Chapter 203: The Beginning of Escape

Interdimensional Shift used.

Su Nan controlled his avatar and instantly passed by the martial artists of the Point Star Sect and a group of monsters, arriving in front of the ancient divine weapon.

This ability left Zhou Cheng dumbfounded.

What kind of ability was this?

Teleportation?

Thinking about Wang Nan's disappearance in the ancient space not long ago under Zhang Yang's attack, Zhou Cheng finally understood how Wang Nan had done it.

"Why does Wang Nan have this ability, and I don't?"

"If I had this ability too, the divine weapon would undoubtedly be mine right now!"

Zhou Cheng roared in his heart, and the abilities displayed by Su Nan's avatar in just a few breaths made him turn red with envy.

Su Nan took three steps and arrived in front of the ancient divine weapon in two breaths.

In the next moment, the halberd-shaped ancient divine weapon was pulled out.

With the ancient divine weapon being drawn, the formation node of the Golden Radiance Tower was completely broken, and the suppression on everyone disappeared.

[Congratulations, you have obtained the ancient divine weapon, triggering the "Human Race Crisis" side quest. Please check the quest panel for more details.]

Triggered a side quest?

Su Nan was momentarily puzzled, but he quickly realized that he must have received the quest to escort the divine weapon.

"So, you only need to obtain the divine weapon to trigger the quest, no need to get it in advance." Su Nan was pleasantly surprised.

One quest was worth three thousand contribution points, enough to buy two pieces of Divine Skill Fragments.

With the item in hand, he didn't even bother to look at it and immediately put it away.

"Ah! That was mine!"

"Damn it! Wang Nan, you damn traitor!" Zhou Cheng roared.

Seeing the item being taken by Wang Nan, Zhou Cheng knew that it was almost impossible to get the divine weapon from Su Nan's hands now.

His mission had failed again!

At this moment, the martial artists of the Point Star Sect and the monsters finally realized what was happening. They roared in anger and rushed towards Su Nan.

Su Nan glanced at the crowd but didn't pay any attention to them. He used Interdimensional Shift again and left the space directly.

"Human kid! You can't escape!"

With the support of the ancient divine weapon lost, the formation space shattered instantly.

The monsters roared and sensed the mark left on Su Nan's avatar, immediately chasing after him.

Two thousand meters away from the Golden Radiance Tower.

Su Nan retracted his avatar and used Interdimensional Shift again, heading north.

His avatar also had marks from the monsters, and if he didn't retrieve it, the monsters would continue to chase it.

Su Nan could exit the game himself, but he couldn't do it without first dealing with his avatar.

"Huh? What's going on? That kid disappeared!"

"Could it be that he has the ability to erase the marks?"

Just as Su Nan retracted his avatar, the monsters chasing it lost their sense of the marks on it. More than ten monsters were left bewildered.

"It's impossible! The secret technique was bestowed by Lord Demon Emperor specifically for capturing those who escort the divine weapon. It's not so easily erased!"

"Even if it can be erased, he couldn't have erased all the marks we left on him in an instant."

"I understand now. That kid is an outsider from another world. Outsiders have the ability to return to their own world. He must have returned to his own world."

"If he left our world, it's easier to deal with. It is said that when outsiders enter our world again, they will appear at the place where they left. We just need to wait there."

Several monsters speculated about the outcome of Su Nan's avatar leaving the game.

Afterward, more than ten monsters found the place where Su Nan had retracted his avatar, intending to wait there.

On the other side.

The monsters that had been chasing Su Nan from the Martial King Temple felt that Su Nan's location suddenly changed, and their faces turned unsightly. They had to change direction and chase after him again.

"How did that kid suddenly move to our north?"

"It must be some secret technique. The human race has many methods that we demons don't possess, and outsiders themselves have some strange abilities."

"Chase after him! I want to see how many times that kid can use that ability!"

More than ten monsters quickly chased after Su Nan in his new direction.

Su Nan also knew that monsters were chasing him from behind. On the interface in front of him, predictive information kept flashing.

[You have been marked by the monsters with a brand that allows them to sense your location within a hundred miles.]

[You are trying to escape and delay as much as possible.]

[One minute later, the monsters have not caught up.]

[Two minutes later, you find that the monsters are only a kilometer away from you.]

[Three minutes later, you are caught by the monsters. Twelve peak Xuan-level monsters surround you.]

[The first prediction ends. Do you want to continue?]

"Caught up in three minutes?"

Su Nan's heart sank, but he had no other choice.

If he used his racial talent, he did have the ability to confront or even kill the peak Xuan-level monsters, but that was only a temporary burst of power.

Escape depended on speed.

Clearly, in terms of speed, he was still far behind the peak Xuan-level monsters.

"Continue!"

[Two formation nodes have been broken, and there is no longer any suppression of the monsters in Tianyun County. The monsters' strength can be fully unleashed.]

[Twelve peak Xuan-level monsters are closing in on you, and you were not an opponent for this number of monsters to begin with. Now, without the suppression of the formation, the situation is even more unfavorable.]

[Facing the siege of twelve peak Xuan-level monsters, you can only resist with great difficulty, and the situation is not optimistic.]

[You have no reservations and release your avatar, using the racial talents "Rampageous Ghostly Body" and "One Force Shattering the Heavens."]

[Under the influence of the two racial talents, your strength and your avatar's strength surge, successfully hunting and killing a peak Xuan-level demon.]

[You do not give up and continue to use the racial talent "Domain of Destruction," once again enhancing the power of "Rampageous Ghostly Body" with the power of "Domain of Destruction," killing another peak Xuan-level demon.]

