“Reborn, with a billion in mind, who remembers the model they had a crush on in the game?”

“Besides, this 20-level Daoist disciple is dusty and completely different from the glamorous image I had in mind. If I had known he was North Cliff, I would have fought more seriously. What if I lost?”

“Cough, anyway, he’s already dead.”

“He’s so bad at this?”

[Current] North Cliff: Why are you hitting me?

[Current] Pharmacist Exquisite: Why are you stealing my monster?

[Current] North Cliff: You can fight it, why is it yours?

Monsters in the game are divided into several types. Some monsters are exclusive to players, usually marked with a small note at the bottom [XX’s team]. Other players cannot attack these quest monsters, and it’s meaningless. But the Wolf King is a wild monster that everyone can attack. The final completion of the quest depends on who lands the final blow.

Some players will specifically wait until the wild monster has a sliver of health left to land the final blow. This is also called stealing monsters or stealing kills.

[Current] Pharmacist Exquisite: I was the one who started attacking it. I’ve been fighting it for a long time, it’s mine.

[Current] North Cliff: But you can fight it.

[Current] Pharmacist Exquisite: Get up, I’ll kill you again, so you can see clearly if you can fight it or not ^_^

[Current] North Cliff: How do I get up?

Yinglong: “…”

What is he talking about??

Yinglong ignored him and continued to fight the Wolf King alone. He just lay there in black and white, not reviving.

After a while, a white pigeon flew over.

[Private Message] Iron Horse Autumn Wind: Girl…

[Private Message] Pharmacist Exquisite: ?

[Private Message] Iron Horse Autumn Wind: North Cliff is my friend. You guys seem to have a misunderstanding.

[Private Message] Pharmacist Exquisite: He stole my monster. I killed him. Is there a problem?

[Private Message] Iron Horse Autumn Wind: No, no. He doesn’t understand. He thought that everyone could fight a monster that could be fought.

[Private Message] Pharmacist Exquisite: ??

[Private Message] Iron Horse Autumn Wind: He’s playing the game for the first time.

[Private Message] Pharmacist Exquisite: …

Playing the game for the first time?

The guy who will dominate the world of Kyushu in the future is actually a newbie?

This is ridiculous.

[Private Message] Iron Horse Autumn Wind: I’ve already told him that you can’t steal a monster that someone is already fighting.

If he was really a newbie, and she had beaten him up, it was a bit too much, huh? What if he quit playing because of this? Wouldn’t Kyushu be missing a legendary player…? Wait, wouldn’t it be good if he quit? Who knows who took that billion, maybe it was him.

Yinglong thought about it for a while, but didn’t take it seriously. Kyushu is too big, and there are countless masters in the Chinese server. Even without North Cliff, there would be others. After conquering the global server, there would be foreign players. If you want to go far, you can only become stronger yourself, you can’t hope that others will become weaker.

[Private Message] Pharmacist Exquisite: It’s okay.

She killed the Wolf King with one blow, completing the quest. She didn’t even look at the corpse on the ground and rode her donkey away.

After completing the quest in Shanghe Village, Yinglong checked her panel. She had enough reputation to learn her seventh skill.

At this time, an announcement popped up in the message bar.

[System] Heroes are born in the wild, and heroes are not confined to one corner. Liang Junzi, from the world of intrigue, has completed the “Liu Daodao” quest and become the first player to become a “Thief.”

Kyushu has eight families and eight sects, and there is also a job transfer system. Early players can choose to transfer to Thief or Assassin. When transferring, players can choose to keep two secret manuals and gain two additional secret manuals for the new profession.

For example, if Yinglong chose to transfer to Assassin, she could choose to keep the Poison Difficulty Sutra and the Spiritual Pivot Sutra. Combined with the Assassin’s secret manuals for stealthy burst attacks, she could also be very lethal. If a player focused on physical strength, learning the Assassin’s “Shared Fate” would be very scary, instantly taking away most of the health of characters who didn’t have enough health.

Why is it designed this way? Maybe the developers thought that no one is born a thief or an assassin, it’s something that is cultivated later. Everyone can be a thief, stealing small things, stealing kingdoms, and the same goes for assassins. Jing Ke was a swordsman, Gao Jianli was a musician, and the strongman of Bolangsha was probably a warrior.

Liu Daodao is a job transfer NPC in Xishi City. Players can complete the quest to abandon their original sect and become a Thief.

