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Zhou Guangqi sat in the conference room, looking at the final data of the Falling Star incident, and let out a long sigh.

The number of players participating in the event exceeded expectations by several times.

The number of deaths reached a chilling figure.

A player named Bai Ni Bu Bai accidentally brought forward the storyline, which was originally scheduled to start in half a month, to the third day after the server opened.

Players are even more uncontrollable than game bugs themselves!

"It's been so difficult."

"If this kind of operational accident happened in any other game, it would have died out and been shut down long ago."

Even now, Zhou Guangqi still feels lingering fear when he thinks about it.

"When I saw the health bars of the four Seekers that day, I really thought the players were doomed!"

"Who would have thought that they would actually pull the BOSS towards Lintian City in the end, and actually win with the help of the city's protective sword formation?"

Beside her, Shen Zhaozhao flipped through the battle guides compiled by the players and couldn't help but sigh.

From the initial disorganization and mass suicide, to the later research on attack animation and sword-drawing formations, and finally to the use of the "Ten Thousand Swords Return to One" strategy to seize aggro.

The entire process was almost entirely unguided by official channels.

It was all discovered by the players themselves through dying.

Zhou Guangqi nodded.

"Players always find a way."

"Now I understand that when designing games, we should never think that we have thought of everything."

"Every game has its vulnerabilities!"

Hearing Zhou Guangqi's remark, Shen Zhaozhao looked at the various items on the auction floor backstage and couldn't help but add a comment.

"That just goes to show how much freedom our game offers."

"And I see... there are still people selling the resumes of those selected for the 'Ten Thousand Swords Return to One' program at auction houses."

"What do you mean?"

"That means your sword participated in Gu Yunmian's 'Ten Thousand Swords Return to One' event, so it will be more expensive when you resell it."

The meeting room was silent for a few seconds.

"Wow, they've raised prices for this?"

Shen Zhaozhao clicked on a product description.

This sword participated in the Battle of Falling Star Plains, followed the leader who didn't accept subsidies to complete the Return of Ten Thousand Swords, had close contact with the Watchers, and possesses rich experience in large-scale battles.

After reading it, Zhou Guangqi remained silent for a long time.

In the end, all he could do was sigh.

"What a talent!"

Shen Zhaozhao suddenly thought of another question.

She raised her head and looked at Zhou Guangqi.

"Well, Brother Guang, then this time it went smoothly."

"But according to the original schedule, the cracks in the sky will continue to change next month, right?"

"By then... this problem shouldn't happen again, right?"

Zhou Guangqi's smile paused slightly as he glanced down at the plot summary.

If things proceed as normal, this would definitely be triggered by all players exploring together!

"But...it shouldn't be...!"

After Zhou Guangqi finished speaking, he himself felt that his words lacked confidence.

"I Have a Sword" has only been online for a few days, but players have already triggered world events ahead of schedule. Given the speed of their exploration, no one can say for sure how early next month's storyline will unfold.

Shen Zhaozhao stared at the crack that still hung in the sky and suddenly remembered a question.

"Brother Guang, what exactly are those World Watchers?"

"According to what's being said on the forums now, some people think they are extraterrestrial demon cultivators, some say they were sent down from the upper realm to destroy the Sword Qi Continent, and others say they are monsters that turned out after failing to ascend."

"But aren't they in human form?"

Upon hearing this, Zhou Guangqi's expression immediately became somewhat complicated.

"Zhao Zhao! You didn't listen to a word in the meeting! You're in operations, how come you don't even know the game's background!"

"An extraterrestrial demonic cultivator?"

"If they were truly demonic cultivators, life on the Sword Qi Continent wouldn't be so difficult."

As Zhou Guangqi spoke, he directly pulled up the subsequent plot information and opened a world relationship map on the large screen in the conference room.

The Sword Qi Continent is located at the bottom of the screen.

It was a continent enveloped by a thick curtain of light, beyond which lay numerous smaller regions of varying shapes and sizes. Some were completely dark, others still retained a faint glow, and still others were marked with symbols indicating their level of danger.

Shen Zhaozhao stared at the screen for a while.

"Are these worlds similar to the Sword Qi Continent?"

Zhou Guangqi shook his head.

"From the perspective of the people of the Sword Qi Continent, the place where they live is naturally an entire world."

"But for higher-level cultivation forces, this is just a trial realm used to train disciples. The sects, dynasties, cities on the Sword Qi Continent, and even the peers in the celestial rifts, all belong to a set of trial rules that have been in place for many years."

Shen Zhaozhao was stunned for a moment.

"So, those four Seekers who almost drove all the players on the server to quit the game..."

"Actually, they're just ordinary disciples taking the exam?"

Zhou Guangqi nodded.

"almost."

"After they cultivate to a certain stage in their own plane, they will enter different secret realms to complete their graduation trials. The Sword Qi Continent is just one of the examination venues, and the four peerers from Falling Star Plains only drew this examination."

The meeting room was silent for a few seconds.

Shen Zhaozhao looked at the battle log again.

Four observers raised their hands and wiped out thousands of players. A wide-ranging rain of swords covered the entire Falling Star Plain, and each individual's health was so low that it took the entire server's sword cultivators several hours to recover.

As a result, beings of this level would only be considered ordinary disciples taking the graduation exam in the upper realm.

"Wouldn't that mean when players reach the Upper Realm, they'll find that the world bosses they fought so hard against were just recent graduates of another game?"

"That's right."

Zhou Guangqi smiled.

Shen Zhaozhao felt that this setting was becoming increasingly cruel.

For the disciples of the upper realm, this is a graduation exam.

For the people of the Sword Qi Continent, however, it was a disaster that could destroy sects, cities, and countless lives at any moment.

The victory in the Falling Star Plains incident was largely due to the sheer number of players, who could continuously return to the battlefield from their respawn points. For an ordinary person living on the Sword Qi Continent, losing a life meant certain death.

"So the White Mud Sect knew about these things before?"

Zhou Guangqi pulled up another list of sect backgrounds.

According to the information players have found so far, the White Mud Sect has never been considered a positive sect.

They destroyed the Ascension Platform, blocked the path to immortality, and specifically hunted down talented sword cultivators who were close to achieving ascension. Many surviving ancient texts refer to them as sinners who severed the future of the sword path.

In the history of the Sword Qi Continent, there have been at least three sieges against the White Mud Sect.

The sect was destroyed.

The disciple was killed.

Even the various traces left by the White Mud Sect were smashed to pieces by the angry sword cultivators.

"The earliest members of the White Mud Sect also successfully ascended to immortality."

"Long, long ago, the White Mud Sect was the greatest sect in the world."

"The first patriarch of the White Mud Sect was an unparalleled genius. He overcame numerous obstacles and finally triggered the ascension tribulation, successfully shattering the void and stepping one foot into the so-called upper realm."

"After that person entered the Upper Realm, he did not become a legendary immortal, nor did he obtain the longevity he had imagined. At that time... he realized that the Sword Qi Continent, where he had lived his entire life, was just a trial realm that could be used repeatedly in the eyes of the other party."

"And... he also discovered an even more troublesome rule."