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Chapter 1
“Max level! I finally reached max level!”
In the deep autumn, on a sunny afternoon, Yu Mi, after more than a month of pure manual grinding and immersive leveling, finally pulled his game character to max level.
The first thing he did after reaching max level was to open the shop and reward himself by buying a beautiful outfit.
Wearing the brand new, form-fitting costume, Yu Mi admired his character from every angle.
Handsome! Handsome! Handsome!
Just then, his master’s private chat popped up.
[Private Chat] Jinjiang Zai Tao Shizun: Disciple, did you reach max level? Want me to take you through the daily tasks for max level??
The golden-haired boy immediately replied: Sure, Master! #Cute
His master sent a team invite, summoning him through the master-disciple system, and opened the mic to guide him through the tasks while explaining them via voice chat.
Halfway through, his roommate Chen Ziming returned and shouted as soon as he entered the door, “Max level yet, Xiao Ba? I’ll take you to a dungeon!”
“Max level,” Yu Mi pulled his headphones aside and turned his head, “My master is taking me through the dailies.”
Chen Ziming walked behind his roommate, who was wearing a green short-sleeved shirt, looked down at his screen, and whispered, “Then you keep playing.”
The game Yu Mi was playing is called “Sword Roar in the Jianghu,” a not-so-popular but enduring domestic 3D martial arts online game.
The game’s slogan: “The Jianghu is so vast, I want to see it.”
Chen Ziming is an old player who tried countless times to drag Yu Mi into the game during their freshman year, but Yu Mi always refused, saying he wasn’t interested.
Until this year, the second day after the start of their sophomore year, Yu Mi stumbled upon a game video on a short video app. In the video, a cosplayer was wearing a finely crafted but revealing outfit, posing with a long knife. That physique… was simply amazing, and the comment section was filled with admiration.
Yu Mi found it somewhat familiar, so he asked Chen Ziming if it was the game he was playing.
Chen Ziming immediately got excited, “Yes! Come play!”
Then he got a bit annoyed, “Oh, so you like big-chested male characters? You should have said so earlier!”
Previously, he had recommended the game to Yu Mi from various angles, including the storyline, modeling, art style, scenery, and gameplay, but Yu Mi remained unmoved. Now, he was attracted by a male cosplayer, how infuriating!
He immediately guided Yu Mi to download the game, explaining that the muscular guy was from a knife-wielding faction in the game called Yangdao Mountain Villa, where the faction uniforms were mostly revealing, showcasing muscles.
After downloading the game, Yu Mi admired the muscular character for a while, then decisively chose the Daoist faction, which was fully clothed and exuded an ethereal aura, from the eighteen factions.
The knife-wielding character was handsome, but the Daoist was truly stunning!
Before confirming, he asked, “Is the Daoist faction strong?”
Chen Ziming said, “Strength is temporary, but being handsome is forever. Just choose what you like.”
So Yu Mi confirmed his choice.
He played as a male character, and his game ID was thought up by Chen Ziming, called “Tian Nuonuo.”
“You are Yu Mi, and corn is sweet and glutinous,” Chen Ziming observed his roommate.
This person had platinum blonde hair, liked wearing green clothes, and was essentially cosplaying as corn. He was fair-skinned and cute, always smiling sweeter than corn. Classmates often said he was the corn itself. Occasionally, people would ask Chen Ziming for his contact information, but he was still single.
Chen Ziming strongly advised, “Names in the ABB format are popular, trust me, I won’t lie to you.”
Yu Mi temporarily believed him and chose that ID.
Originally, Chen Ziming said he would buy him a level-up item to reach max level instantly, but Yu Mi wanted to experience the storyline, so he chose to level up manually.
The reason “Sword Roar in the Jianghu” has remained popular for so long is largely due to its rich storyline and exciting stories.
During the leveling process, Yu Mi encountered many touching stories and was repeatedly moved to tears by the heart-wrenching plot, sitting in front of the computer, sobbing like a child.
He opened a small Weibo account, drawing fan art while leveling up, receiving many likes and shares.
Yu Mi’s master was someone he met on his leveling journey.
His master also played as a male Daoist, but in reality, she was a girl who patiently accompanied him in leveling up and explained the storyline to him.
On the day he reached max level, she took him through various daily tasks and introduced him to the many gameplay mechanics and operations of the game.
