Chapter 1
Chapter 1
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Translator: uly
Chapter: 1
Chapter Title: Advice for My Possessed Junior Colleagues
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1.
Don't run unknown games that pop up on your computer carelessly.
Especially if it's a wuxia game, you'll see demented peak masters riding tree leaves and snapping people's necks like twigs, or rapist maniacs bounding 3 meters per step with their shrinking earth technique, running rampant everywhere.
Of course, humans are curious creatures.
Those who ignored the friendly warning and already executed it can't avoid being possessed into the wuxia world.
But it's not too late yet.
In character creation, don't make a female character. Make a male one who's 9 chi tall and weighs 300 geun, and just your size alone will have the Nine Great Sects, Five Major Clans, or even the Demonic Cult going crazy to take you as a disciple for an easy life.
Just don't commit the folly of making a busty female character like me because your body heated up last night.
Becoming your own ideal type is more horrifying and painful than you think.
Next is stat allocation.
If your constitution is low, your body can't withstand martial arts training. If intelligence is lacking, you can't memorize manuals. If insight is insufficient, you won't gain enlightenment. But lacking charm doesn't cause any real issues.
Please don't do the pitiful thing like me, maxing out charm and dumping the remaining free points haphazardly into insight.
The wuxia world is a barbaric medieval setting, and the life of a powerless, max-charm beauty is truly arduous.
Next are the s, which correspond to other games' traits.
I, whose brain had already applied to relocate to my lower body, only picked conveniences and depraved desires like [Perverted Physics], [Permanent Hair Removal], [Perfect Purity].
I hope you don't do that.
There are plenty of great blessings in the world that any martial artist would covet, like [Heavenly Martial Body], [Immunity to All Poisons], or [Indestructible Diamond Body].
But don't pick things like [Fortuitous Encounter: Cliff] or [Fortuitous Encounter: Undersea Cave] thinking the wuxia world runs on fortuitous encounter luck. That gets you in real trouble.
Corpses are frequently found who failed to achieve martial arts mastery before their Wall Tiger Pills ran out and starved to death without escaping the cliff or undersea cave due to botched stat investments.
Please consider the solemn feelings of us wanderers.
Next, I'll give even more important advice.
Advice on s, which give extra points for acquiring blessings.
Restrictions are items that set prohibited actions, behavioral rules, or constraints on you who've been possessed into the wuxia world due to powerful mental shackles.
Things like [Feminine Gait] that make you demure against your will or [Honorific Speech] that forcibly instills etiquette are still on the better side.
If you pick [Tobacco Addiction] thinking it'll make your character cool, that's when you start going mad. If you don't smoke tobacco once a day, your concentration drops, your hands and feet tremble, and daily life becomes impossible.
Of course, the real hell is beyond that.
Pick [Permanent Tattoo: Lower Abdomen] rashly, and the gates of hell open.
A uterine tattoo that auto-regenerates even if you cut out the flesh glows purple every time you circulate internal energy.
Cheap clothes can't hide it, the pattern shines through clearly, and even thick clothes can't block the light fully, so you end up wrapping yourself in layers.
I believe you can fully understand the hardship of having to wear thick clothes tightly even in summer to avoid being treated like a seductress or whore.
Going further, if you pick [Nine Yin Vein Blockage Blockage], the pinnacle of vein blockage curses, for some tragic pitiful concept, I recommend swift suicide.
Your whole body's blood vessels overflow with yin energy, gradually losing elasticity year by year and causing arteriosclerosis. Pain is secondary—the more internal energy you accumulate, the stronger the yin energy becomes, dooming you to a terminal life.
Of course, many possessed seniors including me all made the mistake of bad concepts, but please don't become concept addicts.
After this comes what's arguably the most important: [Difficulty Selection].
Easy difficulty doesn't reduce martial artists' attack power by 50% or raise item drop rates—the challenge goals for clearing become easier. In compensation, clear rewards are meager compared to other difficulties. That's the problem with easy mode addicts.
To pick [Reality Return] as a clear reward, you need to clear Normal [Standard] difficulty, so even if you achieve the challenge goals and clear on [Easy], you'll spend your remaining life in the wuxia world.
Those who mindlessly picked [Easy], rest in peace.
But don't overconfidently pick [Extreme] either.
Our most senior elder who picked Extreme is still dueling sword-to-sword with War God Yeo Dong-bin in the Heavenly Realm 200 years after ascension.
The elder's tearful complaint that the stronger you get, the stronger Yeo Dong-bin gets too, was hard to listen to without tears.
If you wisely chose your difficulty, you've passed most major hurdles. For the following [Mode Selection] item, just stock up on knowledge beforehand.
This includes [Reality Mode], [Ironman Mode], [Unique Mode], etc., all with pros and cons.
Those who pick [Reality Mode] can keep their created game character's body even after game clear. Conversely, those who don't pick it revert to their original body.
Those dissatisfied with their usual face, height, gender, etc., might like it.
I understand wanting free full-body plastic surgery or gender reassignment, but please hold off on blind Reality Mode picks.
