Danger—run! Yang Shan had previously thought the system AI simply wasn't up to par and hadn't sent enough NPCs.
Now that he looked at it, he had completely overthought things! Yang Shan was just about to report a game bug to Nüwa AI when the system prompt immediately appeared:
Ding! In light of the Player's outstanding performance and championship victory in the admissions competition, the Pang Family and Chai Family have resolved to kill the Player! Hidden opportunity rules changed: the Player may choose to surrender to the Pang Family or the Chai Family, or seek help from the Mittel Family. If the Player continues to face this alone, each death by assassination will deduct 4 star levels. After dying twice by assassination, the Player will be taken back to the Chai Family or Pang Family, and the Player's current Fire Spirit Root and Wood Spirit Root will be abolished. If the Player kills the assassins from the two great families, there will be additional experience and drop bonuses, and one item is guaranteed to drop.
For a moment, Yang Shan actually considered it:
Maybe I should just forget it and go back to Ya Fei for help!
A kept man could still eat with dignity.
But the final rule—"one item is guaranteed to drop"—made Yang Shan decide:
He had to make this big!
After all, the most common NPC drop was Spirit Stones.
Besides Spirit Stones, equipment, cultivation methods, Dou Techniques, pills, forging materials, and all sorts of special items—including Storage Rings—all counted as "items"! Forget Purple Word Seals.
Even the things stored in the Storage Rings of Blue Word Seal Great Fighters couldn't possibly be the trash flooding the market in the current version, could they? What assassins were these?
They were all walking RMB! The