Chapter 1 – Yokoyama Domain, Ten Thousand Swords Sect
Chapter 1 – Yokoyama Domain, Ten Thousand Swords Sect
“Mr. Chen it’s bad, a player died in the game bin.”
“What’s going on?”
“It’s the player we invited, Zhou Xuan.” The secretary quickly made things clear, “The third closed beta test of East Emperor Great Realm added the setting that players suffering from mental illnesses are not allowed to enter the game, but I don’t know what went wrong, it didn’t kick player Zhou Xuan out of the game silo, instead, it caused the other player to become brain dead.”
Brain dead?
Mr. Chen slumped in his chair.
The player died, could this game still be put on sale?
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Eastern Emperor Great Realm, Hengshan Domain, within the territory of the Dayu Dynasty.
The air-breaking treasure ship flying the flag of the Ten Thousand Swords Sect was traveling at an even speed in one direction high in the sky, and a teenager of about eighteen years old was in his assigned room, slowly opening his eyes, his gaze going from dazed to awake.
There had already been two internal tests, and this was the third, so Zhou Xuan was not surprised by the environment he was in at the moment.
“Attribute panel.”
“Personal panel.”
“Main menu.”
“……”
A series of mental calls, but no sci-fi version of the character panel surfaced.
Zhou Xuan could not help but tsk, which was not surprising.
Before entering the game, the person in charge had told them, the internal testers, that this test was different from the previous two, such as the AI’s level of mind, the difficulty of the copies, the experience of the cultivation moments, and so on, all of which had been drastically optimized.
In addition to that, there was a surprise, of course what this surprise was, the person in charge chose to keep it a secret, claiming that when they reached the Foundation Establishment Stage if they were lucky, they would naturally know about it, and if they were unlucky then they might not even know about it at the end of the internal test.
And in order to strengthen the player’s sense of immersion, they made the bold decision to decide that they would not provide players with something like an attribute panel again.
Of course, it was still possible to exit the game by silently chanting ‘exit game’ in one’s mind. Only having just entered the game, Zhou Xuan wouldn’t have his fill of quitting.
Moreover, the Mythic Group’s game warehouse functioned as the topmost in the international world, and it was entirely possible to lie down directly for two months of real time without having to worry about physical problems.
Soon Zhou Xuan wandered around the Skybreaker Treasure Ship, intending to chat with the NPCs to see if the AIs had gotten more realistic.
The Dayu Dynasty was a mortal dynasty that was under the dominion of the Ten Thousand Swords Sect, and every year the Ten Thousand Swords Sect would send several Nascent Elders to various cities to recruit disciples for the Ten Thousand Swords Sect.
Of course, besides the Dayu Dynasty, there were other dynasties as well. The Ten Thousand Swords Sect, as one of the five sects in the Hengshan Domain, ruled one-sixth of the land area of the Hengshan Domain.
Within this one-sixth of the area, there were about a dozen mortal dynasties, so there were not only people from the Dayu Dynasty on the Skybreaking Treasure Ship, but also people from other dynasties.
The Sky Breaking Treasure Ship was only a thousand feet in size when viewed from the outside. However, the mustard seed contained a huge amount of space inside, enough to carry more than 100,000 people.
After a day of chatting with all sorts of people, the great optimization and good experience of the AI mind surprised Zhou Xuan.
Now that a mallet made him lose his memory, and then when he woke up and told him that this was a true metaphysical world, Zhou Xuan would also be convinced.
Two days down the line, Zhou Xuan had also gotten acquainted with some of the people from the Dayu Dynasty. As for the people from the other dynasties, once they heard that he was from the Dayu Dynasty, their attitudes were not cold, but they were no longer enthusiastic.
The doggone AI still knew how to make false pretenses, group hugging and geographical discrimination, which made Zhou Xuan happy.
After the exchange, he felt that the AI’s mind was now infinitely close to that of a human, which was a huge boost to the game experience.
