Ancient Ark: A Dark-Themed Historical Survival Game

Chapter 144 Harvest and Invitation

When the thousand-headed demon dragon that Zhu Wen had transformed into turned to ashes and dissipated in the air, everyone showed a look of relief.

"It's a success!"

"It really worked!"

"A master is truly a master!"

"An explosive performance as always."

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Jiang Xiaxia shouted excitedly, "Long live God Yu! Long live God Yu!"

Chen Xi was stunned.

It took me a while to realize what was happening.

"This nightmare was so incredibly difficult, I actually participated in it from beginning to end!"

She muttered to herself, seemingly incredulous.

Although the Hope is a team that has experienced an old world, just like the vast differences between Ark teams, the difficulty between different old worlds is also vastly different!

An old day on the Hope.

Nightmare difficulty is extremely low.

Before Chen Xi participated in the "Bloody Bianliang" reclamation operation.

She never imagined that nightmares could be so vast and difficult.

Without the hidden master "Yu Xiao", there would have been absolutely no chance of success in this raid!

even.

It needs to be done twice.

Three trials and errors.

Only the chosen one of the past could possibly complete the pioneering work under the guidance of a great master like Ye Heshan, but the value and significance of this work are greatly diminished!

no doubt.

Under the guidance of the expert.

The chosen one accomplished a miracle.

Chen Xi was fortunate enough to be a witness to and participant in the miracle, which is undoubtedly something to be proud of and full of honor!

"Thank you all for your hard work!"

Xiao Yu nodded slightly in greeting.

Zhou Lie quickly said, "It's not hard at all. What hardship could we possibly have? We were just carried along by the expert."

Lu Chengfeng quickly chimed in, "Yeah, actually I figured it out a long time ago. There's absolutely no need for the top players to include us in this final battle. We're already pretty happy to get a bit of luck from them!"

This is true.

Judging from Xiao Yu's current performance.

Not only is his own combat strength unfathomable, but he also possesses at least two powerful level 11 Heroic Spirits.

One is the purple-clad, nameless flying general, and the other is the red-clad Li Cunxiao; both heroic spirits are in a state of full strength.

Theoretically speaking.

Xiao Yu could use Li Cunxiao to temporarily restrain nearly a hundred skeletal monsters, while he himself joined forces with the nameless hero to fight Zhu Wen.

Although the difficulty and risk have increased, there is theoretically still a good chance of winning.

If it were any other egoist who lacks loyalty and pursues maximum self-interest, they could have simply waited until the pollution among other team members reached its limit and they had no choice but to withdraw before taking action.

In this way...

They can monopolize all the harvest.

The expert could easily do that, and even if they did, others probably wouldn't be able to find much fault with it.

This master not only possesses strength that is no weaker than, or even slightly stronger than, Ye Heshan, but he is also very loyal and principled, and he consistently leads everyone to the peak!

The group's admiration for Xiao Yu had reached its peak.

The nightmare raid was a success.

A total of 400 points of world luck were gained.

This reward is usually split in half between the team leader and the other half among all team members, so everyone gets a share.

They were very satisfied!

For Xiao Yu.

It's just an appetizer.

He immediately activated the Ark Mark and obtained the purple loot orb that had fallen onto the Broken Registration Platform.

[You have collected the following loot: Soul Essence +75904, Zhu Wen's Blood Dragon Jade Seal Fragment +1, Zhu Wen's Heroic Spirit +1, Blue Fortune Stone +2, Purple Heroic Spirit Essence +2, Purple Forging Stone +5, Purple Soul Stone +29!]

Not bad.

Slightly better than expected!

After all, it dropped a named equipment fragment and also a Heroic Spirit.

Zhu Wen's initial highest level was 36.

It belongs to the blue-luck heroic spirits.

Therefore, the luck stone that Zhu Wen obtained could not exceed its own grade unless there were special circumstances, but the essence of heroic spirits could exceed its grade.

