Ten Thousand Ways To Eliminate Players-Chapter 56 - 0 Lin Bai’s New Achievement

After passing on the fragment of the "Nine-Days True Scripture" to Dumbelldore, the "Eager to Teach System" officially came into play.

The subsequent task was to urge the disciple to practice his skills. This didn’t require any effort from Lin Bai.

Dumbelldore, having finally learned an advanced Cultivation Technique, put in more effort than anyone. For nearly twelve hours a day, he practiced his Inner Strength. The remaining time, besides going offline to recover his energy, he spent cutting veggies in the kitchen to clear his head. Otherwise, if he practiced Inner Strength as soon as he got online, he might go mad.

Other Players, apart from Inner Strength, would simultaneously practice stick, sword, or saber techniques, and even go out to fight monsters for experience. But Lin Bai stubbornly refused to teach him Skills, leaving Dumbelldore with nothing but Inner Strength and no monster-bashing abilities, thus giving him absolutely no gaming experience.

Only when cutting veggies, watching people come and go at the Chef’s Divine Food Stall, could Dumbelldore, the much-discussed "great god" on the forums, find some slight enjoyment in gaming.

This monotonous gaming life forced Dumbelldore to console himself with fantasies. To endure the bitterest of hardships is to become a person above others. Although I’m temporarily unable to learn Skills, when others are still practicing ordinary Inner Strength, I can already cultivate advanced Inner Strength. I’ve compared it on the forums; in the same amount of time, the Inner Strength cultivation speed of the "Nine-Days True Scripture" is ten times that of ordinary Inner Strength. Therefore, as long as my Inner Strength reaches a certain point, and then I learn the flashy "Descending Dragon Palm," once I go out, I’ll surely cause a sensation and become the real God Dumbelldore! As for cutting vegetables? What if this is a set of cutting techniques hidden in the culinary arts? What if this is Lin Bai’s assessment of me? Considering Lin Bai’s quirky taste, anything is possible. Even if it’s really nothing, at worst, I can take cooking as a secondary profession...

The Eager to Teach System judged Dumbelldore’s conduct very highly. Of course, it could also be because he was so focused on cultivation that he didn’t have time for mischief. freeweɓnøvel~com

The Inner Strength feedback Lin Bai received from Dumbelldore was twenty percent. Based on this figure, Lin Bai calculated that the Inner Strength Dumbelldore obtained from focusing on practice for twelve hours was equivalent to a year’s worth of Inner Strength from the "Everything has shortcomings system." This meant that the Inner Strength Lin Bai currently possessed could be matched by Dumbelldore in just twelve days of focused cultivation.

Of course, this was because the "Nine-Days True Scripture" was a relatively high-level Cultivation Technique. Ordinary Inner Strength definitely didn’t cultivate so quickly. However, this was still distressing news. Players couldn’t always practice ordinary Inner Strength; they would always have the opportunity to find higher-level Cultivation Techniques.

For the time being, the Eager to Teach System had no task for Lin Bai to take on a second disciple. The feedback of a little Inner Strength each day had rendered the Eager to Teach System somewhat trivial.

Lin Bai took an opportunity to pass on the "Nine-Days True Scripture" to Luo Congwen. Luo Congwen took his studies as seriously as Dumbelldore, but his efficiency was much lower compared to a Player. This wasn’t only because he was always interrupted by mundane affairs; even if he practiced conscientiously, his daily progress was only one percent of Dumbelldore’s. Of course, this might also relate to his aptitude.

Regardless, compared to NPCs, Players had too great an advantage. Keep in mind, this is just the closed beta, and the number of Players is scarce. Once the game opens for public testing, tens of thousands of Players will flood in. Even if I, Lin Bai, were made of iron, how many nails could I drive? Rumor has it that my reputation on the forums isn’t good.

Many Systems were now serving roles of marginal use, but Lin Bai was still glad for the Systems he carried. If he were just a simple transmigrator, his life could only be spent surviving in this world, and there might be no other way to live. How could someone as proud and ambitious as me be content with such a life?

Having gotten a glimpse of the Players’ cultivation progress through his Eager to Teach System, Lin Bai was determined never to let the Players live too comfortably. Otherwise, once they got out of control, it would be a disaster for the whole world, and the stability of his own life couldn’t be guaranteed. At least in Jiamucheng, I must have absolute control and say over the Players. As for when the Players leave the Novice Village? By then, I might only be able to ensure my safety with my Personal Charm and Martial Power. It’s impossible that all Players would hate me to the bone, right?

