Awoke As A God After Auto Battling For 1000000 Years

Receiving the system's prompt, Zhang Yue suddenly remembered: the upgrade quest for the Demon Contract requires killing 10,000 monsters not lower in level than himself.

Previously, with the help of the Infinite Guild, Zhang Yue killed 9,800 monsters to clear his sin value. While removing 9,800 points of sin, he also completed 98% of the upgrade progress for this quest.

Thus, Zhang Yue checked the upgraded Demon Contract.

[Demon Contract] (Growth-Type Treasure)

[Type: All-Rounder]

[Quality: Elite (Upgradeable)]

[Host: Zero]

[Effect 1: Energy Contract (When the host gains abnormal energy, the Demon Contract will absorb an additional 8% of the gained energy, which can be transferred.)]

[Effect 2: Experience Contract (When the host gains experience points, the Demon Contract will absorb an additional 8% of the gained experience points, which can be transferred)]

[Effect 3: Unlockable upon upgrading to Rare Quality]

[Elite → Rare Upgrade Quest: Deal a total of 80 million damage (Progress 0/80M)]

[Description: Signing a contract with a demon comes at a price. Do you want to become a demon's slave or its master...?]

The abnormal energy extraction increased by 3%, which might not seem significant for ordinary professionals.

But for Zhang Yue, who had a 10,000x abnormal energy buff, it was a massive boost.

As for the next quest of dealing 80 million damage, it wasn't too difficult for Zhang Yue—just a matter of time.

The group continued hunting demons, harvesting experience and abnormal energy on a large scale.

Meanwhile, the purity of Zhang Yue's Demon Blood from the Death's Eye rose from 60% onward.

This meant that its maximum authorization limit wasn't just ten people.

In other words: as long as the Demon Blood's purity was high enough, he could authorize an unlimited number of people to enter the Gate of Hell.

After hunting about a hundred demons, they finally reached the destination guided by the Death's Eye.

They saw a large group of demons gathered around a tall building entwined with countless vines.

Clearly, the mission's target must be inside that building.

Without a word, Zhang Yue raised his staff, leading the Dark Skeleton King and the Apocalyps Black Dragon, along with Lin Tian and Wu Haotian, launching an attack on the demon horde...

A few minutes later.

The area around the building was littered with demon corpses.

Stepping over the bodies, Zhang Yue entered the building.

Inside, he found a dusty, seemingly long-abandoned black treasure chest.

With a "creak," Zhang Yue opened the unlocked chest and saw a necklace glowing with a pulsating red light, as if it had a heartbeat.

Picking it up, he saw:

[Heart of Death (Level 35, 5-Star Necklace, Part of the Reaper Set)]

Formed from the heart of the God of Death, Kira.

However, the equipment was currently sealed and unusable.

Clearly, he needed to find the other parts of the Reaper Set, assemble the full set, resurrect the God of Death, and kill it to unseal the equipment.

Next, the Death's Eye triggered the next location.

But by then, it was already midnight, and everyone was exhausted, yawning, and ready to stop exploring.

Planning to return tomorrow, they exited the Gate of Hell.

After all, the quest had a three-day time limit—no need to rush.

It was easy to guess that finding the Reaper Set's parts in the City of Hell wouldn't be too hard.

The real challenge would be the ultimate boss: the God of Death

Returning to the safe zone, they logged off.

———

[The Next Morning]

Before the Championship at 10 a.m., Zhang Yue contacted a real estate agent and spent millions to purchase an office building in the city center.

On her side, Ouyang Ling'er found a reliable renovation company online and began remodeling the place, turning it into the headquarters of Heavens Hall.

With the renovation handled by the workers, Zhang Yue logged back in and distributed the collected energy from the Demon Contract to Lin Tian and the others.

Though the energy gathered wasn't much yet, making Lin Tian's group significantly stronger would only be possible after completing the unique hidden quest [Death's End], extracting 800 million energy from the Demon Contract.

But for now, getting each of them another S-rank skill upgrade was feasible.

After all, each demon in the Gate of Hell provided 2 million energy, allowing the Demon Contract to extract 160,000 energy per kill.

Thus, in today's Provincial Championship Intermediate Tournament, Lin Tian and the others crushed all professionals from Zhejiang Province using their S-rank skills, with even Ouyang Ling'er and Ning Tiantian achieving stunning nine-win records.

As for Lin Tian and Wu Haotian, they secured steady ten-win streaks.

Zhang Yue? No need to even mention him.

Zero was now officially recognized as the top advanced professional in Zhejiang Province.

Currently, he also held the top spot on Zhejiang Province's Honor Points Leaderboard.

———

After the tournament ended, Zhang Yue and Lin Tian's group reentered the Gate of Hell.

