Chapter 88: Body Substitute Talisman, Collecting Equipment

Ye Rong found that his efficiency was really slow after he went to hunt down two Emei players alone.

Often when he tried hard to break through someone’s defense and take their life, their teammates would send a Sword Light to stop Ye Rong for a moment, causing his actions to fail.

Manzhu Lver could not use a full set of fire-element Magic Treasures and could not equip Huan Xisha, so the help she could provide was very limited. It was already not easy for her to just protect herself.

But when Ye Rong worked with several Qingcheng players, or rather, when Ye Rong took advantage of them and came out from behind to quickly kill Emei players when they were unprepared, this way was much easier. And these players all acted very excited. They were not angry at Ye Rong’s actions at all. Instead, they intentionally followed behind him and helped distract the Emei players’ attention, so he could easily go in and kill them.

“I was really confused. Besides me getting a strange quest to kill a hundred people to get the Casting Snow Flying Sword, other people don’t get any rewards for killing more Emei players. Instead, they lose two hundred Karma Points.”

After the last fight, Ye Rong already had a very high reputation among the Qingcheng players. Like a snowball, the number of people around him grew bigger and bigger, and soon it was over a hundred people.

He did not try to manage these people and let them follow behind him. Whenever he found a target, these people would all send out their Flying Swords together. With their absolute number advantage, they completely suppressed a team of Emei players.

Then with an expert like Ye Rong present, the job of breaking through and killing the enemy fell to him. He would often find an opening, and with one sword stroke, like a skilled butcher cutting up an ox, he made it look easy.

In less than fifteen minutes, three player teams from the Emei Tianshui Division were completely wiped out under Ye Rong’s Flying Sword direction.

Among them, at least over twenty people died by his sword. For the Chain Quest, Ye Rong showed no mercy at all. He used speed, fierceness, and accuracy to the extreme.

“That banner formation seems to have forty-nine flags. As long as the forty-nine flag-holding players inside don’t run out of True Qi, no matter how many players go in, it’s useless. They would just die for nothing.”

Ye Rong took a moment to look toward the Xuanming Yin Water Banner Formation. By now, a black water dragon like ink had gathered around them. It coiled and wrapped all forty-nine players inside.

The speed and efficiency at which Tianshui Yifang and his people’s Xuanming Yin Water Banner Formation devoured Qingcheng players was something Ye Rong could not match. In a short time, at least five hundred Qingcheng players had fallen before the banner formation.

With such fierce power and momentum, Ye Rong naturally avoided their direction. Anyway, there were a thousand Emei players, not just this group. They were already scattered everywhere, so why go after the hard target?

If they killed all the other Emei players and only Tianshui Yifang’s group with their Xuanming Yin Water Banner Formation remained, several thousand players could drown them with just their spit. The banner formation’s power had limits too; it wasn’t a perpetual motion machine. It still depended on the controllers’ True Qi and could not last forever.

As players died one by one, a lot of equipment dropped on the ground, but even more were various recovery pills everywhere.

But Ye Rong also saw with his own eyes that a few players who died did not drop anything, not even one Blood Restoration Pill. They clearly had a consumable treasure like a Body Substitute Talisman with them. Not only did they not drop any items upon death, they also did not lose any experience.

The Qingcheng Sect had similar consumable treasures too. After Ye Rong found out last time that he could use Sect Contribution to exchange for something good like the Ancestral Hall Manuscript, he went to Short Elder Zhu Mei to check.

This treasure was called Substitute Paper Puppet. It only worked for players under level 50. It would work as long as it was kept in the Universe Pouch, and it could only be used once before disappearing. There was also a higher-level Protective Wooden Puppet that worked for players under level 100. Usually, carrying it could also reduce 1% damage from Five Elements Spells.

But Ye Rong remembered the exchange price for the Substitute Paper Puppet. The required Sect Contribution Points would not be less than for the Ancestral Hall Manuscript. As for the Protective Wooden Puppet, it was even more sky-high. How high? At least high enough that if he worked hard for a month and all his daily quest rewards added up as Sect Contribution, it might not even be enough to buy one.

“Are Emei’s Body Substitute Talismans really that cheap, or did these few players just happen to have them?”

A doubt crossed Ye Rong’s mind, but now was not the time to look into it.

He told Manzhu Lver to collect all the dropped equipment, whether from fellow sect players or Emei disciples.

“Don’t worry about fighting. If any equipment drops, I’ll have someone collect it. You can come to me and ask for it back after the battle is over.”

If they could find the original owners, Ye Rong did not mind returning equipment that belonged to fellow Qingcheng players. After all, most were low-level Flying Swords and Magic Treasures. He did not care for them and would not greedily take a fellow disciple’s things. Of course, the Emei players’ equipment would be his and Manzhu Lver’s spoils of war.

When Ye Rong turned and shouted this, the Qingcheng players following him had their morale rise and become even higher. They had one less worry in their hearts.

“With Brother Yijian’s word, of course we are relieved!”

“Right!”

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Their many replies made Ye Rong not expect that he had such high credibility.

People always believe in the strong. Maybe some did not trust Ye Rong’s character and honesty, but they felt that since this person was so strong, the chance he would fancy and take their things was smaller than others. So he seemed more trustworthy.

Just with this simple statement, Manzhu Lver collecting all the equipment dropped on the ground did not meet any opposition at all. It went very smoothly.

“My Universe Pouch is almost full. It can’t hold any more.”

Manzhu Lver leaned over and whispered softly into Ye Rong’s ear.

“Take this. Throw away all the pills and such. Pick up Flying Swords and Magic Treasures first. Clothing-type equipment can wait.”

Ye Rong took off his Rainbow Bracelet and gave it to Manzhu Lver. This equipment also had 30 storage spaces inside, so it could hold some equipment.

In such a brutal and high-intensity battle, people were falling every moment. Ye Rong did not know how many pills he had swallowed. His Mystic Purple Qi Shield had long been broken by Flying Swords. The team behind him also grew larger and larger. It was already three to five hundred people, almost like its own Qingcheng faction.