Beating Instances through Words Left by the Dead

Among the players searching for scattered individuals to team up, two of them had invitation numbers within a thousand, but they didn’t reveal the contents of their invitations and were even deliberately avoiding the topic.

It seems that being ranked within a thousand marks a threshold. Players ranked in the top thousand receive preferential treatment from the rules, while those ranked beyond a thousand see no change in their conditions.

Outside the topic of the World Dungeon, many are also discussing the shifts in power within the Desolate Realm after this qualification dungeon.

The most notable change is Cold Mountain pushing aside the original first place, ascending to the top of the combat ranking.

Wu Chang opened the combat ranking and found that besides Cold Mountain, the other players had varying degrees of improvement, showing that they gained considerable benefits in the Steam Phantom Dungeon.

The death of Phantom, alongside his own improvement, brought Divine Tongue to the eighth position, making him the only player from a minor faction within the top ten of the combat ranking.

Killing Intent Fluctuation’s ranking also rose to 22, just shy of entering the ranks of ranked players.

However, in terms of improvement, Sword Star saw the greatest leap, rising directly from forty-ninth to thirty-fifth place.

In the Steam Phantom Dungeon, Sword Star was constantly on the back foot, even pushed to a desperate state when facing the Executioner. Overcoming the headwinds and desperate situations brought him significant growth.

As the so-called Desperate War God, such a Sword Cultivator grows as long as he overcomes desperate situations. The method of overcoming these situations is not important.

Before leaving the tavern in the plaza area, Wu Chang heard an intelligence that caught his attention.

More than one player reported encountering some unheard-of but astonishingly powerful players in the qualification dungeon.

They must be players secretly nurtured by major organizations, either with strong attributes and professions or possessing unimaginable talents.

Talking about this topic resonated with many players who survived the qualification dungeon.

A man dressed like a Spartan Warrior, bare-chested, wearing black tight shorts and a red cloak, felt this most strongly.

Wu Chang had an impression of this Spartan, not because of his outfit, but because he had just shown his World Dungeon invitation with the number 8753.

The Spartan took a big gulp of beer and began to speak:

"I bet none of the weirdos you encountered are as bizarre as the guy I ran into. If anyone can find someone stranger than him, I’ll cover all the bar tabs from today until the World Dungeon."

Hearing this opening, the curiosity of everyone in the bar was immediately piqued, urging him to continue.

The Spartan paused for a moment and began to speak:

"I encountered a teammate who called himself Xiaoyuan. Initially, when we acted together, he was like a rookie, fumbling with everything. In terms of combat power, he was completely on a different level from the rest of us."

"If it weren’t for the fact that we were assigned to a multiplayer cooperation type of dungeon, we would have likely abandoned him long ago."

"At first, we all thought he was a waste, but past the initial skirmish phase, once we entered the city and entered the infiltration stage, his special ability began to shine."

"That guy seemed to have some sort of magic over the females of the dungeon plane; after just a brief conversation, he could make them deeply devoted without even having to unbutton his shirt."

"All eight of us were wanted by the forces within the dungeon, yet even so, he was able to easily find women willing to help us."

"After entering the city, all our food, clothing, and shelter, including the hideouts to conceal our tracks, were borrowed by him from local women."

Upon hearing this, everyone else showed surprise and curiosity, except for Wu Chang, whose expression became bizarre.

Could the Xiaoyuan mentioned by the Spartan be Fang Hui?

The Spartan continued:

"In the mainline task we completed, we needed to assassinate a female BOSS. That BOSS was not only powerful but also constantly guarded by many escorts, rarely isolated."

"We conducted reconnaissance for a week without finding a breakthrough until Xiaoyuan made his move."

"He merely chatted with the female BOSS at a banquet for a few sentences, and she was deeply attracted to him, sending all the guards away to be alone with him. We took this opportunity to outnumber her and barely managed to eliminate the BOSS."

The Xiaoyuan in the Spartan’s story indeed had strange abilities, but eccentric individuals are hardly lacking among the players in the Desolate Realm.

Someone immediately ordered two bottles of good wine, then stood on the table, shouting that they wanted the Spartan to bleed heavily today.

The Spartan waved his hand, signaling them to sit down.

"What’s the rush? I haven’t finished yet. If it were just this level, then at best, he’d be an Innate Niu Lang Saint Body, which wouldn’t surprise me so much."

"After we dealt with the female BOSS and followed the quest prompts, with the help of the plane’s natives, we found the hidden BOSS."

"That guy’s strength absolutely exceeded the C-Level dungeon’s limit, taking on all eight of us without even a minute passing, knocking us all down. Three of us were killed on the spot, without even a chance to escape."

"That guy was a man, not within Xiaoyuan’s ability range. Just when we had given up and resigned to die, a burst of powder light flickered in front of us, and suddenly Xiaoyuan transformed into a woman."

The crowd in the bar simultaneously showed question marks on their faces, no, buddy, is this okay?

Directly using a beauty strategy against a female BOSS, and then a gender transformation to use a beauty strategy against a male BOSS?

The Spartan saw that everyone was getting the wrong idea and explained: