Chapter 581

Clutching his precious spirit boat tightly, Ten-Year-Old realized that the name of the magic treasure had changed to Profound Underworld, and its rank had risen by one, but it was still a collection magic treasure!

Yet he heard Brother Qian Chen continue: "The seals on this magic treasure are excellent. It should be a simplified version of a tenth-rank magic treasure. If you can collect enough materials, perhaps there is still room for improvement!"

"Growth attributes!"

This concept appeared in Ten-Year-Old's mind for the first time.

Perhaps those big guilds knew this secret, which is why they bid the price of collection magic treasures up to astronomical figures!

"Damn it! Those profiteers hyped up collection magic treasures so high, and the value has been fully reflected! It's impossible for me to exploit information asymmetry and acquire two more!" Shame and anger at wanting to be a profiteer but being unable to echoed in Ten-Year-Old's heart.

"It seems this news is no secret among the top players and professional gamers of the big guilds!"

He said tremblingly, "Senior, what other materials are needed to upgrade my magic treasure?"

Brother Qian Chen sharpened the sickle for cutting leeks in his heart and looked at the leek in front of him kindly, saying: "To upgrade this magic artifact, other materials are secondary. The most important thing is the bit of spiritual light contained within it. If you find another magic artifact of roughly the same rank, I will combine the spiritual light of the two, and it can be upgraded by another rank!"

Ten-Year-Old's eyes almost popped out. He clutched his heart and said, "Another collection magic artifact... I couldn't afford it even if I sold myself!"

"Is it impossible to upgrade this magic treasure without that bit of spiritual light? Then why was Senior able to upgrade the magic treasure by one rank this time?" Saying this, Ten-Year-Old couldn't suppress the nature of a player, and his speech became a bit direct.

Brother Qian Chen casually deducted five points of favorability to show a warning. Amidst Ten-Year-Old's regret, he said faintly: "Are you suspecting that I am deceiving you? This time, it was you who helped me find this Immortal Mansion, so I just refined a bit of the spiritual light of the Heavenly Spirit Pearl that I obtained into it..."

"Heavenly Spirit Pearl!"

Ten-Year-Old couldn't care about anything else, hurriedly opened his camera sprite, caught the keyword, and asked: "What is the Heavenly Spirit Pearl?"

Brother Qian Chen exerted his acting skills to the extreme. With his hands behind his back, he glanced at him with a half-smile and said slowly: "The day before yesterday, a spiritual light from beyond the heavens fell overseas. I was originally cultivating on the Great Wilderness Continent when I saw a comet fall from the sky. A streak of spiritual light streaked across the sky, so I got up to search for it. Only when I reached the place where the spiritual light fell did I see the source of that streak of spiritual light!"

"It turned out that the streak of spiritual light was a spirit pearl that had fallen from beyond the heavens. This spirit pearl was transformed from innate indestructible spiritual light and is extremely precious. By intercepting a bit of spiritual light from it, one can refine it into a marvelous magic treasure, improve its rank, and it has infinite uses!"

"Unfortunately, what came with that spirit pearl was not only these benefits, but also an Outer Realm Supreme Supreme Tian Mo!"

"I approached rashly, alarming the Outer Realm Supreme Supreme Tian Mo, and was ambushed by it, becoming contaminated by demonic qi. This demon's cultivation is extremely high; it is a demonic creature from beyond the heavens. Even though it broke into this world with the spirit pearl and was seriously injured, I am no match for it. I could only flee in a panic and urgently needed a place to resolve the demonic qi in my body! That's why I asked you for this Immortal Mansion..."

"New version main quest!" Ten-Year-Old exclaimed in his heart: "So it really is a main quest-related plot NPC!"

At this moment, all questions were answered, and the original hesitation in Ten-Year-Old's heart was resolved—this plot NPC had been infected by demonic qi, which is why he would exhibit these abnormalities.

And the place where the spirit pearl and the Supreme Supreme Tian Mo fell was overseas, which is why players in the East Sea encountered the demon tide!

However, Yizhou is located inland. Why would the monsters appear in the main city of Yizhou for the first time?

Brother Qian Chen glanced at him and said: "Of course, if you can find the spiritual light emitted by the Heavenly Spirit Pearl, you can also upgrade the magic treasure in your hand! At that time, you can come and find me again!"

