Chapter 159 - 143: Insane Defense Power

Chapter 159: Chapter 143: Insane Defense Power

"-1..."

The number "-1" popped up above the Yin Demon’s head. A single punch dealt one point of damage to the Yin Demon...

The little girl was frighteningly weak. Of course, that didn’t mean she hadn’t put any effort into it; she still possessed the strength of an ordinary person. But why did she only deal one point of damage to the Yin Demon?

It was because the Yin Demon also had Defense Power!

After its Defense Power cancelled out the little girl’s ordinary strength, being able to deal even one point of damage was already a miracle. Barring any accidents, Liao Wen would become the first player in history who couldn’t kill an NPC, couldn’t even clear a newbie quest, yet the NPC couldn’t defeat her either. This meant that without outside help, she was doomed to be permanently locked in the Newbie Village.

How tragic.

However, the Yin Demon suddenly collapsing before her provided an opportunity.

The little girl rolled her eyes and threw another punch.

"-1..."

The red number drifted above the mountain-like Yin Demon’s head.

SPLASH!

The already heavily injured Yin Demon struggled weakly. Blood spurted from its wounds like a geyser, and it died on the spot!

DING!

"Oh... my god... Congratulations to player Liao Wen for killing a King Level Yin Demon! You have gained 34,651 Experience Value!"

Over thirty thousand experience? The little girl was taken aback.

"But... I wasn’t the one who killed it, right?"

"You dealt the final blow. Furthermore, the player who heavily injured it, [Chen Huangbei], has already been killed and is in his respawn countdown. Theoretically, this prey no longer belongs to him and has become unowned. You took over the new prey and dealt damage to it until it died. Therefore... it is your prey!" Qing explained.

The little girl was speechless. She wondered if it could really work like that.

Meanwhile, Chen Huangbei was practically coughing up blood in frustration. He muttered, "Just my luck... Right, right, right, I’m just the biggest scapegoat of this era. Nothing is going my way..."

Liao Wen hesitated for a moment. With a significant amount of Experience Value and Yin Points, she could continue leveling up. However, as a complete gaming novice, she understood neither games nor cultivation. So... that’s right, she dumped all her Experience Value and Yin Points entirely into Defense Power.

"Defense Power +34,525!"

"Congratulations to player Liao Wen for instantly leveling up to Level 250!"

"Congratulations on obtaining the Lifebound Armor..."

Level 250?

After increasing her Defense Power, Liao Wen felt her body become much stronger. Her flesh, skin, bones, and hair... they all underwent some kind of transformation. It was a hardening! An indestructible change!

Liao Wen looked at her body. She hadn’t turned into a muscle-bound brute or some other bulky monster; her physical appearance remained largely unchanged. She didn’t know if the massive defense stats Qing had given her were creating an illusion, but she felt entirely invulnerable to swords and spears.

CRACKLE...

Liao Wen raised her arm, which was as fair and tender as a lotus root. She silently activated her defense. Surprisingly, a diamond-shaped shield manifested directly from her arm.

"This is your defensive shield. It makes you indestructible!"

According to the outside world’s power classifications, she was now at the King Level. That’s right—a complete newbie who knew nothing about cultivation and couldn’t even defeat the first NPC had bizarrely reached the King Level...

"Indestructible?" The little girl’s face lit up with pleasant surprise. "I want to be indestructible!"

A King Level who couldn’t fly; a King Level who only had Defense Power. She had maxed out a single stat: defense. In truth, the little girl was different from other King Level players. Her Defense Power far exceeded that of ordinary King Level Ten Thousand Races Cultivators.

She wanted to see this magnificent world. She wanted to experience cultivation. It didn’t matter which attribute she leveled up, as long as she could level up quickly.

WHOOSH!

Not long after the Yin Demon died, its corpse dissolved into specks of light and disappeared.

"DING! Please continue to accept your newbie quests. Only after completing the newbie tutorial may you leave the Newbie Village and accept higher-level quests," Qing said.

"Newbie quest?" The little girl glanced over. After the massive Yin Demon vanished, her actual hunting target stood not too far away—the small NPC she had just fought to a draw.

