Departure, Yulongpei
It was ten o'clock at night.
Lin Xuan returned to the villa.
The Beast's Lair dungeon was indeed worthy of being a prerequisite for large-scale raid dungeons.
The difficulty was extremely high.
It took Lin Xuan five hours to clear all five difficulty levels.
One must know that he could clear the other two level 60 dungeons at the school in three hours.
Fortunately, his luck was good.
From the five dungeons, Lin Xuan obtained two skill points.
The drop rate was incredibly high.
With these two skill points, plus the previous seven, Lin Xuan had exactly enough to raise Void Walk to Level 4.
The cooldown time was reduced to fifteen seconds.
This was calculated with the equipment's seventy percent cooldown reduction.
The Void Walk skill could now be cast once every four and a half seconds.
Initially, the initial cooldown time wasn't the issue.
The important part was the interval.
Originally, if Void Walk wasn't cast within ten seconds, the cooldown reduction effect would disappear.
Now, it could last for two minutes!
In other words, as long as he cast Void Walk once within two minutes, he could maintain the Void Walk skill with no cooldown!
"Not bad, from now on I can use Void Walk to travel."
Two minutes was completely enough to cast the skill infinitely, and unlike Flash, he could even rest for two minutes, then continue with unlimited displacement without cooldown.
"Still lacking skill points."
Lin Xuan felt a bit nostalgic for his days in the Longmen Grottoes Relic.
There were many BOSSes there.
It was truly a good place to farm skill points.
Unfortunately, it was now closed.
And there were no relics in Jianghai City.
He could only farm skill points by clearing dungeons.
After eating and washing up, Lin Xuan lay on his bed, enjoying a rare moment of leisure on his phone.
Tomorrow and the day after were the weekend.
He had been intensely farming dungeons and playing in the arena all week, and he was a bit tired.
He planned to see if there were any places to visit around Jianghai City.
Just then, his phone rang.
It was Chen Wanqiu.
"Looks like the travel plan is going to fall through."
Lin Xuan had glanced at the group chat earlier.
The group, which originally had over thirty people, now only had seventeen remaining.
Excluding him and Chen Wanqiu, there were exactly three standard professional teams.
Compared to before, half the people were gone.
Of course, for those who remained, the Chen Clan Merchant Guild had appropriately increased their remuneration.
Chen Wanqiu hadn't mentioned Lin Xuan's compensation, and he hadn't asked.
However, since everything had been settled in the group chat, this call was probably to inform them that it was time to depart.
As expected, when the call connected, Chen Wanqiu first stated that Lin Xuan's remuneration would be increased by an additional five percent of evolution stones.
Then, she informed him that they were preparing to depart tomorrow morning.
Although a large number of people had died in Divine Grace Cemetery today, someone had sent out a message, along with an outer map of Divine Grace Cemetery after the terrain changes.
This was crucial for the Chen Clan Merchant Guild.
After Divine Grace Cemetery mutated, black mist enveloped the entire Life Forbidden Zone and was continuously spreading outwards.
This was also why the military was anxious.
Because wherever the black mist passed, only first-tier professionals could operate within it.
Second-tier professionals, upon approaching, would be physically teleported to the edge of the black mist by a huge force!
Jianghai City could not allow the black mist to spread indefinitely.
This was near a super main city.
If it spread to residential areas, the consequences would be extremely severe!
Therefore, with the help of this newly appeared map, the military directly issued a conscription order today.
It commanded the professional battle teams of various universities in Jianghai City to compulsorily dispatch two to three professionals into Divine Grace Cemetery!
And the Chen family intended to use this momentum to enter Divine Grace Cemetery and transport out the supplies from their merchant guild outpost!
With a rough map and the military leading the way, Lin Xuan felt much more at ease.
However, just in case, Lin Xuan made a call to order some special supplies, then fell into a deep sleep.
The next morning, after picking up his supplies in Jianghai City, he headed to the Chen Clan Merchant Guild's rendezvous point.
