Chapter 335
**Ling Cha · Qi Duan: Greatness**
**Dong Hai · Jing Man: Greatness**
**Huang Ze · Wu Ke: Greatness**
**Ting Zhou · Jing E: Hehe, it’s you again, Ze Lan Feng Tang. See you in the battle zone.**
**Sakura · Zi Li: Looks like you didn’t learn enough from the last lesson. See you in the battle zone.**
**Ze Lan · Feng Tang: Oh my, Ze Lan Tang Tang is starting to get scared.**
**Tu Lan & Yu Xun Ge: “………………”**
Yu Xun Ge couldn’t shake the feeling that Feng Tang’s title of “Passionate Drunkard” was just a highbrow way of saying she was “drunk again.”
Without mentioning their speechlessness, the entire battlefield channel fell silent for several seconds before the messages started flooding in again.
Yet, no players stepped forward to distance themselves from Feng Tang or to curry favor with the top-tier players. Those who usually preferred silence remained quiet, while the chatty ones followed Feng Tang’s lead, creating a subtle form of allegiance.
Even the Qiu Xiong tribe, who despised Feng Tang the most, didn’t dare to speak out against her.
No one wanted to be labeled as trash; if those at level 15 were considered trash, what did that make those below level 15?
Moreover, Yu Xun Ge sensed an undercurrent: nearly 95% of the top 100 players hailed from three worlds—Zi Chuan, Ting Zhou, and Sakura. Only five players came from other worlds, and the once-present Dong Hai Sha Leng was now gone.
She even had the impression that the other mid-tier worlds were subtly banding together to oppose the three dominant worlds.
But for now, this was not Zai Jiu’s concern.
Yu Xun Ge instructed Tu Lan to keep an eye on the chat channel while she opened the ladder rankings, beginning to assess the players online, memorizing their appearances, combat power, and titles. This way, if she encountered someone far stronger, she could make a quick escape.
With only one minute left on the countdown, Yu Xun Ge and the already-shrunken Tu Lan entered the arena early once more.
The two descended rapidly, landing in mere seconds, and Yu Xun Ge looked around to find they had appeared in a tunnel of a mine.
The tunnel was narrow, just wide enough for Yu Xun Ge to fit through, but tall enough to provide ample space. This combat environment was undoubtedly advantageous for smaller, more delicate races. The dim light came from a type of gem embedded in the stone walls, its brightness barely rivaling that of a phone screen.
Fortunately, Yu Xun Ge’s orange-red wings could serve as a light source, eliminating the need to rely on the gem’s glow.
She stared at the gem light for several seconds, reluctant to look away. After stowing her pickaxe, she tried using a skill to strike the stone wall, discovering it was easy to break through. However, the resulting holes began to “heal” at a visible pace.
After checking her surroundings, she began to assess her skill usage—like trying to use **Feng Chui Pu Gong Ying** (Wind Blowing Dandelions) in this seemingly windless place.
Unfortunately, there was indeed wind, but it was too weak; using this skill to travel or escape would be quite difficult.
Yet, as her combat awareness sharpened, and with her increasing encounters against skilled opponents in the world battlefield, she had begun to notice the fatal flaw of **Feng Chui Pu Gong Ying**:
Whether relying on natural wind or using her wings to create a gust in the direction she wanted to escape, as long as an enemy had seen her use this skill once, they could predict her landing point based on the wind direction the next time.
Unlike before, when she passively accepted that every skill had its flaws and weaknesses, Yu Xun Ge had started to learn how to actively transform these weaknesses after witnessing the strengths of various races.
She could easily use **Long Wu** (Dragon Dance) and then merge into the tornado created by this skill, not only avoiding enemy attacks and sharing damage but also moving rapidly with an element of unpredictability, making it hard for enemies to anticipate her next move.
After gathering the information she needed, Yu Xun Ge took out her pickaxe to experiment. Without a clear method, she struck the stone wall.
The pickaxe landed firmly on the surface, leaving the wall unscathed. But then, the point of contact between the pickaxe and the wall glowed with a faint blue light, which shot off rapidly into the distance, as if an arrow had found its target.
Yu Xun Ge and Tu Lan quickly followed. After the light traveled about ten meters, it suddenly stopped. Yu Xun Ge’s mind raced, and she used a skill to blast the spot where the light had halted.
Sure enough, the light was moving inward.
Yu Xun Ge immediately used magical threads to sew a **Temporary Pocket** onto herself, stowing both her and Tu Lan’s pickaxes along with her sniper rifle inside. Then she said to Tu Lan, “You use your dragon claws to clear the way; it’ll be faster that way.”
No one knew how long the light from the pickaxe would last.
After saying this, she transformed into a small sparrow using **Animagus** and flew to perch on Tu Lan’s head.
