Chapter 34: The First Boss Battle
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The players were having the time of their lives, and they had not missed out on the quest rewards either—experience points and silver taels alike. Their hearts were positively glowing with delight.
From now on, they could save a fortune when buying things and repairing equipment here. The annual supply offering available to all players was tempting as well.
And killing that mysterious boss from nowhere would grant them spirit stones and a huge amount of experience. Could life get any better?
Most importantly, it would also reward them with favorability points from Su Qingyue!
They had not forgotten that the beautiful girl was one of the game's main NPCs—and their future sect master.
With her outstanding bearing and beautiful appearance, both male and female players were eager to raise her favorability.
Unfortunately, just like her importance to the game, the main NPC was incredibly difficult to win over.
And now, they would instantly receive fifty favorability points! Fifty whole points!
Dumbass Happy Every Day was so thrilled that he was moved to tears. “Sob, sob! My wife's favorability toward me can finally escape the negatives!”
The beauty who had struck every one of his buttons, the one he called “wife” all day long, had a favorability score several dozen points below zero. Wouldn't people laugh themselves to death?
“Calling her your wife when she has a negative opinion of you? What a loser!”
Now he finally had a chance, and he was the fastest one to charge ahead. “Charge! For favorability! For my wife!”
Dumbass Happy Every Day muttered, “I'll have a positive favorability score very soon. Rounding up, I'll soon be the sect master's husband. We'll have a pair of adorable twins, a boy and a girl!”
“Oh, what shall we name our son and daughter? And what about our grandchildren? What a blissful problem to have!”
Xiaomo was drenched in cold sweat. “Brother, you've imagined way too far ahead!”
Flying Dragon in the Sky quipped, “Honestly, the moment I saw her, I called her my wife and wanted to put on wedding clothes!”
Lan Ling: “...You men are terrifying!” Every time, you take things so ridiculously far!
Good heavens, they were already thinking about what to name their grandchildren when they had not even gotten close to success. They wanted to marry her the moment they met her!
Unlike them, Lan Ling only wanted to stuff the little girl with delicious food, protect her properly, spoil her rotten, and buy her beautiful clothes to complete a dress-up game.
A daughter, of course, was meant to be pampered. A motherly fan would dote on her little darling without a second thought.
Everyone was green with envy over the favorability reward. They wished they could teleport straight to the mysterious boss.
“Where is the boss? Come out already! You dared to attack the city, but you don't dare show yourself? I know you're somewhere nearby. Come out!”
“I can't wait any longer! My spirit stones, my experience points, my favorability points! Ahhh, where are they?”
The players raced madly across the city, frantic with impatience. Why had they still not found it? What kind of lousy game made a boss so difficult to locate?
Couldn't it have the sense to come out on its own? Searching for things was absolutely the worst!
The more anxious the players became, the more deeply the other citizens were moved—and the more elaborate their imaginations grew.
At first, the citizens watched in confusion as the players ran around everywhere. But they assumed the players had their own reasons and said nothing.
Then they overheard the players' conversations, and they were instantly even more touched.
Good heavens! These immortals were worried about their safety. They refused to leave because they wanted to completely eradicate every last monster!
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They were running around so tirelessly for the sake of ordinary mortals like them!
As expected, they really were noble and kind-hearted people! How wonderful!
What had they done to deserve meeting such kind and gentle immortals, willing to exhaust themselves for the common folk?
Players: “My experience points! My rewards! Don't run away! Come out!”
Citizens: “We're so moved we're going to cry!”
After several hours, Su Qingyue felt that, in the citizens' eyes, the players had practically descended as true gods. She was sweating profusely.
As for where the boss was... Well, she would have liked to give the players a hint too, but she did not know either!
The city's aura was chaotic and mixed, while a boss-level monster possessed a certain degree of intelligence.
To hide a drop of water, one merely had to place it in the sea. In the same way, if the creature hid in a corner of the city and refused to emerge, no one would discover it.
