Chapter 465

Under the divine stone's promise, almost all the benefits were aimed at the pain points of the demon dragon clan, so no matter how many times they heard it, the boss and the third brother were fired up, their eyes glowing green.

——Damn it, after being disgusted by this rotten, stinking body for several thousand years, this old lady can finally be a fragrant girl!

But the bystander sees clearly; Ji Ming, standing aside, was left dumbfounded.

Come on, bro—if you truly had saintly quality like before, you'd at least have to be a sweet-smelling boy!

【Ah, is this the point?】

All right, the point is that purple divine stone flashing like a gas alarm nonstop—it's almost certainly a scam.

These stupid dragons never think—where in this world would so many good things come just to fit the bill and solve all their problems in one go?

Moreover.

First, when a sentient being ascends to become a true god, its life form indeed first returns to the state it had at birth, then reshapes the divine body based on that, achieving a theoretical resurrection—correct.

But having fought lesser gods (Underground Dragon God), quasi-gods (Shadow God), and true gods (Forest God—Zhen Shen), and having dealt with numerous gods of strength, weakness, righteousness, and evil, it is itself a high god.

God expert, Teacher Ji can state clearly: for a sentient being to become a true god, there is only one path—forging a heavenly ladder from massive faith and using it to complete the final ascension.

To obtain that massive amount of 'quantity,' at the very least one must become a state religion that is absolutely endorsed by the major powers and exclusively revered by all schools.

Put even more plainly, that means tens of millions who usually like to chant and often go to church to worship—the nominal believers.

Over a million believers never miss church activities, always give their incense money, and even keep idols at home, diligently offering incense.

Hundreds of thousands worship day and night, even join the church, willingly giving everything for the deity—the fanatical believers.

Of course, there are also figures like Tenisi, Haikemedia, Dushe, and Bailixiang—those who balance faith and strength as pillars of the mainstream.

All of these are indispensable; only then can one achieve the position of a true god and enjoy the blessing of longevity.

This is also the fundamental reason why, in the Yangyue World's over-one-hundred-thousand-year civilization history, geniuses abound like carp crossing the river, yet those who ascend to true god are few and far between.

Strength, luck, timing… there are too many decisive factors.

So entities like Holy Light, the Forest, and the wealth goddess of the Lingxi Kingdom are actually those with a flash of insight, who planned ahead, clung tightly to the thigh of a wise mortal king, pressed to devour the whale fall of the lofty god of the Holy Tree Kingdom, and ruthlessly expanded their flock…

After all this and that, having gone through countless hardships, they barely managed to crawl out of the 'quasi-god gu-vat'.

Good, then good.

Now please describe the benefits of the current Yangyue major version for a loner's ascension to godhood, and thoroughly argue why the new successful one will be the evil spirit demon king Patricia, with no word limit.

The reference answer is simple—just two characters.

——Dreaming!

Moreover, the demon king's arrangements after gaining divinity are laughable—actually trying to rally a million magic beasts with the might of purple lightning to seize a human kingdom?

Never mind whether the Deep Forest Lionheart King next door agrees, or whether the mixed-residence player Pioneers like it—I'll just fast-forward you to the day of victory.

Ji Ming dares to guarantee that no matter how much incense she starts with, by then it will only be less, never more!

Because the world's laws aren't foolish, and the people's faith cannot be forced out with a knife, she could never become a true god that way.

So ideas like mass-producing lesser and quasi-gods, then baptizing them with one's own divine power, basking in glory together, and fully reviving—are all just impractical fantasies!

No matter how hard these stupid dragons strive, they will only end in failure.

None of the things they look forward to will come true; the only difference is whether they break an arm or knock out two front teeth.

But the little goodwill Ji Ming had mustered in his heart was already used up after warning the demon king once before.

Moreover, everyone is busy popping champagne now, and you, an outsider lusting for pleasure, come barging in to rashly comment on something—just wait for the fireworks festival.

So he didn't voice any opinion, just watching them scatter happily, like a bunch of kids let out on a long vacation.

