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

"Judgment of Hell!"

As Huan Cheng approached the Corrupting Tree Demon, he immediately unleashed a Judgment.

-9000

A terrifying damage number floated over the tree spirit's head; with a 10% reduction in all attributes, the boss's health bar had already dropped by one-tenth before the battle even began.

Seizing the precious 3-second forced stun time, Huan Cheng launched the Wind Slash and Heavy Strike skills.

-794, -920, -1046, -1303

Immediately afterwards, he followed up with three more basic attacks.

-621, -587, -1278

The third strike triggers true damage that ignores defense.

One combo attack took away nearly seven thousand of the tree spirit's lives.

"Around 600 defense, we can take it down!" Huan Cheng breathed a sigh of relief after roughly judging the tree demon's defense based on the damage dealt.

However, Huan Cheng's good luck ended there. He broke free from the 3-second strong control and the Corrosive Tree Demon began to fight back.

Seven or eight vines attacked from both sides simultaneously.

Four of them, like snakes, precisely wrapped around his legs and arms, attempting to bind him to the spot, while the rest lashed him wildly.

Huan Cheng exerted a little force, and the seemingly unbreakable vine was easily broken free. He rolled on the spot to avoid the whipping, and then delivered a heavy blow to the tree demon.

"Ding! You have been attacked by the Corrosive Treant's skill [Vine Binding], but you are immune to the binding effect."

It's obvious that the ability to break free from the restraints is due to the special effects of the Abyss Body.

With a regeneration rate of 600 per second, the Treant's health bar slowly but steadily increased.

"snort!"

With a cold snort, he strode forward to the tree demon, unleashing the power of darkness as he slashed at it.

-178, -165, -175...

Under the influence of the Breath of Darkness, the treant's movements suddenly faltered, and its life regeneration rate plummeted.

The tree demon slammed its two arms into the ground, causing the earth to tremble. Huan Cheng remained unmoved, enduring hundreds of points of tremor damage per second, exchanging blows with the tree demon face to face.

"Ding! You have been attacked by the Corrosive Treant's skill [Earthquake]. You are immune to the stun effect of this skill."

Upon hearing the system notification, Huan Cheng suddenly realized why the Tree Demon's skill's power and damage were disproportionate; it turned out the core of the skill was a group stun.

Unfortunately, he is completely immune to dizziness, so this skill is mostly useless against him.

With the blessing of the Dark Breath, the Treant's already low movement speed was reduced by another 30%, making it almost as if it were frozen in place.

Huan Cheng endured the pain of being whipped by the vines and gritted his teeth as he launched a fierce attack.

A few minutes later, even with 600 health points regenerated per second, the Treant's health bar had been reduced by more than half.

"puff!"

Just as Huan Cheng was pressing on, intending to take down the bronze BOSS in one fell swoop, the tree demon's body trembled, and the rotten hole on its body suddenly grew larger. A mass of dark green slime exploded like a rain of pear blossoms, splattering poison everywhere.

The incident happened suddenly and at such close range that Huan Cheng was unable to dodge and was sprayed with venom.

"Ding! You have been attacked by the Corrosive Treant's skill [Corrosive Poison Spray]. You are immune to 50% of poison damage. You have taken 1800 damage. You are immune to the slow effect of the skill."

"How disgusting!"

The poison spray didn't do much damage to Huan Cheng's health, but it disgusted him.

The sticky, dark green liquid was plastered all over his body, and he felt like he was about to explode!

"Go to hell!"

Enraged, he disregarded the pain and stopped dodging the vine attacks. The Ripper's Blade danced with afterimages, its blade light enveloping the tree spirit, and damage numbers kept appearing.

No matter how the tree demon resisted its attacks, Huan Cheng remained unmoved, gritting his teeth and enduring the pain as he hacked away furiously.

During this time, the tree spirit also used a healing skill, forcibly extracting the life force of the surrounding plants to restore 30% of its own life.

However, it was all in vain; in its rage, this life drain only allowed it to hold on for a little longer.

With a powerful strike that triggered true damage, the Treant's health bar was emptied, and its massive body crashed to the ground.

"Ding! You have defeated the level 17 Bronze BOSS [Corrosive Treant], gaining 80000 experience points and 20 reputation points."

As the system notification sounded, Huan Cheng's anger subsided slightly, and he collapsed to the ground like a deflated balloon.

After just a few minutes of intense activity, their clothes were soaked with sweat, as if they had been pulled out of the water.

After resting for two minutes and recovering to about 70-80%, Huan Cheng got up and checked the fallen Corrosive Tree Demon.

Due to the influence of the Heavenly Sin, even though it was likely the first kill of a level 17 bronze BOSS, it only dropped three items.

A necklace, a piece of rattan armor, and a skill book.

[Jade Life Necklace]: Level 17, Bronze Grade, +380 HP, +50 Poison Resistance, +25 HP Regeneration per Second. Additional Attributes: +18 Constitution, Additional Effect: Life Protection

[Life Guardian]: When damaged, there is a 20% chance to recover 50% of the damage as health, with a maximum recovery of 2000 points per instance.

Equipment requirements: Level 10 or above for all classes.

"Great stuff, too bad I can't use it."

After reading the description of the jade necklace's attributes, Huan Cheng first exclaimed in admiration, then tossed it into his backpack.

He has endless regeneration, so these recovery-type equipment are completely useless to him.

It's a bit of a shame that Life Guardian has a 2000-point recovery cap; otherwise, this effect alone would make this item usable in the late game, and it could easily sell for millions.

Immediately afterwards, Huan Cheng chuckled self-deprecatingly. If there were no upper limit, the grade of this equipment would be far more than just bronze.

Shaking his head, Huan Cheng moved on to the next item.

[Ancient Wooden Armor]: Level 17, Bronze Grade. HP +400, Physical Defense +135, Magic Defense +80. Additional Attributes: Stamina +20, Strength +10. Special Effect: Thick Hide.

[Thick Skin]: Reduces physical damage taken by 5%.

Equipment requirements: Warrior class of level 10 or above, with a strength of more than 60 points.

"Great, great! Finally, something that suits me!"

Huan Cheng was overjoyed and immediately selected the equipment.

[Corrosive Spray Skill Book]: An ancient scroll recording the secrets of poison mist. Using it will grant you the skill Corrosive Spray. Learning Requirements: Level 10 or above mage class, Intelligence greater than 60, Poison Resistance greater than 50.

【Corrosive Spray】: D-rank skill, consumes 40 mana, sprays poison mist, dealing 60% spell power area-of-effect poison damage to enemies in a fan-shaped area within 6 meters in front. Cooldown: 40 seconds.

"Not bad, an area-of-effect attack skill, and a poison attack that's quite rare in the early game. It should sell for a good price!"

Huan Cheng happily put the skill book into his backpack.

He opened the attribute panel and found that the experience bar was already one-third full, which made him even happier.

"I'll farm more bosses in the future. This tenfold experience penalty from the Lord of the Abyss doesn't seem so bad after all!" Huan Cheng pondered silently, looking at the 8 experience points contributed by the Corrosive Tree Demon.

Bronze-level bosses give a hundred times more experience than regular monsters of the same level.

Under normal circumstances, it usually takes a group of more than a dozen elite players of the same level to defeat a bronze-level boss. Even with a hundredfold experience, with so many people sharing it, each person doesn't actually get much.

However, Huan Cheng took an unconventional approach, monopolizing the BOSS experience by himself, which seemed a bit excessive.