Summoning Players into My Game

"What the heck is player attire management?"

Lin Qi looked at the final function under managerial authority with a puzzled expression, completely baffled by its purpose.

But as soon as Lin Qi clicked on it, his eyes lit up instantly.

"Wow! The system really has thought of everything." Lin Qi admired the system as he looked at the player attire management.

The player attire management function has two options: basic attire upgrade and special attire upgrade.

Basic attire refers to the clothes players are born with, while special attire is customized for individual players, allowing them to possess unique clothing and stand out in a crowd, distinguishing between ordinary disciples, inner sect disciples, and elite disciples.

However, what Lin Qi valued most was the basic attire upgrade.

Currently, the silver-gray long-sleeve T-shirt is the most basic attire, and now that he has upgraded to Level 1 managerial authority, he can upgrade the basic attire to Level 1 basic attire for free.

The appearance of the Level 1 basic attire hasn't changed much, just adding a hood, but it has a very powerful function: disguise.

This disguise is passive, making it difficult for any creatures other than him and the players to detect.

Under this disguise, every time a player dies, their appearance will change as if they were reborn, effectively solving one of Lin Qi's major problems.

In the previous battle at Red Moon Mountain, many players were killed in public. Though not everyone watching would remember the fallen players, some with good memory might. Now with the Level 1 basic attire, players don't have to worry about their deaths and revivals being exposed, no matter how publicly they die.

In other words, with this feature, he can let players die boldly and confidently in the future.

Of course, the basic attire is powerful, but the special attire isn't far behind.

Special attire requires spending energy ore for custom work, adding a new ability to the existing features of basic attire.

Abilities such as a slight enhancement in insulation, a slight enhancement in defense, a slight enhancement in Qi and blood circulation, among many others, can be randomly added, greatly distinguishing player identities.

The downside is that this custom work isn't cheap, costing three hundred units of energy per person.

"Three hundred units per person—if players' inner sect disciple attire all needs to be funded by me, who knows how long my resting place and training room will be delayed?" Lin Qi pondered over the three hundred units of energy, feeling a bit of a headache.

Three hundred units might seem worthwhile considering the function of special attire, but for one hundred people, that's thirty thousand units of energy. Isn't it better to transform them into three player resting places?

"Players still need to learn to be self-reliant." Lin Qi thought it was better for players to bear this cost. After all, it's not him who wants to be trendy, so why should he pay?

After contemplating for less than a minute, Lin Qi decided to let inner sect disciples who can change clothes exchange their energy ore worth three hundred kilograms, roughly thirty thousand bits, into points amounting to three hundred thousand points, and sell them to those inner sect disciples.

This way, players gain face, he acquires workers, and he also reduces the points players have accumulated.

The progress of recent story missions has left players with a lot of points. Especially those with strong abilities, if their points aren't reduced, their motivation to work can't be increased.

After all, he has a grand plan to develop Red Moon Mountain, and players need motivation.

System: Host possesses Level 2 authority. Would you like to use training technique fusion to optimize permission and integrate Liaoyuan Cultivation Technique into the Shocking God Breathing Technique?

"If it hadn't prompted me, I would've forgotten." Lin Qi was reminded of the Liaoyuan Cultivation Technique he acquired recently when the system notification appeared.

The effectiveness of the current Shocking God Breathing Technique is weakening, even though he has mastered the Second Layer. It can't fully achieve the Extreme Apprentice level's true pinnacle. It even made Lin Qi suspect that even if he mastered the Third Layer, breaking through to a quasi-martial artist would be challenging. After all, the Fitness Breathing Technique is a centuries-old public training method, and mastering the entire technique is already difficult, let alone half of it.

"Integrate and optimize!"

As Lin Qi gave the order, the system began merging the two training techniques, with an emphasis on the Fitness Breathing Technique.

One second... Three seconds... Ten seconds...

After a full five minutes had passed, Lin Qi suddenly felt dizzy, almost collapsing to the floor.

"What a powerful training technique!"

Lin Qi held onto the table for support, and although the dizziness hadn't entirely subsided, his gaze was filled with excitement.

