Building a sect from scratch.

Chapter 39 Dungeon Unlocked and New Quests
Congratulations to players [Lu Renya], [Jade Emperor], [Wang Ergou]... for completing the prerequisite quest [Slaying Demons in the Cold Pool]! A brand new dungeon gameplay mode is now available!

Congratulations to all players on unlocking the level 20 dungeon [Frosty Pool Cave]! (This dungeon is currently under maintenance; countdown to opening: 00:29:59). There are no level restrictions for entering the dungeon, but players level 15 and above are still recommended. Defeating the dungeon boss will earn players Sect Prestige Points, which can be used to exchange for sect-exclusive equipment with special effects, high-level elixirs, and other rare items and goods. The Sect Prestige Point Shop is currently under maintenance (countdown to opening: 00:29:59). Please click the map search to view the shop's location coordinates.)

Two yellow notices suddenly popped up in the world chat, and then Wang Ergou's personal information notification also appeared in front of his eyes.

Congratulations on completing the hidden quest "Slaying Demons in the Frozen Pool". Quest rewards: 500 Sect Prestige Points, 5000 Exp.

Leaving aside the concept of 500 sect prestige points, 5000 experience points are enough to level up more than once! Wang Ergou excitedly watched as his level jumped directly from 15 to 16 after receiving the reward, and he was less than a fifth away from level 17!

The location of this hidden quest is a real pain to find, but the rewards are fantastic!

While players were excited, many also raised questions: "Why didn't the boss drop any loot this time?"

One player with a good grasp of self-deception speculated: "Maybe it's because this isn't a serendipitous encounter or a hidden quest, but rather a prerequisite for some dungeon?"

"That's possible! And this boss gives a lot of experience points! I leveled up twice!"

"Then your level is low, I've only leveled up once..."

Seeing that the huge whirlpool in the icy pool was obscured by a mist that appeared out of nowhere, the players were temporarily unable to get close. Every time they approached, a prompt would appear on their faces: [The dungeon [Icy Pool Cave] is under maintenance. Please try to enter again later].

As a result, the players didn't even get to retrieve the corpse of the BOSS that died in the icy pool, and there were no loot drops at all, which made the players very unhappy!

Strictly speaking, this was still Fang Xianyu's intention.

Although "Ten Continents Chronicles" is nominally a game, it is ultimately a real world. It's impossible to obtain anything every time you kill a monster. As the number of players increases, Fang Xianyu can't monitor all players and replenish their "drops" in real time. Therefore, players must adapt to the situation where they work hard to kill monsters but get no drops.

Of course, players didn't gain nothing. For example, the "virtual currency" of prestige and experience points was a patch that Fang Xianyu applied. As long as they participated in killing hostile targets of corresponding strength, a restriction within the puppets controlled by the players would be sensed and then acted on the interdimensional world network database designed by Fang Xianyu, generating timely feedback on prestige and experience points.

For this boss fight, based on the timely feedback from the restriction sensing, each participating player can receive 500 sect prestige points and 5000 experience points, which is already a very generous reward!

Of course, part of the reason was that Fang Xianyu never expected the players to kill Xi Mo in one hit!

What a joke! That's a Nascent Soul level Demon of the Xi! In the Nine Netherworld, that's considered a mid-level demon! Let alone the level of those idiot Qi Refining stage players, even Fang Xianyu himself wouldn't be able to withstand a single blow from that Demon of the Xi!
But the players' clever maneuver actually killed the demon in one fell swoop!
In fact, Fang Xianyu didn't even realize what was happening until after Xi Mo died! It wasn't until the Nine Nether Passage began to be exposed that she frantically started patching things up.

To be honest, although lightning talismans are very powerful, they are not powerful enough to kill a mid-level demon with a Nascent Soul cultivation level. The lightning talismans drawn by players themselves, which are of varying quality, cannot even kill a Golden Core cultivator!

But the quantity is too large!

The combined effect of five thunder talismans is more than just the sum of their individual properties!

Anyone who frequently uses lightning to strike people knows that the destructive power of lightning strikes on the surface of water is terrifying. More importantly, water conducts electricity—this means that the area-of-effect damage from the five lightning talismans stacking together is continuous throughout the entire icy pool!

Furthermore, heavenly lightning naturally has a suppressive damage bonus against the Nine Nether Demon, a being formed from the aggregation of Yin energy and resentment. Otherwise, it wouldn't have been able to force it to cower in the icy pool after only three players detonated lightning talismans inside its body. Therefore, it's not hard to understand why it would die when five lightning talismans detonated simultaneously on it, especially with continuous damage—this level of damage would be enough to overwhelm any unprepared Nascent Soul cultivator! However, many players also focused their attention on the dungeon gameplay, complaining, "Finally, there's a dungeon to grind! But this dungeon is too far away! We can't possibly travel for over an hour every time we want to run a dungeon!"

After overhearing such complaints openly, Fang Xianyu nodded in realization; she hadn't actually thought about this issue beforehand.

Having lived in this world for nearly two hundred years, she had long forgotten everything about modern society. All along, whether traveling or going out for daily errands, she had always used magic or magical artifacts. Compared to her almost endless lifespan, a journey of more than an hour was not a journey at all; it was just a matter of lifting a leg.

However, for people living in a highly information-driven modern society, a fast-paced lifestyle is the norm.

The game "Ten Continents Chronicles" has a reputation for being too hardcore and detailed, which makes the game's pace very long and leads to polarized opinions. To play the game, you have to actually learn some skills such as building houses, and you can't even use modern machinery. The game's threshold is too high, which has been criticized by netizens on game forums for a long time.

If even running a dungeon requires people to travel for more than an hour, Fang Xianyu can imagine that she would be cursed to the heavens on the forums!
However, now that the Demon has been killed, the beautiful and ideal valley nearby can be incorporated into the sect's headquarters. Setting up a sect headquarters here, with teleportation arrays on both sides, can not only serve to divert future players but also avoid being scolded, achieving multiple benefits at once.

However, this means the sect's basic buildings will require even more system energy, which is really a bit much...

Or... let the players build it themselves?
Since so many players are just sitting around doing nothing, it's perfectly reasonable to let them build their own faction camps, right?

Fang Xianyu was making plans in her mind.

As for whether players will curse the game developers' ancestors on the game forums...

They're cursing the game's developers, what does that have to do with me, the only noble GM of "Ten Continents Chronicles"?
With that in mind, Fang Xianyu decisively assigned Lu Renya a shareable team task.

[New Sect Base]: [After defeating the BOSS residing in the icy pool, you seem to have discovered a beautiful valley nearby. This place seems perfect for establishing a new sect base, and you decide to explore it first. (Shareable, maximum number of users: unlimited) (Rewards: 2000 Exp, 100 Sect Contribution Points)]

The golden quest scroll kept flashing. After Lu Renya clicked on it, he stared at the quest interface in disbelief, his eyes practically popping out of their sockets!

She hurriedly messaged Wang Ergou privately: "Commander, have you received any new missions from the sect's base?"

Wang Ergou replied almost instantly: "New mission? No! Did you get a mission?"

"【Task Sharing】Look, this is the task that just popped up for me."

"Holy crap!" Wang Ergou's face contorted with jealousy in an instant: "Hurry up and form a raid group! Shouldn't we share this server-wide first?"

"Ah, okay, then you lead the group, leader? I don't know how to command!"

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I'm not short or weak at all!! I update twice a day! At least 4000 words in total! Most of the time, it's even close to 5000! Where's the shortfall!
However, I promise that if the data is good, I'll sell 10,000 copies a day after it's listed! The better the data, the more motivated I'll be! Powder!

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