Chapter 37 The Calm Before the Storm

Jian Gui's calm demeanor left Sword of No Oath somewhat puzzled. Such a powerful opponent was coming to their doorstep, yet he was so composed. Did he already have some kind of backup plan in mind? Sword of No Oath wondered.

Could these guys be planning to run away? Sword of No Oath suddenly thought. Very Heaven had few people, but they were rich. The guild members could use teleport scrolls to go on a trip. Was it possible? Were these guys planning to teleport to the opposite corner of the world when their opponents arrived in Yun Duan City after traveling a great distance?

"Damn! That's too lewd!" Sword of No Oath couldn't help but shout.

"What did you say?" Jian Gui asked, surprised, looking at Sword of No Oath.

"Nothing, nothing." Sword of No Oath said quickly. Just then, a system notification appeared, and Sword of No Oath quickly changed the subject, "Qian Li is here."

That's right, the time after dinner every day was Gu Fei's consistent online game time. There were usually no exceptions. However, after developing an efficient leveling method that day, and then being called back up to develop another efficient leveling method, Gu Fei had been absent for two consecutive days. Only now did he resume his punctual online and offline gaming habits.

This restrained attitude toward gaming was greatly despised by these veterans who spent most of their time in the game, especially Waist Dancer! That day, she asked Gu Fei to teach her the level 60 efficient leveling method. Gu Fei said "tomorrow," but then he disappeared for two consecutive days, making Waist Dancer feel tricked and extremely annoyed. She threatened to find Gu Fei in real life and hire an assassin to kill him.

However, Yu Tian Shen Ming and others comforted her, claiming that Gu Fei's skills weren't limited to the game, and that he was even more terrifying in reality. The assassin industry was already declining, so there was no need to put more pressure on the assassin comrades. It wasn't easy for them to make a living.

Waist Dancer endured for two days and finally waited for Gu Fei to come online. She immediately sent a message: "Get your ass over to the leveling area right now."

"What for?" Gu Fei replied.

"Efficient leveling method!!!!!!" Waist Dancer felt that the message couldn't express her emotions at all. If only she had a phone, she could yell until the phone line broke or the wireless signal disappeared.

"Oh, wait a moment." Gu Fei replied again.

Waist Dancer burst into tears. What kind of cultivation was this guy at? She was so angry, but he just replied with a "what for" and an "oh, wait a moment," as if nothing had happened. Wasn't her anger obvious enough?

Gu Fei left the resurrection point and walked toward the leveling area outside the city. Over these past few days, his image in Yun Duan City had greatly changed. Especially among players above level 40, seeing Gu Fei was like seeing a close friend. Walking on the street now, everywhere he went he heard greetings of "Hello, Brother Qian Li," and all of them were sincere.

Occasionally, there were ignorant newbies who would ask, "Who is that?" and they would immediately be beaten into a pulp by the veterans beside them: "Damn it, you don't even know Brother Qian Li? Get out of Yun Duan City!"

Receiving heroic treatment all the way, Gu Fei finally arrived at the leveling area. The atmosphere here was very different. To avoid accidental misfortune, Jian Gui and the others had stayed far away. Only Waist Dancer stood with her hands on her hips at the edge of the leveling area.

Seeing Gu Fei approach, Waist Dancer was ready to explode, but she saw Gu Fei wave at her: "Let's go."

"Go where?"

"To learn the efficient leveling method! Didn't you say last time that you wanted to learn the level 60 efficient leveling method?" Gu Fei said.

Waist Dancer didn't know how to vent her anger. He had come without saying any nonsense and was going straight to the point. Was she being too petty by still dwelling on "tomorrow"?

As she was thinking about this, Gu Fei didn't even bother to see if she was moving and started walking toward the level 60 area. Waist Dancer could only roll her eyes and let it go.

The two of them went ahead one after the other, and the others suddenly started to follow along. Gu Fei turned around and looked at everyone, asking curiously, "Are you all going too?"

"Just want to see it!" everyone said.

"There's no difference. After teaching you, you can also beat... uh, some people," Gu Fei said.

"Why 'some people'?" Zhan Wu Shang asked.

"Need agility," Gu Fei said.

Zhan Wu Shang was heartbroken. He was clearly not among the "some people." Yu Tian Shen Ming was naturally very excited, shouting "I can, I can!" instantly attracting the attention of Sword of No Oath and his two companions.

What could he do? The three of them exchanged glances and immediately came over. Sword of No Oath was undoubtedly the thickest-skinned among them, so he naturally spoke first: "Where are you guys going?"

"Going to the level 60 area. Is Guild Leader Sword of No Oath interested too?" Gu Fei could actually see the awkwardness of Sword of No Oath among them, but he didn't know how to make him feel better. Anyway, he treated everyone equally, unlike little brats like Yu Tian Shen Ming who were always looking down on this and that.

"Level 60! Level 60 is okay too?" Sword of No Oath exclaimed in surprise.

"Some people can, some people can't. And even those who can may not be efficient," Gu Fei said.

"See it, see it." Sword of No Oath rubbed his hands with a smile.

