Chapter 9: The Treasure of Novice Village

  The space I entered was a dark cave, not spacious at all. After walking more than ten meters, I was almost at the end of the cave when a large black rat saw me and immediately rushed towards me.

  "Insight": Black Mouse King, 13th level BOSS, 1500 HP, skills: Dark Attack, likes darkness, dislikes sunlight.

  Since it's the treasure of Newbie Village, I guess the task shouldn't be too difficult, or else how would newcomers dig it up? However, it's not without difficulty. I reckon those three kids from Fung Yun would have a hard time taking down the BOSS Black Mouse King in this narrow cave if they can't withstand its attacks.

  But our situation is different, absolutely super pervert, facing the mountain wolf king who is more powerful than this black mouse king and succeeding alone, this black mouse king is naturally nothing.

  -130, -150. Since the Black Mouse King has come to deliver himself to death, I won't be polite. Rolling out 2nd level skill, a flurry of slashes like a stormy rain, and at the cost of two small red bottles, perfectly killed the Black Mouse King. However, the Black Mouse King's skill "Dark Attack" was somewhat interesting, causing blindness and reducing hit rate for 3 seconds.

  "Congratulations to Shi Tou Cheng for killing BOSS Black Mouse King, reputation increased by 10."

  Damn it, not even a single Black Mouse King exploded, this is the treasure of Newbie Village, how can you be so stingy?

  Wait, what's that shiny thing at the end of the cave? Rushing to the front, a ring flashing with red light is dazzling.

  A ghostly device, great stuff, the treasure's reward is pretty good, hurry up and take it out to examine.

  Ring of Greed: Red Oni's Tool, effect unknown, cannot be applied.

  Greed is good, absolutely a great thing, just listen to this name, greed, definitely not a good kind, I like it.

  "Congratulations, Shi Tou Cheng has completed the treasure quest in Newbie Village, now leaving the task area."

  After the system prompt, a flash of light, I stood in front of the cliff where I just entered the cave, and that dark cave could not be found again.

  How about going back to identify this ghost equipment? It will definitely increase strength. Forget it, let's complete the task first. Running from Novice Village to here takes at least 20 minutes, wasting time. Besides, my ability should be enough to deal with black bears.

  This is a maple forest, after the gentle breeze, the leaves rustle softly, and the maple leaves fall gently, scattering out a beautiful scenery, refreshing the mind.

  I didn't have the mood to appreciate it, and I almost walked through the entire maple forest. Except for a few groups of 10-level demonic tigers, there was no sign of black bears.

  "Stone Castle, you've arrived! Are you ready to kill the Black Bear?"

  A tall figure suddenly jumped down from the branches above his head, wearing a tiger-striped coat and carrying a long bow on his back, looking like a genuine hunter.

  "Who are you?"

  "I am Wang Wu, the Hunter King of Newbie Village. I'm in charge of monitoring the black bear's activities here. Just now, I received a notice from the village chief saying that you're going to help us kill the black bear and have been waiting for you to arrive."

  It was an NPC, scared me half to death.

  "There was a black bear there, how did I not see it."

  "Our Novice Village's sacred spring, the Heavenly Pivot Spring, is a divine object of heaven and earth. Not only is it our village's most treasured possession, but also one of the five great divine springs in the Dream Sky Continent. The Heavenly Pivot Spring lies within a sealed domain, accessible only through our village's secret methods. However, three years ago, a black bear somehow appeared out of nowhere and entered our sacred spring domain, occupying it by force. Our villagers were no match for this black bear and could not reclaim the Heavenly Pivot Spring, bringing shame to our Novice Village."

  The Fifth Hunter King said here, heartbroken and indignant, with a sorrowful and angry expression.

  "Stone Castle, you must help us retake the Tianxu Spring and wash away the shame of our New Hand Village for three years. Are you ready? I'll send you to the realm of Tianxu Spring right now."

  Dizzy, it sounds like this black bear is not easy to deal with. Heaven, don't fail, or the level will drop to 1st grade. However, at this point, we can't retreat, and retreating on the spot isn't our style.

  "Uncle Wang, I'm ready, don't worry, I'll definitely kill this black bear."

  "Good."

  "Revered Goddess of Heavenly Dreams, bestow upon your people the blessings of Nature's Wind! Seal of Heaven's Secret Method!"

  I was suddenly enveloped in a soft glow, and I felt my vision shake for a moment. The scenery before me had changed, and I had entered the territory of Tian Shu Shen Quan.

  Just as I was teleported into the domain of Tianxu Spring, where I PKed with Feng Yun San Xiaozi, three people came running in a hurry, looking around, but they didn't find the person they were looking for and suddenly collapsed to the ground.

  "Damn it, that warrior is freaking awesome!"

  "Damn it, don't let me run into him again, I'll chop that bastard to pieces."

  "You stinky little brat, just you wait and see, our Fengyun family won't let you off."

