Girl, There's Something Wrong With You - Chapter 33

“Any good methods for promotion in the future?” Cheng Jinyang asked Miss Yujing.

“I seem to remember I might have answered this question before,” Miss Yujing tilted her head and said, “Aside from fighting and killing here, there is no other way.”

“I guess there should be a more efficient method,” Cheng Jinyang said, expressing disbelief. “I heard from Ye Ru about a great demon… well, one who became a demon roughly four years ago, and now has already reached the level of a third-grade demon god.”

“Impossible?!” Miss Yujing exclaimed, “If she was a demon who was consumed and became a postnatal demon, the highest starting point would be a weird or ghostly entity; if she was an innate demon, it would be starting from scratch. How could she possibly advance to a demon god in four years, unless she stumbled upon a star fire on the way…”

As she spoke, she suddenly hesitated, then after some thought, said, “Wait, you must be talking about Beidou’s Yao Guang, right?”

“Oh, so there is such a demon?” Cheng Jinyang feigned curiosity, not wanting her to know about his connection with Xiao Li.

“Yao Guang is simply insane,” Miss Yujing sneered, “Don’t think about it, her methods are not something you can use.”

“What is her method specifically?” Cheng Jinyang asked humbly. “Don’t misunderstand, I’m not doubting you, I just want to broaden my horizons.”

“To explain, it starts with the mechanism of this world,” Miss Yujing said, seeing his sincere attitude and not suspecting him. “First, you know that in this dream world, you can be resurrected after death.”

“Secondly, when you kill demons in this world, your bloodline concentration gradually increases, right? So, where does this increased bloodline concentration come from?”

“I’ve heard,” Cheng Jinyang ventured, “it seems to be plundered from the demons that are killed?”

“Exactly,” Miss Yujing nodded, “The bloodline concentration of demons naturally increases over time. If you kill other demons, you can plunder their bloodline concentration.”

“However, this plundering is extremely limited. In other words, excessive killing and waiting for resurrection of demons without permission is frowned upon by the origin of the dream world, and thus restricted.”

“So on one hand, the bloodline gain from killing will be greatly reduced, and the loss for the killed is minimal; on the other hand, if you harvest too wildly, the world will send other demons to eliminate you. For instance, that’s how I ended up meeting you.”

“Wait a minute,” Cheng Jinyang suddenly realized something, “You said the dream world sent you to eliminate me, so that means…”

“That’s right,” Miss Yujing gave a “finally realized” mocking expression, “There is a type of killing encouraged by the dream world.”

“That is, killing demons that disrupt the order.”

“In this case, when you kill such targets, you can gain a significant amount of bloodline concentration, and the target will suffer severe bloodline loss and longer resurrection time. Conversely, if you are killed, you will suffer equivalent losses while the opponent only gains slightly.”

“I see,” Cheng Jinyang became excited, “So, how do I make a deal with the dream world to allow me to become a, uh, demon hunter?”

“This is also simple,” Miss Yujing answered. “In the dream world, the places where demons wait for resurrection are called ‘Yellow Spring Roads.’ To maintain the order and stability of the Yellow Spring Road, special locations called ‘Ghost Gates’ are needed.”

“If any demon is confident in their own strength, they can set out to find these Ghost Gates. Once inside, you will find there aren’t a lot of low-level demons to harvest, but rather opponents sent by the dream world. Defeat them, and in the next round, stronger opponents will be sent.”

“Generally, beginners will first encounter an opponent of similar strength, then two, four, and finally one that you currently cannot handle. If you manage to overcome all these challenges and prove your strength, you can obtain a road guide qualification, allowing the dream world to open a portal for you to locations where the disruptive demons, the ones that need to be killed, are located.”

“Go in, eliminate the target, harvest a large amount of bloodline concentration, then return through the portal and continue challenging tasks in the Ghost Gates.”

“This process repeats. The more tasks you complete, the more the dream world will recognize your strength, and it will assign you more and more difficult tasks, with corresponding richer bloodline concentration gains… Are you listening to me? Hmm!”

“Ah? I’m listening,” Cheng Jinyang replied absently, thinking about how the mechanism described by this flat-chested girl seemed eerily familiar.

Wasn’t this exactly like his experience in Wujiang Town? So, Wujiang Town was actually a ‘Ghost Gate’?

Wait a minute, if he remembered correctly, after he, Ah Zhi, Wanrou, Qingqing, and Xiao Wangshu completed the entire process, they did indeed leave Wujiang Town through a suddenly appearing portal and entered the Songjiang Ruins.

However, no one knew this was a so-called ‘bounty task,’ so they didn’t seek out the disruptive demon but instead began harvesting surrounding puppets, which enraged the dream world and led it to send eight weird creatures to eliminate them…

Damn it, no one ever told us about this!

“So, to level up by killing in the dream world, one can either choose to disrupt the order and harvest demons on a large scale, or maintain the order by hunting those who disrupt it?”

“Exactly. You can either safely harvest low-level demons or take risks to challenge and kill high-level demons,” Miss Yujing said with a tone of disdain, as if saying, “How come you’re only understanding this now?”

“In fact, most demons with consciousness switch between these two methods, trying to find a more efficient bloodline plundering strategy.”

“Yao Guang, whom you mentioned, is an extremely unusual case. She never harvests low-level demons but aggressively targets high-level ones without caring about the bloodline concentration she might lose if she fails.”

“Of course, her killing ability is indeed very strong, and she almost never misses, which is why she can level up quickly! Keep in mind that during the hunting process, she doesn’t have the dream world’s protection. Killing the target certainly yields a lot of gains, but if she is killed, she also loses a significant amount of bloodline concentration!”

“To put it bluntly, even if you successfully complete a hundred tasks, if you happen to die once, you lose all the accumulated gains. Moreover, the more tasks you complete, the higher the dream world’s evaluation of you, and the next task might be even harder.”

“That’s why I said, unless you have Yao Guang’s strength and willpower, it’s better to stick to the Yellow Spring Road. Her method isn’t something you can handle.”