Additionally, Zhang Yue used excess Demon Blood to authorize Liu Yao, Li Xiaoyao, Tian Xin'er, and Su Jinyan to enter the Gate of Hell.

He even reluctantly authorized Infinite Phantom and Infinite Sword Saint.

After all, they'd worked for Zhang Yue the entire night—if not for merit, at least for the effort.

Infinite Sword Saint initially resisted, vowing, "I, Infinite Sword Saint, would rather starve outside than bow to Zero."

But after receiving authorization, entering the Gate of Hell, and getting lucky enough to obtain a 4-star Dark Set piece, he exclaimed: "Wow, amazing! Thank you, Boss Zero, for the authorization."

Who would have thought:

Once mortal enemies willing to fight to the death, Zhang Yue and Infinite Phantom now formed a party to farm together.

By the End of the Day

Through the day's efforts, Zhang Yue managed to find three Reaper Set pieces: Demon's Head (Hat), Demon's Feet (Shoes), and Demon's Word (Ring).

Just two more pieces, and the full Reaper Set would be complete.

———

Provincial Championship: Advanced Tournament

At 11 a.m., the competition concluded, with all provincial rankings announced online.

In every province, the top-ranked professionals caught the spotlight...

Classified according to the advanced pro players:

Guangyue Province Advanced First Place: Handsome Guy, Level 36 Knight, Honor Score 400 (full score), affiliated with Guild Handsome Club.

Chongyu Province Advanced First Place: Spicy Hotpot, Level 36 Assassin, Honor Score 400, affiliated with Guild Spicy Soup.

Zhening Province Advanced First Place: Zero, Level 39 Beast Tamer, Honor Score 400, affiliated with Guild Heavens Hall.

Tianjing Province Advanced First Place: Falling Dust, Level 38 Warrior, Honor Score 400, affiliated with Guild None. [T/N: Dark Horse of the tournament]

As the competition progressed to this stage, the top players on the provincial honor rankings began to attract widespread attention.

Various netizens posted their opinions and views online:

[Prince of Chongyu] (Chongyu Province Netizen): "Haha! Brothers, just ask if the name of our Chongyu Province's number one guild is awesome."

[Buddy, Call Me Handsome] (Guangyue Province Netizen): "Is it more awesome than our Guangyue Province's top guild?"

[TM... Where's My Sword?] (Sichuan Province Netizen): "Zhening Province's number one... Beast Tamer? Did I see that right? Since when is a Beast Tamer this strong?"

After the provincial championship ended, the elimination rate of pro players in each province reached as high as 99%, with only 1% of pro players advancing to participate in the final national challenge in seven days.

Zhang Yue, with the first place in the province, successfully claimed the highest prize: 1 million.

Meanwhile, Lin Tian, Wu Haotian, Ning Tiantian, and Ouyang Ling'er each secured the third, tenth, ninety-seventh, and one hundred and tenth places, receiving prizes of 800,000, 600,000, 400,000, and 300,000 respectively.

This made Ning Tiantian and Ouyang Ling'er, two girls whose savings had never exceeded 100,000, ecstatic.

Before this, they never dreamed they could enter the national challenge in the Pro Player Tournament.

The next morning.

On the way to the Gate of Hell.

Wu Haotian analyzed the rankings and said, "The first place in Tianjing is neither from the Tian Family nor Yaoguang? What's with this Guild None?"

"Don't underestimate this solo player; his strength is far above everyone here."

Hearing Ouyang Ling'er's words, Wu Haotian pointed at Zhang Yue and said, "Stronger than him?"

"On par with our guild leader." Ouyang Ling'er's evaluation even surprised Zhang Yue a bit.

Then, Ouyang Ling'er found a PK video from somewhere and presented it to Zhang Yue and the others.

In the video, a warrior in silver armor was being surrounded by dozens of pro players.

The next moment, countless sword shadows erupted from around the silver-armored warrior, sweeping through the surrounding crowd.

In an instant, all those dozens of pro players were killed by the sword shadows.

This was a video shot from a bystander's perspective, the entire process lasting only three seconds.

And that silver-armored warrior was the one ranked first in Tianjing's points list, a Level 38 warrior, only one level lower than Zhang Yue: Falling Dust.

"So strong!"

"What kind of class is this? I've never seen it before. Looks amazing."

Just when everyone on the scene, including the usually calm Lin Tian, was shocked by the overwhelming strength displayed by the silver-armored warrior in the video—

Zhang Yue, watching the video of the silver-armored warrior, couldn't help but recall a certain figure, feeling a sudden jolt in his heart.

After a long time, he murmured: "Legendary Class, Sword Emperor."

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