Global Games: Reporting the Great Ascension Stage at the Start

"At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Gold Uprising..."

Upon entering the game, the first thing Shen Hua saw was the game's opening animation.

The game "Ascension" is divided into many regions, each with its own unique story background.

The Huaxia region is set against the backdrop of the Three Kingdoms period and incorporates elements of cultivation, hence it was jokingly referred to by players from previous generations as "The Legend of the Three Kingdoms Immortals".

In the game world, the Three Kingdoms storyline unfolds as usual, starting with the Yellow Turban Rebellion and ending with the Prime Minister's death at Wuzhang Plains.

Players can also use their own abilities to change the course of the story.

But reversing it won't do any good.

There is a power in the game called "Fate" that can forcibly correct the storyline and bring it back to its original course.

For example, during the Battle of Red Cliffs, a player tried to persuade Cao Cao to abandon the idea of ​​chaining the boats together with iron chains. However, it was no use; the chained boats still appeared on the river.

For example, after Zhou Yu's death, some players arranged for Xiao Qiao to remarry Zhuge Liang. On their wedding day, fate intervened, and Xiao Qiao broke off the engagement and returned to Jiangdong.

"Skip." Shen Hua had seen the opening animation many times and didn't need to watch it again, so he simply chose to skip it.

After skipping, four burly men appeared side by side in front of him; this was the race selection screen.

There are four races in the game: humans, demons, monsters, and gods.

Each strong man represents a race, and their physical characteristics are different.

The demon race initially possesses the body of an animal, such as a fox, rabbit, snake, tiger, etc., to begin their cultivation;

The demon race is also known as the "demonic human race". They look similar to humans, but each of them has an extra skill under their human appearance. This skill is completely random.

Random skills can be good or bad.

Good skills are incredibly powerful, allowing you to take on ten opponents at once in the early game; bad skills, on the other hand, are nothing but side effects.

In the game "Ascension," you can only create one character and cannot delete one, so you must be careful when choosing the Demon race.

The Celestials also resemble humans in appearance, but they have thick limbs and golden, glowing skin, like little golden figures.

The Celestial Race possesses the power of the Celestial Bloodline, making them exceptionally strong in the early stages. Their cultivation advancement is incredibly rapid, with an experience bonus of around 50% during the Qi Refining stage!

The Celestial Race, with their combined Celestial Spiritual Roots, are arguably the most dazzling characters in the early stages of the game! The level leaderboard is full of these people.

However, the Celestials also have their flaws.

Shen Hua was a member of the Celestial Race in his previous life. Although he had the lowest level of mixed spiritual root, he was lucky enough to encounter many opportunities, and his leveling speed was comparable to that of human players with Celestial Spiritual Root!

However, after passing the Qi Refining stage, the Celestial Race showed a significant decline.

Constrained by the power of their bloodline, the cultivation speed of the Celestial Race in the Foundation Establishment stage has been greatly reduced, with an experience gain rate of -20%.

If it weren't for Shen Hua's constant stream of opportunities, he would never have been able to advance to the Golden Core stage at the end of the game.

As for the human race, they are the most unremarkable race, possessing only one talent—"10% more experience gained."

After thinking it over, Shen Hua finally chose the human race.

He was too reliant on luck with the demon race; he didn't know much about the birthplaces of the monster race; and he had suffered greatly with the celestial race in his previous life.

In conclusion, the human race is the optimal solution.

Once the human race was identified, the strong men of all other races disappeared, leaving only the strong men of the human race.

The human strongman's appearance quickly changed, transforming into Shen Hua's own likeness.

He then received a system notification: "[Do you wish to modify your appearance?]"

"No changes," Shen Hua replied.

Even if he doesn't change his appearance, other players might be able to figure out his real-life identity based on his appearance once he enters the game world. But this is a cultivation game!

In the world of cultivation, it is easy to change one's appearance, height, body shape, and even gender or species.

As long as Shen Hua is willing, no one can discover his true identity. Therefore, there is no need to change his appearance.

After confirming the appearance and physique, the scene in front of Shen Hua changed, and four giant ink paintings appeared, each of which was more than three meters tall.

This is the career selection interface.

Each of the four paintings depicts a Golden Core stage cultivator, lifelike, representing the four major professions in the game:

【Physical Refiner】

[Alchemist]

Beast Tamer

[Formation Master]

Each painting is accompanied by a lengthy text describing the characteristics of the profession.

Although the game "Ascension" appears to have only four classes, each class is actually all-encompassing.

The Body Refiner class focuses on strengthening the physical body. Traditional physical classes such as Shield Warrior, Swordsman, Archer, and Assassin all fall under the category of Body Refiner.

The [Pyromancer] specializes in manipulating psionic energy, with expertise primarily in ranged spellcasting, weapon manipulation, and support healing.

Shen Hua's gaze swept across the area from left to right.

Finally, his gaze settled on the [Array Master] and [Beast Tamer].

The [Formation Master] and [Beast Tamer] are late-game classes, and they are much stronger than the previous two classes after reaching the Golden Core stage.

The [Formation Master] is naturally skilled at setting up formations, and within a formation, he is invincible;

[Beast Tamer] One person can lead many pets, and even a hundred pets can be led with ease during the Golden Core stage. Their overall strength is the strongest in the later stages.

The reason Shen Hua's gaze lingered on these two professions for so long was that seeing them brought to mind dozens of ways to obtain top-tier divine pets and spirit arrays in the game.

He made his decision just over ten seconds later.

"I choose [Aura Master]," he said solemnly.

The reason for choosing the [Qi Refiner] instead of the two later-stage professions is because Shen Hua was a [Qi Refiner] in his previous life and is most proficient in this profession.

[Beast Tamer] and [Array Master] are unfamiliar fields after all, even though he has methods to obtain divine pets and divine array plates.

As for why Shen Hua chose the [Qi Master] class in his previous life, the reason is simple: [Qi Masters] can fly on swords in the early stages!

Among the important branches of the Qi Refiner class, the Weapon Master class, there is a method of flying on a sword, and few can resist the temptation of flying on a sword.

It was precisely because of the ability to fly on a sword in the early stages that, according to statistics, about 63% of players in the previous generation of the Chinese server chose the [Qi Master] class.

[Please enter your name.] The system prompted.

"Let's call him Yuwen Hua... Wait, let me think about it!"

When naming the character, Shen Hua subconsciously wanted to use the name from his previous life, but fortunately he stopped himself in time.

His name in his previous life was chosen randomly.

At the time, he was reading "Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties," and the main villain in the story was named Yuwen Huaji, so he casually gave himself the name "Yuwen Huaxue."

He regretted using that name more than once afterward. Every time he told other players his name, he would act awkwardly, and the players who heard him would stare at him with strange looks.

He regretted using this name countless times; he couldn't use it again in this life.

"Let's call it 'Summer Night'," Shen Hua suggested.

In the TV series "New Three Kingdoms," Chen Cao once said, "Death is a cool summer night." Since the time travel was successful, it's as if he had already died once, so calling it "summer night" would be more appropriate.

[Character [Summer Night] created successfully. Enter game?] The system prompted again.

"Do not enter."

Shen Hua was not in a hurry to enter the game.

His gaze shifted to the right, landing on a rather inconspicuous stone tablet to the right of the figure.

Use your thoughts to communicate with the stone tablet and enter the [Settings] interface.

Next, select [Support] - [Game Issues] - [Other Inquiries], which will eventually take you to a form-filling interface.

Before entering the game, he had one last thing to do—report that big yellow rat!