Chapter 256: Chapter 255: Reclaiming the Li Family's Sovereignty and Meeting Long One
With the activation of Black Dragon's Annihilation and two S-level AOE skills, a massive area was cleared instantly with over 210,000+ damage, wiping out dozens of parasites in a single blow.
All around, those who had mocked Zhang Yue just seconds ago, calling him a "random amateur," now stood with their mouths agape—wide enough to fit an entire durian.
Meanwhile, more parasites from the outer periphery continued to swarm closer.
While Black Dragon's Flame and Black Dragon's Breath were cooling down, the Black Dragon relied on single-target skills and basic attacks to massacre the parasites.
Three attacks per second, each dealing a critical hit of 170,000+ damage, was enough to instantly kill any parasite with a 400,000 HP limit.
At the same time, the Shadow Predator darted through the swarm like a lightning bolt.
Compared to the Black Dragon, the Shadow Predator's single-target burst was even deadlier.
SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!
Attack after attack, everywhere it passed, 300,000+ critical hits created a sea of damage, reaping countless parasites.
Watching his own 60,000–70,000 mediocre damage, Zhang Yue decided…
"Screw it!"
Zhang Yue gave up fighting and went straight to picking up loot.
After half a day of collecting energy crystal shards, his back ached.
For some reason, he started to miss the Hell Skeleton King.
The overwhelming killing power of the Black Dragon and the Shadow Predator left the surrounding veteran players, who had been in the 10th realm for years or even over a decade, completely dumbfounded. Their jaws dropped even further—from a durian to the size of a cow.
After all, they had been grinding here for years, and even risking their lives could only deal a measly 10,000 damage to these parasites.
But Zhang Yue's two pets? Their damage output easily reached tens of thousands with just a flick of their claws—it was insane.
Before long, even Li Li stopped fighting and joined the looting squad.
She clearly understood her combat capability, or lack thereof.
While collecting energy crystals, Zhang Yue began using them to upgrade his wings.
In the 10th realm, wing upgrades required players to progress step by step, from white wings to orange wings—there was no shortcut.
So Zhang Yue retrieved the white wings originally awarded by the system.
He fused them with the energy crystals.
[Ding~ Your [White Wings] absorbed energy crystal shards. EXP +0.2]
[Ding~ Your [White Wings] absorbed energy crystal shards. EXP +0.3]
[Ding…]
After absorbing dozens of energy crystal shards, Zhang Yue discovered: one shard provided 0.1–0.5 EXP.
And upgrading white wings to green required 100 EXP.
Eventually, Zhang Yue consumed over 300 energy crystal shards to accumulate the necessary 100 EXP.
Once the EXP bar was full, 10,000 units of Energy were required for the upgrade.
With this, Zhang Yue's white wings were successfully upgraded to green wings.
However, upgrading from green to blue required a staggering 500 EXP.
Using all the energy crystal shards collected from the earlier beast wave and parasite kills, Zhang Yue barely managed to gain 200 EXP.
Next, he would have to continue hunting parasites for more shards.
During this process, an occasional elite-grade parasitic beast would spawn among the swarm, which Zhang Yue could easily take down.
This was perfect, as the realm's second mission required killing ten elite monsters.
Ordinarily, it would take a whole day for someone to upgrade their wings from white to green.
But Zhang Yue? He managed to upgrade to blue wings in just a morning.
Just as Zhang Yue considered heading back to town for lunch and resuming the grind in the afternoon, a group of people approached from afar.
When Li Li saw their faces, her expression immediately turned pale with fear.
Leading the group was none other than Li Ming and Li Xinhui, the very ones who had driven Li Li and her family out of the Li Clan.
According to Li Li's knowledge, Li Ming and Li Xinhui had progressed beyond the 50th realm long ago.
For them to come all the way down to the 10th realm, it was undoubtedly aimed at her.
Li Li's heart sank,'It's over! It's all over!'
"We've already left the Li Clan. Why can't you just leave us alone?"
As the Level 250, Six-tier Knight Li Ming and Level 250, Six-tier Archer Li Xinhui led their men aggressively toward her, Li Li shouted in despair.
Unexpectedly, in the next second, both Li Ming and Li Xinhui dropped to their knees before her with a loud thud.
"Li'er, please, for the sake of family, spare us!"
"Yes, yes! We were wrong before. We shouldn't have driven you and your father out of the family. It was our mistake! Li'er, please forgive your second uncle."
Li Li was dumbfounded.
She couldn't believe what was happening in front of her.
Suddenly, she recalled what Zhang Yue had said earlier: "Within three hours, I'll have your uncles kneel before you and apologize."
Turning to look at Zhang Yue, she saw him standing nonchalantly to the side, arms crossed, as if none of this had anything to do with him.
It turned out that half an hour earlier, while Li Ming and Li Xinhui were leading a group of Li Clan players to conquer the 58th realm, an elderly Lv. 500, Nine-Tier Heaven-Earth Mage suddenly appeared.
Without warning, the old mage unleashed an SSSSS-level forbidden spell, obliterating their grinding area.
The mage declared that unless they earned the forgiveness of a girl named Li Li, he would wipe out the Li Clan from this realm.
Terrified, Li Ming and Li Xinhui had scrambled to the 10th realm, practically crawling on their knees.
At this moment, Li Li felt a pang of compassion.
But remembering how cruelly Li Ming and Li Xinhui had treated her and her parents, any remaining sympathy vanished instantly.
"Fine. If you voluntarily leave the Li Clan immediately, I'll let you go."
"This…" Li Ming and Li Xinhui exchanged glances. "Li'er, we're still your uncles. Must you be so heartless?"
"An eye for an eye," Li Li said coldly. "You treated me and my parents this way, so I will treat you the same."
Seeing her firm stance, Zhang Yue muttered, "This girl's temper really reminds me of Sister Xuan."
Just as the two uncles were about to plead further, Zhang Yue interrupted, "Is her meaning unclear?"
"You have three seconds to get out of my sight."
The sheer pressure emanating from Zhang Yue left Li Ming and Li Xinhui pale with fright.
The Lv. 500, Nine-Job Heaven-Earth Mage Wolong had said he was merely following orders.
And the one he served? Zhang Yue!
Even without considering Zhang Yue's commanding aura, the fact that a mage of that caliber obeyed him was enough to show his extraordinary identity.
Terrified, Li Ming and Li Xinhui fled in a panic.
Around lunchtime, Li Li received a call from her father.
On the phone, her father, Li Wu, was ecstatic.
He explained that Li Ming and Li Xinhui had voluntarily resigned, leaving the Li Clan leaderless, and the family was now begging Li Wu to return and take charge.
Tears filled Li Li's eyes.
"I can finally… go home!"
———
Meanwhile…
After logging out, Zhang Yue met Wolong, who had arrived in Tianjing, for lunch.
At that moment, Zhang Yue realized that taking in Wolong as a disciple wasn't a bad idea after all.
Just then, Zhang Yue had a question for Wolong.
"Long One, I want to ask you something. Be honest."
Wolong nodded. "What is it, Master?"
"Where is Long Two?"
Wolong fell silent.
After a long pause, he finally said, "After lunch, I'll take you to meet Long Two."
After the meal…
Wolong led Zhang Yue to a location on the outskirts of Tianjing.
It was a cemetery.
At that moment, Zhang Yue felt his heart drop.
Wolong walked into the cemetery and stopped in front of a tombstone.
Facing the gravestone, he spoke in a heavy voice.
"Long Two, I've brought Master to see you."
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