Absolute Death Game

"Go into a boss level? Surely that’s not necessary," Xiao Buli said, a mix of laughter and tears in his voice. Find your next read on NovelBin.Côm

"How is it not necessary? With my strength level, if I were in a game, I’d definitely be a boss with a golden name. I bet groups of players would be trying to kill me for my loot. Although I’m strong, handling so many enemies would be troublesome. But thankfully, I’m fine," Du Yibo said, feeling very fortunate.

Xiao Buli’s mood lightened somewhat after the ribbing, "Speaking of which, weren’t you specially kept behind by the team leader to finish things up? I remember you mentioning it. How come it’s now like you suddenly pulled a U-turn on your own?"

Du Yibo looked a bit embarrassed and said, "Let’s not talk about that anymore. What are you planning to do next?"

Xiao Buli didn’t press further and replied, "Of course I’ll clear things up. Without understanding what’s going on, even playing the game won’t feel right," he typed, smiling wryly.

Du Yibo wholeheartedly agreed with his decision, "You’re right. It should be cleared up. But do you know where they are now?"

"Of course, I know. According to the story Li Baocheng told me, that adventure team is obviously our team leader’s team. Since they’ve entered the heart of Black Stone Mountain, other than that tunnel, I can’t think of any other way to get there. So they must have entered that instance, and the so-called teleportation array should be inside the instance."

"So all we have to do is enter and get through that instance to find out where the team leader and others went afterward. However, the instance is blocked by some force, and I have no idea how to get in or how they got in," he continued.

After thinking for a moment, Du Yibo had a sudden inspiration, "Since it’s an intangible force, it should be a spell effect, right? Probably a potent Spirit-Dispelling Skill could break it. As for how they got in, Hua is an Exorcist, right? It must have been Hua who opened the door."

Hearing Du Yibo’s reasoning, Xiao Buli gave it some thought and found it made sense. Their next step would be to learn a potent Spirit-Dispelling Skill.

Unfortunately, he’d run out of Contribution Value, or else he could have gone back to see if Mystic Hollow Palace offered any similar skills. Now his only choice was to try his luck at the auction house in Nine Dragons City, but before that, he had to cleanse his red name.

As for how to clean his red name, he asked around among the Solo Players, and eventually, an assassin player named Ye Han told him of a way.

"Go to the City God Temple, and use Merit Points to cleanse it. I used to," Ye Han paused, "I often saw others there cleansing their Slaughter Points."

Xiao Buli chuckled internally; he guessed that Ye Han had probably killed people before, more than once at that. Considering his advanced assassin profession, the reason was not hard to guess.

For some reason, knowing he wasn’t the only one indiscriminately killing others made him feel much better.

"Alright, then I’ll head to the City God Temple."

After saying goodbye to everyone, Xiao Buli set off.

The City God Temple was much more conspicuous than the Nuwa Temple; it was opposite the City Lord’s Mansion in every city.

Xiao Buli arrived at Nine Dragons City and stealthily made his way into the City God Temple. The place was empty, but that no longer surprised him.

Activating his Omniscient Eye, a black-faced judge-like figure indeed revealed itself where none had been before.

He approached to initiate a dialogue—

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"Do you wish to cleanse yourself of your Slaughter Karma?" the City God asked indifferently.

Xiao Buli replied, "Yes, I do. May I know the price for it?"

The City God brought out a mirror and shone it upon him, "Hmm, let me see, you carry 4 points of Slaughter Points, with each requiring 50 Merit Points to resolve. You’ll need a total of 200 Merit Points."

What! Xiao Buli was shocked. That was just too much. He had only about 200 Merit Points on him. He had originally thought that accumulating 500 points would allow him to be revived, but now it seemed he was still far from that goal.

However, he couldn’t just leave the Slaughter Points uncleaned, as that would prevent him from even entering the city, which would be troublesome. @@novelbin@@

Seeing his dilemma, the City God said, "If you don’t have 200 points, I can take 150 points and cleanse you of most of your karma. Thus, although people will still sense an aura of killing intent from you, it won’t immediately lead to life-threatening trouble. What do you think?"

Xiao Buli thought this must be what they call ’turning yellow name,’ but decided to forget it. After all, the remaining 50 Merit Points seemed useless, and besides, 200 points was still far from 500, so he might as well cleanse them.

With that thought, he gritted his teeth and chose to accept the offer.

A golden light descended, as if washing away his Slaughter Karma. When the white light dissipated, the bloody aura on his body had also vanished.

"All clean now. Welcome to come again," the City God shone the mirror upon Xiao Buli once more before speaking.

Xiao Buli thought to himself, Yeah right, as if I had that many Merit Points.

This City God was also a gold-named ghostly NPC. Xiao Buli wondered if he could earn Merit Points by defeating the NPC, but figured that such functional NPCs most likely had their own backing, so it would be wise not to provoke them rashly.

Next stop—the Auction House:

Xiao Buli stood before the price list at the Auction House, his gaze sweeping across the item listings. Recently, numerous battles had taken place in the vicinity of Nine Dragons City. Not long ago, the Demon Clan had launched a probing attack, killing many people.

Naturally, lots of equipment and Skill Books were dropped as well, and the item listings in the Auction House now looked much richer for it.

That was particularly true for Skill Books. There was an assortment of messy sword manuals, blade manuals, boxing techniques, Formations, and various spellcasting Skill Books. Unfortunately, none of them were the powerful Spirit-Dispelling Spells that Xiao Buli wanted.

There was a Spirit-Dispelling Skill that seemed to have somewhat similar functionality, but it was clearly not very strong, requiring only 16 points of spiritual power to learn. And they were selling it for 30 Gold Coins—absolutely ludicrous. Xiao Buli wouldn’t be foolish enough to buy such a worthless book.

Nevertheless, Xiao Buli did find two copies of the "Spirit Reincarnation" Skill Book, neither of which was expensive. One could be bought for just three Gold Coins, and another for five Gold Coins, and those were the higher prices. After all, the price of Skill Books in Nine Dragons City had been on the rise recently.

If it had been a more ordinary time, he reckoned it might have cost just one or two Gold Coins.

Yet, the low price made Xiao Buli hesitate. Could it be that such a good skill was really unlearned by anybody? It was important to note that it was a life-saving skill.

He read through the introduction to Spirit Reincarnation again and suddenly paused.

"Spirit Reincarnation": This is an unorthodox Art created by the Necromancers of the Grand Yin Sect. Those who practice this Art do not die immediately upon death. Instead, they turn into a Wandering Spirit, devoid of any combat ability, existing for seven days before naturally dissipating. Learning this spell requires a spiritual power of 20 points.

The key lay in surviving for seven days. (

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