Worldwide Class Change: Minimal Effort, Maximum Reward!

Level 184!

Four levels. The numbers at this density were moving faster than anything he had experienced since the early wilderness hunts outside Jianghe, when level 25 monsters had been the ceiling and the amplification’s relative impact per kill had been hundred. The difference now was that each individual kill was worth exponentially more to begin with, and the density here meant each arc release was a kill multiplied not by one but by hundreds.

He repositioned using Heaven Step, moving to the basin’s interior center where the lion population was at its most dense, the spiritual energy column rising from the central pool directly beside him. The proximity to the column was immediately tangible. Celestial Absorption’s intake rate stepped up further, the recovery feed running at maximum capacity in an environment this saturated.

He would not run out of energy in this basin. The basin was actively filling him while he cleared it.

He released again.

[Furious Flame Lion ×587 Defeated]

[EXP Gained: +50,716,800]

[Reward Amplification Triggered — ×1000]

[New EXP Gained: +50,716,800,000]

[Level Up! — Level 184 → Level 185]

[Level Up! — Level 185 → Level 186]

The lion population was thinning visibly. The first three releases had cleared the outer and middle perimeter density down to the inner basin concentration, which was the highest. The surviving population was still in the thousands, still charging, still generating the shared combustion field at its most intense level.

Celestial Armor held. Iron Body Fortification held. The Eternal Spirit Core’s regeneration, boosted by combat intensity and fed by Celestial Absorption’s intake from the spiritual energy column, was running faster than the environmental damage could test it. 𝚏𝐫𝚎𝗲𝕨𝐞𝐛𝕟𝚘𝐯𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝗺

He released again.

[Furious Flame Lion ×624 Defeated]

[EXP Gained: +53,913,600]

[Reward Amplification Triggered — ×1000]

[New EXP Gained: +53,913,600,000]

[Level Up! — Level 186 → Level 187]

[Level Up! — Level 187 → Level 188]

The remaining population compressed toward the central pool as the clearing removed the outer layers, the survivors pressing inward in the specific behavioral pattern of territorial creatures whose perimeter was being systematically eliminated. The density in the innermost basin ring around the central pool was at its highest now, the remaining thousands packed tightly, the shared combustion field burning at maximum intensity from the compressed population.

He looked at the configuration. The entire remaining population in one location. The spiritual energy column rising from the pool directly at the center of that location.

He activated Absolute Domain.

All three combined effects, Blade Domain, Domain Expansion, and Null Field, deployed simultaneously at maximum values. The domain expanded outward to its maximum radius, which at his current Spirit values was substantial, the amplification effect active across the entire area, the suppression reducing every entity within range’s offensive output, the Null Field component suppressing their skill activation.

Into the suppressed, amplified domain, he released Celestial Sword Qi in wide arc mode.

The golden energy expanded outward from the domain’s center, carrying the Blade Domain’s amplification multiplier on top of its already substantial base output, sweeping through everything within the domain’s radius simultaneously.

[Furious Flame Lion ×1,847 Defeated — Domain Amplification Applied]

[EXP Gained: +159,580,800 — Amplification Bonus Applied]

[Reward Amplification Triggered — ×1000]

[New EXP Gained: +159,580,800,000]

[Level Up! — Level 188 → Level 189]

[Level Up! — Level 189 → Level 190]

The basin went quiet. All at once. The roar of thirty thousand Furious Flame Lions, the shared combustion field, the coordinated charge and the collective flame discharge, all of it simply ceased to exist as the last notification finished rendering.

The basin still glowed. The channels of contained geothermal energy still ran their patterns across the floor. The pools still burned. The spiritual energy column still rose from the central pool in its dense continuous stream. None of that had changed.

What had changed was that the lions were gone.

Every one of them.

The drop notifications came in for several seconds, the amplified materials from thirty thousand kills arriving in the Spatial Storage Token in a continuous stream that took considerably longer than the clearing itself had taken. Allheaven Beast Cores by the hundreds of thousands. Fire-attribute materials. Rare drops from the elite classification bonus. Items that the token accepted without complaint or capacity limit, the dimensional space inside it expanding to accommodate whatever was delivered.

He landed on the basin floor beside the central pool. The spiritual energy column was close enough to reach out and touch from here. He did not touch it. He looked at it.

Then he opened his system panel.

Level 190. Strength 5,624. Agility 5,096. Constitution 5,242. Spirit 4,818.

The EXP bar showed the current progress toward level 191. The threshold was enormous at this point, each level requiring more than the one before it by a multiplier that grew steeper as the count climbed. But thirty thousand level 145 monster s had moved him from 177 to 190 in a single clearing operation.

He looked at the basin around him. The volcanic floor. The channel s of contained fire.

The Greater Qilin descended from the rim and landed on the basin floor across from him, its scales shifting through their color spectrum as the geothermal energy interacted with the ambient dao absorption it performed continuously. It looked at the empty basin. Then at him.

"Twelve levels," Lin Yi said. He said it the way he said most things. Quietly and without performance. But he was aware of the number. 190. Ten levels from the threshold he had set as the condition for transitioning from leveling to jade collection.

He looked at the spiritual energy column.

"Ten more," he said.

The qilin looked at the column and then back at him with its evolved steady awareness.

He checked the panel one more time and closed it.

Level 190.

The basin was empty. The next location was somewhere ahead in the expanse. He would find it the same way he had found this one.

But at the moment, Lin Yi was a Level 190 hunter.