Chapter 767: Bizarre System Notices (6/10, please subscribe)

Fang Yue stared in confusion at the black silk coiling from behind onto his arm.

At the flick of his will, the black silk changed at will—the black lines could grow thick or thin, large or small, and even shift form.

Feeling this strange texture, along with the various bizarre changes happening in his body right now.

A terrifying thought rose unbidden in his mind.

Could it be… the system from the game works in reality too??

Over the past two days, Fang Yue had done only one thing—killed the cheater Su Bairong.

Although Su Bairong's strength, at the moment of his death, had recovered to the level of an immortal, his actual realm was genuinely that of an immortal!

In other words, at that moment, I killed an immortal-level powerhouse in reality! And then my strength in the game changed along with it!

This thought made Fang Yue feel a chill run down his spine, and even his hands trembled a little.

An uncontrollable, terrifying notion rose in his heart—after all, Cheater Base has a whole bunch of immortals lying around!

If I killed them all…

Hiss—

The devilish thought was immediately suppressed by himself; Fang Yue took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down.

【Kill them! Kill them! Start with the old witch!!】

【Go wild! Go wild! Let's join forces and become demon lords of chaos!!】

Shut up!

Fang Yue ignored the parchment's heckling.

Killing an immortal is certainly thrilling, but for the black substance to slay an immortal is no easy feat—Fang Yue clearly remembered that when he only used Ghost Value, he couldn't deal a fatal wound to Su Bairong; it was only by using the parchment to boost his power to Rain Level that he truly cut him down.

If he were to unleash the parchment's Rain Level power once more in reality, Fang Yue suspected that before he could even enjoy the benefits of slaying an immortal, he'd be dead on the spot—turned into a human-shaped parchment, keeping the parchment company.

And the initial ability to deal a fatal wound to Su Bairong relied entirely on the enchantment of 【Immortal-Slaying Water】.

The effect of Immortal-Slaying Water is the real deal, but an ordinary ghost artifact can only unleash it twice before completely being unable to withstand the power of Immortal-Slaying Water.

Most importantly… Immortal-Slaying Water is exclusive to the Alliance, and he can't get his hands on it.

Suppressing the devilish impulse to slay immortals in his heart, Fang Yue gradually calmed down.

For now, it's unclear whether his current increase in strength has anything to do with slaying immortals—no rash moves.

Wait!

Since slaying immortals in reality yields gains in the game, could it be that…

Fang Yue pondered, murmuring in his heart.

"Open system message log."

"…"

Why no response? Did I guess wrong?

Just as Fang Yue was thinking this, the system, as if performing some massive calculation, responded a beat late and suddenly popped up a message.

"System Notice: Congratulations to player 【Yese Liming】 for killing 【???】, Comprehension +??."

"System Notice: Congratulations to player 【Yese Liming】 for killing 【???】, reward Control +??, Deflection +??, Lifespan +?? years, 【Ghost Realm】 progress +?? %."

"System Notice: Congratulations to player 【Yese Liming】, 【Ghost Realm】 has reached 100%, 【Ghost Realm】 has advanced to 【Disaster Level Mid】!"

"System Notice: Congratulations to player 【Yese Liming】 for killing 【???】, 【Ghost Membrane】 has undergone a special mutation and evolved—【Ghost Ring】!"

"System Notice: System display error, system correcting!"

"System Notice: System display error, system correcting!"

On the virtual screen, this single line was spamming wildly, as if invaded by a virus.

Fang Yue got a fright, his heart giving a sudden jolt.

Could the system have crashed?

Indeed, asking it to calculate something that happened in reality is a bit cross-domain…

Just as Fang Yue was thinking this, he saw the spamming message bar suddenly pause for two seconds, and like an old computer, the cursor blinked slowly, spitting out text one character at a time.

"System Notice: System display error, system correction successful!"

Almost the instant this message popped up, a flood of messages came pouring out.

"System Notice: Congratulations to player 【Yese Liming】, Control value has reached the realm cap, converted into 【Realm Breakthrough Progress】."

"System Notice: Congratulations to player 【Yese Liming】, Control value… 【Realm Breakthrough Progress】."

"System Notice: Congratulations to player 【Yese Liming】 on your cultivation progress, 【Realm Breakthrough Progress】 increased: 100%."

"System Notice: Congratulations to player 【Yese Liming】 on your cultivation progress, 【Realm Breakthrough Progress】 has reached 100%, breakthrough achieved!"

"System Notice: Congratulations to player on breaking through to 【Human Level Initial】 realm, advancing to 【Human Level Mid】 realm, reward HP +7000, reward Control +5000, Deflection +5000, Lifespan +40 years."

"System Notice: Congratulations to player 【Yese Liming】, 【Realm Breakthrough Progress】 has reached 100%, accumulated strength bursting forth, realm breakthrough achieved, reward special attribute 【Comprehension】 +3."

"System Notice: Congratulations to player 【Yese Liming】, under 【Full Attribute】 conditions, accumulated strength bursting forth, realm breakthrough achieved, reward special attribute 【Comprehension】 +3."

Clearly he had advanced, yet Fang Yue felt no change in his own strength.

Sensing carefully, he realized that from the moment he entered the game, his strength had already been at Human Level Mid!

No! Perhaps even earlier… after Su Bairong died and that clump of black particles entered his body, he might have already undergone a silent change in strength.

However… it's very strange—unlike the natural and smooth advancement boost in the game.

The black particles entering the body brought a harsh, tormenting, almost maddening pain, utterly different from the usual feeling of gaining power and advancing in the game!

What this implies, Fang Yue could not know.

He only felt that gaining realm advancement and strength boosts in the game was easier to accept, the process gentler and steadier.

Additionally, through this series of delayed system notices, Fang Yue also vaguely realized something.

And that is… system messages are merely auxiliary information!

The changes to his body were the real, tangible thing!

Clearly the system hadn't yet popped up those system messages — no notification that he'd broken through a realm, no notification that the 【Weird Membrane】 had undergone a special mutation into a 【Weird Ring】 — yet everything had already happened; his strength in the game had already reached this level.

And the system information only Synchronized and retrieved his actual strength a beat later, updating the data!

Fang Yue narrowed his eyes. He wasn't all that clever, but he vaguely sensed that the changes in these few short seconds seemed to contain some kind of important information.

Could it be… that the so-called 【System】 is also a kind of… Transcendence-level Weird??

That thought startled even Fang Yue himself — a special Weird that parasitizes all players, monitoring every piece of information on every player in real time! And then, recalling how a player's body comes into being in the first place…

Fang Yue didn't dare think further, because it was too complicated, and there wasn't a single thread to pull on.

No!

There was still a thread or two…

In Fang Yue's mind, that existence surfaced!

Transcendence-level Weird… the Black-Green Weird!

(End of this chapter)