Chapter 6: Ling Mu Wants to Level Up

  Nonsense, Lingmu wasn't stupid, although he didn't know why he was being chased by this group of players to the death. He couldn't just run away, so he deliberately chose places with many monsters to hide. At this time, Lingmu also discovered the benefits of having a skeleton body: first, it wouldn't get tired; second, its skeletal structure was light and agile, making it fast. This made things difficult for the large group of players chasing behind him. The slow-moving mages and warriors couldn't keep up, while the agile thieves and archers could only barely follow Lingmu's butt. As they continued to eat the monsters' hatred, they were gradually dragged down, until finally they could only watch as the skeleton disappeared into the distance with a sigh of admiration.

  Ling Mu finally got rid of the pursuers, but he didn't know where he had run to. He found himself in a dense and somewhat eerie forest, and only then did he start thinking about why he was being chased.

  Name: Jade Tree Soaring in the Wind

  Title: Hope of the Underworld

  Race: Undead

  Occupation: Underworld Believer

  Level: 1

  Quality: Ordinary

  Health: 40/50

  Magic Points: 250/250

  Physical Attack: 6-6

  Magic Attack: 33-33

  Physical Defense: 5-5

  Magic Defense: 5-5

  Strength: 6

  Body type: 5

  Agility: 7

  Intelligence: 33

  Spirit: 25

  Innate: Underworld Breath, Underworld Body, Underworld Eyes

  Skills: Nether Fireball, Call of the Underworld

  Attributes have increased slightly due to staying in the underworld for a period of time, but an extra quality has appeared on the attribute panel! What's going on? Isn't quality a classification for items, equipment, monsters and so on? Ordinary white, elite and bronze blue, silver white, gold yellow, legendary and lord red, mythic purple.

  How did it also have a quality attribute? Lingmu remembered that there was no such thing before, and it seemed to have just appeared. Lingmu said he didn't understand, and after messing around for half a day, he still couldn't figure it out, so he had to temporarily ignore it.

  There were only 50 health points in total, and the 10 points that had just been knocked off automatically refilled. Fortunately, this skeleton body was light and agile, with a small force-bearing area - the empty bony frame of the body could even allow arrows to pass through it without taking damage, so Ling Mu hadn't lost much blood.

  After checking the game time, it was already 5 am. It had been five hours since leaving the server. Due to this hidden task, Lingmu's experience remained at 0 until now, and his level did not change at all. When Lingmu opened the level ranking list, he was immediately stimulated.

  First place: Carefree Prince —— 7th grade

  Second place: War God Slaughter - 6th level

  Third place: Byakuren - 6th grade

  Fourth place: Brilliant Solo - 6th grade

  Fifth place: Qingfeng — 6th grade

  Sixth place: Imperial Dynasty Little Heaven - 6th grade

  Seventh place: Fengyun Jiuge - 6th grade

  Eighth place: I don't like eating bitter melon — 6 points

  Ninth place: Ouyang Xiaojian - 6th grade

  Tenth place: Dongfeng Wuhuo - 6th grade

  The first echelon of top players is surprisingly all at level 6, which makes Lingmu curse this group of leveling fanatics for being so stubborn. Among the top ten names, many are familiar to Lingmu, either as guild leaders or elites, or those powerful individual players like Xiao Yao Gongzi, and of course, there are also unfamiliar names like the last two.

  Scolding is scolding, but Lingmu also needs to prepare for leveling up, otherwise being pulled too far will be a big loss.

  Opening the backpack, as expected, there were three novice divine artifacts, without even a speck of dust.

  Rough wooden stick:

  Equipment Requirements: Level 1

  Attack: 0-1

  Tattered monk's robe

  Equipment Requirements: Level 1

  Defense: 0-1

  Tattered cloth shoes

  Equipment Requirements: Level 1

  Defense: 0-1

  Even the quality is not good, the warrior profession has one more piece of rubbish pants than the mage, but it's better than nothing, and it's better to have something than nothing. The whole set of Lingmu equipment feels a bit strange on me, after all, it's a skeleton, that empty feeling when wearing it can't be described.

  Opening the map showed a putrid forest. Ling Mu took two steps forward and saw a wandering corpse in front of him.

  Zombie: Undead creature formed after a novice villager's corpse is contaminated.

  Rank: 7

  Color: White

  Health: 2000/2000

  Attack Power: 110-150

  Physical Defense: 20-30

  Spell Defense: 5-10

  Skills: Corrosive Claw, Corpse Poison

  Weakness: Light, Fire

  Tried out the Netherworld Eye, and the effect is not bad, but the corpse attribute obtained scared Ling Mu badly. A ordinary 7-level monster actually has such a perverted attribute.

  After some thought, Ling Mu swung his wooden staff and threw a dark fireball, then pulled his legs and ran. If the corpse moved slower than him, he could use the terrain to kite it.

  “-36！”

  The skill hit, but the corpse didn't react at all. Ling Mu ran a couple of steps and stopped strangely, then threw another one.

  “-39！”

  Indeed hit, but the corpse just stopped and looked at him, continuing to wander. Lin Mu's running posture was withdrawn, and he continued to throw.

  “-38！”

  It's the same as before, the corpse looked at Lingmu, seemingly saying why did you hit me, and then continued to wander. Lingmu didn't give up, carefully observing, finally discovering the key to the problem.

