Here, Go Ahead and Hit It!

Just then, Little Nora and Fang Qinghao came out of the villa. Spotting Yu Xian walking over with Niman, Little Nora cried out in pleasant surprise, "Sister Niman!" Even as she shouted, she shot forward like a little golden cannonball, rushing right up to Niman and hugging her leg tightly. Niman bent down, amused, and patted Little Nora on the head. Only after quite a while did Little Nora let go of Niman, clamoring to throw a banquet. "Let's wait a little longer before having the banquet," Niman said with a smile, stroking Little Nora's head. "Everyone moves at different paces, but it shouldn't take too long. Everyone should be able to teleport over sometime today. We can hold the banquet then so everyone can enjoy themselves." Hearing that everyone was coming, Little Nora nodded happily in agreement and decided to postpone the banquet until evening. Still, she clapped her hands right after, and a vast spread of food appeared. A banquet might have to wait, but breakfast was still a must. A few minutes later. Yu Xian and the others sat in a row before a large rectangular table. Just beyond the other side of the table was the railing, offering a clear view of Jiangli City ahead. As they ate breakfast, they discussed all kinds of intelligence regarding the Zhen Realm. Niman had watched Yu Xian's livestream the day before, so she naturally knew his strength had far outpaced theirs. Consequently, she did most of the talking, sharing what she had been up to and passing along the information she had gathered. "You mean there's an item that can increase enhancement success rates?" Yu Xian asked, catching a piece of news he had been eager to hear as he listened. Niman nodded. "High-grade secret realms can drop [Enhancement Lucky Talismans]. However, the difficulty is exceptionally high, and the drop rate is minuscule, so very few people know about it. I only found out because I'm a Divine Script Kotodama Master, which granted me access to an NPC's private library." There were many NPCs throughout the Zhen Realm, and they possessed plenty of private property. Certain special classes found it much easier to befriend these NPCs or trigger hidden quests from them, reaping various benefits. Although Niman hadn't triggered any hidden quests, her status as a Divine Script Kotodama Master made the NPC view her as a learned scholar and treat her with exceptional deference. Thus, she obtained permission to enter his private library, allowing her to look up a wealth of hidden information. "In that case, we need to get our hands on more Secret Realm Teleportation Talismans," Yu Xian said with a nod after hearing her out. In truth, he had been keeping an eye on the auction house for Secret Realm Teleportation Talismans, but no more had appeared. As a result, he was down to his last two; once they were used, that would be it. Moreover, before using a Secret Realm Teleportation Talisman, there was no telling whether it led to a high-grade or low-grade secret realm. It was purely a matter of luck. Yet for that very reason, obtaining an Enhancement Lucky Talisman was exceptionally difficult. Noon arrived. Just as Yu Xian and Niman had expected, Zhang Shou, Huangquan, Nora, and the others teleported over one after another. In fact, Huangquan had been the very first to receive Yu Xian's deposited funds. However, a batch of her cooking ingredients wasn't set to mature until around eleven, so she had waited until they ripened, harvested and packed them, before choosing to teleport over. Otherwise, she would have arrived even earlier than Niman, since she had never left the city and had been busy tending vegetables in Dragon Shadow City on the Rain Continent the whole time. It wasn't until eight in the evening that Gong Qian and Shui Yuetian showed up, looking disheveled and covered in grime. The moment they saw Yu Xian and the others, they poured out their grievances. The two of them had the lowest levels and the weakest strength, yet they had endured the most hardships—a verified certified tragedy. That night, everyone gathered for the banquet. To liven up the mood, Yu Xian summoned forty to fifty thousand summoned beasts in one go. The class-holders throughout Jiangli City trembled in terror. Some class-holders who had abandoned the event returned, only to see the entire city surrounded by summoned beasts, and nearly fled for their lives on the spot. Only after learning they were Yu Xian's summons did those people crawl back into the city—mostly because their legs had gone completely weak and they genuinely couldn't stand. The next day. When Yu Xian woke up, he had gained more than a dozen [Talent Trait Enhancement Stones]. He put the enhanced beast into his backpack, then pulled Nora into an embrace for a kiss, forcibly "booting up" the dormant Nora. After fooling around playfully for quite a while, they finally left the room together and headed down to the main hall, where Zhang Shou and the others were already eating breakfast and discussing joining the event. Their main reason for taking part was that the event's final rewards guaranteed experience points. With the resources Yu Xian provided, they might not need the other rewards, but more experience was always welcome. Yu Xian sat down and, seeing that everyone wanted to participate in the event, smiled. "Then let's go together. It just so happens I know the locations of quite a few Great Dao True Beasts." With that, he ordered the Astral Black Tortoise to advance toward one of the locations of the Great Dao True Beasts. The main issue was that he currently didn't have many commander-type summoned beasts. Even when scout summons located a Great Dao True Beast, they had to wait their turn to attack it. Some Great Dao True Beasts that had not yet been found by class-holders—and whose turn had not yet come to be dealt with by Yu Xian's summons—were simply wandering near their spawn points, waiting for someone fortunate enough to stumble upon them. Leading the fifty thousand summons Yu Xian had called forth the night before, the Astral Black Tortoise departed Jiangli City in grand fashion, marching toward their destination. It was an utterly astonishing sight. Class-holders they encountered along the way turned tail and ran in terror, every one of them wishing their parents had given them two extra legs. Some faint-hearted class-holders even rolled their eyes back and fainted dead away at the sight of the dense, black legion of monsters. "Salty Fish, isn't our convoy a bit too much of a spectacle?" Zhang Shou couldn't help remarking as he watched a distant class-holder sprinting like a desperate wolf of war, dragging two unconscious teammates by their hands, carrying an unconscious female teammate on his back, and hoisting another teammate over his shoulder. Yu Xian lay on a lounge chair sipping a drink, completely missing the "desperate wolf of war" in the distance. "What spectacle?" he asked in confusion. "Never mind. Forget I said anything," Zhang Shou replied, not bothering to explain. A few minutes later, the Astral Black Tortoise arrived before a massive crater. The fifty thousand summons spread out immediately, surrounding the crater. Down in the crater, the Great Dao True Beast let out an enraged roar at the Astral Black Tortoise, then charged valiantly toward it a moment later. Then, the Astral Black Tortoise's front paw stretched out pliantly, catching the leaping Great Dao True Beast in its grip before slowly bringing it over to the front of the platform. The Great Dao True Beast struggled frantically in the tortoise's claw, but could not break free in the slightest. After all, the disparity in their stats was simply too immense, as was the difference in size, strength, and defense. It was like being pinned beneath a mountain; how could it possibly move? "Here, go ahead and hit it," Yu Xian said to the group from his lounge chair, looking at the Great Dao True Beast held some twenty meters away from the railing. "..." Everyone present fell silent. In their minds, participating in the event meant mingling among Yu Xian's summons and steadily dishing out damage to the Great Dao True Beast. Yet the reality was that Yu Xian's summon had simply grabbed a Great Dao True Beast and held it out for them to beat on as they pleased. "The gap between people really is too huge," Gong Qian took out a talisman and flicked it forward; it turned into a fireball and struck the Great Dao True Beast without even scratching its hide, prompting her complaint. A monster she couldn't scratch in the least was nothing more than a plaything in Yu Xian's hands.