"Waaaaah, oh my god, I finally Ascension! If I hadn't Ascension, I was going to quit the game!"
A player who had just appeared at the gate of Huayang Town lay on the ground and wailed loudly.
"Ascension " is a nickname used by players in the starting village to refer to the way players leave the starting village.
The sound and light effects were just like the Ascension in novels!
The other players didn't laugh at this somewhat neurotic player.
This game is really unfriendly to new players; the leveling experience is terrifying, and the monster-grinding journey is painful.
Fortunately, players gradually figured out some strategies, especially for defeating the Rabbit boss.
Just then, two people walked across the road. They were Ling Yi and Zhao Laosan, who had come from the Sacred Beast Mountain Range.
Ling Yi was dressed in a silver-white Clear Wind Set, but Ling Yi felt it was a bit silly to carry a weapon around, so he went empty-handed, storing his weapon in his Sea of Consciousness.
Zhao Laosan was dressed in a full suit of crimson metallic armor, with a tiger-headed saber slung over his shoulder, looking quite imposing and Haki.
"What conditions are required to establish a sect?" Ling Yi asked Zhao Laosan as he watched more and more players gather at the city gate.
"Young Master wants to establish a sect? That's a bit troublesome."
"So it can be established now?"
Zhao Laosan scratched his head and said, "Well, with your strength, young master, you're more than capable of establishing a sect."
"What kind of trouble are you referring to?"
"There are generally two ways to establish a sect. One is to obtain a sect token, but sect tokens are issued by the imperial court. Now that we have become enemies of the Sacred Sect, it will probably be very difficult to obtain one."
What are the conditions under which the imperial court issues sect tokens?
"One way is to buy it with gold coins. Sect tokens are divided into levels. The most expensive, the Super Sect Token, costs one million gold coins each, with a clearly marked price!" Zhao Laosan said with a sneer.
"It's so dark!" Ling Yi couldn't help but gasp.
He wiped out five mountain strongholds and only managed to get a few hundred thousand gold coins. A million gold coins would be an extremely staggering amount for him.
Needless to say, this is even more true for ordinary players.
"One type is completing the task of issuing a decree from the imperial court to the sects. Although I don't know the details of the task, I suspect it's no simple matter."
Ling Yi shook his head; spending gold coins was out of the question.
Helping the imperial court resolve its troubles is even more impossible. Since Ling Yi has already prepared to be an enemy of the imperial court and the Sacred Sect, how could he possibly help the imperial court resolve its troubles?
Is there anything else?
"Destroy a sect and take its place," Zhao Laosan said succinctly.
"Hmm, this is good!"
"For the boss, this isn't the real problem. The real problem is that within a month of its establishment, the sect will face challenges from other major sects."
"Including the Sacred Sect!" Zhao Laosan added.
"What kind of challenge is it? Is it a life-or-death struggle, or just a friendly spar?"
"We can fight to the death, but it's best to stop when the point is clear, otherwise we'll be making enemies of the whole world."
Ling Yi couldn't help but laugh. To be an enemy of the entire world?
"Which sects in the Jianghu originated from this?" Ling Yi asked.
"Most of them were bought with money. Small sect tokens cost 100,000 gold coins, medium sect tokens cost 300,000 gold coins, and large sect tokens cost 600,000 gold coins. For some experts, 100,000 gold coins is not difficult to obtain."
Which is the most recently emerging super sect?
Zhao Laosan gave a bitter smile; he knew it would turn out this way.
"Young Master, I think we should first establish a small sect and develop it for a while to see how it goes."
"No need. If we're going to do it, we'll go all out!"
Zhao Laosan didn't try to persuade him any further. On one hand, it was pointless to try, and on the other hand, his young master was an immortal, so what was there to be afraid of?
Just then, a joyful voice rang out from afar.
"Holy crap, Reincarnation Big Shot, you're here too?"
You're Not Worth a Cigarette, You're Not Worth a Plate of Food, You're Not Worth One Head of Garlic.
