The wilderness at night was a different world entirely.
Moonlight spilled across the jagged terrain outside Jianghe City, painting the forest in pale silver. The distant cries of monsters echoed between the trees, and the cold wind carried the scent of damp soil and blood.
A shadow moved silently through the darkness.
Lin Yi.
His body flickered like a ghost between trees, [Phantom Void Step] activating again and again as he advanced deeper into the wilderness.
A faint rustling sound ca from the bushes ahead.
Lin Yi stopped.
His eyes sharpened.
The next mont a dark creature leapt from the shadows, its body low to the ground and its jaws snapping viciously.
A system prompt appeared imdiately.
[Demon Dog]
Threat Level: 4
Health: 520 / 520
Physical Attack: 50 – 75
Physical Defense: 60 – 80
Magic Resistance: 45 – 65
[Description: A mutated hunting beast corrupted by demonic energy. These creatures roam the outer wilderness in small packs and possess ferocious bite strength. Though individually weak, they beco extrely dangerous when hunting in groups.]
The creature lunged.
But Lin Yi had already moved.
His hand rested calmly on the hilt of the Abyssfang Blade.
Steel flashed.
SLASH!
The legendary blade cut through the air with terrifying sharpness.
The Demon Dog didn’t even have ti to react, as Its body split cleanly in two before it could land.
The corpse collapsed onto the dirt.
And what followed was a system prompt
[Demon Dog Defeated!]
[Reward: 40 EXP]
[Reward Amplification Triggered]
[1000X Amplification]
[New Experience Gained: 40,000 EXP]
Lin Yi exhaled slowly.
"That makes ten."
The ground around him was littered with the bodies of Demon Dogs.
Ten kills.
Ten monsters erased with almost effortless strikes.
Normally, a level four monster was barely worth hunting for soone above level ten.
But for Lin Yi, things were very different.
Maximum reward. Minimum effort.
His system transford every small hunt into a massive reward.
Ten Demon Dogs.
Only ten monsters.
Yet because of 1000X amplification, those ten kills had already produced 400,000 EXP.
And that absurd amount of experience had pushed Lin Yi forward six entire levels in a single night.
Lin Yi raised his hand slightly, and his familiar panel appeared before his eyes.
....
Host: Lin Yi
Class: Laborer
Rank: E
Level: 28
EXP: 7,000 / 105,000
[Attributes]
Strength: 110
Agility: 74
Constitution: 83
Spirit: 37
Free Attribute Points: 22
[Class Skills]
Titan Grip – Enhances grip strength and weapon stability, allowing the user to control heavier weapons and amplify close combat force.
[Acquired Skills]
Phantom Void Step – A spatial movent technique that allows the user to montarily distort space and perform instantaneous step transitions.
Eternal Spirit Core – A passive spiritual cultivation skill that continuously regenerates spiritual energy over ti while stabilizing the user’s inner energy circulation.
[Equipnt]
Abyssfang Blade
Quality: Legendary
Attack Power: 195
[Inventory]
Abyssfang Blade
Froststeel Hunter Dagger
Windstep Hunter Boots
High Energy Core ×2
Beginner Energy Potion ×3
Academy Survival Kit
Empty Slots: 41
....
Lin Yi studied the panel quietly.
Level twenty-eight.
Even he had to admit the speed was ridiculous.
If anyone at Jianghe Hunter Academy discovered his true level, it would cause an enormous shock.
Even the academy’s strongest freshman genius, Chen Feng, was rumored to only be around level nineteen.
Lin Yi closed the panel.
But just as he was about to continue deeper into the wilderness—
Sothing caught his attention.
A faint glow.
He looked down at the corpse of the last Demon Dog, and saw a small object had fallen beside it.
Lin Yi crouched slightly and picked it up. The small tallic token rested in his palm, as a system prompt appeared.
[Celestial Emperor Abode Token ×1]
Lin Yi blinked.
"Huh?"
That was strange.
He waited.
Normally, when he obtained items, the system’s amplification would activate instantly.
Turning one item into a thousand.
But this ti—
Nothing happened.
No prompt appeared.
No amplification.
The token remained exactly the sa.
Lin Yi frowned slightly.
"That’s odd."
There was sothing even stranger.
Demon Dogs were level four monsters.
In the wilderness, monsters below level five almost never dropped items. Only level five or above had a stable drop rate. Yet this one had dropped sothing.
Lin Yi turned the token over, as another prompt appeared.
[Celestial Emperor Abode Token]
[Use this token to activate the Abode Manor of the Celestial Emperor.]
Lin Yi’s eyes narrowed slightly.
"The Celestial Emperor’s Abode..."