The fusion optimization was quite successful, not absorbing the energy crystal stone requirement of the Liaoyuan Cultivation Technique, but instead using the most basic Fitness Breathing Technique, combined with more complex breathing and Qi and blood mobilization methods to compensate for the energy crystal stone.

Although the training effect wasn't as potent as using energy crystal stones, it was still a genuine middle-tier martial artist level training technique. During the apprentice level's First Layer, it even surpassed the First Layer of the original Liaoyuan Cultivation Technique by far.

If the Liaoyuan Cultivation Technique stimulated muscle cells throughout the body with energy crystal stones in the First Layer, even purifying the five internal organs and enhancing foundational blood Qi, thereby improving the power generated by the body by twenty percent, rivaling many high-tier martial artist level training techniques.

Then, the current First Layer of the Shocking God Breathing Technique achieved a high-tier martial artist level training effect, boosting the power generated by the body by thirty percent.

While it seemed like only a ten percent increase, it's a permanent enhancement in the apprentice stage. Upon reaching the Martial Artist Realm, one would possess ten percent more power than other cultivators practicing middle-tier martial artist level training techniques.

Power is something that can only be countered with power. If up against an equally matched enemy, it could potentially exhaust the opponent to death.

Lin Qi then pulled up his own panel.

Host: Lin Qi.

Age: 25.

Managerial Authority: Level 1.

Permission Level: Level 2 preferential selection authority.

Martial Arts Level: Extreme Apprentice.

Strength: 883.6 kg. (Quasi-martial artist standard: 900 kg.)

Speed: 25.8 m/s. (Quasi-martial artist standard: 26 m/s.)

Training Technique: Shocking God Breathing Technique (First Layer Proficiency 67%)

Allowed Player Count: 110 (Current online player limit: 70, Current reserved player count: 178352)

"Just forming the new breathing technique actually improved my strength and speed. Martial artist-level training techniques are indeed terrifying." Lin Qi looked at the new Shocking God Breathing Technique and felt it was necessary for all current players to master it as soon as possible. It was far superior to the previous breathing technique.

With that thought in mind, Lin Qi decided to first upgrade the players' basic attire.

System: To fully upgrade all players' basic attire, all players need to go offline for a 12-hour break. Would you like to proceed with the comprehensive upgrade now?

"Upgrade!" Lin Qi thought for a moment and chose to upgrade.

Since it was night, players could rest, the Martial Arts Hall didn't require protection, and he needed time to prepare the new Shocking God Breathing Technique for all players.

Once Lin Qi opted to upgrade players' basic attire, all players in the Martial Arts Hall almost simultaneously received the system notification.

System: The game system needs upgrading. All players, please prepare to go offline within three minutes; after three minutes, all players will be forcibly logged out. The update will take 12 hours.

As soon as the system information appeared, all players were taken aback.

"System upgrade?"

"What's going on?"

"Didn't previous updates not require logging out?"

Many players were puzzled by this sudden system update, especially One Leaf Floating Cloud and others facing the Single-Horned Gold-devouring Rat in the maze tunnel; they were all on the verge of tears.

They were at a critical juncture in defeating the Single-Horned Gold-devouring Rat, and being told to log out left them perplexed about what to do.

However, these players soon had no choice but to find a safe spot to lie down and quietly wait for the forced logout.

Meanwhile, many players watching the livestream were also bewildered by the sudden forced logout during Descent of High Martial.

"Damn, I just ordered takeout, and now this?"

"System update—does the game developer have a significant move in store?"

"Brothers, an official announcement has been made. This update will release a new expansion pack!"

Although many players were baffled, their excitement was greater, as each update would increase player numbers. Only those who could enter Descent of High Martial were complaining.

Many players immediately visited the Descent of High Martial official website.

Thank you all for your continued support of Descent of High Martial. The system will undergo a major version update, transitioning to version 1.1. This update will fix numerous bugs, optimize training techniques, introduce many new Martial Arts Hall features, add 40 player slots, and include a new expansion pack.

The new expansion pack is Red Moon Tide. This major version update is scheduled for a 12-hour duration.

As Lin Qi posted the update announcement on the official website, the entire Descent of High Martial game forum exploded.