Chapter 268: The World of the Mountain and Sea Secret Seal

An inch of time is an inch of gold, three inches of time make a "Xin" (wealth).

After breaking away from Hu Baiqing and the other two, Ye Lin grabbed Duan Ling and plunged straight into the primeval forest.

The monsters here provide ten times the experience; for Ye Lin, time is the most precious thing right now!

To travel faster, Ye Lin let Duan Ling ride on his shoulders, just as he had done when riding Guo Qin.

Just then, a monster lowered its body and quietly approached the two of them, each step landing without making a sound.

Duan Ling seemed to realize something; she turned her head abruptly, and her expression shifted sharply.

"Hubby! Watch out, there's a White Tiger!"

"What? A White Tiger? Where, where? Let me take a look!"

Ye Lin turned his head in excitement, scanning his surroundings. Soon, a massive mutated white tiger appeared in his field of vision. Its white fur shimmered with a silver luster, its body was several times larger than an ordinary tiger, and two long fangs hung from the corners of its mouth.

Foul-smelling saliva dripped slowly from its fangs onto the ground.

"So it's *this* kind of white tiger." Ye Lin sighed in disappointment.

He had been tainted by the great dye vat of society; once upon a time, in his understanding, a white tiger was just an animal.

"Be careful! This mutated white tiger is likely level 50 or higher..."

Before Duan Ling could finish her sentence, Ye Lin was already charging forward with her on his back. Without any hesitation or sloppiness, Ye Lin's strike was extremely ruthless and decisive.

The Spear of Imperial Gold, carrying peerless sharpness, instantly pierced toward the white tiger's head.

The white tiger sensed the threat and flew into a rage. It leaped up, extended its sharp claws, and pounced toward Ye Lin.

If that claw hit, he would surely be disemboweled!

At the critical moment, Ye Lin bent his knees, twisting his entire body into a strange arc, and passed directly underneath the white tiger.

"I'll use a slide tackle!"

Rip!

The sharp Spear of Imperial Gold instantly sliced open the mutated white tiger's belly. Foul-smelling entrails scattered across the ground, and the white tiger twitched a few times before it completely stopped moving.

【Party kill of level 51 mutated white tiger, rewarded 5099 experience points.】

"It really is ten times the experience!"

Ye Lin was incredibly excited. Duan Ling, riding on his neck, took away 1 experience point, making it exactly 5100 points in total.

This instantly filled Ye Lin with motivation, though he also had to find a way to separate from Duan Ling.

After all, with his main body present, killing monsters was just a matter of one spear thrust... Duan Ling couldn't find any opportunity to strike at all.

In any case, the Mountain and Sea Secret Realm was large enough; he could just leave a clone behind to secretly protect Duan Ling while she leveled up. Being together would only drag down her leveling speed, and besides, the Xie family would eventually make a move against him; staying with him would only make Duan Ling more dangerous.

After killing the mutated white tiger, Ye Lin continued forward to search for traces of monsters.

For students from other academies, encountering a monster above level 50—unless they were from the Four Great Families or the Supreme Academy—would be a bitter battle at the very least.

Yet to Ye Lin, these ferocious monsters were no different from experience babies.

Watching Ye Lin dive forward rapidly and pierce a level 50 Crawler to death with a single spear thrust, Duan Ling finally realized something was wrong.

"Hubby, are you really only level 28?"

A level 28 class-changer, even holding an eight-star divine artifact, couldn't possibly find killing level 50 monsters as simple as killing a chicken, right?

The point was that along the way, more than a dozen monsters had died at Ye Lin's hands, yet he wasn't even flushed or out of breath. Anyone who didn't know better would think Ye Lin was out for a stroll.

"One cannot generalize the physique of different people. I had a friend who once, in a state of extreme rage, relied on human reaction nerves to dodge hundreds of 7. 2 bullets and kill three gunmen in close-quarters combat!"

"So, it is perfectly reasonable that I find killing level 50 monsters very easy."

Ye Lin began spouting nonsense with a straight face. Duan Ling wanted to ask more, but just then, Ye Lin seemed to have discovered something and hurriedly changed the subject.

"Hey! Look what I found! A Mountain and Sea Secret Seal. Its protein content is five times that of beef; as long as you remove the head, the rest is edible!"

Ye Lin pried open the Crawler's corpse with force. Inside its belly, a crystalline and warm jade seal lay quietly.

"It really is a Mountain and Sea Secret Seal!"

Duan Ling was somewhat excited. There were only 108 Mountain and Sea Secret Seals in total; she hadn't expected to find one less than two hours after entering the Mountain and Sea Secret Realm.

It seemed her and Ye Lin's luck was quite good.

Seeing Ye Lin reach out to take the Mountain and Sea Secret Seal, Duan Ling hurriedly warned him.

"Be careful, the Crawler's blood contains a special kind of small particle that will explode!"

"Don't worry." Ye Lin was quick-witted and successfully retrieved the Mountain and Sea Secret Seal. The moment he grasped it, his consciousness was instantly pulled into a strange world.

In this world, all the surrounding elements seemed to have come to life.

Countless ways to release skills flashed before Ye Lin's eyes, and a massive torrent of information flooded his mind.

A moment later, Ye Lin finally understood the purpose of this world: in this place, all kinds of elements could communicate with humans without barriers.

For example, if Ye Lin wanted to cast a Water Ball spell, he only needed to say, "Water elements nearby, please condense into a spherical shape in my hand," and he could cast the spell directly.

"Is this what the Dean meant by a glimmer of insight into one's own profession?"

Ye Lin was immediately eager to try summoning the elements.

"Water elements nearby! Please condense into my hand!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the surrounding water elements instantly rioted. The entire world shattered, and his consciousness was immediately ejected.

"Strange!"

As his consciousness returned, Ye Lin was filled with confusion. He had followed the process correctly, so why did this happen? Could it be that the Forbidden Spellcaster class was too powerful, and one Mountain and Sea Secret Seal wasn't enough?

"Come, you try it!"

Ye Lin handed the Mountain and Sea Secret Seal to Duan Ling. Her consciousness was also instantly pulled into that world.

A moment later, Duan Ling's consciousness returned, and her little face was full of excitement; clearly, she had gained quite a bit.

"So that's how ordinary poison-type skills are released!"

"Hmm?"

Ye Lin was completely baffled. How could Duan Ling gain something while he was just kicked out?

Refusing to believe it, Ye Lin took the Mountain and Sea Secret Seal and tried a few more times, but the result was always the same: as soon as he tried to gather an element, it would riot, and the world would shatter and eject his consciousness.

After trying to no avail, Ye Lin could only give up for the time being. Perhaps he would need to find a few more Mountain and Sea Secret Seals before this problem could be solved.

"So, are you really only level 28?" Duan Ling couldn't help but ask again.

"Leveled up a few times, but not many. Oh, let's go! Let's hurry and find more Mountain and Sea Secret Seals!"

Ye Lin didn't want to say more. He shook the Crawler's blood off the Mountain and Sea Secret Seal and pulled Duan Ling along, wanting to leave.

Just then, a "pop" sound rang out.

A man with a fleshy face and a protruding belly walked out from behind a tree. Smoke was rising from his head, and his expression held a hint of anger.

He plucked a strand of singed hair from the top of his head and asked coldly.

"Who threw the firecracker?"