(At the end of Chapter 121, there were still three usable obelisks. The one downstream along the Orchid River has now been changed to the one outside Dawn City. The original outline had a damaged obelisk outside Dawn City, which the protagonist would repair after going through a series of events. Only then would he be able to teleport between Dawn City and Moonlight City. However, the author made some changes to a later part of the story. The protagonist would not obtain the ability to repair obelisks until then, so the current plotline involving the repair of the obelisk had to be cut. As a result, when Chapter 121 was published, the three obelisks were still listed according to the Orchid River version. This patch corrects that.)
After discussing the situation with his comrades and the two military advisers who had recently joined the battlefield, Zhang Meng and the others came up with a defensive plan:
Liu Xuan would immediately teleport back to the Godless White Tower through the obelisk, then take one hundred people to Dawn City.
The several hundred players and NPCs already on the road with Zhang Meng would continue toward Moonlight City, taking Crescent City along the way.
The other warriors still in Orenburg would follow immediately, with Moonlight City as their target as well.
The reason Liu Xuan was being assigned an additional one hundred people was that he needed to finish the battle quickly and teleport away immediately after taking Dawn City.
There was no guarantee that some stragglers would not still be hiding somewhere in Dawn City.
So they would leave one hundred people behind as insurance, preventing anyone from “breaking into their home” while they were away.
At the very least, Liu Xuan needed teammates who could see through invisibility.
He still had no ability of that sort.
As for Moonlight City, Zhang Meng and the others planned to abandon the city’s interior and hold only the walls and several breaches.
Their reliance, of course, would be the self-destructing bugs inside the city—and Liu Xuan.
The only question was whether Zhang Meng and the others could take Crescent City on their own.
Zhang Meng himself was full of confidence. Although their levels were certainly lower than those of the monsters inside the city, the Destruction Aura could completely make up for even a gap of more than ten levels.
Besides, quite a few of them had farmed their attributes in Orenburg.
If they were being honest, Liu Xuan could have farmed the entire place by himself back then. But he had still arranged for the others to participate precisely so they would be prepared for situations like this, giving them the basic ability to stand on their own.
After playing games for so many years, he had long understood one principle: complaining that your teammates are too weak after the crisis arrives is pointless. Complaining cannot change the outcome.
A true powerhouse either carries alone without relying on teammates or finds a way to make good use of a bunch of useless teammates.
Being able to play a bad hand well was itself proof of one’s ability.
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After receiving the plan, Liu Xuan returned to the cliff outside Moonlight City and used the obelisk to teleport back to the Godless White Tower.
As luck would have it, they had left in such a hurry earlier that he had not yet farmed the wild hounds nearby.
While waiting for his one hundred men to arrive, Liu Xuan farmed monsters around the tower.
Although the monsters in this area were only level 24, the experience bonus was astonishing. A single monster gave him more than a thousand experience points.
Moreover, with Ominous Spread active, the negative effects he applied continued to spread as the monsters died, allowing him to stack his Agility, Intelligence, and Vitality attributes at a satisfying rate.
Notifications informing him that his attributes had increased kept flooding across Liu Xuan’s vision. No wonder so many people loved stacking stats—the feeling was simply too addictive to stop.
By the time the one hundred men arrived, Liu Xuan had not only gained another level, but had also increased his Agility and Intelligence by seventeen points each.
As he drew his new skill, he still felt reluctant to stop.
He had been busy with the main storyline, quests, and defensive battles lately, and had not properly farmed his attributes in quite some time.
He had deliberately farmed twice before—once by hunting Forest Rats, and once in the lumberyard dungeon.
It was time to give his stats another major boost.
Once he reached Dawn City, he would find a suitable area nearby and farm to his heart’s content!
Liu Xuan had just finished making his plans when the slot machine finally stopped.
Theory of Advantageous Distance: When you are in combat, all hostile targets between thirty and fifty meters away will be drawn to a distance of fifteen meters from you. All hostile targets within five meters will be pushed back to a distance of fifteen meters from you. This passive effect triggers automatically once every five seconds and is resolved as a Strength check. It can succeed only when your Strength is higher than the target’s.
