Chapter 821: If I Could Hear Dao in the Morning, I May Die in the Evening Without Regret!
Translator: Noodletown Translations Editor: Noodletown Translations
"Faction Master... what should we do?!" Elder Xiao Yunhe looked at Faction Master Feng Xuehe and asked.
At this moment, the Xiaoyao Ancestral Master and people from other major factions also stood up.
"Seniors, what do you think?" Even the Heavenly Faction Master must show respect to seniors like the Xiaoyao Ancestral Master. Feng Xuehe bowed slightly and asked them.
Everyone looked grim.
"This isn't a small issue." They exchanged a look; they had never looked so grim before.
The Xiaoyao Ancestral Master looked at the people of Heavenly Faction and said, "Tell us what happened without omitting any details."
Soon, these people told them the details of what happened to Elder Feng Yan who was guarding the back mountain and the Ancestral Master's Shrine.
The black-robed Elder Dugu Xiao from the Heavenly Faction said angrily, "We've worshipped these immortals for generations in the past thousands of years with incense sticks. Our faction was in the danger of collapse several times and had to be on guard of the invasions from the godly palaces from the West Continent. However, we received no protection from these immortals. Despite the death of our elders and faction masters, we managed to survive! We just treated them as if they didn't exist!"
"But now..." Elder Dugu Xiao sneered, "The moment that our Heavenly Faction obtained some progress, they begin to threaten us and give us pressure."
"Yuck! They just don't want us to progress!"
"But..." The white-robed Elder Xiao Yunhe sighed, "The thing is that we are no match for them. Fighting those existences is like hitting a rock with an egg. We must think carefully."
The Xiaoyao Ancestral Master, Dugu Yi, and others exchanged a look and squinted their eyes.
...
– Meanwhile, in shops like the one in Jiuhua City and Half City –
The cultivators and warriors obviously had also received the same message.
The Taixi Faction Master, the leader of one of the Three Saint Factions, sat in the grand hall in the faction and felt dejected.
"It has been so many years..." The old Daoist dressed in a purple robe looked at the dark sky out of the hall with a lost expression. The dark sky looked as if a destructive catastrophe was brewing. He couldn't help but wonder if the gods would get so angry that they would turn the mortal world upside-down.
"I had dreamed of seeing an immortal. Today, I finally got my wish, but..." He had never looked so melancholic and lost before.
Even he, a famous major faction master, sat on this couch in a daze with coldness in his heart.
"Stay away from them and forget the past. This is the only way that you can still live."
These words were tossed out casually.
To forget certain things meant that they would return to their previous state.
"Faction Master..." Beside him, Elder Disciple Ling Wanyin tried to speak but didn't know what to say.
Yes, in the shop, they were not as powerful as those experienced old players. Maybe they were just insignificant figures here.
At this moment, Ling Wanyin felt like an ant that would be turned to dust by one casual trample of the huge ancient ship full of immortals and gods.
Others might have a little bit more confidence with prizes from the shop.
Yes, facing such existences, these people only had a little bit of confidence.
However, people from other factions such as Ling Wanyin had no confidence at all.
Perhaps a small voice whispered from within, Let's back off this time... after all, they are true immortals... not the weak demons or monsters that we had faced in the past. The place where these existences stand is the destination that we have dreamed about!
The only compromise that they needed to make was forgetting some unrealistic dreams they shouldn't have harbored and living as they had lived before.
– In Connate Cliff –
"They will remain alive by paying such a small price. I think they know what to choose..." In the distant peak in the void, immortal clouds surged up in the Innumerable Immortal Sea while the clouds beyond the sky looked as radiant as silk.
There was an extremely magnificent immortal palace hovering high in the air. Standing in the great hall of the palace, Gui Ye told the immortals around him with conviction.
But...
This was the last memory that they wanted to lose.
"In here, I witnessed vast worlds that I'd never dared to imagine. In here, I realized the true meaning of being a cultivator. There are many other things here I've learned."
"Faction Master..."
The purple-robed old man stood up slowly. "Wanyin..."
His face seemed to have aged even more, but his turbid eyes turned brighter. "I remember a saying, 'If I could hear Dao in the morning, I may die in the evening without regret.'"
"My... memory isn't good; do you remember this saying?"
