People Ultimately Had to Cultivate Immortality
"With all this hype, there's still no GM?" Feng Xue looked at the players on the forum who were already arguing fiercely about balance, feeling slightly disappointed. But at the same time, another thought began to emerge—
Could it be that the Game Supernatural Tale of this world, like the Infinite City, are also waiting for a "master"?
However, the idea of Infinite City waiting for its master was just a legend, so Feng Xue only considered it briefly before immediately turning her attention to other things.
For example--
A combination of Weird Tale and humanity.
"Tsk, why aren't my cheap apprentices logged off yet..." Feng Xue thought to herself, feeling a little impatient. After all, her apprentices had only just logged on, and it was unrealistic to expect them to log off immediately.
However, Feng Xue couldn't just kill them directly, since no one knew whether, after the death of this Weird Tale, it would simply dissipate like the worldview of the Infinite City and then revive over time, or simply condense into another one.
If it were just that, it wouldn't be so bad, but ultimately, the Main Body behind these game accounts are still alive. If something were to happen to those Main Body by accident, his conscience would be a little uneasy.
Of course, the rarity of the experimental samples is also one of the reasons.
"After going through this stage, it will be more difficult to attract enough attention with strange roles. However, it seems that creating stars through games is quite easy. I might try packaging game streamers or something."
Feng Xue suppressed the idea of killing one of her apprentices to test the resurrection mechanism of the real-life Weird Tale. She landed back on the ground, changed her identity, returned to the crowd, and then used the Gu Poison Body on the apprentices who were piloting the Gundam.
Although the player had used the Gu Poison Body before, back then the player's information was completely incomplete and the Gu Poison Body was washed away after logging off. But now, the player has become Weird Tale, and he wants to see if anything will change.
"If nothing changes, I'll have to look for it manually."
Feng Xue sighed and didn't continue to work in the game. Neither Hidden NPC nor players were characters that needed to be maintained in the long term. It was enough for them to appear occasionally so that everyone would remember that they existed. If they appeared too often, the Weird Tale would no longer be strange.
As dusk settled, which, in the context of Yan Country's time, should be nearing dawn, Feng Xue watched her cheap apprentice piloting the Gundam northward into a more advanced and strange area. She sighed helplessly; given the current situation, they would probably have to wait a while longer.
However, although the situation on the players' side hasn't been verified yet, there is some expected good news--
New Tag are beginning to emerge about him.
While Tag like "outrageous," "weird," and "Cause Trouble" might seem like comedic tropes, Feng Xue, well aware of the limitations of comedic content, wasn't dissatisfied at all. In fact, she was quite pleased, because these Tag likely originated from the descriptions of that "traveling merchant player" by the players who shared those low-brow videos.
If he can truly bring this Weird Tale to life, then he might be able to do even more things afterward.
As time went by, just when Feng Xue was so bored that he made a bet with himself about when the other players would log off, the game's Anti-Addiction popped up a window for him first. Only then did he realize that he had been online for almost twenty hours.
"Grass!"
Feng Xue cursed under his breath, immediately logged off, then pulled out a book titled "From Beginner to Runaway," dropped it off at his current stepping stone, and returned to the Jianghu Game World as a hidden NPC. However, as soon as he logged back in, he discovered that two of the Gu Poison Body he had left in this world were missing.
"Grass!"
Feng Xue was genuinely surprised that someone would log off so quickly after she started swearing repeatedly in such a short time; she had only been fulfilling a vow.
Unfortunately, it was still early morning, and no player would suddenly have the thought of "wanting to learn a skill" at this hour. He could only obediently walk to the Gundam Factory he had built, leave a letter for Yun Yao's apprentices, telling them that their master had gone north to save the country, and that they should come to him after they could use their current martial arts skills without piloting Gundams. Only then did he slowly leave the Big Locust Tree Village. However, this time, he didn't really go north; instead, he pushed open someone's door and returned to the Tower of Babylon.
"Since I have some time, I'll go back to the real world and take a look."
Holding a stack of blueprints for fifth-generation mechs, Feng Xue walked through the gate controlled by the Yan Kingdom office in Infinite City and arrived in Xijing. Seeing the "Level 4 Lightness Skill Dedicated Passage" and "Level 6 Lightness Skill Dedicated Passage" that had already appeared on the street, the corners of her mouth couldn't help but curl up.
However, as he walked along that somewhat rudimentary path, Feng Xue couldn't help but feel a little regretful. Although he had chosen "mechanicals," the element least compatible with the Wuxia World, as a connecting element in order to create the Weird Tale more quickly, upon closer reflection, this kind of martial arts online game was actually more suitable for a supernatural Weird Tale "others practice martial arts while you cultivate immortality."
"Next time you go to a Wuxia World, remember to get your cultivation skills." Feng Xue took out her Little Notebook and wrote it down. Although cultivation is not necessarily better High Martial, and many weak fantasy worlds are not as good as High Martial arts.
However, there is one thing that the world of Xianxia (fantasy martial High Martial) cannot match: the leap in the level of civilization.
Although there are sayings like "stopping war is the way to fight," in the end, martial arts are techniques that focus on destruction. Even if the essence is to tap into the body's strength, in this world, the essence of martial arts is Weird Tale.
In comparison, even if immortals are not as Destructive Power as High Martial, they will definitely win in terms of overall strength (Haihu is a superpower, while Fengyun in the later stages is basically a fantasy world).
For example, High Martial can destroy a city in one move, but he absolutely cannot rebuild a city in an instant. If he could, then it would definitely not be martial arts.
Of course, this might be a bit too absolute. For example, you could freeze the air with your inner icy Internal Force in an instant and create an ice city. But there's no doubt that, in terms of the system itself, with the same creativity, it's much easier for fantasy or even magical systems to achieve the same effect than for martial arts.
The current world, which serves as the main base, is in a very strange state: its Combat Power has increased, but its supporting technology has not kept pace. If this continues, perhaps in a few generations, technology will be suppressed by martial arts. It may not be eliminated, but it will definitely stagnate.
To ensure the stability of his own foundation, Feng Xue would naturally not allow the people of Yan to be too unbalanced. If he could provide a fast track to the Xianxia civilization in the future, and then add some kind of patch like cultivation technology, then his existence would be truly secure.
"Of course, this is assuming that the Infinite City doesn't have any pitfalls."
Feng Xue muttered to herself, then took out her phone and dialed Chen Xiyao's number:
"Hey, I'm back. Get me some steel, and if possible, get me some palladium and Helium-3 too. Tell the higher-ups there's a surprise in store!"
Some say that banning foreigners from learning martial arts is too narrow-minded; as long as the Chinese have an advantage, there's no need to add another layer of restrictions (this is hard to understand).
Long-time readers know that although I often write this kind of content, it is generally logical and not just mindless patriotism.
For example, when the cultivation of immortality was popularized, everyone was taught except Japan and South Korea. This was not because of anti-Japanese or anti-Korean sentiment, but because the East Asian cultural sphere is similar, and it would be easy to lose control if taught there.
Similarly, the book clearly states that foreigners are not allowed to learn martial arts, namely, the title of the Weird Tale is "Yan Country People Know Martial Arts".
If people from all countries could learn martial arts, even if the people of Yan were more skilled than others, it would mean that everyone knows martial arts, it's just that you are stronger, and that this Weird Tale wouldn't hold true.
Therefore, in order to make this Weird Tale valid, it is necessary to reduce the number of martial arts practitioners in other countries.