Chapter 92.2
Huo Jingzhou heard the news about Lin Shiheng before secretly going to find him.
At first, when the players on the public chat who organized a group to block and kill Hengxing were killed and were screaming all over the place, but he didn’t care. thinking that Lin Shiheng must be relying on level suppression.
Until he was bringing a new pretty girl into the guild to upgrade when a mechanical system notification suddenly appeared in the sky again.
[System [Heavenly Dao]: Demon Hengxing has killed 999 players of the opposing camp. Automatic promotion to Demon Lord.]
[System [Heavenly Dao]: Demon race’s Demon Lord issued an edict, summoning all demon race players to the Ten Thousand Demons Guild. Requesting all online clemon race players to teleport to the Ten Thousand Demons Guild.]
[System [Heavenly Dao]: The immortal race camp and the demon race camp are completely against each other. All demon race players, please check the system quest.]
Ten Thousand Demons Guild?
How come no one had ever heard of it before?
As everyone in the immortal race was confused, all the demon race players checked their system quests.
Ai Zhizhen was still wondering how Lin Shiheng suddenly became so fierce that he could slay a thousand immortals, but Huo Jingzhou immediately openecl the forum.
It was only one night since Lin Shiheng fell to the demon path, and he became a Demon Lord. Last night, Huo Jingzhou was busy helping his senior sister in college to move. After she moved houses, they went to the rooftop to watch the stars and the moon, so he never went to the forum.
Arguably, if there was anything important in ‘The Immortal Path', the news must have spread in the forum long ago.
Sure enough, as soon as the forum was openecl, there were several popular posts.
[Which one of you made the rumor that Hengxing was a weak little chick! I was killed in seconds the moment we met! Give me back my equipment!]
[Hengxing is too calculating. When he kills people, he doesn’t pick up the equipment on the ground. I was greedy and tried to slip past him to get them. He came out, out of nowhere, and killed me in secondsl]
[Attention Immortal Path players, don’t get close to Hengxing. Even if you see immortal artifacts glittering there. don’t go!!!]
[The first-hand information of the whole forum brought to you by risking my life, with video inside! Please hold on to your chins — and, about those rumors that Hengxing is a weakling, I have reason to suspect that you’re an undercover agent sent by the demons to clispel the vigilance of our immortal racel]
Huo Jingzhou’s eyebrows jumped, and he clicked on the last post.
Sure enough, there was a video. In the beginning, almost thirty immortals rushed towards the man standing in the midclle of the desert with their equipment. The person who recorded the video should be lying on his stomach: the angle was a little low. He could still hear him whispering, "A great battle is about to start.’
-Boom!
There was a loud noise. Monstrous flames accompanied by billowing yellow sand-swept at the thirty immortals. When it was all over, only their bodies and equipment were left on the ground.
From this angle in the video, players’ souls in black-and-white could still be seen standing up, staring blankly at each other as if they hadn’t figured out what was happening at all.
The player who recorded the video took a deep breath and whispered, “I didn’t see what happenecl. I’ll rewind and play it back in slow-motion later. It’s too dangerous here. I’m going to retreat now. I’m on the front lines of entertainment, The Immortal Path’s self-appointed journalist, Zha Zhahuang. reporting for everyone! Please like and subscribe. Muuaach-”
On the second line of the post. the video was replayecl in slow-motion.
Huo Jingzhou could clearly see that Lin Shiheng first jumped ancl then used three fire spells in a row. After being stacked together, he added another wind spell, which blew all the fire towards the thirty players.
Even if a player had a shield on his body, the four spells stacked on top of each other were unbearable for the equipment, turning them all into black-and-white souls.
This was absolutely impossible!
Very few people could send out staked spells. Even Huo Jingzhou himself could only stack two spells at the most, and it was only the wood system and the fire system. Stacking three spells of the same system had never been done since ‘The Immortal Path’ game came out.
Moreover, before that, he jumped. He avoided all the players’ attacks before starting to stack spells.
Huo Jingzhou clenched his fist to death. Even if his heart knew what the content of the post was about, he still couldn’t resist and scrolled down to start reading player comments.
[No way, so cruel??]
[After watching the slow-motion playback three times, I can see that there were four layers in total. Wasn’t Hengxing weak? He doesn’t look weak ah...]
[Dicl you guys forget that he used the guild master of the First Immortal Guild as a substitute before he reached Golden Immortal level? Maybe he used another substitute this time. Tsk tsk, I envy the rich.]
[Hey, the comment above, he really isn’t. Zha Zhahuang has been following Hengxing since he fell from the immortal path to the demon path. He witnessed with his own eyes; the guy gradually changed from only relying on spiritual power to studying spells ancl now killing players in seconds. That’s really a lot of progress, although this progress speed is like a rocket. Here’s a linkto “Hengxing’s battle history”. No need to thank me.]
[l also saw the battle history. He really started to feel out everything, bit by bit. Everyone who has seen it would understand. But he is really awesome! Why would he ask Jingzhou to substitute? I think he’s no worse than Jingzhou.]
[Who knows? When the matter was still talked about before, didn’t they say that Jingzhou helped Hengxing by becoming his substitute? In the encl. Hengxing fell in love with Jingzhou’s girlfriend, right? The guild madam of the First Immortal Guild.
[The version I heard was that Jingzhou single-handedly created the First Immortal Guilcl. But when Hengxing saw that the guild was done, he wanted to push Jingzhou out. It so happened that Hengxing didn’t have actual strength and was defeated on the spot. The seniors in the First Immortal Guild stood on Jingzhou’s side.]
