Chapter 210

Chapter 210: A Beautiful Misunderstanding

Congee Forest. 32 corpses lay in this quiet forest.
Of course, most of the corpses were no long there. Almost everyone had already chosen to revive and return to the city. Only Lonely Drink, the last one to fall, was still there.
A huge crowd of guild players had pursued them here. But sadly, their 32 member army was completely wiped out. Currently, no one knew where Lord Grim and his group’s position was. Lonely Drink didn’t hurry and revive because the battle wasn’t over yet. He wanted to see where they would head towards next.
Lonely Drink floated around like a ghost, looking over his corpse and over the nearby seven players in the forest.
“Ha ha ha, I killed one. You lose!” Steamed Bun Invasion laughed madly, talking to Concealed Light while admiring his system log.
“Huh?” Steamed Bun Invasion suddenly asked a question. His gaze fell onto a corpse —- Lonely Drink, the player he had just killed.
“Why hasn’t this guy revived yet? Is he not completely dead?” Steamed Bun Invasion began being a noob again. His character stepped on Lonely Drink’s corpse and even kicked him twice.
Lonely Drink couldn’t hear what Steamed Bun Invasion was saying, but seeing him kick his corpse made him want to cough up blood.
“Too excessive!!” Lonely Drink angrily took note of Steamed Bun Invasion’s name.
Just at this moment, Lonely Drink suddenly saw Lord Grim lift his head.
When a character moved his camera up, the movement would like as if he was lifting his head in other players’ eyes.
Lonely Drink knew that the system gave him a camera, but there no ghost actually existed. But when Lord Grim lifted his head and stared directly at him, Lonely Drink felt as if he was looking at him face to face in person.
“He knows I’m here……” Lonely Drink thought. Soon after, Lord Grim and the others ran towards a direction and quickly left his view.
The ghost camera after death was centered on the corpse. The player had no way of adjusting it. In the beginning, he had planned on determining where they were heading to next, but after seeing Lord Grim lift his head, he wasn’t sure what to do.
If Lord Grim knew he was there and knew his intent, is this direction he’s heading towards a trick?
Lonely Drink kept his death camera for a while, but Lord Grim’s group never showed up again.
Lord Grim’s group had already left.
“Follow me.” Ye Xiu’s Lord Grim was at the front.
‘Where are we going?” Su Mucheng asked.
“The other side definitely has more people coming to find us. The moment you guys showed up, pursuers from every direction began heading towards Congee Forest.” Ye Xiu said.
“The route we’re taking lets us avoid encountering these people.” Concealed Light added.
“What are we hiding for? Let’s attack them head on.” Tang Rou said.
“Against those numbers, we had the advantage.” Ye Xiu laughed, “However, there’s no end to them, even if we kill them again and again, in the end, they’ll have won.”
“Why? What’s their goal?” Tang Rou asked.
“To stop us from training and slow down our leveling speed. Right now, it seems like experts from the big guilds are chasing us, but I’m sure that each guild also has two or three elite teams that are still continuing to power level. And us? All of our time will be wasted on dealing with these guys. To these big guilds, they don’t care if these players die. They have the manpower and plenty of accounts. But we don’t have that luxury.” Ye Xiu was quite detailed. He knew a new player like Tang Rou wouldn’t understand these types of guild politics.
“Then what do we do now?” Tang Rou asked.
“Dungeons, still dungeons. They’re scared of us taking down dungeon records……” Ye Xiu said.
“Hey hey hey. Dungeons again? Didn’t you say we’d spar! Everyone in your team is quite good! This Ghostblade lil’ bro that I’ve never seen before seems pretty strong too. Go go go. Let’s spar.” Huang Shaotian shouted.
Qiao Yifan felt extremely excited, hearing a God praise him. It looks like playing as a Phantom Demon was correct. His previous class didn’t fit him, so it limited his ability.
Qiao Yifan’s morale was boosted. But he was thinking a bit too much.
The only reason Huang Shaotian praised him was because they were in a game and he was regarding him as a normal player. Such a display by a normal player was more than enough for praise. If Huang Shaotian knew that he was a pro-player, then his criteria would be much higher. Ye Xiu’s and Su Mucheng’s display had been amazing, but Huang Shaotian didn’t praise them.
“Thank you senior for you praise.” Qiao Yifan’s tone carried a sense of joy. It was a misunderstanding. But even so, this beautiful misunderstanding boosted his confidence by quite a lot.
“Senior? What Senior? Who are you calling a Senior? Who are you?” Huang Shaotian was surprised.
“My name is…… Qiao Yifan……” Qiao Yifan was frightened and replied hesitantly.
“Qiao Yifan? You are…..” Huang Shaotian was a secretive person. The word “Senior” was enough for him to figure out Qiao Yifan’s identity. Normally, no one would be so polite in-game. Even if he was, Huang Shaotian had only just met with him. And seeing his skill, he couldn’t be a new player, so how could he have been certain that he was his “Senior” and not his “Junior”?
This guy’s from the pro-scene. And he’s even guessed who I am! But who is he? Which team? Calling me a senior? A newcomer? Huang Shaotian had already deduced several things.
“Ah…..” Qiao Yifan heard from Huang Shaotian’s tone that something wasn’t right, but he didn’t know what to say.
“Who are you calling a Senior? Me? How could I be your Senior? Do people still say that? Are we in some Wuxia film?” Huang Shaotian laughed insincerely, while sending messages to Ye Xiu and Su Mucheng: “Fck me fck me fck me. What do I do? My identity’s been exposed! Who is this guy? If it comes out that I’ve run into the game to kill normal players, how can I show my face again? Hurry up and protect me! Hurry up and protect me!”
