Immortal Dao Fruits, Cards to Help Me

Chapter 29 Game Update, Talent Attributes

After Chen Xiuxian fell asleep, he logged back into the forum and saw the designated title, and suddenly realized—the game had a major version update!
The previous version was 1.0, which mainly consisted of martial arts scenes.

Although there are spirits and monsters, and some are lucky enough to become disciples and learn magic, very few actually learn the cultivation techniques for immortality.

But things are different after the update to version 2.0!

According to the official post, it's called "The Great Calamity of Heaven and Earth"!
According to the game's setting, all living beings here are divided into seven ranks, from 1 to 7.

Tier 1 is a mortal, Tier 7 is a deity.

The specific divisions are quite detailed; even within the 7th rank, there are terms like Loose Immortal, Earth Immortal, and Ghost God.

Both wandering immortals and earth immortals are immortals, but the difference is that although they have both cultivated to become immortals, wandering immortals are still slightly inferior.

They may not be able to say who is better in terms of combat strength, but they are very different in terms of calamities.

The Loose Immortal has the Four-Nine Heavenly Tribulation—a tribulation of thunder, fire, wind, and demons that occurs once every 490 years.

Of course, one can also continue to cultivate (do good deeds) and become a celestial being to ascend to the upper realm.

Earthly immortals are also called residing earthly immortals.

The Earth Immortal Tribulation is also known as the Great Tribulation of a Thousand Years!
Birth, aging, sickness, and death are the natural cycle; your cultivation to become immortal is against the will of Heaven.

Earthly immortals seize the creations of heaven and earth, and encroach upon the mysteries of the sun and moon, seeking longevity and immortality, but the Way of Heaven cannot tolerate you.

Therefore, every 1300 years, a great calamity (or "final calamity") descends upon the world, forcing you to ascend!

If you can't overcome it, you'll be reduced to ashes, without even a chance to be reincarnated.

Unlike the Forty-Nine Heavenly Tribulation of the Loose Immortals, which is a personal tribulation, this thousand-three great tribulation is called the Great Tribulation of Heaven and Earth because it affects everyone!
It is often a calamity that Taoists, Buddhists, demons, and unorthodox sects must all go through together.

If you can't get through it, you'll be reduced to ashes; if you do get through it once, you can enjoy 1300 years of freedom, or strive to ascend to the upper realm within those 1300 years.

Therefore, some people estimate that they will not be able to survive the three great tribulations, so they often perish prematurely and are reincarnated to cultivate again.

Now, the game has been updated to version 2.0, "The Great Calamity of Heaven and Earth".

The great calamity of heaven and earth is about to arrive, so the hidden immortal sects have begun to open their doors wide and accept disciples.

Players on the forums jokingly call this taking on an apprentice to avert disaster.
—A great calamity will bring a calamity that requires enough lives to be lost to eliminate.

The death of one Earth Immortal is naturally equivalent to the death of tens of thousands of ordinary people, but if several hundred cultivators were to die, it wouldn't be impossible for them to be equivalent to the death of one Earth Immortal.
The players on the forum were all excited and eager to fight, because this cultivation sect had begun to recruit disciples, and a war between good and evil was very likely to break out!

A great calamity of heaven and earth~
Kill them!
Chen Xiuxian felt his stomach churn when he saw this.

You guys are having a blast, but I'm afraid I'm really about to face a tribulation!

As for the "entry card", Chen Xiuxian also found some information.

Version 2.0 includes new features that allow you to upgrade your talent attributes and add many attributes to monsters, NPCs, and equipment.

Come to think of it, they've already started cultivating immortality, so their talent needs to be improved to keep up.

Even this broken card I have is useless!
Using it instantly transforms you into a mouse, which then begins to crawl in the shadows.
……

The next morning, Chen Xiuxian and Lao Niu had a hearty meal.

The saying goes, "You should eat a hearty breakfast"—I made do last night, so I need to eat something good this time.

Take out the roast chicken and braised beef, and enjoy!
Old Niu liked this about Chen Xiuxian; he never shortchanged himself.

He doesn't care about money or anything like that; he doesn't take many things to heart.

If an ordinary capable and righteous person were to take on this task, even if it involved killing rat people, they would absolutely make all sorts of preparations.

However, Chen Xiuxian possessed an indescribable "freedom," a kind of "carefree" attitude that seemed to disregard life and death.
That morning, Chen Xiuxian and Lao Niu killed about fifty or sixty rat-men.

Moreover, it was obvious that last night's killings had alerted the ratmen, so after only four or five were killed today, a large number of ratmen arrived.

Chen Xiuxian and Lao Niu blocked the entrance to the cave and fought the rat people until the sun was high in the sky, leaving the ground covered in blood.

