The Fourth Disaster: People become gods through high martial arts and gaming

Chapter 342 First Arrival in Crimson Moon Town and the Survivors? (Long Chapter)
As the two flying transport vehicles docked at the Chiyue Building's airport, Fan Yaoguang and the others got out of the vehicles and scanned the entire Chiyue Town. Surprise appeared on their faces.

"So many people?" Fan Yaoguang looked at the crowds thronging the streets below the mountain, his eyes filled with disbelief.

He had thought there wouldn't be many survivors living in this pristine land, but he never expected that the headquarters of the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy, Red Moon Town, would have at least several million people.

This number of people is two to three times larger than that of the Sky Dome Shelter.

"Are there many people?" Yi Ye Fuyun looked at the surprised Fan Yaoguang and said dismissively, "Our Chiyue Town only has a few million people. Compared with the surrounding cities with tens of millions of people, it is far smaller."

"A city with tens of millions of people?" Fan Yaoguang couldn't help but ask, "How many people are there here exactly?"

In his view, the fact that there were several million survivors after the Great Migration was already quite remarkable, equivalent to the population of two or three shelters.

A city with tens of millions of people is simply unimaginable, and judging from the tone of Yiye Fuyun's words, this pure land is probably much more than just one city.

“I’m not sure about the other three regions, but in the Mist Mountain region, there are at least two billion people,” said Yi Ye Fuyun.

"Two billion?!" Fan Yaoguang was speechless for a moment after hearing this.

Two billion people—far more than the combined population of all the shelters—made him wonder who the survivors really were.

However, Fan Yaoguang's overreaction only made Yi Ye Fuyun more certain that the NPC in front of him was definitely a lunatic. It was just a population of two billion. The Wushan region was the smallest in area among the four regions, and it had the fewest cities, so its population was also the smallest among the four regions. He didn't understand what was so surprising about it.

As for the people on the Dawn, apart from Fan Yaoguang, whose expression was difficult to control, the expressions of his adjutant Ke Xueli and others also revealed a barely perceptible excitement and exhilaration.

"Shirley, we're rich! We're going to be rich!" Fan Yaoguang couldn't help but text Ke Shirley. "If we promote our Sky Dome Shelter's latest products, our Spark Chamber of Commerce will definitely become the number one chamber of commerce!"

"Captain, stay calm! When you meet that curator later, you absolutely cannot show it." Ke Xueli looked at the extremely excited Fan Yaoguang and helplessly sent him a message to remind him.

"I understand, I understand, don't worry." Fan Yaoguang quickly regained his calm expression, revealing an air of indifference.

Fan Yaoguang's behavior left the group, including Yi Ye Fuyun, unsure whether to introduce him to the guild master, Lin Qi. They worried that if Fan Yaoguang went berserk, the goodwill they had painstakingly built up might be wiped out instantly.

However, considering that this is the start of the new version, and especially the armor that Fan Yaoguang and others wore before, which was obviously high-end, the armor could be displayed at will, or even only a part of it could be displayed to form an energy shield, which is something that does not exist in the current version.

It's pretty certain that they're initiating trade between the two sides through this mission; otherwise, they probably wouldn't have gotten their hands on these new battle armors.

Afterwards, Yi Ye Fu Yun and the others still took Fan Yaoguang and the others to the Obsidian Martial Arts School.

The Obsidian Martial Arts School in Red Moon Town is now even more magnificent than the one in City of Light, with seven floors, and hundreds of thousands of people come and go every day.

These hundreds of thousands of people included not only players and martial arts school disciples, but also a large number of disciples from various city families who came to learn martial arts skills. Even some students from city genius training camps were arranged to come and learn the Thunder Palm.

Because of the terrifying penetrating power of the electromagnetic gun, which can even kill boss monsters if there are enough of them, learning the Lightning Palm has become a must. Otherwise, when going out to hunt monsters, probably no one would be willing to team up.

