White item, Gladiator Token.
On the item description, there was no remark whatsoever.
But after it absorbed that white light born from the high ground, on the Gladiator Token appeared a number marking: 1/3.
"Looks like it needs to absorb three beams of light," Chen Zijin studied the Gladiator Token and said.
And at this moment, Zhang Yue also sorted out his thoughts, "Seems I really was going in the wrong direction before."
"This should be the correct way, I understand now."
Saying that, Zhang Yue immediately took out a hundred flame beads without engravings from his bag, and used them to activate the Flame Gate.
Then, together with Chen Zijin, he passed through the Flame Gate and came to another high ground next door.
Around this high ground, the ground also had the same circular grooves.
The exact same layout as the previous high ground.
So, Zhang Yue and Chen Zijin followed the same method, placing the flame beads with engravings into their corresponding grooves.
After filling all twelve grooves, from the high ground burst out a white light.
Chen Zijin held the Gladiator Token close, causing the white light to be absorbed into the token.
At this moment, the number marking on the token changed to 2/3.
After finding the right method, the two of them instantly had a clear goal.
The Gladiator Token could be used to absorb the Light of Gladiator.
One high ground could only produce one Light of Gladiator.
So the next task was to keep collecting flame beads, and keep jumping across high grounds.
Every high ground they reached, they would use the engraved flame beads to fill the grooves, activate the Light of Gladiator, use the token to absorb it, then use excess flame beads to open the Flame Gate, and jump to another high ground.
When the Gladiator Token in Chen Zijin's hand absorbed three Lights of Gladiator, a transformation occurred.
The Gladiator Token, originally a white item, upgraded to green.
And the number marking became 0/5.
"Five lights, then it can upgrade to blue," Zhang Yue asked, "Inside the Ultimate Arena, the highest grade of item is what color, gold?"
"Yes," Chen Zijin said with some excitement, "So it should be by using these light orbs from the high grounds to upgrade the Gladiator Token. When the Gladiator Token reaches gold quality, it should be able to crack this map."
Zhang Yue couldn't help but feel thankful for Chen Zijin's arrival.
In the end, a girl's mind was more meticulous.
If it hadn't been for Chen Zijin, even if you gave Zhang Yue another million years, he would probably still just keep killing monsters, collecting flame beads, and endlessly hopping across high grounds.
How could he have thought that the meaning of these high grounds wasn't for people trapped inside to use them as stepping stones to find the exit.
But instead, they existed to provide upgrade experience for the Gladiator Token.
So from the start, Zhang Yue's direction was wrong, which caused him to waste six days and still not find a way out.
And Chen Zijin, right after coming in, immediately discovered this.
Of course, it also helped that Chen Zijin had brought a Gladiator Token with her.
Otherwise, even if they discovered this feature, there would be nothing to absorb the experience light orbs born from the high grounds.
"So that means, this domain is connected with the Ultimate Arena."
After continuously breaking through five high grounds, absorbing five light orbs, successfully upgrading the Gladiator Token's quality from green to blue, Chen Zijin said thoughtfully, "Contestants must first obtain a Gladiator Token inside the Ultimate Arena, then bring the Gladiator Token into this hidden domain to collect experience and upgrade the token."
"There must be some special path inside the Ultimate Arena that can allow entry into this domain. It just hasn't been discovered by you all yet," Zhang Yue said, "From the looks of it, the God of Desire has opened a shortcut for us."
The reason he said that was because it could be sensed: when the Gladiator Token absorbed enough experience in this Molten Realm and upgraded to gold, the result would definitely be a surprise.
Otherwise, there was no need to set up such a tedious upgrade system.
After the Gladiator Token upgraded to blue, the experience points needed for the next upgrade rose to 8.
Each conquered high ground only gave 1 experience point.
It could be seen that upgrading the Gladiator Token was not easy.
Of course, in front of a Myth-grade Necromancer and a Legend-grade Shadow Dancer, this was no difficulty at all.
Zhang Yue was in charge of hunting, harvesting, and obtaining flame beads.
Chen Zijin was in charge of sorting out the engravings on the flame beads and filling the grooves.
The two had a clear division of labor.
As the saying goes, when a man and woman work together, the job isn't tiring.
———
Meanwhile, on the other side.
Inside the Ultimate Arena, an ultimate duel was raging fiercely.
The Ghostsword Elfa and the Frost King Kwon Ji-Hyun had become humanity's final hope.
The two at the same time activated the forbidden technique [Soul Curse], burning their souls to raise their combat power to the utmost limit.
They were preparing to fight a life-and-death battle against the Three Main Gods.
Before the screens, hundreds of billions of people across the world held their breath, staring at this ultimate battle that decided the fate of humankind's life and death.
"ROAR!"
Accompanied by a world-shaking violent bellow.
The God of Malevolence, Motan, swung his nine heads, pressing down toward Elfa and Kwon Ji-Hyun.
"Hah!"
A loud shout rang out, and in the state of soul burning, an incomparably powerful force of ice erupted from within Kwon Ji-Hyun, shaking the entire field.
In that instant, the entire field froze.
Inside the whole city, even professionals several hundred meters away felt an intense chill.
Even the air was filled with frost.
In the livestream room, the audience's screens froze with layers of ice.
This scene couldn't help but cause amazement.
["As expected of a Myth-grade professional, soul burning is insane!"]
["Compared to when those three Legend-grade professionals from Dragon Nation used Soul Curse, the aura is even stronger!"]
———
[On the Battlefield]
From the Frost King's extreme freezing, all the enemies' movements were slowed.
The next moment, the Ghostsword Elfa raised his sword.
WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!
Endless blades materialized from around him, and with the Frost King's freezing power strengthening them, they transformed into countless ice blades.
In front, the approaching God of Malevolence, Motan, his death rays shot out from his nine heads, were instantly frozen.
Elfa charged forward, blooming with blades all over his body, forming a gigantic swordstorm that cut off all nine heads of the God of Malevolence.
Even with vast power, the God of Malevolence still suffered heavy injury.
Immediately afterward, he released a storm, causing the endless blade force to cover the entire battlefield.
WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!
Under the superluminal slashes of the endless blades, the God of Wrath and the God of Desire, attacking from the flanks, were both repelled together with the God of Malevolence.
The next second, the Flowgold Warrior suddenly rushed forward.
Cutting through the ice, "clang" a sword struck out, colliding with Elfa's blade, bursting out with a flash of intense light.
Staring at Elfa, in the blood-red, ferocious eyes of the Flowgold Warrior, a trace of desire appeared.
"Such strong power, worthy of being humanity's strongest professional."
"As long as I devour you, even if Asura himself returned, he would not be my match!"
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