When Brother Qian Chen saw Ten-Year-Old's relevant post on the forum, he intended to use him to get involved and manipulate public opinion among the players.

After all, the Supreme Supreme Tian Mo Tun Tan did not have the Dao Dust Pearl and should not be able to open the players' forum. Even though he was good at manipulating people's hearts and bewitching all living beings, he did not know about the forum channel, so Brother Qian Chen still had a chance to compete with him.

"The Dao wanes and the demon grows!" Brother Qian Chen sighed and continued to play his role as a main quest NPC: "That Outer Realm Supreme Supreme Tian Mo is an intangible and formless aggregation of demonic nature. After descending into this world, it will gather the turbid, evil, and poisonous qi of this realm, gradually becoming powerful and taking form, demonizing all living beings, and setting off boundless tribulations!"

"As long as the various desires and evils in people's hearts do not perish, this demon will be difficult to extinguish. It is because I know this that I understand this demon is not something I can deal with!"

"I only hope that the righteous path of the Profound Sect and the cultivators of all families can unite to deal with this Demon Tribulation together!"

He revealed a compassionate expression, as if worried about the living beings of this realm.

Ten-Year-Old couldn't help but be immersed in the plot. Comparing it with the relevant information revealed by the True Immortal in Yizhou, he felt something was wrong.

In the mouth of that True Immortal, the Outer Realm Supreme Supreme Tian Mo was just a creature with slightly powerful cultivation, and it could be eliminated if found in advance. Why did the Supreme Supreme Tian Mo become the gathering of turbid, evil, and poisonous qi in the world in the mouth of this True Person Elder Yu Chen, and why was it fundamentally impossible to eradicate?

Ten-Year-Old couldn't help but raise a trace of suspicion again. He carefully probed: "If the Supreme Supreme Tian Mo cannot be eliminated, wouldn't we just have to watch it come back again and again? In that case, how should we deal with it?"

"For every thing born, there is something to restrain it. Since that Supreme Supreme Tian Mo came from beyond the heavens, the thing that came with it will most likely be able to restrain it!"

Brother Qian Chen said firmly: "The Heavenly Spirit Pearl has infinite power. The innate indestructible spiritual light is not tainted by external objects and is best at restraining filthy demonic nature. If the Outer Realm Supreme Supreme Tian Mo demonizes this world and no one can restrain it... we can still recapture the Heavenly Spirit Pearl, use that streak of innate indestructible spiritual light to cleanse the world, sweep away the demonic qi, and suppress the Outer Realm Supreme Supreme Tian Mo back into the spirit pearl!"

Brother Qian Chen prepared in advance. In case he messed up! He would have to rely on these cute leeks... no, players and local NPCs, to seal the Supreme Supreme Supreme Tian Mo back into the Dao Dust Pearl!

"Of course..."

Brother Qian Chen added: "The origin of Western Kunlun is extraordinarily marvelous and is also a supreme treasure no less than the Heavenly Spirit Pearl! If we can invite the origin of Western Kunlun, sealing the Supreme Supreme Tian Mo is not a delusion!"

The power that trapped Brother Qian Chen and Tun Tan, preventing them from escaping this non-true, non-illusory game, was also terrifying to the extreme!

At least it involved the Dao Lord level. If that power took action, it should also be able to suppress the Supreme Supreme Supreme Tian Mo! But whether it would also suppress Brother Qian Chen and Tun Tan, these two "Outer Realm Heavenly Demons," is hard to say!

Unless it was the last resort, Brother Qian Chen still didn't want to trigger this great power!

Looking at Brother Qian Chen being so resolute, and the relevant information revealed: the Outer Realm Supreme Supreme Tian Mo that cannot be eliminated, for every thing born there is something to restrain it, the Heavenly Spirit Pearl, the origin of Western Kunlun... it all looked very plausible!

Compared to what that True Immortal in Yizhou said—that the Outer Realm Supreme Supreme Tian Mo was just a slightly more powerful boss—it had much more presence!

From the perspective of his consciousness as a veteran player, the former was more credible.

After all, it was a boss that set off the Demon Tribulation and opened the grand plot of the opposition between righteousness and evil. How could its presence be so weak? If that True Immortal could eliminate the Outer Realm Supreme Supreme Tian Mo alone, what use would they, the players, have?

