Song Fei led his entourage of fangirls along the riverbank, clearing out Demons.
Seeing so many people, many of the Demons tried to run.
But Song Fei and the girls under him had invested plenty of points in agility and moved fast. They swarmed forward, killing the Demons before they could escape...
Song Fei was having a blast farming.
Yet he had no idea that Dark Shadow was rapidly approaching his location!
Following Gu Yixue's directions, Qin Feng raced toward the riverbank where Song Fei was.
Whenever he spotted a Demon along the way, he casually took it out.
These Demons were low-level, though, so Qin Feng gained little experience.
Just as he reached a large tree, he suddenly stopped.
"Hey, boss, where are you now?"
At that moment, Gu Yixue sent him a private message.
She had been watching Song Fei the whole time, but she couldn't see Qin Feng's location. After all, he had remained invisible.
"Take a look. Are there any other large trees like this nearby?"
Qin Feng revealed himself and pointed at the large tree before him.
Gu Yixue said, "Huh?"
She was a little confused.
Weren't we looking for Song Fei? Why are we looking for trees now?
Of course, this wasn't difficult for her.
About twenty seconds later, she sent him a message.
There were two other similar large trees nearby, both within a hundred meters of Qin Feng!
Qin Feng explored around the three trees, then found some unusual symbols on their trunks.
Gu Yixue asked curiously, "What are those symbols?"
Qin Feng said, "Take a guess."
Qin Feng reached out and traced one of the symbols on a tree.
Then he went over to the other two trees, found two different symbols, and traced them with his hand as well.
As his fingers passed over those unusual symbols, they lit up.
Once a different symbol glowed on each of the three trunks, the faint outline of an emerald-colored treasure chest appeared between the trees!
Gu Yixue's eyes lit up. "Wow!"
Ignoring her, Qin Feng approached the phantom emerald-colored chest and waited for it to fully materialize.
"I never thought I'd encounter an Ancient God’s Blessing right here in the starter village..."
A smile appeared on Qin Feng's face.
An Ancient God’s Blessing could appear anywhere in the Land Abandoned by the Gods.
They essentially consisted of strange symbols.
For example, there were thirty or forty kinds of symbols in total on these three trees. Lighting up a different symbol on each tree produced different effects depending on the combination.
Some summoned an evil Demon boss, while others summoned a group of lesser Demons.
There were also treasure chests, and even some unique rewards...
As for how to combine the symbols, new players at this stage were still figuring it out entirely through trial and error.
But Qin Feng had been reborn!
During the nine years of his previous life, he had encountered countless Ancient God’s Blessings.
Moreover, plenty of people had compiled patterns on online forums in his previous life.
So now, Qin Feng had directly put together a combination for the best reward: a Jadeite Tier treasure chest!
If someone relied on luck, the odds of producing a Jadeite Tier treasure chest reward were less than one in a thousand.
"Open!"
Once the Jadeite Tier treasure chest before him fully materialized, Qin Feng immediately reached out and opened it.
Watching from high above, Gu Yixue's eyes turned red with envy at the sight. "A Jadeite Tier treasure chest! He's way too amazing! That one chest has to be worth at least a thousand days of lifespan, right? Doesn't that mean... over ten million yuan?!"
By now, many people outside the game were already buying lifespan. According to Qin Feng's memories, the usual exchange rate for tradable lifespan on the first day was between 1:10,000 and 1:20,000.
In other words, one day of tradable lifespan could sell for ten to twenty thousand in cash.
But that was only the initial price.
By the second day, the exchange rate had already risen above 1:50,000.
After that, it became increasingly expensive, until cash in every country around the world completely lost its purchasing power... This was also why the authorities would become so powerful.
In the early stages of the Godforsaken Game, the authorities of various countries bought massive quantities of tradable lifespan.
When it came to buying lifespan with cash, the authorities could print money without limit! Who could compete with that?
This wasn't inflation, but a transition between currencies-the inevitable path from real-world money to lifespan!
I need to memorize this right away...
Gu Yixue's heart raced as she stared fixedly down at the three trees, trying to memorize their appearance.
Later, she planned to use her scouting ability to search the wilderness more thoroughly!
However...
An Ancient God’s Blessing appeared in a different location each time, and its symbols were different each time too, with tens of thousands of possible combinations.
If Gu Yixue tried this herself, would she get an emerald chest?
Qin Feng certainly didn't believe she could be that lucky.
Even getting a gold chest would be exceptionally rare. More likely, she would summon a bunch of Demons and fight them for ages with barely any reward...
When Qin Feng opened the emerald chest and reached in to take its contents, a system notification sounded:
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[You have opened a Jadeite Tier treasure chest!] [You have obtained the Jadeite Tier skill book, "Blooming Curse"!]
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The instant he heard the system notification, Qin Feng was a little dumbfounded.
"Blooming Curse? What kind of skill is that?"
Throughout the nine years of his previous life, Qin Feng had never heard that skill's name.
He looked at the skill book in his hand. It gave off a faint emerald glow, and its cover depicted an eerie blood-red flower. Strange markings on the flower made it look like a sinister smiling face.
Check the skill!
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[Blooming Curse (Jadeite Tier): Universal skill book. Use on the corpse of a player who died within the last 15 seconds to make a cursed flower grow on the enemy's corpse. The cursed flower will continuously drain the target's tradable lifespan until it reaches zero! No cooldown.]
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After reading the skill description, Qin Feng sucked in a sharp breath.
"This skill is ridiculously broken!"
He could use it on a player's corpse after killing them.
It would continuously drain the target's tradable lifespan!
Of course, Qin Feng knew the cursed flower growing on the corpse would definitely have a health bar.
In other words, people could destroy the flower.
But...
If Qin Feng killed everyone nearby, wouldn't there be no one left to destroy it?
"Song Fei's good days are finally here."
The corners of Qin Feng's mouth curled upward.
He immediately learned the Jadeite Tier skill, Blooming Curse!
Normally, a player who was killed would only drop half their tradable lifespan.
But with this skill...
Every time Qin Feng killed a player, he could make his enemy drop all their tradable lifespan!
He only needed to guard his enemy's corpse and let the cursed flower finish absorbing their tradable lifespan.
It was easy to imagine how many enemies would find this skill their worst nightmare!
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