102: More than 400 million experience points, the fourth job mission is launched!
The one who attacked was undoubtedly Song Ming.
After he used the Blazing Sun Divine Thunder to lure out the BOSS from the Boiling Sea Lake,
he did not use the Heaven and Earth Seal.
Firstly, most of the monsters here had already been annihilated by the Blazing Sun Divine Thunder.
Using the Heaven and Earth Seal would be like using a cannon to shoot a mosquito.
Secondly, the Heaven and Earth Seal covers a very large area and causes a significant commotion.
To maintain a low profile, Song Ming chose to slowly grind the Haicang Dragon to death using the Sealing Magic Ring.
Thanks to 100% Spell critical strikes and the damage amplification from his equipment's talent,
the Sealing Magic Ring dealt over a million points of critical true damage per second.
Coupled with a control duration of up to ten minutes,
the Haicang Dragon was immediately immobilized by the Sealing Magic Ring the moment it came ashore.
It couldn't move at all.
Song Ming didn't even need to cast the Sealing Magic Ring again; in less than three minutes,
the hundreds of meters long Haicang Dragon instantly turned into a pile of dust.
At the same time,
pleasant notification messages continuously scrolled across Song Ming's vision.
[Killed a Rank 60 Azurewood Dragon Lizard, gained 356,410 experience points]
[Killed a Rank 65 Thorny Dragon Turtle, gained 412,000 experience points]
[Killed a Rank 70 Blasting Seahorse, gained 452,110 experience points]
[Killed a Rank 80 Ferocious Crocodile Demon, gained 501,100 experience points]
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[Killed Rank 100 Boiling Sea Lake BOSS, Haicang Dragon, gained 802,000 experience points]
[BOSS dropped equipment has been automatically picked up]
[Your Rank has increased to Rank 70, excess experience has been stored]
[Do you wish to start the Fourth Advancement Quest?]
Song Ming roughly estimated that he had killed thousands of monsters on this trip.
Converted into experience, it was approximately over 400 million.
This directly allowed him to advance four Ranks.
If it weren't for the requirement to complete the Fourth Advancement Quest at Rank 70, Song Ming estimated that these 400 million-plus experience points would have been enough to raise him by more than ten Ranks.
Because of this, Song Ming couldn't help but sigh.
Indeed, he still needed to find Forbidden Grounds like Forbidden Dragon Island.
There were enough monsters for him to kill and Rank up.
Otherwise, no matter how many dungeons he cleared, it wouldn't be enough for him to Rank up.
Subsequently, Song Ming unhesitatingly initiated his Fourth Advancement Quest.
A quest panel pop-up suddenly appeared before his eyes.
[Fourth Advancement Quest has begun!]
[Quest Introduction: A vast number of Dragons live on Forbidden Dragon Island. If they escape the confines of this Forbidden Ground, they will bring no small disaster to the Human Race.]
[Quest Requirement: Kill five Rank 100 Dragons (0/5)]
"Kill a few Rank 100 Dragons? That's not difficult!"
Song Ming thought of the Haicang Dragon he had easily dealt with and smiled faintly.
190 million HP was no problem for him at all.
At worst, he would just unleash a Heaven and Earth Seal and be done with it.
Closing the quest panel, Song Ming was about to walk towards the Boiling Sea Lake.
He still needed to confirm whether there was an entrance to the Dragon Island Instance at the bottom of the lake.
If there was, that would be even better.
Even if there wasn't, it didn't matter.
He was definitely going to Thunderbolt Canyon anyway; it was just a matter of sooner or later.
However, as he approached the edge of the lake,
the charred corpses lying on the shore and the monster corpses floating on the lake surface suddenly stirred.
Song Ming's heart moved.
The Forbidden Spell-level Spirit Restraint Art was passively activated.
From beneath these monster corpses, clumps of extremely viscous black shadows emerged.
Then these black shadows instantly stood up.
And condensed into various shapes.
Song Ming focused his gaze and found that the shapes of these black shadows were all the same as the monsters' appearances in life.
They were practically one-to-one replicas.
However, they were all very sluggish and completely black, as if carved from charcoal.
Song Ming knew that these were the Soul bodies created by the Spirit Restraint Art.
From a distance, there were thousands of them.
He casually used the Appraisal Technique to glance at the black shadows' attributes.
There was no weakening at all; their combat power was exactly the same as when they were alive.
Song Ming nodded with satisfaction.
Then he activated the Spirit Restraint Art, storing all these black shadow summoned creatures into his own summoning space.
This space was automatically created after he learned the Spirit Restraint Art.
Compared to the vast space that could accommodate one million summoned creatures, this number of over a thousand was truly too small!
However, fortunately, the one thing this Forbidden Ground didn't lack was monsters.
Song Ming collected his thoughts and walked into the lake water.
Out of caution, he first cast a Holy Shield Magic Ring on himself.
Then he equipped the Water Repelling Pearl item that Ning Hua had given him.
Only then did he walk beneath the surface of the water.
Although this lake was called a lake, the water inside was actually all seawater.
Because the lake was connected to the sea outside the island by an underwater tunnel, it was called a Sea Lake.
As soon as he entered the lake, Song Ming felt a scorching heat wave assault him.
It was like being immersed in a large bathtub filled with boiling water.
It was very uncomfortable.
Song Ming had to retreat from the lake water, his brows tightly furrowed.
Presumably, only those thick-skinned Dragon-type monsters could endure such high temperatures.
Perhaps they even found it quite comfortable.
Although his Holy Shield Magic Ring could resist damage from Spells, it could not keep the high-temperature lake water out.
The Water Repelling Pearl was the same; it only allowed him to breathe freely underwater.
But it could not isolate the water temperature.
Song Ming thought for a moment, about to cast the Celestial God Incantation to enhance his attributes.
But he suddenly remembered that he still had another defensive Spell.
The Golden Light Incantation.
This Incantation could form a golden light on the body's surface, which might be able to keep the lake water out.
Song Ming then cast the Golden Light Incantation on himself, and immediately, a dazzling golden light appeared on his body, making him look like a Divine Being.
Then he reached into the lake water to test it and found that it was indeed as he had thought.
The Golden Light Incantation isolated the high-temperature lake water.
Without further delay, Song Ming swam towards the bottom of the lake.
The deeper he went, the greater the pressure he felt.
But the golden light formed by the Golden Light Incantation on his body happened to share the pressure.
Song Ming swam all the way to the bottom of the lake, encountering no monsters along the way.
Under his Blazing Sun Divine Thunder, all monsters had perished.
He looked around and saw nothing but azure blue seawater. The bottom of the lake was covered with countless strangely shaped reefs, occasionally dotted with vibrant plants.
Song Ming felt a great sense of novelty, not expecting these plants to be so heat-resistant, actually able to survive here.
He continued swimming towards the center of the lake, where he saw a giant hole at least seventy to eighty meters in diameter in the lakebed.
A single glance revealed it to be bottomless.
"This must be the passage connecting to the outer sea!"
Song Ming muttered, then looked around again, but found no anomalies.
dungeon entrances were usually portals emitting a strong light.
There was clearly none here.
Then Thunderbolt Canyon was the most likely place for a dungeon entrance to exist.
Song Ming pondered for a moment, then swam upwards.
Since that was the case, he would go to Thunderbolt Canyon again, and while he was at it, expand the black shadow Soul bodies in his space!