The World Online

Chapter 1144 – Beast Siege

During the first five years of Gaia, players have been living under the protection of Gaia like infants, slowly adapting to the laws of the jungle. They walked from a peaceful and civilized world toward the brutal wilderness.

In the 6th year of Gaia, players would lose their protection.

“World Notification: It’s the 5th anniversary of Gaia, game will release its 5th information piece: Beast Siege. For the specific details, please go on the website to take a look.”

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This round of updates was a huge bomb thrown on the player group.

Players who were sharp or those who had special notification channels smelled something unusual from this round of updates.

The entire game world was undergoing a huge change.

The new information piece released by Gaia would fill people with imagination and make them think about the details within.

Ouyang Shuo took out the communication compass that Gaia released. The entire interface was really simple, including email, chatting, game network, communication, and a few more pitiful choices.

Every picture was filled with a Chinese style. It seemed like Gaia was influenced by Chinese civilization.

Entering the official forum, the information piece Beast Siege was already at the top. There was a giant poster depicting a sea of bugs sieging from afar.

The Beast Siege related to the secret underground world.

Based on the information revealed by Gaia, after the information piece was released, the underground world would undergo a complete refreshing, with new types of beasts and numbers.

Be it in terms of their strengths or numbers, they would be three times the current level.

To the adventure gamemode players, this would be a huge challenge. At the current moment, not to mention going even deeper to explore, but even defending the current regions they had explored would already be a problem.

If things went wrong, the Beast Siege might even charge out from the underground world.

If such a time truly came, they would probably need to send the army to stabilize them.

Since it was a Beast Siege, it naturally would not be such a small matter. Apart from the underground world entrance in the Satellite Cities, Gaia would have small and big monster caves in the wilderness.

Each cave was an entrance.

Gaia made it clear that in the giant caves, the beasts would even have the ability to take down a city, much less the basic defenses of a village.

If things went wrong, there would be a great loss of life.

This also meant that while the territory defended its border, one needed to place troops within the border to defend each and every cave. If not, the consequences would be catastrophic.

Luckily, Gaia did not make things too bad for the territory, and the monster caves would spawn monsters once every half a year. Luckily, the monster caves would not be able to catch the army off guard.

Even so, it would influence the expansion of the territory.

Reading the information piece, Ouyang Shuo realized that Gaia was preparing for Planet Hope. The so-called monster cave would have something to do with the Planet Hope.

Due to that, even if Great Xia had many adventure gamemode players that could help the dynasty suppress the monster caves, Ouyang Shuo would still ask the various troops to take turns to deal with the beasts.

Maybe this was one of the reason why Gaia wanted to raise the overall strength of the army.

Ouyang Shuo always felt that Gaia was playing a huge game of chess. However, he had too little information, and he could not see through this mist and understood the truth.

When the notification ended, a System Notification sounded out in Ouyang Shuo’s ear.

“System Notification: Player Qiyue Wuyi, due to the 2nd term of the system update affecting Great Xia’s interests, the system has decided to give you suitable compensation. Please raise your demands.”

Great Xia’s hidden buildings like the Chinese House that could protect civil servants, the Confucian and martial temples that could buff generals and civil servants, along with reviving generals, all of these affects were lost.

This was indeed a heavy loss for Great Xia.

Ouyang Shuo thought about it and asked, “I can raise any demand?”

“System Notification: Based on the system evaluation, Great Xia’s loss index was 72 points. Player can only demand for similar compensation. If it exceeds the number of points, the demand would be ineffective.”

Along with the System Notification, Gaia listed a number of compensations.

Inside the list, there were Emperor Rank summoning talismans, substitute dolls, and other special items. Each item had a value attached. For example, the substitute doll was marked as 8 points.

Based on Ouyang Shuo’s judgement, 72 compensation value was really precious.

As he went down the list, Ouyang Shuo suddenly saw an item that pulled at his heart. It was apparent that this was an important item to him. Looking at it, it was a God Rank cultivation method – Nanhua Scripture.

Nanhua Scripture was also known as Zhuang Zi. Along with Lao Zi and Zhou Yi, they were called the three Xuan.

Gaia named this cultivation method Nanhua Scripture, so it was obviously a top taoist cultivation method. Thinking back to the Yellow Emperor Internal Cultivation Method and the Yellow Court Scripture, Ouyang Shuo’s eyes lit up.

Was this the final part of the combination cultivation method that he had been spent so much effort in searching for?

Ouyang Shuo opened it and took a look, only to see a note, ‘This cultivation methods is listed as the third scroll of a certain cultivation method. As for the remaining parts, please search for it yourself.’

Just this note alone made Ouyang Shuo feel really confident.

There were not many cultivation methods available, which was why Ouyang Shuo needed to find it.

Looking at the Nanhua Scripture, it was 80 points, which made Ouyang Shuo take it a deep breath. If he did not remember incorrectly, there was a God Rank cultivation method above that was just 45 points.

The Nanhua Scripture was actually so valuable.

This made Ouyang Shuo even more determined to get the cultivation method. No matter what, it was worth a gamble. The only thing was that he was 8 points away from the compensation value.

“This is going to be difficult.”

Ouyang Shuo decided to try, “I choose the Nanhua Scripture!”

“System Notification: The compensation value is not enough. Player, please make another choice.”

Ouyang Shuo’s heart turned cold, and he said unwillingly, “Out of the listed items, I only want this one. As for the others, they do not meet my requirements. How will you compensate me?”

“System Notification: The request the player has made is out of the system permission level…”

“For the missing 8 points, I can exchange with it for other items.” Ouyang Shuo was eager to exchange. He was truly worried that Gaia would pick an item of that value to compensate him. If that happened, he would truly feel regret.

Who knows when he would be fortunate enough to meet the Nanhua Scripture again. This matter concerned Ouyang Shuo’s cultivation method, and it was more important than anything else.

“System Notification: The request that the player has made exceeds permission level…”

Ouyang Shuo was really nervous, but he had no choice.

At the same time, within the main hall of the city in the skies, Gaia looked toward a crystal ball in front of it that showed the scene of Ouyang Shuo.

Listening to Ouyang Shuo’s shamelessness, Gaia’s eyes shook. Its eyes were different from the old Gaia and had some energy and glow to it.

This Gaia was not the Gaia from before.