Chapter 1 The Gloomy Night Valley

The Gloomy Night Valley was accessed through a fissure in the mountains. Inside, the light was dim, and steep cliffs surrounded the area, leaving no other entrances. This was why Yun Zhong Mu had chosen this leveling area.

They had bought this efficient leveling method hoping to keep it exclusive to their guild. Therefore, the leveling had to be done in a secluded location. Places like the White Mill and the Wilderness Camp were out of the question because any passing player could stop and observe, potentially stealing their techniques. Even with the strength of the Ten Guild Alliance, they couldn't guarantee complete privacy in those areas. That's why they chose the Gloomy Night Valley, a place that seemed to have all the advantages. It was the best option Yun Zhong Mu could think of, but now, hearing Gu Fei say that fighting monsters ten levels higher would require agility, a shadow fell over his heart.

As a Thief, Yun Zhong Mu certainly had enough agility, but at least three thousand of his guild's four thousand brothers did not. Yun Zhong Mu was now praying that Gu Fei's experiment would show that the monsters here didn't require agility.

There were three types of monsters in the Gloomy Night Valley. The most common were called Valley Guardians, whose class was similar to Warriors and were melee attackers. These were the monsters Yun Zhong Mu and his guild wanted to use for leveling. Another type was the Valley Guardian Leader, which was slightly stronger than the Valley Guardians. They were also Warriors, but they carried shields, giving them better defensive capabilities. The Valley Guardian Leaders were mixed among the Valley Guardians, but they were less numerous. Finally, there were the Gloomy Valley Strangers, who combined the characteristics of Lurkers and Thieves. They set traps and were agile, making them very difficult to deal with. These monsters were even rarer, and they didn't seem to be there for players to level up on, but rather to disrupt their leveling.

At this moment, Gu Fei was engaging a Valley Guardian. He had mainly come here to find refuge, and he only occasionally fought a monster or two to prevent them from bothering him and Nuo Fu Jiu Xing while they were roasting meat, so he had no impression of the monsters' abilities. Now, he was retesting and confirming his observations. He held an ordinary longsword and was slowly grinding the monster down.

Everyone else found a spot where they wouldn't attract monsters and quietly watched. Yun Zhong Mu was so nervous that he hardly dared to breathe. Finally, Gu Fei killed the monster. Yun Zhong Mu couldn't wait any longer and rushed over, "How is it?"

"Not so fast!" Gu Fei said, half-laughing, half-crying, "Why don't you guys roast some meat, sing some songs, have a tea party or something? I'll call you when I'm done."

After Gu Fei spoke, he went to find another monster to spar with. You Ge and the others who had worked with Gu Fei on development knew that it would take at least half an hour for Gu Fei to come up with a fighting method. Especially now that this was a legitimate business deal, he wasn't just developing one method, but multiple ones. So, they weren't waiting around. It was rare to come to a level 50 leveling area, so these guys started leveling up on the side.

Yun Zhong Mu and his brothers were anxious! They had no interest in doing those things. They continued to watch Gu Fei from a distance, unblinking, but gradually, everyone's gaze shifted away from Gu Fei. Gu Fei was just grinding away at the monsters with a broken sword. It wasn't exciting or interesting to watch. On the other hand, the people leveling up on the side were extremely impressive. Each member of Young Master's Elite group had distinct characteristics, and their combined strength was explosive. Jian Nan You's group had even better coordination than Young Master's Elite. And then there was Bai Shi Jing Lun, who could beat any monster he grabbed into a pulp. This was an even more powerful performance than a team effort. Yun Zhong Mu and the others were speechless.

About forty minutes passed in this daze. Gu Fei grinded down several monsters and finally stopped. He walked towards Yun Zhong Mu and his group.

Yun Zhong Mu knew that the results were finally coming. He steadied himself and carefully examined Gu Fei's expression, hoping to glean something from it so he could mentally prepare himself.

Gu Fei's expression was normal. He wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve and shook his head at Yun Zhong Mu, who was approaching him, "Classes that don't add agility can't solo this."

Yun Zhong Mu immediately deflated like a punctured balloon. After a long silence, he asked, "How much agility do we need to add?"

"Level 12!" Gu Fei said, "Uh, that's the minimum. I recommend adding level 15, which gives you a higher margin for error."

