Chu Kang's entire person was in a daze when he left the conference room.
"It's already night…" He looked up at the sky. His mind was still muddled, and he muttered to himself, "Oh right, we're on the planetary ring. There's no day here."
This wasn't Chu Kang's fault. Anyone would look like this after a whole day of having their beliefs torn down.
This was like the champion of an Olympiad competition being beaten to pieces in the field that he was proudest of after listening to an internationally renowned university lecture for a day.
"Big Guan, are we dreaming right now?" Chu Kang patted Guan Sheng's shoulder. "Why do I feel that the missions have suddenly become easy?"
Guan Sheng's situation was better than his. At least his mind was still clear. He sighed and said, "I don't know who that master is and whether he will come again… Forget it, I should finish these missions first!"
Classmate Guan Sheng, a mission maniac, took a booklet of missions and left excitedly.
Chu Kang looked down at the little notebook in his hand, which was also filled with ways to deal with each mission. Then he remembered that extremely youthful face, and his heart was still full of disbelief.
...
When Gu Nan returned to the palace, he really felt a little exhausted.
Even though those missions weren't very difficult in his view, it was still mentally tiring to resolve so many missions in one day.
But if his guess was correct, then this small price was more than worth it!
Time usually flowed much faster in the smaller planes than in Star Realm, so the time required to complete the missions hardly amounted to anything in Star Realm.
Gu Nan took out the mist mirror again, and many bright spots were already lit up on it. Those were all indications that the smaller missions had been completed.
｢Integrating external dungeon… Please name the new personal dungeon (incomplete)｣
｢Integrating external dungeon… Please name the new personal dungeon (incomplete)｣
｢Integrating external dungeon… Please name the new personal dungeon (complete)｣
｢Integrating external dungeon…｣
The worlds' origins were integrated, and a series of notifications emerged from the Evil God Temple. There were over a dozen missions this time, but only one was able to successfully establish a personal dungeon.
'One is enough!'
Gu Nan's heart was slightly pleased, and he hurriedly opened the dungeon interface to see if the personal dungeon mentioned here was the same as the ones in his impression.
In the dungeon interface, rows of incomplete dungeons were still gray. The word "complete" on a single row stood out.
｢Personal dungeon (unnamed)—fixed dungeon.
Starting Members: 4 people
Dungeon Reset Period: 3 days｣
In his previous life's game, personal dungeons were a very interesting way to play the game, and co-op between different players was basically done through this.
Personal dungeons could be divided into "autonomous" and "fixed" types based on whether players actually constructed it themselves or whether they converted it from a pre-existing dungeon, respectively.
Players used autonomous dungeons for advancement. If they wanted to level up to Tier 6 and complete the first First Round, then the best method was to use autonomous dungeons.
Although fixed dungeons could also be converted into a player's private property as a personal dungeon, the biggest use for them wasn't for advancement. Instead, it was… to farm points!
Of course dungeons are used for farming—the kind of farming that's done again and again. Although personal dungeons won't give Evil Value, a certain number of points can be obtained from them.
As soon as the fixed dungeon is activated, players can choose to enter it and complete the mission with their NPC companions or form parties with other online players.
Of course, there were no online players in this world. 'If I start this dungeon, I wonder how my companions will be selected?'
In the original game, in order to enhance randomness, NPC companions were randomly selected from all over the world, so it might be a dungeon character players were familiar with or a completely unfamiliar NPC.
Gu Nan didn't have time to ponder it some more. Anyhow, he'd know once he ran the dungeon once.
However, the palace's main doors were suddenly pushed open, and Red Tail hurried in.
Gu Nan's mind quickly pulled away from the Evil God Temple. On the throne, he slowly opened his eyes and looked at Red Tail with a slightly displeased expression.
Aware of this, Red Tail didn't hesitate to get straight to the point, "My Lord, Lan Si suffered heavy injuries…"
...
Inside the Tang family residence on Heaven and Earth Star's mainland.
Tang Xuan was anxiously standing outside the door, waiting for the situation inside to improve.
"My goodness, you've been pacing back and forth here at least twenty times. Can you stop for a while?" A young man in black asked from next to her.
His leisurely tone was in stark contrast to Tang Xuan's anxiety.
"What do you know?!" Tang Xuan glared at him fiercely. "If something really goes wrong, just prepare your own funeral."
"Wow, so scary!" The young man made a mockingly fearful expression, clearly looking unconcerned.
After a pause, he said to himself when Tang Xuan didn't respond, "That woman called Lan Si was the one who ran over here uninvited. Don't tell me that we can be blamed for this?"
"No matter how powerful the person backing her is, he still has to be reasonable, right? We were handling a matter for the Merchant Alliance this time!"
The young man wasn't concerned in the slightest, and he was even more disdainful in his heart.
His name was Tang Ziquan, a leading figure in the Tang family's younger generation. He'd traveled with his family's caravan through several regions of Star Realm, so both his experience and strength were far above those of ordinary people.
Unlike Tang Xuan, a free sprout that grew up without much help from the family, Tang Ziquan not only broke through Prodigious Realm early on, but he also had many fortuitous encounters, so he was a junior that the Tang family used all its resources to cultivate.
He had just returned to Heaven and Earth Star and had never experienced the farce that happened in the Tang family earlier, so he didn't take Lan Si's injuries to heart at all.
In his opinion, this was really nothing special.
It was all too common for several sides to fight over a resource. Other people wouldn't hold back in the middle of the fight just because of Lan Si's background.
'Isn't this woman named Lan Si merely the head of a newly-established small organization? She even wants to follow our family's lead and enjoy a piece of the pie.'
'Yet she insists that we're cooperating. Is she qualified to cooperate with us?'
She seemed a little strong when she first started fighting, but it didn't take long for her to be exposed—she turned out to be a chick with no combat experience!
Tang Ziquan, who had been fighting outside for a long time, despised the sheltered flowers that grew up in a greenhouse the most, so his mouth naturally wouldn't be polite.
After casually egging her on a little, sure enough, Lan Si took his bait. As a result, she was badly wounded in the chaotic fight.
While the two were still talking, the door opened, and a doctor came out, gently shaking his head at Tang Xuan. "We tried our best… Whether she can wake up or not depends on providence."
Depends on providence—that meant the doctors were helpless.
Tang Xuan was stunned. She was just about to speak when someone on the other side came to report, "Eldest Miss, two people came to visit. They say they're your friends."
The corners of Tang Xuan's mouth twitched, and she didn't know what to say for a while.