Living Only For Myself: Make Those Who Hate Me Regret It-Chapter 223: What Kind of Luck Is This...
Gang points could be exchanged within the sect for necessary Cultivation Techniques, Elixirs, and various weapon materials.
Xu Su had no idea what 10 gang points were worth. But the moment she heard there was a reward, she was all in. It was a quest specifically assigned by an Outer Disciple, and for an Elder no less. She happily steered her red-feather-robed Female Sword Immortal toward the Netherworld Sea.
She never stopped to consider how a little cultivator like herself, having just embarked on the path of cultivation, could possibly be of any help with a quest intended for the Golden Core Realm.
The Netherworld Sea was a dark-red sea, one of the forbidden zones in the Immortal World. Unless absolutely necessary, few players ever set foot here. Xu Su wandered the outskirts for a long time but couldn’t find a single other player.
The game’s graphics were hyper-realistic, with an ominous red glow covering half the screen. Xu Su felt inexplicably nervous. She controlled her character to search only along the periphery, not daring to go deeper. Even so, she noticed the health bar above her head was slowly decreasing.
Having learned her lesson from the starter quest, Xu Su specifically went to the official website and searched for the keyword "Sunset Flower." She then went to the specific locations mentioned in the guides where the flower had a high chance of spawning.
She searched three spots in a row but couldn’t find the legendary "Sunset Flower." The last location was a canyon near the Netherworld Sea. Xu Su hesitated...
Just then, in the chat box at the bottom right of the game screen, the Outer Disciple who had assigned the quest messaged her, asking for a progress update.
Xu Su didn’t have the heart to say she’d been busy for ages and hadn’t seen a single trace of the Sunset Flower. She sighed, had her character drink a Low-level Recovery Potion, and after watching her health bar refill, prepared to march resolutely into the Netherworld Sea.
Xu Su always kept the game volume on, but she hadn’t run into a single monster today, so her study had been silent. But just as she began guiding her character toward the inner region of the Netherworld Sea, she heard a piercing cry.
The sound was shrill, making her eardrums ache. Xu Su jumped in fright. Looking up, she saw a dark-red monster, dragon-like but not quite a dragon, writhing high in the air above the Netherworld Sea.
The monster was surrounded by four or five Cultivators, all standing in mid-air. There were both men and women. Xu Su found the white-robed figure in the lead to be somewhat familiar.
She watched as the person, holding a pitch-black sword, flicked their wrist. A flash of sword light, visible to the naked eye, shot out and sliced off one of the monster’s horns. The intense pain enraged the beast, and it thrashed about, stirring up massive waves in the Netherworld Sea.
Before Xu Su could react, she was drenched by the seawater. She watched helplessly as the health bar above her head plummeted. She frantically chugged Recovery Potions, but it wasn’t enough to keep up with how fast her health was dropping.
Damn it!
This is so unfair!
Xu Su was furious!
’We’re all players! They get to slay monsters with such flair, while I’m about to die just from getting splashed by seawater!’
Just as Xu Su was about to start cursing, the man in white flew over, sword in hand. He pointed a finger at her, and a golden light shot from his fingertip into her forehead. A golden protective shield appeared around the Female Sword Immortal, and her nearly depleted health bar instantly stopped dropping.
The Recovery Potions Xu Su had drunk finally took effect, and her health bar refilled before her eyes.
’I’m saved...’
’I don’t have to die...’
Xu Su let out a huge sigh of relief. In this game, dying meant losing a level. She had painstakingly managed to reach level ten in the last two days, becoming a Qi Refining First Level little cultivator. It was just enough to join a sect as a Servant. If she’d lost that level, she would have had to grind all the way back up again!
Just as she was about to thank him, the big shot named Si Xuan had already returned to the battlefield without leaving a single word.
Xu Su didn’t dare to move. She could only stand frozen in place, watching them fight the monster.
With nothing else to do, Xu Su clicked on each of their names one by one and searched for them on the forums.
’Anyone fighting alongside a pro like him can’t be a nobody,’ she thought.
Liu Yun Fairy, a Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivator, one of the four great Elders of the Qingxuan Sect. Her weapon was a bolt of Colorful Cloth.
Beiyue Taoist, a Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivator, one of the four great Elders of the Qingxuan Sect. He was a Sword Cultivator.
Nanyang Taoist, a Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivator, one of the four great Elders of the Qingxuan Sect. He was a Poison Cultivator.
You Shan Taoist, a Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivator, one of the four great Elders of the Qingxuan Sect. His weapon was a whip.
Xu Su was shocked. ’Have I stumbled into the Qingxuan Sect’s main headquarters?’
The Sect Leader of the Qingxuan Sect plus their four great Elders were all here.
’All just to fight this Red Dragon?’
’What kind of luck is this...’
The Qingxuan Sect’s operation this time must have been a secret. Xu Su scrolled through the forums but couldn’t find a single post about it.
Instead, she did come across a few posts about Si Xuan saving a new player in Wuyou Valley the day before yesterday.
Xu Su clicked on one and saw her own corpse, and next to it, the man in white holding a Jade Flute.
She numbly scrolled down. Most of the comments in the thread were discussing why Si Xuan had saved the player.
A disciple from the Qingxuan Sect had replied, explaining that it was the day of the competition between the three major sects. The place where the Ice Monster appeared happened to be in the Qingxuan Sect’s designated area.
This newbie was doing a starter quest, died, revived, died again, over and over—ten times in total. It took them more than a solid hour.
They were still hacking away at it right up until the competition was about to start.
Si Xuan probably couldn’t stand watching anymore, so he revived them and casually finished the starter quest for them.
The comments below were all a stream of "hahaha."
They were all laughing at what a dumbass could die ten times on a starter quest.
"..."
It was a hard feeling to describe. It was one thing for a total newbie like her to embarrass herself, but she never expected to be publicly shamed in front of the entire player base.
And now, thanks to Si Xuan, she had become a little bit famous in the game.
Xu Su stared with a blank expression, feeling completely numb.
Suddenly, there was the sound of something heavy hitting the water. The corpse of the monster that the Qingxuan Sect’s upper echelon had been besieging fell into the sea, and its shrill cries vanished.
Immediately after, a series of messages flooded the world chat, and a banner scrolled across the top of the game screen: Qingxuan Sect has completed the level eight sect quest, slaying the Netherworld Sea’s Red Flood Dragon. Obtained: one set of Immortal Grade Purple Illusion Gauze Robe, one scroll of Top Grade Heart Sutra, one Immortal Grade Elixir ’Broken Mirror Pill’, one piece of Divine-level Refining Material.
Immortal World was already the hottest online game at the moment, and now, the world chat exploded.
[World/Qian Qian: HOLY SHIT, the Qingxuan Sect is already on their level eight sect quest? I thought the Ancient Immortal Sect was still on level six?]
[World/Gu Deng Chang Tan: As expected of the number one sect in the entire server! The Qingxuan Sect, founded by Emperor Si Xuan, is miles ahead of the Immortal Gates established by the other two Emperors.]
[World/Yun Yi San, Feng Yi Jin: Divine-level Refining Material! If I’m not mistaken, this is the first time a divine-level material has ever dropped in this game, right? Even Si Xuan’s weapon, the Green Profound Sword, is only Heavenly-level Top Grade!]
[World/Sui Xin Pei: I didn’t hear a peep about this beforehand! The top players were actually grinding quests in the Netherworld Sea? That place is bad news, almost nobody goes there!]
