221: Chapter 221 Unexpected Item

[You have entered the Misty Demon Forest!]

[You are affected by the laws of nature!]

[Attribute: Poison Resistance reduced by 10%.]

[Skills: {Spirit Summoning Incantation} and {Frostfoot Gu} intensity increased by 5%. {Fire Eye} intensity reduced by 10%!]

[Cultivation Method: {Wild Grass Breathing Method} efficiency increased by 5%. {Juling Breathing Technique} efficiency reduced by 10%.]

After reading these few lines of information, Tang Long could not help but be both surprised and delighted.

Dungeons are essentially stable heavenly changes; once entered, one is influenced by the laws, causing skills to be strengthened or weakened. He had known this for a long time.

He also knew that the god who controls these laws is named Gurlo, who is both the God of Demon Spirits and the God of Nature, often referred to by people as the Green God.

However, this was the first time he discovered that cultivation methods were also affected.

If that was the case, since there was no time limit for normal dungeons anyway, and he had obtained the Clone Technique, couldn't he just leave his clone inside to practice?

Uh...

He did not know if the clone would be ejected along with him when the main body left.

Since he wasn't sure, he had to test it out.

Tang Long first created a clone and had it sit in meditation to practice.

The good news was that the clone could indeed practice and possessed all the functions of the main body.

The bad news was that the clone, which only inherited one-third of the main body's attributes, did not practice at an ideal speed.

Then, he summoned two Saber-toothed Tigers and ventured deep into the dungeon.

With his strength, tackling a level 10 dungeon was a clear case of overwhelming power.

This dungeon was not large either; after clearing only two batches of small monsters, he arrived in front of the first BOSS—a two-headed wolf larger than an ox.

It looked quite terrifying, but unfortunately, it only had 8,000 HP and fell in the third second under the tearing attacks of the two fierce tigers.

The treasure chest that appeared after its death contained three level 8 green-grade pieces of equipment.

Player equipment is categorized by quality: Green {Excellent}, Blue {Superior}, Purple {Exquisite}, Orange {Legendary}, Red {Miraculous}, Gold {Mythical}.

For the first four quality tiers, each tier can have one additional attribute affix.

Theoretically, the higher the quality, the higher the attributes, and the higher the additional attributes from the affixes.

However, equipment randomness is very high; high-quality equipment does not necessarily have full affixes. For example, even among orange-grade equipment, some may occasionally appear with only two or even a single affix.

Even with full affixes, some attribute affixes are relatively poor.

Of course, one cannot say all this equipment is trash; they can also be re-forged by a Blacksmith to unleash their true power.

But that costs a lot of money.

Even if it goes smoothly, it is expensive, and if it doesn't... there are quite a few players who have gone bankrupt over this.

Five-player normal dungeons almost always drop green-grade equipment, with a very low probability of blue-grade equipment.

Five-player challenge dungeons have a high probability of green-grade equipment, a small probability of blue-grade, and a low probability of purple-grade.

Beyond that, it requires ten-player, twenty-five-player, or even fifty-player large team dungeons to produce them.

Red-grade equipment is a huge watershed; red-grade equipment no longer drops with trash affixes, and the miraculous affixes can be abnormally powerful—sometimes one affix is comparable to a skill.

As for divine equipment, like the mask of calamity, it is something you can only hope for, not seek out.

Two minutes later, Tang Long defeated the second BOSS, the Big-Headed Bear. It was still three pieces of green-grade equipment, but this time it dropped a Caster skill book: {Fire Arrow}.

Three minutes later, the third BOSS, the Lion-Faced Man, let out a wail and fell to the ground.

[You have cleared the {Misty Demon Forest} dungeon on normal difficulty!]

[Remaining challenge attempts for this dungeon today: {4/5}.]

[{Misty Demon Forest} challenge difficulty has been unlocked!]

Although the harvest wasn't great, fortunately, it didn't trigger a server-wide announcement.

Tang Long breathed a sigh of relief and exited the dungeon.

Then, he discovered that his clone also appeared beside him.

"Wow! The Mysterious Person is actually running dungeons!"

"I see here that a challenge mode just appeared!"

"Isn't that something that only unlocks after someone clears it on normal?"

"Holy crap! A challenge mode really appeared; the Mysterious Person is a true big shot!"

"Is this still an NPC?"

"Two Mysterious Persons, this must be the Clone Technique!"

"We haven't seen him use it before; could he have just learned it?"

Tang Long ignored the players' discussions and disappeared again with his clone.

[You have entered the {Misty Demon Forest} {Challenge} difficulty!]

[You are affected by the laws of nature!]

[Attribute: Poison Resistance reduced by 20%.]

[Skills: {Spirit Summoning Incantation} and {Frostfoot Gu} intensity increased by 10%. {Fire Eye} intensity reduced by 20%!]

[Cultivation Method: {Wild Grass Breathing Method} efficiency increased by 10%. {Juling Breathing Technique} efficiency reduced by 20%.]

