The entire nation's people shared one hope, and that was: to use the Resurrection God Stone to resurrect the Asura God.
And for that, countless people put their hopes into action.
Even if the path ahead was rugged, even if the end of the road was death, they would still, for that slim and faint chance of obtaining the Resurrection God Stone, charge forward without hesitation.
This, truly moved people's hearts.
Watching Zhang Yue step into the Death Territory, the three of the Ice Emperor's group also discussed among themselves, "Once we reach the World 88, we can obtain another chance to enter the Gate of Eternity. We need to work hard as well, we can't rely on Zhang Yue alone."
"Mm, now that Zhang Yue has entered the Death Territory, high-level professionals can't enter the Death Territory in lower-level worlds. His safety from here on isn't something we need to worry about. We can go back and continue doing what we're supposed to do!"
With those words, the three immediately withdrew from the World 22.
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[Inside the Death Territory]
The first thing Zhang Yue did upon entering was to immediately search for the location of the Gate of Eternity.
But after entering, he discovered: the location of the Gate of Eternity was not fixed, it was random.
That is to say, under normal circumstances, the Gate of Eternity is hidden.
In accordance with the rules of the World 22, it requires the combined strength of all professionals in the World 22 who are within the Death Territory, to hunt Sin Envoys and accumulate progress value.
Once the progress value reaches 100%, the Gate of Eternity can appear for a full hour.
After an hour, the Gate of Eternity disappears. To open it again, progress must be accumulated from scratch.
The Death Territory of the World 22, like that of other worlds, is filled with countless rare treasures, various high-value secret realms, and hidden dungeons.
But in comparison, for all who come to the World 22's Death Territory, what they care about is basically only the Gate of Eternity.
What treasure could possibly be more tempting and valuable than the Resurrection God Stone?
After all, it's something that can bring dead professionals back to life.
This item, no one dislikes it.
Especially for powerful countries ranking higher in the world; to them, the Resurrection God Stone is even more crucial.
Just like the world's number one, Lighthouse Nation, who used the Resurrection God Stone to resurrect a legendary Tier 9 professional, after which their international status skyrocketed.
The world's number two, Bear Nation. Under the command of Hell Dragon Knight Restiev, there once was a capable general [Ivankov]. His strength rivaled that of Wolong and Hidden Dragon, and he was once called the second strongest professional in Bear Nation.
Unfortunately, he died a few years ago during a beast tide invasion war.
Had the Resurrection God Stone been obtained by Bear Nation instead of Lighthouse Nation, reviving Ivankov might have even raised Bear Nation's international standing above Lighthouse Nation to become number one in the world.
Because of this, the Resurrection God Stone is now under the spotlight globally.
Its market price has already been speculated up to 2 trillion.
What kind of concept is 2 trillion?
Looking at over 200 countries worldwide, at least half of them don't even have more than 1 trillion in national circulating capital.
For strong nations, the Resurrection God Stone is like wings to a tiger.
For weaker nations, a single Resurrection God Stone is enough to completely change the fate of the entire country.
Therefore, professional players from countries around the world are desperately crowding into the Gate of Eternity, risking everything to obtain the Resurrection God Stone.
The activation progress of the Gate of Eternity can be checked in real time.
Zhang Yue took a look and found that the progress bar was currently at 49.21%.
According to online sources: it's been three days since the last opening of the Gate of Eternity in the World 22.
Which means, starting from that last time, it has taken a full three days, using the combined strength of professionals from over 200 countries currently within the World 22's Death Territory, just to push the progress bar to 49.21%.
At this speed, at least three more days would be needed to activate the Gate of Eternity.
"Too slow," Zhang Yue couldn't help but complain.
He couldn't afford to wait that long.
At most, he'd give it three hours.
Without another word, Zhang Yue began his slaughter.
With a quick online search, strategies were easy to find.
According to Zhang Yue's research, within the World 22's Death Territory, the place with the most monsters and highest density was the [Sin Forest].
It's said that there's a beast tide there, and ordinary professionals dare not go near.
"Perfect. Just my style," Targeting the [Sin Forest], Zhang Yue said nothing more and immediately rode the Armageddon Black Dragon toward it.
The Death Territory covered vast lands.
It took Zhang Yue ten minutes of flight to reach the destination.
This area was already near the territory of the Eastern Nation.
So when Zhang Yue arrived, all the professionals from the Eastern Nation farming monsters nearby were so terrified they immediately quit the Death Territory and returned home.
Zhang Yue settled down in the Sin Forest.
The enormous disturbance immediately caused a stir in the forest.
ROAR! ROAR!
From all directions, countless [Sin Envoys] converged toward Zhang Yue's location.
The Sin Envoys here were already level 123.
Watching the Sin Envoy army approach from all sides, Zhang Yue summoned his pet team.
"Next up, it's slaughter time!"
With Zhang Yue's command, several small pets each launched attacks in different directions.
The Armageddon Black Dragon, as usual, used energy cannons for large-scale bombardment, a single energy ball wiping out dozens.
Cherry, Skeleton King, Apex Predator, and Ice-Sealed War God also unleashed their full might, fiercely massacring the Sin Envoys.
Even though his "good sons" performed well, Zhang Yue still had to preserve some strength.
Not time for retirement just yet, Zhang Yue wasn't ready to lie flat so soon.
He simply avoided his pets, found a secluded spot, and farmed alone.
When his AOE skills were ready, he used them for wide-range clearing.
When the AOE skills were on cooldown, Zhang Yue used single-target skills to trigger pursuit effects for pinpoint kills, while also passively accumulating experience for the Ghost Eye.
Once his personal 10,000 points of sin value were cleared, killing Sin Envoys would contribute to reducing the Sin City's sin value.
One Sin Envoy equals minus 1 point of sin value.
The world quest requires eliminating 100,000 points of sin value for Sin City, which means killing 100,000 Sin Envoys.
Normal people couldn't complete this task in less than a month or two.
But Zhang Yue...
["Ding~ You killed Sin Envoy x78, EXP +1.404 billion, Exotic Energy +93.6 billion, Sin City sin value -78!"]
["Ding~ You killed Sin Envoy x95, EXP +1.71 billion, Exotic Energy +114 billion, Sin City sin value -95!"]
["Ding~ You killed Sin Envoy x85, EXP +1.53 billion, Exotic Energy +102 billion, Sin City sin value -85!"]
["Ding..."]
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