The Demonic World I designed-Chapter 692 - 682: The Secret of Zi Yue!

"Troublesome?"

Chen Qing was somewhat surprised that Zi Yue would speak to him alone, feeling slightly uneasy. The Shen Family members were all very clever; it stood to reason that they shouldn’t be avoiding him when discussing important matters. If they were avoiding him, it meant that there were things not fit for them to hear, and the only matters unfit for the Shen Family’s ears now were those concerning players.

Indeed...

Chen Qing looked at her seriously, "Does it have to do with the players and the Heavenly Master Mansion?"

Zi Yue nodded, "And not just any ordinary players."

"Oh?" Chen Qing was stunned. It was the first time he heard Zi Yue talk about such matters and he was very puzzled. If that was the case, why mention it to him only now?

Zi Yue slowly found a seat and sat down, closing her eyes as if to recall something. Chen Qing did not urge her, sensing that Zi Yue’s breathing was uneven. She was someone who remained calm in the face of many issues, yet now she presented such a posture, indicating that what she had experienced back then was no small trauma.

"Initially... when I first arrived, I was born in that place. Those people had a very special method that could instantly track our kind of transmigrators. I still haven’t figured out how they did it, but I do know that at that time, many of my kin, like me, were taken by them for experiments..."

"This... to detect Reincarnators?" Chen Qing was shocked. This was a huge discovery. If the guild players had this ability, things wouldn’t be so troublesome now. They wouldn’t need to overtly exploit newcomers; they could completely dominate and manage everything.

To accomplish what the world’s most powerful ancient guild, having experienced several rebirths, could not—was done by a group of Magicians?

Something was off... very off...

Chen Qing had a very ominous feeling.

"Then what happened?"

"I was experimented on for many years in that place, mastering many novel Techniques," Zi Yue said in a low voice. "They could capture Reincarnators but still didn’t know the identities of Reincarnators. They didn’t realize back then that I was actually from the original group of designers, so I knew that many of the Techniques they experimented with were... the Otherworldly Forbidden Arts that shouldn’t exist, at least not in the current version of the game."

Chen Qing: "....."

This revelation... sent a jolt through him.

He had been puzzled for quite some time. The powers and Techniques Zi Yue possessed were unheard of by Chen Qing, particularly those from the first version, which could change the colors of the sky. That power clearly should not originate from the current first-version Techniques.

At the time, he thought that the Techniques of this world had developed to that extent. Now it seemed not so; what Zi Yue possessed... were actually the Otherworldly Forbidden Arts!

"Very few people can use the Otherworldly Forbidden Arts; at least the locals can’t. It’s simple for players to use them because in the original game version, there were advantages given to the old players, so this legacy wasn’t completely prohibited, right?"

Chen Qing nodded; the game he designed was very difficult, and many old players chose to restart. To favor these experienced old players, Chen Qing allowed them to exploit loopholes, provided they could find them. He considered it part of the game’s fun.

But in the game’s inherent setting, the Otherworldly Forbidden Arts were something from the fourth version, which the people of this version should not know or touch, except for the players.

This was a game loophole, yet it had been exploited by an organization of Magicians...

What was the background of this Magician organization?

Why did they know that players could use those things? And even specifically started capturing and using players for experiments...

"You must have a lot of questions in your mind," Zi Yue took a breath and said, "To be honest, I didn’t find the truth back then. According to my years of searching through history, after the first cycle, there was no Sorcerer Dynasty left; all the ancient powers had their vassal families, and the surviving Sorcerer Families were all left by ancient forces. The major families were obsessed with the longevity of ancients, so there would not have been a Sorcerer Dynasty from the first cycle."

"But this cycle was very different. During a very special period, when the Earth Spirit was fading and the four great guilds had not yet started their layout, when the older generation of players had not yet realized it, a mysterious organization rose rapidly and quickly established a Sorcerer Dynasty!"

Chen Qing was taken aback, "You mean, while the guild players happened not to be reincarnated during that gap, the Sorcerer Dynasty was established? Such precise timing?"

