Not long ago, Chen Guo had secretly shed tears because of Ye Qiu's retirement, but now she was back to her usual self. After explaining everything Ye Xiu needed to know in detail, she casually found a computer and started playing Glory.

Ye Xiu stood not far away, glancing over a few times. He saw that Chen Guo had entered the arena to PK with others, but she was obviously distracted. She repeatedly made some major mistakes in the PK, some of them quite elementary. After losing three matches in a row, Chen Guo slammed her keyboard and quit the game. Turning around, she saw Ye Xiu picking his teeth and pretending nothing had happened, so she glared at him and ran back upstairs.

Ye Xiu checked the time; it wasn't long before his shift started at eleven o'clock. The bar girl obviously had a good handle on the time as well. The progress bar on the Korean drama was perfectly timed. As soon as the episode ended, the time jumped to eleven o'clock. The girl stood up and smiled at Ye Xiu, "Brother Ye, I'm off work!"

"Go, go!" Ye Xiu had been waiting for a computer for a long time. The girl wasn't the only employee at the internet cafe who got off work at eleven. The daytime and evening shifts weren't as deserted as the overnight shift, so one person couldn't handle it all. The employees at the internet cafe weren't familiar with Ye Xiu yet, but they recognized him, and after saying goodbye politely, they left one by one.

The internet cafe became unusually quiet, the sound of keyboards and mice echoing clearly, a completely different scene from the lively opening of the new server last night. Thinking that this was all caused by his retirement, Ye Xiu sighed softly and sat down at the bar.

He inserted his account card and logged into the game. As soon as he came online, he received a series of messages. Ye Xiu opened them and saw that it was Tian Qi and his buddies sending their greetings in a row.

"Hi, expert!"

Tian Qi, Mu Yun Shen, and Qian Sheng Li all sent the same greeting, but not Yue Zhong Mian.

"Are you all here?" Ye Xiu replied to all three of them.

"Uh, Yue Zhong Mian didn't come," Si Qi replied.

"Is he acting up again?" Ye Xiu thought of that kid.

"No, he's in a bad mood. Didn't Ye Qiu announce his retirement today? He really likes Ye Qiu, so he's a bit down and won't be playing tonight," Tian Qi said.

Ye Xiu was really dumbfounded. He didn't expect that kid to actually be his fan. If he knew that he was Ye Qiu, and that he had been despicable and shameless towards his idol, he wondered what that kid would think.

"If we're missing someone, it'll be harder to kill the hidden boss in the Spider Cave," Ye Xiu said.

"Should we just group up with someone else?" Tian Qi asked for the expert's opinion.

"Or should we go to the Skeleton Graveyard?" Ye Xiu said.

"Okay, okay!!" Tian Qi quickly agreed.

The Skeleton Graveyard was a level 15-20 dungeon. Tian Qi and the others had actually wanted to go for a long time, and they were hoping to get a few more first kills under Ye Xiu's leadership. But Ye Xiu's thoughts and needs were different from theirs. He didn't care about the glory of getting dungeon first kills at all. And to get first kills, you had to keep your level in the top group. Ye Xiu couldn't do that, not because his skills weren't good enough, but because he didn't have enough time.

When he logged off in the morning, Lord Grim's level 18 was impressively ranked in the top five of the tenth server's level rankings, but what about now? Ye Xiu opened the rankings again and saw that Lord Grim's name had disappeared. Those at the top of the level rankings were now all level 22.

Why? Because the big guilds had an organized approach to leveling up and snatching first kills. Three or two people used one account at the same time, the character was online 24 hours a day, and they were playing a war of attrition, making up for their lack of skill with diligence. No matter how strong Ye Xiu's skills were, he couldn't compete with them in this aspect.

It was because of these reasons that the dungeon first kills in the normal servers generally didn't have much weight. Apart from looking good with your name on it, it reflected that the team's leveling speed was greater than their skill and strength.

In comparison, what better reflected a team's skill and strength was the dungeon completion record.

This record was limited by time. Initially, it was a time record set uniformly by the system. Once a team broke it, the team's name and the new record time would be listed. If it was broken again, it would be replaced again. This record-breaking reward could be claimed repeatedly, and the rewards were generous. Unlike the first kill record, which only gave experience and money, this was guaranteed to give the team at least one piece of purple-grade equipment or higher, as well as several other random rewards.

This honor mode wasn't available in the newbie zone. It only started with dungeons level 20 and above after leaving the newbie zone. Ye Xiu glanced at it. The first kill for the level 20 dungeon Frost Forest had already been completed, and the original system record had already been refreshed. The number of refreshes was noted behind it. It had been refreshed three times so far, and the team from the guild Zhong Cao Tang was at the top of the list, with a record of 26 minutes, 12 seconds, and 48 milliseconds, set at 18:23 in the afternoon.

Ye Xiu scratched his head, feeling a little ashamed. He also had a vague impression of what this dungeon was like, but he knew that this record would definitely be broken again. Currently, the highest-level players were only level 22, and the final score would generally be achieved by a team of level 25 players. However, if any player in the team was above level 25, the dungeon score would be invalid.

"Expert, we've already arrived at the Skeleton Graveyard," Tian Qi sent a message at this time. It seemed that these guys' levels were the same as when they logged off, so they had slept for a day like Ye Xiu.

"Okay, I'll be right there," Ye Xiu quickly had Lord Grim run towards the Skeleton Graveyard. Normally, they could have gone to this dungeon at level 15 in the morning, but Ye Xiu's current upgrade of the Myriad Manifestations Umbrella greatly required "high-strength spider silk". Yesterday, he had expressed his needs to Tian Qi and the others, meaning that he didn't plan to change dungeons at level 15. In the end, those four guys stayed behind and followed Ye Xiu to farm the Spider Cave to death.

They just kept farming like that, but "high-strength spider silk" was still not enough. This item was guaranteed to drop from the hidden boss Spider Lord, and the normal boss Spider King and the two small ones had a certain chance of dropping it. Ye Xiu and the others worked hard until 11 o'clock, and the hidden boss had appeared three times. The Spider Lord appeared once, yielding 5 "high-strength spider silk". The other two times were Spider Warriors, which had a 0% chance of dropping this item. Then there were the small bosses that dropped it sporadically, for a total of 7. Adding that to the 4 they got from the first kill, they had only farmed 16, which was still 24 short of Ye Xiu's required 40.

At this rate, he would have to farm for two more days. Ye Xiu pondered to himself. Tian Qi and his group had been stuck with him in the Spider Cave and had leveled up to almost level 18. Once they passed level 20, it would be a 5-level difference if they farmed the Spider Cave again. In Glory, a 5-level difference was always a very important threshold, such as equipment, skills, and monster experience. If you exceeded the dungeon level by 5 levels or more, the experience gained would be greatly reduced. At that time, "leveling up" would become impossible, and Ye Xiu would definitely be embarrassed to bring Tian Qi and the others to the Spider Cave again to work for him for free.

Relying on luck to grind wasn't the way to go. It seemed he had to find other ways. As Ye Xiu was thinking, Lord Grim had arrived at the Skeleton Graveyard. He found Tian Qi in his friend list and applied to join his team. After quickly joining the team, Tian Qi sent a message: "Do we need to add another person?"

"We don't have to," Ye Xiu replied. Speaking of which, the Skeleton Graveyard also had necessary materials that he hadn't gotten yet. He hadn't been impressive with the Myriad Manifestations Umbrella for long, and it had already become a burden. It wasn't easy to explore with a small account, Ye Xiu sighed, and stepped into the Skeleton Graveyard.

Chapter Two
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