Chapter 20: Who Can Grind Faster Than Me?

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

Mo Fan also realized something else.

The difference between the damage of his normal attacks and the damage of his bleeding talent was getting smaller and smaller.

In other words, unless his HP greatly increased in the future, his normal attacks were bound to deal more overall DPS than his bleeding talent.

After gaining another understanding of his own strength, Mo Fan looked around once again.

He discovered that there was still no way out of this place.

There were Demonized Vengeful Spirits everywhere.

The surrounding environment looked the same.

Even if he walked in the same direction, he would still eventually return to his original location.

It was like how a person could not walk in a straight line with their eyes closed.

“Forget it, let’s level up first!”

Mo Fan looked at the Level Ranking Board.

He was offline for more than ten hours and the top-ranking players were already at Level 9.

But none of them were Level 10.

It was understandable, however, for the amount of Spiritual Energy needed to go from Level 9 to Level 10 was simply too much.

10,000,000 points of Spiritual Energy was truly a big hurdle for any player this early in the game.

If Mo Fan was a normal player that could not farm the monsters here, it would probably take him a long time to reach Level 10.

After all, this place was practically a paradise for grinding levels in the early stages of the game.

Mo Fan continued to lure monsters.

However, his stats were completely different from before.

Even Little Chrysanthemum’s current Level 15 stats could not be compared to his anymore

Hence, Mo Fan aggroed every Demonized Vengeful Spirits that he could see without fear!

In addition, he used Little Chrysanthemum’s Chrysanthemum’s Cry on the monsters while luring them away to the place where he wanted to slaughter them.

After Chrysanthemum’s Cry went into cooldown, Mo Fan kickstarted the battle.

Like Qingyi Changfeng, he swung his long staff as fast as he could.

Although his attack speed still could not compare to Qingyi Changfeng, the damage that he dealt was simply too high for these monsters.

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-1756 (Cleave)

-1756 (Cleave)

-1756 (Cleave)

-1756 (Cleave)

As long as cleave was triggered, he could kill a group of monsters in two to three strikes.

Many Demonized Vengeful Spirits fell under his staff.

Even if these Demonized Vengeful Spirits managed to hit him, he would only lose the minimum of 1 health per hit. Furthermore, every time Little Chrysanthemum’s Chrysanthemum’s Cry went off cooldown, another batch of lured monsters would be insta-killed.

The pair’s Spiritual Energy Points rose rapidly!

As more and more Demonized Vengeful Spirits were killed, golden light continuously soared from both Mo Fan’s and Little Chrysanthemum’s bodies.

Not long after, Mo Fan reached Level 13, while Little Chrysanthemum reached Level 17.

“Hahaha, who can grind faster than me?”

After leveling up, the Spiritual Energy given by the Demonized Vengeful Spirits had much lower, and the amount of Spiritual Energy needed to level up into the next level had also increased.

Fortunately, Mo Fan’s damage was high enough to kill these monsters quickly.

As Mo Fan killed these monsters, he placed the Vengeful Spirit Sets up for auction.

Ten minutes for a set, they sold out in a blink of an eye.

The third Vengeful Spirit Set was sold for $750,000—the price was much lower than before.

The fourth set only sold for $420,000.

The fifth set was $260,000.

The sixth set was $180,000.

As Mo Fan sold more and more Vengeful Spirit Sets, its prices dropped drastically.

It was understandable, however, for everyone now knew that Bunao Biaoyin had a lot of Vengeful Spirit Sets in his hands.

Therefore, most people were not in a hurry to buy them.

Upon realizing this, the players exploded into a huge commotion online.

“How many Vengeful Spirit Sets does that Bunao Biaoyin have?”

“Why is he selling them one by one?”

“That’s right! Instead of selling them all at once, he is actually auctioning them off one by one. How shameless!”

“There are so many sets in his hands. How did he get all of them?”

Mo Fan naturally did not care what these players thought.

After more than an hour of farming, he reached Level 18!

Little Chrysanthemum even rose to Level 22!

Looking at the number of Level 9 players on the Level Ranking Board, Mo Fan could not help but sigh to himself.

The speed at which he leveled up was simply too fast.

Nobody could catch up to him no matter what they did!

Just as Mo Fan finished another wave of Demonized Vengeful Spirits, a black mist suddenly surrounded him.

