Chapter 115

Chapter 115

Fire Spirit Crystal: Quest Item

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Legend has it that this is the key to unlocking the gate to an unknown region. Keep it safe, and you might benefit from it.

And what the Stone Crystal Commander dropped was none other than the Water Spirit Crystal!

Qin Han collected it, along with the gold coins and the centaur's corpse.

He pressed forward.

After the centaur's death, a Teleportation Gate appeared ahead.

Qin Han stepped through it and arrived at the Fourth Checkpoint!!

The moment he entered, the temperature around him plummeted.

A world of white stretched before him, heavy snow falling, the accumulated snow on the ground reaching up to Nightmare's knees.

"I never came here in my past life, only glimpsed bits of it from guides."

"This Fourth Checkpoint must be where the real life-and-death trials begin!"

From the Nobility Rank Competition guides, he knew that the dungeon had nine checkpoints in total.

The first four were battles, a process to weed out weaker players.

The first checkpoint was transitional, meant for acclimation.

The second checkpoint had an elite-level BOSS, filtering out anyone below advanced players.

The third checkpoint had a Leader-level BOSS, eliminating those below top-tier players. Even top-tier professional players would face life-and-death battles here. This checkpoint would filter out nearly all advanced players.

And the Fourth Checkpoint? Two Leader-level BOSSes.

Even if top-tier professional players managed to clear the third checkpoint, most would already be exhausted, making it nearly impossible to fight two more Leader-level BOSSes.

Thus, in his past life, only a very, very small number of top-tier professional players could pass this checkpoint. The rest were Saint-level Profession players or above.

Even some Saint-level Profession players, if they weren’t skilled in combat, would be stopped here.

In other words, the number of players who could truly clear this checkpoint likely didn’t exceed a few hundred!

Amid the blizzard, his vision obscured, Qin Han could faintly make out a snow-laden pine tree standing hundreds of meters to his left!

And to his right, hundreds of meters away, was something resembling a small hill, its features obscured by snow.

He raised his bow and fired an arrow.

Soon, a pained shriek echoed through the snow, and a massive, hideous Clay Monster shook off the snow and stood up.

It let out a bizarre sound, "Kekeke!"

The Clay Monster glared at the tiny figure before it, drool dripping from its mouth.

"So it was you who disturbed Grandpa Clay’s sleep. It seems you’ll have to compensate me with your life."

"Though humans don’t taste great, you’ll do as a snack. Kekeke!"

Qin Han glanced at it, then raised his bow again and fired another arrow to the right.

Immediately, the Pine Tree Monster awoke as well.

A pair of crescent-shaped eyes and a half-moon mouth appeared on its trunk, emitting a strange, shrill noise.

"Kekeke!"

"So it was you who disturbed Grandpa Pine’s sleep. It seems you’ll have to compensate me with your life."

"Though humans don’t taste great, you’ll do as a snack. Kekeke!"

Listening to the equally annoying and identical voices from both sides, Qin Han scratched his ear.

"Enough nonsense. Grandpa’s in a hurry. Come at me together."

Some time later...

Qin Han effortlessly killed two Leader-level Monsters without a scratch. This time, he directly gained 1,000 points, bringing his total to a staggering 4,000! He continued to dominate the top spot on the leaderboard, and his level rose once more, reaching level 13! Aside from him, the second-ranked player still only had 2,000 points, meaning they hadn’t even managed to kill the centaur yet. "Keep at it. Once you kill the centaur, it’ll only get harder. Good luck," he muttered to himself. Qin Han casually stored the corpses of the two Leader-level Monsters and also obtained two more spirit crystals: an earth spirit crystal and a wood spirit crystal. With this, he now held four spirit crystals in total—wood, water, fire, and earth! Any player familiar with the theory of the Five Elements’ mutual generation would immediately notice that only one was missing—the metal spirit crystal.