In The Way of the Extraordinary, Chapter 146, "A Hundred-Year Scheme," in the attribute panel of the Night Watcher, the moral value vanished as if it had never existed. This change caused violent fluctuations in the five Emperor Dharma forms, almost collapsing their Dao hearts.
Since the birth of The Way of the Extraordinary, batches of The Way of the Extraordinary have emerged. The stability of human order and the ability of human governments to maintain their rule is not actually because the Lawful faction is so powerful.
Admittedly, the Lawful faction, in its capacity as an official organization, effectively curbs the number of The Way of the Extraordinary criminals by cracking down on evil professions, but what truly keeps the evil organizations in check is not the official organizations, but moral value!
Moral value is a sword hanging over the heads of all The Way of the Extraordinary, the cornerstone of order and stability.
Without moral value, the evil factions would kill, arson, and plunder without any qualms, and the Lawful professions would oppress the people and plunder their wealth even more unscrupulously.
Now that moral value is gone, the whole world will descend into chaos. Ling Tuo's smile grew even more rampant: "That item is called the 'Merit List,' one of the core items that make up The Way of the Extraordinary, a unique causal item that records the good and evil of every The Way of the Extraordinary and embodies them as merit value."
Since the 21st century, the Free faction has endured bitterly under the constraints of moral value. The Demi-Gods dared not easily start wars. The Free Alliance overturned the Holy See, but had to hand over the spoils, reluctantly watching you rule the world. All this is related to the existence of moral value.
"Do you know why the Night Watcher profession is so important? Because the Merit List is a Night Watcher profession item, governed by the Sun. With the Sun without a master, I use the Taiyin to obscure the Merit List, eliminating the moral value of The Way of the Extraordinary. No one can restrain me. Back then, I threw out the Light Compass, accelerating the development of the Night Watcher profession, painstakingly cultivating me to become the Lord of Taiyin. All the plans were for this day. Great chaos will arise, order will collapse, and freedom will reign supreme!"
Ring, ring, ring. The landline in Fu Jiawan's study emitted a piercing ring, interrupting Fu Qingyang's work.
He put down the document he was reading and picked up the receiver. The urgent voice of Senior Executive "Gao Shan Liushui" came from the other end: "Something happened to Fu Yi Lao! The Global Financial Center, the Taian Shopping Mall, the Songhe Building, and the security bureaus in various districts have all been attacked by evil professions. These guys are crazy! They're killing people on sight, poisoning on a large scale, releasing Gu worms, and using mental attacks in densely populated areas. They're crazy! They're all crazy!" At the end, his voice even trembled a little.
Fu Qingyang was stunned. Even with his intellect, he couldn't react to the news. But he remained calm: "How many rioters are there? Are there any signs of them being manipulated? Have preliminary statistics been made on civilian casualties?"
"There are a lot of rioters, they are attacking in groups, and it is currently impossible to determine if they are being manipulated. As for civilian casualties, there are massive casualties."
Gao Shan Liushui gritted his teeth and said, "A massacre, death and injury are everywhere."
A massacre meant that there were too many victims to estimate.
After listening, Fu Qingyang immediately suspected the possibility of manipulation.
Rather than believe this illogical fantasy, Gao Shan Liushui would rather believe that Gao Shan Liushui was being manipulated by the evil faction to call him to provoke him.
The evil faction wouldn't have enough moral value to squander to carry out a massacre, and these mortals were like pigs and dogs in the eyes of the evil faction. No one would pay the price of zeroing out their moral value to slaughter mortals.
He also didn't receive a wanted alert from The Way of the Extraordinary. Thinking this, Fu Qingyang opened the attribute interface. Suddenly, he was stunned.
Moral value... vanished. Qian Gongzi, who remained steadfast even when a mountain collapsed before him, was stunned for a moment. He sat blankly, hearing the "ding-dong" prompt from his mailbox.
The Five Elements Alliance headquarters sent an email: The Way of the Extraordinary is malfunctioning, moral value has disappeared, all members enter Level One combat readiness!
You have entered the third floor of the museum.
[Reward: 30 points of light.]
[Main Quest: Please rush to the Hall of the Gods as soon as possible to start the God War, destroy the enemy gods or survive for three hours.]
After walking up the long stairs, Zhang Yuan heard a prompt from The Way of the Extraordinary. Unlike the modern-style office building on the second floor, the layout of the third floor was rough and simple. The walls and floors were made of huge stones, like an ancient fortress.
They were in a corridor, dozens of meters wide. The ceiling was also more than fifty meters high, like the residence of a giant. Along the walls stood knight statues.
Wearing armor and holding long spears, each statue had a torch beside it, the burning flames bringing a warm light.
"God War," Alicia frowned. In the world of The Way of the Extraordinary, "God" was a very sensitive word.
The end of The Way of the Extraordinary is only a Demi-God. The "God War" in the Hall of the Gods, just the description alone gave people a feeling of suffocation.
Rush to the Hall of the Gods as soon as possible. Zhang Yuan felt a sense of urgency from the quest description.
The five of them walked quickly, passing through the statues. After walking for a while, Beast King Qingzhu twitched his nose and said in a deep voice, "Not good, there's a smell of blood!"
The group slowed down and proceeded cautiously. After turning two corners, they saw the source of the bloody smell.
A corpse was lying by the side of the corridor ahead. The part of his body below the waist had been torn apart, as if he had been cut in half, and the blood had gathered into a pool.
Zhang Yuanqing took a closer look and was shocked. "Osmon!"
Alicia also screamed, "Osmon!"
It was Osmon, the peak Saint of the Heavenly Punishment, the Siren that Zhang Yuanqing had beaten up.
