The buff is permanent, and you start the game with a fountain of water.

"Huh, something exploded again?"

After a solo kill two levels above me, the stingy system finally gave me a break and dropped a lot of loot.

【Green Grass Ring】: Plain, Physical Attack +1, Poison Resistance +1, Wearing Requirements: None.

【Green Snake Wristband】: Plain, HP +10, Physical Defense +1, Wearing Requirements: None.

The two pieces of equipment were of very low quality, but Huan Cheng could use them right now, so he quickly chose which ones to equip.

In addition to the equipment, there was also a bottle of potion.

[Miniature Health Potion]: Restores 10 health points per second for 8 seconds. Cooldown: 20 seconds.

"Rubbish!"

With a smirk, Huan Cheng tossed the recovery potion into his backpack to gather dust.

With [Endless Regeneration], he will never need recovery potions in his lifetime.

There were three copper coins left.

In the Divine Realm, there are three types of currency: gold, silver, and copper. The exchange rate is 1 gold = 100 silver = 10000 copper.

After putting away the three commemorative copper coins, Huan Cheng chuckled and turned to rush towards another small green snake.

Presumably due to his ability to solo kill opponents of higher levels, Huan Cheng had a very high drop rate for the Little Green Snake.

When the fourth small green snake was killed, another green snake soft bow was given to him.

【Green Snake Short Bow】: Basic, Physical Attack +3, Attack has a 10% chance to inflict 3 points of poison damage, No requirements for wearing it.

After frowning and staring at it for a while, Huan Cheng put the Green Serpent Shortbow into his backpack.

In a conventional sense, magic-based attacks have a lower frequency than physical attacks, and among physical attackers, warriors and assassins have the highest attack speed.

The Green Serpent Shortbow is not as powerful as the Rusty Iron Sword, but its ranged attack is an advantage, not to mention the chance to inflict poison damage.

However, these things were meaningless to Huan Cheng.

He's not afraid of losing health, and his ranged attacks have a low frequency and weak damage, so the rusty iron sword is more practical.

The Green Serpent Short Bow, which was considered a top-tier item by other players, was thus relegated to the sidelines by Huan Cheng.

After another ten minutes or so, just as the level 2 experience bar was about to be full, a green snake that was much thicker than an ordinary green snake suddenly appeared not far from Huan Cheng.

Cast a detection spell over there.

【Little Green Snake - Elite】

Rating: 4

Life: 600

Attack: 48

Defense: 14

Skill: Venomous Fang Bite

【Venomous Fang Bite】: Normal attacks inflict a slight poison that lasts for 10 seconds, causing 10 health points to be lost per second. This status effect can be stacked, up to a maximum of 3 stacks.

"An elite monster?"

Upon seeing the attribute description, Huan Cheng immediately became interested.

In the Divine Realm, monsters are divided into three categories: ordinary, elite, and lord.

There's no need to elaborate on ordinary monsters; those who died at Huan Cheng's hands before all count as ordinary monsters.

Elite monsters are further divided into one-star, two-star, and three-star monsters. They are not much different from ordinary monsters in terms of mechanics and skills, but their attributes such as health, attack, and defense are greatly enhanced.

Finally, there is the boss monster, which is the BOSS in the usual sense.

The lowest level of BOSS is Bronze, and the highest level is Godlike, which corresponds exactly to the equipment level.

According to official information, elite monsters can drop black iron equipment.

By combining the hidden mechanism that increases drop rates when fighting monsters of higher levels and soloing, you have a high chance of getting black iron equipment if you can kill this green snake!

Swallowing hard, Huan Cheng seized the opportunity and thrust his rusty longsword at the snake's vital spot.

-46

It seems that even Lady Luck was captivated by Huan Cheng's handsomeness, as his first attack successfully landed a critical hit!

The green snake bit back, taking away 33 points of his health and simultaneously inflicting a poisoned state that causes him to lose 10 points of health per second.

Ignoring the green snake's counterattack, Huan Cheng continued to slash and stab at the snake's body.

A dozen seconds later, Huan Cheng's body was covered in three layers of snake venom, and his rate of health loss increased to 30 points per second.

In addition, the green snake's occasional biting attacks cause an average health loss of nearly 50 points per second.

After Huan Cheng equipped the Green Serpent Bracers, his health was 220. The [Endless Recovery] skill provided 44 health points per second, which was slightly lower than the rate at which he lost health.