The Eager to Teach System rewarded comprehension. In simple terms, with comprehension, one could learn things faster than usual. This gave Lin Bai another way to gain Skills.

However, he currently had no use for it in Jiamucheng, as there were no Martial Arts or Taoist laws worthy of his learning there. Moreover, now was the phase for laying the foundation for various Systems, so he had no spare time to learn other things. First, I should raise my comprehension. Then, when I leave the Novice Village and encounter higher-level Sects with Cultivation Techniques better than those provided by the System, I can learn them.

Within two days, Lin Bai sorted out the "Heavenly Remnant Collection," handed it over to the Song family for publishing, and spent the rest of the time carrying out various miscellaneous tasks, such as stir-frying dishes in the Chef’s Divine Food Stall and gathering herbs in the wild. As long as he didn’t waste time and could complete the tasks at hand, he did them.

Consequently, the Skills he mastered rose rapidly. These included the Cooking God System’s Spoon Skill, Fire Control, The Sequence of Adding Ingredients, and Thickening; as well as the God Doctor System’s Basic Pill Refinement Technique, the diagnostic methods of observation, olfaction, inquiry, and palpation (pulse-taking), and knowledge of medicinal principles.

While Lin Bai was busy with his tasks, the ’defectivization’ of Jiamucheng was also steadily advancing. Xu Longyun set an example by altering the sign for the "City Lord’s Mansion"—the character for "Lord" was replaced with "Soil," and "Mansion" with "Paid." On the four city gates, the "earth" radical was removed from the character for "City" in "Jiamucheng," changing the inscription to "Jiamu Complete." With the City Lord leading by such an extreme example, others, however reluctant, had no choice but to follow suit and make changes.

One by one, complete signboards were taken down and replaced with defective, ragged ones. The characters on these new signs were either missing radicals or lacked essential components. Even the neatly laid blue bricks on the roads were pried up, with a red brick or two white stones irregularly inserted every few steps, with no discernible pattern.

Looking around, the once-thriving Jiamucheng seemed as if it had aged a hundred years overnight, becoming mottled and dilapidated, completely losing its former glory. Even though all losses were compensated by the City Lord, complaints still echoed throughout Jiamucheng.

In two days, the Defect Values and Negative Emotion Values Lin Bai had collected rocketed up, while he gained no Positive Emotion Values at all. The Negative Emotion Tree was laden with Spirit Fruits, dense and a pleasing sight.

The soaring Defect Values had allowed Lin Bai to acquire five Martial Arts Skills:

"Curve Body Single Shadow": A short-distance burst Qinggong technique. Its effectiveness wasn’t conspicuous on flat ground. However, in the early morning, coupled with Morning Flight, it allowed Lin Bai to create a trailing illusion in the sky like a shooting star, very suitable for morning escapes. Using it once consumed an amount of Inner Strength almost equal to launching a "Dragon in Daytime."

"June Divine Sword": Its effects were similar to the "Six Vein Divine Sword," but regrettably, it could only be used in summer. It was currently autumn, so Lin Bai couldn’t even verify its effects.

"Six Color Frost": Using a knife-type weapon, one could emit ten meters of fierce blade energy. Each type of blade energy had five colors, appearing as beautiful as fireworks.

"Golden Middle Cover": A body-protection technique, but when used, it only protected the middle part of the body; the head and feet remained unprotected.

"Wooden Cloud Vertical": A Qinggong skill allowing rapid movement on treetops.

Aside from these five quirky Martial Arts Skills, Lin Bai had accumulated 41.38 years of Inner Strength. Adding this to his original 12.69 years and the 0.4 years of feedback from Dumbelldore, then rounding up, his total Inner Strength was almost equivalent to a sixty-year cycle. Players probably won’t catch up with me for the time being. Alright then! The small amount of Inner Strength feedback from the disciple is really not as fast as completing System tasks.

Lin Bai had also achieved the grand accomplishment of "Making an Entire City Defective" without leaving the Novice Village. His Defect Value was unlikely to increase in the near future. The "Everything has Shortcomings System" was temporarily paused.

Perhaps the main System detected Lin Bai’s outstanding potential for completing tasks, because on the eve of the second round of closed beta Player logins, a new System known as the "Great Language System" quietly came online:

Language is the tool for communication between various species, the medium for exchanging ideas, and an essential instrument for humans to preserve and transmit civilization.

Master the mysteries of language, and you grasp the foundation of civilization.

This System will urge the host to skillfully utilize the techniques of various languages.

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