CHAPTER 269: CHAPTER 199: IS THIS WORLD ALSO A NEWBIE AREA? _2

The hundred shadows were unexpectedly reduced to just a few.

However, the Hundred Souls Banner remained intact, with the True Spirit inside, and the shadows could be restored.

The Water-Splitting Sword, Wang Tianwu’s body completely turned to powder.

Fortunately, this was within the Celestial Net’s range, the soul couldn’t escape, otherwise Little Knife would suffer a great loss.

This Water-Splitting Sword is merely a junior-level magical artifact, really unsatisfactory for Little Knife.

The battlefield didn’t have much to tidy up, just a clean-up before heading back home.

Little Knife hurriedly rushed back.

The Earth God at Level 200, (Snake Spirit) still had many new functions waiting for Little Knife to explore.

Gaining the Water-Splitting Sword, Wang Tianwu, and some memory fragments, Little Knife, now possessing the Earth God, utilized these memory fragments to reap considerable benefits.

He learned quite a bit about the Wang Family and some secrets of the Water Element Sect, not entirely, but still helpful.

He understood many of the Water Element Sect’s rules.

He actually discovered that before the age of sixty, as long as one could reach the Peak of Qi Cultivation, they could receive a Foundation Establishment Pill and have the opportunity to leave this world.

It seems as long as the Water Element Sect could nurture Foundation Establishment powerhouses under sixty, they would receive ample rewards.

From the memories, Little Knife also received a piece of news.

The Inner Sect disciple competition was about to start, with very generous rewards; the first place would become a Core Disciple directly.

Throughout the Water Element Sect, there were less than ten Core Disciples, only nine, who received focused training from the sect, having rights equivalent to Elders.

The true Elders, unlike the Outer Sect Elders, were just doing menial work.

As for Inner Sect disciples, the minimum required level was the Qi Cultivation Fourth Layer, and in the Water Element Sect, there were not more than a hundred such disciples.

Even as a lagging Inner Sect disciple, he had reached the Qi Cultivation Third Layer.

His memory contained the ample rewards for this Inner Sect competition, which tempted Little Knife.

But there was no rush.

He began to study the Earth God.

The Earth God at Level 200, with full authority at hand.

No wonder when his thoughts emerged, the name changed; it was all due to authority reasons, essentially staying the same.

The Four Corner Task: the four corners of this world were already mastered by players, integrated into the Second World.

Little Knife checked the other Three Extremes.

Goodness gracious, the tasks of the other Three Extremes were already completed, specifically the Northern Witch, South Worm, and Western Wilderness.

If not mistaken, the tasks were completed before the beta players descended.

However, upon inspection, it was found the major players who completed those three tasks had already given them up in exchange for an opportunity.

If he relinquished the Earth God back to the system, he too could gain an opportunity.

That was the chance to leave this Little World.

A significant cost to send him away from this world.

Sent to a world fully taken over by the game’s Second World.

Only a complete conquest could integrate the rules, bringing elements like Spiritual Qi into reality, for cultivation.

The crucial aspect was the birth of a Spirit Root.

That way, there would be no shortage of resources in reality, unlike now where ordinary players depend solely on tiny amounts of Primordial Qi Pills, enough for martial arts but far from sufficient for cultivation.

Little Knife also saw messages from those who left.

"Unable to establish the complete Four Corners, suppressing the Four Extremes, strategically capturing this Newbie World, could only leave."

"Lifespan insufficient, though my heart reaches beyond the heavens, could only helplessly depart, unsure if there will be a chance to return in this life?"

"Successor! I am the third corner, and when you read this message, it proves that the fourth corner has been established, attack the center, and let the Second World’s rules shroud the entire world, become the Master of the World, this is your destiny and trial, keep it up."

Conquering the world, becoming the Master of the World.

This Master of the World shall be me.

Little Knife chuckled, then began checking other matters.

Huh, something was off with this forum, how did it become the World Forum?

Little Knife searched, only to find it unusable.

Only when the entire world is assimilated by the Second World rules can it be opened without damage, for now, using it requires consuming a hundred Spirit Stones, to last one day.

Little Knife knew the preciousness of Spirit Stones well enough.

A hundred Spirit Stones is an enormous sum.

Feeling tempted.

However, he temporarily gave up.

He continued to search.

Most were new players descending.

The players’ descent brings many benefits, primarily harvesting Soul Energy.

The Earth God was already at Level 200, reaching its upper limit.

