All-Heavens Game, the Strongest Player

Chapter 375 The Nineteenth-Rank Clown!

"That level 19 player from the Star Lord Alliance is named 'Star Nineteen.' He's a disciple specially trained by the Alliance's 'First Star Lord.' He's had 'Star' as his surname and 'Nineteen' as his given name since childhood, all for the purpose of advancing to level 19!" Li Changhe said, flipping through the information. "He's quite capable. In the level 19 competition painstakingly organized by the Star Lord Alliance, he completed all the tasks issued by the All-Heavens Game, obtained ranking qualifications, and became the first level 19 player in the history of the Myriad Realms!"

That match wasn't held at the same time as the match between Chu Xiu and the others.

It will take about a week earlier.

Therefore, they came out earlier than Chu Xiu and the others.

It was during this week that the Star Lord Alliance officially rose to prominence, and the name of Star Nineteen spread throughout the entire river of time, practically attracting the homage of all nations.

However, what puzzled many people was that he did not show up after advancing to the next round.

If it weren't for the fact that the eighteenth-level match had attracted enough attention, with even the organizers of the Transcendence Tournament and the leader of the Long River Travelers watching, it would have been confirmed that the match was indeed completed and someone had advanced to the nineteenth level.

Many people will probably think that Xing Shijiu's advancement was fake.

“Hui Wannian was taken away from the Transcendence Conference by his master, the First Star Lord, without revealing the reason. The outside world speculates that it is related to the creation of the ‘Eternal Server,’ but Xing Shijiu himself has not admitted it!” Li Changhe said.

This situation puzzled him.

Recalling Chu Xiu's words that "the nineteenth rank cannot create an eternal garment," he couldn't help but have a strange guess, saying, "Could it be that Star Nineteen carries too many expectations from the Star Lord Alliance, but after advancing to the nineteenth rank, it finds that it cannot meet the expectations of others, so it dares not face people?"

This guess is quite bizarre.

A dignified level 19 player, the most prestigious existence, yet he dares not show his face?
But Chu Xiu nodded upon hearing this and said, "I know why he took Hui Wannian away—after reaching the nineteenth rank through points and understanding the whole truth, he'll feel like a clown!"

This puzzled everyone.

“He must be panicking right now!” Zhou Wushang said.

……

On the other side, in the upper reaches of the River of Time, where the number of players is the largest and the overall strength is the strongest, in the "Star Lord Alliance," one of the three major forces, Xing Shijiu, the "first nineteenth-level player in the history of the All-Heavens Game," is repeatedly questioning Hui Wannian about the events of the Crimson Star back then.

"Did you really not have level 19 players in your era?" Xing Shijiu asked.

Upon hearing this, Hui Wannian covered his forehead, on the verge of tears, and said, "In seven days, you've asked me a full 13,576 times! When will you ever stop? I've said it before, there are no level 19 players in Crimson Star, and no level 19 players have ever been born in our era!"

"Then how did you survive the long river of annihilation?" Xing Shijiu pressed.

"This question has been asked over eight thousand times!" Hui Wannian shook his head and said, "I don't know! I survived only because of my master's protection, but my master is only a level fifteen player. Although he has eight marks, he can't possibly reach level nineteen!"

Xing Shijiu was not surprised by this answer.

Even he couldn't withstand the River of Desolation, let alone help others—yes, that's right, even a level 19 player can't withstand the River of Desolation!
Not to mention establishing an eternal server.

None of them exist.

"How am I supposed to explain this to my master, and all my uncles and senior brothers?" Xing Shijiu paced back and forth in the main hall, his face filled with panic.

From the time he could remember, his master and a group of his fellow disciples told him to cultivate diligently.

May you reach the nineteenth step soon.

Information from the Star Lord Alliance and other major forces outside told him that as long as he reached the nineteenth level, he could ignore the annihilation of the long river and create an "eternal server" so that everyone could live forever.

No longer troubled by the river of time.

He believed it.

Filled with gratitude for his master, yearning for the nineteenth rank, and anticipation for the Eternal Server, he persevered, defeating countless opponents and rising again after countless setbacks. Finally, in that eighteenth-rank match, he successfully advanced.

He became the first player of the nineteenth rank in the game of all heavens!

However, upon arrival, he discovered that everyone's expectations for the nineteenth level were merely wishful thinking: players at this stage could not survive the River of Desolation, especially those who had climbed up through points; they couldn't even hide in the tenth-level dungeon to eke out a living!
Because the annihilation of the long river will shut down the game of all heavens, at which point all players who rely on the game will die.

Annihilation is not a temporary downfall, but rather a shutdown, awaiting the next reopening.

However, after restarting, no data will be retained. Regardless of talent or player rank, everyone will die, and everything will start over.

There is no such thing as an eternal server.

Even the game itself couldn't withstand the annihilation of the long river of time, so what makes the players in the game capable of resisting it?
But when I thought of my master's expectant eyes, the Star Lord Alliance's all-or-nothing gamble for that match, and the price they paid for it, I couldn't help but think of it.

He couldn't bear to reveal the truth.

They could only turn to Hui Wannian, the only one who had survived the annihilation of the long river and lived into the next era, and with a "nothing to lose" mentality, they asked him for advice and explored ways to overcome the annihilation.

If successful, it will be a satisfactory conclusion.

Unfortunately, Hui Wannian had no idea why he had survived.

The Crimson Star Lord back then only wanted his disciple to survive the ten-thousand-year limit; he had no idea about the existence of "the annihilation of the long river."

"This is how to do ah?"

Xing Shijiu was anxious as he looked at the various information of the nineteenth-tier players. Suddenly, he felt like a clown—nothing had changed after the nineteenth tier, he couldn't enter the final dungeon, and there was no nineteenth-tier dungeon where he could gain power.

It just adds a "transcend ranked matches" and a "transcend game" feature.

The former assigns a "rank" to all players at level 19 based on their points, and based on this ranking, players can gain some privileges in the multiverse game.

There are no ranks anymore.

After reaching level 19, points can be increased indefinitely. The top 500 players can obtain the title of "Strongest Player" and gain access to games from any server, bypassing the server's restrictions.

Then there was nothing.

If Chu Xiu were here, he would definitely complain: Isn't this just like going from Diamond to Master and then ranking "Conqueror" based on points?

An overwhelming sense of familiarity!

As for the Transcendence Match, it is a "random dungeon match" that can be started after 108 Transcendence players are gathered. The dungeon rank is completely random, and players do not have initial attributes.

Everyone starts from scratch and competes for rankings.

Only points are awarded.

And then, that was it; there was absolutely no improvement in strength whatsoever!

There is an advanced dungeon called "Path to Transcendence" that can be entered solo, but when you open it, it shows "Dungeon not yet open".

It's not open yet, can you believe it?
If his strength hadn't truly increased significantly, far surpassing the level 18th rank and the eighth mark, and if he hadn't been able to travel to the Ruins of Return unscathed, he probably would have thought he had advanced for nothing!

"What kind of bullshit nineteenth level is this? He's like a clown!"

(End of this chapter)