The formation of the essence of a Heroic Spirit is related to the Heroic Spirit's rank, strength, and form.

Some Servants with weak luck still have a chance to drop high-level essences as long as their corrupted form is strong enough, although the drop rate and output will be less than those Servants with strong luck and strength.

Zhu Wen's heroic spirit is a decent monarch-type heroic spirit, but its strength is slightly inferior to Wang Yang's Helü.

As for Zhu Wen's Blood Dragon Jade Seal?

This named equipment starts at blue grade, but has a high probability of being upgraded to purple. Its main special effect is that it can significantly enhance the strength of summoned units.

not difficult to see.

The equipment and the quality of the heroes are both decent.

However, neither of the two most valuable spoils of war was suitable for Xiao Yu.

As for the other gains, they mainly consisted of purple soul stones, rare materials, and exotic materials, which were more useful to Xiao Yu.

Chen Xi, Zhou Lie, Lu Chengfeng, and others voluntarily gave up their share of the spoils of war.

of course.

They are willing to give up.

Xiao Yu, however, would not completely withhold it.

After all, the distribution of spoils is a matter of reputation and credibility. If Xiao Yuzhen were to take all the spoils for himself, while there would be little to criticize in terms of merit, it would be unacceptable from the perspective of human relationships.

Xiao Yu is not a true lone wolf but an Ark Lord and a team leader. Therefore, whether for personal principles or for long-term interests, he cannot be a miser.

He then gave two to three-tenths of the total value to the others, and allocated some essence and purple soul stones to the three captains.

As for the members of the Wentian Ship? Xiao Yu gave each of them a considerable amount of essence along with the Blood Dragon Jade Seal equipment fragments.

They're all on our side.

Being generous is fine.

"Thank you so much, expert!"

Chen Xi and the others were overjoyed to have obtained so much soul stone essence and were determined to cling to a powerful backer.

The appetizers are finished.

Now for the main course!

He glanced at Jiang Xiaxia.

The latter understood and stepped forward.

At this moment, a luxurious treasure chest radiating purple light appeared on the scene. This was the ultimate treasure chest obtained after clearing the Nightmare difficulty.

Nightmare chests generally yield higher rewards than those from boss battles. They not only have a chance to drop sets directly related to nightmares, but also various resources, heroes, soul crystals, and more that are not directly related to nightmares.

You've triggered a lucky streak!

The moment Jiang Xiaxia nervously opened the treasure chest, a strange power surged forth and resonated with the chest.

[You have opened a treasure chest. "Zhu Wen's Thousand Skull Demon Sword Fragment" +1, "Bloodbeam Breastplate" +1, "Bloodbeam Magic Bead" +1, "Bloodbeam Spear" +1, "Nameless Tyrant Heroic Spirit" +1, "Soul Weapon: Blood Butcher's War Bow" +1, Purple Heroic Spirit Essence +7, Purple Forging Stone +6, Purple Deep Sea Stone +6, Purple Luck Stone +2, Purple Enlightenment Stone +1, Purple Soul Stone +102!]

Too explosive.

It’s amazing!

That's absolutely outrageous!

Jiang Xiaxia saw the contents of the treasure chest.

He was completely stunned, almost petrified.

If you randomly pick any piece of equipment from the loot and swap it into another Nightmare dungeon, it will become a super rare item that only appears when you're incredibly lucky!

So many at once?

It's simply unbelievable!

Not surprisingly.

This nightmare.

Although there are only two teams.

But it almost reached the pinnacle.

The Chosen Ones, braving the intensity of pioneering, wiped out at least 80-90% of the corrupted in one go, including almost all the major corrupted ones.

Aside from the fact that the first kill of the Corruption in the first scene of the other two storylines is indeed unattainable, there are also the Corruptions from Li Zhen and Ge Congzhou, to the four Blood Beam formations, plus the hidden Corruptions Zhang Quanyi and Wang Yanzhang.

