Chapter 110 - CBN Leaderboard
After killing a dozen or so Flaming Cat Spirits, I finally got to the mouth of the cave in the Green Qilin Abyss. Here, piles of black listone were stacked into a precipitous, jagged slope. My heart raced anxiously; I had high expectations and would hate to be disappointed. If I can find so Green Qilin Grass here, there’s a good chance that I could make a lot of money. If I go back empty-handed then I will have no way to fund my studio.
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Rustle…
As I made my way through the grass, I caught a glimpse of a Flaming Cat Spirit in the distance. It hasn’t seen yet, so I continued on cautiously. I clambered over the pile of black listone at the edge of the cave and beca sorely disappointed. There wasn’t even a single blade of Green Qilin Grass. Damn, is it possible that the legendary Green Qilin Grass really doesn’t grow in the Green Qilin Valley? Or perhaps my thod of searching is flawed?
I reached out with my hands to feel the wet stone walls and let the cool feeling spread in my palm. I clenched my teeth in frustration. I just can’t figure it out! Why can I not find the Green Qilin Herb? Even if it is a Lv 6 herb, I should be far enough in the map for Lv 6 herbs to spawn. Maybe the system is intentionally preventing players from crafting Lv 6 pills at this stage of the ga?
No, that’s not right. The system is controlled by the main computer; even the company can’t interfere with it. There has to be sothing I’m missing here.
I silently stood and my eyes wandered over the terrain for a long ti. Suddenly, I saw sothing out of the corner of my eye; sothing poking out of a piece of listone. I kicked the rock, cracking its surface to reveal a seed-like object breaking through the rock. My heart sunk. My first impression was that so kind of monkey would jump out at but of course that’s impossible. With the help of a little poking and prodding, the rock gradually broke open with a few crackling noises, and there, before my eyes, was a dark green seed —— the Green Qilin Grass!
Note: The monkey is a reference to Journey to the East, a classic in Chinese literature.
Great!
I am so excited! I was finally able to find the Green Qilin Herb. Although it’s extrely small and looked like any other old bean sprout, a dark green light shone from its tiny leaves, a sign of its power. Lv 6 herbs are really special!
I needed to collect the Green Qilin Herb without damaging the roots, so I carefully tried to scoop out the top of the listone using my trowel. However, upon failing to make even a dent to the stone after many attempts with the trowel, I realized that this rock is abnormally strong!
Out of anger, I stabbed at the rock with my sword, breaking it to reveal herb inside. I then used the trowel to collect it——
Ding!
System Notification: You have collected [Green Qilin Herb] x 2, [Herb Collecting] proficiency 5. Since you are the first player to collect the Green Qilin Herb, you received 1 charm!
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Not bad, I even got a point in charm…
Continuing my search, I carefully examined each rock for bumps on their surfaces while killing so more Flaming Cat Spirits to clear the area. Not long after, I had 100 Green Qilin Grasses in my inventory. However, having already spent 2 hours or so in the area, I felt a premonition telling to get moving. Danger is coming. The Tyrant of Western Chu I know would not just leave matters the way they are right now.
I gripped my sword tightly as I scanned the area, seeing that there were still many Flaming Cat Spirits around . Although they give a lot of experience, it is tough to take one down, let alone a whole group of them. Their [Fla Fan Dance] ability is particularly dangerous, since it deals up to 1000 damage, which is more HP than I can afford to lose. They also seem to be very sensitive to my chain skill and can sense where my chains appear from. Once they see my chains, all of the surrounding Flaming Cat Spirits imdiately lock on to them and destroy them using the [Fla Fan Dance] skill. They must hate being restrained.
I cracked open the last black rock and carefully harvested another Green Qilin Herb.
After collecting all of the herbs in the area, I continued searching for more Green Qilin Grasses. As I headed deeper into the Green Qilin Abyss, in search of more grasses, I ca across an enormous stone wall, which was carved with the ancient etchings of a mighty beast. It stood, like a totem, towering over everything in the vicinity. This beast must have sothing to do with the na of the area I’m in, the Green Qilin Abyss. It did, in fact, resemble the figure of the legendary Qilin.
I sat down to take a quick breather, contemplating whether or not I should wait and go back to check if the Green Qilin Herbs have respawned. I can only craft 30 Green Qilin Pills with the 100 Green Qilin Herbs I have in my inventory and that is nowhere near enough to make the amount of money I need.
Giving up, I checked my friend list to find that Song Han and his party were already Lv 30. Those guys are amazing; they grinded to Lv 30 in only 3 days, an incredible feat.
I sent a ssage to Song Han, “Little Wolf, how are you guys doing?”
He replied, “Everything is going according to plan. We recently recruited a Healer for our party. He runs a small shop selling shoes and hats so he has a lot of free ti on his hands. He’s been online a lot and grinding is so much easier with a Lv 33 Healer.”
“Mm, nice. Don’t be afraid to give him any equips that he needs and make sure not to chase him away. It would be extrely beneficial to have a Healer on Zhan Long as well since the four of us isn’t going to be enough.”
“I understand. Don’t worry, with Fox here, he’s not going anywhere.”
“Ah, okay. How much money did you guys make while grinding?”
“Eh…It’s been almost 5 hours and we’ve since collected a total of 34 gold coins. Convert that into 340 Yuan (~$55) and dividing among us nets , Fox, and Old K 110 Yuan per day. That’s currently more than enough to pay for our ga card and groceries… But don’t worry, just wait until we hit the higher levels and get to the high leveled mobs. Coins will literally be dropping from the sky, and making 100 gold coins in a day should be easy as finding them on the ground.”
