Chapter 1104: Vanguard Squad

In the blink of an eye, more than half a month has passed…

A certain level‑70 Dungeon…

Su Sheng, Shen Wang, Xingchen, Li Wenwan, and Huang Mingxin…

The party of five is clearing the Dungeon!

Although it is a level‑70 difficulty Dungeon, under the strong alliance of the five, they swept through it effortlessly.

After smoothly defeating the final Dungeon boss,

Two golden lights flashed, and the lowest‑level members Huang Mingxin and Li Wenwan both leveled up.

"All right, everyone's at 75 now."

Shen Wang, wielding that Demon Divine Artifact—a black‑and‑red 'Ruthless'—watched Huang Mingxin and Li Wenwan level up and said cheerfully.

"It wasn't easy. Let's rest a bit and head to the Dungeon we discovered near the Rising Star tomorrow," Su Sheng said, glancing at the Demon Divine Artifact in Shen Wang's hand.

Even though it's just black‑and‑red, its level is a full 80, and its base stats surpass those of Demon God Lightning.

However, Su Sheng's attribute needs rely almost entirely on secondary attributes; the base stats are of little use to him.

Considering that 'Ruthless' has no Fourth Rebirth requirement, its attributes are slightly lower, but the advantage is that it can be used right away.

Su Sheng then thought about his own level‑80 gear, which still demands Fourth Rebirth, and felt truly frustrated.

"Mo Wen Chairman, how much experience do you have?" Xingchen asked while petting the wolf beside him.

"I'm at 95% of level 78; another Dungeon tomorrow should push me to 79," Su Sheng replied without concealment.

"The experience requirements ahead are really outrageous," Xingchen remarked.

At this moment, the highest level in the party is Su Sheng at 78.

Next is Shen Wang, nearing level 77, and Xingchen, who has been level 76 for a few days; although his experience may lag behind Shen Wang's, he isn't far from 77.

Among the five, the lowest‑level members are Huang Mingxin and Li Wenwan, who also reached level 75 after this Dungeon.

This is the plan Su Sheng and Lin Huan came up up with!

Form alliances! Pull together a five‑person elite squad!

Su Sheng briefed Shen Wang on the Eagle Sauce Server situation, as well as his own concerns and plan.

After pondering Su Sheng's plan, Shen Wang expressed agreement and then discussed the composition of the five.

Su Sheng naturally had nothing to be questioned about; as the initiator and highest‑level member, his damage output is exceptionally high, and his survivability is arguably the best on the Whole Server.

As for Shen Wang, his luxurious gear and keen combat sense make him an obvious choice as the elder brother.

With physical damage and survivability covered, the next step is to pick a magical DPS and a support unit.

Among the five, for magical damage and boss‑fighting, Li Wenwan is the obvious choice.

As a Hidden Class Phoenix Flame Mage, she may be slightly behind top‑tier players skill‑wise, but for a Dungeon that's fine—as long as she can operate, there's no issue, and it's not a PvP showdown. Her Phoenix Flame will‑power healing, combined with Li Wenwan's special background—she's of the Li conglomerate despite being of the Yan‑Huang lineage, and even holds a share of the Huan Yu Guild's assets—made her a natural pick.

As for the priest choice… Huan Yu Nuwa, Feng Wu Jiu Tian, Jasmine Tale, and also Huang Mingxin were considered.

Actually, Feng Wu Jiu Tian is the most suitable; as a Hidden Class Holy Words priest, her healing is solid, and her various buffs far surpass ordinary priest players.

Unfortunately, Feng Wu Jiu Tian's personality has a flaw—being separated from her brother for long periods would likely unsettle her—so she was ultimately cut.

Only Huan Yu Nuwa and Huang Mingxin remained; their attribute development was similar. Huan Yu Nuwa might have a slight edge in healing, but Huang Mingxin, with the Life Ring and an extra resurrection safety net, ultimately prevailed.

As for the fifth slot… it's best to pick a versatile character. Su Sheng originally considered bringing Huan Jie, who is ranged and also an elf ranger with some support abilities.

However, in the end Shen Wang suggested adding Xingchen!

First… Xingchen's current class has strong compatibility.

Second, to level up quickly, the best way is to farm Dungeons, which grant generous experience and have densely packed monsters.

