69: Chapter 69 The Moving Catastrophe: This isn't a BOSS, it's clearly my health pack!

"Rumble—!"

At the moment Qin Ji was about to leave the Sighing Coast with Qian Duoduo, the originally calm surface of Black Water Lake suddenly exploded.

There was no peace as imagined; the ground beneath their feet began to tremble violently, as if some gargantuan creature was trying to break through the constraints of the earth's crust.

"Ding! Server-wide Announcement: Due to player 'Snow Emperor' committing inhumane genocide on the Sighing Coast (killing over 5,000 Iron-Backed Black Turtles), the slumbering regional lord [Blood-Eyed Dragon Turtle] has been awakened! Nearby players, please evacuate immediately! Repeat, this is not a drill!"

Crimson System fonts flashed frantically in the center of the field of vision.

Qian Duoduo was still admiring his skyrocketing attribute panel. Hearing this announcement, his fat body shuddered instantly, his mung-bean-sized eyes filled with terror: "Holy crap? Brother Ji, how many did you just kill? Did you dig up their ancestral grave?"

"Quiet."

Qin Ji stopped and turned to look at Black Water Lake.

The lake water churned as if boiling. Then, a massive turtle shell the size of a basketball court burst from the water. The shell was dark green, covered in menacing barbs, each wrapped in nauseating black Qi.

A massive dragon head poked out from beneath the shell, its eyes blood-red, locking onto Qin Ji on the shore.

【Blood-Eyed Dragon Turtle (Silver-Rank Lord)】

【Rank: 35】

【HP: 6,850,000 / 6,850,000】

【Attack Power: 17,590】

【Skills: Rapid-Fire Water Cannon, bloodthirsty dragon armor, Nine-Pillar Impact, Berserk...】

"6.85 million HP?" Seeing the monster's attributes, the bit of confidence Qian Duoduo had just built instantly collapsed. "Brother Ji, this thing is more than ten times stronger than that elite monster just now! And it has healing skills; how do we fight this?"

For players at the current stage, this boss was simply an insurmountable chasm.

But looking at that long health bar, Qin Ji felt no fear. Instead, a greedy curve formed at the corners of his mouth.

"The more health, the better."

Qin Ji casually twirled his staff; the rusty iron rod let out a shrill whistle in the air. "If the health was thin, it wouldn't even be enough for a warm-up."

"Fatty, stand back. Don't get splashed with blood."

Before his voice faded, Qin Ji's figure had already vanished from the spot.

When he reappeared, he was already standing in mid-air less than fifty meters from the Blood-Eyed Dragon Turtle. Without any fancy magic chanting, he simply swung the iron rod in his hand, relying on his tens of thousands of Strength points to smash down from a distance!

"Get down!"

Boom—!

The air was compressed into a visible air cannon by this strike, slamming heavily onto the Dragon Turtle's forehead.

-16369!

A massive damage number floated up.

The Blood-Eyed Dragon Turtle roared in pain. Immediately after, a strange red light glowed on its thick shell.

+5258!

+3000!

Two striking green healing numbers jumped out right after.

"Passive healing from bloodthirsty dragon armor?" Qin Ji's brow twitched slightly.

This big turtle's healing mechanism was quite disgusting. It had both percentage healing and a feedback mechanism after being attacked. If an ordinary team fought it, their damage output might not even be as fast as its recovery; they'd just be giving the boss a sponge bath.

"Roar—!"

The Blood-Eyed Dragon Turtle was clearly enraged. It opened its massive maw, and Black Water Lake instantly whipped up several-meter-high waves, carrying a foul stench as they crashed toward Qin Ji.

This was an area-of-effect skill, unavoidable.

"Brother Ji, watch out!" Qian Duoduo shouted from afar.

Qin Ji didn't move, letting the black water splash all over him.

-0.

-0.

Not even a mandatory -1 damage appeared. His current Defense had long exceeded the defense-breaking threshold of this Level 35 boss.

"Is that all you've got?" Qin Ji sneered.

However, the Blood-Eyed Dragon Turtle's offensive was not over.

Just as Qin Ji landed, a strange ring of watermarks appeared on the sand beneath his feet.

"Hmm?"

He reacted extremely quickly, tapping his toes on the ground and leaping backward like an arrow from a bow.

"Bang!"

