Ninety-Eight Percent

As the saying goes, the setting is everything, and the special attack is like a god.

When the powerful Taibai Xingjun, who possessed the special ability to attack kings, clashed with the Ghost King, the situation instantly became one-sided. The Ghost King, who made a grand entrance, didn't even have time to beg for mercy before being cleaved in two by the aloof young lady's sword.

"He died quite quickly." Feng Xue immediately took two steps forward and pressed the Ouija board spirit, which was about to take out its Little Notebook, back into the pen, because he was about to conduct a crucial experiment!

He pulled a Bundle Cloth from his waist and scattered a bunch of odds and ends on the Ghost King's corpse. These were the materials he had acquired in the Infinite City to refine Phantom Object, but compared to confirming his guess, these things that could be bought with money were completely unnecessary to care about.

One by one, the False Thing fell down. Originally, without the support of the Weird Tale, the False Thing would have evaporated quickly in the real world, but they did not disappear immediately. Instead, they floated on the Ghost King's damaged Soul Body, falling into a strange balance.

"As expected!" Feng Xue frowned. The fact that there was no mosaic on the Ghost King's head was enough to prove that it was not Omen. However, the current situation was enough to prove that it was no longer a simple soul creature, but had become an information-state existence with considerable [consciousness].

"This is getting interesting." Feng Xue squinted at the False Thing floating in the Black Mist, then reached out and opened the Player Panel. If what she saw before could be a coincidence, then as long as...

"Hehe!" Feng Xue's lips curled up as she looked at the "sweeping graves" quest that was still incomplete on the Player Panel.

In that instant, all the riddles were solved!

Why put up useless, misleading Notice Board in the plaza when there's a chance to randomly trigger a specific level?

Why put levels in the player plaza when there's a possibility of doing so? Instead, they only put levels that no one can beat.

Why is killing the level boss not considered completing the mission?

"No, it's too early to make a judgment now!"

Feng Xue shook her head, took out a stack of Premium Grave Visiting Set she had bought on the basement floor of the Tower of Babel Department Store from her waist bag, and started walking towards the top of the mountain.

"Are they all dead? Or are they hiding?" Passing by the place where he had landed before, Feng Xue did not see any trace of the players. However, he ignored it and followed the mountain path all the way to an archway.

Although it was called a memorial archway, at this point only two half-collapsed stone pillars remained, the carvings on them had long since weathered away, leaving only a Stone Slab that was probably once an epitaph lying on the ground.

Although the cave seemed to be inviting visitors in, Feng Xue placed the brazier in front of the Stone Slab, threw in a handful of paper money, lit three incense sticks, and leaned against a stone pillar as the smoke rose. He then reopened the Player Panel.

"Heh, just as I thought." Looking at the still unfinished Optional Quest, Feng Xue roughly confirmed the nature of the game and couldn't help but shake her head.

"Senior, I thought you just wanted to create a Single Character Authority and resurrect someone on the side, but I never expected you to give me such a big surprise!"

After waiting a while, Feng Xue went to check on the Ghost King's corpse again, only to find that it had completely disappeared, along with all the scattered False Thing that had been left behind.

"No shipment." Feng Xue has never been very confident in his luck, so he wasn't disappointed by the situation. He simply reached behind him and pulled out a motorcycle.

Riding her motorcycle, Feng Xue headed south, but before she had gone ten miles, she crashed into Air Wall.

"Taibai, split it open!"

Feng Xue reached out and touched the Air Wall, raised her right little finger, and a white-gold Sword Light flashed, like Flying Swallow skimming across the water, passing over the invisible Air Wall and splitting an old tree on the other side of the Air Wall in two.

"It doesn't seem to be a physical 'wall.' Is it Cognitive Obstruction? Or the power of Phantom Object?" Feng Xue pondered for a moment before giving up on forcibly breaking through. In the end, everything was still in the speculative stage. Although she was 98% sure, the truth would depend on the next mission.

Furthermore, even if his guess is confirmed, he cannot use brute force to crack it. Or rather, if his guess is confirmed, he cannot use brute force. What if he damages such a valuable sample?