Based on Ten-Year-Old's simple judgment, a high-presence boss like the Outer Realm Supreme Supreme Tian Mo had to suppress the righteous NPCs of Western Kunlun until they couldn't catch their breath to be worthy of being a version main quest boss!

And the script for the destruction of this powerful boss had already been written!

The Heavenly Spirit Pearl restrains the Outer Realm Supreme Supreme Tian Mo. In the end, it must be the righteous path using the Heavenly Spirit Pearl to re-seal the Outer Realm Supreme Supreme Tian Mo, and then leave behind the remnants of the Supreme Supreme Tian Mo to push forward subsequent versions and provide a large number of quest lines...

Only in this way would players have room to play in the process of searching for and recapturing the Heavenly Spirit Pearl. Otherwise, the sense of participation in the plot would be too low, and Fantasy International would be complained about again!

"And the spiritual light emitted by the Heavenly Spirit Pearl can upgrade collection magic treasures! In previous versions, the number of collection magic treasures was too small, and upgrading required consuming collection magic treasures of the same rank, which can be called a money-burning pit."

"Now that the Heavenly Spirit Pearl is out, there must be a way to obtain spiritual light in the main plot. In this way, the threshold for upgrading collection magic treasures is lowered, and they have practical value... In future versions, collection magic treasures might become the key to joining the ranks of top-tier players!"

Ten-Year-Old wrote down all these guesses and thoughts, preparing to pick some to post on the forum, hiding some information about the key NPC True Person Elder Yu Chen, and creating momentum in advance.

The version main quest absolutely could not be swallowed by him alone. Perhaps he should contact a few friends and familiar experts!

Create momentum now, so it will be easier to get them to take action later!

After fooling Ten-Year-Old, who was riding the green ox, Brother Qian Chen waved his hand and, using the excuse that his "demonic qi had not been cleared," returned to the core of the cave dwelling to go into seclusion and began to design gameplay for players of the demonic camp!

He took time to look at the forum and found that a post he was concerned about soon appeared in the Discussing the Jianghu section—

"Only Ten-Year-Old! Mysterious overseas NPC appears, close contact with the version main quest Heavenly Spirit Pearl, oral first-hand information!"

As a national-level virtual game, the daily traffic of the "Western Kunlun" forum exceeded 100 million, and replies soon appeared below.

Stupid and Cheap: "First!"

Snow-Piercing Flower: "Haha! My demonic path is invincible. I have already achieved a hundred-man kill with my demonized transformation. Loose players, charge for me! The Dao wanes and the demon grows! Break the big guilds!"

All-Knowing and All-Powerful Panda: "The video posted by the original poster is very interesting! The information provided by this new main quest NPC, True Person Elder Yu Chen, contradicts that of True Immortal Jun Nuo in Yizhou. And I also noticed that the monsters that appeared in Yizhou and the demon tide in the East Sea are two completely different types!"

"The monsters in Yizhou are just traditional demonized monsters, fierce and powerful, but there have been no cases of infecting players. While the monsters that appeared in the East Sea have extremely strong infection capabilities, and players who fall into the demonic path have their combat power greatly increased."

"Many players have fallen into an irrational state of fanaticism because of this, and have begun to engage in large-scale destruction, pk, and creating chaos. Now, several big guilds in Western Kunlun have decided to hold a joint meeting to stabilize order..."

"The sects of many righteous players—Emei, Qingcheng, Wudang... have already reacted to this. The NPCs of the righteous camp may take action directly to suppress the development of the demon tide!"

"I also noticed that the characteristics of the Outer Realm Heavenly Demons in the mouths of the two newly appeared main quest NPCs are similar to the characteristics of the monsters related to them. Obviously, the demon tide in the East Sea is more dangerous. If Yizhou is just a monster siege, the demon tide in the East Sea has already shown the characteristics of dividing players and creating a demonic camp. Which of the two NPCs is more credible, and what hidden secrets are behind them, might be the key to the next development of the task."

"Based on the current trend, it is entirely possible for a new camp to appear among players in the future, but this camp has limitations. At present, it is more attractive to bottom-tier players and loose players!"

"Because of the sect's punishment, mainstream intermediate players who have joined righteous sects will not abandon their early accumulation to defect to the demonic path! But pay attention to whether evil and demonic path players, the Four Directions Demon Sects, and several big side sects will merge with the Outer Realm Heavenly Demons! Once they merge, Western Kunlun might face a grand situation of opposition between righteousness and evil! The impact of the new version might be the largest since all previous updates..."

