White Phantom Tomb

Curse Acolyte Advancement Requirements:

Task One: Assassin Players must reach level 30. After accepting the advancement quest, killing any other monsters (excluding Players) will grant additional Crimson Essence. Collect 10,000 points of Crimson Essence to unlock Hell Path – First Form and successfully advance to Curse Acolyte.

At first, seeing how simple Task One was, all Assassin Players were thrilled.

Compared to the advancement difficulty of Rune Warriors, who needed to search for all kinds of materials, Assassins only had to grind a little. There was practically no difficulty at all.

But when they saw the skill mastery requirements below, all Assassin Players broke down in tears.

Task Two: Class Advancement

Hell Path — Second Form: Avīci (None): Find three sources of curse power and hand them over to the advancement mentor. The mentor will inscribe the three curses into your body, allowing you to complete your second class advancement: Avīci Demon.

Hell Path — Third Form: Prajna Relinquishing Life (Master): Formless and unattached, sacrificing oneself through Prajna, comprehend the Prajna Truth through death. (Extremely difficult; Players must comprehend it themselves.)

Hell Path — Fourth Form: Mountain-Shaker (Void): Collect fragments of mountain spirits and submit them to the advancement mentor to complete the advancement.

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Seeing the requirements for the advancement quests beneath Hell Path, all Assassin Players were dumbfounded.

Assassin_Creed: Why is the requirement for the strongest Prajna Self-Sacrifice so vague? Comprehend it through death... does that mean we have to keep killing ourselves? Why is there a skill that Players have to comprehend on their own? Can't even the Skill Instructor teach it?

Big Assassin Player replied to Assassin_Creed: Maybe the instructor doesn't know it either. (Funny)

A Mammoth: I'm just as confused. Learning Prajna Relinquishing Life is way too abstract. This is the first time I've encountered an ability that has to be comprehended independently. Isn't this absurdly difficult? Waiting for some top Assassin Player to figure it out and post a guide!

Strike_Gold: Sure enough, the stronger the ability, the harder it is to learn. I finally feel balanced now. Still, I think Assassin advancement is really easy. You just have to kill monsters. We Berserkers don't even have a single advancement class yet. My heart hurts!

Ye_Xue'er_is_the_cutest: Guardian Angel brothers, come sweep through the Ghost Mountains with me! Once I gather 10,000 Crimson Essence, I'll become the first Curse Acolyte in the game!

Ye Xue'er's Lackey replied to Ye_Xue'er_is_the_cutest: Xue'er has to be the strongest! Go for it!

Crayon_Shinchan replied to Ye Xue'er's Little Follower: Hello, bootlicker. Fancy seeing you again. Wave~

Ye Xue'er's Lackey replied to Crayon_Shinchan: Hmph ヽ(#`Д′)〃!

Crayon_Shinchan replied to Ye Xue'er's Lackey: Backhandedly smacks you to the ground with a staff!

Other than Night Butcher, Assassin Players could be said to be completely bewildered by the advancement methods of the other classes.

There was nothing Lu Wu could do about that. The Curse Acolyte template had been easy to design, but advancement depended entirely on the Players themselves.

Prajna Relinquishing Life in particular was a skill that, even when the Curse Clan still existed, only a tiny few had been able to master. So, based on reality, Players still had to cultivate these powerful abilities on their own.

The reason Night Butcher's abilities had been so easy to master was because Bei Li had set up a convenient advancement path for Curse Acolytes in the Divine Artifact Space.

Once a Player gathered 10,000 Crimson Essence and handed it over to the advancement mentor, all that Crimson Essence would be sent into the Divine Artifact Space. The artifact would then help inscribe the Crimson Essence into the Player's body, essentially helping them forge a new body.

The Players had completely skipped the steps of swearing an oath to Hell Path and making sacrifices, making things much easier.

Although the quest difficulty was high, it did not affect the excitement of the Assassin Players in the slightest. They could be seen everywhere, frantically searching for wild monsters.

With the appearance of Curse Acolytes, Mage Players were somewhat frustrated, but they were also eagerly awaiting the appearance of their own advancement class.

Naturally, Lu Wu would not keep them waiting long. Under all-powerful Bei Li's research, the Mage template had begun to take shape. Once Bei Li tested it and confirmed it was viable, it would be added to the game.

At the same time, in order to enrich the game's playability, Lu Wu planned to set the next building to be repaired as the "Spirit Summoning Chamber."

The Spirit Summoning Chamber had been a place where the King of Beiqi stored defeated enemy generals and heroic spirits who had fallen in battle. It contained the souls of many fierce generals who had once followed the King of Beiqi in expanding his territory. It was a sacrificial structure.

Lu Wu had his own reasons for giving up on repairing the equipment vault and choosing the Spirit Summoning Chamber first.

At this stage, advancement classes were gradually being refined, but hidden classes remained completely blank.

According to Bei Li, several of these heroic spirits had exceptionally talented warriors among them. Their inheritances could be stripped out through the divine artifact.

Then, by setting up randomly triggered advancement quests in the game, Players who completed them could obtain this inherited power and become hidden classes in the game.

If this feature were introduced, Players could truly begin developing in every direction.

These hidden classes were entirely alternative existences. They could even be said to stand apart from the three main classes, filling the game with even more unknown possibilities.

But all of this was still in the planning stage.

Although Lu Wu's Soul Coins were increasing rapidly every day, his expenditures were also enormous.

For example, Lu Wu had recently set up two teleportation arrays at the border between the underworld and Liuli District, making it easier for Players to travel back and forth.

That had also cost him quite a few Soul Coins, so he was still short of the 200,000 Soul Coins needed to repair the Spirit Summoning Chamber. He had to keep saving.

However, the underworld was always full of surprises, and accidents could happen anywhere.

Just after Lu Wu and Bei Li had finalized the direction for developing hidden classes, Bei Li frowned and then sank her consciousness beside a Player somewhere in the underworld.

Seeing this, Lu Wu also turned his viewpoint toward the underworld.

Within a withered forest somewhere in Liuli District.

A Berserker Player gazed up at the blue sky, his face full of despair.

It was not that he wanted to look at the sky. He had fallen into a pit more than ten meters deep, and the surrounding rock walls were smooth. Other than staring at the sky, he had no idea what else to do.

He tried climbing several times, but the rock walls were too smooth and incredibly hard. Even his blue-quality greatsword could not leave a mark on them. After several attempts, he would slip back down before climbing even a meter.

He had originally considered killing himself to escape, but what made him even more desperate was that whenever he took damage, a green glow would seep out from the surrounding rock walls and heal his wounds.

Faced with this situation, Sun Qi slumped against the wall, his eyes vacant as he stared at the sky and withdrew into himself.

"White Phantom Tomb? Lu Wu, that Player actually wandered into a White Phantom Tomb!!!"

Looking at the utterly dejected Berserker, Bei Li cried out in shock.

"What kind of place is White Phantom Tomb?" Lu Wu asked curiously.

"It's a unique type of Yin soul beast found in the land of Beiqi. They're extremely rare and possess noble bloodlines. When these creatures approach the end of their lives, they seek out a hidden place to leave behind their life inheritance for a fated underworld creature to inherit. He got lucky!"

Although Lu Wu did not really understand, it still sounded incredibly impressive.

The preliminary map template for the land of Beiqi has just been completed~

Players unfamiliar with Beiqi can join the group to take a look.

Group number: 318815704