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Chapter 601 Novice Village

"My dear friends, this is a live broadcast room for technical anchors. Cultivating immortals relies on brains, not krypton gold!

"So what if it's a big sect? Haven't you read the immortal cultivation novels? The real protagonists all crawled out of the village.

"Today we will demonstrate a perfect mortal cultivation of immortality. Then we can trample the geniuses of the major sects under our feet one by one. That will be awesome.

"What? You got bitten to death by a wild dog when you went out?
"Not really, not really. I believe that Ni Tian Tang is not that outrageous. I am not breaking the law by playing games for free. They won't target me that much."

Chen Tingquan selected his identity, and then came to the face-shaping screen.

"Hey, isn't this painting style normal now?

"Look, both men and women are good-looking, this is the style of a proper fairy tale.

“Although she was wearing patched rags and looked dirty, her natural beauty could not be concealed.

"When I get back to wear this outfit, it will definitely be a feast for the eyes."

After all, "Against the Sky" is a pure PC game and is not compatible with mobile phones. It has higher configuration requirements and the graphics are naturally more exquisite.

The initial characters are very different from the square immortals in the CG. Both men and women are tall, which is in line with normal aesthetics.

The men are handsome and the women are beautiful. The difference between men and women is quite obvious.

"It's still the same principle, choose a female character unconditionally!
"I don't want to see the male character's butt in the game anyway."

Chen Tingquan quickly confirmed the character's gender and quickly went through the face-pinching screen.

The system provides many appearance templates, which all look pretty good. Chen Tingquan himself doesn’t care too much about the details of these appearances.

So he decided to enter the game quickly and start practicing quickly so that he could be one step ahead of others.

As for cultivating immortality, it is all about hard work and constant self-improvement!

After selecting the role, Chen Tingquan took a look at the comments.

"Why does it seem like the higher the initial status, the uglier the character?"

This statement caught Chen Tingquan's attention.

Among the viewers in the live broadcast room, some were watching the live broadcast while playing games, and some were switching between two live broadcast rooms, so they could know the situation of other identities.

Whether it is the initial picture or the face-pinching picture, you can see the difference between the three identities.

The biggest difference is body shape!
The villagers have normal builds, while the inner disciples of the big sects have very... muscular builds.

Moreover, this body shape is still in an unadjustable state.

Against the Heaven's Heaven's face-shaping system is very free. For example, the length of eyelashes, angle of eye corners, height of nose bridge, etc. can all be divided into 100 levels of infinite adjustment. In theory, you can shape any face you want.

But when it comes to body shape, we can only define height, not fatness or muscle mass.

The villagers have normal muscle mass, but the higher their status, the stronger their bodies are and the more exaggerated their muscle mass is, which makes them look ugly and does not conform to general aesthetics.

“Perhaps this is some kind of benefit that Against Heaven gives to free players?
“Compared to paying players, free players lack in numbers, but the characters are prettier, which in a sense balances things out?
"That's pretty good."

Chen Tingquan mistakenly thought that this was some kind of compensation for ordinary players, and he was still happy about it.

Soon, I entered the game screen and familiarized myself with the operations.

The operation is relatively simple, similar to the previous action games of Against the Heaven. The combat system can be roughly divided into three different systems:
The first system is the most basic melee system, including light attacks, heavy attacks, jumping, dodging, sprinting, etc.

After mastering certain magical powers, the character's mobility will be improved, for example, the jump button in the air will turn into flying, and pressing the sprint button during flight will turn into fast flying.

But Chen Tingquan can’t get in touch with him yet.

The second system is the magic weapon system, which allows you to equip many different magic weapons at the same time, including both active and passive types. There is a special button that can be used to control these magic weapons.

Depending on the type of magic weapon, some will automatically surround and attack once selected, while others require manual selection of the effective range and have a certain cooldown time.

The third system is the spell system. After learning the spells, you can equip them and consume spiritual consciousness to use them.

Magical weapons and spells have corresponding buttons, which can be combined with the light and heavy attack keys to form a combination key.

The system is quite rich, but Chen Tingquan, who came from a villager family, has nothing.

He had no magic weapons or spells, so he could only use the rusty iron sword passed down from his ancestors to launch normal attacks.

In addition to the combat system, the character also has a development system, which looks very complicated at first glance.

In other games, such as Endless Fantasy Tales 2, the character development system can be roughly divided into three parts: one is the character level, two is the character equipment, and three is other derivative systems of the character, such as skill level.

The character development system of "Against the Heaven's Path", in addition to the character level and derived skill level (such as spell and cultivation level), also divides the character level into three different systems.

They are: physical body, spiritual consciousness and internal organs.

Physique and spiritual awareness are easy to understand, they are physical quality and mental quality.

Physical strength directly affects the performance of the character, which is a pure numerical value. The higher the physical strength, the more painful it will be when a sword strikes. And spiritual awareness affects the power of spells and the mana bar of the character. The stronger the spiritual awareness, the more powerful the spell will be, and the cooling time will be shortened accordingly.

