Chapter 52: This One Is Secured

Lu Xing's ongoing challenge against Qidi had been closely followed by Qi Sheng throughout.

The process left him torn between laughter and tears.

During this time, Qidi's hunting level increased by six levels, which was somewhat beyond his expectations.

However, he could understand why the Meng Yuan Chu monsters would suddenly grow.

Beneath Di Zhao is the creator of the Monster World; his power forms the main body of the world's framework. Every Meng Yuan Chu monster separated from him represents a specific world characteristic, cannot be truly killed, and can complete an initialization resurrection at another location even after dying.

Furthermore, the growth of Meng Yuan Chu monsters is not limited to the single option of drawing external power to strengthen themselves.

As the Monster World operates, it continuously generates energy of all things: spiritual plants grow, spiritual mines are nurtured... anything that conforms to the world's operational laws can receive power allocated by the world's nurturing, prompting the thing to develop.

Meng Yuan Chu monsters are even more so.

Devouring, cultivating, taking beatings, spacing out... every Meng Yuan Chu monster has its own specific behavioral logic that conforms to the world's operation; as long as it is completed, it can draw a portion of the energy nurtured by the world.

It is like completing a growth quest set by a "world NPC" and receiving the experience reward given by the world.

Qidi's behavior of bullying the weak is obviously one of its ways to gain growth power.

By bullying Lu Xing, it received a gift of world power, and its strength level rose from level 7 to level 13.

Seemingly bizarre behavior actually has very reasonable underlying logic support; just like human breathing, which is essentially a process of interacting with the world to obtain various physical feedbacks that maintain the organism's operation.

Beneath Di Zhao Village.

Logging into the game again, Lu Xing's expression could not hide his sorrow.

After playing virtual games for so many years, he finally found a game that was incredibly satisfying, yet he never expected to suffer such a humiliating disgrace in this game.

Qidi's proud expression as it raised its head seemed like a curse branded in his mind, refusing to fade.

After dying and logging off, he watched the forum livestream and found that low-level players had gone to challenge Qidi again, but Qidi simply refused to fight.

Qidi's timid behavior towards other players earned it the nickname "Cowardly Butterfly" on the forum.

But no matter how cowardly Qidi was, it launched heavy attacks against him, beating him into running for cover with his head in his hands every time.

There was only one truth behind the differential treatment: in Qidi's eyes, he was a weakling that could be bullied at will, which made Lu Xing feel incredibly aggrieved.

He secretly vowed in his heart that he must defeat Qidi and wipe out this past shame.

Opening the livestream, players began to flood in one after another.

Seeing the comments, Lu Xing's expression became extremely dramatic.

The comment section was practically a lively exchange of inspirational stories; everyone was encouraging him, hoping he would not fall after setbacks and must stand up strongly to face the storm.

The summary was: if you can't beat Qidi, just keep fighting; sooner or later, you will win.

They also offered plans and strategies, providing many tactics that seemed reasonable.

Lu Xing was powerless to retort to the coaxing of the onlookers.

Before the fight, the players in the livestream were all martial arts masters; after the fight started, they were just blindly giving orders, achieving absolutely nothing.

Just then, a comment caught Lu Xing's attention.

As long as the name is long enough to be spotted behind a tree: Streamer, you are too stupid. I will give you a suggestion that guarantees a win: go buy weapons from the arms dealers; their weapons have huge lethality and can absolutely help you defeat Qidi across levels. Since your own ability is insufficient, rely on technology to make up for the power gap.

The arms dealers mentioned in the comment were something Lu Xing had heard of long ago.

This group of guys formed a guild named "Doomsday Technology," created many weapons that only exist in the real world, and would sell these weapons to other players.

Recently, during the Dark Cave Purification operation, the Doomsday Technology guild performed brilliantly and was jokingly called the Arms Dealer Guild by forum players.

Lu Xing, who had originally planned to challenge again only after leveling up through self-improvement, immediately had the thought of fighting Qidi again after seeing this comment.

