Jiang Wanwan

The next morning.

Tang Xuan and a few of his beautiful female fans, who were also tenants, enjoyed breakfast together, laughing and chatting, their conversation soon turning to topics related to the game "Great Wuxia."

After finishing their meal, everyone eagerly logged into the game.

Once online, Tang Xuan first checked his own character panel.

[Name: Half-Saint under Heaven]
[Level: 16]
[Health: 1000/1000]
[Inner Power: 1080/1080]
[Attack: 2080]
[Defense: 1480]
[Speed: 1260]
[Martial Arts: Arhat's Thousand-Pound Skill (Mastered), Lost Edition of Five Tigers Severing Blade (Mastered), Grass-Leaping Technique (Mastered), Wood-Splitting Needlework (Mastered), Plum Blossom Thirteen Needles (Mastered), Shaolin Arhat Fist (Mastered), Basic Swordplay (Mastered)...]
[Inventory: Tiger Fang Blade *4, Flying Needles *13...]

As Tang Xuan was reviewing his attributes, a series of game announcements appeared before him.

"Congratulations to player 'Desolate Smoke in the Desert' for becoming the first to join the Kongtong Sect."
"Congratulations to player 'Requiem' for becoming the first to join the Qingcheng Sect."
"Congratulations to player 'Millennia Past' for becoming the first to join the Beggar's Sect."
"Congratulations to player 'Eternal Prosperity' for becoming the first to join the Wudang Sect."
"Congratulations to player 'Li Ergou' for becoming the first to join the Songshan Sect."
"Congratulations to player 'Life Holds No Joy' for becoming the first to join Tianquan Manor."
"..."
"Congratulations to player 'Don’t Wait,' for becoming the first to join the Dragon Gate Escort Agency."
"Congratulations to player 'Time Bites,' for becoming the first to join the Boundless Sword Sect."
"Congratulations to player 'Bloodthirsty by Nature,' for becoming the first to join the Fuwei Escort Agency."
"Congratulations to player 'Jiang Wanwan,' for becoming the first to join Coconut Flower Island of the South Sea."

Many players had become the first disciples of various sects and schools.

There were system announcements, as well as hidden rewards like those achieved by Wang Yajun and her companions—becoming the first disciple of a sect allowed one to skip the outer disciple stage and advance directly to inner disciple.

"These people have finally cleared the normal difficulty of the Black Wind Village dungeon," Tang Xuan chuckled to himself.

The normal difficulty of Black Wind Village, a dungeon for level 5-10 players and teams of 1-10, had a level 20 boss—the Third Chief—who was formidable even for the prominent figures and elite players of major gaming guilds.

Only after mastering basic inner strength, basic agility, and skills obtainable in the novice village such as "Plum Blossom Thirteen Needles" and the incomplete version of "Five Tigers Severing Blade," could a team hope to take down the Third Chief of Black Wind Village.

Not everyone possessed Tang Xuan's collection of martial arts, each at the highest level!

With the dungeon cleared and the "Entry Certificate" obtained, players were not only joining the major sects as the first disciples, but also leaving no stone unturned among the lesser schools.

There were those who joined the Dragon Gate Escort Agency, Fuwei Escort Agency, Boundless Sword Sect, Coconut Flower Island, Funiu Sect, Giant Whale Gang, Seaside Sect, and so on.

Take the Dragon Gate Escort Agency, for example—the head, Du Dajin, was a lay disciple of Shaolin, not particularly renowned for his martial prowess. However, to ordinary martial artists, his fist, palm, and single-blade techniques were quite accomplished, especially his skill with the chained steel darts, which allowed him to launch forty-nine in rapid succession.

For this, he was known in the martial world as the "Many-Armed Bear."

Players who joined the Dragon Gate Escort Agency could at most learn Du Dajin's martial arts, with the highest being third-rank.

How could this compare to the future prospects of joining prestigious sects like Shaolin, Wudang, or Quanzhen?

Still, as the first to join the Dragon Gate Escort Agency, a player would immediately become an inner disciple, a direct pupil of Du Dajin, quickly mastering his skills—including the rare "Forty-Nine Consecutive Steel Darts" technique, a third-rank hidden weapon skill.

In this way, for early-stage players, such gains were a significant advantage when tackling the hard difficulty (levels 11-15, teams of 1-10) of the Black Wind Village dungeon.

Sacrificing the broad prospects of a major sect to become an inner disciple of a minor school was a strategy to boost early combat power—a tactic commonly employed by large online gaming clubs and guilds.

These organizations never lacked manpower; sending one person to become a minor sect's inner disciple was beneficial for the guild's early development—why not do it?

In fact, inner disciples of these small schools were so coveted that guilds often competed for them!

Some minor factions, such as the Fuwei Escort Agency, even harbored supreme techniques like the Evil-Resisting Sword Manual.

Tang Xuan was long accustomed to these strategies. He had once been the top player under the Royal Dynasty Club, hailed as the number one player and the textbook of online gaming.

But seeing the line, "Congratulations to player 'Jiang Wanwan,' for becoming the first to join Coconut Flower Island of the South Sea," Tang Xuan couldn't help but furrow his brow.

Jiang Wanwan was a legendary goddess-level player in the online gaming world, also under the Royal Dynasty Club.

She was also the leader of Eternal Guild, one of the four great guilds of Royal Dynasty.

Rumors abounded that Jiang Wanwan had a close, even scandalous, relationship with Tang Xuan, the so-called number one player and gaming textbook.

The truth was, Jiang Wanwan was indeed a big fan of Tang Xuan, and the two shared a rather ambiguous relationship in private.

The four great guilds under Royal Dynasty were all ranked among the top ten in the gaming world.

Previously, these four guilds had all served Tang Xuan alone.

But after Tang Xuan was forcibly expelled from Royal Dynasty, it seemed Jiang Wanwan had also been affected.

For Jiang Wanwan, as the leader of Eternal Guild, to be forced to join a minor sect like Coconut Flower Island?

Although being the first disciple meant she became an inner disciple, personally taught by the island master, and although Coconut Flower Island, as one of the "Thirty-Six Caves and Seventy-Two Islands," offered the renowned "Swallow-Stealing Skill," an excellent combination of inner power and agility—still, this was the limit.

It remained a small school, with far less promise than the major sects.

For Jiang Wanwan to end up joining a minor school, it seemed that after Tang Xuan's departure from Royal Dynasty, she had not had an easy time and had also been marginalized.

"Heh."

Tang Xuan let out a cold laugh.

Royal Dynasty Club!

Sooner or later, he would settle accounts with the number one gaming club!

Tang Xuan opened his in-game messaging system and sent a friend request to "Jiang Wanwan."

Since his character was "Half-Saint under Heaven," the application was quickly accepted.

"Guess who I am?" Tang Xuan sent a message.

"Is there even a need to guess? On the first day of open beta, there were three major system announcements—who but you, Tang the Great, could have accomplished that?" Jiang Wanwan quickly replied.