Fate Reignites: My Rampage in a World Where Time Stops

And for another update to occur on Blue Star, the first Mythical Level Player needed to emerge.

Thus, seeking the Mythical Stone in the Heavenly Dome Rank to make a Breakthrough turned out to be a chicken-and-egg cyclical deadlock.

Therefore, the only path left for Qin Chuan was clear.

To have an S-level instance descend into reality, upgrade it to an SS-level instance channel after the suppression was lifted, and then destroy the channel to obtain the core of the instance channel.

It was a path fraught with difficulties in every aspect...

Qin Chuan couldn't help but let out a sigh.

"Is it very hard to advance?" Seeing the expression on Qin Chuan's face, Lin Yue couldn't help but get worried.

"Indeed, it is hard," Qin Chuan slightly nodded, "Each Spiritual Beast needs a Mythical Stone for a Breakthrough to Legend Rank, and as for the Mythical Stone..."

Lin Yue fell silent after Qin Chuan explained the way to obtain the Mythical Stone.

"Just now, when you made your Breakthrough, there was another announcement on the global channel," she spoke softly, "It was similar to when Water Flower was the first to Breakthrough to Epic Rank."

Qin Chuan's heart sank, and he opened the global channel.

[Congratulations to Player [Luo] for being promoted to Epic Level Player!]

[As multiple powerful Epic Rank Lv50 Spiritual Beasts have appeared, Dream World's carrying capacity has further declined, and a greater number and higher Level Time-Space Rifts have broken free from suppression, soon to descend!]

[New SS-level Secret Realm added, to appear after the next entrance to Dream World opens!]

"This... makes things even more troublesome," he said softly after looking through it for a moment.

Previously, Water Flower's Breakthrough to Epic Rank caused an S-level instance to descend into reality, already sparking a minor global backlash against Qin Chuan. They believed that Qin Chuan's swift Breakthrough accelerated the arrival of the catastrophe.

These voices mainly emerged outside of Yanhuang Country and subsided quickly as Qin Chuan swept through the S-level Secret Realm, but those harboring such thoughts did not disappear.

The appearance of an SS-level Secret Realm was minor.

The SS-level instance that followed was the major issue.

By then, the waves of public opinion would surely reach a new peak.

Moreover, if Qin Chuan wanted to continue making Breakthroughs, he needed the S-level Secret Realm to descend and form a channel.

He could already imagine the tidal surge of public opinion then.

Lin Yue gently held Qin Chuan's hand, "No matter what, I'll stand by your side."

"Yeah," Qin Chuan squeezed Lin Yue's hand, "I'll contact the Special Affairs Group."

He initiated a friend chat with Feng Yin.

Soon, Feng Yin's image reappeared before his eyes.

"You've just made a big splash in the news right after I got off the phone," Feng Yin said with a helpless expression, "Anyway, congratulations on your promotion to Epic Level Player."

"If I'm not mistaken, what you want to discuss is related to the Mythical Stone, right? To obtain the Mythical Stone, an S-level instance needs to descend."

"You know?" Qin Chuan was slightly surprised, then quickly realized, "Insight?"

"Yeah," Feng Yin nodded, "I got this piece of intel a few days ago."

"The Special Affairs Group is already aware of this and has held several meetings about it."

"The higher-ups mean..." He looked at Qin Chuan and slowly continued, "As long as safety is ensured, the Special Affairs Group will provide support and control the domestic public opinion for you."

"But the prerequisite is ensuring safety," Feng Yin emphasized, "My personal advice is that you should wait until Yue Li also gets promoted before you try it. That will be safer."

"And if two people are not enough, you can wait until Dragon Halberd is promoted." His expression grew a bit strange, "Dragon Halberd has mastered Spirit Descent, and based on the priority of his Golden Talent, the Special Affairs Group will focus resources on him to push for an Epic Level."

"But it'll take some time," Feng Yin sighed, "Epic Rank resources are manageable, but Equipment Enhancement and crafting are too material-consuming."

"That guy is an absolute jinx."

From outside the chat, came Dragon Halberd's discontented grumbling.

"Have Dragon Halberd come over to District 5149," Qin Chuan said dryly, "Divine Cast is with us, so we should be able to help a bit with Equipment Enhancement."

The Special Affairs Group had helped him quite a bit, so it was only reasonable to ask Iron Hammer to assist them in return.

Nowadays, Iron Hammer was not only helping Qin Chuan and Lin Yue with their equipment, but whenever other Guild members' Spiritual Beasts reached Hall Level, they also asked him for Enhancement assistance.

