Chapter 174 - The Second Artifact’s

“I see.”

Lin Shurou nodded. “No wonder.”

“So, other than me, that guy is the strongest player under the age of 25 in Shenxia?” Ling Yi asked.

“More or less. He’s always been in the top few of the regional ranking from 60 to 69.” Yunji nodded.

After saying that, she changed the topic to the news just now. “Don’t look at the news. In fact, according to a friend of mine, Liu Sheng asked his friend to take pictures and videos while he went to fight the Beast King alone.”

“He wants to replicate the legend you created.”

“As a result, Liu Sheng was beaten up the whole time, and the skills he threw out were almost all empty. Not only did he not hit the Beast King, but he also destroyed the city. I heard that they were taken away by the Divine Union’s personnel for investigation this afternoon.”

Yunji’s face was full of gloating.

“Speaking of which, Liu Sheng’s capture was also related to you, Ling Yi.”

“What?”

Ling Yi didn’t expect the topic to be related to him. The corners of his mouth twitched. “I killed a Beast King on my own on God’s Path. It’s too stupid to imitate it in the main world.”

“No, I’m not talking about that. It’s the one you exposed in the secret dungeon’s last time about him going to a brothel.”

“Huh?”

“It’s because of this that Liu Sheng’s reputation has become bad. Although the Liu family has been doing public relations, it’s difficult to restore Liu Sheng’s image in everyone’s mind. That’s why this time, when he ran into the Beast King, he was eager to achieve his goal and rushed up.”

Ling Yi was speechless.

If Yunji hadn’t mentioned it, he would have really forgotten about it.

After all, back in the arcane realm, the effect of activating the [Bell of Truth] was purely for the sake of gaining more distress points-and to have some fun.

After that, they no longer discussed this topic and changed to other small things.

Time passed quickly in the cheerful atmosphere.

Soon, it was midnight on the 17th.

A few notifications appeared in front of Ling Yi as usual.

[A new day. You have gained 3 hours before the time of descent.]

[High-grade Night stone creation: +1 High-grade Night Stone]

[Double gold coins: +1 High-grade Night Stone]

[The effect of the divine artifact ‘Ultimate Crystal’ has been made public!]

Ling Yi’s interface had four notifications, while the others only had two.

Therefore, before he could read the fourth line, Yunji became excited. “The effects of the second divine artifact have been made public!”

“Quickly go to the Event Store and take a look!”

When they heard this, they quickly opened the Event Store and glanced at the second divine artifact hanging high on the top.

[Ultimate Crystal (Divine Artifact — Unique)]: Increases the strength of the user by 1,000.

[1. An indestructible potential crystal can be placed at a designated place in the main world. Everyone can activate their potential in front of it: Increases all attributes by 1 – 5 points according to the potential of each person.

[2. Each God’s Path’s crystal and the modern world monument can be strengthened once.]

“This…”

Seeing the effects of this divine weapon, Ling Yi couldn’t help but be surprised even though he was mentally prepared. “This ultimate crystal has almost no help to an individual except for its attributes!”

Yunji nodded, crossed her arms, and muttered, “Right. Compared to the other divine artifacts, this divine artifact is clearly more inclined towards helping everyone.”

“If the other divine artifacts are individual divine artifacts, this divine artifact is a group divine artifact!”

A group divine weapon!

Not only Yunji, but almost everyone who had seen the effect of this divine weapon had the same thought.

[Potential crystal? Increase the fifth dimension? It doesn’t specifically refer to players?]

[F*ck! If ordinary people could improve, then wouldn’t they be able to easily get into the top one million in the player selection? Whichever country gets it, the number of players who pass the selection will increase greatly!]

[When that person’s potential is stimulated in the future, the future player selection might be completely dominated by that person!]

The players on the forum quickly thought of the player selection due to the effects of the artifact.

Although the event gave out 100 million player qualification cards, it was still far from enough for the seven billion ordinary people around the world.

As such, when the ordinary players saw the effects of this godly item, they were even more excited than the players.

This is a divine artifact that can be called a national treasure.

In the student dormitory, countless students were so excited that they couldn’t sleep. They were all discussing the ownership of this divine weapon.

“It’d be great if our Shenxia could get their hands on it. We might be able to strengthen the Eternal Guardian Monument, and we might even get another chance to revive.”

Another replied with a sigh, “Don’t be too optimistic. Our Shenxia might not even be able to obtain this divine weapon.”

“It’ll be troublesome if it’s obtained by other countries. The player selection will be even more difficult in the future.”

“…”

The world was in a heated discussion.

In the living room, Yunji, who had finished talking about divine artifacts, shifted her gaze to Ling Yi. Seeing that he was in deep thought, she couldn’t help but ask curiously, “Ling Yi, do you have any thoughts about it?”

“Uh… Yeah.”

“Oh? Is your target the Energy Core or the Ultimate Crystal?”

“Mm… I’ll prioritize the Energy Core for now. It’ll help me improve even more.”

Yunji and the others nodded in understanding. If it were them, they would also choose the one that would improve their combat strength first.

…

Early in the morning—

Every Monday, it would be published in a global weekly report, which, once again, increased the popularity of the divine artifact in the early morning by a large margin.

[Global Weekly]

[1. The Effects of the Divine Weapon, the Ultimate Crystal, are Announced!]

[2. The Mysterious Inner Voice — The Nemesis of Evil!]

[3. Sacred Gate has been Annihilated!]

[4. Shenxia Player has Discovered the Secret Dungeon’s Statue’s Function!]

[5. There was a Legendary Difficulty for the Qualification Assessment?]

[6. Open Public Permanent Map, “Nightless City”]

[7. A level 3 Black Sky Beast King Appeared in Shenxia, Yunhai City]

[8. Six District 66 Players, Passed the 10th Checkpoint of the Main Road]

[9. The Number of Players in the World has Exceeded 300 Million!]

[10. A 40,000-Meter Meteorite — The World’s Most Destructive Power!]

[- End of weekly report -]

Each of the weekly reports was a thread with a theme. After clicking on it, one could view the relevant posts organized by the Global Weekly organization.

Now, looking at the ten pieces of content on the weekly report, the players around the world could clearly feel a vague general trend.

[Why do I feel like all ten weekly reports are related to Shenxia?]

[Four of them are related to 01, three are related to Shenxia’s Secret realm, and the Beast King has appeared in one of them. Shenxia has a total of 8 news!]

[Since June… No, ever since 01 started to rise, Shenxia is becoming more and more like the center of the world.]

[Last week’s weekly reports were about the Eternal Spirit Guardian monument, solo killing the Beast King, and so on. Most of them were also caused by 01.]

[He has single-handedly turned Shenxia into the center of attention on the forum!]

“…”

Global Weekly naturally contained information all over the world.

Now that Shenxia alone had so many entries, the players from other countries felt a little uncomfortable.

‘It would be great if 01 was from our country.’ Many people sighed from the bottom of their hearts.

[Not to mention anything else, just the Eternal Spirit-protecting tablet that he contributed was still coveted by countless foreigners.]

The place where the spirit protection monument was kept was protected by many barriers and countless experts. Various countries’ governments had been trying their best to communicate with Shenxia’s government, hoping that Shenxia would open up some spots for them.

However, Shenxia’s reason was that they would not open it to the public until all the citizens in their country had shed their blood to protect their spirit.

The two sides continued to drag on.