50: Chapter 50 is only level 1?! A server-wide celebration!

"Big Brother, let go... let's talk this over."

Qin Ji was held in mid-air, his feet kicking weakly at the air. In his purple-gold pupils, the demonic and cold face of Huangba was reflected.

Huangba tilted his head. His pitch-black eyes held no ripples, only a dead silence that seemed to see through the world. He looked at Qin Ji's hand, which was still trying to reach for the health bar above his own head, and the corners of his mouth curled up slightly, sketching a creepy arc.

"No, you still have a conscience." Qin Ji squeezed out a smile with difficulty, attempting to activate his max-level tongue-lashing. "If you had truly fallen into the demonic path, you wouldn't be wasting words with me; you would have just wiped me out..."

Hearing this, a cold glint flashed in the depths of Huangba's eyes.

"I didn't kill you immediately only because I haven't spoken to anyone in too long."

The moment the words fell, Huangba's hand, like a red-hot iron, exerted sudden force, slamming heavily onto Qin Ji's chest.

Boom!

An indescribable destructive force instantly pierced through Qin Ji's body. This was not a physical blow, but a direct erasure at the level of Law.

【System Notification: You have been hit by the World BOSS Huangba's "Fatal Strike"!】

【Your passive "Indestructible Body" has been suppressed by Law!】

【Your Health has been emptied!】

Qin Ji didn't even have time to shout "Holy sh*t" before his vision instantly plunged into grey and white.

...

【You have died.】

【Affected by the "Huangba's Curse", your Rank has been forcibly reset to Lv.1.】

【You will respawn at the nearest main city resurrection point.】

Light and shadow flowed, and noisy human voices instantly flooded his eardrums.

Qin Ji opened his eyes abruptly, finding himself standing in the center of a huge white altar. The surroundings were no longer the purgatory-like abyss, but the most prosperous capital of the Star Kingdom—Starlight City.

Before he could even check his status, a scarlet System announcement rang out over the entire Star Kingdom like an air-raid siren, deafening and repeating over and over.

【Server-wide Announcement! A world-destroying sinner has appeared in the Star Kingdom!】

【Player "Qin Ji" has privately broken the ancient Seal, releasing the Demon God Huangba. His crimes are heinous!】

【The King of the Star Kingdom has issued an emergency bounty: Hunt down the sinner!】

Immediately after, all players in Starlight City had a blood-red task box pop up on their retinas simultaneously.

【Emergency Quest: Hunt down the sinner】

Target: Kill the player "Qin Ji", whose crime value has had a Breakthrough to the sky.

Current Crime Value: 10,000,000 (World-destroying level).

Reward: Each kill grants a random Bronze equipment item and +10 Free Attribute Points.

Special Mechanism: The target is currently in a "Divine Punishment" state, Defense is zero, and ID cannot be hidden.

Silence.

The originally noisy Starlight City square fell into a deathly silence.

Countless eyes looked in unison toward the center of the resurrection altar. There, a person with a huge ID that was so bright red it looked like it was dripping blood—【Qin Ji】—was standing there with a bewildered expression.

The crime value number behind that ID was long enough to make people dizzy.

"Holy sh*t?!"

In the crowd, it was unknown who shouted first, breaking the deathly silence.

"Did I see that wrong? A welfare quest?"

"Ten free attribute points per kill? Killing him one hundred times means one thousand points? Doesn't that mean taking off instantly?"

"Look! That's Qin Ji! The server's number one expert, Qin Ji!"

"Expert my ass! Look at his Rank! Level one! He's only Rank 1!"

At this moment, greed instantly overcame reason.

The original awe for the "Server Number One" instantly turned into the most primal desire for slaughter upon seeing that glaring "Lv.1" and the generous quest rewards.

"Brothers, charge! Kill him and loot him!"

"For the attribute points! Kill!"

"Don't steal! The first blood is mine!"

Boom!

The originally orderly square instantly descended into chaos. Tens of thousands of players, like a zombie siege, rushed toward Qin Ji in the center of the altar with red eyes. All kinds of fireballs, arrows, and Sword Qi rained down overwhelmingly.

Qin Ji looked at this rain of skills covering the sky, and the corners of his mouth twitched violently.

"I was careless."

He quickly scanned his panel.

Rank: Lv.1.

Health: 100/100 (Limited by Rank cap).

Status: 【Divine Punishment】 (All defense attributes are invalidated, damage received is converted to true damage).

Although his millions of points in Strength and Agility, plundered through his "Golden Finger", were still there, this damn Rank restriction had locked his health bar at one hundred points. Coupled with zero defense, any passerby with a wooden stick could poke him to death now.

"Run!"

Qin Ji didn't hesitate, exerting force with his feet.

Boom!

His terrifying Agility attribute exploded instantly. He turned into a blur, directly knocking away the dozen Shield Warriors blocking his path. Those warriors didn't even see what happened before they felt like they had been hit by a high-speed train, turning into white light and flying back to the resurrection point.