"Can I not leave if I don’t finish the newbie quest?" the little girl asked.

She walked helplessly toward the small Yin Demon. "How am I supposed to do this?"

SWISH!

The moment she approached the quest location, an astonishing scene unfolded. The small Yin Demon lunged directly at her.

The little girl’s expression was much calmer now. She felt none of the nervousness from her first encounter with the small Yin Demon because she knew her opponent couldn’t do anything to her. The small Yin Demon looked ferocious and terrifying.

However... THUD!

Instead of killing the little girl, it ended up smashing its own head fatally against her body. The little girl hadn’t done a thing. The repulsive force of her defense had actually killed the small Yin Demon.

"DING! Congratulations to player Liao Wen for killing a Novice Level Yin Demon +1..."

"Next, please kill five Yin Demons!"

The little girl was delighted. She wondered if that really worked too. She felt that focusing solely on one attribute had indeed been a wise choice.

She continued to dump all the rewards from killing the Yin Demon into the defense attribute column. She pressed on, executing the quest. She soon arrived before the five NPCs Qing had arranged.

Liao Wen still did absolutely nothing. But the belligerent Yin Demons swarmed her one after another...

The result was to be expected. All five Yin Demons were killed instantly by the repulsive force. The little girl didn’t even flinch; she just stood there and let the Yin Demons hit her.

"This is so fun!" the little girl jumped for joy.

"DING DONG! Congratulations to player Liao Wen for killing Yin Demons +5. You have received the newbie reward: Experience Value +500, Yin Points +200!"

"Add it to defense!"

Having tasted the benefits, the little girl assumed this was just how cultivation worked and how the game was played. You just picked a random attribute and maxed it out all the way. Wasn’t she incredibly powerful just by adding to her defense? Therefore, no matter what rewards she received, as long as she could allocate stat points, she dumped them all into defense.

This... If other players knew about this, they would definitely burst out laughing and mock her as an ignorant fool. Only adding defense? Relying on defensive repulsive force to deal damage? Never heard of it! Never seen it! Only someone completely out of their mind would do such a thing!

"DING! Congratulations to player Liao Wen for gaining 700 points of Defense Power!"

"DING! Newbie quest accepted: Kill the Yin Demon - Poisonous Emperor Bee!"

"The Poisonous Emperor Bee is ferociously aggressive and extremely venomous, causing immense trouble for the Ten Thousand Races Cultivators. Please kill it to eliminate this menace. After killing it, there is a minuscule chance of obtaining the Poison Emperor Talent... Currently, no one has ever obtained this talent."

Following the map provided by Qing, the little girl arrived at the area where the Poisonous Emperor Bee roamed.

"This is the Poisonous Emperor Bee?"

A fist-sized black monster with a bee-like form fluttered in the air. Before Qing could answer, the Poisonous Emperor Bee noticed someone entering its attack range. Its gaze narrowed as it darted toward the little girl.

BANG...

Well then. Liao Wen had basically activated a cheat. She had activated the Emperor’s Luck.

When other players activated cheats in the Marching Battlefield, it was more or less because of Su Tan and the Fat Monk helping them behind the scenes. However, the little girl’s Emperor’s Luck had nothing to do with Su Tan or the Fat Monk. It was purely her own sheer luck.

Just like the other weak NPCs from the newbie quests, the Poisonous Emperor Bee slammed headfirst into the little girl and died. Its proudest weapon—a hard, twenty-centimeter-long stinger—failed to pierce the little girl’s body. Instead, it was blocked by her formidable Defense Power, making it feel like the stinger had struck a steel plate.

It directly... bent! It bent, and the bee died!

Just how terrifying was this Defense Power?

"DING... Congratulations to player Liao Wen for killing a Poisonous Emperor Bee +1..."

"You have received the newbie reward: 500 Experience Value, 200 Yin Power."

"DING... Oh my god! You killed the Poisonous Emperor Bee and dropped a rare talent, the Poison Emperor Talent - Infinite Destruction Upgrade!"

"You are truly a lucky one!" Qing congratulated her from the side.