"Yes," the most outstanding disciple of the Taixi Faction bowed and answered, "It's from the Li Ren Chapter of the Analects of Confucius. It's a book that records the words and deeds of an ancient saint."
While supporting himself with an ebony walking cane, the faction master walked to the front of the hall with Ling Wanyin's help.
Suddenly, a hot white lightning bolt exploded on the square before him, and thunder resonated in the sky. Many low-level disciples hid in their rooms and shivered.
"Today, I think I'm such a person... who just heard Dao." His slightly bent figure stood straight under the lightning bolts flashing in the sky. While pointing at the sky, he said, "Perhaps I'd rather die for it?"
Boom!
The winds howled while thunderbolts danced wildly, illuminating this cultivator who stood tall and proud between the sky and the land. It seemed like the flashes of lightning were engraving the soul of this cultivator, who had spent all his life on the pursuit of Dao, into the sky.
...
– Jiuhua City Shop –
"To stay away from the shop..." The old cultivators from the Wuwei Daoist Alliance in the Jiuhua City Shop looked out of the shop.
At this moment, the low-level cultivators and warriors didn't even dare to venture out, but there were still many people in the shop.
They were people who would look calm even if Tai Mountain collapsed before them.
"Immortals?! Tribulations?! We're not afraid!" Nalan Hongwu said coldly.
"They think that we don't dare to do anything even if they unleash godly punishment?!" In the Half City Shop, Demonic Woman Ning Bi revealed the intense murderous spirit that she had never shown in the shop. Like a prehistoric major demon, she showed her chilly fangs.
"There's nothing to be afraid of!" In the Yuanyang City Shop, Gu Tingyun said chillily.
"If you dare to touch one inch of the mortal land..." On the shore of the Heavenly Abyss Sea, the two black figures revealed their chilly gazes. "We'll make you repay one hundredfold!"
On Sanfen Field in Wind and Cloud, the old Sword Saint showed people the unyielding spine of a swordsman. With his sword spirit that even the world and the fate couldn't distinguish, he unleashed that dazzling sword strike named Sword 23.
When the Qionghua Faction fell from the sky in the Legend of Sword and Legend 4, only the young man who took control of his fate from the Heavens could create the miracle of shooting down Qionghua with one arrow.
...
Although those things were in the past, they had obtained courage from these memories. They lifted their heads and stood tall. This world witnessed their growth of not only strength but the vision and courage which were the integral parts of cultivators and warriors!
Chapter 822: Trailer of Wrath of the Lich King, and Countdown of Journey to the West and the Beginning of the New Era!
Translator: Noodletown Translations Editor: Noodletown Translations
[System upgrade progress: 45%]
At this moment, Fang Qi received a message from the System.
[Task: Challenger's Tutorial School (Intermediate)
Task Target: 1) Help the muggle students become masters, 2) Help 80% of the students reach Grandmaster Level (Battle Skills), 3) Help the best students become challengers
Completeness: 1) 65%, 2) 33%, 3) 0%
Task Reward: The Soul of Cinder*1, System Upgrade Big Gift Bag*1, 5-day access to the new upgraded system cultivation room]
[Synchronization Pendant Upgrade: After upgrading, it can store energy. The limit of stored energy is broken down into ten levels, and 10,000 magic crystals will be the equivalent of one level. Each level can be used to reduce the synchronization percentage requirement and increase synchronization time.]
Mr. Fang got the Synchronization Pendant when he first received the Game Cultivation Room. It was used as a medium between the cultivation room and the game characters. Mr. Fang looked at the pendant dangling before his chest and wondered, This was also upgraded?
Besides the upgrading of the pendent, he saw more new content.
[Dungeon Fighter Online's new expansion is updated. Host can choose a date to release it.]
[World of Warcraft's new expansion: Wrath of the Lich King has begun its promotion process. The cinematic trailer of Wrath of the Lich King has been released.]
[The Journey to the West is 95% complete and will be done in three days. The countdown begins.]
[Wukong, the Monkey King, Champion Gift Bag in League of Legends will be released in one week. The promotion will begin in three days.]
[While the System is upgrading, the Host must manage the shops well and keep things in order.]
"The initial upgrade... is completed?!" Fang Qi looked at the System Interface in pleasant surprise and with expectation.
...
As the promotion of the new expansion of World of Warcraft began, another horrifying godly weapon – Frostmourne began to reveal a part of its horrifying power.
