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

Chapter 373 Try it out
Fog Mountain Region, Crimson Moon City.

With five million players appearing in the city, the already crowded Crimson Moon City suddenly became overcrowded. Players entering the High Martial Arts Descent for the first time were like curious children, unable to believe that everything in the game was so real.

Whether it's the NPCs or the various buildings in the city, it's as if they've arrived in a strange city where everyone has their own life, all the buildings are not just for show, there are countless shops on the streets, cars and flying cars are everywhere on the streets and in the sky, and you can even see some people flying in the air, it's incredibly futuristic.

"Is this what it means for high-level martial arts to descend?"

"This is amazing! It's just like living in the real world. No wonder those who got the spots are always online and don't want to log off."

"Earn points! Earn points! I must buy my own skyscraper in this city, hire NPCs to manage it, and live a carefree life in this world forever."

"I want to become a Celestial Realm expert, buy a giant skyship, and invite my real-world friends to come and play every day. This is definitely more prestigious than those mansions and yachts."

At this moment, whether they were ordinary players or members of various guilds, they all felt like Goblin had discovered a new continent. The arrival of high-level martial arts was far better than they had imagined.

In reality, everyone is an ordinary person, and it's too difficult to rise to the top. But in this world, they are players. They only need to cultivate and improve their strength to easily live the life of the elite, and even live longer than in the real world. It's simply too awesome.

While the new players were busy doing quests or leveling up, the veteran players who logged in at the same time watched with admiration.

"Times have really changed. Back then, we only had one dilapidated martial arts school to play in, and we couldn't even choose basic martial arts skills. All we could do every day was dig holes. Now, new players can roam all over the map. They can learn powerful martial arts skills as long as they have points. If they want to earn points, there are NPCs all over the streets. They can easily get points by helping out with tasks." Ragnarok sighed as he looked at the busy new players on the streets.

Back then, the martial arts school was built brick by brick by them, and their living quarters were so nice that even rats would shake their heads. Now, there are luxurious buildings all over the streets. As long as you have enough points, you can even stay in a presidential suite with NPC services. It couldn't be more awesome.

Many veteran players present nodded in agreement. The environment for new players today is much better than it was for them back then. Back then, they had to risk their lives to get a weapon, and all they could see every day was a dilapidated martial arts school and run-down streets.

Now you can stroll around bustling shopping malls everywhere, and there are all sorts of beautiful female NPCs to admire. Even if you just enjoy the scenery and casually take on some quests to mine every day, your life is much better than that of many ordinary people in reality.

"There's nothing to lament about," Luo Wushang said dismissively. "The living conditions for new players are indeed better now, but it's also harder to stand out. Before, let alone martial artists, even a high-level apprentice was considered a master. Now, if you don't reach the Bone Forging Realm, it's difficult to even participate in events or missions, let alone earn cultivation resources. Of course, with so many more people now, there are probably many more masters as well. If you guys don't work hard, you might be overtaken by these newcomers, and then the resources you can get will become those newcomers'."

Following Luo Wushang's words, even the veteran players present became wary.

Good resources in the game are definitely limited. In the past, when there were fewer people and the map was so big, there was no worry about not having enough for everyone. But now the number of players has increased dozens of times, and there will be even more in the future. If they don't work hard, they may easily be overtaken by those so-called geniuses and experts. After all, this game is very realistic. It's not a game where you can level up by killing monsters. It requires players' understanding and hard work.

What ordinary players need two or three days to master, some geniuses can probably do in one or two hours. Especially now that many large capital firms are involved, with just a little concentration of resources and money, geniuses and some experts can grow even faster.

When the time comes, the resources on high-level maps might not be available to veteran players with above-average or average talent.

However, Luo Wushang did not give everyone much time to think and directly ordered: "According to the original plan, the members of the Bone Forging Realm are now all squad leaders. You can find those newcomers with high potential and use the resources of the base. These newcomers will all be your team members. After becoming Bone Forging Realm, they can be promoted to full members and become official members of the garrison. As for the other Blood Coagulation Realm members, they will all act with me now."

"Yes!"

Upon hearing this, everyone from Tianwei also sprang into action.

This surge in player numbers presents an opportunity for Tianwei to further expand its influence. After all, earning a large amount of resources in the game requires more than just individual players; it requires the strength of a team, especially for the defense of resource points and towns, which necessitates a large number of people working in shifts.

At this time, it wasn't just Tianwei that was doing this; all the major teams were also frantically promoting and recruiting these newcomers, with players at the Bone Forging Realm leading the teams to earn resources and provide training.

In an instant, millions of players radiated out from the center of Red Moon City, startling members of various factions who came to explore the city.

In less than two days, so many gray-robed disciples have unexpectedly appeared in Crimson Moon City. Although these gray-robed disciples are generally very weak, and some are not even martial artists, the gray-robed disciples of Obsidian Martial Arts Academy are famous throughout the four regions. Each of them has extraordinary potential and is not someone that ordinary people can become.

Reaching the Bone Forging Realm in the future might be an exaggeration, but it's almost a certainty. Some gray-robed disciples might even become Blood Condensation Realm experts. Even if it's only one percent, millions of gray-robed disciples would be a terrifying number.

