Qin Feng opened the treasure chest straight away.
Hum!
A burst of white light shone.
The treasure chest vanished, and a black ring appeared in his hand, intricate and ancient in design.
[Treasure chest opened successfully! Obtained tier 1 item-Low-grade Storage Ring!] [Low-grade Storage Ring: Contains ten cubic meters of dimensional space, which can be used to store items.]
Excellent!
He had actually gotten a storage ring!
This was exactly what he needed.
Although this low-grade storage ring was a tier 1 item, its value and usefulness rivaled tier 2 equipment.
Qin Feng was extremely satisfied.
He happily put on the storage ring. With a thought, he could sense the storage space inside it.
Then he took the bundle off his back.
The bundle contained four Fine Steel Sabers and four Novice Daggers.
He immediately stuffed all eight blades into the storage ring.
Those blades were all resources. Once the Heavenly Dao activated the trading system, he could exchange them for other people's items.
Carrying so many blades on his back had greatly hindered his performance in combat.
Now that he had a storage ring, all those problems were solved.
After finishing this, he began extracting from the giant snake...
[Endless Extraction successful! Obtained 3 energy attribute points!]
Excellent! Another 3 attribute points.
Mutated ferocious beasts provided more attribute points than ordinary ferocious beasts.
Now that he had reached level 3, his strength should have increased considerably!
At that thought, he quickly brought up his attribute panel.
[Name]: Qin Feng [Level]: 3 (30/600) [Reputation]: 1 [Strength]: 40 (Strength Berserk, D-rank) [Agility]: 46 (Speed Enhancement, E-rank) [Constitution]: 48 (Constitution Enhancement, E-rank, poison resistance +100) [Energy]: 57 (Vision Super Enhancement, E-rank; Sense of Smell Enhancement, F-rank) [Innate Talent]: Endless Extraction (SSS-rank) [Skills]: Eye of True Sight [Combat Power Assessment]: 4 stars [Free Attribute Points]: 10
"Not bad! Not bad! My combat power assessment has reached 4 stars!"
Qin Feng was overjoyed.
His combat power assessment was 4 stars, so his overall strength should be able to reach 6 stars.
Besides that, he still had 10 free attribute points, but he was in no hurry to allocate them.
Right, since I've leveled up, shouldn't my level ranking have gone up too?
At that thought, Qin Feng entered the rankings channel.
[Novice Village No. 911 Level Rankings] First place: Liu Xuan, level 3. Second place: Long Shan, level 3. Third place: Wu Yong, level 3. Fourth place: Qin Feng, level 3. Fifth place: Gu Ming, level 2. Sixth place: Yu Wen, level 2. Seventh place: Lei Jue, level 2. ...
Sure enough, he had risen to fourth place.
However, Long Shan and Wu Yong had also reached level 3 and ranked ahead of him.
Besides them, more than twenty people had reached level 2.
It seemed everyone had been working hard to level up over the past hour.
In fact, Qin Feng had spent most of that hour traveling.
He exited the Heavenly Dao's light screen and looked at the snake's corpse by his feet.
Just then, an idea struck him. He stepped forward, cut open the snake's head, and carefully removed its venom glands.
Then he inserted the tip of his blade into a venom gland, coating it with some deadly poison.
The blade tip, which had gleamed with a cold silver light, immediately turned a vivid blue, giving off an unnerving poisonous sheen.
Next, he used the scrap of cloth that had served as his bundle to carefully wrap up the remaining venom glands, then stuffed them into the storage ring for later use.
After finishing this, Qin Feng took a deep breath and walked toward the cave with his saber in hand.
There were still three mutated ferocious beasts waiting for him to slay them!
In his view, killing those three beasts should let his ranking surpass Long Shan's and Wu Yong's in one leap. He might even catch up to Liu Xuan.
A short while later, Qin Feng arrived at the cave entrance.
As he looked into the pitch-black cavern, his expression grew solemn.
He was not worried about those three mutated beasts joining forces. With his current strength, killing them would not be difficult.
What worried him was that some terrifying being might be hiding behind those three beasts...