Seeing the IDs above the three people's heads, Ling Yi couldn't help but laugh. What a coincidence!
"I didn't expect you guys to be randomly assigned to Huayang Town too," Ling Yi said with a smile.
He was deeply impressed by the One Cigarette; this was a gaming master with exceptional leadership and control—a rare talent.
" Reincarnation, did you wipe out Big Shot bandits of Black Wind Stronghold?" asked One Cigarette.
Ling Yi nodded.
With One Cigarette smile, he said, " Big Shot, at least leave some scraps for us."
Do you think you can handle being left with just a sip of soup?
In Ling Yi's opinion, the attributes of One Cigarette and the others were really too poor; it would probably take an ordinary bandit half a day to defeat them.
Besides, these bandits aren't like Rabbit in a newbie village. They're Wisdom; if they can't beat someone, they'll run away and call for help. Do they really think everyone can just go around killing like Ling Yi?
"What are your plans next?" Ling Yi suddenly thought of his sect's plans and asked.
"First, try to reach level 20, then just find a sect to join."
"So this is the normal player experience?"
"What else do you think, Big Shot? How do you plan to play this game?"
"I'm going to seize a sect and become its leader myself!"
One Cigarette was immediately dumbfounded, looking at Ling Yi as if he were a Madman.
Even beta testers wouldn't be this audacious, would they? Stealing a sect? And then becoming its leader? What kind of logic is that?
" Big Shot, you're not serious, are you?" someone asked cautiously beside One Dish.
Ling Yi looked at Zhao Laosan and asked, "Where is the nearest large sect, or rather, the nearest super sect?"
Zhao Laosan said, " Purple Exposition Palace is only 800 li away from us, a little over two hours' journey."
One Head of Garlic, very sensitive to numbers, immediately asked after hearing Zhao Laosan's words, " Uncle, are you sure it only takes two hours to travel 800 li? 200 kilometers per hour?"
She looked at One Cigarette and asked, "Hey, do you know any tools in the game that can reach 200 kilometers per hour?"
"Those beta testers have only just reached level 20!" said One Cigarette, shrugging.
Zhao Laosan looked at the three of them with the eyes of someone looking at country bumpkins, his expression saying, "You two look like you've never seen the world before."
" Big Shot, can you tell me how you manage to travel 800 li in two hours?"
"We usually don't need to walk!" Ling Yi said with a smile.
Suddenly, One Cigarette recalled the scene of seeing Ling Yi wielding Flying Sword in the newbie village. His eyes widened in surprise, and he exclaimed, "Could it be... flying?"
Just then, dozens of people on horseback suddenly galloped along the mountain path in the distance, rapidly approaching.
In the procession, a large flag fluttered in the wind, making a loud rustling sound.
The flag has gold characters on a white background, and a big "" character written on it.
As these people passed by, they raised a cloud of dust and rushed into Huayang Town in the blink of an eye.
"It's the Zhengyi Sect. Why would people from the Zhengyi Sect come to Huayang Town? Could it be that they've also come for the Ice Lake?" Zhao Laosan asked.
Ling Yi suddenly remembered two items that had dropped from the Big Head of the Black Wind Stronghold when he wiped it out: a token for the Zhengyi Sect and a God Investiture letter.
Ling Yi had already read the letter. Its content was roughly a report to Fei Yang, an elder of the Zhengyi Sect, on the situation at Qilin Lake, which is also known as the Ice Lake.
"These people are all at such high levels, even the lowest one is level 30," said One Dish with some envy.
"Rank isn't important; what matters is that they are all Martial Practitioner. It's just a pity that we are not Martial Practitioner yet, so we can't see through their Martial Practitioner Realm," One Cigarette.
"The weakest is at the Acquired Fifth Stage, while the middle-aged man in black has already reached the Acquired Ninth Stage, just one step away from the Innate," Zhao Laosan explained.
"Young Master..." Zhao Laosan looked at Ling Yi.
"Their goal is the Ice Lake!" Ling Yi took out the letter and handed it to Zhao Laosan.
