Chapter 42
**Intelligence**: 15 (+1)
**Agility**: 21 (+1)
Yesterday, while having dinner, she had scanned the data of all the players present. They were all level 0, with most of their individual attributes ranging from 5 to 10 points, and their total attribute points fell between 25 and 31. In contrast, her four attributes added up to a staggering 59, giving her a difference of about 30 points—equivalent to a level 5 gap.
What was the point of bullying low-level monsters?
Yesterday had been a makeshift training session for moving target shooting, but today she aimed to hone her ability to hit the monsters' weak spots.
Among the talents of a sharpshooter, there was a passive skill called **You’re Too Weak (Passive)**, which allowed her to keenly detect the enemies' weaknesses during combat. She noticed that every time she entered a battle state, 1 to 4 red dots would appear on the monsters, indicating their vital points. However, the chaos of battle made it difficult to land a shot.
Soon, she found traces of spider silk and, following it, spotted a venomous spider weaving its web between the branches.
With a steady aim, Yu Xunge released an arrow that sliced through the air and struck the spider's abdomen. In the next moment, its name and health appeared above its head.
**Venomous Spider (Level 4)** Health: 270/335
The spider's mandibles spewed forth green venom, but as its abdomen contracted, Yu Xunge had already dodged to the side. While evading, she spread her fingers, and without needing to aim, magical missiles flew forth, automatically locking onto the target.
Once she steadied herself, she immediately drew her bow again, ready to shoot.
Yu Xunge had no downtime; this was a skill she had honed in her previous life. Even if she rolled to dodge an attack, fell face-first to the ground, or turned to flee, she would still unleash a skill to take a bite out of her opponent.
Unlike those elite players who favored flashy ultimate moves, Yu Xunge preferred skills with short casting times and cooldowns that allowed for movement. After all, if you couldn’t hit your target, even the most powerful attack was meaningless. Ultimate skills often took too long to cast and were easily interrupted; if they missed, it was like spending mana to set off a firework.
Many of her pursuers in her past life hadn’t perished under her ultimate skills but had fallen to her magical missiles instead.
Another two arrows flew, and the spider lunged at Yu Xunge. She used **Push Shot** to shove the spider back, then fired two more arrows, followed by several magical missiles, reducing the level 4 spider’s health to zero.
Maintaining her bow-drawing stance, she approached the spider and kicked it over, revealing a pair of boots glowing with a green light beneath it.
As expected of her, she had already scored loot so quickly!
She picked up the boots.
**Silk-Woven Boots (Fine)**
**Attribute Bonus**: Intelligence +3
**Magical Attribute**: +5% Movement Speed
Not bad, two bonuses.
She immediately found a safe spot to equip the boots.
Checking her experience points, she saw that with the bonus for defeating a higher-level monster, her experience had increased by 0.01%. This meant that killing a hundred spiders would yield a 1% increase in experience, much faster than taking down skeletal wolves.
But it wasn’t enough; she wanted to hunt even higher-level monsters.
Although the Thief God’s skill **I Want This, This, and This** prevented her from targeting weaker life forms, meaning she couldn’t steal items or attributes from players of a lower level, she had no intention of downgrading her level for that reason.
**Chapter 54: Her Strength Cannot Be Hidden**
Her relentless efforts were aimed at improving her own life, ensuring that Yu Xunhuan would always look up to her. She intended to keep him under her thumb until the day she had gathered enough strength to eliminate him.
Even though she was currently holding back from confronting the male and female leads, it was all part of a strategy to better utilize them, to stab them in the back while exerting minimal effort to topple the three powerful families of Su, Liang, and Han.
There were many ways to hide in the shadows; one could be a rat in the gutter or a respected powerhouse they looked up to.
In her previous life, her attributes and levels hadn’t been outstanding; she had relied solely on her combat instincts to survive. Yu Xunhuan had only occasionally taken her to participate in group battles, allowing her to vent her frustrations on those who harbored negative feelings toward him. This time around, that approach clearly wouldn’t work. She could offer Yu Xunhuan a little “sweetness” to gain his trust, but she couldn’t tolerate even the slightest grievance.
She planned to become a powerful ally, the first person the Su, Han, and Liang families would think of when facing a tough boss, allowing her to infiltrate and stir up trouble.
