Sword Among Us Chapter 234 – Storm on the Famous People Rank!

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

After practicing hard for three years, not only did Happy possess experience and skills that most people did not have, he came to gain patience that normal people did not have. He was like an ascetic monk who stayed in White Tiger Forest for half a month!

During that period of time, Happy had little contact with reality. Even the Three Lonely Wolves seldom had time to talk to him. Most of the time, they communicated with each other via messages they left for each other in the dorm or sent each other messenger pigeons in the game.

However, during that period of time, something major happened in the game!

The first incident was in Fox Cave.

Ever since Fallen Feathers Sect and Perpetual Joy Sect suffered a setback there, the place was dominated by Chivalry Sect. Even though many sects could still enter Fox Cave, Chivalry Sect had sent two of its vice sect masters—Red Dust and Lin Xiao—and many of its elites to occupy one tunnel for themselves, and they were in control of Dead She-wolf. Only a small portion of resources were made public to the others.

With the steady stream of resources coming to them from Fox Cave, Chivalry Sect soon became strong! Not only did they manage to force Fallen Feathers Sect and Perpetual Joy Sect out of Wuhu, they also began to show signs that they were about to stand above Class One Hall and Towering Palace.

But a pity for Xiao Shan, who had been popular for a period of time, he did not manage to get any high-tier martial arts that were suitable for him. On the second day since Happy had entered isolated training, he was surrounded and killed by a group of nameless nobodies on a road leading to a forest. His abilities plunged down the drain, and he was rapidly demoted from third place on the Famous People Rank.

North Placating Duke, who was also known as Soul Severing Guest, had returned to the desert, and no news was heard of him. As more outstanding players rose to fame after him, his rank also gradually fell, and he was quickly taken out of the Famous People Rank.

The most prominent of the outstanding people who rose to fame after the two legends were Lu Mingyue, who was the successor of Dongfang Bubai, the Swordsman Thief All-powerful Medicinal Stone, and a female gamer known as Red Coral.

Lu Mingyue killed hundreds of good players while they were all participating in an operation to search for treasure in a cave in Tiantai Mountain. He made the summit, which was known by countless people of the later generation as the holy land of Buddhists, flow with rivers of blood. It looked like hell on earth, and while his brutal as well as merciless slaughter made him the subject of cursing and criticism of countless people, he took up the first place on the Famous People Rank in an incredibly domineering manner.

Red Coral’s fame had also come at the price of countless people’s lives, but no one cursed her. Instead, she was known by many people as a heroine who had both courage and wisdom.

In the mountain behind Complete Reality School was the tomb of the Living Dead, and its fame shook the entire land of martial artists!

Once Yang Guo and Xiao Longnu vanished, only the Red Serpent Deity Li Mochou remained there. With her Murderous Wasp, which she had since birth, she guarded the entrance, and there had been plenty of players who died there over the course of the few months since she started guarding the place.

However, the more dangerous and difficult it was, the more people were certain that the Tomb of the Living Dead contained the ultimate techniques that were left behind by Yang Guo and Xiao Longnu, such as the Nine Yin Manual and the Melancholic Sad Palms, as well as divine weapons such as the Recondite Steel Sword, Ganjiang Sword, and Moye Sword.

Countless players gathered there, and once in a while, they would charge inside in an attempt to use the advantage of numbers to enter the Tomb of the Living Dead.

The people from Black Rose Clan were also attracted to that place by coincidence.

Red Coral had bought an instrument that could chase away Murderous Wasps, and for the first time ever, she allowed the players to enter the Tomb of the Living Dead without getting struck down. Within it, they saw Li Mochou.

However, Ice Silver Needles were not toys.

Right then, there were practically no one who could withstand high-tier hidden weapons. The players died one after another in the tunnel like harvested wheat.

But Red Coral had swiftly put down the Dragon Breaker Stone with the help of her sisters from the Black Rose Clan. She blocked Li Mochou and a large group of players outside the cave to enter the tomb. Then, she successfully found the high-tier martial art manual Sword of Virgins and high-tier hidden weapons manual Ice Silver Needle under the Ten Thousand Year Iced Bed.

But there were even more people who believed that Red Coral had taken the initiative to reveal that she had obtained Sword of Virgins and Ice Silver Needle because she wanted to avoid trouble. If everyone were to guess that she had become a successor of an ultimate technique, she would become a target for no reason.

