The Path
Li Aozi wasn't lying.
In his past life, he started in the Kingdom of Arnka, ter emigrated to the Red Arrow Empire, became an imperial citizen, and after leveling up and developing, he got himself a GTB legionnaire membership card, which greatly improved his gaming experience.
This path was called "corporate dog" by pyers.
Pyers sought y, excitement, fun, and bes.
For this purpose, some went to the Sky Ring to bee war criminals, some became vagrants ier nds, and some even worked in family pnning in Zhuxu. Naturally, there were also those who worked fTB and the four nations as unlucky employees.
GTB had immense influence, and Li Aozi was well aware of the dirty and dark side behind this "bank."
But that didn't stop him from spendiravagantly at Lejitian and Mombilon with his legionnaire card, lingering and unwilling to leave...
Yes, those were legitimate pces, just with more niche experiences.
The legionnaire membership card had no overdraft limit, and it was on for pyers to overdraft tens or hundreds of thousands of Galon.
pared to the Deb of the Frost-Pted Republic, the Galon of the Red Arrow Empire was much stronger and wouldn't face severe devaluation like during the financial crisis of 226.
Unfortunately, if he had known he would blow up a p, Li Aozi would have defaulted on more debts.
Nimotin, lookied, sent the bounty application to GTB, then urged Agent Yavanna to quickly escape.
Staying any longer with this madman Li Aozi, she'd lose her life sooner or ter.
Agent Yavanna briefly made eye tact with Li Aozi; she didn't uand his iions, but from his eyes aion, he seemed fident in what he was doing.
In the end, she said nothing and helped Nimotin leave.
As for what they'd do , Li Aozi didn't care. Anyway, Nimotin had a dedicated work; as long as she escaped his sight, she'd have no she of support.
【‘Yavanna Huskisin’ has left the team】
Li Aozi didn't mind Yavanna leaving; he couldn't raise her affe for him in the short term anyway, so he let her go for now.
After all, he would eventually return to the Frost-Pted Republic.
After all, she was Dawelin's daughter. If he really wao increase her affe, he might as well go save Dawelin directly; that would be more practical than anything else.
Knowing this, Li Aozi wasn't in a hurry.
Dawelin was a genuine legendary figure. Throughout history, there were few who possessed both character and talent. Dawelin's personal virtue raised by nearly half of Blue Star's popution, being incorruptible and an expert in national defense affairs.
He couldn't just let that go.
Moreover, Dawelin's eldest son, Daixin, was also a graduate of the Frost-Pted Business School. If not for being implicated by his father, he would have been a high-ranking official in GTB long ago—he was also a talent. Li Aozi, pnning to monopolize the jewelry and equipment trade iure, needed a knowledgeable financial manager.
"The Abyss of Stars is too deep and vast, requiring an immense amount of manpoopution to develop. I need a rge number and variety of talents."
Li Aozi was calg meticulously in his heart.
Initially, pyers thought that sihe level cap in "Abyss of Stars" was ent, reag hundreds or thousands of levels ossible, it was just a matter of grinding.
Therefore, they naturally believed that this game, like traditional fantasy worlds, respected individual heroism, where the strohe individual, the more powerful they were.
However, the subsequent development pletely exceeded their expectations.
First, because the universe had no cept of time, the thirteen narrative-level civilizations each trolled parts of space-time. No matter how strong an individual was... unless your body could span tens of thousands of light-years, causing space-time colpse, you weren't qualified to challehese narratives.
Take the Empire of Heroes as an example, this narrative's power was enough to interfere with dimensions and pnes, a power that could only be based on the immense size of a narrative dominating the universe.
But if you formed a ral anization, it would be much more ve.
Whether in trade or military as, narratives weled these ral anizations.
This was the sed point—in ielr journeys sting hundreds of natural years, these extraordinary beings actually became more magnanimous. Issues that mortals couldn't tolerate were trivial to these long-lived species.
ic beings prioritized bes, but the loerm bes were obviously more important.
If an issue couldn't be resolved in a few years, we could discuss it again in a few thousand years; it would eventually be resolved.
For ordinary pyer groups, poputing the star map with extraordinary beings allowed them to cim this as their homend. Dominating a few star regions with individual extraordinary power would easily provoke dissatisfa from many neighbors, civilizations, and star clusters around them—but as long as there was a group of 'a' civilizations here, you held the moral high ground ierstelr unity.
But that wasn't the biggest problem. Bes were earhrough battle, individual bat power could tolerate their forot expanding, and even disdain it.
But they couldn't tolerate their individual power being frustrated.
Especially as they dived deeper into the Abyss of Stars, people were horrified to find that individual strength was especially powerless in the narrative-level Abyss of Stars, as their enemies came not only from the outside—but also from within themselves.
The cost of each dive and rise was enormous, the strohe individual, the strohe curse from the Abyss of Stars.
