Ice Snow · Extreme Cold Grasp!
Heaven-Slaying · Seven Star Volley!
Swish! Swish! Swish! Swish!
Under the fierce assault of the two SSS-grade skill combos, wave after wave of poison bugs were shot down by Lin Mo's Tier 2 golden-quality Venomous Crossbow.
They were converted into massive amounts of experience, poison bottles, and copper coins, all absorbed by Lin Mo.
With the double poison bottle drop-rate buff in hand, Lin Mo's efficiency in farming poison bottles was truly absurdly fast.
The number of poison bottles in his backpack skyrocketed at an astonishing pace.
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At the same time, on the eighth floor of the Insect Nest Underground Palace.
Ling Xiao, Xia Wanwan, Skinny Monkey, and Fat Dahai were also teamed up, hunting level 27 poison bees, collecting poison bottles, and carrying out the eighth-floor quest.
Before, they had always been following behind Lin Mo. With Lin Mo around, it felt like no matter how many levels they skipped, no matter what level the monsters were, everything could be cut down easily and without pressure.
Only now, without Lin Mo leading the way, did they finally realize, "So the poison bugs in the Insect Nest Underground Palace are actually this hard to kill!"
Even though they had been following Lin Mo all along and their levels weren't low, already reaching frontline standards in Blazing Ember City at level 20.
With just the four of them at level 20, dealing with level 27 poison bees was still extremely difficult.
"Brother Xiao, I can't hold on, what do we do!", Skinny Monkey, the assassin, sent out a distress call with an ugly expression.
And in truth, Ling Xiao himself was also struggling to withstand the poison bees' damage.
Even with the priest Fat Dahai desperately spamming heals to the point of wanting to stack his clothes higher, he still couldn't stabilize the frontliners Ling Xiao and Skinny Monkey.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
Mage Xia Wanwan went full firepower.
The four of them exhausted all their strength before finally managing to kill a single poison bee.
And by the time the fight ended, all four of them had lost nearly more than half of their resources.
Skinny Monkey couldn't help wiping sweat away as he said, "Seeing how easily Rulebound killed them before, I thought the poison bugs in this dungeon were nothing special."
"Didn't expect these little bugs to be this hard to kill!"
Fat Dahai complained with a gloomy face, "At this speed, when are we ever going to reach the tenth floor to meet up with Senior Lin Mo?"
"Why can't he come down and pick us up? At least sister-in-law paid him to power-level her. One level is a hundred thousand!"
At this moment, Xia Wanwan said, "Our gear isn't good enough. We need to go back to the city first, buy some high-level equipment from the auction house, then come back to farm."
Skinny Monkey and Fat Dahai both showed bitter expressions, "I've already spent this month's living expenses on potions! I really don't have money left to buy gear."
"I do!", Xia Wanwan said, "I'll buy it!"
"No!", Ling Xiao said, "All this time, you've been the only one giving. Wanwan, we can't let you shoulder everything alone."
Xia Wanwan held Ling Xiao's hand, smiling with happiness in her eyes as she said, "It's okay! Ling Xiao, as long as I can be with you, what does this little bit of sacrifice even matter?"
However, the more Xia Wanwan said this, the more guilty and self-blaming Ling Xiao felt…
"Enough, let's hurry back to the city and buy gear, then rush back to farm the dungeon. Ling Xiao, you must reach level 30 before Wang Junjie! Only then can we stay together forever!"
"It's Monday tomorrow, and there are classes in the morning. Try to level up as much as possible tonight."
Ling Xiao nodded, "Mm!"
Time passed by second by second, quickly.
Entered the dungeon at eleven.
In the blink of an eye, it was already three in the morning.
Under the double drop rate, in just four short hours, Lin Mo had already collected a huge backpack full of poison bottles. Taking a look, there were a total of 3125 bottles.
"That's enough to exchange for over 300 pieces of Venom gear."
"I'll go exchange a batch of gear first. If I can get one or two usable pieces, it'll boost my combat power and make killing monsters even easier."
Thinking this, Lin Mo headed outside the Insect Nest Underground Palace.
On Guard Captain William, he exchanged equipment by submitting poison bottles.
[Ding~ Submitted 10 poison bottles. Congratulations, you obtained equipment · Venom Helmet (Warrior Lv20 Tier 1 · Green). William's favorability +1!]
[Ding~ Submitted 10 poison bottles. Congratulations, you obtained equipment · Venom Staff (Priest Lv20 Tier 1 · White). William's favorability +1!]