“Cough!” Su Mucheng coughed, “Yifan, who do you think he is?”
“Huang…… Huang……” Qiao Yifan didn’t know what to call him. If he directly said “Huang Shaotian”, he couldn’t show his respect towards him; “Huang Shao”? Only people close to him could call him that; “Senior Huang Shaotian”? That should’ve been the correct way to say it, but called him “Senior” seemed to have offended him?
“Huang Shaotian?” Su Mucheng helped him finish.
“Su Mucheng, you fcker!!!” Huang Shaotian privately messaged her. He then immediately explained: “Lil’ bro, you’ve got quite an imagination. How could I be Huang Shaotian?”
“You’re not?” Qiao Yifan was dumbstruck.
“Yeah, he’s not.” Su Mucheng unexpectedly said, “How could he be Huang Shaotian? Huang Shaotian is a very noisy guy. He constantly buzzes around like a house fly. If he was next to you, then you’d go crazy in a less than a second. This fellow Flowing Tree has a bit of a Huang Shaotian style, but his noisiness isn’t even one ten-thousandth of Huang Shaotian’s! Right, Flowing Tree?”
“Ha ha….. ha ha…..” Huang Shaotian laughed dryly, while madly sending Su Mucheng messages: “You fcker You fcker You fcker You fcker…….” He then received an emoticon of a smiley face with sunglasses on from Su Mucheng. Flowing Tree’s cheeks streamed with tears as he sent a message to Ye Xiu: “Can you take care of it, old man?”
Ye Xiu wasn’t able to say anything yet, when Qiao Yifan said: “Oh, so it’s like that. My mistake.”
He wasn’t an idiot. Seeing the look on Su Mucheng as well as Flowing Tree’s weird reaction, he was completely sure that this person really was Huang Shaotian. However, the God clearly didn’t want others to know who he was.
Huang Shaotian didn’t treat him like an idiot either. He knew that with this, Qiao Yifan knew who he was. But even so, the other side acted as if he didn’t know, which meant that his identity was safe.
Huang Shaotian heaved a sigh of relief. In the end, all he heard was Steamed Bun Invasion mutter: “Huang Shaotian? What’s that? Sounds kinda familiar.”

Chapter 211: The Waves Behind Drive the Waves Ahead

“You don’t even know who Huang Shaotian is??” Concealed Light was flabbergasted. In his eyes, Steamed Bun Invasion was quite strong. He hadn’t expected him to ask such an ignorant question.
“What’s that?” Steamed Bun Invasion asked.
“Sword Saint! Do you understand?” Concealed Light said.
“Nope.” Steamed Bun Invasion replied.
“The strongest of the Blade Masters.” Concealed Light said.
“Oh? That sounds interesting. My spirit’s fired up. You’re the Sword Saint?” Steamed Bun Invasion asked Huang Shaotian.
“Not me. Huang Shaotian is.” Huang Shaotian replied dully. This nooby Steamed Bun Invasion was much easier to lie to.
“That’s too bad. I would have fought with you if you were.” Steamed Bun Invasion said high and mightily.
“Yeah yeah……” Huang Shaotian said, resisting the urge to kick his ass.
“Who’s the strongest Brawler?” Steamed Bun Invasion was already past Huang Shaotian and now asked Concealed Light.
“Uh, most people say that Team Hundred Blossom’s Tang Hao is the best, but his Brawler character Delilo isn’t the strongest. The strongest is probably Team Wind Howl Lin Jingyan’s Three Hits.” Concealed Light said.
“Oh…… really……” Steamed Bun Invasion listened while scratching his head. This time, there were two players and two characters. One was the strongest player while the other was the strongest character, making him a bit confused.
“You know quite a lot, Concealed Light!” Ye Xiu said. Concealed Light was a new player just like Tang Rou and Steamed Bun Invasion, but he knew a lot about Glory. This was at least a show of his passion and interest in the game.
“That’s what I read online. Is it right?” Concealed Light said.
“Pretty much. But Lin Jingyan is probably going to retire soon.” Ye Xiu suddenly said with lament. This type of feeling was something he was currently going through.
“Yeah…… after this season ends, he’ll probably be able to play for at most another year.” Huang Shaotian added after hearing Ye Xiu’s lament.
“Wind Howl will probably find a way to snatch Tang Hao!” Ye Xiu said.
“Right now, pretty much everyone knows that Lin Jingyan is going to retire soon. Wind Howl will probably get ripped off. From a business standpoint, Hundred Blossoms is doing a lot better, so it’s very likely that Hundred Blossoms will buy Three Hits.” Huang Shaotian said.
Apart from buying and transferring players, accounts could also be traded. How many equips the character has is negotiated by the two parties involved. Usually, the character brings all of its equipment. A character without any equipment might have a few more skill points and some fame, but that’s all.
“That’s true.” Ye Xiu said.
“See how smart your Excellent Era is? Without any word, they brought in Sun Xiang and then made you retire…… if they made you retire first and then had Sun Xiang come over to fill in the spot, then he’d be at a completely different price.” Huang Shaotian said.
‘Yeah.” Ye Xiu said.
“Ha ha, in any case, another strong opponent is about to be born. Lin Jingyan is already no longer a top-tier Brawler like he was before. Tang Hao and Three Hits…….. a new God!” Huang Shaotian swiftly returned to the topic.
eSports was cruel like this. As soon as your skill started declining, you could be replaced at any time. Formerly famous names eventually disappear one after another and a new generation with new faces appear. Sun Xiang, Tang Hao…… these risings stars of the new generation were slowly climbing up onto the stage as the main characters.
