Chapter 00136: Plum Blossom Guard
# Plum Blossom Guard
Chapter 136
Novel: AFK Game: Portal to Another World
Chapter 136: Plum Blossom Guard
The game AAI had vastly different modes depending on the script.
The Fantasy Script was a strategy game where the player, acting as the Demon God, issued commands for their followers to carry out.
The Wuxia Script, however, was an RPG, with a much greater and more detailed focus on character development.
The biggest commonality between the two was probably that they were both idle games, offering the player very few opportunities for direct control, leaving them to watch the show most of the time.
It was like installing different mods under one large framework.
This also made Li Chengxi a little curious.
If the Fantasy Script was a strategy game and the Wuxia Script was a role-playing game, what would the Sci-fi Script be like?
It wouldn't be a bullet hell shooting game, would it?
Speaking of which, although Yang Yiyi had won, many problems were also exposed.
The most prominent was her lack of internal energy.
The Black Bear's Three Pushing Hands that Yang Yiyi used at the beginning looked powerful, but in reality, that wasn't the case at all.
The man in black who was hit by the first palm was sent flying more by sheer brute force than by palm energy.
The palm energy formed from her internal qi was basically powerless.
This could be seen from the second palm; the man in black, caught off guard, was only knocked over.
If he had been mentally prepared, it would have been at most like a gust of wind.
And yet, after just these two simple moves, Yang Yiyi's blue bar had dropped by a third.
Afterward, she didn't use any techniques that required internal energy at all.
There were many reasons for this problem, which could be roughly summarized into three points.
First, Yang Yiyi had only been practicing her internal skill for a short time.
She had just learned it three days ago, and she didn't have a white-bearded old man on his deathbed waiting for the protagonist to pass on a hundred years of his cultivation power.
It was normal for her internal energy to be insufficient after only a few days of learning.
Second, the Breathing Technique, no matter how you looked at it, was the lowest level of internal energy cultivation method.
If it were a more formidable internal energy cultivation method, perhaps it wouldn't be so pathetic.
The third and most important reason was that Yang Yiyi herself was too useless.
Her aptitude was so abysmal it was hard to look at.
In Wuxia novels, whether a character could fight or not depended on the level of their cultivation techniques and moves, but it had an even greater connection to the person themselves.
For example, even without his Dragon-Subduing Eighteen Palms, someone like Qiao Feng was still incredibly powerful with just a common set of Taizu Long Fist.
At first, Li Chengxi didn't know if Yang Yiyi's five basic attributes were high or low, as there was no reference point.
Later, although he encountered demons, comparing a demon to a human didn't seem right.
It wasn't until he met Li Yingluo at the inn that Li Chengxi took one look at her panel, then back at Yang Yiyi's, and instantly understood why Yang Yiyi's master hadn't taught her any martial arts for ten years.
This was different from Guo Jing's "great wisdom appearing foolish."
Yang Yiyi was truly useless.
None of her five attributes were presentable.
If it weren't for the Sky-Upholding Stone changing her fate against the heavens, she could practice martial arts for a lifetime and still not be able to defeat a weakling.
Yang Yiyi's internal energy was lacking in both quantity and quality, and the biggest reason was that her 'Meridians' attribute was just too damn awful.
But in all fairness, a useless person gives off that protagonist-making-a-comeback vibe.
At the very least, Li Chengxi had made the right choice by putting all her attribute points into strength.
With her external martial arts, Yang Yiyi at least had the power to protect herself.
If he had distributed the points evenly, she certainly wouldn't have had such an easy time against these three men in black.
Speaking of which, Yang Yiyi definitely hadn't thought about all this.
She was still jumping up and down on the spot with joy.
Ignoring her for now, Li Chengxi controlled the Jade Tablet to float toward the door, trying to widen the field of view a little.
"There's no one outside for now, but don't let your guard down. If they were really sent by the Liu Family, there should be more than just three of them."
With Yang Yiyi, plus Li Yingluo and Zheng Ping in the next room, that made three people.
To be safe, they should have sent at least double the number of assassins.
As soon as Li Chengxi's voice fell, Yang Yiyi heard the sounds of fighting, *thump thump thump*, coming from the next room.
Just as she was about to go and help, she saw the wall on the left side of her side room bulge, then burst open with a loud crash, sending a man in black flying out from within.
He rolled to a stop right at Yang Yiyi's feet.
It was clear he tried to struggle a couple of times, but perhaps his injuries were too severe, and he eventually lay motionless on the ground.
The room Yang Yiyi was staying in was on the edge of the inn, so two of its walls were made of stone.
But the wall separating it from the adjacent side room was just a wooden plank wall, which was why the man in black had crashed right through it and ended up on her side.
Yang Yiyi looked up and saw Zheng Ping standing behind the hole, holding a punching pose.
Seeing that there were also three men in black lying on the ground on Yang Yiyi's side, she immediately came over with Li Yingluo.
"Elder Sister Yang, are you hurt? These people burst in so suddenly. Thankfully, A Ping reacted quickly."
"I'm fine. I usually wake up early, so I was already practicing my fist techniques in the room when they came in."
Zheng Ping didn't ask about Yang Yiyi's condition.
Instead, she took two quick steps to the three men in black that Yang Yiyi had beaten down, yanked open their collars, and checked their condition.
All three men in black had died from having their heart meridians shattered by a massive force.
Although they were still warm, they were already corpses.
The chests of two of the men in black were completely caved in, their internal organs pulverized by the immense force.
Such strength was clearly not something a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl should possess.
Zheng Ping secretly glanced at Yang Yiyi, but Yang Yiyi was completely unaware that she had killed people, still thinking that the three men in black had only been knocked unconscious by her.
At least Yang Yiyi was not in league with this group of men in black.
For the time being, Zheng Ping didn't dwell on why she had so much strength.
"Yingluo, light the lamp."
In the early hours of the morning, the sky was still dark, making it impossible to see clearly.
Hearing Zheng Ping's words, Li Yingluo took out a fire starter from her bosom and lit the oil lamp on the table.
With the light, Zheng Ping looked at the necks of the men in black:
"It really is the Plum Blossom Guard!"
Yang Yiyi was a little confused about what a Plum Blossom Guard was.
She stretched her neck to look at the men in black and saw a plum blossom-shaped brand on their necks.
Just as she was about to ask, she heard Li Yingluo beside her cry out in alarm:
"What is that! Why is a Jade Tablet floating in mid-air!"
The Jade Tablet, which had been floating toward a dark corner of the room, immediately froze in mid-air.
Although it was just a piece of stone, it gave off the awkward feeling of being caught in the act of thievery.
There was nothing Li Chengxi could do.
He had just floated toward the door to see if there were any more men in black outside, but before the Jade Tablet could return to Yang Yiyi's bosom, Li Yingluo and Zheng Ping had already rushed in.
He wanted to float into a dark corner to avoid being seen by the two, but then they lit the lamp, leaving the Jade Tablet he controlled completely exposed.
Zheng Ping immediately dropped the corpse and, with a great leap, positioned herself in front of Li Yingluo, looking extremely nervous.
She had probably mistaken the Jade Tablet for a demon.
"Wait! Wait, that's not a demon!"
Yang Yiyi quickly ran over from behind Zheng Ping, blocking her from the Jade Tablet.
"You know it? No, wait! That's your thing, isn't it! Are you a demon?"
"No, no, I'm a human!"
Seeing the conversation devolving into chaos, Li Chengxi sighed and said directly:
"Tell them. There's no point in hiding it anymore."
(End of this chapter)