Not a single one was spared!

As for the lesser evils of lower quality, such as the ten turbid ghosts of the White Horse Blood River, plus other historical figures distributed in Blood Beam City.

These lesser-known, lower-quality cases of depravity number nearly two thousand!

So many.

All first kills!

Finally, defeat Zhu Wen.

Its high value is evident!

Such abundant results, combined with the pioneering spirit, the light of luck, and even the combined fortune of Fan Xin, the guardian hero of the Wentian, made up for this.

Although the harvest was so abundant and dazzling, Xiao Yu was not particularly surprised.

Not bad!

Xiao Yu was very satisfied with the densely packed materials and soul stones. With this batch of resources, it would be no problem for him to fully strengthen and upgrade his equipment in a short time!

This is one of the greatest reasons for participating in this Nightmare raid!

After all, there are many ways to earn essence.

However, some high-quality materials, especially rare materials of purple quality or higher, are generally hard to come by and difficult to obtain.

First, categorize the harvest.

First, there's the standard Chosen One equipment.

This includes a fragment of Zhu Wen's luck equipment, plus three pieces of Blood Beam series equipment.

Like the "Zhu Wen's Thousand Skull Demon Sword," the "Zhu Wen's Blood Dragon Jade Seal" is a blue-grade equipment with great potential.

As for Bloodbeam equipment?

These are components of the Bloodbeam Set.

Normally, getting one or two equipment fragments from a dungeon run is already very exciting, but this time, three complete pieces of equipment dropped in one go.

This is the case.

Unheard of!

The Bloodbeam Set consists of six pieces.

It has a "five-piece armor set" plus a "Blood Beam weapon".

The five-piece set is fixed equipment, while the weapons can be combined from three types: magic beads, spears, and war bows, all of which produce the same set effect.

Zhu Wen's Luck Equipment and Blood Beam Set are both excellent equipment, but they are definitely not as good as Wu Zixu's Luck Equipment in Xiao Yu's possession.

Compared to the Bloodbeam Set and the Tide God Set.

Although both are high-quality blue sets, the Bloodbeam set is significantly better than the Tide God set in terms of protection and defense, and is slightly better in terms of attribute bonuses, but there is a slight difference in set skills.

The Bloodbeam Set skill is a berserk skill with a transformation effect. While its practical value is not low, it is far less useful than the Tide God Set's Tidal Arcane.

For Xiao Yu.

More defense is useless.

Because there aren't many beings that can hurt him or even pose a threat to him now, and even if there are, they can't be turned around by a set of protective gear.

The "Tidal Secret Technique" that comes with the Tide God Set has a powerful recovery effect, making it more suitable for Xiao Yu to use.

Therefore, Xiao Yu distributed these pieces of equipment to all the participants, with each of the three captains receiving a piece of Bloodbeam equipment.

Chen Xi was assigned the Blood Beam Pearl.

Zhou Lie was assigned the Bloodbeam Spear.

Lu Chengfeng was assigned the Blood Ribbon Breastplate.

Xiao Yu then distributed the previously obtained Zhu Wen spirit, fragments of Zhu Wen's Thousand Skull Demon Sword, and a small number of soul stones to the Wentian team.

Xia deserves a lot of credit.

Her lucky star played a crucial role.

Therefore, she was given two portions of purple Heroic Spirit Essence.

Zhu Wen's spirit and the Thousand Skull Demon Sword were indeed useless to Xiao Yu, but they were very valuable to the other core members of the Wentian Ship.

As for the purple soulstone?

Although some of it was distributed.

However, other chosen ones rarely use such high-level soul stones for production.

If Xiao Yu needs to use it later, he can buy it back with blue soul stones or other resources. Anyway, it's very convenient since it's his own team.

The rest of the harvest.

All of it came into their hands.