"Level 15…" Yun Zhong Mu and the others exchanged glances. It was clear that only Thieves and Archers, or perhaps Fighters, might have added enough agility to meet that standard. Warriors, Mages, and Knights were all out of luck.

"Is there no other way?" Yun Zhong Mu asked, unwilling to give up.

Gu Fei shook his head, "It's a level 50 area, after all. Actually, in the current Wilderness Camp and White Mill leveling areas, you can't fully utilize my methods without adding agility, if you strictly follow my standards. I made some adjustments later to make it easier for players, but the fact is that methods without agility are noticeably less efficient than methods with agility. The methods with agility are the truly efficient leveling methods."

"What about here? Can't we make some adjustments?" Yun Zhong Mu didn't care that the methods without agility were half-baked. He just wanted a method he could use.

Unfortunately, Gu Fei shook his head decisively, "It's really not possible."

"In that case, we'll have to ask our brothers to collect agility equipment," Yun Zhong Mu said, turning to the brothers present.

The others looked troubled, "15 levels of agility, 75 points of agility, that's not easy to come by. Equipment with additional attributes is usually very expensive…"

"Sigh…"

As they sighed, Gu Fei said from behind them, "Soloing requires agility, but if two people cooperate, you don't need agility."

Yun Zhong Mu only heard the words "don't need agility" and turned around with great alacrity. He quickly asked, "How do we do it?"

"Wait a moment," Gu Fei said to him. He turned around and called out to Bai Shi Jing Lun. After calling him over, he left Yun Zhong Mu aside and began explaining to Bai Shi Jing Lun while facing a monster, gesturing constantly, and even striking a few poses.

Yun Zhong Mu and the others pricked up their ears to listen, but they only heard Gu Fei rattling off terms like "single hook," "second row hand," "insert palm," "whirlwind elbow," "short step," "Jade Shattering Step," and "wrist curl." Bai Shi Jing Lun nodded repeatedly, looking like he understood everything, while Yun Zhong Mu and the others became more and more confused, feeling apprehensive and lost.

Gu Fei finally finished speaking after more than ten minutes. Bai Shi Jing Lun closed his eyes and pondered deeply for a while, then opened his mouth and said, "Let me try it out myself first."

"Mm!" Gu Fei nodded.

Then Bai Shi Jing Lun rolled up his sleeves, went down to the field, and tore a monster over. His fighting style was the same as Gu Fei's earlier, very grindy. Yun Zhong Mu and the others didn't understand, but they didn't dare to ask, so they had to wait patiently. Finally, Bai Shi Jing Lun killed the monster. Yun Zhong Mu and the others were about to step forward when they saw Bai Shi Jing Lun turn his head and say, "Let me try it again." Then he went off to grind another monster.

He ground three monsters in a row before finally stopping. Yun Zhong Mu and the others were numb. They didn't know what other tricks they had up their sleeves, so they simply stood still. This time, however, there was good news. Gu Fei walked over and said to them, "Alright, watch carefully! Bai Shi Jing Lun and I will demonstrate."

Yun Zhong Mu and the others perked up and applauded in encouragement.

"I'll use the Knight's method, and he'll use the Fighter's," Gu Fei said.

After speaking, the two of them stepped forward to fight the monster. Yun Zhong Mu and the others stared with wide eyes, but… they really didn't see any essence. They only noticed that the two of them weren't making fast attacks or movements, but slowly and steadily, one hit at a time, they did indeed take down the monster.

"How is it? Do you understand?" Gu Fei asked, turning his head after killing the monster.

"To be honest… we don't understand…" Yun Zhong Mu and the others said.

"You saw how we fought, right?" Gu Fei said.

"We saw that… but…" Yun Zhong Mu didn't say it out loud, because in their eyes, the fighting style was very ordinary. However, a level 50 Valley Guardian had been taken down right in front of their eyes. Yun Zhong Mu and the others were bewildered.

Gu Fei smiled and said, "Don't worry, watch this other method." After speaking, he threw the sword in his hand to Bai Shi Jing Lun and said to Yun Zhong Mu and the others, "He's the Warrior, and I'm the Mage." As he spoke, he took out a staff, the most commonly used weapon for Mages.