In fact, not only were the major forces that came to Crimson Moon City surprised, but the people from the other three major domain cities were also incredulous.

"How can there be so many gray-robed disciples? Does the abbot intend to unify the four regions?" Ling Ye looked at the gray-robed disciples all over the streets and alleys of Crimson Moon City and couldn't help but feel a chill run down his spine. He couldn't help but ask his teacher, "Teacher, should we report this to the deputy city lord now?"

She knew the combat strength of the gray-robed disciples; each of them was basically capable of fighting opponents of higher ranks.

At present, the millions of gray-robed disciples may not seem like much, but if these gray-robed disciples are given time, and all of them reach the Bone Forging Realm, they will have the combat power of millions of Blood Condensation Realm cultivators. If one percent of the gray-robed disciples reach the Blood Condensation Realm, they will have the combat power of tens of thousands of Celestial Realm Grandmasters.

Even if such a large army were to be assembled from the remaining three major regional cities, it would still be a joke.

It should be noted that the total number of Grandmasters across all four regions combined is probably not even a fraction of the number at the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy.

“No wonder all three major cities sent people to investigate at the same time. The Obsidian Martial Arts School is indeed ambitious and can’t be satisfied with just one area.” The Third Elder frowned and took a deep breath. “Our report alone is far from enough. We need to contact the other two families and report to our superiors together.”

The information he had gathered in Crimson Moon City was already astonishing enough. There were hundreds of Grandmasters on the surface, and four Grandmasters who were in charge. Yesterday, the rumor that the Pavilion Master Lin Qi had broken through caused the blood and qi in the area within tens of kilometers of Crimson Moon City to surge. Such a phenomenon was something he had never seen before in his life, and it almost made him kneel down.

Now, millions of gray-robed disciples have suddenly appeared in the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy, making him doubt whether he has actually come to Crimson Moon City these past few days, but is still asleep in Heavenly River Domain City.

The strength that Obsidian Martial Arts Academy has now demonstrated is beyond what a single city or region can contend with. Only by the combined efforts of the three cities can they possibly restrain Obsidian Martial Arts Academy.

On the other side, in the Obsidian Martial Arts School, is the master's office. The office has been completely transformed into an intermediate meditation room. Even ordinary people could become geniuses just by staying inside; the mental agility gives one the feeling of frequent bursts of inspiration.

"Level 4 permissions are indeed powerful. The hidden permissions they bring have also brought about a qualitative change. Now, even if it's just a martial arts skill that a player has learned themselves, I can still extract it." Lin Qi looked at the player list displayed by the system and sighed slightly. "It's a pity that the success rate is less than 30%, and there are only fifteen chances a day. If only there were more."

He has now reached the Celestial Realm, but the energy and blood essence he consumed to achieve this was even more astonishing—a full two hundred energy and blood essences were needed to complete the final breakthrough.

After his breakthrough, he is now a true extraordinary life form, irreversible. His blood and qi strength is more than 30% stronger than Luo Wushang's, and the density of his blood and qi has more than doubled. His actual strength has reached the level of 100,000 tons. He has to be careful with every move he makes, especially his own presence and blood and qi. He has to spend a lot of mental effort to suppress them, otherwise even a martial artist in the Blood Condensation Realm cannot get close to him within a kilometer radius.

Today, with the number of reservations reaching 150 million, he also unlocked the fourth level of hidden permissions, granting him a brand new extraction ability.

Now, he can extract any martial arts skills and training methods that players have learned, no longer limited to only the martial arts skills and training methods he provides, which is a significant improvement.

Therefore, he immediately extracted the demigod inheritance learned by Ragnarok and others. Unfortunately, the extraction rate was too low, and he only succeeded four times out of fifteen attempts. This allowed him to reach the proficiency level of four of Huang's eighteen martial arts techniques. Among them, the ninth technique, Star Rain, was still a mid-level profound technique, which greatly boosted his confidence.

This move, performed by his extraordinary life force, would not be fatal, but it would make him very weak. However, with this move in hand, plus the stick drawn by the system, he felt that he could fight against ordinary experts in the Fusion God Realm.

If he could perfect the Ninth Form, Star Rain, he felt that even without using such a desperate martial skill, he should be able to fight against an ordinary expert at the Fusion God Realm.

Just as Lin Qi was lamenting that the number of extractions was too low, a woman with three pairs of golden wings walked in from outside the door. It was Xie Feina.

"Master, the people from those three cities have already made their move. They probably plan to report to Domain City together," Shefina said with a hint of nervousness. "The Zerg will probably make their move then."

Before Misty Mountain City was merged into Obsidian Martial Arts Academy, she did not know the true situation of Azure Star. However, after fully joining Obsidian Martial Arts Academy, she also learned about the situation of the Four Domains. When she learned about it, she even felt a chill down her spine.

Unexpectedly, the domain city that everyone in the four domains longed for was nothing more than a slaughterhouse for the insectoid race, and they even went there on their own initiative. Fortunately, the Misty Mountain Domain City was destroyed, otherwise they would have been kept in the dark forever, just like the people from the three major domain cities who have come here now.

