Chapter 235: Chapter 235: Tribulation-Level Difficulty
Happy times are always short, a mere 180 seconds, Jiang Kai had already been fighting against the clock, but it still passed in the blink of an eye.
However, the million-level attributes still allowed Jiang Kai to unleash a killing spree.
Since it was currently daytime, Jiang Kai was afraid that as a ghost, he might be scattered by sunlight, so he was hiding underground to rest.
Don't look down on the national soul experience state only lasting three minutes, but Jiang Kai's level directly rose by three levels!
Among them, the royal bugs and the commanders provided a large amount of experience.
This experience allowed Jiang Kai to feel the thrill of instantly killing a king-level BOSS.
Speaking of which, if one day the Huaxia national soul state could really raise one's attributes to such a terrifying degree, that would be amazing.
Taking advantage of the currently abundant spare time, Jiang Kai began sorting through those stomach sacs.
Originally, he was worried that the first warlord-class Gold-Swallowing Bug Beast he killed might not be the one that swallowed the job-change materials, but after killing almost all the visible warlord-class ones, the chance of finding the job-change materials increased by several times.
In the stomach sac of one warlord-class Gold-Swallowing Bug Beast, Jiang Kai indeed found the No. 5 material for the fourth-tier Destiny job-change materials.
"Haha, this is more important than anything!" Jiang Kai finally let out a sigh of relief.
In addition, the probability of equipment items appearing in ordinary bug stomach sacs is not high, but starting from elite level, the probabilities of equipment, materials, and items appearing increased several times.
Aside from the fourth-tier Destiny materials, what Jiang Kai valued most was obviously the royal bug's stomach sac.
After a series of nauseating operations, Jiang Kai harvested a large amount of rewards.
One summoning skull.
Fourth-tier Executioner job-change materials, No. 2, No. 6, and No. 7 materials approximately 5 sets each, fourth-tier Plague Doctor job-change materials, No. 1 and No. 7 materials 10 sets each, fifth-tier Feng Shui Master job-change materials No. 3 and No. 4 materials 10 sets, as well as two sets of complete fourth-tier Gourmet job-change materials!
A large quantity of crystalline minerals.
Three pieces of transcendent-level equipment, one transcendent-level treasure, five pieces of fourth-tier top-grade equipment, third-tier Heaven Book fragments, two Tears of God, and one skill book.
"Really struck it rich!" Jiang Kai excitedly stored away all the minerals and job-change materials, especially the fourth-tier Executioner and fourth-tier Gourmet, both of which had not appeared before.
The attributes of the three transcendent pieces of equipment were all very high, and the special effects involved some true qi attacks and soldier tactics, which did not quite match Jiang Kai.
The treasure and skill book were all related to the Gourmet.
However, Jiang Kai specifically looked at the descriptions of the treasure and skill book.
Both items required fourth-tier Gourmet, and they both mentioned a certain ability called "Ingest," which felt like a Gourmet version of fourth-tier martial artists' true qi, the Drunkard's true self state, or the Soldier's tactics.
"A fourth-tier Gourmet, once having the Ingest talent, can actually directly gain significant buffs from food. These buffs can be attribute-type, special-effect-type, or even healing effects from medicine..."
Gourmet's food already had buff effects, now after eating it themselves, they could gain additional buffs. That being said, they actually possessed considerable potential!
"Damn, Gourmet is this powerful?" Jiang Kai furrowed his brow tightly.
Although he never looked down on other professions, he had always thought that high-tier Gourmet might just be able to make food with stronger support effects, and their role should be similar to Doctors — supportive.
But now it seemed, he may have underestimated the Gourmet profession!
"This is the potential of Huaxia food lovers... fourth-tier is already this strong, above Transcendent, who knows what it'll become."
After thinking it over, Jiang Kai decided that once he returned, he would have Hu Yan and Ruan Yu absorb more Gourmets.
"It feels like the professions in Destiny don't have absolutely weak or strong ones." Jiang Kai thought for a moment and continued organizing his spoils.
Over two thousand stomach sacs — Jiang Kai would be busy.
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After the appearance of Huaxia City in the Endless Abyss, the military made a decision the next day.
