Chapter 109: 29: Niu Bu vs. Cultivation Realm
For RPG games, the core gameplay is development.

Just like the game Legend back then, it required killing 0 monsters to upgrade from level 41 to level 49. Even so, in the era when online games were just emerging, there were still countless people obsessed with Legend and did not find upgrading boring.

Like the legend of that year, "Baijia Zhudao", the world's first 100% immersive holographic online game, is also an ultra-slow-paced game. From the opening of the Iltsk Oasis copy to now, more than 20 days have passed, and only two players have used strategy to break through the barbarians' defenses and entered the Iltsk Oasis.

Yes, it took more than twenty days, and I couldn’t even get into the first dungeon of the game, let alone fight the enemy in the dungeon.

Such a difficult copy, such a slow-paced game, in this fast-paced era, if it was a game on Earth OL, no matter it was a mobile game, console game, or computer game, players would have abandoned it long ago.

But "Baijia Zhudao" is a holographic online game. The word "holographic" is the main reason why they persist and even actively play the game every day, even though they spend most of their time in the game doing repetitive daily tasks.

However, although most players have been doing repetitive daily tasks, they have not failed to improve.

Apart from anything else, simply increasing your level can improve your game values ​​and physical fitness, allowing you to easily perform actions in the game that are difficult to do in reality.

This kind of gaming fun of improving oneself is also what many players are addicted to.

Moreover, the abilities you master in the holographic online game "Baijia Zhudao" can also be used in real life.

Such as a backflip.

It is easy to do a backflip in the game, but there are not many people who can do a backflip easily in Earth OL. If you can do a very handsome and smooth backflip, I don’t know how many little girls will be fascinated by you.

A combination of these reasons has caused many players to complain in forums that the game is too difficult, upgrades are too slow, supplies are too scarce, and rewards are too little.

But every time it is time to go online, countless players still actively enter the game and start a whole day of hard work.

"Brothers, gather together and see if you can sneak into the dungeon again and complete the hidden mission."

The first Northern Expedition of more than 40 players led by Su Shan did not achieve very good results as soon as they left Yancheng. Many players started attacking the dungeon yesterday morning and continued until the early morning of the next day, but did not make much progress.

After many players who had not changed their jobs logged into the game at noon today, they did not actively attack dungeons like they did yesterday, but instead chose to do daily tasks to improve themselves.

But for job-changing players like Niu Bu, they are looking forward to attacking the dungeon more today than yesterday.

Without him.

Four words for hidden task!
Gui Bi’s hidden mission can be shared with 10 people. After he posted on the forum to show off, he finally picked out 10 players to help him complete the hidden mission.

The 10 players chosen by Gui Bi were all players who had completed their job transfer. They formed a small team and rode in carriages driven by non-professional players, setting off again towards the Iltsk Oasis in a high-spirited and vigorous manner.

Gui Bi and other players are very familiar with the Iltsk Oasis dungeon. Not only do they try to find ways to break into the dungeon in the game, they also actively discuss various methods and think about countermeasures on the forum on how to break into the Iltsk Oasis dungeon.

Arriving at the outskirts of Iltsk Oasis, the eleven players skillfully moved towards the Iltsk Oasis camp. The one walking in the front row was Zhu Chongsheng. He used his magical power [Queyue Battle Formation] to wrap up the other 10 players around him and enhance their strength.

[Queyue Battle Formation] is the battle formation magical power of the Bingxing School. When his soldiers advance in the Queyue formation, Zhu Chongsheng can guide his soldiers and transform their spiritual energy into thin and light spiked armor to enhance the defense of his soldiers.

As Zhu Chongsheng's proficiency in the [Queyue Battle Formation] increases, he can continuously increase the defense of the armor and the lethality of the spikes, and eventually use infantry to stop cavalry and become the nemesis of cavalry!
But at this stage, Zhu Chongsheng is not very proficient in the [Queyue Battle Formation] and can only barely improve the player's defense a little bit, which is like putting on a thin layer of spiritual armor for the player.

Following Zhu Chongsheng were Niu Bu and He Ao, both holding ring-handled swords. Although He Ao had learned the magical power of [Nong Fu in front of an expert], he was after all an expert in military skills, so his own combat capability was still quite good.

The 11-man Queyue battle formation led by these three players quickly moved towards the Iltsk Oasis. The Iltsk Oasis barbarians, who had been harassed by the players for a day, swept away their previous fatigue after seeing these 11 people and shouted loudly: "Enemy attack, enemy attack, the damn two-legged sheep are attacking again!"

"It starts again. How many Northern Guard troops are there in Yancheng? One thousand? Two thousand?"

“Shoot, shoot!!”

