People are in fantasy, start speedrunning

Chapter 1 Hengshan Domain, Wanjian Sect

"Mr. Chen is not in good condition. A player died in the game warehouse."

"what happened?"

"It's the player we invited, Zhou Xuan." The secretary quickly explained the matter clearly, "The third closed beta test of "Donghuang Dajie" has added a setting that players with mental illness are not allowed to enter the game, but I don't know why. What went wrong, instead of kicking player Zhou Xuan out of the game room, it caused the opponent to become brain dead."

brain death?
  Mr. Chen slumped down in his chair.

If the player dies, can the game still be released?
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Donghuang Great Realm, Hengshan Domain, and the territory of Dayu Dynasty.

On the Skybreaking Treasure Ship, which was flying the flag of the Wanjian Sect, it was traveling at high altitude in one direction at a constant speed. A boy of about eighteen years old slowly opened his eyes in the assigned room, his eyes changing from hazy to sober.

Two internal tests have been conducted, and this is the third internal test, so Zhou Xuan is not surprised by the environment he is in at this moment.

"Properties Panel."

"Personal Panel."

"main menu."

"..."

I called him several times in my mind, but no sci-fi version of the character panel emerged.

Zhou Xuan couldn't help but clicked his tongue, which was not surprising.

Before entering the game, the person in charge told them, the internal testers, that this test was different from the previous two tests, such as the mental level of the AI, the difficulty of the copy, the experience during the training, etc. Has been greatly optimized.

In addition, there are surprises. Of course, what this surprise is, the person in charge chooses to keep it secret, saying that if you are lucky during the foundation building period, you will naturally know it. If you are not lucky, you may not know it until the end of the closed beta.

In order to enhance players' sense of immersion, they made a bold decision and decided not to provide players with such things as attribute panels.

Of course, you can still exit by saying "Quit the game" silently in your mind. It's just that when he first entered the game, Zhou Xuan would not quit when he was full.

Moreover, Shinhwa Group's game warehouse function is among the best in the world. You can just lie down for two months without worrying about physical problems.

Soon Zhou Xuan started wandering around the Skybreaking Treasure Ship, planning to chat with the NPCs to see if the AIs were more realistic.

Dayu Dynasty is a mortal dynasty, under the rule of Wanjian Sect. Every year, Wanjian Sect sends several new elders to various cities to recruit disciples for Wanjian Sect.

Of course, in addition to the Dayu Dynasty, there were other dynasties as well. As one of the five sects in Hengshan Region, Wanjian Sect controls one-sixth of the land area of ​​Hengshan Region.

There are about a dozen mortal dynasties in this one-sixth of the area, so there are not only people from the Dayu Dynasty on the Piokong Treasure Ship, but also people from other dynasties.

Viewed from the outside, the Skybreaking Treasure Ship is only a thousand feet in size. However, the internal space of Mustard Na Sumeru is huge, enough to carry more than 100,000 people.

After chatting with all kinds of people throughout the day, Zhou Xuan was pleasantly surprised by the huge optimization and good experience of the AI ​​​​mind.

Now a stick will make him lose his memory, and then when he wakes up and tells him that this is a real fantasy world, Zhou Xuan will also believe it.

After two days, Zhou Xuan also became familiar with some people from the Dayu Dynasty. When people from other dynasties heard that he was from the Dayu Dynasty, their attitudes were not indifferent, but they were no longer enthusiastic.

Gouri's AI also knows how to be submissive, group-building and regional discrimination, which makes Zhou Xuan smile from ear to ear.

After communicating, he felt that the current AI mind is infinitely close to that of humans, which is a huge improvement to the game experience.

Those who can board the Skybreaking Treasure Ship are all qualified to practice. As for their qualifications, they still need to go to Wanjian Sect for specific testing.

three days later.

"Wanjian City has arrived."

A steady voice sounded like a breeze on the Skybreaking Treasure Ship, and a group of expectant and nervous boys and girls were taken to the extremely wide deck by the person in charge.

Standing on the deck of the Skybreaking Treasure Ship, when you look up, you will see blurry and towering mountain peaks in the distance, reaching into the sky.

That is Hengshan. No matter where you are in Hengshan Domain, you can see it as long as you look up. This is where the name of Hengshan Domain comes from, and it is also the center of this domain.

The Wanjian Sect is located to the east of Hengshan Mountain, occupying a huge and continuous mountain range, named Wanjian Mountain Range.

The first-generation sect master shaped the ten highest peaks of the Wanjian Mountain Range into the shape of giant swords, and established the sect master peak and nine peak masters to jointly rule the Wanjian Sect.

As time went by, for more than 100,000 years, the population increased, and a huge city gradually formed under each peak.

Wanjian City is located under the sect's main peak, and the annual qualification test for newcomers is held in Wanjian City.

The boys and girls who came to Wanjian Sect for the first time were all very excited. Before the treasure ship landed, they were all chattering and discussing, which was both exciting and relieving their tension.

