I conquered the cultivation world with scrambled eggs with tomatoes.

"In the witch's curse, the king and queen of the country had a daughter, but because a witch was missed during the invitation, the princess was cursed by the witch..."

Cui Yingying thought about the first background information in Jiang He's strategy guide: the witch's curse was:

"The little princess will be hit by a spindle when she is fifteen years old, and eventually die."

Cui Yingying had always had a strange sense of fear about this story.

She remembered the last time she entered this instance, she was pricked by a spindle as soon as she entered, and then the instance ended immediately.

Now she opened her eyes and was indeed wearing a princess's dress.

If nothing unexpected happens, an old woman will appear and lure her to touch the spindle, then she will fall asleep.

Before Cui Yingying saw the strategy guide, she had no idea about the story of this dungeon.

After reading the guide, Cui Yingying had a clear story background in her mind.

In strategy guides, "The Witch's Curse" is also known as "Sleeping Beauty".

If she were to fall asleep after pricking her finger at the beginning, she would become an outsider and have to wait for someone else to rescue her. However, the problem is that this is not a team-based dungeon, so if she falls asleep, it would be equivalent to failing the dungeon.

The speedrun guide suggests killing the old woman who appears in the dungeon, then escaping the palace to find other witches for help.

The trick to clearing the dungeon is to find and kill the cursed witch, which will end the dungeon.

With the guide, Cui Yingying's thoughts became much clearer.

When the wrinkled old man appeared, Cui Yingying did not hesitate and attacked with her spirit sword.

……

——Seventh Floor——

"One of the rules of the Ghost Bride is that we can't talk; we communicate on the channel."

Jiang He only re-entered the instance after reviewing the previous events.

Fortunately, the dungeon that Jiang He and his group of five entered this time was "The Ghost Bride," which was randomly generated.

At the start of the "Ghost Bride" instance, upside-down decapitated ghosts will pass by; these decapitated ghosts are considered the Ghost Bride's henchmen.

The dungeon was alright for Jiang He; it had a Chinese horror atmosphere, but she could still accept it.

For cultivators who haven't seen many of these bizarre dungeons, it's going to be tough.

The ruling class and part of the culture of the Empire of All Spirits extended into the feudal era.

Therefore, this kind of deeply ingrained Chinese horror opening will deter a group of people.

When you encounter these headless ghosts, you must not make a sound or draw your sword, otherwise, if the ghost bride discovers you, everyone will be doomed.

Jiang He had almost fully grasped the rules; all that was left was to verify them.

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Jiang He: Let's explore the plot first, and we must remain silent no matter what strange events we encounter.

As the five players ventured deeper into the dungeon, the storyline became increasingly clear.

The "Ghost Bride" storyline takes place in an era of feudal ethics, where parents arrange marriages and the "ghost bride" is married off to a mentally challenged man she has never met.

It was called a marriage, but it was more like being sold.

When the "ghost bride" got married, her family received a large sum of money.

In this story, the "ghost bride's" mentally challenged husband dies on their wedding day, and the "ghost bride" is forced to die in order to facilitate the ghost marriage.

Because the "ghost bride" harbored too much resentment, she became a vengeful ghost, hence the title "ghost bride".

Jiang He pierced the "Ghost Bride's" heart with a single sword strike. As her soul dissipated, a heart-wrenching scream erupted into the air:

"You damned Taoist priest, I'll haunt you even if I become a demon!"

"The 'Ghost Bride' instance is complete. The seventh floor has been successfully cleared. The results are being tallied..."

Zhong Liyu left the dungeon and returned outside the Sword Tower. The mournful female voice still faintly echoed in his mind, and the more he thought about it, the more panicked he became.

"I was so scared, I can finally talk."

"After a ghost dies, it becomes a 'Nie' (聻), right?" Li Ling kept patting his chest, clearly quite frightened.

Zhong Liyu: "That's a bit strange. It's one thing for me to be frightened, but how could a demonic cultivator like you be frightened?"

Li Ling rolled her eyes: "I am a demonic cultivator, that's true, but not an irredeemable one. We demonic cultivators are also afraid of vengeful ghosts, okay? That's scary enough."

Seeing that Zhong Liyu and Li Ling were about to start arguing again, Long Aotian immediately became a human wall and stood between the two.

Jiang He and Bai Zhizhou squatted on the ground.

One person recorded the walkthrough tips, and the other drew the diagrams.

With Bai Zhizhou's help, the two of them finished the entire dungeon walkthrough in less than five minutes.

"The 'Ghost Bride' dungeon should have a perfect ending, such as helping her eliminate her resentment. But in terms of speedrunning, killing the Ghost Bride is the fastest way to complete it."

Jiang He thought about this instance. As expected of an instance jointly created by universities, it was impeccable in terms of logic and the realism of the scene.

It took Jiang He and his group of five an hour to clear the dungeon, and that was only because they worked together in a coordinated way.

With time running out, Jiang He dragged Bai Zhizhou and the others into the dungeon several more times. There were only seven types of dungeons on the seventh floor. The good news was that dungeons that the five of them had cleared would not be refreshed, but would become selectable modes.

In other words, if you don't actively choose to rerun the "Ghost Bride" dungeon, the subsequent dungeons will randomly refresh with other dungeons.

There are seven dungeons in total. Jiang He has completed one by herself, and she has run the "Ghost Bride" dungeon once. There are five dungeons left.

It took Jiang He about five hours to finish clearing all the levels. Three days had passed since Jiang He started clearing the first level of the Sword Tower.

Zhong Liyu and Li Ling each leaned against the door frame of the Trial Tower, looking exactly like they had been drained of their life force.

Jiang He is similar.

Today, thanks to Jiang He's strategy post and the upcoming academy competition, there are an unusually large number of people spending time in the Trial Tower.

Of course, there were also many cultivators waiting to be matched in the lobby.

Five people

These cultivators couldn't help but look at Jiang He and the others.

There was no other reason than the overwhelming sense of impending death that clung to the five of them.

You'd think these five people were going to engage in some kind of group sex.

Jiang He, in particular, has such thick dark circles under her eyes that she could cosplay some kind of cute black and white creature.

After the five people left the trial tower, Jiang He gave each of them several pills in a mustard seed pouch:

"Let me make up for it. Thank you all for today."

Zhong Liyu hurriedly accepted the mustard seed pouch, opened it, and found it full of various pills. Looking at the reward Jiang He had given him, his back and legs no longer ached.

"Haha, you're too kind. Call me next time you need help, I'm always happy to help others."

Li Ling held the pill with a beaming smile. Because he was in such a good mood, he didn't argue with Zhong Liyu this time, which was quite unusual.

Bai Zhizhou tucked the mustard seed pouch inside his robe, then opened his personal terminal and sent the recorded map of the dungeon to Jiang He:

"Do you need help with the strategy guide?"

"Almost done, thank you."

Zhong Liyu had just finished counting the pills when she looked up and found the two of them having an encrypted conversation:

What strategy guide?

"nothing."