[System Notification: Due to your killing spree in the Demonized Land, you have attracted the attention of the Demonized Vengeful Spirit General. 30 seconds later, the Demonized Vengeful Spirit General will appear in the Demonized Land.]

“Vengeful Spirit General?”

“After killing the small fries, their elder is showing up?”

“Damn, why are they using such a cliché plot?”

Mo Fan looked at the thick black fog around him and complained. As time went on, the area that the black fog was covering grew larger and larger. Of course, Mo Fan was now completely inside it.

[System Notification: You are enveloped by demonic energy. All attributes have increased by 30% for 9999 minutes!]

“What the f*ck? What’s going on?”

“Shouldn’t the Boss lower my stats before coming out?”

“Is it because I’m also a monster?”

“Or is it because I’ve fused with the Vengeful Spirit Bloodline?”

Mo Fan’s guess was right.

If the person shrouded in the demonic energy was a normal player, his attributes would decrease by 30%, but Mo Fan was a wild monster…

So the effect was the complete opposite.

The black mist spread further but it became thinner as it continued to expand.

The Vengeful Spirit General soon appeared in front of Mo Fan.

[Demonized Vengeful Spirit General – Kuang Dao (Level 20 Silver Rank Boss)]

Mo Fan was a little surprised to see the Boss suddenly appear like that.

Compared to Mo Fan’s impression of what Bosses should be, Kuang Dao looked like a refined middle-aged man.

He held a long spear in his hand as a wisp of black mist coiled around his face.

He stared at Mo Fan with a puzzled look.

Not long after, Kuang Dao pointed his spear at Mo Fan and asked, “You have the Vengeful Spirit Bloodline. Why did you kill your own kind?”

Own kind?

Thinking about how he had merged with the Demonized Vengeful Spirit Bloodline, Mo Fan realized what Kuang Dao was talking about.

“Kuang Dao, what is this place? How can I get out?”

Mo Fan did not answer him directly but asked a question instead.

“Humph! Don’t interrupt me. Answer my question!”

“I’ll give you three breaths to decide!”

Kuang Dao harrumphed coldly. His tone was extremely cold, without a hint of emotion.

“Since you don’t want to tell me, I’ll have to find the answer directly from your body!”

Mo Fan did not waste his breath and attacked first.

Waving his staff, he aimed straight for Kuang Dao’s head.

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-4642 (Cleave)

-11,320 (Bleeding)

-11,320 (Bleeding)

-11,320 (Bleeding)

The series of attacks directly took away more than 40,000 HP from Kuang Dao.

[Demonized Vengeful Spirit General – Kuang Dao (Level 20 Silver Rank Boss) HP: 2,950,000/3,000,000]

Seeing Kuang Dao’s health, Mo Fan was a little shocked.

A Level 20 Silver Rank Boss actually had 3 million HP!

Kuang Dao’s reaction was also very fast.

While he was enduring the attacks, he also launched a counterattack.

He brandished his spear and left Mo Fan no room to dodge.

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Three high damage values instantly floated above Mo Fan’s head.

He was now Level 18.

Even after being enveloped by the demonic energy, he only had about 100,000 HP.

Now that he had lost more than 10,000 HP. The damage he received surely wasn’t low.

Mo Fan immediately pulled away from Kuang Dao.

This Boss was not someone to be trifled with!

At this moment, Mo Fan immediately equipped his Chrystem skin and summoned five cannon fodder minions.

Then, he called Little Chrysanthemum over.

They charged forward to gang up on the Boss together.

However, the five summoned chrysanthemum spirits were quickly killed by Kuang Dao.

Fortunately, Mo Fan and Little Chrysanthemum’s attacks were also not to be trifled with.

In a few seconds, their combined attacks reduced Kuang Dao’s HP by 200,000.

Mo Fan had obtained a lot of Demonized Vengeful Spirit Bloodline Fragments.

He exchanged them for Scarecrow Bloodline Fragments through the Reputation Shop.

Then, he raised the scarecrow’s innate talent from the upper level to ‘low grade’.

As a result, the chance of him causing bleeding had increased to 32%.

Therefore, his damage per second was extremely terrifying, to say the least.

After the five cannon fodder died, Mo Fan immediately pulled Little Chrysanthemum away from Kuang Dao.

It was quite difficult for a lone person to solo a Boss.

