Cultivating Through The Game-Chapter 511 - 298: Slightly Famous

Wei Yinglong's voice reached them, and Lu Yu's hand, which was just about to be lowered, trembled slightly and halted mid-air. The fireball in his palm also stabilized without detonating.

He turned his head toward the direction from which the voice came. Wei Yinglong was riding a warhorse and quickly running toward Lu Yu. Observing the changes in the demons around, he realized that the demon priest had been slain.

Knowing the demon priest was slain, his first thought was: did some lucky brat run into the demon priest?

But then he reconsidered, thinking that such a thing was virtually impossible. The demon priest being slain meant it could only have been done by a high-level expert.

However, there were no high-level experts on this battlefield. If he had to say, there was indeed one expert.

So he found Lu Yu, and upon spotting the demon priest lying on the ground, seeing the intact body, he almost didn't need to think and shouted those words.

The warhorse screeched to a stop in front of Lu Yu. Wei Yinglong dismounted and approached, looking at the body on the ground, asking: "Is this the demon priest?"

Lu Yu extinguished the fireball in his hand and replied, "Yes."

Wei Yinglong looked at Lu Yu, feeling slightly awkward. Earlier, he had been ready to see Lu Yu make a fool of himself, and during the commotion, he had even unceremoniously cursed him, in his heart cursing numerous times.

He rubbed his hands together nervously and said, "Uh... can I have this body?"

Normally, when a demon priest is killed, no body remains. Only because Lu Yu used the Shocking God Stab to shatter the demon priest's consciousness was the intact body left behind.

Within the Black Dragon Legion, there is a bounty task for the whole body of a demon priest. With the complete body, a Spiritual Treasure resonating with the demon priest can be made, making it much easier to locate other demon priests.

As soon as he submits this body, he can earn a significant amount of merit, enough for his rank to be promoted by one level.

Lu Yu was slightly taken aback by his request. After coming back to his senses, he said, "You can have it, but this assistance mission counts as completed by me, right?"

Upon hearing this, Wei Yinglong quickly said: "Yes, yes, yes, the rest will be taken care of by us."

No need to waste time here, Lu Yu was also quite pleased, handed the body over to Wei Yinglong, and turned away to leave.

As he was leaving, Wei Yinglong remembered that he hadn't even asked for Lu Yu's name, so he quickly chased after Lu Yu for two steps, calling out: "May I know the name of the mighty expert?"

"Lu Yu."

Lu Yu's objective was to enhance his own reputation, so of course, he wouldn't hide his true identity. He was unsure whether concealing his identity would garner any reputation.

If people knew his name and spread his deeds, thus letting more people know, his reputation should increase faster, right?

On his way here, Lu Yu had noticed his reputation increase from 61 to 75, despite being busy with traveling and not doing much, the reputation had inexplicably grown.

This could only mean one thing: when Zhang Jue was turning in the task, he informed others of his deeds, which resulted in a 1-point increase in his reputation at that time.

The reputation increased while traveling was likely due to Zhang Jue telling others, who then spread it further, causing his reputation to slowly grow.

This indicated that not only completing tasks could increase reputation, but spreading one's deeds to make them widely known could also boost reputation. 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ𝓋𝑒𝑙.𝑐𝘰𝑚

Lu Yu found Zhang Jue, instructing him to gather the people and head to the next mission destination.

While waiting for Zhang Jue to call the people over, he glanced at his reputation, finding it rising rapidly. In the blink of an eye, it had surpassed 100 and was still climbing.

This surge in reputation likely came from Wei Yinglong and the others. Once Wei Yinglong spread the story of him going straight to the demon priest in the demon group, his reputation would skyrocket even more.

"Indeed, things like reputation and fame grow faster the more people know about them," Lu Yu mused.

"Need to slightly control my power, just displaying the normal strength expected of the ninth level of Qi Sea Realm," Lu Yu thought to himself.

"Senior Brother Lu, everyone is here," Zhang Jue came over and said. Their team didn't encounter much danger. All the members were Qi Sea Realm veterans who knew to avoid harm and take advantage.

When they saw the demons scattering on a large scale to escape, they closed ranks to support one another, resulting in no casualties due to the demon siege after the priest's death.

"The demons here haven't been fully cleared, should we really leave like this?" someone couldn't resist saying.

Lu Yu said, "I have already discussed with the person in charge here, and our mission is counted as complete."

The others traded glances until some couldn't help asking: "Did Senior Brother Lu kill the demon priest?"

Lu Yu didn't speak, only nodded slightly, then said: "Let's go. To the next place."

He turned to head toward the first mission location, and others exchanged glances before hastily following in Lu Yu's footsteps, taking to the air with their qi. They didn't expect the assistance mission to be completed so quickly.

The remaining assistance missions were of similar nature, either due to terrain making it impossible to form a siege, requiring a support team for reinforcement, or needing to assist the Black Dragon Legion in forming a battle formation to besiege powerful beasts, blocking their beast minions...

