Chapter 3 Still Quickly Passing
He gently smiled and said, “The martial world is full of dangers.”

Chapter 3 Still Quickly Passing

Ye Xiu still quickly passed the third stage, which did not surprise Chen Guo. A one-on-one against a level 70 hidden Boss; if judged solely on the surface, treating this as a condition for entering the Realm of Gods would be overly harsh. Unless they wanted to turn the Realm of Gods into a dead zone, they wouldn't set such a high difficulty.

Therefore, this Dark Night Cat Demon was indeed a level 70 hidden Boss, and it did have the skills and abilities that a level 70 hidden Boss should possess. The only thing it lacked was the HP a Boss should have.

HP, that had always been the greatest advantage of a Boss. A Boss whose HP didn't have a string of zeros behind it would be too embarrassed to greet other Bosses.

This Dark Night Cat Demon in the third stage was a Boss who was too embarrassed to greet other Bosses. Its HP was truly pathetic among the Bosses.

Lord Grim, a level 50 character, faced a level 70 opponent with a 20-level difference. The damage was weakened by who knows how much, and the effects of various attack skills were resisted by who knows how much. Yet, Ye Xiu still finished the battle quickly. It barely fought back before being turned into a corpse. Losing its life, it became a quest item and was tossed into Ye Xiu's bag.

Third stage, complete.

Ye Xiu remained calm as usual, but Chen Guo was already excited.

Seeing the Realm of Gods challenge quests, which had made countless people rack their brains, being completed by Ye Xiu in such a crushing manner, Chen Guo suddenly felt a sense of pleasure. It was like she had been bullied by a strong older kid for a long time, and then a more powerful one came along and flattened the bully in a few blows.

This was a kind of revenge!

If it weren't just the two of them, and clapping would seem silly, Chen Guo would have already started applauding.

"Fourth stage, fourth stage," Chen Guo urged Ye Xiu to hurry.

The fourth stage was when they would leave the novice village. It was also when they received the fourth stage quest: delivering a letter.

The checkpoint was, of course, set on the road to deliver the letter. The scene for the fourth checkpoint was a rugged and difficult mountain road, with bottomless abysses on both sides, a guaranteed death if you fell. It undoubtedly tested the players' positioning skills. Chen Guo had taken one step at a time, slowly inching her way through this stage, and even then, she had fallen and died countless times, starting over and over again.

As for Ye Xiu, Chen Guo believed it would be a matter of minutes again.

The result was even more amazing than Chen Guo had imagined.

On such a narrow, rugged road where one could easily fall, Ye Xiu dared to use flying gun. Chen Guo couldn't imagine how it was possible to accurately control the landing point of the flying gun, landing perfectly every time.

Then again, Ye Xiu was a Battle Mage player! How did he become so skilled with a Gunner's operations? Chen Guo didn't doubt that Ye Xiu was proficient in all of Glory's classes, but this level of proficiency was a bit excessive, wasn't it? Chen Guo felt that even a professional Gunner player might not have the confidence to use flying gun on this road, and fly through it non-stop like that.

You had to know that, like the first scene, this narrow mountain road was also randomly generated. Where there were bends and turns, every quest was different. So, don't even mention guides, let alone practicing until you were familiar with it. It was purely based on the skill of flying gun.

Chen Guo looked at Ye Xiu, her eyes filled with disbelief. She thought she wouldn't look at this大神 (dàshén, lit. great god) like this again. She thought she fully understood what this大神 was like. Now it seemed that this guy was unfathomable.

Chen Guo was speechless when they cleared the fourth stage.

Having cleared four stages in a row, Ye Xiu finally breathed a sigh of relief. He got up, drank a glass of water, lit a cigarette, strolled around the internet cafe while smoking, and then came back.

"Let me try a stage!" Chen Guo asked Ye Xiu, suddenly feeling impulsive.

"Go ahead!" Ye Xiu didn't mind.

So, Chen Guo switched to Ye Xiu's machine and controlled Lord Grim.

The Realm of Gods challenge quests had countless players repeating each stage over and over again, their impressions were deeply ingrained. Without looking at any hints, everyone remembered the quest process. Chen Guo quickly received the fifth stage quest.

The quest content was, of course, not combat. Chen Guo wasn't so arrogant as to think that she could defeat level 70 opponents with this level 50 character. If she had that kind of strength, she wouldn't have thought it was incredible to complete the Realm of Gods challenge quest at level 50 in the first place. This incredibility was mainly focused on combat. Those running and jumping tasks, Chen Guo felt that there wasn't much difference between level 50 and level 70.

The fifth stage was another quest that tested operational skills, and this time, the main operation used was rolling.

In the scene, many places needed to be passed through. Walking directly was too high; crouching was too slow; lying down... that was even slower. So, they could only rely on rolling to pass smoothly.

Like the previous levels, the common design concept was that there was no room for error.

In this level, if the timing of the roll wasn't mastered well, for example, if you bumped into a baffle, it would immediately trigger a chance, instantly killing you and starting from the beginning.

Chen Guo had completed this level on her own back then. Now, watching Ye Xiu complete the first four stages in one go, she just felt it was so cool and mighty. She immediately felt itchy and wanted to try if she could be mighty too.

