Little Shit darted around again, hovering about a thousand meters above the gnoll camp. This place was at the very edge of the realm, where even a tiny space butterfly was hard to find.
The gnoll camp contained approximately five million gnoll soldiers, dressed in golden armor and wearing golden helmets, clearly one of the six guardian legions of the gnoll empire.
The teammates exchanged smiles, knowing they had come to the right place.
Although there were many gnolls in the camp, there was no noise. Upon closer inspection, they were busy... changing clothes!
Yes, they took off all their golden armor and helmets, along with their weapons, and handed them over to their little leader. In return, they exchanged them for a set of silver-white armor and weapons to wear.
These must be the spirit stone armor that Aoqin made using spirit stones. What puzzled Jiang Hao was that making armor was extremely difficult, and Aoqin had only received the spirit stones the day before yesterday. How could she have already prepared five million sets of armor? It was truly astonishing and unbelievable.
What Jiang Hao didn't know was that the Aoqin Legion's expeditions had long since followed a fixed pattern. After receiving spirit stones from Aodu, he needed to go to a realm secretly arranged by Aorong to exchange them for armor. This armor was obtained from the batch of spirit stones exchanged two months ago.
It takes exactly two months to produce 5 million sets of spirit stone armor. This is why the time interval between each of Aoqin's expeditions must be two months.
The gnolls inside the camp were still quickly changing their equipment, while the gnoll vanguard outside the camp had already gone quite far.
They swept their spirit stone weapons around them as they slowly spread outwards from the camp.
Jiang Hao couldn't help but want to laugh.
There were no spatial monsters around; they were clearly terrified by the place's infamous reputation.
But after only a short while, Jiang Hao's smile vanished. He watched as a jackal's spirit stone weapon swept across the area, and a half-meter-tall blue-purple plant suddenly appeared in what had been an empty spot.
Like the space butterfly, the plant was completely transparent, with its blue-purple stems and leaves composed of special light and shadow, making it look exquisite.
As soon as the spatial plant appeared, more than a dozen jackalmen swarmed around it, wielding their spirit stone weapons and slashing at the plant. A moment later, the blue-purple light and shadow vanished, and a white crystal, barely larger than a grain of rice, fell to the ground.
The pattern around that crystal is exactly the same as the one that fell from the space butterfly we killed before.
Under the watchful eyes of the surrounding gnolls, the dozen or so gnoll soldiers immediately picked up the crystal and then ran quickly toward the gnoll camp behind them.
They entered the camp gate, ignoring any gnolls blocking their way, and charged headlong into the center of the gnoll camp, beneath a rather luxurious high platform. They handed the white crystal in their hands to a gnoll guard on duty.
After the guard handed the white crystal to the general in the center of the platform, the general casually tossed the crystal, which the dozen or so gnoll soldiers regarded as a treasure, to his feet and then lazily waved his hand.
The dozen or so soldiers turned and left dejectedly, following behind the gnoll soldiers leaving the camp, as if they were about to die.
Jiang Hao saw the white crystals scattered at the general's feet and realized that there was no special method for skill books to drop; it was simply a matter of low drop rates.
Jiang Hao guessed that the general on the high platform must be his little brother Ao Qin. However, if he dragged him over and killed him now, he probably wouldn't be able to obtain any more useful information. After all, only about 12% of this realm had been developed, and Ao Qin had probably been active on the outer edges of the realm for the past few years. Keeping him alive now could actually help him collect crystals.
At the same time, Jiang Hao sensed from the mustard seed fluctuations caused by the sudden appearance of the spatial plant that the skill dropped by the spatial plant was probably the spatial concealment that Aorong had already obtained.
Jiang Hao fell into deep thought. If his deduction was correct, then in this realm, the skill that the Space Butterfly could drop was Space Collapse, and the skill that the Space Plant could drop was Space Concealment. In that case, Aorong's two space-related skills would be settled.
Aside from the spatial perception gained from the awakening of the Oron bloodline, and a spatial skill that is still pending, where did the spatial refining skill come from?
As if remembering something, Jiang Hao asked Yun Xinghe, "Do all beings in the Spirit Ruins awaken an extra skill after reaching the legendary level?"
Yun Xinghe nodded, wondering why Jiang Hao would suddenly ask such a common-sense question. He said, "As far as I know, this is true for at least the five major races. Moreover, this skill is unique, just like the human race's talent."
Jiang Hao nodded, now feeling more confident. This spatial refining skill must be the legendary skill that Aorong awakened when he reached the legendary level.
Judging from the fact that little brother Aoqin has only developed 12% of this realm, Jiang Hao can confirm that the two space-type skills that Aorong has obtained are definitely not of a very high level.
However, judging from the power and distance of Aorong's release of spatial collapse, it far exceeds the skill's upper limit. Jiang Hao speculates that Aorong's spatial refining skill will inevitably increase in power as the refining space increases.
No wonder it abandoned other skills and desperately tried to assemble a set of space-based skills. So that's what it was waiting for.
Heaven really favors this damned old jackal, bestowing upon him two spatial skills.
Jiang Hao then asked, "By the way, when did Aorong upgrade to Legendary level?"
Without hesitation, Yun Xinghe said, "It must have been 160 years ago. Because at that time, the Fifth Realm officially became a Star Realm."
Jiang Hao didn't know why he was so sure.
Yun Xinghe said, "Don't look at me with such doubt. In addition to the limitation on the number of subordinate star domains, there is another hidden condition for a realm to be upgraded to a group star level. That is, there must be a legendary-level powerhouse in the realm."
"Since the five races repelled the Skeleton Legion 200 years ago and completely sealed off their exit route, all the legendary powerhouses of the five races have perished. At that time, all the star-level realms were reduced to star-level realms. The Gnoll Empire did not recover to the star-level realm status until 40 years later."
"The aged Jackal King is still at the Epic level, so that legendary level powerhouse must be Oron without a doubt."
In other words, it took Aorong 160 years to refine the space of the Fifth Realm.
That's really slow!
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