When I came back, how many familiar people will be left? Ye Xiu thought.
How sad! Huang Shaotian’s Flowing Tree moved a bit closer to Ye Xiu’s Lord Grim. He lowered his voice and said: “I see it.”
“See what?” Ye Xiu asked.
“When you return to the Alliance, you’ll pull together your own team!” Huang Shaotian said, “Su Mucheng of course will obviously come over when her contract ends. That sis there and even that Steamed Bun have huge potential. I know why you’ve come to the new server to play. The new server is full of opportunities and talents. Besides the new server, where else would you find so much fresh blood? In the old servers, all of the big guilds would have already found the talents.”
“Ha ha, it’s all a coincidence. That sis is a co-worker at the Internet Cafe I work at. As for Steamed Bun, I just randomly bumped into him. It really wasn’t intentional.” Ye Xiu said.
“Then that Qiao Yifan? You’ve even scooped someone out from the pro-scene! Which team is he from? I’ve never heard of him.” Huang Shaotian said.
“Tiny Herb.”
“Tiny Herb? D*mn, a member of the Champion team, yet I haven’t even heard of him. This kid’s been buried into oblivion! No wonder you were able to dig him up.”
“Dig him up? You’re exaggerating too much. I’m currently retired and working at an Internet Cafe. What digging? The kid needed some help, that’s all.” Ye Xiu plainly said.
“For now, maybe. But when you return, how could anyone know about these circumstances? With so many outstanding new players beside you, don’t tell me you don’t have any plans for them.” Huang Shaotian said.
Ye Xiu fell silent. As he had said, meeting Tang Rou and Steamed Bun Invasion were fairly coincidental.
But in the new server, just like what Huang Shaotian said, meeting these types of players with potential, some were incidental, some were inevitable.
Meeting Tang Rou was purely coincidental. Meeting with Steamed Bun Invasion was somewhat inevitable and somewhat coincidental. As for discovering Concealed Light, there was a bit more initiative on his end.
As a new player, Concealed Light’s mechanics were far from Tang Rou’s and Steamed Bun Invasion’s. However, he had a strong grasp of the theory and possessed a certain amount of tactical intuition. If his mechanics improved, he would also become a good player.
Even though Concealed Light and Steamed Bun Invasion had coincidentally met, even without these two meeting, Ye Xiu would have actively looked for him. Because of these Idiot’s Guides, he had already seen this person’s potential.
Towards new players, Ye Xiu never felt begrudged teaching but the people he taught had to want to be taught and had to want to learn.
Of the people beside Ye Xiu, Tang Rou had great enthusiasm. Not only did she want to learn, she also wanted to exceed him.
Steamed Bun Invasion was already following his own path. Ye Xiu was really only giving him basic reminders. Afterwards, he would form his own playing style.
Qiao Yifan didn’t need to be talked about since he was the one who asked Ye Xiu to teach him.
Concealed Light was able to create such detailed guides without any practical experience. However, he had written them for people who didn’t need it and his talent was being wasted in the wrong place. In reality, the reason Ye Xiu was looking for him was to tell him this.
Gathering these people together and forming a team…….
Huang Shaotian wasn’t wrong. Ye Xiu had thought of this before, but all he had done was thought about it. Ye Xiu understood clearly that making it into reality wouldn’t be easy.
Forming a team and going pro wasn’t simple. It was a type of life. Ye Xiu could determine his own life, but he had no way of determining other people’s lives.
Become a pro-player? Perhaps this was something many Glory players wanted to become. But what about them?
The main reason Tang Rou entered the game was to compete with Ye Xiu. Her interest in Glory was still developing. She had even rejected an invitation from a Champion team like Team Tiny Herb. What could Ye Xiu do to persuade her?
Steamed Bun Invasion, on the other hand, was simpler. Ye Xiu didn’t doubt that he’d nod his head and accept immediately. But because of this, he would have to set the road for Steamed Bun Invasion and take full responsibility over Steamed Bun’s life.
Qiao Yifan was a member of a Champion team. For Team Tiny Herb to add Qiao Yifan to the team meant that they felt he had potential. Qiao Yifan might only be overlooked because of Gao Yingjie’s talent. As long as he practiced, his skill level would definitely rise. There was no way he’d be abandoned.
As for Concealed Light, his research spirit would definitely be beneficial if he joined a team. Researching a map, researching the opponent’s tactics, creating tactics for his own team….. at the pro-level, strategy and tactics were definitely a big factor in whether a team won or lost. Winning or losing wasn’t as simple as which team had the better equipment and mechanics. But Ye Xiu had only just met him and wasn’t familiar with him yet. So wanting Concealed Light to do as he wished was unrealistic.
Huang Shaotian’s chatter made Ye Xiu seriously ponder over this issue.
Bringing a new team to the Alliance, that really would be as if the waves behind drove the waves ahead!

Chapter 212: Doing Their Own Thing

“Why’d you stop talking? Why’d you stop talking?” In places with Huang Shaotian, there was no such thing as silence.
“Later!” Ye Xiu could only respond. He still needed some more time to think about it. He had only mulled over it for a bit before Huang Shaotian interrupted him.
“Forming a team and what not sounds a bit like a fantasy in your current situation, but you can still prepare for it. Dig out a couple more new players and you’ll definitely be able to put one together. If you just take that Steamed Bun, from the looks of it, he seems very easy to persuade. If you tell him there’ll be steamed buns to eat, he’ll definitely come and follow you. Up the mountain and into the frying pan……” Huang Shaotian said.