Looking at the area, there was a lot of commotion.

[Area] Little White Eats: Isn’t this game only supposed to have eight sects? What’s a Thief?

[Area] War Reporter: Didn’t you see the official expansion pack? It says you can transfer jobs. Currently, only Thief and Assassin are available.

[Area] Eight Treasure Congee: How come you guys finished the quest so fast? I’m still squatting on the big python. This quest is so stupid.

…

Yinglong didn’t pay attention to the messages in the area anymore.

She returned to Xishi City and used her Medical Family reputation to learn a new move from the senior sister.

[Intoxicating Heart Flower]: Made from a mandrake flower, it puts enemies into a state of sleep. They cannot use skills or move for 2 seconds.

This move is suitable for fighting and clearing small monsters. It has a limited effect on bosses. If the hit rate isn’t high enough, the boss will resist some of the effects. It’s also easy to be ineffective against characters with very high constitution. It needs to be upgraded later.

Yinglong chose this move because she had no choice. The server had only been open for a few hours, and her sect’s seniority was too low. She couldn’t learn any better moves, so she had to make do. Fortunately, there was a long experience bar from level 20 to 22. Quests were time-consuming and laborious, but leveling up by killing monsters was faster. Intoxicating Heart Flower was still quite convenient for clearing small monsters.

She didn’t save the remaining reputation points. She learned the Medical Family entry-level [Acupuncture]. Fortunately, [Hemostasis] only required 1 reputation point, basically a freebie. Otherwise, it wouldn’t be enough.

She rested in the sect for fifteen minutes, replenishing her stamina and mana bars, which had been depleted from running back and forth.

The medicines in her bag had been used up during the monster stealing. She went to the tavern to buy some buns and wine.

In Kyushu, health potions and mana potions are not easy to obtain. Health potions need to be made by players who have learned the Herbalism skill, while mana potions need to be dropped by some monsters, such as snake gall, monkey wine, tiger heart, etc. It’s like in novels, you need to swallow strange things to increase your power. Of course, you might also accidentally discover special herbs and collect restorative spiritual fruits or something.

These can be consumed in battle and can be purchased from pharmacies, but the daily limit is set, so they can only be used in emergencies.

In addition, you can buy food at taverns or stalls. Eating it outside of battle can slowly restore some health and mana.

Yinglong is a Medical Family disciple, and she can heal herself. Mana potions are too expensive. She didn’t have much money after doing a few quests, so she didn’t waste it. She made do with buns and steamed bread.

This time, she went to Xiahe Village, which, like Shanghe Village, had villagers’ quests to complete, earning experience, money, and reputation.

She was afraid of missing the clue to the billion, so she didn’t dare to skip the plot. She read through it quickly, and her leveling speed inevitably slowed down. She opened the leaderboard and saw that many players had already reached level 21.

Yinglong knew that she couldn’t rush. When she got tired, she would put it aside. She went downstairs to the stall outside the dormitory and bought a plate of fried noodles. Then, she went to the small supermarket and bought a bottle of Coke, a bottle of coffee, and a tiger skin cake for a late-night snack.

It took a total of twenty minutes. After resting, she went upstairs and continued to grind while eating.

The dungeon requires level 22, so during this time, everyone can only do quests or kill monsters. After fighting for a while, they run out of health and mana and have to sit on the floor to recover. Life players can go learn skills, which is more interesting than the boring leveling.

Yinglong did quests, and when she saw suitable leveling monsters on the way, she would rush down and grab a few, and then retreat when there were too many people.

Unconsciously, it was 10 pm.

She went to the dormitory bathroom to take a shower and wash her clothes.

When she came back and opened the leaderboard, sure enough, someone had already reached level 22. They must have leveled up by killing monsters first and then doing quests.

Fortunately, she was almost there.

Yinglong unwrapped the tiger skin roll and ate it while grabbing small monsters.

The evening was the peak time for online gaming. More and more characters crowded into Xishi City, and small monsters were often gone as soon as they spawned. Their aggro wasn’t fixed, and they would target whoever dealt the highest damage. A small monster might bounce between multiple players several times before dying.

Everyone was attacking, so the experience gained was very little, and leveling became less and less efficient.

Yinglong had to give up killing monsters and continued to run errands for quests.

After her friendly reputation in Xiahe Village reached 100, the village chief finally released a new quest. There was a pond downstream of the river, and it seemed like a water monster lived there. He hoped she could help eliminate it.