She originally wanted to tell the people in the three major cities directly, but she thought that if the people in the three major cities leaked the information and it became known to the people of the four regions, it would be a loss if the insect race decided to carry out a large-scale purge of the four regions. After all, the insect race was too powerful, and the entire Azure Star was just one of the insect race's breeding planets. If the insect race was really angered, it would not be difficult for them to wipe out the entire Azure Star. For now, maintaining a superficial peace between the two sides was the best choice.

But now that the people from the three major cities have reported the situation in Crimson Moon City in detail, she is somewhat worried that the Zerg will regard Obsidian Martial Arts Academy as a threat and directly carry out a full-scale extermination, restoring the previous management model.

"Ignore them, continue as usual." Lin Qi nodded, still speaking calmly, "Send more people to City 41 to accelerate the conversion of energy blood essence."

He no longer cares much about what's happening on Azure Star. As long as the Star Lord of Prison Dragon Star doesn't move, there's nothing on Azure Star that can threaten him. However, considering the Star Lord of Prison Dragon Star, he plans to speed things up a bit, since he needs more energy and blood essence after reaching the Celestial Realm.

Since the Star Lord of Hell Dragon Star hasn't paid attention to him yet, he naturally needs to speed up his progress so that more players can advance. After all, the speed at which players advance, especially from the Blood Condensation Realm to the Celestial Realm, is almost without bottlenecks due to the training method. As long as they have enough energy and blood essence, they can quickly reach the Celestial Realm.

Producing 10,000 energy blood essences a day is too little. He wants to increase the production by three or four times before that Prison Dragon Star makes a move, so that the number of players who become Celestial Realm players can also increase several times in a short period of time.

"Yes." Shefina looked at the calm Lin Qi and felt slightly relieved. She then left the office to arrange matters in City 41.

After Shefina left, Lin Qi quickly sensed a powerful aura erupting in the distant Dead Mountain Range.

"What's going on? With this kind of aura and connection, what is Luo Wushang doing in the Mountain of the Dead?" Lin Qi couldn't help but open the player list in the system bar to check on Luo Wushang's situation.

The scene showed a continuous mountain range. Luo Wushang was leading a group of Blood Condensation Realm players to kill a large number of Cataclysmic level monsters. These Cataclysmic level monsters, which were hundreds of meters tall and were troublesome even for Celestial Realm Grandmasters, were like tofu in front of Luo Wushang. She could kill them with one punch each without any skill. Soon, they arrived in front of an incomparably majestic mountain.

"Guild Master, there's a super-large energy vein right beneath this mountain. If we take it over and build a town, we probably won't have to worry about energy ore for decades." Ragnarok pointed to the mountain, which was tens of kilometers high, and said with some concern, "However, according to the brothers' previous investigations, a terrifying monster lives here. It should be the king of the Dead Mountain Range that the NPCs mentioned. Even a high-level Blood Condensation Realm expert can't withstand a single blow from that king."

Now that Tianwei wants to build a town, there are actually several places to choose from in the Dead Mountain Range. Although those places are also inhabited by terrifying monsters, a high-level Blood Condensation Realm expert can at least fight them for a while. But with the King here, even if a high-level Blood Condensation Realm expert activates his energy burst, it's all over in an instant. He is definitely the strongest monster in the game right now.

"Even a high-level Blood Condensation Realm expert can't withstand a single blow?" Upon hearing this, Luo Wushang's interest only grew. "Alright, I'll go first, you guys find your chance."

Now that she has reached the Celestial Realm, even monsters of the Calamity level cannot withstand a single move from her. They don't even give her a chance to test her strength. Now is the perfect time to use the King of the Dead Mountain Range to test her current power.

Immediately, Luo Wushang rushed towards that majestic, endless mountain peak.

As Luo Wushang rushed towards the mountain peak, alarms blared wildly in a hidden cave dozens of kilometers away.

"What's going on? This life force reaction... is it from a Grandmaster?"

"That's where King-level monsters live. Could that person be planning to hunt a King-level monster?"

"Has this human gone mad? Those king-level monsters are monsters that even adults can only kill by joining forces. How dare a grandmaster go hunting them?"

More than a dozen Zerg captains watched the scene on the screen. They saw a human woman rushing towards the sleeping place of the King-level monster, the Hell Serpent King. They were first surprised, and then they couldn't help but laugh.

As a fourth-tier monster, and a mid-tier one at that, the Hell Serpent King is no match for even the top-ranked legion commanders of the same level, let alone a human Grandmaster.

As the woman approached the mountain peak, the Hell Serpent King beneath the earth was suddenly awakened. It burst forth from the ground and unleashed a powerful lash of its tail at the woman. The tail, stretching for one or two kilometers, resembled a mountain crashing down from the sky. Its speed was so great that even a Grandmaster of the Celestial Realm could hardly perceive it with the naked eye. The force of the lash affected an area of ​​tens of kilometers, causing everyone to feel a strong impact. Even a Grandmaster of the Celestial Realm was thrown back dozens of meters. Its power was incredible!

(End of this chapter)