59: Underground monsters, constantly dropping Dark Night Souls

Ye Xiao didn't have time to fully explore the underground palace.

The hundreds of coffins in front of him began to tremble.

Waves of decaying, deathly aura wafted out from within the coffins.

Soon, these deathly auras converged, and the rows of withered bones beneath Ye Xiao's feet floated directly upwards, then seemed to be drawn by a powerful gravitational force.

They surged madly towards the dark shadow.

Seeing this scene, Ye Xiao's heart was filled with alarm.

However, in just the blink of an eye.

A large number of withered bones gathered and took shape.

In an instant, countless undead monsters appeared before Ye Xiao.

These monsters were of many different types.

Their only commonality was that they were filled with a decaying, dark aura.

Ye Xiao was a little surprised.

He quickly realized.

This underground palace was located deep underground, perhaps it was part of the subterranean cavern.

Only then could it explain why Ye Xiao had previously obtained Elemental Essence fragments from the Skeleton King.

However, the one thing he didn't understand was this:

Logically speaking, if a place could nurture the purest elemental environment, it should be impossible for it to possess a second type of element.

Yet, previously, the Dark Element Essence fragments on the Skeleton King numbered as many as five, and he had also obtained an additional four wind elemental essence fragments.

How could this be explained?

Ye Xiao didn't ponder for too long.

Because as a large number of monsters attacked him, he could only deal with the current situation first.

However, although these monsters were also level 90, and their overall attributes were much stronger than normal level 90 monsters.

But for the current Ye Xiao, they posed no threat whatsoever.

He, along with the two clones that had just formed, simultaneously unleashed the evolved Fireball.

Dense Fireballs poured out.

No monster could withstand them wherever they passed.

And with the death of these monsters, the third effect of the shadow skeleton king's wind bone staff showed miraculous results.

A large number of Dark Skeleton Warriors were born from the corpses of these dark monsters.

In less than a few seconds, the number of Dark Skeleton Warriors surged by over a hundred.

With these Dark Skeleton Warriors blocking the way, the dark monsters simply couldn't break through.

Soon, under Ye Xiao's dense Fireball bombardment.

The monsters that had just appeared were all wiped out.

A pile of glowing Skill Stone was left on the ground.

This time, Ye Xiao didn't act himself.

Instead, he dispatched two clones to clean up the battlefield.

A moment later, he had five Dark Night Soul Erosion Skill Stone in his hand.

This surprised Ye Xiao a little.

These monsters could drop Skill Stone too?

Before he could analyze it, a large amount of deathly aura surged out again.

Again, there were dense dark monsters.

However, this time, the attributes of the monsters were considerably stronger than before.

But they still struggled to break through the front line of Dark Skeleton Warriors under Ye Xiao's terrifying firepower suppression.

In a short while, Ye Xiao once again obtained five Dark Night Soul Erosion Skill Stone.

Then, the third wave.

The monsters became stronger, and their numbers also increased.

Although Ye Xiao could still eliminate them all.

The time it took was longer than the previous two times combined.

Fortunately, this time Ye Xiao gained seven more Dark Night Soul Erosion Skill Stone, which was a considerable reward.

By this point, Ye Xiao had a total of 17 Dark Night Soul Erosion Skill Stone in his hand.

Before the next wave of monsters appeared, Ye Xiao directly crushed all the Skill Stone.

In an instant, his intelligence increased by another 34 points, and his health also rose by 3400 points.

After Ye Xiao learned the skills, dark monsters appeared again.

This time, the overall strength of these dark monsters was again stronger than the previous wave.

Moreover, Ye Xiao finally discovered something.

Before these dark monsters appeared.

The corpses of the monsters he had previously eliminated had all disappeared.

And the large amount of deathly aura within the corpses had not dissipated.

Instead, it surged rapidly into their bodies as this new wave of dark monsters appeared.

Nourished by this deathly aura, the attributes of these monsters became even stronger.

Seeing this scene, Ye Xiao frowned slightly.

Ye Xiao was quite familiar with these mysterious elemental monsters in the subterranean cavern.

Now, he couldn't help but worry.

If these dark monsters appeared one after another, endlessly.

Wouldn't their attributes eventually start to approach those of a boss?

Thinking of the combat power the Skeleton King had displayed earlier.

Ye Xiao couldn't help but take a sharp breath.

Unfortunately, even if he could guess the outcome.

Ye Xiao currently had no effective means of solving it.

However, he wasn't too worried.

With his current combat power, blindly pushing forward was the best solution.

If he really couldn't hold on, he still had Void Phantom to escape from here, so there wouldn't be any significant danger to his life.

After analyzing the situation, Ye Xiao simply settled down and started grinding monsters.

Although the monsters' attributes continuously strengthened, at most it only made Ye Xiao waste a little more time.

And Dark Night Soul Erosion would drop with every wave.

After an hour of this, he unexpectedly obtained another 33 Dark Night Soul Erosion.

After learning them.

Ye Xiao's total number of Dark Night Soul Erosion skills had completely surpassed Fireball, reaching 51.

At this point, Ye Xiao was even less in a hurry.

This Dark Night Soul Erosion was a high-level skill.

And he had rarely seen it on the trading market before.

If he could endlessly farm Dark Night Soul Erosion in this underground palace, it would be a good option.

Anyway, there was still plenty of time before the end of the first phase of Path of Exile, enough for him to accumulate a terrifying number of Dark Night Soul Erosion.

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At the same time, while Ye Xiao was gradually engrossed in his frantic grinding in the underground palace.

Within Path of Exile, most of the new players were also hunting monsters with all their might.

With the three-times experience boost, no new player would miss such an opportunity.

Among them, besides Ye Xiao.

The team with the fastest progress was Bai Xiaoxiao and Zhao Peng's small group.

Seven or eight hours had passed.

At this point, Bai Xiaoxiao's level had also soared to 50.

The same was true for Wang Cheng and the others.

However, there was an exception.

That was Zhao Peng.

His level had already reached 53.

He was a full three levels higher than the others, but he was already level 42 when he entered earlier.

Even so, his leveling speed still surpassed everyone else, including Bai Xiaoxiao.

And because they were in the same small team.

The other team members naturally noticed Zhao Peng's level change.

Wang Cheng looked at Zhao Peng with some disbelief, hesitated, and ultimately didn't speak.

It was Lin Yong, hidden nearby, who, upon seeing Zhao Peng's astonishing leveling speed, couldn't help but ask:

"Did you learn an experience-boosting skill?"

To this, Zhao Peng didn't seem to intend to hide it, admitting casually: "Indeed, my family spent thirty million to purchase a Source of Knowledge for me."

"Source of Knowledge?"

"Isn't that the skill someone bought for 30 million a few days ago? I didn't expect it to be bought by you."

"Buying an experience skill with only a 48% bonus for 30 million, and it also takes up one skill slot, this..."

Zhao Peng's answer shocked everyone.

After all, everyone knew how precious skill slots were.

No one expected Zhao Peng to waste such a valuable skill slot on experience bonuses.