Dungeons also have no experience caps…

However, a single guild's search for suitable Dungeons is limited; to level quickly you must keep farming Dungeons, and even with Yan‑Huang and Huan Yu, finding enough Dungeons is somewhat stressful.

If Xingchen can join, his current strength is sufficient, and with Rising Star helping to locate Dungeons, it becomes much easier.

In the end… a five‑person elite squad was formed: Su Sheng, Shen Wang, Xingchen, Li Wenwan, and Huang Mingxin.

With the full cooperation of the three major guilds—Yan‑Huang, Huan Yu, and Rising Star—the five‑person team has been continuously farming Dungeons.

One after another…

That's why everyone's levels have been pushed to the current stage.

Likewise, after this period of joint Dungeon runs, the five's coordination has grown ever tighter.

When the time comes to go to Huangcheng for that mission, it will be advantageous.

The five‑person strong alliance has seen almost no failed Dungeons during this time, not even any member loss.

After all, each of the five has a Survival Skill, and with Huang Mingxin's Life Seed, their error tolerance is exceptionally high.

Beyond experience and levels, the equipment gains during this period have also been decent.

Except for Su Sheng, everyone else has replaced at least two to three pieces of gear.

As for Su Sheng, he did obtain some loot but made no replacements.

He obtained a level‑70 purple pendant; its stats are good and suit Su Sheng well.

However, the two pendants Su Sheng currently wears include a Demon Spirit Pendant, a level‑75 Red Legend item with a Survival Skill and decent stats.

That one obviously can't be swapped.

The other is a level‑65 purple Poison Snake Fang; overall its stats don't match the level‑70 purple pendant.

Nevertheless, the Poison Snake Fang possesses the Magic Snake Deadly Poison Technique, whose 5‑second Forbidden Healing effect is essentially useless against Demon Race units but extremely handy when fighting other bosses.

Since the level‑70 pendant doesn't boost stats much, Su Sheng didn't replace it.

That 5‑second Forbidden Healing effect is truly delightful.

Even if it's swapped later, the ring can be kept temporarily and pulled out for certain boss fights.

Su Sheng looked at his own equipment; it was really luxurious.

Other than the Magic Snake Fang and the level 70 helmet, which are purple, everything else starts at orange.

Upon reaching level 80 and undergoing the class change, he will be able to wear the Skeleton Dragon Head dropped by the earlier Undying Ancient Dragon.

By then, probably only the Magic Snake Fang accessory will be purple; this whole set of equipment, pieced together from east and west, basically suits him well, so it won't be easy to take off.

…

However, as time passed, the higher-level dungeons have all been cleared, so they came to run a level-70 difficulty dungeon.

Even a level-70 difficulty dungeon yields experience gains that exceed regular leveling.

"Let's go, take a break, we'll first head to the dungeon entrance, then log out at the entrance, and tomorrow we'll log in and start the dungeon right away," Shen Wang proposed.

"Okay."

Everyone naturally had no objections; there was still over an hour of game time left, less than two hours.

Afterwards, everyone left the dungeon and rushed to another location in Qinglong City.

The dungeons that Xuan Yu and Qimingxing found are basically in Qing Long Main City.

Upon arriving at the designated spot, a Qimingxing squad was guarding there.

After all, they discovered the dungeon location, so they had to keep watch; otherwise others would sneak in.

After arriving at the location, everyone entered the dungeon and logged out at the entrance.

…

Because they logged out early, there was still over half an hour of game time left.

After Su Sheng took a shower, he sneaked into Huan Jie's room; Huan Jie was still lying in the game cabin.

Su Sheng thus, through the game cabin, began admiring his own Huan Jie's peerless beauty.

After the game time ended, having had his fill, he ate breakfast and went to work.

Those two little girls also indeed kept the secret; Su Sheng's peaceful life here remained unbroken.

Thus Su Sheng continued, going to work in his usual orderly manner.

With nothing happening all day, as work ended he went to check on Xiao Zhe at Professor Lu's staff dormitory, then returned.

…

Log in!

Continue clearing dungeons!

This too is a short dungeon; it took a day of game time to clear, just a dungeon of around level 75 difficulty.

Su Sheng also smoothly reached level 79.

Just one level left!

Then he'll reach level 80!