A group of people set off. On the way, You Ge shared some information with Gu Fei: "Those guys from Twenty-Six Cities have gathered about a thousand people from each city and are attacking us again."

As soon as Gu Fei heard this, he stopped and his eyes lit up: "Really? Then we have to go and intercept them for PK, right? Are the teleport scrolls ready?"

Everyone was speechless. This guy was really crazy. Whether the opponent was one, one hundred, five hundred, or one thousand, his reaction was always the same.

"Don't worry, let's wait until they come," Jian Gui said.

Sword of No Oath was now even more convinced that Jian Gui and his group definitely had something planned.

So, the group went to the level 60 leveling area, which happened to be Cloud Valley. If their group couldn't handle the monsters here, then probably no one in the Parallel World could.

The others casually fought monsters while Gu Fei took one monster to study. This was his main leveling area at the moment, and he was already familiar with the monsters' patterns. Now, he was trying out different weapons for Waist Dancer. It didn't take long for him to figure it out. Jian Gui, Yun Zhong Mu, Hei Shui, and the other thieves also came up to learn, but they found that, as Gu Fei said, the methods and techniques could be learned, but after learning them, there wasn't much improvement in efficiency. After all, Waist Dancer's equipment was even better than that of high-end players. Some of the equipment she had wasn't even available to studios.

"Warriors are powerless..." Gu Fei looked at the pitiful Zhan Wu Shang and explained helplessly: "If I slowed down my movements to your level, there would be some places that wouldn't work. For example..." Gu Fei slowed down and demonstrated. As expected, the monster's return strike came straight down, and Gu Fei had to suddenly speed up to dodge it. A warrior's footwork definitely wouldn't work.

"Actually, dodging doesn't necessarily require footwork, but only footwork can force players to remember it. Dodging by shaking the body requires reaction and coordination, which the game can't give everyone. So, ordinary people can't do it," Gu Fei continued, demonstrating and explaining.

"Alright, alright, you're getting more and more profound, aren't you? We know you have some professional skills, so you don't need to be so verbose. Those who can fight and level can stay here, the others move forward with me, I want to see the terrain here." Han Jia Gongzi had never been to Cloud Valley before, and with his personality, he would never join a group to do this boring thing of fighting high-level monsters and trying to get lucky and find good items.

Sword of No Oath had once fantasized about getting some powerful equipment from the level 60 area, so he had actually been here many times. He was a bit familiar with the place and acted as a guide for everyone, but he ran out of things to say after a while. Obviously, the team he had brought before hadn't gone very deep, just fighting around the edges.

Han Jia Gongzi walked around and looked around, finally frowning and shaking his head: "This place is very boring." Then he looked at Gu Fei and Sword of No Oath, who had been here before: "Are there any bosses or anything here?"

"Never seen one." Both of them shook their heads. Actually, even if they had seen one, it wouldn't matter. Apart from the quest NPCs, the wild bosses in the Parallel World were all roaming heroes who never settled down in one place.

"Boring, boring, let's go back!" Han Jia Gongzi waved his hand, signaling everyone to return. You Ge was still a bit unwilling: "Don't we look around some more? Maybe there's something worth using ahead."

"Use it for what?" Han Jia Gongzi asked.

You Ge was stunned: "To deal with the people from Twenty-Six Cities who are coming!"

"Who said we were going to use this to deal with them? I just haven't been here before, so I was curious to take a look," Han Jia Gongzi said.

Everyone was speechless. If they had known he was just here for sightseeing, who the hell would have followed him! Everyone thought he was going to study the place to see if there was anything that could be used to cause trouble for the opponents, after all, this was definitely the route they would have to take.

"What exactly are you planning?" You Ge muttered, whispering to Zhan Wu Shang beside him.

"Don't know, but I'm already prepared," Zhan Wu Shang said.

"Prepared for what?" You Ge asked, puzzled.

"Look." Zhan Wu Shang showed You Ge something. You Ge saw that it was a teleport scroll, with the coordinates already set. The horizontal and vertical coordinates were extremely far from Yun Duan City, clearly the main city on the opposite corner of Yun Duan City.

You Ge wiped his sweat: "Damn, you're really something."

"Hey, safety first. Do you want to get one too?" Zhan Wu Shang asked.

"No, thanks." You Ge shook his head.

"Manly!" Zhan Wu Shang gave a thumbs up, not knowing if he was really praising him or pretending, but You Ge quickly added: "I'll just follow you when the time comes."

Zhan Wu Shang spat blood: "Then you're saying there are still two spots left. See who you can arrange to go with you."

"Stop messing around," You Ge rolled his eyes. He was just saying it, but could he really run away when the time came? After thinking about it, You Ge shivered. With Han Jia Gongzi's wickedness, it wasn't impossible! People had come from thousands of miles away, and they just teleported away! You Ge had already imagined the spectacular scene of over twenty thousand people spitting blood at the sky together. He didn't know that Sword of No Oath had already imagined this scene once before.

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Finished dinner, another chapter... Wait, there's more!