Chapter 157

So he asked Gu Xiaoyu what they should go fight next.

"You guys go find a small dungeon to run."

"I'll wait here."

Gu Xiaoyu thought it over for a moment, then made her decision — she would wait here for the other party to come out of the secret realm, and then make the acquaintance of this genius!

No matter how you looked at it.

This suspected SSS-rank powerhouse was absolutely worth befriending — for her, and for the Gu family, it would bring tremendous benefits.

Even if she couldn't get close to him...

Even if she only got to know him, to put a face to the name, there was no harm in it!

In any case, for her, grinding levels wasn't something that had to be done this very instant.

???

At her decision, every one of her teammates wore a baffled expression.

"Xiaoyu, this guy wanting to solo a team dungeon definitely isn't something that'll be over in a short while... how long are you planning to wait here?"

Even her best friend was feeling a bit helpless.

"Should be pretty fast, right?"

Gu Xiaoyu wasn't entirely sure either. She thought for a moment and said, "I saw a post online before, saying that over in Zhongnan City, a solo-genius popped up, soloing a dungeon in just ten minutes. Maybe this is that genius?"

"I've seen some posts too... but I always felt like Zhongnan City was just bragging."

A young man in the group couldn't help but say, "These days a lot of cities always put up this fake front of geniuses popping up everywhere, just to grab more resources from certain departments!"

"I think so too."

Another person murmured, "Soloing a dungeon is one thing, but soloing a secret realm — that kind of thing takes at least SSS-rank talent to pull off, right?"

"If Zhongnan City had produced an SSS, they'd have jumped out to brag about it ages ago — how could they possibly keep it this low-key?"

It had to be said.

Their analysis wasn't really off the mark.

But the key point was...

Zhongnan City had no idea what rank of talent Chen Yang possessed!

Even in the words of the old Sword Saint, they couldn't even confirm whether Chen Yang was a class-changer from Zhongnan City.

How could their officials possibly take something unconfirmed and use it to brag?

Precisely because of that.

The matter of Zhongnan City's solo-genius only circulated privately among the populace.

Many people didn't believe this kind of information.

Mainly because there were just too many fake pieces of news online.

Of course.

Another key point was that many class-changers in Tianhai City looked down on the surrounding cities as country bumpkins, and barely paid any attention to news from those cities in the first place...

"In any case, you guys go on ahead and disperse........... "

"I'll wait here."

Gu Xiaoyu had her own plans.

No matter what her teammates said, she still decided to stay, right here at the secret realm's entrance.

No matter how long this person needed to grind...

She was determined to make the acquaintance!

At the very least, a class-changer who dared to solo a team secret realm absolutely could not be weak!

Chen Yang naturally had no idea that while he was grinding the dungeon, a girl was waiting for him outside.

After he unlocked his eighth aura slot.

He had originally planned to add the 【Super Split】 aura, turning single-target attacks into AoE skills, but that Origin Skill Book wasn't in hand yet anyway...

So Chen Yang first activated a 【Lacerating Wound】 aura, doubling the damage the monsters took.

With the damage deepened.

Isabella and Ao Qingyue's Origin Skills, once unleashed, instantly one-shot all the small monsters!

Black Hole Vortex.

Peerless Sword Formation.

These two skills, under the aura effects of Infinite Firepower and Hyper-Speed Comprehension, were leveling up at a hundred times the normal speed.

After clearing this secret realm, he should be able to hit level 16.

"Just 4 more levels, and I can hit level 20 to unlock the special effect."

Chen Yang was still looking forward to that.

Of course.

For now, grinding these small dungeons, whether those two Origin Skills' special effects were unlocked or not didn't really matter.

But if it came to fighting an Shi Shi-rank secret realm...

The skills' special effects would be absolutely critical!

"Black Hole Vortex" at level 20 ignores magic immunity — in an Shi Shi-rank secret realm, magic-immune monsters were bound to show up.

And "Peerless Sword Formation" at level 20 ignores defense.

In Shi Shi-rank secret realms, there were plenty of monsters with defense multiplied three or four times, especially BOSSes — if they had a defense-boosting affix, then even with Chen Yang's ten-times attack aura, he'd still have to grind away for ages, since after all he was soloing a 13-person Shi Shi-rank team secret realm.

With a level-20 Peerless Sword Formation, though.

Chen Yang no longer needs to deliberately switch his Armor-Piercing Halo when encountering this type of monster.

The total time was no more than fifteen minutes.

Chen Yang cleared out all the monsters in the entire team dungeon.

When he stealthily left the instance and returned to the outside world.

He suddenly discovered…

That loli girl Gu Xiaoyu was actually still at the dungeon's entrance?

It seemed she had seen the vortex at the dungeon's entrance disappear.

Gu Xiaoyu was first stunned, then a little pleasantly surprised. She hadn't expected that this national-level genius had cleared this team dungeon in just fifteen short minutes?!

Isn't this too fierce?

One must know that even her elite team would need at least an hour to clear it!

"Um… Senior! Big shot! Please accept my knees!"

Gu Xiaoyu had originally been sitting on the grass.

She suddenly jumped up. She didn't know where Chen Yang was, so she could only shout into the air: "I saw you clear instances really fast. I want to offer one billion… please carry me through a dungeon once! What do you think?"

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Chen Yang had originally wanted to leave.

Hearing this, he was a bit dumbfounded.

This loli beauty… has she lost her mind?

One billion to be carried through an instance once?

Does she need to be this rich?

Unfortunately.

Chen Yang is currently in a rush to level up, so of course he has no 5.1 mind to carry others. So what if it's one billion per run?

For many class-changers, this might be an astronomical price!

Let alone those in the thirties or forties.

Even big shots over level one hundred would have plenty of people willing to take the job.

But for Chen Yang.

No matter how many magic crystals there are, they're just numbers. They can't raise his strength anyway… His Princess bracelet still has over one hundred billion magic crystals unspent, so he's not short on money at all.

Of course.

If the one making this request were someone else, Chen Yang would have just walked away directly, too lazy to bother.

But from his previous dealings with this loli girl, Chen Yang actually had a bit of a good impression of her.

So he had Isabella reply with two words: "No carry."