Building a sect from scratch.

Chapter 16: As long as you can break through their defenses, you can kill them even with scraping.
"We did it! Master Er Gou! Second Senior Sister! We did it!"

The Jade Emperor excitedly said in the team chat: "The moment I was blown up, I saw a yellow shadow run away!"

"Yes, that tornado is gone, but..."

The Jade Emperor and Han Tiaotiao, who were imprisoned in a dark room as punishment for death, were unaware of the situation, but Wang Ergou and Zhao Qing stared wide-eyed at the shattered stone temple.

The black gale has indeed disappeared, replaced by a pitch-black world where you can't see your hand in front of your face!

Dark clouds covered the sky, obscuring the sun. Apart from the black clouds, no blue sky or sun could be seen, and a chilling black fog permeated the surroundings.

The black mist was like frost piercing into the bones, making people shiver uncontrollably. Wang Ergou and Zhao Qing quickly turned all five senses down to the lowest level, retaining only a few, such as smell and taste, at about 20%, before they seemed to come back to life. However, two debuffs, [Fear] and [Weakness], still appeared in their status bars.

[Fear]: [Recovery effect reduced by 100%, spell power greatly reduced.]

[Weakness]: [Weakness caused by the invasion of pathogenic factors, resulting in a slow loss of life.]

Wang Ergou asked with a serious expression, "What's going on?"

Zhao Qing cautiously held a speed-enhancing talisman and said, "I don't know, but it's never a good thing!"

The black mist quickly encroached on the vicinity of the two, and the visibility in the air became lower and lower. Zhao Qing circulated the spiritual energy in her body and activated the Heavenly Gang Divine Thunder Technique—a powerful bolt of lightning struck in front of her. The flash of lightning illuminated the surroundings for a moment, and a vacuum space seemed to appear around the lightning flash, causing the black mist to retreat!
efficient!

It seems that heavenly lightning has a restraining effect on this strange fog!
Before the two could ponder further, they saw a blurry human figure appear in the cracked area of ​​the stone temple, which was quite eerie.

"Holy crap! What's that!?"

"It's definitely not human!"

As Zhao Qing spoke, she gritted her teeth and unleashed another bolt of lightning—with her current level and cultivation, striking out two bolts of lightning was already the limit of her abilities!

This time, the eerie figure was even closer to the two! At the same time, perhaps by accident, the bolt of lightning struck precisely near the figure, and in the instant the lightning flashed, Wang Ergou and Zhao Qing also saw the figure's appearance—

It was a emaciated, black-faced corpse!
As the lightning struck the corpse, a stench wafted out, even more terrifying than durian stewed with stinky tofu and snail rice noodles. Even with both of them reducing their sense of smell to 20%, the stench still made them want to vomit!
"Why do I feel like this thing is even scarier than that Huang Gong thing?!"

Zhao Qing covered her nose and exchanged a glance with Wang Ergou. They then tacitly chose a direction and ran off in different directions.

This familiar scene filled Wang Ergou with grief and indignation. He posted two screenshots in the team channel: one of the black-faced corpse during the lightning flash, and the other of the identification of the black-faced corpse. Then he said bitterly, "Brothers, what a waste. We wasted so many resources, and in the end, we blasted out this thing!"

[Centennial Corpse]: [A corpse that has absorbed a century's worth of resentment. Because it was a Qi Refining stage cultivator in its previous life, it is more powerful than an ordinary corpse.]

"Ergou, don't panic, it looks like its health bar is showing!"

Han Tiaotiao was the first to type in the team chat, "Yeah, yeah, yeah! Second Senior Sister, try kiting it!"

Upon hearing this, Zhao Qing's heart stirred. As she ran, she took out a speed talisman from her game backpack, activated it with her spiritual power, and then turned and rushed towards the Yin Corpse that was relentlessly chasing Wang Ergou.

Once she got close, she used her remaining spiritual energy to condense a sword beam and shoot it out—this was the skill she initially unlocked, [Swordsmanship], which allows her to condense spiritual energy into sword energy for attack. It is considered one of the most sought-after skills that beginners can unlock, after all, which player wouldn't want to play with a powerful flying sword technique?

However, the power of the sword energy condensed by [Sword Technique] is limited. It only increases in power as the player's level and cultivation increase. Zhao Qing had previously either been accompanying Wang Ergou and his friends in their quest for hidden missions or was engrossed in practicing the "Heavenly Gang Divine Thunder Technique" after guiding her senior sister Baili Shuang's cultivation. She had basically no knowledge of [Sword Technique], making its destructive power pitiful.

So, after that sword light, which was all show and no substance, flew away, the Yin Corpse didn't even break its skin, and its health bar barely changed. Instead, it successfully attracted the opponent's hatred—the Yin Corpse turned around and abandoned Wang Ergou, chasing after Zhao Qing.

Fortunately, the corpse wasn't very fast; even Wang Ergou could barely keep up, let alone Zhao Qing, who had the [Swiftness] skill and used a speed talisman. However, after striking two bolts of lightning and using the [Swordsmanship] skill, Zhao Qing's mana bar was almost empty. The spiritual energy recovery speed that she could barely maintain with [Swiftness] was completely ruined by the effect of [Fear]. She could only eat the spiritual plants and herbs in her backpack, which had fewer side effects, to barely recover some spiritual energy, while running with the same effort she had when she sprinted 400 meters in her middle school entrance exam years ago.

Of course, what prompted her not to give up immediately was the scratch damage from the [Swordsmanship] skill!

Although it was barely perceptible, the BOSS's health bar did fluctuate!

"Quickly call for reinforcements! We can fight! Quickly call for reinforcements from all over the world!"

Zhao Qing screamed in the team chat, "This thing is so ugly! I can't stand it! Call for backup!!!"

Wang Ergou reacted the fastest. He immediately typed in the world chat with the speed of someone arguing with keyboard warriors on a forum: "Hidden quest boss has appeared! Come quick! If there are drops, we'll auction them off! If not, we'll give everyone 5 spirit stones!"

Spirit stones are the currency used by cultivators that Wang Ergou and his companions encountered while selling spiritual plants and herbs at Guangcheng Immortal Abode in Taiping Town these past few days. Although it is called "spirit stone", it is actually a block made of minerals formed from natural spiritual energy. It comes in various shapes, but the most commonly used is a square block about the size of a thumb, weighing about one or two ounces, which is considered the standard 1 spirit stone.

Wang Ergou dared to offer this price mainly because he was very lucky to have dug up a few good spiritual plants, which were worth several dozen spirit stones on the market. There were only 50 people in the closed beta, and at most a dozen or so were online, so he could get a share.

The combination of the words "hidden," "BOSS," and "spirit stone" was incredibly appealing. After only a few times of this, Wang Ergou's team invitations were overwhelmed.

Wang Ergou, who was indiscriminately releasing people, changed the team mode from a small squad of up to five people to a team that could accommodate 50 people. Then he spammed the team chat: "Attention everyone - gather at the blue dot on the map, brothers who are level 10 or above in the Qi Refining stage, take turns kiting the BOSS, everyone else, finish off from a distance! Prioritize survival! The BOSS can break its defense! Even a light scratch can kill it!"

"Roger that! Don't worry, Er Gou! I'm a seasoned gua sha master in the Rift!"

"Master Li? You're the one who always steals the tower and runs away, aren't you!"

"Get out of the way! I'm the top-ranked Gua Sha master in the Chinese server!"

Many players took advantage of the time they were traveling to chat and joke around in the team chat.

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(End of this chapter)