73: Chapter 73 I'll drink this bowl of protein powder first!

Early the next morning, Lu Tie, dressed in his muscle suit and looking down on the masses, arrived at the designated four-star Invading Monster secret realm.

When the competition time began, all guild representatives entered the secret realm simultaneously.

Only after entering the secret realm did Lu Tie equip the gear Lu Chen had crafted for him. In an instant, his attributes and strength crushed everyone else.

After all, the best gear others had was only one or two pieces of orange-tier equipment, whereas Lu Tie's lowest quality gear was orange-tier, and he even had two pieces of epic-tier equipment.

Bang! Lu Tie encountered an Invading Monster attack. With just a simple strike, he effortlessly killed it instantly, which made him feel unprecedented exhilaration!

"This is the passion of a real man!"

Lu Tie began to slaughter the Invading Monsters like a tiger entering a flock of sheep, and his points soared rapidly.

Twelve hours passed. The points were tallied. With an absolute advantage of ten times the points of the second-place finisher, Lu Tie won first place in this competition.

"Impossible! I know Lu Tie's strength all too well. How could he possibly hunt so many Invading Monsters? I suspect he cheated!"

A president of a three-star guild was unconvinced.

"Hmph! Cheating? Before the competition, Big Brother Wu personally inspected us. Could it be that Big Brother Wu would collude with me?"

Don't let Lu Tie's bulky appearance fool you; his mind is actually quite sharp at times. He is the type who is rough on the outside but meticulous on the inside.

"You!!!"

Upon hearing this, the other person was immediately speechless. He didn't dare to continue arguing, as that would offend Big Brother Wu.

Others were also discussing it, but they all agreed that Lu Tie didn't cheat; at most, he had hidden some powerful methods.

Wu Li took a few extra looks at Lu Tie. He had heard a little bit about him, too.

Because in Yunlan City, the Squat Hell guild had the most bizarre name, and it specifically recruited muscular men, regardless of their class or level.

And Lu Tie was a famous muscular man who put all his stat points into Physique. He had made it onto Yunlan City's trending topics several times, making it hard for people not to remember him.

"I didn't expect this Lu Tie to have the ability to take first place. After I go back, I can use the points record projection to confirm his situation."

The points recording item was secretly equipped with a pinhole camera to make it convenient for the City Lord's people to check the participants' performance and screen for talent to recruit. Others were unaware of this.

After the ticket rewards were distributed and Wu Li returned, he began to check on Lu Tie's situation.

When he saw that Lu Tie had equipped two pieces of epic-tier gear and seven pieces of orange-tier gear as soon as he entered the secret realm, his eyes immediately shone with a greedy, burning light.

He knew that Lu Tie was only the president of a two-star guild and often led his guild members to attend gatherings of wealthy women to earn money to maintain the guild's operations. This had been reported by paparazzi and had been a trending topic.

Let alone epic-tier gear, even orange-tier gear was hard for him to afford. How could he suddenly have such a luxurious set of equipment?

Wu Li suspected that Lu Tie had encountered a special, major opportunity; otherwise, his gear wouldn't have suddenly skyrocketed in quality!

Seeing that no one was around, he secretly deleted Lu Tie's initial video recording. Since Lu Tie turned off the equipment effects afterward, no one else would be able to see his equipment situation.

"Heh! Regardless of whether Lu Tie obtained a major opportunity or not, I must get my hands on his gear. Even if I sell it, it could fetch a lot of money, and then I could at least trade for two pieces of epic-tier gear!"

However, this matter could not be rushed. Directly capturing Lu Tie was unrealistic; he had quite a few guild members, and if any one of them spread the word, the City Lord would come looking for him.

He could set up a dragnet at the secret realm corresponding to the five tickets. Since Lu Tie obtained high-star tickets, he would definitely lead a team to grind them. Once they finished and came out, he could catch Lu Tie off guard and force him to reveal the secret of his gear's origin.

On the other side, after Lu Tie returned to the guild, he immediately traded the five high-star tickets he obtained to Lu Chen.

