Building a sect from scratch.

In an instant, [Green Tomato] suddenly remembered the earnest advice that the veterans on the forum had given to newbies—

"This game is so overpowered, you just have to pretend!"

"The more prestigious and lofty one's image, the more brilliant and noble one's ideology, the more benefits one will receive!"

"And they're also more likely to get hidden quests than others!"

"The key is that the reward is generous! Look at that Er Gou next door, he's shameless enough to trick an NPC into giving him a flying boat! Unbelievable!"

"What a pretentious act! What a great performer! And so shameless!"

"So, everyone, do you get it? This game is all about who has the best acting skills! It's practically an Oscar training center!"

……

"Master! I've understood!"

[Green Tomato] shouted, then his expression hardened, he clasped his hands together in front of his chest and roared, "Hmph! You dare to show off your skills in front of me, you little devil!"

Then, he took the Thunder Bullet Rifle, which he had spent a fortune to acquire, from his in-game inventory, held it in his hand, pointed it at Twelve Maidens, and said with a righteous expression, "I advise you guys to turn yourselves in with the evil demons as soon as possible! Otherwise, I won't be so polite!"

"How dare a mere Foundation Establishment cultivator be so arrogant!"

Although Twelve Lady was still lying on the ground, her face was still pale, but her expression was extremely sinister.

Qingqi said urgently, "Twelfth Sister, but he is, after all, a puppet; it's not right to kill him outright..."

Twelve Lady snorted coldly and said, "Then we won't kill him. We'll keep him here and make sure he can neither die nor escape!"

At the same time, Fang Xianyu, finally noticing this scene, decisively refreshed the name color of the demon and ghost in front of [Green Tomato]—

"Good heavens! You're not only involved in human trafficking, you're also planning illegal detention! You've even gone so far as to put your names on my blacklist!"

[Green Tomato] was thrilled to see the two monsters whose names turned red, thinking to himself that he had finally gotten through the long and complicated plot and could finally take action!

Immediately afterwards, he reluctantly stuffed a handful of spirit stones into the magazine of the Thunder Bullet Rifle and pulled the trigger.

"Great Mighty Heavenly Dragon! World-Honored Ksitigarbha! Parvati Hum—"

"Thumbs up..."

[Green Tomato] shouted plagiarized chuunibyou lines while passionately scanning everything in front of him.

Fortunately, the latest updated version of the Thunder Bullet Rifle has evolved to the point that it no longer needs to use spiritual power—or rather, it is powered by both spiritual power and spirit stones. Users can choose to convert spiritual power or insert spirit stones into the "magazine," resulting in some differences in the thunder bullets produced.

For example, lightning bolts directly converted from spiritual energy are weaker, but they're free. While lightning bolts converted from spirit stones in a magazine are more powerful, they're incredibly expensive—one spirit stone is equivalent to one piece of in-game Taiyin Yuan, worth several tens of RMB. Using spirit stones as ammunition is truly burning money in battle! However, [Green Tomato] has no choice but to use spirit stones since his spiritual energy is currently blocked, even if he wanted to. He angrily curses the game developers: "You dog developers, I beep—beep beep—! You're forcing me to spend money! Beep—it's all gone!"

Just after [Green Tomato] received several system notifications such as "Please use polite language and behave properly in the game," the other people in the underground black market finally noticed the chaos here and rushed over.

A barrage of lightning bolts rained down on the two of them like a shower of petals. Qingqi, being a snake demon with thick skin, was only slightly disheveled and fled in panic. However, Twelve Maiden, a ghost cultivator, fared much worse. Ghost cultivators are inherently terrified of lightning damage, and the dense, rain-like attacks from the lightning bolt rifle caused black smoke to rise from her body. She roared fiercely and vanished in the blink of an eye.

"What the hell?! How come the BOSS can run away?!"

[Green Tomato] muttered to himself in annoyance, then turned and focused intently on firing wildly at the snake demon Qingqi.

But Qingqi wasn't stupid; how could he stand still and let himself be attacked? He immediately transformed into a green shadow and fled, only to run into a powerful demon rushing over.

The great demon grabbed Qingqi and pinched his neck hard. Qingqi immediately revealed his true form, becoming a giant green snake, limp in the demon's hand, swaying back and forth like a green ribbon as the demon hurried along.

[Green Tomato] In order to save spirit stones, he stopped shooting as soon as Qingqi was captured. He looked at the burly demon who was three times his size and approaching from afar, and hesitated whether to fight this NPC with three yellow question marks above his head.

Putting aside whether it's a yellow or not name, the main thing is that this NPC doesn't look like someone to mess with, and he even exudes a kind of pressure that caused the [Paralysis] debuff, which had just disappeared due to the shattering of the illusion, to reappear.

[Green Tomato] struggled to keep himself from dropping the thunderbolt rifle. He stared intently at the top of the burly demon's head, trying to discern a hint of red from the three yellow question marks.

In "Ten Continents Chronicles", friendly factions are generally green or blue, while red-named individuals are usually aggressive. The determination of yellow-named individuals is more ambiguous; sometimes they will attack, sometimes they won't, and sometimes they are just neutral NPCs.

The color of the name does not actually affect the players' attacks—there is no concept of damage immunity in the game, and you can kill any NPC regardless of the color of their name or whether they are from the friendly faction. It's just that killing green-named and blue-named NPCs usually has more serious consequences.

If they're all players, at most you'll lose some public goodwill points. But if they're NPCs, you might have to say goodbye to the game. For example, back in the early closed betas, some incredibly audacious players tried to use their lightning strike talismans on Baili Shuang…

Oh, that player's ID is still posted on the forum. The other player who got a spot back then always goes to thank the "senior" during holidays—"If it weren't for the senior taking the plunge, I wouldn't have had a spot as a junior!"

Ahem... I've digressed. In short, attacking green-named and blue-named individuals has very serious consequences, but the consequences of attacking yellow-named individuals...

It depends on luck.

Like the wild boars in the Ten Thousand Mountains, they are also yellow-named, but there will be no bad consequences for attacking them. You might even get the whole wild boar killed.

However, other cultivators in the wilderness who are also classified as having yellow names cannot initiate attacks.

The consequences of a player's act of breaking the law were that he had to use all the money he had painstakingly saved since the game's launch to compensate others, and he ended up owing fifty spirit stones and being confined for three days. He also gained a -100 favorability rating from the sect NPCs, including the sect leader Fang Xianyu.

It is reported that the player was wailing in the solitary confinement cell, regretting his past actions. Screenshots of his tears behind bars have become famous memes in various chat groups and forums.

It's even said that this consequence was because it didn't cause any irreversible permanent damage to the wild cultivator. If the NPC had been killed, the player would probably have ended up like that player during the closed beta, facing a ban on their account.

(End of this chapter)