SS 57: Dominating the Field

Feng Lianzhu smiled at Phoenix Among Birds and said gently, “Feng Lianzhu is the guardian beast of Phoenix Arrival, right?”

Feng Lianzhu was struggling with poetry in class alongside Teacher Green Dragon, who said his poetry was merely a pile of words, like a heap of soulless fat. This made Feng Lianzhu feel defeated. He was clearly a cultured bamboo enlightened by the scriptures, different from those demons that gained wisdom by worshipping the moon, and also one of the Four Gentlemen, with countless poets composing poems and lyrics about bamboo. How could it be that in the interstellar era, he could no longer write poetry?

In the virtual classroom, Feng Lianzhu, with a worried expression, suddenly had a flash of red light in his eyes, and a piercing alarm echoed in his mind.

【Host Pang Kirates is out of control, the virtual world is about to collapse, and once the world collapses, Pang Kirates will never be able to mature.】

Feng Lianzhu suddenly stood up and said to Teacher Green Dragon, “Teacher, I have an emergency in reality, I must log off.”

“You can’t skip class just because you can’t write poetry!” Teacher Green Dragon said unhappily.

“It’s not that, my uncle is critically ill. When I return, I will definitely write poetry continuously for three days and three nights without rest,” Feng Lianzhu said decisively.

His sincere attitude pacified Teacher Green Dragon, and the AI teacher quickly helped him clock out. Feng Lianzhu took off the starnet equipment and opened the system space to ask, “What should I do?”

Usually, when he was taking classes on the starnet, the system would never invade the starnet. Even if there were messages, they would be postponed until he logged off to pop up together.

This time, the system directly invaded the starnet, obviously indicating that the situation was extremely urgent. Feng Lianzhu didn’t know what had happened in the game to cause Fat Dragon to lose control, but he thought the matter must not be minor.

Pang Kirates was too powerful, powerful enough to view all beings as ants, powerful enough not to worry about the players who jumped around in the game. Why was he so angered this time?

Feng Lianzhu touched his chest, where something was frantically pulsing, causing his hands and feet to feel chills, his qi and blood to surge, making it difficult to control his emotions.

【Host Feng Lianzhu can use 20 points of help value to go to the game world, where he will consume 100 points/day.】

The points consumed were really low, but Feng Lianzhu only had 25 points of help value. For each task completed, he could only get 10 points of help value. Feng Lianzhu had completed three tasks: helping the Atavists in poverty relief, graduating from elementary school, and subduing pirate Atavists, earning 30 points of help, of which five were used to communicate with Fat Dragon, leaving only 25 points.

He did not hesitate to use the help value, quickly changing into the Golden Winged Dapeng skin, which was Feng Lianzhu’s strongest skin and also Fat Dragon’s favorite clothing.

The system was fast, and the moment Feng Lianzhu pressed the use help value button, he arrived in the virtual game world.

He looked around and saw himself in the main city of the guild, with the sky seemingly blocked by something.

Feng Lianzhu looked up and saw a huge golden dragon covering an area of 2000 square kilometers, almost covering the entire game’s main city’s sky, making the sun and moon lightless. Its wings stirred, whipping up hurricanes, buildings in the main city were lifted by the wind, countless players were dying and struggling in the wind, unable to even quit the game.

Some players stood in front of the giant dragon, arranging formations to protect the main city.

A player with black bone wings was gripped in the foreclaws of the golden dragon, his fate unknown.

Seeing this, Feng Lianzhu gathered his energy and flew up, riding the wind, with a pair of golden wings sprouting from his back, standing in front of the giant dragon.

At first, everyone thought Feng Lianzhu was a player. Sword Pointing to the Sky stepped forward to stop him, saying, “Brother, there is a hurricane belt around the golden light tyrant dragon. Players below level 120 will be torn apart by the wind if they enter. We are arranging a formation, the newly released Ambush Formation from the game, which can increase the defense of each player. You… you look so familiar, have I seen you before?”

Feng Lianzhu glanced at Sword Pointing to the Sky and said indifferently, “I remember you, you were the first person to kill me.”

Sword Pointing to the Sky was stunned. Taking advantage of his distraction, Feng Lianzhu broke through the sword formation and, in the sight of countless players, disregarded the terrifying energy of the hurricane belt and stood firm in front of the golden dragon.

“Feng Lianzhu!” shouted a sharp-eyed player, “It’s Feng Lianzhu, how has he changed his clothes, and how come he looks better than before?”

“That’s not right, isn’t that golden dragon in the golden light tyrant mode supposed to be Yuan Cun Feng Lianzhu? Why are there two Feng Lianzhus? What is the game company doing, I can’t even log off!”

The entire guild building of Phoenix Arrival was at the center of the hurricane belt, with the surrounding fierce winds unable to harm them, even perfectly protecting the members of Phoenix Arrival.

Celestial Maiden Setting Off Fireworks looked up at the sky and murmured, “Isn’t our dragon god Feng Lianzhu?”

A small figure appeared in front of Pang Kirates. Those blue eyes had now turned red, like huge red gems set on the sparkling golden dragon’s head, looking beautiful yet dangerous.

Feng Lianzhu reached out to Fat Dragon and said, “I’m here.”

“Roar~~~” A long dragon chant echoed in the air, carrying a hint of sadness.

In Feng Lianzhu’s ears, it turned into: “You’ve always been unable to see me, roar~”

Sounding quite aggrieved.

Feng Lianzhu stepped forward, opening his arms to barely hug the golden dragon’s snout, chuckling, “How could that be? As long as you are here, you are always at the center of my vision.”

Pang Kirates felt extremely aggrieved. Clearly invisible, in dreams, in the game’s storage data, in distant history, Feng Lianzhu could not see him at all.

