95: Version update?

"Contract Summoning is already Golden Grade, so Tame Beast has no reason to be worse, right?"

Investing another sixty years of extra lifespan, and another Golden Grade skill is freshly baked!

It is, after all, the core skill of a Hunter!

At the Silver Tier, every Time the skill leveled up, all attributes increased by an additional 10, and it could contract Bronze Level beast BOSSes!

Although the Golden Grade trait doesn't have an attribute increase requirement, it allows for an extra equipment slot on the pet...

At the early stage, an equipment slot doesn't seem as good as increasing attribute points!

But once the equipment becomes powerful in the late stage, this attribute boost will be extremely strong!

After all, these additional all-attribute increases are brought about when the skill levels up...

Don't look at how fast the skills seem to level up now; as the skill level increases, this doubling state continues, and it will soon bring a number to Xu Shian that is impossible to look at directly!

After all, all people of the Xia Kingdom know that famous chessboard rice theory...

However, just think about how strong it would be to put a Silver Tier polearm in Pigsy's equipment slot... or maybe a shield?

After finishing everything, Xu Shian simply spent another forty years of extra lifespan to upgrade the two aura-type skills, Lifesteal Aura and Summon War Banner, to Silver Tier!

The improvement of these two skills is an expansion of the aura's area of effect... It doesn't look like much, but as long as the area of effect is large enough, it becomes a strategic skill!

At this point, Xu Shian only had 31 years of extra lifespan left...

Although that's still a lot, every subsequent skill upgrade will require a massive investment of extra lifespan!

Xu Shian didn't have lifespan anxiety; for example, yesterday, he just spent 183 days of extra lifespan to buy one year of original body lifespan at a discount...

Currently, it seems his road to ten thousand years is quite promising!

He can definitely survive, so the current problem is how to ensure he doesn't get killed by others.

After all, longevity and immortality have always been two different things!

Therefore, one cannot be stingy with investments in one's own strength, and certainly cannot be miserly.

When purchasing original body lifespan yesterday, Xu Shian felt a mix of emotions!

Calculating it this way, the several hundred years of original body lifespan he bought at the price of two years when he created his account was a loss!

A huge loss...

The only consolation was that those lifespans weren't bought at the original price of five years!

Otherwise, Xu Shian would really want to cry.

(I didn't think that much back then, so let me regret it now and patch it up!)

Looking at his own status:

[extra lifespan: 31 years 103 days]

[Level: 7 (40.51%)] (72917 / 180000)

Xu Shian fell asleep in a daze, while the others in the team were a bit unable to sleep.

An Xixi, her mother, and Li Zhiwei huddled together to study for a long Time, discussing which skills they should upgrade!

Using lifespan to add points must be done on core skills...

Otherwise, it would be considered a loss, what if this skill isn't a core skill?

What if this skill becomes useless after using it for a while?

The three women discussed for a long Time, and finally, they stayed up until the guild shop refreshed before falling asleep!

Xu Shian recently discovered that since the establishment of this guild, it has spawned many night owls...

Most of them wait for the shop to refresh first to see if there are any good things, and then go to sleep.

As a result, it was past nine o'clock the next morning when the group set off from the village!

While crossing the wooden bridge, Xu Shian actually contracted several level 7 Boar-men...

Two warriors, four priests, and six hunters!

Mainly focusing on balance.

Anyway, there was plenty of space, and Xu Shian didn't need to worry about feeding them...

Being able to contract Boar-men really shocked the few people accompanying him!

Xu Shian was still busy catching minions when he heard a cry of surprise from Little Tangyuan.

"It's bad, you guys look at the guild channel quickly..."

The group was confused.

Bad?

How bad could it be?

They opened the guild channel and saw the content of their discussion, all gasping in surprise. However, the vast majority were chatting and complaining, and those talking about the matter couldn't get to the point.

They searched for relevant posts on the forum again...

