Chapter 188: This Sure As Hell Isn’t A Lottery Game
system announcement: the new expansion pack age of ferocious beasts for high martial arts descend version 3 will officially open at 0:00 a.m. this time the update is an online update, and players do not need to log off.
the main version update content for 3 is as follows.
the maximum number of online players is increased to five hundred.
after the new expansion pack age of ferocious beasts opens, the number of active monsters in the wilderness will gradually increase, and the nights in the wilderness will become more dangerous.
a free exploration area within twenty kilometers around city of light chasing is opened, and new players can also freely explore it.
a new task difficulty system is added. according to task difficulty, tasks are temporarily divided into five levels: level d, level c, level b, level a, and level s. players can choose tasks they can do based on their own strength.
a new side profession apothecary is added. players who want to become apothecaries can go to npc yaklo to learn.
the martial arts hall has added a primary training room, which can improve players’ actual combat experience.
a new disciple assessment ranking is added. according to different disciple identities, rankings are based on monthly battle results in the training room. at the end of each month, players can receive corresponding martial arts hall rewards according to their ranking.
fixed instability factors in the log on connection.
fixed some bugs and enhanced the game experience.
with the release of the system announcement, all the players following the forum became extremely excited.
“it has only been a few days, and they have already updated a new version. is this game developer planning to crush all the other game companies?”
“as expected of one of this year’s top ten new games. just the update speed alone deserves a full score from me. i wonder when the public beta will be. this time they only added 140 more slots. by now the number of people reserving this game must have reached one million.”
“more than one million. yesterday the reservation count broke one and a half million. i heard that now there are two to three hundred thousand people playing the test assessment every day, but so far no one has been able to last twenty seconds in front of that boss. a lot of curious challenge live stream masters are about to cry, saying that if they keep playing, they will go bankrupt.”
“i watched it too. it was exactly because i saw those streamers challenge for days and nights without success that i reserved this game to have a try. i feel like the test assessment of this game could be released as a standalone game and would definitely sell like crazy. the battles are so realistic it is beyond words. i never expected this game to constantly scan the player’s body data so that real-life improvement directly reflects in the game. it is just too awesome!”
“yeah. this game manufacturer could completely separate the test assessment. among the people i know, quite a few fighting enthusiasts and some professional fighters are now playing the test assessment. they said that after playing this test assessment, their level has improved a lot. some time ago, an amateur who had played for more than ten days almost beat several seeded players half to death in a city-level fighting tournament and nearly won the championship.”
“damn, does this test assessment really have that effect? then since i have played for almost a month, does that mean i can beat up those professional fighters?”
“seriously, you really can go try. i am just a college student who knew nothing, and i had played for less than ten days. yesterday i accidentally knocked a senior from the sanda club, who is over two meters tall, to the ground with one punch. it felt like his punches were in slow motion, completely incomparable to the boss in the test assessment.”
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as more players joined the discussion, the thread was quickly led astray. compared to the version update content of the game, more reserved players were talking about the test assessment, and the more they talked, the more excited they became. players who clicked in out of curiosity about high martial arts descend were stunned.
one after another, they could not understand what kind of game high martial arts descend really was. the popularity of a game’s test assessment was actually higher than the game itself.
but soon, the veteran players who had logged off to rest brought the derailed thread back on track.
fang zhen: “is this game manufacturer trying to kill me? i just logged off to rest, and now you do a version update (￣(工)￣)”
yi ye fu yun: “why sleep? after death you can rest forever. get up and have fun. this update is just too awesome. now we can freely run outside the city, and they even increased the chance of encountering monsters. that is all contribution and points (￣﹁￣)”
fang zhen: “didn’t you sell that severely damaged b3-level battle armor dropped by the boss to the martial arts hall and earn tens of millions of points?”
yi ye fu yun: “⊙ω⊙ i ordered several sets of medium machine tools from the hall master and spent it all.”
fang zhen: “￣□￣｜｜”
xiao yuan ye feng kuang: “this update is simply perfect for newcomers to jump in. not only can they freely explore, but they can also learn a side profession to become apothecaries. apothecaries can make energy potions that assist cultivation, which is definitely the most profitable side profession in this game. and this time they also added the task difficulty system, so newcomers can die less based on the task difficulty. this strategy guide has to be completely redone!”
twilight of the gods: “after reading the introduction of age of ferocious beasts, i feel this update is a bit fierce. the reason for the increased monsters in the wilderness is the monster tide that destroyed mobile city jade sky. i suspect that this update is likely to test the game’s real wilderness boss battle, and the boss we fight will probably be those giant snakes we saw in emerald sky.”
fang zhen: “（⊙o⊙）! those three-headed giant snakes? weren’t those just plot cgs?”
luo wu shang: “it is too boring to keep using those quasi-martial artists for practice. this game manufacturer is finally adding difficulty for us martial artists (○^～^○)”
with the veteran players’ discussion, the players who had not cared much suddenly reacted.
“damn, are we going to fight those giant snakes from last time?”
“in that video, even a single giant snake seemed to be hundreds of meters long. when it raised its body, it was like a five- or six-story building. can players really fight monsters like that?”
“if we can fight monsters like that, with how realistic this game’s actual combat is, i will absolutely buy like crazy.”
“damn it. i bought this game a month ago and have been playing the test assessment every day. when will they let me in? no, i am willing to pay extra.”
