Ch. 21Off-the-Charts Stats

Wu Shaozhen checked and equipped the Silver Wolf King and Wolf King gear, greatly increasing his stats, then learned a new skill and inspected the remaining rewards. He sold equipment directly to Su Muxue and received 180,000.

  • Wu Shaozhen listed six pieces of Silver Wolf gear for 20,000 each, and they quickly sold, earning him 108,000 after fees.
  • Wu Shaozhen equipped the better Bronze and Black Iron gear, raising his stats substantially, and learned Extreme Speed.
  • Wu Shaozhen inspected a Damage Immunity Scroll, a Luck Scroll, and a Silver Wolf King Pet Egg, deciding to save the items and postpone hatching the egg.
  • Su Muxue asked Wu Shaozhen about available equipment, and he sent her screenshots of the pieces he planned to sell.
  • Su Muxue offered 180,000 for the equipment, and Wu Shaozhen accepted through a direct trade.

Ch. 22Jinling City

Wu Shaozhen repaired Beginner Village 8365’s Teleportation Array by killing the Silver Wolf King, earning the Novice Village Hero title and unlocking travel to a main city. He teleported to Jinling City and chose to become an Assassin.

  • Wu Shaozhen gave the village chief the Silver Wolf King’s Monster Core, completed the repair quest, and received the Novice Village Hero title with luck +10.
  • The village chief repaired the Teleportation Array, and the system announced that level 10 players could now travel to a main city.
  • Su Muxue learned that the repair quest required killing the Silver Wolf King and told Uncle Liu to have everyone level up quickly.
  • Wu Shaozhen chose Jinling City as his destination and arrived there as its first player.
  • Wu Shaozhen went to the Job Hall and selected the Assassin class despite the other instructors’ attempts to recruit him.

Ch. 23Class advancement

Wu Shaozhen became the first player on the Huaxia Server to advance to Assassin, earning system rewards and prompting players across the server to react. He logged out to eat, checked his growing bank balance, and heard restaurant patrons discussing Dustseal without realizing they were talking about him.

  • Wu Shaozhen declined to redistribute his attributes, advanced to Assassin, and gained a level along with the class’s bonus agility points.
  • The server announced that Dustseal was the first player to advance a class and the first to become an Assassin, awarding him reputation, Gold Coins, and two skill books.
  • World-Proud Under Heaven and players across the Novice Villages reacted to Dustseal’s achievement, while Jun Lin, Hao Ran, and Nan Feng discussed pursuing the first Archer spot.
  • Su Muxue ordered Uncle Liu to focus on helping her level up so she could try to become the first Mage.
  • Wu Shaozhen logged out, found 607,650 yuan in his bank account, and went out to eat after spending the day grinding.
  • At a restaurant, Wu Shaozhen watched videos of guilds fighting the Boar King and overheard customers praising Dustseal.

Ch. 24War God Hall

Wu Shaozhen learned two powerful Assassin skills and explored Jinling City, where he discovered the War God Hall and its honored heroes. He left the hall’s portal unexplored after reading the inscriptions on two statues.

  • Wu Shaozhen learned the unique Immortal Body skill, which permanently increased his maximum Health whenever he killed a monster at least his level.
  • Wu Shaozhen learned Void, which cleared negative effects and made him untargetable for one second.
  • Wu Shaozhen explored Jinling City, bought and activated a Map Scroll, and surveyed its shops, trading area, and other districts.
  • Wu Shaozhen entered the War God Hall and read the inscriptions honoring War God Glib and the Silver Ice Mage God.

Ch. 25Realm Advancement

Wu Shaozhen challenged the War God Secret Realm, advanced to Black Iron, and used his rewards to strengthen his attributes. He then traveled to Goblin Plains and began farming level 16 Goblins to improve his talent.

  • Wu Shaozhen entered the War God Secret Realm and defeated the Black Iron War God Phantom by applying poison and avoiding its attacks.
  • Wu Shaozhen advanced to Black Iron, received attribute bonuses, a War God Medal, and a first-player reward of 10 free attribute points.
  • Wu Shaozhen equipped the medal and allocated 20 points to agility and 30 to bone root, raising his combat stats.
  • Wu Shaozhen chose the Goblin Plains south of Jinling City as his next hunting ground and ran there.
  • Wu Shaozhen used Extreme Speed and poison to fight groups of level 16 Goblins, occasionally using potions to recover.

Ch. 26Silver Big Bad Wolf

Wu Shaozhen hatched and named a Silver Wolf King cub, then discovered that players needed to defeat the Silver Wolf King to leave their Novice Villages. After checking the forums, he gave the stranded players a cryptic hint to ask the village chief, leaving them scrambling to understand his advice.