“The cultivation level here is indeed not high. Most of the people here are apprentices or martial artists, and there are very few at the Bone Forging Realm.” Ke Xueli observed the people coming and going in the martial arts hall and compared it with the situation in the shelter.

Although the Sky Dome Shelter currently has a small population of only about one million, apart from teenagers under the age of sixteen, everyone over the age of sixteen is at least at the Bone Forging Realm.

In contrast, although the population of the Pure Land is large, the vast majority of them are not even martial artists. As for the number of martial artists in Crimson Moon Town, it is less than 20%, and there are even fewer at the Bone Forging Realm.

In summary, the two billion people in the Fog Mountain region are not much better off than those in the Sky Dome Shelter.

The appearance of Dawn and his companions also filled everyone in the martial arts school with curiosity.

Inside the martial arts school, dozens of people were dressed in pure white. It would be impossible for them not to be conspicuous, especially since they were being led by the school's gray-clad disciples.

Among the crowd, a man and a woman, dressed in clothing bearing the mark of the Heavenly River Domain City and possessing blood energy reaching the Blood Condensation Realm, were also observing the people on the Dawn with great curiosity.

"Who are these people? I can't sense any vital energy from them, but how come each of them feels stronger than me?" Ling Ye quietly observed Fan Yaoguang, the leader, and his adjutant Ke Xueli, his eyes filled with shock and confusion.

Fan Yaoguang is one of dozens of people. One or two is one thing, but as a super genius of Tianhe Domain City, she recently reached the middle stage of the Blood Condensation Realm with the help of the martial arts school's equipment. She also reached the second level of perfection in a sequence of extraordinary martial arts skills. She has become a recognized peerless genius of the new generation in Tianhe Domain City. Her strength is also considered outstanding among the younger generation in the four domains.

However, apart from Fan Yaoguang, the other crew members on the Dawn ship all appeared to be under thirty years old, yet their strength was superior to hers, making her wonder if her sixth sense was malfunctioning.

Especially with Fan Yaoguang and her adjutant Ke Xueli, who was about the same age as her, she actually felt like she was facing a teacher. This sixth sense was simply a joke.

A Grandmaster at the mid-stage of the Celestial Realm—this is second only to the Deputy City Lord among the four Domain Cities. It's one thing for Fan Yaoguang to be over forty years old, since there are plenty of mid-stage Celestial Realm cultivators in the four Domains, but what kind of nonsense is a mid-stage Celestial Realm cultivator under thirty?

If it weren't for the fact that her sixth sense had never been wrong, she would have doubted that she was still asleep.

She came here to further discuss cooperation with Obsidian Martial Arts School and to add a beginner meditation room to the Tianhe branch. The beginner meditation room at the Tianhe branch has been extremely popular lately. If it weren't for the fact that her teacher didn't want to join Obsidian Martial Arts School, her teacher would have wanted to use the beginner meditation room.

However, after arriving at the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy headquarters, she discovered that the Academy had a new training facility called the Beginner Martial Arts Training Room. She tried it out, which made her completely restless. She decided that she must bring this Beginner Martial Arts Training Room back to the Tianhe branch.

Seeing Fan Yaoguang and the others now, she really felt that she had been too excited and stayed up too late last night, and was probably still asleep.

"Senior Sister Lingye, these people are all human. The Obsidian Martial Arts Academy is also a predominantly human force, and the gray-robed disciples are all human." Yifeng, looking at Fan Yaoguang and the others, speculated, "These people are so strong, could they be the force behind the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy?"

He never doubted Ling Ye's sixth sense. Since Ling Ye said that Fan Yaoguang and the others were stronger than them, then they must be stronger than them.

The Obsidian Martial Arts School has risen exceptionally rapidly in the four regions, and it even killed the Grandmaster Ghost Hand of Smiling Skull. If you say that it has no backing, probably no one would believe it.

“That’s certainly possible.” Ling Ye looked at Fan Yaoguang and Ke Xueli and thought it was very likely.

