The Golden Elixir is A Star, and You Call This Cultivation?
Chapter 149 - 98: The Game Begins, A Small Soldier in the City of No Return_1

Chapter 149: Chapter 98: The Game Begins, A Small Soldier in the City of No Return_1

The giant city fell.

The whole giant city, scarred and disfigured, was full of ruins everywhere.

In this city, only a few thousand scattered demons roamed freely.

The snow-white bones littering the ground had no one to bury them.

It was not known who those soulful dreamers were.

A month later, a human clans’ army rushed to the city again, recaptured it after a bloody battle.

A grisly scar on the face of the leading commander made him look particularly horrifying as he drank with his generals.

Five days later, the demon army attacked again.

The giant city fell once more.

A huge fire lasted for two months, and another human clans’ army arrived.

Unfortunately, their fate was the same, total annihilation.

Later, another human clans’ army came and perished here once more.

After that, Qi Yuan stood on the city wall. For over ten years, no human clans’ army had arrived.

He looked at the city full of white bones.

"The moment a soldier steps in this city to guard it, their lifespan begins to count down backwards. No one has lived for more than ten days."

"Is my task now... to guard this solitary city?"

Qi Yuan stood alone in the desolate city. He looked up at the towering city wall, pockmarked all over and scarred by blades.

The feeling of vastness and desolation hit him.

On the city wall, there were the three characters "The City of No Return".

Qi Yuan looked at himself and muttered, "Level 45, huh?"

Now he, entering the game, was indeed a Level 45 player.

Unlike the first time he entered, when he was just Level 1.

Therefore, Qi Yuan guessed that Level 45 was similar to the late Foundation Establishment stage.

The stronger his soul in the Vast Wave Realm, the higher his game level would be.

"Level 45 is not bad. I can at least kill minor monsters."

A smile appeared in Qi Yuan’s eyes.

By killing monsters, he would level up drastically in the game.

And this cultivation, would also reciprocate back into the real world.

In reality, his cultivation would skyrocket as well.

He liked this feeling.

"Unfortunately, I have no suitable weapons." Qi Yuan looked at himself.

He seemed to have entered the game alone.

But in a flash, he was stunned.

"Xiao Jia?"

He was surprised to find that Xiao Jia’s mark was still on his chest.

Did Xiao Jia follow him into the game?

"Xiao Jia!" Qi Yuan shouted.

Immediately, Xiao Jia’s figure appeared next to Qi Yuan.

She was wearing a red wedding dress, looking extremely enchanting.

A timid Xiao Jia was completely bewildered by the environment around her.

However, when she saw Qi Yuan, she seemed to feel reassured, gripping Qi Yuan’s arm tightly.

Qi Yuan smiled, "In the old days, literate men had red-clothed ladies to accompany them while reading late at night.

Today I, Qi Yuan, guard a lonely city, accompanied by a lady in a red wedding dress."

With this thought, Qi Yuan found the game to be quite enjoyable.

At this moment, the demons wandering in the city seemed to have also noticed Qi Yuan and roared furiously towards him.

To these demons, tearing all humans to pieces was their instinct.

Hundreds of demons, distorted and malevolent like various terrifying monsters, launched their huge bodies towards Qi Yuan.

"Xiao Jia!" Qi Yuan shouted loudly.

Together in life and death!

Instantly, the red fireflies fused into Qi Yuan’s body and a red suit of armor shielded his entire body tightly.

From his shoulders, slender and sharp spikes were shimmering with bewitching red lights.

His height soared to ten meters, looking like a terrifying blood-colored monster.

Qi Yuan waved his hand and a broken sword fell into his grasp.

As the broken sword suddenly enlarged and extended, a blood-red color spread over it.

The broken sword now looked like a red heavy ruler.

He showed his sharp teeth and said, "Little monsters, the hunting time begins again!"

He plunged into the dinosaur park like a heavy mech suit.

The demons made of flesh and blood were no match for him.

"Kill!"

With one stroke of the sword, dozens of demons were slain.

+40.

+20.

+10.

+35.

As countless experience poured in, Qi Yuan continued his killing spree like a demon god.

Everywhere he passed became a hell, all the demons that encountered him had only one way to go - death.

In ten days, Qi Yuan alone cleaned up the entire lonely city.

At this point, Qi Yuan was leaning against a half-fallen wall, panting heavily.

"Finally, there are no more demons in The City of No Return."

All the demons had been slaughtered by him alone.

His level had also increased to 49.

Four levels increased in ten days, this pace was quite fast.

At this moment, a prompt entered Qi Yuan’s ears.

[Successfully wiped out the demons, received a key piece*1.]

[Begin guarding The City of No Return, the longer the guard time, the more plentiful the rewards.]

[If demons enter The City of No Return, the guarding state will fail.]

Hearing these prompts, Qi Yuan revealed a relaxed expression.

"Who says this world isn’t a game?"

"It is a game!"

"The game I’m playing!"

With his broken sword in hand, Qi Yuan, together with Xiao Jia, sat on the city wall.

Surveying his surroundings, there was nothing but desert, with frequent gusts of wind stirring up the sand and dust. Occasionally, rusty remnants of swords poked out from the sand.

Qi Yuan held Xiao Jia close, watching the desert scenery with her.

Sometimes when a sandstorm struck, he would shield her from it.

