81: I hope you can prioritize the overall situation.

Feng Wu opened the ranking list every day, just to see if she would be surpassed by that person from the Huaxia Clan, who was ranked second.

But when she was indeed surpassed by seven people, her heart remained calm.

Sure enough, that person was as strong as ever, as if leveling up was not worth mentioning to him.

She was already eager to meet that person after Central City opened.

Huaxia!

Will he ultimately become the choice of the Vermilion Bird Clan?

...On Huang Chen's side, as soon as they returned to the city, he immediately took the six women straight to the dojo to find the martial artist and reset their stats.

According to Li Ruo's previous suggestion, 100 points were added to Strength, Movement Skill, and Resistance each, 5000 points were added to Health, and the rest to Internal Energy.

Among the six women, Li Ruo and Xia Qing had previously chosen physical combat, but what was needed now was area-of-effect damage, so magic was naturally the best.

Moreover, Li Ruo also decided to pursue the path of magic from now on.

Huang Chen had told her many stories of fire mages, and she particularly yearned for the domineering power of a fire mage's world-destroying ultimate skill.

Of course, this doesn't mean that magic is inherently stronger than physical combat.

In future team battles, mages are the easiest targets; after all, they have short legs, low health, and high attack. If not you, then who?

Especially after physical combatants gained displacement skills, the survival space for mages became even smaller.

Just as they returned to the inn after resetting their stats, Xie Chunyan received a message from Tie Shengnan.

Hearing Xie Chunyan say that she had returned to the inn, Tie Shengnan immediately expressed her desire to visit.

At Huang Chen's instruction, Xie Chunyan also gladly arranged for Tie Shengnan to meet in Huang Chen's large suite.

Actually, there was no other meaning; the main reason was that the room was large enough.

Soon, Tie Shengnan and Lan Ling arrived in Huang Chen's room.

After entering, Tie Shengnan first greeted everyone, then immediately cut to the chase, solemnly saying to Xie Chunyan, "Miss Xie, I actually have an impolite request for coming here this time!"

"Oh?"

Xie Chunyan raised her delicate eyebrows; with her intelligence, she immediately knew what Tie Shengnan was there for.

"Yesterday I saw Miss Xie was only level 34, but today you are already level 41." Tie Shengnan finished speaking and looked at Xie Chunyan.

"Mm!"

Xie Chunyan did not respond directly, but waited with interest for Tie Shengnan to continue.

"As you know, the entire Huaxia Clan is currently in dire straits.

How to quickly improve our levels has become the most urgent problem facing our entire nation.

Therefore, I implore Miss Xie to tell us the secret of rapid leveling.

If Miss Xie is willing to tell us, then I, on behalf of the Official Faction, guarantee that Miss Xie will be immortalized in history."

After speaking, Tie Shengnan bowed deeply to Xie Chunyan.

Ever since descending into Star Abyss, her grandfather had been racking his brains day and night on how to improve Huaxia's strength and how to restore Huaxia's order.

Tie Shengnan saw it and felt the pain in her heart.

If Xie Chunyan and their secret to leveling up could be widely promoted, it would definitely be a magnificent feat benefiting the present generation and lasting for thousands of years.

And her grandfather could worry a little less.

Xie Chunyan pondered for a moment upon hearing this, but then shook her head.

Seeing Xie Chunyan shake her head, Lan Ling thought she had refused, and immediately cupped her fists and pleaded, "Miss Xie, Huaxia truly needs to rapidly increase its strength now. We hope you will consider the bigger picture!!"

Hearing the words "consider the bigger picture," He Qingwan scoffed with a cold snort, "'Consider the bigger picture' has always just been a versatile fig leaf!"

From the moment she understood love, her family incessantly instilled in her the importance of considering the bigger picture, and this phrase was like an invisible shackles constantly binding her.

It weighed on her, making her want to escape at all times.

He Qingwan stood up, slowly walked to Lan Ling, and continued, "When one party's interests need to be sacrificed to gain another party's interests, 'consider the bigger picture' is trotted out.

The ugliness of human nature lies in harboring selfish motives while using hypocritical reasons to make others sacrifice their own interests..."

Lan Ling opened her mouth but couldn't find a reason to refute.

After all, the entire Huaxia social structure was currently reforming, and which power would ultimately dominate was still unknown.

And asking Xie Chunyan to reveal the secret of becoming stronger was, as He Qingwan said, asking the other party to sacrifice their own interests to benefit the Official Faction.

However, she believed that Tie Shengnan's intention in seeking Xie Chunyan was definitely from the perspective of the entire Huaxia's bigger picture.

Xie Chunyan raised her hand, stopping He Qingwan from continuing, then she turned to Tie Shengnan and said helplessly, "Commander Tie, it's not that I'm unwilling to tell you, it's just... this method cannot be widely promoted."

Tie Shengnan and Lan Ling's faces flashed with disappointment upon hearing this.

But Tie Shengnan immediately asked again, "Miss Xie, do you mean there's a way to raise the levels of a small number of people?"

Just as Tie Shengnan finished speaking, Huang Chen, who had been resting with his eyes closed, spoke up, "Focusing on the trivial while neglecting the essential, blindly pursuing levels is merely pulling up seedlings to help them grow!"

"Hmm?"

Tie Shengnan didn't expect Huang Chen, who had been like a transparent person, to speak, and the information in his words was immense.

She immediately turned to Huang Chen, cupped her fists, and said, "I'd like to hear more!"

Huang Chen didn't open his eyes; instead, Xie Chunyan took over and said, "Levels will increase sooner or later, but high levels don't necessarily mean strong combat power.

If your level is high but your proficiency is low, your ability to fight monsters beyond your level will be worse.

If proficiency doesn't increase along with your level, you might not even be able to defeat monsters ten levels below you in the future. At that time, how will Huaxia manage?"

Tie Shengnan's expression kept changing as she listened.

Yesterday, she had already reported the secret of proficiency, and the Official Faction was accelerating its verification.

However, she then thought of something else and continued to ask, "Miss Xie, since your levels are increasing so quickly, you must have mastered a method to raise levels while also increasing proficiency, right?"

"Of course!"

Before Xie Chunyan could respond, He Qingwan raised her chin and continued, "But why should we tell you?"

He Qingwan's answer ignited hope in Tie Shengnan; as long as there was a method, the rest was a matter of equivalent exchange.

So, she cupped her fists and solemnly said to everyone, "We, and even the entire Official Faction, are willing to pay any price to exchange for this secret!"

"You?" He Qingwan blinked and asked, "What price are you willing to pay?"

"Any price!" Tie Shengnan said decisively, "Even my life!!"

"We don't want your life!"

He Qingwan shook her head at the words, walked over to Tie Shengnan, leaned close to her ear, and whispered, "We only want... your body..."

Although He Qingwan's voice was soft, everyone in the room heard it clearly.

Tie Shengnan's face turned ashen, while Lan Ling angrily rebuked, "Miss He, please stop making such jokes! Although you are powerful, we are not to be casually bullied!"

"Heh!"

Ignoring Lan Ling's anger, He Qingwan mimicked her tone and said, "We hope you consider the bigger picture..."