Chapter 135: Beyond Warriors And The Limited-time Event
“Big Brother Qin Mu, do you know if there are any powerful martial artist universities in the suburbs of Emerald Sky, or any powerful martial arts halls?” In response to Qin Mu’s invitation, Lin Qi did not rush to agree and instead asked in return, “Or are there any very strong martial artist great families living there?”
“In our region, Emerald Sky is quite well known. I am not sure whether there are any powerful martial arts halls or martial artist great families in the suburbs, but the most famous martial artist universities of Emerald Sky are all in the city proper and city center. The situation in the suburbs is actually similar to that of all the major fixed cities.” Qin Mu looked at Lin Qi in confusion. “Why are you asking this? These places actually do not have much profit. The places with resources are those weapon shops and pharmacies, and the high-end shops, especially the factories that produce weapons and potions. They definitely have plenty of good things that are never put up for sale.”
“No?” Lin Qi frowned slightly.
It would be a lie to say he was not tempted by the martial artist cultivation resources of Emerald Sky, but what he currently wanted most was still the cultivation methods of martial artists.
Especially cultivation methods above martial artist level.
The Blazing Prairie secret technique in his hand was indeed good, but it was only a cultivation method at the intermediate martial artist level, at most allowing cultivation to the limit of advanced martial artists, and there was no way to advance further.
Over these days, using his permissions in the martial artist association, he had already investigated very clearly. The martial artist association did have cultivation methods above martial artist level, but to obtain them required completely joining the association and earning enough contribution to redeem them.
Another means was to enter the genius training camp. As long as one became an advanced martial artist, one could naturally choose to learn cultivation methods above martial artist level. However, learning these cultivation methods would also bind them to the top-tier factions of the City of Light Chasing, and they would be constrained by these factions in the future.
This constraint was not ordinary. It was a true shackle on one’s life, such as placing nano bombs in the brain. If they disobeyed these factions, they would die. It was not as wonderful as ordinary people imagined, that the genius training camp would cultivate martial artists without any price.
Since he could summon players and keep surviving to become stronger continuously, he would absolutely never hand over control of his life and death to others. Even if his improvement speed was slower, he was willing.
Among the places with cultivation methods above martial artist level, the most common were those top-tier martial artist universities and top-tier martial arts halls. These two kinds of places existed specifically to deliver martial artists to major powers, so they should more or less have cultivation methods above martial artist level.
Next were those martial artist great families. They might have cultivation methods above martial artist level treasured away as the foundation of a great family. After all, the birth of anyone above the level of an advanced martial artist would be a resounding figure in any city, enough to allow a family to flourish for a hundred years.
In a mobile city like Emerald Sky, there should be quite a few such martial artist great families.
Even taking a step back, if all these places did not have cultivation methods above martial artist level, they would definitely have many martial artist level cultivation methods. As long as he could collect enough martial artist level cultivation methods, he could use the system to fuse them and enhance his own cultivation method. If he fused enough of them, he might be able to create a cultivation method above martial artist level.
“You really want to go and take a look at the martial artist universities in Emerald Sky?” Seeing Lin Qi’s tightly furrowed brows, Qin Mu could not help asking curiously.
“Yeah, I want to see what those legendary top-tier martial artist universities are like.” Lin Qi nodded.
The matter of cultivation methods could be big or small. Martial artist level cultivation methods were one thing, since they were widely spread, and many martial arts halls directly sold them.
But cultivation methods above martial artist level were different. Those were the foundations of major powers. Even if they were extremely difficult to cultivate and learn, the major powers in all the cities would absolutely not allow other people or factions to obtain them. After all, the cake of a city was only so big, and there was not enough for each faction. If another one appeared, everyone’s share would become smaller, so they naturally would not allow others to casually possess such methods.
“Do not even think about that.” Qin Mu looked at the roasted meat that had been served, took a bite, and shook his head. “According to the information I have, this time the major powers in the suburbs of all the cities have already secretly agreed that they will never allow wilderness gang factions to set foot in the city proper of Emerald Sky. Even the ordinary factions in the suburbs are not allowed in. If anyone dares step in, they will be killed without mercy.”
As Qin Mu finished speaking, he took another bite of roasted meat, and his eyes lit up.
“What meat is this? Why is it so delicious, and the energy is so rich!” Qin Mu finished three large skewers of roasted meat in a few bites and could not help saying, “I feel that if I could eat this kind of meat long-term, my qi and blood would probably not need much time to reach the limit.”
“This is crocodile fang rhinoceros beef.” Lin Qi looked at Qin Mu, who had ordered another portion, and said with a smile, “If you like it, Big Brother Qin, you can come often in the future. We will have a long-term supply here.”
“Crocodile fang rhinoceros beef? Long-term supply?” Qin Mu looked at Lin Qi in astonishment. “I know you have been promoted to martial artist, but this is too impressive. I heard that those martial artists who form hunting teams can only sell limited monthly shares to their own faction members. You can casually supply it to outsiders here, is that alright?”
“This is one of the ways our Crimson Moon Mountain attracts vagrants. Each person can buy at most two portions a day, and no takeout is allowed.” Lin Qi nodded.
When Zhang Qing Wei opened this restaurant, some vagrants wanted to buy monster meat in bulk to resell elsewhere. Fortunately, Zhang Qing Wei was smart and knew monster meat had huge value. The source of the monster meat was monster attacks and was not very stable. Also, selling to vagrants could indeed earn bits and use bits to purchase some needed items from other vagrants and caravans, but it did not bring martial arts hall contribution, and bits could not be converted into martial arts hall points.
