With a single move, Silver Crimson Snow's Bloodbog instantly wiped out all hundred-plus monsters.

The gear on those monsters dropped one after another. Qin Yu scooped it all up without a second thought. He'd spent a million to unlock storage space for one reason only—picking up trash.

"Not great, Xiaoxue. Your attack was too over the top just now. These pieces are all damaged."

The equipment dropped by those hundred-plus monsters had been wrecked by Silver Crimson Snow's overwhelming attack. If he sold them, the price would be heavily slashed.

And repairing them wasn't worth it at all. In Qin Yu's eyes, white, green, and blue-grade gear were all consumables. Use them and toss them. Anyone who paid to repair them was an idiot. The repair cost could buy a new one anyway.

Silver Crimson Snow looked completely unconcerned. Her cold red eyes swept toward Qin Yu as she replied in a careless tone, "You even collect this kind of trash, servant?"

The meaning was obvious. She thought Qin Yu looked like a garbage picker.

"If you can hand over 1 million gold, Xiaoxue, then I definitely won't pick up trash anymore."

Qin Yu knew Silver Crimson Snow very well. She was still stuck in that phase of going from luxury to frugality. She had no idea how hard life in the mortal world really was.

"..."

Silver Crimson Snow didn't really understand what 1 million gold meant. She'd barely dealt with money before, so Qin Yu's words made her pause for a moment.

"Servant, while I don't have 1 million gold, you can trade this sword for that scrap metal in your hand..."

To ease the awkwardness, Silver Crimson Snow summoned the Bloodwood Coffin. From within, she took out a basket-hilted sword woven from dark red and black. Where the blade met the hilt was a red thorn-shaped guard.

She tossed the sword to Qin Yu, and Qin Yu gladly caught it.

"Thanks, Xiaoxue~"

Seeing his reaction, it was almost like he'd known all along that she would take out this sword.

And wasn't that exactly the case? Qin Yu had said all that just to get Silver Crimson Snow to hand Bloodthorn over on her own. Now his plan had worked.

"Servant, I keep feeling like you know me very well?"

Floating in midair, Silver Crimson Snow drifted close to Qin Yu. She wanted to read something from his eyes.

But Qin Yu looked sincerely honest.

"We're practically an old married couple already. Of course we understand each other~"

Seeing her so close, Qin Yu reached out and lightly patted her on the head.

The sudden pat startled Silver Crimson Snow a little. Then her expression turned serious. "Servant, you are not allowed to be so rude to your master."

"How is that rude? Isn't this a pretty normal way for lovers to get along? If you don't like it, I'll switch methods."

As he spoke, Qin Yu replaced the light pat with a gentle stroke. At once, Silver Crimson Snow's expression turned complicated again. She couldn't quite be angry, but she couldn't quite be happy either.

"Servant, are you done touching me yet?"

"Mhm. Xiaoxue, your hair is still as soft as ever."

"..."

Silver Crimson Snow felt that this man called Qin Yu was truly very strange. It was like he really, really understood her.

"Where are we going next?"

"Obviously somewhere with good stuff. This place is basically a treasure vault."

Before coming here, Qin Yu had already done his homework. He had marked down the locations of the important treasures in the Bloodsoul Domain. Those things would be crucial to his future growth. He had to get them.

"Then lead the way, servant. I'll help depending on the situation. That's assuming you don't end up too pathetic..."

That statement was full of contradictions. If Qin Yu ever needed her help, that would definitely be when he was at his most miserable. She was clearly saying it because she didn't want to help.

But Qin Yu understood her. She was just talking tough. When it was really time to help, she moved faster than anyone.

Qin Yu led from the front, heading toward the next place in the Bloodsoul Domain where a treasure lay buried. This treasure was the most important one, so he had to get it first. Only with it could the others be used to their fullest.

—

Back in the Nameless Graveyard, Tang was thinking about how to deal with these treasures.

Three purple rare weapons, two purple accessories, and a number of weapons and pieces of equipment below purple grade.

"If I sold all this right now, it'd probably be enough to make ten million, right?"

It was only the first day of launch, yet Tang had already gotten purple rare gear. If she listed it on the auction house, it would definitely trigger a frenzy. No one was taking it for less than several hundred thousand.

As the saying went, if you wanted to make money in an online game, you had to seize the moment. And right now, Tang was standing before the exact opportunity countless game merchants dreamed of.

"I'm not short on money anyway. I'll just keep them as souvenirs! If I run into that guy again, maybe I'll ask if he wants any of this..."

If any game merchant knew Tang was wasting valuables like this, they'd probably strangle her on the spot. These were goods that could be hyped to sky-high prices at launch and used to fleece rich players. Yet Tang was treating them like keepsakes?

"I can equip this ring and necklace first, and this dagger too. The bow and longsword can go into storage..."

Very soon, Tang equipped the two purple accessories and a purple dagger.

She immediately felt her body grow lighter, and her strength rose a little too. She was very satisfied with the stat boosts those two accessories gave her.

"Wait, equipment doesn't have level requirements?"

It seemed this game's equipment had no wearing restrictions at all. As long as you got it, you could use it.

Of course, there was a downside. Once purple-grade or higher items were equipped, there was a chance they'd drop if you died.

You gained some, you lost some.

"They're only giving out the character aptitude template after exploring the Pantheon Realms. This game really is weird..."

After packing everything up, Tang prepared to set out again. She wondered if she'd run into Qin Yu one more time.

Then again, forget it. She didn't want to see that nasty woman.

—

As Qin Yu neared his destination, he was thinking about the character aptitude template. In this game, there were two ways to get your first aptitude template.

The first was entering the game normally at the start. The system would assign a template based on your own personal level. Generally, templates obtained this way were trash. Aptitude was usually 1 or 2, with only a few reaching 3.

Basically, that was just cannon fodder fate.

The second was entering the Pantheon Realms within the first seven days after launch and taking part in the trial. Depending on what you gained there, you'd receive character templates of different levels.

With the second method, even if you entered the Pantheon Realms on the very last day, at the very last second, then got kicked out when time ran out, you'd still get an aptitude 4 character template. That was leagues above players who joined the game later.

One had to know that raising aptitude was one of the hardest things in the game. It was even harder than increasing strength.

Once aptitude was fixed into a template, the only way to improve it was through extremely rare items. In his previous life, those items were hyped to over a hundred million each in the game market, and even then they were almost impossible to buy.

The goal Qin Yu had set for himself was at least an aptitude 7 template, because aptitude 7 was a massive dividing line.

In his previous life, after stumbling through all kinds of setbacks, he had only gotten an aptitude 6 character template. Things were fine at first, but later on he got beaten for a very long time before finally relying on luck to raise his aptitude to 7 and break through to Rank 7.

In the game, everything below Rank 7 could be called ants. Not for any other reason, but because only upon reaching Rank 7 did one qualify to awaken their own Fated Artifact. And only Rank 7 beings could deal damage to the Rank 10 gods...