Living Only For Myself: Make Those Who Hate Me Regret It-Chapter 222: She Must Be Hopelessly Bad
Xu Su successfully made it to the Wuyou Valley map and found the Ice Beast. Before she could even marvel at her good luck, she grabbed her Iron Sword and started hacking away at it, only to find her health bar depleting faster than its.
’You have died’
Xu Su’s face darkened. She couldn’t believe it. ’I can’t even kill a starter mob.’ 𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞
After this happened several more times, she went to the game’s official forums in frustration. She dutifully read through a few posts to learn, and finally picked up some techniques, like how to control her character to dodge abilities. But she was still incredibly clumsy.
Staring angrily at the three large words ’You have died’ appearing for the tenth time, Xu Su stubbornly prepared to start over again.
Dammit!
’I refuse to believe I can’t even complete a starter quest!’
Before she could make a move, she suddenly noticed a man in white standing beside her corpse. His wide sleeves fluttered gently in the breeze as he held a Jade Flute, playing a soft melody.
Against the idyllic backdrop of Wuyou Valley, the man looked every bit the part of a reclusive master, especially when contrasted with her own Female Sword Immortal character, who was clad in drab, primitive gear.
"..." ’Have I become part of the scenery?’
Before Xu Su could even make a snarky comment, she noticed her character slowly begin to stir along with the melodious sound of the flute.
’Am I being resurrected?’
System: ’Emperor Si Xuan has revived you using the Soul Revival Song.’
Holy shit!
Xu Su watched, wide-eyed, as her character, who couldn’t have been more dead, stood up again, her health bar gradually refilling to full.
She clicked on the name of the man playing the Jade Flute.
Si Xuan.
She recognized that player’s name. She had just been browsing the official forums, and in the ten threads she’d scanned, his name had appeared at least seventy or eighty times in the replies.
Two of the top three trending threads on the official forums were about him.
Si Xuan, one of the three Emperors of the entire server, and the Sect Leader of the Qingxuan Sect.
The Qingxuan Sect was the number one of the three major sects in *Immortal Continent*.
In short, the man before her was a legend among legends in this game—one of the absolute top-tier players.
Xu Su had just been lamenting her terrible luck, getting wrecked over and over by a monster on a starter quest, and now she’d run into a legendary player...
’What kind of luck is this?!’
Xu Su tentatively sent him a message: "Hello, Great One. Thank you for saving my life." She even added a cute emoji from the chat window’s default options.
Si Xuan ignored her, his flute music never ceasing. Xu Su watched as the Ice Beast’s health bar dwindled to almost nothing. Only when a mere sliver of its health remained did he reply, "Kill it."
Xu Su quickly maneuvered her Female Sword Immortal to finish off the Ice Beast with her Iron Sword.
System Notification: Congratulations! You have slain the Ice Beast and completed the starter quest.
A pile of loot dropped on the ground. Xu Su stared at it awkwardly, feeling it hadn’t been her kill.
Si Xuan said, "Pick up the items and leave. The three major sects are holding a competition here today."
"..." Xu Su finally understood. ’This great player didn’t help me to do his good deed for the day. He was just annoyed that I was taking too long on a starter quest and getting in his way.’
She quickly picked up the starter rewards that had dropped: a set of red Mid-grade Feather Robes, a bottle of Initial-level Elixir Pills, a low-quality Immortal Sword, and an introductory Cultivation Method.
Although it was low-quality, the blade still shimmered with an iridescent light, looking countless times better than her current Iron Sword.
Xu Su was very satisfied. She thanked Si Xuan again. ’A player like him probably wouldn’t care about this stuff anyway,’ she thought, so she shamelessly took everything and left.
Before teleporting back to the city, Xu Su glanced at the back of the male immortal in the valley, a flush of mortification creeping up on her.
’I’m so terrible at this...’ The thought that a top-tier player had watched her get killed ten times by a starter mob made Xu Su feel inexplicably awful.
’It’s no different from the worst student in the class showing their failed test to the valedictorian!’
After the starter quest, having learned from her painful experience, Xu Su specifically sought out and carefully studied some gameplay tutorial posts.
There were many informative, stickied guides, and Xu Su studied them diligently. For the next two days, she was like a gaming addict, holed up in her study and playing constantly, only breaking for meals. At night, her student-like self-discipline would kick in, reminding her to review her lessons. Only then would she leave the study, pick up a pen, and quietly work on her assignments.
After grinding a few more quests, the system finally generated a Sect Quest.
Xu Su’s level was low, her skills were poor, and since she hadn’t spent any real money on the game, she couldn’t get into any of the major sects. Her only option was to join a small one and try to get by.
She even created a new messaging account specifically for adding game friends, though she had only just joined the sect and hadn’t met many people yet...
During this time, Zhou Mochen called her at least three times a day. Aside from the very first call—which Xu Su only answered to ask for the password—she didn’t pick up a single one of his calls over the next two days.
On the day Zhou Mochen returned, Xu Su was busy helping a senior from her sect with a quest.
The game *Immortal Continent* had many professions. Although the character Xu Su had chosen was a Sword Immortal, she could also become an Alchemist, Artifact Refiner, Array Master, or the like.
However, these profession quests only unlocked at a certain level, and Xu Su’s new character was still a long way from that.
This wasn’t a quest Xu Su had accepted herself; it was a "mutual assistance quest" for the sect. As a sect newcomer, she was doing it for one of the veterans.
The quest was to gather five types of medicinal herbs and refine a batch of Revitalizing Pills, which would allow the quest-giver to become a Level One Alchemist.
The quest was quite difficult, requiring travel across three different maps: Wuyou Valley, Forget Love Cliff, and the Netherworld Sea.
The game description for *Immortal Continent* was simple: "Experience the most authentic Immortal World."
And since it was an Immortal World, there was naturally a distinction between unaffiliated Loose Cultivators and Disciples who belonged to a sect.
To establish a sect, a player needed to be ranked in the top 100 on the PK leaderboard, which was updated once a month.
There were a total of one hundred sects on the entire server. The one Xu Su had joined was ranked ninety-eighth.
The number of sects in the game was fixed, and any player who wanted to do Sect Quests had to join one first. This led to very strict hierarchies within them. Even the small sect Xu Su had joined had distinctions between Elders, Outer Disciples, and True Disciples.
Xu Su’s new character was completely unremarkable. She wasn’t even considered an Outer Disciple, but merely a Registered Disciple—another name for which was "Servant."
In a sect, Servants had to obey not only the Elders and True Disciples, but even Outer Disciples could order them around to do odd jobs.
For instance, this time, Xu Su had been ordered by an Outer Disciple to go to the Netherworld Sea and find a Sunset Flower. She was told that upon completion, she would be rewarded with 10 gang points.
This Outer Disciple’s level wasn’t high enough to trigger a profession quest either. According to her, she was doing this quest on behalf of her master.
Her master was a Golden Core Cultivator and an Outer Elder of the sect.
Triggering the Level One Alchemist profession quest only after reaching the Golden Core Realm... in the *Immortal World*, such talent could only be described as mediocre.