So she set rules, planning to grow the restaurant strong and big, using monster meat to attract diners who would then order other dishes. Although these dishes did not exist yet, she could first spread the name and increase the restaurant’s reputation.
“Alright, then I will come at least once a week from now on. This monster meat is really good stuff. I had only heard others talk about it before, and I did not expect it to be even better than the rumors.” Qin Mu said with a smile. “So, Brother Lin, are you coming with us to Emerald Sky? With our search and rescue team leading the way, even though we cannot enter the city proper, in areas close to the city proper those big gangs and great family people will not dare to attack us. After all, our main task is to shut down the power source of the mobile city and keep Emerald Sky in our region.”
“Also, this search and rescue operation will only last a few days. After the senior officials confirm that Emerald Sky has no problems, the city senior officials will definitely join forces to blockade Emerald Sky. At that time no outsiders will be allowed to go in, so we only have these few days.”
“I will not go with you. Thank you, Big Brother Qin, for telling me about this. I still need to make more preparations on my side.” Lin Qi shook his head, declining to go along with Qin Mu and the others.
His main goal was the cultivation methods of Emerald Sky, which was not the same objective as Qin Mu and the others, so there was no need to act together.
Moreover, to enter Emerald Sky this time, he would definitely have to enter the city proper. At that time, conflict with the big gangs and major powers of the three major cities would be inevitable. Following Qin Mu would be very inconvenient.
“Alright. I have the movement route map of Emerald Sky and its stop location from yesterday. You should hurry.” Qin Mu nodded, knowing Lin Qi definitely had his own plans. He then sent a map to Lin Qi and happily started eating the roasted meat in big bites.
After chatting with Qin Mu for more than an hour, they finally parted ways. Qin Mu returned to the resting place of the search and rescue team, while Lin Qi immediately went into the lounge in the mine to look at the map Qin Mu had sent.
“The distance from Crimson Moon Mountain is not too far.” Lin Qi looked at the movement route map of Emerald Sky and somewhat understood why the search and rescue team members were not in a hurry.
According to Emerald Sky’s movement route, it was moving toward the direction of the City of Light Chasing. This meant that even if the search and rescue team of the City of Light Chasing did not go there, Emerald Sky, this mobile city, would take the initiative to come.
In one night, Emerald Sky could almost reach a location more than 150 kilometers away from Crimson Moon Mountain, then turn toward other places. For a fairly long period of time, Emerald Sky would not be more than 200 kilometers away from Crimson Moon Mountain, which indeed was a good opportunity for him.
“The temptation of Emerald Sky this time is too great. The big gangs and great families of the major cities will probably send many people. They might even deploy B-grade battle armor. With my current strength, even if I bring a large number of expert players to sneak in, it will be very hard to get out alive.” Lin Qi looked at the map and could not help feeling a headache.
Within a radius of three hundred kilometers of Emerald Sky, there were three cities: Wanxing City, the City of Light Chasing, and Cold Night City, the three major cities. The suburban gangs and suburban great families of these three cities added together were countless. If things were really as Qin Mu said and these factions joined forces to blockade the city proper.
Then trying to break in would be extremely difficult, not to mention getting something and breaking out.
“These big gangs and great families are being so ruthless. It seems this time there is no way without bleeding.” Lin Qi put away the map of Emerald Sky and took out a small box from his body. It was the energy crystals given to him by Feng Ge Lin. Feeling rather regretful, he said, “When the time comes, we will first set up a resurrection point near Emerald Sky. If Emerald Sky cannot stop quickly, we can only set up a resurrection point every twenty kilometers.”
In the face of human wave tactics, all he could do was respond with human wave tactics. Crimson Moon Mountain was too far from Emerald Sky. By the time players resurrected and ran over, the opportunity would be gone.
But if there was a resurrection point near Emerald Sky, then when facing the encirclement of the major gang factions, breaking through would not be impossible.
And ten energy crystals gave him five chances to set up resurrection points.
Originally, Lin Qi had wanted to set up a resurrection point inside Emerald Sky, which would be more convenient. But considering that a fat prize like Emerald Sky was tightly watched by the three major cities and also had many wilderness gangs active, if they discovered the players’ resurrection point, it would be a big problem.
So he ultimately decided to set up resurrection points outside Emerald Sky, to the greatest extent preventing the secret of player resurrection from being discovered and avoiding any accidents.
After that, Lin Qi opened the system panel and posted a new event on the official forum of Blue Star, instantly blowing up the entire forum.
System announcement: the version event “Mobile City Jade Sky” is coming soon. This event is a limited-time event and will officially start at eight o’clock tomorrow morning.
System announcement: for this version event, players only need to have reached apprentice-level and possess a smart watch to sign up and follow hall master Lin Qi to explore the mobile city Jade Sky.
System announcement: the exploration of Jade Sky in this event will be free exploration. Players only need to hand over the valuable items obtained in Jade Sky to hall master Lin Qi. Hall master Lin Qi will determine their value and grant players points and contribution rewards. （Note: the closer to the city center the area is, the more high-value items there will be, and the greater the risk will be.）
System announcement: in this limited-time event, after the event ends, the top five players in contribution will receive an additional event reward: “Level One Wilderness Exploration Permission.” Players with Level One Wilderness Exploration Permission can freely explore within a radius of one hundred kilometers of Crimson Moon Mountain.
