"Great stuff!" Wang Ming exclaimed, looking at the three rewards. "The village chief is so generous!"

Wang Ming didn't expect that this Spring Longsword was actually a level 10 3-star purple equipment. This weapon alone provided 73 attack power. It can be said that with this weapon, one can dominate the newbie village.

Besides the weapon, the sword and shield skill is also amazing. It can withstand 5 hits of damage. Although it's only 20%, it's still a direct damage reduction.

If a player takes 100 points of damage, using this skill will reduce the damage taken to 80 points. After that, the damage reduction from defense will be applied, so there is no reduction whatsoever. It is undeniably powerful.

In addition, this Breakthrough Pill is also an extraordinary item.

In the Yuan Realm, in addition to leveling up, players can also improve their realm. Generally speaking, realm and level improve at the same time, but when the realm reaches a bottleneck.

In other words, when crossing a major realm, you need to use this Breakthrough Pill. Without the Breakthrough Pill, you cannot break through to the next major realm.

Without breaking through a realm, one cannot obtain the benefits that realm brings, such as soul power.

Soul power is an ability in the Yuan Domain that can increase additional damage. It is said that the more major realms one advances, the more soul power one gains.

Therefore, even if two players are of the same level, if one is in the Qi Refining stage and the other is in the Foundation Establishment stage, the Foundation Establishment player can easily defeat the Qi Refining player, even if they are of the same level.

This is known as realm suppression in the metaverse.

"Thank you, young man, Grandpa Village Chief."

Wang Ming was serious this time, because according to official sources, to obtain the Breakthrough Pill, one must complete a task.

This task is not only time-consuming, but also offers no rewards other than Breakthrough Pills, not even experience points.

"Haha, you deserve it."

"Hehe, Grandpa Village Chief, I also want to see the newbie village's secret realm dungeon."

"Of course." After the village chief finished speaking, he waved his hand, and the information about the newbie village's secret realm appeared in front of Wang Ming.

Newbie Village Secret Realm Dungeon

Description: This is a unique dungeon in the beginner village, consisting of three levels. The dungeon ends after clearing all three levels.

Rewards: You can obtain experience points, equipment, treasure maps, etc.

Entry level restriction: The lowest level in the same team is 5.

Number of players allowed: Up to 7 players can enter.

Attempts: No limit.

Difficulty: Normal, Hard, Master.

"There are actually three difficulty levels." Outside the dungeon, Wang Ming could only see this information, and he immediately chose the King level.

Suddenly, a red portal appeared before Wang Ming. He stepped through the portal, and with a flash of white light, he entered the instance.

"System notification: You have entered the first level of the beginner village dungeon. In this area, players will not lose experience points upon death. Players can leave the dungeon at any time within this area."

The scene in this instance is exactly the same as the secret realm that Wang Ming cleared, except that this instance does not have any extra experience points or extra drop rate bonuses.

Wang Ming then used his Insight skill to check the attributes of the monsters on the first floor.

A corrupted, withered tree spirit (normal)

Level: 7

Realm: Acquired Level 7

Life: 1350

Attack: 60

Defense: 36

...

Mutated, corrupted, withered tree spirit (elite)

Level: 7

Realm: Acquired Level 7

Life: 2700

Attack: 98

Defense: 59

Skill: Sweep

...

After casually killing a few monsters, Wang Ming exited the dungeon and then entered the normal and hard difficulty dungeons.

After comparing the two instances, Wang Ming understood some basic information about this instance.

In this dungeon, the monsters of the normal level have stats almost identical to those of wild monsters of the same level.

The attributes of king-level monsters are slightly lower than those of monsters in secret realms, but higher than those of wild monsters of the same level.

Monsters at the Hard difficulty level have attributes that fall between the Normal and King levels.

At the same time, as the difficulty of the dungeon increases, the experience points gained after defeating it will also increase accordingly.

Overall, this dungeon is quite difficult.

However, this dungeon, with its unique feature of not losing experience points upon death and its accessibility from the starting village, will undoubtedly become the top choice for players to level up in the future.

But this wasn't the case for Wang Ming.

Firstly, the monsters on the first level of this secret realm dungeon are lower level than Wang Ming, so the Soul Devouring effect cannot be triggered, and Wang Ming naturally wouldn't choose it.

Secondly, Wang Ming's experience points are already at level 8 with 40% remaining, and he has unexpectedly obtained a Breakthrough Pill. He is now eager to reach level 10 and advance to the Innate Realm.

Therefore, Wang Ming decided to go directly to the level 10 wilderness area to kill monsters of a higher level. With the experience bonus from killing monsters of a higher level, the leveling speed would definitely be faster than that of the King-level secret realm dungeon.

Without hesitation, Wang Ming headed towards the area where the level 10 monsters were located.

Wang Ming's agility attribute is now over 70 points, making his movement speed much faster. Even starting from the beginner village, he arrived at the level 10 wilderness area in less than an hour.

Along the way, Wang Ming also killed several ordinary and elite level 9 spider demons, stealing a few attribute points.

At this moment, looking at the large number of level 10 monsters in front of him, Wang Ming was slightly excited. These were all experience points!

Despite his excitement, Wang Ming still used the skill Insight to be on the safe side.

Timberwolves (Normal)

Level: 10

Realm: Acquired Level 10

Life: 1215

Attack: 81

Defense: 49

...

Mutant Forest Wolf (Elite)

Level: 10

Realm: Acquired Level 10

Life: 2430

Attack: 122

Defense: 73

Skill: Claw Strike

...

These forest wolves are pack-living wild monsters. In Wang Ming's field of vision, there were seven or eight small groups, each with about ten ordinary wild monsters and one elite wild monster.

Although these monsters are level 10, their attribute values ​​are far inferior to Wang Ming's current level.

"Hehe, little wolf cubs, come to my experience bar."

To speed up the kill, Wang Ming used five different basic attribute potions, then took out a dart and locked onto a mutated forest wolf from a group of forest wolves not far away.

-1.

-214.

-79.

-72.

-82.

-148.

...

Wang Ming's current total attributes are close to 600 points. After being attacked, the mutated forest wolf roared and led its pack to attack Wang Ming.

Even though it had over 2000 HP, it still couldn't reach Wang Ming and was killed by him. After that, Wang Ming changed targets and continued to attack.

When the dozen or so forest wolves finally reached Wang Ming, only about seven or eight remained. These surviving forest wolves were ordinary monsters with low attack power, and could only deal about 20 damage to Wang Ming each time, posing no threat to him.

In the end, under Wang Ming's iron fist, they all turned into Wang Ming's experience points.

"System notification: Congratulations on killing the mutated forest wolf. You have gained 500 experience points, an additional 150 experience points, 1 mutated forest wolf pelt, and +2 merit points."

"System notification: Your cultivation technique - Soul Devouring has been successfully activated, granting you 1 point of Agility and 1 point of Spirit."

...

"System notification: Congratulations on killing the Timber Wolf. You have gained 350 experience points, an additional 105 experience points, 1 copper coin, and 1 merit point."

"System notification: Your cultivation technique - Soul Devouring has been successfully activated, gaining 1 point of Intelligence attribute."

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