“There’s someone up ahead.” Ye Xiu suddenly said to everyone loudly, interrupting Huang Shaotian’s chatter. The two were at the very head of team with their voices lowered, so the people behind them couldn’t hear what they were talking about.
“It’s just a person. There’s no need to make such a fuss about them.” Huang Shaotian said.
“There shouldn’t be anyone here.” Ye Xiu’s Lord Grim looked around. There was nowhere to hide. Even though they were far away enough that they couldn’t see each other’s IDs clearly, if the player ahead was from the big guilds, they’d be seen as very suspicious.
“Not true! People come here from time to time.” Concealed Light said.
“Oh?” Ye Xiu was surprised.
“In Congee City’s chain quest “The Coming of Weiss”, the seventh part requires you to look for an abandoned windmill at the edge of Line Canyon. It then requires you to go to Congee Forest to compare the wood grains. If someone came here to finish this part of the quest, then it’s possible that he’s heading towards Congee Forest from the abandoned windmill.” Concealed Light said.
Ye Xiu was astonished. His nickname as the Glory Encyclopedia didn’t cover quests.
The Coming of Weiss. Ye Xiu might have done this quest ten years ago, but right now, he really had no memory of it. This quest definitely didn’t reward any skill points or good equipment, which would be why he had forgotten about it after all these years.
“What’s that?” Steamed Bun Invasion asked everyone. Presently there were four pro-players, two of which were God-level players, but none of them had even the slightest clue about this quest.
This Concealed Light truly did have incredible knowledge of the game. He even remembered a random quest like this and explained it to everyone.
But who cared! Only Steamed Bun Invasion replied with “Yeah yeah yeah” to make it so that Concealed Light wouldn’t lose interest in explaining the quest to everyone.
With Concealed Light’s reminder, they didn’t avoid the passerby. There was nowhere to run anyways.
“This person might reveal our whereabouts. If the pursuers meet him, they’ll definitely ask him if he’s seen us.” Huang Shaotian showed his careful side.
“By the time they ask for our whereabouts, we’d have already left.” Ye Xiu said.
“But by knowing where we are now, they can figure out where we’re heading towards!” Huang Shaotian said.
“Our destinations will be revealed sooner or later.” Ye Xiu said.
“Oh?”
“We’ll be going on TV.” Ye Xiu said.
“You remind me of something……. You guys are going to Line Canyon, so why am I following you guys?” Huang Shaotian jumped up.
“No idea.”
“Fck fck fck fck! I’ll be going online tomorrow night! When the time comes, I’ll be seeing you at the Arena. I’ll be using my Troubling Rain to teach your unspecialized a lesson.” Huang Shaotian said.
“Maybe if there’s time.” Ye Xiu said.
“F*ck! You have time to run dungeons, but you don’t have time to fight me?”
“I’m sure you can see that I’m very busy right now……” Ye Xiu said.
“Then when you have time contact me, PK! We have to PK!” Huang Shaotian said.
“Okay.”
“You guys can play! I’ll be getting off.” Huang Shaotian waved goodbye to everyone and then logged off.
The team continued forward just a few steps, then there was a sudden flash and Flowing Tree ran back to them.
“What are you doing?” Ye Xiu asked.
“I almost forgot. This Broadsword I have is someone else’s. I said I’d return it, so send me back to the city.” Huang Shaotian said.
Ye Xiu didn’t say anything more and sent out a bunch of attacks, killing Flowing Tree. Before he died, Huang Shaotian said a “Bye” and then flew back to the city to revive.
“Concealed Light! We’re going to go set a record at Line Canyon in a bit. What are you going to do?” Concealed Light’s skill level clearly wasn’t good enough for setting records. Ye Xiu trusted that Concealed Light understood that his skills were too poor. Fixing it wasn’t something Ye Xiu could do with just a few words.
“Oh oh……. setting records! Then I’ll go research how to get the fastest record for this dungeon!” Concealed Light said.
“Good luck. This time, your guide will definitely have many players reading it.” Ye Xiu said.
“Thanks, I’ll be going then.” Concealed Light logged off.
“Line Canyon, let’s go.” The five remaining players continued towards Line Canyon. Line Canyon still wasn’t the main leveling area yet, so there weren’t many players here.
Ye Xiu led the four other players to the dungeon entrance, avoiding the sparsely scattered players. The dungeon entrance was a bit more crowded. There were players, all looking for parties to join. These random teams clearly weren’t from the big guilds. The players were all in a crowd with word bubbles flying around, making it even harder for them to be discovered.
And like this, the five players entered the dungeon. As for the big guilds, their pursuers were heading towards Congee Forest from different directions. Some were from Desolate Land and Hades Village, some were defeated by Tang Rou at Congee City some were elites from random areas, and some were unable to be categorized. There were also the 32 avengers, who had revived. Right now, they were all gathered together and surrounding the entire forest.
32 players wiped out?
The big guilds already knew about this. If a random passerby heard this, he’d be scared to death. Even by knowing why it had happened, the big guilds weren’t any happier.
The battle strength of Lord Grim’s team was clearly much greater than they had anticipated.
The Battle Mage Soft Mist charged her way through the encirclement around Congee City.
The Blade Master Flowing Tree wasn’t at a disadvantage when fighting Level 33 players as a Level 27. He could even 1v3 or 1v4.
These two were the focal points. The 32 player troop described in great detail how strong and difficult Flowing Tree was. The guards outside of the city also continuously stressed how terrifying Soft Mist was. The two sides seemed to have turned into Flowing Tree and Soft Mist fans, even disputing which one was stronger.
