Newspaper Boy
Chapter 107: The Treasure Agreement
"Normally, continuously conquering high-difficulty dungeons puts too much strain on our minds and bodies. Without proper balance, it's easy to fail at some point."
Fu Qingyang said seriously and sternly: "This is the Marshal's promotion route back then, you can take a look."
Zhang Yuanqing, sitting on the sofa, turned his gaze to the Marshal's promotion route map on the screen, which focused on multiple-player dungeons with single-player dungeons as support, interspersed with cooldown dungeons for rest and relaxation.
It wasn't until the end of the promotion route that two S-class dungeons appeared, ultimately leading to his ascension as a demigod.
The route map contained a total of twenty-one dungeons. Zhang Yuanqing shrugged, "Indeed, there needs to be a balance."
"Demon Eye, Xiahou Aotian, and the Palace Master of Zhisha have all refused to participate in A-class dungeons anymore. Boss, are you still up for it?"
Fu Qingyang said expressionlessly, "If you're fine, I'm fine!"
*Stop kidding me, your emotions tell me that you're resisting going to dungeons,* Zhang Yuanqing thought to himself.
Fu Qingyang said coldly, "Your expression tells me that you're mocking me."
"Hehe, I also have methods to counter the Insight Technique," Zhang Yuanqing said, "There aren't many multiple-player dungeons left in the White Tiger Army. The remaining ones are all single-player spirit realms. Boss, you should take a rest."
"Now official organizations and Spirit Realm families are preparing for war. I heard from Xie Lingxi that the Masters of the Xie family are refining Life Elixirs day and night. Xiahou Aotian also said that the government has allocated a huge sum of money to the Scholar family, asking them to mass-produce Saints and extraordinary items within two or three months."
*They're putting all their resources into creating weapons.*
Fu Qingyang said calmly, "These actions by the government are not to tip the balance between camps, but to prepare for the next time morality disappears. The better equipped the low and mid-level official members are, the higher the probability that ordinary citizens will survive."
"In a real camp war, the low and mid-levels are insignificant. Even Masters are just pawns. In terms of the strength of the low and mid-levels, the government is definitely crushing the evil camp. Otherwise, how could they maintain social stability?"
"At the Master stage, the government is stronger than the evil camp, but the gap isn't significant. Only at the demigod level, after the slumber of the Wind and Thunder Gods, the Lawful camp lost two level 11 demigods at once."
"And the evil camp has Shura, and gods hidden in small worlds (demon seeds). If a real fight breaks out, the outcome is uncertain. That's why the government is so eager to support the Star Lord and ascend the Sun Throne."
Zhang Yuanqing brought the topic back, saying, "So, Boss wants me to emulate the Marshal."
Fu Qingyang shook his head, "No, what's so good about emulating that woman? You should be breaking her record!"
He pressed the remote control, switching the screen. A new set of promotion route maps appeared. Zhang Yuanqing took a closer look—good heavens, they were all A-class and S-class dungeons, with B-class dungeons only serving as decorations and resting places.
Fu Qingyang said, "Actually, the difficulty of the Fallen Monarch and Shushan South Garden was partly due to bugs in the Spirit Realm, and partly due to me. If you enter a single-player dungeon, the A-class difficulty won't be so high."
"Yuanshi, your strength has long surpassed most level 7 Masters. Besides, you also have the Three Talents Pill route. Your current experience value is 50. If you can raise the experience value to above 90, then the Spirit Realm's matching mechanism will bug out, and the A-class dungeons allocated to you will correspond to the mid-level of level 7."
"And your true strength is the late stage of level 7. You will steadily harvest level 7 dungeons."
Zhang Yuanqing pondered, "So, the immediate priority is to hunt down a Day Traveler. Only then can Boss's promotion plan be implemented. So, who should we hunt?"
*The Day Travelers of the Taiyi Sect are definitely out of the question.*
*Wild Day Travelers are even rarer than wild pandas, impossible to find.*
"The Day Travelers of the Night Rose are morally the most acceptable targets, but under the protection of Taiyin, these Protectors won't come out themselves. The government can't find them at all."
Fu Qingyang thought, "Even if we could find them, secretly hunting them is very dangerous, and we could easily be set up by Ling Tuo."
"Ling Tuo can't focus on the outside world while in the Spirit Realm. With the Taiyin Lord's ability to deduce, she may have already calculated it. We can't rule out the possibility of a pre-emptive plan. However, Ling Tuo being in the Spirit Realm means he can't deal with us."
"With our strength, if we were besieged by high-level Masters of the evil camp, we would also suffer heavy losses. Asking President to take action would easily trigger a demigod war, breaking the current balance."
