Lin Chen took out a supreme treasure map.

Treasure maps in "New World" were divided into three levels: ordinary, rare, and supreme.

Without a doubt, the supreme treasure map was the best.

Treasure maps could also be combined five into one.

Ordinary treasure maps had a 1% chance of spawning a treasure map dungeon when excavated. Defeating the monsters inside had a 20% chance of dropping valuable items.

Rare treasure maps had a 10% chance of spawning a treasure map dungeon when excavated, with a 35% chance of dropping valuable items.

Supreme treasure maps had a 20% chance of spawning a treasure map dungeon, with a 50% chance of dropping valuable items.

Of course, valuable items varied in quality.

So, digging for treasure was a matter of luck.

Besides seeing if the cave-in rate was high, you also had to see if the items dropped were good.

Finally, you had to see if the monsters inside were high-level...

The cave-in rate was the probability of a treasure map dungeon appearing.

As it turned out, Lin Chen's first supreme treasure map spawned a dungeon.

The treasure map's location was in Tianchi Mountain.

A place in the game.

It was a snowy, icy area, a level 75 map with level 75 monsters. Lin Chen's Vermillion Bird and Liu Mengyao's Sword Dragon baby were only level 1 and couldn't withstand it. So, Lin Chen skillfully led the way, avoiding the monster areas, and used the treasure map when they reached the target location.

As a result, the two were quickly teleported into the dungeon.

"Wow, the first map spawned a dungeon, hehe!"

Liu Mengyao sent a happy message in the team channel.

For treasure hunters, nothing was more exciting than entering a dungeon.

"A level 35 dungeon, the monster levels aren't high, so the items probably won't be that good."

Lin Chen smiled and said, "Let's just treat it as leveling up the babies. I have four Divine Beast Pills. We can use this dungeon to get our pets to level 19, then eat the Divine Beast Pills. The skills they comprehend will be better."

"Okay!"

Liu Mengyao nodded. It was best to use Divine Beast Pills when the pets were just about to comprehend skills, at levels 20, 40, 60, 80, and 100. After all, the effect of the Divine Beast Pill was to increase the pet's comprehension.

The two of them brought their babies, but of course, the pets didn't need to take action. Lin Chen was strong enough to instantly kill these level 35 monsters.

Treasure map dungeons were relatively simple. They just had to kill monsters all the way to the treasure map Boss inside and defeat it.

There were no strategies needed.

Lin Chen, with his divine equipment, raised his staff and cast a large-scale Storm spell, quickly clearing out an area. Lin Chen's experience points kept popping up with "+1" notifications.

"Wow, we can get experience points now!"

Liu Mengyao was a little surprised.

After all, reaching level 100 was the maximum level, and it was no longer possible to gain experience points.

But now they could get experience points, which meant that the level cap had been lifted.

"This game has been out for twenty years. It opened up to level 100 in the third year, but it never opened up subsequent levels. It was stuck for a full 17 years. Now that it's about to shut down, it's opening the level cap. But what's the point?"

Lin Chen was speechless.

Originally, opening the level cap for such a game should have been explosive news, definitely topping the trending searches. But now it would only attract curses from others because it was about to shut down.

It was a case of out of sight, out of mind.

Level 35 monsters only gave Lin Chen and Liu Mengyao 1 experience point, but they gave the two pets a lot of experience points. The Vermillion Bird and Sword Dragon both leveled up to level 5.

"How should I allocate my baby's stats?" Liu Mengyao asked Lin Chen for his opinion, "All Stamina, or three Stamina and one Agility?"

"Don't rush!"

Lin Chen reminded her, "We're going to dig for treasure anyway. Let's wait until it reaches level 60 and see what skills it gets before choosing how to allocate stats... I'll ask my friend to collect some more Divine Beast Pills!"

"Why so many?" Liu Mengyao said, "My baby isn't a Transcendent pet."

"I'm still collecting eggs, directly collecting Colorful Pet Eggs. If it doesn't work, I'll keep opening them. I'm determined to get you another Transcendent pet. As for this Sword Dragon, you can just use it as a mount!"

Lin Chen knew what Liu Mengyao was thinking. She felt that one pet was enough, but Lin Chen knew that the game would invade reality in the future, and pets were also a force to be reckoned with, so the more, the better.

Ideally, everyone would have three Transcendent pets, one for combat and two for possession...

Of course, Transcendent pets were hard to come by.

Whether or not you could get one depended on luck.

But Lin Chen was willing to spend the money.

Lin Chen sent a message to Zhang Chunlin. Zhang Chunlin replied, saying that he would contact some pill-refining merchants to ask.

There were many secondary professions in this game, and there were also alchemists. However, it was very difficult. Liu Mengyao's pharmacist profession was the pre-requisite profession for alchemists, requiring 100,000 proficiency points to advance to pharmacist, meaning successfully creating 100,000 potions...

So Lin Chen felt that this secondary profession was too difficult to level up. The talisman master was better, and talismans could really kill enemies. In the future, when the proficiency reached a certain level, he could be promoted to a formation master, which would be even more useful.

Lin Chen continued to clear the small monsters. Five minutes later, all the small monsters were cleared, and they saw the Boss. The level 35 Boss could only be considered a Boss in front of Lin Chen's max-level, divinely-equipped character. Lin Chen's Wind Blade reduced the Boss's health by 80% in one shot.

