The Bride of the River Immortal - Chapter 1

Chapter 1

An ancient village. Water murmured softly nearby.

[Ding-dong!]

[SSS-rank dungeon The Bride of the River Immortal has opened. Danger Level: ★★★★★.]

[Participating players: 16. Surviving players: 16.]

[Estimated clearance rate: 13.783%.]

[Current dungeon audience: 198,376,336.]

[We wish you a smooth game.]

An icy voice rang out.

A misty jade-green river flowed past the village entrance. Beside it stood a stone carved with three words: Xianci Village.

The instant the sixteen players landed, they all went on alert and quickly put distance between themselves and the others.

I watched with great interest as they shifted around, until players who knew one another or belonged to the same guild gathered together, forming three temporary little factions.

That left me standing all alone to the side, instantly conspicuous.

Every player turned to look at me at almost the same time.

Glasses, feathers, succulents, pocket watches… all sorts of detection items were directed at me.

I let them look without the slightest concern.

[Player ID: Chu Xihe]

[Player Level: Lv.1]

This time, my identity was a player.

Since I was going to play a human, I had naturally made thorough preparations.

Even this character panel had been replicated one-to-one.

The ID had come from a human book too.

Absolutely flawless.

I gave them a gentle, harmless smile. “Hello.”

The other players’ expressions went blank.

They stared dazedly at the “Lv.1” in the level column.

Some were shocked.

“Why would a level one be in an SSS-rank dungeon?”

“This has to be her first run. She doesn’t have a single piece of equipment on her.”

“Chu Xihe… Is she a celebrity in the real world? She’s this pretty, so how have I never heard of her?”

“Is the system bugged?”

Some were irritated.

“What now? This newbie’s stats are so low. Isn’t entering the dungeon basically a death sentence for her?”

“Tch. What a pain. What’s the point of bringing a noob along?”

“If we take a newbie into the village and she violates an instant-death rule, won’t she just be dead weight for us?”

Some objected.

“We can’t just leave her outside either.”

Someone else turned to ask the player beside him, “Guild leader, what should we do now?”

The girl he called guild leader had eyes the color of emerald jade. At a glance, they were like stumbling into a forest beneath a spring sky alive with birdsong and growing grass.

She wore white robes like a priest’s vestments, and her calm, gentle air forcibly softened a face so stunning it was almost intimidating. With the faintest smile, she made others feel as if they were basking in a spring breeze.

Player ID: Mu Yanchu.

I thought, Now that is a familiar face.

Human players had many guilds. Moon Tower, Wushuang, Zhouye, Purple Mist… all of them ranked near the top of the guild leaderboard.

The guild leader of Moon Tower was named Mu Yanchu.

Mu Yanchu said softly, “This dungeon has only sixteen players in total, yet a seventeenth person has appeared.”

“And among everyone here, only one player is unknown to us all.”

As she spoke, a small cluster of starlike light ignited in those breathtakingly beautiful eyes, radiating the fluctuations of a special skill.

“Miss Chu, who are you?”

Her tone gradually cooled, and the players around her realized what was happening. Their expressions flickered.