This isn't a souls-like game at all.

"But."

Ye Yiyi changed the subject and looked at Doss with a smile in his eyes.

"You're not the only one in the entire Firebird Kingdom who wants to make progress, right?"

"Gulu!"

The smile on Doss's face froze, and he swallowed a mouthful of saliva with a rolling throat. He nodded repeatedly like a chicken pecking at rice and replied.

"I understand! I understand! I will definitely learn more about the civilization and wisdom of the Empire and introduce more advanced management systems! I will definitely not let you down, sir!"

"I hope you can do it."

Ye Yiyi nodded with a smile.

Looking at Doss who was excitedly going to inspect the convoy, Ye Yiyi silently withdrew his gaze and looked up at the dense forest shrouded in blue mist in the distance.

Now, all that remains is to explore the Crystal Forest.

Soon, the convoy arrived outside the forest and then slowed down.

Ye Yiyi noticed that many people were already waiting in front of the only road leading to the dense forest.

Among them are not only free mercenaries, but also a small team of Fire Crown Knights affiliated with the Fire Sparrow Monastery.

Doss came on horseback and first exchanged a few words with the leader of the knights. Then the caravan, accompanied by mercenaries and a squad of knights, entered the Forest of Ten Thousand Stone Crystals.

Although Ye Yiyi did not join in the fun, the Knight of Fire Crown noticed Ye Yiyi in the wizard's garb, so he took off his helmet and saluted him on horseback as a sign of respect.

Although Ye Yiyi was confused, he still returned the wizard's salute.

He could see that these knights and mercenaries were not here specifically to escort the convoy, so why didn't they go into the forest in advance?

After entering the forest, his doubts were finally answered.

"The visibility in this place is very low."

The mist with twinkling starlight floats in the forest, mysterious and gorgeous, like a nebula suspended in the deep universe, blocking the gaze that explores into the depths.

Clusters of bizarre crystals broke through the moist soil covered with crystalline moss, spreading over the tree roots and the ground, like a bunch of messy and rugged crystal flowers.

In the crystal flower, there are towering sharp crystal columns pointing straight into the sky, some of which penetrate the trees, covering their trunks and branches with a thick layer of crystal bark.

"Urn! Urn!"

Two strange bird calls came from the deep woods, adding a sense of weirdness to this lonely and mysterious forest.

He raised his hand and picked up a strange leaf with a thin layer of crystals attached to it. Ye Yiyi lowered his head to look at the veins of the leaf that had turned dark purple due to the erosion of magic power, then looked around, feeling amazed.

“This place has such a strong sense of fantasy.”

Even if you have seen all kinds of magnificent scenery in games, there are some things that can only be realized by experiencing them in person to see how shocking their beauty is.

"It's worthy of being the place where stars fall. It's so beautiful."

He sighed in his heart, picked up the leaves and prepared to make them into bookmarks to give to the saint.

Unfortunately, the beautiful scene in his eyes was indeed hiding unknown dangers in the eyes of the people around him.

If it weren't for the caravan leading the way, no one would dare to go deep into this forest alone.

Glancing at the Fire Crown Knights who were always on guard, Ye Yiyi suddenly heard a series of sharp knocking sounds coming from deep in the woods.

Trekking along the muddy road under his feet into the depths of the woods, soon an empty camp appeared in front of Ye Yiyi.

There were luxurious tents and wooden fences, and even during the day, there were many blazing braziers.

In the woods next to the camp, guards wearing leather armor and holding whips can be seen patrolling back and forth, whipping them from time to time, supervising a group of half-naked slave workers who are digging crystal columns.

"Good day, my Lord Knight!"

As if hearing the sound of the caravan hurrying on, a middle-aged man in exquisite clothes walked out of the tent and greeted the Fire Crown Knight walking in front with a smile on his face.

The Knight of the Fire Crown nodded expressionlessly as a greeting.

Then the man saw Doss riding behind him, and the smile on his face disappeared immediately. He walked back to the tent with drooping eyes, as if he had not seen him.

The competition is quite fierce, Ye Yiyi thought.

Doss is not the only raw ore processing plant in Bojing Town. On the contrary, there are at least a dozen processing plants of the same size as Doss.

But as the most basic mining work, the processing plant is only responsible for mining the raw ore and rough processing, and then selling it to the Fire Sparrow Monastery and the purchasing office of the merchant stationed in Platinum Crystal Town at a low price.

In addition, the processing plant needs to pay 70% of its sales profits to the Fire Sparrow Monastery as taxes.

With profits so low, and in order to save costs, slaves who over-exploited the raw ore naturally became the factory's best choice.

Before Ye Yiyi came to Bojing Town, all raw ore processing plants did this.

After leaving the camp here, we continued to move forward, passing by the bases of several other processing plants on the way. Half an hour later, we finally arrived at Doss's camp.

"Sir, this is my camp... Would you like to take a break and see the slaves... the workers at work?"

After arranging the staff, Doss came to Ye Yiyi with a flushed face and asked tentatively.

"I won't watch it."

Ye Yiyi shook his head and glanced at the knights and mercenaries who were resting on the road. Although the convoy had arrived at its destination, it seemed that they were planning to go deeper into the forest.

Seeing him looking at him, the Knight of the Fire Crown who was waiting on horseback nodded slightly at him.

