What were the conditions for entering the second stage?
Kill monkeys? Kill tree demons? Obviously not. Otherwise, everyone would have entered the heart of the forest long ago. Why would they still be trapped in the outer region, facing the Tree King's revenge?
Zhang Yuanqing believed that the condition for entering the second stage was choosing a faction.
At first glance, the requirements for entering the second stage—conditions that had to be met—seemed utterly baffling. The information was chaotic and contradictory: mountain monkeys that posed no danger as long as they were left alone, tree demons, tangled clues, and dangers that did not match the dungeon's difficulty.
It made the entire process of clearing the dungeon feel both confusing and easy.
So easy that it felt like they had come hiking for fun.
There was no main quest with a clear purpose for the Spirit Realm Walkers, so most people were currently lost and confused.
Meet the conditions? What conditions?
But when all the information was gathered and distilled, it became clear that everything in the outer region was actually telling the Spirit Realm Walkers one thing:
The contradictions stemmed from the difference in factions.
The choices Spirit Realm Walkers made in the primeval forest were their faction choices.
There were two major factions in this dungeon: first, Lost City; second, the primeval forest.
Zhang Yuanqing had always believed that he had not chosen a faction. It was precisely because he had seen through this that he had not hunted tree demons for points.
But after seeing that message just now, he realized that killing monkeys was no different from killing tree demons.
—The monkeys were guardians of the forest.
Like those Spirit Realm Walkers who killed tree demons for points, he now belonged to the Lost City faction.
So