Volume 1: Rebellion in Chang'an Chapter 1: Advent
"You have been injured by the Blood Demon Lord's self-explosion. You are dead."
"You have killed the Blood Demon Lord, completed the mission, and obtained the final reward of the mission. The legendary talent is being drawn..."
When Lu Qingshan woke up, the system prompts from the previous fierce battle were still echoing in his mind.
Lu Qingshan couldn't help but raise a smug smile at the corner of his mouth——
No matter how prestigious your guilds are among the players and how powerful they are, it still took a lone player like me to steal the prize and get the final reward of the mission.
This fierce battle, named the War of God Slaying, is a tenth anniversary celebration event specially organized by the official "Jiu Tian" to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the game's launch.
On that day, the game released an announcement to the whole server that one of the great demon lords of the demon race, the Blood Demon Lord, was trapped in the Abyss in order to perform a special mission and could not leave in a short time.
We call on all players in the server to go to the Abyss as soon as possible, besiege the Blood Demon Lord, and fight for the human race practitioners. The player who finally kills the Blood Demon Lord will receive the final reward of the mission [Legendary Talent].
As soon as the announcement came out, it caused a sensation in the entire server and all the players went crazy.
The Demon Lord is one of the NPCs with the highest combat power in the game.
"Jiu Tian" has been around for ten years since its launch. Although the main storyline of the game has entered the mid-term, the Demon Lord is still an invincible and extremely deadly boss in the eyes of players.
Although for players, as long as there is a health bar, they can rush forward directly.
However, even if the players can defeat the Demon Lord with their numerical advantage, killing the Demon Lord is something that cannot be done at this stage.
The reason is very simple. The Demon Lord is not a fool. With his level of cultivation, if he senses that the situation is not good and wants to escape, the players will have no ability to stop him.
This is also the reason why this battle is called the God-killing War even though it is clearly about encircling and suppressing the Demon Lord - for players at the current stage, killing the Demon Lord is as difficult as killing a god.
Now, the Demon Lord is restricted in the Abyss by the authorities, which means that players can rely on their numerical advantage to grind the Blood Demon Lord to death. The official has placed an opportunity to kill a god in front of the players. Who wouldn't be excited?
More importantly, the final reward for the mission is actually [Legendary Talent]!
The importance of talent in "Nine Heavens" is unquestionable.
Since the server was launched, players have often been regarded as cannon fodder in the eyes of NPCs, the kind of people whose cultivation is decent but whose combat power is not worth mentioning.
At the same level of cultivation, those famous NPCs can kill players of the same level like slaughtering dogs, and there are even some incredible NPCs that can kill players of higher levels.
Why?
Isn’t it because of the incredible talents that these “protagonist template” type NPCs possess!
For example, a genius swordsman NPC has a legendary talent [Frost Sword]: the damage caused by sword skills is increased by 100%.
Yes, legendary talent is so simple and crude!
Every one of his swords does double damage, so if he fights you on the same level, wouldn’t it be as easy as cutting vegetables to kill you?
How to play this?
I can’t afford to offend you. I can’t afford to offend you.
Damn, when players play games, they generally assume that they are the protagonist. But when they enter the game, they find themselves playing the role of a passerby, a character who can only serve to highlight how awesome the protagonist is. In front of NPCs, apart from being able to be resurrected infinitely, there is no sense of superiority left as a player.
My mentality has collapsed.
Now, the official has put an opportunity for all players on the server to turn things around and become the protagonist. Who wouldn’t be excited?
This crappy planner finally behaves like a human being!
The reward settlement method for the event mission makes players excited - the player who gives the Blood Lord the final blow will receive the final reward of the mission.
Normally, the final reward for this kind of server-wide activity is calculated based on the contribution rate, and the player with the highest contribution rate will receive the final reward for the task.
This settlement method is theoretically the fairest, but it also means that the final rewards will belong to the top players, and ordinary players simply have no ability to compete for the final rewards of the mission.
In order to compete for the so-called first prize, every event scene can be described as a fight between gods. Ordinary players can only join in the fun and try to get the most basic participation rewards in such activities.
However, the reward settlement method of this 10th Anniversary Celebration event, which is completely different from the usual ones, has made countless ordinary players think: Hmm... isn't this the official encouragement of cheating?
