Arena, full of harvest

When Lin Xuan left Li Ming's office, he successfully secured a substitute spot on a professional league team.

The reason it was a substitute spot was mainly due to the professional player competition rules, which require each player's level to be between 90 and 99.

Moreover, this year's domestic professional league had already concluded, and Mingzhu University's points were not enough to qualify for the World Championship.

If Lin Xuan wanted to play in the league, he would have to wait until next year.

"The domestic league starts in February next year."

"I have five months to level up."

"That's a bit of pressure."

"It seems absolutely necessary to get an experience-boosting emblem."

At Level 60, professional players unlock the Arena function.

They can teleport to the Void Arena for one-on-one, three-on-three, or five-on-five matches.

The Arena balances certain attributes and has a ranking system.

The ranks are Black Iron, Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond, Emerald, Master, and King.

Each rank has nine stars; filling nine stars triggers a promotion match.

When a rank reaches Master level, the Ladder Challenge becomes available.

Winning a Ladder Challenge accumulates Ladder Points for oneself.

Professional players ranked high in Ladder Points are the city-level or national-level professional players of various cities and countries.

"Balancing attributes, I wonder how my HP will be balanced."

Lin Xuan was not worried about his Arena performance.

With his current attributes, equipment, and skills, he would even dare to challenge a Tier 2 or even Tier 3 professional player.

Fighting above his level was no longer his limit; fighting above his tier was.

Of course, this time with Li Ming, Lin Xuan also discussed the replication crystal.

When he pulled out two replication crystals, Li Ming was stunned.

According to the Professional Players Guild's calculations, the probability of obtaining a replication crystal by killing a World-Class BOSS is one in two hundred million!

The total number produced worldwide each year is generally around ten.

Yet, Lin Xuan had inexplicably obtained two at once.

When Lin Xuan heard this probability, he too was stunned.

In that instant, Lin Xuan vaguely felt that his lifespan had decreased slightly.

Because when these two replication crystals dropped, he hadn't even used his lucky revolver; it was all thanks to his personal luck!

"I still need to level up quickly."

"Tier 1 professional players only have a lifespan of 150 years, but Tier 2 can reach 300 years."

"Tier 3 is 500 years."

"Tier 4 is said to have an even longer lifespan, reaching over a thousand years…"

"I need to go back and buy some chef's food to replenish myself."

"Then, I'll focus entirely on leveling up!"

Returning to the villa, the exhausted Lin Xuan quickly fell into a deep sleep.

At 10 PM, Lin Xuan stretched comfortably.

Irena, seeing that he was awake, brought him a drink while wearing a white silk maid outfit.

"Master."

"Heh heh, you learn fast," Lin Xuan said with a smile, taking the drink and asking, "How is it?"

"What's the online discussion like regarding the anomaly in Divine Grace Cemetery?"

"There are all sorts of theories, and the discussion is very heated."

"However, the two most intense ones are the Underground Palace and the Ruins…"

Irena's intelligence was very high.

She not only researched the information but also summarized it.

From her, Lin Xuan gradually understood some key information.

It turned out that the anomaly did not only appear in Jianghai City's Divine Grace Cemetery; it also appeared in Xiangchuan City, Xia Country.

Furthermore, it wasn't just Xia Country; other countries on Blue Star also experienced different anomalies.

Almost all of these anomalous locations were in Life Forbidden Zones.

For example, the Sanxingdui in Xiangchuan City, Xia Country, the Metropolitan Museum in Manhattan, Blue Eagle Country, and the Werewolf Castle in Omsk Oblast, Bear Country.

These were all extremely dangerous Life Forbidden Zones.

It was said that there were great horrors within them.

And within these Life Forbidden Zones, many people speculated that new ruins had been born.

Compared to these Life Forbidden Zones, many were also related to local historical culture.

Professional players naturally believed that the Life Forbidden Zones had given birth to new ruins.

This view received the most affirmation online.

Of course, there was another one: the Underground Palace!

Information about the Underground Palace was scarce.

Lin Xuan only remembered its simple description in his high school textbook.

The Underground Palace is divided into the Ninth Level of the Underground Palace.

The resources and magic creatures on each level are exceptionally powerful and numerous.

Furthermore, no resurrection mechanism can be used.

It is recommended that professional players reach Level 150 and unlock flight ability before choosing to enter.

This was a place he couldn't access for now.

Lin Xuan thought for a moment.

He ultimately abandoned his plan to go to Divine Grace Cemetery.

It was Wednesday night now.

He had four days off until classes resumed next week.

He planned to clear the two dungeons at the school first during these days.

After that, he would play some Arena matches.

The Arena rewards were, of course, not limited to honor badges.

Every Arena victory had a chance to grant attribute and skill points.

The higher the rank, the greater the chance.

Of course, it was only a slightly greater chance.

Overall, the probability was extremely, extremely low.

Winning a hundred matches and getting even one attribute point was considered lucky.

After understanding the situation with the anomalies, Lin Xuan left the villa and had a simple dinner at the school cafeteria.

When he returned to the villa, he observed the school's villa area along the way.

He found that there were still many vacant villas, which gave him the idea of renting a single villa.

Since he had always carried the school's wristband, he also received academic credit for killing magic creatures in the ruins.

Although it was nothing compared to his current ten million points, it also made Lin Xuan realize that academic credits were completely sufficient for everyone, as long as they didn't slack off or exchange for overly special items.

"Renting a single villa, the monthly rent in academic credits is ten thousand per month."

"That's acceptable."

Lin Xuan checked the information on the school forum and indeed rented an entire villa in a secluded and quiet location.

He had actually considered buying an apartment outside the school with gold coins.

However, living outside, he was worried about inconvenience.

Anyway, he still had over twelve million academic credits.

Even if he slacked off, it would be enough.

Moreover, he had brought back two replication crystals for the school this time.

He had already submitted the quest at the mission hall.

After settlement, it was estimated to be a massive amount of academic credits again.

The new villa's number was 0615.

Lin Xuan directly spent 120,000 academic credits to rent it for a full year first.

Then, after leaving messages for his two roommates, he directly moved his belongings from the old villa to the new one.

The villa style was the same as before.

Lin Xuan lived in the large bedroom on the left side of the third floor.

Irena and the two Lotus Nymph sisters lived opposite him.

As for the two rooms on the second floor, he hadn't decided yet.

Among his remaining contracted beasts, there were half-beast, half-human, and full-beast forms.

It was not very convenient for them to live in human society.

Of course, if he had a cat-eared girl, that would be another matter.

"It's not a problem to always stay in the summoning space."

"I'll buy a castle later and transfer it to the Frost Domain."

With everything arranged, Irena took the two Lotus Fairies to learn human knowledge.

In fact, when they were on the fourth underground level, the two fairies drinking tea in the lakeside pavilion was enough to show that their intelligence was not low.

And they knew some human customs, so teaching them was very simple.

Lin Xuan wasn't worried about them; he even planned to get bank cards for Irena and the others.

They didn't have inventory space, so if they went out to buy things, carrying a large amount of gold coins would be inconvenient.

For the rest of the time, Lin Xuan stayed alone in his bedroom, making a simple inventory of his gains from the ruins.

The trip to the Dragon Gate Grottoes.

The biggest gain, of course, was these highly intelligent contracted beasts, followed by the two replication crystals.

However, the other items, skills, and materials were also very good.

Roughly estimated, they could probably be sold for hundreds of billions of gold coins, because he saw a purple Epic-grade Magic Card and a magical artifact inside!