The Role of Medals

Whoosh!

Amid the spinning heavens and earth, it felt like an instant, yet also like ten thousand years.

When the dizziness became unbearable, Ding Ling suddenly felt his body lighten, as if he had arrived in a new place.

He abruptly opened his eyes.

Sure enough.

It was the familiar Players' Plaza.

He lowered his head and glanced down.

Beneath his feet was still that constantly swirling halo of light.

He swept his gaze to either side.

The enormous plaza was packed with people everywhere, so densely crowded that he could not see its edges at a glance.

"More and more people are coming."

Players were discussing among themselves:

"But this plaza is amazing too. It seems to expand automatically, increasing its area according to the population and keeping itself neither spacious nor crowded."

"This is nothing strange."

A beautiful female player suddenly said:

"Have you really not been following the rankings lately?"

"Yao Yunxi, I know what you want to say."

A tall, upright male player interjected:

"You mean that Ding Ling, who suddenly rose to prominence and is progressing at an astonishing speed?"

"Exactly. Him."

Yao Yunxi nodded, speaking with a strange look on her face:

"Not only did he suddenly drop into first place on the overall rankings! His strength, agility, and constitution rankings have also advanced by leaps and bounds, and they have all shot up to second place!"

She paused after saying this.

A trace of shock appeared in her eyes:

"It's hard to imagine that this Ding Ling was still a new player just a day ago!"

"Yeah. In barely a day, he's accomplished things that many people might never achieve in their entire lives. It's simply unbelievable. I really want to meet him."

The other players also chimed in:

"If we could obtain some secret behind his rapid progress, we'd make a fortune!"

"Exactly. His rate of improvement is even more ferocious than Kong Tianhua, the number-one player from the original closed beta! I heard Kong Tianhua especially wants to meet this Ding Ling and see exactly how he managed to appear on all the major rankings in just one day!"

"You've only noticed the first four rankings. Haven't you noticed the skills ranking?"

Yao Yunxi smiled faintly:

"Ding Ling alone occupies four of the top ten spots on the skills ranking. Don't you think that's absurd?"

"First place, Thirty-Six Heavens Gang Axe Technique; second place, Water Fire Dragon Binding Staff Technique; third place, Battlefield Saber Art; and tenth place, Advanced Axe Technique! He occupies the top three spots all by himself. It's truly inconceivable, especially since they suddenly appeared on the ranking today. What does that mean?"

Some players were extremely excited:

"It means Ding Ling may have learned these four true martial arts in just one day!"

"Wow!"

Every player who heard this was thrown into an uproar.

They were all incredulous.

"That's impossible! How could someone like that exist in this world?"

"But reality is right before our eyes."

"Could it be that the ranking sequence is wrong? Maybe there's a bug?"

After listening for a while, Ding Ling stopped paying attention.

His popularity was simply too explosive now.

He felt that after returning, he needed to terminate his lease and find another place to live.

Otherwise, there was a real possibility that some ill-intentioned people would find him.

After all, quite a few players had seen his real appearance.

Among them, there might even be people who were exceptionally skilled at drawing. If one of them drew his portrait and posted it online,

wouldn't he soon become famous throughout the world?!

By then, he would surely be surrounded and treated like some rare species.

In the Three Kingdoms World,

even ancient people like Zhang He and Pan Feng could not restrain their desire to explore him and had subjected him to all kinds of examinations.

In the real world, there would definitely be people with even greater curiosity and a stronger desire to investigate!

To avoid this kind of trouble,

Ding Ling had to take precautions in advance!

"Fortunately, I came back early enough. If I had been one or two days later, some people might even have raided my rented apartment!"

A sense of urgency rose in Ding Ling's heart.

He did not want to be captured and used as a lab rat!

There was no shortage of powerful people in this world.

If some powerful person kidnapped him and insisted on studying him, what could he do?

It would be fine if he could defeat them, but if he could not, was he supposed to wait for death?

"I can't just sit around and wait."

I absolutely can't wait for danger to arrive. I have to nip it in the bud.

Ding Ling had truly died once before.

His temperament was therefore much steadier and more cautious than that of ordinary people.

Moreover, after killing many people in the Three Kingdoms World,

he had not only become increasingly calm and composed, but also seemed to possess an additional layer of iron-blooded authority.

"I should first see exactly how to bring my strength back to reality."

Ding Ling opened his character panel:

Character: Ding Ling

Age: 23

Race: Human

Faction: Han Fu of Ji Province

Occupation: Military Secretary

Level: 1

Stats: Foundation 1 (ordinary people have 1 point), Intelligence 2, Strength 6.3+0.2+0.3+0.5+2.4＝(9.7), Agility 6.8+0.1+0.2+0.3+1.6(9), Constitution 6.1+0.1+0.2+0.3+2.4(9.1), Defense 2, Charisma 2

Weapons: A suit of General's Armor, an eighty-jin Fangtian Halberd, a sixty-jin battle axe, a fine saber, several short spears...

Skills: Low-Grade Piling Stance (Level 10), Horse Stance (Level 10), Elementary Blade Technique (Level 10), High-Level Blade Technique (Level 10), Battlefield Saber Art (Level 10), Elementary, Intermediate, and Advanced Spear Technique (Level 10), Water Fire Dragon Binding Staff Technique (Level 10), Elementary, Intermediate, and Advanced Axe Technique (Level 10), Thirty-Six Heavens Gang Axe Technique (Level 10), Acupuncture (Level 10), Swimming (Level 10), Fitness (Level 10), Elementary Psychology (Level 10)...

Achievement Medals: 8 ordinary medals, 2 E-grade medals.

Glory Medals: 0

Hmm.

Ding Ling noticed something different from the game world.

The Players' Plaza actually had lists for Achievement Medals and Glory Medals.

Ding Ling had obtained quite a few Achievement Medals, but what were these Glory Medals?

Ding Ling opened the instructions beside the Achievement Medals.

After a while,

Ding Ling understood.

"By consuming Achievement Medals, I can bring martial arts back to reality. The more Achievement Medals I have, the more strength I can bring back."

Not only that,

Achievement Medals could also be used to unlock the next dimension and exchange for storage space.

Glory Medals had even greater uses.

They could not only be exchanged for the Dao Rhyme World, but also for treasures that enhanced one's foundation and other items.

The more Ding Ling read, the more shaken he became.

He thought:

"According to this explanation list, Glory Medals and Achievement Medals seem to have even more uses than this. It's just that I'm currently in the lowest-level Three Kingdoms world and don't have the qualifications to unlock their other uses."

A strange glint passed through Ding Ling's eyes:

"But if this game world is really as formidable as the introduction claims, then it's truly incredible!"

The person who created this game must be an unprecedented supreme powerhouse.

I just wonder whether that powerhouse is observing this game from the shadows, or whether he created the game and then stopped managing it.

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