In short, she was a very responsible and good master!
That evening, Chen Ziming suddenly remembered something and rushed to Yu Mi’s seat, “You reached max level, go to the main city and touch the pile of luck, it seems to expire tonight!”
Yu Mi: “Luck?”
Chen Ziming grabbed his mouse, helping him switch maps, “During the Mid-Autumn Festival, there was a reward pile in the game, only max-level players can touch it. Here, you try it yourself, see if you can get something good.”
“Oh.” Yu Mi casually interacted with it, and the screen suddenly flashed with golden light.
[Congratulations, you have received 888,888 ingots!]
Yu Mi: “Huh? Is this game currency?”
“Oh my god!” Chen Ziming knelt down, “That’s 8,888 RMB!! I told you your name is lucky!”
“So much?” Yu Mi didn’t expect his luck to be this good, “Am I… financially free now?”
Chen Ziming was so jealous he was about to transform, “Yes, you’re financially free!”
Yu Mi laughed and then casually posted a screenshot to the game’s super topic.
[@EvilPopcorn: Newbie just reached max level and got this from the luck pile! Sword Roar in the Jianghu is so fun~]
The comment section went wild.
“You can’t play the tutorial plan!”
“Ahhh, I’m going to fight you!”
“Xiao Ai, download his Sword Roar in the Jianghu to the C drive!”
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The next evening, after finishing his homework, Yu Mi logged in to follow his master for the dailies.
Yesterday was learning PVE dailies, today was PVP dailies. PVE is dungeon running, PVP is player fighting. Yu Mi wanted to try both.
Sword Roar in the Jianghu has two opposing factions, the righteous faction with a blue logo, Qingyun Alliance, and the villainous faction with a red logo, Chiyan Valley.
Yu Mi followed his master and joined Chiyan Valley, and his master seriously took him through various dailies.
Jinjiang Zai Tao Shizun: “Next is the battlefield, which is fighting in a fixed map. Each map has different victory conditions, and the number of players is limited, usually 10, 15, or 25. Today’s is 25. The victory condition is capturing points and opening boxes. The battlefield is cross-server matched, meaning we’ll encounter players from other servers.”
Yu Mi: “Got it.”
Jinjiang Zai Tao Shizun: “Sorry, disciple… I have something urgent, need to leave for a bit. You can either play something else or try it yourself?”
Yu Mi: “No worries, Master, you go ahead! I’ll check it out myself.”
Jinjiang Zai Tao Shizun: “OK, play as you like, just don’t go AFK. If you’re about to die, type ‘mom’ in the team channel, and the healers will heal you.”
“Got it, got it, I’ve learned!”
His master went offline, and Yu Mi queued up by himself. A few seconds later, the screen transitioned, and he was teleported to the battlefield map.
A 25-player team was automatically matched.
Teaming up with strangers for the first time, Yu Mi was inevitably a bit nervous, muttering softly, “Wow, so many people…”
After a minute countdown, the teammates rushed out, and Yu Mi quickly followed.
The teammates scattered in different directions, and Yu Mi randomly followed someone, flying to a small round platform to wait. He pre-typed “mom!” in the input box, ready to hit enter at any moment.
After another ten-second countdown, a red box suddenly refreshed in front of him. Yu Mi immediately interacted to pick it up, but halfway through, a giant sword descended from the sky, knocking him away, leaving him with just a sliver of health.
“Mom!”
Yu Mi immediately hit enter to send the word, and sure enough, someone healed him right away.
Yu Mi glanced at the person beside him, who was wearing a purple uniform, seemingly from the newly released faction Fanghua Sect?
He had been busy leveling up and hadn’t had time to learn about it, only hearing a bit from his roommate that this new faction was flower-themed, and players nicknamed it “Flower.”
So he said, “Thanks, Flower, for healing me.”
After saying that, he typed it again in the team channel, and the person healed him a few more times.
The battle was intense, and Yu Mi didn’t have time to look closely, quickly diving back into the fight!
As a newly max-leveled newbie, he was wearing the system’s shabby gear, as fragile as paper. Anyone who touched him would take away most of his health. He was beaten to the point of being unable to fend for himself, dying repeatedly, his head getting knocked off, with almost no game experience.
“Mom!”
“Mom!!”
“Mom—”
Yu Mi screamed continuously, shouting while typing.