Hearing the noise, Osmon, who had originally been lifeless, moved his eyelids and opened his eyes. He tried his best to look over. "Alicia."
Osmon's pale and cracked lips moved. Alicia quickly approached him, squatting down beside him, taking out a vial of life source liquid and asking urgently, "How could this happen? Who hurt you?"
Osmon possessed fragments of the Ocean Heart, like a walking ocean. Everywhere was his home field.
He was also one of the top experts among the peak Saints. Such a person should have been a contender for the position of Dominator, but he had unexpectedly been defeated here.
Zhang Yuanqing had long since run out of life source liquid. He took out the Mountain God Scepter, causing the gem at the top to emit a verdant light, enhancing Osmon's cell activity.
Alicia injected two vials of life source liquid in succession, but still could not completely heal him.
Seeing her take out the third vial, Osmon waved his hand weakly and said, "Enough, it's meaningless! Alicia, the Lawful professions have no hope of winning this killing instance. Saving me will only prolong my life for a while."
Qingzhu first glanced at Yuan Shi Tianzun beside him, then asked unhappily, "Why?"
The arrogant Siren ignored him. Alicia said softly, "Osmon, what exactly happened?"
"It was the Sleeping Dragon Lord who injured me!" Osmon said intermittently, "I encountered him in the Hall of the Gods, and then escaped here. He's too powerful, so powerful that it's despairing."
The warm firelight shone on his face, and the arrogant Siren's eyes revealed fear and despair.
"How is that possible!" Alicia couldn't accept it. "No matter how strong the Sleeping Dragon Lord is, he's still at the Saint stage. He's at the same level as Fu Qingyang, weaker than Yuan Shi Tianzun. You don't even obey Yuan Shi Tianzun, let alone him."
Defeating Osmon was understandable, but what Alicia couldn't accept was that he could make the arrogant Siren so afraid.
Osmon smiled miserably: "You haven't been to the Hall of the Gods, you don't know the mechanism of the killing instance! The core mechanism of the museum instance is, firstly, to collect as many artifacts as possible, and secondly, to reach the Hall of the Gods on the first and second floors as quickly as possible."
He explained while panting: "The Hall of the Gods has Divine Dharma Forms. Each Dharma Form corresponds to a profession. Whoever arrives at the Hall of the Gods first and merges with the Dharma Form can destroy the Divine Dharma Forms of other professions. So the speed of clearing the instance is one of the core mechanisms."
"The more artifacts you collect, the stronger the Divine Dharma Form is. This is the second core mechanism. When I arrived at the Hall of the Gods, the Sleeping Dragon Lord had already destroyed all the Lawful profession Dharma Forms, leaving only the Scholar profession!"
"I was already clearing the instance very quickly, but I didn't expect the Sleeping Dragon Lord to be even faster than me. He was the first to arrive!"
Even Zhang Yuanqing's expression changed. The Sleeping Dragon Lord was not only the first to arrive at the Hall of the Gods, but he had also collected the most artifacts. He had completely dominated the core mechanisms of the museum.
Osmon took a few breaths and gritted his teeth. "I'm not convinced. I always felt that something was wrong. The Sleeping Dragon Lord's performance didn't match his previous abilities. He's just a lucky ascetic who happened to get the 'Night Nerve.' The spells left by the ancient ESPers are indeed stronger than mine, but he's not more outstanding than me in terms of clearing instances. But the facts are in front of me, so I can only accept it."
Speaking of this, he looked at his colleague and said, "Alicia, you're too late."
Alicia listened with a look of despair: "We wasted too much time on the first and second floors."
Yes! In the exhibition hall on the first floor, because they were worried about Xiao Yuan and the others, they didn't take the time to collect those low-level artifacts. And on the second level, they accidentally activated the Hell mode, wasting too much time. But even if they had collected as many artifacts as possible on the first floor, it wouldn't have made a difference, because that would have wasted a lot of time. By the time they reached the third floor, the Divine Dharma Forms would have already been destroyed. They had indeed lost unfairly.
The sudden fusion of the first and second districts, with the Sleeping Dragon Lord becoming the strongest with an overwhelming advantage, it was all too illogical.
As an excellent Star Official, Zhang Yuanqing smelled a conspiracy.
The fusion of the first and second districts was to kill me?
The Sleeping Dragon Lord possessed some kind of special quality that allowed him to gain the upper hand in the instance. In that case, Ling Tuo must have known the contents of the killing instance in advance to act so rampantly in the killing instance. But The Way of the Extraordinary is generated randomly. He can even calculate this? He's the Lord of Taiyin, not the Lord of Stars.
Zhang Yuanqing said, his mind full of thoughts: "If the Sleeping Dragon Lord has already become unstoppable, you wouldn't be lying here waiting to die."
Only then did the arrogant Siren turn his attention to Zhang Yuanqing and the others. He had ignored these The Way of the Extraordinary from the second district the entire time.
"A nameless Scholar who just happened to merge with the Dharma Form, but he can't be a match for the Sleeping Dragon Lord. We and others are just struggling on the verge of death by joining forces in the Hall of the Gods," Osmon said.
The nameless Scholar he was referring to must be Xiahou Aotian. As expected of the protagonist, he's shouldering the responsibility at a critical moment. Zhang Yuanqing felt somewhat gratified, but also incredibly棘手.
He didn't know the extent of the Sleeping Dragon Lord's current strength, nor did he know if there was any hope of turning the tables. These things needed to be determined after arriving at the Hall of the Gods and understanding the situation.
Thinking of this, he felt a sense of urgency in his heart and urged his companions not to waste time and go to the Hall of the Gods first.