The members of the scattered Inverse God Alliance used town return stones after disengaging from combat.
"Rou Rou, how is it?" someone in the team asked.
"Heh, that idiot Tian Ya Kuang Dao is unlucky. He triggered two curses this time," a Rou Rou said with a sinister grin.
"What are the stats?" Jian Zhi Cang Tian asked.
"All attributes reduced by 80%, all benefits reduced by 80%, hehehe… and luckily for this round, the duration is for the full count of days."
His skill was highly random, with varying numbers of curses each time and random attributes.
Even the duration was random, but what made it powerful was that even upon death and revival, the curses would not disappear and could not be dispelled.
"15 days? Haha, Rou Rou, you're amazing. The skills from your hidden profession are truly disgusting!" someone in the team exclaimed.
"It's not just the skills that are disgusting, his skull-like head is also disgusting!" others chimed in.
"You guys… ugh…" Rou Rou, who was still chuckling sinisterly, was rendered speechless by the teasing.
Heng Dao and Jian Zhi Cang Tian exchanged amused glances.
Having thoroughly disgusted Tian Ya Kuang Dao, the pent-up frustration in everyone's hearts dissipated considerably.
"What is the boss doing? Why has he been offline for so long?" Jian Zhi Cang Tian asked.
"I don't know. My calls aren't being answered either," Sheng Guang Hu You Zhe Ni replied.
"I went and rang the doorbell, but no one opened the door either!" Heng Dao added.
The three of them exchanged glances, seeing the suspicion reflected in each other's eyes.
They speculated that Chu Tian might have already left to find Luo Luo.
A faint sense of worry began to creep into their hearts.
In fact, the game had displayed Chu Tian as offline from the moment he entered the Soul Devouring Abyss.
Originally, external calls would be routed to the in-game system, but that had also malfunctioned.
At this moment, Chu Tian, who was still running and killing monsters in the Soul Devouring Abyss, was completely unaware of the situation.
In two days, he had only emerged briefly to eat a packet of instant noodles and drink water twice.
All other times were spent in the game.
His level had now reached 42.
Phase Three, Progress Four: Kill Blazing Nether Shade: 4895/5000. It was estimated that after a few more waves of monsters, Progress Four would be completed.
After grinding monsters in the game for such a long time, Chu Tian had become somewhat numb.
Starting from Task Progress Three, which required killing five hundred eyeballs, the monsters had dropped nothing.
Fortunately, monsters like Blazing Nether Shade provided experience points.
They also dropped a material called [Fire Particle].
Ten [Fire Particles] could be synthesized into one [Primordial Flame].
If he remembered correctly, all production professions, upon reaching advanced levels, would require this [Primordial Flame] material.
This was especially true for the blacksmithing profession, which needed it for crafting and upgrading equipment.
This was also why Chu Tian had not yet upgraded the ring that dropped from Jue Sha.
Outside, to grind various elemental particles, one needed to travel to the map: Elemental Highlands.
That was a map for levels 55-65, and the drop rate was not very high.
In the later stages, the price of [Fire Particle] was also extremely high.
Here, the drop rate of [Fire Particle] was very high, and in Chu Tian's eyes, these were all glittering gold coins!
In the future, besides the pharmacy and engineering shop, Chu Tian would also need other various shops.
Including blacksmithing shops, tailoring shops, and so on.
As commerce prospered in the future, it would be difficult to achieve a monopoly.
However, as long as he secured a certain market share, he could earn a lot of money.
Every bit of income now was a saving for the future.
After defeating another wave of fire element monsters from the Blazing Nether Shade, Chu Tian headed straight for the next wave of monsters.
More than ten minutes later, Phase Three, Progress Four: Kill Blazing Nether Shade: 5000/5000.
The task was completed, and Chu Tian, with a sigh of resignation, received the next system prompt.
[Ding… System Prompt: The Incubation of the Five-Colored Stone, Phase Three, Progress Five: Kill Essence of Death: 0/1]
Huh?
This time, only one monster was needed. Was the task finally nearing its end?
It turned out to be the monster Essence of Death. When he was exploring the map earlier, he had already seen this level 59 Commander-class monster.
It had a massive body, was emerald green in color, and its appearance was similar to elementals.
He opened the task prompt to check.
The description in the task explanation read: Essence of Death: In the endless passage of time, the soul energy trapped within the Abyss of Souls has converged into a malevolent embodiment, wandering the dark realms of the Abyss.
There were no other hints. Chu Tian followed his memory and located the area where [Essence of Death] roamed.
His Advanced Detection skill could only view the attributes of creatures within a fifteen-level difference.
Therefore, Chu Tian could only see the monster's health.
All other attributes were displayed as question marks.
Health: 590000/590000
Seeing this, Chu Tian's head began to ache. He had no idea what skills the monster possessed.
How was he supposed to fight it?
Suddenly, he slapped his forehead. It seemed he had never used the skills on his exclusive artifact before.
Also, one of the weapon's attributes was that the appearance would change after transformation.
Why was he still a dusky little cat cub when he transformed into a leopard form?
His other forms also showed no changes in appearance.
He opened the weapon panel and carefully examined the attributes.
He discovered that there was a button behind the first attribute.
Attribute 1: Upon equipping, all transformation appearances change. [Enable/Disable]
No wonder there were no changes; it turned out he hadn't clicked the enable button.
The moment he clicked the enable button, Chu Tian's vision shifted, and a screen appeared before him.
It displayed several options, with different appearances for various forms.
In the leopard form, there was a Flaming Lion, a leopard form emanating flames, which was extremely handsome.
There was also an appearance called: Spirit of the Panther Mother, which was semi-transparent, shimmering with starlight, and had the appearance of a saber-toothed tiger.
This appearance was simply exquisite.
Finally, Chu Tian chose: Spirit of the Panther Mother (Red).
For the bear form, he chose: Graymaw's Power (White).
This was a special existence among bear form appearances.
Other appearances were all in their original quadrupedal stances, just with different external forms.
However, this form completely changed the appearance of all bear forms; it stood upright, resembling a mutated werewolf.
With strong limbs, a robust upper body, and explosive muscular aesthetics, Chu Tian instantly fell in love with it.
Finally, he didn't have to walk around with his backside exposed, looking like he was ready to be penetrated at any moment.
In travel form, the appearance was divided into three types: aquatic, terrestrial, and aerial!
For the aquatic stance appearance, he changed the seal into a dolphin.
The terrestrial stance remained unchanged because he discovered that after changing the terrestrial stance to a beautiful golden leopard, it could no longer carry passengers.
Therefore, he retained the original form of the giant deer, even though it was a bit ugly!
The aerial stance was grayed out because Tiandao had not yet enabled flying.
After confirming everything, Chu Tian looked at himself.
His current leopard form was an extremely beautiful starlight leopard.
In the future, when he appeared, everyone would know who he was as soon as he transformed.
A unique appearance and flashy effects.
As he ran, a long trail would be left behind him!
A starlight-shimmering: 'exhaust trail'.
He wanted to be low-key, yet also wanted to be cool. What to do? What to do? What to do?
Alas… Chu Tian finally gave up struggling. Being cool was a lifelong pursuit, and flashiness was the true principle.
In the Northern War Zone, what good would being low-key at the bottom do?
It seemed no one had managed to defeat him yet!
[Author's Note]
Spirit of the Panther Mother and Graymaw's Power are derived from the Mage Tower appearances for Druids in the 7.0 version of WoW, which are now unobtainable.
For those curious, you can search for them on Baidu.
A tribute… to the most classic WoW!