Chapter 275: Gacha pulls are risky; be cautious with UR cards.

A book.

A wordless heavenly book without a name or any content.

Lin Xi flipped through it several times, even peeling back the plastic cover, but there wasn't a single word, not even a speck of ink.

Seeing this, Lin Xi tapped all over the book, but no interface popped up. Up until now, she didn't even know what the game's built-in name for this book was.

How strange.

Lin Xi felt that after entering the cross-server, the things she encountered while pulling cards were getting weirder and weirder. Pulling a UR came with an effect that attacked the player, and now she had an elusive SP that she had no idea how to use.

After studying it for a while without finding any special effects or feeling any specific attacks, Lin Xi stopped wasting time and put the book into the Ghost Dormitory, ignoring it for now.

Just as Lin Xi placed the book into the Ghost Dormitory, the book suddenly moved without any wind. The pages flipped open with a rustling sound, and then streaks of black ink began to appear on the pages as if rapidly recording something, even accompanied by illustrations. If Lin Xi had seen this, she would have been utterly shocked.

What the book was rapidly recording at this moment was nothing else but every detail of everything that had happened to Lin Xi from her original server to the cross-server, without a single error.

A few minutes later, the door to the Ghost Dormitory opened. The sound of chains dragging across the ground rasped, and blue-green Ghost Fire cleared the path. A black coffin carved with dragons and phoenixes was moved here by those chains.

In a daze, the figure within the black coffin seemed to open their eyes, staring motionlessly at the closed wordless heavenly book that showed no sign of abnormality.

...

After preparing the fodder for Xi Niang and Yuan Ling, the automatic cross-server dungeon and map-clearing tasks were mostly finished. As Lin Xi expected, after pulling from the Yugui Abyss, her card pulling count shot straight to the top of the leaderboard.

Yes, truly first place.

No matter how rich Hells Ukiyo-e was, they couldn't be a hexagon warrior capable of holding first place on every single leaderboard. Moreover, Lin Xi's card pulling was just like paying-to-win. Of course, paying-to-win had gift pack limits—once they were bought, they were gone—but card pulling was different. During these first few days of the cross-server opening, there were unlimited card pulls all day long.

For Lin Xi, didn't this mean she could pull as much as she wanted until she was satisfied?

[Cross-server Auxiliary Main Mission: Please complete one card pull each in the House of Ten Thousand Ghosts, Qilin Pavilion, Piaomiao Tower, Zhaohe Palace, Marriage Palace, Crystal Tower, Fortune Hall, Linlang Pavilion, and Yugui Abyss. Please claim your reward.]

[Cross-server Auxiliary Main Mission: Please complete one hundred card pulls each in the House of Ten Thousand Ghosts, Qilin Pavilion, Piaomiao Tower, Zhaohe Palace, Marriage Palace, Crystal Tower, Fortune Hall, Linlang Pavilion, and Yugui Abyss. Please claim your reward.]

[Cross-server Auxiliary Main Mission: Please complete one thousand card pulls each in the House of Ten Thousand Ghosts, Qilin Pavilion, Piaomiao Tower, Zhaohe Palace, Marriage Palace, Crystal Tower, Fortune Hall, Linlang Pavilion, and Yugui Abyss. Please claim your reward.]

...

Through card pulling, Lin Xi directly completed all of these cross-server auxiliary main missions. After claiming them all, she actually received six gift boxes that allowed her to choose a base body. Upon opening them, the options happened to include Xi Niang and Yuan Ling.

This was truly like someone bringing a pillow just as one was getting sleepy. She hadn't expected the game missions to give such good rewards, but they turned out to be quite decent.

At the same time, this card pulling didn't just complete game missions. Similarly, after she got on the card pulling leaderboard, the pay-to-win system began to chime incessantly in her mind with new tasks.

[Ding! Congratulations to the host for successfully entering the cross-server card pulling leaderboard. Triggered Pay-to-win Task 23: Before the cross-server protection period ends, pull cards one hundred times each in the House of Ten Thousand Specters, Qilin Pavilion, Piaomiao Tower, Zhaohe Palace, Marriage Palace, Crystal Tower, Fortune Hall, and Linlang Pavilion.]

