Chapter 28: The Ultimate Victory
21,000 meters!!
This was the place where Chen Mo died for the second time. This stage was truly difficult—the entire path was frozen solid. If one stood upon it, they would be encased in ice; if one refused to step onto it, there was simply no way forward.
Chen Mo switched his ID to the Little Prince once more, letting the Little Prince die in place of his Demon King.
[Challenge failed. Final score: 0 meters. One challenge attempt remaining.]
The moment the dungeon reset, Chen Mo switched back to the Demon King. The system returned him to one second before his death.
Faced with the icy road ahead, shimmering with frost, Chen Mo found himself at an impasse. He knew that the moment he stepped forward, his body would freeze instantly.
This was utterly impossible for anyone to pass!
Chen Mo tried a Storm Fist, attempting to shatter the ice path.
But Storm Fist was useless; his fist hadn’t even touched the surface when it was immediately encased in ice.
This wasn’t the ordinary ice wall of beginner difficulty anymore. This was the Path of Ice, released only by an S-class Magus!
Ah—
Chen Mo’s body froze; he switched to the Little Prince ID.
[Challenge failed. Final score: 0 meters. Three challenge attempts used up.]
Poor Little Prince, all three challenge attempts had been spent as a scapegoat.
Chen Mo switched back to the Demon King ID, returning once again to the moment before his death.
21,000 meters. Chen Mo estimated that this was at least the difficult level; fewer than a thousand people worldwide could reach this stage.
And for someone like Chen Mo, who continued to flee after clearing the game for the first time and made it this far, not a single soul in the world had ever done it.
Chen Mo’s resolve began to waver. This score was already remarkable—perhaps he should stop here and claim his completion rewards.
But this wasn’t about rewards at all. Chen Mo refused to accept defeat; he had to clear this stage!
Gah!!
In a moment of distraction, Chen Mo forgot the gorilla had already leapt at him.
In panic, Chen Mo jumped hastily, dodging the gorilla’s lunge; the gorilla missed and fell onto the Path of Ice.
Watching the gorilla flail in rage atop the icy road, Chen Mo was ecstatic! I get it! I get it!! Hahaha!
Hahahahaha!
So this was how to clear the stage!
Smack!!
Before Chen Mo could celebrate, another gorilla behind him slapped him away.
At the moment of death, Chen Mo switched to the Kunlong ID!
I’m not afraid! I have plenty of alternate accounts!
[Challenge failed. Final score: 0 meters. Two challenge attempts remaining.]
Chen Mo mused that if he could have 100 IDs in the future, he would be truly invincible.
The dungeon reset. This time, Chen Mo’s gaze was no longer confused; he understood how to clear this stage—by using the invincible gorillas, dodging their lunges, then jumping onto their backs, one after another!
Gah—
As if scripted, the gorilla lunged at him. Chen Mo easily dodged, the gorilla missed, and fell onto the ice.
Chen Mo jumped onto the gorilla’s back.
Garr!
The second gorilla followed, lunging at him. Chen Mo leapt high, dodging the second gorilla’s attack. The second gorilla missed and fell in front of the first. Chen Mo then hopped onto the second gorilla’s back.
From there, everything fell into place—it became much easier.
The third gorilla missed and fell; he jumped onto the third. The fourth missed and fell; he jumped onto the fourth. The fifth missed and fell; he jumped onto the fifth.
To hell with the Path of Ice! I’ve made it across!
This overwhelming sense of achievement and joy was more exhilarating than any reward for completion.
Chen Mo finally understood the joy of this game.
He also grasped its true mechanics: heaven never bars all paths. Whether you’re a warrior apprentice, a mage apprentice, or an ordinary person, there is always at least one way to clear the stage—it’s just a matter of whether you can think of it.
If it were an ordinary person facing the Path of Ice, they would have gone mad long ago.
Only someone like Chen Mo, with alternate accounts and a steady mindset, could discover the method for clearing the stage.
Once you get the hang of it, everything becomes possible!
Once Chen Mo mastered the trick, he blazed through all sorts of difficult and twisted stages!
Whenever he made a mistake and died, he simply switched to the Kunlong ID and used his cheat to restart!
Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding!
The delightful sound of coins rang endlessly. Chen Mo strolled leisurely, navigating the twisted stages with ease.
He even discovered a hidden side quest while passing through a cave. Following the path, he found a treasure chest, and upon opening it, discovered a golden belt.
[Ordinary Person’s Belt]
[Quality: E-level ordinary]
[Attributes: Strength +2, Constitution +2, Agility +2]
[Note: Can be used by ordinary characters to attack]
Chen Mo laughed. No wonder ordinary people couldn’t buy equipment—apparently, all ordinary gear must be obtained from treasure chests. But this was so stingy.
Others had warriors, bold and imposing, wielding mighty silver swords.
Mages, mysterious and unfathomable, brandishing dazzling staffs.
But ordinary people? Just a belt. Chen Mo couldn’t imagine himself pulling a belt straight from his waistband to whip someone—that was far too embarrassing!
Still, something was better than nothing. Chen Mo equipped the golden belt around his waist and continued his sprint.
In the nick of time, emerging alive from death.
How many times had Chen Mo escaped death? How many times had he teetered on the edge?
Yet each time, through extraordinary skill, he passed through danger.
25,000 meters!
26,000 meters!
29,000 meters!
29,500 meters!
29,999 meters!
30,000 meters!!
At last, after exhausting the six challenge attempts from “Little Prince” and “Kunlong” IDs, and with failure lurking at every moment, Chen Mo reached 30,000 meters!
[Congratulations! Temple Escape completed! Final score: 30,000 meters. Reward: 30,000 points; 1,200 gold coins, extra 120,000 points.]
[Received: Newbie difficulty completion reward *1, Normal difficulty completion reward *1, Hard difficulty completion reward *1]
[Since the player chose to continue challenging after clearing the Newbie difficulty for the first time and completed all stages, all rewards are doubled in quantity and quality.]
Cleared? All stages cleared?!!
Chen Mo could hardly believe it—he had cleared every stage! But it made sense; this dungeon was a beginner’s dungeon, it couldn’t be too difficult. If the completion rate were less than 10%, the second batch of Evolution Orbs wouldn’t be able to reach Earth.
Hehehe, double the joy, double the rewards!!
Salivating in anticipation, Chen Mo eagerly opened his completion rewards.
[Would you like to open Temple Escape—Newbie difficulty completion reward?]
[Yes]
A green treasure chest appeared before Chen Mo. With a clang, the chest opened automatically, and green light shone forth.
[Golden Armor]
[Quality: D-level excellent armor]
[Attributes: Constitution +20]
[Note: Collecting all six pieces of golden equipment grants special attribute bonuses]
Salivation! Salivation!! Constitution +20—a truly miraculous bonus. The best-selling armor on the Evolution Forum was the E-level Silver Armor, Constitution +5, which had already fetched a price of ten million! This Golden Armor—he could not imagine how much it would be worth.
Originally, the Newbie difficulty reward would at most yield E-level ordinary equipment, but thanks to Chen Mo’s double rewards and double joy, the quality upgraded, granting him high-level gear. The feeling was nothing short of exhilarating.