[As the power of two peak Xuan-level demons is absorbed, your internal strength is depleted.]

[You died.]

"Only managed to hunt two?"

Su Nan frowned, but considering the strength of the monsters at this moment, he was somewhat resigned.

Even before, if he wanted to hunt down peak Xuan-level demons, he could only use his racial talents and go all out.

Now, without the suppression of the formation and facing the increased strength of the monsters, and being surrounded by more than a dozen monsters, it was already extremely difficult for him, who was at the Spirit-level realm, to hunt down two peak Xuan-level demons!

"Three minutes may not be enough time for this side quest to end."

Su Nan's expression was serious, but he did not fear it.

He held a bright red bone in his hand, which was the one he had obtained in the formation space of the Golden Radiance Tower just now.

What disappointed him, however, was that the blood essence in this bone, although of the Secret Power type, was not what he needed.

[Purple-Eyed Demon Emperor's Bone: In ancient times, the remains of a powerful demon emperor named Purple-Eyed, containing a drop of blood essence of the Secret Power type. Due to its unique environment, the power in the blood essence has somewhat diminished but still retains the strength of the Profound level.]

Similar to the bone he obtained in the Martial King Temple, it was the remains of a demon at the demon emperor level, and it still retained Profound-level power.

Although the blood essence of a Profound-level ancient demon was much more valuable than that of a Spirit-level demon, the problem was that he didn't need it at the moment!

"I'm still at the Spirit-level, but I've already obtained blood essence from two Profound-level ancient demons. I don't know if I should consider this lucky or unlucky."

"There's no way around it. I can only wait for this side quest to end and exchange for the blood essence of ancient demons from the contribution shop."

The harvest of the three characters this time was not insignificant.

In addition to the bodies of over a hundred peak Xuan-level demons, they had also gained a large number of contribution points.

Combined, the three characters had over forty thousand contribution points.

Adding the contribution points obtained previously and those earned from completing tasks during this period, once the quest was settled, Wang Nan would have sixteen thousand five hundred contribution points.

As for Zhang Yang, because he had not used his contribution points so far, the two times combined would give him over twenty-one thousand!

He was only a little over eight thousand contribution points away from buying a ancient scripture.

Once the quest to escort the divine weapon was completed, he would receive a full three thousand contribution points, and he would only be five thousand points away from exchanging for the ancient scripture!

As for Lang Shisan, he had only obtained nearly four thousand contribution points last time, and even though he had obtained over ten thousand this time, he still had the least contribution points among the three characters, totaling fifteen thousand.

And all of this came at the cost of using more than twenty bottles of Life Force Renewal Pills to extend their lives, as well as dozens of predictive opportunities.

"Unfortunately, the contribution points obtained from hunting demons can be calculated. So many players were watching at the time, otherwise, I could have had my avatar act as a tool for Zhang Yang, just like hunting players, to help Zhang Yang's character earn contribution points."

"In that case, Zhang Yang's contribution points would have been nearly enough to exchange for an ancient scripture."

Looking at the contribution points, Su Nan couldn't help but sigh.

There was no way around it; he had attracted too much attention. If the contribution points were not proportional to the demons he had hunted, it would have undoubtedly aroused suspicion from players.

"After this quest ends, there may be opportunities to earn a large number of contribution points like this again, but it will definitely not be as much as this time."

"In that case, among the three characters, only Zhang Yang is most likely to exchange for the ancient scripture. Wang Nan and Lang Shisan are basically impossible. Instead of keeping the contribution points, it's better to use them to convert them into strength."

This time, after the quest ended, Lang Shisan had only obtained half of the demon power required to exchange for an ancient scripture. Unless there were special circumstances, he would not be able to obtain forty thousand contribution points before the quest ended.

He planned to use Lang Shisan's contribution points first.

"I wonder if there will be any changes during this breakthrough?"

Thinking of the demon under the Immortal Palace and the words of the county magistrate from before, Su Nan's expression turned serious.

He had a premonition that this breakthrough might not be as smooth as he had hoped.

As Su Nan continued to escape, he released his avatar.

He intended to take action!

The side quest had not ended yet, and killing demons would still earn him contribution points.

According to the contribution point calculation, a peak Xuan-level demon was worth a staggering 2,048 contribution points.

Two of them would be over 4,000 points, which would greatly advance Zhang Yang's progress in obtaining the ancient scripture.

However, the price was that he would not be able to log into the game for the rest of the day.

Just as he released his avatar.

The monsters waiting near the Golden Radiance Tower once again sensed the mark on his avatar and were puzzled.

"How did that kid suddenly reappear?"

"Who cares? Chase him!"

Without much thought, more than a dozen monsters immediately chased after him.

"Kid, let's see where you can run this time!"

Three minutes later, the monsters chasing Su Nan from the Martial King Temple were the first to catch up to him.

When they saw the avatar next to Su Nan, they were all taken aback.

"Huh? This kid also has a mark on him. Could it be that he is another outsider who obtained an ancient divine weapon?"

"Hahaha, that's great, good things come in pairs."

The monsters laughed heartily.

Two minutes later, Su Nan logged out of the game.

As Zhang Yang's character, he successfully killed two peak Xuan-level demons.

Unfortunately, due to the urgent situation, he didn't have a chance to collect the bodies of the two demons.

Crawling out of the game storage, a smile appeared on Su Nan's lips.

"Now all I have to do is wait."

"Wait for the side quest to end and wait for the game to refresh again."

(End of this chapter)