A Substantial Harvest

After the lucky day, another four or five days passed without any results. Luo Zhiyuan was getting anxious; half a month had already gone by, and he had only managed to get his hands on one Radiance Stone. At this rate, he really wouldn't be able to complete his mission in two months.

Bulieni began to make sarcastic remarks: "Kid Luo, it's no big deal, right? It's just a nickname change. I'm the only one who calls you that, so what are you afraid of? Don't be in such a rush, haha~"

Luo Zhiyuan shouted in protest: "Bulieni, it's not that I'm not trying hard, it's just that this Radiance Stone is too cunning!"

"Tell me, have I had a single moment of peace? Every day is just flying, flying, flying. I've almost forgotten that I have legs. If I weren't worried about being exposed too early and becoming a target, I would have just strapped on my Light Wings; I could fly much faster that way."

Bulieni gloated: "Heh heh, how does that saying go? You chose the path yourself, you set the time yourself, and now you want to go back on it? No way! Hahahaha!"

Rubbing his furrowed brow, Luo Zhiyuan was truly regretting his arrogance. He had been too full of himself, thinking he was a child of destiny, completely forgetting that the child of destiny in this world was his old man. At best, he was destiny's step-grandson, and that was assuming destiny even wanted to acknowledge him.

Helpless, Luo Zhiyuan continued his high-speed flight. To expand his exploration range as much as possible, his current flight speed had reached its limit.

In the Suonsai Secret Realm, no one else flew at such high speeds constantly like Luo Zhiyuan. Adventurers all knew that treasure hunting and exploration were not about who could fly the fastest or run the furthest; doing so usually led to nothing but chaos and wasted effort.

The profession of an adventurer relied on luck and patience. Seeing Luo Zhiyuan flying around like a headless chicken, everyone assumed he was a greenhorn adventurer with no experience.

However, they didn't realize that Luo Zhiyuan's mindset had been different from theirs from the very beginning.

Ordinary adventurers generally relied on their own experience to gain rewards. Unless they encountered a massive benefit right in front of them, they wouldn't actively look for trouble.

This was because doing so would create many enemies, and no one knew if the enemy you made today might become an existence you would look up to—or even despair over—in a few hundred or thousand years.

But Luo Zhiyuan wasn't like that. He had no intention of relying on luck or patience; he only cared about strength. Regardless of who found it, as long as he discovered it, he would just snatch it away.

In order to explore more places as quickly as possible, he decided that whether he found a Radiance Stone himself or someone else found one, he would take them all!

Hard work pays off, and on the twentieth day, Luo Zhiyuan finally encountered another Radiance Stone.

On the way to the next "rich mine" area, Bulieni told him that the scanner had detected a reaction from a Radiance Stone 20 kilometers to the front right.

Luo Zhiyuan flew over excitedly, only to find that he wasn't the first person to scan the Radiance Stone.

Ahead, a Star-level nine-stage adventurer with an ecstatic expression was operating equipment, frantically digging a hole into a floating rock. Clearly, that adventurer was the first to discover this Radiance Stone.

Sensing a fluctuation behind him, the adventurer's expression changed instantly. He turned around with a look of rage, and upon seeing Luo Zhiyuan, he shrieked: "This is my Radiance Stone!" Then, he immediately controlled a telepathic weapon and attacked Luo Zhiyuan.

Bulieni reminded Luo Zhiyuan: "Kid Luo, there are three targets approaching you rapidly. They're here!"

From the front, back-left, and right of the floating rock, three more adventurers flew in. All of them stared at the floating rock with greed, and without a word, they all launched attacks at Luo Zhiyuan as well.

Luo Zhiyuan let out a cold snort. They wanted to join forces to take him out first? What a joke.

Luo Zhiyuan controlled the Lightning Shuttle to dodge the telepathic weapon that had attacked him, then manipulated it to trigger four Light Shuttles, launching separate attacks at the four adventurers.

The four Light Shuttles turned into four bright flames of light, reaching the four adventurers in an instant.

Three of the Light Shuttles, with just one or two deflections, killed the three latecomers, leaving only the person who had discovered the Radiance Stone first still struggling to resist.

He controlled his own telepathic weapon to spin and dance around his body, adding the bonus of a water-element domain to form vortex-like energy clusters. This made the Lightning Shuttle feel sluggish, as if it were being hindered by a viscous liquid after every strike.

Feeling his Lightning Shuttle being obstructed by the water-element domain and unable to hit his opponent cleanly, Luo Zhiyuan brought the other three Light Shuttles over and increased his telepathic amplitude slightly.

The color of the four Light Shuttles suddenly brightened. The feeling of being hindered vanished, and the Light Shuttles regained their agility, returning to strike with even greater speed.

Seeing that the spirit reader was about to be cut down by the Light Shuttles, Luo Zhiyuan used the Soul Fusion technique again, pulling the opponent's soul into his own soul space to forcibly dissolve and absorb it.

The previous lucky guy he had fused with was basically a waste, and Luo Zhiyuan hadn't absorbed any valuable memories.

