Building a sect from scratch.

Chapter 55 updated again
If we were to name the thing that everyone hates most when playing games, updates and maintenance would definitely be on the list.

Especially when you're really into the game and feel like you're invincible, suddenly a notification pops up saying there's an update and maintenance coming, and it'll last all day...

"This trash game is doomed!"

This must be the sentiment of every player.

As the only GM of "Ten Continents Chronicles", Fang Xianyu didn't want the server to be shut down for every update. After all, ever since the secret realm dungeon [Cold Pool Cave] was introduced, she couldn't wait for players to be online more and farm the dungeon like crazy. She wanted the energy that players would give back by eliminating lower-level demons to make up for the system energy that had to be consumed every moment to maintain the cross-dimensional world network.

Although there are only 55 players so far, five of whom are just there to make a living, the frequency with which the players run the dungeon has already allowed Fang Xianyu to make a considerable profit!

This is why she confidently added another 200 spots—any more and the lower-level demons smuggled in through the Nine Nether Passage wouldn't be enough to supply the players!
What surprised her even more was that Shenyou Village, which was brought under the jurisdiction of Taiyin Sect, also brought a lot of energy to the system after discarding the unknown ancestral tablets that were previously worshipped. Even Fang Xianyu herself enjoyed a small boost to her cultivation brought by the power of incense offerings, which enabled her to condense a real golden core and successfully break through to the Golden Core stage—this was a completely unexpected joy!
It's important to understand that, theoretically, only after attaining or being attained a divine office can one truly enjoy the blessings and power of the incense offered by the people. If one simply worships the name of a certain cultivator, the accumulated blessings and power will be greatly reduced, and the large number of worshippers may even negatively impact the cultivator's future attainment of enlightenment. This is why cultivators often say that "incense is poisonous."

Therefore, apart from cultivators who feel hopeless, most cultivators with aspirations will not easily accept offerings unless their cultivation itself is a process of divine enlightenment—for example, Huang Gong, who has already become a de facto Earth Immortal, belongs to this category.

Fang Xianyu discovered the reason for the situation in Shenyou Village after several secret investigations: most of the villagers had voluntarily worshipped the "Taiyin Sect" ancestral tablets.

The position of "Taiyin" in the "Taiyin Sect" has been vacant for a long time. Only Fang Xianyu, due to the lingering insights from her first time, has some inexplicable connection with it, which is why the "Taiyin Sect" worshipped by the villagers of Shenyou Village is actually pointing to her!
After figuring this out, Fang Xianyu felt a mix of joy and worry. He was happy that the system's energy had another way to increase, but he was worried that because he had not truly attained the Dao of Taiyin, he would be hindered by the so-called "poisonous incense" situation, which would affect his cultivation and attainment of the Dao.

However, after observing for several days, Fang Xianyu did not feel anything was wrong, which made her quite puzzled, but also a little lucky.

However, for whatever reason, Fang Xianyu decided that before breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage, he should not be too greedy for incense offerings—if one's virtue is not commensurate with one's position, disaster will surely follow.

Once all the players had logged off, Fang Xianyu finally breathed a sigh of relief, no longer having to constantly watch over them and worry about them causing trouble. This was a rare "vacation" for her.

More than a month later, Fang Xianyu generated his status panel again. Compared to the dismal state of the first time, the current data was quite pleasing to the eye:

Name: Fang Xianyu

[Level: Golden Core Stage]

Race: Unknown

[Taoist Methods: Alchemy, Weaponry, Five Elements Taoism...] [Points (Energy): 529]

[Followers: Earth Immortal Huang Gong, villagers of Shenyou Village, disciples of the Taiyin Sect...]

[Faction: Taiyin Sect]

[Collection of cultivation techniques: "The Supreme Mysterious Yin Qi Guiding Technique", "The Primordial Treatise on the Four Seasons of Zi and Wu"...]

More importantly, upon entering the Golden Core stage, Fang Xianyu could finally call himself a "True Person." The solidified Golden Core within his body was no longer like the fake Golden Core he had obtained through opportunistic means, which could only be used to store spiritual energy. The true Golden Core was like an organ for a cultivator, constantly nourishing the cultivator's body and circulating the spiritual energy within, just as naturally as breathing.

Even in battle, she wouldn't be helpless once the spiritual energy in her fake core was exhausted. Even if the spiritual energy in her golden core was completely drained, as long as the golden core could withstand it, Fang Xianyu could continue to use the surrounding spiritual energy through the circulation of her golden core. This meant that her "endurance" no longer needed the system's energy boost, but relied on her own strength!
In other words, unless it's a matter of life and death, she can finally break free from the system's help and no longer have to rely on external forces like points and energy to protect herself!
Therefore, Fang Xianyu immediately and generously used his energy to create dozens more disciple rooms and two or three large dormitory rooms in the sect's headquarters, intending to provide temporary accommodations for the incoming new recruits.

Next, she incorporated the community functions she had designed earlier into the "interdimensional world network" and added more restrictions. She even felt that, thanks to her identity as the only game planner, her understanding and knowledge of formations and restrictions had reached a new level compared to her peak in the first playthrough!

Finally, considering his future workload, Fang Xianyu added a new patch: "Public Morality Value".

When a player's public virtue value is less than 0, their name will turn red. Other players who kill a player with a red name will also gain public virtue value and a small amount of sect contribution value.

All players start with a public virtue value of 10, which doesn't sound like a lot, but when it's deducted, it starts at 10 points.

Actions that deduct public virtue points include, but are not limited to, shouting in NPC residential areas, parkouring on NPC rooftops, spying on NPCs' lives, and trespassing on NPCs' private residences. Actions that increase public virtue points are few and far between. Apart from completing daily sect tasks, which can add a small amount of public virtue points, the only other way is to kill other red-named players.

However, compared to losing 10 or more public virtue points each time, killing a red-named player only gives 1 point each time, making it extremely difficult to change one's name from red-named to red-named.

There were also various equipment and items being added and updated in the sect shop… Fang Xianyu looked at his still relatively abundant system energy, gritted his teeth, and added some visual effects to the newly added sets of equipment that were only good-looking and had no other practical use. He also cobbled together some copywriting from the internet, came up with a few catchy names, and designed them as the first set of sect contribution value equipment and sect prestige value equipment, respectively. The appearance of these sets was even copied from popular sets in well-known and popular games—although such sets of equipment were not cheap to make, they wouldn't be cheap to sell to players either! If the contribution points and prestige points spent by players were converted into their conversion into system energy, Fang Xianyu could still make a small profit!

By the way, we should add more sect-specific herb fields and farmlands, otherwise there won't be much for players to do in daily and random sect quests. This will also provide a way to "pay taxes" to the Guangcheng Sect in the future. If the yield is high, we can even make some money...

After spending most of the day fixing all the patches, Fang Xianyu inspected the newly renovated Taiyin Sect headquarters and was extremely satisfied—she had even specially expanded the sect's main hall!
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(End of this chapter)