Among them is a blue soul weapon, a purple heroic spirit, plus a huge number of purple soul stones of astonishing value, as well as rare and precious materials!

"I was just wondering where I could get a war bow for Li Cunxiao, and by sheer coincidence, one just dropped out!"

Xiao Yu examined the Blood Butcher's War Bow.

This is a powerful blue soul weapon with very high damage and comes with a passive skill called "Blood Slaughter Power".

Each kill with the war bow will slightly increase your base attack power, up to a maximum increase of 100%!

When Blood Slaughter Power is fully stacked, the excess power can be injected into skills, thereby increasing the power of skills. The maximum increase can be up to 50% for a single skill, not exceeding the blue level.

Among soul weapons of the same grade.

The Blood Butcher's Bow is considered top-tier.

Li Cunxiao was already a formidable fighter, and now that he possesses a powerful war bow, he will be able to play an even greater role in future battles.

This treasure chest also yielded a Heroic Spirit.

[Nameless Tyrant Heroic Spirit], purple quality, a complete heroic spirit of a nameless tyrant, which can be trained up to level 44.

Another nameless purple-robed heroic spirit.

This nameless heroic spirit's aptitude even surpasses that of Flying General (level 42) and Zheng Dan (level 41), making it undoubtedly a high-potential, high-quality heroic spirit.

This heroic spirit is also very useful to Xiao Yu, as it can be used as material to further enhance his nameless heroic spirit!

In addition, the other harvests are all important materials, and their combined value is currently astronomical.

This is the end.

Nightmare Challenge Over.

Although Xiao Yu took the vast majority of the income and resources, the other team members had no complaints and were even grateful.

Their gains were nothing compared to Xiao Yu's, but for them personally, they were so substantial that they could laugh in their dreams.

Each person earned over 100,000 essence points, and all sorts of common materials, rare materials, and equipment were readily available.

I was carried by a pro.

Complete the Nightmare Purification Challenge.

This is undoubtedly another huge gain!

This is not only because it brings honor, reputation, and world fortune, but also because it will directly affect subsequent rewards.

do not forget.

Those destined for greatness can be challenged by large-scale organizations in a nightmare.

Essentially, it was about participating in a large-scale event organized by the joint forces of the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

Everyone has been assigned a task.

The value of participating in the Nightmare Challenge is completely different from that of not participating in it.

Ye Heshan's team was forced to give up the challenge after failing to defeat Zhu Wen, while Xiao Yu's team persevered to the end.

The value is completely different!

Based on this alone.

When the final task is settled.

Every member of Xiao Yu's team will benefit from this.

They will inevitably receive higher task evaluations and more generous rewards as a result.

This is why Chen Xi, Zhou Lie, and Lu Chengfeng were so grateful to Xiao Yu; the three captains didn't really care whether they took a little more or a little less spoils.

As one of the chosen ones who successfully defeated Zhu Wen, they will surely gain the support of local officials and people and obtain many hidden benefits when they return to their respective territories to develop.

A few minutes later.

Xiao Yu led the eight people out of the secret realm.

When the nine figures appeared in the middle of the fortress, the surrounding area was densely packed with Chosen Ones and Ancestral Warriors.

Ye Heshan stood at the forefront of the chosen ones, and when facing Xiao Yu, who was returning in triumph with his entire team, he did not show any jealousy or resentment.

"Well done, Brother Yu Xiao!" Ye Heshan was completely convinced. "I never expected you guys could actually do it; it's truly a remarkable feat!"

Xiao Yu humbly said, "Brother Heshan and everyone else's contributions were also indispensable; otherwise, this nightmare wouldn't have been so easily cleared."

Everyone found it novel.

The two bigwigs did not compete for fame or fortune; instead, they felt a mutual respect and admiration for each other.

Ye Heshan sincerely admired Xiao Yu's achievements, and Xiao Yu also gave Ye Heshan face, acknowledging his important contributions.

The other chosen ones were even more excited.

