SS 40: Emergence of the Golden Dragon

Thunder has arrived, the nine layer thunder tribulation!

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The proverb “Actions speak louder than words” perfectly fits the ‘Phoenix Arrival’ gang, who are doers. After strategizing, the gang of 57 members divides their tasks: 10 members go to fight the Tiger Scale Beasts in teams of 6, with 4 in reserve; 24 members enter a dungeon, with 12 leading the charge to pave the way and the remaining 12 following after the first group. Unlike wild monsters, which can be fought indefinitely until defeated, dungeons can only be entered once per day, and there are no guides for all the level 120 dungeons yet. They are the first to explore these dungeons, so being prepared is crucial.

The remaining 27 members split into three groups of nine, taking turns guarding beside the Tyrant Dragon. When one group is on guard, the other two can log off and rest. After all, “Voyage into the Void” is a 2D game, and many players have real-life commitments and can’t always be online.

With this arrangement, everyone gets time to rest. After the ‘Phoenix Arrival’ gang’s decision, the ‘Phoenix Among Birds’ sent Tu Qinyuanhua to capture Tiger Scale Beasts, while she leads her team to raid dungeons.

Before leaving, she glances at Yuan Cun Feng, who seems curious about the mud-sculpting attribute of the Nuwa people, playfully flicking the nose of a Nuwa person, and then flicking their forehead after the nose reforms.

The most troublesome skill of the Nuwa people is “Gather Earth to Form Body.” As long as they stand on the earth, it’s impossible to kill this boss. Even with just a speck of dirt, they can resurrect.

The only way is to make them lose contact with the ground and fight in the air. This requires players with magical control abilities, either keeping the Nuwa person floating in the air for attacks or creating a water-based formation to submerge the boss.

Despite being a tough boss, Yuan Cun Feng handles it effortlessly. He transforms into a small Tyrant Dragon, flaps his wings to blow the Nuwa person into the sky, and breathes fire, drying the mud person instantly. This boss, having both water and earth attributes, crumbles without water to hold its shape and without earth to solidify. The Tyrant Dragon’s fire dries the mud person, turning them into sand, which is then blown away.

This power is what ‘Phoenix Among Birds’ strives for. She always wanted to be a strong, independent woman, not relying on anyone and living a life of self-sufficiency.

After defeating the Nuwa person, while ‘Phoenix Arrival’ discusses how to help the ‘Fat Dragon’ get equipment, the Nuwa person revives. The Fat Dragon, who was about to climb onto the Nine Phoenix Palanquin, gets excited and starts playing with mud.

After ‘Phoenix Among Birds’ sees Yuan Cun Feng having fun and nods to the guarding gang members, she heads to the teleportation point.

But not long after she leaves, Yuan Cun Feng suddenly gets an idea.

A gang sister, always watching him, rushes up and asks, “Do you need something?”

Yuan Cun Feng roars at her.

The gang sister blinks, pretending to understand, and nods: “Oh, I see.”

Seeing her confusion, Yuan Cun Feng spins around and finally stammers, “Gold… Big… Peng…”

“Golden Winged Peng?” The sister, being smart, quickly gets his meaning.

Yuan Cun Feng nods vigorously.

“That’s a huge peng bird with two golden wings, hovering over the North Sea,” the sister explains. “Officially, it’s the child of Kunpeng and the Golden Dragon. Dragons have nine sons, and they can be anything in this game, really.”

“Take me… there, roar!” Yuan Cun Feng says a few words and then roars again.

“Don’t worry, don’t worry,” the sister says. “Speaking of which, the Dapeng is of the gold and water elements. Killing it might drop the rare material ‘Golden Feather,’ which could be useful in crafting. We’ll take you there. Just sit back; why fly yourself? The Nine Phoenix Palanquin can teleport us there much faster!”

Yuan Cun Feng roars in satisfaction, turns his hand into a small dragon claw, and smears mud on the sister’s clothes, leaving a muddy paw print.

The sister: “…”

“Roar~” From now on, I’ll help you with tasks that can be done with just a wave of my hand.

