Chapter 1 The Beginning

Gradually, as his combat skills became more and more refined, Nie Yan found it very easy to deal with ordinary Tier 1 creatures. Ordinary Tier 1 creatures couldn't even touch him, and couldn't cause him any damage.

After taking down another Dark Mammoth and collecting its crystal core, Nie Yan suddenly had an idea. He wondered if he could use the Steal skill on creatures like Dark Mammoths.

He checked the attributes of the Steal skill.

Nie Yan's Steal skill was level 16, with a success rate of around 96%. At the same time, when stealing from higher-level targets, the success rate would also increase significantly, and he could steal several items at once.

If he could steal something from the Dark Mammoth, basically one successful steal would be enough.

Nie Yan searched around the area for a while, and soon found another Dark Mammoth.

This Dark Mammoth was sharpening its sharp teeth under a large tree.

Nie Yan slowly sneaked behind the Dark Mammoth, getting closer and closer, and cast Steal on it.

System: Steal successful. You have obtained 30 gold coins and the Gathering Master skill book.

He could steal something!

Before Nie Yan could check his backpack, the Dark Mammoth roared in a low voice, and its long tusks swept towards him.

Nie Yan retreated a few steps, dodging the Dark Mammoth's attack, and delivered an elbow strike. With a bang, the Dark Mammoth fell into a state of dizziness.

Once the Dark Mammoth was controlled, it was difficult for it to wake up again.

Nie Yan made a few attacks, took down the Dark Mammoth, collected the crystal core, and quickly checked his backpack. A skill book was lying quietly in his backpack.

Gathering Master: When gathering herbs and other items, you can gain additional skill proficiency and can gather herbs one level higher than your current skill level.

This skill book was definitely very rare. If it was given to a production-class player, it could help him quickly increase his gathering skill level. But this skill book was useless to him, because even if he learned the Gathering Master skill, he still couldn't gather Red Dragon Grass, because his gathering skill level was too low.

After thinking about it, he decided to keep the Gathering Master skill book and take it outside for the players of the Niu Ren Tribe to use.

He threw the Gathering Master skill book into his backpack and continued to look for the next Tier 1 creature. After this experience, every time Nie Yan encountered a Tier 1 creature, he would first cast Steal on it, emptying everything on the Tier 1 creature before dealing with it.

Most of the Tier 1 creatures only had some gold coins on them. If he was lucky, he could steal some production-class skill books. There were almost all kinds of production-class skill books, Gathering Master skill books, Mining Master skill books, Tailoring Master skill books, and Alchemy Master skill books, etc. These things were very rare, but there were many of them here.

In one whole day, Nie Yan obtained three Gathering Master skill books, five Mining Master skill books, three Tailoring Master skill books, and two Alchemy Master skill books. The harvest could be considered quite rich. In addition to these things, Nie Yan also obtained two super backpacks with 120 slots each.

Ordinary backpacks with fifty or sixty slots were already very large in capacity, but two backpacks with 120 slots made Nie Yan's backpack suddenly much more spacious.

Nie Yan went to the First Military Academy for classes during the day, and when he came back at night, he worked on the Holy Shadow Dancer job transfer quest in the Ancient World.

After about seven or eight days, the first part of the Holy Shadow Dancer job transfer quest was completed.

Soon, he received the second part of the quest, which required him to kill five hundred Tier 2 creatures.

Tier 2 creatures were relatively easy to deal with. Although they were much stronger than Tier 1 creatures like Dark Mammoths, they weren't too outrageously strong. Nie Yan's attacks could still cause considerable damage to them.

As his activity area became larger and larger, Nie Yan gradually became familiar with the environment of the Ancient World, searching for the traces of monsters in the jungle.

This place was full of all kinds of high-level herbs and high-level ores everywhere, which made people very envious. If his gathering and mining levels were high enough, Nie Yan would definitely stay here and gather like crazy, taking more things away. If he missed this opportunity, he would never have another chance. These things were very precious and rare outside. Maybe he could only get a little bit in a high-level dungeon above level 100 next time. If he had these things, the Niu Ren Tribe wouldn't know how many forging masters and potion masters they could cultivate!

After passing through a narrow jungle area, Nie Yan came to a grassland. There was a large patch of golden herbs growing here. He was shocked. This was Golden Orchid Grass!

Golden Orchid Grass was a relatively low-level herb and an important raw material for making intermediate instant recovery magic potions. Because players had a relatively large demand for intermediate instant recovery magic potions, the supply of Golden Orchid Grass had always been unable to keep up, so the price was relatively high, selling for five gold coins per piece.

There were patches and patches of Golden Orchid Grass here, which was simply inexhaustible!