  • Wu Shaozhen hatched the Silver Wolf King Pet Egg, named the cub Silver Big Bad Wolf, and brought it along to absorb a share of his EXP while he hunted Goblins.
  • World-Proud Under Heaven and other level-10 players learned they had to kill the Silver Wolf King to repair the Teleportation Array, and groups that challenged it were wiped out.
  • Players flooded the forums and Beginner Village 8365's regional channel with questions and praise for Dustseal, while Jun Lin neared level 10 with his group helping him gain EXP.
  • Su Muxue contacted Wu Shaozhen, learned he played with a Gaming Helmet, and asked which main city he was in; he later told her Jinling City.
  • Wu Shaozhen opened the in-game forums, saw the flood of messages tagging him, and replied to the Silver Wolf King thread, telling players to complain to the village chief.

Ch. 27Class Change Announcements

Wu Shaozhen watched players across the server claim the first class-change rewards while he continued leveling in the wilderness. After transferring 20,000 yuan to his younger sister Ziyin, he was left wondering what had made her ask for money.

  • Jun Lin, Xue'er, and Call Me Young Master Huang became the first Archer, Mage, and Warrior, earning server-wide rewards.
  • World-Proud Heroes defeated the Silver Wolf King, but Dreamlight Dance became the first Priest before they could claim the reward.
  • World-Proud Lone Peak became the first Shieldguard, giving Beginner Village 8365 four of the six first class changes.
  • Wu Shaozhen leveled up after killing 129 Goblins, found a Black Iron Wolf Fang Mace, and saw Silver Big Bad Wolf reach level 8.
  • Ziyin called Wu Shaozhen to ask for money, and he transferred 20,000 yuan to her account.

Ch. 28My talent stopped improving?

Wu Ziyin learned that her brother, Wu Shaozhen, had made money in Oracle and received twenty thousand yuan from him. Meanwhile, Wu Shaozhen discovered that his poison talent had stopped improving, leaving him worried about its future usefulness.

  • Wu Ziyin worried about paying for the cosmetics she had broken, and Weiwei comforted her after lending her money.
  • Wu Shaozhen sent Wu Ziyin twenty thousand yuan and told her he had earned money selling equipment in Oracle.
  • Weiwei explained how players could make large sums in Oracle and encouraged Wu Ziyin to try the game.
  • Wu Shaozhen went to Black Bear Ridge and farmed Black Bears by stacking poison on them.
  • After killing his eighty-ninth Black Bear, Wu Shaozhen noticed that his talent improvement no longer appeared and confirmed that his poison damage had stopped at 240.

Ch. 29Talent potential

Wu Shaozhen tested the growth limit of his poison talent, then logged off to rest while Su Muxue and World-Proud Under Heaven pursued their own challenges. After logging back in, he was drawn to a roar at Black Bear Ridge and encountered a soldier under attack by a powerful boss.

  • Wu Shaozhen reached level 13 and found that his poison damage rose to 260 before reaching its current cap, confirming it was twenty times his level.
  • Wu Shaozhen logged off to eat and sleep, while Su Muxue failed the War God Secret Realm and noticed his level 13; World-Proud Under Heaven later cleared the challenge using equipment and potions.
  • Wu Shaozhen woke at four in the morning, logged in, and decided to return to the War God Secret Realm to test whether advancing his realm would raise his talent cap.
  • Wu Shaozhen heard a roar at Black Bear Ridge, rushed over, and had Silver Big Bad Wolf block the Black Bear King's attack to save a fleeing soldier.
  • Wu Shaozhen used Insight on the Black Bear King and learned it was a level 17 bronze boss with 300,000 health and three powerful skills.

Ch. 30Slaying the Black Bear King

Wu Shaozhen defeated the Black Bear King with poison, Stealth, and evasive tactics, then received a quest to deliver a dying guard’s letter to the city lord. The quest prevented him from using a Town Portal Scroll, so he had to run back to Jinling City.

  • Wu Shaozhen poisoned the Black Bear King, survived its attacks, and used Stealth and Silver Big Bad Wolf to evade and distract it until the boss died.
  • Wu Shaozhen received experience and loot from the kill, and Silver Big Bad Wolf reached level 12.
  • Wu Shaozhen equipped the Bear King Bracelet, Boots, and Legguards, then inspected a Petrified Skin Scroll among the drops.
  • Wu Shaozhen spoke to the dying soldier Jirui, accepted his letter for the city lord, and watched him die.
  • Wu Shaozhen tried to use a Town Portal Scroll, but the quest blocked it, so he ran toward Jinling City.