Little Knife reviewed for a long time, finally making a choice.

Subsequently, he discussed with Mountain Grass and others, setting rules for player descent.

Such as arranging NPCs, setting tasks, and the like.

In reality, Little Knife Studio began recruiting a large number of players.

Nowadays, Little Knife Studio (Huge Team): Members: one million.

The game already started extensive recruitment earlier, but due to overly strict rules and lack of agency benefits, normal surviving players were unwilling to join.

But in reality, too many people were queueing up, more and more Water Blue Star People wanted to enter the Second World, but the slots were limited and throughput extremely limited.

Now Little Knife, relying on the Earth God, could already produce a large number of NPCs.

The source of bodies could be bought from the other Three Extremes, priced high and each with unique features.

But Little Knife didn’t need those. Once the level of Deceptive Head Demon Tree elevates to Level 200, it could produce NPC bodies by itself.

Precious are the Soul Fragments.

Currently, the Deceptive Head Demon Tree had started growing humanoid fruit.

With the symbiotic Bloodthirsty Demon Vine absorbing vast amounts of Demon Beast Flesh essence providing nourishment, the speed of growing NPCs could increase over a hundred times compared to normal.

What concept is that?

It means that Little Knife could gain a large number of player slots to enter the Second World.

Precious are the Soul Fragments.

Little Knife possesses the most valuable, which is the high-level Qi Cultivation soul.

This alone can be decomposed into numerous Soul Fragments.

Pity that all NPCs currently birthed can only start at Level 1, with the upper limit being Level 100.

This is a technical bottleneck.

There is presently no way around it.

However, there is a suggestion that directly leaving this Little World and connecting to the outside Celestial Net would grant it.

Because according to the suggestion, the Celestial Net used to be very powerful, possessing incredibly powerful NPCs, but they were all lost.

This Little World inner birth is merely a seed, lacking the corresponding rule data, hence unable to surpass Level 100.

With these hints, if my lifespan weren’t enough, I would likely relinquish this Earth God and choose to leave this world.

So, Little Knife began hard cultivation again.

His hard cultivation was only for breaking through the bottleneck.

Due to slaughtering a large amount of Demon Beasts, experience was not lacking.

For instance, killing the Water-Splitting Sword Wang Tianwu yielded as much as seven million experience.

The number of Demon Beasts slain wasn’t small either, with sufficient experience for Little Knife to level up.

Therefore, he consumed experience to level up to the Peak of the Third-Layer of Qi Cultivation, reaching the bottleneck at Level 140.

Just needing a breakthrough to reach the Qi Cultivation Middle Level, become a formal Inner Sect Disciple of the Water Element Sect, not to be underestimated.

Unfortunately, Little Knife struggled to break through the Qi Cultivation Third Layer bottleneck.

As time passed, he grew increasingly anxious.

He knew something was wrong with this state.

Going on like this, he wouldn’t be able to break through.

In the Inner Sect disciple competition, just getting into the top ten would allow him to choose a Breaking Yuan Pill among the rewards, sufficient to break through the Qi Cultivation Third Layer bottleneck.

This Breaking Yuan Pill was invaluable but could also be exchanged for Sect Contributions, which unfortunately he didn’t have.

Unicorn Beast Blood alone couldn’t be purchased.

Time was running out.

Finally, Little Knife decided to leave.

At this time, he had already nurtured some NPCs, but their levels were still low.

So Little Knife assigned the NPCs to different tasks.

They were able to cultivate the NPCs through player tasks.

Using the Celestial Net, he had also divided some low-level players into leveling zones, whenever there were high-level Fierce Beasts, there would be Celestial Net prompts, which Little Knife didn’t need to worry about.

Thus, on the day Little Knife prepared to leave, numerous players emerged from the cave.

Seeing familiar muscular children, Little Knife felt quite happy.

Some NPCs blended in with them, capable of growing alongside the players.

Back in the day, NPCs who died fighting against two major guilds were revived since the Soul Fragments were intact.

They had broken through enough bottlenecks, allowing their levels to rise quickly.

Especially since Xiu’Er’s raising of chickens, ducks, and geese had multiplied greatly, also nurturing some NPC subordinates.

So, eggs like chicken eggs, duck eggs, which could increase experience points, were not lacking.

Here now, Little Knife mainly looked to cultivate Talisman Making.

With Little Cultivator around, there was no worry over rewards and Talismans.