Chapter 21: Changes in the Martial World

  The following week was dull, tedious and uninteresting for Feng Xiao Xiao.

  Every day after dinner, Liu Ruoxue goes online on time, and then drags the wind to the top of the mountain to draw circles until she goes offline. This makes the wind develop a habit of sleeping after dinner every day. Liu Ruoxue and the monkeys have a great time playing together, while the wind sleeps soundly beside them. After making up for lost sleep, the wind is energetic and lively when staying up all night with the three people in the dormitory after Liu Ruoxue goes offline.

  Willow often asks the wind some boring questions, such as what color do you like? Fortunately, she met the wind who was still awake, he looked at the sky and said it's blue, saw clouds and said white, glanced at trees and said green, glimpsed a monkey's butt and said red...

  Something unexpected happened in the seven days, one day Wind Xiuxiu slept soundly, Liu Ruoxue suddenly went offline, and the monkeys that pounced on Wind Xiuxiu were torn to pieces. When he woke up, he was sleeping at the Xiangyang respawn point. Later, Liu Ruoxue explained that there was a sudden power outage, but it's hard to verify whether it's true or not.

  The dull life has yielded a surprising result, with the wind blowing fiercely in recent days, breaking through the 50 mark in just seven days, leaving the three dormitory mates stunned, especially the eldest.

  The winds howled and thus created many records, the fastest upgrade is a given. But at level 50 and above, I am the only one who still doesn't know internal skills, hasn't entered a sect, hasn't changed equipment, and what's more, has never seen what in-game currency looks like. This last point created a miracle in the online gaming industry, achieving an immortal legend.

  The story takes a turn, just as the carefree days of the wind blowing gently are about to arrive, the world of Jianghu is also undergoing a sudden change, but this change does not come from the blue-clothed person that everyone had previously guessed, but rather comes from the official.

  Firstly, the official release of the first announcement: Since the game's operation, it has received strong support from all walks of life and is deeply welcomed by players. In order to provide more comprehensive services for the vast number of player friends and allow everyone to better experience the game, it was decided that from today on, within three days, the public test will end and paid operations will begin.

  Next is the second item: Within three days, please ask players to bring their ID cards to a designated location for portrait recording. For some unopened service points, players can contact the head office and the company can arrange video recording, but there may be more serious distortion situations.

  The third point, also the most influential one, is that after the public test, the system will make some adjustments to certain details.

  1. Each martial art move will have both attacking and defensive capabilities, with different emphasis on each type of martial art.

  2. Cancel the defensive attribute of the character, increase the weight-bearing attribute, and can be increased by adding points to physique and strength.

  3. Equipment adjustment, from now on only armor-type equipment has defensive power, and the previous defensive power of other fabric equipment is replaced by dodge. Equipment will have weight attributes, and weight will affect the player's movement, attack, dodge and other related attribute performances.

  4. After the public test is completed, the player-built guild system will be fully opened, and specific details can be found on the guild page;

  5. Character attribute adjustment: From now on, various grocery stores will sell "Restore Soul Dan" for 10 copper coins each, which can restore all previously added points. During the public test period, each account is limited to one purchase.

  6. Hidden tasks are fully open, including high, medium and low levels. High-level tasks have uniqueness and will not have the same reward tasks after completion. The previous novice village task was a high-level hidden task; Medium-level hidden tasks change their trigger and completion conditions randomly each time they are triggered, but the rewards remain unchanged. Sect high-level martial arts tasks belong to medium-level hidden tasks; Low-level hidden tasks have the same trigger conditions, but the completion conditions and rewards are random each time. There are many NPCs in various places that can trigger related low-level hidden tasks.

  7. New combat settings, increased damage settings, attacking different parts of the human body will cause different damage, and some important parts of the human body being hit can produce double damage or even instant kill. Some parts being hit can produce related effects, such as hitting the right hand, the action ability of the right hand will decrease. The specific damage of different parts is for players to research by themselves.

  In addition, when the health value drops below 10% of the total, combat ability will be lost. Below 1%, normal action ability will be lost. At the same time, when the health value is lower than 10%, the character cannot log off forcibly.

  8. The application of internal force has been modified, and each martial arts move requires the consumption of relevant internal force. Now, the internal force consumption is adjusted to a range, and the offense and defense of this martial art's moves will also appear in a corresponding range. Only when the maximum internal force is consumed can the martial art's maximum offense and defense be exerted.

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  System announcement caused a stir in Jianghu, especially after the open beta ended with adjustments to equipment and damage settings.

  Although the human body has cancelled its defensive settings, its defensive power still exists and can only be enhanced through weapons and equipment, showing that it is still important; while dodging has replaced the original defensive position, making the originally neglected hit rate no longer negligible. The modification of the damage setting has further highlighted the importance of hitting, but whether a high-hitting person can deal with a heavily loaded person wearing high-defensive armor is also unknown. At the same time, the setting that reduces life and loses ability while not being able to log off enhances the game's realism, as it makes robbery possible in the game!

  In addition, the emergence of "Huilindan" saved a group of people who were originally worshippers of Qingyi. They had put all their points into agility and movement skills in order to create miracles like Qingyi, but unfortunately, they moved like a rabbit, beckoned like a ghost, and hit people as if scratching an itch, earning them the nickname "true garbage" from Jianghu people. Huilindan gave this group of garbage a chance to be recycled and reused.

  The emergence of the gang system has made many people eager to try, and major restaurants are packed every day. Those who have ambitions to create "thousands of autumns, one unified rivers and lakes" are pulling gangs together, winning over people's hearts. At the dinner table, they call each other brothers and sisters, a whole family system. Some realists who live by the motto "if there's wine today, get drunk today" eat at this table and drink at that table, and after several tables, they've added countless brothers and sisters with no blood relation, people they'd never had any connection with before.

  Peach Garden Oath, Three Visits to the Thatched Cottage and other Three Kingdoms classics are repeatedly staged in the game. Liangzi followed the trend of the times and loudly demanded to form a "Four Swordsmen" alliance with the three men, but was met with contempt from everyone.

  There are many joys and sorrows, some people are cheering and jumping for joy, full of confidence; others are disheartened and scolding the streets every day. Overall, this revision has received praise from most players, who think it is more realistic and more like Jianghu.

  Feng Xiao Xiao was indifferent to all this, and still had nothing but his speed as his only specialty. However, Liu Ruoxue seemed a bit down in the dumps for the past two days, and when Feng Xiao Xiao asked her what was wrong, she blinked her eyes and said: "When our HP drops to 1%, we'll even lose our basic movement abilities, so won't us girls be taken advantage of by perverts?"

  This is indeed a big problem.