Chapter 86: New Expansion Launched
“What the hell is player costume management?”
Lin Qi looked at the last function under administrator permissions, utterly confused, completely unable to understand what use it had.
But after Lin Qi clicked on it, his eyes instantly lit up.
“Damn! As expected of the system, it actually even thought of this.” Looking at player costume management, Lin Qi could not help admiring the system.
Player costume management had two functions: one for basic outfit upgrades, and one for special costume upgrades.
The basic outfit was the clothes players were born with, while special costumes were private customization for certain players, allowing them to have unique clothing and become the sharpest-looking guys in the crowd. It made it easy to distinguish ordinary disciples, inner disciples, and elite disciples.
But what Lin Qi valued most was still the basic outfit upgrade.
The current silver-gray long-sleeved T-shirt was the most basic outfit. Now that he had upgraded to primary administrator authority, he could upgrade the basic outfit for free to the Level One Basic Costume.
The appearance of the Level One Basic Costume did not change much, only gaining a hood, but it added a very powerful function: disguise.
This disguise was passive, and it was very hard for any creature other than him and the players to detect it.
Under this disguise, every time a player died, their appearance would change, as if being reborn into a new life. This disguise effect could be said to have solved a major problem for Lin Qi.
In the battle at Crimson Moon Mountain before, quite a few players were killed in front of large crowds. Although it was impossible for everyone watching to remember all the dead players, there were always some with good memory. Now with the Level One Basic Costume, no matter how players died in public in the future, there was no need to worry about exposing the issue of players dying and resurrecting.
In other words, with this function, he could let players go die boldly and without worry.
Of course, the basic outfit was very powerful, but special costumes were not bad either.
Special costumes required spending energy ore for private customization and could add a new ability on top of the original basic outfit functions.
For example, slightly improved warmth retention, slightly improved defense effect, slightly improved qi and blood circulation effect, and many others. The randomly added abilities also served to a large extent to distinguish the identity of players.
It was just that this private customization price was not cheap: three hundred units of energy per person.
“Three hundred units per person. If in the future I have to cover all the inner disciples’ outfits, I don’t know how much my resting place and training room plans will be delayed.” Looking at the three hundred units of energy, Lin Qi could not help feeling a bit of a headache.
Compared to the functions of special costumes, three hundred units could be considered quite a bargain, but three hundred per person meant thirty thousand units of energy for one hundred people. Wouldn’t using that much energy to build three player resting places be better?
“As expected, players still need to learn to be self-reliant.” Lin Qi felt it was better to have the players bear this cost. After all, he was not the one trying to look sharp, so why should he pay for it?
After thinking for less than a minute, Lin Qi decided to let the inner disciples who could change clothes purchase them at the market price of three hundred kilograms of energy ore, which was thirty thousand bits, and converted to points, that was three hundred thousand points, reselling them to these inner disciples.
This way the players got face, he got his workers, and he could even use this to drain a wave of points from the players’ hands.
The recent advancement of several plot tasks had given players a lot of points, especially those with high strength. If he did not help them spend some, he could not increase their enthusiasm for working.
After all, he had a big plan to fully develop Crimson Moon Mountain later. How could it work if the players had no motivation?
System: detected that the host possesses Level Two permissions. Do you wish to use cultivation method fusion optimization permissions to fuse the Prairie Fire Body Cultivation Method into the Startling Spirit Breathing Technique?
“If you hadn’t reminded me, I would have almost forgotten.” Looking at the sudden system prompt, Lin Qi remembered the Prairie Fire Body Cultivation Method he had obtained some time ago.
The effect of the current Startling Spirit Breathing Technique was getting weaker. Even though he had already become proficient in the Second Level, he still could not reach the true limit of a limit apprentice. It even made Lin Qi suspect that even if he cultivated to the Third Level, it would still be difficult to break through to become a quasi-martial artist. After all, the Fitness Breathing Technique was a popularized cultivation method from a hundred years ago. It was already not easy for the complete manual to train someone into a quasi-martial artist, let alone half of it.
“Fusion optimization!”
With Lin Qi’s command, the system began to fuse the two cultivation methods, but this time the fusion was based mainly on the Fitness Breathing Technique.
One second… three seconds… ten seconds…
Only after a full five minutes passed did Lin Qi suddenly feel a wave of dizziness in his brain, and his whole body nearly collapsed to the ground.
“What an incredible cultivation method!”
