Chapter 201: The Third Top-Quality Resource Point, the Nagaluo Clan

Pfft! That kid couldn't be that unlucky, could he? We just took over a new top-quality resource point, and it was immediately overrun by the surrounding ferocious beasts?

Looking at it this way, he probably doesn't have many guards left; after losing a top-quality resource point, he might not even be able to hold onto the lowest low-quality resource point.

So, people still need to know their limits……

The higher you fly, the harder you fall; this Fang Xu probably stops here in the second stage—just making it to the third stage with his life intact would be a blessing.

……

The crowd in the square began discussing Fang Xu's misfortune, while at this moment Fang Xu had already handed over the top-quality soul crystal from the resource point to Gu Yuxi.

Now, Gu Yuxi and She Wang each have their own top-quality soul crystal; next they need to figure out how to help Fang Xu earn points.

"Fang Xu, what should we do now?"

In the crowd, Kong Jie spoke up.

The soul crystals in both top-quality resource points have been taken, so the resource points are now useless.

They have only earned four points so far; seeing that the time is about to reach the second four-hour period, other candidates will gain points again, so they must hurry.

"There are two methods." Fang Xu thought, then said: "First, we act now against the other candidates."

Upon hearing his words, a soldier of the Ghost Face Army immediately clenched his fists, ready for a big fight.

Another part furrowed their brows, looking at Fang Xu, wanting to speak but hesitating.

"Fang Xiaozi, acting now might be inappropriate."

Old Yuan voiced the thoughts of this group.

If they act now, even though they have earned points from two time nodes, at most they'd have six points; one tenth of that is 0.6 points, which is basically useless.

Fang Xu nodded: "So I'm more inclined toward the second method."

Saying this, he looked at Gu Yuxi and She Wang and said: "I plan to combine all our forces and then separately occupy three to four high-quality resource points."

"That way, we could gain nine to twelve points every four hours; what do you two think?"

Gu Yuxi looked at She Wang, then at his own undead army behind him.

"This plan is not bad; with our three forces combined, occupying three to four high-quality resource points should be defensible."

"When the time is about right, we can abandon these high-quality resource points and then go seize others'."

She Wang also nodded his head, considering Fang Xu's plan feasible.

Seeing them all agree, Fang Xu immediately began to lightly tap the forces of all three sides.

Gu Yuxi's undead army, counting the ferocious beast zombies temporarily transformed, numbers a full 130,000.

Among the Golden Scale Fireline Snake Clan, the number of adult golden scale fireline snakes is also close to 10,000.

Here, the Ghost Face Army numbers 5,000.

After a simple division, Fang Xu decided to simultaneously occupy four high-quality resource points.

Besides that, he also reserved a small portion of personnel to go search for new top-quality resource points.

Gu Yuxi's golden small coffin in his hand is something he must obtain.

As long as they find a new top-quality resource point, they can obtain a suspected ancient divine artifact passed down from antiquity—this deal is extremely profitable.

According to his plan, the people still spread out around the surroundings.

The number of top-quality resource points in this world is scarce.

But the number of high-quality resource points is still quite large.

After some searching, they quickly found four high-quality resource points not too far apart.

After occupying a high-quality resource point, each four-hour period yields three points.

If all four are taken together, each four-hour period yields twelve points.

As long as they can hold onto them, even without seizing others' points, they can steadily win this stage.

After activating the four high-quality resource points, Fang Xu then left with a thousand Ghost Face Army soldiers.

Anyway, he didn't intend to go too far; if any uncontrollable problem arose, the Ghost Face Army soldiers could fully use the Divine Attendant Gu Worm to sound an alarm, and he could return in time.

On the other side.

On the divine temple square, everyone was watching the point changes between second and fifth place on the stone tablet, when suddenly they noticed that the name of Fang Xu, who was in first place, had changed again.

"Yellow light dots…… Does he have anyone beside him?"

"No, two yellow light dots!"

"Another one lit up, and there's still more!?"

Seeing the four yellow light dots lighting up behind Fang Xu's name, representing the high-quality resource points, everyone present felt somewhat unbelievable!

What do four yellow light dots after the name represent?

Could it be that he himself occupied four resource points!?

Isn't that cheating?

This method had been discovered by candidates before, but actually implementing it is very difficult.

Because these resource points are all activated by the same person, this world naturally wouldn't let people exploit a loophole.

For this situation, the world's will has a way.

Originally, when facing a beast tide, a high-quality resource point might suffer an attack of difficulty level one from ferocious beasts.