Those who were able to board the Skybreaker Treasure Ship were all qualified to cultivate, and as for how qualified they were, they still needed to go to the Ten Thousand Swords Sect for a specific test.
Three days later.
“Ten Thousand Swords City has arrived.”
A calm voice like a breeze sounded on the air-breaking treasure ship, and a crowd of expectant and nervous teenage girls were brought to the extremely wide deck by the person in charge.
Standing on the deck of the Sky Breaking Treasure Ship, one look up and one’s eyes were greeted by blurry and towering mountain peaks in the extreme distance, plunging straight into the sky.
That was Hengshan Mountain, no matter where in the Hengshan Domain, as long as one looked up one could see it, from which the name of the Hengshan Domain was derived, and it was also the center of this domain.
The Ten Thousand Swords Sect is located to the east of Hengshan Mountain, occupying a huge mountain range that stretches on and on, named Ten Thousand Swords Mountain Range.
The first generation patriarch molded the ten highest peaks of the Ten Thousand Swords Mountain Range into the shape of giant swords, and established the Patriarch’s Peak and nine Peak Masters to rule the Ten Thousand Swords Sect.
And with the passage of time, for more than 100,000 years, the population increased, and a giant city was gradually formed under each peak.
Ten Thousand Swords City was under the Sovereign Peak, and the annual qualification test for newcomers was held in Ten Thousand Swords City.
The young teenagers and girls who were arriving at the Ten Thousand Swords Sect for the first time were all very exuberant, and during the period when the treasure ship had not yet landed, each one of them were chattering and discussing, both in excitement as well as easing their nerves.
After all, although they had cultivation qualifications, they didn’t know the qualification level, and what followed was the moment that would determine their future fate.
Zhou Xuan didn’t have any mood swings, after all, he had chosen the highest difficulty, and his qualifications had already been predetermined, so he was very calm, but even so, he had come in with a speed pass for this internal test.
Because of the research breakthroughs on human sleep dreams, the virtual games on the market now have a high ratio of real time to game time.
Among them, metaphysical or immortal games generally have the longest game time, so the highest ratio is usually used, i.e. one day of reality, ten years of game.
In the second test, the internal test time was two months, he spent one and a half months, that is, four hundred and fifty years of game time to ask for the supreme, this time to choose the highest difficulty, his heartfelt expectation is a minimum ten years or a maximum of fifty years during the East Emperor Great Realm to give a speed pass.
As a virtual game UP master, he was a famous speed pass stream, which was also the reason why he was invited by the Myth Group to come to the internal test.
This time he had already planned his cultivation route to ask for the Supreme, so he didn’t care at all about the cultivation qualification issue.
After the treasure ship landed on the huge square of Ten Thousand Swords City, every person in charge led thousands of people to get off the ship, and when all of them got off the sky-breaking treasure ship, the Enrollment Elder’s hand stretched out, and the thousand-foot-sized treasure ship, which was dripping and spinning around twice in the void, transformed into a size of three inches and fell into his hand.
Seeing the square of teenage girls are staring at him with wide eyes, the enrollment elder smiled faintly, “The old man Kong Qitu…”
Cough-
Before he could finish his words, a light cough came from his ears, interrupting Kong Qitu’s attempt to prepare to recruit quality disciples for the Sword Peak he belonged to.
Unable to finish a sentence, suffocating Kong Qitu, in the end, he could only glare at the middle-aged man above the high platform in the square, and then grunted and turned into a stream of light and left.
The newcomers present thought that this was the Enrollment Elder making self-introductions with them, and were not surprised, and some of the resourceful ones even bent down and bowed, mouthing, “Greetings to Elder Kong.”
After the interlude, Zhou Xuan and these newcomers were brought by their respective leaders to the wide plaza of Ten Thousand Swords City and arranged in a line.
And in front of them was a ten-meter tall cornerstone for testing qualifications.
“Silence.”
A warm voice came from the high platform, and the teenage girls on the square who were originally still whispering quieted down in the blink of an eye, their gazes looking at the high platform.
