Chapter 1 Entering the Ancient World

After entering the teleportation gate, Nie Yan felt as if he were drifting in the river of history. Countless historical scenes flashed through his mind, and a great deal of knowledge was instilled into his brain.

In that instant, Nie Yan felt his realm was different. Standing at the height of history, overlooking the earth and its inhabitants, he felt a kind of transcendence.

When a player’s body could withstand it, the main AI could input knowledge into the player's mind. This was the most advanced technology of Faith.

He didn't know how long it took, but Nie Yan regained consciousness. When he opened his eyes, he was shocked by what he saw.

He was standing on a mountainside. Looking ahead, he saw an endless, dense jungle that stretched as far as the eye could see. It was as if he had arrived in the land of giants. Every tree here was very tall, reaching dozens of yards high, giving a sense of being shrouded from the sky. Most of the creatures flying in the sky were large beings like dragons.

Winged dragons and other creatures flew in the sky, much larger than Nie Yan's Darkwing Dragon in his pet space.

Was this the ancient world? Nie Yan was full of curiosity about this world. He wondered where he should go to complete the Saint Shadow Dancer's job-change quest.

He guessed there should be quest guidance after reaching certain trigger conditions.

Nie Yan checked his condition to see if there was anything different from usual. He found that the Golden Earth Dragon in his pet space could not be summoned. The system's reason was that the creature's grade was too low to enter the ancient world. He could summon the Darkwing Dragon, but summoning the Darkwing Dragon would be suicide. Any creature flying in the sky was much stronger than the Darkwing Dragon. Summoning the Darkwing Dragon would only make it a target for those large creatures.

In addition to the pets, random teleport scrolls and return scrolls could not be used. Nie Yan郁闷 (yù mèn, depressed) to discover that all the random teleport scrolls and return scrolls in his bag had turned into waste paper. The magic runes on them slowly disappeared, and he could no longer feel a trace of magic.

These random teleport scrolls and return scrolls had all become blank paper. Nie Yan felt a pang of heartache. The return scrolls were fine, because they were very cheap. The most important thing was the random teleport scrolls. He had prepared more than twenty random teleport scrolls, fearing he would stay in the ancient world for too long. But now, all the random teleport scrolls were useless.

If it were an ordinary player, they would probably vomit blood. For Nie Yan, it was not unbearable.

Nie Yan found that many magic-related items could not be used, especially scrolls. The loss was the most severe. He wondered if they could be restored after he left.

It seemed that this world had its own laws. Everything outside the laws could not be used.

It was time to start exploring this new world. Nie Yan gripped his dagger. Once he decided to do something, he had to do it to the best of his ability. This was Nie Yan's principle in this life. As a reborn person, it would be a failure if he could not stand at the top.

Nie Yan entered stealth and swept away into the distance.

The jungle was full of towering trees, like huge umbrellas, blocking the sunlight. The ground was covered with lush green grass. The space in the jungle was quite open. After walking through it for a few minutes, the ground shook violently.

Nie Yan's expression changed. It must be some kind of large creature coming. He quickly hid behind a large tree.

Looking in the direction of the sound, a huge earth dragon appeared in his view. This earth dragon was like a giant lizard, more than two yards high, covered with silver-gray scales. Every step it took gave a feeling of an earthquake.

Were these the kind of monsters that spawned in the ancient world?

Nie Yan cast a Detect on the earth dragon.

Flame Earth Dragon: Fifth Order.

Fifth order? Was it like flying mounts, where they were rated by order?

Looking at its health, it was not much, only about 70,000, but looking at the scales covering the earth dragon's body, they glowed with a metallic luster. He estimated its defense must be very high.

Nie Yan hesitated. Should he deal with this Flame Earth Dragon?

After thinking about it, it would be better to find a weaker monster to test it out. There should be other creatures of lower rank here. He only had one chance in the ancient world. If he died, he would say goodbye to the Saint Shadow Dance forever. Without random teleport scrolls or anything like that, Nie Yan was very careful.

Nie Yan's Darkwing Dragon was a sixth-order creature. Its health and everything were slightly higher than the Flame Earth Dragon. Its combat power was terrifying. Therefore, he could not use the old way of looking at things to measure the strength of these creatures.

He carefully avoided the Flame Earth Dragon and swept away to the other side.

After traveling through the jungle for a few minutes, Nie Yan came to an open space in the jungle. He was about to continue forward when he suddenly noticed three red small grasses growing at the foot of several large trees, all of them as red as blood, like burning flames.

Red Dragon Grass!

Nie Yan's heart trembled. There was actually such a thing here.

Nie Yan still had a little understanding of Red Dragon Grass, because its reputation was too great. Ordinary players could never afford it. In his previous life, when he was over level 160, he heard that a top-level team had obtained two Red Dragon Grasses, sold them to a grandmaster-level pharmacist, and exchanged them for five bottles of Crimson Flame Potions. Crimson Flame Potion could greatly increase the spell damage of fire mages. One bottle of Crimson Flame Potion had been sold for as much as 60,000 gold coins. Under normal circumstances, high-level items like Crimson Flame Potion were only exchanged and not sold. Their value was immeasurable.

Grandmaster-level pharmacists could use Red Dragon Grass to make highly poisonous potions. Red Dragon Grass was one of the best raw materials for grandmaster-level pharmacists to increase their skill proficiency. After becoming a grandmaster-level pharmacist, it was very difficult to gain even a little skill proficiency, so Red Dragon Grass became even more precious.

These Red Dragon Grasses grew on the ground like weeds. There were actually three of them.

It was a pity that his gathering skill level was very low. This was the most depressing thing.

Nie Yan walked towards these Red Dragon Grasses, bent down, squatted down, and reached out to pick them.

System: Gathering skill level is not enough, unable to gather.

As expected, Nie Yan was annoyed. This kind of thing grew here. Wasn't it just tempting people!

Since he couldn't gather them, he could only give up. Nie Yan walked forward dejectedly. After walking through the jungle for more than ten minutes, in addition to the Red Dragon Grass, he also saw a lot of good things. Large pieces of ore covered with Crimson Flame Crystals were just abandoned in the middle of the jungle. Five or six black snake trees, the best wood for making staffs, grew together.

If these things were put outside, they would definitely cause countless guilds to fight for them, but they were just abandoned in this jungle.

Nie Yan regretted it so much that his intestines turned green. He knew he should have practiced his gathering skills before coming here.