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Chapter 325 Stars
The gravity changed quietly, and when Li Sheng opened his eyes again, he was already standing in a fairly spacious ancient Chinese-style study.

The furnishings in the study are very elegant, with ancient landscape paintings hanging on the walls, writing brushes, inkstones, and papers on the desk, and scrolls and classics with a faint scent of ink displayed on the bookshelves. The window frames are carved with patterns, and the curtains are lightly drawn, and one can clearly hear the sound of a waterfall flowing from outside the window.

There were eight people standing in the study. Li Sheng, Yuan Zhixia who received the same task, and two others were wearing black clothes, and the remaining four were wearing white clothes.

Everyone looked at each other, sized each other up cautiously, and waited for the system briefing.

[Three thousand years ago, an extremely tragic battle between gods and demons destroyed Mount Buzhou, causing the connection between the earth and the sky. The heaven and the earth, the gods and humans were isolated from each other and did not interfere with each other. It was difficult for practitioners to ascend to the immortal world, and their lifespan dropped sharply to two hundred years.]

[Seeing that there was no hope of ascending to heaven, the cultivators had no choice but to take steps to govern the devastated human world. They spontaneously formed the so-called Immortal Court, made laws, restrained and controlled disputes between cultivators, and imposed sanctions when necessary.]

[Xiaoshui Sect, from a declining sect, has become the third largest sect in the human world in less than 150 years under the joint leadership of its leader, Xiaoshui Xingjun, and his wife, Miaoyin. The couple live in harmony and work together, and are regarded as a couple of gods by the world.]

[However, from their youthful love to their mutual dislike, the couple's marriage could no longer be maintained due to various reasons, and they eventually broke up and went to the Immortal Court for divorce arbitration. This century-long divorce case that shocked the human world thus kicked off.]

[In this mission, eight players will be divided into two groups. As lawyers, they will represent Xiaoshui Xingjun and Miaoyin Jushi respectively, conduct court debates, collect evidence, refute the other party, and strive for the interests of their clients as much as possible.]

This concludes the briefing, and here are the mission details.

[Second-stage mission goal: Win the divorce case for client Xiaoshui Xingjun]

[Task time limit: 72 hours]

[Task Reward 1: 1500 Experience Points]

[Task Reward 2: 5000 Game Coins]

[Task Reward 3: Random Item*1, quality depends on clearance rating]

[Task Reward 4: 1 random skill scroll, quality depends on clearance rating]

[Task Reward 5: Thank you gift from Lord Xiaoshui*1]

[Failure penalty: The wrath of Lord Xiaoshui]

Ah this
Li Sheng rubbed his brows. No wonder he was given a huge reward of 5000 game coins in one go. It turned out that the world view was really based on fantasy cultivation.

Especially the final mission reward and failure penalty are even more intriguing.

If you complete it well, you can cleanse your marrow and remove your hair, be reborn, implant top-level spiritual roots for free, and also be given a gift package of caves, exercises, and spiritual medicines?

If the performance is not good, you will be rewarded with the Soul-breaking Banner and the Demon-Locking Tower?

The other people who had also heard the mission briefing had different expressions on their faces, and before they knew it, they stood on both sides in black and white clothes.

Obviously, those wearing black are the legal team representing Lord Xiaoshui, and those wearing white are the legal team of Ms. Miaoyin.

After a brief silence, a handsome man in white with sharp eyebrows and bright eyes spoke first: "I think everyone has heard the mission briefing, right?
This team deathmatch does not require fighting each other, but is a simple court debate.

Considering that the briefing mentioned words like gods and demons, fairyland, Buzhou Mountain, and Jedi Heavenly Passage, the level of power is relatively high even in the world of the killing field.

In other words, we will not be given the opportunity to use force or devious means to complete the mission early."

As if to verify his words, the man pulled out a rusty bronze sword from the void and slashed it diagonally towards the ground.

The sword tip emitted a murderous aura, but before the sword energy touched the ground,
The bell hanging by the study window rang automatically, and the sword energy dissipated instantly.

'Is this... a ban on supernatural powers?'

The other people's eyelids jumped. Some missions would have such a peaceful area where private fighting was prohibited at the beginning. In the past, it was directly handled by the system.
And this time, because it is set in a world with a high power level, the killing field simply took a break and used the world background to rationalize the setting of the peace zone.

