"The Tier 3 dungeon gives 300 Lord Essence? I was right!"
Wang Teng had predicted this before. Tier 1 dungeons yielded 100 Lord Essence, Tier 2 dungeons 200, and Tier 3 dungeons were estimated to give 300, definitely not 400.
300 Lord Essence after clearing this dungeon is already quite a lot. After all, there are three Tier 3 dungeons; if he persisted for 365 days a year, he could obtain nearly 330,000 Lord Essence.
Lord Essence is extremely precious; if he used it to add years to his Soul Rings, he could obtain three 100,000-year Soul Rings in a year. Of course, while Wang Teng could add years to his Soul Rings, whether he could handle it was another question.
Wang Teng estimated that he couldn't currently handle 10,000-year Soul Rings; at most, he could add years to two Soul Rings.
Even the Soul King-level Soul Master with the best Soul Ring configuration only has about 20,000 years of Soul Rings combined. Although Wang Teng's physical attributes far surpass those of other Soul Masters of the same level, he hasn't yet reached the Soul King level.
Opening the Lord's Treasure Chest, besides over 200 Gold Soul Coins, Wang Teng also received a piece of equipment—a bronze scythe.
"What's this for?"
Wang Teng was speechless, seeing the bronze scythe as a low-grade Soul Guidance Tool. If it were a sword, it would fetch a decent market price, but scythes are less common.
Fortunately, he could sell it for 150 Gold Soul Coins in the system shop. In Wang Teng's mind, even if he planned to sell Soul Guidance Tools in the future, it would need to be at least a fourth-tier Soul Venerable level to have a market.
After all, Great Soul Masters don't have much income. Even with the low-level Soul Master subsidy from the Spirit Hall, it's only 10 gold soul coins per month, totaling 120 gold soul coins per year. And even high-level Soul Masters need to eat and drink, so they basically can't save any money.
Even if they wanted to hunt Soul Beasts, weaker high-level Soul Masters couldn't defeat a hundred-year-old Soul Beast in a one-on-one fight! Without a Soul Master team, going to the Soul Beast Forest is just suicide.
But at the Soul Venerable level, it's different. Soul Venerable level Soul Masters can receive a subsidy of 1200 gold soul coins annually from the Spirit Hall. If they're quick and efficient, they can earn a considerable fortune in the low-level Soul Beast Forest, perfect for Wang Teng to exploit!
However, because of their Martial Souls, Wang Teng mostly sells Soul Tools to support-type Soul Masters. After all, ordinary Soul Masters only need their Martial Souls for attack; even with Soul Tools, it's just to enrich their attack methods.
Without much thought, Wang Teng headed to the next dungeon—the Venomous Thunder Ruins.
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In the dungeon - Venomous Thunder Ruins, Wang Teng appeared fully armed.
Immediately, he cast two support-type Soul Skills on himself.
"Second Soul Skill, Angel's Blessing."
"First Soul Skill, Weapon's Blessing."
If Wang Teng cast Weapon's Blessing first, the effect would still be a 30% attack increase. But if he cast Angel's Blessing first, and then Weapon's Blessing, the effect would become a 39% attack increase.
"I'm really smart!"
Soon, five blue goblins appeared on the grassy area filled with ruins. Before they could unleash their magic ice spikes, Wang Teng targeted them one by one.
Gathering the loot from the ground, he continued along the grassy path. Suddenly, as he passed a short but seemingly vibrant, unidentified plant, a sharp thorn struck Wang Teng in the groin.
"!!!"
Fortunately, Wang Teng was wearing the Legacy Plate Armor set, otherwise his rear end would have been in serious danger!
"Damn it, I almost lost my chastity!"
Looking at the unknown plant with green roots, red leaves, and pink flowers beside him, Wang Teng felt a pang of sadness. He never expected this seemingly pretty plant to do such a despicable thing.
A surge of anger welled up, and Wang Teng immediately took out the bronze scythe he had previously acquired from his inventory and chopped the plant into eight pieces.
After a long while, his anger subsided slightly. Just then, five small monsters appeared in the distance.
Of course, one of these monsters was quite large. Two ordinary cat demons, two glowing cat demons, and a minotaur.
The glowing cat demons were appearing for the first time; these monsters were similar in size to the other cat demons, only with white skin.
As soon as the five monsters saw Wang Teng, the minotaur roared and immediately led the cat demons to charge.
Raising his Arbiter rifle, Wang Teng unleashed a soul-powered bullet, instantly blasting the minotaur's massive head apart.
"Pah! Useless trash!"
Wang Teng looked down on the minotaur, who was instantly killed by a single soul-powered bullet—a waste of its enormous size. Four more soul-powered bullets followed, striking the four cat demons following behind the minotaur.
Two dark-cursed cat demons and one glowing cat demon died instantly, while the remaining glowing cat demon, only hit in the leg, was severely wounded.
Just as Wang Teng was about to finish it off, he saw the glowing cat demon glow, its leg wound visibly healing.
"??? It even has a healing skill!"
However, even with healing, it was useless, as the glowing cat demon was too weak. A soul-powered bullet finished it off.
Gathering the little cutie on the ground, Wang Teng continued forward, searching for the boss monster.
Not long after, at the edge of the meadow, Wang Teng saw the Lord - Poison Cat King, emanating a pale purple mist.
"Hmm, I can only say it lives up to its reputation as a poisonous cat demon?"
Although he hadn't experienced the pale purple mist emanating from the Lord - Poison Cat King before, Wang Teng knew it was definitely not a good thing; it was most likely poisonous.
The Lord - Poison Cat King wasn't large, about the same size as the Lord - Dark Curse Cat Demon from the previous dungeon - Dark Forest, but its purple skin made it look like a dangerous creature.
Wang Teng ignored the group of minions surrounding the Poison Cat King and directly aimed his Arbiter Rifle at the Poison Cat King.
"Bang!" A soul power bullet accurately hit the Poison Cat King's body, and blood blossomed.
However, with Wang Teng's eyesight, he could still see that the blood flowing from the Poison Cat King in the distance wasn't the normal bright red, but rather a purple poisonous blood.
Clearly, the poison in Lord Poison Cat King's body had penetrated deep into his bones. It could be said that Lord Poison Cat King was completely made of poison.