Why the bug I wrote became a core gameplay mechanic?!
Chapter 672 - 655: Becoming Tao Companions (Make-up Update)

Chapter 672: Chapter 655: Becoming Tao Companions (Make-up Update)

In the end, after Instructor Ding and Brother Li’s two groups each killed Overstreet Rat twice, this grand commotion at the Life Star Pavilion came to a close.

Brother Li’s side suffered a small loss because the compensation had doubled again when they killed him, costing 400 and 800 bucks each time, which is quite a high price even in a typical pay-to-win game.

Moreover, during the last kill, there were already faint signs of a Heavenly Tribulation approaching in the sky, so everyone decided to call it a day.

After all, those who came to kill Overstreet Rat were the whales with more capability, and the loss of a single rebirth would be significant.

Since they all had to be reborn anyway, they decided to use this precious opportunity on consuming Nine Dragon Elixir Pills.

Although under the protection of the Immortal Realm’s laws, Overstreet Rat was only killed four times and couldn’t be spawn-camped or have his body displayed like in many other games, the spectators’ anger had more or less dissipated.

Instructor Ding made a harsh statement before leaving: "If you dare to enter the Heavenly Pride List again, I’ll kill you every time I see you!"

Although killing people in this game comes with a punishment, the punishment has a cooldown. In other words, after a while when no one kills him, the compensation returns to a hundred bucks.

This is the sort of protection "Reverse Heaven" offers: making sure players won’t necessarily quit the game out of frustration from being killed repeatedly, but still allowing others to vent their anger by paying a price.

In any case, this scam by Overstreet Rat led to Life Star Pavilion’s entire sect gaining a ruined reputation.

Players began to prefer seeking those reputable and trustworthy Life Star Pavilion disciples to adjust their Heavenly Tribulation probabilities. If necessary, they would even find two different disciples to double-check and prevent collusion.

As for Overstreet Rat and the other deceitful Life Star Pavilion disciples...

Of course, they were blacklisted by all the players in the server, never again able to get any business related to adjusting Heavenly Tribulation probabilities.

At this point, Li Wenhao felt that it was almost enough, as it was now virtually impossible for Overstreet Rat to continue playing on this server.

"Reverse Heaven" is a highly social game, and once everyone’s out to get you, many aspects of the game become restricted.

For instance, no one would team up with him for expeditions into the Barbaric World, no one would buy his items at the auction house, and he’d be killed as soon as he appeared on the Heavenly Pride List.

As a Life Star Pavilion disciple, his business would completely dry up, rendering their cultivation techniques useless.

Of course, Overstreet Rat could still play the game as a single-player, being a lone wolf gathering materials in the Barbaric World and selling them cheaply, but with constant verbal abuse, there would barely be any fun left in the game.

Li Wenhao empathized a bit. If he were Overstreet Rat, he’d probably sell his account cheap or quit the game altogether.

Even for someone like him, it’s doubtful anyone would even want to buy his account.

Since the game currently doesn’t offer name-change or server-transfer services, no one would willingly buy a socially dead account just to suffer.

...

The next evening.

Li Wenhao had just finished today’s cultivation tasks and saw a stream of notification messages on the screen.

[Congratulations to Time Wheel Zen Sect Heavenly Pride Disciple ’I am not Jian Shang’ for successfully overcoming Nascent Soul Stage Heavenly Tribulation. Truly an exemplary cultivator!]

[Congratulations to Wuxiang Pill Alliance Heavenly Pride Disciple ’Brother Li’ for successfully overcoming Nascent Soul Stage Heavenly Tribulation. Truly an exemplary cultivator!]

[Congratulations to Erosion Spirit Heavenly Palace Heavenly Pride Disciple ’Instructor Ding’...]

These messages appeared almost simultaneously, with only a few minutes between them.

Li Wenhao was shocked: "Well, damn, this group of whales has already reached the Nascent Soul Stage? That was fast.

"And they all chose to cross their tribulations at the same time.

"Looks like the cultivation progress of the top whales has been about equalized under the effect of Nine Dragon Elixir Pills."

Clearly, these top whales were well-prepared to survive the Nascent Soul Stage Heavenly Tribulation.

After dealing with the frauds in the Life Star Pavilion, they must have sought out reliable people to a certain extent to improve their survival rates.

Paired with various elixirs and magical treasures as protection, surviving the tribulation was a high-probability event.

Moreover, even though Instructor Ding exploded twice already, Brother Li had yet to explode, their cultivation progress had shown signs of converging.

This was the special mechanism of "Reverse Heaven" at work.

Though Brother Li hadn’t exploded and incurred no loss, he had to constantly reduce his Nine Dragon Elixir Pills intake to manage his internal toxicity, which ultimately allowed Instructor Ding to catch up.

"Let’s check in on Little Ding. He must be feeling pretty smug right now."

Li Wenhao set his character to meditate and went to Instructor Ding’s livestream.

