While Qin Chuan and Yue Li were at a loss for not being able to find the Hall Crystal, in another corner of the Dream World, two figures were traversing the wilderness.
One of them, if Qin Chuan were there, would undoubtedly recognize him imdiately as Dragon Halberd.
By now, he had ascended to Elite Level Player status by defeating and taming his own third Spiritual Beast, joining the first echelon.
Beside him stood a man wearing glasses. Although his appearance differed from reality, his expression showed the sa indifference—a sense of calm that transcended ti, unchanged through the ages.
Second Generation Insight, Su Yuanshan.
Player Na: Feng Yin.
Following the Special Affairs Group's instructions, the two Players with Golden Talents tead up for their mission.
"What do we do next?" Dragon Halberd glanced at Feng Yin, fully aware of his role in their duo, leaving the decision-making to Feng Yin.
"Let's see what good stuff I can draw today." Feng Yin surveyed their surroundings and then, in an instant, his eyes shone with a golden light as countless tiny golden flecks began to circulate.
In his view, golden stars spun across the sky until one quickly locked into place, unfolding into a ssage.
"Oh?" After reading the ssage, a look of surprise crossed Feng Yin's face, "This information... it's quite important."
"What information?" Dragon Halberd turned his head to look.
"This information is about the Hall Crystal," Feng Yin slowly began, "After the Hall Crystal is refreshed, it will not leave the area it's currently in."
"...Wait a minute," Dragon Halberd raised an eyebrow, "What do you an it won't leave the area it's in? Does it move like rare resources?"
"Not sure, possibly," Feng Yin spoke casually, "The ssage didn't say, but it did reveal another very important piece of information."
"The Hall Crystal's refreshing locations before and after are at a straight-line distance of no less than thirty zones."
"With this information, as long as we can find out where the Hall Crystal last refreshed, we can eliminate a lot of areas for the next refresh location."
"This is good!" Dragon Halberd's eyes lit up.
But in the next mont, his face fell at Feng Yin's words.
"If soone holds the Hall Crystal and uses it in another zone, it might mislead our judgnt. This info will only be useful if our own people acquired the Hall Crystal."
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"Still nothing."
Yue Li and Qin Chuan sat side by side on a large rock in the woods, their expressions blank.
They had searched nearly every region in zone 2633 where a Spiritual Beast could exist, but still failed to find one that resembled the Hall Crystal.
With the fully activated Prayer Talent's luck, could it really not ensure the Hall Crystal's refresh in the sa zone?
"Prayer's effect is very strong," Qin Chuan took a deep breath, looking at the sowhat disheartened Yue Li, "I don't believe the Hall Crystal won't be affected by luck."
"So the only answer is there must be so unknown properties of the Hall Crystal that prevent us from obtaining it smoothly."
"Like, the new Hall Crystal will not refresh in the sa zone as the original."
"Our combined strength is ultimately limited," Yue Li sighed lightly, "With the use of the Sun Needle's Third Talent, we can only get one Hall Crystal a week."
"It's too difficult to figure out the hidden properties and patterns of the Hall Crystal."
"Yeah," Qin Chuan couldn't help but agree, but then he saw the girl beside him suddenly turn her head to look at him.
Her bright eyes were dim, like an injured fawn invoking sympathy.
"Luo, if I can't keep up with your pace of improvent and only end up holding you back, would you leave and find another Player to team up with?"
"How could I?" Qin Chuan flicked Yue Li's forehead not too gently, "If Prayer really can't find the Hall Crystal, we'll just use the Sun Needle a few more tis."
"That's not okay." Yue Li rubbed her forehead, scrunching her nose, "If it cos to that, I'll just run away and stop teaming up with you."
"As long as I make the first move, it won't count as... Ouch!" Yue Li covered her forehead, looking pitifully at Qin Chuan.
"You forgot, the Sun Needle's Third Talent can lock onto players," said Qin Chuan as he stared at Yue Li. "Even if you run to the ends of the earth, I will find you."
"...Fine," Yue Li pouted, but strangely enough, a hint of joy erged in her heart, and her deeply furrowed brows gently relaxed, like clouds parting to reveal the sun.
Watching the girl's expression brighten, yet her eyes still harbouring lancholy, Qin Chuan inwardly sighed.
In her eyes, being a burden was such an unacceptable thing, wasn't it?
As he watched the countdown approaching eight o'clock, Qin Chuan once again turned his gaze toward the girl beside him and spoke softly.
"See you tomorrow."
[08:00:00/08:00:00][00:00:28]
[Dream World Entrance Closed]
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Real world.
Qin Chuan slowly opened his eyes, sat up, and the image of Yue Li's gaze in the last monts still flickered through his mind.
Monts later, he shook his head and picked up his cellphone.
A Contracted Spiritual Beast's first breakthrough to Hall Rank was a big deal; at this mont, the Dream Realm Forum was probably exploding with discussion.
Sure enough, upon opening the Dream Realm Forum, all he saw were discussions about him.
The number of Elite Level players had barely exceeded double digits not long ago, and now the first Hall Rank Spiritual Beast had already erged. The Sun Needle was widening the gap faster than he had imagined.
At this mont, the entire world's attention was focused on him.
As for Qin Chuan's response...
He was hungry. He decided to head to the breakfast stall at the entrance of his residential complex for a couple of buns and a cup of soy milk.
He was in a good mood today, so he'd add a tea egg.
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Special Affairs Group Headquarters.
Su Yuanshan and Chang Jinze had just awakened from the Dream World and were summoned to a brief yet significant eting. When they returned to the office they shared, their expressions had not yet settled.
"No way…" Chang Jinze hissed, "Luo has reached Hall Rank already?"
"He found the Hall Crystal so quickly?!"
"It seems my guess was correct," Su Yuanshan reclined in his chair, massaging his temples, "Luo's so-called Talent for finding resources is definitely a Gold Talent."
"...Which one?" Chang Jinze fell silent for a bit.
Instead of answering, Su Yuanshan asked, "Have our people found Conni?"
"Yes," Chang Jinze glanced at Su Yuanshan, "Although I don't know why you're looking for the forr Insight, we've found him."
"After Erik lost the Spirit Ascension Talent, Solag's efforts to pursue him dropped significantly. He's hiding in a slum in Mi Country, temporarily safe."
"Make a call and ask if Conni has ever obtained information related to a Gold Talent."
"Have the people there figure out how to ask, I just want the result."
"One mont." Chang Jinze glanced at Su Yuanshan, picked up an encrypted phone, and made an international call.
After a short while, he turned to Su Yuanshan, surprise in his eyes, "There actually is."
"Conni knows the first Talent Effect of Divine Cast: equipnt creation requires no Equipnt Forging Stones, one hundred percent success rate and guaranteed to be a lucky critical hit."
Chang Jinze's face displayed envy as he spoke.
He had terrible luck when forging Starshine Equipnt; his two Spiritual Beasts had failed three tis in total, wasting as many as twenty-seven Starshine Equipnt Materials. It hurt too much.
"Hmm..." Su Yuanshan's gaze lowered slightly, "Then it can only be Sun Needle."
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