**System Message: Task 2 Completed: You have found the communication frequency of the Yanjing Base City, restored communication with Yanjing Base City, and reported the situation at Wudang Mountain to Yanjing Base City.**
**System Message: Main Task Updated. Task 3: Persuade the Base: Yanjing Base City is unwilling to send strong fighters to face the Dark Dragon King, as this might bring significant losses and cause casualties among the Immortal Sword wielders. Please find a way to persuade the office director of Yanjing Base City to use his authority and request the Immortal Sword wielders to take action within five minutes.**
It is unknown how the sword wielder who entered the peak of Wudang in real history managed to persuade Yanjing Base City to take action. Back then, players used all sorts of methods to persuade Yanjing City. They cited humanitarianism, mutual aid among humans, the danger of a falling lip, and even claimed their grandfathers were part of the Flowing Years Calendar. Various reasons were given, but none were particularly effective. Each answer seemed to have a chance of success, but the success rate of each was laughably low.
For a while, the forums were flooded with posts about how to persuade Yanjing City most effectively. Experts spoke freely and debated enthusiastically until a master, allegedly a council member, posted a message that instantly ended the debate.
This council member used just one sentence to make Yanjing City immediately dispatch the Immortal Sword wielders without a second thought.
"Director, there is a situation I must report to the base. Please listen to this information before making a decision!" Gu Han said over the communication line.
"What information?" The director's attitude was somewhat impatient. Why did these sword wielders always want the prestigious Immortal Sword to take action for trivial matters?
"At the peak of Wudang Mountain, there are at least a hundred Sword Maidens preserved!" Gu Han said calmly.
"What? What did you say?" On the other end of the communication, a cup was heard shattering. "Say that again? What did you just say?"
"I said, there are at least a hundred Sword Maidens here, who have not awakened and are still in a state of sleep!" Gu Han paused and explained, "This is the peak of Wudang Mountain, the ancestral land of the Wudang Sect. Before the Great Catastrophe, Wudang was a martial arts authority known for its swordsmanship!"
There was silence on the other end for a few minutes.
"Are you Admiral? Comrade Admiral, can you swear to Yanjing City, in the name of your Sword Maiden, that every word you say is true?"
"I swear, every word I say is true!"
"Good, I will go report to the Chairman now. If there are no issues, support will arrive in five hours. Within these five hours, you must ensure the safety of the peak of Wudang Mountain, especially the Sword Maidens. Not a single one can be missing!"
"Understood!"
With a "click," the communication was cut off, and the director likely rushed to find the Chairman.
**System Message: Task 3 Completed: You have persuaded Yanjing City to send support.**
**System Message: Main Task Updated. Task 4: Preparations: The support from Yanjing Base City will take at least three hours to arrive. However, according to reliable intelligence, the Dark Dragon King Xunaida has discovered that three defense lines have been breached. He will begin dispatching forces to attack the peak of Wudang Mountain in one hour. Please prepare your defenses within one hour.**
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With the completion of Task 3, the first half of the "Wudang Peak" instance was completed. The second half, which involves defending the peak of Wudang Mountain, became the top priority.
Although the system message only mentioned that the Dark Dragon King Xunaida would dispatch forces in waves, it did not specify the strength of these forces. According to the records in the forum strategy posts, there were ten waves of attacks. Under these ten waves, if no more than three NPCs died, an SSS rating could be achieved. If no more than ten NPCs died, an SS rating could be achieved, and if no more than twenty NPCs died, an S rating could be achieved.
Limiting the number of deaths to three or fewer was a very difficult task for any Ancient Sword wielder. However, for Gu Han, who possessed an unparalleled sword technique, and Yuewang, a Famous Sword Maiden who shamelessly played in the Ancient Sword instance, it was relatively simple. They just needed to stand at the front and block all the attacks.
However, the rewards from the "Wudang Peak" instance were similar to those of other Ancient Sword instances, but the time required was the longest among all Ancient Sword instances, totaling seven hours.
These seven hours were enough for Gu Han to complete another Ancient Sword instance with the same rewards twice, with some time to spare. Considering the optimization of efficiency, Gu Han estimated that he would not be interested in grinding this "Wudang Peak" instance again.
