Chapter 182 Flying Raids

Nie Yan wouldn't bother with Min Mie and the others. It was completely unnecessary. It was just that Min Mie was too arrogant, making him unpleasant to the eye, so he had Tang Yao put on this show. In any case, the Underworld Thunder Eagle's name was on the flying mount rankings, and everyone would guess that the Underworld Thunder Eagle belonged to him, Nie Yan.

The Underworld Thunder Eagle circled in the sky, flapping its huge wings, flying further and further away.

Nie Yan sat on the Underworld Thunder Eagle's back. The Underworld Thunder Eagle whistled through the sky, mountains and rivers flashing rapidly underfoot. The movement speed of a flying mount was more than ten times faster than an ordinary mount. Nie Yan suddenly had a whimsical idea: with a flying mount, there were many things he could do.

"Interested in accompanying me to retrieve some things?" Nie Yan said, looking at Tang Yao. With the Underworld Thunder Eagle, he could reach places that ordinary players couldn't, and get things that ordinary players couldn't.

Tang Yao fed the Underworld Thunder Eagle a piece of meat. Hearing Nie Yan's words, he asked with some puzzlement, "Retrieve what things?"

Nie Yan smiled mysteriously. "You'll know in a moment."

With a flying mount, he couldn't waste it!

Hearing what Nie Yan said, Tang Yao's curiosity was also piqued.

"Head east," Nie Yan directed Tang Yao.

"Okay." Under Tang Yao's command, the Underworld Thunder Eagle rapidly swept through the sky. After flying east for about ten minutes, Nie Yan and the others arrived above a mountain range.

"This seems to be a level 120 map already," Tang Yao said with trepidation. He had seen a rough map of the area around Carol City and knew that this area was a high-level map. It was currently impossible for players to come here. Level 60-70 players couldn't enter at all. The road was fraught with dangers. Any random monster along the way could easily kill them. He didn't know what the situation was like in the maps around here.

Tang Yao felt somewhat uneasy.

Nie Yan was quite familiar with the maps in this area, because in his previous life, when he was over level 100, he had leveled up in this area, grinding monsters for about five months. He basically knew which places had good stuff and which places had treasure chests.

"Lower the altitude," Nie Yan said. Seeing some familiar scenery below, he felt a little excited.

"You're not going down there, are you? That's too dangerous," Tang Yao said worriedly.

Despite feeling very dangerous, Tang Yao decided to trust Nie Yan. He gave the Underworld Thunder Eagle an order. The Underworld Thunder Eagle circled in the sky, gradually decreasing in altitude, about fifty yards from the ground.

Nie Yan stopped Tang Yao. "That's about right. Circle around in this area, listen to my commands." He used the skill on the Weaver's Ring. A strand of spider silk stuck to a feather of the Underworld Thunder Eagle. He jumped down. After falling more than ten yards, the strand of spider silk pulled Nie Yan up.

The spider silk pulled Nie Yan, drifting in the air. Nie Yan's eyes quickly scanned the forest below, searching for a target. The Underworld Thunder Eagle continued to hover at this altitude. Nie Yan's gaze penetrated the gaps between the trees and landed on a treasure chest in the distance. That was it!

There were a total of thirty-five spawn points for treasure chests in this area. They spawned randomly, but during the first exploration, treasure chests would appear at all thirty-five points.

Nie Yan was certain of these thirty-five points. There were many other places that Nie Yan couldn't remember clearly. He could only search for them based on some vague memories.

"I'm going down. Come pick me up in a moment," Nie Yan said, jumping into the jungle below.

Before Tang Yao could say anything, he saw Nie Yan snap the spider silk and leap down.

Nie Yan fell rapidly. He adjusted his position in the air and activated the Feather Fall skill on the Feather Fall Gem. His altitude gradually decreased, and he finally landed lightly on a large tree. He looked towards the nearby jungle. Occasionally, some monsters passed by. He searched for a moment and found a treasure chest next to a large tree not far away. It was a gold-grade treasure chest, only a dozen yards away. He didn't expect his airdrop to be so accurate.

Not far away, many hyena monsters with chain hammers spawned, level 120, very ferocious.

Nie Yan carefully jumped down, stealthed to the treasure chest, and began to open it.

System: Treasure chest opening in progress... 3%... 15%...

After a while, he heard a "click." The treasure chest was opened. Nie Yan reached into the treasure chest and pulled out a dagger and a skill book.

This dagger was a level 120 gold weapon, the Dogslayer Dagger, with a very ferocious attack of 1200. Level 100 equipment was very different from ordinary level 90 equipment. As for the skill book, it was a rare skill for mages, Quick Blink.

Good stuff! These two items were definitely worth a lot of money.

Nie Yan threw the two items into his backpack, then quickly scrambled to the top of the tree, and sent a private message to Tang Yao: "Okay, come down and pick me up quickly."

Tang Yao saw Nie Yan at the top of the tree, and commanded the Underworld Thunder Eagle to rapidly decrease its altitude.

