Become the strongest in the world of gods through game experience

A hint of guilt flashed in the mixed-breed cat's eyes, and it immediately covered its eyes with its paws, as if not seeing meant it hadn't done it.

"Alright, stop pretending to be asleep. Tell me where you've hidden all the treasures here?"

Zhang Xiaoyuan tapped the scruffy cat on the head and asked.

"Hmph, you two-legged beast, I never thought you'd ever have to beg me. Call me 'Great King,' kneel down and submit to me, and I'll... Ouch, what are you doing?!"

The scraggly cat cried out in pain, clutched its head, and its eyes welled up with tears as a large bump rapidly swelled up on its head.

“Speak like a human being,” Zhang Xiaoyuan said coldly.

"There's no treasure here. Even monsters rarely get into this place, maybe two or three at a time. I had to lure them in with great difficulty, and they died after only a few days. There's nothing good here at all."

The mixed-breed cat pursed its lips, looking very disgusted.

"It shouldn't be."

Zhang Xiaoyuan frowned. According to the usual game rules, clearing a level should always yield a treasure. Could the treasure here be those white mists?

Or was it the scruffy cat in his hand?

After thinking for a moment, Zhang Xiaoyuan walked into the area where the white mist had once existed and observed it carefully, but found nothing unusual about it.

"I'm asking you, how was that white mist produced?"

Zhang Xiaoyuan finally looked at the scraggly cat. Rather than searching blindly, she decided to use the Great Memory Restoration Technique on this scraggly cat that lived in the white mist.

A moment later, a cat's pitiful scream rang out.

"Ah—stop! Don't hit me anymore! I remember now! I remember now!"

The mixed-breed cat's rear end turned bright red, its tongue lolling out, as if it were about to lose consciousness at any moment.

"Waaaaah, my butt is numb."

The scruffy cat cried loudly, but when it saw Zhang Xiaoyuan raise her hand again, it opened its mouth wide and blurted out all the information it knew.

"Oh? You mean, this white mist rises from the ground every now and then? And it's accompanied by a white liquid that makes you smarter if you take it?"

Zhang Xiaoyuan asked, surprised that the white mist was produced in this way.

“That’s right. The white mist appears every seven days, and there are still two and a half days until the next appearance. If you don’t believe me, you can wait here, and you’ll see it then.” The scruffy cat pouted.

"Could there be something extraordinary underground?"

Zhang Xiaoyuan frowned, but this was a swamp, and digging was impossible.

"Oh dear, how could I have forgotten about that?"

Zhang Xiaoyuan slapped the scruffy cat's butt, ignoring its screams, and emitted earth and blue light from her body.

The skills 【Earth Guardian】 and 【Heart of the Ocean】 are perfect for this swampy environment. One allows you to walk through soil and rocks, while the other allows you to breathe freely in water.

puff!

With both skills activated simultaneously, Zhang Xiaoyuan's body gradually sank into the swamp. The mud couldn't touch him at all, and the air was very fresh, causing no discomfort.

"Is this what the bottom of the swamp is like? This is the first time I've ever seen it."

The scraggly cat also came underground thanks to Zhang Xiaoyuan.

"That is……"

After descending to a depth of 500 meters, Zhang Xiaoyuan felt a little uncomfortable. Just as he was hesitating whether to continue diving, a white light appeared in his sight.

The blinding white light was somewhat dazzling. After Zhang Xiaoyuan took some time to adjust, she discovered that it was a white sphere containing a monster's skull, several hundred meters in diameter, radiating a pure white light.

The white light was soft, hazy, and mysterious. After just a few minutes of exposure, Zhang Xiaoyuan felt much more comfortable in her mind.

White mist swirled around the skull, and occasionally it spilled out, drifting upwards along the cracks in the earth.

Zhang Xiaoyuan knew that this was the white mist he had absorbed.

Skeletons cursed by the gods will be forever trapped in a land of despair, devoid of life, with no chance of survival.

This is one of the few materials that DataPad 2.0 cannot recognize.

However, Zhang Xiaoyuan quickly realized that any being that could be cursed by a god must be either a demigod or a god-level magical beast.

Just then, the cat hair in the backpack stirred restlessly, floated out, and trembled as it drifted toward the skull.

Unfortunately, the skull was surrounded by a layer of white light, preventing anything from getting close.

"Come back here, and don't cause any trouble!"

Zhang Xiaoyuan grabbed the calico cat's fur, no longer giving it a chance to cause trouble.

If he were to attract some powerful being again, such as some scoundrel like the elven statue taking over his body, he would have nowhere to turn for help.

"It's a pity, we can only look at it, not absorb it."

Zhang Xiaoyuan clicked his tongue in regret. If he could absorb all this white mist, his baleful energy points would probably exceed 100,000, making it easy to deal with level 100 magical beasts.

Zhang Xiaoyuan also saw the white liquid the calico cat had mentioned, and it was turning into atomized white mist. She guessed that it was white mist crystallization, which possessed some kind of energy that could enhance the soul, which was why the calico cat had such a high intelligence level.

"Ugh!"

With a heavy sigh, Zhang Xiaoyuan turned and headed towards the ground without looking back.

"Hey, you're leaving already? There's still a lot of white liquid in there, isn't that the treasure you wanted?" the scruffy cat asked suspiciously.

Children should mind their own business.

Zhang Xiaoyuan flicked the scruffy cat on the head and rudely stuffed it into her coat pocket.

"Just because you can't take it now doesn't mean you can't take it later."

Zhang Xiaoyuan opened the map and marked the location.

The map shows this place as pitch black. Compared to the Elf City he once lit up, it is at least twenty Wind Plains away from the Elf City.

The distance from the Wind Plains to the Elf City is at least eight thousand kilometers.

"What exactly are the elves trying to do by teleporting the contestants to such a distant place?"

Zhang Xiaoyuan couldn't have imagined that from the very first round of the competition, there would be no audience.

Since there are no spectators, how can the elves demonstrate the strength of their young generation to other races, and how can they show their friendly relations with humans?

In retrospect, this competition seems more like a selection process.

Boom boom!

Just as Zhang Xiaoyuan was pondering, a loud roar suddenly came from afar.

"Dude, run! A huge group of corrosive monsters is chasing us!"

Zhang Xiaoyuan turned her head and saw that it was a human contestant, and behind him, hundreds of corrosive monsters were chasing after him.

"What did you do?"

Zhang Xiaoyuan was speechless. This human contestant must have done something that would enrage even the beast gods.

For example, they defiled the mother beast goddess in their hearts.

"Sigh, don't even mention it. They just took a few things from an altar. Look how stingy they are."

The human athlete kept talking, but his footwork didn't slow down.

Zhang Xiaoyuan originally intended to obtain the evil energy points, but upon hearing that the human had taken something, she immediately became interested.

"Dude, you run first, I'll keep your stuff safe for you."