The na sounded familiar.
Then it clicked.
His expression changed slightly.
"Wait... isn’t that..."
A Dungeon Event.
Since the day dinsional rifts descended upon the world, the planet had gradually transford into sothing resembling a massive online ga.
Monsters.
Levels.
Classes.
Equipnt.
Dungeons.
Every year, certain special dungeons appeared across the world.
These were known as Dungeon Events.
One of the most famous among them was the Celestial Emperor’s Abode Manor.
Lin Yi rembered hearing students talk about it before.
This dungeon was not ordinary.
Its difficulty ranking was classified as:
Hazardous.
In this world, dungeon difficulty levels were divided into six tiers.
Normal
Dangerous
Hazardous
Nightmare
Hell
Abyss
The Celestial Emperor’s Abode belonged to the Hazardous tier.
For academy students, that level of dungeon was already extrely dangerous.
Lin Yi looked at the token again.
"But why did it drop here..."
Then another thought appeared in his mind.
A realization.
His eyes widened slightly.
"Wait."
If he held the token...
That ant one thing.
He was the first person to trigger the dungeon event.
And when soone activated a dungeon event first—
They received a special instance privilege.
aning their dungeon run would generate a unique instance separate from the others.
And more importantly—
The drop rate inside that instance would be significantly higher.
Lin Yi’s heartbeat sped up slightly.
"This is huge."
Normally, hunters entering the Celestial Emperor’s Abode would receive rewards based on normal dungeon tables.
At best, they could expect Uncommon gear.
Rare drops were already considered lucky.
But if Lin Yi activated the event using the first token—
Then his instance would have a higher drop tier.
Rare drops would beco common.
Epic gear might appear.
And with his 1000X amplification...
Rare could beco Legendary.
Legendary could beco Mythical.
Lin Yi slowly clenched the token in his hand.
"What luck..."
The wilderness wind rustled through the trees around him. And for a mont, the forest seed unusually quiet.
Lin Yi took a step forward, and ahead of him, between two massive stone formations, a faint circular pattern was visible on the ground. Ancient runes carved directly into the stone.
It was a small altar. And the token in his hand began glowing faintly in response, and Lin Yi raised an eyebrow.
"So that’s where it activates."
The altar pulsed with golden light, as if sothing beneath it had been waiting a long ti to be answered. Lin Yi walked toward it slowly, and the mont he stepped onto the stone platform, the token floated free from his hand on its own. Golden light erupted from the altar, runes igniting one by one across the carved stone, as the ground trembled slightly beneath his feet.
A massive system notification expanded before him.
[Dungeon Event Detected]
[Celestial Emperor’s Abode Manor]
[Activation Requirents Fulfilled]
[Event Triggered — Special Instance Granted]
Then, an ethereal voice resonated across the wilderness, echoing through the air like a decree from the heavens. Every hunter within the radius of the altar heard it clearly, the sound carrying a strange pressure that made even the wind fall silent.
[Lowly world, bow before the Celestial Emperor. Who among you dares enter his abode and seek the treasures within?]
For a brief mont, the wilderness fell into stunned silence.
Then reactions erupted everywhere.
Hunters who had been fighting monsters suddenly froze in place.
So looked around nervously.
Others raised their heads toward the sky.
"What... was that voice?"
"That pressure... was that a dungeon announcent?"
"No... wait!"
A hunter near the outer wilderness suddenly shouted in shock.
"The Celestial Emperor’s Abode!"
Another man’s eyes widened.
"Impossible! That event dungeon only appears once a year!"
"So who activated it?!"
Nearby, a group of hunters exchanged alard looks.
"Who dares activate the Celestial Abode first?"
"Which guild got the token?!"
"No guild announced anything today!"
Soone clenched his weapon tightly, his voice filled with disbelief.
"Damn it... whoever triggered it first just secured the special instance!"
Another hunter cursed loudly.
"That lucky bastard!"
"Quick! Spread the news!"
"The Celestial Emperor’s Abode has opened!"
Then, the air distorted violently around Lin Yi, as golden energy surged through the forest in visible waves, and the altar expanded outward beneath his feet, forming a massive glowing formation that stretched far beyond the stone circle. A towering gate of ancient light rose slowly from the ground, and behind it, an endless palace complex shimred into view.
Ancient.
Grand.
Overflowing with an energy that pressed against the skin like pressure before a storm.
Lin Yi stared at it. His eyes glead slightly.
"...A dungeon."
Not just any dungeon. A Hazardous-tier event instance, one that only surfaced once every year. Lin Yi exhaled slowly. Then he smiled.
"What dangerous luck."
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