Gold Core Is A Star, You Call This Cultivating Immortality?

Chapter 99: The Game Begins, A Soldier in the Abandoned City

The giant city has fallen.

The entire city is in ruins, with broken walls and debris everywhere.

Within the city, only scattered thousands of monsters roam.

There are no graves built for the countless white bones on the ground.

No one knows whose restless spirits haunt this place.

A month later, a human army once again marches towards this giant city and, after a bloody battle, captures it.

The commander-in-chief leading the army has a bloody scar on his face, giving him a particularly intimidating appearance. He drinks with his generals.

Five days later, the monster army attacks again.

The giant city falls once more.

A great fire rages for two months, and another human army arrives.

Unfortunately, their fate remains the same - they are completely annihilated.

Later, another human army arrives and meets the same fate.

After that, Qi Yuan arrives at the city wall. It has been over ten years since a human army has come here.

He looks at the city filled with white bones.

"Once soldiers set foot in this city, their lifespan begins to count down. No one can survive for more than ten days."

"Now, my mission... is to guard this lonely city?"

Qi Yuan stands alone in the desolate city. He looks up at the towering city walls, which are covered in scars.

A sense of desolation and barrenness washes over him.

On the city wall, the words "Abandoned City" are written.

Qi Yuan looks at himself. "Level 45?"

Now, after entering the game, he is unexpectedly at level 45.

Unlike the first time he entered, when he was only level 1.

So Qi Yuan speculates that level 45 is similar to the Foundation Building Late Stage.

The strength of his soul in the Ash Water World determines his level in the game.

"Level 45, not bad. I can kill small monsters now."

A smile appears in Qi Yuan's eyes.

Killing monsters in the game will allow him to level up.

And this cultivation will also be reflected in reality to some extent.

His cultivation in reality will also improve rapidly.

He enjoys this feeling.

"Unfortunately, I don't have a suitable weapon." Qi Yuan looks at himself.

It seems that he entered the game alone.

But in an instant, he is stunned.

"Xiao Jia?"

He suddenly realizes that there is a mark of Xiao Jia on his chest.

Did Xiao Jia follow him into the game?

"Xiao Jia!" Qi Yuan shouts.

Immediately, Xiao Jia's figure appears beside Qi Yuan.

She is wearing a blood-red wedding dress, looking incredibly enchanting.

Timidly, Xiao Jia looks around with a confused expression.

But when she sees Qi Yuan, she seems to feel at ease again, tightly holding onto his arm.

Qi Yuan smiles. "In ancient times, scholars read books at night with the fragrance of red sleeves."

"Now, I, Qi Yuan, guard this lonely city with the company of a wedding dress."

Thinking like this, Qi Yuan feels that the game has become interesting.

At this moment, the monsters wandering in the city seem to have noticed Qi Yuan and rush towards him with madness.

For these monsters, tearing apart all humans is their instinct.

Hundreds of monsters, with ferocious appearances resembling various terrifying creatures, attack Qi Yuan with their massive bodies.

"Xiao Jia!" Qi Yuan shouts.

Fighting together!

Suddenly, the blood-red fireflies merge into Qi Yuan's body, and a blood-red armor covers him completely.

On his shoulders, long and sharp spikes shimmer with a bewitching red light.

His height increases to ten meters, resembling a terrifying blood-colored monster.

Qi Yuan waves his hand, and a broken sword falls into his hand.

The broken sword immediately grows larger and longer, covered in blood-red color.

At this moment, the broken sword looks like a red ruler.

He grins, revealing sharp teeth. "Little monsters, the hunting season begins again!"

He is like a heavy mech, charging into a dinosaur park.

Those flesh and blood monsters are no match for him.

"Kill!"

With a single sword strike, dozens of monsters perish.

+40.

+20.

+10.

+35.

Countless experience pours in, and Qi Yuan becomes like a demon god, killing without stopping.

Wherever he goes, it becomes a purgatory. Any monsters that encounter him have only one path - death.

In ten days, Qi Yuan single-handedly sweeps through the entire abandoned city.

At this moment, Qi Yuan leans against a half-collapsed wall, gasping for breath.

"There are finally no more monsters in the Abandoned City."

He has completely slaughtered all the monsters.

And his level has also reached level 49.

Four levels in ten days, this speed is quite fast.

At this moment, a notification sound enters Qi Yuan's ears.

[Successfully cleared the monsters, obtained a key fragment *1.]

[Begin guarding the Abandoned City. The longer you guard, the richer the rewards.]

[If monsters enter the Abandoned City, the guarding status will fail.]

Upon hearing these prompts, Qi Yuan showed a relaxed expression.

"Who says this world is not a game?"

"It is a game!"

"I am playing the game!"

Qi Yuan held the broken sword and embraced Xiao Jia, and the two sat on the city wall.

Looking out, the yellow sand filled the sky, occasionally swept by strong winds, with dust swirling, and occasionally rusty swords exposed.

Qi Yuan embraced Xiao Jia and together they admired the scenery of the desert.

Sometimes, when the strong wind blew, he stood in front of Xiao Jia.

Sometimes, when the night was enchanting, he dug a pit and slept under the city wall with Xiao Jia.