The barbarians on the watchtower quickly entered combat status and told their leader Wuzhuliuruo that the Yancheng Town Northern Army had started attacking again.

"Damn it! These two-legged sheep will never stop!"

"They have hardly stopped since yesterday morning. How many Northern Guards are there in Yancheng? We killed three or four hundred of them yesterday. Why does it feel like the enemy is still coming in an endless stream?"

Yesterday, players attacked the Iltsk Oasis for a whole day. Among the fifty or sixty players who went out to attack, each player was resurrected four or five times on average.

Although the players' attacks were sparse, they never stopped, and there were players attacking in almost every period of time.

This gave Wuzhuliuruo a feeling that the Yancheng Zhenbei Army was constantly attacking. They thought that during the more than six hours from early morning to almost noon today, without the Yancheng Zhenbei Army attacking, they could take a good breath.

Unexpectedly, the Yancheng Town Beijun was discovered again.

How on earth were these Yancheng Zhenbei troops, who kept sending themselves to their deaths, trained by the Imperial Shang Dynasty? Neither building Jingguan nor hanging their bodies upside down on the city walls could intimidate them at all.

Moreover, this group of Yancheng Town Beijun soldiers were not afraid of death at all. Among the hundreds of Yancheng Town Beijun soldiers killed, Wuzhuliuruo had never seen any fear on their faces.

It seems that death is a new starting point for them!

"They won't stop until a river of blood flows."

"Pass my order, have the five White Wolves strangle all the invaders!"

The five tribes are elite armies formed for those seeking to study, and are the five most powerful armies in the Xianyun tribe.

Iltsk Oasis is a small gathering place for the Xianyun. Their tribe has too few soldiers at the self-cultivation level, and they can only form two of the five groups - the Snow Fox and the White Wolf.

Snow Fox, one of the five tribes of Iltsk Oasis, is good at camouflage and sneak attacks. There are about fifty of them, and each soldier is equipped with a sharp saber.

The White Wolf, one of the five tribes in the Iltsk Oasis, is good at charging and frontal combat. There are about fifty of them. Each soldier is not only equipped with a sharp saber, but also has half a set of light armor to slightly cover the fatal parts of the body.

It is very expensive to train the five divisions of soldiers. Unless it is necessary, the Xianyun will not use the five divisions of soldiers.

Faced with the constant harassment and sneak attacks from Yancheng Town's North Army, Wuzhuliuruo really couldn't bear it anymore. He decisively dispatched his most elite troops, ready to solve the problem of Yancheng Town's North Army once and for all.

As Wuzhuliuruo's order was given, fifty barbarian soldiers wearing light armor, holding sabers, full of murderous intent and boiling blood, walked out in formation. Surrounded by the battle formation, they ran straight towards the location of Niu Bu and others without saying a word.

Soldiers in the Self-cultivation Realm were considered elite soldiers in the Imperial Shang Dynasty. Take the Zhenbei Army of Yancheng as an example. Most of their soldiers were in the Self-cultivation Realm, and only about twenty outstanding soldiers were in the Qijia Realm.

For a small barbarian settlement like Iltsk Oasis with a population of just over 10,000, it was already the limit for it to have two armies composed entirely of people at the self-cultivation stage.

Fifty White Wolf soldiers in the Self-cultivation Realm, under the blessing of the White Wolf Battle Formation, quickly rushed towards Niu Bu and others. After they entered the field of vision of Niu Bu and others, Niu Bu instantly felt a huge crisis. "This is..."

"The enemy's elite soldiers?"

Looking at the fifty barbarians in the distance who were well-disciplined, looked fierce, held sabers, wore light armor, and were surrounded by a battle formation, Niu Bu and other players couldn't help but look at each other. They saw shock in each other's eyes.

The enemies in the Iltsk Oasis copy actually sent elite soldiers to deal with them!

"These dungeons are really difficult. How come we've already encountered elite monsters before we even entered the dungeon?"

"My goodness! I can barely fight a few small monsters, and you directly send an elite monster to me?"

"I really underestimated the planner. His shameless look is so disgusting."

The five white wolves brought a lot of pressure to players like Niu Bu. Zheng Sanshui, Zhuge Wangye and others looked at the five attacking white wolves and couldn't help but curse the dog planner.

According to the general game logic, everyone enters the dungeon first, and then clears out the monsters. When the monsters are almost cleared, everyone goes to another area and starts clearing out the elite monsters and elite BOSS, and finally joins forces to kill the dungeon BOSS.

What about the copy of "Bai Jia Zhu Dao"?
Damn it, the players encountered the enemy’s elite monsters outside the dungeon before they even entered it.