The Fat Dragon doesn’t care if the sister understands or not, climbs onto the Nine Phoenix Palanquin, pats the armrest of the chair, and urges them to move faster.

The girl known as ‘Heavenly Maiden Setting Off Fireworks’ sighed as she looked at the muddy paw print on her clothes. While lifting the Nine Phoenix Palanquin, she sent a message in the gang channel: “Sisters, the Dragon Ancestor is off to the North Sea to grab the wings of the Dapeng. We’re on our way. After we’re done, let’s meet up at the North Sea.”

The Nine Phoenix Palanquin was incredibly fast, reaching the teleportation circle in seconds and instantly arriving at the North Sea.

Previously, when searching for the Nuwa person, ‘Phoenix Among Birds’ wasn’t in a hurry and flew there, not using teleportation. This time, with the Fat Dragon eager to catch the golden wings, ‘Heavenly Maiden Setting Off Fireworks’ used the teleportation circle.

This speed impressed the Fat Dragon, nodding in approval. “Hmm, it’s about a third of my speed in adulthood.”

They quickly found the pitiful Dapeng shimmering in golden light under the sun, unaware of its fate.

Just seeing those sparkling golden wings made the Fat Dragon drool.

Before ‘Heavenly Maiden Setting Off Fireworks’ could get there with the Nine Phoenix Palanquin, Yuan Cun Feng couldn’t wait and transformed into Tyrant Dragon mode, flying towards the Golden Winged Dapeng.

A roar of challenge echoed, and countless small fish, killed by the sound, floated belly-up on the sea surface.

“OMG, so awesome! Record this, record this now!” exclaimed ‘Heavenly Maiden Setting Off Fireworks,’ thrilled. “I’m going to apply for a Tyrant Dragon section in the forum and post pictures and videos of the Phoenix Arrival’s guardian mythical beast!”

“Our Dragon God is really something,” another sister said. “It was hundreds of meters long when crushing the Lake of Tragic Love, tens of meters long when bathing in the volcano crater, 20 meters long in our gang, and now it can shrink to 10 meters to fight the Dapeng.”

“He can change size and even transform into a human. I wonder if he can shrink to a few centimeters and fit in a pocket, hehehe!” laughed ‘Heavenly Maiden Setting Off Fireworks’ wickedly.

The Fat Dragon, capable of soloing thirty level-100 top players, easily handled the level-90 boss. But he was too fond of the Dapeng’s wings, ignoring its attacks and plucking the feathers one by one to hide in his mouth. Only after that did he defeat the boss, aiding Feng Lianzhu to complete the fourth stage task and perfect his Five Elements attribute.

‘Heavenly Maiden Setting Off Fireworks’ recorded the entire process of the dragon overpowering the Dapeng, commenting, “This is too cruel, too cruel! We usually wait for the boss to die and drop the golden feathers, but the Tyrant Dragon is plucking them alive!”

After completing the task, the Fat Dragon remembered Feng Lianzhu once saying that in the game, gold is not real, and the golden feathers he hid would disappear after the Dapeng’s death.

Feeling a bit down, the Fat Dragon touched his belly, sadly returning to lie on the Nine Phoenix Palanquin, with the golden feathers still inside but about to vanish.

At that moment, ‘Heavenly Maiden Setting Off Fireworks’ came over: “Dragon God, you need to hand over the golden feathers to a player within a set time, or they’ll disappear!”

Can they be saved? Yuan Cun Feng’s black eyes gleamed with a hint of gold. With a wave in the air, hundreds of feathers appeared on the Nine Phoenix Palanquin, covering him.

Not spit out? Does the Dragon God have a personal space?

‘Heavenly Maiden Setting Off Fireworks’ was a bit puzzled, but it was better not spat out; otherwise, she’d feel a bit disgusted.

So many rare golden feathers appeared on the Fat Dragon like wholesale, which previously would only drop once in dozens of boss fights. The members of Phoenix Arrival suddenly understood Yuan Cun Feng’s feeling when lying on gold.

“Sisters, hurry and pick them up!”