  Just now I didn't notice that the name displayed on the corpse's head wasn't the monster's red color, but the friendly unit's green color!

  Ling Mu seemed to have sensed something, looking up at his own head, and indeed didn't see his name "Yu Shu Ling Feng", but was replaced by "Underworld Disciple". Thinking back to the extra quality column in his attribute panel that was similar to monsters, Ling Mu drew a surprising conclusion!

  "Have I turned into a monster?!"

  But thinking about it again, it doesn't seem like a bad thing. Just like now, if monsters don't fight back, can't you just freely slaughter any boss?

  It's over! Ling Mu laughed, his skull-like mouth chattering non-stop as he continued to swing his staff, hurling Soulfire Balls at the poor undead creature. However, just as the undead was about to run out of blood, he himself ran out of mana. Helpless, he could only use his staff to knock on it, but found that he couldn't even move it, and instead gave the undead an additional status effect, making it even harder to hit.

  Netherworld Aura: Under the shroud of Netherworld Aura, all attributes increase by 50%.

  Ling Mu had no choice but to run further away and wait for Blue to slowly recover before continuing to throw, fortunately the corpse was already out of blood, a few more throws and it should be hung.

  “-37！”

  Finally, with the last blow hitting, the corpse's life value cleared to zero and fell down. However, Ling Mu's face didn't show excitement, but instead a bitter smile.

  "Ding! You successfully killed a zombie! Gained 1 experience point!"

  "Warning: Due to your intentional killing of friendly units, reputation points have been reduced by 10!"

  As expected, Tianqi won't leave any loopholes, no cheap shots to take advantage of. Not only did I not gain any experience points, but my reputation was also deducted. What a loss!

  Ling Mu held onto his last shred of hope and, suppressing the nausea, flipped through the rotting corpse to see if anything had dropped. As expected, there was nothing.

  It seems that you don't understand this profession very well, Lingmu sighed. This profession is too unusual, even with Lingmu's gaming experience, he had no idea how to get started. He glanced at the corpse of the rotting body and casually threw a call from the underworld on it.

  "Skill used successfully! Corpse Spirit can now be summoned!"

  It succeeded, and surprisingly, there was no progress. It seems that this summoning skill has a great relationship with the strength of the summoned object, Lingmu is certain.

  "Hurry! That Skull Boss has run into this forest! Search everywhere, don't let it escape!"

  Just then, footsteps of a group of people came from behind.

  Skull boss? Are you talking about me? Ling Mu laughed and turned to run away, he was only level 1 and hadn't thought of fighting them.

  "Be careful and don't pull any aggro! The mobs here are too high-level, we've lost a lot of people on the way in!"

  A group of people dispersed and slowly searched around, Ling Mu didn't rush to run either. He found that the highest level among this group of players with the "War God" prefix was only 5 levels, although there were more than a dozen, but the threat to himself was also very limited.

  Ling Mu hid in the tree, and it wasn't just that his body was light and agile, climbing trees was also easy. He looked at a law enforcement officer slowly feeling his way towards him from below, about to pass by the corpse of the rotting dead body he had encountered earlier.

  "Deputy Hall Master! There's a corpse with a rotten body here!" shouted Fa Shi Zhan Shen Xiao Fa.

  "It seems there's a master among us in this training session, everyone be careful and don't start any conflicts!" The deputy hall master was a robust man named War God Crazy Blade.

  "Could it be that the Skull King has already been killed by him?" asked the archer beside him.

  "This...can't be certain, let's all search first, if we really can't find it then forget it." Zhan Shen Kuang Dao thought for a moment and also felt that this made sense, he could only hope that the Skull Boss hadn't been discovered.

  "Ahh!" A blood-curdling scream sent shivers down everyone's spine.

  "What's wrong with Xiao Fa?!"

  "Xiao Fa is dead! He was killed instantly!"

  But it was the little law of the god of war who had been knocked to the ground, and the murderer was the skull frame with rotten flesh fragments that slowly crawled out of the corpse next to him.

  The one who started the puppet was Ling Mu, he saw that the war god Xiao Fa had already ignored the corpse, remembered that the obtained corpse spirit had not been summoned yet, and launched a trial.

  The effect was surprisingly good, the corpse's body wriggled, and the rotten flesh fell off. First, a skull claw stretched out, scratching the unsuspecting Little War God with one swipe.

  “-123！”

  One claw kill! In "Divine" upgrade, in addition to increasing all attributes by one point, it also gives 5 free attribute points. However, the Little Law of War God is a mage who doesn't add constitution at all. The initial constitution plus the three points automatically increased when upgrading to level 4 are only 10 points, with only 100 life value, so being killed in one claw by the undead skeleton!

  Ling Mu was stunned, but it wasn't because of the Corpse Skull's instant kill of the little mage. He had already known about the Corpse Skull's attributes when he summoned it, which were exactly the same as the Corpse's. This was also why he dared to stay and not run away. A level 7 monster instantly killing a level 4 mage wasn't strange at all. What stunned him was the system prompt he received.

  "You killed Player War God Little Law, gaining 40 experience points!"

  Level 1 upgrade experience is only 100 points, and the experience bar has risen by half. The feeling is not to be mentioned, of course, this is not the point. The key is that so much experience actually came from killing a player! Lingmu looked at the remaining people in the War God Temple, his eyes turned green!