Net of Heaven and Earth (Please Recommend, Please Bookmark)

Net of Heaven and Earth (Please Recommend, Please Bookmark)

Posting in the sect channel cost money!

Ten gold for a single message was definitely no small expense for players at this stage. Since entering the game, Ye Weiming had barely spent anything major, yet he had saved up less than twenty gold in total.

Shuizhuroupian and her group of five surely had more funds than Ye Weiming, but they were nowhere near wealthy enough to spend recklessly.

After all, every player in Eternal Chivalry started from the same point. There was no way to pay real money for advantages here.

No one would bat an eye at spending ten gold on equipment, but using it to post in the sect channel was an act of extreme extravagance. At least, Ye Weiming had never seen anyone do it before.

Yet Shuizhuroupian had done exactly that.

She had spent ten gold to spread the news that Youyou had obtained the Zhuge Divine Crossbow throughout the sect. This was no longer merely harming others without benefiting herself—it had reached an entirely new level of maliciousness: hurting herself just to hurt someone else!

From beginning to end, Youyou had never done anything to wrong them. On the contrary, they had been the ones in the wrong first. Yet now they had pulled something like this, as though they would not rest until she was dead. No wonder Youyou was so furious.

After calculating the time, Ye Weiming frowned. "Being angry won't help now. The problem we need to face is that a large number of Tang Clan players will soon be taking carriages to Hangzhou City to hunt you down. Even within the Tang Clan..."

"That won't happen within the Tang Clan." Youyou shook her head. "As long as I enter the Tang Clan, high-ranking sect NPCs will naturally come to receive me. If anyone attacks me there, the punishment they face will be no lighter than the punishment for me losing the Zhuge Divine Crossbow. Ye Weiming, this has nothing to do with you..."

Ye Weiming waved a hand, cutting her off. "If we're friends, don't be so wishy-washy. Listen to me. We'll do this, then that..."

After parting ways with Youyou, Ye Weiming activated his Eight-Step Toad Leap movement technique and hurried back toward Hangzhou City. He encountered countless Tang Clan disciples along the way, but since they knew Youyou was a female Tang Clan player, no one bothered Ye Weiming.

After maintaining top speed as he circled through the city, Ye Weiming returned the way he had come. Carrying the things he had just bought in the city, he slipped into a Small Forest not far from the western gate.

"Are you sure your plan will work?" Seeing Ye Weiming return, Youyou still looked uneasy. Following his plan, she had just made a round outside the city gate and drawn out several hundred Tang Clan players to chase and intercept her. Fortunately, she was fast, and her special forces training had taught her how to use the terrain to shake off pursuers. Otherwise, she would probably already be dead...

"You've seen my movement technique. Shaking off pursuers definitely won't be a problem." Ye Weiming chuckled and traded Youyou a pale green outfit bought from a tailor shop, along with the Ghost Head Saber Chen Ming had dropped earlier. In exchange, Youyou gave Ye Weiming the Tang Sect Hand Crossbow she had been using.

Then the two began changing outfits.

After changing into the pale green clothes, Youyou looked quite like a wandering martial heroine, completely different from her previous dark, tight-fitting outfit. However, seeing such a pretty martial heroine carrying a Ghost Head Saber made the whole scene seem rather strange.

Meanwhile, Ye Weiming changed into a black fitted outfit similar to the one Youyou had worn before. Naturally, it was the men's version. In this game, you could not simply cross-dress whenever you wanted—the program would not allow it.

Once he put on the black fitted clothes, held the Tang Sect Hand Crossbow, and pulled the bamboo hat Chen Ming had dropped over his head, he looked exactly like a Tang Clan disciple. But...

Looking up at Ye Weiming, Youyou could not help but laugh. "You still look like a man."

"It's fine. I've got these." As he spoke, Ye Weiming took out two large steamed buns and stuffed them beneath his clothes, one on each side of his chest. He looked much fuller afterward.