The rendezvous point was at the South Gate of Jianghai City.
When Lin Xuan arrived, the Chen Clan Merchant Guild's forces had already assembled.
There were quite a few people, nearly a hundred.
There were also five or six large bronze carriages pulled by unicorns, likely for carrying goods.
"It seems like a lot of goods are being transported this time."
Lin Xuan narrowed his eyes.
Then he saw Chen Wanqiu in the crowd.
Chen Wanqiu was standing beside a middle-aged man.
The man was dressed in a luxurious velvet robe, of average height, and his face bore some resemblance to Chen Wanqiu's.
However, there was a hint of worry between his brows.
Chen Qi, the current helmsman of the Chen Clan Merchant Guild, was quite famous in Jianghai City.
Not only did his forging craftsmanship rank first in the country, but his martial prowess was also considerable.
The purple golden gourd in Lin Xuan's hand was obtained by him after killing a demonic dragon in the Shu Mountain Relic.
"Senior Chen," Lin Xuan greeted with a smile.
"Haha, Lin Xuan, you're here." Seeing Lin Xuan approach, Chen Qi's brows relaxed.
"Lin Xuan, I'm counting on you this time."
"Not at all, Uncle Chen, you're too kind. I'm just doing my job for the money." Lin Xuan replied with a smile.
Just then, a man ran over hurriedly and whispered a few words into Chen Qi's ear.
Chen Qi frowned slightly, then patted Chen Wanqiu's shoulder: "Wanqiu, be careful when you go to Divine Grace Cemetery this time, and try to listen to Lin Xuan, understand?"
"Dad, don't worry, I understand."
It seemed there was something urgent.
Chen Qi chatted briefly with Lin Xuan before leaving.
Seeing her father leave, Chen Wanqiu turned to Lin Xuan, and with a wave of her jade hand, a fish-shaped jade pendant appeared in her hand.
She then handed it to Lin Xuan.
"This is a fish-dragon pendant."
"After entering the Life Forbidden Zone, the black mist will obscure your vision. The fish-dragon pendant can allow you to see your teammates' real-time positions."
"Fish-dragon pendant?" Lin Xuan was startled and took it.
This girl, Chen Wanqiu, was incredibly generous.
This jade was not just for sensing teammates' positions.
When he was preparing gifts for his aunt's family, he specifically looked up life-saving items.
The fish-dragon pendant was one of them.
It only required a drop of one's own blood and storing it in a personal professional's backpack to lock one's blood three times!
Such a powerful fish-dragon pendant was extremely precious and rare.
Even the Mingzhu University credit exchange store didn't have it.
"Thanks." Lin Xuan nodded, expressing his gratitude.
Just as he put it into his backpack, the other fifteen people hired by the Chen Clan Merchant Guild also arrived.
Lin Xuan looked over.
Among the fifteen, there were swordsmen, shield warriors, hunters, and even priests. The lineup was well-distributed and comprehensive.
Indeed, with Divine Grace Cemetery being so dangerous now, the teams that remained were mostly professional mercenary organizations.
However, it was somewhat different from what Lin Xuan had imagined.
These fifteen people were not three teams, but two.
One had ten people, and the other had five.
Judging by their attire, they were clearly from two different organizations.
The leaders of both teams came over to greet him.
Lin Xuan also briefly got to know them.
The leader of the ten-person team was a Level 99 Berserker named Xu Bin.
He was a very straightforward big man who showed his big golden teeth upon meeting and said to just call him Brother Bin.
The leader of the five-person team was a Paladin named Wang Cheng.
He looked quite old, with crow's feet at the corners of his eyes, and spoke very amiably, saying that everyone in the team called him Old Wang.
After getting acquainted, Chen Wanqiu waved her jade hand, distributing a potion pack to everyone.
Subsequently, after a brief exchange of words, the hundred-person team, led by a man riding a white horse and clad in silver armor from the Chen Clan Merchant Guild, mounted their respective steeds and set off towards the Divine Grace Forbidden Zone.