"This is very likely an adjustment intentionally made by Fantasy International because righteous players were too strong in the previous few versions, weakening the diversity of Western Kunlun!"

Fox is not a Demon: "** Fantasy International, if you can't beat them, nerf them. Nerf your mother! I went out once and was hacked nine times by that group of idiots *******"

Small Building Watching Snow at Night: "Panda God is awesome! At present, none of my righteous player friends have any intention of falling into the demonic path... The sect punishment is too damn severe! Top-ranked gods have accumulated so much in the early stage, they shouldn't destroy their own future! So the demon tide is just a carnival for us lower-tier players, and it won't have much impact on first and second-tier high-level players..."

All-Knowing and All-Powerful Panda replied below: "This might be a major enhancement for players as a whole! In the confrontation between righteousness and evil, the casualties and retirement of NPCs will definitely be relatively heavy, and with the demonic path rampant, the rewards and dangers of sect tasks for major sects will increase. So the strength improvement of high-level players might usher in an acceleration period... And the strength of bottom-tier players will also increase after falling into the demonic path, which will not widen the strength gap between players. But the accelerated elimination of NPCs will make players gradually ascend to the main stage of Western Kunlun..."

Iron Skin Gourd Baby: "Imperial Dynasty, Pantheon, TM, Sword Carefree, Ten Thousand Demon Alliance, Demon Island, Green Dragon... these big guilds have been too strong for too long! I hope Fantasy International gives us a chance so that we bottom-tier players can also get ahead. May the demonic path flourish!"

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Tun Tan had a trace of eerie demonic qi coiling in his hand. He sensed the weak demonic nature within the demonic qi with his divine sense, and his expression grew increasingly solemn.

He waved his hand gently to disperse the demonic qi, but Tun Tan did not show a trace of joy, because although the demonic qi was easy to disperse, it seemed that the demon lord who split off the demonic qi had done so intentionally. After that bit of demonic qi was dispersed, the demonic nature hidden within seemed to return to its source.

In this way, the more demonic qi that was dispersed, the more powerful that source would become after they returned to it.

And then split off more demonic qi to infect living beings!

And this kind of demonic qi that could be easily dispelled made those stupid righteous people lower their guard, ignoring the danger behind it!

Most importantly, this suddenly appearing demonic qi made Tun Tan somewhat hesitant. The Tai Sui Alliance sent him to hunt down the Dao Dust Pearl in the hands of the kid named Brother Qian Chen. He originally thought that the Spirit Pearl in the so-called new version "Spirit Pearl Descends into the World" referred to the Dao Dust Pearl on that kid, and the so-called Outer Realm Supreme Supreme Tian Mo was just an excuse he used to borrow the power of these aliens to find Brother Qian Chen!

There was only one Supreme Supreme Tian Mo that came with the Dao Dust Pearl, and that was him, the Supreme Supreme Tian Mo Tun Tan!

But just as he began to lay out his plans, using the gods and demons under his command to create the illusion of Outer Realm Heavenly Demons wreaking havoc in the world, a real Outer Realm Supreme Supreme Tian Mo appeared!

He dared not explore the shadow of the source of this bit of demonic qi. His own demonic nature warned him that if he rashly touched the source behind the demonic qi, he feared that a great terror would descend.

This made Tun Tan somewhat puzzled: "Could it be that there really is an Outer Realm Supreme Supreme Tian Mo in the new version of this world? And that Spirit Pearl doesn't refer to the Dao Dust Pearl, one of the Three Treasures of the Supreme, but something else! This world is too strange, like the Heaven of Transformation and Freedom, non-thought and non-non-thought, and there might be an extremely terrifying origin behind it."

If it weren't for the fact that the Immortal Dao was prevalent here, he would have almost thought this was a Buddhist Kingdom opened up by some great Buddhist power!

He looked up and saw several figures standing beside him, with strange Daoist titles on their heads—"Imperial Dynasty Reigns"

"Green Dragon Crescent Blade Slays the Lawless"

"Heart Has No Reluctance"

"No Reluctance"

"Crooked-Headed Shiba Inu Short-Legged Corgi"

Heart Has No Reluctance stepped on the Ten Thousand Mile Flame Wheel, looking at the brawny man in front of him with a complex expression. The brawny man, draped in animal skin, grinned, revealing a mouthful of fangs, but the ID above his head was two bright, shining characters—No Reluctance!