Assistance missions are all of a similar type, almost everyone taking part acts as a deputy.

However, this situation was reversed with the appearance of Lu Yu.

Each time, Lu Yu could swiftly resolve the targets that required the Black Dragon Corps' siege, leaving the originally main Black Dragon soldiers to clean up the mess, as he led others towards the next mission.

"Huff huff~ Let me catch my breath." Several squad members with weaker cultivation were slightly disordered in their breathing, as they had been "chasing" Lu Yu and were exhausted from flying at full speed.

"Wow~ Senior Brother Lu is just too amazing, we feel exhausted just following him, and yet Senior Brother Lu can defeat so many formidable foes consecutively without needing a moment's rest, it's incredible!" A squad member gazed with admiration at Lu Yu, who was deep within enemy lines, fighting powerful adversaries alone.

Now, they no longer split up to find their own defensive areas, but stood in place waiting for Lu Yu to finish the BOSS, and then headed to the next destination.

Boom! The earth shook and the mountains swayed, as half of the distant mountain peak toppled over.

Soon enough, Lu Yu appeared before the crowd, his clothes untouched by dust, and said to everyone, "We're heading back."

"Heading back?"

Everyone was momentarily stunned, and Zhang Jue also froze before checking the tasks within the student ID, discovering all of them were completed.

He widened his eyes and his mouth hung open, "How could it be so soon, completing eight assistance missions..."

The others were similarly shocked upon hearing this, as although they kept rushing, they hadn't expected all missions to be completed this quickly.

"Senior Brother Lu, you're truly incredible!" One person looked at Lu Yu with eyes full of admiration and praised him continuously.

"With such strength, Senior Brother Lu will surely enter a Celestial Tier squad," Zhang Jue asserted confidently.

Celestial Wind Academy is an academy that trains soldiers for war, and graduates can directly join various corps, with outstanding ones able to become officers in these corps.

Thus, students of Celestial Wind Academy usually hone their skills as part of a squad, and squad members often practice battle formations to unite everyone's strength in combat.

Upon joining the army, they don't need to spend extra time mastering the battle formations within the military.

Squads are divided into three levels: Celestial, Earth, and Mortal, and further into junior, intermediate, and advanced ranks, with Zhang Jue's squad being an Earth Tier junior squad.

This was due to Zhang Jue being a high stage Martial Cultivator in the Qi Sea realm, as a Martial Cultivator at this stage is standard in squads above the Earth Tier.

As for Celestial Tier squads, only outstanding Martial Cultivators within the Qi Sea realm can join, and some Celestial Tier squads even have Core Formation Realm cultivators.

In Zhang Jue's view, Lu Yu's power definitely reaches the pinnacle of the Qi Sea realm, outperforming many of the Qi Sea masters he knows and surely he could join a Celestial Tier squad.

Zhang Jue also understood that with Lu Yu's prowess, it would be impossible for him to remain with their squad.

On one hand, it would be unfair to Lu Yu, and on the other hand, Celestial Wind Academy wouldn't allow such a powerful force to idle in a mere Earth Tier junior squad.

"We're heading back," Lu Yu said, and upon hearing his words, everyone felt slightly downhearted; it seemed the big advantage they just encountered was going to leave soon.

Feeling the group's disappointment, Zhang Jue smiled and said, "Completing eight assistance missions in one go, likely only our squad can achieve such a feat. Regardless, our squad has become famous this time."

Upon hearing this, everyone felt much better and accepted the reality of the big advantage leaving soon, turning to discuss the distribution of mission rewards.

On the return journey, they flew back slowly, with Lu Yu in no rush, occasionally glancing at the reputation points. After completing eight missions, solely the witnesses of his prowess at the mission sites increased his reputation by over 300.

Once these individuals return and talk about his feats with others, he would undoubtedly gain a wave of reputation.

Lu Yu didn't expect his reputation to rise so quickly, as even before returning to Panshan City, he heard a system notification.

Reputation almost doubled directly, reaching over 600, meeting the minimum reputation requirement to enter the External Battlefield, along with earning a 60% extra experience points buff.

However, this buff would only activate upon entering the External Battlefield.

After parting with Zhang Jue and others, when Lu Yu returned to his residence, he noticed many intentionally or unintentionally glancing at him.

Li Yan and Xu Ke saw Lu Yu return, their faces showing surprise as they approached him, "Brother Lu, you made quite a splash this time, and now everyone at Celestial Wind Camp is discussing your achievements."

Su Peng also appeared before Lu Yu, smiling as he said, "You've gained quite a bit of fame now; most people at Celestial Wind Camp know your name."

Lu Yu smiled, glanced at the reputation system, and his reputation points continued to rise, reaching 700.

Upon surpassing 500 reputation points, he unlocked a new achievement.

[Achievement Unlocked—Gaining Fame, Reputation Points reached 500]