Supporting himself on the table with both hands, although the dizziness had not completely faded, his eyes were filled with surprise.
This fusion optimization was quite successful. It did not take in the drawback of the Prairie Fire Body Cultivation Method that required energy crystals. Instead, it combined the most basic Fitness Breathing Technique and used more complex breathing and blood qi mobilization methods to make up for the lack of energy crystals.
Although in terms of cultivation effect it was still slightly inferior to using energy crystals, it was genuinely an Intermediate Martial Artist level cultivation method. Moreover, at the First Level of the apprentice stage, it was much stronger than the original First Level of the Prairie Fire Body Cultivation Method.
If the Prairie Fire Body Cultivation Method at the First Level used energy crystals to stimulate all the muscle cells in the body and could also significantly purify the internal organs, boosting the base blood qi and increasing the body’s generated internal force by twenty percent, comparable to many Advanced Martial Artist level cultivation methods,
then the current First Level Startling Spirit Breathing Technique had completely reached the effect of an Advanced Martial Artist level cultivation method, allowing the body’s generated internal force to increase by as much as thirty percent.
It might seem like just a ten percent increase, but this was a permanent extra ten percent in the apprentice stage. Once stepping into the Martial Artist Realm, compared to martial artists cultivating Intermediate Martial Artist level cultivation methods, he would have an extra ten percent internal force.
Internal force could only be offset by internal force. When facing an enemy of similar strength, this would let him wear the opponent down to death.
Lin Qi then immediately pulled up his panel.
Host: Lin Qi.
Age:
Administrator permissions: Level One.
Permission level: Merit-Based Admission Authority, Level Two.
Martial arts level: limit apprentice.
Strength: 6 kilograms. （Quasi-martial artist standard: 900 kilograms）
Speed: 8 meters per second. （Quasi-martial artist standard: 26 meters per second）
Cultivation method: Startling Spirit Breathing Technique （First Level proficient, 67%）
Permitted player count: 110 （The host’s current limited online count is 70, current reservation count is ）
“Just forming a new breathing technique actually increased my strength and speed. Martial artist level cultivation methods are really terrifying.” Looking at the new Startling Spirit Breathing Technique, Lin Qi felt it was very necessary for all current players to master it as soon as possible. It was simply far stronger than the previous breathing techniques.
Thinking of this, Lin Qi decided to first upgrade the players’ basic outfits.
System: upgrading all players’ basic outfits will require all players to log off and rest for twelve hours. Do you wish to proceed with the full upgrade now?
“Upgrade!” After thinking for a moment, Lin Qi chose to upgrade.
It was night, which was perfect for letting the players rest. The martial arts hall did not need people to guard it, and he also needed time to prepare the new Startling Spirit Breathing Technique for all players.
As soon as Lin Qi chose to upgrade the players’ basic outfits, all players in the martial arts hall almost simultaneously received a system prompt.
System: the game system needs to be updated. All players, please prepare to log off within three minutes. After three minutes, all players will be forcibly logged off. This update time is twelve hours.
With the system message appearing, all players were stunned.
“System update?”
“What is going on?”
“Didn’t previous version updates not require logging off?”
For such a sudden system update, many players were confused, especially Yi Ye Fu Yun and the others dealing with the Gold-Devouring Unicorn Rat in the maze tunnel. They were about to cry.
They were at the critical moment of killing the Gold-Devouring Unicorn Rat, and now they were being told to log off. What were they supposed to do?
But very soon, these players had no choice but to find a safe place as quickly as possible, lie down, and quietly wait for the forced log off.
At the same time, many players watching live streams were also dumbfounded as they watched High Martial Arts Descend suddenly force players to log off.
“Damn, I just ordered takeout, and now this is what I get to watch?”
“System update. Is the game manufacturer planning some big move?”
“Brothers, the official announcement is out. This update is adding a new expansion pack!”
Although many players were puzzled, even more were pleasantly surprised. After all, every update increased the player count. The only ones complaining were those who could enter High Martial Arts Descend.
For a while, many players rushed to the official website of High Martial Arts Descend.
Thank you all for your continued support of High Martial Arts Descend. The system will undergo a major version update. The new version will be version This update will fix numerous bugs, optimize cultivation methods, add many martial arts hall functions, increase forty player slots, and add a new expansion pack.
The new expansion pack is Crimson Moon Tide. The update time for this major version is twelve hours.
With the update announcement posted by Lin Qi on the official site, the entire High Martial Arts Descend game forum exploded.