Sometimes, one must lay low, but when the time comes, one must also be assertive.
Moreover, her strength was impossible to conceal!
Yu Xunge rubbed her forehead, chuckling bitterly as she shook her head.
She could disguise her attribute points and level, but damage was something that couldn’t be hidden. One arrow could deal significantly more damage than others; a keen observer could easily figure it out with a little calculation.
Using the detection function of the Soros pocket watch, Yu Xunge avoided all the trees marked with **A Modified Magical Dwelling**.
To her surprise, there were quite a few of them.
After passing through the spider territory and the area of level 5 monsters, she finally reached the domain of level 7 creatures, where the treehouses disappeared from sight.
It seemed the developers, relying on modern technology and teamwork, had only managed to reach this point. She wondered when they had arrived and what levels they were at now.
After walking deeper into the forest for a while, she found her target for the day—**Living Dead**.
**Living Dead (Level 8)** Health: 819/819
It resembled a zombie from a movie. Yu Xunge had spent a long time fighting these creatures in her previous life. They were neither living nor dead, not quite undead either, but rather akin to a person in a vegetative state. However, they only appeared in areas inhabited by the undead; they were the failed reanimations of various races.
Strictly speaking, the undead were a collective of various races—blood elves, undead trolls, undead goblins, undead tauren, and so on. As long as you were dead and willing to forsake your original beliefs to be resurrected by true undead using dark powers, you became part of the undead.
The Living Dead before Yu Xunge had lost all semblance of its original face, its limbs twisted, and remnants of flesh still clung to its mouth. Yu Xunge immediately drew her bow.
Due to level suppression, even though her attributes were comparable to a level 5, her normal attacks could only deal 10 points of damage, barely scratching the surface of the monster’s health.
However, while the Living Dead had high attack power, they moved slowly.
She cast **Ice Flower Seal**, shooting a snowflake that would take effect in three seconds.
The snowflake landed on the Living Dead, and after three seconds, it was frozen in place. Yu Xunge summoned her shadow, instructing it to use the shadow bow in her hands to continuously attack. Once the ice on the monster shattered, she directed her shadow to draw its attention while she shot at its vital points from behind.
After a barrage of skills, it took nearly 50 arrows to bring down the creature.
Her experience points increased by 0.1%, ten times that of the spiders!
Of course, the time taken to kill it was also ten times longer.
But this wasn’t a simple addition; killing spiders posed no challenge or difficulty, failing to meet her training goals. Although the strategy against the Living Dead relied on skill control and shadow manipulation, what if there were one or two more?
In her previous life, she had spent most of her time fleeing, rarely allowing herself to be cornered. Her highest record was facing three opponents at once, taking down three relentless pursuers from the Liang family, who had been ordered to bring back one of her arms as proof. It was during that encounter that she had been gravely injured and nearly died, lying in the sewers for days.
To put it another way, regardless of her training goals, the Living Dead were level 5, and they dropped far more loot than spiders.
She picked up four copper coins from the ground, deciding this would be her training ground for the time being.
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At 11 AM, Yu Xunge wrapped up her session, holding a meat patty she had made that would restore her mana over time. As she ate, she made her way out of the forest, already confident that she could handle three Living Dead simultaneously without taking any damage. But that wasn’t enough.
She planned to upgrade her gear and buy more arrows, ensuring her training and survival went hand in hand.
As she reached the edge of the forest, she transformed into a cow-cat, entering the sewers of the Dark City before switching back to a goblin. After earning her three gold coins and changing her outfit, she headed straight for the auction house.
Once she clipped the translator to her ear, a blue magical light curtain extended before her eyes, allowing her to understand the auction house's product information.
She didn’t buy anything too extravagant; it would be hard to sell off later once it became obsolete.
At the early stages, players had little money, and even if an item was worth its price, others might not be able to afford it.
Green gear below level 5 was quite good—high cost-performance ratio, easy to resell, and not too expensive, with each piece costing less than 1 gold.
Helmets, shoulder pads, chest armor, gloves, belts, pants, and boots—excluding necklaces and rings, there were a total of seven equipment slots.
Yu Xunge spent 7 gold and 21 silver on a set of decent green gear, each piece providing attribute bonuses of over 5, all enhancing her constitution.
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