Chapter 1067: Wandering [Third Update]

"So what if it's daytime? Who stipulated that you can't wear night-travel clothes during the day? Besides, it's just a few Vitality Ants, what's there to panic about? Go, go up and finish them off, then no one will know where we are!" Xu Que immediately glared and said.

At times like this, you have to glare when you speak, and if you have a beard, you have to blow it, to appear confident and authoritative; otherwise, how can you convince the crowd!

But Lan Hetu and the others clearly didn't buy his act, their faces full of bitterness and speechlessness. However, this situation was indeed within the acceptable range; just a few Vitality Ants didn't mean their whereabouts were truly exposed.

Whether it was a coincidence or they were truly discovered, as long as these few Vitality Ants were resolved, all trouble would disappear!

"Whoosh!"

At this moment, amidst a soft sound, before Lan Xinyue and the others could even make a move, Xu Que had already turned into a phantom and rushed forward.

With his strength, dealing with these few Half-Immortal Stage Vitality Ants was simply as easy as pie.

In the stunned gaze of Lan Hetu and the others, Xu Que's leaping figure turned from one into two in mid-air, both hands holding a black staff high, conjuring a dense shadow of staves, smashing toward the few Vitality Ants in an incomparably elegant and dashing manner.

Bang!

Bang!

Bang!

Amidst several muffled sounds in succession, the few Vitality Ants fell to the ground, fainting directly.

Xu Que waved his large hand, pulled out a Beast Spirit Bag, his two fingers condensed, swept, and slashed; the few Vitality Ants suddenly floated up and were sucked into the Beast Spirit Bag.

"Eh, Brother Que, aren't we supposed to kill them to silence them?" Lan Hetu asked, stunned.

"You don't understand a thing. Killing them would definitely leave some clues. Wouldn't the Ant Tribe know we are in the eastern suburb then?" Xu Que said with a smile.

Lan Hetu and the others heard this, and only then did they nod in realization, feeling that it indeed made some sense, and at the same time, they had a new understanding of Xu Que.

So Brother Que was not only a liar but also an experienced fugitive; otherwise, how could he have such vigilance and rich experience!

However, Xu Que catching these few Vitality Ants was entirely on a whim.

Vitality Ants could only survive in places where the Life and Death Rules were rich, almost coexisting with Vitality Rice. But Vitality Rice grew between heaven and earth and could also be planted. From the Ant King's nest, Xu Que had once glimpsed the Ant Tribe's Vitality Rice fields and understood this point.

So he knew clearly that the Ant Tribe was naturally good at planting Vitality Rice. Now that he was about to leave this place soon, in order to ensure he could continue to get Vitality Rice in the future, he felt it was very necessary to bring a few Vitality Ants out. Of course, even if he couldn't use them, maybe he could use them for cooking, boiling a dish for Er Gouzi!

Thinking and thinking, Xu Que's eyes suddenly warmed slightly, and he actually missed Er Gouzi and Duan Jiude, missed Jiang Hongyan and Liu Jingning.

His mood to find them also became increasingly urgent!

"Go, this time no one can stop us from leaving. Whoever dares to block the road, I will kill them. No matter how many come, I will kill them all!"

Suddenly, Xu Que said with monstrous killing intent, and unknowingly, a powerful evil aura permeated his body!

Lan Hetu and the others were instantly startled, but before they could react, Xu Que had already taken the lead, silently sneaking forward.

The few couldn't help but look at each other, and in the end, they remained silent and followed.

They didn't know what had happened, why Xu Que had suddenly changed like a different person, but they knew that this time Brother Que was serious, and there shouldn't be any more mistakes!

Perhaps it was good luck, or perhaps it was truly as Xu Que said, he had started to get serious.

For more than a month, a full fifty-plus days, Xu Que and his group were very smooth in the eastern suburb area, constantly wandering around, never encountering any powerful Vitality Ants, and not even encountering a single Ant Queen.

Of course, like the first time, they encountered small patrol teams composed of a few Vitality Ants several times. At first, Xu Que rushed forward without hesitation, waving his Black Heavy Ruler to smash them into slag, and finally burned them with fire again.