[But I remember that when the First Immortal Guild was created, it relied on Hengxing’s generosity. Jingzhou is just a substitute; it’s not like he’s spending all of his own money. If he’s so rich, why would he become a substitute?]
[Zha Zhahuang broke the news again! He said he found out that when Jingzhou first entered The Immortal Path’s database, he didn’t have any immortal weapons, he didn’t have a spiritual weapon on his body, and he registered from the computer end, which means he didn’t have a game pod at that time.]
The post was commented, layer after layer, as high as a building. Huo Jingzhou had a growing sense of discomfort in his heart.
Since he defeated Lin Shiheng and completely replaced him, he deliberately spread rumors that ‘Hengxing wanted to burn the bridge after crossing’ and ‘the weak Hengxing wanted to get in between two lovers’. Coupled with the fact that family, friends, and Ai Zhizhen, were firmly on his side, public opinion was overwhelmingly in his favor.
Accorcling to his previous knowledge of Lin Shiheng, the guy was in poor health, rarely touched electronic products, and could only enter the game pod for 2 hours each day. He would always stay by Ai Zhizhen’s side whenever he logged in. Besides, he had no friends or relatives in the game and never entered the forums.
As long as Ai Zhizhen was on his side, Lin Shiheng couldn’t defencl himself.
Coupled with being hunted as soon as he came online, Lin Shiheng might just give up the game; and in reality, with Ai Zhizhen helping himself, even if that ruthless person wanted to take a swing at him, he would be stopped.
Ancl now, he had the First Immortal Guild. Even if he didn’t work as a substitute, he would still earn a lot of money every day. So, even after leaving Lin Shiheng, he was still a rich second generation in everyone’s eyes.
Huo Jingzhou’s plan was very good, but he didn’t expect that the forum, which he always thought was well controlled, had a lot of information on him.
Seeing that more and more people began to discuss in the direction of ‘whether the generous person who made friends everywhere was Hengxing or Jingzhou’. his heart skipped a beat, ancl he directly closed the forum.
Even if it was Lin Shiheng’s money...
The person who made friends with them was Huo Jingzhou, and the person who established the First Immortal Guild was also Huo Jingzhou. He was always the one who accompanied Zhen Zhen to go out in raids every day.
If it weren’t for him, woulcl Hengxing be so powerful? Could he become the number one in the whole server?
Huo Jingzhou kept convincing himself in the back of his mind.
Now wasn’t the time to be shaken by these rumors. The most important thing was to stabilize the situation.
He quickly loggecl into the game pod, intending to talk to his friends and family about how to curb the growth of the demon race.
As soon as he was online, all sorts of message notifications rang out.
[Jingzhou, you once tolcl me that the person who has been working with us has always been you, but I want to ask you. The capital for establishing the First Immortal Guilcl. ancl those extremely high-quality immortal weapons you gave us, was it your money, or Hengxing’s money?]
[i’ve reacl all the posts in the forum. Guild Master, can you tell me whose spirit stones were used for that exquisite feather garment you gave me?]
[Guild Master, I also don’t want to ask you, but I really want to find out. When I needecl money because of an accident in real life, you gave me an immortal weapon and tolcl me to sell it for money. Because of this, I followed you wherever you went. At that time, I thought you were a rich second generation that would give me an immortal weapon without even blinking. I thought so until yesterday. But I reacl your record in the game. That time you also posted about looking for work as a substitute; you were short of money. How could you take out an immortal weapon to give to me?]
Most of them were people that Huo Jingzhou hacl given various immortal weapons or spiritual artifacts. In the beginning, when they befriended each other, it was because Huo Jingzhou was generous. If there were any difficulties, he would certainly be the first to help, so people thought he was reliable.
Because of this, these people didn’t hesitate to side with Huo Jingzhou after he made his self-invented sword technique on the spot to prove his identity.
But what if all of his generosity and all of his grandeur was with money from Hengxing, the one driven away?
Huo Jingzhou only read a few messages and refused to click on the rest.
He had been shaping his image as a rich second generation. Even if the substitute work was discovered later, when relatives and friends asked him why he would want to work as a substitute, all he would say was that it was just for fun.
Now, someone actually found a screenshot of him just entering ‘The Immortal Path’ and asking for work all over the place.
No, don’tpanic!
He was no longer the rookie who was short of money at the beginning. Now, he could earn a lot of money every day. He was the leader of the First Immortal Guild and the top player on the whole server.
As long as he could pour clirty water on Lin Shiheng. he could...
Thinking that Lin Shiheng never paid attention to the forum. Huo Jingzhou gritted his teeth and opened the forum, intending to say something to save the situation.
But when he opened the forum. a bright red top post caught his eye.
[l am Hengxing. The information about Jingzhou violating the rules of substitution and arbitrarily squandering the spirit stones of the account is as follows. If you have doubts, you are welcome to check.]
Huo Jingzhou clicked the post with trembling hands.
At the top, there were his chat records with Lin Shiheng.
[Boss, please consider me. I’m a student. I’m in urgent need of money at home. I really need this job. Please, please, I’m very good at playing gamesi]
This was the past self that he had forgotten.
He humbly begged for a job as a substitute, just to earn an amount of money that he wouldn’t even consider now.
He desperately tried to hide such a self but was directly exposecl in front of everyone’s eyes by Lin Shiheng.
Huo Jingzhou’s eyes were red. He simply collapsecl on the ground.
He knew that he was finished.