Soon, one Dark Servant after another fell to the ground. Nie Yan and the golden earth dragon followed behind, the golden earth dragon spewing mouthfuls of dragon breath. The scorching flames blasted onto the Dark Servants, killing them one by one.

*Ding dong*, a crisp system prompt sounded.

The golden earth dragon leveled up!

Nie Yan checked the golden earth dragon's level; it had reached level eighty-nine.

Due to its extraordinary talent, the golden earth dragon became outrageously powerful as its level increased. The stats it gained with each level were several times greater than those of ordinary pets. This was the benefit of high growth.

The ground was littered with the corpses of Dark Servants. Watching Lafus withstand the attacks of dozens of Dark Servants, charging and slaughtering all the way, Nie Yan was also shocked. Lafus held the front, while the golden earth dragon provided long-range fire support from behind. Their partnership was quite tacit, requiring nothing from Nie Yan; the Dark Servants in front were harvested in swathes.

Nie Yan walked forward. The bodies of these Dark Servants lying on the ground were enveloped in white light, turning into ashes and disappearing without a trace.

Nie Yan's purification aura could purify the corpses of these Dark Servants, accumulating holy power. When the accumulated quantity reached a certain level, he could obtain the Holy Spirit Heart and unlock the seal of the Sword of Zennard.

This task was one of the most important main quests in Nie Yan's quest bar, so he naturally wouldn't forget it. He glanced at the task progress; his purification count had already reached over one hundred and ten thousand, accumulated from his usual monster-grinding.

Lafus charged all the way. Perhaps the commotion was a bit too great, as more and more Dark Servants gathered towards them, reaching several hundred. The golden earth dragon chanted a series of spells, summoning a scorching meteor that crashed down on the group of Dark Servants.

With a deafening boom, the area within a radius of thirty yards was engulfed in flames.

The Dark Servants in the blazing flames emitted screams as they fell to the ground.

Suddenly, a beam of white light landed on Nie Yan. He felt something strange on his left arm. Looking down, he saw a white Holy Light Mark had appeared on his arm. This Holy Light Mark resembled an ancient totem, composed of various symbols and patterns, looking very mysterious.

System: You have obtained the Holy Spirit Mark.

The attributes of this Holy Spirit Mark were unknown, but it should be related to the Holy Spirit Heart quest.

He glanced at his own status and discovered that he had advanced from Novice Demon Hunter to Intermediate Demon Hunter.

The Intermediate Demon Hunter had one more state than the Novice Demon Hunter, called Demon Seeking. When a demonic creature appeared on the nearby map, he could quickly locate the demon's whereabouts through his senses. When attacking the demon, he would have 200% attack power.

Many of Nie Yan's skills and equipment effects were targeted at demonic creatures. Therefore, his damage to demonic creatures was several times higher than when attacking ordinary creatures. In the future, when leveling up, he should specifically look for demonic creatures; this would allow him to level up much faster.

The Demon Hunter title had also been upgraded by one level. He wondered what it would be like to continue leveling it up.

He cleared all the way forward. About five to six hundred yards were filled with Dark Servants, countless in number. If ordinary players or teams came here, they would definitely be frightened by this formation. So many Dark Servants were simply inexhaustible. But for Nie Yan, it was a blast. He could keep grinding until he was satisfied.

After killing about eight or nine hundred Dark Servants, Lafus's mana was running low. Nie Yan directed the golden earth dragon to hold the front, switching Lafus out to rest and recover mana.

The golden earth dragon was also very durable. When a group of Dark Servants besieged it, a few Counter Storms swept them to the ground.

If its health ran low, Lafus could cast a heal on the golden earth dragon from behind.

Paladins were great, serving as both meat shields and healers, as well as providing buffing states. Although each of their abilities was mediocre, their overall strength was top-notch among many classes.

Leveling up here was also quite fast. In about an hour or so, Nie Yan's experience points reached about 71%.

These Dark Servants contributed a lot of good stuff to Nie Yan. There were more than a dozen good gems alone, plus the equipment that dropped, selling them back would easily bring in 20,000 gold coins, ensuring he wouldn't lose out at least.

Gradually delving deeper into the dungeon, the number of Dark Servants gradually decreased. Long corridors were lined with stone chambers, each with an unknown content.

Letting the golden earth dragon and Lafus continue to grind monsters, Nie Yan walked to the entrance of a stone chamber and slowly pushed the stone door inward. He only heard *whoosh whoosh whoosh*, the sound of countless arrows shooting out. Nie Yan keenly sensed the danger and used Gale Step to dodge to the side.

*Tuk tuk tuk*, dozens of thumb-thick giant arrows, entirely cast from metal and flashing with a faint green light, were embedded where he had originally stood.

