New Tang Sect

Invincible Tyrannosaurus Warrior: "That main boss sure was tough. He one-shot so many of us at once."

Wang Zhongwang: "Our levels are just too low. Beginner bosses should all be nerfed. This Tie Li seemed like a pushover in the story, too."

Ten-Year Veteran: "Never mind whether this guy was a pushover in the story. Right now, he's a bona fide boss to us. Even if we can make unlimited corpse runs, don't let your guard down. If the boss escapes, we'll lose out big-time."

Watching the players run back, chatting and laughing, Tie Li's expression turned to terror.

"Are you people humans or ghosts?"

No one paid any attention to Tie Li's question.

Invincible Divine Shield: "Supports, buff us. Charge together."

The players summoned their various Martial Souls and charged at Tie Li with strange cries.

With fear in his heart, and his strength as a Soul Emperor already falling far short of the real thing, Tie Li was pushed onto the back foot even more in the melee.

Ten-Year Veteran had also used the refinement attempts awarded by the system during his corpse run, refining his Armor-Piercing Spear Martial Soul to black quality and raising its armor penetration from 10% to 20%.

His soul ring had also advanced from a hundred-year soul ring to a 6,000-year one, greatly increasing the power of his first soul skill: Projection.

Just moments ago, under cover from the other players, Ten-Year Veteran had pierced Tie Li's shoulder with his first soul skill, inflicting a bleeding debuff.

Agile Dog in the Mountains: "The boss is wounded! Keep up the damage-wait, those two bosses are running!"

Seeing things turn against them, the Ironblood Sect's two Soul King elders were already planning to slip away.

Ten-Year Veteran: "Split off some people to stop them. We absolutely can't let the bosses escape."

I Am an Angel: "You guys next to me, come with me. Watch your positioning. Don't all get one-shot together. If you die, make a corpse run straight back."

Wang Zhongwang led several players to intercept the other Soul King elder.

"You monsters think you can stop me?!"

The Soul King elder struck with all his strength and one-shot Wang Zhongwang, then dashed toward the gate as fast as he could, only to collide head-on with the revived Wang Zhongwang, who summoned his Martial Soul and locked him in a tight embrace.

Wang Zhongwang: "Brothers, I've got the boss pinned! Focus fire, quick!"

Soul skills, hidden weapons, and even bricks all rained down on the boss.

The Soul King elder reeled under the players' focused fire. He finally managed to break free of Wang Zhongwang's bear hug, only to find Wang Zhongwang still clinging tightly to his leg, refusing to let go.

Wang Zhongwang: "As long as I'm here, you're not going anywhere, boss."

"Aah! Die!"

Wang Zhongwang's head burst under a kick, but no gore appeared. There was only a flash of white light before Wang Zhongwang ran out of the respawn point again, charged over, and gave the boss another great big bear hug.

"Aah..."

The bizarre situation drove the Soul King elder completely mad.

In the players' eyes, a confusion debuff appeared above the boss's head, followed by another round of focused fire.

After these rounds, the boss's health bar was all but empty.

The finishing kill on this boss went to Wang Zhongwang, too. After all, he had indeed contributed a great deal.

On the other side, the Soul King elder held up by I Am an Angel and several other players was somewhat smarter. He kept changing positions, looking for a chance to break out.

But I Am an Angel watched him like a hawk, while the other players kept harassing him, giving him no opening at all.

As for the main boss, Tie Li, only a tenth of his health bar remained, and the players surrounding him had already died several times over.

However, the players grew more practiced as they fought. They had memorized his patterns, and many could dodge Tie Li's attacks just by watching his windups.

Tie Li now felt profound despair. How was this a bunch of one-ring Soul Masters? They were a pack of evil ghosts that had crawled out of hell.

"Wait! I surrender! Spare me. I'm willing to serve you."

The players wouldn't care what the boss said. Unless they heard a system notification, they would never stop.

Tang Yi, however, as both the will of the plane and the game administrator, did hear a system notification.

[Story character Tie Li has been detected requesting to submit. Loyalty: -100%. Accept?]

"-100% loyalty? Do you even need to ask? Reject."

Tang Yi chose to reject Tie Li's submission, so naturally, the players received no system notification.

And so, unwilling to accept his fate, Tie Li was worn down to death by the players.

As a beginner main boss, he naturally yielded a generous amount of experience. After experience was distributed according to contribution, most players had reached level 16 or 17, while Ten-Year Veteran had even reached level 18.

In addition, every player received some gold soul coins as a basic reward.

What truly made their mouths water, however, was a Martial Soul Slot Card. Using this Martial Soul Slot Card would allow them to awaken a second Martial Soul.

But now was not the time to discuss what to do with the Martial Soul Slot Card, because the beginner dungeon was not over yet.

One last Soul King elder from the Ironblood Sect remained, and under the constant attrition, his health bar had fallen to just a quarter.

Seeing even Sect Master Tie Li worn down to death by these devils, he, too, fell into utter despair.

"I'll fight you devils to the death!"

Unfortunately, his suicidal charge merely sent a few players through another round of respawning. Beyond that, it accomplished nothing.

Once his health bar was completely emptied, the players finally heard the system notifications.

[Congratulations to the players for completing the quest: Retake the sect grounds. All players are awarded 1 soul power level. Sect reputation system unlocked.]

[Sect name: New Tang Sect. Sect shop unlocked. Seek out the sect elder to begin reputation quests and earn reputation points to exchange for rewards.]

[Game shop unlocked. Top-up system unlocked. Players may top up Fate Coins to purchase Destiny items from the game shop.]

As the will of the plane, Tang Yi used the game system to tidy up the Ironblood Sect's territory all over again.

The corpses simply despawned, and the plaque changed from Ironblood Sect to New Tang Sect.

As for the newly generated sect elder who issued reputation quests, he was naturally another of Tang Yi's incarnations.

"I'll have to design these reputation quests carefully. I can't actually let these players run around committing atrocities all over the world.

System, send every player a warning letter prohibiting criminal activity in the game.

Once an offense is discovered and verified, log the game account out immediately. Since I've already connected to another world, players are the one thing I won't lack. There's no need to coddle these beasts of burden."

[Sent.]

The players also received the system's risk warning, but most paid it no mind. Most games had warnings like these, and practically no one read them.

But if they really did cross the line, by the time punishment came, they would have no tears left to cry.

Invincible Tyrannosaurus Warrior: Let's discuss how to distribute that Martial Soul Slot Card, shall we? I really want it, but unfortunately, there's no way it'll go to me.