CHAPTER 358: CHAPTER 301: EASY CLEARANCE

Whether it was killing purple-skinned people to produce "Blood Qi" items, or each individual’s discordant combat power, or the way they pursued without thinking as if their parents were killed by the mechanical beings once they appeared.

All of this made Li Zheng feel like the "Bloody Battlefield" dungeon seemed to be released by the terminal without being properly designed.

Rather than calling this a dungeon, it’s more like a chaotic world.

And Li Zheng and his companions were the uninvited guests who intruded into this world.

Yet the strangest thing of all was the red light weapon in the hands of the purple-skinned people.

From Li Zheng’s observations, the purple-skinned camp actually knew this kind of weapon was ineffective against mechanical beings.

Why would they go through the trouble of carrying the weapons with them?

Why not just discard them to lighten the burden?

"Unless these weapons are specifically meant to deal with players, otherwise it makes no sense..." Li Zheng thought while chasing and attacking several purple-skinned people.

In just thirty seconds, the purple-skinned camp lost half its members, leaving only three who, while avoiding Li Zheng, were still trying to launch an attack on the mechanical beings.

Li Zheng at this point seemed like a bug; the red light weapon of the purple-skinned people worked on him, but not on the mechanical beings.

Yet, in the eyes of the purple-skinned people, the mechanical beings had a higher priority than Li Zheng, the outsider.

The red light weapon had no effect on the mechanical beings,

causing the purple-skinned people, who clearly had the means to threaten Li Zheng, to foolishly not use them, allowing Li Zheng to chase and kill them haplessly.

Another twenty seconds passed, and the remaining three purple-skinned people were smashed by Li Zheng, turning into a few corpses.

The Diamond-level Power Demon Incarnation was indeed absurdly strong in the first stage of the dungeon. Without the means to balance Li Zheng, the purple-skinned people were like children getting punched by Li Zheng with ease and joy.

Li Zheng stopped his attack, no longer pursuing, with a deeply pensive expression: "Life’s ups and downs are really too thrilling."

Not long ago, he, the top player on the combat leaderboard, was running around like a lost dog, fearing the opponent’s weapon.

In such a short time, he had beaten the opponent to the point where they had no "ability to fight back," like a live wire of a War God.

If he had known earlier that the dungeon could be handled this way, why would he have bothered?

He should have gone straight for those two mechanical beings at the beginning!

All six purple-skinned people were dead, and the mechanical beings stopped their "demolition escape" behavior and stood still.

Li Zheng glanced at the dungeon exploration progress, finding it was only 70%, indicating the dungeon wasn’t cleared.

Counting on his fingers, he realized there were exactly seven purple-skinned people dead by his hand, each corresponding to ten percent exploration progress.

"Three more?" Li Zheng recalled his initial ascension scene and vaguely remembered more than seven red lights shooting at him.

The remaining three purple-skinned people were likely at a distance, and Li Zheng believed they were on their way, perhaps arriving soon.

Before they arrived, Li Zheng still had time to rest and clean the battlefield.

Dispelling the Incarnation state to save Genetic Force, Li Zheng was surprised to feel an imperceptible sense of weakness in his body.

However, his originally anesthetized left leg was now faintly aching.

"Damn, did the local anesthesia wear off this quickly?" Li Zheng even suspected that the weakness might be due to the anesthetic being diluted during his intense movements earlier.

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But for Inner Sect Disciples, once they kill ordinary people, their Celestial Punishment Value increases, and the higher the Celestial Punishment, the more difficult the subsequent Celestial Tribulation.

Each point of Celestial Punishment Value exponentially increases the power of the Celestial Tribulation, causing a period of player lament.

After all, no one would feel good after their meticulously trained Inner Sect Disciple was struck dead by lightning.

The most common posts on the official forums at that time were about whose Inner Sect Disciple was struck dead by lightning, who held on for a few seconds under the Celestial Tribulation... and then was struck dead.

In the end, to accommodate these players, the official performed an emergency update, releasing two divine pets.

One of which was: Divine Dog Hua Juan!

The appearance of Hua Juan solved these players’ troubles, allowing their Inner Sect Disciples to venture out without concerns.

Because Hua Juan kills without adding Celestial Punishment!

The yellow dog was sniffing close to the ground a short distance away, searching for ginkgo nuts that had fallen nearby.

Li Zheng looked at the boy: "Gou Dan, did the village chief send you to find me?"

"Ah... Ah?"

The boy named Gou Dan then came to his senses, recalling his purpose, and his small dark face flushed slightly: "No, no... it’s because dad is back. Dad heard the immortal woke up and wanted to come over to pay his respects personally, but the immortal said before he didn’t want to be disturbed, so I..."

"So you came to ask my opinion to see if I’m willing to meet him?" Li Zheng, seeing Gou Dan’s embarrassment, completed the sentence for him.

"Uh, mm!"

Gou Dan nodded vigorously, his simple demeanor making Li Zheng smile.

"Alright then."

Li Zheng thought it over and said, "I’m about to leave soon, so before I go, I might as well meet your father and bid farewell to the village chief."

Though he couldn’t recall the name of that village or where it was, since Li Zheng had already made plans, he naturally thought of wandering around. Perhaps he might stumble upon the stone box of his second senior brother along the way.

After all...

His opportunity value was maxed out.

"Is the immortal leaving now?"

Gou Dan looked at Li Zheng, his lively eyes filled with disappointment.

Li Zheng bent down and patted Gou Dan’s head to comfort him: "All good things must come to an end. Since I’ve awakened, naturally, I must leave."

"But!..."

Gou Dan said anxiously, "But didn’t the immortal lose his memory? Why not wait until your memory is restored before leaving?"

"Recovering memory is not an overnight effort. Wandering around the world might help me slowly regain my memory."

Li Zheng patted Gou Dan and said, "Alright, take me to your father."

"Okay, the immortal can follow me."

Seeing no way to persuade Li Zheng, Gou Dan turned and shouted, "Hua Juan, let’s go back!"

"Woof woo~"

The yellow dog, still searching for ginkgo nuts not far away, lifted its head at the sound, jumping excitedly and bouncing over.

"Hua Juan?"

Li Zheng was intrigued by this name and uncertain.

Wasn’t the divine dog Hua Juan a wild animal that later wandered to player-established sect grounds and was taken in?

How did it end up in a small village?

And adopted by a child?

"Something’s off!"

Li Zheng suddenly realized something.

In the game, the name "Hua Juan" appeared after players tamed it.

So who gave it this name?

"Quite interesting."

Li Zheng grinned and looked at Hua Juan again, following Gou Dan toward the village.

Behind the two of them, the lively Hua Juan followed for a few steps, then suddenly sniffed the air, its eyes lighting up.

It caught a scent!

The scent of that fruit from earlier!

Sniff sniff.

Sniff sniff.

Hua Juan carefully distinguished the direction of the scent, then suddenly pounced, darting into a small grove beside them.

There it is!

In the small grove, Hua Juan followed the scent confidently without even glancing, locked onto its target, and bit down.

"Awoo~~"

A beast’s pained howl erupted, and a sliver of silver-white escaped from Hua Juan’s mouth.