Something’s Wrong with This Game — I Became a God by Mining!

Ever since the details of the Skeleton Cave Dungeon appeared, the players at the Blazing Gold Mine had been mining even more vigorously than before.

They all planned to raise their strength a bit, then find a group of teammates with similar power levels to form a party.

None of them had Yang Ling’s confidence—going into a dungeon alone?

That wasn’t happening.

Even Lin Caiyi and the others had decided to form a five-person team.

The team leader was Lin Caiyi, and the members were Zhang Shendao, Li Shou, Jiang Tian’ai, and Qin Mo.

These five had similar strength levels. Although their levels differed, they believed the system’s difficulty assessment wasn’t based solely on level.

After all, level was just one standard for measuring strength.

Wu Xiaochen hadn’t joined that team, but he wasn’t upset, because he didn’t want to die.

And so, the players at the Blazing Gold Mine kept improving themselves while choosing their teammates.

In the blink of an eye, the seventh day arrived.

All the players tacitly gathered on the surface to rest.

Jiang Tian’ai looked around and couldn’t help asking:

“Has anyone seen Brother Yang?”

“Boss Yang is still down there mining.”

Wu Xiaochen pointed at the entrance to the Blazing Gold Mine.

From inside came the constant, fierce sound of mining.

All the players could only admire him.

They finally understood how the Number One on the Ranking was made.

With half an hour left before the dungeon opened, he was still down there mining and leveling up.

Such self-discipline and mentality had already surpassed most ordinary players, even top-tier ones.

[10 minutes until dungeon opens]

[Please confirm now whether you wish to enter, and list your party members]

Suddenly, a panel appeared before each player.

It required them to make their decision in advance.

…

“Looks like it’s a unified schedule for entering the dungeon. When it hits 00:00, all the players who chose to enter will go in together.”

“I’ve already placed 170 Foundation Consolidation Pills in the Secret Forging Room. I need to bring the Fire Crocodile Set and the Fire Crocodile Saber, plus the Centenary Refined Kylin Pickaxe and the Quenched-Gold Armor-Piercing Flying Daggers…”

Yang Ling looked at the Status Panel, which had options for team leader and members.

He filled in his own name and Little White’s.

After finishing, he continued relentlessly attacking the Blazing Gold ore in front of him.

This piece of Blazing Gold was quite large, at least one jin, and he was almost done mining it.

A few minutes later.

[Congratulations, you have leveled up. You have earned 1 Free Attribute Point]

“Level 69. Just one more level and I can claim the chest reward.”

Yang Ling gave a helpless smile.

He had originally planned to reach level 70 and claim the chest before entering the dungeon.

Maybe the items inside the chest could help him in the dungeon.

But as things stood, he was a bit short on time.

“Still, this trip to the Blazing Gold Mine has boosted my level quite a bit.”

“In just a month, I went from 59 to 69—a ten-level increase in a single month…”

Yang Ling was quite satisfied with his current progress.

Even if it had delayed his Internal Technique training, that was fine.

He casually added the attribute point to Strength, raising its base value from 87 to 88.

Counting the Strength boost from the Fire Crocodile Set, without Circulating Energy, he had a whopping 148 points of Strength!

“Adding the 50-point Strength Boost from the Centenary Refined Kylin Pickaxe, the 60-point Strength Boost from the Vajra Bright King Technique, and the 50-point Strength Boost from the Wind God Vajra Legs…”

Yang Ling roughly calculated the major boosts, and his Strength had already… broken through the 300-point mark!

“Agility isn’t bad either—it can reach over two hundred.”

“Overall, my stats now are about the same as Mingxin’s when he goes all out.”

“My combat power can reach the Upper Sixth-Rank level, but my actual cultivation is still Lower Sixth-Rank. There’s still a gap in stats compared to the Mid Sixth-Rank.”

“Still, the Upper Sixth-Rank’s Vital Qi, at the very worst, is around five to six thousand, right? Mingxin’s type breaks ten thousand.”

“My Vital Qi is only 3,000 points—that’s where I fall short against the Upper Sixth-Rank.”

“So, my strength should be somewhere in the middle or lower range among Upper Sixth-Rank?”

Yang Ling couldn’t immediately determine exactly where his strength ranked among the Upper Sixth-Rank.