Fortunately, the kind person who healed him at the start stayed with him, occasionally healing him, allowing him to survive a few more seconds and enhance his game experience.
Yu Mi was also very polite, constantly expressing his gratitude.
“Thanks, Flower, for healing me!”
“Thanks to the kind Flower!”
“Thanks, Mom!”
After a fierce battle, the scores were neck and neck, and opening one more box would secure victory.
Yu Mi tenaciously survived in the battle group, his health bar like a roller coaster.
After being saved again, he thanked the healer, muttering to himself, “Thanks, Flower! This Flower is so nice… I’m going to fall in love with them.”
Just as he finished speaking, a cold male voice suddenly rang out—
“Little cutie, who are you thanking? It’s your divine dad healing you!”
Yu Mi was startled.
The voice was so nice! It was the kind of young, rogue voice.
Wait.
“Who? What? Who’s talking??”
He glanced at the team panel, and the sky seemed to fall.
“Did I not mute my mic? Huh???”
At this moment, the team mic, which had been quietly listening to his babbling the whole time, erupted in a few low laughs.
Yu Mi’s face instantly turned red.
He hurriedly apologized, “Sorry, I’m new! I don’t recognize all the factions yet, may I ask which faction is the divine… whatever?”
A girl, holding back laughter, said, “The purple one.”
“Purple…” Yu Mi immediately scanned the team panel for the purple faction emblem.
There were at least five or six purples!
Dark purple, light purple, reddish purple, all kinds of purple!
So purple it was blinding.
Which one was it just now??
He didn’t dare ask, so he stared at the panel, thanking each one: “Thanks, Gulu Gulu, Pen Immortal, Wind Listening Snow, Don’t Be So Purple, Yogurt, Cold Little Mom for healing me just now…”
After finishing, the platinum blonde-haired boy in front of the computer pursed his lips, “I hope I didn’t miss anyone…”
Just as he finished, a girl couldn’t help but laugh out loud, “You missed one.”
Then, a cold laugh echoed in the team mic, and the previous cold male voice spoke again.
“Tian Nuonuo, from Youyue server, right? Remember you. Just wait, I’ll cross-server hunt you down tomorrow.”
This sentence was longer, and Yu Mi finally managed to see that someone in the team had a small microphone icon flashing next to their ID.
This person’s ID was: What Are You.
“No, brother!”
Yu Mi’s plea for mercy was cut short as the victory effect popped up on the screen.
The game ended, and he was forcibly sent out of the map.
“Da Ming!”
Yu Mi quickly took off his headphones and rushed to the balcony to seek help from Chen Ziming, who was doing laundry, “I’m in trouble, I’m going to be hunted across servers!”
Chen Ziming was stunned, “What’s going on?”
Yu Mi quickly described the event to him.
After listening, Chen Ziming laughed heartily, then comforted him, “Don’t worry, they’re probably just teasing you because you’re a newbie. Transferring servers is expensive, most people wouldn’t do it just to kill a newbie. Unless they’re really bored.”
“Okay…” Yu Mi breathed a sigh of relief.
However, the next afternoon, while riding the little pony his master gave him to do a faction daily escort mission, he was brutally killed on the road.
He had just crossed the map when he suddenly heard two alarm bells! Then he saw two red names from the enemy faction.
Before he could react, the screen went black, and he found himself in a starry sky.
“What’s happening?” Yu Mi frantically pressed keys, “Is my game bugged??”
A few seconds later, he emerged from the starry sky, only to die on the spot without doing anything.
He looked up—
It was that purple faction!
It was [What Are You]!
He had come to kill him across servers!
He had come!!
No way, really that bored?
The newbie Tian Nuonuo lay on the cold ground, his heart almost collapsing.
His typing hand trembled violently.
He sent a private chat to his master.
“Master! I… I was just solo-killed by a healer!! #Crying#Crying”
Yu Mi didn’t notice that he forgot to switch channels and accidentally sent this message to the world channel.
Then the world channel exploded.
[World] Floating Cloud White Clothes: Huh???? #Shocked
[World] Xinjiang Big Plate Chicken: Solo-killed by a healer? How did that happen? #Shocked
[World] Southern Tongue Secret Me: Huh???? #Shocked
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Lost Nexus[Translator]
Hi, I’m Lost Nexus or call me Nex! I translate web novels into English so more people can enjoy these amazing stories.