Chapter 335: The Mysterious Guidance of the Jade Stone
Survive for three hours in the temple without dying.
For the vast majority of ordinary players without any background, this task was too difficult—simply impossible.
At this moment, a six-person team from the Hell Shadow Clan joined forces to kill two Temple Guardians.
Taking advantage of the time before their revival, the team quickly retreated, only to be blocked by another pair of Temple Guardians.
Just as they turned around, the two Temple Guardians they had just killed revived.
Four Level-86 Temple Guardians surrounded them, front and back, plunging the team into despair.
"This godforsaken mission is just way too hard!"
"No matter where we hide, they can always find us. And even if we kill them, they revive. How are we even supposed to play like this?"
The four Temple Guardians charged in with an overwhelming aura.
"Those who defy the will of the Sovereign, die!"
With spears in hand, they rushed toward the player team.
Just as the team was preparing for a desperate fight...
SWISH! SWISH! SWISH! SWISH!
Several black shadows darted through the four Temple Guardians at lightning speed.
In an instant, all four Temple Guardians collapsed to the ground.
The team stared in shock at the shadows, which were split off from the Spectral Predators.
The two shadows remained stationed there, waiting for the Temple Guardians to revive so they could strike them down again.
There was no other choice—Zhang Yue's speed at killing monsters was simply too fast. The Temple Guardians, with their 10-second respawn time, couldn't even keep up.
He had to "borrow" other people's monsters instead.
From beginning to end, Zhang Yue found it strange: the Temple Guardians never actively attacked him.
Even when Zhang Yue initiated attacks against them, they didn't retaliate.
It was as if they held some sort of reverence for Zhang Yue.
And it wasn't just him.
For everyone else nearby, the Temple Guardians were ruthless and relentless.
What was going on here?
While Zhang Yue was pondering this mystery, a sudden commotion reached his ears.
Before long, a large number of NPCs began pouring into the temple from all directions.
NPCs from the four major Hell clans—the Hell Shadow Clan, the Hell Demon Clan, the Hell Ghost Clan, and the Hell God Clan—flooded the temple. Even the leaders of the four clans—the Shadow King, Demon King, Ghost King, and God King—had personally arrived.
The sheer scale of this operation stunned all the players currently undertaking missions in the temple.
"What's going on here? Why are the leaders of all four clans gathered here?"
"Wow! I've been in the World 15 for a month, and I've never seen anything like this. Heck, our Hell Shadow Clan leader, the Shadow King, has never even left Shadow City."
While the players discussed in astonishment, the NPC guards, under the command of the four leaders, began searching the temple.
The Jade Seal took precedence over everything else.
Whoever obtained the Jade Seal would become the new "Sovereign" of the Hell Dynasty.
Zhang Yue couldn't help but feel intrigued.
"To mobilize the leaders of all four clans at once—could it be that the Jade Seal really is in this temple?"
Zhang Yue's interest grew.
After all, his goal was to find the Jade Seal and use it to save the Hell Spirit Clan and Cherry.
If the Jade Seal ultimately fell into the hands of the four clan leaders, Zhang Yue wouldn't hesitate to snatch it from them.
Even if it meant becoming enemies with all four clans and the entire Hell Dynasty.
Based on what Zhang Yue knew, the four clan leaders were all god-level bosses.
If necessary, Zhang Yue was confident he could take them all down simultaneously.
Zhang Yue continued hunting Temple Guardians while keeping an eye out for any signs of the Jade Seal within the temple.
But after three hours, neither Zhang Yue nor the four clans found any trace of the Jade Seal.
The clans even began suspecting each other.
"Could the intel be false?"
"The Jade Stone's detection ability is absolutely precise. Besides, all four clans' Jade Stones pointed to the temple. The Jade Seal must be here."
"Keep searching. We can't let the other three clans get their hands on it."
As for Zhang Yue—
After three hours, a notification sounded in his ear.
[Ding~ Congratulations on completing the mission [Trace the Jade Seal]. Please submit the mission]
He checked the time. It was already 11 p.m.
Zhang Yue didn't feel like wasting more time here. He decided to head back and turn in the mission before logging off to sleep.
Let the four clans continue searching for the Jade Seal. Once they found it, Zhang Yue would just take it from them.
With that thought, Zhang Yue left the temple.
Returning to Ghost City, he found the Ghost Guard Captain who had issued the mission and turned it in.
[Ding~ Congratulations on completing the mission [Trace the Jade Seal]. Rewards: EXP +1.8 billion, Anomalous Energy +120 billion, Gold Coins +300, Equipment [Void Robe], Hell Ghost Clan Contribution Points +80]
WHOOSH!
Golden light rained down as Zhang Yue leveled up to 81.
As for the 12-star Void Armor he received as a mission reward, it was useless to Zhang Yue, who already had a full set of 13-star Transcendent equipment. He directly used it as upgrade fodder.
Killing monsters also granted contribution points, but the drop rate was abysmally low.
Zhang Yue had killed thousands of Temple Guardians in the temple and only earned 35 contribution points. Adding the 80 points from the mission reward, he was still a long way from completing the world mission.
"I'll leave it for tomorrow. I'll continue the mission then."
With that thought, Zhang Yue logged off.
Meanwhile, in the residences of the four clan leaders, all the Jade Stones suddenly emitted a dazzling light...
———
Elsewhere, the clans continued their exhaustive search of the temple.
At that moment, the Ghost King of the Hell Ghost Clan received a report from his subordinates in Ghost City: "My Lord, the Jade Stone signal... has disappeared!"
"What? Disappeared?"
At the same time, the other three leaders—the Demon King, Shadow King, and God King—received similar reports.
The location of the Jade Seal had inexplicably vanished after being indicated in the temple by the Jade Stones.
With no other options, the four clans began withdrawing from the temple one after another.
———
The next morning, Zhang Yue logged in.
The first thing he did was gather information about last night's events in the temple from Ghost Clan NPCs in the city.
"There's no Jade Seal. It was just a dream. Our Ghost Clan and the other three clans searched the temple all night, and then the Jade Stone's guidance just disappeared."
Hearing this, Zhang Yue felt a bit disappointed.
Oh well, he thought, it's a long-term goal anyway.
Finding the Jade Seal right after entering the World 15 was unrealistic to begin with.
Zhang Yue wandered around Ghost City for a while and eventually accepted a mission from a Ghost Clan guard to kill Temple Guardians.
The mission's target: the Fallen Temple.
Just as he was about to leave the city, a few familiar figures came into view.
Three young players, seemingly under twenty years old, stood before him.
A long-haired warrior with a Japanese aesthetic: Crimson Chain.
A buzz-cut assassin: Nightshade.
And finally, a gentle, delicate cleric girl who exuded a soft and pitiful aura: Sakura. [T/N: She's the most suspicious at the moment]
These were the same three players Zhang Yue had rescued yesterday in the Fourteenth World from Eastern players.
Zhang Yue was slightly surprised at first. He didn't expect them to have also entered the World 15, let alone chosen the Hell Ghost Clan.
The buzz-cut assassin greeted him with a wave. "Hey, Zero God! You're in the Ghost Clan too?"
Zhang Yue replied casually, "Aren't you guys here just to find me?"
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