Ch77 - Su Xuanyan? Who is that? (1/2)

6.6 – Su Xuanyan? Who is that?

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The sects had been preparing for the recruitment fair for half a month now, which was enough time for players to get out of the novice village, choose their profession, and gain a good understanding of which sect they wanted to join.

After experiencing the novice village, players had become thoroughly familiar with the rules of Jiuzhou, and were all very reasonable with the NPCs and so on. They all worked hard at staying in character in order not to let others see flaws in their behaviour. As they became more and more comfortable with the game, the world channel also became more lively. Player rankings had already come out, and listed things such as level, weapon, wealth, etc. There were many rankings, and the level ranking that everyone loved to pay attention to was topped by a human race player that many people had already heard of by now: Thousand Miles Without Pause.

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In the second place was a demon race god named Xue Ling, who was the same level as Thousand Miles Without Pause, but ranked below him because the first character of his name was later on in the alphabet.

That’s right. This time, Xue Ling did not copy the original string of data and directly call himself ‘Snow Fox’. He thought back and forth and felt that any name he came up with sounded strange, so he simply used his own name to register as nobody knew him anyway.

The third person in this sect recruitment that also attracted much attention was another great god called Depth of Despair. Because he chose the Ten Thousand Sword Sect, but the single priority quota had been taken away by Xue Ling, he could only choose to participate in the recruitment fair. In the future, he would be a senior disciple of the Ten Thousand Sword Sect, and his dao name would be Yuan Chuan.

Going down the list, many other top performers on the rankings had all been given preferential places and became high-ranking disciples of other sects, so they did not participate in this recruitment event. This also allowed many people to breathe a sigh of relief. After all, they would only lose miserably when compared to the great gods.

Sect recruitment here was unlike the affairs organized in novels, where people would be accepted based on their spiritual roots. Since the people here were all players, if they based entry by cultivation ability, those who did not have a spiritual root would complain.

In the land of Jiuzhou, as long as players had the intention of cultivating, they would be accepted. The sects were not choosing from children and planning to train them up from a small age; in reality the recruitment event was a large scale arena competition, where players joined the competition platform of the sect that they wanted to enter. The person who lasted the longest in each sect’s competition platform then became that sect’s senior disciple, and they would be accepted as a sect’s true line disciple and personally taught by the sect leader. After that, the elders of the sect would also pick direct disciples based on their development potential and divide everyone into inner or outer disciples. If players were not satisfied, they could level up and try again later. As long as they could win, they would enter the inner sect.

This was definitely a world that respected strength.

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The world channel was packed, with words scrolling off the screen almost as soon as they appeared. There were players who had come to watch the show, and players who were tense as they waited to fight on the platform. The crowd who came just to eat melon seeds and spectate was incredibly large as many people were very interested in the big event that was happening today.

After all, people who played games all wanted to be stimulated.

[ Very Fortunate: (⊙0⊙) The nine competition platforms have already been raised up. Is it time for the NPCs to come out next? ]

[ Don’t Let Happiness Escape: I read the introduction to the nine main sects earlier. I want to join all of them even though I’m just a level 11 weakling! I only realized after leaving the novice village how wonderful the novice village quests were and how plentiful the experience was. QAQ My level’s not rising anymore once I left the village. ]

[ Buried Love Turns Into Butterflies: (-i_-｀) Nonsense, you can see that the number one player on the listings is only level 17. Those should be great gods that have already joined a sect. ]

[ After Midnight: No way, great god Depth of Despair hasn’t joined a sect yet. That means that joining or not joining a sect does not have any great impact on your level. It’s just that all of you are too noob. ]

[ Reminiscence About the Past: As one of the noob players, I am left speechless. ]

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[ Dreaming of the Midnight Moon: I’m so happy, we can probably see some great gods today~ When I think of being able to see Xue Ling again, my heart begins to jump~~ ]

[ October Return: (ˉ﹃ˉ) The legendary first beauty of the demon race? ]

[ Newly Married: Truly a great beauty~ The closer we are to the time, the more agitated my heart is~~~ ]

[ Mountain Mists: Really that attractive? ]

[ Disregarded: (*/w＼*) Heh heh. Take a look and you’ll know~ ]

As the competition arenas rose out of the water, the nine big ships that belonged to the nine large sects also descended from the sky and landed on the surface of the water. Many members from each sect appeared on the decks, and all of a sudden, people’s eyes could not turn fast enough to take in the entire scene.

[ Knock on Clouds: (￣.￣) Why are the all old men… ]

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[ Joy and Sorrow: Supposedly, all the high cultivation, powerful NPCs that are not old are all elders of the sects. They are unwilling to help manage miscellaneous things within the big sects because it would delay their training and cultivation. ]

[ Yan Yan: Dog Yan wants to express that there is no love. ]

After the sect members appeared, some elders and disciples also came out behind them. Han Wuzheng was not present, so the sect leader volunteered to bring his younger martial-brother with him and did not appear with the first batch of sect members. Instead, he accompanied Xue Ling, explaining things for him as they stepped out onto the deck.

Before they came out, there was already an uproar because Thousand Miles Without Pause had appeared in Tianxuan Gate. The melon seed eating spectators on the shore could see things very clearly as they had their camera function on and zoomed in to the max to try and take pictures of the protagonist gong’s handsome and heroic face. But, after they snapped the pictures, they were warned by the system about infringing on people’s privacy and the photos were directly deleted.

This was a sad thing for everyone. Many people even went straight to the world channel to cry.

They weren’t even allowed to take photos of the experts in the game – were the developers worried that they would photoshop them and make them viral?! Big gods, don’t be like that! You’re so attractive!!

When Xue Ling stepped on the deck, he was noticed by some people who were looking in the direction of the Ten Thousand Sword Sect. There was a few seconds of silence, followed by screams as the girls began to call out.

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Xue Ling remained unmoved by their reactions. He kept his face cold and expressionless as he quietly observed the other big ships. Many people on the ships were looking at him; some were stunned, some seemed to have some intent in their gazes, while others…

For just a moment, Xue Ling was stunned in place.