“Flowing Tree is only Level 27! Level 27!”
“How many players were standing guard outside of Congee City? I could give you a Level 40 character and you still wouldn’t dare go!”
These two troops came out of Congee City together and as a result, they argued the entire journey.
Outside of Congee Forest, players amassed from seven different guilds. There were three guild leaders present: Cold Night, Lonely Drink, and Chen Yehui.
The other four guild leaders were currently dungeoning and power leveling. Ye Xiu’s guess wasn’t wrong in the slightest. The big guilds left their most elite teams to continue power-leveling. The guild leaders were more than happy to play their part as a member of their guild’s most elite team.
As for these three?
Cold Night was a Knight. As a Tank class, he wasn’t a part of the five-player dungeon record team for now, so he didn’t need to worry about power leveling.
Lonely Drink had been shamed the most as he was one of the 32 players who was wiped out. His corpse had even been kicked by Steamed Bun Invasion. At this moment, he brought with him newfound hatred and intent on being involved in this operation.
As for Chen Yehui, he was the original organizer. His purpose was much more complicated than what he had told everyone else.
Impeding on Lord Grim’s team’s leveling and furthering the level advantage to maintain their power as holders of dungeon records was what Chen Yehui had said to the other guilds. The other guilds had gathered together for very reason.
But Chen Yehui held yet another hidden intention. He hadn’t said it to anyone and also couldn’t say it to anyone.
While the big guilds were slowing down Lord Grim, weren’t they also slowing down their own development? As for his Excellent Dynasty, they had invested much more and had much more manpower than any other guild in the tenth server. And even so, they had sent in the least amount of troops.

Chapter 213: A Match In Which the Outcome Is Already Known

Of course, Chen Yehui had his own personal reasons for going against Ye Xiu, which was much stronger than those for Lonely Drink. Lonely Drink only felt that he had been played by Ye Xiu, while Chen Yehui felt that Ye Qiu had completely changed his life.
But at this moment, he displayed reason and not impulse.
This was something Liu Hao had made him understand.
He was the one who persuade Liu Hao to work together and kick out Ye Qiu as a major task. He had considered Liu Hao a chess piece.
They had completed the task beautifully, making Chen Yehui very happy.
During this time, he had established a relationship with Liu Hao and had even received help from the pros on their pioneering in the new server. Liu Hao seemed to continue to acting as a good chess piece for him.
Up until they met Ye Qiu again.
This time, suppressing Ye Qiu could only be considered a side task. However, the two both felt that this task was more enamoring than the previous main task and the two had set out to complete it without any hesitation.
His chess piece excitedly stepped up to do the task, so Chen Yehui followed.
However, the chess piece was defeated miserably. Chen Yehui didn’t take the matter too seriously. It was just a chess piece after all!
Afterwards, he also tried to step up to the task, but failed as well. But he had discovered a new path and as a result, immediately looked for his chess piece only to find that his chess piece had already walked away and left him, while he himself, didn’t have the space to leave.
Chen Yehui finally realized that the task of kicking out Ye Qiu was more beneficial to his chess piece than him.
The real chess piece seemed to have actually been Chen Yehui.
Liu Hao turned around and went to do his own tasks, while he left the side task of suppressing Ye Qiu to Chen Yehui. If the task was completed by Chen Yehui, Liu Hao would be happy as well.
And Chen Yehui had no way of avoiding this task either because this had already become a part of his main task which was to pioneer in the new server but Ye Qiu was a huge obstacle.
Chen Yehui had no choice in this matter. The only thing he could be thankful for was that he had finally woken up and did not continue misplacing his priorities.
If this was a part of his main task now, then he might as well use him!
This top-tier God of Glory didn’t make him disappointed.
The few beating the numerous, 32 player wipe-out, made Lonely Drink angry. As a result, the big guilds would definitely unleash an even greater force right?
The tenth server had truly become much more complicated because of Ye Qiu’s existence. Chen Yehui pondered over this as he discussed with Cold Night and Lonely Drink on what to do with Lord Grim.
However, the three guild leaders only commanded their own troops. There were still the players from the four other guilds who didn’t care about them and were randomly searching for any signs of Lord Grim.
“F*ck, are they idiots? Do they really think they would just wait there for us to kill them?” Lonely Drink did not look highly upon these players.
“Seeing how no one saw them on their way here, we can deduce a few directions they might have headed towards.” Cold Night said.
“They won’t hide around pointlessly to waste time. They definitely have a final destination.” Chen Yehui said.
“Congee City, Desolate Land, or Boneyard. If they were heading there, they would have been exposed long ago. The only other options are Line Canyon or the higher-leveled Fire Forest.” Cold Night said.
“They could also be doing quests in the small villages scattered around Congee City.” Chen Yehui said.
“We can send people to take a look.” Lonely Drink said. The three discussed, while maneuvering their troops.
“If it’s Line Canyon……. oh……” Cold Night suddenly stopped midway.
“What?” The other two asked.
“I just received a message. We have their location.” Cold Night said anxiously.
“A message from where?”
“A player heading towards Congee Forest to do a quest met them on his way. From the direction they were heading towards, they’re definitely going to Line Canyon.” Cold Night said.
“Line Canyon, they’re not planning on running the dungeon are they?” Lonely Drink felt depressed. If Lord Grim’s group continued to dungeon, it would make it seem like their big guild’s actions were pointless. Nothing else could make them feel worse.
“These guys aren’t planning on setting a dungeon record right……?” Cold Night wanted to cough up blood. He really was scared that Lord Grim and them would set a record that they had no way of beating.