[Xiahe Village Village Chief]: As long as the water monster is gone, we can dig a canal and use waterwheels to irrigate the fields. The young men in the village will no longer have to risk their lives to fight for the opportunity to draw water.

The content was familiar. Yinglong opened the dungeon scroll in the upper right corner and confirmed it. The level 22 dungeon was called “Water Pond Horror.”

This was the pre-quest for the dungeon. She almost forgot.

Yinglong bit into her cake and quickly accepted the quest. She ran around the village asking for information, and after gathering enough information, she went to the blacksmith to buy equipment.

Pharmacist Exquisite was still wearing the white equipment from the novice main quest. It wasn’t that she didn’t want to change, it was that she didn’t have the money to buy new equipment.

She only had 2 silver and 80 copper, which was either given by quests or dropped by monsters and sold to NPCs for money. In Xishi City’s clothing store, a piece of fine cloth clothing cost over 1 silver, which was not worth it.

In comparison, getting things for free from quests was much cheaper. The weapons in the village blacksmith’s shop only cost 50 copper, much cheaper.

The poison sac increased attributes limitedly, but the throwing knives increased quite a bit, upgrading from [Inferior Small Knife] to [Sharp Small Knife], but after careful consideration, Yinglong still chose [Flying Needle] as her new weapon.

In Kyushu, each sect has different types of moves. Early players can match their weapons according to their skills. When their characters are fully developed later and they start forging weapons, they might have to learn skills based on the weapons.

For example, the Medical Family disciple’s Seven Emotions Sutra is a heart method, which doesn’t require a weapon. The Poison Difficulty Sutra must be equipped with a poison sac. The more complex ones are the Spiritual Pivot Sutra and the Plain Questions Sutra.

The Spiritual Pivot Sutra is the most important martial arts secret manual. It can only be activated by light weapons, such as throwing knives, needles, daggers, and ribbons. Heavy weapons like swords, staffs, maces, and swords are all prohibited.

Light weapons also have differences.

Needles are the lightest, so they have the fastest attack speed but lower attack power. Throwing knives and daggers have an average attack speed and higher attack power. Ribbons have the slowest attack speed and the lowest attack power. This is why Yinglong didn’t want to use needles or ribbons to kill monsters.

When calculating damage, both internal damage and normal attack damage are included. If the weapon has a poison effect, it will also be added to the final damage value. The move damage is then calculated with the enemy’s agility, defense, and resistance, resulting in the actual damage dealt. This is a complex formula that the game doesn’t directly disclose. Players need to experiment and analyze it themselves.

Therefore, the Medical Family disciple’s mainstream route has two options.

Pure healers need both needles and ribbons. They focus on healing with the Plain Questions Sutra and status support with the Spiritual Pivot Sutra. Semi-healing, semi-output players choose one of the two, needles or ribbons, sacrificing some healing skills to gain access to the Poison Difficulty Sutra. They can utilize all four secret manuals.

—Of course, this is not absolute.

Weapons are limited in the early stages to help players filter the skills they want to learn. Most people don’t have enough reputation to learn all the moves and have to make choices. When they reach max level and their characters are fully developed, players can independently forge equipment, combining needles and ribbons (hidden needle sleeves), poison sacs and ribbons (golden bell rope), or needles and poison sacs (fans), using combination weapons and mastering all secret manuals.

That’s a tangent.

Yinglong learned two skills from the Poison Difficulty Sutra. She definitely wouldn’t abandon the poison sac. Needles are mainly for single-target healing, which is more suitable for her.

After changing her weapon, she casually grabbed a monster to test it out. Sure enough, the damage dealt by the level 15 flying needle and the level 5 throwing knife was about the same. She sacrificed the opportunity to increase attack power in exchange for an increase in auxiliary abilities.

She did this to prepare for opening the dungeon.

Generally, when opening a new game’s dungeon, a five-person team is most stable with one main tank (MT, who takes most of the damage), one off-tank, and one DPS. If the MT is strong enough, it can be changed to two DPS, and then two healers are added.

She opened the sect leaderboard. As expected, she was ranked first at 21.82. The second place was only 21.1. The rest, from 3rd to 15th, were basically in the early 20s, and most of them hadn’t even reached level 20, and they were poor doctors who hadn’t even completed the novice main quest.

This is the drawback of being a pure healer. It’s very slow to do quests alone. You need to have a team to help you, like Smoke and Rain.