translator: Oyen editor: Ciel
At 8:30am in the morning, the rest of Qin Mo’s teammates on the fixed team came online, one after another.
Seeing Ink Mark and Little Medicine Fairy online, Mirage hurriedly sent a team invitation. “Isn’t the appointment at 9:00am? Why are you so early?”
Ink Mark: “I went to the Internet cafe, so I’m early.”
Mirage: “Oh! In that case, let’s do the group task?”
Ink Mark: “Ok.”
The five people quickly logged on to the voice system. Mirage said excitedly: “Let’s get started! Next stop: Jianshen Valley!”
Opening the ranking list, Hiding a Dagger Behind a Smile balked. “Our level ranking was still in the first three pages when we went offline yesterday. Today, we fell to the tenth page– this group of madmen must have stayed up all night long!”
“The accounts of the big guilds are usually upgrading all night long, and there are professional assistants to help.” Elegant Leaves pointed out. “How are you going to compare with them? Have you thought about it?”
“I was just casually saying it,” Hiding a Dagger Behind a Smile said with a wry smile.
The five people arrived at Jianshen Valley while chatting, ready to start the level 30 task. However, the moment they entered Jianshen Valley, a red light flashed right in front of them——
Little Medicine Fairy’s blood volume dropped rapidly, and in a few moments, she had fallen to the ground. Mirage, Hiding a Dagger Behind a Smile, and Elegant Leaves followed soon after. Thankfully, Qin Mo had reacted quickly; in that instant when the red flash appeared, he used the qinggong skill ‘Flicker’ to quickly leave the PK area, escaping in the nick of time.
At this moment, a message from Thousand Miles Ice appeared in the lower left corner of his screen: “Someone is camping at the entrance of Jianshen Valley to PK, be careful when entering the map.”
“My teammates have been killed,” Qin Mo quickly replied. “Do you know what’s going on?”
Thousand Miles Ice: “The wild map BOSS will spawn at 9:00am. It is probably a guild clearing the field in advance.”
Qin Mo immediately understood, his bright eyes revealing a trace of coldness.
——Not only did they want to monopolise the wild BOSS, but they dared kill his team? This guild’s appetite was too big!
Using his qinggong skill, Qin Mo retreated to a tree not too far away, carefully studying the situation at the entrance of Jianshen Valley. Most of the gathered players were dressed in white and held swords, clearly from the Hanhua Sword sect. Furthermore, all of them had the title ‘Sword Song guild’ above their heads, and were in PK mode. Since their actions were unified, they ought to be under command.
Players below level 30 were under the system’s protection and could not be PKed, and had no penalty for death. Players above level 30, however, were no longer given the same protection as novices, and could only rely on themselves to survive in the field. The map of Jianshen Valley was a field area of level 30, which allowed people to freely PK. Not only that, but the two teams from Sword Song were guarding the entrance in PK mode, which would definitely catch the players entering the map off guard.
Little Medicine Fairy was murdered for no reason, and could only ask, “What happened? Are people fighting a war here?”
Mirage had participated in the beta, and soon understood the situation. “This group of people are from a guild. They are probably blocking the entrance to clear the roads.”
“That’s right,” Hiding a Dagger Behind a Smile suddenly realised, “Gu Shuhang will spawn at 9:00am!”
Little Medicine Fairy asked, “Gu Shuhang?”
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“En, it’s a general skill, and is more difficult to obtain then the ‘Sword Rain Fragrance’ that I got from the dungeon,” Qin Mo said calmly. “It will definitely be priceless later.”
“Yes, that’s right!” Hiding a Dagger Behind a Smile couldn’t help but to get excited. “I saw an expert with this secret book before in the beta test; when in the arena, he flew around in the air, and we couldn’t hit him at all!”
“If a healer uses this skill, they would be very powerful, flying around while adding blood,” Elegant Leaves lamented. “Unfortunately, there are only two secret books for qinggong, ‘North Goose Flying South’ and ‘Return Of The Prodigal Son’, and both must be acquired from the field maps. In fact, the copied versions of both secret books reached the price of 100,000 gold coins during the beta test.”
“Copied version?” Little Medicine Fairy asked curiously. “Secret books can be copied?”
“En, copies of secret books can be traded, but only between close friends with friendliness of more than seven stars,” Elegant Leaves explained.
“Oh!” Little Medicine Fairy realised something. “So, for the rare secret books you mentioned just now, there will probably be people selling the copied version?”
“Indeed,” Elegant Leaves sighed. “The original secret book can be copied up to three times. If they are solds, the owner will definitely become a local tyrant.”
“There are two teams from the Sword Song guild intercepting and killing people at the entrance. Therefore, the other teams should be at the lake waiting for the BOSS,” Mirage inferred.