After all, although they have cultivation qualifications, they do not know the qualification level, and the next step is the moment to decide their future destiny.

Zhou Xuan didn't have any mood swings. After all, he chose the highest difficulty and his qualifications were already determined, so he was very calm. But even so, he rushed to speed pass this internal test.

Because of breakthroughs in research on human sleep and dreams, virtual games now on the market have a high ratio of real time to game time.

Among them, fantasy or fairy tale games generally take the longest to play, so the highest ratio is usually used, that is, one day in reality and ten years in the game.

During the second test, the internal test lasted for two months. It took him one and a half months, which was four hundred and fifty years of game time, to achieve the highest level. This time he chose the highest difficulty. His innermost expectation was that the minimum was ten years or the maximum was fifty. During the year, I speed-passed "Donghuang Dajie".

As a virtual game UP owner, he is a well-known speed passer, which is why he was invited by Shinhwa Group for internal testing.

This time, he has already planned the training route to achieve the highest level, so he doesn't care about the issue of training qualifications at all.

When the treasure ship landed in the huge square of Wanjian City, each person in charge led thousands of people to get off the ship. When everyone got off the empty treasure ship, the admissions elder stretched out his hand, and the thousand-foot-sized treasure ship appeared in the void. The middle drop rolled around twice, then transformed into a three-inch size and fell into his hand.

Seeing the boys and girls in the square looking at him with wide eyes, the admissions elder smiled slightly and said, "I, Kong Qitu..."

cough--

Before he finished speaking, a slight cough came from his ears, interrupting Kong Qitu's attempt to recruit high-quality disciples for his Sword Peak.

He couldn't finish a sentence, which made Kong Qitu feel uncomfortable. In the end, he could only stare at the middle-aged man on the high platform in the square, and then turned into a stream of light and walked away with a groan.

The newcomers present thought that this was the admissions elder introducing himself to them, but they were not surprised. Some smart ones even bent down and bowed, shouting: "Best farewell to Elder Kong."

After the interlude, Zhou Xuan and the newcomers were taken to the wide square of Wanjian City by their respective leaders and lined up in a queue.

In front of them are the ten-meter-high cornerstones for testing qualifications.

"quiet."

A warm voice came from the high platform, and the boys and girls who were whispering in the square fell silent in the blink of an eye, and all looked at the high platform.

A middle-aged man stood in the center of the high platform. Seeing that everyone was quiet, he began to introduce himself, "I, Yu Chiwen, am the Lord of Wanjian City, and I am the general person in charge of recruiting new members of Wanjian Sect." After glancing at the tens of thousands of people in the audience, Yu Chiwen continued, "You are all able to come to Wanjian City because you have cultivation qualifications, but qualifications are also divided into four levels: heaven, earth, black and yellow. The stone pillar for measuring qualifications stands in front of you. There is a scale, and reaching a certain scale corresponds to the level.”

"With yellow-level qualifications, you can be an outer disciple of Wanjian Sect. You can choose a house in the outer disciple area of ​​Wanjian City to live and practice for free for one year."

"With Xuan-level qualifications, one can become an inner disciple of Wanjian Sect. You can choose a peak independently and become a disciple within the peak."

"With earth-level qualifications, you can be a true disciple of the Wanjian Sect. You can independently choose a peak and become the true disciple of the peak."

"Heaven level qualifications..."

Speaking of this, Yu Chiwen's voice rose a little, with a little excitement, "With heaven-level qualifications, you can be specially recruited by Ziyang Holy Land to become a disciple of the Holy Land."

Purple Sun Holy Land? Disciple of the Holy Land?
  The boys and girls in the audience were not shocked when they heard this, but were puzzled. They lived among the various mortal dynasties in the Hengshan Domain, and they only knew one of the five sects in the Hengshan Domain. Many people even didn't know the five sects, but they were just old enough. After turning 18, it's just a matter of going to the government to check whether you have the qualifications to practice. Most of them are lucky.

But even if you don't know the Purple Sun Holy Land, you still know that the Holy Land is a good place. After all, only those with heaven-level qualifications can be specially recruited.

Only a few people in luxurious clothes showed excitement, obviously they had heard about the Purple Sun Holy Land.

Zhou Xuan yawned, but there was no mood swing.

According to the previous two internal tests, this qualification test should be about a person with heaven-level qualifications who was specially recruited to the Purple Sun Holy Land. As for whether he is a boy or a girl, it mainly depends on the gender of the player.

The player is male, and a person with that level of qualification must be a very beautiful girl with excellent temperament. The player is female, and a person with that level of qualification must be an extremely handsome young man with outstanding temperament.

That's right, this character is for players to conquer. He is the player's default Taoist companion. Of course, whether he conquers it or not depends on the player himself.

"Testing begins."

