Start the second-tier advanced trial

After saying goodbye to the three members of Dragon Soul.

Chen Ming arrived at the potion shop; the abyssal level Advancement Trial was extremely dangerous.

Once failed, he would lose the chance to challenge it again forever, and his level would be permanently locked in place, unable to continue leveling up.

To ensure nothing went wrong, Chen Ming had to make thorough preparations.

Under the eager gaze of the potion shop owner, Chen Ming spent a million gold coins to purchase five sets of Epic-grade red and blue potions.

[Powerful Source Potion]

[Quality: Epic-grade.]

[Effect: After consumption, restores 100% of health and mana within 10 seconds, and automatically recovers 1000 points of health and mana per second for the next 3 minutes.]

[Description: Powerful brand potion, it's just powerful!]

...

Nothing much to say; time to enhance directly.

[Ding, you activated Forbidden Talent on the target [Powerful Source Potion] x5 and successfully obtained a Tier 2 enhancement boost.]

[Ding, congratulations on obtaining the potion — Primordial Potion (Mythical-Grade).]

[Ding, you activated Forbidden Talent on the target [Powerful Source Potion] and successfully added the golden affix: Amplify.]

[Primordial Potion]

[Quality: Mythical-Grade.]

[Effect: After consumption, instantly restores 100% of health and mana, and automatically recovers 3000 points of health and mana per second for the next 5 minutes.]

[Added Affix: Amplify (Blue): Potion effect increased by 30%.]

[Description: A powerful potion refined from diluted Primordial Liquid.]

...

Five sets of Mythical-Grade [Primordial Potion] were equivalent to having five extra lives out of thin air.

After placing the potions in his quick-access bar, Chen Ming returned to the inn.

"Advancement Trial, here I come!"

Taking a deep breath, Chen Ming decisively activated the Advancement Trial.

[Ding, detected that the player has reached level 40 and can undergo the Tier 2 Advancement Trial. Please select the difficulty of the Advancement Trial you wish to challenge.]

[Normal: Upon completion, all attributes +20, level +1 / additional free attribute points +5.]

[Elite: Upon completion, all attributes +50, level +1 / additional free attribute points +7.]

[Hard: Upon completion, all attributes +80, level +1 / additional free attribute points +10.]

[King: Upon completion, all attributes +100, level +1 / additional free attribute points +15, and obtain one permanent random attribute bonus.]

[Purgatory: Upon completion, all attributes +150, level +1 / additional free attribute points +20, and obtain 2 permanent attribute bonuses.]

[Abyssal: Upon completion, all attributes +200, level +1 / additional free attribute points +25, and can freely choose 3 permanent attribute bonuses.]

[Hint: You only have 1 chance to challenge. Once failed, you will remain at the current level forever, unable to level up.]

[Hint: The Advancement Trial can be entered as a party, but the difficulty will increase according to the number of people.]

...

"I choose the abyssal level Advancement Trial!"

Chen Ming did not hesitate at all and decisively made his choice.

[Ding, you have started the abyssal level Advancement Trial.]

[Starting to generate the abyssal level Advancement Trial mission.]

[Generating, please wait...]

[The abyssal level Advancement Trial mission has been generated, and the corresponding dungeon secret realm has been generated.]

[You can view the abyssal level Advancement Trial information yourself. After confirmation, you will be teleported to the mission dungeon secret realm.]

Dense notifications popped up before his eyes, and Chen Ming opened the Advancement Trial panel to check them.

[Advancement Trial. Tier 2 (abyssal level)]

[Mission Details: Pass through the dungeon secret realm — Zerg Nest]

[Pass Requirement 1: Kill the Zerg Queen — Hera Hera (level 50 Epic-level Boss).]

[Pass Requirement 2: Destroy more than 50% of the Zerg in the nest.]

...

As Chen Ming confirmed the mission information, a white beam of light descended from the sky.

Chen Ming felt his vision go black, and when he opened his eyes again, he had arrived in a dark and damp area.

All around, the sound of dense insect chirping rang out from time to time, which made one's hair stand on end.

Chen Ming opened his summoning space.

He released Little Grey, Emily, the Abyssal Undead Giant, and the Ice Abyss Dragon.

Any one of these four pets/summons, if taken out, was an extremely top-tier existence.

Especially Little Grey; as an Eternal-grade Boss, although its current level was only 20, its attributes were already more terrifying than Chen Ming's.

"Let's go!"

Chen Ming flipped onto the back of the Ice Abyss Dragon and headed forward.

However, before they had gone very far, a rustling sound suddenly rang out all around.

Immediately after, dense firelight could be seen surrounding them from all sides.

"Have they appeared?"

Chen Ming focused his gaze and saw that each cluster of dense firelight corresponded to a Zerg monster.

At a glance, the surroundings seemed to have turned into a sea of fire.

[Blazing Explosion Bug]

[Level: 40.]

[Health: 2100/2100 points.]

[Strength: 105 points.]

[Agility: 65 points.]

[Intelligence: 110 points.]

[stamina: 100 points.]

[Spirit: 100 points.]

...

Chen Ming took a rough look at the attribute information of these [Blazing Bug]s.

To be honest, they weren't too strong, and were even quite a bit weaker than ordinary monsters of the same level in the outside world.

Not to mention Chen Ming, even a level 30 player could easily kill them in one hit.

But the problem was that the number of these [Blazing Bug]s was simply too vast.

Looking up, they were dense and endless.

Moreover, the most outrageous thing was that these [Blazing Explosion Bug]s also came with an extremely perverted talent — Self-Destruct.

[Talent: Self-Destruct: Passive skill, automatically self-destructs when health is below 30%, dealing true damage equal to 1% of its own maximum health to all enemies within range (10 meters x 10 meters).]

...

Good grief!

These were simply walking human bombs, and they even dealt true damage.

It could be said that once these dense [Blazing Bug]s got close and activated Self-Destruct...

Not to mention ordinary players, even Chen Ming might not be able to withstand it.

"The Zerg truly live up to their status as a natural disaster-level existence."

"As long as the quantity is large enough, even gods would not dare to provoke them."

Chen Ming murmured to himself, then suddenly pointed forward.

"Wipe them out!"

As Chen Ming's voice fell, Little Grey and the Ice Abyss Dragon charged out simultaneously.

As dragons, they naturally occupied air superiority and were naturally effective against this army of [Blazing Bug]s.

"Roar, roar!!"

Only the sound of dragon roars rang out, and scorching dragon breath spewed out like lasers, harvesting swathes of [Blazing Bug]s each time.

As for the Abyssal Undead Giant, it stood like a mountain, guarding in front of Chen Ming and Emily.

Its existence was naturally countered by this dense army of [Blazing Bug]s.

Once surrounded, no matter how tanky it was, it would die in the almost endless self-destructions.

Chen Ming naturally wouldn't let it go up there to die in vain.

"Guard Emily well, and don't let the enemies get close to her."

Chen Ming instructed the Abyssal Undead Giant, then drew the bowstring in his hand.