After exchanging blows with the elite Green Serpent for another ten seconds, Huan Cheng noticed that his health had dropped by about half. He then jumped back to escape the Green Serpent's attack.

The green snake flicked its tongue and slid towards him.

Huan Cheng kept circling around, engaging in a battle of wits with the green snake.

Seven seconds later, the last layer of snake venom dissipated, and Huan Cheng's health points were already fully restored.

I glanced up at the green snake; its health bar was less than half full!

"Snake demon, I need your help in my cultivation!"

With a strange laugh, Huan Cheng charged forward again, sword in hand.

……

"Ding! You have killed a level 4 elite little green snake, gaining 50 experience points."

"Ding! Congratulations on leveling up! All attributes +1, free attribute points +5, maximum health +50."

Accompanied by a pleasant system notification, Huan Cheng exhaled a breath of stale air, his face revealing the compassion of a monk who had successfully completed his spiritual practice.

He ran over excitedly, and Huan Cheng looked down to check what had fallen.

【Snake Fang Sword】: Black Iron grade, Physical Attack +10, Strength +1, Agility +1, Attacks deal an additional 3 points of poison damage, Wearing requirements: None.

【Azure Serpent Scale Armor】: Black Iron grade, HP +50, Physical Defense +5, Additional Attribute: Constitution +2, Wearing Requirements: None.

[Green Snake Leggings]: Basic level, HP +10, Physical Defense +1, Wearing requirements: None.

Just as Huan Cheng had predicted, the elite little green snake not only dropped two pieces of black iron equipment.

In addition to the three pieces of equipment mentioned above, there are also one silver and eight copper coins, as well as three miniature recovery potions.

After equipping the Green Serpent Sword, Green Serpent Scale Armor, and Green Serpent Leggings, and allocating the 5 free attribute points gained from the upgrade proportionally, Huan Cheng's attributes received a significant boost.

Name: Chengfeng

Level: 3 (Experience: 4/840)

Occupation: Not changed jobs

Talent: Eternal Imprint (Already inscribed with [Endless Rebirth])

Health: 430

Mana: 45

Physical attack: 50

Spell Power: 8

Physical defense: 24

Spell Defense: 16

Movement speed: 9.18

Attributes: Strength 13, Constitution 13, Agility 10, Spirit 7, Intelligence 7

The Wind Chaser's base attack is 50 points. When equipped with the Serpent Fang Sword, it adds 10 points of damage from critical strikes, dealing 60 points of physical damage and 3 points of poison damage each time.

A level 4 green snake has only 8 points of defense and 380 health. All things considered, it takes seven or eight sword strikes to kill a green snake.

Huan Cheng smiled smugly, picked up his newly acquired Snake Fang Sword, and charged towards the little green snake without hesitation.

A moment later, a small green snake fell to the ground under the snake-tooth sword.

"Ding! You have killed a level 4 Green Snake, gaining 18 experience points."

"18 experience points? That's such a big drop?"

At level 2, killing a small green snake gives 22 experience points. At level 3, although you can still kill monsters of a higher level, you only get 18 experience points, a decrease of one-quarter.

Despite the reduced experience gained from killing monsters, Huan Cheng did not change locations.

The little green snake is one of the lower-level level 4 monsters in terms of health and defense; using other level 4 monsters would only be more inefficient.

Although with his current strength, it wouldn't be impossible for him to challenge a level 5 monster.

However, the little green snake can be dealt with in just over ten seconds, while a level 5 monster would probably take a minute. All things considered, the little green snake is still the most cost-effective.

After a period of intense fighting, dozens of small green snakes contributed several pieces of equipment, including green snake boots, green snake hats, and green snake belts.

Perhaps due to the type of monster, the equipment dropped by the little green snake is more or less related to poison resistance or poison damage.

Unfortunately, Huan Cheng never encountered a second elite monster, which greatly displeased him, as he was determined to collect a complete set of black iron equipment.

After delivering a powerful blow to eliminate a small green snake, Huan Cheng was enveloped in a flash of golden light and successfully leveled up to level 4.

"Ding! Your understanding of the skill [Heavy Strike] has improved. This F-rank skill can be upgraded to an E-rank skill. Please choose your upgrade path!"

"Skills can be upgraded?!" Surprised, Huan Cheng quickly opened the system panel.