1552 Vengeful Slaughtering Formation

After Yuan killed him for the third time, Qin Long had to wait 24 hours before respawning.

When an avatar is killed, it requires time to be reconstructed. While in this state, the player's consciousness will be transported to a black room with a countdown.

"Fuck! How did he find me so fast?! We don't respawn in the same location, and it's randomized, so there's no way he could've predicted my respawn point! He must have some sort of technique that allows him to find me quickly." Qin Long quickly came to this conclusion, but he could do nothing about it.

Sure enough, Yuan found him using divine sense, which is already powerful enough to cover the entire city and more.

While Qin Long waited for his death cooldown to disappear, he started spreading rumors of Yuan being a spawn camper online, spamming this information as far and wide as possible.

Since spawn campers are widely despised and frowned upon by most players, it didn't take long for people to respond. However, Qin Long quickly became irritated when nobody believed him.

"Hahaha… Player Yuan spawn camped you in the Third Heaven? He left for the Fourth Heaven already!"

"I'm sure Player Yuan has much better things to do than spawn camp a nobody!"

"Let's say he did spawn camp you, for argument's sake. I bet you deserved it. One thing I've learned about Player Yuan is that he isn't the type to provoke others without reason."

Qin Long was left fuming after seeing countless people mock him in the comments of his discussions. It also reminded him of Yuan's words before getting killed.

Twenty-four hours have passed, and Qin Long's death cooldown disappeared, but he didn't immediately log back onto Cultivation Online and waited an extra day before doing so.

However, when he logged back in and respawned, Qin Long was terrified by a particular change that occurred within his body.

"M-my cultivation is gone!" he cried out loud.

When a player dies, one of three things can happen. One, nothing changes. Two, they lose all their cultivation and must start from scratch. Lastly, and arguably the worst outcome, they lose the ability to cultivate entirely, becoming a cripple.

Players around the world collaborated to determine the probabilities of these three outcomes. With contributions from hundreds of millions of players, the chances of each outcome were finally revealed.

Upon experiencing death, there was a 96 percent chance that nothing would happen to the player. There was a three percent chance they would lose all of their cultivation, and there was a one percent chance they would lose the ability to cultivate entirely.

Although the probability of becoming a cripple was low, it was not zero, and millions of players around the world have already lost their ability to cultivate.

Of course, losing all of one's cultivation was still better than becoming a cripple. That said, Qin Long had spent a fortune getting to Spirit Lord, unlike most ordinary players, so it was a devastating blow to him regardless.

"M-my cultivation! Ahhhhhh!!!" Qin Long fell to the ground and bawled his eyes out on the street with many spectators around him. However, he was too devastated to care about the people around him, even if they saw him as a madman.

For many minutes, Qin Long did not stop crying. Due to his commotion, the city guards were eventually called. When they showed up, they treated Qin Long like a madman and dragged him away, returning peace to the city.

However, as they dragged Qin Long away, a masked figure appeared before them, blocking their path.

Before the guards could even speak, the masked man said, "Qin Long, right? I see that you've lost your cultivation base after the last death. Unfortunately, but at least you can still cultivate."

Qin Long snapped out of his daze after hearing Yuan's voice.

However, before he could speak, Yuan continued, "At least for now. If you do not give the Chu Family your word that you will never bother them again, I will keep killing you until you do. You will never be able to play Cultivation Online again because you will immediately die after respawning."

Once he finished his sentence, Yuan used his Sword Aura to kill Qin Long again, shocking the guards. Yet, before they could even react, Yuan vanished into thin air like a ghost.

While Qin Long waited for his cooldown to disappear again, Yuan spoke to Yu Ning.

"Do you know any formation that can keep attacking someone even if I am away? I don't plan to stay here much longer, but I can't leave without ensuring the Chu Family's safety."

"Yes, I do. I can create a formation around this city that will immediately attack a specific individual whenever they enter its range, and it can operate even if you're not present, but it'll only be able to target people you've interacted with before." Yu Ning responded.

