Cultivating Through The Game-Chapter 506 - 296: Reputation System

"How do you gain reputation?" Lu Yu asked.

"By completing tasks," Su Peng replied. "Reputation is essentially fame. The more famous you are, the stronger you are perceived to be. Reputation plays a very important role once you enter the outland battleground."

"Do you remember I told you that the experience points gained in the outland battleground can be doubled, even increased tenfold?" Su Peng looked at Lu Yu.

Lu Yu nodded, "Yes, I remember. Is reputation related to experience points?"

"Exactly." Su Peng gave a thumbs-up and said, "The higher your reputation, the more experience points you get as a bonus. So, make sure to work on gaining reputation before entering the outland battleground!"

"Here’s a little trick: the more ’exaggerated’ your performance during tasks, the more reputation you earn."

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The next day, in a valley seven hundred miles outside of Panshan City, Lu Yu stood at the edge, watching the crowd below besiege a high-level Mystic Creature double-headed ancient winged snake.

This beast contained the bloodline of the ancient monstrous hydra, making it far stronger than ordinary mystic creatures. It possessed both poison and water demonic powers, causing the besieging crowd to struggle awkwardly.

Having occupied the Poisonous Mist Valley, the double-headed ancient winged snake had attacked six nearby villages and towns during a dark season, resulting in significant casualties. Now, the team Lu Yu was with had taken the task to eliminate it.

Sizzling~ The purple poisonous mist corroded the air, making sizzling sounds. The Poisonous Mist Valley had long lacked trees with leaves, leaving only mutated poison trees that survived in the mist.

Even a slight touch of the trees, flowers, or grass in the Poisonous Mist Valley could introduce toxins into the body. Fighting in the double-headed ancient winged snake’s domain, the crowd was hesitant and cautious.

Splurt~ A stream of purple water sprayed out, and the crowd quickly dodged, not daring to let the toxic droplets land on them.

As a Martial Cultivator at the ninth layer of the Qi Sea Realm, Lu Yu was temporarily assigned to this squad, which consisted mostly of mid-stage Qi Sea Realm members, with the captain being at the seventh layer.

Honestly, the average strength of this squad was quite different from Lu Yu’s, even in terms of outwardly displayed strength.

However, those responsible for squad assignments at the Celestial Wind Camp believed that people from other places were generally weaker than the students from the Celestial Wind Academy. Even though Lu Yu showed the ninth layer of the Qi Sea Realm, they considered it on par with the seventh or eighth-layer elite students of the Celestial Wind Academy.

Hence, he was placed in this seemingly ’weak’ squad. Of course, relative to other newcomers, his squad might have the strongest overall strength.

He stood watching from the side not because he was being passive but because the captain wanted Lu Yu to first observe the squad’s combat methods, to familiarize himself with their strategies. Otherwise, joining the squad at once during such a high-difficulty task might disrupt the pace of others, which would be detrimental to combat.

After watching for a while, Lu Yu almost understood their combat strategy. The strongest captain held off the double-headed ancient winged snake’s attacks, while the others attacked from the sides and rear.

Behind the captain was a Martial Cultivator skilled in defense, ready to step in as needed. Another, adept in spells, boosted the squad members’ combat states and used magic to restrain the snake.

Two members attacked from afar using bows and arrows, while three or four engaged in close combat.

After watching, Lu Yu recalled what Su Peng had told him about needing to be ’exaggerated.’ He roughly understood what it meant.

Secretly and quietly killing an enemy certainly wouldn’t draw as much attention as openly and forcefully crushing a powerful foe under the gaze of many.

Honestly, Lu Yu didn’t really want to stand out. His principle was to make a fortune quietly.

But for now, in order to quickly enter the outland battleground, he had to display some of his strength.

Seeing that the crowd was unable to inflict any effective damage on the double-headed ancient winged snake, and the snake, sensing danger around, kept charging left and right, trying to break through the encirclement.

"Show appropriate... overwhelming... power." Lu Yu fixed his gaze on the double-headed ancient winged snake, his knees slowly bending, his blood rapidly flowing, his powerful heart driving the Qi Blood through his body, strength bursting from his legs.

Bang~ Lu Yu’s figure disappeared from the edge of the valley.

The moment Lu Yu stared at the double-headed ancient winged snake, it felt as if it was being watched by a predator, a sense of death-induced fear overwhelming it. It erupted with all its strength, deep-purple and watery-blue demonic power enveloping its entire body.

It rammed past the captain standing in its way and charged skyward at full speed, seeking to flee.

The captain, knocked aside, reacted with alarm, realizing they had underestimated the snake’s power. Seeing it head towards the few others behind him, his eyes widened with urgency, desperately trying to stop his backwards flight and intercept the snake.

Having been knocked aside by the eruptive force of the double-headed ancient winged snake, the others would likely be killed on impact, considering it was a high-level Mystic Creature.

Boom! The just-ascending double-headed ancient winged snake was smashed back to the ground by a blazing red meteor. Ignoring the beast’s demonic power cloaking it, Lu Yu firmly grasped the necks of the snake and yanked forcefully.

Rip~ The double-headed ancient winged snake, its body incredibly resilient and resistant even to sixth-grade spiritual weapons, was torn in half by Lu Yu, its innards spilling all over the ground.

Casually tossing the barely alive snake to the ground, the divided body of the double-headed ancient winged snake twitched for a moment, glancing at Lu Yu with wide, unwilling eyes, before dying.