After gaining some experience, Zhou Yan's courage grew significantly. He led Diao Chan deeper into the forest.
To be precise, Diao Chan led him, and he just needed to gain experience from behind.
If Diao Chan wasn't so powerful, Zhou Yan wouldn't have dared venture so deep into the forest.
He could only hope that no too powerful monsters would appear.
Before becoming a lord, he often practiced basic swordsmanship, but practical combat was different from practice.
He needed to find monsters suitable for his actual combat experience.
Those low-level monsters were his best sparring partners.
According to Zhou Yan's estimation, with Diao Chan's current stats and skills, she could easily handle even a Level 10 monster.
They encountered monsters again. It was a Level 1 Wild Rabbit.
Despite being a rabbit, it was already a meter long, with very sharp claws and teeth. A bite would be disastrous.
[Monster: Wild Rabbit]
[Quality: Normal]
[Level: 1]
[Special: None]
[Description: A leisurely and cute little bunny.]
Zhou Yan stopped Diao Chan and said, "Let me try. I can handle it."
While being protected felt good, Zhou Yan didn't want to rely on it forever.
"Okay, be careful."
Diao Chan didn't stray too far from Zhou Yan. She stood nearby, ready to quickly dispatch the rabbit demon if Zhou Yan was in danger.
These rabbit demons were not cute; they were too large.
Taking the beginner sword from Diao Chan, Zhou Yan sprinted towards the wild rabbit.
He pushed off the ground and leaped, drawing his sword towards the rabbit.
"Poof!"
Before the wild rabbit could even react, it was instantly slain.
[Killed Level 1 Wild Rabbit, bonus reward of 2 Spirit Coins.]
Zhou Yan was surprised. He had never possessed such speed and strength before.
The colorful lord space had greatly increased his attributes. While he couldn't compare to Diao Chan, he was undoubtedly the strongest among lords of the same level.
Other lords of the same level could only reach a maximum of 1 point in attributes.
His previous four-dimensional stats were less than 1 point. Now, his Strength was 1.5, Constitution 1.5, Agility 3 points, and Spirit Power reached an astonishing 6 points.
These were his stats at Level 0. If others knew, they would be dumbfounded.
Monsters killed in the wild could be collected as food and would not respawn.
It was different in the territory. Monsters that died within the territory would respawn after a period.
After collecting the rabbit, they continued to explore the mist.
His colorful lord space had a mobile space, equivalent to a storage warehouse. It was currently only ten square meters and could be expanded with Spirit Coins.
The monsters here were cunning and adept at using the terrain to hide. Before long, they were attacked by Black Scale Snakes again.
Unfortunately, these monsters were too low-level and were quickly defeated by them.
Besides Black Scale Snakes and Wild Rabbits, they encountered several other Level 1 monsters.
These low-level monsters were no match for him. Diao Chan didn't even need to act; Zhou Yan could handle them himself.
His combat experience was rapidly increasing.
His attributes weren't bad; he just lacked combat experience.
With Diao Chan by his side, his safety was guaranteed. He had to grow quickly.
As the battles increased, Zhou Yan found his perception also sharpening significantly.
The only regret was that none of the wooden treasure chests yielded any equipment.
The drop rate for equipment was pitifully low.
Most of these chests were opened by Diao Chan. If he opened them, he would mostly get Spirit Coins, usually just one.
Therefore, Zhou Yan stopped opening chests.
He handed them over to Diao Chan, who had higher luck.
Diao Chan did not disappoint him, mostly yielding Soul Coins.
A while later, Zhou Yan found a spot, took out some food, and offered it to Diao Chan, "Eat this. See if you like the taste."
Diao Chan curiously took the packaging and asked, "What is this?"
"This is bread. If you like it, I'll bring you more later."
Zhou Yan replied while teaching Diao Chan how to tear open the packaging.
"Mmm, the taste is quite unique."
Even when eating, Diao Chan was graceful, taking small bites of the bread with her cherry lips.
This made Zhou Yan feel like he was admiring a work of art, his eyes fixed on Diao Chan. She was too beautiful; why would he look at trees instead?
Diao Chan's delicate face blushed again. She was so adorable. Zhou Yan couldn't resist the urge to hug her, but he refrained.
Despite her shyness, who would have thought she was so decisive when killing monsters?
His Soul Coin count rose to 98, and Spirit Coins reached 172.
Still no equipment.
It was hard to get equipment even with increased luck when fighting low-level monsters.
He was only 2 Soul Coins away from reaching 100.
They arrived at another location and saw a rather tall monster in the distance. Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be a Level 5 Werewolf.
"A Level 5 monster, and an elite monster at that!"
[Monster: Werewolf]
[Quality: Elite]
[Level: 5]
[Special: Low-level Strength Enhancement]
[Description: Werewolves roam the mists, tearing prey with their sharp claws. Beware of their sharp teeth and strength.]
Zhou Yan looked at the werewolf and then spotted a treasure chest. He exclaimed in surprise, "There's a treasure chest! And it's a Bronze Treasure Chest!"
He wasn't confident he could handle a Level 5 elite and turned to Diao Chan.
"Diao Chan, can you handle it?"
"Don't worry, leave it to me."
Diao Chan took the beginner sword from Zhou Yan. With a few leaps, she had drawn her sword and charged at the werewolf.
She was breathtakingly beautiful, even her back view was like that of a celestial maiden.
"Sword Immortal Strike!"
"Poof!"
"Bang!"
Zhou Yan saw that the werewolf didn't even have time to react before being instantly killed by Diao Chan.
[Killed Level 5 Elite Werewolf, bonus reward of 10 Soul Coins.]
"A full 10 Soul Coins as a reward!"
Zhou Yan was astonished. High-level monsters indeed brought greater rewards. A Level 5 elite monster gave him 10 Soul Coins, a much higher yield than killing small monsters.
Of course, this was also because Diao Chan was powerful enough.
With this, his Soul Coins reached 108, enough for an upgrade.
He pondered that spending 100 Soul Coins for his own upgrade might not have a significant effect.
He quickly opened Diao Chan's attribute list and began upgrading her.
[Soul Coins -100, Hero Diao Chan's Level upgraded to 2.]
Zhou Yan quickly looked at Diao Chan's attributes.
[Hero: Diao Chan]
[Gender: Female]
[Age: 18]
[Race: Human]
[Lord Affiliation: Zhou Yan]
[Quality: rrr]
[Loyalty: 100]
[Level: 1]
[Charm: 52 (Base 5)]
[Luck: 12 (Base 1)]
[Strength: 8 (Base 0.6)]
[Constitution: 9 (Base 0.7)]
[Agility: 10 (Base 0.8)]
[Spirit: 17 (Base 1.5)]
[Talent: Lotus Holy Body, Recovery Speed +100%, Attack Power +100%.]
[Skills: Lotus Swordplay, Holy Lotus Art.]
[Special 1: Top Beauty of the Three Kingdoms: Speed +100%.]
[Special 2: One of the Four Great Beauties: All attributes +10%. For every additional Great Beauty in battle, all attributes +10%. When all Four Great Beauties fight together, all attributes +100%.]
[Special 3: Overthrowing Nations and Charming Cities: Can greatly increase the loyalty of territory residents.]
[Description: Evolved by mysterious energy, base attributes increased tenfold.]