Chapter 77: Chapter 74: The Possibility of Skipping the Strategy Route

[You have been manipulated by the Avatar of the Mud God, your spirit is wavering…..]

In the image, the game character’s face is full of pain, divine energy bursts from his body, struggling to hold on.

“Roar~!”

The game character suddenly transforms into the form of a True Dragon, enveloped by countless streams of water, charging towards the Mud God.

He is clearly choosing to fight hard when he cannot hold on anymore.

Divine energy and water circulate around him, the image turns black and white, the game character has already activated the Eyes of Death, but he does not see the Death Mark of the Mud God. The True Dragon he transformed into suddenly charges towards the head of the Mud God.

[Avatar of the Mud God (Compassion): Come back, my child.]

The game character crashes into the Mud God’s body, black energy erupts and coils around him, his struggle appears so powerless.

Gradually, his actions slow down until they completely stop.

[String of Destiny breaks, Destiny Restart in progress… Restart successful!]

…..

Lin Qianxuan looked at the screen returning to the starting scene, somewhat silent.

“Avatar of the Mud God? Is there a real Mud God after that?”

Lin Qianxuan scratched his head, feeling a bit numb on his scalp.

Why is this game’s difficulty so exaggerated this time?

“Do I still need to strategize around Gongsun Yue?”

Lin Qianxuan felt a bit troubled.

Not only because of the extra effort needed to strategize another female character, but also the difficulty of strategizing Gongsun Yue.

Strategizing Gongsun Ying is easier compared to Gongsun Yue, but it was only after she was on the brink of life and death that he barely managed it.

To strategize Gongsun Yue, if not using the evil strategy technique, it would be hard to manage it in a short time.

And the reason the evil strategy technique is called evil is that this kind of approach easily sows the seeds of disaster.

Many dating games Lin Qianxuan has played are quite open-ended, some of which allow the use of the evil strategy technique.

But most times, the evil strategy technique only has a good effect temporarily, and afterwards, those who use it often end up suffering the consequences.

If he were just playing the game, Lin Qianxuan would have no qualms using evil strategies.

But considering that this might happen in reality in the future, he hesitates a bit.

Lin Qianxuan checked the time, it was already six o’clock in the morning on September 3rd.

He had played longer this time than all the previous attempts combined.

“Let’s run it again and see.”

Lin Qianxuan saved his strategies in the notepad and proceeded to play the game directly.

The gameplay went quite smoothly, everything played out according to his plan: rescuing the Gongsun sisters, boosting favorability in Zhang City, beating up the Purple Bamboo Young Master at Purple Bamboo Mountain, shattering the War God Armor Body with a single blow from the Divine Strategy Tower, and acquiring a series of supporting Divine Machines and Myriad Phenomena, riding the Flying Ship to Wudu.

Then he foresaw and ordered everyone to destroy Moon Peak, reducing some losses.

However, the Divine Martial Guard and Xiong De were still present, and their resistance during the destruction of Moon Peak was overwhelming for the current Rebel Army.

Gongsun Ying stayed behind to hold off the enemy forces, becoming surrounded, then Lin Qianxuan made the game character strike opportunistically.

After completing the strategy for Gongsun Ying, he acquired the blessing of the Sound of Destiny of the Supreme Martial Arts, gained the true Endless Divine Sea, and defeated many Divine Martial Guards and Xiong De.

Activating the Myriad Phenomena, simulating everyone’s Divine Machine, and cultivating the Asura Sword Technique to condense a Sword Spirit.

Using Water Manipulation to build bridges, easily defeating fish monsters in the water, entering the projection of the Imperial City.

This time, a change occurred here.

Lin Qianxuan did not let the game character stay with Gongsun Ying, but chose to search for the Qiankun Cauldron’s entrance with Gongsun Yue.

The Qiankun Cauldron is hidden behind a high wall, which Lin Qianxuan knew.

He knew the location very well.

But he didn’t speak, seizing the opportunity to strategize around Gongsun Yue.

However, Gongsun Yue was solely focused on finding the Qiankun Cauldron, responding to the game character’s words with only sporadic replies.

Lin Qianxuan originally thought it was because of a lack of affection points, but checking the affinity level, it was already seventy-five percent.

This level of connection, for Chen Long’Er, would have already enabled the use of the evil strategy technique.

Finally, he found out one thing: Gongsun Yue was being evasive…..

This is the difficulty of dual-line strategy.

