WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!
As one light orb after another was absorbed by the Gladiator Token, its grade could be seen rising step by step from the very beginning white, all the way up to red.
Once again breaking through a high ground, obtaining its core light orb, Chen Zijin looked at the red Gladiator Token in her hand, its progress bar already reaching 29/30, and said happily, "Just one last step, and the Gladiator Token can reach gold."
It had to be said, at this moment, even Zhang Yue was a little expectant.
Because, trapped here too long, he desperately wanted to go out and breathe some fresh air.
And while continuously leaping across high grounds to gain upgrade experience for the Gladiator Token, Zhang Yue had also been paying attention to the movements around them.
Because the ring in his hand was always faintly flashing with light now and then.
The ring that could sense the Nether Stones. Once it resonated, it meant a Nether Stone was nearby.
But ever since the ring started reacting several days ago, Zhang Yue had been searching hard, yet still hadn't found the last [Nether Yellow Stone].
He remembered Ouyang Linger once analyzing the material of the Nether Stones. According to her, once all four Nether Stones were collected, they could perhaps open a gate to the Nether World.
A gate to the Nether World meant breaking the existing framework.
What was the existing framework?
It was the division of different domains.
For example, in the professional domain, the highest framework was Myth-tier profession.
In the monster domain, the highest framework was King-tier BOSS.
In the equipment domain, the highest framework was golden quality.
Breaking the framework would mean the birth of professions beyond Myth-tier, or bosses beyond King-tier BOSS, or equipment beyond golden quality.
In fact, Zhang Yue had already broken the framework of the equipment domain.
Because his equipment could already be refined up to Flowgold-tier.
Just as Zhang Yue was thinking this, suddenly, he heard Chen Zijin's voice by his ear, "Zhang Yue, what are you thinking? Let's go!"
Zhang Yue came back to his senses.
He saw that Chen Zijin had already used flame beads to open a Flame Gate. At this moment, she was standing in front of the Flame Gate, waiting for him.
Zhang Yue immediately went over, and together with Chen Zijin, stepped through the Flame Gate.
But when the two jumped to the next high ground, they found the surroundings strangely quiet.
And looking around, not even other high grounds could be seen.
What they could see, beyond the high ground beneath their feet, was only endless darkness.
"Why does this feel weird," Chen Zijin also noticed the peculiarity.
Zhang Yue said, "Looks like the ultimate challenge is coming."
"Is it because it sensed we're only 1 experience away from upgrading the Gladiator Token to gold, so it deliberately opened the ultimate challenge for us?"
Zhang Yue held his Extraordinary Staff, scanning around, and said, "Quick battle, let's finish this fast."
Sure enough.
Although by continually leaping across high grounds, the monsters' strength increased step by step, making battles harder, but before this, each increase in monster strength was within a controllable range.
And so far, the strongest that had appeared was large numbers of BOSS-tier fire dragons.
But this time, from the lava around them, suddenly rushed out several fire dragons with different appearances.
[Scarlet Flame Fire Dragon King] (Lv.175 God-tier BOSS)!
[Scarlet Flame Water Dragon King] (Lv.175 God-tier BOSS)!
[Scarlet Flame Wind Dragon King] (Lv.175 God-tier BOSS)!
In their line of sight, the dozen Scarlet Flame Dragons that appeared were all God-tier BOSS level.
"The difficulty just jumped this much?"
While Chen Zijin was a little surprised, Zhang Yue had already launched his attack on the surrounding Dragon Kings.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
As soon as they entered attack range, he swung his staff.
Annihilation · Thunder Might!
Sanctuary · Thunderfire Burning Fields!
Lightning · Swallowing Heaven, Destroying Earth!
Lightning · Dance of Thunderbolts!
One after another, SSS-tier lightning skills struck fiercely onto the Dragon Kings.
At once, on their heads exploded blood-red damage numbers—
-6.41 billion!
-6.19 billion!
-6.32 billion!
-6.37 billion!
With the effect of [Lightning · Swallowing Heaven, Destroying Earth] (every time this skill kills an enemy, gain +10% final damage, stacks up to 10 layers), Zhang Yue's damage doubled.
Unless leaving combat, this effect would last permanently.
However, the Dragon Kings, being God-tier BOSSes, had greatly increased strength.
With their 80 billion HP, even while taking such heavy blows from Zhang Yue, they weren't much threatened.
At the same time, the Apex Predator launched a sudden assault from the flank.
When it came to single-target burst, the Apex Predator was unmatched.
A storm of lightning-fast slashes exploded on the Dragon King, each delivering 5+ billion super-high critical damage.
The key was, the Apex Predator's attack speed was fast.
In one second, it easily dealt 20–30 billion DPS.
Before the Dragon King could react, Cherry quickly cast spells, flinging skill after skill like they cost nothing, wildly bombarding the Dragon King.
With each hit dealing over 3 billion damage, combined with Zhang Yue and the Apex Predator, in just an instant they killed that Dragon King.
After finishing one Dragon King, the remaining four Dragon Kings swarmed in.
They leapt directly onto the high ground, joining forces to attack Zhang Yue.
But for mere God-tier BOSSes, hurting Zhang Yue was easier said than done.
Through ultimate dodging maneuvers, he evaded the attacks of the four Dragon Kings.
At the same time, he launched counterattacks.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Another flurry of single-target skills unleashed.
With the Apex Predator, the Armageddon Skeleton King, the Thirty-Wing Armageddon Black Dragon, the Ice-Sealed God of War, and Cherry cooperating, in moments they killed another Dragon King.
At the same time, on the other side, Chen Zijin also, by her own power, cut down a Dragon King.
Instantly killing God-tier BOSSes, for Chen Zijin, was already standard practice.
Thus, the dozen God-tier Dragon Kings were wiped out in moments.
Only piles of flame beads remained on the ground.
Chen Zijin followed the same method, classifying the flame beads.
And Zhang Yue, as usual, was responsible for killing.
Just after finishing off the dozen Dragon Kings, in the blink of an eye, another huge wave of fire dragons appeared around them.
Unsurprisingly, all the fire dragons were God-tier BOSSes.
But Zhang Yue only grew more excited.
Because hunting God-tier BOSSes gave Zhang Yue a sense of fulfillment.
Amid Zhang Yue's mad slaughter, Chen Zijin harvested flame bead after flame bead.
Finally, twelve flame beads engraved with different images were gathered, and she placed them into the twelve grooves on the ground.
WHOOSH!
A white light orb drifted out from the high ground.
Chen Zijin held the Gladiator Token close to the orb.
The orb was absorbed into the token.
The next moment, the Gladiator Token in Chen Zijin's hand radiated golden light.
["Ding~ Congratulations, your item [Gladiator Token] has been upgraded to gold!"]
Chen Zijin lowered her head and looked at the token in her hand, discovering that compared to before, it seemed to have undergone a subtle change…
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