In addition, these two attributes will slightly affect the power of the magic weapon, but this influence is mainly of a threshold nature.

That is to say, if the attributes are not up to standard, the magic weapon cannot exert its full power, but if the attributes exceed the value required by the magic weapon by a lot, there will not be much additional increase.

When both the physical body and spiritual awareness meet the standards at the same time, a breakthrough can be made, such as from Qi Refining to Foundation Building, and then to Dan Formation and so on.

Of course, when breaking through each major level, you also need to prepare special breakthrough materials and complete specific breakthrough tasks.

At present, for Chen Tingquan, breakthrough is still a long way off.

What particularly concerned him was this "internal organ".

On the surface, this thing doesn't seem to have much to do with character development. It doesn't add any attributes, and no matter how high or low it is, it doesn't affect the character's breakthrough.

Moreover, this thing is still very vague. Physical strength and spiritual consciousness have a very clear value, but the internal organs do not.

Not only are there no specific values, there isn't even a clear progress bar. The interface only shows a picture of a character sitting cross-legged in meditation. You can vaguely see the air masses constantly condensing in the internal organs, and these air masses are constantly changing color.

"So what exactly do the internal organs do? I don't understand.

“There’s a gourd next to this character, maybe it’s related to elixirs?
“Forget it, I don’t have any pills now anyway.

"Let's explore around first."

The character's initial birth point is indeed the same as expected, a small village on the mountain with some thatched houses, a lousy blacksmith, and occasionally a traveling doctor or peddler.

It can be said that although it is small, it has all the necessary facilities.

Now Chen Tingquan had no money on him, so he could only take his rusty iron sword passed down from his ancestors and go down the mountain to hunt, or take some tasks from NPCs to find the lost cows in the village, or beat up the thieves who wanted to sneak into the village to steal.

Fight, that's all.

The movements are smooth, and you can also parry, deflect knives, etc. It’s a pretty good experience.

After all, Against the Heaven has considerable experience in producing action games, and its basic skills are absolutely solid.

But after playing for a while, Chen Tingquan discovered two very bad problems.

First of all, isn't this battle too monotonous?

Obviously, there are magic weapons and spells in the system, but Chen Tingquan's character knows nothing and can only chop with a broken sword. He doesn't even have any special combat skills.

For the first five or ten minutes, I thought it was okay. I used more dodging when fighting beasts and more parrying when fighting bandits. It was basically the most basic action game fun.

But after playing for a while, it's all the same old stuff, and the attributes have basically not improved, which is very annoying.

Secondly, why is this huge map so deserted?
"Against the Heavens" obviously also uses the technology of seamless large maps. Whether it is the mountains seen in the distance or the villages with smoke rising from chimneys, they can all be reached.

But the key problem is that this big map is too empty!

In sharp contrast is "Endless Fantasy Legend".

As benchmark works of large-world gameplay, "Legend of Endless Fantasy" and "Legend of Endless Fantasy 2" have a playable element almost every short distance, whether it is a battle treasure chest, a puzzle treasure chest, or a collectible element.

Coupled with a variety of main and side quests, players always have something to do while playing, and the gaming experience is very fulfilling.

But "Against the Heavens" is just the opposite.

Seeing a dense forest, Chen Tingquan subconsciously thought that as a landmark area, there must be something special, right? Whether it was a powerful beast, a fairy cave, or a special collection item, it would be common sense to have something.

But when he went in and took a look around, he found nothing except a wild boar he had shot and some wood he had chopped.

After leaving the small village, Chen Tingquan controlled his character to walk around aimlessly. He began to doubt his life and didn't know what he should do.

All I can say is, it’s so damn real!

The real world of immortal heroes is probably like this. Just like in ancient society, human activities are very limited. Apart from small villages and towns, most places are wilderness, with no people and not many animals.

But this is a game. If it is so realistic, what is the point of playing for players?
Fortunately, Chen Tingquan was still careful and just followed the road, so after leaving the original small village, he came to another small village.

This small village also has NPCs, where you can sell the hides and meat you get from hunting, and you can also take on quests to earn some money.

If he didn't follow the road, but instead went deep into the mountains and forests...it would be very difficult for him to get out again, and he would have to play this game as a savage hunting simulator.

Not only that, Chen Tingquan also discovered a very disappointing situation.

This character eats so much!
In Endless Fantasy Tales, although there are food and cooking systems, they are actually not that important.

Food can restore health when the health is low, and can also increase physical strength or attack power, but it is also okay if the player does not eat for a long time.

But it is different in "Against the Heaven's Will". If you don't eat for a long time, the status of the character's internal organs will change obviously, and the qi running in the internal organs will become an abnormal color.

Even the internal organs will become visibly shriveled.

(End of this chapter)