Jiang Yun immediately began refreshing the task options.
Four minutes later, his luck finally turned around. He managed to trigger the Fortune Turns effect, although the task content remained largely the same, the number of poisonous Black Demon Arum Orchids required increased.
From the original 10, it was now 100.
Correspondingly, the task rewards also multiplied, transforming into 5000 experience points, 5 Ghost Silver Coins, and a piece of ordinary clothing.
This reward was acceptable, so Jiang Yun confirmed it.
At worst, he could refresh a few more times when submitting the task. If he could trigger Fortune Turns again, the task rewards would continue to multiply, possibly skyrocketing him to level 10.
After accepting the task, Jiang Yun immediately set off.
Meanwhile, Jiang Yun's unworthy descendant, Jiang Dabao, had been in the game for over five hours but was still stuck at level 1.
He was so unfortunate that he had to compete with others for small monsters in the level 1 chicken area.
The game "Mountains, Rivers, and Realms" was incredibly popular. Even a year after its public release, new players continued to flood in every day.
With 10,000 newcomers squeezed into a single novice village, monster resources became extremely scarce.
Moreover, Jiang Dabao's talent was Hate Magnet, which gave him no advantage when teaming up to fight monsters.
Additionally, the Archer class had low attack power and weak damage in the early stages, with a high accuracy requirement. Players who could hit 7 out of 10 arrows were considered top-tier.
Jiang Dabao, on the other hand, hitting 5 out of 10 arrows was already an exceptional performance.
As a result, he was often despised in teams, and no one wanted to take him along, leaving him to solo grind in frustration.
"Damn it! At this rate, it'll take me two or three more days just to leave the novice village."
"This won't do! In reality, creditors come knocking every day. If this continues, my gaming future is bleak!"
"Ancestor! I've already burned paper money and a helmet for you. After receiving the incense offering, you should at least bless me a little!"
Jiang Dabao lamented to the sky, only to miss another arrow, and the nearly defeated chicken was snatched away by someone else.
He was so angry he almost spat blood!
Just then, a golden message appeared in the novice village channel, a public shout that reached all online players in the village.
Such a shout cost one Silver Coin per message, not something an average person could afford.
"A top-tier team is offering high pay for a monster-pulling support! No need for high levels, equipment, or advanced talents, just good at pulling monsters."
The person who sent the shout had the ID Orchid Prelude Wei, level 5, a pretty mage girl.
Most players in this novice village were assigned here at the same time, starting from the same point.
To reach level 5 in such a short time and have the money to shout for a monster-pulling support, she was definitely an elite rich player.
The shout caused a stir among all online players in the village, with many eagerly applying and tagging her.
Jiang Dabao's eyes lit up on his pancake-like face.
Once his trash talent, Hate Magnet, was activated, it increased aggro from wild monsters by 100.
Who could be better suited for attracting aggro and pulling monsters than him?
He had tried it once before, and when he activated the talent, all the level 1 chickens within 100 meters went berserk, their eyes turning red as they charged at him.
It was a scene of hundreds of chickens rushing over, pecking Jiang Dabao to death in a tragic spectacle.
The scene left all surrounding players dumbfounded.
And when Jiang Dabao respawned in the novice village, he hadn't even stepped out of the revival point before an NPC spat in his face.
Even the patrolling NPC soldiers looked at him with disgust, ready to draw their swords.
Terrified, Jiang Dabao quickly deactivated the talent.
Since then, Jiang Dabao dared not activate that cursed talent casually.
"This is an opportunity. Whether I can latch onto a big shot depends on this."
Jiang Dabao made up his mind and quickly tagged Orchid Prelude Wei.
Meanwhile, Jiang Yun was unaware of his descendant Jiang Dabao's miserable situation in the game.
After spending two hours, he successfully reached the task location, climbing up to the West Mountain mass graveyard.
The place was filled with urns and scattered coffins, with white ghost fires rising at intervals, exuding a chilling aura.
Every 10 meters or so, there were two to three Corpse Ghouls with pale skin and disheveled hair, crawling on the ground.
Luck was on his side!
Jiang Yun had just arrived when he spotted a fist-sized, dark-colored Black Demon Arum Orchid growing on a rotten wooden coffin 30 meters away.
However, five Corpse Ghouls were wandering around the Black Demon Arum Orchid.
Jiang Yun first used Ghost Eye Insight to check the attributes of these monsters.
—[Corpse Ghoul]!
(Ordinary Lesser Ghost)
[Level]: 7
[Attack]: 65
[Defense]: 25
[Speed]: 3.3
[Skills]: Spectral Claw
[Weakness Hint]: Back of the neck, aggro range 6 yards.
[Drop Rate]: 0.008% chance for basic weapons; 0.03% chance for basic accessories; 0.02% chance for skill books (Spectral Claw), (Fierce Ghost Roar); 0.1% chance for ungraded equipment; 15% chance for Ghost Copper Coin.
Although the level 7 Corpse Ghoul had a slightly higher drop rate than the level 1 Greenskin Beast Ghost, it wasn't much better.
Normally, trying to farm them for good items was like playing the lottery.
However, with Ghost Eye Insight, Jiang Yun knew their aggro range and weaknesses, making it easier to deal with them.
But as a magic class with a fragile body, he couldn't withstand many of their attacks, so he had to kill them one by one.
Jiang Yun slowly approached the Corpse Ghouls near the Black Demon Arum Orchid, and when the opportunity arose, he raised his hand and launched a ranged Basic Attack at a Corpse Ghoul that had just moved a meter away from its companions, then immediately turned to leave.
"[Basic Attack Damage: -389!]"
The pained Corpse Ghoul roared in anger, immediately locking onto Jiang Yun and charging at him.
Jiang Yun maintained the aggro limit distance to avoid losing it.
Then he fired two more Basic Attacks at the beast-like charging Corpse Ghoul.
Ranged Basic Attacks couldn't deal critical or weakness damage, so they were another two hits of 389 damage.
But the Corpse Ghoul's health was already down to 233 after Jiang Yun's high attack power Basic Attacks.
When the Corpse Ghoul leaped close, claws forming a shadowy energy to launch a skill attack, Jiang Yun's fourth Basic Attack landed on its head.
"[Damage: -389!]"
Without even needing to use mana for skills, Jiang Yun directly killed it!
His impressive attack power made killing monsters exceptionally easy.
"[You have killed a level 7 Corpse Ghoul, gaining experience: +10.]"
Simultaneously, a Ghost Copper Coin dropped from the Corpse Ghoul's body.
It seemed his luck wasn't bad, with a 15% chance to drop a Ghost Copper Coin, and the first Corpse Ghoul dropped one.
Regarding the experience and drop rate, Jiang Yun casually used Myriad Reset talent once. Although his luck was average, the experience increased by 1 point to 11, but the drop rate remained unchanged.
Prioritizing the task, Jiang Yun didn't waste time and mana to deliberately use the talent to increase the drop rate for small monsters, as it wasn't worth it.
After confirming the talent refresh result, Jiang Yun picked up the Ghost Copper Coin and then turned his attention to the second Corpse Ghoul.