New Way to Play

Just then, a long and wide red message floated overhead.

Server-wide Broadcast: Shen Long: We sincerely invite heroes from all walks of life and major gangs to join us. The city is rich in resources and benefits. Limited spots available, first come, first served!

Server-wide Broadcast: Cangqiong: The Baisheng Chamber of Commerce has officially established itself in City of Kings! From now on, all trade and commerce will be readily available. We welcome everyone to gather here and work together for development!

The two players' Server-wide Broadcast.

Xiao Fan was stunned for a moment, somewhat surprised.

"The Baisheng Chamber of Commerce has actually moved into the City of Kings?"

"Could it be that Brother Zhou Lion for too much and the two sides couldn't reach an agreement?"

Xiao Fan was unaware that Zhou He had directly rejected the Baisheng Chamber of Commerce's offer to move in, and he was still somewhat embarrassed.

"I hope Brother Zhou doesn't suffer too much loss."

Xiao Fan opened the chat channel below and checked the price for Server-wide Broadcast.

When he saw it, his eyes almost popped out of their sockets.

"What the heck? 50,000 Core Power each?"

Xiao Fan swallowed hard, and when he looked at the Server-wide Broadcast above again, he seemed to see countless coins floating by.

"They're really rich and powerful."

Xiao Fan also had a lot of Core Power, but when he exited the game the day before yesterday, he used up most of his attribute points when he materialized them.

He is full of good things, each manifestation of which is astronomical in value; Core Power simply wouldn't be enough to sustain him.

Xiao Fan shook his head, turned off the World Channel, and was about to delve into the gameplay systems preserved by the three servers when he suddenly felt a warm, unusual sensation at his fingertips.

He looked down and saw that the butterfly ring on his left index finger suddenly emitted a soft, shimmering light.

What's going on?

Xiao Fan was puzzled, so he quickly checked the item details and suddenly discovered that the accumulated energy of the "Zhuangzi's Dream of the Butterfly" item had quietly reached fifty percent.

This mysterious item requires players to progress through the game to accumulate energy.

"Could it be that half of this energy was accumulated during this server merge?"

After a moment's thought, Xiao Fan concluded that this was most likely the truth.

"Just one server merge can accumulate 50% of the energy. If we advance the game progress by another round, will we be able to unlock an exclusive special privilege?"

Thinking of this, a burning hope ignited in Xiao Fan's heart.

He had previously thought that accumulating energy for this item would be difficult, but now it seems easier than he imagined; he could complete half of it in just one server merge.

The main reason is that Xiao Fan didn't expect that he was the one who initiated the server merge; he hadn't done anything about it.

In the following time, Xiao Fan studied the players retained on the other three servers.

First, there's the Black Face Village, which remains from Jing City.

After the update to <Cloud Sea>, open the game map and a separate mini-map will appear in the lower left corner, marked with Black Face Village.

Although Black Face Village is on the main map, it is not part of the game map; rather, it exists as a separate map.

There was a vortex in the center of the map. Xiao Fan clicked on the vortex, and a system notification appeared in front of him.

"Enter Black Face Village?"

"Yes."

"I'm sorry, you do not have a token for Black Face Village and cannot enter this map."

"What? We need a token too?"

Xiao Fan frowned deeply.

"What kind of place is this Black Face Village? Why do they need a token? How do we get one?"

Xiao Fan knew nothing about it and could only give up exploring the map for the time being.

Then comes the Player Battlefield.

The Player Battlefield is a pure player-versus-player game with a dedicated battle map and multiple battle modes including 5V5, 10V10, 20V20, and 30V30.

Each player has only one life on the battlefield. While death does not result in actual death, players cannot be resurrected on the spot to fight again.

The match officially ends when one side loses all its members.

Battleground rewards are the same as those for running Dungeon and secret realms, but battlegrounds are only open from 8 PM to 12 PM every day, and each player only has five matchmaking opportunities.

The Player Battlefield has ranks, with the lowest being level one and no upper limit. The higher the player's rank, the greater the rewards.

"PVP battles, that's fun."

Xiao Fan immediately became interested.

He's been fighting monsters and Dungeon dungeons all along; he hasn't even battled against other players yet.

Thinking that he was about to enter a Life and Death Contest competition, which would most likely involve fighting against other players, Xiao Fan couldn't wait to get into the battlefield and train himself.

Furthermore, as his team grows larger, there are sometimes restrictions on the number of people allowed to enter a secret realm, but Player Battlefield offer a wider selection of players.

"That's perfect! Players can run Dungeon during the day, fight a world boss in the evening, and then go back to the city to fight battlegrounds. It couldn't be more perfect."

With the Player Battlefield in place, activities begin all day long.

Xiao Fan nodded in satisfaction.

Finally, there's the Gem System left behind by the White Nation.

Xiao Fan searched the entire page but couldn't find the system.

He could only choose to Armor Transformation and then looked at his equipment, but unfortunately he still couldn't find a hole to drill.

Xiao Fan suddenly remembered that he had created a piece of equipment before.

When he was in the Novice Zone, he noticed that no players were using firearms, so he created a pistol out of curiosity.

However, due to skill limitations, Xiao Fan has been unable to use this gun and has not been able to exchange for it.

With that in mind, Xiao Fan opened the Equipment Creation System and used his Core Power to exchange for the gun.

When Xiao Fan clicked to view, he indeed saw a punching option.

Drilling holes requires a special hammer, which Xiao Fan didn't have, so he gave up.

However, he also confirmed that equipment cannot be punched after Armor Transformation.

"What a pity..."

Xiao Fan was somewhat disappointed.

His equipment cannot be drilled or inlaid with gems, which means this system is not for him.

Fortunately, the equipment after <Armor Transformation> will continuously improve as Zijin's strength increases.

The damage from the gem is negligible.