“pay extra? i feel like this game manufacturer does not care about money at all. before, more than a dozen large guilds from other games issued a joint statement to the game manufacturer, willing to spend more than one billion just to get five hundred internal test slots, but the game developer completely ignored them. those dozen large guilds had no choice but to have their tens of thousands of guild members reserve by themselves. because of that, many gold-farming studios also reserved this game. now they only gave 140 slots. the chance for us regular players to be selected is probably less than one in ten thousand.”
“i am willing to sacrifice ten years of my lifespan to bless me to be selected this time. as long as i am selected, i will sell my house and live in high martial arts descend from then on, grinding this game until it shuts down.”
“you are dreaming big. do you know how many people are lining up, ready to devote their entire liver?”
“sigh, you all keep thinking about crooked ways. if you really want to enter the game quickly, i advise you to improve your combat level more, or learn from others how to dig holes. that way your chance to enter the game is higher. enough talk, i am going to dig holes.”
people on the forum went from enthusiastically talking about reservations to quickly realizing the truth.
the player selection for high martial arts descend is not some lottery. it is purely a skill game. if your combat level is not high, it does not matter; as long as you are good at digging holes, you can still get in and grind.
for a while, there were fewer people on the forum, leaving only some veteran players who were resting offline chatting idly.
late at night, in obsidian martial arts hall, inside the primary training room.
lin qi sat cross-legged. the more than ten bottles of type 2 energy potions and type II healing potions placed beside him were completely empty. the qi and blood emitted from his body grew denser and denser, frantically impacting the surrounding walls.
however, after the system’s transformation, the training room’s sturdiness was nothing like an ordinary room. it was as if the entire room was made of b-level alloy. the terrifying qi and blood could not cause the slightest tremor.
“finally.”
lin qi opened his eyes, full of joy.
now that eight martial artists had already emerged among the players, he had extracted six players’ cultivation methods in one go, and the proficiency of the three cultivation method second levels had increased significantly. plus he still had plenty of type 2 energy potions and type II healing potions, so he could not resist starting cultivation.
now, although he had consumed all of the type 2 energy potions and type II healing potions, his efforts were not in vain. he had successfully been promoted to a high-level martial artist.
the strengthening of his internal organs had reached 3%. his strength had reached 5 kilograms. his speed had reached 6 meters per second. with buffs, a casual punch exceeded 4000 kilograms, and his speed surpassed 60 meters per second, essentially reaching the peak of an advanced martial artist.
“next is to wait for luo qi to repair that severely damaged b3-level battle armor.” lin qi clenched his fist excitedly. he felt that with his current self, he could fully fight a mid-level martial artist wearing b4-level battle armor.
b3-level battle armor could increase strength by 1600 kilograms; b4-level by 2000 kilograms. a newly advanced mid-level martial artist’s strength was just over two thousand kilograms. with the assist of b4-level armor, they had just over 4000 kilograms. even without armor, he could fully contend with them.
if he put on the b3-level battle armor, his strength could reach more than 5600 kilograms, while b5-level armor only added 3000 kilograms. together with an advanced martial artist’s strength of more than 3000 kilograms, that was only a bit over 6000 kilograms, not much stronger than him.
just as lin qi was about to try the golden sand eagle on his waist, which was made entirely of rem titanium gold, a system notification suddenly sounded in his ears.
system: congratulations to player li tianxing for creating the high-level martial artist-level martial skill treading air steps. currently, players have created 12 martial skills at or above martial artist level.
“he succeeded too?” lin qi looked at the system prompt at the bottom of his view and could not help but smile.
he had been waiting for this moment for a very long time.
ever since hidden task two “geniuses are never lonely” appeared, although that task had long been completed, the reward of martial skill fusion was something lin qi had been reluctant to use.
first of all, after completing hidden task two “geniuses are never lonely,” he did not receive a follow-up hidden task, which meant he did not know how long it would take to obtain the next martial skill fusion reward, so he had to use it cautiously.
second, the players had not created any martial skills he was satisfied with. for offensive means, he had thunder flash and could even hand-craft a super electromagnetic cannon. fusing offensive martial skills had little value, especially now that he had the golden sand eagle; he lacked offensive methods even less.
so he had been waiting for players to create defensive or footwork-type martial skills to make up for his equipment shortcomings.
unfortunately, the summoned players were all studying offensive martial skills, and few were working on defense and footwork. fortunately, luo wu shang, xiao wan ye feng kuang, and li tianxing were all studying footwork: sword steps, soaring cloud steps, and treading air steps, respectively. although they were all only martial artist-level, they were considered quite good footwork martial skills within the city.
especially li tianxing’s treading air steps, which was practically a minor divine skill.
but when li tianxing first created treading air steps, it was only at the martial artist level. even if he fused the other two martial skills, it would be difficult to obtain a high-level martial artist-level martial skill.
so lin qi kept it, waiting for li tianxing to slowly refine it.
now li tianxing had lived up to expectations and had refined treading air steps to the sixth stage, which met lin qi’s minimum requirement for using the martial skill fusion reward. there was a considerable chance of fusing a brand-new high-level martial artist-level footwork, and even in the perfection realm.
“it is time to use this martial skill fusion reward.”
lin qi decisively opened the system panel and selected the system reward.
system: do you want to use the martial skill fusion reward?
“yes.”
system: please select three player-created martial skills of the same type.
lin qi directly put in the footwork created by luo wu shang, xiao yuan ye feng kuang, and li tianxing.
“this all comes down to this last gamble.”
lin qi took a deep breath and clicked fuse on the system panel.
