Qingnü then emerged, and frost and snow descended.
Now, White Dew had already passed…
“Hoo…”
Yi Qingfeng lifted a cup of warm tea and drank it down comfortably in the chill air of his rented room.
He was already thirty. The “fat otaku happy water” he had once gulped down in one go—
Nowadays, he would often drink half a can before tossing it aside.
Instead, brewing a pot of green tea was enough to let him happily sip away for an entire day.
In the small room, the curtains drawn to keep out the glare, only the monitor was playing short videos as accompaniment to his meal…
At noon, he had simply stir-fried a plate of pork with chili peppers.
This was the dish Yi Qingfeng had practiced to his greatest mastery so far.
Perhaps he had reached the age to unlock Cooking.
Yi Qingfeng, who had originally only ever thought of eating out or muddling through a meal in the canteen, had suddenly one day begun to enjoy cooking for himself.
As for takeout?
For a beast of burden truly rooted at the grassroots level of the physical dimension, that was a beautiful vision that could only be satisfied when he returned to the county town on weekends.
After washing the bowls and chopsticks, Yi Qingfeng returned to his room and watched the long pale legs dancing merrily on his computer.
He glanced at the lower right corner of the screen.
13:43…
In a little over an hour, it would be time to go to work in the afternoon.
Barring any accidents, this would be an utterly ordinary day.
Just like the more than two thousand days and nights he had already repeated:
Go to work, get off work, play games, sleep…
If his life had never been subjected to the variable known as “marriage,” and if he had always maintained his passion for games.
Then that, too, would have been a cycle he could gaze down all the way to the end of his life.
For an ordinary person who had no talent that could be displayed before the crowd, this was also a plain yet precious happiness.
Yi Qingfeng was likewise content with that.
Only, at certain times:
Perhaps in the dead of night when all was quiet, or in an instant while gazing up at the starry sky.
Just like many people were born always feeling that some great undertaking or sacred mission was waiting for them.
In this regard, Yi Qingfeng was the same as the final answer of those online psychological tests—part of the overwhelming majority…
Only now, most of the time, this merely served as emotional seasoning for those chuunibyou posts on his Moments when his feelings could not be controlled.
Yi Qingfeng had gradually accepted his own ordinariness.
Just like an aging beast of burden, seeming to have shed the wild animal nature it had once been born with…
Until—fate, in a way he had never expected, suddenly ushered in a torrent of raging waves!
Yi Qingfeng stared into the void before him.
His gaze passed through the dim glow emitted by the computer screen.
In the profound region his eyes could reach, dense lines of text appeared within:
“Connection to the Multiverse Comprehensive Game Network (hereafter referred to as the Comprehensive Network) successful. Reading version information…”
“Current Comprehensive Network version set as: Multiversal Treasure-Hunting Star Map: Bloodbattle’s Chosen.”
Gentle ashes cover the furnace fire,
A mediocre shell wraps the roar.
Tear away the blindfold of numbness,
Sever the shackles of the mundane.
Beneath the scarlet flow,
Gaze forth—
Beyond the universe lies the blueprint of the multiverse!
“Version details are as follows:
1. This version closes direct exchange channels within the native plane;
2. This version closes the attribute enhancement function and opens bloodline enhancement;
3. This version closes life professions and support professions;
4. This version closes non-combat profession multiclassing and profession experience acquisition;
5. Under this version, the character’s Comprehensive Network dungeons will receive treasure-hunting talent enhancement;
6. Under this version, the character’s first dungeon clear and first Abyss difficulty clear will each grant 1 treasure-hunting talent point and unlock a random treasure-hunting star cluster. The character’s basic upper limit for activating treasure-hunting talent galaxies is: Class Level * 1.
Please note: Dungeons already opened will not be affected by subsequent changes to treasure-hunting talents.
7. Under this version, the character’s class is locked as Paladin [Crimson Slaughter].
”
“
Player personal information is as follows:
Name: Yi Qingfeng
Class: Paladin [Crimson Slaughter] (lv1). This class has been locked, and its minimum level cannot be lower than level 1.
Lineage: Eastern Ancient Transcendent Civilization Sequence
Faction: Old Gods
Faith: Primordial Slaughter (multiversal concept of slaughter)
Health: 100% (Health determines the character’s condition and endurance. When health falls below 10%, the character will become weak and powerless; when health falls below 5%, the character will go into shock; when health falls below 0%, the character will die.)
Combat Divine Power: 5/5 (You cannot restore this powerful heterogeneous divine-art resource through conventional means. After you enter combat, you gain 1 point/s of divine power recovery.)
Strength: 12 (Strength determines the character’s muscles and physical robustness.)
Agility: 10 (Agility determines the character’s reaction speed, flexibility, hand-eye coordination, and balance.)
Constitution: 12 (Constitution determines the character’s health and resistance to blows.)
Intelligence: 10 (Intelligence determines the character’s ability to learn and reason.)
Charisma: 9 (Charisma determines the character’s presence, persuasiveness, personal appeal, leadership ability, and physical attractiveness.)
Perception: 12 (Perception determines the character’s willpower, common-sense judgment, sensory acuity, and intuition.)
Class Traits:
1. Blood-Red Sublimation:
When the character kills 8 elite monsters, they will gain 1 new class divine art;
When the character kills 8 leader monsters above level 5, they may undergo one bloodline advancement;
Please note: Each time this class trait is triggered, the related requirements will increase substantially.
2. Cruel Elevation:
Paladins who believe in Primordial Slaughter can acquire class-restricted bloodline templates from rare elites and leader units they kill.
Every natural day, a Paladin who believes in Primordial Slaughter may select from the class-restricted bloodline templates already acquired to load or switch bloodline templates.
A Paladin who believes in Primordial Slaughter gains a new bloodline template load limit every five levels.
Class Divine Art:
Bloodbattle:
Divine Art Type: Restricted class basic divine art
Cost: 1 point of Combat Divine Power
Effect: The character enters a berserk-like state, gaining additional attack enhancement equal to Paladin Level * 1. Attack speed and casting speed are greatly increased, evasion-type effects are nullified, and killing enemies grants additional divine power recovery.
”
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Looking at the lengthy text that had appeared on his retina—text that, after he had started working, he would have found it difficult to patiently read word by word—
At this moment, Yi Qingfeng was like a child opening a comic book for the first time.
In the morning, he had discovered these words and truly sensed the drastic changes that had taken place in his body.
He clocked in at work as usual.
Until this moment…
The glasses set aside on the computer desk had not deprived the world before his eyes of its clarity.
And that strange power surging beneath his flesh was certainly no fleeting, vague illusion.
And all of this seemed to have begun simply because he had accidentally scrolled to a post last night and left a reply on it…
A wild, almost mad burst of laughter?
Yi Qingfeng merely took out his phone and posted a seemingly meaningless update on his Moments—Converge!
And at this moment, it was already 14:33…
Yi Qingfeng rose to his feet.
There was still half an hour…
The resignation letter written by AI had already been sent to his phone.
After discovering that life was about to open in an entirely different way, he would never drag his feet…