Tu Lan understood Yu Xun Ge’s intent. Once Yu Xun Ge was settled, she began to dig into the stone wall with her dragon claws, which were as sharp as a purple weapon, digging at a speed that rivaled skill explosions.
After Yu Xun Ge shrank, she only needed to carve out a small passage for them to fly through, which was much quicker than blasting open an entire tunnel.
After digging for about several dozen meters, the light stopped in front of a deep blue gem the size of a basketball.
Tu Lan and Yu Xun Ge couldn’t afford to marvel at the gem’s beauty, as the nearby stone walls began to “heal” again. Tu Lan quickly blasted open enough space for Yu Xun Ge to land.
Once she returned to her human form, Yu Xun Ge hurriedly extracted the gem, working as quickly as possible without fine-tuning her actions, even taking surrounding stones along with it, stuffing everything into the **Temporary Pocket** before she and Tu Lan began retracing their steps.
Fortunately, the guiding light from the pickaxe was straightforward, preventing them from getting lost in the mountain and ultimately exhausting their magic power, leaving them trapped inside.
**Chapter 435: Divine Game: Gem Miner 3**
For the next half hour, Yu Xun Ge and Tu Lan struck the pickaxe nine more times, violating the rules 27 times in the process.
The most concerning violations weren’t those committed while doing something; it was the ones committed while doing nothing at all. The former could be reasoned out and tested against the rules, while the latter was far too broad.
However, Yu Xun Ge managed to figure out one rule: they couldn’t touch the glowing gems on the tunnel walls…
Yu Xun Ge awkwardly withdrew her hand. “Haha, I really can’t, huh? I just guessed and tried it out, and I didn’t expect it to actually be a no-go.”
Tu Lan, who received a violation notice and lost 9 points of intelligence, said expressionlessly, “...You were thinking of touching it the moment you saw the gem light when we entered the mine. Don’t think I didn’t notice.”
Yu Xun Ge replied, “You didn’t stop me; you’re an accomplice.”
The two of them continued to bicker quietly while mining.
During this time, they violated the rules again by touching the gem, but when Yu Xun Ge tried to touch it a second time, nothing happened.
Yu Xun Ge felt that she would eventually be driven mad by these inexplicable rules. It was like walking in the dark of night; every bump and scrape inevitably stirred feelings of fear and unease. But when the light was turned on, everything turned out to be quite ordinary and simple.
While mining, they encountered several other players, forcing Yu Xun Ge and Tu Lan to stop and engage in battle.
Thanks to **Midnight Exile** and **Absurd Story**, and the confidence and courage built from their kart racing game, as long as the opponent’s combat power didn’t exceed level 10, Yu Xun Ge would stay and fight.
Three times, the opponents were above level 12, and once they even faced a level 15 Abyss-level player. Yu Xun Ge and Tu Lan immediately retreated, letting the opponent chase after the guiding light she had created.
In the past, Yu Xun Ge wouldn’t have understood this tactic, but after acquiring the Golden Tree’s withered leaves, she finally grasped it.
In the divine game’s rankings, the value of an S-level skill for a low-power player was far outweighed by the importance of a gem.
When clues to the game were elusive, killing low-level players for fun was inconsequential, but with the gem right in front of them, it was clear that the gem took precedence over a level 5 player.
On the fourth encounter, Yu Xun Ge faced a level 9 opponent, and she and Tu Lan rolled up their sleeves and charged in. Following their strategy, Yu Xun Ge was responsible for taking down the opponent while Tu Lan focused on mining.
However, she realized that if she couldn’t win, she had to retreat; other players weren’t fools either.
After her second attack reduced the opponent’s health by 70%, the alien player immediately used an escape skill to flee, leaving Yu Xun Ge unsure of where to pursue.
The fifth encounter was similar.
This made Yu Xun Ge realize she lacked a locking skill. **Thunder Cage** was too slow; what she needed was the kind of locking skill that Feng Cang and Mi Ya Si had used on her—silent and swift, sealing off an entire area’s teleportation abilities.
Unconsciously, she had shifted from a defensive role to an offensive one. In the past, she had focused on collecting escape skills, but from now on… she would need to gather both escape and locking skills.
Yu Xun Ge didn’t pursue; instead, she immediately sought out Tu Lan. When she arrived, Tu Lan had just unearthed a black gem the size of a ping pong ball. “Is it okay to touch this one?”
Tu Lan replied, “No problem.”
They finished using up the durability of their two ordinary pickaxes, and they had exactly 10 gems, while the worn-out pickaxes turned to dust.
Tu Lan squatted on Yu Xun Ge’s shoulder, looking around cautiously, and whispered, “There are tunnels everywhere; there’s no sign of a safe zone at all.”
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