Yu Chiwen did not explain the Purple Sun Holy Land. In his opinion, among the tens of thousands of people present, there was probably no one with heaven-level qualifications.

As Yuchiwen finished speaking, the boys and girls lined up began to surge forward like water.

"Low-grade yellow class."

"Low-grade yellow class."

"High grade yellow grade..."

Everyone who comes to the stone pillar for measuring qualifications directly places their palms on it. After a while, the stone pillar for measuring qualifications will light up from bottom to top, and the grades and qualifications are written next to the scales.

Even people who are illiterate can clearly understand their qualifications at a glance.

Most people have low-level qualifications of the Huang level, and there are not many high-level Huang levels. However, as time goes by, more people test their qualifications, and people with Xuan level qualifications gradually appear.

When it was Zhou Xuan's turn, he stepped forward. Although he already knew his qualifications, he still stretched out his hand to touch the qualification test stone pillar.

A light shone in the middle of the stone pillar, and it was difficult to climb up from the scale at the bottom, and finally settled on the yellow step.

"Low-grade yellow class."

Seeing this, the person in charge glanced at Zhou Xuan casually and found that the young man in front of him did not feel disappointed when he learned that his qualifications were so poor. He was slightly surprised, but he didn't think much about it.

Zhou Xuan walked to the side, and there was a simple and honest fat man standing next to him, wearing the clothes of a deacon of the outer gate of Wanjian Sect. When he saw him coming, he said with a smile, "My surname is Li, you can call me deacon Li. Say something stupid. What’s your name, and which dynasty are you from?”

"Zhou Xuan, Dayu Dynasty."

Deacon Li nodded slightly, and then a blank jade plaque appeared out of thin air in his hand. Soon the word 'Zhou Xuan' was engraved on the jade plaque, and there was also a small word 'Outer Gate' in the lower right corner.

"Hand out."

Zhou Xuan stretched out his hand, and Deacon Li scratched the belly of his finger, took out a drop of blood, dropped it on the jade plaque, and then disappeared.

Handing the jade token to Zhou Xuan, Deacon Li said, "You need identity documents to travel in Wanjian City and even other nine cities. This jade token is your proof of living in the city in the future. You have just joined our Wanjian Sect. With this identity jade badge, you can receive two sets of clothes and a bottle of bone forging pills every month for one year; you can also choose a house in the outer disciple area and live for free for one year. If you have not entered the Qi Gathering Realm after one year, You have to move out.”

"If there is anything you still don't understand, there are instructions for new outer disciples there, go and take a look, and you will know everything."

Deacon Li pointed at the huge stone wall not far away. At this time, many outer disciples who had just finished testing their qualifications had gathered.

"Thank you." Zhou Xuan cupped his hands, saw Deacon Li waved his hand, stopped talking, and left directly.

He came to the huge stone wall, glanced at it twice, and found that it was no different from the second test, so he stopped looking at it carefully.

In the first two tests, the game world time tested was six hundred years, which is two months in the real world.

During the first test, he focused on exploration, so he did not reach the highest level after the test.

During the second beta, he spent 450 years trying to reach the highest level in the game, and then built a holy land by himself. The purpose was to collect all the magic in the world and prepare for the subsequent open beta to pass the game on the highest difficulty.

As a virtual game UP owner and a speed player, he has a large number of fans. Every time he clears the game at the highest difficulty level, he will upload the character template for everyone to buy.

Players who purchase character templates can experience his speedrunning process from a first-person perspective. These cloud players in the era of virtual games are the bread and butter for virtual game UP owners like him.

After achieving the highest level in the second test, he spent the rest of the time looking for techniques that could be achieved quickly without any qualifications.

The hard work paid off. The Kung Fu he wanted was found in the Wan Jian Sect in the Hengshan Region. In order to test it for himself, he directly scattered the Kung Fu and started practicing again. As a result, in the middle of practicing, his enemies came to him and crushed him to ashes, leaving him speechless. .

In the game "Donghuang Dajie", the player automatically saves every time he improves to a small level. His enemy's level is too high, and although he made rapid progress after retraining his San Gong, he died immediately because his level was too low after retraining. .

So in the last few days of the second test, he re-opened the game and directly entered the Wanjian Sect, trying to figure out how to quickly become a true disciple.

Because that skill is placed on the third floor of the Hidden Law Pavilion, and the third floor requires true disciples to enter and browse.

"Heaven...heaven level..."

A trembling voice came from behind, interrupting Zhou Xuan's thinking.

He turned around and saw that the team testing qualifications had stopped, and everyone was looking at one place.

There, the scales of the stone pillar were filled with light from bottom to top.

Top grade in heaven.

As for who has the highest qualifications of the heavenly level, he can't see it because there are too many people.

In an instant, Yu Chiwen disappeared from the high platform, and when he reappeared, he appeared in front of a young girl, with shock and ecstasy on his face.

"You... what's your name?"

"Lin Qinxue."

(End of this chapter)