Snow Valley Warm Soup Rekindles Old Memories, Blissful Lights Reveal an Old Friend
Rin Dong Snowfield, Snow Valley.
Heavy snow drifted through the air, while the continuous snowy peaks stood silently beneath the gray-white sky.
The cold wind swept through the valley, stirring layers of snow dust that converged in midair and churned into a low, mournful whine.
This area might be unfamiliar to new players.
But in the memories of veteran players, it had always held a place.
The highly sought-after spatial spiritual material "Empty Yuan Stone," whose price remained sky-high in the Trading House, came from a Domain Node deep within this snowfield: Empty Yuan Peak.
Once upon a time, this Snow Valley had been bustling, too.
It had been the starting point in the eyes of countless novice players.
After choosing their initial Monster Soul, they did not need to cross space through teleportation. The moment they stepped outside, they would find A Le's rookie monster legion.
Back then, the Bliss Legion had only just begun, and its framework was crude in every respect.
The spectacle of two groups of rookies fighting one another had provided the forums with plenty of jokes.
But Monster World, this "game," had no version rollbacks, nor did it open new servers in separate zones.
The players' stories had always moved forward. The youthful days in Snow Valley had ultimately been sealed in the depths of veteran players' memories, becoming scenery from the past whenever they looked back.
When the Empty Yuan Peak node was taken in and integrated into the mining district of Emperor's Family Village,
and Di Nian Bully's Black Tide Legion advanced into the Rin Dong Snowfield like an iron curtain, A Le decisively shut down his business at the first sign of trouble, packed up, and fled.
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