Having obtained the tickets, Lu Chen smiled slightly: "The tickets are in hand. It's time to go clear some out and level up."

By this time, Yu Linglong had already learned that Lu Chen was supporting the president of the Squat Hell guild and using his hands to obtain high-star secret realms. This was certainly a good way to avoid exposure.

It was a pity that she had already reached the maximum level of Tier 5 during the crisis in Xihai City and could no longer gain experience. Otherwise, she would definitely have gone along to get closer to brother Lu Chen.

"Sister Linglong, I'll leave the guild here for you to look after."

Lu Chen prepared to set off now to grind Invading Monsters to level up and earn some gold coins along the way.

"Son, wait a moment. When you go grinding, take the person you're supporting with you. Have him lead the team in, and you can just follow along as a lackey, or to be even safer, enter while invisible."

Lu Sen once again offered some seasoned advice.

Lu Chen was so clever that he instantly understood his dad's meaning. If he went grinding by himself, it would inevitably arouse suspicion.

But with Lu Tie leading the way, it would be foolproof.

"Alright, I got it, Dad!"

With such an experienced old fox—oh wait, Dad—Lu Chen could avoid many detours. These experiences were something that couldn't be learned in school.

[Lao Tie, meet at the five-star Invading Monster secret realm, Blood Moon Lost City!]

[Received! Big Brother! Just me? Do you need other manpower?]

[No need, just you is enough!]

[Alright, arriving soon!]

Lu Tie, who was originally going to hold a celebration banquet, said to the guild members: "You all go ahead and celebrate. This president has something very important to handle. There's plenty of protein powder!"

In order to celebrate, Lu Tie had taken out all the remaining protein powder in the warehouse.

After President Lu Tie left, everyone jeered collectively: "Hahaha, the president showed his Divine Might today and won first place in the competition. He must have been summoned by the City Lord."

"Summoned by the City Lord? Not necessarily, right? If the City Lord summoned him, he would have sent someone to come get him. I bet it was some wealthy woman who summoned the president!"

"Hahaha... Come on, brothers, it's rare for the president to be so generous. I'll drink this bowl of protein powder first as a toast!"

"F*ck! That's the brothers' protein powder! You want to hog it all!"

On this side, Lu Tie quickly met up with Lu Chen.

"Big Brother, five-star Invading Monster secret realms are not easy to grind, especially this Blood Moon Lost City. The map inside is very complex. If you can't find the way out, you'll be trapped inside."

"This is also the reason why no one successfully cleared it for the first time back then. Now, not many people dare to go grind this secret realm."

Hearing this, Lu Chen somewhat guessed that the Yunlan City Lord offering this secret realm ticket as a reward was partly because he was certain that low-level guilds wouldn't dare to grind it.

Letting low-level guilds improve their strength, but not so fast that they would exceed his control—he really had a good plan.

"Complex is exactly what I want!"

Lu Chen was just about to test the power of the Eye of the Ringed Heavens Forbidden Spell.

"This... Big Brother, then I'll just watch your Divine Might."

Under Lu Chen's instruction, Lu Tie created a team, assumed the role of team leader, and then swaggered in, taking Lu Chen to grind the Blood Moon Lost City.

"Isn't that Lu Tie, the president of the Squat Hell guild? He doesn't think that just because he won first place in this month's competition, he can dare to bring just one lackey to grind the Blood Moon Lost City secret realm, does he? Isn't that just courting death?"

The experts guarding this side looked at Lu Tie in surprise, one after another.

Lu Chen, meanwhile, secretly prepared to summon his million beast pets. If any Tier 5 or higher expert inspected his information, he would immediately have his million beast pets wipe them out and then frame it on the Invading Monsters.

Fortunately, this group of experts did not court death. After collecting the tickets from Lu Tie, they opened the barrier and let the two of them enter the secret realm.

Still chatting and laughing, they didn't know that the Grim Reaper had just brushed past them!!!