The ratmen abandoned forty or fifty corpses and fled in disarray.

There were also two tunnel keeper and one ratman shaman among them.

This ratman shaman wore a tattered robe and leaned on a bone staff made of some unknown spine, from which hung many small stones and bones with a clattering sound.

This creature looked very old; its fur was bald in patches, its beard was white, and one ear was missing for some unknown reason. This ratman shaman could use several spells, such as Shadow Armor, Swarm of Rats Devouring People, Bone Crushing, Skinning, and Poison Smoke.

Especially that skinning technique; when it's applied to the body, the skin dries and cracks, revealing fresh, tender flesh. Those pictures are absolutely horrifying!

Chen Xiuxian had already seen the solutions on the forum.

However, he felt he had an even more convenient option...

Chen Xiuxian: What are you babbling about? Go talk to my Thunderfire Bomb!

With a loud "boom," several pieces of rock fell from the entrance of the mine.

The ratman shaman was completely annihilated, his body scattered and beyond repair.

"Ding~ You have killed a level 13 ratman shaman named One-Ear, and you have gained 422 experience points."

At this point, the remaining ratmen finally broke down.

"Ding~ You have completed the mission [Clear the Ratman Mine (Green)], and you have gained 350 experience points and the treasure [Dreamy Immortal Pillow (Green)].

Once you get to this point, it's basically over.

These ratmen can no longer stay and occupy the mine; that's enough to settle things.

After cleaning up the battlefield, Chen Xiuxian gained 8 white cards, 3 green cards, and 1 blue card.

Gambler Ma Si'er also carried a wooden box out of the mine; it was part of the ratman shaman's collection.

[Rat (White)] x4, [Hematite Ore (White)] x3, [Hematite Ingot (White)] x2, [Unidentified Roasted Meat (White)] x2, [Leather Boots (White)], [Leather Wristbands (White)], [Ratman Pickaxe (White)]...

I won't talk about the entry card [Rat (White)], I'll keep it for now and see if it's useful later.

Hematite and hematite ingots can be sold, but the roast meat—who knows what kind of meat it is, throw it away! I'll keep the boots, give the wristbands to Old Niu, and the pickaxe…

The card includes the following: [Shadow Creeper (Green)], [Theft (Green)], [Spell [Smallpox Spell (Green)], and [Skaven Shaman's One-Eared Iron Key].

Put the vocabulary card aside for now; this skill card is quite interesting!

Chen Xiuxian had previously obtained a [Slaughter (White)] card from the butcher Chen Daguanren, but he thought it was useless and had been keeping it.

But this green-quality Tier 2 skill, Steal, is amazing!
What's that saying again? Players stealing doesn't count as stealing.
As for the spell card, this spell is rather vicious!
It sprays out a deep red poisonous mist that spreads rapidly, causing those affected to develop boils the size of a finger all over their bodies, which then break open and ooze pus, causing extreme pain!

Damn! Chen Xiuxian was now glad that he had blown that one-eared creature to death in the first place, otherwise he would have been in real trouble!
The last item card was an iron key, which was what Chen Xiuxian valued most.

This isn't the key to that wooden box; after all, once you have the box, you don't need a key anymore.

The box contained rare associated minerals of hematite, such as cold iron.

It has some value, but not much.

This key is the key to unlocking a cage, and it's something Chen Xiuxian felt he absolutely couldn't miss after reading so many posts on the forum!
The last card:

[Shadowed Bell (Blue)]

Tier 3 Equipment Card
+3 Dexterity
+3 Perception
Shadow Stealth: Equip it and you will be invisible in the shadows, and your movements will be silent.

Review: Ideal for petty theft, an upgraded version of nighttime attire~
The so-called "one-bell" is not a bell at all, but a type of cloak!
In ancient times, long robes without slits were called "one-mouth bells" because their shape was narrow at the top and wide at the bottom.

Also known as "lotus seed coat" or "one-wrap round".

The outer garment worn on the body is used to protect against the wind and cold.

The shorter version was once called a "pei," while the longer version was called a "cloak."

This cloak has amazing properties!

The problem is that you can't wear it in broad daylight—wearing a black hooded cloak in broad daylight would be a bit of an admission of guilt!

Unexpectedly, the level 12 Tunnel Maker dropped a blue item for me!
This is already a huge hit!
Oh, and there's also the [Yellow Millet Dream Pillow (Green)], which is a random reward from the quest!

Just as Chen Xiuxian was about to take out the card to see what it was for, the card suddenly disappeared!
Huh?! Where's my card?

At this moment, a system message arrived:

"Ding~ Special item obtained, system upgrade in progress..."

Huh?! You updated too?
(End of this chapter)