Elder Brother Zhong, Show Us Your Skills

Zhong Yi's favorite thing to do in the illusion realm was to create strategy guides.

Starting from Spiritual Plants vs. Zombies, the title [Genius Cultivator] became a household name and a massive star on the forums.

Zhong Yi first felt the immense popularity of Operation Xianyuan Continent after he posted a thread titled [Classified Dam Knife-Running Guide].

Within a single day, it garnered tens of thousands of replies!

It was twice as lively as during the Naraka: Bladepoint era!

Besides knife-running guides, Zhong Yi also posted gun modification tutorials.

They covered all price ranges.

Among them, the most popular was the recently introduced Poop Gun series.

The inspiration for this series came from Zhou Qiaoling.

Zhou Qiaoling was addicted to knife-running and looting. She was extremely enthusiastic about how to make enemies feel like they ate poop after killing her, so she often came to Zhong Yi for help modifying her guns.

After modifying a few guns, Zhong Yi casually posted them to the forum, never expecting such an enthusiastic response.

Only then did he realize just how absurdly high the percentage of loot-loving knife-running players was in Operation Xianyuan Continent...

Consequently, Zhong Yi made the Poop Gun his signature specialty.

Not only was it disgusting for opponents when they looted his crate, but he could also actually kill people when using it himself...

...

Zhong Yi jokingly called his daily knife-running self a Rat.

On one hand, it was because Old Sai often mocked him as a little mouse in the Administration Palace; on the other hand, it was because he was always chased around by aggressive players like a rat crossing the street.

This nickname gained the approval of countless knife-running players and gradually became popular on the forums.

Zhong Yi naturally became the spiritual leader of the Rat players.

Every time he started a live stream, countless players would flood in.

[The Grandmaster is streaming? Time to eat!]

[Why are the Asara rogue cultivators in the Grandmaster's matches so weak? The ones I meet are more ruthless than the last...]

[Fellow Daoist, you must have killed a lot of people normally, right? Zhong already said that Old Demon Lu is very cunning. If you perform too well in matches, he will ramp up the difficulty for you!]

[So that means... the Grandmaster looks like a noob, but he's actually just pretending?]

[Of course! Just think about what the title for killing 12 cultivators in a single match of Operation Xianyuan Continent is...]

[Let me educate the new Fellow Daoists. The achievement for getting 12 kills in a single match is called [Genius Cultivator], and it's named after our Grandmaster!]

[Wow!! That's amazing!!!]

[Can the Grandmaster show us a thing or two?]

[Show us! Show us!!]

[I'll send gifts to the Grandmaster!!]

...

Looking at the sky filled with gift special effects, Zhong Yi, who was currently scavenging for trash at the Dam, smiled helplessly.

Those who called him Grandmaster were basically all new viewers who came to watch his stream for the first time out of admiration after learning knife-running techniques on the forum;

While those who called him Zhong and tricked the new viewers into making a fuss were the veteran viewers of the stream.

In Lu Ze's words, they were called little anti-fans.

Previously, he had been tricked by this group of little anti-fans into hosting a technical tutorial stream, and to this day, he still couldn't forget the screen full of Hahahaha.

Coincidentally, Lu Ze was actually watching at the time and specifically sent him a Ten Thousand Swords Returning to the Origin gift, even saying that he looked like some Ancestor Jinfan...

In short, no matter how this bunch of little anti-fans jeered, he would never fall for it again.

However, since the new viewers had already sent gifts, Zhong Yi felt that occasionally changing his style wouldn't be a bad idea.

I'll pass on showing off, but if everyone is tired of watching knife-running and wants a change of pace... then I'll call someone over to play aggressively for a bit.

Zhong Yi said as he opened his friends list.

The stream's chat became lively once again.

[Call Zhou Qiaoling over... I want to see Zhong become incompetently furious because he can't snatch the food, hahaha]

[It has to be Legacy Disciple Zhou! Fighting from start to finish is so thrilling!]

[Legacy Disciple Zhou is with his sister... The team is full, pick someone else.]

[Then how about calling Elder Zhao Wendao? I really love watching these old seniors charge the Administration Palace with an [Uzi], shouting things like Life and death are determined by fate, wealth and honor by heaven as they charge. It's awesome!]

[I think it's more fun to play with Legacy Disciple Mu... That shield and heal strategy from yesterday was super interesting! Us Rat players can learn it too~]

[Legacy Disciple Mu plays the shield dog way too well.]

[What shield dog? Call him Shield Bro!]

...

The popularity of Operation Xianyuan Continent was extremely exaggerated.

From the elders at the top down to the handyman disciples at the bottom, everyone was playing it.

All the friends on Zhong Yi's list were currently in a match.

Just as Zhong Yi was hesitating about who to invite, he suddenly received an invitation.

[No Destruction No Construction invites you to join the team. Accept? Immortal Ascension Base (Top Secret) (2/3)]

Zhong Yi decisively chose to accept.

Old Zhou, aren't you guys full?

As soon as he entered the team, Zhong Yi asked curiously.

We failed to extract thirteen times in a row. Junior Brother Xiao went bankrupt and went knife-running...

Zhou Yue replied in a deep voice with a dark expression.

Then should we switch to Classified difficulty?

Zhong Yi asked.

For Top Secret difficulty maps, although the combat readiness requirement was only 450,000, aggressive cultivators would often bring in gear that far exceeded the threshold.

Because the extraction difficulty in Top Secret was very high, cultivators would fight tooth and nail to fight for the limited extraction spots.

Zhong Yi knew his own skills were limited, so he took the initiative to request a difficulty change.

No!

Zhou Yue gritted his teeth and shook his head in refusal, his words somewhat fierce.

What child cries every day, and what gambler loses every day? I refuse to believe that I won't be able to extract from this Top Secret Immortal Ascension even once today!?

Zhou Yue, who had just been completely unequipped, suddenly had a full set of thick Level 6 helmet and armor appear on his body.

In his hands was a [Heavenly Soldier-14], and on his back was a [Netherflame-700].

Counting the various pills and injections in his chest rig, his combat readiness was already approaching 2 million.

If it weren't for the fact that bullets couldn't be bought, Zhou Yue would probably even carry the [Grim Reaper] on his back.

Zhong Yi paused slightly, feeling more and more like Zhou Yue was a red-eyed gambler who had lost too much.

Alright, alright, I'll gear up.

Zhong Yi quickly pulled out a Level 4 helmet and Level 5 armor, along with a fully modified [Heavenly Soldier-Type 4].

The whole set cost a little over 700,000, and counting the medicine, it was nearly a million. The loadout wasn't considered low.

Zhou Qiaoling, hurry up! I'm going to wipe them all out!!

Zhou Yue rubbed his hands together, urging her impatiently.

Wait a minute...

Beside him, Zhou Qiaoling, wearing an earflap hat, stared intently at the gun in her hands.

Looking closely, the small attachments on the gun were constantly being swapped out.

My combat readiness is over by 36 spirit stones, I can still optimize it.

Zhong Yi: ...

Zhou Yue: %￥&…………%*&#@