Taking Stock of the Spoils!

Su Yitang stared wide-eyed at the system notification: "It can be like this?"

Yang Shan: "Of course, the vast majority of players are still sentimental. Even if their own cats and dogs die of natural causes, they will be sad for a long time, let alone people they have spent a long time with in the game?"

"If there's really no other way and the players' morale is completely broken, the Tian Yao Company building might be stormed and destroyed by the players!"

"However, as you can see, you need to have a high enough level of affinity with the player to be eligible to start the 'resurrection' storyline."

The "resurrection" of NPCs is a special feature of Tian Yao Company.

In the original novel, Yao Lao, as the Continent's Number One Alchemist, can recover even if his body is destroyed and his soul is severely damaged.

Another person who was "resurrected" was "Heavenly Flame Venerable," an important ally in Xiao Yan's journey to the Central Plains.

Xiao Yan has also captured the souls of his opponents after killing them on more than one occasion.

With this premise in place, it makes perfect sense for "resurrection" to be included in the game.

Tian Yao Company spent countless hours creating the AI system, ensuring NPC interaction. Naturally, they also wanted to ensure that players' years of "connections" within Battle Through the Heavens wouldn't go to waste.

In reality, life and death are irreversible, but in games they can be reversed, though at a cost. The attention to detail in Tian Yao Company's game operation is truly admirable!

To make players willingly spend their time and energy to save their important bonds in the game!

Yang Shan still remembered that in his previous life, when Yao Lao was rescued, the development of all Alchemist in the entire server was almost at a standstill! Tian Yao Company waited until all the Alchemist players triggered Yao Lao's opportunity before arranging for Yao Lao to be imprisoned by Han Feng! Their malicious intentions drove all the Alchemist players crazy.

Kill Han Feng, save Yao Lao! The progress bar for Yao Lao's resurrection was so fast that even Lord Lao himself would shake his head if he saw it with the Nine Revolutions Golden Pill!

At that stage, the highest level a player could reach was not Dou Zong, and the goal was to revive a Dou Zun Peak. Yang Shan was one of those players at that time.

Upon hearing Su Qian's announcement and the system notification.

All the players in the Inner Courtyard rallied.

The female players, who were crying earlier, are now frantically searching for tissues to wipe their faces.

After all, women are naturally beauty-conscious, and it wouldn't look good to cry and ruin your makeup in front of so many people.

Fortunately, no foolish men chose to laugh at this moment, otherwise they would probably have been attacked by the crowd.

In front of all the players, Su Qian had several elders who cultivated ice-attribute Dou Qi present to create Ice Coffin using the finest materials, and placed the corpses of the eight elders inside.

He then activated some kind of secret technique to create a seal on the Ice Coffin.

"Their physical bodies are dead, but their souls have been temporarily suppressed by me. With Ice Coffin, their bodies can be preserved for ten years without decaying. They died for the academy and for the students, so naturally our academy will not do nothing!"

"Besides asking the Guardians to help, I will bring out all the materials available in the academy to revive the eight elders!"

After Su Qian finished speaking, the players noticed that the elder's resurrection progress bar in the relevant list jumped from 0% to 35%!

"The Great Elder is wise!"

"Great Elder, you are a good person!"

"I made the right choice. Coming from the Jia Ma Empire to the Jia Nan Academy was the right decision!"

"Actually, I was originally a player from the Chuyun Empire, but now I'm a player from the Jia Nan Academy!"

Su Qian waved her hand:

"In this battle, all the students performed exceptionally well. However, the battle has just ended, and the elders are also quite exhausted. In a few days, I will have the elders tally your contributions and award you the prizes. Not a single one of you will be shortchanged!"

Upon hearing this, many players immediately began to be polite. "Oh, Great Elder, what are you saying? Elders, please rest! Sleeping for three or five days won't hurt!"

"Yeah, yeah, yeah, they won't renege on their debt anyway!"

"I am a student of the Jia Nan Academy, this is what I should do, but I know the academy is always fair and there will definitely be a reward!"

Just then, Yu Feifei suddenly raised a megaphone and pointed it at the sky:

"Thanks, Great God Yang, for letting me earn points! Love you!"

Many players were so saddened by the elder's death that they forgot about this incident.

While they were being used Blood Rampage by Xue Kuangbiao, it was Yang Shan who bravely stepped forward, single-handedly drawing away a vicious Four Star Dou Huang.

Not only did they defeat their opponents, they even managed to bring the Heavenly Dou Wang down to the ground, allowing them to participate in the storyline and earn points.

"As his name suggests, Yang Shan is truly kind!"

"Thank you, Yang Shan Great God!"

"Honestly, I was able to snag a kill on a Dou Wang thanks entirely to the help of Yang Shan Great God and all my brothers!"

"Damn! You got the kill? How come you're so lucky? What did it drop?"

"A piece of top-grade armor with Blue Word Seal! Plus a Mystic Rank Intermediate Dou Skills with Purple Word Seal!"

"Holy crap! We've hit the jackpot!"

Seeing a group of players waving on the ground, Su Yitang felt a little jealous. "Oh, boss, you're so nice!"

