Chapter 34 – Peach Tree Monsters

After seven days, there had been persistent gamers who had already made it previous the extent 20 occasion. A number of of these had put collectively a guidebook on the boards, and charged cash for entry. A number of skilled guides would additionally lead gamers although the occasion, once more for a value.

After logging off, Ye Zhou would sometimes test the boards, so he had heard in regards to the Everlasting Evening District and Everlasting Day District’s situations.

Right here within the Everlasting Day District, the background of the occasion appeared to be that the Solar-Worshipping Clan had created the Everlasting Day District. The Solar-Worshipping Clan was descended from Kuafu[1], and carried the bloodline of a primordial divinity.

The obsession of Kuafu’s individuals for the solar was etched into their blood. After Kuafu died pursuing the solar, his wood employees turned a peach forest, and his descendants settled down beside it. Again in primordial ages, Kuafu’s descendants had possessed divine energy, found the remnant energy Kuafu had left behind within the forest, and woke up to a method to regulate time. Thus, that they had triggered time to stagnate without end inside this space.

Within the Everlasting Day District, the solar rose within the east each morning at seven, and after setting within the west at seven each night time, it instantly rose once more, after which, like a 12-hour tape performed in reverse, it traveled from the west to the east, the place it might as soon as once more rise the following day. This repeated day after day and yr after yr, giving rise to the Everlasting Day District.

The Everlasting Day District’s Solar-Worshipping Cult Occasion was began by way of a youth of the cult. As time had flowed on and tens of 1000’s of years had passed by, the divine energy lingering inside the individuals of the Solar-Worshipping Clan diminished additional and additional, till they have been practically unable to keep up the reversal of time inside the Everlasting Day District.

The youth of the Solar-Worshipping Cult believed that their clan should now depart the Everlasting Day District. Solely by embracing chilly and darkness may they’ve an actual future. In any other case, ultimately, the Everlasting Day District would vanish utterly, and the Solar-Worshipping Clan which had by no means confronted night time would perish.

However the elder of the Solar-Worshipping Cult refused to acknowledge the youth’s concepts, believing that the solar would without end belong to their clan.

The youth wished to persuade his elder, however he alone wasn’t robust sufficient. Thus, he requested for assist from the courageous younger heroes (gamers) who frequented the Everlasting Day District, hoping they might assist him get via the elder’s trial.

After they handed the occasion, the elder would entrust the gamers with guiding the youth out of the Everlasting Day District, and as an expression of his gratitude, he would present every participant with one Basis Institution Capsule. After consuming it, they might type their basis and rise to degree 20.

After all, the youth wouldn’t truly depart with the gamers. He wanted to remain the place he was and proceed to guide different gamers via the occasion.

Contained in the occasion, no different gamers would present up, leaving every group of challengers alone, so it certainly may very well be mentioned to be a relaxed place.

The difficulty was that this was a six-player occasion. They may nonetheless enter with much less individuals. There was a restricted variety of mobs, which might award a set quantity of expertise, so the less gamers there have been, the extra expertise every would get.

That was on the situation that they might clear it, in fact.

Even full events of six degree 19 gamers would come stumbling out crushed black and blue. Every monster had degree 20 energy and the three gatekeeper bosses have been absurdly robust on prime of that. If two individuals entered, they’d in all probability die and get kicked out in lower than 5 minutes.

In the event that they acquired killed, they’d lose objects and expertise. Ye Zhou had earned only a pitiful quantity of expertise from cultivating over these seven days, and he actually couldn’t afford to lose any of it.

The youth guiding them mentioned diligently to Dugu Zhuo, “Earlier than us is the peach forest born from Lord Kuafu’s employees. The elder mentioned that if I wished to depart, I have to first move Lord Kuafu’s trials.”

Within the first stage, they needed to enter the forest, the place the bushes would turn into monsters and assault gamers in a unending flurry of branches. The bushes had loopy quantities of HP and have been extraordinarily troublesome to kill. Their branches hit onerous and will knock off over 30% of somebody’s HP in a single hit. Every tree had seven branches and the forest had a complete of 30 bushes which may rework into monsters, so gamers have been basically strolling right into a slaughterfest.

Probably the most infuriating a part of all of it was that the youth would additionally be part of within the battle. He had little or no HP and would lose half of it if he acquired hit as soon as. If he acquired hit twice, he can be lifeless, and his loss of life would imply the top of the occasion and the gamers mechanically getting kicked out.

The gamers may solely try and make it via by trial and error, dying time after time as a way to discover out the patterns of the branches’ actions. They needed to keep away from as lots of them as potential, whereas additionally defending the youth who was decided to struggle head-on with the peach tree monsters. It was actually exhausting.

This stage examined the gamers’ skills to cooperate in addition to their powers of avoidance. The primary stage alone took out innumerable gamers.