Isn’t this a rip off?
No matter how much they curse, they still have to deal with the enemy when it comes right in front of them.

Zheng Sanshui held a bow in his left hand and an arrow in his right hand, and used his magical power [Shooting the Halberd at the Gate] to shoot at the five White Wolf soldiers who were rushing in the front. However, the gap between the study realm and the self-cultivation realm was too great. His spiritual arrows were blocked by the spiritual shields that suddenly appeared from the five white wolves, and he didn't even hurt a hair of the enemy.

"That's too much! That's too much!"

"The elite monsters are simply ignoring my magical powers!"

Seeing that the enemy was so powerful, Zheng Sanshui couldn't help but scream. From the arrow just now, he could conclude that the elite monster on the opposite side was definitely much stronger than him.

The realm of self-cultivation!
Enemies in the realm of self-cultivation!

"They are enemies of the Self-cultivation Realm!!"

After reaching this conclusion, Niu Bu's fighting spirit surged. Ever since he entered the realm of studying and learned the skill of [Shooting a Bull from Across a Mountain] from Li Yulun, Niu Bu has already stepped half a foot into the realm of self-cultivation.

There are three requirements for military strategists to achieve the goal of learning, namely, clarifying one's own beliefs and ideas, mastering two magical powers, and completing the task of killing ten people.

After one and a half months, Niu Bu had completed all these three requirements. He mastered the magical powers of [Eight Steps to Chasing the Moon] and [Shooting the Ox Across the Mountain], and also killed ten people in several attacks on the Iltsk Oasis.

After completing the three requirements of the military strategist for the realm of learning, Niu Bu began to work on advancing to the realm of self-cultivation.

There are three conditions for advancing from the state of studying to the state of self-cultivation.

One of them was promoted to centurion.

The second is to participate in a war with more than 10,000 people and survive.

The third is to kill a total of 20 enemies.

In addition to these three conditions, there is also a way to get promoted directly.

That is to kill the soldiers in the Self-cultivation Realm head-on.

The six realms of the Imperial Shang Dynasty are not the clearly defined realms in the novels about cultivating immortals.

For example, in the novels about cultivating immortals, if you don’t have the golden elixir condensed in your body, you are not in the Jindan realm.

The six realms of the Imperial Shang Dynasty are an affirmation of a person's talent. If you kill someone in the Self-cultivation realm with someone in the Studying realm, then you will naturally be promoted to the Self-cultivation realm.

After all, you can kill people in the Self-cultivation Realm, but you still emphasize that you are in the Studying Realm. That is really disrespecting everyone's IQ.

For Niu Bu, who has one foot in the realm of studying, of the three conditions for advancement to the realm of self-cultivation, condition three is the simplest: just kill, kill, kill, and it's done.

But condition one is more difficult. Currently, the official position system has not been introduced in the game. Among all the players, only Su Shan is a centurion and can be called an official.

But Niu Bu was just a small sergeant and could not be considered an official.

As for condition 2.
A battlefield with tens of thousands of people. With the current number of players, it will take a long time to reach the battlefield with tens of thousands of people.

Therefore, killing soldiers in the Self-cultivation Realm became Niu Bu's only way to be promoted.

But after entering the game for so long, Niu Bu has never faced a soldier in the Self-cultivation Realm head-on, and now, he has this opportunity.

“As long as I kill the Self-cultivation Realm, I can step into the Self-cultivation Realm and enter the second realm of the game!”

Niu Bu held a ring-handled knife in his hand, and with the help of Zhu Chongsheng's battle formation, he stared at the enemy in the front. At the moment when the short blades of both sides touched, Niu Bu stepped heavily on the ground and used the Eight Steps to Chase the Chan magical power to rush towards the enemy.

boom!
Swords collided and metal clanged.

A huge force came from the enemy's saber. Niu Bu narrowed his eyes slightly. The moment the two sides made contact, Niu Bu knew that he was no match for the enemy.

“Is this the realm of self-cultivation?”

"Strong, too strong!"

The power from the knife on the opposite side made Niu Bu realize instantly that he could not fight the enemy head-on. He once again used the Eight Steps to Chase the Magical Power, stepped back several steps, mobilized the spiritual energy to condense it in his right hand, and used the [Shoot the Ox Across the Mountain] magical power that he had just mastered not long ago.

"kill!!!"

Niu Bu roared angrily, and the moment he rushed towards the opposite side, a warm feeling splashed on his face, blocking some of his vision.

He Ao, who was beside Niu Bu, was killed by the enemy in the Self-cultivation Realm within two moves!
He Ao's death did not cause any fluctuation in Niu Bu's mood. He swung his ring-handled sword and it collided with the enemy's saber again.

(End of this chapter)