Ye Yiyi nodded in response and then asked:

"Where are they going?"

"The knights are preparing to head to the Crystal Outpost deep within."

Doss replied:

"Eight years ago, the Fire Sparrow Monastery established an outpost deep in the forest, hoping to use it as a base to explore the secret ruins in the forest."

"The road we came from, as well as the camps where other processing plants are stationed, were all opened up by the Knights."

"That's it."

Ye Yiyi nodded, "Where are the mercenaries?"

"Oh, them."

Doss laughed contemptuously and shook his head.

"That's a fool who plans to go deep into the forest to search for treasure, hoping to get rich overnight."

"But unfortunately, becoming rich overnight and returning alive conflict with each other. In the more than ten years I've been in Platinum Crystal Town, I've only seen one guy who almost succeeded."

“Almost succeeded?”

Ye Yiyi was slightly stunned.

"It is the strange stone I presented to you last night."

Doss looked around and spoke in a low voice.

"That day I happened to meet him after he had lost too much blood. He was carrying the blue stone with him."

"Oh?"

Ye Yiyi felt the other person's emotions, narrowed his eyes subtly, and asked in a low voice:

"Is it really a coincidence?"

"..."

Doss shuddered all over, his face turned pale, and he suddenly dared not speak.

"This is the last time... Go on, where did you meet?"

Doss trembled and took out his handkerchief, wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and said humbly:

"Go towards the Crystal Outpost. There's a Fire Sparrow statue on the side of the road. Walk east from the statue for a while and you'll arrive..."

By the time Ye Yiyi set out from the camp, the knights and mercenaries were nowhere to be seen.

The information Doss gave him was very important. Since he could find the True Spirit Crystal, it meant that the place was related to the falling of the stars.

If you head in that direction, you might find Xingxing's body.

"What do you think, Xiaoyu?"

Riding Virgil on a deserted road, Ye Yiyi looked at the small fish that stretched out its tentacles from the mist and wrapped around him to absorb Ye Yiyi's energy.

　Qi Lingyan's selfishness? (VII) VII "Puff!"

The little fish shook its tentacles, indicating that it was not optimistic and that this place was a bit weird. It felt a little resistant but didn't know what was weird about it.

"A place where even the stars find it strange?"

Ye Yiyi frowned slightly and turned his head to look at the dung beetle lying on his shoulder, looking up at the sky with its horns raised.

Fine raindrops fell on its colorful silver shell, evaporating silently into water vapor and disappearing.

"Buzz!"

The dung beetle flapped its wings to show that he actually quite liked this place.

"What about Virgiyang_;IX Lingqia (Three) Baqi Yi San Lin Meng`er?"

"Pava~"

Virgil spoke in human language, suddenly lowered his head, picked up a passing crystal beetle in his mouth, and bit it into pieces with a "crunch, crunch" sound.

Then it rolled its eyes and spat out a pile of crystalline debris.

"Pava!"

Well, Virgil thought that the bugs and grass in this place were nutritious but tasted terrible.

"In that case, let's go to the place Nados mentioned first."

After pondering for a moment, Ye Yiyi made a decision.

Following the road forward, Ye Yiyi soon arrived at the fire sparrow stone sculpture that Doss had mentioned.

"Virgil, charge!"

At this point, Ye Yiyi no longer concealed Virgil's peculiar appearance.

A tall horseman with two horns on his head and covered with dragon scales stood up, jumped over the stone sculpture, stepped on the rugged ground covered with crystal clusters as if it were flat ground, and then moved deeper into the cave.

After deviating from the main road, the forest in front of us, shrouded in misty nebulae, immediately became mysterious and deep.

"Russing..."

As if it heard the sound of Virgil's horse hooves, a small four-legged beast hiding under the roots of a tree, its body covered with clusters of sharp crystals in bright colors, seemed to be frightened and fled like a headless fly.

"Linlang Beast?"

Ye Yiyi took a glance and suddenly her eyes lit up.

He took out the Moonlight Spear with his backhand, swung his hand forward, and easily caught the small beast, which was only the size of a cat, in his hand.

"It's time to rely on luck again!"

Looking at the little beast struggling violently in the puppet's hand, Ye Yiyi smiled slightly, and the puppet's hand crushed the little beast's neck.

Soul Echo +118.

"Let's see what kind of gems this beast can produce."

Chapter 495 [Sunk Crystal Turtle Shield] and [Ten Years of Longevity Stone]

The Linlang Gem Beast is a strange creature that feeds on stones.

The item description of [Skill Gems] says that they are sublimated stone life forms that can produce strange gems with special powers on their backs.

In the game, this gem with special powers is an enchanted gem used to qualitatively enhance weapons.

There are many types of enchanted gems, and each has different qualitative changes.

For example, [Skill Gem] can directly improve the skill attribute correction of weapons.

And the [Spirit Fire Gem] that Ye Yiyi had obtained before can give weapons the special effects of "Spirit Fire" and "Cold Fire".

Of course, there are also some gems with special effects that can give special effects similar to passive skills.

For example, the [Fool's Gem] that Ye Yiyi once obtained from the corpse of the Stone Gold Earth Dragon King has the effect of improving all weapon attributes when the player falls into the abnormal states of "Frenzy" and "Prophecy".