“Then, what are we going to do?” Little Medicine Fairy finally asked the key question. “Are we going to continue lying dead at the entrance?”
After the four people were killed, they had not moved, instead continuing to lie on the ground to chat, only for Little Medicine Fairy’s question brought them back to their senses. After thinking about it for a few moments, Mirage suggested, “Let’s go to the nearest resurrection point, then continue doing the task.”
Suddenly, Ink Mark voiced out, “Don’t resurrect. Someone is guarding the resurrection point.”
He had just gotten this piece of news from Thousand Miles Ice. The assassin had used his stealth skills to go to the resurrection point, only to find someone waiting there. It seemed as if today’s arrangements were quite professional, with people waiting at the resurrection point to prevent the other party from coming back and beating them.
From Mirage’s and Elegant Leaves’ descriptions, the secret books in Peerless Jianghu were very rare. Some were dropped in the dungeon, much like the ‘Sword Rain Fragrance’ that Qin Mo obtained from the Kunlun Snow Mountain Cave, which was the secret book meant for outputs. If you took the time to go through this dungeon, you would always eventually find enough fragments to redeem this secret book.
However, there were still many secret books that were only dropped in the Jianghu, and could not be obtained from the dungeons. Among these, the secret books dropped from the wild BOSSes were the most difficult to obtain.
Thinking of this, Qin Mo sent a private message to Thousand Miles Ice. “Are you interested in the secret book and materials?”
Thousand Miles Ice: “Of course. Shall we cooperate?”
Ink Mark: “How do we distribute the items dropped by the BOSS?”
Thousand Miles Ice: “The secret book belongs to me, while all the rare materials go to you. How does that sound?”
Qin Mo originally wanted the secret book. However, secret books could be copied, so as long as you had enough money, it wasn’t difficult to buy a secret book you fancied later. Thinking like this, collecting secret books was less urgent. On the contrary, Qin Mo simply didn’t have enough information about rare materials at the moment. He had only gotten one each of the purple materials, cryolite and the purple gold sand, from the Kunlun Mountain Snow Cave. The usage of these materials was not very clear, and he could take this opportunity to study them.
Thinking of this, Qin Mo simply said: “No problem.”
Xiao Han appreciated his frankness, and took the initiative to volunteer: “I heard that secret books can be copied. I can make a copy for you after I get it?”
Qin Mo replied: “Don’t worry, focus on killing the BOSS first. We can talk about this later.”
***
Dragon Song Club Training Room.
Xiao Han’s four newcomers were unprepared when they entered Jianshen Valley, and were directly killed by the group attack skills of the Sword Song guild. This was also due to their inexperience in fighting,as well as the fact that their reaction skills were not as quick as Xiao Han’s.
Team 2’s newcomers were still in Qingcheng Mountain. Learning that his companions had been killed, Pei Yu asked, “Captain, should we go to Jianshen Valley to help?”
“No. With so many professional players acting together, your origins will be easily exposed.” The situation in the new district was too complicated at present, and the Dragon Song club did not want to expose their lineup for the new team so early. “Pei Yu, stay in Qingcheng Mountain for the time being, and bring the others only after Jianshen Valley is safe. The four dead people from team 1, wait for my call to resurrect, then continue upgrading afterwards.”
“Oh,” Pei Yu agreed, before wondering, “But what about you, captain?”
“I will withdraw from the team and check the resurrection point,” Xiao Han replied, immediately leaving the team. At the same time, Qin Mo quickly operated Ink Mark, flying to the nearest resurrection point. Sure enough, the people of the Sword Song guild were camping around the resurrection point. However, due to Thousand Miles Ice’s stealth, Qin Mo could not find him.
“Where are you?” Qin Mo asked.
“Withdraw from your team; you’ll be able to see me if we team up.”
Qin Mo left the team, and sent an invitation to the assassin to form a party. Sure enough, after they became teammates, the black-clothed assassin immediately appeared beside Qin Mo—— as it turned out, Thousand Miles Ice had also coincidentally been under this tree the whole time.
Thousand Miles Ice: “You go left, I go right; clear the resurrection point first?”
Ink Mark: “Ok.”
Needless to say, Qin Mo immediately understood the other party’s intentions.
The resurrection point happened to be on a small hillside, so a pincer attack from the left and right was the best way.
Qin Mo moved to the left side of the hill with qinggong. Swordsman Ink Mark had no stealth skills, and was quickly discovered by the people atop the hill.
“Kill the swordsman!” The leader of the team, Sword Song Pipi, immediately issued the order on the team channel.
The crowd of players quickly gathered on the left side of the hill. The various long-range attackers threw out control skills at Ink Mark, while the melee swordsmen rushed forward.