Listening to the youth’s phrases, Ye Zhou surreptitiously tugged on Dugu Zhuo’s sleeve. “We are able to’t beat this.”

Dugu Zhuo instructed the youth, “I solely need to borrow the house right here for some time. We gained’t be going via the occasion.”

He proceeded to make use of the binding spell he had employed towards the temple attendant on the youth. The youth was immediately rendered motionless, like a block of wooden.

Ye Zhou: “…”

Dugu Zhuo mentioned, “I’ve are available right here earlier than. Initially, I had wished to know the way the sport defined the existence of the Everlasting Day District, however I by chance triggered the extent 20 occasion, and found this was a superb place to domesticate. Not solely will we not be disturbed by different gamers, or draw anybody’s consideration, however the atmosphere is nice and the peach forest could be very stunning.”

Ye Zhou nimbly prevented a department that got here whipping at him. “Are you positive it is a ‘calm’ place? You higher shield that child. If he dies, we’ll be kicked out of the occasion!”

“Don’t fear.”

Dugu Zhuo put one arm round Ye Zhou and picked up the youth together with his different hand. He flew excessive up into the sky, far past the attain of the peach branches, and crossed over the peach forest, setting the youth down past the radius of the bushes’ assaults.

On the opposite facet of the forest was the second problem of the occasion. A person slept past the peach forest, the slumbering soul of the earlier elder of the Solar-Worshipping Cult. If the bushes defending him had been defeated, this elder would awaken and unleash an AOE assault which would go away all of the gamers half-dead.

If the gamers who had put a lot effort into defeating the peach forest had been conscious of this setup, it might’ve been high quality, and so they may keep away from the world assault. However this was the sport’s debut, and the gamers have been utterly clueless as they stumbled out of the tiger’s lair and into the wolves’ den. Sometimes the primary assault left them confused and scattered, and so they all acquired worn out briefly order.

Nevertheless, the situation for the elder waking up was the peach bushes’ defeat.

Proper now, the bushes couldn’t even contact Dugu Zhuo and Ye Zhou, and there was no approach the elder would awaken. Dugu Zhuo set the youth down on the elder’s toes.

There was a little bit of distance between the elder and the forest. The vegetation grew lushly right here, and a subject of rapeseed flowers have been at the moment blooming in full drive, trying splendid.

Ye Zhou sank into the flower subject and couldn’t assist letting out a sigh. “It’s stunning.”

“I believed you’d prefer it,” Dugu Zhuo mentioned. “I calculated earlier that after staying within the occasion for one shichen with out clearing it, we’d be ejected. This can be a good alternative for working towards spells.”

It… truly made sense. It simply appeared like considerably of a misunderstanding as to the purpose of an occasion. Ye Zhou stole a look at Dugu Zhuo, feeling a spark of happiness.

In any case these days shut up in a single lodge room, now that he had instantly come to this stunning surroundings, his spirits naturally felt lifted.

He simply wanted to disregard the wildly lashing branches off to 1 facet. They appeared as in the event that they have been raging powerlessly.

A butterfly flitted among the many rapeseed blooms. Ye Zhou prolonged a finger, and that multicolored butterfly landed on it. Ye Zhou smiled softly.

“Thanks,” he mentioned. “This place actually is gorgeous.”

“When you prefer it, any longer, we are able to come right here day by day to coach for 2 hours,” Dugu Zhuo mentioned. “When you ever get tired of this surroundings, we are able to go to the Everlasting Evening District. The Netherworld there may be additionally very stunning.”

Dugu Zhuo spoke so matter-of-factly that Ye Zhou virtually acquired the concept situations have been made for tourism.

Alarmed by his personal ideas, Ye Zhou knocked himself on the pinnacle, startling the butterfly off his finger. 

“What’s mistaken?” Dugu Zhuo requested. “Does your head damage?”

“No, it’s nothing.” Ye Zhou waved his palms. “Ought to we begin working towards? Am I actually going to have the ability to study spells, although?”

“After all,” Dugu Zhuo mentioned with full confidence.

He first taught Ye Zhou the acupuncture factors, frivolously tapping just a few positions throughout Ye Zhou’s physique. “Keep in mind these few acupuncture factors. You should information your religious essence via these positions.”

Ye Zhou had at all times had good reminiscence, and was capable of keep in mind all of them after being taught as soon as. He additionally simply discovered the identical acupuncture factors on Dugu Zhuo’s physique.

“What are these for?” Ye Zhou requested.

“Cultivators sense the vitality of the heavens and earth, making it their very own or borrowing it,” Dugu Zhuo mentioned. “With a view to accomplish this, one should first have the ability to commune with heaven and earth. Arrays, footwork strategies, and even sword strategies are all languages as a way to talk with heaven, whereas spells join this language with our personal our bodies.