After reading it, Zhao Laosan frowned. "Doesn't the Zhengyi Sect know that the Ice Lake is being targeted by the Sacred Sect?"
Ling Yi smiled and said, "Perhaps, it's not just the Zhengyi Sect."
The others, like those with One Cigarette Heavenly Book, were completely bewildered. "What are you talking about? What's this Zhengyi Sect' and ' Sacred Sect '? Damn it, we're only a day late! You think we can't understand the game?"
What exactly happened?
At this time, there were seven or eight more carriages approaching slowly on the mountain road. Each carriage had a flag on it. Different from the flags of the Zhengyi Sect, these flags were all black with white characters on them, with the word "Gui" written on them.
" The Return to One Sect has also arrived." Zhao Laosan seemed to understand something.
He looked at Ling Yi and said, "Does the young master mean that these Jianghu sects have known about the existence of the Ice Lake for a long time?"
"Indeed, although the Sacred Sect is powerful, it ultimately dares not make an enemy of the entire Jianghu."
Following that, a large number of Jianghu practitioners arrived in Huayang Town.
Besides the Zhengyi Sect Return to One Sect, which were the first to arrive, the Nine Yuan Sect and various other Xiaoxiao Jianghu arts sects also appeared one after another.
Even some independent Jianghu artists without any sect affiliation came.
Zhao Laosan, being a native of the game world, had a much better understanding of the Jianghu than Ling Yi, One Cigarette, and the others, and thus provided a somewhat unsatisfactory commentary for several hours.
"We should be experiencing a major story event in the game. If we can handle it well, we should be able to reap quite a few benefits," said One Cigarette excitedly.
"This is a storyline that beta testers haven't been able to trigger, but news of this will soon spread to all the major guilds. We need to get inside information in advance to get ahead of the competition."
"Otherwise, we have no way to compete with those big guilds!"
Ling Yi didn't care about the plot or sects/guilds; all he wanted to do was stir things up, and do it in a big way, with special reports.
The core processor of this game world... well, that's not quite the right name.
Call it core intelligence? That would be more accurate.
Let's call it that for now. If we want to know its computational Limit, we must first get its attention.
What will the core AI do if someone repeatedly disrupts the game's balance?
Is it better to directly use Data Rule to erase your own data, or to use the game rules against you?
Ling Yi was very curious about this, and it was also very important to Ling Yi.
Moreover, Ling Yi discovered something very interesting.
His anti-addiction system seems to have disappeared.
Moreover, as long as Ling Yi is well-fed and watered in the game, he will not feel hungry in real life.
This is amazing.
"My anti-addiction period is about to expire," said One Dish.
"Alright, I'll log off first, then you guys come to my place and we'll have a proper discussion." He said, pointing to One Dish and One Head of Garlic One Cigarette.
" Big Shot, what are your plans? How about we go together?" One Cigarette asked Ling Yi with some anticipation.
"No, I have other things to do, I'm logging off now!"
After Ling Yi finished speaking, he said to Zhao Laosan, " Old Zhao, while I'm gone, try to gather as much information as possible!"
"Yes, young master!"
Ling Yi nodded to the group of people while holding One Cigarette, then logged off on the spot.
Removing his helmet, Ling Yi clenched his right hand tightly, and the next moment, a ball of blue Lightning appeared out of thin air.
Ling Yi casually dissipated the Lightning ball and went to a Computer next to him.
Let's start reviewing the data records above.
Five hours later, Ling Yi fell into deep thought after reviewing the last piece of data.
"It seems that other players don't possess the ability to Manifestation life."
"The internal energy cultivation techniques and martial arts moves in the game can be practiced in the real world, which proves that the game world is not as simple as I thought. Perhaps, it really is a real world."
"This guy, One Cigarette, is quite good. He's capable and responsible. He could help resolve the conflict between himself and the Pinnacle Group."
Ling Yi flicked his fingers and began typing on the Computer. Besides re-hacking into 100,000 players' Computer, he also sent an email about the Pinnacle Group to an official organization...