"Twelve Constellations?"
"Twelve Constellations correspond to twelve states, and you gain points by killing players from other Constellations? Could it be..."
After reading the introduction to the game event, Su Nan instantly thought of a gameplay style from traditional games.
Cross-server activities!
In traditional games, when the game reaches the middle or later stages, there are often events that allow players from different servers to battle against each other, stimulating player spending and increasing their enthusiasm for the game.
The current "Twelve Constellations" event is obviously similar to a traditional game's "cross-server event."
During the event, players from the twelve states can all enter the "Twelve Constellations," resulting in players from twelve states appearing on the same map.
Without the rule of "killing players from other Constellations to gain points" in this cross-server event, it would be uncertain which direction the event would take.
But with this final rule, the significance changes.
"Is the game trying to make players from the twelve states fight each other?"
Su Nan was puzzled, not understanding why the game would do this.
Players from the twelve states come from different countries, and even without the game's final rule, conflicts would inevitably occur.
This is a problem that occurs in any game.
However, conflicts between different parties would not erupt so violently without a doubt.
"I wonder what that so-called Constellation Artifact is?"
Su Nan was curious.
When he saw the term "Artifact," he first thought of the Human Race's Divine Weapons, as both terms contained the word "Divine" and seemed similar.
But he didn't believe that the so-called "Artifact" would be the same as Divine Weapons.
Can you get Divine Weapons by killing monsters?
This is obviously impossible.
According to the announcement, even killing the lowest-level Constellation Guardians could have a chance to drop an Artifact. This can only mean that the so-called Artifact might just be a generic term.
As for its power, it's hard to say.
Unlike the previous two missions, this event doesn't have a mandatory participation setting or an elimination mechanism; it's quite friendly to new players.
"This event allows us to compete with players from other states. I'm really looking forward to it!"
"We, Eastern Chen State, are definitely one of the top players among the twelve states. I wonder how players from other states will resist us this time."
"Hahaha! It's great! We can finally go and kill those guys from the Sun Kingdom. They actually tried to lure monsters into our Hua Country earlier. This time, we'll definitely show them how powerful we are."
"Recruiting! Recruiting! The War King Guild is recruiting heavily. Join our War King Guild, and we'll help you sweep the Twelve Constellations..."
In the regional chat, countless players were excited.
Points and rewards were not the most important; the most crucial thing was that they could finally fight players from other states.
Many people were getting ready to engage in battles.
And major guilds took this opportunity to recruit a large number of players to expand their ranks.
After reading the announcement, Su Nan looked at his personal information panel.
On the panel, the Ancient Scripture column, the Great Sun Golden Body Scripture, had progressed from "Never Entered" to the first level.
[Great Sun Golden Body Scripture: First Level (Golden Skin Realm)]
[Current Progress: 1%. Consumes 50 Demonic Energy each time to accelerate by 10%. Can be accelerated once a day.]
"Consumes 50 Demonic Energy to accelerate by 10%?"
Su Nan's eyes lit up, and he breathed a sigh of relief.
According to the Great Sun Golden Body Scripture's records, achieving the Golden Skin of the first realm would take at least three months.
Three months may not be a long time for other martial artists, but for him, it was too long. He couldn't wait that long.
Now, he could accelerate his cultivation using Demonic Energy, which was in line with his preferences.
"Accelerating cultivation once a day, this way, it will only take me ten days at most to complete the Golden Skin Realm."
"If I can find the so-called Golden Leaf Spirit Ginseng within these ten days, I can advance the Great Sun Golden Body to the second level in ten days, right?"
His bloodline fusion was progressing too fast, reaching the player's limit. Without any surprises, his focus on cultivation would shift from bloodline fusion to practicing Ancient Scriptures.
Now, Ancient Scriptures could also be upgraded using Demonic Energy, which was of great significance to him.
"It costs 50 Demonic Energy each time. Even if I only upgrade it nine times, it will still cost 450 Demonic Energy. This Great Sun Golden Body Scripture is indeed a Demonic Energy devourer. Ordinary players won't be able to cultivate it."
Fifty Demonic Energy may not be much for him, who had three characters, but for ordinary players, even reaching the Profound level, it would be difficult to obtain 50 Demonic Energy in a day.
Moreover, to advance from the first level to the second level, he needed one hundred drops of Profound-level Demonic Beast essence and a spiritual item called the Golden Leaf Spirit Ginseng.