– In the Canglan City Shop –
"The trailer for the new expansion of World of Warcraft?!" As local knights in Canglan City, the knights of the Golden Griffin Knight Legion came to the internet café each day regardless of what happened.
Today, they came to the shop each holding an umbrella.
The moment that they sat down, they saw a QQ message popping out.
Although the release time wasn't set yet, and many groups of players hadn't seen Illidan in the current expansion yet, let alone the Warblades of Azzinoth, not everyone was a fan of PVE, and not every player craved for these things.
However, every World of Warcraft player knew about the storyline, which meant that they could still watch the trailer of the new expansion despite their slow progress in the game.
Right now, the Lich King was a distant legend for the World of Warcraft players. Only the players of the small game, Warcraft, in Qzone knew that the Lich King brought them the same horror and suppression as the three destructive demon lords in Diablo 2.
The horrifying spirit energy that could erode the minds of ultimate masters was especially creepy.
"What's this Wrath of the Lich King?!" The knights of the Golden Griffin Knight Legion and the elves who had just entered the shop immediately watched it.
Nearby, St. Leidon and St. Willy who had just opened Diablo 2 also looked over.
This game was one of the games that they had obtained during the promotion activity of 'buy ten and get one free' in the shop. It was one of their favorite games, and they played many games such as Dark Souls, Diablo, League of Legends, and World of Warcraft.
Although the saint-level masters were more interested in the first three games and picked two of them to be their main games, they were also interested in the story of World of Warcraft.
Immediately, they began to watch it.
In the chilly ice which had been frozen for countless years was the vague shape of an ice-sealed throne.
In the chilly ice that had been frozen for countless years, one could see the cold armor with black metal glares and the figure sitting on its eternal throne. On its righthand-side stood a silverish-grey two-handed great sword that had a special shape.
Frostmourne was the godly weapon that was forged by demons and contained the great evil power of the Lich King. The goat demon head engraved on the crossguard and the strange and mysterious runes on the body of the sword gave people a strong sense of its evil power.
At this moment, gloomy blue flames leaped up in the dark holes inside the armor. Then, the eyes lit up.
Before them was a wasteland covered in ice and snow. There was no life or anything signaling the existence of life.
When the accumulated snow was brushed away, the ice underground which contained endless frost that had accumulated for many years began to crack.
"Bone Dragon-!?" While the viewers exclaimed, the most horrifying undead legion in the world spread all over the mountains and fields!
...
– Meanwhile, in the Yuanyang City Shop –
"It's said that Dungeon Fighter Online's new expansion is releasing today?" The people from the Ultimate West Realm were still playing Dungeon Fighter Online. They had tried other games, but this was their favorite.
Of course, streamers such as the Black Light Sword Saint who had become famous due to Dungeon Fighter Online didn't forget this game. After graduating from the old expansion, they had gradually decreased their time in the game.
When they heard about a new expansion, which was said to be an unprecedented major expansion, was going to be released, they returned to the game immediately.
On the other side, others such as Nalan Mingxue and Song Qingfeng found that their wish had come true; a new expansion had indeed come out.
"Should we enter the game and check it out?" Song Qingfeng asked.
Although it was an old game, they had many memories about it.
King's Ruin, Screaming Cavern, and the Vilmark – Area 50 with the mechanical bull...
They wondered what happened to the elf girl named Seria whom they had rescued.
Besides, the new expansion would open the Second Awakening, and it was worth a try.
"Anyway, I don't have matches today and can take a break." Nalan Mingxue logged into the game cheerfully.
"Say..." Song Qingfeng looked up at the sky outside the shop subconsciously and said worriedly, "Are we really in trouble?"
"Those immortals and gods... I wonder how powerful they really are. Will they..."
Perhaps those existences could destroy this world with a wave of their hands.
"Don't think about things that you can't control." Nalan Mingxue looked at her screen and saw her level that stopped at 70. After clicking open her friend list, she found that most of them had turned grey.
But some of them were still online.
A private message popped out.
[Sia whispered, "Ya? You're online?!"]
"F*ck... What are these new sets of equipment?" Song Qingfeng watched as Nalan Mingxue choose to browse the equipment and found that Sia was wearing some equipment that they never seen before. "They look awesome..."
