[Faction Deputy Officer] Beiya: Scram.

[Faction Deputy Officer] Beiya: @Pharmacist Linglong, I’ll pay double. Sell him to me, get rid of him.

Yinglong: …

[Faction Deputy Officer] Tiema Qiufeng: Is it fun to undermine your own people? Do you want everyone to know that our guild started infighting on the second day of its creation?

[Faction Deputy Officer] Beiya: [Rage] Come fight!

[Faction Deputy Officer] Tiema Qiufeng: [Cold sweat] I’m scared of you.

[Faction Deputy Officer] Tiema Qiufeng: I’ll remove him, I’ll remove him, alright?

Seeing that they’d already settled their duel, Yinglong readily removed Tiema Qiufeng’s management position and gave it to Guazhou.

[Faction Deputy Officer] Guazhou: [Eating melon] Old Tie, you’re no good.

[Faction] Tiema Qiufeng: BB again and I won’t take you to dungeons.

[Faction Deputy Officer] Guazhou: I’m not level 22 yet.

[Faction] Tiema Qiufeng: Then hurry up and level! If you don’t reach management level within the day, give it back to me.

Guazhou disappeared, starting to organize his warehouse.

[Faction] Tiema Qiufeng: Pharmacist, Guazhou was an old manager from my previous guild. He’s not good at fighting, but he’s amazing at internal affairs—a life-skill player. Please take care of him.

Yinglong understood that these words weren’t just for her, but also for the other guild members. Otherwise, no one would accept a low-level character as a manager.

She gave him the respect he deserved.

[Faction Leader] Pharmacist Linglong: Let’s all take care of each other. The guild manor gameplay really needs life-skill players. I’ll learn a skill when I have some free time ^_^

[Faction] Tiema Qiufeng: [Thumbs up]

[Faction] Tiema Qiufeng: Since everyone’s here, shall we go to a dungeon? I’ll lead one group, you lead Beiya to form another.

[Faction Leader] Pharmacist Linglong: Sounds good.

Thus, the three of them each formed a party to go to dungeons.

Yinglong recruited a newly 22-level soldier and a doctor who had never been to a level 22 dungeon, then randomly invited a DPS class. Tiema Qiufeng did the same. In the early stages of the game, tanks and doctors don’t level up quickly, so they need guild cultivation. Once they grow strong, they become important pillars of the entire guild.

Both groups ran the dungeon twice. Yinglong would remind the tanks and doctors how to position themselves at key moments. After confirming they understood, she opened another group, this time inviting those who had attempted the dungeon but hadn’t cleared it, helping them complete it and distributing equipment as fairly as possible.

[Faction Deputy Officer] Guazhou: Everyone finished? I’ll record this. Others who want to go to dungeons should sign up with me. I’ll arrange the schedule for tomorrow.

He worked quickly and efficiently, arranging the schedule and posting it on the guild’s calendar in no time.

Yinglong, seeing that she had nothing else to do, started her daily quests as usual.

There’s nothing much to say about daily quests. They earn some experience and money. Faction quests are also not difficult—inspecting the army at the military camp, repairing equipment, scouting terrain, and talking to the general in charge of warfare. After a round, the experience and reputation gained were surprisingly high.

Yinglong was pleasantly surprised, guessing it was due to her high rank. After all, the higher the level, the more experience is needed, but the quests still give the same amount of experience. Leveling up would be exhausting otherwise.

She started at level 7, so she naturally gained more experience than a level 1 player. She had finally reached level 23 yesterday, and now she’s at 23.45.

Not bad, she can learn light skills now.

The conditions for learning “Gecko Wall-Running” are simple yet demanding: successfully using light skills to climb walls 100 times consecutively.

There were too many new players in Xishi City, easily disrupting her, so Yinglong took a boat to Yueguo and circled the main city. Finally, she found a suitable practice spot in a village in the northeast corner.

There’s a side quest here, but it requires level 25. There are some level 25-28 monsters outside the village, so no one should come here to level up.

The village chief’s wall is over 3 meters high, with no monsters nearby, so it won’t trigger a sudden battle to interrupt her practice. It couldn’t be better.

She hadn’t practiced in a long time, so Yinglong first tried to find her feel.

Climbing a wall requires several steps:

Step 1: Forward W + space (jump) + light skill shortcut, while using the mouse to adjust the view and direction.

Step 2: Hold down space (jump) to enter the second jump mode.

Step 3: During the second jump’s air time (one second), press W to kick off the wall.

Step 4: If the view shifts, immediately adjust the character’s facing, or skip this step if possible.

Step 5: Hold down W (facing the wall) + space to roll and climb over the wall.

This operation is neither difficult nor easy. It only requires coordinating W, space, the light skill key, and the mouse, but one success is vastly different from one hundred consecutive successes.

Yinglong first familiarized herself with her keybindings. She had played Nine Continents for ten years, so she was already very familiar with her keybindings and wasn’t afraid of pressing the wrong keys. However, her muscle memory hadn’t formed yet, so she needed to practice repeatedly to solidify it.

