Chapter 136: They Seem the Same, Yet Seem Different.
The fifty players recruited this time.
A large portion of them had watched Han Tian’s live broadcast.
Otherwise, they wouldn’t have been so eager to snatch up the quotas and prepare their equipment.
So some people knew the situation; Han Tian had already mentioned during his live broadcast that there was a demonic beast attack.
Lian Yueqiao arranged for them here, telling them not to go out. After all fifty players logged in, everyone heard a system message.
【Ding, welcome all players to this game. The Longevity Sect disciple rules are as follows.】
【1. At this stage, all disciples are outer disciples. Accumulating 200 sect points will convert you to an inner disciple and unlock the sect item exchange function.】
【2. Novice missions are divided into cultivating spiritual fields or going out for training. Players can choose freely.】
【3. Other aspects are for players to explore freely.】
Actually, there’s no real difference between inner disciples and outer disciples.
The 200 points are just a formality for the players. Song Jiulai didn’t even restrict how players could obtain these points.
For example, those with money could directly buy points…
The reason for this setup is that Song Jiulai didn’t want players to personally hand out pills every time they entered.
She should have her own prestige.
This serves as a prelude for players who join later not being able to meet the Sect Master.
It’s not like players who joined earlier could, but new ones couldn’t.
Now, dividing them into inner and outer disciples is something new players can generally accept.
Who told them they joined late.
The one hundred inner disciples who joined earlier naturally had special treatment.
Some players knew about the demonic beast invasion, but the desire to cultivate took precedence. After the System granted them spiritual roots and opened their inner elixirs, they were kicked offline.
Only a small number of players, like Zhan Sheng, keenly sensed that this was likely a major event. Logging off now might mean missing out on the excitement. They didn’t immediately open their spiritual roots, choosing to observe the situation.
The situation of the new players couldn’t be considered for now. The veteran players were urgently making arrangements.
In such an urgent situation, they still asked the System if they could be teleported back directly, but the points required were too expensive. Couldn’t it be free?
But they were still refused by the System.
The System couldn’t do anything about it.
“The energy pool is almost depleted. What’s left is the bare minimum. No matter how urgent it is, we can’t teleport everyone back.”
The energy it consumed was completely different from what the players imagined.
Those points were essentially given away by Song Jiulai for free to the players, which didn’t help the energy pool much.
Moreover, just opening fifty quotas consumed a huge amount of energy.
Song Jiulai pressed her forehead: “It’s up to fate.”
She herself didn’t plan to be teleported back directly.
Because this was only for emergencies.
It hadn’t reached a point of complete despair yet. She planned to find the source of the demonic beasts first.
When selecting quotas, who knew a demonic beast invasion would suddenly occur, and they couldn’t temporarily halt the quota selection.
If it truly reached a critical situation, even asking the Myriad Immortal Sect for help wouldn’t consume System energy.
She still had a Sect Token.
Song Jiulai knew what was important. The System was her last resort, so she would definitely exhaust all other trump cards before finally using the System.
After all, her life was tied to the System.
There were new developments on the players’ side as well.
The vanguard, Zhen Weida and Lin Yuyu, discovered that the demonic beast forces had begun to move.
The first wave consisted of First Order demonic beasts. The Tier 2 demonic beasts were still inactive, which was good news amidst the misfortune, as at least the First Order demonic beasts could serve as practice.
However, Zhen Weida looked at the swarming Flame Birds in the sky and still felt his scalp tingle.
For the first time, he understood what it meant to be overwhelming.
The demonic beasts were not small in size to begin with, and the dense mass of Flame Birds flying in the sky exerted a terrifying pressure.
On the ground, there were Toad Snakes and other First Order demonic beasts in motion.
They trampled through the fields, and the Spirit Herbs along their path were instantly contaminated by their venom, causing a large patch to die.
A Flame Bird spat out fire, making half the sky feel hot.
“Damn it! So uncivilized! This is our sect’s property!”
Zhen Weida watched as it bled.
Was it easy for them to cultivate these Spiritual Fields below the mountain back then?
Zhen Weida raised his hand and shot a Water Ball towards a Flame Bird.
The Water Ball carried immense force, and combined with Zhen Weida’s Mid Qi Condensation Stage cultivation, it directly pulled a Flame Bird down.
He cast Palm Thunder. Palm Thunder could hit a large area, but it dispersed the attack power. The Flame Birds squawked from the lightning, but they weren’t killed outright. Instead, it provoked their hatred.
Countless Flame Birds charged towards Zhen Weida and the others.
Zhen Weida and the Lin Yuyu sisters felt their scalps tingle. They fought and retreated.
Palm Thunder was unleashed as if it were free.
The same scene was playing out for other players.
First Order demonic beasts attacked from several directions, but most of them were clustered together, besieging Wang’an County.
Judging by the directions, they weren’t despicable enough to attack from all sides, but the sheer density of the assault was something an ordinary person couldn’t handle.
Zhan Sheng finally saw the dark mass of demonic beasts beginning to invade in the distance.
Just standing here and watching, the pressure was indeed immense.
As the demonic beasts got closer, seeing their faces could cause nightmares for an entire night.
Zhan Sheng looked at these things, suppressing the shock in his heart, and simultaneously observed the players attacking the city, carefully noting their abilities.
At the same moment, the commotion of the demonic beast invasion also caused the mortals in the county town to become terrified and uneasy.
Mortals were both fortunate and unfortunate.
They were unfortunate in that they could only stay in one place their entire lives, unable to leave this world.
But they had enough to eat and wear.
Demonic beasts were the only things they feared.
If cultivators couldn’t stop them, mortals would also die.
“Grandma—”
Little Girl hid in the room, with only her grandmother accompanying her.
She couldn’t hear the commotion of the demonic beast invasion outside, only the occasional sound of explosions.
Lightning flashed outside the window. Little Girl watched the methods employed by the immortals, feeling both envy and fear.
“Grandma, do you think the immortals can stop them?”
Her grandmother was old and had taken up the job of making tofu for the Longevity Sect. Life was still monotonous, but Little Girl felt it was much more interesting than before.
Because she was going to start school.
Those immortals said that once the school was built, all mortal children like them would go to school.
They would learn mathematics and physics, things she didn’t understand.
Brother Hao Kan told her that once she learned, even if she wasn’t an immortal, she could create things that could fly into the sky like immortals.
Little Girl couldn’t believe it, but she longed for it.
However, this demonic beast invasion made everyone uneasy.
Grandmother hugged Little Girl. Her eyes were already a bit cloudy. She hugged Little Girl and said softly, “Little Girl, don’t be afraid. They can stop them, they can stop them…”
Decades ago, Wang’an County also experienced a demonic beast invasion.
Although the outcome was tragic, they managed to stop it.
However, Grandmother didn’t mention that during that invasion, the first to die were the defenseless mortals.
There were also immortals who threw mortals out as bait.
And this time, those immortals told them to stay put, not to go anywhere.
It seemed the same, yet also somewhat different.
There will be a third update later, so we’ll resume the early morning update first. Then we’ll start with bonus updates, but I can’t say when. You’ll have to check tomorrow morning~