It turned out that just a moment ago, notices were posted in almost all Novice Village squares.

Starting from 0:00 on June 15th, east dragon calendar year 521, the ratio of experience and extra lifespan gained from killing monsters will be adjusted.

From 0:00 on June 15th, the experience points from killing monsters will increase, and extra lifespan will decrease! After that, it will be adjusted daily until it aligns with the main city!

For example: Currently, killing a level 10 monster grants 20 experience points and 10 days of extra lifespan; then, on June 15th, it will change to one level 10 monster granting 30 experience points and 7 days of extra lifespan; then it will gradually adjust to a fixed ratio of 50 experience points and 2 days of extra lifespan...

There is bad news, but there is also good news; at that Time, as long as the monster gives experience, killing it will grant a proportional amount of extra lifespan!

Unlike now, where you have to kill monsters of the same level...

"But monsters three levels lower don't give experience!"

"And there is an experience penalty for killing low-level monsters..."

"Be content, it's better than nothing!"

Seeing this announcement, everyone was quite shocked!

Everyone basically knew how important extra lifespan was.

Especially those who joined the Time guild, they had strong opinions...

They were truly out of their minds, and quite a few people even ran to the Novice Village square to cause trouble, only to be beaten up by NPC guards, and then they all behaved.

They didn't stop to think, is such a big matter something a Novice Village can decide?

In the previous fifteen days, although their levels were suppressed, they had gained a massive amount of extra lifespan...

"If we calculate it this way, we should try our best to rush our levels as high as possible before the 15th..."

"Indeed, the higher the level, the more extra lifespan you get. In this kind of matter, if you don't earn it, you lose out!"

If you don't earn it, you lose out—the most simple cognition of us common people!

The guild channel was also heatedly discussing it!

"Isn't it the same? Why are you guys reacting so strongly?"

"Are you really ignorant or just pretending? The higher the level, the stronger the monsters you face... Without the stat points from extra lifespan, what are you going to use to fight them?"

"I haven't felt that the upgraded skills are that strong though..."

"...Then pretend I didn't say anything!"

Xu Shian looked at the guild channel, and it had basically quieted down.

Everyone knew the impact of this matter and wanted to get as much extra lifespan as possible before June 15th!

Once the new regulations are implemented, it will be a world of difference!

Despite his worries, it didn't affect the actions of Xu Shian and his team.

If they could win the hell difficulty Dungeon, the harvest from this trip would be huge!

"You guys wait for me outside for a while, I'll go check the attributes of the final BOSS of this hell difficulty! Let's see if we can actually beat it first..."

Actually, for Xu Shian, the original plan was that whether they could beat it or not, they had to fight!

At most, they would just need to grind on their coordination!

With just An Xixi and Hu Beiyu coordinating with him, he was confident he could grind through this Dungeon!

Not to mention having Sister Lili and Little Tangyuan assisting from the sidelines...

But if they were in a rush for Time, that would be a different story!

If they were delayed here for a day or half a day, that would be annoying!

After all, if they couldn't beat the final BOSS, they wouldn't get the extra lifespan...

If they went out to fight other Dungeons, as soon as the Dungeon reset, this progress would be gone!

Then this loss would basically be set in stone...

Xu Shian didn't want to lose out; he wanted to take advantage!

However, things didn't develop in the worst direction.

Although the monsters in the hell difficulty Dungeon were strengthened quite a bit.

Goblin Chieftain, Gemu Chew-Iron, the Bone Smasher had even experienced an epic-tier strengthening.

Fortunately, the strength on Xu Shian's side wasn't bad either...

It's doable!

Returning to the entrance of the Dungeon, Xu Shian called the other four to enter!

He distributed potions and Cooking to everyone...

Xu Shian didn't make Cooking anymore; how could he do such a trivial thing himself?

Of course, it was arranged for Wu Lun...

The first Time challenging the hell difficulty, Xu Shian demanded that they must strike in their peak state.