"That's perfect. Since he'll keep respawning within this city, this will keep him inside the city for as long as I want… Alright, let's do this." Yuan said.

Yu Ning took control of Yuan's body the next moment to create the formation.

Sometime later, Yuan regained control and activated the formation.

<Vengeful Slaughtering Formation has been activated>

He wanted to witness the formation in action at least once before he left, so Yuan remained in the city until Qin Long's return.

'I'll give you three days, Qin Long. Hopefully, you won't immediately budge and die a few more times before coming to your senses.' Yuan smiled inwardly.

Meanwhile, Qin Long was losing his mind inside his room.

"That fucking bastard, Player Yuan! I swear to god that I will fucking kill him even if it's the last thing I do!"

Despite Yuan's warning, Qin Long had no intention of listening to his demands.

"I refuse to believe that you'll remain in the Third Heaven forever just to kill me!"

Qin Long decided to wait an entire week before returning to Cultivation Online. In the meantime, he spoke to his father about his situation.

Of course, Qin Mulan was unhappy to learn that his son had lost all his cultivation, wasting the fortune they'd spent on resources to boost his cultivation. But there was no use crying over spilled milk.

Three days later, seeing that Qin Long hadn't returned yet, Yuan left the city and made his way back to the Stairway to Heaven to return to the Fourth Heaven.

"Welcome back, Master. Are you returning to the Fourth Heaven?" Tian'er asked him.

"Yes."

"Okay."

Tian'er created a staircase straight to the Fourth Heaven for him.

"Thank you."

Yuan ascended, returning to the Fourth Heaven shortly after.

Upon returning to the Fourth Heaven, Yuan contacted Dong Ye.

"Dong Ye, I need you to find someone for me. They are an escaped immortal from the Nine Heavens Eternal Grotto. This immortal has the Shrouded Physique. Apparently, he was spotted in the Fourth Heaven."

"Of course, I shall find him even if it's the last thing I do." Dong Ye immediately agreed without asking for his reason for wanting to find this immortal.

"Thank you."

"Now, I have some time to spare while waiting for Dong Ye. What should I do in the meantime?" Yuan pondered out loud.

After thinking for some time, he remembered Xi Shengmo telling him about the Pavilion of Knowledge, which may have information on the Immortal Monarch.

'Let's give them a visit with Xi Meili.'

With his next destination in mind, Yuan went to find Xi Meili at the Cultivators' Haven.

When he arrived, he went directly to their training rooms. However, they were all closed.

He didn't want to disturb them, so he used his divine sense to peek inside Xi Meili's room to see if she was busy.

Xi Meili was partially transformed inside her training room. Her body emitted a profound and oppressive aura as she sat in a cultivating position. The walls around her were also heavily damaged, even though they could resist attacks from Spirit Sovereigns without any problem.

Seeing this, Yuan didn't dare to disturb her and waited for her to finish.

Several days later, Yuan suddenly received a notification.

<Vengeful Slaughtering Formation has been initialized>

'So he's finally decided to return to Cultivation Online, huh?'

A few seconds after this notification, another notification appeared before him.

<You have killed 'Qin Long'>

Meanwhile, when Qin Long finally logged into Cultivation Online for the first time in a week, his presence triggered the formation.

The formation located Qin Long's precise location and activated in less than three seconds, and before Qin Long could even fully see his surroundings, his body was bombarded by powerful attacks that would instantly obliterate even a Spirit King, so even if he still had his original cultivation, it wouldn't have saved him.

<You have died>

Qin Long had only managed to take a single breath in Cultivation Online before being killed, and he wasn't even able to release the breath he took in.

Even after his death, it took a long minute before Qin Long comprehended that he'd just been killed for the fourth time.

"What the fuck?! He actually waited an entire week for me?!" Qin Long was more shocked by Yuan's stubbornness than his sudden death.

"Does he really intend to spawn camp me until our family stops messing with the Chu Family?! I don't even have the authority to make such a call!" he cried out loud.

Only the family head, his father, had the authority to fulfill Yuan's demand, but he did not want to embarrass himself further, putting him in a perplexed situation.