After all, there were simply too many places where someone—or something—could hide.
“System?” She figured there was no point in searching for a needle in a haystack. The system must have a solution.
The system perked up at once. “The auxiliary function is available at any time to provide you with every kind of assistance! Whether you need to find someone, conduct an inspection, predict the future, or anything else, the function is now available again. It doesn't cost 9,999 points, nor does it cost 1,999. All it takes is 998 points! You can't lose out—”
Su Qingyue asked, “Where did you learn that sales pitch?”
The system replied, “Isn't that how you humans do things? Would you like to activate the auxiliary function, Host? It only costs 998 points!”
“Mm. And how many points does it cost without the promotion?”
“999.”
Su Qingyue clapped in delight. “Wow, what an enormous discount!”
The system was thrilled. “Then would you like to purchase it?”
“No, thank you.” Su Qingyue declined politely.
The system: “...”
She opened the system's backend and glanced at it. “Because the players have already found it!”
The system: “???”
On the backend panel, the number of player deaths had increased by one just seconds earlier.
Under ordinary circumstances, it was perfectly normal for players to get themselves killed while fooling around.
Quite a few even liked to experience the thrill of dying from bungee jumping, or ate a wild mushroom out of sheer greed and poisoned themselves to death. But this was different.
The monster siege had only just ended. Any players who were supposed to die had already done so.
Now, every player was searching the entire city with all their might, practically turning it upside down.
After fighting monsters for so long, it was finally time to harvest the fruits of victory.
The first boss in the game—the experience points and equipment materials it dropped were bound to be astonishing!
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In every online game, the first boss came with lavish rewards.
Under such circumstances, no player would cause trouble at a time like this and get killed for some other reason, thereby missing out on the generous rewards.
Apart from the boss whose location remained unknown, there were no other enemies in the city.
Therefore, the dead player could only have been killed by the boss.
The other players could not see the backend notification, but the player waiting at the resurrection point for the countdown to finish realized what had happened.
Half a minute earlier, he and his friends had split up, searching everywhere while muttering under their breath. They had even rummaged through piles of garbage.
What if it was hiding there?
After finding nothing in an abandoned cottage, he was about to leave and reunite with his companions. Then, in the shadow of a nearby building, a patch of ground that seemed to blend into the surrounding shadows shifted slightly.
He froze.
Had his eyes deceived him?
Before he could take more than a few steps closer, the enormous shadow rapidly expanded, enveloping his entire body.
He had not even managed to see what it was before everything went black.
The next second, he turned into a streak of white light and appeared at the resurrection point, dazed and contemplating the meaning of life.
The player looked utterly bewildered.
Wait, who am I? Where am I? What just happened?
Huh? Me? How did I die?
Damn! I didn't even see it clearly, and I was killed instantly! It must be the boss!
[World Chat: Brothers, I just walked into a corner, and the screen suddenly went black. Then I was at the resurrection point! Anything that can kill me instantly has to be the boss!]
Everyone: [!!! Quickly, tell us where you were!]
Messages demanding his location flooded the chat, rapidly exceeding ninety-nine unread entries.
Once they received his reply, players from every direction swiftly converged on the abandoned cottage.
[System Announcement: Congratulations to the players for successfully discovering the boss, the Mutated Giant Python King. This boss is the first boss in the entire game during the beginner period, and marks the beginning of the players' legend in the immortal cultivation world.
Additional reward upon defeat: Unlock the purple ultra-rare achievement and obtain the title “The Beginning of Legend.” The title may be equipped, and because it is unique, it cannot be obtained again in the future.]
The players exploded.
What the hell? Had the developers gone insane?
The game operators were finally treating them like human beings! This reward was practically a gigantic, multilayered meat pie falling from the heavens! Their child was going to be so happy they would burst!
Happiness had arrived too quickly, like a tornado.