To be honest, the little girl had absolutely no idea what she was talking about. But seeing Qing so excited, she figured it had to be a pretty good prize.

"What is the Poison Emperor Talent good for?" the little girl asked.

"Simply put, it’s a heaven-defying talent. After you take damage, your recovery speed increases by a hundred times. Moreover, after every recovery, it permanently increases your Defense Power by a random amount!"

"Permanently increases my Defense Power by a random amount?" Hearing this, the little girl’s heart skipped a beat. She thought, "Hehehe... How great! I just love defense!"

"DING... Newbie quest accepted..."

After collecting the rewards from the Poisonous Emperor Bee, the little girl set off once more. Through the newbie quests, she steamrolled her way forward. Very quickly, she arrived at the final quest.

During this time, not many talent rewards dropped. It was a smooth and peaceful process.

However...

What the little girl didn’t know was that her reputation had suddenly spread throughout the entire Marching Battlefield. Because, whether it was reaching Level 250, killing a King Level Yin Demon, or obtaining the Poison Emperor Talent, any of these feats were enough to cause shockwaves! The system broadcasted a server-wide announcement for all of them.

"Which big shot is this? I’ve never heard this name before, yet they took care of a King Level Yin Demon in minutes."

Elsewhere, Chen Huangbei nearly spat out a mouthful of blood. His expression was as awful as if he had swallowed a dead fly. He screamed internally, "That was me... That was me! That was my kill!!!"

But... the name on the announcement wasn’t his. And the person everyone was discussing wasn’t him either. It was Liao Wen.

"From the announcement, it looks like it’s a guy. No woman would be named Liao Wen. Plus, he should be a newbie..."

"A newbie can kill a King Level Yin Demon? And reach Level 250?"

"It really is a newbie! Didn’t you see... he dropped the Poison Emperor Talent? That’s a talent that can only possibly drop during the Newbie Stage."

Indeed, the Poison Emperor Talent was also known among players as the impossible-to-drop talent. It was just a scam, just something to give people a bit of wishful thinking. Drop? It was impossible for it to drop... Before the little girl, absolutely no one had ever made it drop! Therefore, everyone had stopped believing in it. They even thought it was just some nonsense made up by a dog-shit developer to fool people, and that the reward didn’t actually exist.

"Holy shit... Is he that terrifying?"

"Who exactly is this divine figure?"

"He’s way too tough!"

"So explosive right in the Newbie Stage?"

"Haha... People like Fu Jian finally have a rival!"

Liao Wen’s appearance had alarmed countless players. Killing a King’s Dao Yin Demon, instantly leveling up to 250, and dropping the Poison Emperor Talent! A triple bombshell!

Each one of these was a goal players dreamed of achieving. Yet now, they had actually been realized by a single person.

Envy, jealousy, and hatred ran rampant!

...

The little girl’s emergence also caught Su Tan’s attention in the Divine Mansion. For no other reason, except that her luck was simply too good.

"Did you activate a cheat for her?" Su Tan asked. Otherwise, how could her luck be so good?

"I didn’t..." The Monk was just as bewildered. "I didn’t do anything at all!"

"Then... how did she manage to drop one of the newbie rewards that was supposedly impossible for anyone to get?" Su Tan asked in disbelief.

"Uh... maybe she just has good luck," the Fat Monk said.

"Good luck? Killing a Yin Demon King with Zero Cultivation, instantly leveling up to 250, dropping the Poison Emperor Talent, and breezing through the newbie quests with ease... If this is good luck... then her luck is way too good!" the Little White Wolf exclaimed in astonishment.

"Could it be that you thought she was pretty, so you secretly gave her a cheat and are just pretending not to know?" the Fat Monk asked, looking at Su Tan.

"Get lost! Look at what? Can I even see?"

"Uh... true..." the Fat Monk chuckled awkwardly.

"Interesting. I’ve actually taken an interest in her. Why don’t we... see what else she can do?"

Su Tan nodded. Liao Wen’s luck had made him very curious as well. The Monk hurriedly pulled up a screen showing Liao Wen.