I chuckled. “Don’t forget that the gold coins’ value is still dropping due to the inflation in ga while the number of coins dropped by a mob doesn’t change. To keep things short, making money like this can only be a temporary plan, the thods of a noob studio. You need to hurry up and grind to Lv 40, so we can go and do the higher level missions. Your list of priorities should be helping others, killing bosses, making money, and guaranteeing that the studio functions normally!”
“Got it. Oh yeah, Xiao Yao, don’t forget that the server will be down from 3 to 12 AM tomorrow. Although we won’t be able to go online for a while, we should be able to get a good 11 hours of sleep, so we can be in good condition for tomorrow.
“Okay, sleep tight, I’ll also sleep 11 hours…”
“Haha!”
“Good night!”
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With the conversation dying down, I returned to my task of clearing the area of Flaming Cat Spirits. I aggroed them one by one to make it easier and within 2 hours I gained 31% of my experience. If I wiped out the rest of the Flaming Cat Spirits, I should be able to reach Lv 47 and regain my spot in the Top 10 in the Ba Huang City leaderboards.
The task of killing Flaming Cat Spirits quickly beca tedious so I opened up the forum to check the top posts. Surprisingly, one of the posts is about ——
【Video】Xiao Yao Zi Zai is being chased by [Wrath of the Heroes] in Green Qilin Valley!
I clicked on it and watched as my character jumped down from a tree to quickly take out a group of Wind Elf class players. I rember fighting a total of 22 of them and even making them retreat. Apparently a lot of the players thought that it was an amazing feat and the video already had several thousand replies—
【Post 1 (Player General Li Mu)】: Cough cough, Xiao Yao Zi Zai V5, destroy those [Wrath of the Heroes] mbers!
Note: V5 is slang for sothing… probably like OP or great job
【Post 2 (Player Half City)】: It is almost impossible to even fight a 1 v 22, let alone win one! Tis are changing quickly; can the [Wrath of the Heroes] really believe that they will be one of China’s top 10 guilds? How stupid are they? Keep dreaming…
【Post 3 (Player Yan Zhao Warrior)】: To the above post. It’s not that the [Wrath of the Heroes] mbers are weak, it’s just that Xiao Yao Zi Zai is strategically stronger than them. He was able to quickly analyze the terrain and use the tree to ambush his enemies. Not only did he outplay his opponents but his gear is also very good. He also has [Heal] which he learned as a Healer so his HP is always high. On top of all that, his pet is god tier and he even created his own [Combo], which is rumored to be S-ranked. It is a combination of these factors which allowed him to fight 1 v 22 and win.
【Post 4 (Player Cang Tong)】: Li Xiao Yao’s pretty stupid…
【Post 5 (Player Cang Yue)】: Love him so much
【Post 6 (Demacia)】: The #1 healer pulls out different surprises out of his bag of tricks each ti. It’s so fun watching Xiao Yao Zi Zai do the unexpected. Haha, I wonder if [Wrath of the Heroes] will continue chasing him after this defeat. Hopefully they don’t all die in the Green Qilin Abyss or else their guild would lose a ton of face LOL!
【Post 7 (Frozen Gravestone)】: Damn, he’s so strong! It’s hard to imagine that Xiao Yao Zi Zai is a Ba Huang City player like . He’s way out of my league and really scary too…I wonder, in a 1 v 1 between him and Jian Feng Han, who would win?
【Post 8 (Crazy)】: Stop dreaming last post! It doesn’t matter how strong Xiao Yao Zi Zai gets, he won’t match Jian Feng Han. Don’t forget… Jian Feng Han has the strongest sword on the server, the Purple Rank Heavenly Plan Sword. Xiao Yao Zi Zai may not even be able to take one round of Jian Feng Han’s [Combo]!
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There were countless posts on the forums but I stayed calm and didn’t bother leaving even one reply.
After that I looked at the website information and discovered new information, it’s is called “Hero Chaos: CBN’s Destiny Battle Network Leaderboard Officially Opens!”
I clicked on the description and stared blankly at it——
CBN (China-Destiny Battle) Destiny’s leaderboard: Called “China’s Destiny’s Overall Leaderboard”, it will be the most scientific way of judging the strength of the players!
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Damn, only one sentence and nothing more. What the hell?
I opened my friends list and just as I was about to chat with soone to find out more, I heard a drop, and found Wan Er’s call request. I imdiately accepted it and heard a sweet voice——
“Hi, Li Xiao Yao have you seen the new ga mode? Don’t always PvP other players…”
I nodded, “Mm, I saw it but I didn’t understand it.”
Wan Er smiled, “In short, just search online for your own ranking tomorrow and you’ll know. I’ve got the information from a certain place and this CBN leaderboard is reliant on the player’s PvP battle achievents in all sorts of gas. So, you player killing enthusiasts might even be ranked very high since every ti you battle with other players the system will automatically record it. Hehe, from now on if the guilds are looking for players they won’t only look at the level, they’ll look at the CBN leader board too…”
I smiled, “So that’s how it is, I understand now, but as of right now, Q-Sword and Jian Feng Han‘s rankings will be pretty high…”
Wan Er is speechless, “Don’t compare yourself to them, those are the skilled and high-tiered players, people like you……should compare yourself to Tyrant of Western Chu, that would be wiser…”
I laugh, “Miss, you are too unloving…”
“I’m not joking…” In the calling screen, Wan Er smiled, showing her dimples and acted poutful.
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Whoosh!
Suddenly, I heard movents above . I imdiately raised my head and I see several vines swinging back and forth. My heart couldn’t help but sink and I said quietly, “Wan Er, I can’t chat anymore, I have a bit of a problem!”
Lin Wan Er is smart; she realized what was happening and warned : “Be careful, and don’t die!”
“Ok!”
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