But thanks to the title ‘Pioneer’, Mo Fan’s movement speed was much faster than the Boss.

Therefore, whenever he had no chrysanthemum spirit cannon fodder, Mo Fan kited Kuang Dao.

And whenever Chrysanthemum Summoning went off cooldown, he would immediately summon the chrysanthemum spirits to tank for him.

Then, Mo Fan and Little Chrysanthemum would immediately switch to DPS mode.

They attacked Kuang Dao as much as they could.

Just like that, Kuang Dao’s HP was slowly depleted by Mo Fan.

The former’s 3,000,000 HP was quickly reduced to only over a million.

After so much HP was lost, Mo Fan realized that Kuang Dao did not seem to have activated any skills.

When he fought with Chrystem back then, the latter had unleashed three devastating skills.

Was there something different about this Boss because it was demonized?

As the battle continued, Kuang Dao’s performance disappointed Mo Fan.

Even when he died, he did not unleash a single skill.

Mo Fan concluded that Kuang Dao’s advantage only lied in his health and attack.

[Demonized Vengeful Spirit General – Kuang Dao (Level 20 Silver Rank Boss) has been killed. Obtained 250,000 Spiritual Energy Points, 10 Vengeful Spirit Bloodline Fragments (Grade 1), 10 Star Fragments (Star Level 1), and 200 Player Reputation Points.]

[Equipment Dropped: Demonized Vengeful Spirit Boots, Demonized Coiling Dragon Spear.]

[108 Gold Coins]

The Boss gave quite a lot of Spiritual Energy, but he only dropped two pieces of equipment.

Mo Fan picked them up.

[Demonized Vengeful Spirit Boots (Yellow)]

[Health +5820]

[Attack: 357-608]

[Spiritual Power Requirement: 100 Points]

[Level Requirement: Level 20]

[Part of the Demonized Vengeful Spirit Set.]

…

[Demonized Coiling Dragon Spear (Purple)]

[Former weapon of the War God Long Jian. It fell into the Demonized Land and was contaminated by demonic energy.]

[Attack: 1500-2800]

[Coiling Dragon Spear Soul: Attacks have a 10% chance of causing double critical damage. There is a 2% chance of causing triple critical damage.]

[Coiling Dragon Spear Spirit (Sealed)]

[Spiritual Power Requirement: 100 Points]

[Level Requirement: Level 18]

When Mo Fan saw the two pieces of equipment, his face lit up.

One yellow and one purple equipment.

Even though Kuang Dao did not drop as much equipment as the previous Boss he fought, the quality of the equipment it gave was surprisingly high.

This Demonized Vengeful Spirit Set was one grade higher than the Vengeful Spirit Set.

It was a yellow set.

Their stats were also higher by several folds.

The Demonized Coiling Dragon Spear was also an extremely powerful weapon.

The attack power was only so-so, but the crucial part was the special effect of the weapon!

It could cause double critical damage to triple critical damage!

Critical hit was a very rare attribute in any game.

But it had appeared on this purple weapon.

“I’ve earned a fortune, a fortune!”

“This weapon is awesome!”

“But what does this last [Coiling Dragon Spear Spirit (Sealed)] mean?”

“Could it be another special effect that has been sealed away?”

Every equipment beyond Level 10 had spiritual power requirements.

The spiritual power Mo Fan had accumulated was already high enough so he encountered no problems. Mo Fan equipped the Demonized Coiling Dragon Spear and his attack increased by a huge margin.

Meanwhile, the Demonized Vengeful Spirit Boots was one of the Level 20 set’s components.

It was not usable yet as Mo Fan’s level was simply not high enough.

So he threw it into his inventory.

The Boss also gave him 108 gold coins. This amount was considered quite generous.

The exchange rate between gold coins and cash was 1: 10.

In other words, these 108 gold coins were worth about a thousand dollars.

However, the gains were not much compared to the value of the items he had sold in the trading section of the official website so far.

After checking the loot, Mo Fan realized that the black fog around him had disappeared.

The 30% stat buff on his body had also vanished.

It was as though something had been removed from his body.

After the black mist dissipated, the surroundings returned to normal.

From the system notification and Kuang Dao’s words, he learned that this was the Demonized Land.

Mo Fan had some guesses as to how he could leave this place.

Looking around, Mo Fan’s lips curled up as he looked at the newly respawned Demonized Vengeful Spirits.