Time: 9:00 PM.
The official website of the Heavenly Dao World once again erupted.
Tens of thousands of comments flooded the thread, "Dominating the World."
However, they were all retractions and self-criticism.
Simultaneously, another post titled "De God is the 'Second'" had also been changed.
It was altered to: "De God" Rises Again, Surpassing Pig Slaying Man in Level, Reclaiming World Number One Rank.
In a certain part of Shengjing City, Huang Xueyi once again stormed out of his gaming pod in a fit of rage.
Like an enraged lion, he smashed everything in the room to pieces.
Just a few minutes ago, the Northern War Zone leaderboard for the Dragon Kingdom had been updated.
The ranking positions for levels had not changed.
First place: I Am Not Druid.
Level: 48, Experience: 19.8%.
Second place: Dominating the World.
Level: 46, Experience: 93.6%.
Chu Tian's previous level was 46, with 92% experience.
Huang Xueyi had been waiting for the 9:00 PM refresh of the leaderboard.
He intended to severely suppress Chu Tian.
At the same time, he planned to exert verbal pressure on the Reverse God Alliance.
However, as soon as 9:00 PM struck, he opened the leaderboard.
His eyes nearly popped out; he thought he was seeing things.
He was stunned for a full minute before finally confirming that the person named "I Am Not Druid"
had reached level 48, with 19% experience.
His forum post was being viciously attacked, with his arguments dismantled piece by piece.
Permanent Lie: Dominating the World, you should eat your own words!
No Food in Lunchbox: Little Brother Dominating the World, you want to butt heads with De God? You'll just smash into a steel plate.
☆Blood Shadow★Assassin彡: Where did the OP come from? Don't you know your own weight? What kind of trash...
...
After reading a series of subtly stinging remarks, Huang Xueyi was so enraged that he quit the game directly.
"Chu Tian..." Huang Xueyi's eyes blazed with fire.
Last time, he had investigated Chu Tian's identity.
He had even arranged an assassination.
However, the assassin had returned defeated.
And was currently wanted.
Of course, he had already dealt with that person.
Even if the police found him, it would only be a corpse.
Besides, he hadn't even left a corpse for that person.
After the incident last time, he had kept a low profile for a while.
But he hadn't stopped investigating Chu Tian.
Upon learning that Chu Tian was part of the Ninth Office.
Later, he received news that Chu Tian was a Qi cultivator.
He began to hesitate, knowing the capabilities of a Qi cultivator.
While he wasn't afraid of Chu Tian, he didn't want to court trouble.
Moreover, his recent period of quiet was primarily due to...
The Ninth Office had begun investigating his background.
However, they had not exposed his true identity.
His grandfather had given him a stern lecture because of this matter.
And warned him to lie low.
Otherwise, he wouldn't hesitate to eliminate him personally in the name of justice.
To prevent him from causing trouble for the family.
When Huang Xueyi heard his grandfather's words, he was truly scared.
He knew that the Huang family had been able to infiltrate the Dragon Kingdom for so many years and amass such great wealth.
It was built upon the corpses of countless people. They were ruthless to outsiders, and even more so to their own family.
Anyone who posed a threat to the family, regardless of their identity, would be dealt with.
During this period, he had used the Huang Corporation's name to recruit various guilds within Heavenly Dao.
This was considered normal business conduct.
And it was a task granted to him by his grandfather.
In recent days, within the Heavenly Dao World, his level had increased, and his equipment had improved.
Seventy to eighty percent of the guilds in the Northern War Zone now belonged to the Huang Group.
He had previously arranged for people to contact the executive president of the Reverse God Alliance, but they were all rejected.
They couldn't even get an audience, let alone proceed with the capital injection and acquisition.
The Reverse God Alliance was the largest guild in the Northern War Zone, wielding significant influence.
Even Slaughter had been crippled by the Reverse God Alliance around Shengjing City.
Slaughter had been forced to relocate its entire membership to develop in Four Seasons City.
