Finally, the entire Canglong Ridge had been cleared out.
There was no need to keep guarding the monsters that would respawn in a short time, since their numbers were far too small.
In front of everyone.
The original Canglong Ridge now looked like a hell on earth. Everywhere you looked, the sky was filled with Abyssal Bone Dragons.
The ground was covered with skeleton soldiers, mixed with banshees.
And countless ancient golems were howling.
At this moment.
Lu Ran also returned, standing before the group.
“What level are you now?” Liu Xinxin asked impatiently.
“Level fifty-three,” Lu Ran said after glancing at his panel.
Hearing this, everyone was astonished.
“Not bad, not bad at all. This efficiency is simply terrifying!”
“You were level fifty-one just now, and now you’re level fifty-three. You gained three levels in one Canglong Ridge?”
“My goodness, a hundredfold experience boost is truly absurdly exaggerated.”
“If you calculate it that way, reaching level sixty before the national war is a piece of cake, isn’t it?”
…
The guild leaders chattered away.
Lu Ran, however, looked a bit confused.
He said casually, “I cleared the entire Canglong Ridge and only gained two levels. This efficiency isn’t that fast, is it?”
Thud!
As soon as he finished speaking, Ye Hongyi gave him a hard knock on the head.
Ye Hongyi seemed to be growing fonder and fonder of this gesture.
“You brat, still not satisfied! Do you know how long it took me, your Sister Hong, to go from level fifty-one to level fifty-three back in the day?” Ye Hongyi asked through gritted teeth.
“A long time?” Lu Ran asked awkwardly.
“Of course! A year and a half! A whole year and a half!” Ye Hongyi said, speechless.
“It took me two years. My farming efficiency was a bit slower,” Liu Xinxin said with a shrug.
“Mine was faster. The Earth Knight dungeon had a huge demand, so I farmed non-stop for about a year,” Lei Tai recalled.
“I think mine was about a year too,” Yu Qingcang added.
This made it easy to understand just how absurd the experience required for level fifty-plus really was.
Even these hidden classes all took over a year to go from level fifty-one to level fifty-three.
And Lu Ran had done it in just this short while—less than half an hour!
Even Nanami smiled bitterly and said, “Back then, it didn’t take me a full year, but it still took me ten months. I was obsessed with leveling, so I did almost nothing but farm except for eating.”
But even so.
Compared to Lu Ran, it was like heaven and earth!
“So, if you dare say your leveling speed is too slow again, I’m going to hit you!” Ye Hongyi waved her fist and said angrily.
It was rare to see Ye Hongyi like this.
Normally, Ye Hongyi exuded charm from the inside out, but at this moment, she actually looked a bit cute.
Lu Ran couldn’t help but stare slightly.
What a unique charm.
“It’s understandable, though. Clearing all of Canglong Ridge with a hundredfold experience boost is equivalent to farming a hundred Canglong Ridges’ worth of monsters in less than half an hour. That efficiency is indeed exaggerated,” Yu Qingcang said with a click of his tongue.
As for Song Chao.
At this point, he was just standing to the side, beaming from ear to ear.
He was completely unsurprised.
Reasonable. Everything was reasonable!
See all those undead creatures covering the mountains and plains of Canglong Ridge? This wasn’t a class holder at all—this was a goddamn immortal!
So, anything that happened to an immortal was absolutely reasonable!
“Alright, let’s start gathering materials now,” Liu Xinxin said to Lu Ran.
Lu Ran nodded. No time to waste—there really was no need to dawdle.
The national war was only a few days away.
Then.
Lu Ran turned to look at Canglong Ridge beside him, at the undead creatures covering the mountains and plains.
With a thought, he instantly recalled all the undead creatures and stored them in the space of the Repairing Universe.
When putting them in, Lu Ran paid special attention.
Because originally, Lu Ran had laid out all the undead creatures flat inside.
But now, with so many Abyssal Bone Dragons added, the space naturally wasn’t enough.
But just as Liu Xinxin said, he just had to stuff them in.
As a result, the Abyssal Bone Dragons occupied part of the space, and some skeleton soldiers had no place to go, so they just hung onto the Abyssal Bone Dragons.
Some skeleton soldiers in the corners were squeezed into twisted postures.
But they had no feelings, and they wouldn’t lose HP from being crowded together.
Even though their postures were twisted, they all looked happy.
Some had even started stacking on top of each other, stuffed in every which way by Lu Ran.
“It works,” Lu Ran nodded.
After confirming that Liu Xinxin’s method was feasible, he felt relieved.
At the same time, he glanced at the large empty spaces still above.
It seemed he needed to find some time to stuff more in there.
When it was full, all the undead creatures combined would form a million-strong undead army!
And this million-strong undead army—an undead army that had been amplified, with a tenfold HP boost—were all Lu Ran’s backing. They could all take and absorb damage for Lu Ran!
That was essentially Lu Ran’s HP bar.
The stacked HP of a million-strong undead army with tenfold amplification—the damage they could absorb for Lu Ran was simply immeasurable!
“Brother Ran, what materials do you need? Just show me, and I’ll help you find them right away,” Song Chao said, rubbing his hands and volunteering eagerly.
His attitude was incredibly enthusiastic.
Lu Ran then took out the blueprint and looked at it.
Since the blueprint now belonged to Lu Ran, the material requirements on it were invisible to others.
After looking for a few seconds.
Lu Ran listed them in order: “Iron Rhino Horn.”
“No need to look for that. The Heavenly Dao Alliance has it,” Yu Qingcang said directly.
“Dragon Whisker Root—what’s that? Need quite a lot,” Lu Ran continued.
“Dragon Whisker Root grows in the southwestern region, plenty near the Mirror Flower Water Moon guild headquarters. As much as you need,” Liu Xinxin chimed in.
These two materials were readily available.
But it also showed that materials in high demand weren’t rare materials to begin with, so they were easy to obtain.
Even if Yu Qingcang and Liu Xinxin didn’t have them, Lu Ran could easily buy them at a very cheap price.
Of course, having them from his own people was even more convenient.
“Let’s find the ones we don’t have first. The rest, we’ll prepare together later,” Liu Xinxin said to Lu Ran.
But Lu Ran had no idea which materials were precious, which were hard to find, and which were available everywhere.
So he continued listing them one by one.
“Meteoric Iron—this wouldn’t come from meteors, would it? This should be hard to find,” Lu Ran analyzed.
“There’s some in the mines. Easy to find. I have plenty. Next,” Lei Tai interjected.
“Uh… then what about this Phantom King Butterfly Wing?” Lu Ran continued asking.
“The Flower Butterfly Valley has them,” Ye Hongyi chimed in.
Flower Butterfly Valley?
Where was that?
