As soon as Jiang Kai landed, the soil beneath his feet suddenly collapsed, and his whole body fell into the oral cavity of the Gold-Swallowing Bug Beast!
"Damn!" Jiang Kai's mind buzzed.
Just as the Gold-Swallowing Bug Beast closed its mouth and the dense sharp teeth around pressed in, Jiang Kai let out a low shout, "Qi Energy Jewel!"
A perfectly round light sphere formed around Jiang Kai, jamming the mouth of the Gold-Swallowing Bug Beast.
At this moment, Jiang Kai didn't dare to be careless, he was nearly swallowed!
"Quench Fire Pursuer!" Jiang Kai immediately threw out five Pursuers.
The Pursuers passed through the Qi energy protective shield and directly shot at the inner walls of the Gold-Swallowing Bug Beast's mouth.
The first four Pursuers embedded into the mouth wall, immediately igniting effects. The fifth one directly hit a critical point, penetrating the body of the Gold-Swallowing Bug Beast.
With a boom, this Gold-Swallowing Bug Beast exploded from the inside, and the remaining body parts were ignited by flames, emitting a burnt smell.
[Congratulations on killing a 16-year-old Gold-Swallowing Bug Beast, gained 640 experience points.]
[Corpse damaged, unable to obtain corpse, obtained 1 Gold-Swallowing Bug Beast stomach sac.]
"Stomach sac?" Jiang Kai stared as a card formed from a part of the remaining body of the Gold-Swallowing Bug Beast.
"Kinda gross… oh well, it's still loot, can't waste it!" Jiang Kai put away the card into his card pouch.
This kill allowed Jiang Kai to discover a method to kill Gold-Swallowing Bug Beasts.
The weakness of the Qi energy shield is a specific point being attacked, what it fears least is wide-range evenly distributed attacks.
And the dense teeth of the Gold-Swallowing Bug Beast happened to disperse its biting force, making it harder to break through the Qi energy shield.
Once inside the body of the Gold-Swallowing Bug Beast, Jiang Kai could eliminate it with no pressure.
Thinking of this, Jiang Kai simply stood in place.
Boom, a second Gold-Swallowing Bug Beast burst from the ground, swallowing Jiang Kai along with his shield.
"Nice timing!" Jiang Kai flung out Pursuers, creating a grilled exploding meat worm…
Seizing the second stomach sac, Jiang Kai remarked, "Disgusting as it is, it's quite easy to kill."
For the time being, Jiang Kai kept being swallowed and kept jumping out.
Originally, there were only 40-50 Gold-Swallowing Bug Beasts here, but the sound of battle attracted more and more. Jiang Kai never managed to completely wipe them out.
Just as Luo Ping said, the number of beasts in the unknown area was terrifying. Even after more than an hour, Gold-Swallowing Bug Beasts kept flooding in!
"The ground's been turned over several times already…" Jiang Kai sighed helplessly.
After killing more than thirty Gold-Swallowing Bug Beasts, Jiang Kai's Qi energy shield was finally bitten through.
However, Jiang Kai had developed a new tactic.
He controlled Yama Order and Light God Order to rotate around him.
When the Gold-Swallowing Bug Beast swallowed him, he immediately expanded the two main god cards outward, using ignition and high-explosive properties to instantly kill the beast!
The exterior of the Gold-Swallowing Bug Beast was hard to penetrate, but the interior was much more fragile. Once Jiang Kai landed a critical hit, it was easy to finish it off.
After discovering this new tactic, Jiang Kai suddenly realized that as long as he controlled the two main god cards, he didn't need to do anything else—just wait for the beasts to die miserably.
"Suddenly these bugs seem kinda cute…" Jiang Kai sat on the ground, waiting for the next Gold-Swallowing Bug Beast to come eat him.
Saying that, Jiang Kai looked up at the sky, but his vision went dark again—he got swallowed again.
But after only a second or two, flames lit up the surroundings, and Jiang Kai's vision returned to normal.
That bug exploded again.
"It's getting dark." Jiang Kai shook his head, stood up, and casually picked up the stomach sac.
He opened his card pouch and checked. He had already picked up more than fifty stomach sacs and had even leveled up twice.
"Not many bugs left. Haven't seen one in a while. Oh well, I'm a bit tired too. I'll come back tomorrow."
...
Walking alone through the dark forest, Jiang Kai suddenly missed Old Hu and Ruan Yu a lot. With them around, he never felt lonely.
Speaking of which, when preparing supplies this time, he had specifically exchanged a few bottles of wine from the guild warehouse. Probably Ruan Yu had stocked them.
"What secret mission are Zhuzi and Nuannuan on exactly…" Jiang Kai was also a bit worried about Yuan Zhu and Nuannuan. "Their relationship better not be progressing too fast, I should still have a chance to intercept!"
Without Ruan Yu to organize the camp, Jiang Kai could only find a spot by the stream to set up camp and boil water to cook.
Following the method in the Gourmet's Cookbook, Jiang Kai found his cooking actually tasted decent.