But if one simultaneously occupies two resource points, that difficulty becomes two.

Like Fang Xu, who simultaneously occupies four, when the beast tide arrives, the difficulty they must face will be at least eight.

Moreover, when simultaneously occupying multiple resource points, if any one of them is overrun, all earned points will be instantly wiped out.

Take Fang Xu for example—never mind how many guards he lost after experiencing two waves of top-quality resource point losses.

Even if unharmed, that would still be 5,000 people.

5,000 people divided into four parts, each part has about a thousand plus a few.

Using this number of people to resist the beast tide is no different from sending them to death.

This kid really knows how to court death.

If you ask me, this kind of person should have his candidacy revoked, always thinking of taking shortcuts; if the Dark God Temple were handed over to someone like him to lead, it would surely be ruined sooner or later.

Exactly, not wanting to rely on strength, always doing these crooked and heretical things!

When the beast tide descends later, this kid had better die inside!

……

Seeing the four yellow light points after Fang Xu's name, many people in the square thought Fang Xu was courting death.

But at this moment, Fang Xu had already discovered a clue to the third top-grade resource point.

After gaining experience from the first two top-grade resource points, Fang Xu vaguely sensed a pattern.

That is, wherever a top-grade resource point is nearby, there are always stationed several ferocious beast clans with relatively strong strength.

It seems that these strong ferocious beast clans themselves look down on the soul crystals in other resource points, constantly fixating on the soul crystals of the top-grade resource points.

With this discovery, Fang Xu followed this line of thought to search and soon found the trace of the third top-grade resource point.

Young Master, everything has been scouted clearly.

A Ghost-faced militiaman ran up to Fang Xu, simply drew a rough sketch on the ground, and said: 'Ahead lies the territory of a herd of Blazing Flame Kui Oxen.'

About five hundred li to the west of the Blazing Flame Kui Oxen lives a herd of Shadow Demon Wolves.

This side is a herd of Lava Giants, the three sides forming a triangular formation, encircling this mountain peak.

Fang Xu nodded and said: 'Looking at it this way, this mountain peak is very likely a top-grade resource point.'

That Ghost-faced militiaman nodded: 'That must be the case.'

Young Master, should I go scout?

Fang Xu waved his hand: 'Too dangerous, I'll go myself.'

Having said that, his figure flickered and he vanished directly before everyone's eyes.

The next moment, his figure appeared on a mountain peak dotted with strange rocks.

This mountain peak is not particularly tall or perilous, but the boulders on it are extremely sparse, with many strangely shaped stones.

Fang Xu stood quietly on a raised boulder, looked around, and discovered a small basin.

Upon seeing what was in the basin, a smile appeared on his face.

Sure enough, it was a top-grade resource point.

However, he also discovered a group of human-bodied, snake-tailed monsters in the basin.

These monsters were silently guarding the resource point.

Fang Xu did not act rashly; those human-bodied, snake-tailed monsters are not weak, so it's best to wait for Gu Yuxi and the others to arrive before saying anything.

Having noted this location, Fang Xu directly led his people back to the previously occupied upper-grade resource point.

After announcing the discovery of the top-grade resource point, Fang Xu looked at Gu Yuxi and asked: 'Interested?'

Gu Yuxi stiffly nodded: 'Let's go.'

Having said that, he selected several strong subordinates from his undead army behind him and followed Fang Xu toward that strange mountain.

She Wang also seemed eager to witness the human-bodied, snake-tailed monsters Fang Xu had mentioned, shouting as he followed.

The party soon arrived before the strange mountain.

Be careful, there are three powerful monster clans around; don't provoke them. Fang Xu said.

Gu Yuxi nodded and walked straight up the strange mountain.

Above the basin, several people looked down at those human-bodied, snake-tailed monsters from afar.

Are they them!!

Gu Yuxi suddenly spoke, his voice tinged with a hint of apprehension.

She Wang's expression also turned grave, as if he felt those monsters in the basin were not to be trifled with.

Fang Xu curiously asked: 'What are they? Are they strong?'

Gu Yuxi nodded: 'Back during the God War, a portion of the ancient gods summoned many helpers from beyond the realm.'

After these outer gods arrived in this world, some of them combined with the world's living beings, giving birth to a new race.

In my memory, those fellows in the basin seem to be called Nagaluo, human-bodied with snake tails, six arms growing from their bodies, extremely ferocious.

Moreover, take a look at these strange rocks.

After hearing Gu Yuxi's words, Fang Xu carefully examined the surrounding strange rocks, only then noticing something amiss.

