Intelligence (Spell Damage): The smarter you are, the better you can practice your skills, causing various internal injuries.

Yuan Qi (Spell Defense): Related to internal skills, sufficient Yuan Qi increases mana, and you can withstand more internal injuries.

There are also several other values, such as endurance, toughness, composure, critical strike, additional damage, etc., which will not be discussed in detail for now.

Intelligence increased by 5%, which means that under the same equipment and level, the power of using skills is increased by one level.

How much it is increased depends on the skill formula, which will not be discussed for now. In short, the higher the level, the more intelligence you accumulate, the more obvious the bonus.

Absolutely divine.

Yinglong immediately equipped it in the character bar and chose to hide the title.

But the character can hide information, the system announcement won’t.

[System] “Think then be wise, wisdom makes one a sage”, [Rule the World]’s Pharmacist Linglong became the first player in the whole server to complete the “Nine Provinces Baixiaosheng Test”, her wisdom is amazing!

There are two types of game announcements, one is server announcement, the other is whole server announcement, both will be released by the system on the player’s information page, system messages cannot be blocked, all players can see it at the first time, so it is also called “going on TV”.

Less than an hour after the server opened, the player’s information window was all about sect, region, and current messages, the whole server announcement was the first one.

The region was instantly lively.

[Region] Can’t Come Up With a Name: Where is the Baixiaosheng task?

[Region] Most Handsome in the World: Woah, the first announcement, beta tester?

[Region] Eight Treasure Congee: What do I do if I’m out of horse talismans?

[Sect] Hua Tuo in the World: Pharmacist is from our sect, I just saw her, she’s a monster at killing.

[Sect] Autumn Moon: What channel is this?

…

A small discussion, no big waves, this is normal, old players may always pay attention to the system, new players can’t even figure out the interface, who would care?

Yinglong didn’t pay much attention either, the experience bar flashed, reminding her that she could level up.

Press the level up key, the character glowed.

Once, twice, thrice… she leveled up from level 7 to level 15.

Amazing experience bar!

This is the real reason why she stayed in the sect and brushed questions.

The first time you complete 100 questions, Baixiaosheng will give you very generous experience, and for the same amount of experience, the lower the level, the more levels you can gain.

Especially the first 20 levels of Nine Provinces have a lot of water, the average level up time is 5 hours, it’s like riding a rocket.

This setting was widely criticized in the early stages, many old players felt that leveling up was too childish, but the official explanation was very interesting.

The first 20 levels are the first 20 years of a player’s life, from joining the sect to studying, to leaving the sect and venturing into the world, 20 years of life are experienced at a fast pace, so it’s so fast. After level 20, it’s normal speed, every level up requires hard work.

Yinglong accepted this explanation, as the saying goes, twenty years old is the age of adulthood, in ancient times, men were not adults until they were twenty years old, so this setting makes sense.

But even if it’s five hours, you can’t miss the chance to get ahead, not to mention, the higher the level, the faster you can do tasks, one step ahead is always better.

Open the bag interface, right-click on the 168 gift box.

She unpacked two items, one called “Quiet Girl” fashion and a “Little Donkey” mount.

The moving speed of an ordinary horse is 100, the little donkey is 80, although it’s slower, it’s unlimited. Ordinary families can’t afford horses, riding a donkey is more realistic, it’s good that they didn’t give a cow, after all, in feudal society, ox carts were more common than mules and donkeys, they could both plow fields and be used as vehicles.

…Off topic.

Yinglong made the little doctor ride the little donkey, “de de de” and set off for Xishi City.

The first version of “Nine Provinces” has multiple principalities, the Northern Kingdom of Yan Zhao, the Western Kingdom of Qin, the Southern Kingdom of Chu, the Southeastern Kingdom of Wu Yue, and also Qi and Wei, as well as the Heavenly Son City where the Zhou Dynasty king is located. Xishi City is the capital of the Wu Kingdom.

Leaving the sect and entering Nine Provinces means that players are involved in the struggle between the principalities, the main storyline officially begins.

The first small section of the plot is like this: Wu Yue is at war recently, but the King of Wu’s concubine is seriously ill, the king is anxious and distraught, he ignores state affairs and stays with his concubine every day, demanding that the medical clinic immediately develop a medicine to cure the illness.

Yinglong doesn’t know if there is such a king, why players can’t rebel, but the task is like this, she can only run errands.

She is a disciple of the Medical School, she runs to the Xishi City Post Station in a few minutes, activates the teleportation and continues to deliver the letter to the senior sister.

The senior sister is the head of the medical clinic, she is responsible for treating the King of Wu’s concubine.

She released a new main storyline.

[Senior Sister]: The beauty’s illness is called Homesickness, it requires the Immaculate Water from the edge of the creek, the Heart-wrenching Grass from the deep forest, and a cuckoo’s heart to cure it.

Don’t think this is just a matter of running three errands.

Go to the creek, you will find that the Upper River Village and the Lower River Village are fighting over the water source for irrigation, if you dare to take water, they will beat you up.

Go to the forest, you will find a big python guarding the forest, the herbs have been swallowed by it, you have to defeat it to get them.

Find the cuckoo, well, the cuckoo can fly, you have to wait for it.

Three side quests, each letting players familiarize themselves with the three modes of the task.

Communicate with NPCs (non-player characters), different choices lead to different results.

Fight monsters and collect, learn to fight wild monsters.

Learn to look at the details of the task panel, know the function of coordinates.

And after completing these three tasks, players will basically understand the basic gameplay of the game, the experience bar can also be upgraded to level 20, the sect senior brother and senior sister will say that you are still a bit capable, you can go out into the world.

