Chapter 527: Night and Moon (5/10, Autumn Subscription)

People like Chen Mu and Lin Ling had no path forward, were at their wits' end, and could only practice whatever they could get their hands on.

At Fang Yue's current stage, he had room to choose, so naturally he would pick the Internal Energy Heart Method best suited to him and get it right in one go.

Besides, what attribute of Internal Energy Heart Method to cultivate was also related to one's personal constitution, talent, and other traits.

If one cultivated an Internal Energy Heart Method or Martial Technique that matched one's constitution and talent, one's cultivation speed would advance by leaps and bounds.

Of course, if one cultivated conflicting, incorrect Martial Arts, it would greatly slow one's progress and make learning extremely difficult.

As for what attribute Fang Yue had, even Lord Han couldn't tell.

Lord Han guessed that Fang Yue was a special Night Moon Tribe member, so if he cultivated Heart Methods or Martial Techniques related to Moon Attribute or Night Attribute, they should suit him better.

The fire-attribute Heart Method he was currently cultivating might be completely holding back Fang Yue's cultivation progress.

But Fang Yue had always cultivated very smoothly, so Lord Han had little confidence in his own guess.

Fang Yue of course didn't think he was some Night Moon Tribe member; he was just getting by on talent, and his fire-attribute Heart Method had always cultivated smoothly. Suddenly switching to specialize in Moon Attribute or Night Attribute Heart Methods might backfire.

Of course, if it was just a light try to test the waters, that could be considered.

Fang Yue had even specifically asked Lord Han what Moon Attribute Heart Methods or Night Attribute Martial Techniques were.

Lord Han's explanation was that the so-called Moon Attribute-related Martial Arts worked by leveraging the moon, using the power of moonlight to unleash the might of Martial Techniques or Heart Methods.

Night Attribute followed the same logic—a special type of Martial Arts that was utterly useless during the day, even weakening one's own strength, but greatly boosted strength, cultivation progress, and Martial Technique power at night.

Many strong cultivators who specialized in Night Attribute would lie around like corpses during the day and cultivate at night. A single night of cultivation for them equaled the results of ordinary people cultivating day and night for many days—compressing all cultivation results into the nighttime.

Since both Night Attribute and Moon Attribute Martial Arts could be cultivated at night, most martial artists specializing in this area practiced both, merely choosing to emphasize one direction.

For example, when there was no moonlight, Night Attribute Martial Arts could guarantee combat power. When there was moonlight, it would weaken the darkness of night and reduce the might of Night Attribute Martial Arts, but Moon Attribute Martial Arts could guarantee strong combat power.

Also, both feared strong light and were countered by light-type Martial Arts like fire attribute.

"Isn't that pretty trash?" was what Fang Yue had said at the time.

Fang Yue remembered it clearly. Lord Han had glanced at him and said flatly, "If they strike first with thunderous force, among those of the same level, no one can withstand their killing move. The emphasis is on a clean, decisive one-shot kill; it's not the type for prolonged battles."

Well, in short, it looked like plenty of limitations but also a powerful boost, very similar to Night Breathing, like an enhanced version in terms of might.

Of course, the terrifying recovery ability of Night Breathing was something this type of Martial Arts absolutely lacked.

Therefore, regarding Night Attribute and Moon Attribute Martial Arts, Fang Yue was still in a wait-and-see state, and hadn't decided on a direction for what Xiantian Realm Heart Method to learn.

In any case, for now he would first max out the Blazing Fire Heart Method, then use his merits to find out what advanced Heart Methods were available within the Green Division.

If that didn't work, he could use Lord Qi Ba Jiu's letter to demand an advanced Heart Method from the Blazing Fire Sect.

Back in his room, Fang Yue immediately began cultivating.

In the Underground Stronghold, in the Horse Seat's room, Fang Yue had scraped together a huge pile of cultivation-boosting pills.

Most importantly, none of them were low quality—they were all rare pills the Horse Seat had tried in various ways to break through his drug resistance.

After swallowing a big mouthful, Fang Yue immediately began cultivating.

With 5 Comprehension, paired with a pill-popping method that ignored pill poison.

Once the medicinal effects kicked in, Fang Yue felt like he was flying, flying like mad!

It's coming, it's coming, internal force is surging out!

……

Jing Yan silently logged out of the game, took the Yese Liming reversal post he had prepared earlier, edited it slightly into a clarification post, and sent it out.

Watching the waves of traffic being harvested below, Jing Yan let out a hehe laugh.

"Boss, what's got you so happy?"

"Boss, the number of leeks this batch has dropped. I feel like this game is starting to go downhill. Should our studio consider moving into a new game?"

Jing Yan was happily watching his sisters excitedly welcoming Yese Liming back to singlehood, rallying a fan support group, enjoying the show.

Hearing his subordinate say that, he immediately became a bit unhappy.

"What's the rush? This is our studio's first game. We barely got a foothold. Accumulate more capital instead of rushing offstage—that would be sick."

"Boss, I-I was just looking at the data and giving an opinion… my bad, my bad. Let's keep pushing, strive to squeeze out this game's potential, harvest a big swath of reputation, and then once the game is completely done for, we'll do a large-scale transfer of the studio's base."

"Mm, that's more like it."

Jing Yan nodded.

Although he himself was still very fond of this game, especially having just recently obtained the trinity Xiao Xuedou, feeling its future potential was limitless, and wishing he could soak in the game developing every day—where would he find the heart to switch games?

Besides, since this game launched, not a single new game had appeared on the market for over a month, as if this "Blue Ocean" was Tengli Group's final game.

Or rather, the market's final game.

Based on the information he had gathered, after Tengli Group released a new game, within a month they would release a new teaser, previewing the video and content of the next game to whet players' appetites.

They'd let players play for about a year, until they were about tired of the old game, then push out the new one, peppered with tabloid news, constant trailers, and an advertising blitz.

But this time, Tengli Group was unusually playing dead. After launching "Blue Ocean," aside from the scheduled sales of Game Watches, there were no other moves.

At the same time, no other company in the entire game market released any new games either, as if they were all clearing the way for "Blue Ocean."

This made many established studios very jealous of Jing Yan's new studio, which had risen to fame through "Blue Ocean," and they had even sent personal threats, which Jing Yan ignored.

In short, the hottest, newest game on the market right now was only "Blue Ocean," dominating alone.

Players either followed the crowd and played "Blue Ocean," or quit and went back to playing old games.

At the very beginning, "Blue Ocean" was so popular it could be said to have set the world on fire.

But now, over a month later, "Blue Ocean"'s extreme difficulty and painfully slow growth progress had deeply given players a sense of frustration.

(End of this chapter)