After setting up the keybindings, she started practicing wall-running.

Run, jump, land.

She pressed space too late on the third try.

Try again.

Charge forward, jump, kick off the wall, jump again.

She jumped over the wall and fell from the other side, losing a little health.

The amount of health lost was negligible. Yinglong didn’t even heal herself and continued trying.

Third, fourth, fifth…success.

Once she got the feel of it, it was incredibly monotonous repetition. Gradually, her success rate increased, and she even managed to succeed more than ten times in a row.

Her stamina was depleted, and her character entered a weakened state.

At this point, she couldn’t practice anymore and had to sit on the ground to recover.

Once her stamina bar was full, she continued practicing, but around the 20th try, she suddenly felt an itch in her nose. She tried to hold it in, but she was distracted, her foot slipped, and she didn’t make it over the wall.

All her previous efforts were wasted.

Yinglong sighed and simply put down the mouse to drink some water and relax.

Then, she got hungry.

She glanced at the time and exclaimed inwardly, “Damn!” It was already 3 o’clock. No wonder she was so hungry. One egg pancake and a few small cakes weren’t enough to fill her stomach.

She should go get something to eat first.

Yinglong took her phone and wallet and went to the nearest store to order a chicken chop rice takeaway.

A large box of rice and a large piece of chicken chop were enough to last until evening.

Since her enlightenment was interrupted, she might as well do some of Yueguo’s main quests to level up.

Although she was still the number one in the Yi family school, the hardcore players from other schools had already reached level 23.9. Someone would definitely reach level 24 today.

Level 24 unlocks the prerequisite quests for faction battles. Plus, tomorrow is Saturday, and there are special quests on weekends with a lot of experience, making leveling up extremely fast. The day after tomorrow, there will probably be many people who reach level 25, able to enter the Water Cave nightmare dungeon and participate in faction battles, greatly expanding gameplay options.

Yinglong needed to learn “Gecko Wall-Running” before then to make a big profit.

She did quests while eating until the monsters required for the quest reached level 25. Then, she wiped her mouth and continued her enlightenment endeavor.

1, 2, 3… She silently counted her successful attempts. When she reached 30, a message flashed on the screen.

【Hmm, something seems to have flashed through your mind】

Yinglong knew she had glimpsed the first ray of dawn. Her spirits lifted, and she continued her efforts.

45th attempt, failure.

She couldn’t help but sigh and rub her wrists. The laptop keyboard was small, suitable for small female hands, but the rhythm wasn’t good. Too precise operations inevitably led to mistakes.

Should she buy a mechanical keyboard?

Yinglong opened Meng Pay and saw that the 2,000 yuan from Tiema Qiufeng had been approved. Added to her previous earnings, buying a mechanical keyboard for a hundred or two hundred yuan was enough.

She withdrew the money and ordered a red-axis keyboard on Gou Dong. She put half of the remaining money in her card as living expenses, and the other half… she opened her brokerage software, entered the stock code she had looked up, and bought all of it in stocks.

Don’t put all your eggs in one basket. One hundred million in the game is great, but if she couldn’t get it, the money she earned in Nine Continents could also give her a small taste of financial freedom.

She switched back to the game and continued practicing.

Well… unsurprisingly, she failed again around the 50th attempt.

This was about her threshold. She needed to rest before continuing, otherwise, her focus would easily dissipate, and the frequency of accidents would increase sharply.

Yinglong learned from her experience. After succeeding 30 times, she would sit on the ground to recover her stamina, do laundry, and cut some fruit to relax.

Fifteen minutes later, she returned to continue wall-running.

40, 50, 55… She passed the 50th hurdle. Around the 55th attempt, another message popped up on the screen: 【That feeling appeared again…】

Just as she was about to reach 60 attempts, a large text bubble suddenly appeared.

[Current] Beiya: What are you doing?

Pharmacist Linglong was startled, her foot slipped, and she slid down from the wall.

Yinglong held back, but couldn’t help it. She switched to kill mode and attacked the unwelcome guest.

Although Beiya had some understanding of the game, he had been busy doing dungeons and fighting monsters recently, so his PK skills hadn’t improved much. After dodging a few attacks, he was controlled by her preemptive Drunk Heart Flower and reduced to a sliver of health.

The female doctor in her coarse cloth robes then jumped onto the wall and looked down at him.

Beiya was baffled.

[Current] Beiya: ?

[Current] Pharmacist Linglong: Your text bubble disturbed me.

[Current] Beiya: …

He picked up his phone and called Tiema Qiufeng: “She’s attacking me again.”

Tiema Qiufeng was busy, his keyboard clicking rapidly: “Who is she?”

“Pharmacist.”

“How did you offend her?” Tiema Qiufeng immediately said, “Did you steal her monsters again?”

“I just asked her what she was doing, and she attacked me.” Beiya was puzzled, “Does that count as offending her?”