But there were too many people.

This was Starlight City, the main city with the highest density of players on the entire server.

"He's there! Don't let him run!"

"Block the city gate! Mages, cast fire walls!"

"Thieves, scatter nails! Hunters, set traps!"

Just as Qin Ji rushed out of the encirclement, a magical net covering the sky met him head-on.

-10!

-15!

-20!

Although the individual damage was pitifully low, the sheer quantity was overwhelming. Dense damage numbers floated above Qin Ji's head, and his pitiful 100-point health bar instantly hit rock bottom.

"Damn it, they aren't giving me a single chance!"

Qin Ji stepped on the head of a Shield Warrior, borrowed the force to leap into the air, and tried to cross the human wall from above.

Puchi!

An arrow shot from the shadows accurately pierced his butt.

-35!

Qin Ji's health bar was completely emptied.

【You have died.】

With a flash of white light, Qin Ji's body dissipated in mid-air. The next second, he was standing in the center of the resurrection altar again.

"Hahahaha! I killed him! I got the attribute points!" The Archer who shot Qin Ji danced with excitement, showing off the 10 free attribute points he had just received.

This scene completely ignited the entire crowd.

"It really gives attribute points!"

"Quick! Camp the corpse! Don't let him run!"

"Mage corps! Indiscriminate saturation bombing on the resurrection point!"

Qin Ji had just respawned, and before his vision had cleared, a rain of fire and Frost was already crashing down on his head.

Boom, boom, boom!

-100!

One-shot kill.

Respawned again.

Boom!

Another round of concentrated fire.

One-shot kill again.

In just ten seconds, Qin Ji had died three times.

The area around the resurrection altar was already packed, and more players were rushing over from the outside. The sea of heads stretched as far as the eye could see, and every face was filled with madness and greed, as if Qin Ji was no longer a person, but a moving super treasure chest.

Qin Ji stood in the center of the altar, watching the players around him who were red-faced and anxious because they couldn't get an attack position. His face was so gloomy it was practically dripping water.

In his life, he had never suffered such indignity.

A dignified Rebirth player, a cheater with a Golden Finger for plundering attributes, was actually being camped and bullied in the spawn point by a group of noobs he wouldn't even glance at normally?

"Where is justice?"

Qin Ji muttered to himself, his hand instinctively reaching for the 【Cursed Crown】 in his backpack.

【Cursed Crown (Charging...)】

【Death energy concentration in current environment: Extremely high.】

【Charging progress: 3%... 5%...】

Every time he died, whether it was him or the unlucky ones who were killed by his damage reflection, they would turn into wisps of black Qi absorbed by the crown.

But this speed was too slow.

At this pace, to fully charge the crown and unleash his ultimate move, he would have to die at least several hundred more times.

Although the death penalty in this game was only losing experience, and he had no experience to lose at Rank 1, this feeling of being played like a monkey made him extremely unhappy.

"Move! Move! The Dynasty Guild has cleared the area!"

"Who dares to steal our Su Corporation's mob? Don't you want to live anymore?"

At this moment, a commotion came from the outskirts. Elite teams from several top guilds had finally arrived. They pushed aside the casual players arrogantly and began to build a perimeter, preparing to swallow this gluttonous feast alone.

Qin Ji watched all this with cold eyes.

These people really treated him like meat on a cutting board.

"Boring."

Qin Ji suddenly sighed and let go of the weapon he was gripping.

He raised his head, his gaze sweeping over the twisted, excited faces around him, and finally fixed on the Dynasty Guild leader who was commanding his men to prepare to cast a forbidden spell.

"Hey."

Qin Ji's voice wasn't loud, but it spread clearly across the noisy square.

Everyone's movements paused slightly.

Qin Ji reached out to brush the non-existent dust off his shoulder, a mocking smile appearing on his face—a kind of high-and-mighty ridicule that saw through the rules of the game.

"Want to farm my attribute points?"

He raised his middle finger and gestured at the hundreds of thousands of players in the square.

"Keep dreaming, you grandsons."

The next second, under the gaze of countless terrified and desperate eyes, Qin Ji's figure began to become illusory and transparent.

System forced logout!

"No!!!"

"He's going to log out! Hurry and interrupt him!"

"Damn! This grandson is a sore loser!"

Countless skills smashed crazily toward the disappearing figure, but all the attacks passed through the illusory afterimage and hit the empty altar floor.

The sunset, like blood, dyed the white stone square of Starlight City a dark red. Qin Ji's figure completely dissipated into the air, leaving only hundreds of thousands of players around the resurrection point standing there in a daze. They maintained their attack postures, the greed on their faces not yet faded before it solidified into comical astonishment, just like a group of hungry ghosts waving knives and forks at the air, ultimately only biting into a mouthful of cold air.