Heavy losses, soul lamp

The death of a professional player is no small matter.

One must understand that every school invests heavily in cultivating its professional players.

Moreover, their value extends far beyond the school itself.

For example, 80% of the current heads of various major cities in Xia Country were once professional players!

Teacher Li Ming of Mingzhu University, whom Lin Xuan knows, was also once a professional player.

Of course.

Even Li Ming, who earned the honor of being the top Shaman in the country, never won a championship in the world professional league.

He didn't even win a domestic championship.

The competition in the professional league is simply too intense.

The people there are very simple.

They just grind for the World Championship Ring.

The instructor's words caused a great stir among the students.

Although this world is dangerous, they are still students.

Many of them have never witnessed true death.

Take Lin Xuan, for example.

Although he has experienced a lot, whether it was the college entrance exam, the freshman trial, or the Longmen Grottoes Relic, he had never seen a professional truly die.

However, not having seen death doesn't mean not fearing it.

Professional players have always been synonymous with being invincible among their peers.

Yet, such individuals died within just two days of entering the Life Forbidden Zone, which only allows first-tier professionals!

What exactly is going on?

What happened inside the Divine Grace Cemetery?

Countless people were filled with questions.

The class ended abruptly.

Before dismissal, the instructor solemnly stated that if any students wished to go to the Divine Grace Cemetery over the weekend, they must consider it carefully.

It would be best to purchase a sub-weapon called a Soul Lamp before going.

The Soul Lamp is a weapon and equipment that can only be produced in the Divine Grace Cemetery worldwide and is very popular.

Professionals have two equipment slots: a main weapon and a sub-weapon.

The Soul Lamp is a sub-weapon very suitable for professionals venturing out on expeditions.

The Soul Lamp consists of two parts: the lantern and the lamp pole.

It is detachable.

The lamp pole can be equipped separately in the professional's sub-weapon slot.

The Soul Lamp can be placed far away from the professional.

When a professional drips their essence blood into the Soul Lamp, if the professional dies, the Soul Lamp will automatically extinguish.

Of course, if it only provided information about life and death, the Soul Lamp would not be so popular.

The Soul Lamp has a skill called 'Blood Lock Lifesaver' in its attributes.

This skill allows the professional to be immune to all damage for three seconds.

During these three seconds, if you engrave text on the lamp pole of the sub-weapon, the Soul Lamp, even if it's thousands of miles away, will project the corresponding content.

This is why it's so popular.

The moment he heard the teacher say this, Lin Xuan thought for a moment and quickly opened the credit exchange store.

Sure enough, he saw the newly listed equipment, the Soul Lamp, there.

It required 100,000 credits to exchange.

There were ninety-nine available, and each person was limited to purchasing one.

Lin Xuan decisively exchanged for it.

Even if he was confident in his health bar, he didn't want to waste this exchange opportunity.

He might not need it, but he couldn't not have it.

"However, the Divine Grace Cemetery is so dangerous now."

"Will the Chen Clan Merchant Guild still organize people to go?"

"If they don't go, then this ten percent of the Evolution Stones… they can't possibly be returned, right?"

Thinking of this, Lin Xuan was speechless.

He really wanted to earn this batch of Evolution Stones from the Chen Clan Merchant Guild.

Swish—swish—swish—

His phone suddenly popped up with a series of message notifications.

Lin Xuan opened it to see that Chen Wanqiu had added him to a group chat.

There weren't many members in the group, only about thirty, but the messages were constantly refreshing.

"Miss Chen, I won't be going this time. I'll refund your deposit tonight."

"Yes, Miss Chen, it's too dangerous. Five professional players died today."

"Yes, if Guo Tie is backing out, he was someone who almost made it into the professional league. Without him as the Tank, I'm not going either."

"Miss Chen, if you double my pay, I'll go."

"…"

There were many messages in the group, and Lin Xuan quickly scanned a few.

It turned out that the professional players who died in the Divine Grace Cemetery today were not only from Mingzhu University.

Modu University, their rival in the same city, lost two professional players, both of whom were starting main team members.

There were even two retired players.

This was a significant loss for Jianghai City.

These ten professional players, if they had grown, would have been pillars of society.

Of course, precisely because these professional players died, many people in the group had second thoughts.

Some wanted more money, others wanted to withdraw.

Chen Wanqiu was replying to various messages in the group.

Lin Xuan casually watched for a while and then stopped paying attention.

The Chen Clan Merchant Guild had offered him a high enough price.

He wasn't the type to take advantage of others' misfortunes.

The class ended abruptly for no apparent reason.

There were still more than two hours until dinner.

Lin Xuan thought for a moment and then headed to the Instance Dungeon Hall.

In the past week, Lin Xuan's level had already reached sixty-three, far exceeding the average of fifty-five for students in the same year.

But this was still not enough.

Mingzhu University losing two professional players also meant that two positions were open.

Lin Xuan knew that many students at Mingzhu University were geniuses who could enter the inner academy at level ninety-nine.

For example, Xiao Ruo Fu Feng and Doflamingo, whom he hadn't met but often saw on the Instance Dungeon Speedrun Leaderboards.

Both of them had records in the top ten of almost every instance dungeon speedrun at Mingzhu University.

Furthermore, both of them were already in their senior year, and their levels were also ninety-nine.

They could enter the outer academy purely based on their strength, not their level.

Lin Xuan felt that if he wanted to join the school's league team, these two were his biggest competitors.

"Teacher Li's plan is to spend one year grinding stats, half a year as a substitute, and then another half year training with professional players, followed by entering the starting lineup in the third year."

"This is too slow for me."

"When I play, I definitely want to speedrun it in one year!"

The world champion of the professional league can obtain a Champion Ring.

The Champion Ring can help a professional open an additional ring equipment slot.

Each person can only open one additional equipment slot.

So Lin Xuan didn't plan to waste too much time on the professional league.

The best plan, of course, was to reach level ninety before the new year, then join the team, prove himself with his strength, and start in the spring season next year.

There were only two level sixty instance dungeons: Frostwolf Snowfield and Sandstone Fortress.

Lin Xuan had cleared them countless times this week.

He came here today mainly because there was a new instance dungeon.

That's right.

Mingzhu University had already created a new instance dungeon using the replication crystal he obtained from the relic.

The instance dungeon was named 'Beast's Nest.'

It was said to be one of the prerequisite instance dungeons for the level ninety large-scale raid 'Antuen.'

Large-scale raids were super-large instance dungeons with as few as fifty players and as many as thousands.

The BOSSes inside were simply world-destroying.

Of course, the rewards were also very generous.

Lin Xuan would definitely tackle it after he reached level ninety.

Now was a good time to experience the content of this prerequisite instance dungeon.

There weren't many people in the Instance Dungeon Hall.

Most of the students were discussing the deaths of the professional players in twos and threes.

Lin Xuan didn't hesitate.

He selected normal difficulty and entered the instance dungeon.