Chapter 1137: Dungeon Begins!!

…the forum was closed, Su Sheng looked up and said farewell to Shen Wang and the members of Lang Xing Tianxia.

This time, Lang Xing Tianxia is immensely grateful to Su Sheng and the many Solo Players who came to assist.

Especially the Solo Players: for every Solo Player who fought, Lang Xing Tianxia awarded a bounty of 100 Gold Coin per kill.

And in this battle, even Solo Players who suffered casualties without any kills received a compensation of 100 Gold Coin.

It looks like a lot, but in reality the three factions together total only 30,000 people, so even if all the kills were by Solo Players, that's only 3,000,000 Gold Coin. For a large guild backed by a corporation, 3,000,000 Gold Coin is really nothing.

The total investment for this entire garrison exceeds not just 3,000,000 but even 30,000,000.

As for the guild's gratitude, it's not just Gold Coin but personal favors… at this level, a favor can often be worth far more than 3,000,000.

With the matter resolved, Chen Guan simply led his people back home.

Su Sheng didn't expect the crisis to be solved so easily; he had seriously underestimated his own "perversion" level, especially now that Su Sheng has already completed Fourth Rebirth.

Secondly, the terrain: the Greedy Wolf Guild's village garrison has narrow alleys packed with people, which perfectly suits the use of his new skill.

Then, with nothing on either side… Su Sheng also began, together with Shen Wang, accompanying Xingchen, Li Wenwan, and Huang Mingxin into the Dungeon.

After all, Su Sheng is now level 81; gaining another level is no small challenge, and under the premise that time is not lacking, helping them run the Dungeon together is the optimal choice.

Although grinding these Dungeons in Main City now yields very little experience for Su Sheng and Shen Wang.

However, leveling the Vanguard Squad members to 80 and then completing the Solidified Instance quest in Huangcheng yields the greatest profit.

Later they can also grind Huangcheng's Dungeons to level up… of course, the premise is that the final reward of this quest truly is the Solidified Instance.

At present the chance is high but not certain, so… let's gamble. Regardless, as the sole quest, its reward will definitely not be low.

…Of course, Su Sheng originally had no such plan; his original plan was, after completing his class‑changing trial, to grind Demon‑Suppressing Army's Demon Suppression contribution.

But after a trip to Demon Realm, he found his level had risen, and the contribution rewards for killing Demon Realm monsters were pitifully low.

Then he thought again: the mission he experienced before on Eagle Sauce Server also had a target Dungeon that was a demon cave.

Su Sheng simply decided to return and help the Vanguard Squad level up, rush into that Dungeon, and kill two birds with one stone.

So during the coming period, the Vanguard Squad's Dungeon journey was extremely smooth.

Experience points naturally surged with each grind.

Under these circumstances, the Domestic Server's third level‑80 player was born quickly!

It turned out to be Xingchen!

Xingchen is also a Hidden Class; since Xingchen is already level 80, Xingchen will first undertake his class‑changing quest, though it's unclear how complex it is.

With the Vanguard Squad now missing a damage slot, Su Sheng naturally pulled his own Huan Jie into the group.

As for Shen Wang, he naturally wanted to bring his own Huanyu members over to soak up experience; after all, with two level‑80 Fourth Rebirth veterans, running the Dungeon is just too comfortable.

However, the vote was three to one; Su Sheng, Huang Mingxin, and Li Wenwan all voted for Lin Huan. Under Shen Wang's resentful gaze, Lin Huan smiled and joined the party.

What could be done? The daughter of their backing corporation agreed; if Shen Wang didn't know about Su Sheng and Lin Huan's relationship, he would suspect the corporation's heiress of some illicit affair with Su Sheng.

As for how Shen Wang knew, it naturally involved Li Wenwan's big mouth.

Lin Huan's addition made the Dungeon journey even smoother; in terms of pure damage, Lin Huan's elf ranger together with his frost dragon pet indeed outperforms Xingchen.

Xingchen is mainly a jack‑of‑all‑trades—tank, damage, support—but with Su Sheng as an 80‑level Fourth Rebirth super‑T, no other auxiliary tanking or healing is needed.

Soon Xingchen's update arrived: the Fourth Rebirth quest is still somewhat cumbersome and will take some time.