[Yeah. I came back to have a look.] Nalan Mingxue still remembered that these people who had lived in the bitter cold big snow mountains naively claimed to guard this beautiful continent. She replied quickly, [I wonder what is going to happen in the new expansion that is about to be released today.]
[Haha!]
The Arad Continent was still beautiful and vibrant, not losing any glory and glamour due to the departure of any players.
The streets of Hendon Myre and the West Coast looked the same as they had been.
In the forest, the elf bard played light music, looking relaxed. Suddenly, as if sensing something, he looked up at the sky involuntarily.
At this moment, countless players all looked up at the sky without thinking.
Countless birds flew out from the beautiful jade-green forest surrounding Hendon Myre. There were so many of them that they looked like black surging floods.
Alarmed, they left their nests where they had lived in peace for countless years and flew to the distance.
Or more accurately, they fled!
The black sky and black birds drew a sharp contrast with the snow-white Hendon Myre, a miracle in the desert. The nightly breeze blew by and seemed to be singing a sad eulogy for Hendon Myre.
Countless adventurers walked out from the taverns and dojos onto the streets. Looking up at the sky, they seemed to sense that an unimaginable big event would happen in this world.
Chapter 823: Destruction Era!
Translator: Noodletown Translations Editor: Noodletown Translations
When the players first started the game, it was a relatively peaceful game that didn't have fierce battles in cities as in the Legend of Mir 2 or encounters between the opposing factions as in World of Warcraft. There were only battles of wits and courage in the Shadow Thunderland.
From that bright blue Storm Pass covered in white snow, they stumbled their way to Empyrean and then Pandemonium.
It was an uneventful story of adventures.
But their peaceful life was turned upside-down in this instant!
On their way to Empyrean and Pandemonium, the adventurers increased their strength continuously and began to understand some of the cores in this world.
At the beginning of the universe, everything was chaotic. One day, a great will appeared and created everything including the Arad Continent, and his power illuminated this land.
He gradually gained a name – Origin Light, Carloso.
When there is light, there is darkness. When the world was created, darkness also fell in this endless universe. Accidentally, it was turned into 12 powerful gods by the powerful people of Terra.
They could be called gods, Bellatrixes, or apostles.
However, light was opposite to darkness, and a war finally broke out between them and destroyed everything. After Carloso was defeated, the 12 powerful existences only had awareness left in them and drifted in the endless universe again.
This was the beginning of the entire Arad Continent.
The origin and the creator of the world was defeated, and the tens of thousands of laws in the universe were broken. That was why the Arad Continent had such strange phenomena, including weird transfers and the endless appearances of abyss demons coming from alternate dimensions.
...
At this moment, countless players were looking up at the chaotic sky above Hendon Myre and the West Coast.
The depths of this void was at a location in another dimension.
The whole space rotated around this center while countless dimensional fragments began to gather under the suction of this force.
Not only the oasis-like and beautiful Hendon Myre, but the whole Arad Continent began to turn desolate. More and more people noticed the weird phenomenon in the sky, and they stared at it, forgetting whatever they had been doing. For an unknown reason, they had an ominous feeling in their minds.
In that unknown dimension, a confused warrior walked over slowly.
No one knew where he came from. At this moment, nebulas spun in his chest as if a mini-universe was hidden in it.
In the shadow under light, they seemed to see the creator of this world in the depths of the universe.
In the light and flames, the most magnificent figure in the universe condensed slowly before this confused warrior.
Dressed in a holy golden battle robe, this figure had a halo, which represented the beginning of the world, behind his head while his figure began to gather and solidify.
Then, he reached out his arm toward the mysterious warrior.
When their hands touched, a radiant golden light beam turned everything around them golden.
Carloso had once disintegrated into countless shadows and disappeared. Now, these shadows began to solidify behind him with dazzling golden and holy lights.
Like the countless shadow doppelgangers, the warrior before Carloso was the last shadow doppelganger, and he finally returned.
Streaks of golden light rotated and shone on this desolate alternate dimension.
The energy, perhaps the most powerful in the universe and had once scattered in different places, now combined into one.
While the energy gathered, a part of it spilled out during the process.
The golden lightning bolts and white-hot energy beams spilling out were insignificant to Carloso, but they violently spread out from this dimension like countless huge ancient dragons that were running wild.
Then, the space cracked.