Therefore, Gu Han decided to fully experience the content of this instance, following the strategy guide to complete it once, so he would have no regrets in the future.
Within one hour, Gu Han needed to do a lot of preparations, the most critical of which was creating several sword wielder NPCs on the spot... Yes, you read that right, creating sword wielder NPCs on the spot.
In fact, at the peak of Wudang Mountain, there were NPCs with the potential to become sword wielders, but due to various reasons, they had not come into contact with suitable Sword Maidens.
After the first player accidentally facilitated the birth of a sword wielder NPC, players specifically entered this instance to conduct NPC pairing experiments. Over a decade, they tested almost all NPCs with all the Sword Maidens, and found a total of three NPCs who successfully paired with Sword Maidens.
These three NPC sword wielders were a significant help to players. Before this discovery, the success rate of achieving an SSS rating in the "Wudang Peak" instance was only 0.002%. With the help of the three NPC sword wielders, the success rate soared to 0.5%.
Among these three NPCs, the easiest to find was the young Taoist monk Yuan Kong, who led Gu Han to the Golden Hall to find the broadcasting equipment. When Gu Han took Yuan Kong's hand and brought him to the old Taoist priest Rumi, saying he could make Yuan Kong a sword wielder, both NPCs stared wide-eyed, expressing their disbelief.
According to the old Taoist priest Rumi, the twenty-eight Taoist monks in the Wudang Sect had each tested all the swords, and none had succeeded.
Previously, it was mentioned that there were only a hundred or so Sword Maidens in Wudang Mountain, but due to incomplete information, the people of Wudang Mountain did not know that not all swords could awaken Sword Maidens. They assumed that all the swords they collected could potentially become Sword Maidens, so they tested each one.
Because they had tested each one, the old Taoist priest Rumi was very confident that there were no missed opportunities among his Taoist monks.
Compared to the old Taoist priest Rumi's disbelief, Yuan Kong was more excited. For some reason, this scarred sword wielder gave Yuan Kong a strong sense of trust, making him feel that the sword wielder was an omnipotent strong person. If he said Yuan Kong could become a sword wielder, then he could!
"It won't be wrong. We have a unique method in Yanjing Base City to determine which person and which sword can synchronize successfully. I just took a look around and found Yuan Kong's Sword Maiden!" Gu Han said with a sincere but fabricated explanation. Yanjing City did not have such a method to identify whether a person and a sword could match, or else there would be no need for ordinary people to go to the Sword Pavilion to perform the sword inscription ceremony and test each sword one by one.
Gu Han was just taking advantage of the fact that they were NPCs in the instance and would not verify this method with Yanjing City.
"That's great!" Rumi listened to Gu Han's explanation, still somewhat skeptical, but having one more sword wielder was not a bad thing, especially one belonging to Wudang Mountain!
Thus, under Gu Han's guidance, Rumi and Yuan Kong entered a side hall of the Chao Tian Palace, which housed the statues of the two generals, the tortoise and the snake, under the True Wu Emperor.
Among them, the statue of the snake general was carved as a human-headed, snake-bodied general with four pairs of identical scaly hands growing from its back. Each hand held a different magical weapon: a treasure sword, a copper bell, a jade bottle, a hand spear, a command flag, a long sword, an iron hammer, and a book of scriptures.
"Master Rumi, you said all the swords have been tested. May I ask, has this sword been tested?" Gu Han pointed to the treasure sword among the eight magical weapons and asked with a smile.
"Are you talking about the magical weapon in the snake general's hand?" Rumi was surprised. No one had ever thought to test the sword in the statue's hand.
"However, Master Admiral, that sword is a wooden sword. It probably won't work!" In Rumi's understanding, a wooden sword could not become a Sword Maiden.
"You are mistaken. Master Rumi, do you know that among the Famous Swords, the top-ranked Sword Maiden is a wooden sword!" Gu Han smiled and patted Yuan Kong's head. "Why don't you quickly take that wooden sword down and see if my eyes are accurate!"
"Yes!" Without waiting for the old Taoist priest Rumi's permission, Yuan Kong rushed forward. As soon as his hand touched the wooden sword's hilt, it instantly radiated with light, and a sword wielder was born.
"Master Rumi, congratulations!" Gu Han bowed to Rumi.