At the command of ‘Heavenly Maiden Setting Off Fireworks,’ the nine gang members clumsily gathered the golden feathers. As the feathers on his body dwindled, Yuan Cun Feng’s face grew darker.

“Don’t be mad, Dragon God!” ‘Heavenly Maiden Setting Off Fireworks’ hurriedly explained. “These feathers are to be used for your armor. We’re targeting fire and earth element bosses. The failure rate for crafting weapons with these two materials is quite high. If we use the golden feathers to balance them, the success rate will significantly increase.”

The Fat Dragon reluctantly accepted this explanation but was still unhappy. He didn’t feel like chatting with Feng Lianzhu, fearing he might roar at him, as Feng Lianzhu had asked him to keep his voice down.

“After defeating the Dapeng, we’ll return to the gang,” said ‘Phoenix Among Birds’ in the gang voice channel. “We’ve got what we wanted.”

It was common knowledge that the first kill of a game boss or the first dungeon conquest would be announced, and the rewards for a first kill were almost always guaranteed. Seeing Phoenix Arrival’s meteoric rise, ‘Sword Pointing to the Heavens’ was fiercely grinding smaller monsters, determined to reclaim the top spot on the leaderboard!

Back at the gang, Tu Qinyuanhua took out the beast armor manual and the refining furnace. In the room with the richest spiritual energy, he tossed in the tiger bones dropped by the Tiger Scale Beast, the tendons of the Wushan Jiaolong, the level-120 meteorite from outer space for refining, and countless golden feathers into the furnace.

Players from Phoenix Arrival with earth, fire, and metal elements gathered around, as arranged by Tu Qinyuanhua, to infuse the weapon with their respective elemental energies.

Pang·Kirates, usually lazy, knowing that they were making fancy equipment for him, transformed into a big-bellied dragon the same size as the furnace, wagging his tail while waiting beside it, looking so adorable that ‘Phoenix Among Birds’ almost couldn’t resist patting his belly.

“Open!” With a shout from Tu Qinyuanhua, the refining furnace opened, and a soft, golden scale armor floated in the air.

Pang·Kirates nervously rubbed his front claws together.

After inspecting the armor, Tu Qinyuanhua was so excited he rolled on the floor: “Oh my god, a divine artifact, a top-tier divine artifact! I swear this is the most powerful piece of equipment ever crafted in ‘Voyage into the Void.’ It possesses earth, fire, and metal elements, usable by both players and summoned beasts. It can change size according to the user’s body, even if you’re as big as the Earth, it can expand infinitely!

“Its earth attribute can increase the user’s defense by 50% – a full-range, no-blind-spot defense. If you have a defense of 100, wearing it will make it 150. If you have 10,000 defense, it will be 15,000!

“The combination of metal and fire elements gives it the toughest quality. Once equipped, it can store energy within its defensive capacity. When the energy is full, it will reflect back all at once. Damage reflection, oh my, this armor is divine. I never thought I’d craft such an amazing piece of equipment in my lifetime!”

“A divine artifact… Oh no, ‘Voyage into the Void’ stipulates that when a divine artifact appears, it will be announced across the entire game, and heavenly thunder tribulations will descend. If it can’t withstand the tribulation, the equipment will degrade a level!” said ‘Phoenix Among Birds.’

But before she could finish, the Fat Dragon had already rushed towards the golden light, donning the golden scale armor amidst the dazzling glow.

At the same time, the heavenly thunder arrived, a nine-tiered tribulation!

Amidst nine terrifying bolts of lightning capable of destroying heaven and earth, a golden dragon fearlessly roared at the sky, causing the thunderclouds to dissipate with its roar!

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Author’s Note:

Major Laurie: As long as we attack the scale-dropping spot, this dragon will eventually be mine.

Feng Lianzhu: Worried, worried, worried!

‘Phoenix Among Birds’: Hmph.

Tu Qinyuanhua: Hmph.

Phoenix Arrival Members: Hmph.

Fat Dragon: Roar!!!!

 

La la la, the Fat Dragon is changing clothes, showing off his golden vest! I need nutrient solution, the Fat Dragon is even modeling for it, need 27,000 for an extra update, please support!