Youyou: Σ(っ°Д°;)っ...

You could do that?

"Hehe, I'll definitely be full of holes if they get a close look, but I won't give them the chance to get near me." Ye Weiming said smugly. "Time is short. Your task now is to follow the route I showed you earlier, take the fastest detour to Longjing Village, then ride the carriage from Longjing Village back to the Tang Clan."

Without waiting for Youyou to reply, he activated his movement technique again and rushed toward Hangzhou City's western gate.

Behind him, Youyou's voice rang out. "Ye Weiming, no matter what happens today, I'll remember this favor!"

Before Ye Weiming could even approach the city gate, more than a hundred players surged out of the city and swarmed toward him from all sides.

What? Wouldn't their chances of success have been higher if they had ambushed him inside the gate?

Please do not forget that there was only one Zhuge Divine Crossbow. If they worked together, who would get it after it dropped?

Naturally, it was better like this—everyone relied on their own abilities, and whoever grabbed it got it.

The moment Ye Weiming saw the people inside the gate chase after him, he immediately turned and ran. Seeing him flee, the people behind him chased even more eagerly. If you had nothing to hide, why would you run?

"Circle around from both sides! Don't let her get away!"

"Hehe, the Zhuge Divine Crossbow is destined to be mine!"

Suddenly, someone in the crowd noticed something odd. "Why does this person's outfit look a little strange?"

Another immediately answered, "She's trying to cover it up and sneak past us."

"That's right!" A third person in the crowd picked up the thread. "You think I won't recognize you just because you're wearing a bamboo hat? Brothers, the Zhuge Divine Crossbow belongs to the worthy!"

Why did they say brothers rather than brothers and sisters?

Because players in Eternal Chivalry did not have their IDs floating above their heads. If they wanted to know someone's real name, they could only do so by teaming up, adding friends, or recognizing their face.

But there were plenty of Tang Clan players. How many of them actually knew Youyou?

Thus, more than ninety percent of the players who had come to hunt Youyou were men. Their hunting rule was simple: whenever they saw a female Tang Clan disciple, kill her!

The first unlucky victims included Shuizhuroupian and the other four, who had spread the news and then stayed outside the city to watch the fun.

A moment of silence for them...

After all this commotion, no female Tang Clan disciples dared come to Hangzhou anymore.

Ye Weiming did not possess Youyou's professional combat instincts. With more than a hundred people chasing him, all he could do was run like hell. Still, he had an advantage of his own: his speed far surpassed that of ordinary players.

After all, this was still the early stage of the game. Once players joined a sect, their cultivation points were limited. Under equal circumstances, they naturally prioritized internal arts and combat techniques, martial arts that could directly improve their fighting strength. Who would be willing to spend hundreds of cultivation points on lightness skills?

Ye Weiming had actually done the same. The reason he had raised Eight-Step Toad Leap to Level 3 immediately was because his internal arts and Swordsmanship Level were already high enough that eight hundred cultivation points could not raise either of those combat-enhancing martial arts any further.

Ye Weiming ran!

A huge group of Tang Clan players chased!

At first, Ye Weiming deliberately held his speed down to roughly Youyou's level. But seeing that his route was about to let them surround him like they were wrapping dumplings, he could only speed up.

He had been worried that this might expose the flaw in his disguise, but the loud discussion behind him immediately put his mind at ease.

"Why did she suddenly get so fast? Could we have the wrong person?"

"No way! Don't forget that she just got the first kill on a BOSS. And besides being the target of our sect mission, Chen Ming was also a criminal wanted by the authorities. The rewards from killing the BOSS and completing the wanted mission together must have been at least six or seven hundred cultivation points. That's enough for her to raise her lightness skill two levels in a row!"

Hearing this, Ye Weiming silently gave that guy a thumbs-up.

Imagination skill, Level 3!

At that moment, Youyou was on her way to Longjing Village.