Among the countless rolling mountains, countless star lights gathered in one spot and then exploded violently!
A beam of lightning energy pierced the sky that was covered in dark clouds!
A hole appeared in the sky as if it got penetrated, and people could see the dazzling river of stars in the endless starry sky.
Even the river of stars lost its color when this bright beam appeared.
The horrifying energy instantly squeezed out everything including air, lightning bolts, gusts, and trees...
Pushed by this horrifying energy, everything in the world spread out like surging ocean waves like a destructive light shield!
The land cracked, and giant pieces were pushed up and formed tall cliffs before shattering. The seemingly endless energy spread out in great waves with explosive force.
"Look over there...!" The Ultimate West Realm players in Hendon Myre pointed at the other end of the world and said in horror.
Countless people heard his yell and looked over.
What a sight they saw...
A lightning bolt connected the sky and the earth.
With lights that seemed to come from the endless chaos, everything exploded in the distant horizon.
The streak of extremely horrifying energy expanded at a visible speed. Instantly, it grew as high as the sky and continued to enlarge!
Even from the distance, they could still sense the tremendous force of that energy.
"What's that-!?" Sia pointed at the distance in horror and yelled.
Beside her, Gabriel and Luo Piaoling also looked over.
Countless players who were online also turned their gazes over.
"What's that?!"
"What's happening over there?!"
"What's up?!"
All the people in the city and the neighboring cities were yelling as they watched the energy, containing turbid gusts, rainstorms, thunder, lightning bolts, and even mountains, sweeping across every corner of the world between the sky to the land.
It had turned into a horrifying destructive light wall. It had been far away when people spotted it. However, when they reacted, they could already hear the howls of winds, the roars of the thunder and the land, and surging ocean waves.
When they tried to do something subconsciously, everything was shattered ranging from the distant high mountains to the snow-white West Coast port and the miraculous Sky Tower leading to Empyrean.
The land behind them would be the next to be turned into dust in this catastrophe.
At this moment, the bold promises that the players had made when they first stepped onto this continent echoed in their minds.
This beautiful continent was a part of their youthful dream.
Ultimate Slay: Tempest.
Ghost 7: Furious Blache.
Extreme Overkill.
...
One by one, the names of these powerful skills... their hoarse roars in prior battles flashed across their minds.
"A sword may conquer the flesh, but only your heart may conquer the mind..."
"The core principle of martial arts is to become one with nature..."
Their trainers' teachings echoed in their ears.
"Luo Piaoling..." Sia pulled on the sleeve of the warrior standing beside her.
Vaguely, they remembered that these so-called barbarians who had lived in the big snow mountains had been fascinated by this beautiful world at first glance.
They had once playfully promised that if one day, someone tried to destroy this world, they would fight to the death without any regrets.
"Nooo-! Ahhh-!"
"Tempest-!" They saw a figure charging at the destructive light wall.
In the darkness, countless lights flashed as the surrounding space was shattered!
However, in the next moment, everything including the person who used this skill was swallowed by this horrifying energy!
"Extreme Overkill-! Ahh-!" Gabriel yelled hoarsely and charged forward like a madman.
Then, his whole body, together with the once unrivaled sword energy, turned into dust. Blood mist sprayed around like a shower.
"Ghost 7: Furious Blache!"
"Ha-!"
Everything was swallowed!
Everything on the continent where the warriors had adventured on and guarded together was destroyed.
Chapter 824: As the shop owner, I can only give you this advice...
Translator: Noodletown Translations Editor: Noodletown Translations
Countless people who were online in the game had seen the beauty of this place and experienced lots of leisure and fun times here.
They also witnessed its destruction.
Of course, not everyone died in the catastrophe. In the horrifying energy explosion, time and space started to distort.
Some of them snapped back to their senses and found that they were on another continent.
There were many familiar faces, but many things were different.
For example, the place where they were standing was Underfoot Town instead of Hendon Myre.
Yes, it was the Underfoot Town where the headless knight guarded the gate.
They even saw the male slayer trainer, the blind old man named G.S.D, but this was the place where they had fought countless monsters.
What was more? Everything was in the opposite position. Storm Pass had been to the west of Underfoot Town, but now it was located to the east and had turned into a desolate ice cliff.
