Chapter 289
Her "Furious Moon" was still in the process of upgrading, with only 47 minutes left on the clock. The countdown moved erratically, sometimes fast, sometimes slow. Here, like in the tower, the flow of time was different from the outside world, almost chaotic.
Yu Xunge released Tulan, but after being in a mini form for so long, Tulan immediately reverted to her original size the moment she emerged. Her massive body filled the entire room, and she had to bend awkwardly to fit, ultimately curling up like the giant next door.
After seeing the scene outside, Tulan, like Yu Xunge, was stunned for a long time. The two of them pressed their faces against the glass window, looking out like two country bumpkins at the thousands of strange beings outside.
Tulan asked gravely, "Are we going to fight them?!"
Yu Xunge's expression was serious. "I don't know..."
But she recalled the voice that had spoken before they entered, saying this was the 35,155th Divine Game. If it was a game, it probably wouldn't be as simple as a brutal brawl; the process of the "game" was what mattered.
Moreover, her worst fears had come true. Although her physical strength and agility felt unchanged, all her game skills were unusable, even her self-taught skill, "Fox Shadow."
She sensed chains binding those skills, locking them away. The only abilities she could use were the divine talents she had chosen upon entering and three items.
However... it seemed she wasn't completely powerless.
She could channel the lightning power from her orange-red wings, and she could sense her own essence.
When she tapped into her essence, the feeling of being unable to activate any skills vanished. Except for the chains still firmly binding her divine talents and SS-level skills, she could sense all S-level and below skills!
In fact, she could clearly feel that if she activated her double essence, she could also use those divine talents and SS-level skills.
The passive skills were a bit more complicated; to activate them, she needed to use essence points to charge them, but she had no idea how long that would last.
In her mind, she asked Tulan, "Can you use your skills?"
She already knew the answer. The moment Tulan emerged and reverted to her original form was a clear sign that her skills had also been disabled.
Sure enough, Tulan shook her head. "No, I can't."
Yu Xunge suggested, "Why not try channeling your essence?"
Although Tulan had spent over 800 points when she received the language of all races, she should still have over 2,200 points left.
At that moment, Tulan's eyes lit up. "I can use S-level and below! But for SS-level, I need double essence."
Yu Xunge breathed a sigh of relief. As long as they could use something, that was good! She hadn't expected essence to have such a wonderful use.
Just as she was about to say something else, several lines of text appeared in the center of the room.
[35,155th Divine Game · Little Painter]
[Game Start Countdown: 00:09:58]
[Game Content]: Copy the masterpiece of the master ГΠΞΕ — "Desert Captain"; after seven star sea days, the 1,000 players with the lowest completion rate will be forcibly eliminated. (The completion rate of the painting will determine your ranking, which can be checked at any time through the ladder board.)
[Game Difficulty]: Fool
Game Rule 1: ⅧΞΕΠΖΣГΠΖΣⅪ
Game Rule 2: The painting is prohibited from using red.
Game Rule 3: εδληκρΘΔηκΨΦΩζ
[New Player Tips] (Displayed only the first time entering the world battlefield):
1. All resurrection skills and items are disabled. Players who die in the world battlefield can actively sacrifice one divine talent skill or three skills of at least A-level to gain a chance to respawn outside.
2. All translation items are disabled in the world battlefield, and each player can possess no more than 1,000 languages; any excess will be temporarily sealed in the world battlefield.
3. When a new world enters the battlefield, that world will receive three world tombs as a reward.
4. The world battlefield follows the law of conservation of luck.
5. Divine games emphasize fun and fairness.
6. Every violation of the rules will trigger divine punishment, with measures being random.
[Chapter 375: Divine Game: Little Painter 2]
The game content, difficulty, and new player tips were all in Blue Star Chinese, while the three game rules were in different languages. The first and third were completely incomprehensible to her, but she understood the second rule, which was in "Youmu Language."
In that moment, she understood why Wuren had so easily forgiven her for stealing a piece of the world tomb.
These rules were impossible to guess; even at fool difficulty, there were three rules. For someone at Wuren's level, there would likely be even more, and the penalties for breaking the rules wouldn't be light.
The worst news was that resurrection skills were disabled here... No wonder her future self had come back to warn her.
But the good news was that she could use divine talent skills to exchange for her life. Since it was an active sacrifice, it meant she could choose which skill to sacrifice.