When the night was enchanting, he would dig a hole and sleep with her under the city wall.

If any demon dared to intrude, he would sense it instantly and execute it with a single sword strike.

"I wonder when the next wave of monsters will attack the city."

One day, as Qi Yuan and Xiao Jia sat on the city wall, they felt a mixture of anticipation and dread.

If a shrewd little devil were to sneak into the city, his status as its defender would be invalidated.

However, without demons, he wouldn’t be able to gain experience from slaying monsters.

At that moment, from the distance, there appeared two figures garbed in tattered armor coming from the heart of the desert, capturing Qi Yuan’s attention.

Far away.

"Cough cough..." Zhang Sheng caught sight of the towering city walls, his eyes red and moist, "We’ve finally arrived."

At Zhang Sheng’s side, the one-armed Chen Jiao’s face was deathly pale as he handed Zhang Sheng water.

"Brother Sheng, finish this water. The two of us will take back the Homeless City!"

The water in Chen Jiao’s flask was all they had left.

The army supporting Homeless City, Camp Song, consisted of one thousand seven hundred and twenty-three soldiers.

The general in charge was Li Minghuan, once a renowned general in Great Daxia.

Homeless City had not come back within Great Daxia’s borders for more than ten years.

It was one of the hundred and eighty thousand lost cities.

Half a year ago, the monarch of Great Daxia exhausted the kingdom’s resources to call upon a troop of elderly soldiers to go to Homeless City - in an attempt to regain control.

Unfortunately, along the way, they met a large demon army.

The two armies clashed resulting in a devastating defeat. Only Zhang Sheng and Chen Jiao miraculously survived and woke up in a corpse littered battlefield.

The two men, both seriously injured, travelled towards Homeless City determined to plant the flag of Great Daxia on the city walls.

As long as the flag was planted, this would signify that Homeless City still belonged to Great Daxia, if only for a day.

Homeless City was then not considered completely lost.

Any city occupied by demons for more than a hundred years would permanently belong to them.

Unless it is retaken and held for a hundred years.

How difficult would that be?

Soldiers who go to Homeless City have no way back and they do not receive any supplies.

It was said that when they embarked on the road to Homeless City, they had only one month to live.

"It’s unfortunate, the flag can’t stay in Homeless City forever." Chen Jiao said with a melancholy expression.

Chen Jiao originally worked as a butcher in town, his family had been doing this for generations.

His cousin and father had died in Homeless City.

He was the only one left at home.

Zhang Sheng was a capture officer in the town, his father was the town’s head capture officer.

To Chen Jiao, Zhang Sheng was born with a silver spoon.

From an early age, Zhang Sheng enjoyed being a ranger, always well-dressed and on horseback.

This time, he disregarded his father’s advice, secretly enlisted in the army, and came to this place.

Looking at Homeless City, Zhang Sheng’s face was filled with excitement, "The Homeless City has not been owned by Great Daxia for over ten years, but as long as we plant the flag on the city walls, the soldiers and civilians of Great Daxia will be filled with emotion!"

Zhang Sheng’s grandfather also died in Homeless City.

He was the youngest in the family and had his older brother to look after his father, that’s why he’s here.

The injuries of both of them were severe. Simply talking meant blood oozing from the corners of their mouths.

"Being able to be buried in the same place as my unbroken ancestors of Great Daxia, I have no more regrets in this life." Although Chen Jiao was a butcher, he was fond of using literary language.

"The only regret is that we are unable to erect a tombstone for our ancestors." Zhang Sheng said, pulling out his straight knife, his gaze becoming resolute.

Upon entering Homeless City, they were bound to be besieged by demons.

Certain death. Even without the demons, their injuries would not keep them alive for more than ten days.

At that moment, Zhang Sheng suddenly widened his eyes: "How are there people on the city wall?"

Chen Jiao was also stunned, revealing a look of disbelief.

Homeless City had fallen for over ten years, how could there possibly be people there?

Could it be... an illusion?

Weren’t there supposed to be only demons in Homeless City?

Both of them couldn’t comprehend and glanced at each other.

"Let’s go over there and check it out."

Zhang Sheng and Chen Jiao hurriedly increased their pace towards Homeless City.

The closer they got, the more astonished they became.

Because, Homeless City was eerily silent, with no roars from the demons echoing out.

This contrasted with the information they had received.

By rights, shouldn’t Homeless City be infested with demons now?

And on the city wall, the figure of a man in black, seemingly holding a broken sword, became clearer and clearer.

He was sitting on the city wall, his figure lean but unmistakably human.

"You...who are you?" Chen Jiao plucked up the courage to ask.

The man on the wall moved, looking at the two of them, his voice calm, "Homeless City, Defender!"

Upon hearing these words, Chen Jiao and Zhang Sheng were shocked, their hearts filled with indescribable emotions.

Could it be that after all these years, Homeless City had not entirely fallen?

Was there still a citizen of Great Daxia, with just his broken sword and himself, sitting alone on the city wall, safeguarding it?

"I am Zhang Sheng, a soldier of Great Daxia’s Camp Song!"

"I am Chen Jiao, a soldier of Great Daxia’s Camp Song!"

Hearing this, Qi Yuan’s gaze fell onto the two of them: "The NPCs supposed to be guarding this place?"

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