He tried it in one match. When he fired, it left a trail of gold particles behind. Looked amazing. He then bought MP40 fire skin. Bullets left fire particles flying.
He switched to others. Water SCAR, then Earth shotgun.
Pets were new too. Two cute ones. A little demon fox that bit enemies and stole loot. And a fire bird that breathed small flames. But they are not much helpful.
Sacral clone bought both of them.
Backpack skins changed. There was a storage pouch skin. It looked like a real xianxia pouch. Glowing with runes. Sacral clone equipped it.
Guilds were renamed to sects now. Initial guild now changed to Initial Sect.
Emotes were fun. Three new ones. One where you sit cross-legged meditating with qi aura. One flying on a sword board. One summoning thunder with hands.
Medkits were gone. Now they were medical pills. Red dan pills that you popped for heal taking 7 seconds. While using it, character sat on the ground cross legged.
Vaults had new royals. Gold Royal with immortal treasures. Diamond Royal with goddess outfit. And a mystery shop that spun for random and skins.
He bought them all.
This update was not bad. Instead, it was even better than all updates from his previous timeline.
It made Free Fire feel alive. Like a real cultivation world in the game.
Many xianxia cultivation lovers started playing the game. Downloads quickly rose up. In just one day, millions of new players joined. Everyone talked about the qi skins and flying swords.
But there were also some players who did not like this update. They complained that all the elements leaned too much toward cultivation. They said it symbolized China too strongly. Some even posted angry messages online.
But there were not many people like them. Almost all existing players loved the update. They said it was fresh and exciting.
Sometime fantasy things were well liked by people. Mainly young players who loved adventures and dreamed about fantasies. They wanted to feel like immortals, even if just in a game.
But there was a problem with the majority of players. They did not have money to waste on the game. So not many people could buy the fancy skins, characters, or elite pass items. They played free and waited for lucky drops.
Ankit's friends also liked this update a lot. They messaged him in chat. "Bro, this is insane! Flying on sword board is too cool!" Ankit smiled reading it. He did not reply much.
Next day, Free Fire gave another quick update. They introduced a new mode.
In this mode, there were two teams with four members each. They fought in a small part of the map. There were total seven rounds. All rounds were played in different parts of the same map.
Before each round started, there was a store. Players could buy weapons and items with limited in-game coins earned from previous rounds.
This mode's name was Team Combat.
Sacral clone saw the notification and immediately started a match. He played a few rounds.
He quickly realized that this mode was a copy of Clash Squad from the previous timeline's Free Fire. But this Team Combat was somewhat different.
Many new elements were added which the previous timeline's Free Fire did not have.
In the store, there were qi pills instead of normal medkits. Buying a qi pill gave faster healing and a small aura shield.
There were also small qi orbs scattered on the map. Picking them gave extra coins for the next round's store.
In some rounds, a mini tribulation zone appeared in the corner. Standing near the tower let you call one thunder strike per round. Just like Bermuda's big one, but smaller.
Sacral clone dominated the matches. With his real cultivation senses, he predicted enemy moves easily. His team won every match. No one could touch him. He queued again and again, grinding ranks in Team Combat.
As for root clone?
He was now trying to understand the death element. He used the same method as with life element and space element.
He would first grasp its laws and functions. How death element truly worked.
Death element is harder than life, gravity, or space element. Not because it is more powerful. But because it is illusory and conceptual.
Root clone had always believed he knew space and gravity well.
Just for space element, he and sacral clone had done big research. They had taken almost five months to understand it deeply. He believed space element existed. He could feel it.
Then root clone had created the method to grasp it through gravity element. He already had a strong gravity field. He was familiar with it. He believed it existed.
Same with life element. He knew it existed. He could see it in plants, animals, and people.
But for death element, he had no idea. He did not know anything real about it.
He also did not believe that death truly existed as an element. Death was just the end of life. Nothing more.
But now, if he wanted to understand the laws and functions of death element, he would have to first start believing in it. Then slowly understand it step by step.
For understanding death, he first went to the surface. He left the fortress and walked into the mountain range.
There, he started his observation.
On a rocky slope, he saw two animals. A snake and a rabbit.
Even though the rabbit was stronger now because of essence flow, the snake was much stronger and faster.
The snake moved quickly. It rolled its tail around the rabbit's body. Tight. The rabbit struggled.
Root clone watched closely. He hid his body completely with light element. No one could see him.