[Ding…]
One system notification after another made Lin Mo feel numb.
And just as the system messages rang out over a hundred times.
Suddenly, one message appeared that made Lin Mo's eyes light up and his heart jolt.
[Ding~ Submitted 10 poison bottles. Congratulations, you obtained equipment · Venom Chain Armor (Archer Lv20 Tier 2 · Blue). William's favorability +1!]
"It finally dropped!"
In that instant, Lin Mo felt the joy of an old man finally getting a son.
He immediately locked this piece of equipment and continued submitting poison bottles to exchange for gear.
Unfortunately, although several more Tier 2 Venom pieces dropped afterward, not a single one was for the archer class.
With limited backpack space, Lin Mo began arranging and combining the 311 Venom equipment pieces laid out on the ground.
This scene left several Dragon Soul players, who had just come out of the dungeon after completing quests and were about to submit them to William, completely dumbfounded.
"Holy shit! So much equipment! How many poison bottles did Rulebound collect?"
"This is insane! No wonder Boss Aoshi was willing to cooperate with him."
Very soon, from these three hundred plus Venom equipment pieces of various classes and slots, Lin Mo successfully assembled five complete Tier 1 Venom sets, covering the mage, assassin, warrior, knight, and archer classes.
Tier 1 Venom sets were easy to farm.
Unfortunately, even with the full eight-piece set skill [Poison Immunity], it only provided a 50% poison effect boost and 50% poison resistance, which couldn't satisfy Lin Mo's ambitions.
Through mail, Lin Mo sent these five Tier 1 Venom sets to Dragon Soul Aoshi.
As for the rest.
Same old rules.
Tier 1 white-quality pieces were incinerated on the spot, converted into equipment evolution points.
Green-quality and above were mailed to Qin Feng, ["Help me store them in your warehouse."]
Qin Feng was also deeply obsessed with Divine Oracle.
Especially since yesterday at Death Town, his entire guild had been wiped back to level 0.
So even at three in the morning, he was still out in the wild leveling with his guild brothers.
With a word from Lin Mo, Qin Feng didn't hesitate and immediately headed back to the main city from the field, ["Got it, Brother Mo! I'll head to the warehouse right now!"]
["Oh right, Brother Mo, the equipment you told me to put on the auction house earlier has mostly sold already. I'll transfer the money to you."]
As soon as he finished speaking.
Lin Mo received a bank transfer: 1,857,200.
"It sold for this much?", Even Lin Mo was a bit surprised when he saw the transfer.
You had to know that back then, over three thousand Chaotic World players had dropped more than fifteen hundred pieces of equipment in the Insect Nest Underground Palace.
This money was from selling just a little over two hundred of them.
The remaining thirteen hundred pieces had all been incinerated by Lin Mo.
Although everything incinerated was trash white gear.
Even at a dirt-cheap five hundred per piece, that would still be six to seven hundred thousand.
At this moment, Lin Mo couldn't help but sigh from the bottom of his heart once again, "Wang Junjie, you really are delicious."
When Lin Mo handed this matter to Qin Feng earlier, he had said Qin Feng could keep a 10% commission.
But clearly, Qin Feng hadn't kept anything for himself.
So Lin Mo took two hundred thousand from the 1.85 million and transferred it to Qin Feng, ["You earned this commission helping me. Don't argue with me."]
["Use the extra money to buy some equipment for your guild members."]
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[Blazing Ember City]
Qin Feng was overjoyed when he received the transfer, "Thank you, Brother Mo!"
After storing the equipment Lin Mo mailed to him in the warehouse, Qin Feng turned around and went straight to the auction house.
He bought a large pile of various kinds of equipment and sent them to the thirty-plus brothers in his [ZhuFeng] guild.
Then he said in the guild chat, ["This is equipment Brother Mo paid for me to buy for you guys! Brothers, from now on, ZhuFeng will follow Rulebound. Anyone got objections?"]
First there was a five-thousand reward.
Then there was free equipment.
Although the ZhuFeng guild players had been killed back to level 0, their passion burned hot, and the chat erupted with responses.
ZhuFeng Wing: ["No objections! The boss's boss is my boss! I swear to follow the boss to the death!"]
ZhuFeng Son: ["No objections either! In this life I live as ZhuFeng's man, in death I'm ZhuFeng's soul!"]
ZhuFeng Big Man: ["Same here!"]
ZhuFeng Youth: ["+1!"]
ZhuFeng Light Rain: ["+10086!"]
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