The fact that Divine Cast was with the Luoyue Guild had long since become an open secret.

"Alright, I'll send him right over," Feng Yin agreed without hesitation, clearly already planning on it and just waiting for Qin Chuan to ask.

"Don't worry, I won't be reckless with the Mythical Stone," Qin Chuan said with a more serious expression, "An SS-level instance will descend soon, and I'll take on several more to ensure I can handle them before I try for the Mythical Stone."

"Good," Feng Yin nodded slightly, "Speaking of which, there's an A-level instance descending tomorrow, and your Breakthrough is just in time."

"Right," Qin Chuan nodded.

As the number of A-level instances rose, some naturally became uncontrollable. Although Qin Chuan prioritized tackling the ominous instances within the A-level ones, there were times when he arrived too late.

The A-level instance that would descend tomorrow was the first A-level instance to ever descend on Blue Star.

If it weren't for the fact that he was going to advance to Epic Rank in Dream World tonight, Qin Chuan would be somewhat anxious.

But now...

It's a minor issue.

After hanging up the phone, Qin Chuan's expression eased considerably.

Having the Special Affairs Group on his side made him much more optimistic about the potential public opinion pressure that might arise in the future.

The girl walking towards him snapped Qin Chuan back to reality.

In the next instant, she had thrown herself into his arms.

The warm, familiar body in his embrace slowly calmed his heart.

"Even if we don't want to become stronger, the ever-increasing instances are forcing us to do so," Lin Yue lifted her head and gazed firmly at the young man in front of her, speaking softly, "Don't blame everything on yourself."

"Okay," Qin Chuan nodded slightly.

With the daily increase in the number of instances, phenomena of descending instances had emerged incessantly over the past seven days.

In just seven days, over a hundred instances had descended into reality.

In the future, there would only be more.

The level of the descending instance pathways was always one rank higher than the instance level.

As Lin Yue said, the descending instances kept forcing the people of Blue Star to become stronger, and becoming stronger would lead to the arrival of even higher-level instances.

The only way out of this predicament was to break through to Mythical Level.

"Let's not think about these things anymore," Qin Chuan smiled, "I'll go complete my exclusive conquest."

He had yet to use his daily exclusive conquest for today.

Now that he had advanced to Epic Rank, all four of his Spiritual Beasts had made a qualitative leap in strength, and it was worth giving it a try.

Before today, the Luoyue Guild's daily rate of completing exclusive conquests had slowed down to just managing to kill 3 conquest bosses.

The health of conquest bosses had increased to an infuriating level.

In a flash, Qin Chuan and his four Spiritual Beasts disappeared on the spot.

The 71st conquest boss quickly fell, followed by the 72nd, 73rd…

Finally, Qin Chuan killed 9 conquest bosses within a minute, ending the fight.

The Conquest Points awarded for killing a single conquest boss officially broke through 40,000.

As usual, Qin Chuan used the Conquest Points to upgrade the Group Formation, and moments later, he revealed a delighted expression, "I can upgrade the second Array Map term now!"

Lin Yue smiled, "After spending so many Conquest Points, it's finally enough."

The first Array Map term [Emboldened in Battle] provided an effect that was already astonishing; the second one would surely not be far behind.

Taking a deep breath, Qin Chuan upgraded the last prerequisite Array Map to Lv10, then turned his attention to the second major Array Map.

[Would you like to spend 100,000 Conquest Points to upgrade [War Horn] to Lv1?]

[War Horn (Lv1): Increases the Spiritual Beast Species Value of all Contracted Spiritual Beasts of guild members in the vicinity by 0.25% per beast]

[The Group Formation affects all guild members]

[Yes][No]

True to form for a major Array Map, the upgrade cost a lot of points.

Qin Chuan felt a pang of heartache, but then, without any hesitation, he chose to upgrade.

The current War Horn was only Lv1, but following the previous pattern, the improvement rate could reach 2.5% by Lv10.

It seemed like a small increase, but in the Secret Realm, a five-person conquest team made up of Hall Level Players could include up to 20 Contracted Spiritual Beasts.

The effects brought by this Array Map term would result in a total increase of 50% Clan Value for everyone.

Without a doubt, this term was very powerful.

The remaining Conquest Points were only enough to upgrade War Horn to Lv1 for now.

After completing the Group Formation upgrade, Qin Chuan looked towards Lin Yue.

"Let's move on to the next Secret Realm."

Feng Yin was right, on the road to becoming stronger, he couldn't walk it alone.