[Ding! Congratulations to the host for successfully rising to the top 80 of the cross-server card pulling leaderboard. Triggered Pay-to-win Task 24: Before the cross-server protection period ends, pull cards two hundred times each in the House of Ten Thousand Specters, Qilin Pavilion, Piaomiao Tower, Zhaohe Palace, Marriage Palace, Crystal Tower, Fortune Hall, and Linlang Pavilion.]

[Ding! Congratulations to the host for successfully rising to the top 50 of the cross-server card pulling leaderboard. Triggered Pay-to-win Task 25: Before the cross-server protection period ends, pull cards three hundred times each in the House of Ten Thousand Specters, Qilin Pavilion, Piaomiao Tower, Zhaohe Palace, Marriage Palace, Crystal Tower, Fortune Hall, and Linlang Pavilion.]

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And so on, until this time, Lin Xi finally heard the words she wanted most.

[Ding! Congratulations to the host for successfully rising to number one on the cross-server card pulling leaderboard. Triggered Pay-to-win Task 30: Before the cross-server protection period ends, pull cards one thousand times each in the House of Ten Thousand Specters, Qilin Pavilion, Piaomiao Tower, Zhaohe Palace, Marriage Palace, Crystal Tower, Fortune Hall, and Linlang Pavilion. (This task is the ultimate task for the card pulling leaderboard; a final reward will be granted upon completion.)]

"Holy cow," Lin Xi laughed as she listened, overjoyed. She thought to herself, "Profit! I've made a huge profit from this card pulling session!"

As expected, the rewards for being number one on each leaderboard were different. This was Lin Xi's first time reaching the top of a cross-server leaderboard, and her first time seeing a pay-to-win system task for being number one. She was so excited she wanted to go pull cards immediately.

Even if her fingers were about to cramp from tapping, it wouldn't stop her desire to pull cards.

Perhaps she could ask someone else to help her pull.

For example... Huan Ye?

Thinking of this, Lin Xi shook her head again. Forget it, she'd better pull them herself honestly. She still remembered the trouble caused by a series of misunderstandings when she asked Huan Ye for help before.

Furthermore, she was now an officially certified emperor of luck. Who knew if her luck would flip and she'd perfectly turn into an African Chieftain?

After all, she was an unlucky emperor of luck!

Since the pay-to-win system's task was to do a thousand pulls at each of the other eight districts' card pulling spots, Lin Xi glanced at the sun which hadn't completely set outside the Ghost Mansion Immortal Palace. No time to lose, she had to go immediately!

Just as Lin Xi was about to move her base from the Yugui Abyss using the Ghost Mansion Immortal Palace, she stepped out, and a familiar black aura of deathly silence and resentment clung to her heart. Seeing this, Lin Xi subconsciously frowned. Xi Niang and Yuan Ling moved upon sensing it, both appearing by her side.

Was there the aura of a Red-clothed Earthbound Spirit out here too?

Could it be that when the Red-clothed Earthbound Spirit attacked her, it also attacked the area outside the Yugui Abyss?

Thinking of this, Lin Xi's expression became more serious. She changed into her Devils Whisper outfit, then picked up a Black Rose Scythe and walked out of the Ghost Mansion Immortal Palace.

As soon as she stepped out of the Ghost Mansion Immortal Palace, that familiar aura became even more apparent. She took a few quick steps forward and discovered that this aura, similar to the Red-clothed Earthbound Spirit, was coming from a tea stall not far outside the Yugui Abyss.

The closer she got to the tea stall, the stronger the aura became.

Lin Xi narrowed her eyes and walked toward the tea stall. Scattered account interfaces began to appear around her. As she passed by, prompts popped up asking if she wanted to accept them.

With a quick glance, she saw there were quite a few, but no players could be seen on the scene anymore. Only these abandoned account details remained to remind Lin Xi of what had just happened out here.

She didn't accept them immediately. She even saw familiar IDs among them; even people from the Supernatural Research Institute and Shanhai Yizhi were caught up in it. This was not good news.