Thieves often had to deal with traps, so their reactions had to be quick at all times. Otherwise, they wouldn't know when they'd die. Thieves had relatively high reflexes, so their survival rate was much higher than others when they were ambushed by traps. But the number of thieves who died in traps was still countless, and their deaths were often gruesome.

Fortunately, Nie Yan reacted quickly. Otherwise, if these dozens of giant arrows had hit him, he would have lost at least half his life even if he didn't die.

After confirming it was safe, Nie Yan walked to the entrance of the stone chamber and looked inside. It was a small stone chamber, about 3x3 yards in size, with a stone coffin placed in the center, and nothing else.

The stone coffin in the middle was rectangular and somewhat crudely made. There were some decorative carvings around it, but they were not very refined.

Next to the stone coffin was a raised button, which was probably the mechanism to open the stone coffin.

The contents of such a stone coffin were unknown. Sometimes, it contained top-quality treasures, sometimes powerful monsters, and sometimes even powerful curses.

Nie Yan hesitated for a moment, then walked up and pressed the button. The stone chamber shook slightly, and the lid of the stone coffin slowly moved, opening.

As the stone coffin opened, Nie Yan retreated a few steps, prepared, and gripped the Sword of Zennard to deal with any possible emergencies.

After the lid of the stone coffin opened, the stone chamber remained as calm as usual, and nothing happened.

After confirming it was safe, Nie Yan walked to the side of the stone coffin and looked inside. Inside the stone coffin lay a corpse. Judging from its body size and other characteristics, it was a female. The body had decayed, leaving only a skeleton. Next to the skeleton were three blue gems.

Nie Yan reached out and picked up the three gems, checking their attributes.

Fragmented Shadow Aquamarine: Can be used for embedding.

Attribute: Equipment level requirement -10.

A level requirement of -10 was already considered a top-tier gem. He didn't expect to get three at once, which made him overjoyed.

His luck was good. He put the three Fragmented Shadow Aquamarines into his bag and scanned the stone chamber, ensuring nothing was left behind, then walked out of the stone chamber.

After walking a few steps forward, there was another stone chamber. Nie Yan tentatively opened the door of the stone chamber. This time, there were no traps. The layout of this stone chamber was the same as the previous one, even the direction of the stone coffin was identical.

Nie Yan, as before, pressed the button, and the lid of the stone coffin slowly opened. A strong smell of gunpowder quickly spread out.

Not good!

Nie Yan's expression changed. A strong sense of crisis flashed through his mind. He used Shadow Dance and sprinted outwards.

With a loud bang, a deafening explosion came from behind, and a powerful shockwave swept over from behind, sending Nie Yan flying.

The entire dungeon shook violently.

Nie Yan was thrown five or six yards away, spitting out a mouthful of blood. A damage number of over six thousand floated above his head. Fortunately, his defense was high enough and his health was thick enough. If it were an ordinary thief, he would have been instantly killed.

Standing up and looking over there, Nie Yan's face was a little pale. That stone chamber had been completely destroyed. The door and stone coffin were shattered into pieces, a scene of devastation.

Fortunately, he ran fast. If he had reacted even a little slower, he would have been crushed to pieces like these stones.

The dust flying into the air scattered and fell to the ground.

Everything returned to calm again.

Nie Yan sat in a corner to recover. There were more stone chambers ahead, at least twenty or so. He couldn't help but hesitate, should he continue to explore?

After a moment of silence, he wondered how many treasures were still in these stone chambers. Wouldn't it be a pity to miss them?

If you want to seize treasures, you must have the courage to risk your life.

Nie Yan continued to open one stone chamber after another. When he was lucky, he could obtain good things like gems and scrolls by opening the stone chamber. When he was unlucky, he opened a curse that almost killed him. Fortunately, Lafus dispelled the curse in time. Besides the curse, he also opened monsters, elite-level undead dark servants. However, with the assistance of the paladin Lafus and the golden earth dragon, Nie Yan quickly killed the elite-level dark servant.

Along the way, although he took great risks, the gains were good.

After walking a distance forward, two golden stone doors appeared before him, one on the left and one on the right. These two stone chambers were obviously much more luxurious than the previous stone chambers. The stone doors were very exquisitely made, covered with various carvings.

He guessed that there were also stone chambers inside. Nie Yan hesitated in front of these two golden stone doors. Should he go in? Would there be any danger?

Nie Yan guessed that if he could find treasures in these two stone chambers, the quality would definitely be much better than the things that came out of the previous ordinary stone chambers. At the same time, the unknown dangers inside were also greater. The curses and explosions that appeared in the ordinary stone chambers had almost killed him just now.

After all, his level was still too low. In this kind of high-level map, he could lose his life if he was careless.

Let's think about it first, Nie Yan dared not make a decision immediately. He walked towards the golden earth dragon and Lafus, first purifying all the corpses of the dark servants on the ground, and then collecting the spoils of war.