"Didn't I send you a name-change card?"

Veins popped out on Heart Has No Reluctance's forehead.

"Why should I change my name? I've been using this ID since I started, and Fantasy International doesn't forbid duplicate IDs. Why don't you ask your wife to change hers!" the brawny man glared.

"If I could talk her into it, would I be using a couple's ID?" Heart Has No Reluctance's expression collapsed, and he roared: "Do you know I've applied eighteen times to change my ID?"

The brawny man roared back: "My ID is registered in the professional league! Do you know how much I'd lose if I changed my name?"

Heart Has No Reluctance went crazy: "I'll cover the losses. I'll compensate you with a sixth-rank collection magic treasure, okay!"

"We demon race can't use your Profound Sect magic treasures..." the brawny man said leisurely: "And the guild won't let me sell them..."

Heart Has No Reluctance was about to go mad. He saw a smiling woman next to him open her camera sprite and point it at him, and he roared: "Wu Yue Wu Yue Linglong! Stop filming, damn it!"

"Why shouldn't I film?" Wu Yue Wu Yue Linglong said with a smile: "Your cp video 'Wronged by Fate, Hard to Part' has over ten million views on the forum, okay? The sisters are all asking me to provide material? Hehe!"

Imperial Dynasty Reigns, dressed in Daoist robes and behaving elegantly, patted Heart Has No Reluctance on the shoulder and added: "Ah You! Do you know your wife is a manager of the guild?"

Heart Has No Reluctance answered in despair: "I know! That's why my application to change my ID didn't pass!"

Green Dragon Crescent Blade Slays the Lawless, dressed in black and looking indifferent, held his flying sword and reminded them: "Be serious, the NPCs are still watching us! The NPCs in Western Kunlun have high intelligence and will affect favorability! It doesn't matter if you mess around yourselves, but don't implicate me!"

"Who are you calling messy!" Heart Has No Reluctance jumped up.

Supreme Supreme Tian Mo Tun Tan looked at these sand-sculpture players and felt puzzled in his heart: "I have used the Myriad Phenomena of the Heart Demon to spy on them. These people are indeed the leaders of the aliens, possessing great influence, and their cultivation is... slightly worth looking at! They are also the chief disciples of major sects, and have considerable influence among the righteous path."

"But why do these aliens act so erratically and without logic? They are even more chaotic than the demon lords of my demonic path! Can they really accomplish anything by relying on them?"

He couldn't help but feel a trace of deep doubt, feeling for the first time that he was having difficulty manipulating people's hearts in the palm of his hand.

"The Sect Masters of the major sects are here!"

Imperial Dynasty Reigns looked down at something, then looked up and warned. The group of high-level players instantly became solemn. New NPCs would not easily lower favorability, but the Sect Masters of each sect were the big bosses who controlled the distribution of their task rewards, so they didn't dare to be negligent.

Following a shower of heavenly flowers and colored rain, True Person Jin Chan, Sect Master of Emei, along with Heart-Like-God Nun of Wudang, Sect Master Jiang Taixu of Qingcheng, True Person Wuchenzi of Western Kunlun... and the righteous Sect Masters of the Six Sects and Twelve Gates arrived together!

True Person Jin Chan introduced them to everyone: "Fellow Daoist Jun Nuo has come from the Spirit Void Immortal Realm. You must not be negligent!"

Heart-Like-God Nun frowned slightly, sizing up Supreme Supreme Tian Mo Tun Tan, feeling that his cultivation was indeed unfathomable, before saying: "The demon tide in the East Sea is rising, and the demonic qi from beyond the heavens has infected countless living beings! It is already raging in the East Sea and is about to endanger the Central Continent."

"There is no lack of disciples under our sects who have been infected by demonic qi, their minds controlled by demonic nature. If we let the demonic qi spread like this, I fear it will be a Demon Tribulation. The arrival of you True Persons here is to discuss the grand plan of resisting the demons... Since the True Immortal has come from the Spirit Void Immortal Realm, you must have the deepest understanding of this demon. I wonder what advice you have?"