Liu Xuan blinked.
So enemies farther away would be pulled toward him, while enemies nearby would be pushed away?
A passive version of Shinra Tensei combined with Banshō Ten’in?
After mentally testing the skill, he decided it was quite powerful. All he had to do was stand there, and hostile targets more than thirty meters away would be pulled over before being struck by his Thunder Aura.
As for melee enemies, whenever they tried to approach him, they would be pushed back into the distance.
The requirement that his Strength had to be higher than the target’s did not worry Liu Xuan in the slightest.
He had been putting all his attribute points into Strength lately, and after adding the thirty-seven points he had gained from leveling up just now, he already had more than three hundred Strength.
There probably wasn’t a single person on the entire Blue Star with more Strength than him.
Besides, the prerequisite for triggering this passive was that Liu Xuan had to be in combat. Because he had the large party formed through Orenburg’s Light active, he was currently in combat at all times.
In other words, Theory of Advantageous Distance would keep triggering automatically.
Liu Xuan had effectively become a Human Mob-Gatherer. Wherever he went, the nearby monsters would be drawn toward him.
Even better, Theory of Advantageous Distance and Thunder Aura both had an internal cooldown of five seconds.
That meant every five seconds, he would automatically pull in a wave of monsters and fry them all, creating a perfect cycle.
“Hiss... If I found a suitable farming spot, couldn’t I just lie down and leave the game to farm monsters for me? Hehehe.”
Liu Xuan was in an excellent mood. When the one hundred men arrived, they saw him standing there for no apparent reason, grinning foolishly to himself.
“What’s the big shot so happy about?”
“No idea. Did he find some money?”
“If you killed a monster, you could find money too. Would you be grinning like an idiot all by yourself?”
“Shh, don’t say that. Even when the big shot is grinning like an idiot, it’s still a handsome idiot’s grin.”
Liu Xuan was completely unaware of his expression. When he saw the people in front of him, he simply waved his hand excitedly.
“Let’s go! We’re heading to Dawn City!”
The others felt awkward asking any more questions. They could only greet him before following him out.
They took the same road to Dawn City as before. Before long, they arrived at Mistveil Town, where Liu Xuan had rested during his previous trip. This time, however, they did not stop there.
With so many people, they could take turns keeping watch, so they no longer needed to be as particular about where they rested.
Whenever they encountered monsters along the way, Liu Xuan showed off a little of his skill as a Human Mob-Gatherer and Lightning Mage, earning gasps of admiration from the group.
There was just one small problem: when they reached the territory of the Tree Goblins, those gasps of admiration turned into screams of terror.
Once they realized what abilities the monsters possessed, the entire group began crying and begging Liu Xuan to stop using his “divine powers.”
Although the Tree Goblins were killed instantly and never even got close enough to touch them, seeing those monsters suddenly being dragged over was terrifying enough.
If it were you, you would have been scared too.
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e vast world of cultivation, where he becomes the master of the Heavenly Ruins Sacred Hall, a dying old man with barely a tenth of his former cultivation remaining. He is immediately confronted with a deadly crisis: his subordinates have rebelled, and his protectors are forcing him to abdicate. At the critical moment, the system descends from the heavens: [Ding! The host has been detected facing a life-or-death crisis. The system is now officially activated!] [As a gift, you have received the Supreme Beginner’s Pack and awakened the ultimate cheat: ten thousand years of pure cultivation essence every second!] Yin Tianjue: “Wait… ten thousand years of cultivation every second? That’s six hundred thousand years a minute, and in one day… I can’t even calculate it. Either way, I’m already invincible!” You’re a peerless prodigy rarely seen in ten thousand years? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. You’re an undying ancestor who has guarded a sacred land for countless ages? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. You’re the strongest chosen one, blessed with heaven-defying destiny? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. From this day forth, I have only one thing to say: “I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. Now, how exactly are you supposed to deal with that?”
s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
