Leaving the City Hall, Chu Tian felt a pang of regret over the teleportation fee, contemplating whether to run to Black Earth City. However, reaching Black Earth City required passing through Four Seasons City.
Ultimately, gritting his teeth and enduring the pain, he spent another twenty gold coins to return to Four Seasons City, using it as a starting point to continue his journey.
While Chu Tian was on his way.
Huang Xueyi had already logged out of the game. Inside his room, hardly any item remained intact.
Everything had been smashed, even the gaming pod, which was struck by a baseball bat and was almost misshapen.
The reason was all too obvious. As Chu Tian, under his character's name, continuously transferred the ownership of deeds,
System notifications kept flooding in.
In the end, he not only had no deeds left but also accumulated a disrespect value of -4200 in Four Seasons City.
Although he didn't yet understand what a city's respect value represented, he knew it was certainly not a good omen.
His initially elated mood plummeted to the bottom.
This drastic swing from highs to lows had driven him completely mad.
Huang Xueyi continued to smash items in his room.
After a while, he calmed down, his eyes flashing with hatred. In his thoughts, there was only one person who could have reached the main city!
He took out his phone, hesitated, and dialed a number. On the other end, a Japanese voice responded, "Dare wo sagashite imasu ka?" (Who are you looking for?)
Seeing the call connected, Huang Xueyi replied in Japanese, "Hito wo shirabete kudasai..." (Please investigate a person...)
Chu Tian was unaware of these events. He also didn't realize that some matters had accelerated due to his rebirth, while others had spiraled beyond his control.
He ran continuously until the game closed again, and he was not far from Black Earth City.
At school, nothing eventful happened. Even Luo Luo, who had always been particularly close to him, maintained a distant and elusive demeanor after that incident.
Every time Chu Tian looked at her, he could feel Luo Luo's body instantly stiffen.
This made Chu Tian wonder if he had gone too far. But every time he saw Luo Luo, he couldn't help but recall the water stain on the dining table.
Yet, upon reflection, he hadn't really done anything. Who knew she would...
Entering the game in the evening, it finally took over an hour to reach Black Earth City.
After receiving the respect value reward under his own name, he put on his mask again.
This time, he chose the copied character name 'You Yue Er'.
After the white mist dissipated, Chu Tian looked down at the two mounds on his chest.
Taking a couple of steps, he felt his balance waver, leaning forward slightly.
He tried hard to adjust, then suddenly remembered something. He sneakily glanced around and found he was alone.
In fact, this was entirely unnecessary. Besides NPCs, how could anyone possibly be in Black Earth City at this time?
Seeing no one, he gently unfastened his belt and reached one hand inside.
"Phew... The big babies are still here!" Chu Tian muttered with a hint of relief.
Then, a sense of loss washed over him, and he pinched his developed pectoral muscles!
"They didn't feel this big before!" he said to himself.
Shaking his hands and confirming again that no one was around, he quickly ran towards the Black Earth City Real Estate Hall.
After completing all the procedures, he spent the twenty thousand gold coins given by Lord Luo, leaving only three gold coins, and then swaggered into the Black Earth City teleportation array. This time, it cost him a full fifty-three gold coins to return to Shengjing City.
The further the distance, the higher the teleportation fee. These gold coins would become a significant luxury expense in the later stages.
Many ordinary players would rather travel long distances on foot to their destinations than spend on the teleportation array for a quick arrival.
Upon returning to Shengjing City, Chu Tian saw only ninety-five gold coins remaining in his bag, with three of them being task gold coins from Lord Luo, which could not be spent.
He sighed, "Making money is hard, spending money is too easy."
In a guild war, he had spent a considerable amount of gold coins to compensate the brothers who had died. Although the Ju Yi Tang side was directly crippled, and the equipment obtained, when converted, would certainly result in a substantial profit.
However, after several teleportations, the money earned from this guild war probably wouldn't even cover the costs.
Although he had gained the rights to use a lot of land, to make money, these would require waiting for other players to arrive at the main city, and it would take time to develop.
Currently, to earn money, he needed to find ways on his own.
What could earn money now, without delaying leveling and development? Chu Tian racked his brain, trying to recall.
After careful consideration, it seemed that most opportunities would only arise after other players entered the main city.
There was no other option; after completing the task, he would have to focus on leveling up.
He returned to the City Hall and completed the procedures with Mayor Luo Guo. His favorability increased by 300 points this time, and he could clearly feel a change in the other party's attitude towards him, but the language remained mechanical.
It was not anthropomorphic like when they had a heated debate that day.
With a hint of doubt in his heart, Chu Tian left the City Hall.
Just as he was about to look for a life skill trainer, Jian Zhi Cang Tian sent him a video call.
"Boss, we're stuck in the dungeon and can't proceed, help!" Jian Zhi Cang Tian asked directly as soon as Chu Tian accepted the video.
Judging by his appearance, he seemed very anxious.
"You're trying to clear 'Muddy Swamp'?" Chu Tian asked doubtfully.
"Yeah, the three of us, along with some level ten brothers from the guild, are trying to raid this dungeon. We fought all night yesterday and still couldn't beat it," Jian Zhi Cang Tian said.
'Muddy Swamp' was the first and only dungeon in the新手村 (novice village).
The difficulty was divided into five modes: Easy, Normal, Hard, Expert, and Hell.
The higher the difficulty, the better the equipment dropped, the higher the experience points, the greater the need for team coordination, and the higher the quality of the team members' equipment.
Easy mode could be farmed infinitely, but it rarely dropped equipment; the drop rate was similar to the wild. However, the experience gained was much higher than in the wild, and after clearing, there would be settlement rewards with high experience. Great Wind Novel Network.
Normal mode could be cleared once a day. After clearing, one could only enter again after the game restarted the next day.
Hard mode could be cleared once a week. It reset every Monday at 6 PM when the game launched.
Expert mode reset once a month, on the first day of each month.
As for Hell mode, it was an anomaly. It required clearing within a time limit, and after clearing, a rating of five stars was needed to receive rewards, which were very generous, guaranteeing a golden equipment drop.
However, the maximum dungeon rating was five stars. Clearing within the time limit was simple, but achieving a five-star rating for all details was extremely difficult.
Even in the late game, many teams attempting low-level dungeons found it hard to achieve five stars every time. Getting it once in ten attempts would be considered a top-tier team.
This was the dungeon mode in the "Heavenly Dao World." As for how to achieve a full five-star clear, Chu Tian naturally knew. If he led a team to tackle Hell mode, he dared to guarantee that as long as the members listened to commands and had strong execution, getting five stars would be no problem at all.
However, the difficulty in tackling dungeons lay in the players' quality, the strength of their execution, and their individual awareness.
Seeing Jian Zhi Cang Tian and the others attempting the Easy mode of 'Muddy Swamp'.
Chu Tian recalled carefully and then asked him, "How many people are you playing with? What are your levels?"
Jian Zhi Cang Tian replied, "It's me, Sheng Guang Hu You Ni, and Heng Dao. All three of us are level eleven, plus twenty-seven brothers from the guild who just reached level ten."