Everyone wants to save face, since you already have someone significant in your life, why should I embarrass myself by coming too close to cause discomfort?

Respecting you, also means respecting myself, so it isn’t right to have covetous thoughts about what belongs to others.

The game character expended too much effort in strategizing Gongsun Ying indeed.

Now Gongsun Yue clearly does not want to make things difficult for her sister.

Or rather, she wants to retreat.

Finally, when Lin Qianxuan pestered Gongsun Yue once more, she showed a hint of impatience.

[Gongsun Yue (frowning): Young master, you have just experienced a great battle, please rest. Leave the matter of finding the entrance to me.]

Lin Qianxuan sighed, understanding that if this continued, side effects might arise.

“Is there possibly no route that does not involve strategizing?”

Lin Qianxuan pondered.

He thought of the Qiankun Cauldron.

Thought of the Imperial Seal on the table within the Mud Gas Nest.

Thought of Emperor Feng’s sword, thought of the Death Mark glimpsed with the Eyes of Death when viewing the Mud Gas Eye.

There is more than one way to block the Mud Gas Eye.

This can be confirmed.

The additional Death Mark seen is proof.

The Myriad Phenomena simulation of the Qiankun Cauldron needs ten billion Spiritual Essence, efficiency in absorbing Mud Gas is greatly enhanced in the small world within the Qiankun Cauldron.

This ten billion Spiritual Essence can be achieved within five hours.

If in the Mud Nest, ten billion Spiritual Essence might even be accomplished in an hour.

The simulation of the Imperial Seal requires fifty-two billion.

Even in the Mud Nest, even absorbing millions of Spiritual Essence every second, it would still take two to three hours.

Emperor Feng relied on the Imperial Seal to protect his spirit, even though tainted by Mud Gas, he barely maintained a bit of consciousness, able to converse normally before the game character disturbed the Mud Nest.

Therefore, it can be seen that the Imperial Seal has a powerful protective effect on the Primordial Spirit.

If the Myriad Phenomena could simulate, the game character might rely on the Imperial Seal to withstand the manipulative power of the Mud God.

That black and gold sword has not been simulated yet, but it seems it too requires tens of billions of Spiritual Essence to simulate, which should be a good combat power bonus.

It’s another few hours of Mud Gas absorption needed.

If the Zhuo Qi Eye is not activated, neither the Zhuo God nor Emperor Feng should have a big reaction.

After dealing with Tie Zhen, perhaps it’s possible to first use Myriad Illusions within the Mud Nest to absorb enough Zhuo Qi and transform it into Spiritual Essence.

Then simulate the Qiankun Cauldron, acquire the Heaven and Earth’s function inside it, and use this function to store the water from the moat inside.

This way, the game character can make every place a home turf.

No longer needing to worry about whether there is water at the battle site.

Then there’s the Imperial Seal, which can protect the Primordial Spirit.

The black-gold sword, it can enhance combat power.

The combination of these three should significantly increase the game character’s power. Not to mention, the advantage of fighting on home turf alone can make the game character countless times stronger.

It’s possible that while battling the Muddy Spirit Emperor, the Spirit Card could be left, and then the Spirit Card used against the Zhuo God Incarnation.

A line in Lin Qianxuan’s mind was gradually linked together.

“Feasible!!”

Lin Qianxuan’s eyes became firm again.

He couldn’t believe it; he won’t need to pursue romance to clear the game.

He must bypass this path to achieve his goal!!

As the plot progressed, Gongsun Yue found the Qiankun Cauldron.

Everyone entered it.

Faced with the Zhuo Yi Cult members, the game character swiftly cleared them.

Nalan Yingying didn’t even have a chance to fight this time, instantly defeated by the game character.

Then came Tong Gong.

There was no chance for him to merge with Tie Zhen.

Under Lin Qianxuan’s command, the game character attacked with full force, fully executing the Rising Sun Stepping Technique, with hundreds of consecutive flashes of light. Tong Gong didn’t have a chance to use Zhuo Transformation or the Divine Machine in his hand to heal, directly getting sliced into pieces by the Divine Energy Sword Blade and Water Blade.

By the way, Lin Qianxuan also had the game character simulate the shield Divine Machine in Tong Gong’s hand.

It consumed two thousand Spiritual Essences, which wasn’t much compared to the Qiankun Cauldron and the Imperial Seal, but higher than Gongsun Ying and the others’ weapons.

