Chapter 58: Wang Dama's Task

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  "Help the tailor Wang Dama in East Village find a golden needle, help the blacksmith Li Dashi in West Village find ore, help the pharmacy Liu Dage in South Village find flower spirit grass, and help the grocery store owner Li Dama in North Village find her son's favorite chicken..."

  Ye Ming stared at the task descriptions, his mouth twitching constantly. Finally, he looked up at the village head and asked, "Village Head, don't you have any normal tasks here?"

  "Your Majesty, this is not abnormal, but the task's difficulty coefficient is too low, that's why you think it's abnormal. However, these tasks are assigned based on your overall strength from the Holy City. If they were any higher, your strength might not be able to withstand it, and if you fail, not only will there be no reward, but you'll also receive punishment." The village elder said respectfully.

  Ye Ming thought for a moment and still opened that task of helping the tailor king's mother find the golden needle to take a look. This one look, really made him happy.

  Help Tailor King's mother find the golden needle: The tailor king's mother's most precious golden needle was stolen by the cave master of Lingyun Cave, no matter what method is used, help the tailor king's mother get the golden needle back.

  Task completion reward: 1 million experience points, a low-grade spirit stone, and a low-grade mystic martial skill book.

  Mission failed penalty: 500,000 experience points deducted.

  The penalty for failing the task is not too severe, but the reward is extremely generous, 1 million experience points, which can fully support half of the experience points required to level up to 21. As long as you complete these two tasks, just the task rewards will be enough to reach level 21.

  The task name looked very ordinary, but unexpectedly the reward was so generous. Ye Ming's heart suddenly became excited and he accepted the task without hesitation.

  At worst, it's just a failure, and 500,000 experience points will be deducted. But if successful, the 10 million experience points will be in hand.

  After the system prompt, Ye Ming began to walk towards Lingyun Cave.

  Lingyun Cave, located on the easternmost side of Newbie Village, requires passing through Dark Swamp, Mu Huang Forest, and You Shen Lake, three monster areas. Each area has monsters with levels ranging from 18 to 22, which is just right for Ye Ming to level up.

  The highest level of monsters in Novice Village is 22, except for BOSS.

  Ye Ming knew that the Lingyun Cave's boss, whose name sounded very impressive, was definitely a BOSS-level monster. If he could kill it, not only would he receive the quest reward, but also a huge amount of experience and possibly even some explosive loot. Just thinking about it got him excited.

  If it directly explodes with a sacred artifact...

  Thus fantasizing, ten minutes later, Ye Ming arrived at the edge of the Dark Swamp. As soon as he arrived here, the system immediately gave a prompt that he had entered the range of the Dark Swamp.

  Swamps are naturally ordinary landscapes, but actually hide killing machines. In these swamps, sometimes no monsters are needed, and the natural environment alone can be fatal to humans.

  Stepping into the dark swamp, the surroundings changed immediately. In front of me were black withered woods, extremely long vines hanging high above, blocking out the sunlight, leaving only a few gaps like empty holes.

  On the dim ground, it was a scattering of leaves, and under these leaves, there was a terrifying swamp, where deep places could directly drown people.

  In front of Ye Ming, there was only a two-meter-wide small path winding and twisting, and it was unknown which predecessors had trodden out, just right to pave the way for Ye Ming's advancement.

  "Whoosh!"

  Suddenly, a shadow burst out from behind the big tree in front, bringing some bloody breath, and quickly approached Ye Ming.

  Ye Ming had long been prepared, his body suddenly retreated, and in an instant, he was ten meters away from the shadow. Only now did he know the origin of this shadow.

  Dark Boar Tusk: Level 20 monster.

  "Wow, a level 20 monster dares to come out and scare me? Watch how I'll pierce your chrysanthemum!"

  Ye Ming's figure flashed out, like a flash of lightning. The dark dragon, Mo Yuan, burst out, even blacker than the Dark Boar's tusks. A loud crash was heard, and the Dark Boar's figure immediately flew backward, landing with no breath left.

  "Good grief, it's a same-level instant kill!" Ye Ming secretly sighed at the power of Tian Long Mo Yuan.

  Walking up to the dark boar's body, three bottles of medicine emitted a faint glow, and there was also a dagger, which was a white equipment, directly thrown into the infinite storage ring by Ye Ming.

  Just then, another dark boar burst out of the swamp, its sharp white tusks stained with mud, and its four hooves showed no signs of clumsiness.

  Ye Ming didn't even flash this time, turned around, and his fist was covered by the Tianlong Devil Emperor, transforming his palm into a knife, cutting this big guy from head to toe, splitting him in half.

  Two bottles of Tier 1 Instant Recovery Potion have been added!

  Humming a little tune, Ye Mingyu walked unhurriedly, cutting through thorns and brambles with ease. Nothing could stop his footsteps, not even the terrifying Tianlong Demon King, under whose rule all souls would return to the underworld.

  However, these monsters are of the same level as Ye Ming, and the experience gained is somewhat meager. After killing their way through the Dark Swamp and the Barren Woods, they finally arrived at the Deep Lake, but after nearly two hours, they still hadn't even reached half of the required experience.

  It seems like doing tasks is still better after all!

  Three hours of time limit has passed two-thirds, only one hour left, Ye Ming plans to kill the deep lake and reach Lingyun Cave before logging off.

  Mystic Lake is a vast lake, on which there are numerous winding small paths. These small paths are like bridges, spanning the vast Mystic Lake like a sea, under the illumination of the rainbow, like a rainbow bridge.

  However, there are monsters lurking in the depths of the lake, which is very dangerous. Without a bit of strength, basically no one dares to pass through these winding small paths.

  Ye Ming took out the Golden Equipment, Zilan Spirit Brocade Sword, and began his life-and-death career. The monsters in the deep lake, except for the BOSS, were no more than level 22, which was simply a trivial matter for him. Not to mention that Tianlong Moyuan could directly kill them with one blow, even if he couldn't, he could completely withstand them and then escape safely.

  As expected, when Ye Ming walked to the one-third mark of the small road, a monster called "Deep Abyssal Water Monster" rushed out from the water, with its over-one-meter-long giant claws directly grabbing at Ye Ming's head, but was split into two halves by Ye Ming's sword.

  The further forward he went, the more monsters there were. Of course, Ye Ming wasn't afraid of the increasing number of monsters. He killed them until his body was covered in blood. The medicine bottles that exploded on the ground didn't even have time to be picked up. In order to hurry through, many of them were unfortunately refreshed.

  Unfortunately, although I finally reached the front of Lingyun Cave, after passing through three monster areas, I didn't encounter a single BOSS. This shows that this game is not as absurd as to let me do whatever I want.

  Lingyun Cave is a huge cave about 3 meters high. When Ye Ming arrived, four human skulls suddenly rushed out from inside. The skulls were ash white, and two green flames rose in their empty eye sockets, staring straight at Ye Ming.

  Ye Ming thought for a moment, it was almost time, he used the Tianlong Magic Origin to shake off all the blood on his body and went offline, next time he would deal with these extremely ugly guys.