Yang Shan rolled his eyes at Su Yitang: "I've roughly calculated the profits, and you'll get 400,000."

Su Yitang's eyes were seeing stars:

"Really? Wow, my boss is so good to me! I love you!"

Xiao Xun'er and Zi Yan also flew over one after the other.

Xiao Xun'er asked with concern:

"Junior, are you alright?"

Zi Yan asked with concern, "Yang Shan, is he alright?"

Yang Shan: "."

Zi Yan... well, enough of that! Children speak without thinking!

Yang Shan: "I'm fine, senior. Let's go to your place and rest for a bit. This battle must have been quite tiring."

Zi Yan raised her hand:

"I want to go too! I want to go too!"

Lin Xiuya originally wanted to go and ask Xiao Xun'er if she was injured.

But he saw that Xiao Xun'er's eyes were full of Yang Shan.

Liu Qing had originally intended to go and ask Su Yitang if she was injured.

But he saw that Su Yitang had a big smile on her face when she faced Yang Shan.

Finally, Lin Xiuya and Liu Qing exchanged a glance and both gave a wry smile.

It truly is a case of "disdainful longing."

Just then, Great Elder Su Qian suddenly took to the air, accompanied by a group of elders.

Su Qian shouted:

"Xiao Aotian, Li Batian, Lin Xiuya, Liu Qing, Yan Hao, all of you, come here!"

The group followed the instructions and came to Su Qian's side.

Su Qian said irritably:

"What are you doing here? Go to Yang Shan's side!"

All nine Dou Wang students from the Inner Courtyard gathered together.

As for Blood Rampage, let's not even mention it!

Although Blood Rampage's points won't be deducted, the elders aren't blind to what he did.

Su Qian shook his sleeves, stretched out his fingers and put them together. "On behalf of the Jia Nan Academy, I thank you all!"

The elders behind them also bowed and said, "Thank you all!"

Yang Shan received a system message: [Ding! Player, please note that due to your outstanding contributions to protecting Jia Nan Academy in this main storyline, ranking first in points, your points reward will be personally selected for you by Great Elder Su Qian of the Inner Courtyard!]

How pleasing those words are! Great Elder Su Qian personally selected them! Just for those words alone, Yang Shan deserves to bow respectfully in return.

"It's a student's duty!"

The others also immediately bowed in greeting:

"It is a student's duty."

Although it was done in a very serious manner, one could clearly feel the sincerity of the elders when one was there.

This sincerity, which is rarely seen in real life, is the best reason for players to stay in this virtual world!

Yang Shan: "Elders, you've all had a hard time in this battle. Let's all go and rest." (I still have a lot of loot to deal with, it's all money!)

Finally, Yang Shan smiled and waved to the densely packed players on the ground.

Then it rode away on its Scarlet Wings.

Accompanying them were two beautiful women and a little girl. Xiao Aotian felt a pang of bitterness. "Forget it, I should deal with Han Yue and Hu Jia first. It's so hard to raise their favorability! I really don't know how Yang Shan managed to win over so many important NPCs from the original story!"

Information asymmetry can lead to significant cognitive biases.

Xiao Aotian could never have imagined that Yang Shan and Xiao Xun'er only had 20 points of affection!

You should know that in the previous life, Battle Through the Heavens was in operation for three years, there had never been a special Global Announcement like Ya Fei's!

What does this mean? It means that with such a massive player base of one billion, there are countless hidden talents and Top Player. Yet, even after spending over a decade in the game, they still haven't managed to raise the favorability rating of any important NPC to 70!

Not only female characters, but male characters are also missing! The closest one to "winning over" seems to be Hai Bodong, a girl from the Meteor Association named "Little Dolphin".

Moreover, the main NPCs in the original work already have extremely high popularity among players. It would be really strange if Tian Yao Company didn't make it extremely difficult to increase their favorability!

Therefore, taking down the main NPCs is truly a long and arduous task.

Yang Shan didn't even know if he would be able to get Xiao Xun'er to 70 points in his lifetime.

Yun Yun should be a bit easier.

Nalan Yanran and Yang Shan had no intention of dating, but her level kept rising, which was strange! But it would probably be very difficult to reach level 70.

Anyway, Yang Shan won't actively swipe it.

Given the relationship between Nalan Yanran and Yun Yun, it's basically unrealistic to expect them to be both master and disciple at the same time.

But in any case, Yang Shan, with a clear conscience, would treat Nalan Yanran a little better.

Ya Fei and Yun Yun's favorability is now thanks to her help in so many ways. Yang Shan, Su Yitang, and Zi Yan all came to Xiao Xun'er's courtyard.

Meanwhile, Xiao Xun'er's guardian, the Eight Star Dou Huang Ling Ying, remained hidden in the shadows.

However, Yang Shan noticed that Ling Ying's favorability towards him had risen to 10 points.

The previous score was only 5 points, which must have been entirely due to Xiao Xun'er.

Yang Shan guessed that the five points added this time were most likely because his displayed combat strength was too intimidating.