There's no guarantee all your limbs will be intact at game clear. I myself lost my right arm and spent 12 more years like that.
Unless you're confident in earning enough clear points for [Body Reset] perk to recover lost limbs or avoid losing them from the start, you'll return as a disabled person even after clearing.
Not picking Reality Mode at least insures you return with intact limbs, so remember that advantage.
[Ironman Mode] removes all system assist functions like Status Window, Martial Arts Window, Inventory, free bulletin board, etc.
In exchange for losing conveniences, you get faster muscle growth or martial arts comprehension perks, but humbly yield Ironman to ancient philosopher Plato and enjoy civilization's benefits.
No true hell-dweller picks it.
[Unique Mode] goes further, for those hoping for solitary solo play.
Unlike standard possessors with multiplayer features, you enter a pure wuxia world with no other possessors. I get the grand ambition for your own harem or great achievements, but don't whine on the boards later.
Other possessors can eat kimchi dumplings developed by seniors, enjoy maintained water systems, get Samsung Escort Agency financial support, and reap minimal benefits, but Unique Mode has none of that.
From kimchi dumpling recipes to village maintenance to avoid street shit, asking them is their trade secret.
Different servers mean no promised rewards transferable, so only Unique Mode choosers suffer.
Ah.
Since I brought up the boards after a while, though I understand the loneliness and hardship, don't trust fellow possessors too much.
You'll realize why Koreans have a notorious reputation as the world's scammers.
Item thieves who sweet-talk possessors to find locations and loot everything at night, internal energy thieves who've mastered Energy Absorption, virgin thieves who only deflower virgins, chastity thieves who only take male virgins, all kinds of thieves haunt the boards.
Possessor juniors who learned Boy Gong or Virgin Gong and lost their purity, ruining their lives.
Sapa juniors who stamped a thumbprint on what they thought was an escort contract for job placement, only for it to be a slave contract selling them to an unorthodox sect.
I'm sick of hearing such complaints.
Follow all this "don't do" and "do" advice, add diligent effort, unexpected talent, and a bit of luck, and someday you'll achieve your challenge goals.
Congratulations.
You are free.
You can escape the martial world where a hand gesture topples cliffs and a single sword cleaves storms.
Before returning to the real world, you'll learn the secrets of the countless fortuitous encounters rampant in the wuxia world.
Challenge goal achievers get clear points based on comprehensive martial realm, wuxia exploits, etc.
With those points, you can buy perks to inherit stats, internal energy, items, etc., to the real world.
Eccentrics didn't leave weapons, manuals, elixirs out of kindness.
They just lacked clear points to take everything back, leaving them as fortuitous encounters.
Internal energy you can't take back just disperses evenly into nearby weeds, fish, mushrooms, lakes, etc.
Of course, returners like me all set traps because it's a waste to give away such valuables for free.
Restrictions where you can't escape the fortuitous encounter site without mastering the martial art.
Designing underground caverns to slowly lose air or blocking exits with thick iron doors is routine, so I understand why rash [Fortuitous Encounter: Cliff] or [Undersea Cave] pickers end up as skeletons.
Still, for pitiful folks like me who maxed charm and all-inned insight, my fortuitous encounter devices are at least challengable.
I strongly recommend buying the [Fortuitous Encounter: Taklamakan Desert] trait I registered in the shop.
Even if you fail mastery, you can survive eating bugs, and lost jiangshi occasionally wander in to alleviate boredom—it's an old Blood Cult holy site, decent enough.
I've given all the blood-and-flesh advice, but after much deliberation, here's my final advice.
No advice beats this. It's character name.
This easily overlooked character name hides two traps. First, your name used in the wuxia world gets renamed to the character name.
You might say just don't use the renamed name, but challenge goals for game clear force gaining specific reputation with your original character name.
If your name is Angimojjigojihgoletitgo and luck is bad, you get goals like "Maintain 100 reputation as 'Anhui's Greatest Sword Angimojjigojihgoletitgo' for 100 days."
Even one alias use resets the 100-day timer.
Imagine receiving challenge letters daily for 100 days: "Angimojjigojihgoletitgo, the title of Anhui's Greatest Sword belongs to this nobody!"
In public sparring arenas, the referee shouts, "Spar between nobody and Angimojjigojihgoletitgo!" and victory declaration: "I, Angimojjigojihgoletitgo, won the spar!" The humiliation play is agonizing just to imagine.
I pity myself for not hearing Senior Angimojj's precious precedent before entering the wuxia world.
I mentioned two traps earlier.
The second trap comes back like a boomerang after returning to reality.
This game kindly offers a "Reality Return Support Package" perk where you pay clear points for residence, ID registration, settlement funds, etc.
Grateful for discounted support perks, but the name on the ID is the problem.
Yes, the quick-witted already realized: the ID gets your character name.
Please don't name your character Angimojjigojihgoletitgo.
So what's my name?
I won't tell you.
That's all, my precious advice as a possessed senior.
2.
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