No matter what, he had to go in and find out.
At that thought, he took a deep breath, tightened his grip on the hilt, and cautiously entered the cave...
As soon as he stepped inside, he was met with the smell of damp mold and the choking stench of blood.
Qin Feng held his breath and carefully walked forward.
The cave was very dim.
However, his Vision Super Enhancement talent had already given him night vision.
He soon adjusted to the darkness and could clearly see everything within twenty meters of him.
The cave was deep, extending steadily underground.
The farther he went, the darker it became, and the colder and damper the air grew.
After walking a little over five hundred meters, he finally reached the end of the cave.
Yet he saw no ferocious beasts, only a circular screen of light at the far end, slightly taller than a person and giving off a dim spiritual glow.
At first glance, the light screen looked like a doorway of light.
Huh!
What's this?
Qin Feng was somewhat surprised.
He quickly walked over, extended one hand, and carefully reached toward the doorway of light.
The next second, his hand passed effortlessly through it without suffering any harm.
Only then did he muster the courage to step through the doorway.
As he passed through, his vision suddenly brightened, and he discovered that he had entered a small valley surrounded by sheer cliffs.
All he could see were exotic flowers and herbs, and the air was filled with a refreshing herbal fragrance.
With a thought, Qin Feng swept his Eye of True Sight over them...
Elderberry (tier 1 spirit herb), Heart-Nourishing Grass (tier 1 spirit herb), Meridian-Unblocking Grass (tier 1 spirit herb), Fleeceflower Root (tier 1 spirit herb), Clarifying Incense (tier 1 spirit herb)...
Holy shit!
They were all tier 1 spirit herbs!
There were over forty of them!
He'd struck it rich!
Qin Feng was delighted.
[Reminder: You have entered an alternate space. The rankings channel will be unavailable. The personal information channel and chat channel can still be used normally.]
The sudden notification made Qin Feng pause slightly.
Just then, his gaze fell on the bottom of the valley, and his expression immediately changed a little.
There, the three mutated ferocious beasts-the Saber-Toothed Rabbit, the Mutated Black Rat, and the Tusked Boar-were crouching on guard, staring coldly at him.
Beside the three beasts lay two human corpses.
One had black hair and yellow skin and appeared to be Liu Yunchang's corpse.
He had some impression of Liu Yunchang. After all, Liu Yunchang was one of the powerful individuals who had awakened a D-rank talent, so he naturally recognized him.
The other corpse, however, had blond hair, white skin, and a tall build. Dressed in a suit and tie, he was clearly not from the Dragon Nation, but a white man.
Qin Feng was a little stunned.
Everyone in Novice Village No. 911 was from the Dragon Nation. There was not a single white person.
How had this white man's corpse appeared here?
With a thought, he scanned it with the Eye of True Sight...
[Race]: Human (deceased) [Origin]: Novice Village No. 496 [Level]: 2 [Talent]: ???
Huh!
So this white man had come from another novice village.
Qin Feng understood.
It seemed this space could connect to many novice villages.
After all, when the Heavenly Dao had launched this killing game, it had placed ten billion people from Blue Star into over ten million novice villages.
There was nothing strange about being able to connect to other novice villages.
In any case, an extra corpse was definitely a good thing.
He could extract another talent.
The white man's corpse showed that he had a talent, but Qin Feng could not detect what it was.
Still, anyone who could reach level 2 in such a short time definitely had a decent talent.
At that thought, he felt a little secretly delighted.
Just then, the three beasts ahead stirred and moved aside of their own accord, revealing what was behind them.
Once Qin Feng saw it clearly, he froze.
It was a desiccated corpse sitting cross-legged with its head lowered, its hair withered and yellow, and its body dressed in strange clothing.
What made the sight so horrifying was the bowl-sized hole that went straight through its chest, exposing its long-dried internal organs.
Clearly, this desiccated corpse had died from having its chest pierced through, and it could not have been any deader.
Qin Feng could even smell the stench of decay coming from it.
Yet he did not dare let his guard down, because the three mutated ferocious beasts were standing in front of the desiccated corpse, seemingly protecting it...