And in Black Soil City, there was a Guild of Charm, which had recently allied with several smaller guilds.
They had begun to counter the guilds under the Huang Group's banner.
Recently, he had been engrossed in leveling up because he noticed Chu Tian's leveling speed had slowed down considerably.
He wanted to launch a counter-attack, which would put pressure on the Reverse God Alliance from within.
He was subtly infiltrating and dismantling their core.
Thereby achieving his goal of capital injection and acquisition.
He had been planning this for half a month.
He deployed nine hundred people, which amounted to three large teams, to assist.
The rogue teams were responsible for luring monsters, separating ranged monsters, and killing them.
Leaving the melee monsters to be led to the outer perimeter of the fortress built by the shield warriors' bodies.
The priest teams provided continuous healing to the shield warriors from within.
He stood in the center of the fortress, not teaming up with anyone else, simply spamming skills mindlessly.
The monsters drawn to the outer perimeter of the shield warriors' formation lost health little by little under his area-of-effect skills.
Since that group of monsters could not attack Huang Xueyi, they would attack the people blocking their path.
The shield warriors dared not counter-attack, as that would steal the boss's experience.
They could only hold up their shields and endure the onslaught.
Although his method of leveling was indeed fast, it was still much slower compared to Chu Tian's method of grinding monsters with magic runes.
However, not everyone was aware of such things.
The town of Plague Canyon was itself a rarely visited area.
Even fewer people knew about the items sold in that shop.
This was because no one had yet managed to increase their respect and favorability to the required levels.
Chu Tian, relying on his experience from his previous life, knew about the place where magic runes were sold.
Now, if Chu Tian knew he was leveling up using this method,
he might have said, "You're too late even to eat hot shit."
Of course, he wouldn't meet Huang Xueyi at this time.
Qi Xi had repeatedly mentioned the Huang Corporation's invitations for him to meet, but he had sternly refused each time.
This was because Chu Tian knew that the moment he met Huang Xueyi, he would inevitably be unable to restrain himself from acting.
However, it wasn't yet time to confront him.
Not to mention that the Reverse God Alliance's strength was insufficient, but more importantly, engaging him now
would yield no benefits; only a loss of time and wasted money.
He was waiting for the fortress system to be activated.
Only then would conquering the Northern War Zone have any meaning.
Calculating the time, the fortress system would be activated in just over three months.
During this period, he intended to maximize the cohesion and strength of the Reverse God Alliance.
[Ding... System Notification: [Clear General's Tomb 1], Kill Corpse Guards 30/30 quest complete, gained +5% experience.]
[Ding... System Notification: [Clear General's Tomb 2], Kill Corpse Guards 0/35 quest, accept? (Y/N)]
"No..."
After eight consecutive hours of grinding monsters, at an average rate of four Corpse Guards per hour, Chu Tian finally completed this cyclical quest.
However, he suddenly felt that the experience reward was no longer as appealing...
He checked his level. He was still 24% away from level 51.
Several hours ago, after killing the eighth Corpse Guard, he had reached level 49.
After defeating the eighteenth, he had leveled up to 50.
As his level grew higher, the gap between his level and the Corpse Guards narrowed.
The experience bonus for leveling up by killing higher-level monsters gradually decreased.
Relatively speaking, leveling up had begun to slow down.
It was time to proceed to the second level of the General's Palace.
After defeating the last Corpse Guard.
[Ding... System Notification: Congratulations on reaching Level 51!]
[Ding... System Notification: Congratulations, Sunlit Incantation has reached Level 19, damage increased.]
With two consecutive notifications, during this period of grinding monsters, the skills of the Owl Beast had all improved to varying degrees.
While the five monsters around him were still respawning.
He jumped off the stone pillar and picked up all the items below.
This was not the first time he had come down to pick up items.
But this time was different. A heavy iron block was in his hand.
[Ding... System Notification: Obtained Item: General's Token (Fragment) x1.]
Hu Die Lan