Just this requirement alone would be enough to block the majority of players. Without the support of a powerful force, it might take them a year to gather these items.
Su Nan closed his personal information panel and looked at today's missions.
As before, Wang Nan and Zhang Yang's mission was to hunt demons, while Lang Shisan's mission was to hunt players.
"I wonder if killing players in the Twelve Constellations will count towards the mission?"
Su Nan's eyes lit up with anticipation.
Unfortunately, even if it counted, he could only complete daily missions. Main missions required him to hunt Profound-level players, and there were currently no Profound-level players available.
The Twelve Constellations would only open at eight o'clock in the evening, and it wasn't even one in the morning yet, with more than ten hours to go until the event opened.
Su Nan transformed into a Black Eagle and headed towards the Silver Frost County in the north of the Central Heaven County.
Silver Frost County wasn't far from Central Heaven County; only the Da Yan County separated them.
With Su Nan's current speed, it wouldn't take too long.
Several hours later.
He and the Grand Princess arrived in Silver Frost County.
During this journey, he even hunted two Profound-level Demonic Beasts and two Spirit-level Demonic Beasts.
Ninety Demonic Energy points were added to his account, and he now had a total of 186 Demonic Energy points.
However, during this time, he didn't encounter any King-level Demonic Beasts, so he couldn't complete the mission of hunting King-level Demonic Beasts for both of his characters.
"186 Demonic Energy points are enough to upgrade one bloodline to the Grand Perfection."
Su Nan's heart moved as he looked at the Death Prediction on the panel.
To upgrade a Profound-level bloodline to Grand Perfection, it required 160 Demonic Energy points. With his current strength, the improvement of one bloodline wouldn't make a significant difference, but he mainly wanted to verify his previous guess.
With the Death Prediction, he didn't need to waste time to find out the outcome, and there was no cost to trial and error.
He didn't hesitate and immediately used the Death Prediction.
This time, he only had one chance to predict.
If it were in the past, he would have thought he had failed upon seeing this, but now he wasn't far from the Lost Lands. Even if he succeeded, there was a high probability that he would die in the Lost Lands next.
"You know, your bloodline fusion is progressing too quickly. Although it seems that your bloodlines have merged with your body, they haven't fully integrated with you. Continuing to fuse new bloodlines may pose unknown risks."
"In your view, to continue fusing bloodlines in this situation, you can only attempt to directly merge with ancient demonic bloodlines. You take out a secret ancient demonic bloodline of the mystic power type and intend to try merging it."
"Your guess is correct. Although the process of merging bloodlines this time was not smooth and almost failed, in the end, you successfully merged a second bloodline."
"However, you encountered a problem during the fusion. While using the direct method of merging ancient demonic bloodlines can barely allow you to continue fusing, if you want to continue merging a third bloodline, you can only seek even more powerful ancient demonic bloodlines."
"It's really possible!"
Su Nan was delighted in his heart; he had finally found a way to continue merging bloodlines!
This meant that his path of bloodlines could still go further.
However, looking at the subsequent prompt, he frowned.
"After merging the second bloodline, I can only continue searching for more powerful ancient demonic bloodlines to merge with the third bloodline? Does that mean that the bloodlines I merge in the future must be stronger than the previous ones?"
Su Nan's heart sank slightly, but it wasn't too surprising.
The reason he wanted to merge ancient demonic bloodlines was that merging ordinary bloodlines would be devoured by the bloodlines already in his body. He needed bloodlines powerful enough to counterbalance the bloodlines within him.
Following this logic, when he merged two bloodlines, the third bloodline he merged would inevitably be devoured by the two pre-existing bloodlines in his body.
He would need to continue searching for bloodlines more powerful than the two he had merged, which was reasonable.
According to this train of thought, when he was ready to break through to the King level, if he didn't merge a powerful bloodline capable of easily suppressing the other three, he wouldn't be able to complete the fusion of the four bloodlines into one.
"Ancient demonic bloodlines are not readily available. Getting a drop of ancient demonic essence is already extremely difficult."
If he only had one character, he might still try to continuously merge more powerful bloodlines as the prediction mentioned.
But with three characters, if he had to use this method to merge all of them, he simply wouldn't have the ability to search for bloodlines.
"So, it seems that my method of merging ancient demonic essence can only be considered a temporary solution, and it can't really solve the problem. Even how far I can go is still an unknown."
