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Chapter 360: Revised - 332 Constellations

Chapter 360: Revised: Chapter 332 Constellations

Gravity changed quietly, and when Li Cheng reopened his eyes, he was already standing in a fairly spacious ancient Chinese study room.

The study room was tastefully furnished, with ancient landscape paintings hanging on the walls, and writing materials placed on the desk. Bookshelves housed scrolls and classics that faintly emitted the scent of ink, window lattices were carved, and the curtains lightly hung down. The sound of waterfalls outside the window could be clearly heard.

There were eight people standing in the study room. Li Cheng, along with Yuan Zhixia, who received the same task, and two others were dressed in black, while the remaining four were dressed in white.

Everyone looked at each other cautiously, waiting for the system briefing.

[Three thousand years ago, a devastating war between gods and demons destroyed Buzhou Mountain, causing the separation of heaven and earth. The gods and humans became isolated from each other. Cultivators could no longer ascend to the Immortal Realm, and their lifespan sharply decreased to two hundred years]

[Seeing no hope of ascension, cultivators began to govern the war-torn Human World, forming a so-called Immortal Court by themselves, creating laws to manage and regulate disputes among monks, and imposing sanctions when necessary]

[Xiao Shui Sect, from a mere declining sect, has, in less than one hundred and fifty years, under the leadership of Sect Leader Xiao Shui Xingjun and his wife Miao Yin, soared to become the third largest major sect in the Human World. The couple, working together harmoniously, are seen by the world as a pair of celestial lovers]

[However, from young love to mutual resentment, their marriage has become unsustainable due to various reasons, and they eventually tore up the pretense and went to the Immortal Court for divorce arbitration. Thus began this century divorce case that shocked the Human World]

[In this mission, the eight players will be divided into two groups, acting as lawyers, representing Xiao Shui Xingjun and Miao Yin respectively, to conduct court debates, collect evidence, and refute the other side, striving to win as much benefit for their own client as possible]

The briefing ended, and the task details followed.

[Task objective of the second stage: Win the divorce case for the client Xiao Shui Xingjun]

[Task time limit: 72 hours]

[Task reward 1: 1500 Experience Points]

[Task reward 2: 5000 Game Coin]

[Task reward 3: Random item*1, quality depending on clearance rating]

[Task reward 4: Random Skill Scroll*1, quality depending on clearance rating]

[Task reward 5: Gift from Xiao Shui Xingjun*1]

[Failure penalty: The wrath of Xiao Shui Xingjun]

Oh...

Li Cheng rubbed his brow. No wonder this time there was a huge reward of 5000 Game Coin right off the bat; it was indeed a fantasy cultivation background.

Especially the final task rewards and failure penalties were even more thought-provoking.

If completed well, you could achieve Washing Marrow, transform completely, and get top-tier Spirit Root implantation for free, with a bonus of Cave Mansion, Cultivation Technique, and Spiritual Medicine packages?

If not completed well, you could be permanently trapped by the Soul-breaking Banner and Demon-locking Tower?

Everyone else, who also heard the task briefing, had varying expressions. Unconsciously, they had split into two sides based on their black and white clothing.

Obviously, those in black were the lawyer group representing Xiao Shui Xingjun, and those in white were the lawyer group representing Miao Yin.

After a brief silence, a white-clad man with sword eyebrows and bright eyes, who looked valiant and handsome, spoke first: "Everyone must have heard the task briefing, right?

This team deathmatch doesn’t require us to fight each other but is solely about courtroom debates.

Considering the mentions of gods, demons, Immortal Realm, Buzhou Mountain, and celestial isolation in the briefing, even in the countless worlds of the killing field, the power level here is quite high.

In other words, we won’t have the chance to use force or end the task prematurely through underhanded means."

As if to validate his speech, the man drew a rusty Bronze Sword from the void and slashed it diagonally towards the ground.

The sword emitted a murderous aura, but before the Sword Qi could even touch the ground,

the bell hanging by the window in the study automatically rang, and the Sword Qi instantly dissipated.

’Is this... a ban on Extraordinary Power?’

Everyone’s eyelids twitched. Some missions do have such peace zones that forbid private fights at the start, usually enforced directly by the system.

But this time, because it was a high-power level world, the killing field took a shortcut, using the world background to rationalize the peace zone setting.