The proposal to buy weapons seemed completely feasible to him.

Thinking of this, he immediately asked the players in the livestream if anyone had contact information for the Arms Dealer Guild.

After receiving the contact information, he immediately added them as a friend.

Not long after, a notification that the application was approved rang in his mind, followed by a dialogue box popping up.

Big Killer: Brother, buying weapons?

Explorer: I want to ask, what types of weapons do you have here?

Big Killer: Due to insufficient funds, we are currently only selling Spirit Energy Firearms. Each one costs 150 Shou Shou Jili. Bullets do not need to be purchased; you can simply buy Spirit Stones from Shangcheng to embed them. However, only Intermediate Spirit Stones can be embedded at most; embedding higher-level Spirit Stones makes the gun prone to exploding after continuous firing.

Explorer: Bring me a Spirit Energy Firearm.

After Lu Xing gave his reply, a notification popped up in his mind:

【Challenger Notification: Player "Big Killer" requests to trade with you. Do you agree?】

Using his consciousness to tap the agree option, a trade window popped up before his eyes.

The trade window was divided into upper and lower parts; the upper part belonged to the applicant, and the lower part belonged to the invited trader.

On the right side of the trade window was the personal spatial inventory bar, where every item was presented as a high-definition, miniaturized 3D model. After the gaze swept over an item, analysis content would automatically float up.

At the very bottom was a bar displaying the remaining Shou Shou Jili balance.

In the top left corner was a small chat window, allowing players to conduct real-time voice and text communication during the trade to negotiate and resolve any issues that might arise.

Lu Xing entered 150 Shou Shou Jili in his trade window, and the Spirit Energy Firearm was placed in the upper trade window.

Focusing his gaze, analysis information floated up:

【Spirit Energy Firearm】

Item Quality: Level 4

Item Description: A personalized weapon crafted by player "Big Killer." The gun body is engraved with energy compression paths, capable of generating Spirit Energy bullets by compressing energy. After hitting the target, the bullets automatically explode, causing small-area explosion damage.

After clicking confirm, the trade window was locked.

The other party also clicked confirm at this moment, and immediately a notification that the trade was complete rang in Lu Xing's mind.

Big Killer: Thank you for your trust. Contact us anytime if you need anything. We will launch more powerful weapons in the future; welcome to buy.

No response came, so Lu Xing took a spiritual energy firearm from his spatial bag and examined it closely.

Courage to fight the Qidi again rose within him.

He changed the livestream room name to "Revenge Battle" and, amidst the cheers of the onlooking players, set off once more on the journey to Windwave Pool.

Along the way, Lu Xing tested the power of the spiritual energy firearm; the effect satisfied him greatly, with the sole drawback being massive consumption, as every bullet was composed of Shou Shou Jili.

The Shou Shou Jili yield from killing a Blood Corpse was mostly spent on bullet expenses.

After turning another Blood Corpse into a sieve, Lu Xing's eyes sparkled:

"This one is secure!"

One hour and thirty minutes later.

When Lu Xing saw the Qidi again, he realized a very serious problem.

It was not only him who could use ranged attack abilities; the Qidi's wind blades could actually deflect bullets.

"No martial ethics; what skill is it to use wind blades?"

"It hurts so much; if you have the guts, don't use wind control, I won't use the firearm, and we'll continue hand-to-hand single combat."

Amidst the laughter and cheers of the livestream players, Lu Xing finally curled up on the ground clutching his head, enduring the Qidi's wings' violent, storm-like strikes.

While being beaten black and blue, Lu Xing suddenly understood a truth: not a single word of what those damn fools in the livestream room said could be trusted.

Having played virtual games for so many years, he considered himself to possess strong mental will, yet he still fell under the Qidi's extremely insulting beating.

Watching the inspirational copy scroll rapidly through the livestream room, under the dual blows of body and spirit, Lu Xing could no longer bear the surging emotions and shed tears of regret:

"Waaah~ Wang Ba~ I'll never believe you again."

(End of this chapter)