The Sky Rift to the north of Underfoot Town was now to the south of this world. In the ruined Sky Rift, a waterfall appeared, and it flowed upward instead of downward.
They seemed to be in another world in which everything was the mirror image of the original world. It was an astonishing change.
Some people called this the 'Great Transfer', after which time and space were distorted while the events in the past and in the future were turned upside-down.
Some people survived the huge catastrophe and were transferred by the distorted time-space continuum into another continent which was similar to but different from the previous one; some people were turned into dust with the old continent.
At this moment, everyone's minds turned blank in disbelief.
With vague speculations, many people began to accept the fact after some time.
...
In the Canglan City Shop, Sala and other elves were talking...
"I heard that the so-called Dungeon Fighter Online released a new expansion. Should we go and check it out?"
"Why?" Rowling asked in bafflement on the side.
"I heard that it has awesome scenery!" Sala said happily, "Many people recommended it to us. Now that the new expansion is out, should we take this opportunity and check it out?"
"Scenery?!" Elder Sewell looked over in surprise.
"Yeah," Sala said, "People say that there's a Sky Tower which looks like a miraculous piece of architecture. Should we go and check it out?"
"Okay! Okay!" Hearing that there was good scenery, the elves were motivated. "Dungeon Fighter Online seems to be a game that is free of charge. We can just enter and play!"
"Let's go and try it..." one elf said cheerfully.
It was wonderful that they could view the scenery without paying for it!
Then, they all entered the game.
– One hour later –
With great efforts, they came into the new city. Like those warriors before them, they looked around curiously and felt like everything was new.
"Sala, where's Sky Tower that you mentioned..." Rowling squatted down on the roadside in a huff. "We've looked for it for so long and still can't find it..."
"Um... They told me that it's to the west of Hendon Myre." Sala looked at the city in bafflement.
"Maybe that person was exaggerating about the magnificence of the Sky Tower?" Rowling said in displeasure.
"Let's ask someone about it." At this moment, Elder Sewell said this.
"Okay." Sala nodded and said, "Let's ask a veteran player."
"Look at that guy... he looks awesome with those great items! He must be a veteran player!"
...
Luo Piaoling, who was doing quests to level up, saw a group of players walking toward him.
"Hello. How come we can't find Sky Tower?"
"..." He was silent for a long time. Seeing their sincere and expectant faces, he had a complicated expression on his face.
He seemed to have lots to say, but whenever he opened his mouth, he was at a loss for words.
With deep regret, he said after a long pause, "Sorry, we failed to protect Arad."
...
Perhaps the stories of these adventures had ended here with that world.
...
– In Yuanyang City –
"Sir–!"
At this moment, Mr. Fang was listening to songs while playing League of Legends. Suddenly, a voice message popped out from QQ. He clicked on it and was almost deafened by the yell from the message.
"Who is it..." Mr. Fang looked at it in a bad mood. "Sia?"
When did I add her as a friend...?
After some thinking, he remembered that she was the first customer who had deposited millions of crystals in her membership card as soon as she bought the card. It was normal for her to be on his friend list.
"What's wrong..." Mr. Fang said sulkily.
...
In the Yuanyang City Shop, a blonde woman cried her heart out with her head resting on the computer desk. "Our Arad Continent... exploded! Wu–!"
She gestured at the screen to Mr. Fang and cried, "We were playing the game and doing window shopping... then, it exploded!"
"You see... everything was fine a moment ago!"
Dungeon Fighter Online was the favorite game of the people from the Ultimate West Realm.
Of course, some other veteran players were also playing the game. They all looked at the shop owner with anger and bafflement. "Sir, this... what's happening?!"
Mr. Fang was confused, thinking, Hiss-? It's fine that you come to me when you don't understand the games or can't clear some stages. How come you are coming to me to protest the explosion of the Arad Continent?
"As the shop owner, I can only give you this advice..."
"Um... Ignore those things." Mr. Fang clicked open the official website and said, "Look, the new expansion is about to be released. There's Aton Dungeon, the biggest dungeon in the history of Dungeon Fighter Online. There is also the Second Awakening."
Sia looked toward the spot where Mr. Fang pointed.
"Look," Mr. Fang continued, "On May 1st, we'll release the Labor Day's Gift Bag and new Labor Day fashion outfits with gift box. There is a high chance that you might get a Pure Golden Amplification Grimoire and Amplification Protection Vouchers. It's not May 1st yet, but they are on pre-sale now."
