Chapter 9: Chrysanthemum Spirit Boss

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

“I thought that Brother Changfeng’s critical hit talent was already very impressive.”

“I didn’t expect your bleeding talent to be able to cause such absurd damage!”

Qingyi Qiancheng sighed in disbelief.

“It’s special really, Changfeng’s area of effect technique is more powerful than this!”

Mo Fan said humbly, but he was secretly pleased inside.

He had an even more ridiculous talent after all.

“Since Brother Yin has such high attack power—Qiancheng, and Mobai—you two go lure the monsters. I’ll clear the mobs with him!”

Qingyi Changfeng smiled as he made quick arrangements.

He did not look at Mo Fan as exaggeratedly as Qiancheng did.

“Good! This way, our leveling speed will be even faster!”

Qingyi Qiancheng became rather excited, he went to lure the monsters with Mobai.

Meanwhile, Mo Fan and Qingyi Changfeng started to kill the monsters that they had lured over.

Soon, a large number of wild monster corpses laid around them.

[Agile Chrysanthemum Spirit (Level 9) has been killed. Obtained 786 Spiritual Energy Points, 1 Chrysanthemum Spirit Bloodline Fragment (Grade 0), 1 Star Fragment (Star Level 0), and 1 Player Reputation Point.]

[Sturdy Chrysanthemum Spirit (Level 9) has been killed…]

[Nimble Chrysanthemum Spirit (Level 9) has been killed…]

Whenever Mo Fan attacked, A crack in the void would occasionally appear, dealing damage to the monsters within 180 degrees in front of him.

This caused Qingyi Changfeng and the others to sigh in admiration once again.

That was a true AOE skill!

Not a self-made one like Qingyi Changfeng’s.

…

As more monsters were killed, the monsters started to drop their equipment.

The four gathered the set of equipment (Broken Wooden Stick, Shirt, Pants, Shoes), and sold the excess equipment in the trading section of the official website before splitting the money among themselves.

The speed at which the four of them killed monsters was several times faster than Mo Fan farming these monsters alone.

His Spiritual Energy kept getting larger.

Even if it was split evenly between the four of them, Mo Fan still obtained 230,000 points of Spiritual Energy in just slightly more than ten minutes.

Seeing Qingyi Changfeng’s smooth movements, Mo Fan could not help but feel envious.

“Changfeng, do you have an equipment that buffs your Attack Speed?”

“No!”

Qingyi Changfeng replied as he killed the monsters.

“Then, why is your attack speed so fast?”

Mo Fan’s eyes were filled with doubt as he looked at the damage caused by Qingyi Changfeng on the group of monsters.

“…”

Qingyi Changfeng glanced at Mo Fan. He wanted to say something but hesitated.

“Is there anything you can’t say?”

“Since we’ve become friends, there’s nothing to hide.”

Qingyi Changfeng seemed to have thought of something.

He smiled and explained after killing a few more monsters.

“I can attack at this speed in the game because I can do it in reality too!”

After hearing Qingyi Changfeng’s words, Mo Fan’s eyes widened!

What did this mean?

He was also this fast in real life?

Could it be that Qingyi Changfeng was a martial arts expert?

Mo Fan quickly voiced out his doubts.

“That’s right. Our clan is a famous Ancient Martial Clan, but we’ve already declined—”

After Qingyi Changfeng replied, he revealed a hint of sadness before returning to normal.

After a positive answer, Mo Fan’s heart became filled with shock.

He did not notice Qingyi Changfeng’s expression at all.

Instead, he stared at Qingyi Changfeng’s hand for a long time.

No wonder his hands were so smooth!

Previously, Mo Fan thought he had maintained himself quite well, but it turned out he was a martial arts practitioner.

“In that case, as long as your body is healthy in reality, you won’t feel so weak in the game?”

“That’s right! The data collection system of this game is very advanced. Our characters are randomly generated within a small scope of randomness using our actual physical data.”

“Eh? If that’s the case, why did I…”

“What?”

“No… nothing!”

Mo Fan thought of the fact that he had become a wild monster. He could not help but shudder.

He was a human in reality.

If what Qingyi Changfeng said was true, why did he become a wild monster in the game?

Was there really a problem with that cheap gaming helmet?

“Changfeng, how are you so sure that this game character must have been created based on physical data collected from reality?” Mo Fan could not help but ask.

“The gaming equipment you bought doesn’t have an instruction manual? It was written there!” Qingyi Changfeng looked at Mo Fan in confusion.

“Oh… Maybe I didn’t read it properly!” Mo Fan smiled awkwardly.

After hearing Qingyi Changfeng’s reply, Mo Fan’s face darkened.

The discounted helmet he bought had no such instruction manual!

Not to mention the manual, it did not even come in the original packaging!

It was placed in a paper box that was haphazardly packaged before being sent to him.

There were even scratches on the surface of the helmet.

He also paid $500 for it.

Although he managed to save up $500, once he saw that bulk purchasing with other people would make it $250, Mo Fan immediately ordered it without much thought.

At that time, he had been thinking that he had just taken advantage of a sweet deal.

But he did not expect this outcome.

All of a sudden, a golden light flashed. Qingyi Mobai reached Level 9.

“Mobai, you did well. You leveled up before me!” Qiancheng glanced at Mobai.

“I guess you’re also about to level up.”

Just as Mobai finished speaking, another golden light rose.

Qingyi Qiancheng leveled up.

The level up of the two interrupted Mo Fan’s train of thought.

He looked at his experience bar.