At the moment he left, a high-pressure water column shot up from the ground, instantly smashing the hard reef into pieces.

Then, a second and third watermark appeared successively at his landing points.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Nine water columns followed him like maggots on a bone, predicting every one of Qin Ji's landing spots.

"Interesting, predicting my movement?"

In mid-air, Qin Ji performed a 360-degree lateral spin that defied the laws of physics, narrowly dodging the fourth water column that brushed past him. The wind from the water pressure made his trench coat flap loudly.

Although this beast had a clumsy build, the frequency and precision of its skill releases were ridiculously high.

In that case...

"Then don't blame me for not being a gentleman."

Qin Ji stopped dodging. He forcibly twisted his waist in the air, and the iron rod in his hand was instantly covered in a layer of pitch-black light—it was the [Armor Piercing] attribute he had plundered from a previous assassin boss.

"Flash Step!"

Swish!

Qin Ji's figure pulled out an afterimage, directly piercing through the dense net of water columns and instantly appearing above the Blood-Eyed Dragon Turtle's head.

"Die for me!"

The iron rod, carrying ten thousand tons of force, was accurately thrust into the gap in the Dragon Turtle's neck shell.

-34980! (Weak Point Critical Hit)

-34980!

-34980!

Qin Ji's attack speed was astonishingly fast, five strikes per second, each hitting the same spot.

The recovery speed the Blood-Eyed Dragon Turtle took pride in was a joke before such terrifying burst damage. Its health bar plummeted at a speed visible to the naked eye.

This lord, which possessed some intelligence, finally panicked.

"Whiz!"

It suddenly retracted its limbs and head into its shell. In the next second, the massive shell turned into a high-speed rotating beam of light, like an out-of-control heavy truck, crashing recklessly toward Qin Ji!

This was its trump card—Savage Charge!

This kind of map-wide, indiscriminate collision left no room for evasion.

"Brother Ji, run! This thing's gone crazy!" Qian Duoduo jumped in anxiety from afar.

"Run?"

Qin Ji stood his ground, one hand in his pocket, while the other slowly rose, palm facing the roaring mountain of flesh.

In his purple-gold pupils, there was not a single ripple.

"Before absolute power, any technique is just flashy nonsense."

Boom—!!!

The deafening sound of the collision echoed across the entire Sighing Coast.

A violent shockwave swept outward from the point of impact, turning all the reefs within a hundred meters into powder. Even standing far away, Qian Duoduo was knocked over by the shockwave, getting a mouthful of sand.

When the dust settled.

Qian Duoduo tremblingly raised his head, the scene before him making him completely lose his ability to speak.

Qin Ji still maintained his one-handed pushing posture, his feet having plowed two deep furrows into the sand.

And that Blood-Eyed Dragon Turtle, as large as a basketball court, had actually been stopped dead before his palm, unable to advance even a fraction of an inch!

Its shell was covered in spider-web-like cracks, and its previously arrogant aura was now reduced to mournful cries.

"Are you done playing?"

Qin Ji shook his slightly numbed palm, his voice cold. "If you're done, it's time to go."

He gripped the iron rod in reverse and thrust it fiercely into the largest crack on the shell!

Psh!

Black blood gushed out like a fountain.

[Killed Level 35 Lord Blood-Eyed Dragon Turtle, Strength +50, Physique +50.]

[Triggered Greedy Grasp: Obtained passive skill 'Blood of the Dragon Turtle' (Restores 1% of Max HP per second).]

[Obtained Items: dragon turtle hard shell (Epic Material), Dragon Pearl (Special Item), guild founding token (Pseudo)...]

The massive Dragon Turtle corpse collapsed with a bang, dissipating into countless points of light.

Qin Ji casually caught a bead emitting a deep blue glow from the air. Without even a glance, he tossed it into his backpack.

"1% HP recovery per second?"

Qin Ji glanced at his 1.25 million HP bar.

In other words, even if he just stood still now, he would automatically recover over 12,000 HP per second.

"I've really become a mobile blood bank now."

He brushed the dust off his clothes and turned to look at the dumbfounded Qian Duoduo. "Fatty, stop dazing. Pick up the items on the ground. This turtle shell is a good thing; it can be sold for a lot of money."

"Ah? Oh! Oh oh!"

Qian Duoduo snapped out of it and scrambled over to clean up the battlefield. His gaze now was as if he were looking at a living God of Wealth.

