Honkai: Star Rail: Developing a Star Rail Mobile Game at the Company

[Mara is the fate of the Long-Lived Species. If one day I become Mara-Struck, you must show no mercy.]

[Yes... Master...]

His words became prophecy. The scene shifted.

In the darkness, Jingliu knelt on the ground, curled up and trembling nonstop as pained whimpers escaped her!

[Those who fall to Mara have their senses twisted and lose all humanity. Go back, Jing Yuan. Jingliu is already gone.]

Memories from the past jolted Jing Yuan awake like sharp ice spikes. When he came back to himself, Jingliu had already swung several streaks of frigid sword energy, knocking him back several yards. The lingering force of the sword energy even caused the ruins behind him to collapse again!

Jingliu's slow footsteps echoed through the scene. She had already fallen to Mara and unleashed great chaos; countless Cloud Knights had been buried here!

Jing Yuan looked ahead, his golden eyes flickering continuously. The emotions within them tugged at the audience's hearts!

When had that mature, steady, utterly composed Divine General ever revealed such an expression? His current circumstances were simply too cruel!

Yet no matter how unwilling he was, it was time to end this!

Chapter 63: This Is the Last Lesson

Jing Yuan in the short film recalled Jingliu's teachings.

He closed his eyes and lowered his head, his brow trembling.

Jing Yuan knew that the best thing to do now was to follow the words his master had once told him!

At last, Jing Yuan opened his eyes and looked at Jingliu. The hesitation in his gaze no longer flickered, and his eyes became incomparably resolute!

The previously mournful BGM also began to reach its climax!

It seemed to lament the reality of master and disciple turning their blades on each other, and to bid farewell to the previous Sword Master who had fallen to Mara!

The cruel scene and tragic music blended perfectly together, leaving every audience member heartsore!

Jing Yuan no longer concealed his aura. His immense power transformed into vast golden energy that erupted around him!

A majestic, imposing golden spirit form began to emerge behind him—the power of a Hunt Envoy!

Jing Yuan gripped the Formation Blade in both hands, while the towering golden spirit form behind him assumed its stance as well!

[Goodbye, Master.]

[Allow your disciple to repay the grace of your teachings with this move!]

He swung the Formation Blade, and the Divine General's Manifestation struck!

Within sunlight-like golden radiance, Jingliu watched with lifeless eyes. Until the very instant her form scattered away, the curve of her lips seemed to form a faint, gratified smile!

This scene drew sighs from countless people!

They lamented the cruelty of falling to Mara, and the tragedy of master and disciple killing each other!

March 7th's eyes immediately reddened.

"Didn't you say the sweet part was coming later? Liar! Boohoo!"

"I-I mean, it is coming!"

In the room next door, Dan Heng had already turned his gaze toward the window, his expression incomparably complicated.

After their past lives committed that grave mistake and were imprisoned in the Prison of Imprisonment, Jingliu fell to Mara while cleaning up the aftermath. Jing Yuan personally dealt with his master Jingliu after she became Mara-Struck!

Dan Heng, meanwhile, ultimately lost all his memories and reincarnated due to the Abundance Dragon Clan's rebirth. That was clearly unfair to the others, who retained their complete memories!

Perhaps that was why Blade kept hunting Dan Heng. Beyond his desire to kill Dan Heng, it was more about using his own immortal, guilty body to remind him!

Don't forget—the tragedy of master and disciple killing each other was caused by you and me. You must remember this past for life after life!

Fu Xuan was also somewhat surprised upon seeing this. As the Grand Diviner, she naturally had access to certain secrets.

The previous Sword Master Jingliu had fallen to Mara and was dealt with by Jing Yuan himself. That was the record Fu Xuan knew.

But now that she had seen such a detailed account and learned that Jingliu was Jing Yuan's master, Fu Xuan could not help feeling emotional. Jing Yuan's usual lazy expression surfaced in her mind.

As for Jing Yuan, Yanqing beside him looked even more excited than he was!

"General, that Sister Jingliu really is your master? No, not Sister—I should be calling her Ancestral Master, right? I even saw her on the Luofu before!"

Having already learned that Jingliu had arrived together with Luocha, Jing Yuan's gaze deepened.

Faced with this master who had fallen to Mara and completely embarked on a path of Destruction to take revenge against Abundance, Jing Yuan had no way of predicting what she would do next.

The short film continued, and the scene shifted.

It was the same place, but unlike the previous dusk, the sunlight was now bright and splendid. The little tree from years ago had also grown into a towering tree!

[Nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-eight... Nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine... Ten thousand!]

A young boy was tirelessly swinging his sword. Jing Yuan stood to one side, guiding him just as Jingliu had guided him in the past. It was only that now, Jing Yuan was guiding young Yanqing.

[As a Cloud Knight, you must not let your weapon leave your hand or allow your form to slacken.]

Unlike before, Jing Yuan now smiled reassuringly.

[But you're still too young. You can't be considered a Cloud Knight yet.]

Yanqing turned his youthful face back, the vigor unique to youth bursting forth uncontrollably.

[I want to become a legend remembered by the Xianzhou someday, just like the general!]

Jing Yuan smiled faintly.

[What's so great about that? This road hasn't been easy.]