Then, after two more days, Li Wenwan and Huang Mingxin each reached level 80.

Huan Jie also gained considerably, leveling up, and her experience is about to push her to the next level.

Next are Huang Mingxin's and Li Wenwan's class‑changing quests.

Huang Mingxin's leveling quest is virtually certain; as a regular Holy Light Priest, the class‑changing quest is hardly difficult, just tedious—running errands across several Main Cities, Huangcheng, and a small town, which took just over an hour.

However, for a Holy Light Priest, after reaching level 80 Fourth Rebirth, the Holy Light Priest undergoes a qualitative change, gaining a core skill within a core skill.

Resurrection!!

Sacrifice 10% of the target's experience to revive a fallen ally!

Although it cannot be used on the same target again within 360 minutes, this is already quite good, essentially giving every ally without a Survival Skill an extra layer of safety.

And don't forget, Huang Mingxin also holds a resurrection ring, meaning she alone can grant the party's allies two chances of error tolerance.

(PS: In the original design, the priest's resurrection skill was intended for level 60 Third Rebirth, but after reconsideration it was moved to level 80 Fourth Rebirth, and I have revised the earlier description.)

The main point is…

When Huang Mingxin completed the class change, she also triggered a profession skill trial.

This annoyed Shen Wang, but the skill trial wasn't particularly hard; with Su Sheng's assistance it was completed smoothly, ultimately obtaining a high‑tier Hidden Skill for the priest.

Mass Resurrection!!

Mass Resurrection has a relatively long cooldown, and targets revived by the regular Resurrection can also be revived again by Mass Resurrection.

This is truly overpowered; for Huang Mingxin, it directly grants the party's players three extra error tolerances!

As for why Huang Mingxin can trigger a hidden trial after completing the Fourth Rebirth quest while Shen Wang cannot, no one can explain.

Next we'll see whether Li Wenwan and Xingchen trigger skill trials after finishing Fourth Rebirth.

But Li Wenwan's class‑changing quest isn't that easy.

Yet with Su Sheng's help, the problem isn't big.

As for Shen Wang, he has already gone to help Xingchen… Xingchen's class change also ran into trouble.

Fortunately, whether Xingchen or Li Wenwan, their class‑changing quests have no personal perversions; not only are the numbers insane, they must be solo‑run, otherwise others can't help.

Relatively speaking, compared to Huang Mingxin, Li Wenwan's Fourth Rebirth trial seems a bit simpler than Xingchen's; Li Wenwan completed the Fourth Rebirth trial first, but unfortunately it didn't trigger any hidden trial.

Immediately after, Su Sheng, Li Wenwan, and Huang Mingxin all rushed to help Xingchen complete the class‑changing quest together with Shen Wang.

I have to say, regarding Xingchen's class‑changing quest, Su Sheng internally complained—it's truly muggle‑level.

The complexity is only second to his own class change; essentially, for every pet Xingchen currently has, there's a corresponding side quest.

And Xingchen now has a full 88 pets!!

They are complicated and tedious, some simple, some difficult.

This made Xingchen himself feel a bit depressed, and he also expressed his thanks to everyone more than once; without their help, if he alone were to run these 88 side quests, who knows when he'd finish?

With the vanguard squad gathered together, they ultimately spent more than two days to help Xingchen complete his fourth rebirth task.

During this period, overall everything was calm. Moreover, Su Sheng also gained an unexpected harvest.

Ring fragment twenty-two!!

Red ring fragment 22!

Naturally, when it dropped, Su Sheng directly signaled Lin Huan to take it—just a fragment item, its function still unknown; although it was red quality, since Lin Huan wanted it, everyone naturally had no objection, and they even gave up other gains.

Although Shen Wang and Xingchen are trustworthy, so far only a few people know of the existence of the Grand Dao Ring; it's best to keep it hidden if possible.

That day, when logging off the game, Lin Huan finally handed the ring fragment to Su Sheng.

By now, the hard work of those days helping Xingchen change jobs was not in vain.

By now, Su Sheng's warehouse contains three ring fragments: 20, 22, and 44!

Among them, 20 and 22 are still red.

At present, the ring Su Sheng wears is level 18.

Missing a 19 in between; if he could collect fragment 19, he could now directly combine his ring to level 20!

