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However, the good days suddenly ended. The emergence of the Platinum Civilization revealed the whole truth. Bai Xing's smugness and ambition were shattered in an instant. It turned out that what he called destiny was nothing more than a tool of another civilization.

Just like back then, he was knocked down into the mud again, only this time the fall was even greater, as he had fallen from a lowly rank to the bottom.

Fortunately, Bai Xing had been a "dog" for many people before and had a lot of experience in being a dog. Although she was a little uncomfortable at first, her core nature was still there, and she quickly regained that feeling of being obsequious.

After joining the Platinum People, he negotiated with them for half a year before finally reaching an agreement, handing over all the cultural heritage of Blue Star to them. As a "reward," he was given the surname Bai and renamed Bai Xing.

However, the Platinum Clan are notorious for their sycophancy. They fawn over those stronger than themselves, while completely disregarding those weaker, treating them as if they were not intelligent beings. How could Bai Xing, a mere Iron-level Blue Star inhabitant, a player heavily reliant on resources, possibly be taken seriously by the Platinum Clan?

As a result, Shirahoshi's treatment has been poor over the years. After receiving the benefits, the Platinum Man casually gave him some items that Shirahoshi considered valuable, but were actually not precious at all.

When Bai Xing first arrived with the Platinum People, they treated him with great respect, leading him to mistakenly believe he was very important to them, and he even became arrogant. When signing the contract, he failed to carefully examine the traps within, ultimately suffering a great loss. Having lost their civilized foundation, the Platinum People couldn't even be bothered to pretend anymore. Bai Xing's life was worse than that of a stray dog.

The contract between Bai Xing and the Platinum Man was riddled with loopholes and traps. The so-called "subsidies" actually had many restrictions that Bai Xing couldn't understand at all. Only after signing and requesting resources did she discover so many restrictions.

Just when things were getting worse, misfortune struck again. Devastating news came from the Blue Star civilization—Lin Feng was dead, and he had been tricked into dying.

Yes, over the years, Bai Xing has maintained contact with the conglomerate he controls. On one hand, he wants to use this conglomerate to leech off Blue Star; the better Blue Star develops, the higher the quality of the blood he leeches will become. On the other hand, he is a supreme being in front of the conglomerate. Whenever he suffers grievances from the Platinum people, he summons the conglomerate's high-ranking members and arbitrarily insults them to relieve his stress.

If I can't bully the Platinum Lord, and if I can't even bully the Earthlings, then my betrayal was for nothing.

The slave conglomerate he established was composed of major capitalists from Blue Star, possessing both foresight and shrewdness. They seized the opportunity presented by the establishment of the Blue Star government, providing a large amount of resources and securing a certain degree of power in Blue Star City. They were the main financial contributors to the early planting of world fragments and ritual materials for the Great Serpent Lord. Later, they used their power, under the guise of religious culture, to establish several autonomous regions in Blue Star City and even monopolize a portion of the food supply.

After the Lin Feng incident, the high-ranking members of the conglomerate were terrified. The united government had made it clear that it would hold the four traitors accountable. Their lives were tied to Bai Xing's; if Bai Xing died, their wealth and status would vanish.

So they sent all the detailed internal information to Bai Xing overnight.

Bai Xing received the thick stack of proposals and was drenched in sweat, his hands and feet trembling as he read. The document contained over two million words, nearly ten thousand pages, and was shockingly detailed. It covered everything from Lin Feng's personal experiences, emotional history, and psychological analysis to his various skills, the origins of his equipment, solutions, and specific plans—it was comprehensive.

As one of the four beasts of Blue Star, Bai Xing knew very well that he would be purged sooner or later. Upon seeing this information, he was so terrified his heart nearly stopped.

What horrified him even more was that these plans were increasingly outrageous. Some involved finding Lin Feng's blood relatives to create a bloodline curse, resurrecting Lin Feng's parents and manipulating them to kill Lin Feng—meaning Lin Feng would either kill his entire family or be killed by them, a truly devastating blow; others suggested using the Goddess of Beauty's gadgets to reverse Lin Feng's gender, releasing tentacle monsters when his body and soul were mismatched… In the end, this particularly absurd plan was even discussed by a team of experts, and its feasibility was surprisingly high.