"Our Qinglong City side's dungeons have been mostly cleared; the rest are level 60+ dungeons, which for us yield no benefit."

"Chairman Mo Wen, have you found any suitable dungeons on your side?"

Shen Wang looked toward Su Sheng.

Su Sheng inquired about Chen Guan's side.

After receiving the reply, Su Sheng raised his head: "There is one, but it's a large dungeon, level 80 difficulty, a Thousand-Person Team dungeon."

Shen Wang pondered briefly: "That works; tomorrow we'll gather the people and set out."

The others had no objections either; as long as they could level up quickly, it didn't matter what dungeon it was.

Logged out, a day passed.

Midway, Su Sheng bumped into Xuan Yu Wu, but there were no other incidents.

The border defense brothers have already caught quite a few mercenaries trying to sneak in during this period.

On our side, identities have basically not been exposed, which is not bad.

Although specific identities haven't been exposed, the location of the Yanhuang Club is basically known, so during this period this small town has also seen many strange people.

However, overall it remains within control.

…

Log in.

Enter the dungeon!

This Thousand-Person Team dungeon is actually a long-term dungeon.

Five people took the lead, gathering the absolute elites of three guilds, forming a 1000-person team.

If so, they also suffered nearly 300+ casualties, taking three days to clear this dungeon.

However, overall it was still a gain; Su Sheng's experience reached about 37% of level 79.

Don't underestimate gaining 37% experience in three days; if done at a regular training spot, grinding for 10% experience in three days would already be impressive.

The equipment did include one epic item, but it was a magic-type; ultimately, via dice roll…, Qimingxing got it, though later the Xuan Yu side apparently swapped it back under some unknown condition.

Besides that, there is also a red item! Because Su Sheng's contribution was the highest in the entire dungeon space.

Therefore, this red item went to Su Sheng, given that he had relinquished the epic equipment.

A legendary-tier item… a hammer!

Talulu Grand Master's Hammer (red)

Item: can seek a grandmaster-level or higher blacksmith, use this hammer to replace one equipment's affix with another equipment's affix.

Note: after replacing affixes on auxiliary equipment, the equipment will be damaged and disappear; after the main equipment's affix is replaced, the replaced affix cannot be restored.

Maximum replacement level: legendary.

Great stuff!

This thing's value is extremely high! At least for Su Sheng, it even exceeds the value of an Epic-level Equipment for Su Sheng.

Although no equipment was obtained, this item is still seen for the first time.

As expected of an 80-level Thousand-Person Raid!

However, regarding the use of this item…

It's just a bit torn.

Many useful additional attributes can be extracted.

The Dragon Scale additional skill of the Dragon Scale Shield previously used was quite good!

If this thing is used, it's equivalent to having two lives.

However, it's a pity that the shield in my hand right now is a Divine Artifact.

This item can at most modify equipment of Red Legend tier.

Su Sheng could only shake his head helplessly.

Besides that, there is the Magic Snake Deadly Poison Technique of the Magic Snake Fang; I currently have a 70-level purple equipment that can replace it.

However, using a 70-level purple equipment would waste this item, which is really a pity.

Putting this aside, why not wait a bit? Later, when we have better pendant equipment, we can replace this Magic Snake Deadly Poison skill onto it.

Or rather…

Su Sheng's gaze turned to the lowest-level equipment currently on him, the special equipment slot…

A 50-level special equipment, symbol of honor.

Overall, this equipment's attributes are quite good, and the additional effect is also very high, which is related to the rarity of special equipment.

But the main reason Su Sheng can't take it off now is… Falling Demon Body!!

This can burst a 30% attack-defense special state, still instant on/off; although there are downsides, they are insignificant.

Su Sheng pondered a bit; speaking of which, this red item can be kept for this cloak.

If later we get better special equipment attribute additions, we can replace Falling Demon Body with it.

Then it would be perfect directly.

Su Sheng thus happily stored away this item.

Still lacking 70% experience, I will reach level 80.

Coincidentally, these past few days, Chen Guan on the Yanhuang side found another 75-level Dungeon, which is a ten-person Dungeon.

It can be chained infinitely.

However, at the same time, another message came over.

Su Sheng clicked to see, and it was Zhu Meng Junjie!

Could it be that he found another task to go to other servers?

Su Sheng opened the Private Chat content with curiosity…