To their immense surprise, the long-range control skills were smoothly avoided by Ink Mark, who had used an S-shaped movement to dodge. In the blink of an eye, the white-clothed swordsman rushed forward with qinggong, the sharp sword in his hands drawing two beautiful fan-shaped arcs. The critical attacks were linked with the control skill, Sword Rain Remnant, resulting in a white flash of light that directly silenced the entire front row!
“Healer, quickly add blood!” Someone shouted on the team channel.
The healer was about to use her blood-adding skills, only to see three fast-moving shadows out the corner of her eye. Before she could respond, she was stabbed by a dagger from behind.
——Thousand Lights Ghost Walk! Meteor!
Xiao Han’s movements were extremely fast, and a series of critical strikes took away the healer’s life before she could even respond.
“There’s an assassin behind us!” The healer sister who had been seckilled was startled, and immediately sent out a message on the team channel.
“Holy sh*t, it’s a sneak attack!” Roaring angrily, Sword Song Pipi quickly tapped on his keyboard to activate a skill. “Kill them quickly!”
However, before he could release his skill, or even locate the whereabouts of the assassin, the avatars of another two people on his team suddenly went dark!
——This was simply killing people while in stealth!
Sword Song Pipi suddenly felt a chill go down his spine.
Between the assassin and the swordsman, the swordsman was more dangerous– that was the conclusion that Sword Song Pipi reached. The assassin could only kill people while in stealth, but the swordsman’s control skills were inconvenient and needed to be resolved as soon as possible. Thinking of this, Sword Song Pipi grit his teeth, before ordering, “Everyone attack the swordsman; we’re killing Ink Mark first!” As long as Ink Mark was killed, there would be no control skills to interfere with their actions, making it easier to turn back and kill the assassin.
This sort of thinking was undoubtedly correct. Unfortunately, the swordsman he met today was Qin Mo.
Qin Mo’s movement pattern could only be described as ‘irregular’. The white-clothed swordsman was like a flexible white crane with his qinggong skill, flying left and right, near and far. Everyone who wanted to attack him couldn’t touch him, and could only rely on targeting skills to decrease his blood. Instead, they were silenced over and over again by his combos.
——Sword Horizon, Sword Rain Remnant!
It was the Heaven Sun combo of the Hanhua Sword sect that put the group under three seconds of silence.
Looking at his teammates who were frozen in place, Sword Song Pipi became increasingly agitated. He wanted to crawl directly into the game to strangle Ink Mark!
What made him more agitated was the fact that there was still an assassin killing in the back row!
Qin Mo’s control of the front row gave Xiao Han the chance to freely output. Thousand Miles Ice cut into the back row flexibly, weaving in and out like a —— Thousand Lights Ghost Walk’s movement skill, Meteor’s single attack, Rainbow Through The Sun’s three-stage group attack! The skills were continuously activated without pause, causing the blood volume of the entire group to be halved!
Seeing this, Qin Mo immediately opened the group attack ‘Sword Horizon’, lowering the blood volume of the entire group again. This was followed up with ‘Unrivalled Sword’, and the targeted skill immediately cut down the health of two more individuals!
In the blink of an eye, the ten-man team who had originally been on guard here were only left with four residual blood, melee players.
Sword Song Pipi sensed that something was wrong. “Withdraw! Retreat! Everyone get out of here!”
Seeing that they planned to leave, Qin Mo launched the big move ‘Sword Rain Fragrance’ without hesitance. A group of snow-white sword spirits fell from the sky, their swords decisively stabbing the four who tried to run, stunning them in place!
Xiao Han reacted very quickly, immediately following through with a three-stage ‘Rainbow Through The Sun’, killing a few residual blood melee players!
——in the blink of an eye, ten people died!
Looking at the large number of bodies lying on the ground, Sword Song Pipi could only feel numb.
Ink Mark in the front row to control the melee, while Thousand Miles Ice made a mess out of the back row…
The two people’s tacit cooperation instantly disrupted the formation of their ten-member team, directly destroying them.
Where on earth did such powerful experts come from?!
Sword Song Pipi took a deep breath, immediately sending a message to the commander of the other group. “We were killed at the resurrection point. Two exports may try to grab the BOSS, be careful!”
Thank you for the chapter!
They should realize each other now~ Finallyyyy ( ≧ ∇ ≦ )
Reading it so far! Although there were some phrases that were cut, thanks to my basic understanding of Chinese idioms, it was easy to pull out some that fitted the situation. Still! Such a great read! Thank you for the chapter! I shall continue to support!
thanks for the chapter.
THE LEGENDARY CO OPERATION!!
AHHHH I MISSED THEM
I hope, they can be in the same pro team now.
this reminds me of when they were partnered up by li cangyu in the world competition and their cooperation can defeat even the elite players from other countries. i hope they’ll be on the same team in the future. i want to see them again play side by side