Then, he followed up with another attack, and the Boss fell to the ground.

Three treasure chests appeared in front of the two of them.

Lin Chen and Liu Mengyao were not in a hurry. There was metaphysics to opening treasure chests. It was best to wait twenty seconds and see if the luster of any of the treasure chests was different... During this time, the Vermillion Bird and Sword Dragon's levels reached level 18.

Pets leveled up quickly to begin with, and the early levels were even easier to level up.

"Level 18 is also good for eating Divine Beast Pills. Here, let's give the Sword Dragon one to see." Lin Chen traded a Divine Beast Pill to Liu Mengyao.

Liu Mengyao directly fed it to the Sword Dragon, which had grown to be as tall as her chest.

*Whoosh!*

The Sword Dragon cutely licked the Divine Beast Pill away, looking extremely satisfied. The Vermillion Bird showed an envious expression. Lin Chen smiled and said, "Don't worry, you'll get one too."

He simply gave one to the Vermillion Bird as well.

*Bip!*

The Vermillion Bird's level directly reached level 35!

The Sword Dragon was the same.

Both pets awakened skills.

"Lin Chen, the Sword Dragon awakened an S-rank skill!" Liu Mengyao exclaimed.

A perfect-quality pet awakening an S-rank skill greatly increased the Sword Dragon's value!

Such pets were called pseudo-Transcendent or quasi-Transcendent in "New World," meaning they were not Transcendent but not far from it.

"My Vermillion Bird has a 3S skill!"

Lin Chen replied with a smile.

"Wow, 3S? That's a forbidden spell!"

Liu Mengyao jumped up happily when she heard this, "That's great, is it an output skill? If it is, then it's perfect!"

"It really is..."

As Lin Chen said this, he shared the pet's information with Liu Mengyao.

[Vermillion Bird]

[Owner: Lin Zhong Chen Xi]

[Quality: Mythic]

[Overall Growth Rating: SS+]

[Level: 35]

[Constitution: 700]

[Strength: 350]

[Spirit: 1050]

[Agility: 350]

[Health Points: 14000]

[Physical Attack: 2800]

[Magic Attack: 21000]

[Movement Speed: 3.5 yards/second]

[Innate Skills: Southern Fire, Scorched Earth, Rebirth]

[Comprehended Skill: Fireball Barrage (SSS)]

[Fireball Barrage: Instant cast skill that fires ten consecutive fireballs at the target. Each fireball deals 0.25 damage coefficient. Can be upgraded! Cooldown time: None]

After seeing this skill, Liu Mengyao was stunned and couldn't help but say, "Wow, is this what a Mythic-quality pet is like? I remember, the Fireball Barrage skill seems to be something that fire-type pets can only comprehend above level 80, right? But the Vermillion Bird can comprehend it at level 20?"

Without a doubt, Fireball Barrage was an output skill.

Moreover, because of its no-cooldown characteristic, its power was even more terrifying. Don't look down on the fact that the damage is still very low, only a quarter, but with ten consecutive fireballs added together, that's also 2.5 times the damage.

What's more, after the Fireball Barrage skill is upgraded to the maximum level of ten, the damage coefficient can also reach 0.75. At that time, this one skill will be 7.5 times the damage, which can be said to be explosive output!

"It's okay, after all, it's a Mythic-quality pet and it ate a Divine Beast Pill, so the skills it comprehends will definitely be good... As for the skill level, I once saw a post that said that the reason why Transcendent pets are Transcendent, besides having higher growth and attribute coefficients, there's also another reason, which is that in the eyes of Transcendent pets, any skill has no level requirements."

Lin Chen explained to Liu Mengyao with a smile, "In other words, even if it's a level 100 pet skill, a level 20 Vermillion Bird might be able to comprehend it."

"So that's how it is..."

Liu Mengyao also shared her pet and asked, "How's mine?"

[Mini Sword Dragon]

[Owner: Meng Li Yao Guang]

[Quality: Perfect]

[Overall Growth Rating: S]

[Level: 35]

[Constitution: 525]

[Strength: 350]

[Spirit: 350]

[Agility: 525]

[Free Attribute Points: 350]

[Health Points: 14000]

[Physical Attack: 3150]

[Magic Attack: 3150]

[Movement Speed: 5.25 yards/second]

[Innate Skills: Sword Dragon Bloodline, Dragon Blood Sacrifice]

[Comprehended Skill: Revenge Roar (S)]

[Sword Dragon Bloodline: Permanently increases level x10 health points. When health is not full, gain super self-healing, restoring 1% of health points per second.]

[Dragon Blood Sacrifice: Active skill. The Sword Dragon sacrifices half of its current health points to convert into the owner's magic points. Conversion coefficient is 1. Triggers super self-healing after use. Cooldown time: 10 minutes!]

This was the Sword Dragon's original attribute panel. Its two innate skills made it a complete meat shield, born to withstand damage. And the Dragon Blood Sacrifice skill was simply a divine skill for priests who never had enough mana.

And now, there was another skill.

[Revenge Roar: After the Sword Dragon is attacked, it will roar, attracting the surrounding monsters to attack, and will feed back the physical attack damage it receives to the attacking unit. Feedback damage coefficient is 0.35. Can be upgraded!]

Good fellow, now the Sword Dragon could even output damage!