"We haven’t met our client yet, the study door hasn’t knocked either, so we are still in a peace zone. To show sincerity, here is my personal information."

The white-clad man put away the Bronze Sword and snapped his fingers, with a string of text suddenly suspended above his head.

[Ziwei·Central Heaven North Pole][Lv31]

Wow, isn’t this Gouchen’s brother?

Li Cheng’s heart stirred. After the Toy City mission, he had specially collected clues and information about Central Heaven North Pole.

This person’s parents were Malaysian Chinese tycoons. He received an elite education from a young age, excelled in competitions, and was proficient in fencing, equestrianism, and skiing. While attending Stanford University, he and his classmates created a cryptocurrency-related website, which they sold for ten million US Dollars.

He was a prime example of a capitalist successor with proper roots.

Until the killing field arrived, he was randomly selected as a player due to his qualities (there were rumors that he used family connections to command a gang to kidnap and murder a local novice player, killing him and seizing his qualifications).

After that, he immediately dumped his newly-engaged fiancée, the daughter of a local official,

and plunged into the killing field world with single-minded focus, steadily and quickly leveling up, until he became the current Lv31 and the interim head of the GOC Southeast Asia region.

Well... due to some internal factional struggles within the GOC, the "acting" prefix in Central Heaven North Pole’s title had not yet been removed.

However, as long as he continued to level up and perform well, officially becoming the head of the Southeast Asia region with nearly seven hundred million people was surely just a matter of time.

In the study room, Central Heaven North Pole’s expression was candid and his gaze firm.

Other players who had heard of his name also displayed their IDs after some thought.

In Miao Yin’s Camp,

a middle-aged white man impeccably groomed from hair to toe, with a hidden suit shown as [Law Tycoon Howard][Lv17]

A short and skinny old man with a dull and muddy gaze, shown as [Nameless Man Haye][Lv20]

A person who looked meticulously exquisite and androgynous, somewhat resembling the actress Iphigenia from an old Greek movie, twelve or thirteen years old, shown as [Human-shaped Computer Ada][Lv5]

Not good, this.

Li Cheng’s eyelids twitched. As a high-intensity user of player forums, he loved reading all kinds of peculiar news.

This "Law Tycoon Howard" had also, like Central Heaven North Pole, chosen to disclose his player identity.

In reality, he was a partner at the famous Ruisheng International Law Firm, specializing in corporate transactions, environmental law, and tax law.

His clients include Prometheus, European Heavy Industry Group, and Thousand Throats Beast—these major organizations would hire lawyers for negotiations according to the advisory laws issued by the GOC, rather than engaging in direct warfare when commercial conflicts arose.

Howard’s notable achievement was his lawsuit victory for the Thousand Throats Beast Guild against Gen-Sys Biotech, successfully suing them for patent infringement and plagiarism of several biological enhancement formulations for magic pets, resulting in a compensation of three hundred thousand Game Coin from the biotech company.

The second one, Haye, was even more of a heavyweight. He was an apprentice of Jacques Verges.

Jacques Verges was a famous French lawyer, known for defending highly controversial cases. He was born in 1925 and passed away in 2013. His father was a French diplomat, and his mother was a Vietnamese teacher. Due to his parents’ interracial marriage, his father’s official position was demoted, which instilled a strong anti-colonial sentiment in Verges from a young age.

As a leftist human rights lawyer, his defense clients included but were not limited to Klaus Barbie, the head of Gestapo in Lyon during WWII; Carlos the Jackal, a Cold War-era terrorist; Milosevic, the former President of Yugoslavia; and Saddam Hussein, the former President of Iraq...

His home was filled with gifts from these "luminary" figures. According to his own words, "Defense does not mean making excuses. A lawyer does not judge, condemn, or declare someone innocent. He merely tries to understand the situation."

(By Toy Factory’s standards, if Verges were still alive, he would certainly be an A-tier, S-tier figure)

Haye, as Verges’ assistant and protégé, had also frequently appeared in newspapers until being selected as a player at the age of eighty, nearly breaking the player age record.

Both of Miao Yin’s Camp’s members were "celebrities" in the legal field, and the final member Ada, though only level 5, was not simple given the title Human-shaped Computer.

And on our side...

Li Cheng turned to look at those behind him.

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