If you didn't dive, then sorry, you could only stop here, higher realms were out of reach, and you'd slowly await your end in the shallow starry sky.
In this situation, no matter how strong a Starfall Master's individual strength was, it was useless. In fact, being to would cause extreme invenience, uo rise or dive.
You might guard the front door and hold the ground, but if the backyard caught fire, no matter how powerful you were in the front, you'd watch helplessly as everything you accumuted was destroyed.
Unless it was a narrative-level civilization, f a rger and more elite team was the most cost-effective, distributing people across every yer of the Abyss of Stars to solidate influence.
But the premise of this was... yroup had to have enough extraordinary beings, and these powerful beings, uhe intervention of narrative-level civilizations, were difficult to truly unite.
Of course, Starfall Masters were an exception. Li Aozi always found it a pity and a regret—this group couldn't unite simply because there were too few of them and they were arrogant.
Fortunately, this issue was slowly being resolved at the root. As long as the number of future 【Starfall Masters】 could double, Li Aozi would sider it a great success.
"My macro pn is basically set, whether pyers make the 【Mutants】 rise depends on my performance."
Seeing the reward for "Remember," Li Aozi was pletely certain that this was the mai for the 【Mutants】 of the Frost-Pted Republic.
Especially with the settlement dition C: "Eradication"—its reward was a choice between 【Biologiest】, 【Geractor】, and 【White Obelisk】.
New pyers would be fused by these items with no descriptions. Li Aozi khem very well.
"【Mutants】' path buildings."
Li Aozi squinted:
"The pyer who pletes the css mai first will unlock the path building—in simple terms, it is a tool that allows all members of the css to follow the same development path as the creator."
Path buildings were like founding a se a mountain, solidifying a css's foundation, allowing ter members to grow quickly.
This wasn't very useful for solo pyers, but fuilds, it was extremely important.
Training new members was costly for any guild anization. Skills, specialties, and psioniergy required real moo develop.
The greatest significe of path buildings was helping guilds and anizations greatly reduce the cost of training new members. As long as newers were willing to follow this path, they could apply for assistance from the creator through the path building, no matter how far they were, they could unicate.
Besides, paths had many important funs.
【Biologiest】 focused on physical enha, capable of replig and nurturing bio-beasts based oh creator, suitable for strong individuals with a she of personnel.
It was a war-oriented path building, helping new rookies gain powerful pets, making it very ve for new members to level up.
It could also use bio-beasts to monitor subordinates, who wouldn't refuse such powerful helpers, instead seeing it as a symbol of trust from the leader, making both sides happy to cooperate.
The only fw was that 【Biologiest】 required a lot of mao maintain—this was quite awkward.
Because those who his were usually strong individuals g trusted personnel.
The boss generously distributed bio-beasts, and everyo out to fight and level up. But then, who would maintain the building?
【Geractor】 folloath of harming others for self-be. Simply put, ohe path creator set up the geractor, their subordinates could bring individuals with super geo extrae of their genes, modify bodily defects, and enhaributes. Very useful.
But based on Li Aozi's experiehe actual use of 【Geractor】 ain...
Mainly because it couldn't be moved and was quite rge (1.4 kilometers high, c an area of 600 hectares), and every activation was visible from outside the atmosphere.
If it attracted too much attention, it was too obvious, a meteor thrown from the atmosphere could smash it, and where would you cry then?
As for what the 【White Obelisk】 was, Li Aozi didn't know.
The closest thing he had seen in his past life was the 【Bck Obelisk】 with a length-to-width-to-height ratio of 1:4:9.
That was a terrifying path building, made of strong iion materials, iructible, ungeable, immovable, and absolutely precise—standing there as a silent warning.
Choosing the 【Bck Obelisk】 granted tinuous buffs, ensuring those on this path wouldn't get diseases, wouldn't experience bodily deformities, and every 2001 days, their cells would undergo a plete evolutioually shedding their physical form and living as energy beings, enjoying endless life and iructible will.
The only downside was the slow effect, taking four or five versions to see results, and there was even one pyer who, after perfeg their body, received a message—'you transform into an energy life form.'
Wow, all the previous efforts were suddenly wasted, what a big fool. So much time wasted on tasks and gathering materials.
Why did Li Aozi know this so well...
Because he was that big fool.
"The Bck Obelisk is very powerful, said to be a creation of a narrative."
But as for what the 【White Obelisk】 was, Li Aozi truly didn't know.
Path buildings were rare items, even with his knowledge, he hadn't seen them all.
pared to these, Li Aozi's attention was more on the gains from killing the professor's avatar, the ibal.
After a quiventory... it was quite impressive.
Ued events, side quests, scattered enemy kills, and the major tribution of killing the ibal across levels—totaling 781,250 experience points.
With so much experience, Li Aozi could finally level up to 20.
FAL