Even though Red Coral’s achievements were mediocre, but during the process, she had shown her intellect and determination, and her actions later gave her the title of Female Zhuge Liang. Once the onlookers linked her title to her achievements during the Emperor’s Birthday Quest, she managed to get up to the second place on the Famous People Rank.

After more than half a month of silence, Happy’s position on the ranking board fell again, and he was forced out of his position as the highest ranked player on the Famous People Rank by Dongfang Bubai, and later on, by Red Coral, but that was not all. Even All-powerful Medicinal Stone had performed a few feats that shook the entire game.

Five Venoms, who had been ridiculed by countless players for half a month and did not dare to perform any counterattacks even after their reputation was completely ruined, locked their gazes on All-powerful Medicinal Stone on one dark night.

He was ambushed, poisoned, and surrounded!

Dozens of Five Venoms sect members had suddenly launched a lethal attack on him while he was completely unaware of the situation. He was poisoned and injured. The attacks from Five Venoms were so vicious that it was obvious that they were determined to kill him… However, All-powerful Medicinal Stone was in possession of Phantasm Body Movement Skill, so there was no way that he would die easily.

With his heavily injured body, he escaped and survived, and in less than two minutes, he detoxified himself and healed his injuries. Then, with his longsword, he turned around and fought back.

Thirty or so Five Venoms players instantly lost their will to fight after All-powerful Medicinal Stone killed a few of them. They fled dozens of miles away, but they could not run far. They were all slaughtered one after another!

The sect members of Five Venoms and Fallen Feathers Sect as well as people of Class One Hall tried to stop him, but they were helpless before his ability to move around freely. Their defenses were broken, and more than one hundred of them died.

Countless other players had witnessed All-powerful Medicinal Stone going berserk.

Because of the battle replay that showed him chasing those people for half a day and his abilities that allowed him to move around freely, he stunned the world of martial artists, and he also pushed above Happy into third place on the Famous People Rank.

For this, Happy only sent a congratulatory letter via a messenger pigeon.

All-powerful Medicinal Stone’s reply was very interesting.

[Thank goodness you told me about it, or else I would have definitely fallen for their schemes. These bastards! They’re actually Class One Hall’s lapdogs?! And here I was puzzled by why they had been wandering around me!]

In truth, through the information online, he had learned that Happy had fought against Five Venoms, and because of it, he was on guard. Once he noticed Five Venoms sect members lurking around him, he sent Happy a messenger pigeon and asked him in a joking manner whether he wanted to kill a few of their sect members as a warning. In reply, Happy had told him that Five Venoms might be connected to Class One Hall and he should be careful. He also told All-powerful Medicinal Stone to have some antidotes on standby.

Once All-powerful Medicinal Stone heard that Class One Hall was involved, he knew that the situation was bad. He did not dare to be negligent of the issue, and not only did he prepare a few antidotes, he also bought a few Dew Pills as backup.

As expected, once he got out of the city, the people from Five Venoms attacked. They attacked ruthlessly with the force of lightning, and All-powerful Medicinal Stone was nearly unable to withstand the attacks. He barely managed to take an antidote and drag his heavily injured body away before it was too late. Then, he took Dew Pills and turned around to fight back with anger burning in his soul.

Once he was done with the slaughter that shook the world of martial artists, All-powerful Medicinal Stone was once again enraged by Class One Hall’s assassination attempt.

[How long are you going to train? I found another target for revenge!]

Happy frowned. Even though he had achieved some degree of success with his Phantasm Body Movement Skill, his Seven Stars Sword was still in the eighth realm, and he would need another half a month to reach Grandmaster Realm.

[Location and target?]

[Still Fox Cave. Class One Hall’s hall master, Dream Clouds, has returned from the desert. She has an ultimate technique with her now. You should know that, right?]

[Of course.]

Happy nodded. She was the top player on the Phoenix Rank, so it was practically impossible for her to not have found an ultimate technique. Besides, Dream Clouds had walked down the same path she did in Happy’s previous life. When she inherited West Region Demon’s Divine Flames Art once more, it was natural that she would not give up on the chance to expand wantonly.

It was also not strange for Chivalry Sect to become Class One Hall’s target right then.