In Nie Yan's opinion, whether Golden Orchid Grass was valuable or not was secondary. Five gold coins per piece, even if he collected 10,000 pieces, it would only be 50,000 gold coins. For him, it had a special meaning, that was, if he learned the Gathering Master skill and gathered these Golden Orchid Grass, with the amount of Golden Orchid Grass here, it wouldn't take many days for him to raise his gathering skill to high level. After reaching high level, he could gather herbs above his level, then he could gather things like Red Dragon Grass.

One Red Dragon Grass was worth at least seventy to eighty thousand gold coins or even more. With the amount of Red Dragon Grass on this map, if he gathered for a few days, he could get hundreds of Red Dragon Grass. Such expensive herbs were generally difficult to sell, not to mention such a large quantity. It would be good to use them to cultivate the group of alchemists in the Niu Ren Tribe.

If he was determined to train his gathering level, he would have to stay on this map for a longer period of time.

In his previous life, the number of Red Dragon Grass in the market had always been very rare. It seemed that Xiao Mo wasn't willing to train his gathering skill when he transferred to Holy Shadow Dancer.

Nie Yan weighed it. This was a rare opportunity to train his gathering skill. Once this opportunity was gone, it would never come again. If he wanted to train his gathering skill to high level or master level after going out, he shouldn't even think about it for several months or even years.

After making up his mind, Nie Yan took out a Gathering skill book and learned it.

The Gathering skill book turned into a white light in his hand. Nie Yan looked at his skill bar and saw that there was an additional Gathering Master skill on the skill bar, which covered the original Gathering skill.

There was Golden Orchid Grass everywhere here. Unlike outside, where he might not be able to find a herb even after searching for several hours. In fact, the gathering skill was relatively easy to train, but when players trained their gathering skill, most of the time was spent searching for herbs, so the gathering skill couldn't be improved.

This ground of Golden Orchid Grass was enough to drive all players who wanted to train their gathering skill crazy.

Nie Yan bent down and began to gather the Golden Orchid Grass on the ground, carefully pulling up the Golden Orchid Grass. After various treatments, he confirmed that the gathering was successful and put the gathered Golden Orchid Grass into his backpack. Most of the time it was successful, and only very occasionally would the gathering fail. If the gathering failed, it meant that the Golden Orchid Grass was ruined.

But even if he ruined more, Nie Yan wouldn't feel bad.

One by one, Golden Orchid Grass was pulled up, twenty pieces as a group. After spending more than six hours and getting thirty groups, a crisp system prompt sounded.

Nie Yan looked at the Gathering Master skill, and it had been upgraded to intermediate.

He could still gain skill proficiency by continuing to gather Golden Orchid Grass. Nie Yan still didn't plan to move and continued the boring gathering work.

If it was an ordinary player, they would probably go crazy if they kept repeating this monotonous work, but Nie Yan persisted. Perhaps it was because he had experienced two lives, his mind was much more determined than before.

In this isolated place, he was the only one alone, as if everything he did had nothing to do with other players. But Nie Yan understood that the improvement of the gathering skill was also an accumulation of strength. After the gathering skill went up, if he saw top-quality herbs in the process of doing quests, he could pick them instead of helplessly missing them.

Day after day, fortunately, nothing major happened in the Greenland Empire, and Nie Yan could stay here with peace of mind to do these boring things.

Time passed day by day. Nie Yan and Xie Yao integrated into the life of the First Military Academy. There were occasional episodes, but the days passed peacefully.

Five days later, accompanied by a crisp system prompt, Nie Yan's gathering skill finally upgraded to high level. With the high-level Gathering Master skill, he could already gather Red Dragon Grass, although the success rate couldn't be guaranteed at present.

Nie Yan stopped and rushed towards the direction where the Red Dragon Grass grew according to his previous memory.

Bypassing those newly refreshed monsters, Nie Yan's eyes finally searched for a Red Dragon Grass in the forest. This Red Dragon Grass was like a flame, very conspicuous.

Nie Yan walked to the side of the Red Dragon Grass, squatted down, and carefully removed the soil near the Red Dragon Grass. The fibrous roots of the Red Dragon Grass were displayed in front of his eyes.

He had to be very careful when removing the soil, otherwise, if he accidentally damaged the roots of the Red Dragon Grass, a Red Dragon Grass would be ruined.

Gathering Red Dragon Grass was a very troublesome thing with many complicated processes.

At this moment, Nie Yan's finger accidentally touched a small root of the Red Dragon Grass. With a snap, the Red Dragon Grass quickly withered and turned into a dead grass, no longer feeling a trace of vitality.

Damn it, Nie Yan, who was halfway through digging, had to stop and continue looking for the next Red Dragon Grass.

If it was outside, if the person responsible for gathering in a team ruined a Red Dragon Grass, he would definitely be scolded to death by everyone in the team.

It was precisely because of its scarcity and the difficulty of gathering that the price was so expensive.

Fortunately, there were enough Red Dragon Grass here, so even if he ruined one, Nie Yan didn't feel much heartache, and continued to look for the next one.