But this shield surprisingly had two functions.

Current Illusionary Artifact: Tuo Shou.

Function: [Defend: Condense Divine Energy to release a defensive shield.]

Function: [Carnivorous: Summon Tuo Dragon to devour blood and flesh, repairing itself.]

One for defense, the other for healing self-damage.

From Tong Gong’s previous performance, the ability to directly heal even when the body was incomplete was quite a good healing function.

Even more practical than Gongsun Yue’s [Rebirth].

[Rebirth]’s Spiritual Liquid can only heal flesh wounds, restore some spirit, and cannot regenerate limbs.

After defeating Tong Gong, they persuaded Gongsun Ying and the Rebel Army members to retreat.

Lin Qianxuan decided to claim the experience alone.

From an unknown distance, the game character drew a bow, and a Divine Energy Arrow appeared.

“Whoosh~!”

The arrow flew out, directly heading toward the Zhuo Qi smoke pillar.

Then with a bang, Tie Zhen had a big hole in his body.

Before Tie Zhen could react, the game character unleashed the Asura Sword Technique, thousands of swords swirling, shredding Tie Zhen’s body.

[Tie Zhen (sorrow): Zhuo God… I shall return to your embrace…..]

“You even managed to say your final words! Quite a large error indeed!”

Lin Qianxuan pursed his lips, the earlier small fry weren’t worth mentioning, what came next was the most difficult part.

To stay in the Mud Nest for ten hours.

(Enter the Zhuo Qi Eye.)

The command issued, the game character directly rushed into the Zhuo Qi Eye.

Then, Lin Qianxuan deftly directed the game character to the desk.

The cracked Imperial Seal lay silently on top of the Holy Decree.

At this moment, the stored Spiritual Essences in Myriad Illusions numbered seventy million, rapidly increasing by units near a million.

Staying here for an hour could yield at least two billion Spiritual Essences.

In five hours, possibly gather up to ten billion Spiritual Essences.

More than enough to simulate an Imperial Seal.

However, before that, he wanted to take a look at that black-gold sword.

Continuing deeper, Lin Qianxuan saw Emperor Feng, enveloped in a seal of flesh and blood.

[Emperor Feng/Muddy Spirit Emperor (surprised): I didn’t expect anyone to reach here alive!]

[Lin Qianxuan: Time is tight, tasks are many, where’s your sword? Where did you put it? Let me see it!]

[Emperor Feng/Muddy Spirit Emperor (puzzled): You’re here for the Emperor Sword? Its Spiritual Essence was taken by the Ancestor, now it’s merely a sword with unique material, what do you intend to do with it?]

“Ah, another damaged Divine Artifact? So this is actually the Emperor Sword? Isn’t this recorded as Emperor Shenwu’s sword?”

Lin Qianxuan was dumbfounded.

He thought the game character could just pick it up and use it.

Didn’t expect this thing to be a flawed item.

The Spiritual Essence had already been extracted by Emperor Shenwu.

Nonetheless, he still wanted to see it, at least to know how much Spiritual Essence it needed for simulation.

[Lin Qianxuan: Don’t worry about it, just know my aim is to clean up your mess and save the world. If you have any conscience left, quickly tell me where the Emperor Sword is.]

[Emperor Feng/Muddy Spirit Emperor (sighs): It’s located within the Zhuo-formed flesh just to your right front.]

(Go forward and retrieve the Emperor Sword.)

The game character stepped forward, directly transforming Myriad Illusions into a knife, infused Divine Energy, and vigorously cleaved the Zhuo-formed flesh, retrieving the Emperor Sword.

The black-gold Emperor Sword had a blade about one and a half meters long, not particularly wide, rather somewhat narrow, with the blade just three fingers wide.

There were no special markings on it, placed normally it seemed like an ordinary black iron long sword. If not for the slight gold reflection, it wouldn’t even strike people as extraordinary.

So low-key, low-key to the point that no one would think it was Emperor Shenwu’s former sword.

(Use Myriad Illusions to attempt simulating it, if it can’t be simulated, ask Myriad Illusions how much Spiritual Essence is needed.)

[You use Myriad Illusions to attempt to simulate the Emperor Sword, but lacking Spiritual Essence, Myriad Illusions cannot simulate it.]

[You inquire Myriad Illusions how much Spiritual Essence is needed, Myriad Illusions states, it requires 8,521,096,748 Spiritual Essences.]

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