The first time in life is always so unforgettable.

The forum activity launched by Chu Zhongxing this time was the same. It was the first time that the Forum Popularity King activity was launched, and the Tongtian Divine Tree was upgraded twice in one day for the first time!

In the icy city of Yan, the green branches are shaking.

In front of Chu Zhongxing, the anticipated and familiar panel appeared again.

[You use your energy to water the Tongtian Divine Tree.]

[The Tongtian Divine Tree absorbed the energy and grew very well. 】

【The Sky-reaching Divine Tree (LV7) → (LV8). 】

[The power of the Tongtian Divine Tree has been enhanced. As someone who lives and breathes the Tongtian Divine Tree, your power has also been enhanced.]

[The number of players you summon increases by 256. ]

[You can choose one of the following three options as your new ability. ]

[One: Secret Realm. You can consume a huge amount of energy to create a secret space-time realm. The flow of time in the secret space-time realm is different from that in the outside world. Players can enter the secret space-time realm to practice.]

[Two: Skinning. You can intercept the spiritual energy created by the player's cultivation and use it for yourself. If you choose this ability, you can set the amount of spiritual energy you intercept.]

[Three: Incense. You can spend energy points to build a temple and offer incense. Every time you light incense and worship your life form, you can contribute a wisp of incense power. The power of incense can greatly enhance your various magical powers, and can also continuously nourish and strengthen your soul. ]

Three abilities appeared before Chu Zhongxing. Except for the first ability which had appeared before, the rest appeared for the first time.

"Skinning, Zhou Skinning?"

Chu Zhongxing temporarily skipped the first secret realm ability. After clicking on the ability of [Inheriting Ancestors], the player's strength has been greatly improved. As the beneficiary of Niu Bu, he can even compete with the strong men in the Qi family realm.

The current strength of the players has surpassed him, the main planner behind the scenes. If the abilities bestowed by the Tongtian Divine Tree are put aside, Chu Zhongxing still cannot beat Niu Bu.

In the Shang Dynasty, chaos was already evident.

With the ability to build a nest and become a cunning rabbit, Chu Zhongxing no longer needs to worry about things like Yancheng being breached or the Tongtian Divine Tree being destroyed.

What Chu Zhongxing needs to do next is to improve his own strength.

Players act very recklessly in this world. If they die, they die. It doesn't matter. They can just use resurrection coins to be resurrected after death.

But Chu Zhong can do it. He doesn’t have any magical power that makes him immortal. If he dies accidentally, he will be really dead.

Improving his own strength is Chu Zhongxing’s next goal. Only when his strength is improved to a certain level will Chu Zhongxing consider other things.

It seems that the Tongtian Divine Tree also understands Chu Zhongxing's thoughts. Among the two or three abilities given this time, two are abilities that enhance Chu Zhongxing's personal strength.

"Skinning can intercept the spiritual energy generated by the player's practice. This is the simplest and crudest way to improve ability."

"With 1064 players in Yancheng now, if I intercept one layer of spiritual energy from each of them, that would be a terrifying amount of spiritual energy."

Chu Zhongxing was quite envious of the skill of skinning. Aura was the foundation of everything in this world. No matter which school the disciples belonged to, they all needed to practice exercises to generate aura.

Only when spiritual energy is born can one be said to have entered the realm of learning.

In the realm of learning, one practices the exercises to generate spiritual energy, and then one traces the past and learns from the ancients, learns and masters two magical powers, and constantly practices the magical powers in order to enter the realm of self-cultivation.

After reaching the realm of self-cultivation, one must use spiritual energy to break through the 362 acupuncture points throughout the body. Through the acupuncture points, one can merge oneself with the outside world and generate an endless supply of spiritual energy.

At the same time, as a realm of self-cultivation, one must constantly practice one's beliefs and ideas, and master more magical powers in order to enter the realm of Qijia.

To manage one's family, as the name suggests, one must have the ability to manage one's family.

What is Qijia?

To gather the strength of the family and accomplish great things is to manage the family well.

After reaching Qijia Realm, the disciples of various schools of thought will pursue personal abilities according to their own circumstances.

Personal ability does not equal military force.

Leading an army to break an enemy's formation, governing a county, suppressing scoundrels, making wise decisions, and controlling floods are all demonstrations of personal ability.

From the Qi Family Realm to the Saint Realm, there are no longer clear nodes to distinguish their abilities.

