Chapter 77
Ke, ke ke... This is the stuff from her spatial backpack!
Ye Bai was both shocked and furious as she watched the donkey, which had finished eating, open its mouth again, begging for more.
Taking a deep breath, she reached out and patted the donkey's head.
The soft fur felt nice, and the donkey didn’t resist; it merely nudged its white-muzzled face toward Ye Bai, signaling for more.
Ye Bai continued to move her hand down, sliding it to its neck, then to its back, finally stepping behind the donkey and placing both hands on it.
At that moment, the donkey finally sensed something was off. Before it could react, Ye Bai exerted her strength, and with the quadruple jump effect of her Light Feather set, she gracefully leaped onto the donkey's back.
"Ah, uh, ah, uh!!!"
The donkey suddenly became agitated, as if its fur had been electrified, jumping and spinning in place, trying desperately to throw Ye Bai off.
Ye Bai clung tightly to the donkey's neck, grinning fiercely, "You think you can steal my food and run away? Just be a good mount for me!"
**Chapter 54**
It was as if the donkey understood Ye Bai's words; it became even more excited. This time, instead of bouncing in place, it charged forward, dragging Ye Bai into the mist.
On the donkey's back, Ye Bai felt like she was on a roller coaster, but she held on tightly to its neck, refusing to let go.
[You have gained 2 points in 'Riding' proficiency.]
[You have gained 1 point in 'Riding' proficiency.]
...
The wind whipped past her, and the bumpy ride made her vision blur. Ye Bai decided to close her eyes, listening to the system notifications echoing in her ears.
Great, she was also leveling up her riding skills.
In the myriad realms, there was a mount system. Players could ride already tamed mounts, or they could tame their own. During this process, they would gain riding proficiency, and also increase a unique value called [Taming Degree] for the mount they wished to tame.
The Taming Degree was a relational value between the player and the mount, requiring long-term bonding and training. Once the Taming Degree reached 100, the taming process would be complete.
The mount would then be bound to the player. If the mount died in battle, the player could consume experience points to resurrect it. Some powerful mounts could not only serve as transportation but also participate in combat, becoming formidable allies.
The only limitation was that each player could only bind one mount at a time.
Moreover, whether breaking the bond or attempting to tame another mount before completing the taming process would reset the previous mount's Taming Degree to zero. In other words, once you started taming a mount, you had to commit to it; otherwise, all your efforts would be in vain.
Thus, by riding this donkey, Ye Bai had effectively chosen it as her mount.
This decision wasn’t just a spur-of-the-moment reaction fueled by anger.
Even though she knew strategies for acquiring powerful mounts like griffins, demon wolves, and hellhounds, after using 'Insight' on this donkey, Ye Bai made her choice.
It wasn’t that she received any astonishing data; in fact, she got nothing at all. The only feedback she received was a single word: [Donkey], with no level or attributes listed.
That was unusual!
If Ye Bai couldn’t glean any data from the Insight, there should have been a bunch of question marks. The absence of question marks indicated that either this donkey was the most ordinary donkey imaginable, or it was some kind of high-level special creature.
But if it were an ordinary donkey, how could it have stolen bread from Ye Bai's spatial backpack?
What was a personal backpack? It was a player’s 'private space.' Only under special combat modes—raiding, territory wars, or faction battles—could items from a player’s backpack be dropped upon their death.
This was definitely not something an ordinary donkey could do, so Ye Bai was convinced of its uniqueness and immediately decided to try taming it.
As for whether riding a donkey would be embarrassing when standing alongside other lords... So what? This was a donkey from the divine realm!
Creatures from the divine realm were unpredictable, even for Ye Bai, the producer.
The donkey galloped with Ye Bai on its back, but it wasn’t very large, just the right size for her to ride. After a while, it finally grew tired and came to a stop, panting heavily.
Ye Bai was in no better shape; the wild ride felt like a roller coaster. Thankfully, her pain level was only 1%, but in reality, she would have been bruised and battered from the donkey's back.
Slowly lifting her head from the donkey's back, Ye Bai was taken aback by the sight before her.
All around was a landscape of gray and white, filled with massive white stones of the same texture. It was clear they had once been larger but were now in fragmented states. Even though many were partially buried in the ground, each piece of white stone towered over Ye Bai.
Earlier, she had seen some white stones from a distance, which seemed to be of the same material. The donkey's erratic running had brought her to this area with even more stones.
These giant stones clashed with the black soil beneath them, clearly not formed naturally in this place. The broken pieces made it look like... some kind of ruins.
Suddenly, Ye Bai's gaze sharpened as it fell upon a large white stone not far away. On that stone, she noticed several enormous patterns, faintly following a certain order.
Her heart raced; that was...
Feeling the donkey's back still steady beneath her, Ye Bai thought for a moment and decided to climb down.
"Ah, uh... munch munch."
As she felt her weight lift, the donkey's eyes brightened. It let out a sound, seemingly wanting to run, but Ye Bai quickly stuffed a piece of bread into its mouth, causing it to munch away.
"Ah, uh!"
After devouring the bread, the donkey lost its urge to run, instead focusing its gaze on Ye Bai, nudging its mouth forward, its eyes conveying a clear message:
One more, please.
"..." There was no choice; to keep this little guy calm, Ye Bai had to pull out another piece of bread as an offering.
Watching the donkey finish the second piece in just a few bites, Ye Bai felt a pang of regret. Had she known, she would have brought more bread—since its restorative effect was low, she hadn’t packed many.
After feeding it another piece, the donkey finally settled down, resting in place and occasionally swishing its tail.
Seeing this, Ye Bai felt relieved and walked over to the white stone with the patterns, carefully examining the markings she had just discovered.
The patterns on the white stone were enormous, each one the length of her arm, resembling claw marks from some creature, with a fixed combination of depths that formed a unique pattern, albeit twisted and not forming any recognizable shapes.
However, Ye Bai quickly realized that these weren’t mere shapes; they were letters.
But not human letters—these were dragon runes.
At that moment, Ye Bai's secondary profession as a [Historian] was triggered, and the system chimed in:
[You have discovered 'Ancient Dragon Traces.' You gain 10 points in historical experience and 10,000 experience points.]
[You gain 1 point in 'Ancient Dragon Language' proficiency.]
But Ye Bai's first reaction wasn’t joy over the experience gained; it was a shiver that ran through her body—
She was in deep trouble! Her first use of the Wellspring of Origins had transported her straight into the territory of ancient dragons!
From the furious horn still in her backpack, she knew just how fierce the dragon race was.
In games set in Western fantasy worlds, any creature with even a hint of dragon blood was not to be trifled with. If Ye Bai were tasked with a level 20 or higher city-building quest against a transformed Earth Dragon, she would need to prepare extensively; that creature would be far tougher than the Crocodile King.
Let alone the dragons of the divine realm, the ancient dragon clan was the true 'dragon race,' occupying the top of the food chain in a world teeming with powerful beings, with their own territories, clans, languages, and cultures.
Each individual of the ancient dragon clan was not only massive, resembling castles in size, but also boasted near-max physical damage and defense, along with their own magical system—Dragon Language Magic.
No wonder the white stones here were so enormous; the items used by dragons were certainly not small.
So, had she now arrived near the ancient dragon's 'dragon lair,' the [Sky City]?
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