Just merging all the ancient demonic essences was already very difficult for him. Now, the requirement that the bloodline he merged later had to be stronger than the previous one would double his difficulty.
If he had lived in ancient times, maybe he could have done it, and even going very far wouldn't be a problem.
But now, it was very difficult, very difficult.
"The road will be cleared when you reach the bridgehead. I can only take it one step at a time."
He sighed inwardly and continued to look at the prediction.
"Half an hour later, you will arrive at the entrance to the Lost Lands. After passing through the entrance to the Lost Lands, you will successfully enter the Lost Lands and arrive in a desert."
"You know that this is the forbidden area of the Lost Lands. Although you are curious why you have once again arrived here, you have no choice but to proceed with determination."
"One minute later, you encounter no danger."
"Two minutes later, you realize that your body is gradually turning into sand!"
"You dare not continue forward, stop your steps, and try to solve the problem on your body."
"Three minutes later, your body completely turns into sand."
"You're dead."
"Arrived in that desert again?"
Su Nan was puzzled.
If he landed in the same desert every time he arrived, that would be a problem.
After all, if the people who entered before him were in the same situation as him, entering the forbidden area right away, then it would be impossible for anyone to leave the Lost Lands unless they knew how to get out of the desert.
But that was clearly impossible.
Those who had entered before must have known the method, and it would definitely have been mentioned in the information Su Nan purchased from the Celestial Palace.
"Let's reach the Lost Lands first."
There was too little useful information in the prediction, so he could only enter the Lost Lands first and then slowly try to use the prediction.
As for Demonic Energy, he wasn't in a hurry to use it.
After entering the Lost Lands, whether he could obtain Demonic Energy was still unknown. He wanted to save Demonic Energy to cultivate the Great Sun Golden Body Sutra.
An hour later.
He arrived at Lingchang County in Silver Frost County and found the valley called Longji.
Su Nan stood on a cliff in the Longji Valley.
In front of him was an abyss as deep as a bottomless pit, resembling a giant mouth that swallowed the sky.
That was the entrance to the Lost Lands.
As long as he jumped down from here, he could enter.
"I've heard of this Lost Lands before. It's said that once you enter, you can't get out. Even if an Emperor-level powerhouse goes in, they can't come out. Are you really going in?" The Grand Princess stood beside Su Nan, expressing her concern.
Su Nan said, "Don't worry, didn't I tell you before? I'm an outsider. If I dare to go in, I naturally have a way to get out."
Hearing this, the Grand Princess thought of Su Nan's previous strange experiences and didn't say anything more.
Su Nan looked at the abyss and then turned his gaze back to the prediction on the panel.
The prediction started again.
This time he used Future Prediction, which provided more detailed information compared to Death Prediction.
"You arrive at the entrance to the Lost Lands, intending to enter and find a solution to the problem of your bloodline being corroded by the demonic aura."
"You jump down from the cliff, and after a few breaths, you successfully enter the Lost Lands and arrive in an endless desert."
"You know that there are unknown forces in this desert, so you dare not move lightly and can only stand still and observe."
"One minute later, there is no change in your body."
"Two minutes later, you realize that your body is beginning to turn into sand."
"You feel anxious and know that if you continue to stay here, you will still die, so you use the Heavenly Teleportation in succession in one direction."
"Three minutes later, you die."
"Staying still will also result in death?"
Su Nan frowned. The power in that desert was too strange. It could turn a person into sand without a sound, and he had never seen such a power before.
Without stopping, he continued the prediction.
...
"You use the Heavenly Teleportation to explore to the east, trying to find a way out of the desert."
"Three minutes later, you die."
...
"You use the Theme Teleportation to explore to the south, trying to find a way out of the desert."
"Three minutes later, you die."
He knew very little about the desert in the Lost Lands, and there was no information related to it. He could only try one direction at a time in the most straightforward way and use all the power he could use on his body to resist the power that was turning him into sand.
Unfortunately, he tried all his powers in one direction and still couldn't find a way to stop his body from turning into sand.
"My avatar is staying in the real world to watch over that Demonic King. Maybe if I explore with my avatar, I might discover something."
He was very suspicious that in this desert, anything with life or a physical presence would be turned into sand.
The prediction continued until the fifth time, and an information that made Su Nan's eyes light up appeared.
(End of this chapter)