Building a sect from scratch.

Chapter 62 Chang'an Community
"My apprentice seems to be incredibly lucky."

Jia Xiaoren looked at his fellow workers... no, his relatives and friends, with a melancholy expression.

A friend or relative casually remarked, "Isn't this a good thing? Maybe it'll bring you good fortune too!"

Jia Xiaoren sighed: "But her luck is a bit too much..."

Relatives and friends didn't take it seriously: "How outrageous can it be?"

"Her newbie skill is [Pot Heaven], which is similar to a spatial ability in a post-apocalyptic world. It can even grow in size, and it should be the only known spatial skill in the entire server..."

Friends and family gasped in astonishment: "Hiss—"

Jia Xiaoren raised her head slightly again, striking a classic 45-degree angle while gazing at the sky, her tone ambiguous between jealousy and melancholy: "She even triggered the [End of Her Life] adventure on the very first day of the game's launch..."

Friends and family immediately turned to look at him: "Holy crap! I just logged on and didn't even know! Why didn't you tell me about this? So that newbie lucky player that was being talked about on the forum was your apprentice! He's the third player in the entire server to trigger this special encounter, right? That's incredibly lucky!"

Jia Xiaoren looked completely dazed. He said numbly, "Not only did she have a serendipitous encounter, she even just got the only pet in the entire server... well, it should be the only one. Anyway, I've never heard of anyone having a pet."

The friend casually planted the tree branch on the ground, scratched his head in confusion, and his brain's CPU started working at high speed. At the same time, he repeatedly checked the various functions of the game interface and asked, "Wait a minute, does this game have a pet system? I can't find it. Is it a newly updated feature?"

"It's precisely because there's no pet system that I find it so outrageous,"

Jia Xiaoren became more and more excited as he spoke, his features almost distorted with jealousy: "I knew this game had a high degree of freedom, but I never thought it was so free that you could raise pets without even a pet system! It's outrageous, absolutely outrageous! My apprentice is truly a genius!"

After a moment of silence, the relative suddenly said, "I now believe Wang Ergou's earliest post."

"How to say?"

"Maybe we really have time-traveled!"

"You'd better not take cephalosporins. Take a good look at your ID and status bar on your head first. Time travel? You're dreaming."

"Oh, I was just saying... By the way, what's your apprentice's pet?"

"A dog, supposedly a puppy that hasn't been weaned yet, and it's white."

"Um……"

After a moment's thought, the relatives and friends asked hesitantly, "Should we build a few more doghouses when we build the house?"

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Leaving aside how Jia Xiaoren and his relatives loudly complained about being jealous of Chai Gou and Cai Cai, the place where they were currently working was in the [Cold Pool Cave] area, which was also the most concentrated and active area for players across the entire server at that time.

Besides many veteran players who took on apprentices and enthusiastically farmed dungeons to gain experience and prestige, a larger proportion of players were members of the first guild in the entire server—the Chang'an Guild—led by Wang Ergou. This means that immediately after the update and as soon as the server reopened, Wang Ergou, Zhao Qing, and others rushed to the sect hall and successfully applied for a guild with the sect elders. Even the name "Chang'an" was chosen by Wang Ergou after discussions and voting with some active players in the group chat.

The sect contribution points and prestige points required for applying for a community are much less than expected. Only 10,000 contribution points and 100,000 prestige points are needed to apply for registration, which can be easily met by two or three people.

There is no limit to the number of people who can form a community, but because Wang Ergou has a good reputation among veteran players and is even more famous among new players, as soon as he posted an advertisement in the world channel, he immediately recruited more than fifty people, which is almost half of the online players!
Besides Wang Ergou's Chang'an community, surprisingly, Lani and several other players also applied for a community called "Longshan".

It is said that game studios and investors heard that the live streaming function was opened after the update, and specifically found Lani, who is well-known among veteran players, and several other players to sign live streaming agreements, with considerable compensation.

However, not all players are willing to spend their hard-earned contribution points and prestige points on applying for a sect, especially after the update, when the sect merchant added two new sets of sect purple outfits that are both good-looking and have good stats. Because of their unique features and consistent style, everyone has started calling them school uniforms.

The benefits of exchanging for school uniforms are obvious; after all, they have good stats and are purple-grade equipment, so the sooner you exchange them, the sooner you can enjoy them. However, it's currently unknown what special benefits the community offers, so most players are still observing or have simply added it to Wang Ergou's "Chang'an" community.

Compared to the conditions for applying for a community town, the community town building order is much more extravagant, requiring a full 100,000 sect contribution points. Wang Ergou managed to gather about twenty people to barely make up the amount, and Longshan simply didn't even consider exchanging for it.

In addition, there are restrictions on the use of the city-building order. In addition to the requirement that the number of people in the community must be greater than thirty, there are also requirements for the location of the city. For example, it must be within the territory of the Taiyin Sect, there must be no NPC settlements within a straight-line distance of ten miles, and there must be no large hostile forces at the city-building point.

Fortunately, Shenyou Village is located at the very end of the valley, some distance from the valley entrance. This made the open space at the entrance of the household registration instance that Wang Ergou had his eye on just about 10 miles away from Shenyou Village, allowing him to land there.

Finally, this otherworldly "Chang'an City" was placed beside the icy pool under the watchful eyes of everyone.

However, amidst the expectant gazes, Chang'an Sheyi Luocheng remained desolate.

Because there is currently nothing in this "Chang'an City"—"Luocheng" means that buildings constructed within the Luocheng area will be protected to a certain extent, but it does not mean that a city can appear out of thin air.

Therefore, after using the Sheyi City Construction Order to build a city, apart from updating the name of Chang'an City on the map, nothing new actually appeared.

As for Wang Ergou at this moment... he was leading a group of veteran players, huffing and puffing as they worked to build a city.

After Jia Xiaoren was abandoned by his newly accepted apprentice and became a lonely master, his relatives and friends dragged him to participate in the city's construction. This was because Wang Ergou announced that after Chang'an City was built, the members of the community would be ranked according to their contributions, with those ranked higher having priority in choosing housing, while members whose contributions were generally considered insufficient would not be eligible to receive housing in Chang'an City for free.

As my friends and family put it: "You already have apprentices to raise, can't you afford to grind for a better room? Are you expecting your apprentices to sleep in the sect's dormitory? Aren't you afraid that the apprentices you finally managed to recruit will run off with other random masters? If you don't treat your apprentices well, there are plenty of other random masters who will treat them well! Newbies who have just entered the game don't have the ability to distinguish right from wrong, and they are most easily lured away by the small favors of other random masters!"

It is reported that, under the instruction of Wang Ergou, this relative used the same tactics to manipulate many veteran players. Among them, the most severely affected was Zhen Junzi, who had the best relationship with Jia Xiaoren and had agreed to use his buddy ID on the forum.

According to inside information, Zhen Junzi is currently recognized as the number one contributor to the community. He even eats meal replacement powder for only two minutes offline, and then immediately logs back online to work hard, all so that he can pick the most impressive house to show off in front of his NPC apprentice after Chang'an City is built...

Even though he knew his relatives and friends were manipulating him, Jia Xiaoren still tearfully shouldered the burden and chose to continue working hard.

Even if it weren't for his apprentice, he himself wanted to own a house in the first city built by the players in the game!

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I'm working hard on writing! I'll definitely reach 10,000 words today! Please be patient, dear readers!!

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