To ascend, I had no choice but to create games-Chapter 555 - 323: It’s Over Again (Part 2)

Chapter 555 -323: It’s Over Again (Part 2)

“Although “Work at Sunrise” is a slow-paced cultivation game, this slowness is relative.

In real-life cultivation, a single meditation session might take several years, and learning a spell could take several months.

However, this pace is obviously not playable for gamers; if it took over a decade just to get started in a game, who knows how long it would be to actually enjoy it.

Therefore, Fang Cheng deliberately slowed down this process, but he didn’t expect that players would use resources from other worlds to feed back into their own progress, further accelerating the pace.

While the Monarch watched the Monkey warily, the Monkey didn’t wait for him.

Upon realizing that his previous attack had been ineffective, the Monkey immediately retreated to create some distance, then struck again with his sword.

This time, the Monarch was prepared; dark water coalesced in front of him, blocking the sword light.

Observing the sword light trapped in the dark water, the Monarch breathed a sigh of relief, about to say a few words, when he saw the sword light within explode layer by layer, finally shattering into countless stars that tore both him and the dark water to pieces, along with his new incarnation.

After the third reassembly, the Monarch also stepped back several times, his smile warping constantly, but in the end, he still managed to maintain it.

Staring down the Monkey, he said coldly, “You impudent junior, it’s very rude of you. I kindly offered you an opportunity, and this is how you treat me. But I am also… will you ever stop!”

The Monkey had no interest in watching the drama unfold.

Right now, he just wanted to spar with the high-level player before him, to see whether his opponent’s variety of moves or his own swordsmanship was sharper!

As a result, he ignored the other’s desire to communicate and kept releasing sword light.

The power of the sword light grew wave after wave, layer upon layer, until eventually, the entire area was filled with dense sword light, like countless dragons swirling in the air, dazzling to behold.

The Monarch’s dark water was constantly eroded in this process, and the repeated cycle of death and rebirth was excruciatingly painful for him.

He could have simply walked away, but his identity as the Demon Lord was at stake here; even a newly revived Demon Lord with less than one billionth of his peak strength was not to be humiliated by such a junior!

So, he gritted his teeth and kept reconstructing his incarnations, constantly corroding the Monkey’s Flying Sword with his dark water.

After hundreds of attempts, he finally heard a crisp sound; the Monkey’s Flying Sword couldn’t withstand the Corrosion of the dark water and broke into two halves.

The sky full of sword light finally stopped, and the Monarch also exhaled in relief, feeling unburdened as he said, “Don’t waste your effort. Among the younger generation, you are quite powerful, but it’s a pity you met me. I’ll give you one more chance. Submit to me, and I can offer you better Magic Artifacts.”

Glancing at the broken sword in his hand, the Monkey nonchalantly tossed it aside, then looked at the Monarch before him and said, “A sword is not such an unreliable object!”

“What?”

“Sword, come!”

With a wave through the void, a multitude of sword lights emerged once more, charging towards the Monarch before him and tearing him apart again.

“Swordless, despite your young age, you’ve actually grasped the subtleties of swordsmanship! Who exactly are you!”

Not bothering to reply, the Monkey kept relentlessly tearing apart the Monarch’s body, until the last drop of dark water had been exhausted, and the Monarch was forced to leave in resentment.

As the dark water dissipated, the surrounding dark smoke also vanished, and the local civilians returned to normal, now looking around puzzled, not knowing why they had ended up there.

The Monkey, meanwhile, picked up the Eight-armed Statue on the ground and inspected it for a while but didn’t discern anything significant.

Just because he didn’t know didn’t mean others were in the dark. Taking his spoils of war, he whistled as he left the place, taking the statue with him.

He suspected the statue might be related to a hidden quest, so he didn’t hand it over to anyone else and headed straight for the Sect of Ten Thousand Laws, known for their Black Tech.

Black Tech was now quite famous; he was well-versed in the occult in reality and had extensive research on Taoist scriptures. With money and leisure, he was the go-to person for uncertainties in the game.

If he wasn’t too laid-back, and if he didn’t become immobile upon touching a book, he would certainly be a god-tier player in certain games.”

Seeing the item the Monkey provided, Black Tech looked at it with great interest for a while, then slowly walked over to a bookshelf, took out a thick book, and silently started to read.

His pace of turning pages was slow; he would ponder for a while after reading a bit. Often, he would skip dozens of pages at a time and continue reading only after finding something that piqued his interest.

After finishing the thick book, he spoke to the Monkey, “Confirmed, it’s an external Demon.”

“What is that?” The Monkey, sipping on the tea here, excitedly asked, “Is it very powerful?”

“It’s rather powerful. According to the county annals of Immortal Village, the opponent should have been here for over a hundred years and is one of the great enemies of Immortal Village. Every dozen years or so, they would cause trouble, and by my calculations, it’s about time for it to happen again.”

“What can that guy do? I don’t think his strength is very formidable, but the ability to resurrect continuously is indeed quite annoying.”

“That’s Black Water, one of the abilities of this Demon. The elders of Immortal Village have defeated him several times, but each victory came with a heavy price. However, it’s strange that the Demon can reappear each time. I suspect someone is acting as an Insider.”

Scratching his chin, the Monkey thought for a while, then asked with confusion, “Who would be so crazy as to cooperate with such an obviously problematic guy?”

“Many, at least some who do not recognize Immortal Village would do so. Besides, the Demon has many ways to beguile people. It would present itself as harmless and then, little by little, erode the existing things. Tell me, what was he doing when you saw him?”

Listening to the Monkey recount his encounter, Black Tech fell silent.

He took out another thick book and quietly flipped through it for a while, then said, “Strange, there’s no similar record before.”

“Is that important?”

“Very important; it means that this guy must have mastered a new method, and the fact that he has a physical body is also unusual. He must have obtained a new body somehow, and that’s why he can do this.”

Tapping the thick book, Black Tech thought for a long time and then said at a leisurely pace, “Monkey, a new Easter egg has been triggered.”

“…Why are you more certain than me, an Insider?”

“Just deduction. The clues are already in front of us, although fragmented and hard to piece together. But fortunately, the problem isn’t too difficult, it just requires some thought.”

The Monkey looked at Black Tech, realizing that innate talent really differed from person to person.

Some people play games; they are just playing games, while some play games as if reading a mystery novel, knowing who the murderer is halfway through.

He somewhat wanted to ask for more details, but he knew his brain was better suited for fighting than for situations like this; he would only add to the chaos.

So, he abandoned the idea of further questioning and asked Black Tech, “Then what can I do?”

“I’ve figured out the specific abilities of this Demon and have a general idea of his current situation. From the moment you saw him, it means he has secretly conquered a large number of countries without our noticing. But no matter, as long as we plan accordingly, we can still kill him. By the way, Liuzi needs to come over and help, and I also have some bad news for you, the national war is about to begin.”

“Isn’t that good news?”

Looking at the increasingly excited Monkey, Black Tech paused, then revealed a calm smile.

“Yes, indeed, that is good news.”

Just as Black Tech was deducing the plot’s direction, Fang Cheng felt a chill.

On a whim, he did a divination for himself and sighed.

No more.

Black Tech, I remember you now.

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From now on, you are also my adversary.

As for Happy Demon Master, who slipped through, Fang Cheng decided not to bother with him for the moment.

Being one of the culprits that thwarted my path to enlightenment, let him experience the peculiarity of players.