99: Fight for the cave, shatter the formation

“Damn it! It's just as Li Changfeng said, even ants, if they pass by and see it, will step on it. This is truly abnormal!”

Midnight Gao Sou stared at the black screen, his entire face twitching, wishing he could smash the game pod with a punch.

But after the grief, what replaced it was relief.

“Good thing we planned ahead. All the talented players who were truly going to challenge the Immortal Foundation and Golden Core didn't come to Efeng Mountain Range. This time, all who died were players like us who didn't have any Golden Finger.”

After Midnight Gao Sou's relief, the corners of his mouth curled up, as if he had found a breakthrough point in the Xuanhuan World, capable of making even the high and mighty Golden Core Experts miscalculate.

“Golden Core are indeed powerful, but they are not players after all, just natives. Even if they know that Extraterrestrial Demons like us can constantly Rebirth, they can do nothing about us. After all, this is a game mechanism, far superior to Golden Core.

“As long as we properly arrange the players for adventurous treasure hunting and those for reclusive Cultivation, then one day, all of us players will be able to Cultivate openly and honestly.”

Midnight Gao Sou looked at the live broadcast camera and said cheerfully, “At that time, standing in the sky controlling the Grotto-Heaven, throwing people in to explore will no longer be the natives, but us players!”

Midnight Gao Sou's expression was excited; he was already envisioning the scene of Alliance players continuously uploading Cultivation Techniques and the Great Love Alliance becoming increasingly prosperous.

After chatting with Old Potato and others for a while, re-customizing his face, and estimating the time was right, Midnight Gao Sou happily opened the Great Love Alliance online headquarters to check the data.

“Brothers, several hours have passed now. I dare say someone has already uploaded Cultivation Techniques, or at the very least, some intelligence has come in. Let me see… What the hell, there isn't a single one?”

Midnight Gao Sou rubbed his eyes, disbelievingly looking at the data in front of him.

The number of Cultivation Techniques uploaded from the Grotto-Heaven was… 0.

The number of intelligence reports was… 0.

Midnight Gao Sou's originally excited expression instantly vanished, and he murmured, “Impossible, right? Brothers? We're exchanging sincerity for sincerity! The Alliance provided Cultivation Techniques, provided resources, only hoping for copied manuals to be uploaded. How can there not be a single one? This isn't how you play!”

Old Potato was also dumbfounded. He remained silent for a long time before muttering, “People can't be this bad!”

The Heaven Void Profoundless Art cost them a lot of money, and organizing the entire Great Love Alliance also cost a lot, even paying some players out of their own pockets to work full-time.

But now, the first operation was so dismal, with not a single player uploading a Cultivation Technique?

How could people be so malicious?

A pall of gloom hung over the Great Love Alliance, and Midnight Gao Sou's mood was depressed, sighing repeatedly.

The audience in the live stream were either joking and mocking, or gesticulating and criticizing, or lamenting the decline of human morality.

Just then, a sudden barrage of comments caught everyone's attention:

“Damn it, it's not that we don't want to upload, it's that there's nothing to upload!”

“We didn't betray the Alliance!”

“Damn it, we only salvaged some treasures from the periphery; all the Cultivation Techniques are inside.”

“To get inside, we have to fight those club players, and we really can't beat them!”

The comments were dense, all from players who had entered the Grotto-Heaven.

These players hadn't been watching the live stream originally, focusing on fighting, but upon hearing they were misunderstood, they quickly jumped out to explain.

Midnight Gao Sou's eyes lit up, and he also breathed a sigh of relief:

“So it's just incompetence, not malice. Then I'm relieved.”

...Inside the Grotto-Heaven.

The roars of the players were unrestrained, and countless Great Love Alliance players moved in groups, a vast tide that looked quite imposing.

Zong Zishui guarded the narrow passage between the pavilions like a garrison at a pass. Wave after wave of torrents shot outwards, each stream representing dozens of Qi Refining Cultivators being knocked over or even killed, and each time he struck, dozens of streams would overflow simultaneously.

The suppressive power of Foundation Establishment Cultivators over Qi Refining was clear, encountering no effective resistance whatsoever.

Logically speaking, if Zong Zishui had simply kept his men guarding the pass, blocking the path to the deeper areas, then other players would never have been able to obtain Cultivation Technique Legacies or better treasures inside.

However, Xuanhuan is not just about fighting and killing.

As the ace of his team, Zong Zishui, backed by an entire team and club, was going to establish a Sect and recruit people to operate it in the Xuanhuan World.

If he were to offend the players too much now and ruin his reputation, the consequences would be severe.

So he controlled the timing, delaying for several hours, then retreated while fighting, gradually opening up the path, allowing players to surge in.

Subsequently, Zong Zishui floated up and flew deeper inside to rendezvous with his teammates.

The Great Love Alliance players looked at each other and then rushed into the nearby pavilions.

The interior of the pavilions was in disarray, with hanging lamps, glass, screens, incense burners, and other objects all overturned. The places where treasures were enshrined were even more chaotic.

Undoubtedly, the players who came in earlier had already turned everything upside down here.

The Alliance players were unwilling, but still held onto hope, continuing to search here. Some indeed found copied manuals, which they uploaded one after another, then surged deeper inside, hoping to find better ones.

For a time, the entire Grotto-Heaven was occupied by players. Occasionally, a native Cultivator practicing the Void Gazer Dao Lineage would appear, only to be immediately surrounded and killed by players, ensuring all treasures remained in the players' hands... At the same time.

Outside the Grotto-Heaven.

Three Golden Core Experts and a Bald Monk hovered in mid-air.

The Heshui Prefecture Golden Core gazed at the battle in the Grotto-Heaven, feeling the surrounding spiritual energy fluctuations, and gently spoke:

“The Green Emerald Heaven is, after all, the weakest Grotto-Heaven in the entire Void Gazer Dao Lineage. Just some Foundation Establishment and Qi Refining entering it can shake the grand Formation. If we grind for a bit longer, we'll be able to enter.”

After speaking, he glanced at the others: “The complete set of Formation Flags and Formation Plate will belong to my Heshui Prefecture.”

The Duan Kong Cave Golden Core nodded: “The Myriad Root Cauldron belongs to me.”

The Qingling Sect Golden Core had no objection: “The Great Void Windless Art belongs to me.”

The three discussed the distribution and then looked at the Monk.

The Monk merely chuckled: “After three days, the entire Grotto-Heaven will belong to me.”

The three Golden Core frowned. According to custom, after they broke the Grotto-Heaven Formation, they would take the precious treasures and spiritual resources they needed, and the rest would be left for the Cultivators under their command to contend for, each party taking as much as they could.

But now, according to the Monk's statement, it was clearly only giving them three days to contend, and everything else would belong to him!

Such a domineering move made the three Golden Core somewhat annoyed, but thinking of the constantly approaching Western Buddhist Land and the high probability of the Great Jiang Imperial Dynasty collapsing in the future, all three endured.

Soon after, the three of them acted in unison, shattering the already tottering Grotto-Heaven grand Formation!