This time, the fighting style was much more exciting. Because Gu Fei used magic during the attack, the spells he chanted and the trajectories he drew with his hands were very coordinated with Gu Fei's movements. With a turn of his body and a wave of his hand, the flames seemed to flow from his fingertips and landed smoothly on the monster. The Mages in Yun Zhong Mu's group were delighted, feeling that it was simply: handsome.

Unfortunately, after performing several such elegant close-range magic displays, Gu Fei turned around and said awkwardly, "I'm out of mana. Pay attention to my movements, and fill in the spells yourselves in some places…"

After defeating the monster again, Gu Fei asked as usual, "How is it?"

"This seems quite difficult." Gu Fei was using his own class this time, and the Mage could see it clearly. After confirming this, he discovered the difficulty of this method.

Gu Fei nodded, "Without agility, we have to strengthen the control of rhythm. You have to spend some time familiarizing yourselves with the monster's attack rhythm, and then spend time coordinating with your partner. The advantage, of course, is that you don't have to waste points on agility."

"And one more thing…" Gu Fei continued, "Archers are more troublesome. I'm not very good at using bows, so I can't integrate it into this close combat. The Archer methods I've developed are actually similar to those of Thieves, except that you can choose long weapons. But the fact is that whether you use a sword or a dagger, the Archer's attack power is greatly reduced. From an efficiency standpoint, it can't compare to melee classes."

Yun Zhong Mu nodded repeatedly.

"Shall we start learning now?" Gu Fei said.

"Which one should we start with?" Yun Zhong Mu asked.

"Let's start with the solo method with agility. The two-person coordination is more difficult, so we'll learn it later!"

"Alright!" Yun Zhong Mu nodded. Naturally, he would be the one to step up and be the apprentice for the solo method with agility. Yun Zhong Mu was now one of the Five Little Strong Ones, with impressive equipment and skills, far better than ordinary wild players. Under Gu Fei's personal guidance, he quickly grasped the method and was assigned to practice on the side.

During the process of Gu Fei teaching him, Jian Gui and Hei Shui were also watching intently from the side. Initially, Gu Fei told them that the efficient leveling methods weren't very useful for top experts like them. That was in reference to monsters of the same level. But now, this was an efficient leveling method for monsters ten levels higher, so it had value for them. However, the Gloomy Night Valley was clearly not a place where they would stay for a long time, so there was no need to rush to learn it. They just wanted to learn it now and experiment with it here. If it really worked, then they could find Gu Fei later to learn methods for the leveling areas they needed.

Jian Gui and Hei Shui's skills were also beyond doubt. After Gu Fei taught Yun Zhong Mu the method, these two guys had also mastered it. Each grabbed a dagger and went off to find monsters to experiment on.

After teaching Yun Zhong Mu, Gu Fei pulled one of the archers and began explaining. So Yu Tian Shen Ming and Jiao Shui stepped forward and followed along intently. In the end, they also went off to find monsters to experiment on.

Then came the two-person coordination method. Gu Fei held a staff, and Bai Shi Jing Lun held a sword in both hands. This was clearly the Mage and Berserker combination. Before Yun Zhong Mu's people could step forward, Jian Nan You and Huo Ran Yi had already taken their positions. Zhan Wu Shang was very anxious. Their group's Mage was Gu Fei, who was currently acting as the instructor! He hurriedly found Han Jia Gong Zi, "Pretend to be a Mage and practice with me."

Han Jia Gong Zi gave him the middle finger. Zhan Wu Shang went to find You Ge, who wiped his sweat and said, "I can't pretend to be one." You Ge's practical skills were such that he hadn't even fully understood his own class. How could he pretend to be another class?

In the end, Dao Xiang Mu was righteous. Seeing Zhan Wu Shang scratching his head anxiously, he volunteered to help and waved a staff, pretending to be a Mage.

These amateurs finally realized that the two-person coordination method was indeed much more difficult than soloing. As a Mage, the coordination of movement, actions, and spellcasting required a very high degree of coordination. Dao Xiang Mu was just a stand-in and couldn't cast spells, so he just waved the staff and pretended, and he didn't feel much. But the real Mage who was with Yun Zhong Mu was suffering. This kind of method was something he had never tried in his Mage career. He felt that it was indescribably strange. He stretched out his leg and forgot to wave his staff, waved his staff and forgot to move, moved into position and forgot to chant, and chanted, but the direction of the spell wasn't the monster he was currently fighting. The random spells instantly attracted a string of monsters, and if everyone hadn't rushed up to distract and kill the monsters, the two poor guys would have been ganged up on.

