40: Chapter 40 The Secret Realm: Ancient Tomb

"President Li, still as straightforward as ever, huh? Give me your payment QR code."

Li Mumu didn't say a word and directly displayed the payment QR code in front of Li Youqian.

"Ding! Five million received."

Hearing the transfer notification, Li Mumu paused for a moment and asked in confusion, "Five million? Even adding the reward for power-leveling to Silver, it should only be four million."

Dongfang Xue, standing to the side, saw this and said in an unhappy tone, "Li Youqian lured the four of us here under the pretext of team leveling, only to tell us after we arrived that the purpose of gathering everyone was leveling as secondary, and exploring a secret realm as primary."

This behavior from Li Youqian made Dongfang Xue feel very uncomfortable, as if she had been sold out.

Therefore, after learning the truth, she had been treating Li Youqian with a cold attitude.

Li Mumu, however, didn't care about any of that; he only cared about whether there was appropriate compensation.

"So... this five million?"

Li Youqian said readily, "The deposit plus the reward for power-leveling to Silver."

After speaking, Li Youqian cupped his hands in a salute to apologize to everyone.

"In this matter, I admit I didn't act kindly, but please consider the following words carefully. If, after consideration, you do not wish to go to the secret realm, consider this five million an apology."

"Hahaha... Young Master Li, you certainly speak boldly. Alright, explain the specific situation first, we are listening."

Wang Baobao smoothed things over. As part of the Four Great Families of Jiangnan, she had heard a bit about Li Youqian's style of doing things—in one word, the reviews were overwhelmingly positive.

Li Youqian shook his big belly and smiled, "The name of this secret realm is the Ancient Tomb. According to family records, it is the tomb of someone named Zhang San, and his identity was the Hidden Class from two generations ago—Landlord."

"It is said that the money he accumulated reached the point of being enough to rival a nation. Having said that, are you all interested now?"

Enough to rival a nation? The moment Li Mumu heard these four words, he immediately perked up.

"Yes, of course, but I have a question. With your net worth, even a tomb with wealth enough to rival a nation shouldn't interest you much."

Li Youqian nodded and replied, "After entering the secret realm, all dropped equipment and items will belong to you. I only want one thing—the black-grade weapon, the golden abacus."

"Exclusive weapon?" Li Mumu asked in surprise.

Li Youqian nodded again and smiled, "The Landlord's exclusive weapon. Furthermore, the Ancient Tomb is a 20-person dungeon secret realm, and it has two requirements."

"One: Those entering the secret realm must be of Silver rank."

"Two: There must be a Landlord class in the team."

Speaking to this point, Li Youqian cupped his hands in a salute again and said, "If you can help with this, consider it a favor owed by Li Youqian. If we successfully obtain the golden abacus, I will add another ten million Crystal Coins for each person."

"Deal!" Li Mumu said.

What was there to think about? The pay was so generous, and there were many treasures in the secret realm; only a fool wouldn't go.

Dongfang Xue naturally knew what Li Mumu was thinking, so she reminded him, "This secret realm is no child's play. The Ancient Tomb is guarded by two great Silver Bosses. We must defeat them one by one to have a certain probability of getting the golden abacus to drop."

"What are the Bosses called?"

"Scorpion King and Mummy. Aside from the Silver Bosses, the Ancient Tomb also contains many evil monsters like man-eating insects and dried corpses."

"Monsters?" Liu Lin perked up instantly upon hearing this and laughed, "Doesn't that make it my home turf?"

Light-type Priests are naturally effective against monsters. Whether it's the Holy Healing Technique or the Holy Purification Technique, both can deal massive damage to monsters.

Li Youqian nodded, "Brother Lin is right; this is also the main reason I invited you."

"Finally, what are the answers of you three?"

"I'll go." "I'll go too." Liu Lin and Wang Baobao replied simultaneously.

Dongfang Xue hesitated for a moment. "I'll go."

"Good! Then we will first head to the Ancient Valley to level up. Once we reach Silver, the other fifteen teammates will accompany us."

After Li Youqian finished speaking, he dialed a number and said to the other end, "Come over!"

After a long while, a civilian helicopter slowly landed at the location.

"Let's go!" "GoGoGo!!!"

... ... One month later. Ancient Valley.

Liu Lin reached Silver 1. Dongfang Xue reached Silver 1. Wang Baobao reached Silver 1. Li Youqian reached Silver 1. Li Mumu reached Silver 4.

"I'm exhausted! We spent a whole month grinding to reach Silver 1. If it had been ten or eight days later, we would have missed the entrance exam."

Wang Baobao sat on a large rock, panting as she spoke.

Liu Lin was lying beside her, taking deep breaths as he said, "Who's to say it isn't? And what have we been eating this past month? Nothing but beast meat, beast meat. I feel like vomiting whenever I see meat now."

After speaking, Liu Lin turned around and saw Sister Baoer's pair of big white rabbits, and immediately felt nauseous, vomiting right then and there. Ugh...

Li Mumu laughed, "It was a bit tiring, but fortunately we made it in time."

"By the way, congratulations to you four for promoting to Silver; I have gifts for you."

First, Li Mumu took out the Silver weapon, the Blessing Staff, and handed it to Liu Lin.

"Holy crap! Holy crap! Holy crap!" Liu Lin took the Blessing Staff, checked its stats, and instantly said excitedly, "Sanmu, did you rob the auction house?"

"How is that possible?"

"Then where did such an overpowered staff come from if you didn't rob it?"

"Box gambling!" Li Mumu made up an excuse.

In the Double Moon World, elite monsters and above have a certain chance of dropping black treasure chests. Black treasure chests are much like black lucky bags; the items you get from them can be good or bad.

This attribute was exploited by merchants who hired large numbers of Professionals to farm black treasure chests. Combined with advertisements and promotions everywhere across the country, box gambling and egg gambling had formed a culture.

Immediately after, Li Mumu took out the cheongsam 'Red Temptation' and the red-trimmed black silk stockings, and gave them to Wang Baobao.

"Yo, Xiao Mumu, if you want to play something exciting, come to my place another day. It's not convenient here!" Wang Baobao said, pretending to be shy.

Li Mumu was gradually getting used to Sister Baoer's way of speaking; either she wouldn't say anything, or she would make dirty jokes within five sentences—she was always speeding down the highway every day.

"Sister Baoer, check the stats first." "Alright." Opening the clothing stats.

Fiery Set: Increases Fire-type damage by 20%. Hiss... Wang Baobao was dumbfounded.

After promoting to Silver, the original bronze staff was no longer of much use. However, the newly prepared Silver staff had increased output but lacked important special attributes, which made her always feel like her attack power was a bit low.

Now it was great. With the Fiery Set, although the power boost was 10% less, it wouldn't consume too much mental energy. This was simply amazing!

Without further ado, Wang Baobao immediately hid behind a large rock to change.

At the same time, Li Mumu took out a bracelet and a pair of sunglasses obtained from three Silver prize pools and handed them to Dongfang Xue and Li Youqian, respectively.

Snow Lotus Bracelet: Increases critical hit rate of Ice-type Professionals by 10%. Soul of Steel Sunglasses: A one-time use item that can unconditionally withstand one instance of damage below Emperor-level.