Deity's Blood

After resting for half the day, he took Su Yu to the park for a while.

The little girl was delighted, and her personality had become much more cheerful.

That evening, Su Jiang and Su Yu had dinner at a family restaurant.

After returning home, Su Jiang logged back in.

He first went to turn in his quests.

The three daily quests—clearing the tree demons in the Green Root Mountain Range, investigating the mineral coordinates there, and collecting ore—gave him 360,000 experience points and 550 silver coins.

The returns were only so-so. For Su Jiang in his previous life, though, that would already have been quite good. After all, he had not benefited from pioneering new territory back then, nor had he been able to kill monsters several levels above his own.

Moreover, the quest to investigate the mineral coordinates in the Green Root Mountain Range gave Kurumi priority purchasing rights for ore, especially Epic Ore.

Epic Ore was expensive, but Su Jiang never doubted the spending power of the rich. So he directly instructed the Adventurer's Guild to notify him by letter whenever they excavated any Epic Ore.

There was also the Verdant Water Buffalo quest. That quest had originally been about a blocked shipping route. By clearing out all the water buffalo, he had stumbled into completing it. In the end, he received 120,000 experience points, 180 silver coins, and a ship ticket.

This ship ticket would allow him to travel to the Dawn Elf Empire.

Lastly, he went to the Holy Grace Divine Cult to complete the Destroy Fallen Camp quest.

As the first epic quest to be completed, its reward did not come with a world-shaking announcement to the entire server. But Su Jiang knew it was the ultimate treasure everyone had pursued in his previous life: Deity's Blood.

Deity's Blood

Quality: Mythical

Effect: Resurrection

Description: This is a gift bestowed upon you by a god.

This resurrection was not the kind of resurrection found in games—it was resurrection in reality!

Even if you stood at the center of a nuclear blast, this item could revive you perfectly, then grant you resistance to radiation and extreme heat. That resistance would rise to at least a level where you could safely live within a radiation zone.

This was the most absurd item in existence, bar none!

If one possessed enough Deity's Blood, then in reality, the more you died, the stronger you would become—until you could turn the tables and kill your enemy!

Su Jiang carefully placed the item into his backpack. Although the Mind Net had not yet descended and he did not know whether keeping it in his backpack would make it take effect automatically, there was no other way to use it.

Besides, he had not offended anyone in real life. He could certainly survive safely until the Mind Net descended.

Of course, aside from this tangible reward, his reputation with the Holy Grace Divine Cult had also increased by 1,000 points. The NPCs within the cult now treated Su Jiang even more kindly.

After leaving the divine cult, the follow-up to Destroy Fallen Camp would likely take some time to appear.

The evolution of the "Meta World" followed certain rules. Players' actions could indeed influence the direction of this world, but such changes could not happen overnight.

The next stage of this epic quest would only be triggered after other players also completed the pre-enhancement quest for Destroy Fallen Camp: Investigate Deity Revival Incident.

Now, he chose to board a steamship that had resumed service at the harbor and head to the Dawn Elf Empire to complete the Saintess Candidate quest. Only seventy days remained before that quest's deadline.

He could not afford to delay.

After showing his ticket, Su Jiang successfully boarded a small steamship bound for the Elf Empire.

Thanks to Su Jiang's thrifty habit of not leaving behind a single experience-granting monster, the entire waterway was exceptionally quiet.

No new ruler had emerged in these waters yet, so no monsters came out to obstruct them.

The steamship sailed steadily through the night.

Su Jiang simply slept in the game. The next day, after washing up casually, he appeared in the game once more.

By then, the ship had docked at an elf port.

The system also notified him that he had unlocked a new region: Falas.

Su Jiang had expected to see a harbor city filled with exotic charm and the natural style of the Elf race.

To his surprise, the moment the ship docked, he was jolted awake by the chaotic cries of the NPCs.

When he stepped out onto the deck, he saw that the once lush port city had turned into a vast field of ruins.

Broken walls and crumbling structures lay everywhere. The white stone pillars were covered in black scorch marks, and the air was thick with the stench of burning.

The NPCs aboard the ship were restless, unsure of what had happened and not daring to act rashly.

"What happened?" Su Jiang looked at the smoke-filled scene before him, unable to suppress his confusion.

Could there be a new storyline here?

At that moment, some of the adventurers aboard the ship jumped off directly and sprinted toward the city center.

What kind of windfall was the most exciting?

That was, of course, wealth picked up for free.

This port had clearly fallen into chaos. Everything had become ownerless.

Su Jiang pondered for a moment, transformed into Kurumi in the shadows, and left the steamship.

"Ding! Congratulations, you have obtained a rare fruit: Wind Whisper Pear."

As Kurumi passed a dilapidated stall and picked up a fruit from the ground, a system notification immediately appeared.

Wind Whisper Pear

Quality: Rare

Effect: After consumption, gain a trace of wind elemental favor. Wind-element magic damage +5%, movement speed +5%, attack speed +5%, lasting ten minutes.

Description: A premium fruit cultivated by the elves, with guaranteed quality!

Huh?

A rare fruit that could boost attributes?

Had these elves fled without taking their belongings, or had they all been wiped out?

By the time Kurumi encountered this thing in her previous life, its price had stabilized at fifteen gold coins apiece! At the exchange rate back then, it took the equivalent of ninety yuan to buy one such fruit.

In short, it was not cheap.

Su Jiang ate the pear, and sure enough, a Wind Whisper Pear buff appeared in the status panel.

The ground beneath his feet was covered in these fruits—at least a thousand of them!

This stuff was scarce in the early game! At present, other players probably still could not reach the Elven Empire. If he took advantage of the price difference and wholesaled them, he could make a fortune!

Sure, players right now definitely would not pay a hundred gold coins for such a minor stat boost, but wasn't this a free haul?

"Ding! Congratulations, you have obtained a rare fruit: Star Dream Apple."

"Ding! Congratulations, you have obtained a rare fruit: Night Glow Orange."

"Ding! Congratulations..."

Ten minutes later.

Su Jiang had over a thousand rare fruits in his backpack. The most numerous was a fruit called Vigorous Strawberry, with more than three hundred of them.

Eating one temporarily increased maximum HP by 10%. It was sweet and delicious, and was probably one of the elves' favorite fruits.

After picking up all the fruits on the ground, Kurumi continued forward through the ruins.

The place where the fruit stall had been was a food street. Now, she had reached a residential area.

Withered flowers and grass, charred walls, tree roots exposed above the ground, and rubble scattered everywhere—it looked as though the place had just endured an earthquake.

As she walked through the ruins, most of the things left behind seemed like background props set by the game. They could be picked up, but could not be placed in the backpack.

Su Jiang was somewhat disappointed by this.