And after the arrangements were finished, Ji Ming, the only dragon not assigned, was sent by the demon king out of the divine stone space to watch from beside the divine temple how she achieves the position of a true god.

"Still winning! Still winning!"

Ji Ming couldn't be bothered to manage them, but he couldn't ignore the students down the mountain, so he quietly typed and had the game system issue an emergency task.

Thus, on an ordinary afternoon, when professional players had finished half an afternoon's busyness and were about to sit down for a cup of tea,

and the earliest batch of off-duty amateur players had already hurried home, then hastily put on their game helmets.

The long-awaited major update of Double Moon Struggle arrived silently.

【Main Task: Evil Spirit Disaster】

【Task Description: Due to the plot of unknown evil forces, the royal hunting grounds north of Qixia City are about to erupt in a massive beast tide, and the frenzied beasts will destroy every living thing in their path】

【Task Objective: Beast Cessation—Don't wait until the slaughter knife falls on your head to suddenly realize this disaster is actually closely related to each of us; no matter what means you use, stop them!】

【Advanced Objective: Radiant Pearl—As the capital of the Hui Guang Kingdom, Qixia City's strategic significance needs no explanation; unite and suppress the beast tide's development before evil forces destroy it!】

【Perfect Objective: Yield No Ground—At the foot of the Fallen God Mountains lies a rest station that can hold tens of thousands of students, also the first gathering point after the beast tide descends the mountain; go on, save as many people as possible!】

【Temporary Mechanism: To encourage more players to join the main task, during the event the Royal Capital server's level limit will be lowered to level ten, and its capacity will be increased tenfold】

As the laziest game in history, its main task announcement only came after a long open beta, and this text really isn't long.

But almost every player's first feeling after reading it is to take a deep breath, then look at their own level.

No other reason—the two pieces of information hidden here are simply too explosive.

First, as the core of the Hui Guang Kingdom, Qixia City's server originally had the most player slots of all regions.

While others had only a few thousand, or even just a thousand player limit, here there were already a full hundred thousand slots for players to mess around in.

And now? The officials not only want to multiply the slot count by ten, but also lower the entry threshold to level ten.

One must understand that Double Moon Struggle has been in open beta for over five months, and the player count has already reached nearly two million.

Even if not everyone can play intensely, having a combat training camp that feeds players experience makes it no trouble to round up a million professionals.

In other words, this might not be the Double Moon Struggle game's highest participation percentage in history, but it is absolutely the highest in absolute player numbers.

Moreover, they're not fighting a goblin army thirty times our population, nor a terrifying weirdness filling the whole city, but magic beasts spreading over mountains and fields.

Or rather, experience! Loot! Exchange points! And money that you can't put down wherever you go!

"Brothers, the chance to get rich is here! Quick, ask for leave!"

【Boss, my mom said she just passed away—I'm a renowned filial son all around, so I must take leave for the next three days!】

Yeah boss, I'm also a well-known righteous man from the surrounding villages; his mother died, I'm heartbroken, let me also take three days off, go to the hospital to check my heart.

Boss, I just learned from the neighbor lady that Ah Gou is actually my long-lost brother; as his older sister, his mother died, I can't not go!

……

Boss (voice): "Ah……"

"It's fine, anyway the summer vacation peak is coming up; let's close the shop for the next three days, this won't happen again."

"Good good good!" x3

"By the way, I actually got a game pass a few days ago; I just reached level ten on my own, you veteran players, could you bring me along?"

However, before the veteran players could reply, the last person in the five-person work group jumped out.

"Wait a minute, when did you all get accounts?"

"What about me?"

"Damn it! Say something!"

But lively as it may be, if millions of Pioneers appeared together near Guanghui Capital, the first to be frightened would certainly not be the magic beasts, but the nobles in the city.

Therefore Ji Ming did not give players more version benefits; they still need to move themselves using various conventional means to reach their destination.

Even so, within an hour after the mission was released, the capital server still gained over a hundred thousand players in one go.