The sudden emergence of a group of human experts who are not from the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy, yet possessing such formidable strength—all mid-level Grandmasters under thirty years old in the Celestial Realm—makes it highly unlikely that such a force isn't backed by the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy.

The sudden rise of the Obsidian Martial Arts School has caught the attention of major forces across the four regions, who have sent numerous people to investigate, but to no avail. It's as if the school suddenly sprang from a rock.

With such a rapid rise, it would be impossible to say that there was no powerful force supporting them.

The Four Domains are vast, and there are many hidden forces, many of which are inconspicuous. If you really investigate the origins of these forces, you will find that these hidden forces are not simple. Many of them are related to the domain cities of other regions in the past. It is just that those domain cities became forbidden zones, so they fled to the Four Domains to develop. This is why the four major domain cities are somewhat wary of the hidden forces in the Four Domains.

If the Obsidian Martial Arts School had such a hidden force backing it up for over a century, its sudden rise to become the number one power under the four major domain cities wouldn't be surprising. Inside the martial arts school's main hall, just as Ling Ye and Yi Feng were wondering which hidden force Fan Yaoguang and the others came from, Fan Yaoguang and Ke Xueli, led by Yi Ye Fuyun, entered the school master's private beginner meditation room, while Yi Ye Fuyun and the others waited outside.

"This feeling... this room can actually activate a person's brain?"

Fan Yaoguang and Ke Xueli sensed the changes in the brain inside the room, and their expressions changed slightly as well.

The technology to activate the brain is something that neither Sky Dome Shelter nor any other shelter has ever heard of. The benefits of this brain activation technology for a martial artist are so great that even a fool can understand how much it is. It can be said to be a technology that all martial artists dream of.

Of course, the brain activation in the beginner meditation room is not of much help to these Grandmasters of the Celestial Realm. Their brains have been tempered and are far superior to those of martial artists below the Blood Coagulation Realm in all aspects. This level of activation will only improve them by less than 5%.

Even so, it is still amazing, at least it can be of great help to people below the Celestial Realm before they break through to the Celestial Realm.

After recovering from the astonishing skills displayed by the Obsidian Martial Arts School, Fan Yaoguang and his companion couldn't help but look at the man sitting in the beginner meditation room.

The man was less than two meters tall. Like Yi Ye Fu Yun and others, he did not have the robust muscles and tall stature that a human should have. He was only wearing a black martial robe, and he could not feel any blood or energy on his body, but Fan Yaoguang and Ke Xueli felt a considerable threat from him.

"Hello, Master Lin. I am Fan Yaoguang, the captain of the Dawn of the Starfire Merchant Guild under the Sky Dome Shelter. This is my adjutant, Ke Xueli." Fan Yaoguang took the initiative to greet her, not daring to be the slightest bit disrespectful.

Although the survivors living in this pure land are generally not very strong, the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy is clearly not simple. Just Ye Qinglu and Yi Ye Fuyun, who are at the initial stage of the Blood Condensation Realm, have power that is no less than that of a mid-stage Grandmaster of the Celestial Realm. In addition, Lin Qi's body does not have any blood energy, yet he still exudes a sense of danger. No matter what, he cannot be underestimated.

"Please have a seat, both of you." Lin Qi gestured to the sofa beside him and said with a smile, "I have learned about your situation from the message sent by Yi Ye Fu Yun. You all want a safe place to rest, which is no problem. Our Chi Yue Town is very large, and there are still many unused houses on the mountain. You can rest there, and I guarantee that no outsiders will disturb you."

The moment Yi Ye Fuyun brought Fan Yaoguang and the others to Chiyue Town, he received a message from Yi Ye Fuyun, who wanted him to meet Fan Yaoguang and the others, and also gave a detailed introduction to Fan Yaoguang and the others.

