Those Two Tasks with Gold Tickets

"All right, familiarize yourself with your abilities here first. I'll make dinner. After we eat, it'll be about time for a medicinal bath," Liu Erlong said to Zhou Liang.

Seeing Zhou Liang nod, Liu Erlong headed to the kitchen outside and began preparing dinner.

Zhou Liang remained in the room, looked around, and walked over to a huge mirror.

He lifted his shirt and turned his body to look at his back.

His back was smooth and bare, but Zhou Liang could sense that there was a pattern on it.

He directed his Soul Power toward it, and instantly, a red-and-blue pattern appeared on his back.

However, only half of the pattern was visible, and his clothes covered part of it as well. Unable to see it clearly, Zhou Er failed to recognize what it was.

Just as Zhou Er was about to take off his shirt to see exactly what the pattern was, Liu Erlong's voice came from outside.

"Xiao Liang, come help me peel a head of garlic."

"Okay, Master."

Zhou Liang hurriedly answered, lowered his shirt, and headed for the kitchen outside.

After a while, the food was ready. Once the two had finished eating and cleaned up the dishes, they began preparing the medicinal bath.

An hour later, Zhou Liang finished his medicinal bath, left his master's room, and headed toward the dormitory.

After returning to his dormitory, he immediately turned on the light and walked over to a mirror.

He took off his shirt, turned around, and examined himself.

"These are the Red-Blue Buffs, those two jungle monsters from Honor of Kings?" Zhou Liang said as he looked at the two familiar patterns.

"Even the jungle monsters' data was absorbed and turned into stars. Does that mean I inherited their abilities too?"

Zhou Liang slowly closed his eyes, then abruptly opened them. The blue pattern on his back emitted a faint glow, and a pale blue aura spread outward, covering a radius of roughly five meters.

"I inherited the Red-Blue Buffs' abilities too, and they've become area-of-effect enhancements. Aside from restoring mana and reducing cooldowns, they also possess the freezing power of Ice Power, capable of slowing opponents. There's also a calming effect, similar to the Iceheart Technique."

Zhou Liang looked at the pale blue aura and slowly drew it back in. Then he opened his mouth and exhaled a stream of icy blue vapor.

"Within that aura, the strongest effects are mana recovery and cooldown reduction. The icy blue vapor I exhale, on the other hand, has the strongest calming effect."

Zhou Liang watched as the blue vapor drifted onto the mirror and formed frost, then opened his mouth again and exhaled a stream of pale red vapor that melted the frost away.

"Aside from heat, the red vapor has more of a stimulant-like effect. It can not only activate the body's functions, but also let someone break through their limits and unleash their strength."

Zhou Liang began controlling the red pattern on his body, activating its ability.

In an instant, a pale red aura spread outward, covering the area within five meters of him.

"The Crimson Buff provides enhanced status and more explosive power. It can also weaken the cohesion of Soul Power, lowering an enemy's defenses. That ability is pretty good. The rest are abilities similar to Fire Poison."

Zhou Liang carefully sensed the pale red aura around him, and its effects surfaced in his mind.

"Can this kind of aura evolve into a domain?" Zhou Liang suddenly thought of something and said excitedly.

"Besides innate domains awakened at birth, Douluo Continent also has domains like Divine Slaughter's Domain, which are bestowed later. Since they can be bestowed later, domains can be created. These two abilities of mine can absolutely evolve into support-type domains."

The more Zhou Liang spoke, the more excited he became. Then he closed his eyes and carefully sensed the Red-Blue Domain.

When his mind sank into the tattoo on his back, he naturally learned its information.

It was a special ability seed formed by fusing the jungle monster data of the Red-Blue Buffs from the game with higher-level energy. After merging with him, it had generated special abilities based on the characteristics of this world and the condition of his own body.

Because this ability had changed according to the world's characteristics, it possessed the traits of a domain. However, Zhou Liang's level was too low for it to truly form a domain.

Only after Zhou Liang reached Level Seventy and obtained his seventh Soul Ring, awakening his Martial Soul Avatar, could the Red-Blue Domain transform into a true innate domain.

Before then, it already possessed some of a domain's traits, though its abilities were relatively weak.

"With these two abilities, I'm much more confident about this task."

Zhou Liang reached out and opened the Dimension Ark's task page, looking at the few tasks that could grant Gold Tickets.

[Win the Championship!

Participate in the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament nine years from now. Win the championship to complete the task, but the rewards differ depending on how it is completed.

There are three ways to complete this task. The first is to serve as captain and lead a team other than Shrek Team or Spirit Hall Team to the championship.

Reward: Gold Ticket.

The second method is to join Spirit Hall Team and lead the team to the championship.

Reward: Silver Ticket.

The third method is to join Shrek Team and lead the team to the championship.

Reward: Bronze Ticket.]

"If joining Shrek Team and winning the championship earns a Bronze Ticket, while leading a team as captain to victory earns a Gold Ticket, then if I lead Lanba Academy Team as captain, my championship should earn a Gold Ticket, right?"

The corners of Zhou Liang's lips curled upward as he smiled to himself. After all, the restriction was on the teams, not on who the specific members were.

"This task is still far off, so I'll talk about it later. But if I'm going to do this task, I need to prepare early. After all, there won't be another chance in a little over a year."

Zhou Liang looked at the task below and pondered.

[Conquest Task: Heroine Xiao Wu.

Make the heroine Xiao Wu fall in love with the prospective crew member, or willingly give her first time. Completing either one will count as completing the task. Completing both will count as exceeding the task requirements.

Completion Reward: Silver Ticket.

Excess Completion Reward: Gold Ticket.]

Zhou Liang looked at these tasks and fell into deep thought. There were several hundred tasks on the entire task page, but only three offered Gold Tickets as rewards.

There were only a few dozen tasks with Silver Tickets as rewards, while the remaining hundreds were all Black Iron and Bronze, with the majority being Black Iron.

Although he did not know how precious Gold Tickets and Silver Tickets truly were, in a world like Douluo Continent, where Divine Spirits existed, the fact that only these tasks among all the tasks offered those two rewards was enough to show how rare they were.