Becoming a celebrity known by everyone in the game was the first step of his comeback plan.

The plan was progressing smoothly. On the very first day of the open beta, he became famous everywhere—a perfect start.

While standing on the street, many people discovered the potential strengths of Little Jack and sent him private messages one after another.

“Handsome, let’s team up.”

“Expert, please take care of me.”

“Master, please carry me, and share your secret to ten consecutive wins.”

“Hey, want to have some fun? I’m really good at talking~”

“You’re lonely, lonely as snow. I’m lonely too, want to be friends?”

“Brother, from your eyes, I see a pure soul. I believe you are a man with a beautiful heart.”

All sorts of private messages—some direct, some subtle, some bold, some tactful—came flooding in like snowflakes. Charles Green accepted them all, unlike many top players who deliberately set their settings to [Reject messages from strangers]. In his view, browsing through these messages in his spare time was quite entertaining and provided plenty of laughs.

After achieving the expected results from standing on the street, Little Jack was teleported to a place unknown to anyone.

Now that he had obtained the third-tier title [Rising Star], it was time for him to recruit a powerful companion.

At this moment, Lily sent another message: “Beast, so many people are guessing the special attribute attached to your first-generation Martial God title. Hurry up and secretly tell your sis—what exactly is it? Let me show off on the forum and get a taste of being the Prophet Queen.”

Charles Green replied mysteriously, “Take a guess.”

Lily: “Guess whether I’ll guess or not.”

Charles Green: “Guess whether I think you’ll guess or not.”

Volume 1 【011】Harder, Give It Your All

“One touchy-touchy, two kissy-kissy, three scratchy-scratchy legs…”

In the apartment, Lily was humming a modified version of “The New Eighteen Touches” while tidying up the room.

Usually, when Sister Lily took the initiative to clean the room, it meant she was in a very good mood—extremely good.

While mopping the floor, Lily was also browsing through the hottest posts on the Wuxia World official forum on her phone. Eighty percent of these trending posts were related to the “Thousand Miles Daylight Empty Woman,” which made Lily almost unable to contain her excitement.

As a seasoned agent, Lily knew the gaming industry inside out. At this rate, she wouldn’t need to beg the major clubs to take in Charles Green; sooner or later, the heads of those clubs would be waving their checkbooks, crying and begging for Charles Green to join.

Maybe, before long, she could return to that happy life of luxury cars, villas, pretty maids, plus female drivers and female bodyguards… Just thinking about it made Lily drool like a tomboy. How could she not be in a good mood?

She had one hundred and twenty percent confidence in Charles Green. Even though, in her mind, that guy had more flaws than strengths, his character was as bad as the worst of the worst, and he’d even slept with the goddess she’d secretly loved for years… But in the realm of gaming, he had never let her down.

She trusted him, and he trusted her.

For ten years, that trust had never wavered.

Not long ago, after teasing her a bit, he revealed the real secret of the [First-Generation Martial God] title. Upon learning this secret, Lily immediately lost her arrogance and gave up on becoming the Prophet Queen on the forum. She decided to help Charles Green keep this secret.

“One touchy-touchy, two kissy-kissy, three scratchy-scratchy legs…”

Fate always has a way of creating inexplicable coincidences. While Lily was humming the new Eighteen Touches in the real world, Charles Green was also humming it in the game world, appearing on a remote, deserted hillside.

Next, he was going to try to recruit a powerful companion.

The reason it was just “try” was because the success rate for recruiting such a powerful companion was only 1%.

One of the most anticipated features in Wuxia World was [Companion Recruitment]. When players earned the Rising Star title and gained some reputation in the martial world, they could recruit some martial artists as their companions.

Fighting side by side with your favorite wuxia characters—how exhilarating is that?

Later on, players could even recruit Yang Guo to run errands, Li Xunhuan to help fight little monsters, Chu Liuxiang to help pick up girls, Wei Xiaobao to help with aphrodisiacs, Zhang Wuji as your little brother, and of course, Wang Yuyan to help you with a “handy favor”… In short, just thinking about it was thrilling.

The number of companions a player could have depended on their reputation. At most, a player could have eight companions, forming the legendary, earth-shattering, ghost-wailing Nine Palaces Grand Array together with the player!

Companions in the game were divided into five levels, each named after a color: white, green, blue, purple, and gold.

White companions were nothing special—cheap, common goods you could easily recruit at a tavern or teahouse, with poor stats. Green companions had more impressive stats. For example, the Seven Freaks of Jiangnan in the world of “The Legend of the Condor Heroes” were green companions with pretty awesome attributes.

Speaking of the Seven Freaks of Jiangnan, there’s a story behind them.