Inside the Gate of Immortality, professionals kill monsters to probabilistically summon the Gate of Life and Death.
Judging by appearance alone, it's impossible to distinguish the Life Gate or the Death Gate.
Only after entering can one know.
Once a professional enters the Death Gate, it is a life-or-death gamble.
Especially in the Death Territory, according to online rumors: when the Death Gate is activated, the survival rate of the entrant is basically 0%.
Its difficulty is even higher than the Gate of Immortality previously located in the National Territory.
However, there is one fortunate point: "Death inside the Gate of Immortality results in permanent death", this setting has been removed.
Now, professionals who die inside the Gate of Immortality can use the power of resurrection scrolls to resurrect outside the Gate of Immortality.
Professionals revived in this manner will lose 80% of all gains acquired inside the Gate of Immortality.
In fact, over 99% of those who enter the Gate of Immortality die and leave this way.
Only an extremely small number can find the Life Gate and exit alive without alerting the Life Gate's gatekeeping boss.
Some even try to obtain Resurrection God Stones and deliberately challenge the Life Gate Boss.
In the end, they forcibly reverse the Life Gate into a Death Gate and perish within.
Under normal circumstances, when professionals encounter the Gate of Life and Death at this stage, they will choose to avoid it and not enter.
Because they just entered not long ago and haven't found much loot yet, exiting now would result in too much loss.
After all, for most professionals, whether entering the Life Gate or Death Gate, they can only choose to leave the Gate of Immortality.
Either exit via the Life Gate or die via the Death Gate.
There are only two conditions under which a professional can return to the Gate of Immortality after entering the Gate of Life and Death.
1: Complete the Death Gate challenge.
2: Defeat the Life Gate's gatekeeping boss.
Regarding the current Gate of Life and Death, Zhang Yue made no speculation and directly stepped in.
["Ding~ Unfortunately, you have entered the Death Gate. Please complete the challenge, or you will be eliminated!"]
As expected.
Zhang Yue, while shouldering the extraordinary staff, from all directions, countless monsters resembling large lizards formed a beast tide and rapidly approached.
Those monsters already covered the entire area.
Their numbers were massive, even layered upon each other.
Preliminary judgment, the beast tide scale was at least Tier-3.
No wonder since the opening of the Death Territory, according to strategy records, not a single person in the world has ever exited the Death Gate alive.
Tier-3 beast tide, even a thousand-man group would only be devoured.
Unfortunately, the opponent they encountered this time was Zhang Yue.
A man who in his previous life resisted a Tier-9 beast tide and, in this life, wiped out a Tier-6 beast tide with his pets.
The larger the beast tide, the more excited Zhang Yue became.
Facing the charging beast tide, Zhang Yue launched his attack.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Death Storm!
Hell Judgment!
Thundercloud Storm!
Lightning and Thunder!
A series of AOE skills were released in different directions.
A high output of over 500 million caused all lizards covered by the skills to be instantly killed.
Immediately afterward, Zhang Yue used single-target skills like Frozen Wasteland, Heaven's Fire Scorches the Land, Thunder Wrath, and Shattered Lightning, combined with the passive pursuit effect of [Shattered·Ghost Eye] to snipe the waves of charging lizards.
Armageddon Black Dragon, Apex Predator, and Cherry respectively guarded three directions, clearing the approaching lizard army.
Alone facing a Tier-3 beast tide, stable as an old dog.
The more Zhang Yue killed, the more excited he became.
Because battles of this scale were perfect for grinding passive experience for Ghost Eye.
Each skill cast brought five or six kill experience points. At Zhang Yue's attack speed, he could reach three casts per second at most.
That experience soared rapidly.
Under Zhang Yue's massacre, the level-125 lizards all turned into experience and Energy, absorbed by Zhang Yue.
When he first arrived at the World 22, even after releasing all the experience accumulated in the World 21, it was only enough to raise his level from 120 to 121.
Because he stayed too briefly in the World 21, only killed one Giant King, and immediately came to the World 22 after completing the world mission, no real chance to farm experience.
This wave of Tier-3 beast tide was simply delivering experience to Zhang Yue.
A single level-125 lizard could provide 20 million experience and, after a 10,000x multiplier, 2 billion Energy.
To level up from 121 to 122, Zhang Yue needed a total of 150 billion experience.
With the buff that reduced upgrade experience requirements, he only needed 80%, that is, 120 billion experience.
Meaning, he only needed to kill 6000 lizards to level up.
With the Demon Contract able to equally absorb the experience Zhang Yue gained, in the end, only 3000 lizards were needed for Zhang Yue to level up.
Note: A Tier-1 beast tide already numbers in the tens of thousands.
Let alone a Tier-3 beast tide.
Therefore, after completely wiping out this beast tide, Zhang Yue's level soared directly from 121 to 124, leveling up three times.
When Zhang Yue used Thundercloud Storm to kill off the last approaching group of lizards, looking around, within the vast area, piles of lizard corpses lay everywhere.
Countless pieces of equipment, gold coins, materials, and other loot were scattered all over.
Just at that moment, the system prompt fell from the sky.
["Ding~ Congratulations on completing the challenge!"]
WHOOSH!
A teleportation gate refreshed before Zhang Yue.
This was the teleportation gate back to the Gate of Immortality.
Such is the Death Gate, even upon completing the challenge, you cannot directly leave the Gate of Immortality.
Of course, even if he could leave, Zhang Yue would choose to return to the Gate of Immortality.
This is just one Death Gate.
So little loot and you want Zhang Yue to leave? What are you joking about?
At this moment, a treasure chest radiating rainbow-colored light appeared before Zhang Yue.
It looked like this chest was even more valuable than the core treasure chest.
Zhang Yue walked over and opened the treasure chest.
What entered his sight was a shard resembling some kind of stone...
Resurrection God Stone Fragment.
Zhang Yue couldn't help but feel surprised.
Because according to the current setting of the Gate of Immortality, only from the Life Gate's gatekeeping boss could one obtain a Resurrection God Stone Fragment, and each Gate of Immortality only has one fragment.
In the previous World 11's Gate of Immortality, no matter how many Death Gates Zhang Yue broke through, he didn't obtain a single fragment.
Now, this was an unexpected delight.
More importantly: Zhang Yue already had two fragments on him.
With this one, he could just synthesize a complete Resurrection God Stone.
However, items obtained from within the Gate of Immortality cannot be used inside the Gate of Immortality, they must be taken out to be usable.
So for now, he couldn't synthesize the Resurrection God Stone yet.
In addition to this Resurrection God Stone Fragment, inside the treasure chest was also a skill book.
Zhang Yue picked it up and looked.
Rare Skill Evolution Book.
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