Fantasy Westward Journey: Return to 2005

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However, although I arrived late.

But Fang Yun didn't feel too disappointed, as he had never been very interested in carnival activities.

He collected his thoughts, held the mouse, pointed it at the carnival topic, and started browsing.

This year's carnival activities have a total of five major projects, namely "Refining the Divine Beast", "Birthday Fun", "Carnival New Year", "Yaochi Mission" and "Weekly Special".

Let’s talk about the weekly features first.

As the name suggests, this project will launch a new gameplay every week during the carnival event.

The first week's game is "Snowball".

This event coincided with Christmas, so the official simply merged it with the Christmas event.

During the event, players can receive the 'Snowball Maker' from the 'Snowman Event Messenger' at the gate of Jianye City Yamen.

Using the fabricator, the player can create a snowball for every 5 points of energy spent.

After getting the snowball, the player only needs to right-click the snowball to use it on others.

During the event, if players can throw snowballs to 12 sects and 12 characters, they will also be awarded the title of Snowball King and various rewards.

Objectively speaking, the rewards for this activity are not very generous, but it is very interesting.

Unfortunately, the snowball throwing activity ended on the 29th of last month, and Fang Yun was unable to make it in time, so he naturally missed the title of "Snowball King".

Fortunately, this title is not permanent and will only last until the 28th of next month before disappearing.

Otherwise Fang Yun would definitely explode, because the title of Snowball King was out of print in the previous life, and there was no chance for him to keep it.

"Next year, I remember there will be this event next year, I must participate once!"

After secretly making up his mind, Fang Yun stopped thinking about it and continued browsing the next activity.

The second week's gameplay is 'Calendar'.

During the event, players can go to the 'Auspicious Beast' in Chang'an City to receive tasks, and after completing the tasks, they can obtain the calendar of the corresponding season.

After collecting all the solar term calendars for the four seasons, players can exchange them for an annual calendar and receive generous rewards.

Fang Yun was able to catch this event. After all, the event started during the off-season. There were several calendars in his backpacks.

The calendar is a permanent item and can be traded.

During this period, the calendar is just a simple souvenir, but after the game is updated in the future, the official will add a new function to the calendar, that is, house decoration, and it will also come with a message function.

The annual calendar will also be out of print in the future, but because there are so many of them in stock, the overall price will not be that expensive even if it is out of print.

Except for the missed snowball throwing event and the missed calendar event.

The activities in the next two weeks are "Five Elements Reversal" and "Battle of Chiyou" respectively.

The Five Elements Twist is the activity going on this week. The activity is very simple. Players only need to find the 'Five Elements Twist Master' in Chang'an City first.

Then choose from the five major camps of 'gold, wood, water, fire and earth'. After choosing a camp, you can receive a reward.

After choosing a camp, players can then check the formula, and then follow the formula given by the NPC, such as "fire, earth, metal, wood, fire", to find teammates with the corresponding five elements, form a team and come to claim the rewards.

The threshold for this activity is extremely low and the rewards are quite generous. Even Fang Yun was eager to try it after reading the introduction of the activity.

As for the "Chiyou War" which has not yet started next week, it sounds quite intimidating, but it is actually different from what most people imagine. You don't need to fight at all. It is more like a chess attack and defense battle.

Overall, the entry threshold for these four weeks of activities is extremely low, and the rewards are very generous, which is very consistent with the theme of the carnival.

The most important thing is that this year the officials did not continue to give up, but chose to innovate.

This is the most important thing in Fang Yun's opinion.

Other categories such as "Yao Chi Mission", "Happy New Year" and "Birthday Celebration" are relatively conventional, although they have also been innovated to a certain extent.

But overall it still follows the conventional methods that players are familiar with, such as collecting characters, fighting monsters, and planting trees.

As for "Refining Divine Beasts", this activity is quite interesting.

During the carnival, players only need to participate in various activities to automatically obtain "cultivation points".

For every 100 additional training points, the player's enlightenment level will be raised by one level.

Every time a player advances a level, he or she can find an NPC to exchange for a cultivation stone.

The training stone can be combined with any level 0 summoned beast to refine the monster. The skills and qualifications of the summoned beast will change, and there is a certain chance of obtaining a divine beast!
This year's carnival event introduced a brand new mythical beast, the "Super Ginseng Doll".

The Super Ginseng Doll was naturally not a rare thing in the past life, but now, when this mythical beast is still very rare, players have extremely high expectations for every newly released mythical beast!
The Super Ginseng Doll’s own skills are actually pretty good.

