Chapter 136: This Is No Ordinary Martial Arts Hall Disciple Anymore
For the activity announcement of High Martial Arts Descend, the players on the forum originally did not take it seriously.
After all, this kind of game activity announcement has absolutely nothing to do with players who cannot enter the game.
They can only watch helplessly as those hateful veteran players make a huge profit in the game. Not only do they have weapons and equipment, they even have their own houses. It is enough to make people jealous to the point of madness.
So for this kind of activity announcement, apart from the players who can enter the game caring about it, the other players do not care.
But after taking a closer look at the event content, they were all stunned one by one.
“What is this situation?!”
“Unlocking a new map for city exploration is one thing, but what is this wilderness exploration permission? Weren’t they in the internal test?”
“Damn! This game is crazy! You can explore freely within a radius of one hundred kilometers! How big is this game planning to make the map?”
“Isn’t this game supposed to be a free digging game?”
“A radius of one hundred kilometers! Just exploring the game’s novice village alone, I feel like it could keep me playing for at least a year.”
In the era of virtual games, the maps inside virtual games were already very large. For example, a single NPC city could easily have a radius of several kilometers, accommodating hundreds of thousands of people, and the distance from one city to another was usually only twenty to thirty kilometers, requiring players to spend two to three hours running.
But now High Martial Arts Descend goes even further. Just a novice village alone directly lets players explore within a radius of one hundred kilometers. It is simply unimaginable how big the map of High Martial Arts Descend is.
Twilight of the Gods: “Finally a new gameplay is unlocked.”
Fang Zhen: “Everything about this game is great, except that it is way too grindy. I haven’t even finished building my own house, and now they are going to open a new map for exploration. I cannot handle all this by myself.”
Yi Ye Fu Yun: “The exploration gameplay of the new map is a chance for newcomers. My shop is now selling A6-grade superconducting electromagnetic guns at low prices, guaranteed to one-shot any enemy below a quasi-martial artist. No points? No problem. My shop offers loans: weapons first, points later. Come buy now!”
Luo Wu Shang: “This time, although the game manufacturer only gave five quotas, they granted such huge permissions, and it is a limited-time event. It seems the game manufacturer wants to use competition to test the limit level of us players. The game manufacturer has truly become cunning.”
Xiao Yuan Ye Feng Kuang: “I suspect this is a test by the game manufacturer for future gameplay. They deliberately created a city for us to explore, then released five quotas that can freely explore within a one-hundred-kilometer radius of the surrounding area, all to see if there are any bugs. If they confirm there are no major problems, I guess they will gradually open up more later.”
Twilight of the Gods: “Damn! So you’re saying these five quotas are basically like a test server for the game test? This game manufacturer is so heartless, making us internal test players split off more people to do more internal testing. I strongly suggest they open all the internal test content!”
Fang Zhen: “Whoever can obtain the wilderness exploration permission this time is probably going to get rich, truly getting one version ahead of the content. Looks like in the coming period, I cannot log off for 24 hours.”
The back-and-forth chatter among the veteran players made those who had not yet entered the game almost go mad with jealousy one by one.
They still had not entered the game, and High Martial Arts Descend had already started an internal test within the internal test, and the content of that internal test was precisely the exploration gameplay that many people liked most.
Deep underground beneath the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.
“Fanchen, what do we do next?” Lin Xinyao from Mythical Paradise looked at the passage not far away that connected to the depths of the underground, its depth unknown, and could not help asking Lu Fanchen beside her, “Do we continue exploring this maze tunnel, or do we go do the event?”
After the three of them became apprentices, by borrowing B2-grade weapons and using the Lightning Palm, they had gained a lot in the maze tunnel, and the deeper they went, the more they realized this dungeon was not simple.
From the gold-devouring unicorn rats patrolling at the entrance, to now where they had followed the tunnel for six to seven kilometers and gone who-knows-how deep underground, they had not only obtained more than ten gold-devouring unicorn rats, but the internal force of their bodies, or rather their qi and blood, had also improved at an astonishing speed.
Even their physiques had undergone clear changes compared to before they came in.
Among the three of them, the tallest had originally been Li Tianxing, at a full two meters. Paired with a broad frame, he was like a giant bear. But now Li Tianxing’s height had already exceeded two meters ten, and both she and Lu Fanchen had grown to nearly two meters as well.