At that moment, Instructor Ding was indeed quite smug, not only because he had successfully crossed the tribulation but also because he was planning something very important.

"The Technology Cultivation Supplement Company is recruiting Tao Companions!

"Cultivation level doesn’t matter, but you must be a long-term player. If interested, please sign up quickly!

"Ladies who aspire to cultivate together, please DM me heavily! No fakes allowed!"

Li Wenhao froze for a moment, then he remembered, one can officially form Tao Companion pairs at Nascent Soul Stage.

Instructor Ding was bustling with activity, in contrast, Jian Shang’s side was quiet.

Jian Shang had a significant other, so he technically already had a Tao Companion. The game doesn’t allow multiple Tao Companions.

"Goodness, the Immortal Realm strictly enforces monogamy apparently, fine by me.

"But what’s Little Ding up to, not considering reuniting with his significant other?

"If he forms a Tao Companion bond with another player, what happens? Even if he becomes a Level A Dealer, is his significant other’s feature forever deactivated?

"Or should he separate from his current Tao Companion to marry his significant other? That doesn’t sound right either!"

Li Wenhao didn’t expect such an abstract Tao Companion system in "Reverse Heaven." Adding a few more settings could resolve the issues, such as a unique beautiful Tao Companion not interfering with player bonds, but they didn’t add it.

This way, it leads to peculiar spectatorial effects.

Soon enough, quite a few people direct messaged Instructor Ding to sign up.

"Alright, I’ve added all those who DM’d me into the game’s voice channel, I’ll be opening it up one by one to check.

"Big strong men, don’t even try to sneak through, I have sensitive ears and can detect voice changers instantly.

"What? Meet directly in-game?

"No, no, let’s start with voice chat. If your voice is male, there’s no need to meet.

"I think I do have some female fans, at least among the streamers in the game zone, right? I like to keep it real."

Initially, Li Wenhao was puzzled, weren’t there only a few top whales who broke into the Nascent Soul Stage? None seemed to be female players.

After a closer look, he understood. As long as one party reached the Nascent Soul Stage, they could form a Tao Companion bond, while the other party’s cultivation level didn’t matter.

Had both needed to reach Nascent Soul Stage, the pool for Tao Companions would be extremely narrow.

Quickly, Instructor Ding’s voice channel was packed with people.

"Let’s welcome our first female guest, can you feel it...

"Hello? You can go on air now."

A very gruff male voice came through: "Instructor Ding, I’m your fan!!"

Instructor Ding’s face turned black as he instantly kicked him out of the voice channel.

"I must have done it wrong earlier, let’s try again.

"Let’s welcome our next female guest, can you fe...

Instructor Ding was cut off by a clearly male voice, trying to sound like a woman: "Hey, hey, Instructor I love you!"

Instructor Ding was prepared this time, instantly kicking him out of the voice channel too.

The comment section was in stitches by now.

Though every streamer contributes their share of "I must have female fans" content, it’s still funny each time.

And the fact that this was happening within the game, where the characters in the voice channel were all female avatars, made it even more hilarious when such things happened.

After five tries, all of them were male players using female avatars, which was very hard for Instructor Ding to handle.

The sixth attempt finally brought a breakthrough.

"Hello? Can you hear me?"

The voice sounded very normal, without any falsetto or voice changers, just a regular female voice.

Instructor Ding was almost moved to tears: "See, I do have female fans!

"Hello, miss, shall we meet up? I found a beautiful spot covered with flowers and you can see the sunset later.

"I’ll send you the coordinates."

Moments later, the other side responded: "Sure."

Instructor Ding was delighted and immediately flew to the designated spot he had chosen beforehand.

He checked the female player’s cultivation level in the game and found out that she was still in the Core Formation Stage.

This indicated she was quite active in the game because if she had been slacking off, she would still be at Foundation Establishment level.

An active online female player who could engage with the game? This made her an ideal candidate for a Tao Companion.

Instructor Ding was overjoyed, feeling that he had secured entertaining content for the future.

"Who needs a significant other? Even if she’s extremely good-looking, she’s just a doll. A real girl is much better.

"The doll can go to Jian Shang. I want to start a passionate online romance with this sweet-voiced lady!"

The comment section was immediately filled with "cringe" remarks.

Instructor Ding’s heart raced as he waited, just like someone waiting for a date.

After a while, a silhouette on a flying sword appeared in the distance.

With flowing robes, accompanied by special cloud and mist effects, in the backdrop of the sunset, it was a sight to behold.

However, as the figure landed in front of him, Instructor Ding froze.

Because it was a square-shaped female cultivator.

The outfit was normal, makeup and hairstyle were normal, but the figure was robust with broad shoulders and defined muscles, almost as big as Instructor Ding’s character, but since he was a female avatar, it looked even more conspicuous.

Instructor Ding was at a loss for words: "Uh, this..."

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