### Chapter 4: A Hair’s Breadth Away from Kicking the Bucket
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【Ding! You have completed Hidden Mainline Quest 2: Explore the Secrets of the Main Peak Cave.】
【You have gained 100,000 Character Experience Points, 10,000 Skill Experience Points, and a +20 Attack Power for the Black Wind Sword.】
【Hidden Mainline Quest 3 Activated: Eliminate Ji Shen.
Time Limit: 365 Days.】
【You have leveled up to Level 30; you can now open the Gold-Level Lottery Mode.】
【You have gained a passive skill—Phenomenon.】
【Upon entering, you can automatically present one of the following phenomena based on your mood to increase your cool factor:
A shower of flower petals, swirling snowflakes, thunderous winds, or ominous dark clouds.
Cooldown time: 6 hours.
Your current level is LV1.
Once you upgrade this skill, more phenomena will become available.】
【Ding! You have received an extra reward from the system—Tribulation Phenomenon!
This reward is a one-time-use item designed to help you familiarize yourself with the power and value of phenomena.
As the saying goes, when you lack combat power, let phenomena fill in.
Please accumulate experience and try to survive in this world a little longer.
Note: Once this item is accepted, it will auto-activate. That’s all!】
Receiving this slew of system prompts, Lin Nan was undoubtedly baffled.
Fortunately, Feng Yalin’s character card was on cooldown for 6 hours, so Lin Nan quickly switched her consciousness back to her own body and retracted the character card.
Although her movements were quick enough,
that darn phenomenon item still triggered a rare thunderstorm in the Small Thousand World.
As soon as she returned to her physical form, the item maintained its power, rapidly generating vast dark clouds over the Chaos Forest, nearly covering the entire sky.
Unfortunately, once an item is used, the phenomenon effect is irreversible.
She really didn’t want to be so ostentatious,
ruining the precarious situation she had worked so hard to maintain.
d*mn it, d*mn it!
The system is as reliable as a soggy noodle, giving her a phenomenon item that auto-uses itself.
Can’t I save it for a critical moment?
But at this point, complaining was pointless.
She could only watch the storm clouds swirling above her, lightning flashing and thunder rumbling,
and she couldn’t even step outside to tell everyone, “Hey, don’t worry, it’s all just a big fake show!” If she did that, her carefully accrued Cold Value would probably plummet into the negatives.
Wait and wait, finally, the phenomenon reached its final stage.
To observe its effects clearly, Lin Nan decided to stand atop the Cold Wind Cave, looking up at the clouds swirling rapidly, hinting at the gathering electrical energy.
The final blow was about to come.
With a thunderous roar, a massive beam of lightning finally struck down from the sky.
At the same time, a purple light shot up from above Lin Nan, colliding violently with it.
In an instant, night turned to day.
Not bad, not bad, while she knew it was fake, it was really impressive to show off.
This passive skill seemed worth cultivating; she’d toss all her skill experience into this for a few levels.
Just as Lin Nan waited for the phenomenon to conclude, ready to teleport back to the Cold Wind Cave,
the lightning above suddenly shattered the purple light and barreled toward Lin Nan.
In that split second, Lin Nan looked up.
She distinctly felt an immense pressure and an undeniable wave of enormous energy,
if it hit her directly,
she would definitely be toast!
Even the whole Cold Wind City would be reduced to dust.
Before the horror of d*ath could sink in, and almost with no way to dodge, Lin Nan felt an impending sense of despair when she suddenly saw a dark figure leap toward the descending lightning.
“Zing!”
The current sprayed across like it met an insulator, bursting into countless sparks.
All this happened in the blink of an eye.
When the bright night reverted back to darkness, the shadow that had blocked her fell heavily at her feet.
A smell that could only be described as charred meat wafted up.
Lin Nan’s heart skipped a beat.
Who was this person? Were they male or female? Did they just save me?
A flood of questions burst through her mind.
At that moment, she felt an influx of people gathering around the Cold Wind Cave,
“Great King is magnificent! Great King is regal!” echoed through the air.
She quickly crouched down, placing her palm on the piping hot shadow’s back, instantly teleporting this person back to the Cold Wind Cave.
Under the dim red glow of the flames,
Lin Nan nearly gasped in shock.
The man before her was nearly unrecognizable; his skin was charred, flesh torn apart, looking as if he had been roasted, almost like a piece of charcoal.
She couldn’t even begin to imagine,
if that lightning had truly struck her, would she have survived?
A few butterfly demons responsible for serving Lin Nan were taken aback when the Great King suddenly returned with a charred bloody man, wide-eyed in shock.
But seeing the increasingly icy expression on her face, none dared to ask questions, simply handling and caring for him respectfully.
Lin Nan had a thought brewing, but wasn’t sure yet.
Considering the crowd around Cold Wind Cave, if she didn’t show up, they might gather there forever.
After all, the earlier tribulation phenomenon had been overly spectacular and frightening,
perhaps they truly thought they had broken through some realms, causing the world to change colors and making a ruckus, thus gathering to celebrate.
She had to make an appearance.
……
“Boom!”
The stone doors of the Cold Wind Cave slowly creaked open.
Yue Liang and others were startled, almost everyone’s eyes were glued to the widening crack of the stone door.
But before they could see the Great King’s figure,
under the hazy moonlight, countless pink flower petals drifted down with the soft breeze,
and an intoxicating fragrance enveloped everyone’s hearts.
People stood there mesmerized, watching the delicate petal-like apparitions as they touched the ground and turned to mist.
At that moment, a slender figure clad in a black robe floated down, stepping on the dancing petals and appearing before everyone.
【From Cold Wind City, Cold Moon Cold Value +543】
【From Cold Wind City Tiger Demon Cold Value +478】
【From Cold Wind City Wolf Demon Cold Value +483】
【From Cold Wind City Seven Feathers Cold Value +456】
……
Cold Moon suddenly came to her senses, hurriedly bowing her head in submission,
“Congratulations to the Great King on achieving mastery of your powers! Unifying the four seas and eight wildernesses!”
The others quickly followed suit, shouting in unison,
“Congratulations to the Great King on achieving mastery of your powers! Unifying the four seas and eight wildernesses!”
Lin Nan smiled, “Everyone, please rise!”
Cold Moon respectfully replied, “I would not dare, Great King. Your emergence has triggered such a grand upheaval in nature, it is indeed a great fortune for our Cold Wind City, more so for our Monster Race!
To be able to follow you is truly a stroke of luck, a blessing earned from previous lives.”
“Yes, Great King!”
The other great demons looked at Lin Nan with eyes full of admiration and longing.
Especially those new to Cold Wind City; after witnessing such a phenomenal display, they were both awed and afraid of the Cold Moon Great King, and wouldn’t dare harbor any other thoughts.