  These three are the Wind and Cloud trio I PKed, they ran back to chase after the new village's top 10 treasure map, unfortunately it was too late, I had already left, the three of them could only boringly say some fierce words.

  However, this is also their good fortune. If I were to stay here, the three of them would only continue to drop in rank. In any case, I have formed an unbreakable bond with the Fengyun family.

  The Tianquan Temple's precinct is about 50 meters in diameter, with a few large trees scattered around. The Tianquan Spring is located under one of the big trees at the center, where clear spring water ripples in a round stone pool.

  Beware of the black bear, I searched around, it's dark and I'm bright, we must be careful in our actions, don't let the black bear ambush us.

  Dizzy, it scared me into a tight knot. It turned out that the black bear was sleeping under the big tree next to Tian Shu Spring, basking in the sun happily.

  "Insight" reveals: Hei Xiong Zha La, 20-level White Silver BOSS, 5000 HP, likes honey and sleep. Skills: Bear Pounce, Earth Fury, with stunning effect.

  The BOSS is divided into ordinary BOSS, silver BOSS, and gold BOSS. The abilities of each level of BOSS will be greatly enhanced, especially the gold BOSS, which is very difficult to deal with. There are also some divine beasts or heavenly demons' fierce beasts and evil beasts that are super powerful super BOSSes. Without a few pieces of divine equipment, these BOSSes are not easy to handle.

  Whoa, that's too strong, 5,000 HP? What concept is this? I killed the level 15 BOSS Mountain Wolf King and only dealt 100 damage, no need to think about it, Black Bear's defense must be higher, this is really hard to kill.

  It's okay, I spent a lot of money to buy 10 bottles of medium red wine on the way, and I have some capital to play with. If not, relying on the poor 23 bottles of light red wine on my body, it would be difficult to wear down this black bear.

  Just killed some small reds while fighting a demonized old tiger in the maple forest.

  No matter what, whether it's a ditch or a cliff, try and you'll know, at worst just go back to the first level and start over again.

  Kill!

  Taking advantage of Hei Xiong Zha La's sleep, we take the initiative to attack -100, -110, -50, -60, a series of damages appear above Hei Xiong Zha La's head.

  Because of the surprise attack, the first two hits were critical hits, and the black bear Chala immediately woke up and rushed towards me, my normal damage was only over 50.

  I fled and hastily ran around a large tree beside me. The ordinary damage was only 50, and I couldn't help but secretly sigh at the strength of Hei Xiong Zha La's defense.

  Although I'm preparing to fight the knight, and I'll be fighting against the BOSS, but I'm not a fool. Obviously, the black bear Chala's attack speed and movement speed are slow, so I'll use my advantages to strike at its weaknesses.

  Haha, my plan succeeded, Hei Xiong Zha La La's speed can't compare to mine at all, and can only shout loudly behind me, eating the dust I left.

  Just running is not enough, we have to think of a way to kill the black bear.

  Don't worry, we have a way. Because of running around the big tree, we quickly ran to Hei Xiong Zha La's butt and looked at the fat butt without mercy, just two knives.

  -100, -120, another two crits, looks like ambushes are prone to crits.

  I stabbed two knives on the buttocks of Hei Xiong Zha La, immediately turned around and ran away. Although Hei Xiong Zha La had already turned around and pounced on me, I was already running away, and Hei Xiong Zha La's attack could only fall empty, with no choice but to continue chasing after me.

  We've come to the back of Hei Xiong Zha La, -100, -50, another two knives. When Hei Xiong Zha La turns around, we've already run away and Hei Xiong Zha La can't catch up with us at all.

  In this way, beside the beautiful Tianquan Spring, under a big tree, one man and one bear repeated the same action over and over again. Sometimes the bear chased the man, sometimes the man chased the bear. It's hard to say who was chasing whom.

  Dizzy, simple, this way there is no difficulty at all. Looking at Hei Xiong Zha La's life being more than half gone, he still hasn't attacked me.

  Mistake, -200, Hei Xiong Zha La suddenly pounced on me, two palms attacking, although the first palm attack missed and didn't hit, but the other palm took away 200 of my blood.

  I was so excited that I forgot about Hei Xiong Zha La's skills, and Hei Xiong Zha La pounced on me with a bear hug, slapping me with both palms.

  I quickly drank a bottle of Little Red, pulling away from Hei Xiong Zha La La, fortunately the bear pounce skill has a time interval, otherwise I would not be able to withstand Hei Xiong Zha La La's continuous bear pounce skills.

  We'd better be careful now, if Xiong Pu is this powerful, then the skill of Da Di Zhi Nu won't just be for show.

  What bad luck, whatever I think of, it happens.

  The black bear Charrara used a skill called "Earth Fury", dealing 120 damage to me and stunning me, unable to move for 3 seconds.

  It's all over, I'm going back to level 1. As I look at the giant paw of Black Bear Chala falling down on me, this is my only thought left.