“Too arrogant!” Lonely Drink cursed. He was sad that they weren’t able to find Lord Grim and the others but became angry when they found their whereabouts. In any case, everything made him unhappy.
“There are a lot of dungeon entrances in Line Canyon. It won’t be easy stopping them….” Chen Yehui said.
“As they go in and out, we’ll definitely be able to find them. First, we can figure out their positions and then gather up people to stand guard.” Cold Night said.
“What are waiting for? Let’s head to Line Canyon.” Lonely Drink led the way and the Samsara players followed; heading towards Line Canyon.
Inside Line Canyon, Ye Xiu pushed forward like an autumn gale. However, they made a mistake in the beginning, rendering their run useless. As a result, the team just casually performed.
When they entered the dungeon, Tang Rou fought fiercely. She was clearly still in the PK mindset from before. However, after the first BOSS, Tang Rou gradually began to lose spirit and no longer had her energy from before. The same happened to Steamed Bun Invasion. The two players’ conditions went from hot to cold and eventually turned into a casual attitude.
“Hey hey, you two.” Ye Xiu called, “Have some spirit! Steamed Bun, sing a song for us.”
“NO!” Su Mucheng and Tang Rou cried out simultaneously. Quite a few customers in the Internet Cafe looked their way.
Tang Rou had been provoked and her spirit rose a bit. But after a short while, her spirit dwindled again.
“What’s wrong? You feeling bored?” Ye Xiu said.
“Yeah…..” Tang Rou said.
“It’s normal.” Ye Xiu laughed. Tang Rou’s entire gaming life had been seen by him. Dungeon records were pretty boring to new player’s eyes. Tang Rou only liked the feeling of competition. But to her, how could this type of competition compare to directly fighting against other players?
Tang Rou had experienced a bit of PK in the Arena, but today was very different.
In the Arena, players were easily defeated by her and there wasn’t much sense of satisfaction.
Fighting against Team Tiny Herb was too hard for her though. She tried her best, but she had no chance of victory. No one would feel happy about that.
Today though, breaking through the encirclement was difficult and challenging and also was only able to be done by going 120%. This was a very satisfying victory. This was her first time truly feeling the joy of playing games. That type of satisfaction and happiness was something she had never experienced ever since she had played Glory.
Her moment of excitement had carried on for so long, but was now beginning to fade away. Compared to that, these dungeons felt dull and boring.
The main feature of PvP was the sense of battle at every moment. You had to concentrate, observe, and quickly make a decision; formulating or carrying out a tactic.
As for PvE, you had to concentrate in order to not make a mistake. For example, Concealed Light’s Idiot’s Guides were true reflections of the dullness of PvE. And worse, the best dungeon records could only be set by performing perfectly.
Once you grasped the strategy, everything else afterwards became boring. Monsters? BOSS? Dungeons? It’s a match where you already know the outcome: hit the monsters, clear the dungeon.
Once you know the outcome of a match, the process of getting to there will never be suspenseful.
Ye Xiu wasn’t going to try and make Tang Rou find interest in PvE, but only used it as a way to practice. And even though Tang Rou was improving through this type of practice, she wasn’t able to tell.

Chapter 214: Limited Practice

“Dungeons are relatively boring.” Ye Xiu said to Tang Rou, “But if you want to improve, you can’t avoid doing these monotonous practices.”
He didn’t tell any emotional stories or give examples of any outstanding people to persuade her. Ye Xiu only said this.
“I understand.” Tang Rou replied. This reply was within Ye Xiu’s expectations. He knew that he didn’t need to explain any more.
Tang Rou’s hand speed couldn’t have been reached naturally. It was definitely a result of long-term practice. This was why Ye Xiu believed that she had done this type of practice before. Results wouldn’t come from just practicing once or twice. The important part was persistence.
“Although killing monsters and running dungeons are robotic, if you treat it seriously, it’ll be a lot of help towards your consistency and concentration. Right now, you have absolute hand speed, but you’re not completely using it when you’re microing. For practice, you can try targeting a specific place when attacking. For example, every time you have to hit the head. By limiting your conditions, you can train your microing and your control. We call this type of training Limited Practice.”
After explaining the theory, Ye Xiu moved one step further and told the specific practice method.
Limited Practice was something pro-players were very familiar with. This was a basic practice method. The theory is that the individual sets his or her own conditions and slowly increases the difficulty.
Pro Clubs would even create their own specialized sets for their players to practice. And this type of simple and direct practice was the most detested and boring practice pro-players had to do.
It was the same as football and basketball. Practice with the ball was always more fun than practice without the ball. Glory players didn’t like to dully use their mouse and keyboard to perform the same action again and again either.
But no one could argue that this type of dull practice was very effective.
As for Tang Rou, Ye Xiu didn’t doubt her perseverance and willpower, but he still wanted to see just how great her determination was. After all, he still had no idea how much this girl really liked Glory. Her perseverance wasn’t fake, but how much effort did she want to put into the game?
“Every hit should be on the head?” Tang Rou was ready to accept Ye Xiu’s suggestion.
“Hitting the head is just my example. You can do whatever you’d like.” Ye Xiu said.
“These are all insects. I really can’t tell where their heads are, so I’ll hit their first segments!” Tang Rou said. Most of the monsters in Line Canyon were crawlers such as sandworms and scorpions. They all had a segmented body, so Tang Rou set those as her targets.
“Sure.” Ye Xiu replied. He also called for Steamed Bun Invasion at the same time: “Steamed Bun, would you like to try a challenge?”
“Oh? Challenge? You think a man like me would refuse a challenge?” Steamed Bun Invasion rushed forward.