He was still short of 100,000 Spiritual Energy Points.

“Brother Yin, you’re about to level up, right?”

“Yes, soon. How about you, Changfeng?”

“I’m still far from leveling up. You’ll know when you reach Level 9!”

Qingyi Changfeng utilized his technique and immediately stabbed a few chrysanthemum spirits to death.

After Mo Fan heard what Qingyi Changfeng said, he was puzzled.

Wasn’t it a million points of Spiritual Energy to level up from Level 9 to Level 10?

…

After ten minutes of grinding, Mo Fan reached Level 9.

At this moment, he checked his experience bar and his expression changed several times.

No wonder Qingyi Changfeng had said those words earlier.

This was way too different from what he had guessed!

Mo Fan opened his status panel.

[Character ID Tag: Bunao Biaoyin]

[Character Name: Sturdy-Agile Scarecrow]

[Star Level: 3]

[Sturdy Trait: Max HP +20%, damage received -10%.]

[Agile Trait: Attack Speed +20%, Movement Speed +10%]

[Level: 9 (Progress: 321/10,000,000)]

[Strength: 103]

[Constitution: 99]

[Dexterity: 103]

[Attack Power: Physical Attack 97-143]

[Health: 8300]

[Defense: Physical Defense 62]

[Talent “Medium Scarecrow Bloodline”: Normal attacks have an 8% chance of causing bleeding, dealing damage that is 10% of your maximum health. Duration: 3 seconds.]

[Talent “Medium Human Bloodline”: Strength+3%, Dexterity+3%, Constitution+1%]

[Talent “Inferior Chrysanthemum Spirit Bloodline”: Normal attacks have a 5% chance of creating a crack, causing 50% cleave damage. The range of the cleave attack is 180 degrees in front, and the distance is equal to the attack distance.]

[Scarecrow Bloodline Fragment: 436/1000 (Grade 0 Fragment)]

[Chrysanthemum Spirit Bloodline Fragment: 3351/10 (Can Be Fused)]

[Human Bloodline Fragment: 919/1000 (Grade 0 Fragment)]

[Star Level Fragment: 3813/10,000 (Star Level 0 Fragment)]

[Monster Reputation: 1029]

[Player Reputation: 3904]

The amount of Spiritual Energy required to level up to Level 10 was as high as ten million!

It was eight or nine times more than the total amount of Spiritual Energy needed to level up to 9!

Mo Fan really did not expect that so much Spiritual Energy was needed to level up from 9 to 10.

He tried to go offline once again, but the system still said that he was unable to log off due to his low level.

“What if I can’t go offline after reaching Level 10?”

“Ten million Spiritual Energy Points! When will it end?”

“I just want to log off. Why is it so difficult to do?”

Mo Fan sighed.

He had not used the Chrysanthemum Spirit Bloodline Fragments since Level 7.

Mo Fan directly clicked on the upgrade button!

He felt the stirring of that mysterious power three times in a row.

His innate talent, “Inferior Chrysanthemum Spirit Bloodline”, rose to “Upper Chrysanthemum Spirit Bloodline”.

[Talent “Upper Chrysanthemum Spirit Bloodline”: Normal attacks have a 45% chance of creating a crack, causing 50% cleave damage. The range of the cleave attack is 270 degrees in front, and the distance is equal to the attack distance.]

The probability of cleaving increased from 5% to 45%.

The chance of activation was basically one in two now, and the reach of the attack was also greatly increased.

This AOE talent could finally show its true power.

…

Seeing that Mo Fan had leveled up, Qingyi Changfeng called the distant Qiancheng and Mobai back. The four of them quickly cleaned up the nearby wild monsters.

Then, Qingyi Changfeng slowly said, “We won’t be able to reach Level 10 anytime soon. Since everyone is already at Level 9, we can try challenging the Forest King here.”

“The Forest King?” Mo Fan was confused.

“It’s the Boss in the depths of this forest, a Chrysanthemum Spirit Boss. We’ll reach it in about ten minutes.”

Qiancheng explained with an excited expression on his face.

It seemed like they had gone over there to explore it before.

“That’s right. We tried it out before, but we couldn’t defeat it at all. Now that we have Brother Yin, the four of us should be able to defeat it.” Qingyi Changfeng nodded.

“Alright, let’s go!”

There was no information on Bosses on the official website at all.

Right now, no one had ever heard of anyone fighting a Boss.

Mo Fan was also very curious about the Boss that Qingyi Changfeng was talking about.

If even the three of them could not defeat it, how powerful was it?

…

The journey of the four was rather slow due to the wild monsters that they had encountered along the way.

But the main reason was that Qingyi Changfeng and the other two seemed to be talented in drawing the attention of monsters. They seemed to have a global taunt when it came to these wild monsters.

As for Mo Fan, even if he walked close to the monsters, they never attacked him first.

Qingyi Changfeng immediately noticed this strange phenomenon and asked.

Mo Fan directly used the excuse of his talent having a special effect to evade the question.

The deeper they went into the forest, the denser the pack of monsters became.

Ten minutes later, they arrived at a very spacious area.

There were no more wild monsters around them.

There were only a handful of trees and plants here, and a large portion of them had already withered. The vegetation looked desolate and yellow. Everything felt creepy and strange.

“The Boss is inside. The Chrysanthemum Spirit Boss had absorbed the essence of the plants and trees here, which is why this place became like this…”

Qingyi Changfeng frowned.

He seemed to have suffered a huge loss here.

“Let’s go in!”

They continued along a path.

The further they went, the more desolate the surroundings became.