There is a reason for stealing chickens.
Yes, top players are awesome.
But in this kind of large-scale server-wide event, there are so many people and so many things going on, and at every moment, who knows how many skills are being cast at the Blood Lord at the same time. Who can calculate the amount of damage?
No matter how awesome you are as a top player, you cannot guarantee that you will be able to deliver the final blow to the big boss. It depends on luck that you can inflict the finishing damage.
hey-hey.
Considering the popularity of "Jiu Tian", the value of an account with [Legendary Talent], apart from anything else, will definitely earn more by selling the account immediately than winning the lottery. The money earned will be enough to squander for a lifetime.
Now, even many players who have always been indifferent to these activities could not hold back and headed to Kuroyoru.
Who doesn't love to daydream?
Lu Qingshan is one of the players who have the dream of stealing chickens. However, he is slightly different from ordinary players. He can be considered a well-known player. He ranks in the top ten in the player's swordsman ranking list, and he is the only wild player among the top ten who does not have a guild.
As one of the top ten great sword masters among players, Lu Qingshan naturally has some hidden tricks that are different from those of ordinary players.
[Sword of Heaven and Earth]: At the cost of dropping a large realm in cultivation, the first damaging skill that the player casts next will have additional special effects: true damage, beheading effect, and ignoring death immunity.
Each of these three special effects can be considered a legendary talent.
Not to mention the superposition of three special effects, its intensity can only be described in one word.
So terrifying!
Naturally, in order to obtain such powerful strength, the price to be paid is enormous. The cost of casting spells has fallen by a large realm, resulting in the fact that Lu Qingshan has actually obtained this skill for a long time, but he has never used it once.
Especially after his cultivation level became higher and higher, the price of falling down a major realm became increasingly heavy.
He thought that this skill would rot in his skill column.
But now, an opportunity for a big gamble is before him.
Even with the special effects of [Sword of Heaven and Earth], he couldn't guarantee that he would be able to deliver the final blow, but the chances were undoubtedly much greater, and he was willing to take a gamble this time.
If you fail to obtain the final reward, the worst that can happen is that you have to work hard in the following period to recover your cultivation. But if you succeed, you will get a legendary talent, and it is the first legendary talent that a player has in "Nine Heavens". Not to mention falling to a higher realm, even if your cultivation drops to the foundation-building stage, it is still a huge profit.
So when the Blood Demon Lord's huge health value fell to the bottom under the siege of the players and was about to self-destruct, Lu Qingshan used the Sword of Heaven and Earth and unleashed his strongest sword skill.
Then, there was a dazzling red light and two system prompt sounds.
When he heard the first system prompt, Lu Qingshan thought he had failed.
But fortunately, the second system prompt sound came soon.
He finally succeeded.
…
Lu Qingshan felt his body was a little stiff and cold, as if it was soaked in some liquid.
He couldn't help but frown. Resurrection shouldn't be like this.
Could it be the aftereffect of using [Sword of Heaven and Earth]?
Lu Qingshan's first reaction was to curse in his heart, "You damn planner, what the hell are you doing? You've already lost a major realm in cultivation, and it's not enough. You even have to do these weird things with the resurrection."
Subconsciously, Lu Qingshan sensed the spiritual power in his body.
Well, nothing, as expected...
Wait, nothing?!
As a veteran player of "Jiu Tian", I have already reached the upper limit of the current version - the fusion stage. Even if I use [Sword of Heaven and Earth] and my cultivation level drops by a large realm, there is no reason why there should be no spiritual power left in my dantian.
Isn't this a bug?
Although many thoughts have been floating through my mind, in fact, only a very short moment has passed from the time I woke up to now.
Lu Qingshan slowly opened his eyes with doubt.
This is a dark and damp cave. The walls of the cave are embedded with luminous pearls that flicker with a faint white light, allowing Lu Qingshan to see his current situation clearly.
It turned out that it was not just a feeling, I was actually immersed in the liquid at this moment.
A small pool filled with dark liquid, and I was in the pool, just like taking a hot spring bath, with only my head exposed above the water.
Looking around, I saw that in this small pond, besides myself, there were dozens of cute little heads sticking out of the water, neatly arranged.
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