Those who govern a county are responsible for managing their family affairs.

Those who govern a county or even a country govern the country’s borders.

He who can destroy one vassal state can pacify the world.

As for the Saint Realm.
There are only two saints in the world, one is Lao Tzu and the other is Confucius.

Spiritual energy is very important for disciples of various schools, but it is only limited to the Qijia realm. After reaching the Qijia realm, many things cannot be solved by personal force.

Just like the King of Western Chu in the previous life.

"Skinning can only strengthen you temporarily, and it also strengthens you by slowing down the growth of other players."

“Players are my base. Although each of them has their own ideas, I can rely on tasks, activities and other means to get them to do things for me.

If necessary, I can even take over their bodies and fight for me."

“Although exploiting players can improve my personal strength and give myself more security in this world.

But players are part of my strength. I enhance my personal strength simply to avoid becoming Sun Jian, who was accidentally killed by a stray arrow."

"Exploiting the base to improve one's own strength is like taking off pants to fart, which is a superfluous act."

"In this regard, the skinning ability is completely surpassed by the incense ability."

Chu Zhongxing directly passed the skinning ability. Both the skinning and incense abilities are abilities to improve one's own strength. The skinning ability is fast, accurate, ruthless and rough. It does not require doing anything. It can directly intercept the player's spiritual energy to improve itself.

As for burning incense, the steps are more complicated.

It is necessary to build a temple and let the "living beings" offer incense and worship themselves. Only in this way can they obtain a wisp of the power of incense.

Of course, the power of incense is obviously a level higher than spiritual energy. The power of incense can not only enhance supernatural powers, but also nourish the soul. This is an all-round improvement of Chu Zhongxing's strength.

“During this incense offering ceremony, the panel displayed ‘life form’ instead of the player.

In other words, all the intelligent monsters and the natives of the Imperial Shang Dynasty can worship me?
In this way, the amount of information conveyed is very wide. Why do I always feel that the power of incense has something to do with becoming a saint?"

No one knows how to enter the realm of a saint. Confucius and Laozi, who had already become saints, have long disappeared.

"But then again, are players considered living beings? In terms of the ability to pass on their lineage, players are not living beings, but from my understanding, anything with intelligence should be considered a living being."

"Forget it. There's no point in analyzing this now. Once you master this ability, you'll know after trying it out."

After analyzing the pros and cons, Chu Zhongxing decisively chose the skill of Incense. A brand new green leaf quietly emerged, and with the swaying of the green leaves of the Tongtian Divine Tree, Chu Zhongxing gained the ability of Incense.

"There are only ten minutes left before the game is launched. To be honest, it feels so good to keep the players waiting. If I can, I really want to keep the players waiting and imprison them so that they can become my RBQ!"

"But this is just a thought."

Chu Zhongxing waved his hand and decided to let the player in.

"So boring, I really want to be raped!"

"Why hasn't the server been launched yet? Can't this game just mention the server launch?"

"Ahhhhhhh, planner dad, please open the server quickly, or I'll die in front of you!"

After more than four hours of intense discussion in the forum, the players finally couldn't resist the urge to enter the game. Many players began to complain in the forum about why the server had not been opened yet, while some players were constantly trying to see if they could enter the game.

"It's in, it's in!"

"Brothers, hurry up and play the game, the server is open!"

"Is this true? It's ok if we don't delay it any more. Can we still open the server ahead of schedule?"

"believe it or not!"

The news of the server launch spread throughout the entire forum in an instant, and countless players immediately abandoned the forum and started logging into the game.

He Ao, who had been posting on the forum, immediately abandoned the forum and logged into the game after seeing the news.

After entering the game and climbing up from the familiar bed, He Ao felt a chill enveloping him, causing him to shiver uncontrollably.

"Damn, it turns out the coldness I felt when I was kicked out of the game wasn't just an illusion!!"

He Ao was shivering from the cold, and even when he circulated his spiritual energy, the chill still remained.

"This is really weird. This is beyond the scope of life for ordinary people in Northern Xinjiang."

He Ao always felt that this sudden severe cold should be accompanied by some kind of plot advancement.

After getting off the bed, an email popped up in front of He Ao. He Ao glanced at it and found that it was an update announcement email.

[Dear players, since this update adds some new content, the update maintenance time is four hours later than expected.

To express our apologies, we will give each player a reward, please check it.