Bai Xing held the document as if he were examining the depths of humanity's depravity. This also made him realize just how determined the Blue Star people were to kill them.

Then, Bai Xing began to think: Lin Feng is dead, who's next? Me? Luo Ping'an? Tang Sheng?

He felt like he was playing Russian roulette, and he didn't know when the shooting would start.

Students who have been executed know that the time spent waiting for the execution is the most difficult.

After much thought, Bai Xing realized that she couldn't just sit and wait for her fate; she had to take initiative.

So, how do we leverage this?

His first thought was to increase his own strength. This was the most orthodox solution. As long as he was strong enough, no schemes or tricks would be a problem. Many of Lin Feng's weaknesses and countermeasures would be easily resolved if his strength reached the Gold level.

As a player who prioritizes stat allocation, Bai Xing's leveling speed is already quite fast. He decided to take advantage of this and level up to Gold rank as soon as possible. Only in this way could he gain the upper hand in this life-or-death struggle.

So, Shirahoshi began a frenzied hunt of monsters, accumulating experience points. He no longer relied on the Platinum Man's "charity," but focused on improving his strength. He knew that only by becoming stronger could he survive this brutal revenge.

However, Shirahoshi's plan did not go as smoothly as he had imagined. He was stuck at the Gold-level breakthrough mission and could not go any further.

The essence of a stat-based player is to mold themselves into a superior template by forcing a compromise. Reaching the Gold rank is an extremely important threshold, much like a cultivator achieving the Three Flowers Gathering at the Top—a task of immense difficulty. The growth curve for stat-based players typically involves rapid advancement to gain combat power to survive, then stagnating at the Gold rank, where they begin to address their weaknesses, upgrade skill levels, and master their class's combat combos.

The Gold-level job advancement quest involves mimicking a combat experience of the job's creator. Completing this quest not only advances you to Gold level but also allows you to better control the job. This quest is essentially a "pilgrimage"—by replicating the experience of a deity, you align your essence with that deity, thus achieving transcendence. Only through this transcendence can players break through the Gold level barrier; it's a somewhat opportunistic method.

Shirahoshi's class is "Shadow Monarch," an assassin class that also has summoning abilities. His Gold-level breakthrough quest is to recreate a battle from the Shadow Monarch's past—fighting a group of over 200 Silver-level monsters and assassinating their leader. This is already a weakened version of the quest; the original Shadow Monarch fought against 400 monsters, including 4 Gold-level monsters.

Bai Xing had tried four times over the years, each time suffering a crushing defeat and ultimately only able to escape using his skills, while his accumulated Shadow Legion also suffered heavy losses. He spent a fortune hiring a Platinum-level player with a skill-based build to guide him, only to be verbally abused relentlessly.

"What's your DPS (damage per second)? What's your armor penetration threshold? Are your buffs diluted? How much rotation do they have? What's your skill multiplier? Have you calculated the benefits of various attributes? What role do the Shadow Legion you absorbed play in your system? You don't understand any of this? What the hell are you doing?!" the Platinum player criticized bluntly.

Bai Xing suddenly got angry: "Don't give me this nonsense, just tell me how to fix it!"

As a result, the player gave him a look of utter disappointment and coldly said, "I'll refund 50% of your money, but I'm not teaching you anymore. Your brain is too small; it can only hold killing and pleasure, not math." With that, he grumbled and walked away, muttering, "What an idiot! Such a detailed data panel is right in front of you, and you can't even do the math! How are you going to improve!"

This completely broke Bai Xing. He dropped out of school and joined the underworld because he didn't want to learn these letters, symbols, and math. But now that he's in the supernatural world, he actually has to learn math and draw functions, which makes him feel like his decision to drop out was completely wasted.

"If I really had the ability to learn, why the hell would I have dropped out of school to join the underworld? Wouldn't I have made even more money by taking the route of a highly educated intellectual and engaging in corruption within the corporation?" Bai Xing thought indignantly.