Version Update

Version Update

With the 13 million Sacrificial Power Ice Blade had given him.

Qi Sheng decisively launched the third round of recruitment. This time, he planned to offer ten thousand player slots.

His primary targets were still players who wanted to experience the Dark Land but couldn't afford the game or had trouble buying it.

Promoting the recruitment as a new game would obviously make it difficult to attract new players.

No matter how dazzling the description, players would only think it was a fake advertisement. So he still had to rapidly attract new players under the name of Dark Land.

That evening, links to the game Qi Sheng was promoting appeared in many gaming groups.

Most of the groups kicked him out, thinking he was an online scammer.

Still, quite a few players chose to download the game and try it out. They then promoted it further, bringing even more players into the game.

All ten thousand slots were downloaded in less than two hours.

Large numbers of players began logging into the game around nine that night.

The once-empty respawn point in Emperor's Tomb Village was instantly packed with players.

As white light flashed again and again, newly arrived players could only spawn in different areas of Emperor's Tomb Village instead of being limited to the respawn point.

"Holy crap, this game feels so real. That 128,888 was worth it."

"I stayed up all night for three rounds, and I finally got one! Hahahaha!"

"Lone Player looking for a team. Any big spender want to take me on as a minion?"

Emperor's Tomb Village was as lively as a market.

Many players started getting up to all sorts of antics as soon as they entered the game.

Eating dirt, running around, self-harm (testing the pain feedback)... They tested the game's realism in all kinds of ways.

The results left players exclaiming that it was unbelievable.

While marveling at the game's realism, the players recruited in this round were all tacitly silent about the download link when talking to one another.

They thought that revealing the pirated link might hurt the "Welfare Officer" who had given them the game, and could even get their hard-won slots canceled.

They instinctively assumed the other players around them had all paid full price, so quite a few took the initiative to show off that they had gotten lucky in a draw for a chance to buy the game.

Under Qi Sheng's watch, after learning the game's basic rules from the guidance nearby, the newly recruited players streamed out of Emperor's Tomb Village and began exploring the surrounding area.

Once they gathered in sufficient numbers, the player army began to show its fearsome side.

The Cursed Soldiers reviving along the way became the players' first choice for leveling up. Most had barely gotten to their feet before players pounced on them like hungry tigers.

The struggle for the right to kill the Cursed Soldiers sparked all kinds of conflicts between players, and the regional chat channel filled with insults.

In one corner of the Ancient Battlefield's northern side, a player was tightly wrapped up by three Black Armor Snakes.

"Bro, I was wrong. Let me go, please."

"You shouldn't have stolen my kill. Go die back in the Newbie Village!"

On the eastern side of the Ancient Battlefield, a player whose starting form was an Eagle Head Demon frantically flapped its wings and raced away, a group of players hot on its heels.

"Guys, it's that bastard! Don't let him get away! You like sneaking up and stealing kills, huh? If we can't kill the Cursed Soldiers, we'll kill you!"

On the western side of the Ancient Battlefield, two groups of players broke into a monster brawl over the right to kill a Cursed Soldier.

In just ten minutes, over a hundred players had been sent back to the Newbie Village by players on their own side, where they entered the resurrection cooldown.

The new arrivals also brought a little more life to the Ancient Battlefield.

The advantage of sheer numbers was on full display.

When Li Zheng and the other players from the first batch had entered the game, they had explored cautiously, afraid of suddenly running into several revived Cursed Soldiers and getting surrounded.

The newly recruited players, however, had the opposite mindset.

They were only afraid they wouldn't get to the Cursed Soldiers in time. They weren't worried about there being too many of them.

Whenever a Cursed Soldier got up, nearby players came rushing from every direction like cats that had caught the scent of fish.

Their numerical advantage turned the new players' early exploration into a sweeping advance.

Qi Sheng, watching from behind the scenes, didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

The players' performance also confirmed his initial idea.

He would build an unstoppable super army with limitless potential to help him crush the monster forces entrenched throughout the region, gather Origin Source power, and reclaim the lost node domains.

Just then, Guidance suddenly appeared beside him:

[Boss, Yan Ming reports that the testing space is complete.]

A moment later, a light screen appeared in front of Qi Sheng. Yan Ming looked at him expressionlessly:

"My task is complete. I've added many known Origin Source abilities to the testing database. They may not be available to find at this stage, but they might prove useful in the future."

"Thanks for your hard work."

Qi Sheng nodded and waved his hand, summoning the Challenger System.

In a play of shifting light and shadows, countless mysterious characters enveloped his body.

Among those complex and numerous characters, a new string of blue characters had appeared.

Yan Ming spoke from the light screen:

"Xiao Qi, the content has been constructed. We still need a vessel to help players enter the testing space."

Qi Sheng paused to think, then nodded.

"Then we'll build a functional structure in Emperor's Tomb Village to let players access the testing space."

"Understood." Yan Ming nodded, and the light screen vanished.

Half an hour later, every player online heard a Challenger System notification in their mind:

[Challenger System Notice: The game will soon undergo its Version 1.1 update. The update includes the following]:

1. A new functional structure, "Test Tower," has been added to Emperor's Tomb Village. Players can use the Test Tower to run simulations of Astral Vein socketing, Body Tempering levels, ability combinations, and item usage. Each test costs 1 point of Sacrificial Power.

2. A "Forum" feature has been added to the game's functional panel. Players can post, chat, and share guides on the forum. Additional features include tipping on posts and game livestreams. (Players can still use the forum through the virtual interface while in their death cooldown.)

(This update will be applied while the game is online. Players do not need to log out and wait.)

As the update notice appeared, the ground in Emperor's Tomb Village shook violently.

A tower rose from the ruins in the western district.

It was built of black material, its surface covered in a blue-purple glow. Its sharp, towering peak pointed straight into the clouds, while a massive crystal ball slowly revolved above it.

This was the Test Tower Yan Ming had built.

The tower contained spatial rules that automatically opened separate levels of space. Different players entering the tower would be sent to different levels, ensuring they wouldn't affect one another during tests.

The new structure quickly sparked heated discussion in the regional channel, and the excitement soon spread to the newly launched forum.

The veteran players currently exploring the Gloomy Cave were especially eager about the update.

They were all at the second or third Monster Soul selection stage for their Astral Veins, and they needed the Test Tower to simulate their future paths for growth.