After all, the God of War cannot die easily, and considering the tribulation-level difficulty, they couldn't choose people who were too weak.
Then let ten trainees from the God of War Temple preparatory camp challenge the gate first!
To avoid suspicion, the military announced this decision one day in advance and made all ten people's data public to be supervised by society.
At this moment, in front of the Endless Abyss, a large number of onlookers had gathered.
Among them, Xuanwu Guild had the most people.
The reason was somewhat complicated.
Liu Yuanxiang approached the military, hoping they would allocate another plot of land to establish their guild. However, Huaxia City had been under construction for so long, and the city planning had long been finalized — where was there any more land to allocate to Xuanwu?
It wasn't that the military was targeting the Xuanwu Guild.
The other nine great guilds, including the military's own station, had all suffered some damage, and the military could not provide compensation — they could only allow them to repair the damaged areas and continue using them.
In the end, Xuanwu had no choice but to agree to establish a new guild station outside Huaxia City.
Currently, Xuanwu Guild was preparing for rebuilding their station, and the Xuanwu people in Huaxia City, with no home to return to, all came to watch the first challenge of the Endless Abyss.
Besides Huaxia City, guilds from other major cities had also sent representatives to observe.
The Endless Abyss concerned every player's interests — firsthand information was extremely important.
In front of the Endless Abyss, the military had already built a wall overnight and dispatched troops to guard it, leaving only an opening at the two stele stones of the Tianlong Rankings.
From now on, this would be the only entrance into the Endless Abyss.
At this time, Luo Ping was speaking to the ten selected young people.
"The progress of the Endless Abyss concerns the overall strength of Huaxia. You are the first batch of people from the whole country, even the entire world, to enter the Endless Abyss."
"All challenge rewards belong to you personally, no need to submit them — you may go all out to challenge!"
"I hope everyone can give it your all, pass through as many levels of the Endless Abyss as possible, and bring back as much data as you can."
"Yes!" The ten preparatory camp experts were full of confidence.
"Good, go in now!"
The ten entered the Endless Abyss one after another.
The surrounding onlookers were already abuzz.
"All elites from the preparatory camp — I think the result should be decent."
"Level-capped at fourth-tier, according to one tier per level, not mentioning skipping levels, passing three or four levels shouldn't be too much to ask. Speaking of which, I'm quite looking forward to Huaxia's national soul being activated."
"Truly fortunes rise and fall — thirty years east of the river, thirty years west. We fell behind in the last competition, this time Huaxia has finally seized the initiative."
"Yeah, even though I don't know Jiang Kai personally, to be honest, we really should thank him. Look at the other countries — still searching for the Endless Abyss, while we've already started exploring."
"Jiang Kai, well done!"
The ten fourth-tier experts had been in the Endless Abyss for a while, and everyone had been watching the Dragon Rankings.
As long as someone cleared even one level, their name would appear on the Dragon Rankings.
However, one minute, ten minutes, half an hour, forty minutes passed — the Dragon Rankings still only showed serial numbers. The one thousand slots were still vacant.
Luo Ping also found it strange. He came beside Hua Tianchen, frowning, and said, "Why is it taking so long? Has no one cleared even one level?"
Hua Tianchen shook his head, "Indeed, it's taking a bit too long."
At this moment, Tian Feng squeezed through the crowd and arrived in front of Luo Ping and Hua Tianchen.
He leaned over and said in a low voice, "All ten challengers have died and logged out."
"What!" Luo Ping and Hua Tianchen widened their eyes in unison.
They had carefully selected the elites from the God of War Temple's preparatory camp — ten people challenging, and not a single one cleared even the first level?!
After a pause, Tian Feng added, "Each challenger had the same feeling after logging out."
"What?" Luo Ping asked urgently.
"They said, tribulation-level difficulty — not meant for humans to clear!" Tian Feng sighed, "They are all very emotional right now. The beasts guarding the gate are ridiculously powerful — and there are two of them!"
"And the deadliest part is — upon entering the Endless Abyss, they were hit by two very strong debuffs, and the gatekeeping beasts gained two powerful buffs."
"There's simply no way to fight."
"Someone's already said — they want to go talk with Jiang Kai properly about why he chose the tribulation-level difficulty."
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