided. The Tuo Ba family was retreating step by step, and Tuo Ba Hongye was furious, but he could not find any external help. The Tuo Ba family had previously fallen out with Century Group, which definitely would not come to their rescue. Throughout the entire Granland Empire, practically no one could rival Bull Tribe and War God Tribe. In the real world, the other two members of the Tuo Ba family were also tripping him up, making it difficult for him to act, watching helplessly as his position as family head was slipping away.
The rise of War God Tribe was too overwhelming and caught everyone off guard. After Nie’s father took over three credit point commercial districts, a single Nie family company was simply unable to develop them. He found several business clients to jointly develop the credit point commercial districts, collected transfer fees, and made a substantial profit.
On the other side, Nie’s father reached a cooperation agreement with Tuo Ba Shi, after completing this business deal, the Nie family’s capital would expand several times.
In the previous life, based on the Nie family’s development trend, if it hadn’t been for Cao Xu’s interference, the Nie family was absolutely capable of developing into a major financial group. Unfortunately, the Nie family’s development was too rapid, which threatened Century Group’s interests, prompting Century Group to decide to strike against the Nie family.
In the previous life, with Century Group’s dominance, once they struck, the Nie family’s business shrank by more than half. Ultimately, it was due to insufficient strength.
This time, the development situation was a bit different. At least in the virtual industry, with Bull Tribe’s protection, War God Tribe’s development was steady.
War God Tribe’s funds gradually became sufficient, even able to support Bull Tribe in return. Gu Lie could thus rest assured. After these five days, he would completely crush Bloodthirsty Blade!
Bloodthirsty Blade had already been reduced to barely clinging to survival, with more than half its members leaving, leaving only about 50,000 core members. Their combat effectiveness was still formidable, and if they fought desperately, they could indeed cause some trouble for Bull Tribe.
In the previous battle of the hunting order, Bull Tribe also suffered heavy losses and could not endure many more wars. Recently, with Gu Lie’s financial injection, they had regained vitality and needed to recuperate. Anyway, now that they had money, they would drag out Bloodthirsty Blade, keeping them in a half-dead, half-alive state!
After a busy day, he took Xie Yao out shopping, which was quite enjoyable. Xie Yao’s father had also silently approved their relationship.
From what Xie Yao said, her parents would probably stay at home for three or four days before flying to Europe.
When he visited Xie Yao’s home, seeing her cute and charming appearance made Gu Lie’s heart itch, yet he had to act properly.
However, he remained calm. In his previous life, he had waited for so many years, so he didn’t mind waiting another one or two years. When the time came, he would make Xie Yao his woman in a grand manner. Instead of relying on the mercy of Longyue Financial Group and Zhengrong Financial Group, it would be better to make the Nie family strong enough to make Longyue Financial Group and Zhengrong Financial Group submit, leaving Xie Yi, that shrewish woman, speechless!
In the evening, Gu Lie returned home and discovered a giant game pod standing quietly in his room. The game pod was about two and a half meters tall, made of transparent special materials, with various complex instruments and chips placed on both sides, appearing extremely precise. Entering it and closing the pod door allowed one to enter the virtual world through bioelectricity.
The pod was equipped with nutrient solution, which would provide the energy needed by the human body and improve the user’s physical condition.
Seeing the Dark Blade logo in the corner of the game pod, Gu Lie’s heart trembled. It was the Dark Blade game pod!
In his previous life, as a fervent fan of “Faith,” Gu Lie had collected information on all types of game pods for “Faith.” Among them, the Dark Blade series was known for its most stable performance. Even the lowest-end model cost as much as 50 million.
Beside the game pod on the table was a note, clearly in his father’s handwriting, with a few words written: “To celebrate your admission to the First Military Academy, your mother said to buy you a game pod.”
His father was always not good at expressing his care for Gu Lie, attributing all the credit to his mother. However, Gu Lie could still feel his father’s deep paternal love from this note.
Gu Lie called both his father and mother.
Gu Lie had wanted to buy a good game helmet for a long time, but as for a game pod, he hadn’t considered it, as it was too expensive and somewhat wasteful. Unexpectedly, his father and mother bought it for him directly. With a game pod, Gu Lie’s operations in the game could become smoother, especially when using free skills, which had high equipment requirements. After ordinary players advanced to high-level thieves, they would usually buy better game helmets. If they were like Gu Lie and had a game pod, that would be even better.
He could finally say goodbye to the game helmet!
Gu Lie put on the special suit for the game pod and entered it. A faint electric current flowed through his body, feeling very comfortable. A flash of white light, and he entered “Faith.”
As soon as he entered “Faith,” Gu Lie immediately noticed a significant difference. Everything around him became clearer and more realistic. When touching objects with his hands, even the slightest sensations were clearly transmitted to his mind. He moved his body and found that his movements were smoother. All of this made Gu Lie excited. Indeed, having a game pod made a real difference.
Gu Lie shifted his steps and performed a reverse backstab, which was much easier than before.
After getting familiar with the game pod, Gu Lie continued his current task. Under the guidance of Bennett’s spirit, he gradually ventured deeper into the volcanic area. A river of lava flowed down the slope, and the air carried a choking sulfurous smell.
Gu Lie switched to the Ring of Leaping, leapt forward, crossed the lava river, and reached halfway up the mountain. A deep cave appeared before him, unknown of what it contained.
Due to the high level of this map, Gu Lie was somewhat concerned about potential dangers. However, at this moment, Bennett’s spirit began to tremble violently and floated into the cave.
Gu Lie hesitated for a moment but still followed. Since he had come this far, retreating at this point would mean abandoning all previous efforts.
A wave of scorching heat erupted from the cave. Without the Magma Heart equipped, the intense temperature would definitely cause continuous health loss.
Moving through the cave, the walls were covered with yellow crystals—sulfur, a material for making gunpowder. Unfortunately, miners would need to be brought here to collect them.
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