Three days passed in the blink of an eye. As the pop-up window appeared indicating that the Mandatory Quest had been completed, Feng Xue returned to the Player Platform, immediately attracting the attention of those around her.

After all, in this stupid game, you're teleported back to the same place after you're done. This person suddenly appearing next to this Notice Board naturally makes people wonder if they actively chose the task on the Notice Board beforehand.

After casually bestowing upon herself a [difficult to understand] power, and pinching her face again, Feng Xue finally turned her gaze back to the Notice Board.

The grave-visiting level had disappeared, but this time, instead of choosing one randomly, he asked Bystander Player with a stall nearby:

"Dude, out of all these missions, which one is the hardest?"

Upon hearing Feng Xue's question, the player who had been called to the side jolted awake, then looked at Feng Xue with a serious expression and said, "Don't be reckless! Every single one of these Notice Board is a Certain Death Difficulty. Every single one of them has seen over a dozen players of the Fierce Ghost Level die."

"Just curious, that's all." Feng Xue took a coin out of her pocket and stuffed it into the player's hand, smiling ingratiatingly.

"Tell me, which task is the hardest?"

The player, clutching the coin Feng Xue had handed him, paused slightly before immediately replying:

"I don't know which one is the most difficult, but I do know the oldest one."

As he spoke, he pointed to a title in the lower left corner of the Notice Board and said, "Look, this is it. I heard that this quest was posted here when the Previous Generation Player were still around. But just take a look and don't do anything reckless!"

"Don't worry, it won't." Feng Xue smiled, looking at the task he pointed out; the title was still simple—

<New Semester>.

"Oh, so Campus Supernatural scene is an essential part of the Supernatural Type?"

Feng Xue immediately smiled, which sent a chill down the player's spine. He immediately said:

"Dude, take my advice. Don't think you're so great [beep--]. Putting aside how many years this game has been around, just look at the Level Duration —a full four and a half months! Think about it, in a place teeming with ghosts, four and a half months is a long time. Even if your ghosts can hold out, you, the player, can't!"

"I understand, I understand." Feng Xue still looked cheerful, and then, to the player's astonishment, she casually opened the Character Panel and pressed the Red Button.

"Damn it! What bad luck!"

Regarding the Gynomorphic Golden Star God... that's unfair! In every country, Golden Star God is a female deity. The male image of Grand White Star) is more deeply ingrained in people's minds because of the novel Journey to the West. But if you look for descriptions of Golden Star God before the Tang Dynasty, they are basically Goddess or Yin God. This is similar to the situation where Guanyin was male before the Tang Dynasty but became female afterward. These are basically changes in legends, but you can't say that I'm creating a female Golden Star God deity and adopting a foreign image.

Jin means Cong Ge, which means the Lord of Change. Although the Lord of Killing is the God of War, the God of Killing, the Spirit of the West, and symbolizes the change of dynasties, this does not conflict with the fact that it is a feminine god. There are many women in the Sun God (Zhonghua Xihe, Nordic Thor, Eastern Kingdom Amaterasu, etc.), not to mention Venus.

However, if we have to explain it, it's actually related to the early Matriarchal Society. That's why many Early Gods in mythology were Goddess. According to the God Slayer, the gods of the Patriarchal Society gradually usurped the authority of the gods in the Matriarchal Society.

However, in modern times, deities have begun to be femaleized.

Of course, the Gynomorphic Deity is not a modern phenomenon. The most typical and well-known example is Guanyin, which is a typical example of an early Gynomorphic Deity.

There are various explanations for the specific reasons, such as Wu Zetian wanting a smooth succession to the throne. However, Wu Zetian used the pretext of Maitreya's incarnation, which would have meant Maitreya was being feminized.

I think the most believable explanation is that Buddhism was trying to gain more followers, and in folk beliefs, the Praying for Children is definitely at the top of the list. But since Buddhists are mostly men, they simply created a Guanyin Who Grants Children (Goddess of Mercy) to grant children...

Of course, as I said before, this is just one person's opinion, so take it with a grain of salt.