This time was different; Luo Zhiyuan absorbed all of the opponent's memories regarding his comprehension of the water-element domain. While this wouldn't allow him to master the water-element domain immediately, having a reference would make it much easier to comprehend in the future.

Using the tools left beside the floating rock to continue digging, he soon unearthed a Radiance Stone. This was the second Radiance Stone Luo Zhiyuan had obtained.

Leaving the area to head toward the next "rich mine" zone, he didn't expect to encounter a surprise just as he reached the edge: the scanner again indicated a reaction from a Radiance Stone.

By the time Luo Zhiyuan arrived at the location, he saw two groups totaling nearly 80 people in a standoff, with about twenty scattered adventurers nearby waiting to pick up the scraps.

At the center of the standoff lay a corpse severed in two, and beside it, three Radiance Stones were exposed on the surface.

Luo Zhiyuan's arrival did not attract the attention of the two groups; they all assumed he was just another lone wolf looking to pick up a bargain.

Glancing over, Luo Zhiyuan roughly understood the current situation.

It seemed that some guy, whether lucky or unlucky, had discovered the Radiance Stones and was killed by a sneak attack while digging. Before the attacker could reap the rewards, many others arrived, all prepared to snatch this unexpected windfall.

At this moment, the two groups in the center were at daggers drawn, ready to attack at any second. They knew they couldn't drag this out; if they waited any longer, more people would arrive. If a team of a hundred people showed up, there would be nothing left for them.

Although normal adventurers wouldn't easily make enemies, three Radiance Stones were enough to make any team or individual on the scene fight for their lives!

The three Radiance Stones stirred an urge in Luo Zhiyuan to charge in as well. If he snatched these three, he would be halfway to his goal!

No more waiting; Luo Zhiyuan decided to strike first.

He suddenly controlled the Lightning Shuttle to use its third form. A three-meter-long shuttle appeared in his hand, shining with a blinding light. It turned into a white beam of light and shot toward the person closest to the Radiance Stones.

The adventurers on the field were already on edge, and this sudden, blinding light completely ignited everyone's desire to attack.

In an instant, the area around the Radiance Stones became a stage where telepathic weapons and Yuan power attacks intertwined.

All sorts of miscellaneous telepathic weapons flew everywhere, and various elemental Yuan power attacks exploded all around. The most lethal among them was the third-form Lightning Shuttle unleashed by Luo Zhiyuan.

The three-meter-long shuttle, carrying 18 guard blades on its tip, would trigger 18 chain-reaction attacks the moment it hit someone. A single strike could cover a large area, throwing those within range into a panic, and some unlucky souls who weren't paying attention had their heads sliced open by the blades.

As for the adventurers targeted by the shuttle's tip, if they didn't have advanced defensive methods or movement techniques to counter it, their skulls would be pierced by the long shuttle, killing them instantly.

Amidst this chaos, Luo Zhiyuan was still distracted, picking his targets.

Whenever he saw an adventurer who had unleashed a domain, he would send a Mental Shock to stun their consciousness, then use the Soul Fusion technique to pull the target's soul into his own soul space to digest and absorb it.

This caused some adventurers, who had previously been quite intimidating to others, to fall to the ground and die without even knowing why.

In just ten short seconds, fewer than 20 adventurers remained alive at the scene. These survivors scrambled far away from the Radiance Stone, casting wary glances at Luo Zhiyuan, because the number of people Luo Zhiyuan had killed directly with his Lightning Shuttle already exceeded 50!

Seeing these adventurers keeping their distance, Luo Zhiyuan turned his gaze toward one of the martial artists and used his final Soul Fusion technique.

That martial artist had just unleashed a second-tier lightning domain of extraordinary power, so Luo Zhiyuan was unwilling to let go of that insight and memory.

Watching his friend die inexplicably, for no reason other than a single glance from Luo Zhiyuan, a star-level nine spirit reader beside him let out a scream of Fear: "Illusionist! You're an Illusionist!"

Everyone present, except for Luo Zhiyuan, was terrified; they turned and fled immediately, no longer caring about the Radiance Stone.

Seeing them run away, Luo Zhiyuan didn't mind. He turned and walked toward the Radiance Stone, only becoming more certain of one thing: soul defense techniques were rare in the universe, and it seemed the vast majority of ordinary people belonged to the unqualified category Bulieni had mentioned.

He took out his excavation equipment and waited for it to dig all three Radiance Stones out from underground. He controlled the Lightning Shuttle to detach a Light Shuttle, which flew around him, looking quite bored.

The trajectory of that flying Light Shuttle actually resembled a nimble little fish, drawing two indescribable English letters in the air.

Until all three Radiance Stones were excavated, Luo Zhiyuan pulled them into his hands and muttered happily: "The harvest this time is not small; I've finally completed half of the mission quota. It really wasn't easy."

Then, Luo Zhiyuan turned to face a certain direction and said: "My friend, you've been staying off to the side for so long—don't you feel empty, don't you feel lonely, don't you feel cold? Don't you want to come out and chat?"

PS: Brothers, I am very sorry that the updates have been fewer these past two days.

Due to work reasons, the time I have to write has decreased significantly, and I feel bad about this first recommendation of my life.

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