Nie Yan waved at Tang Yao. He saw Tang Yao driving the Underworld Thunder Eagle, rapidly sweeping over, closer and closer to Nie Yan, 30 yards, 20 yards...

The huge commotion of the Underworld Thunder Eagle attracted the attention of the surrounding hyena monsters. They quickly gathered towards this side, but unfortunately they were not ranged monsters.

He saw the Underworld Thunder Eagle getting closer and closer. Nie Yan used the skill on the Leaper's Ring, jumping high, leaping into the air more than ten yards. He stretched out his left hand, and a strand of spider silk shot out from the Weaver's Ring, sticking to the feathers on the Underworld Thunder Eagle's lower abdomen.

Nie Yan contracted the spider silk, somersaulted, jumped onto the back of the Underworld Thunder Eagle, and grabbed its feathers.

Nie Yan smiled lightly and said, "Done, got the goods."

Tang Yao breathed a sigh of relief. Nie Yan jumping down to a level 120 monster map really made him frightened, but he didn't expect Nie Yan to come back so quickly.

"What did you get?" Tang Yao asked.

"Opened a gold treasure chest, got two pieces of equipment."

Tang Yao was shocked. Nie Yan came and went so quickly, and only opened one treasure chest? "What equipment? Let me see."

Nie Yan shared the attributes of the two items he had just obtained with Tang Yao.

A level 120 gold dagger and a mage's Quick Blink skill were still very valuable. Tang Yao's eyes widened and he said, "This works? Your airdrop is really good, we're rich." He immediately realized the great effect of the airdrop skill.

Thinking carefully, only Nie Yan could do this kind of method. First of all, Nie Yan had a Feather Fall device, which allowed him to airdrop to the ground. At the same time, he also had the Leaper's Ring and the Weaver's Ring, which allowed him to return to the Underworld Thunder Eagle when it lowered its altitude to nearly twenty yards, which avoided a lot of trouble. Otherwise, those powerful hyena monsters on the ground were very difficult to deal with.

Nie Yan turned his head and said to Tang Yao, "Let's go, we'll go to the next target."

The Underworld Thunder Eagle moved extremely fast. This way, the time spent on the road was relatively less. Nie Yan could constantly hunt treasure chests, so the crazy treasure chest search operation began.

Time passed little by little. After nearly five hours, Nie Yan searched all the level 100 maps nearby, opening nearly one hundred and fifty or sixty chests, including two dark gold treasure chests, sixteen gold treasure chests, twenty-eight silver treasure chests, and the rest were all white treasure chests. When he opened the last gold treasure chest, he suddenly heard a crisp system prompt.

System: Treasure chest opening successful, Lockpicking Expert skill gains 3 skill proficiency points. Lockpicking Expert skill upgraded to Advanced.

The Lockpicking Expert skill was finally upgraded! Since Nie Yan was opening level 100 treasure chests, there was an extra skill proficiency bonus when opening treasure chests of a higher level, so Nie Yan's Lockpicking Expert skill was upgraded to Advanced so quickly.

Nie Yan was overjoyed. After the Lockpicking Expert skill was upgraded to Advanced, he could go to higher-level maps to hunt for treasure chests. Chests within level 160 were no problem for him.

In a few days, he might be able to obtain the title of Treasure Hunter.

"Let's go, we'll go to a higher-level map," Nie Yan said with great interest. He was very familiar with maps within level 180, and there were at least fifty or sixty treasure chest spawn points with clear memories. In addition to these treasure chest spawn points, he could also hang under the Underworld Thunder Eagle to search for treasure chests. He planned to spend a few days to open all these treasure chests, and wait for the treasure chests to respawn after a period of time, then open them again. With such a powerful chest-opening speed, Nie Yan felt that he was getting closer and closer to the title of Treasure Hunter.

The previous treasure chest harvest was obviously quite rich. He got more than thirty pieces of level 100+ equipment and a large pile of rare materials, all of which were placed in his backpack. When the players of the Niu Ren Tribe reached level 100, they wouldn't have to worry about their equipment.

Nie Yan remembered that when they were over level 100 in the past, a group of people might not get a piece of bronze or silver equipment even after grinding monsters for two or three days. In such large maps, there were only one or two hundred treasure chest spawn points, and the treasure chest spawn time was irregular, only respawning once every few days. These treasure chest spawn points were often watched by people, and even if equipment dropped, ordinary players wouldn't get a chance. So equipment above level 100 was quite scarce in his previous life.

In his previous life, when he was over level 100, Nie Yan would often huddle in one place, constantly grinding monsters and leveling up. He had run through every corner of these maps for several months, so he was very familiar with these maps, remembering every corner vividly. Coming to these places, Nie Yan thought of those days in the past.

When opening the treasure chest, he unexpectedly had a pleasant surprise and obtained a Life Crystal. His luck was not bad. If he obtained another Life Crystal, the other crystals would be easy to obtain. If he collected all these crystals, Nie Yan would also have a flying mount, the powerful Darkwing Dragon.