A body clad in exquisite armor flowing with dark golden radiance.
From head to toe, exuding an aura of noble majesty belonging to a king, making anyone at first glance immediately know: this person is not ordinary.
What shocked Zhang Yue the most was: the other party's identity was clearly a professional.
But being able to enter the Death Territory of the Gate of Immortality, he must be a professional from the World 22, whose level does not exceed level 125.
However, from the other party's body, Zhang Yue could feel a powerful aura that such a level of professional should not possess.
Just as Zhang Yue found this curious, that golden armored warrior waved his left hand, and a spatial rift transformed and appeared behind him.
Turning his face slightly with the corner of his eye glancing at the God of Wrath beside him, he said, "Go."
The God of Wrath's gaze remained fixed on the Devourer Beast behind Zhang Yue, clearly showing some unwillingness, "Master, my life soul is in that divine guard's hand, I must retrieve the Fatal Lock!"
The golden armored warrior did not speak, just a single glance made the God of Wrath feel a strong sense of intimidation.
"Master, then I shall take my leave first!"
After speaking, the God of Wrath prepared to retreat into the spatial rift.
Only, the prey was right before his eyes, how could Zhang Yue possibly watch it escape?
ROAR!
With a roar, the thirty-six winged Armageddon Black Dragon descended from the sky, a blazing dragon flame striking directly at the God of Wrath.
At this moment, the golden armored warrior suddenly planted his longsword into the ground, summoning a massive golden sword-shield around his body to block the Armageddon Black Dragon's full-powered attack.
Immediately after, the sword-shield shattered, releasing a powerful shockwave, which in turn knocked the Armageddon Black Dragon flying.
It seemed Zhang Yue's guess was right, this person was indeed extraordinary.
Since the other party made a move against his pet, Zhang Yue saw no need to hold back.
Next, Zhang Yue personally took action.
Raising his transcendent staff, he directly locked onto both the golden armored warrior and the God of Wrath, beginning to cast spells.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
With extreme speed, Zhang Yue simultaneously cast Frozen World, Heavenly Fire Engulfs the Plains, Thunder Wrath, and Shattered Lightning.
Four casts per second.
At the same time, the golden armored warrior quickly charged his longsword.
Clang!
Gripping the sword with both hands and slashing it with full force, he smashed it into the ground, generating another powerful shield forward that completely blocked all of Zhang Yue's attacks.
Then, he swung his sword again, summoning countless sword shadows striking straight at Zhang Yue.
WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!
Thousands of sword shadows formed into a massive storm, as if to swallow the entire world!
The powerful aura was shocking.
WHOOSH!
Zhang Yue used Flash to skillfully dodge the opponent's attack.
But as Zhang Yue looked up again, he already discovered: the golden armored warrior and the God of Wrath had both disappeared.
Zhang Yue couldn't help but frown slightly.
Cherry beside him also spoke with lingering fear, "Master, that guy just now seemed super strong."
"Indeed super strong," Zhang Yue said in a deep voice, "He might not even be beneath me."
Although it was just a brief exchange of moves, Zhang Yue had clearly felt the opponent's strength.
This made Zhang Yue even more puzzled.
Zhang Yue relied on millions of years of idle resource accumulation and started with a Mythical-tier profession, plus the top-tier awareness and operation of Asura from his previous life, to maintain his lead over regular professionals and reach his current height and achievement.
If the other party were a professional above level 200, it would be understandable.
But, just as thought earlier, since the opponent was able to enter the Death Territory of the World 22, it meant his level absolutely could not exceed the level cap of the World 22, namely, level 125.
Within this level range, how could the opponent have strength nearly equal to Zhang Yue?
Even Mythical-tier professionals couldn't have this level of strength.
Not to mention, in this world, including Zhang Yue, there were only four Mythical-tier professionals. A fifth simply didn't exist.
If that guy hadn't suddenly appeared, Zhang Yue could've definitely seized this chance to kill the God of Wrath, and used the Fatal Lock to absorb its soul.
'What a pity...'
Zhang Yue turned his gaze to the Devourer Beast behind him.
Fortunately, the opponent probably sensed Zhang Yue's strength as well, so during the earlier skirmish, he did not risk attacking the Devourer Beast to retake the Fatal Lock from its body.
Instead, he chose to use that opportunity to escape.
Still a bit lacking in confidence.
Seeing the God of Wrath had already escaped, the Devourer Beast glanced at Zhang Yue, then immediately turned and fled.
At this moment, the Apex Predator swiftly dashed forward and with a "slash," easily killed the Devourer Beast.
ROAR!
With a final howl, the Devourer Beast collapsed to the ground.
Zhang Yue approached and picked up the Fatal Lock that had fallen from its body.
Just moments ago, in the God of Wrath's hands, the Fatal Lock could freely transform into armor, weapons, wings, shields, multi-form attack + defense + support.
But now in Zhang Yue's hands, it was just a pile of iron chains.
This was because the Fatal Lock recognized its master.
As the God of Wrath's exclusive life soul, the Fatal Lock had long formed a contract with the God of Wrath.
Only by absorbing the God of Wrath's soul could the contract be lifted. Only then could Zhang Yue sign a new contract with the Fatal Lock, and truly control it freely.
It could attack, defend, and even fly.
It must be said, this Fatal Lock was too powerful.
Zhang Yue looked at the place where the God of Wrath had vanished and murmured, "I must use your soul to unlock it."
In the end, the Fatal Lock ended up in Zhang Yue's hands.
So even though the God of Wrath escaped in the end, Zhang Yue still gained the biggest harvest.
The journey in the Gate of Immortality was not yet over.
Next, Zhang Yue continued to explore the Gate of Immortality.
However, without Hidden Dragon... or rather more precisely, without the God of Wrath as a guide, Zhang Yue's journey alone was not enjoyable.
Even though Zhang Yue knew from the start that the God of Wrath's goal was to lure him into hunting divine guards all over, he had to admit: it was precisely because of those divine guards guarding places that the places Zhang Yue visited were indeed unexplored new maps.
And in these maps, he gained a lot.
With the God of Wrath's guidance, he also avoided wasting too much time.
From here on, Zhang Yue explored on his own, and most of the areas he reached were maps already cleared by other professionals.
In these maps, treasure chests were already opened, valuable monsters had all been slain, and they couldn't respawn.
Zhang Yue could only grind on small mobs, like scavenging, piecing together scraps to gain some benefits.
Only under very lucky circumstances, when he stumbled upon a new map by accident, could he barely make a decent gain.
Because the difference between new and old maps affected not just the internal gains of the maps.
Killing monsters in new maps greatly increased the chance of activating the Gate of Life and Death compared to old maps.
Under these conditions, Zhang Yue persevered until ten o'clock at night.
Unable to continue any longer, Zhang Yue activated a Life Gate, preparing to carry his bucket and escape...
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