Chapter 382: Out-of-Control Player

Chapter 382: Out-of-Control Player

Song Ye still remembered that when he challenged the Taoyou Trial Alchemy Tower before, the guardian of the first floor was Duan Ling. However, the player "One Meal Seven Bowls" had just encountered Duan Ling on the tenth floor of the purple tower. Moreover, it was the "junior version" of Duan Ling. Obviously, the difficulty of the purple tower was several levels lower than that of the gold tower, and the rewards for clearing it were naturally inferior to those of the gold tower.

[Not Eating Beef]: "@One Meal Seven Bowls, so you've at least cleared the first nine levels. What kind of rewards did you get?"

[One Meal Seven Bowls]: "I chose the normal difficulty. I cleared levels one to nine, and the rewards for each level were five solid element pills, 10 forging stones, and five equipment enhancement stones. I haven't opened my Spirit Meridians, so the solid element pills are temporarily useless for me; I can only stockpile them for now."

[Fluffy Bunny]: "So, you've already accumulated 90 forging stones? Hurry up and use them to craft equipment. Test your luck; if you manage to craft a gold-tier weapon, you'll strike it rich."

If players had a Dan-infused Sword, they could put it into the forging furnace with 10 forging stones, with a chance to craft a purple or higher-grade spiritual sword. If the crafting failed, the Dan-infused Sword would be directly destroyed, wasting 10 forging stones.

If they didn't have a Dan-infused Sword, they could directly put 10 forging stones into the forging furnace. There was a chance to craft a new Dan-infused Sword and also a chance to craft a white to blue-grade spiritual sword.

[One Meal Seven Bowls]: "Hehe, I believe in numerology. I'll forge again at exactly midnight tonight."

[Fluffy Bunny]: "Good luck to you."

Silently observing the players' chat, Song Ye noticed that the rewards for clearing the Taoyou Trial Purple Tower surprisingly lacked attribute points. He remembered that when he challenged the Taoyou Trial Tower in gold mode, the reward for clearing the first level was directly 50 attribute points.

Could it be that only the gold tower would reward attribute points, or had the content of the gold tower's rewards changed in this login? Attribute points might not be given as rewards anymore.

Song Ye felt that the latter possibility was more likely. These days, he discovered that once players reached level 20 and left the beginner's village, even the fixed rewards for completing three daily quests had changed.

Before, after completing the goal of three daily quests, Song Ye would always be rewarded with one attribute point.

But in this login, once players left the beginner's village, the daily fixed rewards became random. They might not necessarily receive an attribute point; it could also be other item rewards, such as several forging stones or one or two solid element pills.

In other words, future players would find it challenging to obtain high amounts of health points.

It seemed like the game system was leaning more towards allowing current players to become stronger through cultivation.

Perhaps because of Song Ye's exceptional case, the game system realized that players with too high health points could lead to many uncontrollable situations. For instance, due to Song Ye's excessively high health points and formidable physique, he even broke the "reproductive isolation" between players and the world's NPCs, successfully conceiving offspring.

The game system naturally didn't want such situations to occur again, so it promptly took corrective measures to avoid the birth of another player like Song Ye.

In the eyes of the game system or the Heavenly Dao, Song Ye was like a player who had gone out of control—an existence that was already very troublesome on its own.

Therefore, Song Ye couldn't help but suspect that not only had the rewards for the Taoyou Trial Tower changed, but even the rewards for the Secret Realm Challenge might have changed.

Previously, Song Ye could obtain extremely high attribute point rewards through Secret Realm Challenges.

The first time Song Ye entered a Secret Realm Challenge, he faced the illusion of Qin Xuexi and received a reward of 187 attribute points.

The second time, Song Ye entered the Secret Realm Challenge again, facing the illusion of the Hundred Bones Demon Lord, and received a reward of 374 attribute points.

Song Ye happened to have a new Secret Realm Challenge voucher, which he had originally planned to save for the next day. However, to verify his guess, he decided to use it now.

After activating the voucher with his thoughts, Song Ye was transported into a dim secret realm.

This time, he would challenge the Secret Realm boss, Wei Xiyuan, one of the Nine Emperors of the Devil Dao.

The mechanism for Secret Realm Challenges hadn't changed: players had ten seconds to launch any attacks on the Secret Realm boss. During this time, the boss wouldn't counterattack. After ten seconds, the damage would be calculated, and the higher the total damage, the more rewards received.

After the challenge started, Song Ye activated his profound energy, raised his right hand, and sent out a simple and unadorned Profound Charge towards the Night Fox Demon Lord.

Unexpectedly, after being hit by this Profound Charge, Wei Xiyuan let out a soul-stirring "Ah" and immediately fell backward, with the long health bar instantly clearing.

The challenge had lasted less than a second, and the damage calculation page appeared. The displayed total damage was forty million.

Forty million was the maximum damage for this Secret Realm Challenge. It meant that the boss could withstand a maximum of forty million damage. This didn't mean that Song Ye's Profound Charge only dealt forty million damage; after all, once Song Ye activated his profound energy, a basic attack could deal over a hundred million damage.

In the final settlement page, Song Ye naturally received the top-tier rewards for the Secret Realm Challenge.

[Secret Realm Challenge Rewards]: Ten Marrow Blood Pills, Fifty Condensation Pills, Fifty Radiance Pills, Secret Book of the Earth Element Technique [Abyss], Secret Book of the Wind Element Technique [Thousand Wind Arrows].

Sure enough, Song Ye's speculation was correct. Even the Secret Realm Challenge no longer provided any attribute point rewards. Instead, it offered cultivation pills and technique manuals.

After players unlocked the cultivation feature in this world, they couldn't freely comprehend any techniques.

Therefore, if players wanted to learn a specific technique, they had to first obtain the technique manual provided by the game system.

Fortunately, Song Ye didn't follow the cultivation path, so he wouldn't be restricted in this regard.

These two technique manuals given as rewards for this Secret Realm Challenge were considered high-level technique manuals. [Abyss] was a technique of the Earth Element with seventy stages, while [Thousand Wind Arrows] was a technique of the Wind Element with sixty-seven stages.

Unfortunately, these two technique manuals were of no use to Song Ye. Moreover, all these items were untradeable.

In Song Ye's eyes, these items, which were considered invaluable and sought after by other players, were like useless junk. Apart from being able to show off in the player chat channel, Song Ye couldn't think of any other existence value for these items.