"It won't necessarily trigger a demigod war. Do you think the five Alliance Leaders would help him? There are already rifts between them, unless he hands over the Light Compass fragment."
The two discussed and discussed, gradually falling silent.
Hunting Day Travelers of the Night Rose was too difficult, with no way to start.
After more than ten seconds, Fu Qingyang pondered, "Perhaps we could entrust Elder Zhao and Elder Sun to enter the Taiyi Sect dungeon and kidnap a Day Traveler."
Zhang Yuanqing's face didn't show any joy, shaking his head, "There's only one way to bring a character from a dungeon into reality, and that's to turn him into a material. Corpses also count as materials. Living beings cannot be brought out of the dungeon. Otherwise, the Master-level experts of various organizations would be overflowing."
Fu Qingyang said calmly, "Have you forgotten how Silver Consort came?"
Zhang Yuanqing's eyes suddenly lit up.
Silver Consort was an important NPC in the dungeon, but she was sent into reality by the Three Dao Mountain Goddess after breaking through the Spirit Realm barrier. *That old hag is special, she's a high-level boss in the Spirit Realm, and she's a part of the Spirit Realm itself.*
But soon, he rejected Fu Qingyang's suggestion. With the Goddess's status, she could influence the Night Wanderer's extraordinary stage dungeon.
"Increasing the difficulty level of the dungeon and sending Silver into reality wouldn't be difficult. But Day Travelers are not comparable to Night Wanderers. Sending a Master out of the Spirit Realm, let alone whether it can be done, even if it could, she would suffer a terrible backlash, just like President dares not directly save Zhou Cai from the dungeon."
"The Goddess herself is very resistant to his use of evil techniques. Moreover, that old hag aspires to compete for the Sun Throne. She would never risk being backlashed by the Spirit Realm at this time to kidnap a Day Traveler for him."
Fu Qingyang was silent.
The two fell silent again, thinking. Just then, Zhang Yuanqing's cell phone in his pocket rang. He took it out and looked.
The caller was Single-Pass Knight, Zhou Cai had cleared the S-class dungeon!
Zhang Yuanqing was overjoyed and immediately answered the phone.
Seeing the caller ID, Fu Qingyang also raised his eyebrows.
"You really have a big life, I thought you were dead," Zhang Yuanqing joked with a smile.
Zhou Cai sneered at the words, his language style as always: "Not only did I not die, but I also achieved great divine power, and one hand can beat three level 7 Day Travelers. I successfully advanced to level eight and obtained the complete Knight inheritance. I can try to open the Vatican's treasure vault and control that supreme item of the Knight profession."
*Finally, I can open the Vatican Treasure!*
Zhang Yuanqing couldn't help but get excited. The blood in his body quietly boiled. There were two treasures that he had been thinking about day and night.
One was the treasure hidden by the Devil Lord in the Ascending Immortal Sect's treasure vault, and the other was the legacy after the destruction of the Vatican.
Especially the latter. According to the history he knew, although the Vatican was destroyed, a demigod item of the Wind Mage and a demigod item of the Knight were not obtained by the Liberty Alliance.
After the Pope understood that the general situation was over, he hid most of the Vatican's wealth, including the two demigod items, in the treasure vault.
Only the map and key fragments were left.
At that time, the first district did not have a high-level Master or demigod of the Void profession. The Vatican treasure vault was thus preserved. In modern times, President can no longer find the location of the treasure vault.
Zhou Cai said lightly: "I'm waiting for you in Delson River Park in New Covenant County. Special reminder, I only accept you and President, no one else is qualified to enter the Vatican's treasure vault."
Zhang Yuanqing glanced at Fu Qingyang and said, "No problem! Wash up and wait for me."
Hanging up the phone, he glowed, "Boss, the Vatican's treasure vault may have Thunder God Suit parts. If I can collect this set, I dare to enter an S-class dungeon."
The operation to hunt the Protectors of the Night Rose will also be more secure.
Moreover, there must be other items in the Vatican.
"If you can collect the set, the refining of the Three Talents Pill can be postponed," Fu Qingyang nodded.
Saying goodbye to Fu Qingyang, Zhang Yuanqing entered Night Travel and flew back to his grandmother's house with the wind.
Banging on the door of his uncle's house, his aunt, wearing home clothes, opened the door and welcomed her nephew into the house.
In the living room, his uncle held a bottle of red wine, and dynamic local foreign rock music played from the speakers.
On the online TV, there was the shoulder-shaking dance that was popular a few years ago... his uncle shook and shook, shook and shook.
Like a gaudy and flamboyant old hooligan.
