Building a sect from scratch.

Chapter 554 Newbie Battle Zone

With several events running concurrently, coupled with the daily release of a limited number of registration slots, the online popularity of "Ten Continents Chronicles" reached new heights, dominating major online media and apps. Even discussions on foreign websites were significant, with many online influencers calling for the game's global release. Of course, there were undoubtedly some unsavory forces fueling this trend, but we'll leave that aside for now.

Of these events, the most popular one has to be "Conquer Penglai Island". This is because there is no level restriction for this task, and all newly registered players are born on Penglai Island. Players cannot leave the island before level 10, so the game is packed with players!
Of course, this restriction led to players vehemently criticizing the game developers on the forums. It was mainly the bot farms and new players who were complaining – the former couldn't make a good living by leading bosses through dungeons, and the latter couldn't use their money to quickly catch up with the main group and experience the richer and more mature Zhongzhou community. Neither side was satisfied.

Fortunately, the Nine Nether Passages originally guarded by the Penglai Sect have been successfully taken over by Fang Xianyu's people and transformed into the new "Great Battle of Penglai Sect" instance. They even worked overtime to create "story animations" as cutscenes and meticulously designed the decorations inside the instance (actually an illusion), such as beautiful distant views of Penglai Sect buildings. As a newly launched beginner instance, this ensures that tens of thousands of new players won't be bored... The main issue is that close-up objects consume too many system energy points, which is not worthwhile, so it's better to just use textures to fool them.

Many players who had painstakingly leveled up to level 10 immediately tried to teleport out of Penglai Island, not wanting to stay for even a second longer—Penglai Island had now become a chaotic battleground. Fang Xianyu's prediction was correct; with tens of thousands of new players suddenly appearing, some of them habitually brought the atmosphere of other games with them, stealing, robbing, and killing players. If it weren't for the fact that the new player respawn point was a random safe zone, people would probably even be happily burying corpses.

Although Fang Xianyu was very unhappy with this trend, he didn't care at all about players fighting each other as long as it didn't involve NPCs.

While BabyBus games are certainly harmonious and enjoyable, the gaming atmosphere cannot be created by the planners and officials; rather, it requires players to explore and lead the way themselves.

Therefore, any new player on Penglai Island will inexplicably turn into a red-named player before long.

Some were killed by the cancerous tumors and were resentful, so they chose to join and caused trouble indiscriminately.

Some players are red-named because they are unfamiliar with the skills and use them randomly, resulting in them accidentally injuring other players.

The former, blinded by rage, charged into the ranks of red-named players three times... and emerged with zero kills. Even the 10-minute resurrection cooldown couldn't stop their mischievous and venting-rage mentality. The latter, however, let out a wail, turned around, and started fighting with other red-named players, attempting to use the system's default method of killing red-named players to cleanse their "public good karma" and return to normal.

This chaos lasted for several hours, and Fang Xianyu couldn't stand it anymore. Many casual and casual players avoided these red-named players like the plague, and even when doing newbie quests, they would hide and dodge. But the entrances of several newly released beginner dungeons were packed with people—all of them red-named!

This won't do!

Therefore, Fang Xianyu decisively released several patches. First, he announced a change to the criteria for resetting stats (public virtue points) by killing red-named players. In the newbie map Penglai Island, only killing red-named players in the safe zone can reset stats; killing them in the wild is invalid.

After that, she also designated the entrances of several dungeons as weapon-free zones—she directly added a spirit-sealing magic circle, so no one could use spiritual power!

However, this chaos among new players isn't entirely without its advantages.
For example, Penglai Island was "attacked" in the shortest possible time—just half a day. A group of novice players roamed the entire island like street urchins. Even though Penglai Island is smaller than Hainan Island, you could still always find players dreaming of getting rich by gathering spiritual herbs and plants in the wild corners. The Penglai Sect disciples, who were initially putting up a stubborn resistance, were completely driven away by a group of idle novice players who banded together and called for reinforcements, using a suicide attack and sheer numbers.

They didn't kill many, not because the players were benevolent, but because they were too weak. Their levels were low and their cultivation was poor. Their fixed skills and things like talismans and explosive packs couldn't cause any fatal damage to proper cultivators.

This is exactly what is meant by "not much damage but extremely humiliating." Many cultivators from the Penglai Sect were relentlessly pursued and beaten until they were in a sorry state. However, they could not kill them all. Like cockroaches, one batch of players would be killed and another would pop up. In a state of extreme impotence and rage, they could only use all means to escape and hide from Penglai Island.

Before long, the entire Penglai Island was "cleaned up". In the evening, many veteran players logged on one after another and began to spontaneously gather on Penglai Island to set up outposts and maintain order in order to quickly recruit people into the community.

In any MMORPG game, the more people playing together, the better.

Although there is a limit of 5,000 people in a community, it is still possible to build new branch communities, right?

The most populous community in the entire server, such as Chang'an Community, was already full, but that didn't stop the Jade Emperor from creating a new community called Luoyang Community. In reality, it was just a branch of Chang'an Community. The name was just something the Emperor came up with for fun, but in private, players actually called Luoyang Community the Second Community of Chang'an.

In comparison, Longshan Sheyi is different from Chang'an Sheyi, which basically accepts anyone. Longshan Sheyi seeks elite talents and even requires an "interview" to join. If you perform well, Longshan's CEO, Mr. Tong, will invite you to join Longshan Group directly, which can be considered a different kind of "BOSS direct recruitment".

What truly surprised Fang Xianyu was that those who were most enthusiastic about maintaining the "game" atmosphere were actually the ordinary players who knew nothing about it.

Especially in Longshan Sheyi, Boss Tong, as a middle-aged man who has achieved some success and gained both wealth and fame, has the common problem of middle-aged men of this age and status when playing games - he is very self-centered and arrogant, always thinking that he should be the leader and all the underlings should worship him.

Regardless of whether this idea is good or bad, it is true that President Tong, who held this idea, played the most crucial role in cleaning up the atmosphere on Penglai Island.

He led a group of identically dressed members of the Longshan Society, their equipment exuding a strong sense of RMB (Chinese currency), and disregarding their red names, they lined up and began clearing the most chaotic areas one by one.

Conflicts that could be resolved were resolved through mediation; those that couldn't were dealt with equally, or alternatively, financial influence or invitations to join the other party's subordinate logistics community, "Little Longshan Community," were used. They appealed to emotions and reason, dangling many promises, working until after 2 AM. Almost all the newbies on Penglai Island had established the concept that "Brother Tong is the top-tier player," and were now willing to seek the judgment of Longshan for any unfairness or disputes.