When Fan Yaoguang and the others mentioned by Yiye Fuyun saw this information, they were also surprised. They did not expect that there were still people surviving in the restricted area, and on a considerable scale. This was definitely an unexpected surprise.

Originally, the plan was for players to find the first city within the restricted area, but unexpectedly, Yi Ye Fu Yun and others were able to find living people, which is definitely more valuable than finding the first city.

According to his calculations, the First City within the restricted area was definitely doomed. After all, the restricted area was not a place for humans to stay. Otherwise, the ancestors of Hou Fei's lineage would not have risked leaving the First City.

Compared to obtaining energy ore conversion equipment in a dead city, trading directly with living people is undoubtedly a better thing.

The number of equipment in a dead city is definitely limited, while living people can provide an unlimited supply as long as they have the materials. Although it will cost money, the current Obsidian Martial Arts School has the resources to do so.

"Thank you for your help, Master Lin." Fan Yaoguang bowed slightly in gratitude, and then said, "Master Lin is willing to provide a place to rest. In return, our Xinghuo Chamber of Commerce is willing to offer ten sets of Tier 3 Sky Armor, which our Sky Shelter is so proud of, as a testament to our friendship."

As he spoke, Fan Yaoguang, like a shrewd businessman, took out ten small boxes, opened one of them, and found a white metal wristband inside.

Fan Yaoguang then looked at Ke Xueli, who raised her hand to show an identical white metal wristband. She then clicked on the wristband, and instantly a set of white armor visibly formed on Ke Xueli's body, with a semi-transparent blue energy shield appearing on her wrist.

"This Tier 3 Sky Armor is the latest technology of our Sky Sanctuary. With the energy barrier it creates, the armor itself can withstand attacks from high-level Blood Condensation Realm cultivators without damage, reducing the impact force by 70%. The energy shield it forms can completely withstand attacks from high-level Blood Condensation Realm cultivators. Even against attacks from low-level Celestial Realm cultivators, it can withstand two attacks if the energy is sufficient. As for the energy required by the armor, the wearer's Qi and blood can replenish it. The only drawback is that it will consume more Qi and blood than before during combat."

Fan Yaoguang proudly introduced the Sky Armor, which surprised Lin Qi. He hadn't expected that someone inside the restricted area could possess such technology.

Although the increased consumption of qi and blood is a problem, the energy shield of the armor can completely withstand the attacks of high-level blood condensation realm warriors. This allows even warriors in the refining organ realm to survive in front of high-level blood condensation realm warriors, which is remarkable enough. If warriors in the same blood condensation realm wear it, as long as they still have qi and blood, they will be invincible against the same blood condensation realm warriors.

Most importantly, it can withstand two attacks from a beginner-level Grandmaster of the Celestial Realm. If a player in the Bone Forging Realm obtains this, they might be able to fight against a beginner-level Grandmaster of the Celestial Realm. Moreover, with the armor, even those Bone Forging Realm geniuses in the martial arts school's garrison can suppress a region as long as a Celestial Realm Grandmaster doesn't come out.

"This Sky Armor is truly a fine piece of equipment." Lin Qi looked at Fan Yaoguang, who was actively promoting it, and understood that Fan Yaoguang wanted to do business, which was also what he wanted. He then smiled and said, "I wonder if your esteemed merchant guild would be willing to sell more. As for the price, it's negotiable. Our Obsidian Martial Arts School can definitely offer a price that satisfies your esteemed merchant guild."

"Master Lin, you're too kind," Fan Yaoguang said with a smile. "The fact that Obsidian Martial Arts School is willing to take us in means we are friends of our Starfire Chamber of Commerce. As for the Sky Armor, if Master Lin wants it, we can offer it free of charge."

"No money?" Lin Qi asked in surprise.

Although he didn't have the currency from the restricted area, Fan Yaoguang and the others should know that normally, the so-called money would definitely be other resources. He was even prepared to exchange the Fruit of Life for it, since there were several disabled members among the Dawn's crew.