Although according to the mission description, as long as one finds a way to disperse the beast tide, even if the Hui Guang Kingdom is flattened, it still counts as a player victory.

But greed is human nature; the vast majority of players still took the obvious reward that could be greater as their goal of struggle.

So, together with the over one hundred thousand people already near the capital, at least two hundred thousand players rushed urgently to the northern part of the capital.

But although at this time the servers open to players were no longer just the southern, eastern, northern, and even western parts of the kingdom, they all had channels allowing them to enter the capital.

Moreover, even if players still cannot wildly expand their territory inside Qixia City, they can still purchase some land outside the city and establish their own bases and settlements.

Moreover, Qixia City itself is immensely huge, and the surrounding plains are boundless; thus, these two hundred thousand people poured in are actually not very conspicuous.

But this is Guanghui Capital; there are many fools, but even more wise people.

Therefore, as the Arc Light Duke, the archenemy of the Xiguang Duke, he quickly learned through his own information channels of the Pioneers' movements.

He hurriedly contacted those few Pioneer friends he had newly met as the Minister of Finance, wanting to know what had happened.

"Ah, this..."

Although the incident happened suddenly, in fact officials from various countries had already passed a draft concerning the Yangyue World relations at a meeting of the Adhesion Nations three months earlier.

The draft mainly recorded two consensuses: one, on major right-and-wrong issues in the other world, all Earth people have the duty to temporarily set aside all contradictions and unite together.

The other is that, in major diplomatic affairs with the various powers of Yangyue, all members of the Adhesion Nations have the duty to achieve a consensus as much as possible and as quickly as possible.

Therefore, although officials from each country have their own positions, they did not evade this matter, for if it is mishandled, it could very well become a diplomatic incident.

"What! The magic beasts in the royal hunting grounds are about to launch a beast tide?"

Although the Pioneer representative spoke clearly, the first thought that arose in the Arc Light Duke's mind was disbelief.

There's no way; if you just finished a night shift, slept soundly until evening, were about to get up and eat a hearty meal, but were suddenly interrupted by urgent knocking.

Irritably pulling open the door, you find it's a neighbor hard to judge, and moreover seriously says your cat is preparing to team up with the dog, using a double-barreled shotgun to broaden your mind; at that moment you surely think the same.

Sick?

The royal hunting ground has existed for five hundred years without any incident, and yet a beast tide—really, you guys could think of that!

Thus a smile appeared on Arc Light's face, just about to politely express "funnymudpee" in a noble manner.

With the sound of hurried footsteps, a messenger from the king arrived at Arc Light Duke's manor and reported a very important piece of information.

"My lord, the Xiguang Duke urgently reports: something has changed in the Fallen God Mountain Range; the magic beasts on the mountain may rebel!"

"Ah???"

"Duke, what were you just about to say?"

"I say…… I have always been the one who trusts my most loyal Pioneer friends the most! Everyone, let's join forces!"

Now with the endorsement of Grandpa Arc Light, the players' actions went more smoothly, and batches of professionals entered the royal hunting ground.

But even if their battle enthusiasm remained high, after a couple of rounds, more than two hours had already passed.

Therefore, when they finally reached the rest stop, they saw a sky-covering horde of fierce beasts, like a swarm having completed a troop surge, launching a frenzied assault on the human outpost.

Moreover, as the sun set westward, the dim twilight eventually shrouded the Hui Guang Plain, and also fell on the faces of the students from various academies inside the rest stop.

If it were usual times, this group of youths accustomed to eating, drinking, and playing might still be on one side recalling a nearly forgotten poem, and on the other side considering who to play a satisfying game of poker with tonight.

But now they can only anxiously hide behind cover, watching the mixed force of mountain patrollers, garrison knights, and school security personnel resist the beast tide's assault.

Fortunately, although there has never been an incident of attack, for the kingdom's glory this rest stop was built and maintained to the standard of a military fortress; otherwise they would have long been flattened by this bunch of damned fierce beasts.