She was reluctant to give up "One-Person Party," "Immortal," or "God of Food," but she could sacrifice the divine talent skill of "Divine Archer!"
She glanced at the two rooms on either side and noticed that the game information in their rooms seemed shrouded in shadow, completely opaque to her. Yu Xunge withdrew her gaze and continued to study her own information.
Yu Xunge asked Tulan to help her look for the painting while she began searching for the so-called ladder board.
The game interface was unresponsive, but she noticed a drawing appearing on the inner side of her right wrist, resembling a cartoonish humanoid.
She tentatively touched it, and a half-human-high rectangular light screen popped up, densely packed with information. Since the game hadn't started yet, the leaderboard displayed strength rankings, not game scores.
The information was all in the Chinese she was most familiar with, with the top line indicating the category of information.
Ranking · Name┃World · Race┃Combat Power┃Title
1. Grapefruit┃Zichuan · Yuguo┃19th Level Overlord┃Harmful Breath
2. Shark Cold┃Winter Sea · Shark Forest┃19th Level Overlord┃Calmly Facing Death
3533. Withered Cover┃Zelan · Undead┃15th Level Demon King┃Withered Bones
3055. Wuren┃Zelan · Moon Fox┃15th Level Abyss┃Blood Mist Blade
3722. Yulü┃Zelan · Undead┃15th Level Abyss┃A Word Becomes Prophecy
3807. Maple Sugar┃Zelan · Oak Owl┃15th Level Abyss┃Fiery Passion for Liquor
Some rankings were skipped; she didn't know if those players were offline or had already died.
Seeing many familiar names, Yu Xunge flipped through the list faster and faster, finally rushing to the bottom, where she found her name in second to last place.
82859┃Xunge┃Zai Jiu · Human┃2nd Level Fool┃None
Xunge? Such an intimate name? Or was the person who made this leaderboard a bit obsessive-compulsive, insisting everyone had to have two-character names?
Moreover, her world was indeed called Zai Jiu in the universe.
Combat power at 2nd Level Fool; it seemed the game difficulty matched the combat power level.
And combat power was categorized every three levels: 1-3 were fools, 4-5 were players, 7-9 were suffering...
Her agility was nearly 2,000, with intelligence, constitution, and strength all close to 150. With such attributes, her combat power was only at 2nd Level... Maybe she should go and switch the other three major attributes of the Scorpion Tablet?
At the very bottom, two data points were listed on the left and right.
The lower left corner showed the number of online players: 32,931.
The lower right corner displayed the current time: 8,580 years, 15th month, 20th day, 35th hour, 19th minute in the Chaotic Star Sea.
She gently touched the light of the time, and a small line of text appeared, explaining the time calculation method in the Chaotic Star Sea: one year has 15 months, each month has 21 days, and one star sea day has 24 hours, with each hour having 50 minutes and each minute having 50 seconds.
Although the number of months and days varied each year, the time calculation for each star sea day was the same as Blue Star. She even checked the frequency of the seconds ticking; it was identical to Blue Star.
Next to each name was the player's image, all high-definition full-body shots, and she could even rotate the photos 350° with her fingertips, almost as if she could sculpt their faces...
Not only was there a full-body image of her, but each player's image also had their pets beside them, and clicking on them revealed the pets' information.
There was absolutely no privacy!
Without her disguise skill, Yu Xunge silently pulled down her trench coat's hood and casually changed her ID back to her real name. Perfect! She had decided: she would fight for Zai Jiu with her true appearance!
Next to the leaderboard were two branch pages.
One was the battlefield chat channel, which had already started buzzing with conversation, automatically translating into languages the players could understand.
The other branch page contained her task details.
Meanwhile, they had also found "Desert Captain."
When Yu Xunge opened the ladder board branch page to see the task details, the light displaying the game content in the room suddenly vanished, and a scroll of the painting floated down, caught by Tulan's tail.
Yu Xunge walked over, picked up the scroll, and unfurled it. As her fingers brushed over it, she realized it was actually two canvases: one blank and the other depicting "Desert Captain." This was everything that had appeared out of thin air—no paint, no brushes.
The painting's background was a desert, with a white sky and a blazing sun overhead. In the desert, there were eleven strange beings she had never seen before, traveling along.
Table of Contents
