"Iron-barred windows and tear-streaked faces bring sorrow..."

Qingzhi Youming had encountered a team of overly loyal soldiers from the Red-Ear Army. Even while fleeing, they did not forget the prison cart and dragged him all the way back to Three Elements City, where he was confined in the dungeons of the City Lord Mansion.

During this time, he secretly went online and visited the forum. There he saw the update that had all the players cursing, and he almost cried.

He let himself be captured solely because of the player's immortal body!

Now, with his immortality mostly sealed, his life was preciously hanging by a thread, and losing it here was not worth it at all...

"No, I must save myself. What hidden quest could be more valuable than my life? Unless the ultimate reward is two lives!"

Qingzhi Youming paced back and forth in his cell: "I should post online and ask for help from the omnipotent netizens, see if there's any solution... I need to prepare for all contingencies."

...

What Qingzhi Youming did not know was that all his actions were being transmitted through a peephole and pipes to another room.

"Sect Master!"

Tu Qianqiu's face was somewhat pale as he looked at the middle-aged man with half-black, half-white hair in front of him and bowed deeply.

This man was none other than the Sect Master of the Tianyuan Sect, a Third-Grade Martial Artist, Mu Yuanliu!

"Who would have thought that behind these strangers there was also a Third-Grade expert? What a fortune for Cangyuan County!"

Mu Yuanliu toyed with a half-damaged musket in his hand and sighed lightly, "A Third-Grade Martial Artist is enough to start his own sect and seize a county as his base... and these firearms, so ingeniously designed, if they could be equipped on a large scale, increase the army by tens of thousands, they might even rival the White Tiger Elite of the White Tiger Sect!"

The Tianyuan Sect was only the first in Cangyuan County, which belonged to Dingzhou, one of the Daqian Nine Provinces. The real overlord sect there was the White Tiger Sect!

The White Tiger Elite, a pure force of Martial Artists numbering over ten thousand, was under it.

"Such ingenious tricks are good, but they are only useful against lower-tier Martial Artists..." said Tu Qianqiu.

"The key still lies in the stranger's immortal force and that mysterious Third Grade Demon Beast expert..."

"How are the records for the past few days?" inquired Mu Yuanliu.

"That stranger also needs food and water," answered Tu Qianqiu, "but every once in a while, he disappears on the spot, with no one knowing where he goes, and then he appears again right there."

If Qingzhi Youming knew this, he would be ashamed enough to want to bash his head against a wall.

His pride as a player was being crushed by the native's wisdom, leaving him utterly humiliated.

"Let's go, let's meet this person!"

After asking a few more questions, Mu Yuanliu finally made a decision: "Since the stranger has a Third-Grade Martial Artist backing him, we must not treat him as an enemy; perhaps... we could use the stranger's power to withstand the pressure from the White Tiger Sect..."

"Sect Master is wise."

Tu Qianqiu showed no signs of dissent.

The two walked into the cell and saw Qingzhi Youming.

"Ah! It's you!"

He stared at Tu Qianqiu, his mouth agape.

"This person is the Sect Master of Tianyuan Sect—Mu Yuanliu!" Tu Qianqiu stepped aside to give space to the two.

"Who are you?"

The light in Mu Yuanliu's eyes shone brightly, and his invisible Martial Arts will, transformed into strands of spiritual power, wrapped around the bars, influencing Qingzhi Youming.

"My name is Fang Ming, and I am a player!"

Qingzhi Youming felt a tremendous will that made him involuntarily speak the truth.

"A player? What is that?"

"A player is someone who plays games!"

"Why do you not die?"

"Logging into the game, of course, I won't die!"

...

After a messy and incomprehensible conversation, Mu Yuanliu snorted coldly and withdrew his spiritual power.

"Damn, what did you do to me?"

Qingzhi Youming crossed her arms and shrieked like a little girl.

"Some special terms, I still don't understand, I need you to explain ..." Mu Yuanliu said calmly, "You all come from Outer Heaven, summoned by an entity called 'game' to our world, but what exactly are you here for?"

"Damn, why should I answer you? Also, what the hell did you imagine?"

Qingzhi Youming cursed this hidden quest a thousand times and rolled her eyes: "If my life weren't so precious, I'd die right now just to show you!"

...

"It seems ... there's not much difference in digestion."

Grotto Heaven, villa.

Zhong Shenxiu lay on the sofa, brewing tea in front of him.

Qingzhi Youming's every move couldn't be concealed from him, but he had no intention of stopping her.

Even if the people from another world knew the secret of traveling between worlds, what then?

He didn't care at all, what he cared about was only the behavior of the game itself.

"From the previous control group we can conclude that the more players, the more it aids my digestion of the 'Light of Order' ..."

"And this control group is to see how the otherworldly people react to knowing the secret of players, whether it hastens or slows down the digestive process, and then devise strategies accordingly ..."

"But it seems ... there's hardly any reaction ... Just observe for now!"

Zhong Shenxiu withdrew his gaze from Xuanming Sky and started browsing the official website and forums.

This new update cut deep, leaving players universally lamenting.

"But ... perfect revival is indeed my Divine Skill, can't be too cheap, and these players, if not dangled a carrot, can't be driven at all ..."

He revealed a slight smile.

After this cut, issuing quests in Xuanming Sky with perfect revival as a reward will save a stash of experience points, simply perfect!

And the beta's promotion was going extremely well, even explosively so!

Thinking of this, Zhong Shenxiu's expression became somewhat strange.

He opened a niche gaming forum on his computer and saw a post:

[Shocking News! "Game Otherworld" is just too fun! Not only is it ultra-realistic, but you can also court female NPCs and have a sweet romance with them!]

[Eh? Is this game rated 18+?]

[As a guarantee of my thirty years of bachelorhood, this is absolutely true! And ... I've personally experienced a brothel map in Three Elements City, talked poetry all night with an Oiran lady, very pleasant ...]

[Damn ... just thinking about it excites me, where, where, I want to play, I want to play!]

...

Although it was just a player casually boasting, the numerous replies were all begging for the game.

Many gentlemen expressed they were very tempted, wanting to pursue a sweet sensation of romance in the game.

"I ..."

Zhong Shenxiu held his forehead, knowing that since it was a real passage, this sort of thing was unavoidable.

With the players' Er Ha personalities, they would naturally try everything, finding this fact not at all surprising.

"Although I knew this game would be popular, I never imagined that the selling point of 'Game Otherworld' would be this ... feels like a loss of morality ..."

He glanced at the official site and saw the sign-up numbers skyrocketing ... his face darkened: "This is a proper adventure-oriented game from another world, not a romance-oriented one! No, I must turn the reputation around!"

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