Most of the NPCs in the game were ordinary NPCs and could only be communicated with through the settings. Only the NPCs involved in high-level tasks and dropped the best equipment were functional NPCs.

The reason why the number was limited was that the game was worried that there would be too many functional NPCs and the players would be fooled.

"Village chief, my name is Rana Yamashita."

"Rana Yamashita, let me tell you about the history of our Ox Village. You should know that thousands of years ago, Ox Village was the center of the universe and the source of Jianghu …"

The village chief talked a lot and summed it up to two things. First, Ox Village used to be very powerful.

Second, you are too young to go out and explore. You might as well go to the village and ask for advice from the seniors.

The implication was that her level was too low to give her the main task. She should come back after leveling up.

At the same time, the system also updated the current task to [Reach Level 10].

There were only two ways to level up. One was to do tasks and the other was to kill monsters, which was commonly known as farming.

But now there were people everywhere. You had to line up to receive tasks, submit tasks, and kill monsters. If you really wanted to reach level 10, it would probably take a week.

But if you directly went to farm monsters.

You would miss the task reward again.

According to the usual practice, the task would not give you good equipment, but it was better than fighting with your bare hands.

Lan Ya called out the system to check her personal situation. Her backpack was empty and there was only ten coins in her money bag.

The equipment interface had seven parts: head, neck, body, hands, waist, legs, and feet. Now only the body column was equipped with a novice clothes that could not be dropped. It had no attributes and was a pure white equipment. Its only function might be to cover up.

At this time, the system suddenly sounded a notification.

Player [Hua Xiaoxi] has requested to add you as a friend.

She knew it was Chen Xi. Lan Ya immediately clicked OK. The system prompted her to become a friend with [Hua Xiaoxi]. Then Chen Xi sent a message.

The message in the game was the same as the text message on the mobile phone. The only difference was that the message did not need to be written by hand. She only needed to read it in her heart and then slide up the interface to send it.

[Hua Xiaoxi]: Yes, where are you?

[Rana Yamashita]: Ox Village. I looked at the map. It's close to Kunming.

[Hua Xiaoxi]: Are there a lot of people in the Novice Village? Do you want me to guide you?

[Rana Yamashita]: [There are so many people. I haven't received a single quest yet. I don't know when I can leave the village.]

[Hua Xiaoxi]: You can leave the village now, but you can't get any missions. The minimum requirement for missions is level 10.

How about this, I'll bring you to our sect to level up. It won't be long, you'll be up in a day.

[Rana Yamashita]: Then we won't be able to get the mission reward?

[Hua Xiaoxi]: "Why would I accept it? It's just a few sets of blue equipment, and I'll be eliminated immediately. I might as well come to the sect to farm elite monsters. Maybe I can even get purple equipment!"

The equipment in the Fire-drinking Token was divided into white (White Board), blue (Common), purple (Excellent), orange (Excellent), and gold (Unique).

In theory, there was not much difference between orange equipment and gold equipment, but the biggest difference was that there might be several orange equipment, but only one gold equipment. The rarity greatly increased the value of gold equipment.

The official website did not announce all the information about gold equipment, but it was certain that each of the eight official sects in the game had a gold equipment that could be obtained.

Lan Ya thought about it and felt that Chen Xi's words were reasonable. In the early stage, the equipment was changed quickly, and there was no need to waste the quota. Besides, it would save a lot of trouble if someone could guide her, so she immediately agreed.

Chen Xi sent her a team application. After the team was formed, the members could see each other's positions.

Chen Xi asked Lan Ya to wait at the entrance of the village in the east.

Lan Ya squeezed through the crowd and recognized Chen Xi at a glance.

Compared with the new players around, Chen Xi's equipment was much more gorgeous. She wore a white cotton dress and a pink gauze robe. Her hair was tied up with a pink hair band and a silver hairpin in her head.

Chen Xi walked to Lan Ya and said to her, "Let's go!"

"Where are we going?"

"To our sect." Chen Xi said proudly.

Nise said, "There are very few players in our sect, so we can kill all the monsters in our sect."

"Really? Which sect are you from?"

Lan Ya felt that her words were not credible. She was the 4.86 millionth player, and the game would not be divided. All the players were in the same server, so there should be more than 600,000 people in a sect on average.

"Guess!"

Seeing Chen Xi's pink outfit, Lan Ya guessed, "Are you from the Emei Sect?"

There were two camps in Drinking Fire Command and eight official sects.

In the future, all the sect missions in the game would be carried out around the two camps.

The camps were divided into righteous and evil sects. The righteous sects were divided into four sects.

Wudang: Good at swordsmanship and palm techniques, using softness to overcome hardness, and using breath to heal breath.

Shaolin: Shaolin's 72 Ultimate Skills were famous in Jianghu.

They had everything, including swords, spears, sticks, and sticks. They could even fight bare-handed.

Beggar's Sect: Good at sticks and palms, powerful and aggressive.

Emei: Good at swordsmanship and palm techniques, light and unimaginable.

The evil sects were also divided into four sects.

Ming Cult: Both righteous and evil, unscrupulous and mixed martial arts.

Five Poisons: Good at repelling snakes, insects, rats, and ants, playing with poison in the palm of their hands.

Famous for poison and hidden weapons.

Tian Di Hui: Mixed martial arts, famous for swordsmanship.

Fighting the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty.

Yushan Sect: Strong internal strength, good at fists and palms.

Other than the eight major sects, there were also many hidden sects in the game. According to the official data, there were more than a hundred types of hidden sects in the game. Different sects had different recruitment criteria. The officials did not provide guides. The hidden sects' activities were similar to the official sects. They would also issue sect missions and teach martial arts to the sects.

The hidden sects were not necessarily the strongest, and the official sects also had powerful secret manuals and equipment.

The final development depended on the players' own exploration.

In order to prevent all the players from not joining the official sects and trying their luck to find the hidden sects, the officials made a special rule that the hidden sects could not participate in large-scale sect activities.

When the players reached level 10, they could choose a sect to learn from. When they reached level 40, they could finish their apprenticeship. Before the accident, they had to wear the sect uniform and abide by the sect rules. Those who violated the rules would be kicked out of the sect and their martial arts would be abolished.