Sharpening Blades for the Three Immortals

Cheng Tian skipped all the lengthy preliminaries and went straight to the point, hacking the Goldfish Spirit to death on the spot before beginning to reap its remaining followers. He had a great time, but plenty of others did not.

Those were the two groups of Players belonging to the human and demon factions.

As mentioned before, when Cheng Tian entered Chen Family Village, some Players had actually arrived ahead of him. For various reasons, however, they had failed to formally make contact with him.

It could not be helped. The identity of Scorching Sun Legion leader already carried some weight within the Space. Without knowing who Cheng Tian was, few strangers dared approach him rashly.

Yet that very delay caused them to lose their chance to complete the Main Quest.

How could they have imagined that Cheng Tian would be so utterly unconventional? Not only had he somehow forcibly drawn out a chapter Boss that should have required countless hardships to encounter, but he had also been powerful enough to kill it on the spot.

Sword Sweeps Mountains and Rivers, legion descent, a giant mountain-splitting axe—one powerful move after another left the Players "hiding" nearby completely dumbfounded. Any one of those abilities would have been enough to shock people, yet they had all been gathered in a single person...

Some Players who considered themselves quite capable and believed they could make a name for themselves in this world experienced a shattered Dao heart.

Well, their Dao hearts had shattered, and so had their quests. After all, none of them were part of the Player Community that had successfully defeated the Goldfish Spirit.

That said, although these Players shared Cheng Tian's status and had all been hired by Chen Family Village as "strange people with extraordinary abilities," the Main Quest