Fire-avoiding robe, awakening skill!

Blazing fires raged within the Guanyin Zen Temple ahead.

Thick black smoke billowed in the sky.

A black wind howled, and flames roared.

The monks wandering outside had orange-red fire spots showing through their skin, piece by piece.

It seemed as if they were about to explode at any moment.

Lin Xuan's mouth twitched.

“No way, I’ve encountered self-detonating monsters again?”

He had, of course, checked the strategy for the World-Ending Black Wind Cave.

Like the Ant Nest, when encountering such anomalies, professional players would choose to retreat.

Especially the Black Wind Cave.

Because this dungeon could drop a special item, the fire-resistant magic robe, many major global forces had entrances to it.

It was said that in the early days, an elite team from abroad didn't listen to advice.

When they encountered a Black Wind Cave on fire, they didn't exit the dungeon and insisted on challenging it.

During the process, they were careless and overlooked the priest's resurrection count, which directly led to the death of two elite professional players.

It has now become a classic negative example in the professional player community.

“You might be scared, but I’m not,” Lin Xuan grinned.

Summon Undead had been upgraded to Level 7, and the number of summons per cast had reached 256.

Coupled with the death scythe's doubling effect, he could summon 512 Skeleton Soldierss at once!

Even at Level 7, with various cooldown reductions, the interval between each Summon Undead cast was only a little over twenty seconds.

Of course, the mana consumption was also terrifying.

Fortunately, he had put all his points into Spirit, which was enough for him to cast twice within a minute!

Crackling sounds—

Over a thousand Skeleton Soldierss crawled out of the magic array.

Lin Xuan also summoned Irena, Silly Cow, and other contracted beasts to follow behind him.

The first row consisted of ordinary Skeleton Cavalry, with Skeleton Mammoths in the middle.

After that came Skeleton Swordsmen, and finally, Skeleton Archers.

With the formation complete, Skeleton Archers' arrows cleared the way, cavalry charged, and swordsmen followed.

In this narrow mountain path, Lin Xuan began his overwhelming push.

Skeleton Mammoths were heavy cavalry.

They not only scattered the fiery monks but also trampled the dilapidated temple to pieces.

Boom boom boom—

Explosions, electric shocks, hoofbeats, and elephant trumpets echoed.

The Black Wind Cave dungeon had a very large terrain and many monsters.

Currently, the record for clearing the World-Ending difficulty was held by a fully-staffed thirty-person team, who took five and a half hours to complete it.

Lin Xuan roughly estimated that he should be able to reduce the time by at least half.

Time flew by.

After successively dealing with the three minor bosses of the Guanyin Zen Temple, Lin Xuan advanced to the final stage.

Hidden here was the dungeon's biggest boss, the Black Bear Demon.

The cave where the Black Bear Demon resided was surrounded by various flames and flowing fire.

The blazing flames completely sealed off the Black Bear Demon's home.

As Lin Xuan and his Skeleton army approached, he immediately realized something was wrong.

“You have entered a special area and are suffering from a burning status, Health -200!”

“You have entered a special area and are suffering from a burning status, Health -210!”

“You have entered a special area and are suffering from a burning status, Health -220!”

“You have…”

A prompt would pop up every three seconds, and the HP loss effect would continuously worsen.

“Interesting,” Lin Xuan chuckled, brandishing a special item.

He had obtained it earlier by clearing other difficulties of the Black Wind Cave.

“You have used a fire-resistant magic robe, Fire Resistance +10%, lasts for 60 seconds!”

“One bead for one minute, this World-Ending dungeon is truly costly.”

Lin Xuan used another one and commanded his Skeleton army to advance.

Unlike the Guanyin Zen Temple, there were no monks here; only mutated mountain spirits and monsters emerged.

Their strength was indeed very high, and with the help of the flames, Skeleton Soldierss died every second.

Fortunately, Lin Xuan could now share the summon's vision.

