46: What happened in Chapter 46?

Yue Ying watched the retreating backs of the Elf subordinates, the smile on her lips growing more confident.

She could already imagine that guy named Chen You, after searching desperately,

only to find that the price of what he wanted had skyrocketed and the supply was completely monopolized by a behemoth.

At that time, he would understand that in this world, an individual's wealth meant nothing compared to the power of a true organization.

He would come to her, bringing his gold coins.

Her 'wise' mind had already foreseen the final outcome.

However, just as she was immersed in the pleasure of her perfect scheme,

a golden system announcement echoed in the ears of every player in Zhao City like a merciless slap.

[World Announcement: Supreme Experience, Efficiency is King! For only 10 Gold Coins per hour, enjoy ten times the monster refresh rate and double experience gain!]

[A mysterious player is in seclusion in the Supreme Training Room, leveling up rapidly. What are you waiting for? Head to the Supreme Tower immediately and get one step ahead to reach the peak!]

In the courtyard, the flowing fluorescence seemed to freeze.

The smile on Yue Ying's face instantly stiffened.

No need to guess, it was him again!

That Level 7 'fool'!

Wasn't he supposed to be collecting spirit essence sand?

How did he go in again?!

The Supreme Training Room, ten Gold Coins an hour!

This madman, how much money does he have to burn?!

Yue Ying took a deep breath, forcefully suppressing the turmoil in her heart.

"Hmph, squander away, squander to your heart's content!"

Her voice was still cold, but it carried a hint of gritted teeth.

"I want to see how long you can last in there!"

"When your spiritual power is depleted, when you realize your monster-killing speed can't keep up with the refresh rate, you will finally understand what true despair is!"

She was certain that Chen You's spendthrift behavior absolutely wouldn't last long.

When he shamefully came out, the inescapable net she had cast would still be waiting for him.

"Let's go! We're going to level up too!"

Yue Ying regained her haughty demeanor and turned, leading a group of guild elites toward the high-level leveling area outside the city.

...

Meanwhile.

In the Source Realm, Central Continent, the City of the Titan.

Unlike the remote novice town of Zhao City, this was the true center of civilization.

Magnificent buildings hundreds of meters tall pierced the clouds, and giant floating stones moved slowly on fixed tracks, serving as public transportation.

The streets were filled with Adventurers exuding powerful auras; those below Level 50 didn't even dare to speak loudly here.

At the highest point of the central temple in the city.

A burly figure, over five meters tall, was sitting on a throne carved from a single piece of obsidian.

He was the number one on the level rankings, the Level 92 Berserker of the Titan God Clan—Salos.

His muscles were knotted, and his skin had a bronze hue, as if cast from the hardest rock.

Just sitting there, a savage and domineering aura enveloped the entire temple.

"Buzz—"

[World Announcement: Supreme Experience, Efficiency is King! ...]

Salos slowly opened his eyes, and a trace of solemnity flashed in his golden pupils.

"It's happening again..." His deep voice sounded like rolling thunder.

The [Supreme Service], especially the [Supreme Training Room], was a killing move for top players like them to rapidly widen the gap.

But even he wouldn't use it so frequently.

"Is it Yue Zhi Shi, that woman, or Oro, that charlatan?"

Salos's huge fingers tapped lightly on the throne's armrest, making dull sounds like drumbeats.

"It seems they got hold of something good again and want to secretly overtake us."

He slowly stood up and lifted his massive battle axe with one hand.

"It looks like I need to speed up as well."

At the same time, in the City of Eternal Night of the Elf God Clan, and the Floating Sanctuary of the Roman God Clan, Yue Zhi Shi and Oro also saw the same announcement.

Their thoughts were astonishingly consistent with Salos's.

"Has that brute Salos made some new breakthrough?"

"Is it Yue Zhi Shi? Is she finally starting to exert force?"

The three supreme experts standing at the apex of the pyramid all felt immense competitive pressure because of the leveling activity of a Level 7 player thousands of miles away.

They simultaneously quickened their pace forward.

The rhythm of the entire world was quietly sped up at this moment by an invisible hand.

And the originator of all this, Chen You, was completely unaware.

...

Inside the [Supreme Training Room].

The spiritual energy was so dense it was almost tangible; every breath felt like inhaling the purest energy.

Chen You held the [ascension dao sword] gifted by the Ascension Gift Pack, his expression focused.

In front of him were six Level 10 [Demonic Claw Wolves].

"Startling Swan!"

He didn't even need to look deliberately; with just a thought, the dao sword in his hand flicked out.

A beam of extremely condensed white sword light flashed and vanished.

Slash! Slash! Slash!

The movements of the six Demonic Claw Wolves instantly froze. The next second, their bodies snapped in half simultaneously and dissipated into black smoke.

[Killed Demonic Claw Wolf, gained 120 Experience (Double Bonus)]

[Killed Demonic Claw Wolf, gained 120 Experience (Double Bonus)]

...

A string of experience notifications flooded the screen.

In less than three seconds, the center of the area flashed, and six brand-new Demonic Claw Wolves spawned again.

Chen You's expression remained unchanged, and he drew his sword again.

The cycle repeated.

After nearly an hour, the spiritual power in his body was declared depleted.

Chen You showed no panic. With a thought, he commanded [Pause Refresh].

He sat cross-legged and immediately began circulating the Nine Revolutions Primordial Chaos Art.

More than ten minutes later.

The surging spiritual power filled his dried-up Dantian, even becoming purer and stronger than before!

"Continue."

Chen You opened his eyes and reactivated monster refreshing.

Fighting, consuming, cultivating, replenishing, and fighting again...

This was a perfect closed loop.

Here, grinding monsters was no longer tedious repetitive labor, but the most efficient cultivation!

Every process of spiritual power depletion followed by replenishment was a tempering of the Nine Revolutions Primordial Chaos Art, and a consolidation and enhancement of his Qi Refining Second Layer realm!

Time flew by in these cycles.

Five hours later.

[Congratulations! You have advanced to LV8! Gained 5 Free Attribute Points!]

Chen You didn't hesitate and put all points into Attack.

He could clearly feel that when he swung 'Startling Swan,' the sword light was more condensed, and the power was superior.

Twelve hours later.

[Congratulations! You have advanced to LV9! Gained 5 Free Attribute Points!]

He continued, putting all points into Attack!

At this moment, he was completely immersed in the thrill of rapidly increasing strength.

The changes in the outside world, Yue Ying's scheming, the crazy internal competition among top players...

None of it concerned him.

In his world, only three things remained.

Drawing the sword.

Killing monsters.

Cultivating.

Finally, after a continuous twenty-six hours,

when Chen You once again mechanically swung a sword, slaying the latest batch of six [Demonic Claw Wolves] that had spawned,

an unprecedented brilliant golden light, like the Milky Way pouring down, suddenly cascaded from above his head, completely enveloping his entire person!

The long-absent system prompt sound exploded in his ears with a solemn rhythm!

[Congratulations! You have advanced to LV10! Gained 5 Free Attribute Points!]

[Level reached 10, Guild System Unlocked! You can now create or join a Guild!]

[Level reached 10, dungeon System Unlocked! You can challenge dungeons located across the world!]

[Level limit for Friend System increased to 500 people!]

[Main Quest Updated!]

Finally... it's here!

Chen You rejoiced internally.

He had been grinding maniacally for over twenty hours just for this moment!