Amplify was an enhancement method stronger than Reinforcement. As everyone knew, when the equipment reached level 10 reinforcement, any more reinforcement that ended in failure would break the equipment, and all the previous efforts would be wasted.
Meanwhile, it was extremely difficult to acquire superior equipment in Dungeon Fighter Online, so...
"Amplification Protection Vouchers?!" Sia looked at Mr. Fang's screen and saw not only Amplification Protection Vouchers but items such as the Abyss Orb as well. They were all good items that were rarely seen. The most important was that there were no trash items in the gift bags, and the buyers were guaranteed to have rare items when they opened them!
If it was true, then...
Sia began to imagine herself equipped with sets of equipment amplified to level 14 or 15. In the past, she didn't even dare to think of it since any failure in reinforcement would destroy the equipment. The situation changed!
"Is this gift bag really so good?" Sia looked at Mr. Fang with excitement and asked.
"Huh?!" Her gaze moved down and saw the promotion which offered more bonus rewards when buying more things with the upper limit set at ten sets of gift bags. For example, if she bought three sets, she would get a level 80 superior chest of her own choice; if she bought eight sets, she would get a random level 85 superior weapon chest which is the current highest level; and if she bought ten sets, she would get a unique title.
"Are these... really free?!" With glinting eyes, she looked at Mr. Fang in amazement.
Then, she got confused. "These precious things sell for only about 200 crystals each? Aren't you going to lose money by giving out all these bonus rewards?!"
"Of course they are free. This is a special promotion to help adventurers challenge the more powerful monster – Apostle Anton."
"Apostle Anton?!"
It must be noted that it was the previous forms of these apostles who had battled with Carloso, the god of creation. Although the game didn't elaborate on this part of the story, many details showed that the wills of those 12 gods drifting into the depths of the universe were related to the apostles who were now on the top of the world.
Would the god of creation who had destroyed Arad Continent also enter a dungeon one day?!
"I must work hard to get stronger!" She had never looked so determined before. "I have seven characters. Each account can buy one set... which means that I need three more sets to get the most rewards. Maybe I shouldn't buy so many?"
"No... I can't miss this opportunity to grow stronger! If I get stronger, one day, I will be able to battle Carloso!"
Instantly, she had a determined look on her face. "I'll buy ten sets!"
"I'll take six sets!"
"I'll buy eight sets!"
"I want to grow stronger. I'll buy ten sets too! Carloso, you shall die!"
Instantly, the whole shop turned boisterous!
...
Mr. Fang glanced at the System Interface which showed, [Creation of Journey to the West is speeding up...]
[The System Upgrade is speeding up...]
Chapter 825 Monkey?!
– Meanwhile, in the Canglan City Shop –
"A monkey!?" The elves had entered Dungeon Fighter Online to see the scenery but saw none. Then, they each bought two to three gift bags. While feeling like they might not be able to guard the Arad Continent without money, they were listening to Mr. Fang as he revealed the information about the new TV Series.
The saint-level masters such as Gulth were among the people standing around Mr. Fang.
They had heard that it was about a stone, and now it changed to a monkey?!
The problem was...
What is there to see about a monkey...?
"Not interested!" With a wave of his claws, Gulth went back to play World of Warcraft.
Right now, he was raiding an old instance, Blackwing Lair. He murmured to himself in a muffled deep voice, "The dragon in this instance is very powerful, even though it's a bit outdated now. But I heard that its father, called something like 'Deathwing', is even more powerful. I think I might discuss what a catastrophe is with it."
"Aiya... monkeys are not interesting!" The elves also complained. "We don't want to watch this kind of TV Series!"
As art-loving elves, they were fans of beauty to some degree. If the main character was good looking, they would still watch despite the boring content.
But... monkeys?!
Then, they went back to play Dungeon Fighter Online, After all, as fans of scenery, if they didn't care about equipment, they could play any game including World of Warcraft and Dungeon Fighter Online. "There's an elf class in this game too!"
"We can enjoy the scenery in this game too! What are you playing?"
"I'm playing as a rogue. It's said that this is a new class in this expansion."
"I'm playing as an elven knight which seems to be a new class too."
"I'm playing as this Lightbringer... Huh? How come you can change into an elf, but I can't?"