That was a bamboo without a heart.

Heart? Pang Kirates listened closely, as if he could hear Feng Lianzhu’s “thump, thump” heartbeat, but the surroundings were too noisy—the wind of the hurricane, the shouts of the players, the sound of collapsing buildings, too many noises made it hard for Pang Kirates to hear clearly, unless he became smaller, to press his ear against Feng Lianzhu’s chest.

As he thought this, the huge golden dragon slowly shrank, from the size where Feng Lianzhu could barely hug his snout with his arms wide open, to a size where Fat Dragon could roll around in the palm of Feng Lianzhu’s spread hand.

The small golden dragon clutched Feng Lianzhu’s golden lapels with its forepaws, its ear pressed against his chest, where firm and strong heartbeats, “thump,” “thump,” “thump,” came through, calming Pang Kirates’s heart gradually.

“Where did the giant dragon go?”

“How did it just disappear?”

“And what’s with Feng Lianzhu?”

“Wasn’t he deleted by the game company in an update, how has he reappeared with a different outfit?” the players asked each other in confusion.

Soaring Up To 90,000 Li, who had been tossed about by the giant dragon’s forepaws, finally fell down. His level dropped by one, and he vomited blood upon hitting the ground. After landing, he took out a revival pill from his bag and swallowed it. This was a top-level revival pill, priced at 19.9 yuan per pill, which immediately restored him to full health and status. It was a premium item with excellent effects.

After recovering, Soaring Up To 90,000 Li flew to Sword Pointing to the Sky, his face contorted with rage, saying, “Is the formation set up? There’s only 20 minutes left for the guild battle, and I want to kill Feng Lianzhu and everyone in Phoenix Arrival!”

Sword Pointing to the Sky said displeasedly, “You shouldn’t have joined the other guilds in attacking Phoenix Arrival. That guild is small and mostly made up of girls. If you’re not satisfied with them reaching max level, you should wait until your own guild members are max level and then challenge them one-on-one. It’s dishonorable for five guilds to attack one.”

“You’re the noble one, and I’m the villain. Playing the game is all about having fun, and now you’re acting like a moralist,” Soaring Up To 90,000 Li sneered. “If I didn’t attack Phoenix Arrival, how would I have known that the tyrant dragon was hiding in their guild?”

Sword Pointing to the Sky refused to hand over command of the formation to Soaring Up To 90,000 Li. The Peng God then announced on the public channel, “Listen up, everyone. Phoenix Arrival reached max level within a day, and they have such a dragon hidden in their guild. I suspect they’re using cheats. Maybe the tyrant dragon bug was caused by them. We can’t let such a guild reach max level. Now that the dragon has disappeared, let’s set up the Ambush Formation, empty Phoenix Arrival’s guild warehouse, and force them to hand over the tyrant dragon, alright?”

“That Tu Qinyuanhua, just a few days ago, crafted an artifact!” Panlong-Xiao Nie shouted, “It increases defense by 50%, absorbs the spiritual energy of others’ attacks, and reflects it back. A top-level artifact!”

Actually, nobody really believed that they were cheating, as the game company wasn’t foolish. If they were truly using cheats so blatantly, they’d likely have been banned by the game company on the same day. What really excited the players was the artifact Golden Scale Armor mentioned by Panlong-Xiao Nie. The Golden Scale Armor had made it into the system announcement that day and even attracted a heavenly tribulation, which everyone knew about. Who wouldn’t want such an artifact?

The players were agitated. At this point, Sword Pointing to the Sky could no longer control the players, and the command of the formation was handed over to Soaring Up To 90,000 Li by the players turning their backs.

“This is the game you’re playing,” Ling Yun Jiu Xiao stood behind Sword Pointing to the Sky, coldly saying, “You want to be a hero, liked by everyone. Dream on, you’re not Chinese currency.”

Soaring Up To 90,000 Li, leading a group of players, surrounded the Phoenix Arrival guild. The light of the formation enveloped the guild. At this time, Feng Lianzhu, holding the sleeping small golden dragon, had just entered the Phoenix Arrival guild and hadn’t yet had the chance to exchange pleasantries with the guild members when the formation, capable of instantly killing 49 players, sealed off Phoenix Arrival.

Normally, combat was not allowed in the main city, but the guild battle event was still ongoing, so Soaring Up To 90,000 Li’s deployment of the formation was permitted at this time.

Seeing the light of the formation, Feng Lianzhu poked the small golden dragon’s forepaw with his finger and whispered, “Give me the brocade bag.”

The small golden dragon had exerted all its strength, even affecting the game servers across dimensions, and was currently drained of energy, too sleepy to even keep its eyes open. It merely opened its mouth, and from its inner space, a golden brocade bag floated out.

Phoenix Among Birds sharply recognized this as the brocade bag she had given to the Dragon God, containing only some talismans and medicinal pill props, hardly a match for so many players.

Feng Lianzhu smiled at Phoenix Among Birds and said gently, “Feng Lianzhu is the guardian beast of Phoenix Arrival, right?”

“Ah? Ah!” Phoenix Among Birds was taken aback, only managing these monosyllabic responses.

The man in a golden robe flew into the air and said, “Let me fulfill the duty of the guardian beast then.”

Holding the small golden dragon in one arm, he opened the golden brocade bag with the other hand. A battle armor flew out from the brocade bag, initially the size of a coin, but it instantly expanded to a ten-meter-long fighter jet as it left the bag.

Feng Lianzhu sat in the cockpit, locked onto the target, and pressed the laser cannon button.

Brilliant light, like fireworks, radiated from the center of the battle armor, striking at the heart of every player attempting to attack Phoenix Arrival below.