You chose hell?

Around 10 p. m., Ye Qingxue woke up from her meditative state.

When she opened her eyes, Su Mu was already leaning against the rock, watching her. His gaze was calm, as if he had been awake for a long time and had just been waiting.

Ye Qingxue's expression was somewhat unpleasant. She lowered her head slightly and said in a low voice, "It took five hours, and I only recovered sixty points of Soul Power."

Su Mu raised an eyebrow slightly.

Sixty o'clock.

According to the textbook standards, a dungeon raider on the third day of awakening who can recover 30 points after five hours of meditation is considered excellent.

Ye Qingxue's ability to recover 60 points is truly the mark of a genius among geniuses.

Her Soul Power limit was already quite high, and with the nourishment of her Soul Space from the SSS-level core card, her meditation efficiency far exceeded that of ordinary people.

He could even be described as a super genius.

Even so, it's still far inferior to its own absurd mechanism that fully restores health in minutes.

Su Mu silently compared the two in his mind, but showed no pride on his face.

He knew that his situation was a special case, unrelated to talent, and purely due to the system's mechanisms.

Ye Qingxue, on the other hand, relied on genuine talent and diligent practice.

But this also made him realize more clearly that the gap between himself and others will widen over time.

Even a genius like Ye Qingxue can recover 60 points after five hours of meditation, while he can recover 210 points after one minute of meditation.

Furthermore, as he acquires more methods to enhance his Soul Power in the future, his Soul Power limit will continue to increase, while others' recovery efficiency can only increase slowly.

This gap will only snowball.

Seeing that he was awake, Ye Qingxue asked, "Su Mu, don't you need to meditate?"

"I already meditated this morning," Su Mu said.

Ye Qingxue nodded and did not ask any further questions.

There are too many illogical things about Su Mu: that SSS-level Little Drill Wind, that SS-level White Bone Spirit, and his core card that rose from F-level to C-level. Each of these things is beyond reason. She couldn't ask them all, and she was too lazy to ask.

The two got up and walked towards the dungeon entrance.

As Ye Qingxue walked, she said, "I have six more times to refresh the dungeon cooldown on my equipment, plus the scroll, so I can use it a total of twelve more times."

Su Mu paused for a moment.

Twelve times.

This number did surprise him somewhat.

The equipment and scrolls for clearing cooldowns are quite expensive, and considering what she used before, the fact that Ye Qingxue still has enough for twelve uses shows that her family provides substantial support.

But then I thought about it again, and with Ye Qingxue's SSS-level talent, it's normal for her family to be willing to spend money on her.

"Twelve times," Su Mu repeated, quickly calculating in his mind.

Twelve refreshes, if all used on Nightmare Lair, would be enough to push Ye Qingxue from level fourteen to over level sixteen. I estimate she could reach around level 17-18.

But Su Mu now prefers to fight the Hell Lair. The experience and Momentum Points of the Hell Lair far exceed those of Nightmare difficulty, and if he can use these twelve runs to Hell Lair, the gains will be much greater.

However, the prerequisite is that Ye Qingxue must first reach level 15.

"Let's do the Normal and Hard modes first," Su Mu said. "Normal and Hard modes refresh naturally and don't consume your attempts."

Ye Qingxue nodded.

The two first cleared the Normal Lair, then the Hard Lair. Both runs were extremely fast, taking five minutes for the Normal Lair and twenty minutes for the Hard Lair.

Ye Qingxue's experience bar steadily increased, and Su Mu also gained a lot of experience.

Then they played the nightmare again.

After completing this nightmare run, Ye Qingxue finally reached level fifteen through the experience distribution in the Nightmare Lair.

She stared at her level panel, stunned for several seconds.

Level 15.

According to her original calculations, it would take at least six or seven days to reach this level.

And now, before the third day of awakening is even over, she's already level 15.

She couldn't help but glance at Su Mu again.

The boy was standing in front of the dungeon entrance, bringing up the control panel and sliding his finger across the screen. His expression was as calm as if he were doing something completely ordinary.

Ye Qingxue withdrew her gaze, her heart filled with indescribable feelings.

The Su Mu has been chosen.

Hell.

The dark red light curtain before him transformed into a blinding crimson, like a red-hot iron plate, its surface rippled violently, emitting a suction force several times stronger than that of the Nightmare Lair.

Ye Qingxue was stunned for a moment, then realized what was happening and quickly followed.

The two stepped into the crimson light curtain.

Outside the entrance, the crowd fell silent for a moment, then erupted.

"Hell?? They went to hell?"

"Weren't we just playing nightmares? How did we suddenly end up in hell?"

"Wait, the fact that they can enter Hell means they've already cleared the Nightmare Lair! The system will only unlock the next difficulty level once they've cleared at least 50%!"

"The two of them, taking turns working together, cleared the Nightmare Lair without forming a secret realm?"

"That Ye Qingxue is an SSS-level Snow Queen, so it's not surprising that she can clear Nightmare difficulty. But the man next to her, we can't see any information about him, not even his level. Just who is he?"

"And the fact that they were constantly grinding Nightmare difficulty means they didn't have enough experience in Nightmare Lair to level up, which is why they went to challenge Hell difficulty. How many times did they grind Nightmare difficulty?"

"They're not short of money. Look at how often they go in and out of dungeons; you simply couldn't do that without cooldown reduction gear."

"What a perfect match! One is an SSS-level expert, and the other is unfathomable but definitely not simple. They look quite good together."

"What do you mean by 'matching'? They're my teammates."

"Teammates? Have you ever seen Ye Qingxue team up with anyone? With her personality, who would willingly stand to the side of her? Could it be an ordinary teammate?"

The murmurs rose and fell, but the two could no longer hear them.

A hellish Land of Buried Bones.

The sky was dark red, like a congealed curtain of blood, pressing down extremely low.

The fog was thick and viscous, flowing slowly along the ground, and every breath carried a sweet, rotten smell.

The tombstones rose from the ground, each over five meters tall, covered with twisted runes that gleamed with a dark red glow. The bone dust spread even deeper, sinking half a foot with every step.

When Ye Qingxue entered, her first reaction was to frown.

She looked around at her surroundings, then at the slowly widening crack in the distance, and her expression changed.

"This isn't a nightmare." She turned to look at Su Mu. "You chose hell?"