Ch. 31Bronze Grade

Wu Shaozhen delivered Jirui’s letter to the city lord of Jinling City and accepted a quest to kill the level 20 Silver Chief of Black Wind Stronghold. He defeated the War God Phantom, advanced to Bronze Grade, and left with a major boost to his attributes.

  • Wu Shaozhen delivered Jirui’s letter to the city lord, received 20 gold coins and 200 reputation, and learned Jirui had died.
  • Wu Shaozhen persuaded the city lord to assign him a three-day quest to kill the Chief of Black Wind Stronghold, a level 20 Silver boss, and bring back his head.
  • Wu Shaozhen entered the War God Secret Realm and fought the level 13 Bronze Grade War God Phantom.
  • Wu Shaozhen defeated the phantom after a little over eight minutes, advanced to Bronze Grade, and upgraded his War God Medal.
  • Wu Shaozhen allocated 20 free attribute points to agility and 40 to bone root, then headed toward the War God Secret Realm’s exit.

Ch. 32First PvP Fight

Wu Shaozhen sold his rare equipment, concealed his identity with a mask, and killed a party of World-Proud Heroes players who tried to rob him. The nearby players watched the party die as Wu Shaozhen walked away.

  • Wu Shaozhen sold Su Muxue a Boar King Summoning Scroll for fifty thousand and listed four pieces of equipment at the Auction House.
  • World-Proud Under Heaven ordered his guild to buy Wu Shaozhen's armor and search for him in Jinling City.
  • Wu Shaozhen sold his plain equipment, bought a face-concealing mask, and left the city.
  • Brother Hao and his party tried to recruit Wu Shaozhen, then surrounded and threatened him when he refused.
  • Wu Shaozhen used Extreme Speed to strike each party member with his wooden sword, and his poison killed all four despite Xiaoli's attempt to heal Brother Hao.

Ch. 33Mage equipment

Wu Shaozhen tested his growing poison damage on Flame Lizards, sold valuable equipment, and traded a Mage ring to Su Muxue. After leveling up, he prepared to explore the Black Wind Stronghold.

  • Brother Hao learned that Dustseal had killed him and reported the encounter to World-Proud Under Heaven.
  • Wu Shaozhen confirmed that reaching Bronze rank had increased his poison damage and earned 323,000 yuan from selling four pieces of equipment.
  • World-Proud Under Heaven and his companions discussed Dustseal's powerful poison and believed they could kill him once their levels and equipment improved.
  • Wu Shaozhen sold the Flame Ring dropped by a Flame Lizard to Su Muxue for 80,000 yuan and told her where he had found it.
  • Wu Shaozhen leveled up after killing more Flame Lizards, raising his poison damage to 337 and his maximum health by 395, then set out to check the Black Wind Stronghold.

Ch. 34Black Wind Stronghold

Wu Shaozhen fought his way past the guards at Black Wind Stronghold, using Silver Big Bad Wolf to draw the arrow towers’ fire while poison killed the archers. When the stronghold sent out a large force, he considered using his [Petrified Skin Scroll] to withstand the ranged attackers and poison them.

  • Wu Shaozhen killed two level 20 bandits near the stronghold gate, but the arrow-tower guards broke his stealth and forced him to retreat.
  • Wu Shaozhen summoned Silver Big Bad Wolf beneath an arrow tower to draw fire, then poisoned the first archer and escaped its range.
  • Wu Shaozhen used the wolf to distract the second archer and killed it with poison, earning experience from the four guards.
  • An alarm brought more than a hundred bandits rushing out of the stronghold, so Wu Shaozhen fled with Silver Big Bad Wolf.
  • Wu Shaozhen spotted the [Petrified Skin Scroll] in his bag and planned to use its defense boost to poison the stronghold’s archers and mages.

Ch. 35Now This Was Mob Farming

Wu Shaozhen used poison, speed, and a defensive scroll to take on the bandits at their stronghold, killing most of them and collecting valuable drops. After his scroll expired, he attacked the remaining twenty-two bandits and began dodging their skills.

  • Wu Shaozhen charged the bandits under a Petrified Skin scroll, surviving the archers and warriors but taking heavy damage from the mages’ spells.
  • Wu Shaozhen used Void to escape a stun and evade Freeze, poisoned all ten mages, then retreated until they died.
  • Wu Shaozhen returned to poison the archers and other bandits, killing more than half the group before the scroll expired.
  • Wu Shaozhen picked up two pieces of Black Iron equipment and Silver Coins, then checked his status and found he had killed 124 bandits and reached level 14.
  • Wu Shaozhen charged the remaining twenty-two bandits, poisoned several while managing their attacks, and dodged a shieldguard’s shield bash.