But the most impressive thing was the internal force naturally formed from their blood qi. This force was like blazing flames, fierce and domineering.
Clearly, they used the Lightning Palm on the gold-devouring unicorn rats, but it forcibly carried two kinds of internal force: one lightning force and one fire energy. The two merged, and with a single palm strike, it was like compressed air being ignited and detonated, allowing her, who had only just been promoted to an intermediate apprentice, to clash head-on with a gold-devouring unicorn rat without injury. It was simply unbelievable.
Of course, obtaining this fire energy did not come without a price.
In just two days, they had died so many times in the maze tunnel that they had lost count. Often, they would start bleeding as they walked, then their whole bodies would swell up, and finally they would explode.
After becoming apprentices, they could finally stay deeper inside the maze tunnel for a bit longer, but they could only last a little over twenty minutes before they still exploded.
“Go. These five quotas are content one version ahead; we must get them.” Lu Fanchen also looked somewhat regretfully at that deep, endless passage. “Although the three of us have only reached intermediate apprentice level, if we completely ignite that violent blood qi within ourselves, condense it into a point, and detonate it, we can already injure a gold-devouring unicorn rat. With this strength, we can still manage to perish together with a martial artist in close quarters. We definitely have a chance to fight for those five quotas.”
“I agree. Right now I feel like I am just one step away from using this internal force to further compress the surrounding air beneath my feet and make it explode,” Li Tianxing said with a grin from the side. “As long as I can pull it off, I will be able to move freely in mid-air and even unleash my Heaven-Treading Steps. By then, in the entire city map, no one will be able to pin me down.”
“You are almost there?” Lin Xinyao looked at Li Tianxing in surprise.
Heaven-Treading Steps could be said to be the signature technique of Axe Saint Li Tianxing, which allowed him to walk upon the sky. Of course, the reason Li Tianxing could use it during the Pilgrimage was entirely because his physical fitness was inhuman, with unbelievable foot speed, stepping on the air to tread upon the sky, gaining an aerial combat advantage that even other Saint-level beings found hard to match.
At the moment, their physical fitness in the High Martial Arts World was relatively ordinary, far from enough to do something so exaggerated. But if Li Tianxing could create a zone of explosive wind beneath his feet and use the impact formed by that explosive wind as thrust, just like a pulse detonation engine that creates massive thrust through continuous explosions, then with their current physical fitness, it might not be impossible to tread upon the sky.
It was just that this was only theoretical. Whether it could be achieved was another matter.
“My control of this internal force is still not proficient. For now I can only take a few steps. If I become more proficient, I should be able to take more than a dozen steps, or even more,” Li Tianxing nodded. “Right now my Stellar Explosion Meditation Technique is stuck at nineteen percent. If I can break through and let my spirit advance further, I should be able to use Heaven-Treading Steps.”
“All right, let’s hurry to the entrance to cultivate as well. There is still one night before the event starts. If we focus on improvement during this time, we should be able to gain another wave of advancement before the event begins,” Lu Fanchen said.
Lin Xinyao and Li Tianxing nodded in agreement and quickly followed Lu Fanchen, running toward the entrance of the maze tunnel. Around one kilometer inside from the entrance of the maze tunnel, although their blood qi would also become manic and boiling, this change in blood qi helped them improve, and their bodies could also endure for longer.
Early the next morning.
On Crimson Moon Mountain, as the search and rescue team was preparing to head to Emerald Sky, three medium transport vehicles drove over from the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall and all stopped at the main gate. Rows of players, like well-trained soldiers, stood at the gate and had already been waiting for quite some time.
These players, especially those who signed up on Crimson Moon Mountain, did not even carry a decent weapon. Almost every one of them had only a Desert Eagle at their waist and a few B2-grade arrows on their backs, standing neatly together, forming a striking sight at the gate of Crimson Moon Mountain, extremely eye-catching.
“Are these people planning to go to Emerald Sky with just this gear?”
“Handguns? Are this group of people insane?”
The members of the search and rescue team preparing to head to Emerald Sky looked at the crowd from the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall and were all stunned for a moment, not understanding what these people from Obsidian Martial Arts Hall were trying to do.
What era is this, and they are still using handguns?!
“Good, everyone get in the vehicles.”
Seeing that everyone had arrived, Lin Qi directly told everyone to board.