The physical Super Ginseng Doll has three built-in skills: barrier breaking, advanced special kill, and advanced powerful skills.

After ascending, the doll can also comprehend a low luck and be allowed to play another high exorcism.

A baby with high certainty, high strength, high drive, low luck, and built-in barrier breaking ability. Although the barrier mission is a bit useless, it is still very attractive to players in this era.

The spell-type Super Ginseng Doll is much more mediocre. It comes with Taishan Pressure, advanced spell fluctuations and advanced meditation. After ascending, it comprehends the low-level devil's heart and can also perform this spell chain.

If these skills are combined with a set of magic explosion suits, they can be used in this era.

But for Fang Yun who came back from his previous life, to sum it up in one sentence, all magical pets without Sumeru are XX!

If he were asked to choose, he would rather choose the Barrier doll than the Tarzan doll.

Although for him, no matter which one he chooses, it will most likely be the last one in the box...

All in all, this year's carnival activities are extremely rich in content and the rewards are quite generous. It can be seen that Wangyi is indeed sincere.

Although Fang Yun is not very interested in the carnival, the All-Star Game is over now and the Chinese New Year is coming up.

During this period, he basically had nothing to do, so he might as well catch the last train and experience this year's All-Star Game.

Just do it.

He closed the webpage, opened the client, and quickly logged into all the accounts he had.

He had just come online and was about to call Shouye and the others to join in the event, but he saw that Qianchenghao’s friend icon was about to burst!

“Congratulations to Cheng Ge for winning his third consecutive All-Star Game! #1#1#1”

"MVP of the year! So cool, Brother Cheng! #24#24"

"Well... Brother Cheng, are we still going to have a Spring Festival party this year? #55#55"

"Brother Cheng, Brother Cheng..."

Open the friend channel and look at the congratulatory messages that keep appearing on the screen.

Although Fang Yun was touched, he also felt overwhelmed.

Damn, there is too much information. I can’t read it all. I can’t read it all.

Fang Yun patiently took in all these messages roughly, selectively replied to a few of them, then closed the friend page, deciding not to reply to any more messages even if he was killed!
And then, just as he finished dealing with the messages from his friends, he saw that the gang channel of Jinfengxiyu Tower also started to flood the screen with messages.

"Hey, the boss is finally online!"

"Congratulations, Boss, for winning the All-Star triple crown and the annual MVP award. That's a big deal!"

"This is basic for the boss, just stay calm..."

"I finally went to the event this year and took a photo with the boss. It was so cool!"

"Fuck, jealousy is tearing me apart!"

"I went there too, got his autograph, and even touched the boss's hand, hahahaha!"

"Oh my god, do you have to be so shameless? How does it feel?"

"Stop arguing, stop arguing. I still want to ask the boss about the New Year's event..."

Looking at the gang channel that exploded instantly after he came online, Fang Yun had a frown on his face.

Okay, okay, I told you who is so shameless that he takes advantage of me while taking a photo with me.

After all this time, it turns out there’s a bad guy among this gang!
However, although the culprit was finally found, Fang Yun was too lazy to really cause trouble for him.

After thinking for a while, he first responded to everyone's congratulations on the gang channel, and then said: "We are still planning this year's Spring Festival activities. We will announce it as soon as it is ready. Please wait patiently."

"It's fine as long as you have it, no rush!"

"Last year I only managed to get a participation prize in three days, I must break the egg this year!"

"Brother Cheng said at the event that the bonus arrangement would be announced in a few days, and now he said that the Spring Festival event is being planned. Why do I smell a big move?"

"When the boss takes action, every time he does it, it's always a big move. Just wait!"

"I hope the boss can set some thresholds for this event. It's too difficult for brothers..."

After receiving Fang Yun's definite reply, the members of the Jinfengxiyu Tower immediately put their minds at ease.

Actually, to be honest, for everyone in the Jinfengxiyu Tower today.

Although event rewards are one of the reasons that attract them, as a gathering place for strong people, what people nowadays actually pursue more is the atmosphere.

Therefore, for the members of Jinfengxiyulou including Liufenbantang, as long as the Spring Festival activities continue, other aspects are not important at all.

I chatted with everyone on the gang channel for a while, and waited for Shouye and others to come online.

Fang Yun immediately sent a message to the other party, and after everyone gathered at the bell tower, they immediately plunged into this year's carnival activities!
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Before I knew it, a week had passed.

This week, Fang Yun took the "lying flat" approach to the extreme.

Since returning to the capital, apart from eating and sleeping, he has been spending his days playing games and participating in carnival activities with Shouye Sujiu and others. His life is so comfortable.

