Building a sect from scratch.

Chapter 546 Group Buying

Although Poseidon is very famous, and the Emperor also made a few sarcastic remarks, he still specially left [Handsome Guy] behind to stay in the dungeon and protect his cooldowns.

Because of his famous exploits of outwitting Lu Weilou every day, and his mastery of escape techniques, he repeatedly demonstrated amazing extreme maneuvering and desperate escape skills when playing dungeons with the Emperor. This is why the Emperor felt at ease entrusting him with the important task of protecting CD.

The two teams actually have very different levels of difficulty in their missions.

Catching the mythical beasts of the Ruins was not difficult at all. In less than an hour, the group caught dozens of them. They even took into account that they did not know the tastes and preferences of the dungeon NPCs, so they specifically chose different kinds to catch and tied them into a long string.

The task of capturing the Nine Nether Demons is much more troublesome.

A group of highly confident hardcore players felt that ordinary low-level demons weren't enough, so they decided to spend money to buy the cooldown of another large raid group's encounter with the [Endless Ruins] dungeon. The boss they encountered there happened to be a demon that wasn't too outrageous in difficulty, but it wasn't low-level either.

Another large group consisted of members of Longshan Sheyi. They were simply doing daily quests, and the difficulty of the dungeon they encountered was just right. However, when they heard that a few people wanted the [Pig Charge] dungeon, they gave it up without hesitation and didn't even charge a transfer fee. This was the idea of ​​the Longshan boss. Since everyone was a veteran player and they saw each other every day, it would be pointless to act greedily over this. Doing a favor would make it easier to ask for help in the future.

With the approval of the people from Longshan, Zhao Qing led everyone to temporarily leave the raid and join the team slots that Longshan had given up. The people from Longshan even enthusiastically asked to come and help, using tactics like "You don't have enough people anyway, so we can also join and get some raid rewards." Zhao Qing really couldn't refuse.

So Zhao Qing became the leader of the new raid group, leading everyone in a battle against the berserk demon that was in the middle of the dungeon's cooldown.

This demon is one that everyone is already familiar with. If Wang Ergou were here, it would probably be even more powerful.

Because it was the same Nine Nether Demon, the Demon of the Netherworld, that everyone encountered when they discovered the Village of Divine Blessing.

This demon is fond of cold and water, loves damp and gloomy environments, is good at mental interference, and knows how to manipulate water flow and even control water to turn into ice. I used to encounter it in the [Frozen Pool Cave] dungeon, and it always caused players a lot of trouble - because you could easily get frozen by it if you were not careful. It can be considered a monster with a strong "hard control".

What's even more troublesome is that this monster is much smarter than the ordinary Nine Nether Demons, and it can even use tactics. Once, a player encountered one in the [Frosty Pool Cave] and was lured to the edge of the pool, where it hard-controlled the entire team and wiped them out!
The one in the dungeon CD opened by Longshan has average cultivation, at most slightly stronger than the one in Shenyou Village. It can barely be considered to have just touched the threshold of "True Demon", but it is not yet a True Demon.

If it's just a matter of killing it, that's easy. One person can just throw a few lightning talismans and kill it. Demons are naturally afraid of lightning magic. Even the lowest level of lightning magic damage is enough to give them a hard time.

The problem is, what everyone wants is to get rid of it while it's still alive!

Of course, the demon's mental attacks are completely ineffective against players. However, its ability to manipulate water makes it quite troublesome for players.

Even if you tie it up, it's hard to keep it in line—this thing doesn't need to cast spells or use its limbs to control the water flow, so just tying it up is useless!
"Easy, use this!"

Unexpectedly, the leader of the group from Longshan chuckled, pulled out a golden rope, and had a very lewd expression on his face.

Zhao Qing, with her sharp eyes, immediately recognized the value of the item in Longshan Guild Leader's hand and asked, "This is... a magic weapon?" Longshan Guild Leader nodded and explained, "That's right! Our Boss Tong often does business with the Fu Lu Shou Merchant Guild. Once, he saw one of their NPCs use a magic weapon that looked very similar to this. He thought it was very useful, so he spent a lot of money to ask Fu Lu Shou to help him find a weapon refiner to forge two of them. He keeps one for himself, and we take turns using the other one!"

A member of the Longshan sect who seemed to be a leader chimed in, "This thing is amazing. It can basically bind anyone below the Nascent Soul stage, and it can control them for at least seven or eight hours without any problem—we haven't tested the exact limit."

"Most importantly, it comes with burn and spirit-sealing effects. We often use it to control monsters, but the premise is that you have to time the position and timing well. You have to cast a spell to use this thing, and you also have to be in the right position. The BOSS won't stand still and let you trap it, so it's not something you can succeed on the first try."

"However, we've used it quite a few times, so we have experience. Although it has a mana bar limitation, it's generally not a problem for most magic cultivators above the Golden Core stage. I think there are about four or five of them in the group, so the margin for error is not low!"

Zhao Qing's initial surprise subsided somewhat as she realized: This thing requires spiritual power to use, so it's not a magic weapon; it's essentially a spiritual artifact.

Although there is no absolute distinction between magic weapons and spiritual artifacts, it is generally accepted that magic weapons are more advanced and have a lower barrier to entry. Magic weapons, on the other hand, can only be used by cultivators at the Golden Core stage, and can only be considered spiritual artifacts.

These distinctions are actually only emphasized among cultivators native to the Guixu Realm; players are not particularly interested in them—after all, every player can cultivate immortality and everyone has a mana bar, so who cares about magic weapons or spiritual artifacts?

So, since Longshan had already called it a magic weapon, Zhao Qing certainly wouldn't be so low in emotional intelligence as to refute it. She just casually praised it a few times and handed over command to Regiment Commander Longshan.

Listen to whoever has experience!

On the contrary, other expert players' eyes lit up at this thing, and they all inquired about it.

Wow! Is this expensive? How many meters does it take to make?

"Can I ask about the price?"

"Actually, the low-end version is fine too. I don't need seven or eight hours of hardware control. Just a few minutes of hardware control is very useful!"

"That might make it much cheaper?"

"But it's a bit hard to see why it's not effective for those with Nascent Soul cultivation or higher. The monsters in the future will definitely be of higher and higher levels, so it won't be as useful anymore, right?"

"As the monsters get higher and higher level, the equipment will definitely get better and better! Who knows, by then we might be able to make magic weapons that can even control Golden Immortals!"

The players' enthusiasm is understandable, because there are virtually no "control skills" in "Ten Continents Chronicle".

If it were an ice-elemental spirit root, it could perhaps cultivate some spells like the Demon King to "freeze" small monsters and achieve a certain degree of hard control. However, once facing higher-level monsters, this "control" would be completely ineffective! It wouldn't even be as powerful as the Demon King!
So when people heard that this magical artifact could be controlled by force, they all started asking about its price and where to buy it.