"From the information I’ve collected, it indeed seems to be the case," Zi Yue narrowed her eyes. "Those who have come into contact with the Sorcerer Dynasty are all new players. The older generation of players, after awakening, completely failed to notice this entity’s emergence. However, they are all very wary of it."

"Why the caution?"

"Because the time of the Sorcerer Dynasty’s collapse is also quite interesting," Zi Yue sneered. "It just so happens to coincide with the period when the four major guilds had laid out their plans for awakening. In other words... just as the older generation of players awakened, that dynasty suddenly collapsed!"

"Didn’t the guild players investigate?" Chen Qing frowned. The collapse of the Sorcerer Dynasty had been nearly ten thousand years ago.

"That’s what’s terrifying. In these ten thousand years, I haven’t been able to find any trace, and neither have those guild players!" Zi Yue said solemnly. "The Sorcerer Families involved with the Sorcerer Dynasty back then either had their informed members silenced or the whole family disappeared. The only one that holds the clues is the Zhang Family of Tiandu."

"Hasn’t anyone gone after the Zhang Family?"

"Someone did..." Zi Yue said in a low voice. "As far as I know, the guild players once used Extraordinary Artifacts to trouble the Zhang Family..."

"It seems like the results weren’t very good."

"Yes, not one of them ended well. It’s said that they left behind a lot of valuable artifacts there and lost many hands. It was precisely that loss that caused subsequent schemes to fall into disarray, allowing Qin King’s forces the opportunity to rise."

"That powerful?" Chen Qing was genuinely astonished this time.

Extraordinary Artifacts, if used regardless of the consequences, should be able to exert considerable extraordinary power in this version of the world. Yet all were lost—just how powerful were the means of the Zhang Family?

"That’s why the guild players chose to bide their time, waiting for the Earth Spirit to revive, planning to let the higher-ups awaken and then go back to trouble the Zhang Family. I’m actually curious too. When the version updates and the Earth Spirit revives, just how will the Zhang Family face those ancient forces? During the Dragon Palace incident, I thought they would take action but they didn’t. Even now, with the Earth Spirit revival at this stage, they still haven’t moved. I almost thought they planned to slip away quietly, but who would have thought they would openly initiate the Heavenly Master selection at this time!"

"Right..." Chen Qing felt a heavy concern. This trouble seemed exceptional.

The selection for the Heavenly Master, suddenly initiated at this time, was undoubtedly because the Sorcerer Dynasty’s forces were ready to stir the pot. A force that could cause the guild players to stumble could not be understated.

And, their target was actually Zi Yue!

"Why did they invite you?" Chen Qing frowned. "Is it just because you possess the Otherworldly Forbidden Arts?"

"I don’t know..." Zi Yue shook her head. "Back then... quite a few people succeeded in the experiment with me, and at least hundreds survived in the end. But for some reason, those people mysteriously disappeared later on, everyone except me. I’ve never encountered any trouble."

"Haven’t you been constantly pursued?" Chen Qing frowned. "Tianji said so."

"Yes... up to today, I’ve felt the pursuit has never stopped, but..." Zi Yue looked at Chen Qing seriously. "To be honest, even now, I don’t know how I’ve managed to evade those assassins."

"What do you mean?" Chen Qing was taken aback.

"Once, when I was serving under the King of Qin, I remember Tianji once said there was a strange power. At that time, nobody around could save me, everyone thought I was dead... Even the King of Qin, who possessed the power of the Otherworldly Demon Statues, couldn’t intervene against this ancient force. Yet, in the end, I survived."

"How did you survive?" Chen Qing asked urgently.

"I don’t know..." Zi Yue shook her head. "I have no memory of it, but somehow, the next day, I was fine, appearing before everyone."

"You mean, there’s another you in your body?" Chen Qing immediately thought of this possibility.

"No..." Zi Yue shook her head. "There isn’t another me. I was dead, everyone saw me die, but the next day I would just reappear before everyone, unharmed."

Chen Qing: "....."

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