Absolute Destiny Game-Chapter 1186 - 34: Heavenly Venerate’s Invitation_3
"It’s just that good! Even better than this!" The Heavenly Venerate said firmly, but then his face fell, revealing a sorrowful expression, "It’s a pity, Heaven doesn’t fulfill people’s wishes. With so many good things, I... damn it, can’t get any of them!"
"Why can’t you get them?" Xiao Jie timely expressed his curiosity.
The Heavenly Venerate mysteriously looked around, even though there was no one else in the dream, he instinctively lowered his voice, as if worried about being heard by some invisible presence: "Do you know that the ’Jiuzhou World’ we’re in, compared to the vast ’Great Thousand Worlds’, is just a... Newbie Village!"
He held up three fingers and waved them in front of Xiao Jie: "And there are as many as three thousand known ’Newbie Villages’ like this! Each Newbie Village, if lucky, can have three to five, even a dozen Ascenders; if unlucky, maybe only one or two; some small worlds might not even have any Ascender!"
"This leads to a very realistic problem—" The Heavenly Venerate spread his hands, looking helpless, "Ascenders coming from the same small world naturally band together, forming groups to keep warm! The more people, the stronger they are, enabling them to team up to clear higher-level instances, challenge more powerful World Bosses, and get better treasures and resources. The monsters in the Great Thousand Worlds are super fierce! Many powerful Bosses are simply not a solo challenge, they must be defeated through team coordination.
Those who ascend in groups can naturally form teams to clear instances and Bosses."
He pointed at his own nose, looking woeful: "Like me, a solo player who came out of our ’Newbie Village’, I am weak and can only follow behind those large groups with many people, picking up the leftovers like scraps. Or, I can only solo some lone Little Monsters, get some trash Divine Artifacts, learn some Low-level Immortal Laws, and barely maintain my cultivation like this."
The Heavenly Venerate looked full of helplessness and bitterness, as if he had suffered a great injustice: "You might think, as a dignified Immortal, having Ascended before you, how could I end up this miserably? The problem is—every single player able to enter the Great Thousand Worlds from their respective small worlds is either a God or an Immortal! Which of them isn’t a dragon among men, with extraordinary Talent? The competition is too fierce! Ah, speaking more of it is just tears."
Saying this, he seemed to transform grief into appetite, picking up a glossy roasted pig’s trotter and viciously biting into it, as if gnawing at the bones of those big guild players.
Xiao Jie was momentarily speechless, his mouth twitching slightly. No matter how he thought about it, he didn’t expect such a reason from him. He always thought the Heavenly Venerate was the kind of hidden, scheming big villain plotting earth-shattering conspiracies, but didn’t expect his motive to be so... "simple and unadorned," even carrying a hint of the bitterness of a bottom-level player.
"So...everything you’ve done, stirring things up in the Jiuzhou World, is just to... increase future teammates?" Xiao Jie still found it hard to believe, confirming once again.
"That’s right! That’s the reason!" The Heavenly Venerate nodded vigorously, even stopping his pig trotter-eating action, eyes gleaming with a "you finally understand" light, "Having more people makes things easier! Hurry and foster a few Ascenders, at least we can get enough people to tackle five-person small instances, and not always be sidelined by those big guilds, or have to look at people’s expressions and get blacked on Equipment!
By then, we Earth players can band together, raid instances, farm Equipment, cultivate Immortal Laws, increase cultivation, explore unknown secret realms, share the Great Dao insights, jointly strive for the peak of the Immortal Road, isn’t that wonderful? That’s the truly Carefree Immortal path!"
Xiao Jie thought internally: Sounds impressive, can it really be that good? There’s always something that feels off. This Heavenly Venerate seems too "honest" and "urgent" in his expression.
"So, according to you, the Great Thousand Worlds... are they dangerous?" he asked a question he considered crucial. If it’s just about high game difficulty, it seems insufficient to explain some of the other’s behaviors.
"Dangerous? Wouldn’t call it very dangerous!" The Heavenly Venerate nonchalantly waved his hand, picked up a napkin and wiped his mouth, "Although the monsters there are indeed fierce, the instance mechanics complicated and difficult, team wipes, and failures are common, and it’s usual to die often. But Daoist friends, don’t forget, we are Immortals! Possessing the immortal Immortal Spirit Body, we can resurrect at any time! Even if accidentally wiped out, it’s just a few more corpse runs, losing some experience and cultivation, nothing much to worry about. Compared to the rewards there, the risks are completely acceptable."
However, in Xiao Jie’s heart, he was inwardly sneering: Haha, said so lightly.
Under normal circumstances, there’s no way for him to immediately verify the other’s words about the specific situation of the Great Thousand Worlds.
However, he knows very well, Immortals are not truly immortal! Just within this Jiuzhou World, he knows at least that the Netherworld Emperor possesses the power to completely kill an Immortal.
Moreover, he has personally seen and talked with refugees from the Great Thousand Worlds—the mentally unstable Earth Immortal Ma Yuan, and the North Sea Giant Kuo who has been to the Great Thousand Worlds! According to them, the Great Thousand Worlds is by no means some cultivation Heaven, but is filled with unknown terrors and calamities, to the extent that even an Earth Immortal like Ma Yuan could only flee in haste, seeking refuge here!
Looking at the Heavenly Venerate in front of him, pretending to be relaxed and deliberately downplaying the risks, Xiao Jie’s mind was racing, contemplating why the other hides the truth? Why not reveal the reality?