“Good. We start now. When you attack, you can only attack these insect’s first segments, got it?” Ye Xiu said.
“Oh? First segment?” Steamed Bun Invasion looked at the insects and began to study what their “first segments” were.
“Under these conditions, let’s see which one of you kills the most efficiently. We three won’t be helping you.” Ye Xiu said. Lord Grim retreated to where Su Mucheng and Qiao Yifan were. Even though Qiao Yifan was there to ask Ye Xiu for help, he did these types of fundamental practices every day at the Club. What he needed help with was more advanced topics.
Su Mucheng and Qiao Yifan knew that Ye Xiu was intentionally training these two new players. As a result, after clearing the monsters they had already pulled, they didn’t go and pull any more new monsters. At this moment, there were only sandworms and scorpions on the field.
“Two for each of us.” Tang Rou said to Steamed Bun Invasion.
Steamed Bun Invasion laughed: “Ladies first.”
Tang Rou’s Soft Mist moved forward and pulled a sandworm and a scorpion. Sure enough, her attacks only hit the two insect’s first segments.
At this moment, Steamed Bun Invasion showed up on stage like a star and smashed a Brick onto a sandworm’s first segment. He then used Sand Toss and threw it at a scorpion. After throwing it, he froze and then called: “Senior, does Sand Toss count?”
“As long as it hits.” Ye Xiu laughed. Sand Toss would spread out when it was thrown. It wasn’t really possible to only hit the first segment.
“Then I didn’t break the rules!” Steamed Bun Invasion shouted.
“Yup! Keep going!” Ye Xiu said.
The two players pulled their insects to the side, so they wouldn’t disturb each other. While the three sat there watching, Ye Xiu suddenly said: “Who do you think will win?”
“Uh…… Steamed Bun!” Su Mucheng said.
Qiao Yifan seemed to be thinking deeply and carefully said: “I also think Steamed Bun will.”
“It seems pretty obvious!” Ye Xiu said.
If it was just based on hand speed, Tang Rou was better than Steamed Bun Invasion. But determining how fast her effective hand speed was something that even Ye Xiu couldn’t do. It was simply because Tang Rou’s hand speed was too unstable.
Most of the time, Tang Rou’s hand speed could reach 200 or even 250. But once she runs into a complicated situation, her hand speed will drop to 150 or even lower. It all depended on the situation.
Steamed Bun Invasion was different. He was more familiar with games so his fundamentals were better. His hand speed was much more stable and was usually at 180-200. Even for complicated situations, it wouldn’t leave that range by much.
By limiting the target, the player had to be more detailed with his or her playing.
Because of this, Tang Rou’s hand speed would drop significantly. In reality, this limited practice was specially for Tang Rou. Ye Xiu wanted her to know her weaknesses. As for Steamed Bun Invasion, just the “first segment” probably wasn’t hard enough for him. If he was going to give Steamed Bun Invasion limited practice, then Ye Xiu would give him more complicated conditions.
As for Tang Rou, it was better for her to experiment herself.
Soon after, the results confirmed their guesses.
The conditions reduced their killing efficiency, but Steamed Bun Invasion’s flowed much better, so he was the first to kill off the two insects. As for Tang Rou, she seemed to be having more trouble. After a while, her two insects finally died.
“How do you feel?” Ye Xiu asked them.
“Easy!” Steamed Bun Invasion unexpectedly stole the initiative. Tang Rou was silent. Compared to Steamed Bun Invasion, she was too embarrassed to say anything.
“You made a lot of mistakes.” Ye Xiu said to Tang Rou.
“I know, six times…..” Tang Rou counted.
“You hit other places six times, but you also missed three times. So that makes nine total.” Ye Xiu helped Tang Rou count.
“Let me try again.” Tang Rou said.
“Come at me!” Steamed Bun Invasion challenged.
“There’s no hurry. You can do this type of practice any time. First let’s finish the dungeon. After that, you guys can continue setting the conditions.” Ye Xiu reminded.
After all, dungeons occupied everyone’s time. Even though Tang Rou felt that it was urgent, she couldn’t hold up everyone’s time. As a result, they continued to dungeon. Tang Rou adopted Ye Xiu’s suggestion and only hit the “first segment” even when they fought BOSSes.
“You can try and slow down at first and make sure you don’t make any mistakes. Afterwards, you can slowly increase the speed. Don’t rush.” After finishing the dungeon, Ye Xiu helped Tang Rou conclude.
The five players exited the dungeon. Right as they were about to enter again, Ye Xiu suddenly saw a familiar ID out on the corner of his eye.

Chapter 215: Tooth for Tooth

Endless Night.
As soon as Ye Xiu exited the dungeon, he saw this Tyrannical Ambition Cleric. He was also at the dungeon entrance with four others. When Ye Xiu saw them, Endless Night and his group turned around as well and looked at him.
Ye Xiu acted without taking time to think and used a Shadow Clone Technique to dash in front of them.
“Hi Little Cleric!” Ye Xiu smiled and sent a Sky Strike at them.
Endless Night hadn’t anticipated that he would act so quickly and was just barely able to dodge the Sky Strike., but, Lord Grim moved one step faster and launched him into the sky with a Kick. The Myriad Manifestation Umbrella transformed into its Gun form and a Gatling Gun, aimed at Endless Night, bombarded him with a barrage of bullets.
There were a lot of players outside of the dungeon, so many of the skills would inevitably hit others. Ye Xiu simply used a BBQ Delivery Gun to directly send Endless Night out of the crowd.