Ch. 36Taking on a Group of Mages

Wu Shaozhen cleared the lower stronghold and pushed into the middle tier, where he fought groups of powerful warlocks. He used a Damage Immunity Scroll to poison most of a crowd of twenty-five mages, then escaped with six still alive.

  • Wu Shaozhen killed the remaining bandits, gained 57,600 experience, equipped an Attack Speed Ring, and auctioned a Log Shield.
  • Wu Shaozhen entered the stronghold’s middle tier and discovered groups of level 20 warlocks with powerful ranged spells.
  • Wu Shaozhen used Stealth and Extreme Speed to poison five warlocks and escape their reinforcements; when he returned, twenty-five mages had gathered.
  • Wu Shaozhen charged the group under Haste, poisoned twelve mages while taking heavy damage, and used a Damage Immunity Scroll to poison seven more.
  • Wu Shaozhen fled as the scroll’s protection expired, using Void to evade the incoming spells and escape with six mages unpoisoned.

Ch. 37The strategist of Black Wind Stronghold

Wu Shaozhen earned over a million yuan from game sales, then returned to Black Wind Stronghold and defeated its strategist by repeatedly poisoning it and escaping. The strategist dropped several pieces of equipment, a scroll, and a fruit.

  • Wu Shaozhen poisoned and killed six Mages, found a Sapphire Necklace, and sold it to Su Muxue for 70,000 yuan.
  • Wu Shaozhen learned that his listed shield had sold, bringing his bank balance to 1.11 million yuan, and logged out for breakfast.
  • After logging back in, Wu Shaozhen spotted the level 20 Black Wind Stronghold strategist and studied its stats before planning an attack.
  • Wu Shaozhen repeatedly struck the strategist with poison and fled its spells until it collapsed less than seven minutes later.
  • Wu Shaozhen collected the strategist's drops: gold, silver, two Bronze equipment pieces, three Black Iron equipment pieces, a scroll, and a fruit.

Ch. 38Chief of Black Wind Stronghold

Wu Shaozhen sold five pieces of boss equipment to Xue'er, then challenged the Chief of Black Wind Stronghold and began wearing him down with hit-and-run attacks. The chief remained unable to catch him as the fight continued.

  • Wu Shaozhen sold the Ice Spirit Staff, Flame Bracelet, and three black iron items to Xue'er for 560,000.
  • Wu Shaozhen found a Spirit Fruit, ate it, and permanently increased his spirit by 10.
  • Wu Shaozhen met the Chief of Black Wind Stronghold, inspected his powerful stats, and fled the stronghold to assess the danger.
  • Wu Shaozhen drank a Vitality Potion, returned under Stealth, and attacked the chief before trying to run.
  • The chief hit Wu Shaozhen with a basic attack and Weak Point Break, but Wu Shaozhen healed and continued striking and retreating while the chief struggled to catch him.

Ch. 39First Silver Boss Kill

Wu Shaozhen used a Luck Scroll before defeating the Chief of Black Wind Stronghold, earning the first Silver boss kill on the server and a huge haul of loot. As other players reacted and factions discussed him, he began inspecting the equipment he had collected.

  • Wu Shaozhen used a Luck Scroll and defeated the Chief of Black Wind Stronghold, gaining experience, reputation, and a level while his Silver Big Bad Wolf also leveled up.
  • The server announced Dustseal as the first player to kill a Silver-grade boss, awarding him reputation, gold, and free attribute points.
  • Jun Lin and Hao Ran admired Dustseal’s strength, while Dreamlight Dance grew curious about his identity as her team fought a Bronze boss in Autumnwater City.
  • World-Proud Under Heaven ordered his people to find Dustseal and recruit him or destroy him if he could not be controlled.
  • Wu Shaozhen collected a vast boss drop, including four Silver pieces of equipment, two skill books, special items, and a quest head, then inspected the equipment.

Ch. 40What Good Was All This Attack Power?

Wu Shaozhen sorted through the Chief of Black Wind Stronghold’s drops, upgraded his equipment and skills, and watched his combat stats soar. He sold his replaced Black Iron gear for 540,000, while keeping a treasure map, its possible key, and a Restriction-Breaking Potion for later.

  • Wu Shaozhen learned Crushing Blow and Weak Point Break, used two Agility Fruits, and inspected a treasure map, a chest key, and a Restriction-Breaking Potion.
  • Wu Shaozhen equipped the chief’s Silver and Bronze gear, invested 40 attribute points in bone root, and saw his attack rise above a thousand.
  • Wu Shaozhen checked the Auction House and predicted Black Iron equipment prices would soon fall as more players found gear.
  • Wu Shaozhen listed his replaced Black Iron equipment for sale, and all twelve pieces sold, earning him 540,000.
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