Is this NPC even playable if it's not nerfed?

Chapter 112 Qi Dao System, Phantom of the Underground Palace, Full Map Boss Battle

Qi cultivation is similar to martial arts, but not entirely the same.

The Qi Channel is the way to absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and transform it into one's own power.

Use the power of Qi to fight.

This is similar to martial arts. The biggest advantage of Qi cultivation is that it does not have high requirements for resources and does not have much desire for meat.

Moreover, the threshold for Qi cultivation is relatively low. Even ordinary people, without any cultivation techniques, can become qualified Qi masters simply by sensing the existence of Qi and guiding it into their bodies.

In addition, the application of Qi Dao is extensive, even surpassing that of martial arts, and its various applications are integrated into the daily lives of ordinary people.

Using the power of qi to transport food, explore water veins, heal wounds, and so on.

While its destructive power is insufficient, its special effects are extremely flashy, and its skill range is ridiculously large.

It often covers an area of ​​several hundred meters, which consumes a lot of energy.

The advantages of the airway are low resource requirements, low entry barrier, fast upgrades, wide application, full special effects, and large destructive range.

Correspondingly, the airway also has extremely serious drawbacks.

In terms of combat power, they are far from sufficient and are crushed by martial arts. Their cultivation techniques are also not as refined as those of martial arts, resulting in high consumption and insufficient destructive power.

Qigong practitioners are also severely unbalanced, only able to focus on one aspect of their practice, while martial arts have a complete system that can achieve balanced improvement in all aspects without any obvious weaknesses.

This results in qigong masters being extremely vulnerable when facing martial artists.

A martial artist of the same level can fight five qi masters of the same level, and even crush them.

Warriors are capable of fighting, enduring, and sustaining themselves through war.

However, this doesn't work for Qigong Masters. Those who focus on output are too fragile, while those who focus on defense lack output.

Those who prioritize speed are fragile and lack offensive capabilities.

This means that Qigong masters need to team up with others to compensate for their own weaknesses in order to have a normal combat environment.

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Players from the Western Regions who want to learn martial arts are unfortunately unable to find any martial arts techniques available locally. If they want to learn martial arts, they can only go to the Central Plains or to sects that are closer to the Western Regions, such as the Tianshan Sect or the Kunlun Sect.

The problem is that these sects have high entry requirements.

You can't just join whenever you want.

Weaker sects or martial arts schools do not have this.

Players from the Western Regions have no choice.

If you can't get into those major sects in Kunlun and Tianshan, you can only become a Qigong master.

……

Deep in the desert, dozens of miles outside Loulan in the Western Regions.

The ten-person team is trudging through the yellow sand, searching for the legendary entrance to the ancient Loulan underground palace.

"Old Kuai, are you sure? Is the entrance to the underground palace of ancient Loulan really in the desert?"

"My friend, I'm 90% sure, I'm not lying to you, the underground palace of the ancient Loulan is in this desert, and it's right near us."

"I got this information from a survivor, it's absolutely true."

"Just don't waste your time."

"Don't shout. Once we find the underground palace, we'll all be rich."

"Once we've saved enough money, we can go to Dayong. I don't want to learn this crappy Qigong for even a second longer. Damn it, those jerks in the world chat are always mocking us Qigong players as trash."

"Damn, do we even have a choice?"

"Stop arguing, you're always like a complaining woman."

"There's nothing wrong with being born in the Western Regions."

"Qigong may be a bit weak, but it levels up quickly."

"What's the point of comparing them?"

"This stupid game has six systems."

"Three ordinary systems and three advanced systems."

"We can switch when the advanced system appears."

"We level up quickly and change jobs quickly, so it's not certain who will win or lose."

"Makes sense."

"Stop arguing, isn't that the entrance to the underground palace?"

"Quicksand, that's it, quicksand, the entrance to the underground palace is below."

The ten-person team suddenly rushed towards the location of the quicksand with great joy.

The underground palace of ancient Loulan holds many royal treasures. They only need to salvage a small portion of them to achieve financial freedom in the real world.

"I'm the meat shield, I'll scout ahead."

"Give me the rope. Remember, one pull is safe, two pulls are dangerous, and three pulls are extremely dangerous. Pull me up as quickly as possible. If someone pulls me countless times rapidly, they're selling me out. Run, understand?"

As the team's front-line tank, Lao Kuai took out a rope from his backpack, tied it tightly around his waist, and after discussing with his teammates, jumped into the quicksand area, letting the quicksand engulf him.

After a while.

Their rope was pulled slightly.

Safety.

Just as everyone was about to go down, the ropes were pulled quickly, and a roar came from below the underground palace.

Without hesitation, everyone took off running outside.

Old Kuai's avatar went out instantly, indicating that he was being resurrected.

"Run."

"Run as fast as you can."

"There are many monsters down there."

"Damn it, I got killed instantly."

"It appears instantly, it's completely unbearable."

"horrible."

"There are ghosts down there."

"All attacks are ineffective."

"You guys run! Those ghosts are going up there!"

Lao Kuai was sending messages like crazy in the small group.

However, no matter how anxious he was, it was no use.

Because their team's avatars went out one by one.

In less than five minutes, the entire team was wiped out.

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[Ding! You've found a version clue: Ghostly Shadow in the Underground Palace]

The Mysterious Shadows of the Underground Palace: The world is full of wonders. Due to the great changes in the world, some sleeping spirits have been awakened. Due to the influence of unknown forces, an army of the undead has appeared beneath the ancient Loulan underground palace. These undead seem to be guarding something. Slaying the army of the undead will yield a large reward.

Quest Rewards (Basic): Level +5, Order Value +500, Mystic-grade Equipment [Selectable]

Quest Rewards (Advanced): Earth-grade equipment, Earth-grade martial arts, Dragon Horse (mount), Heaven-grade Qi Gong...

Advanced: Receive rewards based on your ranking in points.

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[Beep beep beep, player Lao Kuai's team has discovered a version clue. This version clue is about a super weapon. The current progress on the super weapon version clue is 2/3.]

[Beep beep beep, due to the inability of the Western Regions to handle this event, the system has specially opened up assistance from other regions.]

The remaining players can travel to the Western Regions via system teleportation.

Players who accepted the quest will have their respawn point temporarily changed to the Western Regions.

[If the mission ends or is canceled, the player will be forcibly teleported back to the original area.]

[Ding! This task can only be accepted once. If you cancel and then accept the task again, the system will determine it to be invalid.]

Do not exploit system vulnerabilities.

……

"Holy crap, the Western Regions, awesome."

"What a terrifying mission."

"No limit on the number of players? Holy crap, is this a boss battle?"

"The rewards are outrageous! Earth-level martial arts, Earth-level equipment, and that Heaven-level qigong, holy crap, Heaven-level!"

"Qigong is very weak, quite weak in all aspects. The attribute bonuses of a Heaven-level Qigong are equivalent to those of an Earth-level martial art."

"That's pretty awesome."

"Hey, hey, hey, don't get too excited yet. This time it's different. We can't bring that NPC along. It'll be tough."

"what?"

……

(End of this chapter)