"We haven't met our client yet, and there's been no knock on the study door, so this is still a peaceful zone. To show my sincerity, here is my personal information." The man in white put away the bronze sword, snapped his fingers, and a string of text floated above his head.

【Crape Myrtle·Zhongtian Beiji】【Lv31】

Oh my, isn’t this Gou Chen’s brother?

Li Sheng's mind moved. After the Toy City mission, he specifically collected clues and information about Zhongtian Beiji.

This man's parents are wealthy Chinese businessmen in Malaysia. He received elite education since childhood, had excellent grades and participated in Mathematical Olympiads. He is also proficient in fencing, equestrianism, and skiing. When he was at Stanford University, he and his classmates set up a cryptocurrency website and cashed out for 10 million US dollars.

A genuine successor to capitalism.

Until the killing field came, he was randomly selected as a player because of his own qualities (there are also rumors that he used his family connections to command the gang to kidnap and murder a local novice player, killed him and plundered his qualifications).
Then he immediately kicked out the daughter of a local official, to whom he had just been engaged.

He plunged into the world of killing with full concentration, steadily and rapidly upgrading until he became Lv31 today, and the acting head of the Southeast Asia region of GOC.

Well. Because some factions within the GOC are secretly fighting for power, Zhongtian Beiji's proxy prefix has not been cancelled.

However, as long as he can continue to upgrade and achieve results, it will be just around the corner for him to be promoted to the general manager of the Southeast Asia region with a population of nearly 700 million.

In the study, Zhongtian Beiji had a frank expression and a stern look.

The other players who had heard of his name also displayed their IDs after thinking about it.

Miaoyin lay Buddhist camp,

A middle-aged white man in a suit, meticulously groomed from hair to toes, identified as [Legal Tycoon Howard] [Lv17]

A short, thin old man with an unremarkable appearance and cloudy eyes, [Unknown Person·Haye] [Lv20]

A 5- or -year-old person with a face so exquisite and perfect that it is difficult to tell whether she is male or female, and who looks a bit like Tadina Papamoshe, the heroine in the old Greek movie "Iphigenia", [Humanoid Computer·Ada] [Lv]

This is not good.

Li Sheng's eyelids twitched. As a frequent user of player forums, he loved reading all kinds of weird news.

This [Legal Tycoon Howard], like Zhongtian Beiji, chose to reveal his player identity very early on.

In the real world, he is a partner of the renowned international law firm, Ruisheng LLP, specializing in corporate transactions, environmental law and tax law.

Clients include Prometheus, European Heavy Industries Group, and the Beast of a Thousand Maws. When these large organizations have business conflicts but do not want to go to war directly, they will find lawyers to negotiate based on the advisory laws issued by the GOC.

Howard's well-known achievement was that he helped the Thousand Maws Guild to file a lawsuit against Gen-Sys Biotechnology for infringing on the Thousand Maws' patents and plagiarizing several biological enhancement preparations for magical pets, and successfully made the biotechnology company pay 300,000 game currency points.

The second one, Haye, is even more of a heavyweight. He is the apprentice of Jacques Vergès.

Jacques Vergès is a famous French lawyer, known for defending some highly controversial cases. He was born in 1925 and died in 2013. His father was a French diplomat and his mother was a Vietnamese teacher. Because his parents married in an interracial way, his father was demoted, which made Vergès develop a firm anti-colonial ideology since he was a child.

After becoming a left-wing human rights lawyer, his defense clients include, but are not limited to, Klaus Barbie, the head of the Gestapo in Lyon, France during World War II, the Cold War terrorist Carlos the Jackal, former Yugoslav President Milosevic, and former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
His home is also filled with gifts from these "quasi-celebrity" people. In his own words, "Defense does not mean making excuses. A lawyer does not judge, condemn, or declare someone not guilty. He just tries to understand the situation as best he can."

(Based on the evaluation standards of the toy factory, if Verges were still alive, he would definitely be able to squeeze out A-level and S-level concepts)
As Vergès' assistant and disciple, Haye had appeared in newspapers many times until he was selected as a player at the age of 80 a year ago, almost breaking the age record of the player world.

The two people in Miaoyin Jushi’s camp are both “celebrities” in the legal profession. Although the last one, Ada, is only Lv5, she is not simple considering her title as a humanoid computer.

And here on my side.
Li Sheng turned his head and looked behind him.

(End of this chapter)