"Yuanzi, tea or drink?" his aunt asked.
"No need!" Zhang Yuanqing refused his aunt, took dancing steps, shaking his shoulders, and joined his uncle's side.
Seeing this, his aunt sighed deeply.
She went into the bedroom, not seeing was pure.
"Useless Yuanzi, looks very happy, tell me what fun you encountered." his uncle opened his mouth and said a passage.
"Yo yo, I took Xiahou Aotian to level up, a dungeon is very exciting, there are cemeteries everywhere, I am also very capable, fists teach them the truth, there is a Yao Guang young lady, actively undressing and untying her belt, and offering the cultivation method, I don't give her a penny, then return home from the dungeon, at this time Single-Pass Knight comes, argues, and then jumbles a big pile of names you and I accompany." Zhang Yuanqing reported in one breath!
His uncle also wanted to say such a big passage, shaking and shaking, shaking and shaking, but he couldn't squeeze it out after holding it for a long time, so he had to speak normally, saying: "So coincidental?"
"You just needed a way to level up quickly, and it came."
"I begged the gentle, virtuous, beautiful, moving, refined, and unconventional Master to revise the pill formula." Zhang Yuanqing said, "The initial version did have problems, but now it's gone."
Hearing this, his uncle was relieved, turned his head and shouted to the bedroom: "Wife, Yuanzi asked me to go out to play, I'm going out for a while."
His aunt's response came from the bedroom: "Remember to come back for dinner at night."
"Okay." his uncle held down his nephew's shoulder and disappeared into the bedroom.
Zhang Yuanqing seemed to enter a dark and deep space tunnel, unable to see any light or scenery in his vision.
The next second.
The slowly flowing Delson River appeared in front of him, a strong wind blowing on the river, behind him was a bleak park, and in front of him was a wide river, with large cargo ships slowly passing by.
Turning his head again, his uncle had already put on a burgundy suit and trousers, and put on a silver mask.
Zhang Yuanqing was startled: "Damn, you change clothes so fast?"
"You don't understand the means of a demigod." his uncle, no, President, snapped his fingers.
"Come here!"
Zhou Cai, wearing a black mink coat, appeared in front of the two.
Having not seen him for more than a month, Zhang Yuanqing examined Zhou Cai. His appearance had not changed, but his temperament was more introverted and vicissitudes. His eyes seemed to condense the war spirit that had been tempered and refined, but also like a vast river, like the Five Mountains Tai, calm, dignified, and not sharp.
"Long time no see, grown up."
Zhou Cai said the first sentence with a smile.
"Grown up?"
"I take back my feelings just now, not changed at all, still so deserving of a beating." The corners of Zhang Yuanqing's mouth twitched.
His uncle raised his hand and snapped his fingers between the two: "Stop talking nonsense, the treasure hunter can't wait, I still want to go home to have dinner with my wife tonight, hurry up."
Zhou Cai stood by the river, leaning on the railing and said: "The location specified by the treasure map is actually the Vatican, the treasure is inside the Vatican."
"Impossible." President said in a deep voice: "I have explored the ruins of the Vatican many times, there is no hidden space there."
The merchant is good at treasure hunting, as the only demigod of the Void profession, what he said was sonorous and powerful, and very sure.
Zhou Cai said with a very emotional tone, "If I hadn't entered the Knight Twilight dungeon, I would agree with your idea."
"President, you have also entered the Knight Twilight dungeon, what do you think its background is?"
"The destruction of the Vatican, war." President said.
Single-Pass Knight nodded, "As we all know, the higher the level of the dungeon, the longer the background. But Knight Twilight is an S-class dungeon at the Master stage, and the background of the same level dungeons is in the Middle Ages, but it is modern."
"This shows that it is a special dungeon, so where is it special?"
Zhang Yuanqing, who had also experienced the modern dungeon of the Thriller Cruise, had a thought in his mind: "The Vatican treasure is in that dungeon."
Zhou Cai nodded appropriately: "After the destruction of the Vatican, the Spirit Realm recovered the treasure house and used the Vatican destruction war as the background to generate an S-class dungeon, Knight's Twilight! And the treasure house has become a hidden task of the dungeon, I also figured it out in the dungeon."
Speaking of this, he looked at President and said, "I know that forcibly taking high-level props and materials from a dungeon that has never been opened will be regarded as stealing by the Spirit Realm, and punishment will be降down. It depends on whether you are willing to take this risk."
President did not agree with his view, and smiled: "There are at least two professional demigod-level items in the Vatican treasure, do you think the S dungeon at the level 7 stage will reward this kind of heaven-defying thing?"
Zhou Cai was stunned!