Whenever there was a demonic presence, he would sense it and slay it with a sword.

"I wonder when the next wave of monsters will attack the city."

On this day, Qi Yuan sat on the city wall with Xiao Jia, feeling both hopeful and not hopeful.

What if a clever little ghost sneaked into the city?

His guarding state would be invalidated.

But if no demons came, he would not be able to spawn monsters and gain experience points.

At this moment, in the distance of the vast desert, two figures wearing armor and tattered clothes appeared, catching Qi Yuan's attention.

In the distance.

"Cough... Zhang Sheng saw the towering city wall, his eyes moistened, "Finally arrived."

Beside Zhang Sheng, Chen Jiao, with a severed arm, had an extremely pale complexion. He handed water to Zhang Sheng.

"Brother Sheng, drink up the water. The two of us will take down Wugui City!"

The water in that water bag was all they had left.

As the reinforcements for Wugui City, the Songzi Camp had a total of 1,723 soldiers.

The commanding general was named Li Huan, a famous general in Daxia.

Wugui City had been out of Daxia's territory for more than ten years.

It was one of the 108,000 lost cities.

Half a year ago, the Emperor of Daxia exhausted the national strength and summoned a group of old soldiers with white hair to march towards Wugui City in order to retake it.

Unfortunately, on their way, they encountered the demonic army.

The two sides collided, and only Zhang Sheng and Chen Jiao managed to escape from the pile of corpses.

When the two woke up, they were severely injured but still had to rush to Wugui City and plant the flag of Daxia on the city wall.

As long as the flag was planted, it meant that Wugui City still belonged to Daxia for one more day.

Wugui City would not be completely lost.

Any city occupied by demons for over a hundred years would no longer belong to the human race unless it was recaptured and guarded for a hundred years.

How difficult was that?

There was no retreat when it came to Wugui City, not even supplies.

Such words were also circulating in Daxia.

Once they set foot on the road to Wugui City, their lifespan would only be one month.

"Unfortunately, the flag cannot be planted on the top of Wugui City forever." Chen Jiao's face was full of disappointment.

He used to be the pig butcher in the town, and his ancestors have been pig butchers for generations.

His cousin and father both died in the city of Wugui.

He is the only one left in the family.

Zhang Sheng, on the other hand, is a constable in the town, and his father is the head constable.

For Chen Jiao, Zhang Sheng can be considered as being born with a golden key.

Zhang Sheng has always liked to be a knight-errant, dressed in fancy clothes and riding a spirited horse.

This time, Zhang Sheng didn't listen to his father's advice and secretly joined the army and came here.

Zhang Sheng looked at the city of Wugui, his face full of excitement: "Wugui City has not returned to Daxia for more than ten years. As long as we raise the military flag on the city wall, the people of Daxia will surely be moved!"

Zhang Sheng's grandfather also died in the city of Wugui.

He is the youngest in the family, and with his older brother taking care of his father, that's why he came here.

Both of them are seriously injured, and blood spills from the corners of their mouths as they speak.

"To be able to bury the remains of the great ancestors who still have their dignity intact, I will have no regrets in this life." Although Chen Jiao comes from a butcher's background, he has always enjoyed playing with words.

"The only regret is that we cannot erect tombs for our ancestors." Zhang Sheng said, taking out his wooden knife, his gaze becoming resolute.

Once they enter the city of Wugui, they will be besieged by evil spirits.

Death is certain, even if there are no evil spirits, their injuries will not allow them to live for more than ten days.

At this moment, suddenly, Zhang Sheng widened his eyes: "Why are there people on the city wall?"

Chen Jiao also froze, showing an incredulous expression.

Wugui City has been lost for more than ten years, how is it possible for there to be people?

Could it be an illusion?

Isn't Wugui City filled with evil spirits?

The two couldn't understand and looked at each other.

"Let's go and take a look." Zhang Sheng and Chen Jiao hurried their steps and looked towards Wugui City.

The closer they got, the more astonished they felt.

Because inside Wugui City, it was quiet, with no roars of evil spirits.

This was different from the information they had received.

According to reason, Wugui City should be filled with evil spirits now, shouldn't it?

And on the city wall, the figure of a man holding a broken sword in his arms became clearer and clearer.

He sat on the city wall, his figure thin, but he was indeed human.

"Who... who are you?" Chen Jiao gathered his courage and asked.

The man on the city wall moved, he looked at the two, his voice calm: "The commander of Wugui City!"

Chen Jiao and Zhang Sheng were shocked by his words, overwhelmed by indescribable emotions.

Could it be that for so many years, Wugui City has not completely fallen?

Are there still people of Daxia, each with a broken sword, sitting alone on the city wall, guarding this place?

"I am Zhang Sheng, a soldier of the Daxia Songzi Camp!"

"I am Chen Jiao, a soldier of the Daxia Songzi Camp!"

Qi Yuan looked at the two and said, "Are you NPCs who were supposed to guard this place?"

PS: The inspiration for this chapter comes from the historical fact that during the Tang Dynasty, there was a "lonely city for a thousand miles, all filled with white-haired soldiers".

(End of this chapter)