But he was sure he wasn’t in the top tier.

At the same time, all the players who had become Martial Artists were staring at their Status Panels.

It displayed the time in a 24-hour format.

Accurate to the minute, it was now 23:59, almost 00:00!

Although this dungeon had no threshold, only Martial Artists had the option to enter—that itself was the threshold.

Ordinary players couldn’t even open the Status Panel.

They could only passively watch the Public Channel and announcements, and they weren’t qualified to choose whether to enter the dungeon.

The Public Channel was still lively, with many players excitedly spamming it to cheer on and hype up their teams!

Seeing this only made the ordinary players angrier. They swore that no matter what, they would find a way to obtain a Martial Arts Technique!

Even the crappiest Martial Arts Technique would do!

At least then their profession would become Martial Artist, and they’d be able to use many of the Divine Realm’s functions!

“Almost time.”

Yang Ling lit a stick of incense and stuck it into the ground.

00:00!

In an instant, Yang Ling found himself in a deep blue space.

Had he entered the dungeon?

He was a bit surprised, then noticed Little White was beside him, curiously looking around.

A line of text appeared before him:

[Player Yang Ling, combat power assessment: Upper Sixth-Rank]

[Spirit Pet Blazing Flame Mantis, combat power assessment: Upper Seventh-Rank]

[Team overall strength assessment: Upper Sixth-Rank]

“Looks like it was right not to form a party. This assessment uses the highest combat power among the members as the standard.”

“Even if Little White were Ninth-Rank, with me in the team, we’d still be assessed as Upper Sixth-Rank.”

“Even Lin Caiyi and the others have Lower Seventh-Rank, or even Mid Seventh-Rank strength. With all five of them together, the team’s overall strength might be assessed as Mid Seventh-Rank, or maybe Upper Seventh-Rank…”

[Combat power assessment complete. Dungeon difficulty: C+]

[Loading dungeon…]

“The dungeon difficulty is assessed as C+, which corresponds to my Upper Sixth-Rank level. So the difficulty scale should be the same as the mission ratings, and it just so happens to align with the Divine Realm’s nine ranks down to first rank.”

“As for the mission rating… a C+ difficulty mission could potentially yield a mission rating above C+. That’s a different evaluation system.”

Suddenly, a cold aura washed over Yang Ling, as if he were wrapped in some kind of energy.

This reminded him of when he first entered the Divine Realm—it had felt the same way.

He even had the illusion that he had logged out of the game.

The next moment, scorching sunlight shone down on him.

He squinted slightly and began to survey his surroundings.

This was a valley. On the cliff face directly in front of him was a pitch-black stone cavern.

Scattered across the valley were some white bones and a few corpses.

The air was thick with a faint, foul stench—the smell of rotting corpses.

[Entering the beginner dungeon White Bone Cavern. Timer now starting]

“This dungeon only gives me thirty days.”

Yang Ling thought for a moment, then took a few steps forward.

In an instant, bones upon bones began to reorganize continuously, transforming into one skeleton warrior after another.

There had to be over a hundred of them.

Little White suddenly opened its arms and stared at the group of skeleton warriors.

Just then, the system proactively displayed the attributes of these skeleton warriors.

[Skeleton Warrior]

Strength: 300

Agility: 220

Spirit: 5

HP: 2,000

Special Skill: Bone-Splitting Strike

A strange expression appeared on Yang Ling’s face.

Although these attributes weren’t as good as Mingxin’s, they were far stronger than Lu Yunchen’s!

“The stats are close to Mingxin’s level, but it’s not as smart as Mingxin.”

“Overall strength assessment is probably Mid Sixth-Rank.”

“I’m at C+ difficulty, so they throw dozens of Mid Sixth-Rank monsters at me right from the start…”

As he thought this, the skeleton warriors had already vanished from their spots, rushing at Yang Ling with lightning speed to encircle and destroy him!

“Little White, go up and watch from the sky. If I accidentally die, make sure you touch me!”

In the dungeon, you essentially had two lives, but it still depended on how reliable your teammate was.

He trusted Little White on that.

The next moment, Yang Ling pulled out the Centenary Refined Kylin Pickaxe. Instead of retreating, he surged forward, his power fully unleashed like a primordial beast charging at the group of skeleton warriors!

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