At the center of the platform stood a middle-aged man, seeing that the crowd had all quieted down, he then began to make a self-introduction, “I, Yuchi Wen, am the Lord of Ten Thousand Swords City, and have joined as the general head of this Ten Thousand Swords Sect’s newest member.” Sweeping a glance at the tens of thousands of people under the stage, Yuchi Wen continued, “You can come to Ten Thousand Swords City, all of you have cultivation qualifications, but the qualifications are also divided into the four classes of heaven and earth, xuanhuang, and yellow, and there are scales on the stone pillars of the measurement of the qualifications that stand in front of you, and when you reach a certain scale, it will be corresponding to the class.”
“Yellow rank qualification, can be ten thousand sword sect outer disciple, can independently in the ten thousand sword city outer disciple area choose a house free residence cultivation one year time.”
“Xuan rank qualification, can be the inner disciple of Wan Jian Sect, can independently choose a peak, become a peak disciple.”
“Earth rank qualification, can be a true disciple of the Ten Thousand Swords Sect, can independently choose a peak and become a true disciple within the peak.”
“Heaven rank qualification…”
Saying this, Yuchi Wen’s voice raised a few notches, carrying a bit of excitement, “Heavenly rank qualifications, can be specially recruited by the Ziyang Holy Land and become a disciple of the Holy Land.”
Purple Sun Holy Land? Sacred land disciple?
The teenage girls under the stage were not shocked when they heard it, instead they were puzzled, they lived in the various mortal dynasties in the Hengshan domain, they only knew one of the five sects in the Hengshan domain, and there were even many people who didn’t even know about the five sects, it was just that after their age reached eighteen years old, they ran to the government office to test whether they had cultivation qualifications, most of them were lucky ones.
However, even if you are not clear about the Ziyang Holy Land, you know that the Holy Land is a good place to go, after all, only the heavenly rank qualification can be specially recruited.
There were only a few richly dressed people with excited faces, obviously having heard a little about the Ziyang Holy Land.
Zhou Xuan yawned, but did not have any mood swings.
According to the previous two internal tests, this qualification test should have a Heavenly Rank qualification being specially recruited to the Purple Sun Sacred Ground, and as for whether it was a man or a woman, it mainly depended on the player’s gender.
Player gender male, that heavenly rank qualification person must be a very beautiful girl with excellent temperament. If the player’s gender is female, the person with that heavenly rank qualification must be an exceptionally handsome teenager with an outstanding temperament.
That’s right, this character is for the player to raid, is the player’s inner couple, of course, attack or not raid depends on the player himself.
“Detection begins.”
Yuchi Wen didn’t bother to explain the Ziyang Holy Land, in his opinion the tens of thousands of people present probably wouldn’t have any heavenly rank qualifications.
As Yuchi Wen’s words fell, the teenage girls who had lined up began to surge forward like water.
“Lower yellow rank.”
“Yellow Order Lower Grade.”
“Yellow rank upper grade…”
Every person who arrived in front of the qualification measuring stone pillar, directly put their palms on it, and in a short while the qualification measuring stone pillar would light up from the bottom to the top, and next to the scale, there were all the qualifications of the grade written on it.
Even those who could not read or write could know their qualifications clearly at a glance.
Most of the people were of the lower grade of the yellow order, and there were not many of the upper grade of the yellow order, but as time passed, more people tested their qualifications, and the people of the Xuan order qualifications also gradually appeared.
When it was Zhou Xuan’s turn, he stepped forward, and although he already knew his qualifications, he still extended his hand to touch the qualification measuring stone pillar.
A millimeter of light lit up in the middle of the stone pillar, and the scale from the bottom went up with great difficulty, settling at the yellow rank at the most.
“Lower yellow rank.”
Seeing this, the person in charge casually swept a glance at Zhou Xuan, realizing that the young man in front of him did not lose his temper when he learned that his qualifications were so poor, he was slightly surprised in his heart, but did not think much of it.
