177: The Silent Lin Yueguo

[Ding, Announcement! The team of players 'Shi Chuan', 'I Am Really Not a Big Star', 'My Daughter Is a Big Star', 'Sad Fish', and 'Dumplings Boil Tangyuan' has achieved the first clear of the Level 20 elite difficulty Dungeon 'Wuming Forest - Weeping Banyan Tree', obtaining generous rewards. We hope all players will continue their efforts and create more glory!]

[Ding, Announcement! Player 'Shi Chuan'...]

Three consecutive system announcements rang in the ears of all Lin Yue Country players.

At this moment, almost all Lin Yue Country players, no matter what they were doing, collectively lost their voices!

In the Forum section for Lin Yue Country players, the miserable state of those players who had entered the main city early to drive away Xu Shian was clearly visible to everyone!

High-end players who could once roam freely in the Novice Village now had to be cautious even when fighting Level 12 wild monsters at the city gates... The five-person group including [Afternoon Rain] and [Condensed Milk Coffee] became the team with the heaviest losses when they first set out to intercept Xu Shian!

Lacking experience at the time, perhaps because they were used to dying in the Novice Village, they were directly docked fifty years of extra lifespan.

They also heard the system broadcast.

Several people stiffened, then tacitly acted as if they hadn't heard a thing!

Their situation was actually considered relatively good!

After all, they were the team that had achieved the first elite clear in the Lin Yue Country Novice Village, making them slightly stronger than other bare-bones teams.

As long as they weren't stingy with their extra lifespan and properly allocated points to their basic skills, there was still hope to establish themselves and plan for the future.

Of course, returning to their peak was impossible; they could only barely survive!

The rest of the players in Qinzhu Water Fortress had expressions like they were constipated.

After paying such a high price, the result now was... "How did they get in? No one was seen coming through the teleportation array."

"Hasn't it already been analyzed on the Forum? This [Shi Chuan] has a knack for teleportation... otherwise, how did he get back to the Novice Village?"

"So we're just going to let them do whatever they want?"

"What else can we do? The Li family shouts slogans louder than anyone every day! Aside from sending one Li Wenhai, they're keeping their forces tightly under wraps!"

"Indeed, those sons of b*tches... just wait! They still think they're on Blue Star!"

"Don't talk big; it's useless..."

The two looked at each other, feeling helpless despite having no better options.

After all, as of now, the two of them were almost equivalent to cripples from the Blue Star era... the only benefit was that they didn't need anyone to wait on them for walking or eating.

But no matter how much foundation they had accumulated in the Novice Village, it couldn't withstand the constant depletion in the main city!

Although the two of them truly had no solutions right now, however—

... "Damn it, why is this [Shi Chuan] here again? Where did our Nan Yue Country offend him? Why is he messing with us like this?"

"Maybe... it's simply because we're too close?"

"What can we do about being close? Their East Dragon Empire is so huge! Pick a different place yourself! Yue Prefecture, Ze Province, and Hai Province occupied by the Xia Kingdom have no neighbors... Why the hell did you have to come here..."

Li Xuan was so angry he wanted to kill someone!

Don't be fooled; although Xu Shian and the others' current actions didn't seem to affect ordinary players much.

They were absolutely fatal to the ruling class of the entire Nan Yue.

Someone is using their ultimate right in your face, and you can't do anything about it... Just think about it, think carefully!

... The group tidied up the scene.

Gamor, meanwhile, went to the corpse of the Banyan Tree Spirit BOSS and began gathering materials from it.

[Congratulations, you have obtained 'Fragmented Heart of the Ancient Tree'!]

"Huh? Why did this Level 20 BOSS only give a fragmented one?"

Gamor was somewhat speechless!

You're asking me about this? Who am I supposed to ask?

The thirteen-year-old old bull was a bit unsure, rubbing his head with a massive hoof... "This... I'm really not too sure!"

Xu Shian also realized he had asked the wrong person!

He handed him a blueprint for a herb garden.

"Can this building be used in the Emerald Dream? It should be fine to grow medicinal herbs there, right?"

"No problem... No wild monsters spawn there to destroy the garden, and the land inside is all unclaimed..."

Gamor thought about it; establishing a herb garden in the Emerald Dream made perfect sense!

Furthermore, even though that World Tree had died, for Gamor, adding more life energy to the Emerald Dream was a good thing!

As for the seeds of those medicinal herbs... that was also simple, just buy them from the various medicine merchants' shops... "Alright, we're done with this Dungeon. Let's head to the Level 15 Dungeon, [Water Market - Ghost Fleet]!"

Xu Shian looked around, confirming that all these matters had been settled.

He then suggested moving to another location!

"How are we getting there?"

Xu Shian checked the time... counting from when they teleported over, clearing the perimeter and finishing the Dungeon had only taken a little over an hour!

Most of that time had been wasted on traveling.

"How else? We're walking..."

"Can't we use that pink door?"

"It's on cooldown!"

... Another hour and a half later... [Ding, World Announcement! The team of players 'Shi Chuan', 'I Am Really Not a Big Star', 'My Daughter Is a Big Star', 'Sad Fish', and 'Dumplings Boil Tangyuan' has achieved the first clear of the Level 15 hell difficulty Dungeon 'Water Market - Ghost Fleet', obtaining generous rewards. We hope all players will continue their efforts and create more glory!]

The three consecutive world announcements made many ambitious players feel anxious.

Conversely, Lin Yue Country, which had been repeatedly humiliated, simply gave up and "lay flat"!

Aside from further confirming the corruption and incompetence of the Li Dynasty to its citizens, there was no other action... "Haha... I got another 30 free stat points!"

"Xixi, don't show your teeth when you laugh!"

Liu Lili looked at her daughter, who was laughing so hard her eyes were narrowed to slits; she simply couldn't bear to watch!

But in this world, being able to get 40 free stat points was truly something to be quite happy about.

Even at Bronze Rank, 40 free stat points would require leveling up three times to obtain... and after level ten, equipment generally required meeting certain attribute requirements to be worn.

Therefore, these stat points were all the more important!

... At this time, the outside world was also far from peaceful!

"Who can tell me who the victim is this time?"

"Haven't you been following the Forum? It's still those guys from Nan Yue... their prince, Li Wenhai, is being cursed to death! People are saying the Li family eats for free and does no work, that they're the parasites of Nan Yue..."

"What does this have to do with Li Wenhai? Wasn't he a famous 'Mr. Nice Guy' back on Blue Star?"

"Isn't that trait even more suitable for being a scapegoat?"

"True..."

"Didn't many of their players go to the main city? Didn't they stop them?"

"Believe me, brother, if [Shi Chuan] goes to your place to throw his weight around, just let him... definitely don't try to be a hero! Those people from Nan Yue are now regretting it so much their intestines have turned green!"

They believed this!

Because this group of players who had roamed freely in the Novice Village didn't even dare to pull a group of mobs to AoE down after going to the main city... What kind of life was this?

... [Ding, Announcement! The team of players 'Shi Chuan', 'I Am Really Not a Big Star', 'My Daughter Is a Big Star', 'Sad Fish', and 'Dumplings Boil Tangyuan' has achieved the first clear of the Level 15 elite difficulty Dungeon 'Water Market - Ghost Fleet', obtaining generous rewards. We hope all players will continue their efforts and create more glory!]

[Ding, Announcement! Player...]

... The first clear of the elite Dungeon was only broadcast within Lin Yue Country!

Outsiders couldn't hear it, but that didn't stop the mood of the Lin Yue Country players from getting worse and worse.

Such a terrible mood always needed an outlet... and at the moment, it seemed the Li family was the most suitable target!