But later, Xu Que seemed to return to his initial appearance, calm and gentle, and no longer continued to strike hard. Instead, like the first time, he continued to knock out the Vitality Ants and caught them into the Beast Spirit Bag.

In this whole month, Xu Que had caught at least a hundred Vitality Ants, a not-so-small harvest.

However, ever since Lan Hetu and the others stopped calling Xu Que "Brother-in-law," in this short month, the relationship between them seemed to have gradually changed, no longer as close as before, as if there was a barrier.

Xu Que himself didn't easily open his heart to others; he had experienced countless things and was very suspicious and vigilant about everything.

Lan Hetu and the others listened to everything Lan Xinyue had told them before, understanding that they were never on the same path as Xu Que. Xu Que's path was destined to be full of danger, but he would also be more powerful, while they, after leaving this place, would ultimately return to the academy and live a stable life.

So in their view, leaving this place might mean they would never have any intersection with Xu Que again.

Under these various situations where they expected to part ways, a barrier gradually formed between them, and they couldn't be as speculative and talkative as before.

It was just that this barrier didn't have any impact on them, and Xu Que didn't care at all, continuing to wander while paying attention to the situation of the Little Golden Body.

The Void Boundary Talisman was about to be deployed, and the direction he chose was also very hidden, never having been noticed by the Ant Tribe.

And during this time, Xu Que also took the time to study things related to artifact refining.

He exchanged several artifact refining skill books from the system mall, and after using them together, his artifact refiner skill had been upgraded from one star to the peak of nine stars, becoming a nine-star artifact refiner!

But this still couldn't help him refine a half-grade immortal artifact, or even say he was far from that kind of strength.

Xu Que wanted to engage in artifact refining purely to personally refine that broken halberd he had snatched from Liu Wenfeng. Since the broken sword had been destroyed, the most suitable thing for him to use in the future was that broken halberd. If the powerful and astonishing evil aura within it could be unleashed, it would probably be countless times fiercer than the broken sword.

However, after spending tens of thousands of pretentiousness points to reach the level of a nine-star artifact refiner, Xu Que still felt that he had no way to start with that broken halberd.

He checked the system mall and found that whether it was artifact refining or alchemy, or even the path of formations and talismans, they could only be provided up to the nine-star level.

But beyond that, there were more levels in existence.

For example, after a nine-star artifact refiner, it would be a first-grade artifact refining grandmaster, until reaching a ninth-grade artifact refining grandmaster, could one step into the level of a first-grade artifact refining master. Only after reaching a ninth-grade artifact refining master would one be a half-grade artifact emperor.

And weapons of the half-grade immortal artifact level could only be refined by a half-grade artifact emperor.

Including alchemists, formation masters, and talisman masters, all skills were graded like this.

This made Xu Que feel immense pressure. Not to mention anything else, just for that broken halberd, if he wanted to personally refine it again, he would at least have to cross two major realms, from an artifact refiner to an artifact refining grandmaster, then from an artifact refining grandmaster to an artifact refining master, and finally step into the artifact emperor level, before he could start on the halberd.

This was simply too long. If the system mall could continue to buy skill books to learn at once, Xu Que could accept it. But the skill books were only provided up to the peak of an artifact refiner, which meant that the subsequent things all had to be done by himself.

"Sigh, melancholy! This pit-digging system!" Xu Que finally shook his head and sighed.

Thinking back to the past, he thought that by getting the system, he could be invincible in the world.

Who knew that the system only escorted him to the Half-Immortal Stage and then ignored him, depriving him of the function of gaining experience from killing, and what he didn't expect even more was that even those secondary professions were like this, all only up to the primary stage, and couldn't be upgraded by skill books, which was truly unpleasant.

However... Xu Que's unpleasantness came quickly and went quickly!

He gradually began to change his thinking, feeling that he shouldn't continue to rely on the system, just like the system depriving him of the function of gaining experience from killing, saying cancel and it was canceled.

If more functions were canceled in the future, wouldn't he be ruined?

Perhaps he really should walk a path of doing things himself, making himself independent and truly powerful!

【Third Update!】