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"Hey, has our Monster Master finally arrived?"

In the high-rise, the once designer with dark circles under his eyes, made a rare appearance in the company’s business department.

As a tech-geek, he generally hated such face-to-face meetings, which he found to be a waste of time.

Isn’t gaming more enjoyable after work?

Mingling, meeting, eating, and drinking seemed like a huge waste of time...

Many people knew that he wasn’t easy to please. Even when President Ma personally visited to inspect the project and there was a big staff gathering, he didn’t go. Instead, he arranged a night-long gaming marathon with a few close friends to rank up in the league.

But this time, he personally attended an offline guild meeting with the gaming company, which surprised many of his colleagues.

This man, who wouldn’t even give President Ma face, was surprisingly giving face to a bunch of gaming guild members.

"Who is Yean Lifeng?"

The chubby designer immediately asked, panting as he arrived.

The crowd exchanged strange looks, and quickly, their gazes fell on a person not far away, who was hunched over her phone in a corner.

She was a girl with a face full of freckles, seeming extremely timid.

When people spoke to her, she would tremble nervously, clearly a homebody with social anxiety.

When everyone looked at her, she inexplicably bowed her head, her face turning as red as a monkey’s butt!

"You’re Yean Lifeng?" a geek approached her and asked.

"Um..." The girl was surprised that someone would specifically look for her and carefully replied, "Is there something you need?"

"Miss Yean Lifeng, this is our company’s chief designer, named..."

"Shut up!!" The geek impatiently interrupted the employee’s introduction and stepped forward saying, "Was it you who sealed the Child-Mother Ghost I recently designed?"

"Your design?" The girl looked up, her eyes filled with delight: "You are..."

"Answer my question first!"

"Yes..." The light in the girl’s eyes sparkled, a complete contrast to her previously evasive gaze, as if she was starstruck.

"How did you do it?"

"The Child-Mother Ghost is a two-person entity; even though they look separate, just from the name, you know there must be some weakness connecting the two monsters.

" The girl spoke earnestly: "If you designed it, you wouldn’t be like those crappy designers out there who are just naming it for the thrill factor, right? "

"So I was thinking, a child depends on its mother, so if something goes wrong, it will seek protection from its mother first, and the mother’s weakness can only be her child.

In the design of the Child-Mother Ghost, the mother is incredibly powerful, her abilities nearly unsolvable, but she can’t fully control her child.

Targeting the child had to be the breakthrough! "

The designer fell silent. His designed monsters tortured the staff internally with all sorts of complaints; many of the monstrously difficult creatures remained unconquered even after a year of release, leading to numerous complaints, which often forced him to personally provide strategies to defeat them.

It was for this reason that he became famous.

Many players took pride in conquering the monsters designed by this Monster Master!

But since he became famous, for the first time during a beta test, someone had managed to conquer his monster. And this Child-Mother Ghost design, in his opinion, ranked among the top ten in terms of difficulty among his creations.

So the fact that such a small girl solved it in just two days?

The forums were now filled with heated debates, and the sky was covered with mocking comments about his weakening design abilities. This made him extremely curious about this player who had conquered his newly designed monster.

"Did you really think of this so quickly?"

"Uh... it was just luck..." The girl stuck out her tongue: "You wouldn’t believe it, but I led my team all day yesterday, and everyone was so frustrated. This kind of monster, it’s just unsolvable!"

"But when I tried to sleep, I took a moment to think, and felt something was off."

"What was off?"

"There’s no such thing as an unsolvable monster." The girl looked at him seriously: "You’ve said it yourself, the things you design don’t have unsolvable situations because monsters... are naturally meant to be conquered by players. An unsolvable monster would represent an incompetent designer!"

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Yean Lifeng...

Chen Qing stood on the deck, gazing in the direction of Nanming Prefecture, his mind racing.

A coincidence?

He didn’t know; given his understanding of the culture and customs here, it was rare for families to give their daughters such a name.

Common folk dared not use the word ’phoenix’ in naming their daughters, while noble families using it... was too ostentatious. Lífēng, symbolizing a beautiful phoenix, wasn’t a very clever choice of name, even in the modern era. It was considered rather tacky, and few families would choose it.

But it must just be a coincidence, right?

Chen Qing felt uncertain.

Yet, he also harbored some doubts.

To say that the ancients had sealed the Dragon Palace was indeed a formidable feat, considering the annals of history, which noted that the period when the Dragon Palace opened was an era of demonic jubilation.

The demons within the Dragon Palace were formidable, but in that era, demons everywhere were just as menacing!

Therefore, in the original design, after the Dragon Palace Forces retreated and chose to avoid that era, they orchestrated a group of fervent followers and then went into hibernation, shutting the great gates of the Dragon Palace and sealing themselves within.

In his design... the Human Race... has never triumphed over the Dragon Palace.

And now, history has strayed from his original design, and Chen Qing had long suspected that something else had infiltrated his world.

If the King of Qin was a transmigrator...

Then what about Yean Lifeng?

It would be extremely difficult for the Human Race to seal the Dragon Palace on their own, Chen Qing thought, even for himself, during that era of universal demonic presence when even warriors were non-existent.

But if it were Yean Lifeng...

"Sir, we’ve arrived..."

A voice called out from ahead of the ship, and all eyes turned to look, including Chen Qing’s.

At this moment, Nanming Prefecture... was very different from before!

"Your Highness..."

On the deck, Duke of Wei was astonished at the sight before him, "Was Nanming Prefecture like this before?"

Princess Royale was equally astonished and speechless; after a moment, Duke of Wei understood.

This had happened after the Princess Royale had left!

"Oh? It’s spectacular indeed..." Not far away, the Scholar’s voice also carried over, obviously surprised by the scene before him.

The entire Nanming Prefecture was enveloped by a colossal bubble, a layer of visible energy encasing the largest city in Jiangnan!

"How is this possible?"

These words were uttered by the Princess Royale’s husband, who had been silent behind her.

As a first-rate Magician, he knew exactly what this was!

A barrier!

A Magician’s barrier!

A massive barrier that covered the entire Nanming Prefecture!

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"How is this possible?"

Inside Nanming Prefecture, Duke of Qin’s party, approaching Nanming City, was also stunned as they looked skyward.

This huge bubble hadn’t always been there; instead, it had appeared just two hours before...

They had witnessed countless bubbles rise into the air, connecting one after another in the sky, until finally forming this gigantic bubble that veiled the entire heavens!!

And in an instant, the spiritual energy within Nanming Prefecture surged dramatically; they even saw armored soldiers patrolling through the air within the immense bubble!

"Educational Governor, what is this?" the Provincial Governor asked in shock.

"This..." Mu Hongqing was also astounded, "Should be... a barrier..."

"A barrier? A barrier can do this?" the Provincial Governor asked curiously.

The others around were silent, even Duke of Qin was at a loss for words for a moment.

He had participated in the construction of the Capital City, and the barrier of the Capital City was touted as the greatest design in a thousand years, especially the Imperial Palace, which was nearly completely sealed by the barrier.

But that was because of thousands of interconnected barriers, and they usually required the operation of the ten Grand Sorcerers and over a hundred Third Rank Magicians to barely cover the Imperial Palace.

The area of the Capital City was not very extensive, about two-thirds of that of Nanming Prefecture, but even so, the Capital City had never produced a barrier that enveloped the entire city!

It was not just the Capital City; Lumings had never heard of such a thing anywhere in the world!

Yundu had barriers, and Nanyang City, home of the Shen Family, was also famous for its barriers, but those were only located at the city gates, covering the entire city?

Was this Chen Qing’s confidence?