These strange rocks look like a ferocious beast!

This strange rock is the trunk of a big tree!!

Gu Yuxi nodded: 'Nagaluo also possesses a petrification ability, making them very difficult to deal with.'

Petrification ability?

Could this be like the Medusa queen from Western legend, having the ability to turn whoever she gazes at to stone?

"Give up?" Fang Xu glanced at Gu Yuxi.

He knew that, since Nagaluo were so troublesome, without the cooperation of She Wang and Gu Yuxi, he absolutely could not seize this resource point.

"Giving up is definitely out of the question." Gu Yuxi said: "However, this matter still needs the Little Snake's help."

Having said that, he directly picked up the Golden Scale Fire Line Snake King, and before Fang Xu could react, Gu Yuxi hurled the Snake King as a hidden weapon toward the basin below!

The terrifying force caused the Snake King's body to emit a sonic boom.

Below, the originally leisurely Nagaluo, hearing the commotion, without hesitation, shot out a series of hazy gray beams toward the Snake King's position!

In midair, the Snake King loudly cursed Gu Yuxi's method.

However, Gu Yuxi pretended not to hear, while Fang Xu simply couldn't understand the Snake King's words at all.

Seeing the gray light beams about to strike, the Snake King's body twisted strangely a few times, barely dodging those gray light beams.

Its whole body, like a fish swimming in water, twisted back and forth in midair.

The Snake King seized the opportunity, lunged forward, and appeared beside a Naga.

Its sharp teeth sank hard into one of its arms.

The terrifying poison instantly permeated its body, and this Naga let out a muffled groan before collapsing limp on the ground.

Afterward, the Gold-scaled Firethread Snake moved with extreme speed, poisoning the Nagas one by one.

In the blink of an eye, only three strong-bodied Nagas remained in the basin.

The three Nagas stood back to back, each of their eighteen arms gripping a short dagger, warily watching the Snake King not far away.

The Snake King also dared not be careless.

Just now it had already tried to break through the three Nagas' defenses using speed.

But these three Nagas are very strong, and their sword‑drawing speed is extremely fast.

Once the Snake King draws near, a spatial‑rending attack strikes immediately.

Several times, the Snake King almost got torn apart on the spot by the three Nagas.

"Let's make a move."

"Watch out for their gray light beams."

Gu Yu Xi said, walking slowly into the basin.

At this moment the Snake King lunged at Gu Yu Xi, biting and tearing, seemingly venting its anger.

Meanwhile, a thin layer of ice formed on Gu Yu Xi's body; no matter how the Snake King tore and bit, it remained unmoved.

The Snake King also knew it couldn't deal with Gu Yu Xi in a short time, and with a formidable foe still present, it wasn't suitable to keep making a fuss.

"One each?" Fang Xu asked.

Gu Yu Xi said nothing, his body sweeping past him and the Snake King to reach the three Nagas.

"You can't hold this place; leave quickly." The indifferent words rang out, and Gu Yu Xi silently watched the three Nagas.

"King of the Undead Lands, why have you crossed half the world to come here?" One of the Nagas obviously knew Gu Yu Xi.

"I want the top‑grade soul crystal here." Gu Yu Xi did not hide his intention, speaking directly.

The three Nagas exchanged a glance, all filled with anger.

"King of the Undead Lands, you are defying the will of heaven and earth!"

"I can sense you already have a top‑grade soul crystal inside you; taking a second one, do you know what that means?"

Gu Yu Xi nodded slightly: "I want to leave here to search for my lost memories."

"Even if I ultimately fail and die, I will have no regrets."

"Will you step aside yourselves, or must we force you?"

The three Nagas hesitated.

Their three strengths are very strong.

But the enemy before them seems even stronger.

Needless to say, Gu Yu Xi, the king from the Undead Lands,

the Gold‑scaled Firethread Snake is also very troublesome.

And that human, although appearing weak, they still sensed the terrifying power hidden within the opponent.

If they fought, their side seemed to have little chance of winning.

"We can step aside, but there's a condition you must agree to first."

One of the Nagas spoke.

Gu Yu Xi glanced at Fang Xu, saw he had no objection, and said directly: "Go on."

"We also want soul crystals."

Hearing this, Fang Xu frowned.

Again, soul crystals?

Where am I supposed to find so many top‑grade soul crystals for them?

"That request is denied." Gu Yu Xi said directly.

"We don't need top‑grade; we just want high‑grade." One of the Nagas hurriedly said.

It also knows how rare top‑grade soul crystals are. (End of chapter)