"Let's go and check out some good scenery." Although they didn't have money and thus couldn't protect the Arad Continent, they still could dress beautifully and go out to enjoy the scenery that this world offered.
With the expansion of Mr. Fang's shops, the games and TV Series in the shop could be divided into two big categories and some smaller divisions due to the differences of the cultivation systems of the players.
The two big categories were naturally divided according to the oriental and occidental systems in the games.
For players from the East Continent and the Continent of Immortal Relics, TV Series such as the Turbulent Homeland as well as games such as the Legend of Sword and Fairy and even Dungeon Fighter Online and the Legend of Mir 2 were more to their liking.
It was why these games had more players from these continents. Of course, when these games were popular, there had been many players and viewers coming from the West Continent too.
Likewise, the games such as Dark Souls, Assassin's Creed, and the old game Diablo 2 which had recently become popular in the West Continent always had many fans in the Canglan City Shop.
Even when the new expansion of World of Warcraft continued to gain popularity in different shops, many players such as those in the Continent of Immortal Relics still continued with their explorations in the world of Legend of Sword and Fairy, Dungeon Fighter Online, and the Legend of Mir 2.
Likewise, when the viewers in the shops were stunned by the appearance of Qi Tiandi in the Turbulent Homeland, many players in Canglan City were quietly playing World of Warcraft or challenging the horrifying monsters in Dark Souls.
Of course, some were limited by their own talents. For example, some people with good talent could obtain inspirations from the ultimate godly techniques that were casually used by Qi Tiandi in the Turbulent Homeland. But others... emmm would be better off trying other stuff.
Some excelled in heavy weapons, some in magic spells, some in sword control technique, and some in the study of spiritual artifacts and machinery...
Despite all this, some saint-level masters and many other players in the West Continent were engrossed in the study of item combination in Diablo 2, trying to find the method to fight the last three Uber Demon Lords. Also, they searched for the countless secrets hidden in the world of Dark Souls. Lastly, with great efforts, they fought Illidan, the powerful demon coming from over 10,000 years ago in World of Warcraft while understanding these great figures' stories in Warcraft.
We all have our own favorite games and stories. In these touching stories, we have different beliefs and perspectives. Then, why should we play and watch the games and TV Series which have different structures and power systems?
Furthermore, the people of West Continent didn't even have enough time to play all the games and watch all the movies such as World of Warcraft, Dark Souls, StarCraft, Diablo, Final Fantasy, and Resident Evil after everything was released.
They only had a vague idea about Xianxia and Wuxia, and few of them would spend much time to study them.
It was so with average people and more so with higher-level existences.
"Such insignificant... and lowly creatures..." Standing on the top of the endless godly mountains, the palace-like fortress had a layer of light snow on the walls.
With golden pupils and a silver godly crown that was hovering above her head as if it was supported by a godly force, this woman's face looked like a statue made of white jade and oozed a casual and natural nobleness.
Standing next to her was a man wearing five-colored godly armor and looking as dazzling as the sun.
"Radiant Light... tsk, tsk," the woman said mildly, "I heard... the mortal nation under your control is in trouble again?
"The Godly Court has entrusted the whole issue to the Innumerable Immortal Sea." The woman sneered and said, "The God of Radiant Light Judgment is nothing in their eyes."
This man's face didn't show any emotion. In fact, it seemed like he had the urge to smirk. "You underestimate me."
"Oh?" The woman waited for him to continue.
"In my eyes, they are like a group of monkeys." The man wearing five-colored godly armor had extremely handsome immortal features and an extremely dignified presence. "Do we need to dirty our hands to deal with a group of monkeys living in the most primitive wasteland and playing the lowliest tricks?"
He looked cold, showing no emotion on his face as if he didn't feel any anger when he heard the woman's rude words. He didn't seem angry from the very beginning with the fact that he wasn't entrusted with the task to deal with a group of ridiculous monkeys.
"Monkeys?"
"Are they..." The woman thought for a moment and seemed to remember the records about this kind of creature in the mortal world. "Are they the animals in the mortal world that will do funny tricks for bananas?"
The woman on the side couldn't help but stifle a giggle. "Hehehehe..."
Yes, for these lofty existences, humans were just a group of monkeys in a cage. How much turbulence could the monkeys create anyway?