The challenge dungeon was even more affected by the laws, and even the small monsters at the entrance began to attack with poison.

For players, this would certainly be a significant pressure, but it had no effect on Tang Long.

Both the HP and attack power of the BOSSes were significantly increased, and the challenge time was limited to 10 minutes.

The first BOSS treasure chest still contained three pieces of green-grade equipment.

The second BOSS treasure chest was much better; it not only dropped two pieces of blue-grade equipment at once but also gave a Tier 1 Dark Warrior skill book: {Shadow}.

The third BOSS treasure chest was even better: one green, one blue, and one purple. The purple piece was a Mystic ring with double healing affixes and one spirit affix. It provided a total of 5 points of spiritual power and 24 points of healing effect.

A normal dungeon ends after defeating the third BOSS, but the challenge dungeon did not; it reached the main event.

After the third BOSS's corpse disappeared, a mysterious treasure chest appeared in its place.

This treasure chest had a durability of 500,000; after players deplete 400,000, a guardian demon beast will appear.

Defeating this BOSS has a very small chance of dropping a skill gem, which grants one skill point upon use.

And finally, opening the mysterious treasure chest is guaranteed to yield an encounter-triggering item.

This thing is incredibly valuable!

If you're unlucky, the encounter-triggered reward isn't even worth a penny.

If your luck is strong enough, it can even grant divine equipment, special skills, or even divine stones to upgrade special skills!

Tang Long led his two Saber-toothed Tigers to output wildly on the treasure chest, quickly pushing its HP down.

At this moment, the ground shook rapidly, and thick black vines surged out like worms and snakes, turning into a huge demon tree in just over ten seconds.

[You have disturbed the Black Vine Demon guarding the mysterious treasure!]

[Defeat it! Only then can you obtain the mysterious treasure! Countdown begins! 9:59...]

Three minutes later, the Black Vine Demon trembled and withered into a pile of dead wood, with several light orbs floating above its corpse.

Tang Long picked them up and looked, a smile immediately appearing on his face.

A full four pieces of purple-grade equipment with full affixes, one Tier 1 Warrior skill book, and a recipe for Super Life Potion!

He couldn't use the purple equipment, and selling them to players wouldn't earn much.

But the super-red single-dose potion could restore 1,000 HP, and the ingredients weren't complicated; the main ingredient with the highest usage was exotic beast blood, which was no longer a problem for him now. The other two herbal auxiliary ingredients could be left to the players.

This item wasn't sold in player camps for a short time, so with this, capital could flow back.

After learning it immediately, he continued to open the mysterious treasure chest.

In less than a minute, the lid of the mysterious treasure chest suddenly popped open.

[You have opened the mysterious treasure!]

[You have obtained {Otherworld Spirit Essence} * 1!]

[Otherworld Spirit Essence: Can be used to upgrade a designated special skill by one level.]

[You have obtained: Frozen Nautilus {Ancient}!]

[Frozen Nautilus {Ancient}: This is an item sealed by strange power, echoing with whispers from the ancient past, covered in frost that never melts, even fire cannot dissolve it. Unseal it, and you will have unexpected gains.]

[You have cleared the {Misty Demon Forest} dungeon on challenge difficulty!]

[Remaining challenge attempts for this dungeon today: {2/3}.]

It actually dropped an Otherworld Spirit Essence!

This was something rarely seen even in team dungeons in his past life; did it just drop in a five-player small dungeon today?

And this nautilus, Tang Long couldn't help but narrow his eyes even more.

He was no stranger to this item; it was a quest item for the famous Ancient God series.

Unsealing it required a Sun Stone, which was relatively harsh for players, but he happened to have one on him.

After unsealing, it would become a key that could open a specific Divine Ruins.

Divine Ruins usually contained an ancient divine artifact.

Due to the extremely long passage of time and the shifting of laws, the divine artifact usually had already lost most of its power.

Its only use in the game was to create... a divine power anchor point!

Carrying it could effectively reduce damage when passing through certain law-chaotic heavenly change gates.

If you collect seven, you can... create your own safe zone.

Anchor items cannot be said to be useless; they should actually be considered top-tier items.

In the late stages of the game, against the backdrop of Blue Star's spiritual energy resources gradually drying up, the worldview and plot extended to the heavens and alien realms.

Players would create their own safe zones for the convenience of entering, exiting, and developing.

But that often required several large guilds to join forces to complete such a difficult task.

And the drop rate of this thing should be far lower than that of the Otherworld Spirit Essence, right? Did it just drop so easily?

Even if one dropped, is it possible for the other six to be this smooth?

Even if they were all this smooth, it was only six keys; finding the Divine Ruins and getting the things inside was also a huge difficulty.

Now, he hadn't even managed his own territory in Dongyu well yet. The player version was only in closed beta, it had only been half a month in total, and the level cap was only open to level 30.

Is it worth it to get involved in this kind of thing, which requires huge energy?