"Awesome!"

"Yu is awesome."

"You're absolutely my idol!"

"I'm begging for a dungeon guide from an expert!"

Yang Jiye, Guo Chonghai, and other early leaders also stepped forward.

"With the nightmare tsunami about to erupt, every minute and second is precious. You brave warriors, with your wisdom and courage, have overcome all difficulties and dangers to accomplish this feat in one fell swoop. This is truly an extraordinary achievement!"

Guo Chonghai continued, "Yu Xiao, in particular, made outstanding contributions. I will personally report your and Ye Heshan's contributions in this adventure to the Regent of the Tian Ce Prefecture!"

Yang Jiye was also very pleased.

He murmured, "Truly, heroes emerge from among the young; there is hope for this world!"

The blood-stained city of Bianliang was captured in a single battle.

Xiao Yu amazed and won over everyone with his undeniable strength and solid military achievements.

There was no jealousy.

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There is no dispute.

Everyone was very happy.

In fact, for the vast majority of Chosen Ones, or Chosen One teams with relatively large sub-models, the faster the Nightmare dungeon is cleared, the better. What's the fear?

The first priority, of course, is to reduce the threat!

One less scoundrel means one less source of trouble!

During the Nightmare Roar and Nightmare Tide eruptions, the quantity of transformed objects and the pressure on the front lines will decrease.

Secondly, the benefits are undoubtedly greater!

This ancient city had already been visited by a chosen one more than two months ago, but no one had ever challenged the blood-stained Bianliang.

Now that Xiao Yuhuang has successfully cleared the Nightmare Realm, all level 12 Chosen Ones will treat it as a high-level dungeon to farm in the future.

Difficulty and drop rate.

It has been greatly reduced.

Yet the output remains plentiful.

This will become an inexhaustible gold mine, with high-level Chosen Ones continuously producing soul essence, as well as important materials and supplies.

Amidst the joy and celebration, everyone...

"Brother Yu."

Chen Xi, along with several members of the Hope crew, found Yu Xiao. Their faces were filled with trepidation and anticipation.

Xiao Yu asked, "What is it?"

Chen Xi took a deep breath: "I have a difficult request, I don't know if I should make it."

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"Speak freely!"

Xiao Yu already guessed what it was.

Chen Xi exchanged a glance with her subordinates Fang Cheng and Geng Weize, then clenched her fists and made up her mind. She led all her team members in bowing to Xiao Yu.

"On behalf of all members of the Hope Ark, we sincerely hope that Brother Yu will join the Ark and become the sworn enemy of the Hope!"

Xiao Yu asked with interest, "Are you sure you want to give up this position to an outsider like me?"

Chen Xi: "I've thought about this many times. We lack the capability to protect the Hope, so the only way for the Hope to survive is to find a truly powerful leader!"

"As long as Brother Yu nods, I will immediately give up my seat on the ship, and from now on all the crew members of the Hope will do their best to assist you."

Please consider this carefully!

(PS: Let me briefly explain my recent situation.)

The author is not writing books full-time. The last time the book was offered for free, the recommendation effect was very poor. It is feared that the author has joined a short drama company to write books full-time.

This is an erotic industry with really good pay. In my small city, not counting commissions, the monthly base salary alone is equivalent to three times the total income of this book over the past three or four months, plus five social insurances and one housing fund.

That sounds exaggerated.

But in reality, it's only equivalent to the monthly income of the previous few books with an average score of over 4,000. In the end, it's just that this book's performance was too poor.

No matter how well a short drama is written, it's not mine.

I also really dislike sitting in an office writing that kind of brainless nonsense.

However, due to the circumstances of life, this is just a temporary measure, after all, there have been a lot of problems at home in the past two years.

As long as there is a glimmer of hope, I will not give up on this book.

Once this book shows even a slight improvement, I will definitely return to full-time writing. For now, I can only hold on for a while, so please forgive the slow updates.