The facts proved, of course, that she couldn't.

Although Chen Guo had passed it before, it was clear that Ye Xiu relied entirely on strength to pass these levels, while ordinary players relied on luck to a considerable extent. They didn't really master it to pass smoothly; some places, they just happened to guess correctly.

If they tried again, without any substantial improvement in skill, they could only pray for luck to come again.

Chen Guo wasn't even thinking about luck at this point; her condition itself wasn't good.

Staying up late wasn't her forte in the first place, and now it was late at night. She was already sleepy and exhausted, her spirit flagging. In addition, thinking about Ye Xiu watching beside her, she felt inexplicably nervous.

"Don't watch!" Chen Guo said, turning her head.

"I didn't look?" Ye Xiu asked back.

Chen Guo was speechless. Ye Xiu really wasn't watching, he was fiddling with her Chasing Haze!

Instantly, Chen Guo felt that she wanted Ye Xiu to watch. But having just said "don't watch", she was too embarrassed to change her mind. So, she really started herself.

"Failed."

"Failed."

"Failed..."

Chen Guo kept failing. The best she did was roll past six obstacles.

Chen Guo stole a glance at Ye Xiu beside her, who was happily playing with her Chasing Haze, not caring about this side at all. Chen Guo gritted her teeth and continued to persevere, continued to fail, and finally couldn't bear it anymore.

"Hey!" Chen Guo called.

"Hmm? Finished?" Ye Xiu asked, turning his head.

Chen Guo burst into tears: "I can't pass."

"Then I'll do it." Ye Xiu and Chen Guo switched places. Two and a half minutes later, Lord Grim ran out of the scene's exit dashingly. Chen Guo only hated that she didn't have a Sharingan, unable to copy Ye Xiu's gaming skills.

"Want to play the next level?" Ye Xiu began to actively care about Chen Guo.

"Going to sleep!" Chen Guo got up, deciding not to seek stimulation anymore.

"Sleeping now?" Ye Xiu looked at the time. "Is the internet cafe officially opening for business today?"

"Yes!"

"What time does it start?" Ye Xiu asked.

"Noon," Chen Guo said. Since there weren't many customers at the internet cafe in the morning anyway, Chen Guo didn't rush the staff to come back to work early in the morning. She simply set the opening time at noon on the eighth day of the new year.

"Then you can get up at noon, right? I don't need to guard until noon to open the door for them, do I?" Ye Xiu asked.

"No need."

"Okay." Ye Xiu nodded and continued to care about his game.

Chen Guo was hesitating at this moment. She really wanted to watch Ye Xiu do the Realm of Gods challenge quest. Watching those tasks that made ordinary people have headaches being crushed by大神 like this was also incredibly satisfying. She had decided to sleep earlier because she had been stimulated earlier, but after only a while, she suddenly felt that sleeping was boring and still wanted to stay and watch. But Ye Xiu reminded her that she had to get up at noon to open the shop for business, so this became a problem.

Business was every day, but the quest was only this once.

In the end, Chen Guo convinced herself with this reason and returned.

Seeing Ye Xiu looking at her with doubt, Chen Guo glared at him incomparably 牛叉 (niucha, awesome) and said, "What are you looking at? I can't not want to sleep anymore?"

"Then what do you want to do?" Ye Xiu asked.

"Watch your quest." Chen Guo only realized that Ye Xiu had also quit the game, and a video was open on the screen, a Glory match video, after she said this.

"Yeah, why aren't you doing quests?" Chen Guo asked.

"No rush!" Ye Xiu said. "There's plenty of time."

"What video are you watching?" Chen Guo curiously came closer and took a look, then paused. "Isn't this the one between Tyranny and Excellent Era tonight?"

"Yeah!"

"Team competition?"

"Yeah."

"Didn't we already watch it?" Chen Guo wondered.

"Reviewing it," Ye Xiu said.

Chen Guo then understood that this was the difference between amateur and professional. Amateurs watched and treated it like nothing happened, but professionals treated every match as data, as a question to be studied. Observing opponents, studying opponents, Ye Xiu was still doing the same thing even though he wasn't currently in the professional league.

"Is there anything special about this match? Tell me about it," Chen Guo said.

"Isn't your aptitude…"

"What did you say!" Chen Guo was angry.

"It's like this, you see, during the match tonight, Li Yibo said that from Han Wenqing's Desert Dust's diagonal charge, Tyranny began to reap the fruits of their tactics, but that's not the case," Ye Xiu said.

"Mm-hmm," Chen Guo nodded.

"Mm-hmm what? Actually, you don't remember, do you?" Ye Xiu asked.

"I remember!" Chen Guo roared, because there was no way to prove it, she had to use volume as evidence.

"Remembering is good. Then you see, actually, Tyranny took the initiative from here, Stone Not Turning's movement, did you see it?" Ye Xiu said.

"Zhang Xinjie's Stone Not Turning," Chen Guo nodded.

"I'm telling you to look at the movement."

"I saw it!"

"Then what did this movement cause?"

"Isn't this what you're going to explain?"

"Can't you observe and think for yourself?"

"My aptitude…" Chen Guo was hung up on this.

"Oh, that's true…" Ye Xiu looked like he knew it all along.