Zhou Xuan walked to the side, next to him was a naive fat man standing in the clothes of an outer door deacon of the Ten Thousand Swords Sect, when he saw him come over, he smiled and said, “My surname is Li, you may call me Deacon Li. Say your name and where you are from the dynasty?”
“Zhou Xuan, Great Yu Dynasty.”
Deacon Li nodded slightly, then a blank jade plate appeared out of thin air in his hand, and soon the word ‘Zhou Xuan’ was engraved on the jade plate, and in the lower right corner there was the tiny word ‘Outer Sect’.
“Stretch out your hand.”
Zhou Xuan stretched out his hand, and Deacon Li made a stroke on his fingertips, taking out a drop of blood, dropping it onto the jade plate, disappearing without entering.
Handing the jade token to Zhou Xuan, Deacon Li said, “Walking around Ten Thousand Swords City and even the other nine cities, you will need identity credentials, and this jade token is your credentials to live in the city in the future. You have just joined my Ten Thousand Swords Sect, you can receive two sets of change of clothes and a bottle of Bone Forging Pills every month with this identity jade token for one year; you can also choose a house in the Outer Sect Disciple Area and live there for one year free of charge, and if you haven’t entered the Qi Gathering Realm after a year, you’ll have to move out.”
“If there’s anything else you don’t understand, there are guidelines about for newly promoted outer disciples there, go take a look and you’ll know everything.”
Deacon Li pointed to the huge stone wall not far away, at this time, many outer disciples who had just finished testing their qualifications had already gathered.
“Many thanks.” Zhou Xuan arched his hand, seeing Deacon Li waving his hand he also stopped talking and directly left.
He came to the huge stone wall and scanned it twice, realizing that it was no different from the second test, so he stopped looking at it in detail.
During the first two tests, the time of the game world tested was six hundred years, which was two months in the real world.
During the first test, he was mainly exploring, so he didn’t even reach the highest realm when the test was finished.
During the second test he spent four hundred and fifty years in the game to ask for the supreme level, and then created a holy land alone, with the purpose of collecting all the laws of the world, in preparation for the subsequent public test to pass at the highest difficulty.
As a virtual game UP master and a speed pass player, he had a large group of fans, and every time he passed the game at the highest game difficulty, he would upload the character templates for everyone to purchase.
Players who buy the character templates can then experience the process of his speed passes from a first-hand perspective. These cloud players of the virtual game era are the bread and butter of virtual game UP owners like him.
After asking for the Supreme in the second test, he spent the rest of the time behind him searching for feats that could be speedpassed without the need for qualifications.
Kung Fu is not a success, the gong method he wanted was found in the Ten Thousand Swords Sect in the Hengshan Domain, in order to personally test it, he directly dispersed his gong and re-cultivated it, and the result was that halfway through the cultivation his enemies came to his door and thwarted him, leaving him speechless.
The game “East Emperor Great Realm” is a game where players are automatically archived every time they raise a small realm, his enemy’s realm was too high, and although he made rapid progress after dispersing and recultivating, he directly died in the archive because his realm was too low after recultivation.
So the last few days of the second test, he reopened the file directly into the Ten Thousand Swords Sect, figuring out how to quickly become a true legend.
Because that gongfa was placed in the third layer of the hidden method cabinet, and the third layer needs true disciples to be able to enter and browse.
“Heaven… heavenly rank…”
A trembling voice came from the back, interrupting Zhou Xuan’s thoughts.
He turned to look, and saw that the line for testing qualifications had stopped, and all of their gazes were directed towards one spot.
There, the scales of the qualification testing stone pillars were all filled with millimeters of light from bottom to top.
Celestial Rank Upper Grade.
As for who’s qualification was a Heavenly Rank Upper Grade, he couldn’t see it at all because there were too many people.
In an instant, Yuchi Wen on the high platform disappeared, and when he reappeared, he had already appeared in front of a young girl, his face filled with shock and ecstasy.
“You… what’s your name?”
“Lin Qinxue.”
(End of chapter)