At the same time, the popularity of the All-Stars finally began to decline during this week.

Competitions are like this, no matter how sensational they were when they were first held, or how they were all over major forums when the winners took over.

But as soon as the game is over, everyone will go home, and as time goes on, naturally fewer people will discuss it.

This is also the reason why once a competition starts, it will not be missed unless there are special circumstances.

Today is Tuesday, January 2010, 1, the routine maintenance day for Fantasy Westward Journey.

At ten o'clock in the morning, after having a full meal and drink served by Li Sitong, Fang Yun returned to the study on the second floor. After sitting down in front of the computer, he updated the client while opening the official website.

It has become his habit to read the weekly maintenance announcements, especially at this critical juncture.

According to the nature of this world's Internet, if nothing unexpected happens, today's maintenance announcement should release some very important news!

While thinking about other things, he kept working and clicked on the "Scheduled Maintenance Announcement on January 2010, 1" immediately after finding it.

"Dear players and friends:

为保证服务器的运行稳定和服务质量，《梦幻西游》所有服务器将于2010年1月19日上午8：00停机，进行每周例行的维护工作……

The following are the updates and adjustments made during this maintenance:
1. Corrected the display issues of combat characters, corrected the invalid issues of some skills, adjusted the rewards for returning old players, and released the dungeon "New Skyfire Sorrow (Part )" on all servers;
2. The gameplay of the vegetable garden is released;

3. In order to solve the NPC occlusion problem, adjust the position of the beasts in the chief of Lion Camel Ridge and the rooftop of Chang'an City;
4. The fireworks fortune teller adjusted..."

After quickly browsing through these routine maintenance contents, Fang Yun remained calm.

Holding the mouse, he scrolled down, and when he saw a message, the target finally changed.

"The test of the new Fantasy Westward Journey expansion "Mastery" has officially started! Click the link below for details!"

Seeing this inconspicuous message, Fang Yun's heart suddenly moved.

Sure enough, what is supposed to come is finally coming.

In fact, after the All-Star Game ended, official staff contacted these players and asked a lot of strange questions.

As someone who has experienced this, Fang Yun certainly knows where the root of these problems lies.

But Xilang and his people didn’t know this, so they basically answered whatever the official asked, and finally gave their own expectations for the new version of Fantasy Westward Journey.

He collected his thoughts and looked at the link below the announcement. He quickly clicked and went straight into it.

"The excitement of the 2009 Fantasy Westward Journey All-Stars has not yet faded, and the latest expansion pack "Mastery" has arrived as scheduled. Next, the editor will take everyone to have a sneak peek at the new version!

Preview 1: Overcoming the Tribulation

Disasters are happening frequently throughout China. Whether the spirit stone can mend the cracks in the sky, whether Chiyou's conspiracy can be thwarted, and whether the Three Realms will continue or return to chaos will be created by the player heroes themselves.

Players who complete the tribulation storyline will have their level cap raised to level 175, and will receive generous rewards such as attribute bonuses.

Wonderful sneak peek 2 - The Eight Extraordinary Meridians

Players who reach level 69 will be able to open up the Eight Extraordinary Meridians and learn the Eight Extraordinary Meridians skills. Each sect has two schools of Eight Extraordinary Meridians skills, and usually the skills of the two schools will be quite different, which will affect the direction of character growth.

Wonderful preview 3 - Baoxiang Kingdom
You can directly reach Baoxiang Kingdom by using the flying talisman, and you can also teleport to Baoxiang Kingdom from Qilin Mountain and Jieyang Mountain. And going out of the main gate of Baoxiang Kingdom is Wanzi Mountain, which is connected to the Tang Dynasty. What kind of adventures will there be on this new map?

Sneak Peek 4 - New Summoned Beasts and Summoned Beast Accessories
5 new summoned beasts are now available: the domineering mad leopard (dual form), the cute cat spirit (dual form), the charming scorpion spirit, the adorable gourd baby, and the rare chaos beast. Which one will become your new love?
If the appearance of the summoned beasts is not enough to satisfy you, then try to add gorgeous accessories to them! It is cool and practical, making you a dreamy landscape.

Preview 5 - 12 Magical Weapons
Swords, spears, swords and halberds are all available, with 12 new weapons that are dazzlingly sharpened. More magnificent effects and more shocking properties will help you to be invincible in your fantasy world! ..."

Looking at the series of exciting new content displayed on the page, even though Fang Yun had lived two lives, he couldn't help but feel excited at this moment -

Here it comes, the big one is finally coming!

(End of this chapter)