Chapter 117 Theme Competition
Let’s go back to more than ten days ago.
Wang Ergou and his companions, who had just finished a day of fighting, climbed out of the game cabin tiredly.
The rewards in the limited-time battlefield are certainly attractive, but it is also very hard work. It is really troublesome to clean up thousands of small monsters. Even if there are tens of thousands of pigs, it will take a while to kill them all, let alone a group of corpses and evil spirits that are much harder to kill than pigs.
After finally finishing the limited-time battlefield, it was already midnight in the game. Several people could not hold on any longer and logged off one after another.
But I didn’t expect that as soon as I logged off, I saw the new official “announcement”.
Or rather, it was a forum post released by the game's official website! "A big giveaway for the third beta test! From August 15 to August 31, the 'My Ideal Taiyin Sect' themed competition is open! There are four categories in this competition, namely illustration and illustration design, AI visual art, 3D design, and creative short videos. The same real-name authenticated account can only participate in two categories...
“Each project has a gold award (first place), a silver award (second place), a bronze award (third place) and several awards of excellence…
“Gold Prize: Ten unbound activation codes for the third test qualification, a redemption code for the Taiyin Sect’s land deed (game item), and a redemption code for a top-grade Xuan-level spiritual weapon customization voucher (game item).
“Silver Prize: Five unbound activation codes for the third test qualification, a redemption code for the Taiyin Sect’s land deed (game item), and a redemption code for a mid-grade Xuan-level spiritual weapon customization voucher (game item).
“Bronze Prize: Three unbound activation codes for the third test qualification, a redemption code for the Taiyin Sect’s land deed (game item), and a redemption code for a lower-grade Xuan-level spiritual weapon customization voucher (game item).
“Excellence Award Prize: A bound activation code for the third test qualification.
"Entry requirements: Imagine the Taiyin Sect in your mind. Is it a fairy city in the sky, or a mortal world on earth? Is it pavilions, towers, and flowing water, or magnificent buildings and towering mountains? Please imagine what the sect's headquarters will look like. Perhaps your creativity will be presented in "Records of the Ten Continents"..."
In the game forum, a post that was officially pinned in red quickly became popular all over the Internet.
Since the dark horse game "Ten Continents" came out of nowhere, although the number of game vacancies is shockingly small, the phenomenal popularity it has created is extremely crazy.
In addition to the black-tech engine technology that beats all the big companies, the seemingly plausible national background, and the various new and novel gameplays that are constantly being broadcast live, absolute freedom is not just a slogan. On major live broadcast websites, the game live broadcast of "Ten Continents" has become the latest great drama to watch while eating.
Therefore, once the official game competition promotion post was released, it quickly became popular both at home and abroad. Even many game enthusiasts in other countries tried every means to find out whether the so-called "non-binding" third-test qualification activation code allowed foreign registration and activation... Of course, the answer they got was no.
At present, the competition has not started yet, but the non-binding third test qualification activation code on the market has been sold for 100,000 yuan each, and the price is still soaring.
As a result, the number of participants in this competition almost overwhelmed the server, and Fang Xianyu even spent a little extra energy to maintain the website for submitting competition works normally.
Of course, although this competition has four tracks, not everyone can participate. For most people, their painting skills are basically the classic masterpiece of chickens pecking at rice - the rice is eaten by the chickens and the chickens are gone. The only track that can be worked on is the AI creation track, but this thing is either a few minutes to complete or several days to complete. If you ask an ignorant person to work hard for more than ten days, he can only produce a finished product in a few minutes. Therefore, netizens in the forum started to talk nonsense and did not take the competition seriously at all - just go to bed, there is no chance of winning the prize anyway.
"The official is getting worse and worse. Now they don't even plan to make the sect scenes themselves. They plan to copy netizens, right?"
"How can this be called plagiarism? This is called fully listening to the opinions of the players!"
"I don't approve of the owner not going to work in the game PR team."
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As an 18th-tier artist, Zhao Qing was also extremely excited when she saw this post. In fact, she had many ideas a long time ago, but because she was busy playing games, she had long put aside her side job of illustration. Now that there was an official game competition, she decisively submitted an application overnight, took a week off, ordered a takeout to recover her losses, and then curled up in bed to start drawing.
What should the world of cultivating immortals look like?
As the player with the strongest combat power in the entire server, Zhao Qing was the first player to visit Guangcheng Sect. She had seen what Guangcheng Sect was like.
Towering mountains, solemn sect halls, and quaint and exquisite buildings.
It fits most people's fantasies about immortal heroes, but it is not enough.
As a person who used to make a living from art, Zhao Qing had developed an indescribable sense of belonging to the Taiyin Sect after playing the game for such a long time. He was even more attracted to the senior sister Baili Shuang who had always taught him so gently... Well, no, he had developed a feeling of admiration for her.
It can be said that compared to Wang Ergou, who was wholeheartedly focused on maintaining the community and being the leader of our group, Zhao Qing truly opened the door to this magnificent world of cultivating immortals.
She really learned what Taoism is, what immortality is, and really experienced the process of cultivation, which made her understanding of the Guixu Realm more profound than that of ordinary players.
The so-called immortal is just a state of life after growth. It is not high and mighty, nor does it have the qualifications to look down on everything. The so-called priesthood is a kind of "job" that is "all year round". The immortals who have achieved the priesthood must be responsible for their priesthood. Otherwise, there will be karma, heavenly calamity, etc. There are laws between heaven and earth that restrict immortals.
So, what does it mean to cultivate immortality in the Guixu Realm?
Seeking immortality? Seeking transcendence? No, it's more than that.
According to the many Guixu Realm classics she had read, the cultivators of the past pursued "knowledge".
Zhuangzi said, "My life is limited, but my knowledge is unlimited."
Whether it is the Guixu Realm or the Blue Planet, human beings have been constantly in the process of "seeking knowledge" since the formation of civilization.
On the blue planet, in order to "seek knowledge", more than 3,000 years ago, ancient Egypt created hieroglyphics, which is the source of most of the phonetic scripts in the world, including all European scripts. In order to "seek knowledge", scholars such as Copernicus, Galileo, and Newton in the 16th and 17th centuries transformed the philosophy of science, breaking the traditional constraints of Aristotle's philosophy and opening the door to modern science.
In Guixu Realm, in order to "seek knowledge", the ancient gods ten thousand years ago did not hesitate to sacrifice their lives to explore the "Tao" between heaven and earth.
Perhaps from some point on, the pursuit of knowledge is no longer so simple, some seek to plunder resources, some seek to dominate a region. But no matter what, the pursuit of knowledge is still the instinct of almost intelligent life.
Compared with the Guixu Realm, we have a more sound society, complete system and technologically advanced civilization.
Zhao Qing thought about it and drew a few arcs on the digital tablet.
The arcs trembled and connected into one.
A bright moon hangs high in the deep blue starry sky, and beneath the bright moon are large patches of auspicious clouds with polarized colors.
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