Throughout this path, Corpse Explosion was frequently used, and he quickly reached the guardian boss.

The Black Bear Demon was over five meters tall, full of power, and possessed area-of-effect skills.

If it were an ordinary professional team, they would certainly need a Water Mage, a Priest, and an Aura Master Shaman, professions that could counter and dispel abnormal statuses.

Lin Xuan, however, didn't need to consider so much.

Amidst the raging flames, the Skeleton army charged towards the Black Bear Demon.

Then came deafening explosions.

Before the Black Bear Demon could react, Lin Xuan summoned another batch of Skeleton Soldierss for Corpse Explosion.

After two waves, the powerful Black Bear Demon was already low on health.

Boom—!

Splitting Mount Hua landed on the Black Bear Demon.

The dungeon clear prompt sounded.

“Job done, I wonder if the dungeon settlement will get me to Level 50.”

Lin Xuan glanced at his attribute panel and took out his lucky revolver.

His current upgrade progress was at Level 49, still 17% away from leveling up.

Based on his previous experience clearing the Black Wind Cave, after exiting the dungeon and settling, his progress might be at 99% or he might level up directly.

After leveling up, he would reach Level 50, which would unlock powerful awakening skills!

Awakening skills, after awakening a profession, were another opportunity for professional players to change their destiny.

Of course, it was also the moment when many professional players widened the gap.

Awakening was too random; some soared to the sky relying on their awakening skills, while others fell to the bottom.

“I wonder what my awakening skill will be; hopefully, it’s a powerful area-of-effect output,” Lin Xuan thought, firing a bullet from his lucky revolver.

After upgrading the lucky revolver to orange legendary quality, the bullets became seven, and it was fully equipped.

Today, this was the fourth shot used.

“Only one bullet automatically reloads each month, so I need to use the rest sparingly.”

The smoke transformed from the bullet enveloped Lin Xuan.

Lin Xuan bent down and opened the World-Ending dungeon treasure chest.

Clatter—

More than a dozen items were scattered around.

“Loot!”

Lin Xuan was overjoyed, seeing a golden light among the many items!

“Another Mythic item!”

“I dropped two golden Mythic items in one day!”

Ignoring the other items, Lin Xuan first checked the item in the golden light.

[Equipment: fire-resistant magic robe]

[Quality: Mythic]

[Effect: Health +10000, Mana +3000, All Attributes +10]

[Equip Requirement: Universal for all professions]

[Affixes: Fire Resistance +50%, Grants Skill: Golden Light Shield!]

“Golden Light Shield”: After release, a golden light shield can be formed based on your own health!

“Golden Light Shield! Health converted to shield!”

“It’s practically tailor-made for me!”

Lin Xuan's defense was permanently zero.

If he encountered a high-level professional player like the Dean, he would be a lamb to the slaughter!

Now, with a shield that converts health, a shield formed from millions, tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions of health, how thick would that be!

What a sense of security!

With this heaven-defying equipment, Lin Xuan instantly put it on.

“I exchanged a Level 60 Mythic sky set robe from the school back then.”

“I wonder if I can return or exchange it…”

Lin Xuan thought, then exited the dungeon.

[Black Wind Cave, Cleared!]

[Difficulty: World-Ending]

[Clear Time: 01:53:29]

[Rating: SSS]

[Rewards: Experience +224000]

[Congratulations on clearing the World-Ending difficulty Black Wind Cave dungeon, your clear time surpassed…]

[Congratulations on reaching Level 50, you can unlock your awakening skill!]

[Congratulations on reaching Level…]

A series of information prompts appeared.

Lin Xuan ignored them all and directly pulled up the skill panel, clicking to unlock his awakening skill.

The next moment, his vision went dark.

The sky seemed to shatter, and when it reassembled, the scene had changed.

Immediately after, an aged voice sounded.

“Child, when you were born, the Lo…”