The Longevity Family

[You discovered a new area: Wind Grassland]

[Experience +1]

Heaven had mercy. More than two days after logging into Boundless Endless World, Zhou Heng's experience had finally passed the number 1.

Standing at the entrance to Wind Grassland and looking at the signs straight ahead, Zhou Heng wore a grim expression.

He knew that after ten thousand years of operation, class stratification in Boundless Endless was severe, but he had never expected it to be this bad.

Sign (straight ahead): New players, keep walking straight until the next sign.

Sign (right): Longevity Exclusive

Sign (forward left): Black Bear Guild Leveling Area

Sign (rear left): Little Bird Town Private Area

Of the four directions, only two were actually open to him.

He could either compete with other new players for a monster area that had already been farmed for two days, or go to the Black Bear Guild's base and join the Blackwater Grass scavengers.

The former offered no experience, or pitifully little even if there was any.

The latter might even cost him all three free revivals.

Just as Zhou Heng considered what to do, Fate Hint appeared on his retinas...

[Class stratification in the areas of Boundless Endless open to Blue Star is growing ever more terrifying. You feel somewhat lost and fall silent, but there is no need to worry.]

[Fate offers you a hint.]

[Fate Hint 1: On Blue Star, individuals cannot be killed or confined in any form, so you can reveal your identity without any reservations. Yet you have to admit that what makes the Longevity Family terrifying is not merely their long lifespans on Blue Star, but also the power they have built over ten thousand years in Boundless Endless World. You shrink back. Head to the new players' base or the Black Bear Guild's base and rely on time to grow stronger little by little.]

[Fate Hint 2: Are kings, nobles, generals, and ministers born to their stations? The Longevity Family is not an enemy beyond opposing. Advance into the Longevity Residence and face a Longevity player. You are fortunate: there is one, and only one, Longevity Family player in Little Bird Town, and she has yet to receive her family's supplies. By killing her, you can obtain the class scroll "Extreme Long-Range Shooter," which is compatible with the "Great Sun Divine Bow." Choose this path, and an early lead will become a lead at every step.]

Zhou Heng narrowed his eyes at the Longevity area to the right. Fate Hint was all but feeding resources straight into his mouth. If he still hesitated, he would be utterly unworthy of his identity as a transmigrator and a Unique-Level Talent like Fate Hint.

The Longevity Family was a terrifying power that constantly loomed over countless Blue Star players.

It was not merely one family, but a ten-thousand-year-old collective formed by countless long-lived families.

They possessed the highest-grade resources on Blue Star, standing high above everyone else by virtue of their longevity.

In Boundless Endless World, they had spent ten thousand years building their power and swallowing up countless resources, making it difficult for ordinary players to rise.

Although many people still did not understand how they had surpassed the official powers of the various nations to become number one, they were, regardless, a power whose members inspired dread with even a single glance. Yet at this very moment, Zhou Heng wanted to take on a new player from that power. Without any further hesitation, he strode forward...

Following the Longevity Exclusive area deeper into Wind Grassland, Zhou Heng soon encountered a flock of plump sheep.

Wind Sheep

Level: 5

Attack: 7-14

Magic: 0-0

HP: 100/100

Mana: 0/0

Armor: 2

Attack speed: 0.8/s

Movement speed: 1.5/s

Skills: Horn Charge, Baa

As Zhou Heng identified the Wind Sheep's stats, the Wind Sheep also spotted him.

It bleated, then charged at him.

Completely unruffled, Zhou Heng took out the Great Sun Divine Bow, aimed at the Wind Sheep, and loosed an arrow.

Whoosh~

-72!

Decent damage. Although it was not a full critical hit, it was not close to the minimum damage either.

"Baaa!!!"

Enraged by the arrow, the Wind Sheep hurled itself at Zhou Heng with all its might.

At that moment, the eighteen years of diligent training in this life came into play.

Even with a movement speed difference of 0.3 m/s between them, Zhou Heng could still handle it calmly.

With a relatively nimble sidestep, he narrowly avoided the Wind Sheep's Horn Charge.

By then, a new arrow had finished forming. Zhou Heng drew the Great Sun Divine Bow again and fired at the Wind Sheep.

Whoosh~

The arrow struck the Wind Sheep precisely in its right eye, dealing maximum damage.

-90!

In an instant, the Wind Sheep's health bar emptied, and it fell dead.

[You killed a Wind Sheep.]

[Experience +50]

"One more, and I can level up!"

Zhou Heng walked forward and began the standard online gaming procedure: looting the corpse.

[You obtained copper coin +1.]

Just then, two more Wind Sheep in the distance noticed what was happening and charged over.

Zhou Heng did not remain idle either. He drew his bow and nocked an arrow, using the archery he had studied for over a decade in this life to take down both Wind Sheep with ease.

[You killed a Wind Sheep.]

[Experience +50]

[You reached level 2.]

[Attack +1]

Leveling up in Boundless Endless World did not grant free attribute points. Instead, the gains were entirely random, dependent on luck.

Generally, the randomly increased stat would be attack, magic, Health, mana, or armor. Only with a little more luck would it be damage reduction for the various elements.

As for attack speed and movement speed, specialist researchers had conducted population surveys on those. The probability was only one in ten thousand, making them very difficult to improve through leveling.

That was also why attack speed and movement speed could sit at the same table as true damage reduction, holy damage reduction, and chaos damage reduction.

[You killed a Wind Sheep.]

[Experience +50]

Going from level 2 to level 3 required 200 experience. In other words, he only needed to kill three more Wind Sheep.

After looting two copper coins from the corpses, Zhou Heng explored deeper.

Soon, Zhou Heng encountered several more Wind Sheep.

After killing a batch of Wind Sheep in succession, Zhou Heng quickly reached level 4.

Going from level 4 to level 7 required not 600 experience, but 6,000.

Grinding through this level range would take some time.

Looking at the three consecutive stat increases that had all gone into attack, Zhou Heng was quite satisfied.

With just one more point of attack, he could kill a Wind Sheep in one hit, provided he struck a vital area such as its eyes.

But just as Zhou Heng was about to search for another batch of Wind Sheep to grind, a slender figure appeared at the other end of the grassland.

The wind began to howl, rustling the lush green grass.

Zhou Heng narrowed his eyes, his heart involuntarily beating a little harder.

He stared fixedly at the slender figure slowly approaching him from afar, not lowering his guard in the slightest simply because the other person might be a woman.

The Longevity Family and ordinary Blue Star players were by no means people of the same world.

Soon, the figure came closer. She was a girl whose innocent looks carried a trace of coldness, and she was around Zhou Heng's age.

Unlike Zhou Heng, however, a faint golden lotus petal adorned the space between her brows.

"Leave this place."

"Leave the Great Sun Divine Bow behind."

"You have only three seconds."

The girl's expression was icy, and her tone was colder still than the ice of the netherworld.

She cast Zhou Heng a sidelong glance as though looking down on him from above, holding a bow in one hand while the other rested in the quiver on her back...

Someone from an earlier generation had once said: the unequal distribution of wealth stems from how quickly information travels.

At this moment, that claim received powerful confirmation.

No newly logged-in Blue Star player could possibly identify the weapon in his hand as the Great Sun Divine Bow at a glance.

But to the lofty Longevity players of the Longevity Family, this might merely be extracurricular knowledge they studied over afternoon dessert. Of course, there was another possibility: perhaps the Great Sun Divine Bow prepared by the Black Bear Guild had been intended for this girl from the very beginning. They simply would not hand it over directly as part of the process; instead, she would have to obtain it through certain trials. That would fit the Longevity Family's gu-style cultivation method perfectly...