"God Tribulation, the pinnacle creation of Royal! Developed by the world's top online gaming team, spending eight years to forge a world-class online gaming myth!"
"Asia's largest and most impartial operating company, Tenglong Group, will fully take over God Tribulation! Presenting the world with the fairest online gaming masterpiece!"
"New God Tribulation, new class, the Witchcraft Poison Master rises in the pugilist world! New gameplay, thrilling prison breaks and bride snatching! New gear, Divine Weapon returns to the mortal realm!"
"Living in God Tribulation, how can one avoid being stabbed? If one strike doesn't finish them, who will step up to deliver the final blow? God Tribulation is missing only you!"
"If you don't sleep with a mature woman, you won't know a woman is as fierce as a wolf. If you don't roam God Tribulation, how can you claim a man's vigor? Once God Tribulation comes out, who dares to rival it!"
"Are you still worried about finding no good scenery for a date? God Tribulation features earthly paradises designed for you by world-class traditional Chinese painters. Are you still agonizing over eloping for fear of being found by your family? The more than eight hundred maps in God Tribulation are enough for you to hide. Are you still troubled and annoyed by full motels when trying to have an affair? The Homestead System in God Tribulation will provide you with the safest haven..."
"Do you want to steal? Do you want to rob? Do you want to kill someone without getting arrested? Do you want to gamble? Do you want to patronize prostitutes? Do you want to dine and dash and act like a ruffian? Then come on over, God Tribulation has everything you could possibly want..."
"Men with three wives and four concubines, women playing the field, breaking conventional societal norms, God Tribulation helps you achieve it..."
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"World-class kung fu superstar 'Dongfang Bubai' will endorse God Tribulation!"
"China's heavenly king male singer 'Aizaoxie' will endorse God Tribulation!"
"Hong Kong and Taiwan's heavenly queen best actress 'Yanzhaomei' will endorse God Tribulation!"
"South Korea's popular group 'Aizhuangchun' will endorse God Tribulation!"
"Japan's current popular adult film star 'Caoyibeizi' will endorse God Tribulation!"
"Thailand's most beautiful ladyboy..."
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Xiao Yu walked down the street, looking at the diverse promotional advertisements for God Tribulation, sighing with emotion in his heart.
These advertisements were in Chinese, English, and other national languages. As humanity developed up to the present day, Chinese and English had become global common languages, but to accommodate the sentiments of certain minority nations, the promotional screens still flashed through various national languages rapidly.
Not having walked among mortals often, why had the world changed so drastically?
Such a fine game like God Tribulation was actually being advertised in this damned fashion! Even Thai ladyboys ran over to endorse it. Had harmony between humans and monsters reached this extent?
Xiao Yu walked down Nanguan Street past a dozen internet cafes, and every single one of them was packed to capacity. In the end, he had no choice but to wait in line at an internet cafe called Golden Sun.
Today was the opening day of the new server for God Tribulation, and the launch time was twelve noon. Tenglong's promotional efforts over the past two months had finally achieved the expected results. Looking at the people in line holding account cards and wearing virtual reality glasses around their necks, even Xiao Yu had to admire Tenglong's promotional tactics.
After waiting for a full hour, someone finally logged off.
Xiao Yu used his access card to find his seat, sat down, and sighed inwardly: What a miserable state of affairs—the owner of a brothel still has to pay to patronize his own girls. Unpredictable are the ways of the world...
He pulled out his account card, inserted it into the card reader beside the computer, and the screen flashed. An ethereal landscape painting appeared in Xiao Yu's field of vision. This 6D-effect imagery achieved not only 100% similarity to reality in terms of simulation, but also left no room for flaws in its dynamic effects.
Past games, including the currently hottest Tianji, relied entirely on mouse and keyboard controls, whereas God Tribulation opened up a brand-new territory in the gaming world, allowing semi-intelligent operation through virtual gaming glasses. This was a major revolution in the global gaming sphere and destined God Tribulation to seize dominance in the gaming market with overwhelming superiority in the future.
Otherwise, Tenglong would never have spent an astronomical sum to buy out the operational rights of this game.
Xiao Yu checked the time. There were still ten minutes until noon. He stared quietly at the screen before him. The forty-three-inch LCD screen presented deeply stereoscopic visuals that easily drew people into the game.
After the breathtakingly beautiful scenery shifted for a minute or two, the image transformed to display the skills of the various sects and classes.
At this moment, the previously somewhat chaotic internet cafe instantly erupted into a riot.
Cheers drowned each other out. Some precocious youths who had yet to find an outlet to vent their energies leaped to their feet. "Awesome, too cool! Just for this hairstyle alone, it's badass enough. I'm playing a Prajna Monk!"
Xiao Yu shook his head inwardly. Playing a monk? Wouldn't that lead to even greater pent-up frustration...
"East and West Continents, seven factions and five clans, over twenty classes—how are we supposed to choose?"
"We're Chinese, so of course we play East Continent classes. Do you even have to ask?"
"Holy shit, the Immortal sect's female Zither Master is actually this sexy? What huge breasts, I'm playing a female Zither Master! The Soul-Breaking Tune, strum it once and her chest quivers, nosebleeds flow in a steady stream."
"I'm playing the Daoist Taiyi, Taiji Eight Trigrams Sword, one cheap move after another! Every single cheap move looks good!"
"I'm playing the secular Beggar, Dragon-Subduing Eighteen Palms, the appearance is just great. If anyone dares refuse to give me food when I beg, I'll slap them to death with my palm!"
"I'm playing a Poison Master, a new class. If anyone dares compete with me for food, I'll poison them to death!"
"I'm playing a Fox Spirit, whoever poisons me, I'll let my foxes bite them to death!"
"I'm playing a West Continent Undead, whichever one of you dammed bastards dies, just let me know, I'll bury you all..."
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Xiao Yu had his eardrums ringing from the racket made by this bunch of God Tribulation degenerates. He put on his virtual reality glasses and had to turn on the noise-canceling device above them, instantly bringing quiet back to his ears.
Sixty to seventy percent of the people who came to surf the net today were here for God Tribulation. Watching the excited and thrilled look on these kids' faces, Xiao Yu felt a trace of a sense of achievement in his heart.
At this point, the skill demonstration section on the screen had ended, and a selection window popped up:
Would you like to perform a real-person scan?
Xiao Yu hesitated for a moment and selected no.
God Tribulation was an online game that supported real-person scanning, allowing players to completely copy their facial features into the game characters through scanning, though whether or not to accept the scan was entirely up to the player.
Next came character appearance design: height, leg length, waist thickness, chest muscles, facial shape, appearance, skin tone, hair color, eyebrows, eyes, nose, mouth...
Every aspect you could think of that needed modification had been considered by God Tribulation. In other words, through this appearance design, you could create the likeness of anyone in your mind, including ladyboys...
Xiao Yu spent three minutes adjusting his appearance, and once everything was set, he added a tattoo on his forehead—the design of two knives, two crossed golden short blades.
He pressed confirm, and next was class selection.
Xiao Yu entered the East Continent faction without a second thought.
The classes in God Tribulation were divided into two factions: one was the East Continent, and the other was the West Continent. Different faction selections determined different starting locations.
Upon entering the East Continent faction, Xiao Yu directly lit up the icon of the Mo Clan and opened the branch for the Witchcraft Poison Master. At this moment, his heartbeat actually accelerated, and the hand resting on the mouse trembled slightly.
Witchcraft Poison Master: A lingering legacy class of the East Continent. The polar and desolate frontiers of the Miao territory are extremely treacherous and filled with venomous insects and ferocious beasts.