[But didn't you make it step by step to where you are now, General?]

Seeing the spirited look on Yanqing's face, Jing Yuan fell silent for a moment.

A breeze swept past. Perhaps Jing Yuan had recalled what he had been like in his youth; then, he smiled.

[Since you're so fired up, how about we spar?]

[Sure! I won't go easy on you!]

With that, the short film ended on the image of the two facing off!

Shock—an overwhelming sense of shock echoed through the Audience's hearts!

"So this is Divine General Jing Yuan? I'd never known much about him before, but this one short film has already established General Jing Yuan's image in my mind!"

"My heart hurts so much. Having to personally deal with his own Master... Jing Yuan is so lucky he hasn't become Mara-Struck yet!"

"Waaaaah! At the end, Jingliu regained her senses, right? She smiled with relief!"

"Jing Yuan, this is The Last Lesson. Make your move!"

"What a massive blade—this lured us in just to stab us!"

"This is Space Comedy!"

"The video even ended with Jing Yuan and Yanqing, and it's practically identical to Jingliu and Jing Yuan from before!"

"Don't let it end with Jing Yuan becoming Mara-Struck and Yanqing having to deal with him!"

"Jing Yuan: This is The Last Lesson, Yanqing. Make your move!"

"Don't!!!"

"Waaah, Mara-Struck are the worst!"

"Ugh, Plague Lord of Abundance!"

"Ugh, world!"

"World: SO?"

"Jingliu is so pretty too! Reality is so cruel—can't you make her a playable character in the game?"

"Yeah, another White-Haired Red-Eyed beauty, and she's got the adult female model too. Official team, do you even know how to make money?"

"Wake up. Judging by the short film, she probably turned to ashes!"

"Hurry up, when exactly is the Jing Yuan Gacha coming out?!"

"Right! And that move he used to defeat Jingliu in the video was so cool! It absolutely has to be made into a character skill!"

"In the storybooks back home, I think that was called Dharma Aspect Heaven and Earth. It was so intimidating!"

"I normally don't pull male characters, but he's just too gorgeous!"

"This short film was seriously so good. It's way better than some of those trash movies on the market that claim to have invested billions, only to serve up a steaming pile of crap. I think one of them was called Fire at Me!"

"Hurry up and make an anime already!"

The Audience discussed it fervently below. In less than an hour, the video's views had already reached an astonishing one billion!

Moreover, every metric for the video was still skyrocketing, and the game's popularity within the system began rising sharply as well!

Registered Users: 5.02 billion

Current Online Users: 1.03 billion

Discussion Heat: 2.27 billion

Game Points: 2.53 billion

This was the surge in data that came after opening up the Luofu market!

Looking at those thriving numbers was like seeing rows upon rows of fat, fertile leeks laid out Before their eyes, waiting for him to harvest them!

But Lin Guang also understood that this was not yet the time to maximize profits!

After all, Luofu promotion had only begun a day ago. The numbers would continue to rise steadily afterward!

By the day the Jing Yuan Gacha truly went live, Lin Guang figured he might be able to save up half an Emanator. The future was promising!

Over the following days, Lin Guang began submitting business-trip applications to the company, preparing to travel to film and television companies across the major star systems to discuss collaborations.

However, after Lin Guang finished dealing with work and began his daily routine of checking private messages, he discovered that quite a few fans had tagged him to watch a video!

With the emergence of Honkai: Star Rail's Creator Incentive Program, more and more bloggers began turning their attention to this newly emerged traffic market.

Fu Xue Zhi Zhong was one such blogger. Most of his videos demonstrated BUGs within games for players and provided tutorials.

As a result, players also called him a BUG Zone Blogger—the game's official lifelong nemesis!

Whenever Fu Xue Zhi Zhong uploaded a video about an update, programmers at countless game companies felt their hearts skip a beat!

They feared this immortal would find some bizarre angle to uncover a bug in their game, forcing them to dig through that mountain of garbage code for a solution again!

And now, Fu Xue Zhi Zhong had set his sights on Honkai: Star Rail!

For some reason, Lin Guang suddenly felt a chill run down his back!

"Phew... I just have this feeling that something's not right."

This time, Fu Xue Zhi Zhong's bug video was titled—How to Make Characters Gigantic!

The moment the video was released, Fu Xue Zhi Zhong's longtime fans flocked in to watch!

"Here it comes, the programmers' daily commission!"

"It's time for my favorite bug segment again!"

"Yuan Nong Zhou's programmers: dodged a bullet!"

"Fu Xue Zhi Zhong has finally set his hands on Star Rail? Hahahaha!"

"By the way, what game is this Star Rail? I feel like I've seen ads for it recently!"

Among the onlooking fans were players who had already started playing, as well as passersby who had not yet tried it. Some even downloaded Star Rail because of this video.

Back to the video.

"Hello, everyone! I'm your Astral Bug Zone content creator, Fu Xue Zhi Zhong!

With the launch of Honkai: Star Rail, I'm sure quite a few of you have already started playing.

So today, Fu Xue Zhi Zhong is bringing you an incredibly useful and absolutely broken bug in Star Rail!

The Super Gigantification Bug—it can make characters expand without limit and turn into Giants!