If the Celestial Sanctuary possessed all the healing technology, it certainly wouldn't have such members. Therefore, the Fruit of Life must be of considerable value to Fan Yaoguang and the others, making it very suitable for trade.

“That’s right, our Starfire Chamber of Commerce can provide Sky Armor to Master Lin and your guild for free.” Fan Yaoguang nodded and said very seriously, “We just hope that Obsidian Martial Arts Academy can provide a piece of land in Crimson Moon Town that can accommodate tens of thousands of people, so that some of the teenagers from our Sky Armor Shelter can come and live here. As for the cost of accommodation, we can provide two hundred sets a year. In addition, we are also willing to spend one hundred sets of Sky Armor to rent this beginner meditation room for a year.”

He didn't care about the resources of this pristine place at all, but the pristine place itself was very valuable, after all, it was free from the invasion of aliens, which was something that other shelters dared not even dream of.

The beginner meditation room was an unexpected bonus; if we could rent it, it would undoubtedly help the younger generation at Sky Dome Sanctuary improve even faster.

“These conditions are indeed quite good.” Lin Qi thought for a moment, then shook his head and said, “The land issue is not a problem, but the basic meditation room is not suitable.”

“If Master Lin is not satisfied, how about increasing it to two hundred sets a year?” Fan Yaoguang said.

“Your Excellency Yaoguang, this is not a problem with the armor.” Lin Qi shook his head and explained, “I think Your Excellency Yaoguang understands the value of the basic meditation room. Usually, only core disciples of our Obsidian Martial Arts Academy can rent and use it. Outsiders are not qualified. If Your Excellency Yaoguang’s people want to use it, they need to become disciples of our Obsidian Martial Arts Academy, and they must become core disciples.”

"This..." Fan Yaoguang was at a loss for words.

As people in the shelter, they certainly cannot join outside forces. However, the basic meditation room has a significant impact on those below the Celestial Realm. If it cannot be used, the improvement speed of the younger generation in the shelter will definitely drop by one level.

"How about this?" Lin Qi looked at Fan Yaoguang, who seemed somewhat unwilling, and said with a smile, "How about exchanging the Sky Dome Shelter's armor for a place as an advanced student at our Obsidian Martial Arts Academy? Our advanced student status will grant us the benefits of a core disciple for a year. It's three Sky Dome armors for one, and I can provide a hundred."

"Is that so?" Fan Yaoguang gritted his teeth upon hearing this. Although it was much more expensive, the beginner meditation room was indeed worth it, as it would allow the shelter to cultivate more Celestial Realm cultivators. "Alright, then I'll take one hundred advanced student slots."

"Lord Yaoguang, please let me finish speaking." Lin Qi raised his hand, indicating that Fan Yaoguang should not be in such a hurry. "The places for our martial arts school's advanced students are usually auctioned off, with various forces bidding against each other. However, Lord Yaoguang, you are important guests of our martial arts school. I can provide one hundred places, but there is one condition."

Fan Yaoguang calmed down and asked, "What are the conditions?"

"I wonder if Your Excellency Yaoguang knows about the First City?" Lin Qi asked directly without answering.

He asked the players to find the First City, mainly to find the conversion equipment. Although he could slowly do business with the Sky Dome Sanctuary and buy the conversion equipment later, he was currently short of energy essence. If he could know the exact location of the First City, he could undoubtedly solve this problem quickly.

"The First City? That First Domain City?" Fan Yaoguang couldn't help but laugh. "You've come to the right person. The younger generation in the shelters probably don't know about it. The First Domain City was a city that we managed to destroy after the Great Transfer, with experts from all the major shelters and races coming out together. We were severely weakened in that battle to deal with these alien bastards, and we've only just recovered. I wonder what Master Lin wants to ask?"

"Joining forces with various races to destroy the First City? Alien brat? What does this mean?" Lin Qi looked at Fan Yaoguang, momentarily bewildered.

(End of this chapter)