...

Half an hour later.

Donghai City, Teleportation Square.

As the core hub connecting major cities, this place was always bustling with people.

"Make way, make way! Dynasty Guild is reserving the area for leveling; bystanders, get lost!"

"Buying gold at high prices, ratio 1:50, scammers' families die!"

Just then, the light of the teleportation array flashed violently, and a bone-chilling cold instantly swept through the entire square.

The noisy crowd went silent instantly, everyone looking at the sky in uncertainty.

"Look! Is that... a Dragon?!"

Someone shouted.

The clouds parted, and a giant dragon composed entirely of Frost roared down. It wasn't a true Dragon Clan member but an elemental creature condensed from high-level magic, emitting a suffocating pressure.

On the dragon's back stood two figures.

The leader was a man in a black trench coat, wearing a half-silver mask that only revealed a pair of indifferent eyes. Behind him followed a round fatty, looking down at everyone with a self-important air.

"Holy crap, is that a Frost Dragon? Whose mount is that?"

"Wait, that person... seems to be the Snow Emperor from the announcement just now?"

"It's really him! That red-name maniac!"

The crowd instantly erupted, with countless gazes filled with awe, jealousy, and greed projecting over.

Qin Ji ignored the ants below and controlled the Frost Dragon to land slowly in the center of the square. The surrounding players, as if seeing a ghost, frantically retreated, forcing open a vacuum zone.

"Ji... Brother Ji, isn't this entrance a bit too grand?" Qian Duoduo's legs were a bit weak; he had never been watched by so many people in his life.

"If it's not grand, how can I catch big fish?"

Qin Ji casually dissipated the Frost element beneath his feet, his gaze accurately locking onto a middle-aged man in a gold-threaded robe at the front of the crowd.

The ID above his head was shining gold—[Wan Sanqian].

The biggest tycoon in Donghai City and Qin Ji's target this time.

"Brother Snow Emperor, I've heard much about you."

Wan Sanqian was indeed someone who had seen the world. Although he was shaken by the entrance just now, he quickly recovered his merchant's shrewdness. He stepped forward quickly, his face full of smiles. "I heard you got some good stuff at the Sighing Coast?"

"The items are all here."

Qin Ji didn't waste words, throwing the massive [dragon turtle hard shell] and several Dark Gold pieces of equipment he had snatched from the palace onto the ground.

Thud!

The heavy equipment smashed onto the stone slabs, the dull sound making the hearts of the surrounding players skip a beat.

"Hiss—is that... Epic-grade Material?!"

"And Dark Gold equipment?! How can there be Dark Gold equipment at this stage?!"

"Did he freaking rob the System's own son?"

Wan Sanqian's pupils contracted sharply. He originally thought the other party only had some high-grade goods, but he didn't expect them to all be strategic Materials that shouldn't even appear at this stage.

Especially that dragon turtle hard shell; if used to forge a shield, it could definitely create the number one tank in the entire server!

"Name a price." Qin Ji said flatly.

Wan Sanqian took a deep breath, suppressing the frenzy in his heart, and held up five fingers: "Five million gold coins! Plus a Supreme VIP card for my Wan Family Merchant Group. From now on, all your expenses in Donghai City will be free of charge!"

Whoosh—!

The whole place was in an uproar. Five million gold coins, at the current ratio, was hundreds of millions in cash!

However, Qin Ji shook his head.

"Too little?" Wan Sanqian frowned.

"Money is just a number to me."

Qin Ji took a step forward, his purple-gold eyes staring at Wan Sanqian, his voice not loud but carrying an unquestionable dominance:

"I want you to help me collect something. As long as you can get it, I'll give you these items for free."

Wan Sanqian was stunned, then said seriously: "What thing?"

Qin Ji's mouth curled slightly, and his finger lightly traced through the air, leaving a strange symbol.

"Fragment of God."

Hearing those four words, Wan Sanqian's face instantly turned pale.

The afterglow of the setting sun spilled across the square, stretching Qin Ji's shadow very long. He stood by the pile of priceless treasures, casually toying with the newly dropped Dragon Pearl, his gaze piercing through the bustling crowd toward the Tower of Heaven towering into the clouds in the center of Donghai City, like a giant beast that had just awakened, coldly watching the hunting ground he was about to turn upside down.