When Big Bro wasn't home before, he used to cook for Yingzi, so he had the basic skills. With the gourmet recipe as a guide, cooking a proper meal wasn't too hard.
After eating and drinking his fill, Jiang Kai came to the stream and took out a stomach sac to wash.
"Ugh~" Jiang Kai gagged as he took things out from the stomach sac.
"Is that… ore? Ugh~"
Inside the Gold-Swallowing Bug Beast's stomach, Jiang Kai actually found ore of pretty good quality. Although not much, the quality was excellent—almost all translucent crystals!
"Gold-Swallowing Bug Beasts often move underground, they must swallow ore. The rough stuff probably got digested, leaving behind the premium stuff! Ugh…"
Ore had always been Jiang Kai's main source of income, and this quality was especially rare, so he had to grit his teeth and process the stomach sacs.
After handling over a hundred stomach sacs, Jiang Kai suddenly found a glass tube in one of them.
As soon as he saw the glass tube, Jiang Kai's eyes widened.
"Job change material?" He quickly took out an appraisal card to identify it.
[Tier-4 Beggar job change material.]
"For real? A little mob actually dropped a complete material? I don't think Beggar has had a Tier-4 before!"
After the price of Drunkard materials soared, Beggar materials became the cheapest. This one probably wouldn't fetch a high price.
But still, it was a full job change material—and one that hadn't appeared before.
Besides, if Beggar job change material can drop, maybe other ones can too!
"Didn't expect that—Gold-Swallowing Bug Beast stomach sacs can drop this kind of treasure!"
With this realization, Jiang Kai got even more motivated.
He tied a cloth strip around his nose, rolled up his sleeves, and kept searching.
"God's Tear? There's even God's Tear! Oh right, my Divine Might Jewel hasn't been upgraded yet!"
Last time, time was tight. After getting the God's Tear in Fairy Trace Forest, he rushed to participate in the gambling tournament and didn't upgrade the Divine Might Jewel to Tier-2!
Thinking of this, Jiang Kai took out the Divine Might Jewel.
He placed the newly acquired God's Tear onto it. Upon contact, the God's Tear transformed from crystal to liquid and began nourishing the Divine Might Jewel.
The Divine Might Jewel emitted a faint silver glow, seemingly absorbing the energy of the God's Tear.
"One drop isn't enough to cover it all. Looks like I'll need at least five." Jiang Kai took out four more God's Tears from his card pouch and dropped them onto the Divine Might Jewel.
These God's Tears turned to liquid and flowed along the jewel's grooves, filling them completely.
"Might take some time." Jiang Kai placed the Divine Might Jewel nearby and continued cleaning stomach sacs.
"This one is… a ring? Let's identify it."
[Tyrant's Seal, Tier-4 Grade-1 accessory. Strength +113, Agility +42, Critical Rate +5%.]
Jiang Kai's jaw dropped—he actually found a premium ring in a Gold-Swallowing Bug's stomach!
In the current profession system, there are only five ways to increase critical rate:
Talent, skill, offensive weapon, ring, necklace.
The first two are rare, weapons currently top out at 15% crit, rings at 6%, necklaces at 5%.
And this ring of Jiang Kai's grants 5% crit rate—just one percent short of the best, already extremely rare.
The only downside is it requires Tier-4 to activate.
"I really wanna reach Tier-4 now!"
After washing Gold-Swallowing Bug stomachs for half a day, Jiang Kai not only got a bunch of premium ores, but also obtained a full Tier-4 Beggar job change material, a premium ring, four Tier-4 equipment items—a massive windfall beyond expectations!
"This map's a goldmine!" Jiang Kai exclaimed.
When Jiang Kai turned around, he found the Divine Might Jewel had already finished upgrading.
He checked its attributes.
The Divine Might Jewel could now purify Tier-4 mental negative effects and provided 15 minutes of immunity to one purified negative effect.
Besides that, the Tier-2 Divine Might Aura gained a new ability:
[Divine Might Aura can absorb owned items. Absorbed items retain attributes and special effects.]
Jiang Kai furrowed his brows, not quite understanding this new ability.
"Absorb items…" Thinking for a bit, Jiang Kai directly activated the Divine Might Aura.
A halo appeared above Jiang Kai's head…
"Get down here!" Jiang Kai said grimly.
The Divine Might Aura lowered to Jiang Kai's chest.
Jiang Kai took out Pursuers, attaching ten of them to the aura, which began to spin with them.
"This…" Jiang Kai's eyes widened. Had he just created a "Blade Armor" himself?
"Wait a second—putting the weapons on like this, they don't deal damage!" Jiang Kai removed the Pursuers and slammed one into the aura's track.
"Absorb!" Jiang Kai said lowly. The Pursuer didn't fly off, but got absorbed onto the outer ring of the Divine Might Aura.
After testing, the Pursuers did carry Jiang Kai's attack attributes!
If Pursuers lost their attack attribute after hitting, as long as Jiang Kai recalled and re-inserted them into the Divine Might Aura, they regained his attack stats!
"This is amazing! With this, fighting bugs is even safer and more efficient!" Jiang Kai exclaimed excitedly.
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