“F*ck!” By the time Endless Night cursed, he was already in midair.
“What’s wrong?” Su Mucheng had only just noticed, but seeing that Ye Xiu had acted, she immediately lifted up her handcannon. Right when it seemed as if Endless Night was going to land and use a Quick Recover, he was suddenly hit by Anti-Tank Missiles. Endless Night was launched flying, like a firecracker into the mountain wall of Line Canyon.
Hitting walls in Glory didn’t allow users to Quick Recover, but there was a common skill called “Wall Jump”, which allowed the character to step on a wall or tree when jumping to perform a double jump.
Endless Night was just about to use a Quick Recover to roll, when suddenly, he had to use a “Wall Jump”. He wasn’t able to perform it fast enough and his head tore through the dirt.
Tang Rou, Qiao Yifan, and Steamed Bun Invasion didn’t react any slower. By the time Endless Night was able to dig him out of the wall, the three had already arrived and were ready to surround and attack him.
The surrounding players were a bit stupefied. Everything had happened so suddenly. They just saw a guy fly out from the crowd and crash into a wall.
Endless Night’s four companions were obviously all from Tyrannical Ambition. While the others were chasing after Lord Grim and the others, they were still continuing to power level in the dungeon in order to maintain their high levels and competitiveness in the dungeon records. They were the elite of the elites of the big guilds, but by coincidence, they ended up bumping into Lord Grim’s group and then watched helplessly as Lord Grim sent Endless Night flying.
And these four players made an incorrect decision. Without thinking, they decided to rush forward to rescue Endless Night……
5v5…… the result was obvious. There’s no need to describe it.
“Who are these guys?” Tang Rou asked as she stabbed at her opponent’s head. This sis was unexpectedly still practicing by only hitting the head.
“They’re from Tyrannical Ambition. They were one of the guilds that was chasing us.” Ye Xiu said. Even though the pursuers didn’t have their guild names, Ye Xiu had fought with Tyrannical Ambition quite a few times. He had joined the guild for a bit, so he had some memory of quite a few of the player names.
Since things were like this already, there was no need to be polite to Tyrannical Ambition.
Ye Xiu understood the significance of this dungeon team. By killing this team, it was similar to fighting tooth for tooth. The guilds wanted to hinder his team from leveling and now, Tyrannical Ambition’s elite team was the first to lose experience.
When those four players rushed up to rescue Endless Night, they immediately recognized their mistake. Unfortunately, it was already too late.
In this confrontation, Endless Night and the others struggled. They could be considered first-string experts, but compared to Lord Grim and his group’s clutch, none of them were able to escape.
Endless Night laid on the ground. A thread of chilliness arose in his shameless heart.
This Lord Grim’s attack was so decisive and he even smiled and greeted me? Was he not feeling any pressure at all?
While he revived back in town, Endless Night reported to Cold Night what had happened.
When Cold Night received the message, he felt extremely gloomy.
Unlucky! How unlucky! Why was his Tyrannical Ambition so unlucky?
Good things never came. Bad things always came one after the other. All the other guilds’ elite teams were continuing to level. Why did they have to bump into Lord Grim? What type of luck was that?
Cold Night immediately contacted the other members that were leveling. Among these was his boss, Jiang You, and the elite team that he had personally brought over from the Heavenly Domain.
With this information, Cold Night at least knew where Lord Grim and the others were now. However, he didn’t believe that Lord Grim would be so stupid as to wait to be surrounded. Lord Grim would definitely switch to a different dungeon entrance.
And after that, he didn’t report the information to the other guilds. The other guilds had to be unlucky too and get wiped out by Lord Grim’s group a few times……
The seven big guilds that had gathered were now outside Line Canyon.
“Following the original plan, first we’ll send people to wait outside dungeon entrances to verify where they are.” Chen Yehui said.
“Right now, they should already be doing their second run. Hurry. When we find out where they are, we’ll get into position and catch them before they start their third run.” Lonely Drink said.
The three guild leaders had found the other guilds and discussed the plan with them. In the end, they split their numbers evenly and a hundred players headed to different dungeon entrances.
“We’ve guarded the entrances. If we keep waiting, they’ll have to show up eventually, right?” Someone said.
“What if they stay in the leveling area and don’t come out?” Another one said.
Inside Line Canyon.
The dungeon entrance where Endless Night’s group was wiped out was completely silent. Not even a word bubble asking for a party invite could be seen.
PK was very common in game. But they had been shaken heavily by the five murderers. These random players outside of the dungeon felt weak and along. None of them dared to offend the five.
They didn’t know what Lord Grim’s intent was. When his team passed by them, they all felt a tremble in their hearts.
“More?” Someone in that team still seemed to want to continue.
“Crash!” In an instant, they dispersed.
“None for now! Let’s go!” Ye Xiu said.
“Huh? Where?” Steamed Bun Invasion saw that Lord Grim wasn’t heading towards the dungeon.
“If we stay here, won’t we be stopped later?” Ye Xiu said.
Steamed Bun Invasion scratched his head to think. Ye Xiu had no idea if he understood. In any case, he said “Oh” and then followed him. Under Lord Grim’s lead, they went through an empty area and found another dungeon entrance.
“Is there anyone to kill?’ Tang Rou asked. This sis’s eyes were probably sparkling with greed. She definitely hoped that the players outside of the dungeon entrance were all enemies. Killing them all would be a great challenge.
“There will be soon.” Ye Xiu laughed. Lord Grim unexpectedly went past the dungeon entrance.
“We’re not going in?” The four were puzzled.
“It’s now time that they exited the dungeon.” Ye Xiu said.