As usual, Xiao Xun'er brewed a pot of tea, and everyone chatted and laughed.

Yang Shan also took the opportunity to open his Storage Ring and categorize the items that had been dropped during this storyline.

There are very few things that are truly useful.

After all, most of the Dou Wang Purple Word Seal, and the items they drop are mostly items with purple or Blue Word Seal.

There are virtually no high-level Xuan-rank Cultivation Methods and Combat Skills, and very few top-grade equipment.

Yang Shan handed everything over to Su Yitang.

Secretary Su is too sensitive to numbers, and she will definitely handle these things for Yang Shan meticulously and carefully. At most, she will only embezzle the money after the decimal point.

Every time there was such a big win, Yang Shan would always send Su Yitang a thousand or eight hundred yuan.

The money isn't much, but it's a recognition of Su Yitang's work! It's similar to "overtime pay" earned for working hard outside of regular hours! Bosses who make their employees work overtime without pay have no conscience!

Of course, the highlight of this plot kill came from the Eight Gates Sect Master, ranked tenth on the Black Ranking, a two- Dou Emperor with the (purple; rising) mark—

Mr. Yuan Yi!

Based on kill contribution, Xiao Aotian accounted for 17% of Yuan Yi's loot.

If only players are considered, Xiao Aotian's contribution rate could rise to over 30%.

But Xiao Xun'er and Zi Yan are both Yang Shan's "connections," and have absolutely nothing to do with Xiao Aotian.

Therefore, this portion of the kill contribution should naturally be attributed to Yang Shan! Yang Shan a Dou Ling Pill to offset Xiao Aotian's contribution, thereby obtaining all of Yuan Yi's drops! Dou Ling Pill Yang Shan monopolizes the Dou Ling Pills.

However, because the ingredients for the Dou Ling Pill are extremely difficult to obtain, and only nine pills have been produced so far! (Little Yao Xi successfully refined two more batches.) Therefore, the Dou Ling Pill is not yet available for sale.

Although Yang Shan Company's internal price is not high, the external price is several times higher!

Xiao Aotian readily agreed.

Although he made a significant contribution in the battle against Yuan Yi, his value was definitely not as high as that of a normal Dou Ling Pill.

Yang Shan was essentially doing Xiao Aotian a favor.

Xiao Aotian wasn't that tactless.

The one-star level upgrade, plus his accumulation in the main storyline this time.

It won't be long before I reach the level of a four- Dou Wang!

Yang Shan was even faster; he directly advanced one star! Six-Star Dou Wang!

Su Yitang is Three-Star Dou Wang.

Aside from Yang Shan, Xiao Aotian and Su Yitang are probably the two players with the highest levels in the entire server right now.

Yang Shan did not feel any sense of crisis.

Once you reach the Dou Wang level, leveling up is inherently slow, so it's only natural that you'd be overtaken by the two "Three Sects" players from your previous life.

Level is only one aspect of the difference!

Yang Shan also has a head start over Xiao Aotian and Su Yitang with a Heaven and Earth Oddities and a Earth-rank Dou Technique!

Even in terms of equipment, Su Yitang's equipment configuration has now surpassed Yang Shan's.

The armor and boots are similar, but the weapons are different.

Yang Shan is still a top-grade artifact, while Su Yitang is Low-Grade Spirit Artifact with Golden Word Seal.

That's a whole level below! Luckily, the reward points from this storyline are all equipment.

Yang Shan refused to believe that with his first-place score in the storyline, Great Elder Su Qian would personally select a suitable weapon for him!

Let's take a look at Yuan Yi's drop.

A greatsword and a suit of inner armor, both of top-grade quality!

There is also a Mystic Rank Advanced Skill.

All three items have Purple Word Seal!

This is absolutely a huge bonus! According to the system rules, this should be a hidden bonus brought about by Yang Shan's Good Fortune value exceeding sixty points.

But Yang Shan stubbornly believes it's because of his good character! Of course, Yuan Yi's most important drop is still in the "Select Drop" section!

Lightning Arc Absolute Barrier

Rank: Earth Tier Low Grade (Purple)

Type: Offensive Dou Technique (sword, blade)

Comprehension requirement: 15 points.

Qualification requirements: Dou Qi Intensity exceeding 200 points, Thunder Spirit Root exceeding 20 points.

Standard Time Acceleration: 10 seconds.

Dou Qi Consumption: 800 points.

Dou Technique damage: 1000 + character attack power × 3.5 + Dou Qi Intensity × 4.5 Dou Technique range: a spherical area with a diameter of 100 meters centered on the user.

Cultivation method: Nourish the Meridians with Spirit Stone and lightning-attribute spiritual plants, so that the fixed Meridians can accommodate a large amount of Dou Qi to flow through in a short period of time in order to release this move.

Introduction: "Lightning Arc Absolute Barrier" is a low-rank Dou Technique that uses a sword or saber as the final release method. It compresses a large amount of lightning into the weapon and, through a unique operating technique, forcibly unleashes all the energy. When cultivated to its peak, it can ravage an area with lightning arcs, leaving nothing but barren land, hence its name!