“Easy spells don’t require this language, and can be utilized with solely hand indicators. Whenever you type the hand signal, let your religious essence flow into via these factors, and also you’ll have the ability to reduce the earth’s restrictions on you and ascend into the sky. That is the Flight Spell.”

Ye Zhou unexpectedly understood Dugu Zhuo’s clarification. “You couldn’t presumably be an precise cultivator, may you?” he requested.

Dugu Zhuo didn’t deny, as an alternative saying, “You too can perceive the reason I simply gave as a process that already existed inside the recreation. By reconfiguring these procedures, I can even create strategies of my very own.”

This was an evidence that Ye Zhou may settle for. Perhaps Dugu Zhuo was truly a legendary hacker.

On account of his cultivation over the previous few days, Ye Zhou was already conversant in controlling his religious essence. After memorizing the hand seals that Dugu Zhuo taught him, Ye Zhou began attempting to make use of the hand seals as he manipulated his religious essence.

This wasn’t so simple as it had sounded. He needed to management his religious essence whereas forming hand seals on the identical time, and every time he made a motion, his religious essence needed to move via an acupuncture level at the very same time. Even one mistake would trigger all of it to fail.

After attempting for just a few occasions, Ye Zhou nonetheless couldn’t get it to work, however he didn’t get discouraged and nonetheless appeared spirited as he stored working towards, getting higher with every try.

After about an hour, Ye Zhou was feeling slightly mentally fatigued, however he felt a sudden flash of perception. He not wanted to purposefully keep in mind each step, however as an alternative, as he naturally shaped the hand indicators, his religious essence made the circulation completely, and he accomplished the entire course of in a single breath, with none problem.

Slowly, he rose off the bottom. Ye Zhou felt like he may hear the voice of the huge land, in addition to the heart beat of the heavens. He knew the circulation of his religious essence that would enable his steps to not be restricted by the earth, and methods to commune with the heavens for it to help his physique.

“I can actually fly!” Delighted, Ye Zhou soared forwards and backwards via the air, loving the sensation of freedom.

Misplaced in his pleasure, he forgot that simply to 1 facet, the peach bushes have been mendacity in wait with malicious intent. He by chance flew a bit too low, inflicting two branches to come back whipping in the direction of him.

Two branches may do 60% of his HP in harm at most, so he wasn’t very nervous. Nevertheless, over the previous few days, he had adjusted his ache sensitivity to 70% for his meditation, so it might be agony if these two hits landed.

At this second of peril, a sword gentle flashed by and severed each branches.

A hand grabbed Ye Zhou and pulled him up a long way, far out of the bushes’ vary of assault.

Ye Zhou had already grown uninterested in saying “thanks”. In the event that they stored saying it to one another, they’d really feel like strangers.

“Is that this sword flight?” Ye Zhou glanced towards the sword, and noticed it to be Dugu Zhuo’s Refined Metal Sword.

“You’re additionally able to it, however there isn’t sufficient time left as we speak so that you can study it,” Dugu Zhuo mentioned. “It’s enough that you just’ve mastered the Flight Spell as we speak.”

Ye Zhou appeared on the peach bushes beneath him, and instantly got here up with an concept. “Why don’t we strive beating the primary problem of the occasion like this, combating the monsters from the sky? You need to use your new metal sword, whereas I strive the 5 Phases Swordplay.”

“Good concept,” Dugu Zhuo mentioned.

They slowly approached the peach forest and stopped simply outdoors the vary of the branches. Ye Zhou drew out the jade slip containing the 5 Phases Swordplay, and pressed the “use” button.

The 5 Phases Swordplay wasn’t just like the Misdirection Array. It was a high-level sword method, and as a way to efficiently use it, one wanted very excessive mastery of the sword. Ye Zhou’s mastery wasn’t at that degree but.

Nevertheless, as if he had a pure familiarity with the 5 Phases Swordplay, Ye Zhou immediately understood methods to create blades out of wind, sending just a few dozen wind blades whirling via the peach forest and severing a number of branches.

Robed in white, Ye Zhou stood in midair, gazing downwards. His expression was solemn, and in his type, Dugu Zhuo noticed a well-known impression.

Dugu Zhuo had been admiring Ye Zhou as he fought the bushes, however upon seeing his mannerisms change, his coronary heart skipped a beat.

He got here up and poked Ye Zhou on one cheek, breaking that flawless and chilly visage.

“What are you doing?” Ye Zhou mentioned, the dignified expression vanishing, holding his cheek and staring wide-eyed at Dugu Zhuo. He appeared a bit cute.

“Nothing,” Dugu Zhuo mentioned, feeling his coronary heart settle.

Dugu Zhuo favored Ye Zhou. He was glad together with his present life. However he had no want for Ye Zhou to show again into his previous self, or keep in mind the occasions of his previous life.

Issues have been high quality the way in which they have been now.