Because the ring's current level is 80, and Su Sheng's level is also 80, after combining, the equipment requirement would pose no problem even if it rose to 85 or even 90.

However, obtaining this fragment is truly difficult; who knows if fragment 19 will ever drop, or if it's already in someone else's hands.

However, no matter what, the vanguard squad is all level 80… uh, uh Su Sheng is 81… and they have all completed fourth rebirth.

They can now undertake the unique mission of the Imperial City.

As for foreign servers, the highest-level player so far is Mao Xiong's top rank, currently level seventy-eight.

Originally, aside from China, the highest-level player on all foreign servers was Ying Jiang's 'I Am Not Thanos', whose level was also 78 before, but he might have had more experience than Mao Xiong's top rank; after coming to cause trouble, he got killed once… his level dropped back to seventy-seven.

Besides China, the highest-level player on foreign servers is still two levels away from 80; don't underestimate just those two levels—they already take them ages to gain.

As for whether foreign servers will likewise pool their wisdom and strength like China does, it's hard to say.

After all, the cooperation between Yanhuang, the universe, and the Morning Star is almost impossible to replicate.

However, the game time that day was almost up, so everyone discussed logging off first and tackling the dungeon together tomorrow.

With over an hour left, Su Sheng had nothing to do, so he simply went to find Yong Bu Kong Jun and went fishing together.

However, during this time slot, the riverbank of Yanhuang Town had no vacant spots, so Su Sheng hurriedly ran off to fish in the wild.

He had originally thought about trying to fish up some rations for the lion-like beast, but it was obvious that the catch rate at wild fishing spots was far lower than at the riverbank of Yanhuang Town.

No wonder the fishing spot in Yanhuang Town is so popular; now I see why.

The next day, log in!

The five members of the vanguard team—Su Sheng, Shen Wang, Xingchen, Li Wenwan, Huang Mingxin—gathered at the dungeon entrance.

Although the Imperial City's unique mission, according to their experience on the Ying Jiang server, is absolutely heaven-defying in difficulty, if even this team cannot clear it, then no one can.

This time, everyone's preparations were thorough; each of the five had their backpacks maximized!

Besides various high-quality, plentiful anti-abrasion potions, there were also assorted blood potions and some siege tools…

Afterwards, everyone entered the dungeon.

Demon Cave!

Indeed it is a Demon Cave; the dungeon's specific content is almost the same as the one Su Sheng experienced on the Ying Jiang server, just with a different broth but same medicine.

Even the first half's difficulty is not as great as that of the dungeon previously run in the Demon Realm; after all, the demon abyss dungeon before had a demonic qi suppression effect that was extremely terrifying, whereas in this dungeon, although monster attributes have risen considerably, the demonic qi suppression effect is indeed much reduced by comparison.

As for the increase in monster attributes, at this stage everyone has already completed fourth rebirth, and the attribute increase applies not only to monsters. As for the increase in monster attributes, at this stage everyone has already completed fourth rebirth, and the attribute increase applies not only to monsters.

This first half is quite easy.

Su Sheng looked at the experience gain, then nodded in satisfaction.

In those dungeons where he previously led others to level up, the experience gained hardly counts as experience at all—it's practically just super mosquito legs.

Back when he was on the Ying Jiang server, just the first half alone took everyone a long time; if it weren't for the experience being genuinely high, Su Sheng might not have been able to persist.

Furthermore, this time the preparations were also extremely thorough.

In just one day, everyone reached where that boss resides.

The level mechanism, attributes, and difficulty are almost exactly the same as the boss previously fought on the Ying Jiang server.

Thus, they completely pushed over that boss with practiced ease.

However, the boss's drop is likewise rather pitiful—just an orange quest item.

What remains are some purple and blue equipment above level 80 fourth rebirth.

The attributes barely pass muster, but to the five present, these pieces of gear are unappealing.

But thinking about it, this is normal; although back on the Ying Jiang server Su Sheng leading the team had found it extremely difficult, this dungeon itself is open to 80-level fourth rebirth players, and this time they found it ridiculously easy.

With such relaxed and pleasant difficulty, it's understandable that the loot is junk.

Next… comes the second stage, limited to 12 hours.

Su Sheng hesitated not, directly leading the party into the gate of the second stage!

An old acquaintance, an 83-level elite monster! Demon Cave Patrol Guard!