Yinglong cleared the “Homesickness” task as quickly as possible.

The first one to complete was finding the cuckoo, NPCs and props need to refresh, for this kind of finding task, the earlier you start looking, the more advantageous it is, later you will only be waiting.

Although she doesn’t remember the task process, as long as she holds down the right mouse button and rotates the view, she can see the birds in the sky, nine out of ten of the birds currently flying are cuckoos.

Newbie tasks won’t have particularly difficult content, stand at the entrance of the post station and observe for a while, you can see the cuckoo flying east, disappearing into a house.

To enter the house, you need to talk to the little boy at the door, buy him a candied hawthorn (this teaches players how to buy things from NPCs), give it to him, enter the house, select the cuckoo on the branch, and use a skill to hit it.

Pick up the cuckoo, turn around and do the first task.

Yinglong selected the villagers, their levels are all 15, while the players are only around level 11 or 12, every few seconds you can hear a “ah—” sound, and the model falls to the ground.

There are corpses everywhere, it’s really tragic, but this is exactly the reality of ancient times when people were fighting over water sources.

Many, many people died, and the hatred grew deeper.

If players attack the villagers of Upper River Village, they will get two favorability values: “Upper River Village Hatred” and “Lower River Village Friendly”, attacking Lower River Village will be the opposite, the degree of hatred and friendliness affects the player’s activity range in the two areas.

The hated side will become red-named, the friendly side will be green-named.

Red-named players will actively attack players, green-named players will not, and players cannot attack them either. There is also a yellow-named, which is neutral, they won’t actively attack players, only if you hit them, they will hit you back and become red-named.

Yinglong did not attack any of the villagers, so all the villagers in her field of vision were yellow neutral.

She bypassed the villagers, didn’t follow the map’s instructions like other players (for this kind of finding task, the game will give a small map, marking the collection location), instead she went to the downstream where there was no one, and jumped directly into the water.

The character’s stamina began to drop.

This brings us to the three values of the character.

Yinglong’s panel is like this:

[Medical School] Pharmacist Linglong – Lv17

Health: 160

Mana: 80

Stamina: 30

Health is the same as HP, represented by a red blood bar, when it reaches zero, you die. Mana is the blue bar, it is consumed when releasing skills.

Stamina affects the character’s speed, if it drops to 0, you will become weak, unable to move or cast skills.

If players run all the way here, their stamina will drop by at least half. Pharmacist Linglong came here riding a little donkey, it’s full.

And when she jumped into the water, her stamina was dropping little by little.

29, 18, 7… when it dropped to 5, she held down the space bar to make the character surface for air, recovering 1-2 points.

Continue diving.

After repeating this twice, she reached the map’s designated spot and saw the clear spring at the bottom of the river.

Select it, successfully draw water.

Return the same way.

This way is a bit time-consuming, but there is no hatred or friendliness, so it won’t trigger the side quests of the two villages, and you can skip a lot of plot.

Finally, go to the forest on the outskirts to find herbs.

This is where the advantage of the little donkey comes in, other people are panting and running on foot, their stamina reaches zero and they have to sit on the floor to rest for a while, the little donkey “de de de” runs to the edge of the forest, no need to pause.

A large group of players are brushing small snakes at the entrance, these are all the disciples and descendants of the big python, they drop some snake skin, snake gall, which can be sold to NPCs in exchange for copper coins, and then get a map from the snake catcher.

Yinglong is high level, she killed the small snakes with a few knives, quickly ran to the snake catcher’s location.

There was already a long queue there, dense character models blocked the NPC tightly.

“Nine Provinces” cannot overlap characters in non-shielded mode, she brought up the system settings and shielded all the players, then she successfully selected the character and triggered the dialogue.

After a series of hard labor in the backyard, such as chopping wood, drawing water, collecting vines, repairing the roof, Yinglong finally got the corresponding coordinates from the snake catcher.

But she didn’t leave in a hurry, she first sold the scraps she got from killing the small snakes, bought a wrist guard from the snake catcher’s wife, it’s also a white equipment, but it has a characteristic – resist snake venom +30%.

The reason for this reward is that the big python is set as a wild map boss, it’s very powerful.

However, the snake catcher won’t tell you directly, players need to learn it through dialogue with NPCs, for example, the snake catcher’s mother will say “My wife’s work is not finished, you are not allowed to go up the mountain tomorrow”, you can learn that his wife has been weaving equipment, try to talk to her to trigger it.

Yinglong doesn’t remember the mechanism of the big python, but she still remembers the pain she suffered ten years ago.

Putting on the wrist guard, she controlled Pharmacist Linglong to sneak into the forest, squatting in the grass and patiently observing.

Some players came to fight the monster immediately, at this time, there were many characters around the red-named big python, a soldier named [Iron Horse Autumn Wind] was holding a broken old saber, trying to kill the boss, but he was basically being chased by the monster, he was careless and lost half his blood.

Seven or eight characters were circling around the python, constantly attacking, but the python’s locked hatred target was still [Iron Horse Autumn Wind].

Hmm, the output is so low, the hatred is so stable, it seems to be fixed on the first player to attack.

Then there’s no need to grab it, let’s watch first.

[Current] Iron Horse Autumn Wind: Is there any healer, heal me, heal me!

[Current] Iron Horse Autumn Wind: Grass!

He died, his body collapsed in a pool of blood.

The big python’s locked target became a Mohist disciple named [Just Came Here], he set a trap and ran away. The python’s movements were a little slow, but it was in hot pursuit, 3 seconds later, it sent him to the west with one bite.

Then it started to beat another unlucky guy.