23: Chapter 23: AFK leveling up stats, rewards even when offline!

At that moment, the air was instantly compressed to the point of exploding, letting out a deafening sonic boom!

The massive dragon body was like a bolt of white lightning, tearing through the air and soaring ninety thousand li into the sky!

[Skill Triggered: Incarnation · Heaven Sovereign]

[Current Flight Speed: 800% (Supersonic Cruise Mode)]

[Ignores terrain obstacles, ignores low-tier No-Fly Zones!]

...

It had to be said, this skill could even be combined with the ethereal flight of Void Walk; the speed would only become more ferocious.

The Bonebury Wasteland below instantly turned into a tiny black dot.

Jiang Feng looked down and saw that massive glazed crater, looking like a charred eye opened upon the earth, silently recounting the "inhumane" one-sided crushing that had just occurred.

The next second, he landed in this zone where the wind howled like ghosts and gods.

This was the famous death zone in the Dongjiang City sector of "Demon Realm."

Deep within the canyon, Lv18 [Gargoyles] and Lv22 [Venomous Harpies] entrenched themselves year-round.

Because the terrain was narrow, the monsters were dense, and they had innate flight capabilities, even a fully equipped hundred-man elite raid group would advance at a snail's pace here, and a slight slip-up would result in a total wipeout.

But at this moment, a one-sided purge was taking place.

Above the clouds, the massive shadow of the ancient dragon cast a gloom that blotted out the sun. Jiang Feng sat cross-legged on the broad back of the dragon, even finding the leisure to pull out a blue potion to drink like a beverage.

"Dragon Girl, time to work."

Jiang Feng patted the warm scales beneath him, as if commanding a sophisticated, large-scale combine harvester.

"Awooo!"

Dragon Girl let out a cheerful low hum. She didn't have the dignified air of a divine beast; instead, she radiated an excitement that said, "I'll bite whoever Master tells me to."

The next second, the dragon's maw opened.

Buzz—!

The fire elements between heaven and earth seemed to be forcibly drained at this moment, converging within that abyss-like dragon throat. Immediately after, a fan-shaped expanse of dark-gold dragon breath poured down toward the canyon below like the Milky Way cascading from the heavens!

Skill: [Incinerating the Nine Heavens]!

Rumble!

There were no screams, no resistance.

The densely packed red-named monsters in the canyon were vaporized the moment they touched the dragon breath, before damage numbers could even float up.

The hard rocky cliffs melted into crimson lava, flowing along the valley floor, instantly transforming the originally eerie Mourning Canyon into a purgatory of fire.

System notification sounds frantically flooded Jiang Feng's ears, merging into a long, continuous beep:

[Killed Lv18 Gargoyle, triggered talent "Pangu Plunder," obtained Free Attribute Points +130!]

[Killed Lv22 Venomous Harpy, triggered talent "Pangu Plunder," obtained Free Attribute Points +155!]

[Killed...]

With just one breath of dragon fire, Jiang Feng's vision was obscured by the densely packed "+130" and "+155" notifications.

It felt like standing in a rainstorm where every drop of rain was gold.

"This efficiency..."

Jiang Feng glanced at his experience bar. The experience slot that had just reached Lv15 was surging upward as if on steroids, breaking through Lv16 in the blink of an eye and heading straight for Lv17.

And what had he done?

He was just sitting there.

This sense of emptiness from "not even needing to lift a finger" made Jiang Feng couldn't help but sigh: "Is this the joy of a max-level account power-leveling in the starting village? It's too decadent, but I love it."

For ordinary Summoners or Hunters, pet kills usually take half the experience, and sometimes even fail to trigger certain passives of the owner. But there seemed to be some high-dimensional soul contract between the [Ancient War Titan] and the [Ancient World-Destroying Dragon]; Dragon Girl's kills were judged entirely as Jiang Feng's "property."

In other words, when Dragon Girl killed monsters, experience points increased by 100%.

At the same time, Jiang Feng would get the money, the experience, and the attribute points—not a single thing would be missing.

Master and servant as partners—a perfect match!

Jiang Feng opened Dragon Girl's control panel and, under the "Behavior Mode" column, found the option that made his heart race—[Auto-Target/Extermination Mode (AFK)].

"Activate."

The command was given.

A flash of red light passed through Dragon Girl's massive vertical pupils. Then, with a flap of her wings, she actively broke out of her hovering state and began to circle above the canyon. She didn't need Jiang Feng's micro-management; her innate high-level AI could accurately judge monster spawn points, breathing fire wherever the monsters were most numerous.

And in the system column, a dense series of reward notifications appeared.

[Ding, you have leveled up! Level increased to 18!]

[Killed Lv22 Venomous Harpy, triggered talent "Pangu Plunder," obtained Free Attribute Points +155!]

[Killed Lv22 Venomous Harpy, triggered talent "Pangu Plunder," obtained Free Attribute Points +155!]

...

[Killed Lv18 Gargoyle, triggered talent "Pangu Plunder," obtained Free Attribute Points +130!]

[Due to this kill triggering hidden Luck, you have obtained an extra 130*2 Free Attribute Points.]

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This feeling of leveling up while sitting or lying down was simply beyond exhilarating. It was even more heartening than a beautiful dream.

Especially watching the unallocated Free Attribute Points in his panel attributes rise higher and higher like water in a cup; that kind of feeling was a thrill that only Jiang Feng, the person involved, could truly understand.

Afterward.

He let out a yawn and checked the time in the real world.

Two in the morning.

Although the game came with a deep sleep mode, he still had to log off when it was time, lest his parents enter his room, find him missing, and worry for nothing.

Incidentally, turning on the system sleep mode also allowed for offline gains, provided there was a pet that could fight on the owner's behalf.

After all, once a character exited Demon Realm, their true body would return to reality; only players with pets could rely on AFK farming to get rewards.

By the same token, when Jiang Feng logged into the game in reality, his physical body would temporarily vanish from the real world.

In any case, he just had to wait until he woke up tomorrow to log back in and collect the rewards.

With Dragon Girl's combat power and farming efficiency, the harvest by then would definitely give him a huge surprise.

"Dragon Girl, just keep flying here. If you see something alive, blast it to death, understand?" Jiang Feng instructed casually.

"Purr..."

Dragon Girl gave a low purr as a response and immediately unleashed a dragon breath, incinerating an elite monster that had just popped its head out, using her actions to show she was perfectly reliable.

"Very good."

Jiang Feng nodded with satisfaction and logged off directly.