"Be careful!!" The Warrior who was cooperating with him broke out in a cold sweat.

"Don't you know, damn it, it's weird, I can't get it right." The Mage couldn't find the right words to describe his feelings at the moment.

"How would I not know? Do you think I'm having an easy time?" The Warrior smiled wryly. Bai Shi Jing Lun's two-handed sword was also full of tricks. Ordinary players only knew how to stand straight and chop and stab. How could they perform so many tricks? The Warrior robotically mimicked a few movements, feeling that his arms were about to get tangled with his legs.

The two of them were performing in such a clumsy way that the monster being used for experimentation took the initiative and continuously used them to practice its moves. The two of them couldn't bear it any longer and used their signature Wild Moon Night City player style, using their fists and feet to exhaust the monster to death. Looking at Gu Fei's critical gaze, the two of them lowered their heads in shame, like students who had made a mistake. The Warrior was more well-behaved. He looked around and found a section of dead wood as tall as a person lying on the ground. He quickly hugged it over, stood it up on the ground, and said sheepishly, "It's too difficult. Let's practice with a wooden stake first?"

Gu Fei knew that it was indeed very difficult for ordinary players to master this method, but who told them to be unwilling to add agility? So he didn't say anything. He and Bai Shi Jing Lun continued to demonstrate with monsters, while these two guys ran around a wooden stake, trying to make the attack movements that Gu Fei and Bai Shi Jing Lun were using.

This lesson was very long. Normally, a set of methods could be learned in at most an hour, but now an hour had passed, and these two guys were still clumsy, jumping around a dead wooden stake, and occasionally bumping into each other. Yun Zhong Mu's solo agility method was already being used very smoothly. He occasionally paid attention to the learning situation of the other brothers, and the stupidity of these two guys made him feel really embarrassed. Fortunately, the two masters still seemed very patient. Yun Zhong Mu was really afraid that he would anger these two and they would simply quit.

A group of people spent the whole afternoon in the valley. The Mage-Warrior combination practiced for a full three hours without seeing any improvement. However, they had barely memorized the movements. At this time, they were still constantly exploring and familiarizing themselves with it. Gu Fei and Bai Shi Jing Lun took advantage of this time to demonstrate the Knight-Priest method.

The Priest here refers to the Dark Priest. The Light Priest had no output ability at all. No matter how ingenious the efficient leveling method was, there was no way to play it, unless there was a strange Priest who dared to add points to Strength, creating a strong Priest who could have some physical output. But such a bold character had never appeared, so the followers of the efficient leveling method did not include Light Priests.

The Dark Priest, in addition to the Death Kiss after the level 40 job change, also had increased power in the previous attack skill, Holy Light Ball. Because it was no longer called Holy Light Ball, but Dark Light Ball. With these two skills, the Dark Priest could be considered to have the ability to solo.

At this time, Gu Fei was playing a Dark Priest, but unfortunately, he couldn't use Dark Priest skills, so he could only blindly gesture with his bare hands. This made learning even more difficult. Among the people Yun Zhong Mu brought over, there was a Dark Priest who was not only learning Gu Fei's method, but also had to fill in the spells in his mind, which was very hard work.

You Ge was also very depressed. After the Knight method came out, Invincible Lucky Star immediately grabbed their Priest, Lin Mu Sen Sen, to pretend to be a Dark Priest, while You Ge glanced at Han Jia Gong Zi, who had already seen through him, and a middle finger was already waiting for him. You Ge wanted to cry but had no tears. Seeing such a novel thing, he had no chance to try it and wanted to die.

Gu Fei demonstrated these two methods for an afternoon, looking at the other party's clumsy appearance, and shook his head repeatedly. Finally, after looking at the time, he said, "Yo, should we go offline for dinner first?"

"Abstinence." Several people actually made such a sound.

If his students said this, Gu Fei would definitely educate them, but he was too lazy to pay attention to these guys.

"Then I'll go down and rest for a while, and come back to guide you tonight," Gu Fei said.

"Okay, okay!!" Yun Zhong Mu quickly stopped what he was doing and came over to prepare to send Gu Fei out of the valley.

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