Chapter 1618 - 411: A Brand New Experience, Damn Merchant_4

Chapter 1618: Chapter 411: A Brand New Experience, Damn Merchant_4

When the white light representing soul upgrade flashed across his body, Ye Ming felt the surge of power within, a feeling of exhilaration rising in his heart.

He had almost forgotten the feeling of fighting tooth and nail with sheer technique, timing, and precision in a mortal body.

Upon advancing to the Demigod Realm, the essence of his life form transformed.

His combat style evolved along with his growing power.

Later battles would often stir the Heaven and Earth Elements, harnessing vast energy to crush and clash with absolute strength.

Though such bouts were grand and overwhelming, they lost the thrill of licking blood off the blade and deciding life and death within inches.

Now, his frail body drew him back to the most primal and instinct-testing level of combat deep within his memories.

Every move had to be meticulously calculated, as any slight mistake could trigger a deadly counterattack.

This experience of pushing his skills to the limit to achieve victory surprisingly made him feel a long-lost sense of thrill.

Like a captain accustomed to steering a ten-thousand-ton ship across the Four Seas, suddenly taking control of a rowing boat, grappling with nature in stormy waves.

Though perilous, it reclaimed that primal sense of control and even the desire for conquest.

Perhaps the deeper reason lies in the infinite tolerance rate of being a player.

Rendering the entire process merely an experience, devoid of any real risk.

He took a deep breath of the hot, humid forest air, his lips curling into a smile.

His figure, after a short leap, merged once again into the shadow, stealthily approaching the next target.

The game’s beginning turned out more interesting than he anticipated.

Half a day later, Ye Ming summoned the activity leaderboard interface.

At this moment, he firmly held the first place on the leaderboard, leading the second place by a combined Life Soul Level of 23.

There was once an offline period, taking leave from the dean, spending the rest of the time in uninterrupted hunting.

Currently, his Body Refining Level reached Level 2, having opened three Star Vein Slots, embedding Dusk Shadow, Star Shifting, and Extreme Speed respectively.

These life souls were all meant for more efficient self-improvement.

Next, his direction for enhancement was to expend all sacrificial power on the creation of Rune Resonance Weapons.

Temporarily abandoning any defense attributes, pursuing extreme output to boost hunting efficiency.

A good weapon can significantly improve output efficiency.

At this time, his Main Life Soul, Dusk Shadow, had upgraded to Level 43, his figure flickering briefly within the trees like leaping through shadow veins.

His sight quickly locked onto a small clearing ahead in the forest.

There, a group of Hyena-like Beasts gathered, numbering five, were gnawing at the carcass of an unidentified animal.

Ye Ming’s figure flickered once more, ghost-like, slipping into the shadows on the side of the beast pack.

Then suddenly emerged from the shadows, the short blade forming an arc, precisely slashing the throat of the nearest Hyena-like Beast, before any blood could spray, his figure blurred again.

Almost simultaneously, he had instantaneously teleported behind another Hyena-like Beast that was facing away from him, stabbing upward from beneath, piercing its soft ribs, straight into the internal organs.

With a twist and pull of his wrist, his figure side-slipped with borrowed force, his arm swinging like a whip, flinging the short blade with a spin.

It accurately passed through the eye socket of the third Hyena-like Beast which had just turned around, emitting a mist of blood, the short dagger’s momentum unyielding.

Extreme Speed Characteristic activated at this moment.

His form became a trailing shadow, catching the airborne short dagger instantly, knees slightly bent, body sweeping beneath the fourth Hyena-like Beast’s belly, the short blade slicing upward, opening the relatively softer abdomen.

As he rose, his toe forcefully kicked the trunk ahead.

His body defied logic, surged back with shadow transformation, the short blade like a viper darting out, stabbed into the gaping jaws of the final Hyena-like Beast attempting to pounce, straight through to the hindbrain.

The entire hunting process completed in a flash.

Ye Ming’s form solidified in the shadows in front of the clearing, his back to the beast pack, slowly flicking off the blood drops from the short blade.

Behind him, the five Hyena-like Beasts, as if unpaused from a freeze, each let out a brief wail and collapsed onto the ground, turning into mist absorbed by him.

Ye Ming didn’t even glance back at the harvest, footsteps unyielding, his form shadowing again, blending into the canopy shade ahead, unfolding into stealth.

Unlike Rune Resonance Weapons, external weapons all had durability.

Ye Ming could sense that the cheap short blade in his hand was on the brink of disintegration.

He planned to offer it to the High-dimensional God for decomposition once it was utterly damaged, then purchase a weapon with higher sharpness produced by a dungeon.

As for Rune Resonance Weapons, due to their expensive cost, he’s not considering them for now.

Just as he navigated through the forest shadow, planning the next equipment update, a sudden brightness appeared overhead.

Accompanied by a deafening "rumble" sound.

The light quickly became dazzling, fiery.

He abruptly lifted his head.

A meteor, ablaze with raging flames, dragging a long fiery tail, was tearing through the sky, plummeting towards the forest ahead with a roaring sound of air vibrating.

Falling stars, opportunity!

Ye Ming’s eyes gleamed, without hesitation, transformed into a swift black shadow, darting at full speed toward the anticipated impact point of the meteor.

When choosing the scene, he had realized that this new map held the opportunity for void-falling meteors.

Unexpectedly, he actually encountered it.

Extreme speed combined with Dusk Shadow Attribute, under an ultimate acceleration in motion, Ye Ming moved seamlessly through the rugged forest.

Having just dashed out a mere hundred meters.