The new content added in this update is:
1. 384 new closed beta testers added. New friends have joined Yancheng.

2. New special event: Bingyi Zhuying. This ancient beast must be respected by mortals. Bingyi just passed by the northern border and brought it into severe and extremely cold weather.

Note: "Baijia Zhudao" will randomly trigger special events. Players are requested to explore on their own. There will be no further explanation after this time.

3. Due to the influence of Bingyi Zhuying, players who have not yet completed the job change, please go to Huotouying to receive the cold-relieving medicine.

Players who have completed the job transfer, please resist the extreme cold on your own. 】

"Special event? Bingyi Candle Shadow?"

“No wonder he suddenly froze to death, it turned out to be a special event.

The ancient vicious beast Bingyi? Hehehe, little guy, just wait for me, I will make you my pet one day!"

He Ao began to think about when he could conquer Bingyi and make him his pet. He completely forgot that Bingyi was frozen to death when he just passed by Northern Frontier.

The reward for the delayed update is 300 [cast]. He Ao checked his [cast] and found that he had 17244 [cast].

"The currency system has been updated. How much does it cost to buy a holographic gaming cabin?"

He Ao quickly checked the holographic game cabin and found that it would cost 5 [casting] to buy the holographic game. According to He Ao's level of [soldier], all the [orders] and [weapons] obtained in the game were exchanged for [casting] as he was a [soldier] at the student level.

It would probably take more than a year to get a holographic gaming cabin for free.

Of course, this year is free and started from scratch, and it is calculated without any new activities. He Ao now has nearly 0 [Casts]. If the current rewards remain unchanged, he will be able to redeem a holographic game in about three months.

After all, before joining the [Soldiers], He Ao received very few rewards.

"This update is really good. It greatly reduces the difficulty of obtaining a holographic game cabin. A cute player who plays the game every day and has fun can get a holographic game cabin in just over a year."

"For such a game with so many benefits, I can only say, long live the planning!!"

He Ao closed the exchange page of [Casting] with satisfaction. He shook his body to get rid of the cold, and then walked towards the [Book Collection Pavilion].

Well known.

The Yanlong Kingdom is an infrastructure maniac.

With the joint efforts of more than 700 players who had not changed their professions, a small library was built in less than two days.

Although this [Book Collection Pavilion] looks very simple from the outside, it also looks very simple and rough from the inside.

But the [Book Collection Pavilion] already has the function of [Book Collection].

[Book Collection] has begun to open to the public. Players can go to the [Book Collection] to view the corresponding general outline of the skills.

[The Library] is very simple, with the entire building made of rough stones piled together. The architectural style is in line with that of Yancheng, and is even less aesthetic than that of Yancheng.

Players who participated in the construction of the [Book Collection Pavilion] have free browsing rights. At this moment, most of the new players who participated in the construction of the [Book Collection Pavilion] have gone to the Fire Camp to get the cold-relieving soup. He Ao spent 300 [Casts] to enter the Book Collection Pavilion and obtained one hour of browsing rights.

Knowledge is obviously the most expensive thing.

He Ao didn't dare to waste time. He quickly came to the place where the Mohist books were placed, and his eyes were fixed on a stone-carved outline of the Mohist school. The next second, a page popped up.

【Have you read the Mohist general outline "Jingbian"? 】

【Yes! 】

Lines of text appeared in front of He Ao in the form of pages. He Ao was slightly surprised. He thought that the [Book Collection] was a paper book, like the "Six Strategies", the general outline of military strategists. He did not expect it to be "electronic".

But it was fine this way. He Ao simply found a corner and stared at his feet with a dull look, but in fact he was reading "Jingbian" word by word.

The military strategist and the master of military tactics are He Ao's yellow-faced wife.

And the Mohist school is He Ao's white moonlight.

After coming out of the Mohist School, He Ao, the scumbag, chose to change his career without hesitation, from the school of military strategists and military skills to the school of Mohist attack.

The two factions of Mohism are divided into offense and defense. As a player, He Ao naturally chose offense.

This time, he had to rely on his own understanding to comprehend the Mohist school's general outline "Jingbian". Fortunately, He Ao was a military expert and mastered the magical power of "Banmen Nongfu". He had some knowledge of this kind of classical Chinese. He focused all his energy on "Jingbian". However, in just over forty minutes, an old man appeared faintly in the void. (End of this chapter)