[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-monsters-are-coming":3,"chapter-the-monsters-are-coming-monsters-are-coming-chapter-102":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Monsters Are Coming",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2249951,4069,"Chapter 102: Meditation World","monsters-are-coming-chapter-102",102,"\u003Cp>Faced with a flood of private messages from players seeking consultation, Xia Sheng, unable to bear the disturbance any longer, posted an explanatory thread on the forum.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[The painful Minghun combat test you've been asking for is here; come see it quickly.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Poster: Hit Me and You're a Dog\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Content:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There have been too many private chats recently; I couldn't reply to them all, so I had to enable blocking. I'm posting here to introduce the Painful Minghun to everyone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Additionally, regarding the invitations from various Gong Societies for us to join, I will respond once I finish my current tasks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, let's get to the main topic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone has seen the introduction to the Painful Minghun's abilities; I will mainly explain its actual performance in combat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The damage effect of this Minghun is divided into two layers: Pain Feedback and Mental Shock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The key lies in Pain Feedback; in Laozi's explanation, this is a type of emotional damage feedback, which you can also understand as true damage, rendering even the highest defense useless. Even if a Stone Gargoyle activates its Petrification Form, the released Touch of Pain can reach straight to the soul; only one's own willpower can resist it. If you cannot withstand it, you will die from emotional collapse and the extinction of consciousness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is a secret technique Laozi researched specifically to counter the Black Black Tide.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stated that Intelligent Evil Spirits are the key to controlling the Black Black Tide's evil entities; even when his Touch of Pain is released against ordinary Black Black Tide evil entities, the pain instantly conducts to the Intelligent Evil Spirit connected to them, inflicting true damage that ignores distance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Achieving the effect of beheading the enemy general.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Next, let's discuss the Minghun's combat performance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My current Star Vein combination is Bone Fire (Ink Flame) + Eagle-Headed Demon (Resentful Chant) + Qi Devouring + Pain (Special).\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first test target was a Level 7 Giant Claw Crab hunted along the Misty Coast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without activating the Painful Minghun, if I threw an Ink Flame fireball, the Giant Claw Crab would quickly counterattack after feeling the pain or decisively flee.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, after activating the Painful Minghun, as long as my Ink Flame fireball hit the Giant Claw Crab, it would attach the effect of Painful Tentacles; the crab would flip over and struggle continuously, completely losing the ability to flee or counterattack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From this, we can see that the effects of magic-based output can carry the effects of the Painful Minghun.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After this, my adopted son also conducted a test.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He chose the melee system, pairing it with the Star Vein combination of Shattered Blade + Forceful Axe + Soul-Departing Spear + Pain, with his main weapon chosen in blade form.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Through multiple combat tests, it was discovered that:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When only activating the states of Shattered Blade and Forceful Axe, the damage dealt did not carry the Touch of Pain effect of the Painful Minghun.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But as long as the main body inherits the Soul-Departing Spear, which can cause mental shock damage, every basic attack carries true pain damage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This Star Vein combination is fierce; it can be called a four-layer special effect attack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It carries physical damage, mental shock damage, Shattered Mark (armor penetration), and Pain Feedback (emotional)—four layers of damage. Combined with the output effect of the Painful Minghun, it is even stronger than my magic-based sect, though the drawback is that the body is too fragile, unable to strike from ultra-long range like the magic system.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Below is the recorded video; there is no detailed commentary, so please watch it yourselves in conjunction with the introduction above.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(Attachment: Recorded Video.)\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Comments:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Night Approaches:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After watching the video, I just want to say: decisively choose the magic-based Star Vein; do not hesitate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The melee Star Vein combination in the video can cause multiple types of damage, and the output is indeed high, but the problem is that this combination is too fragile, requiring very high personal combat skills, and has limited effectiveness against insect swarms and the Black Black Tide.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the magic system is different; it perfectly adapts to the Painful Minghun, allowing one to build a \"Pain Warlock\" sect centered around the Painful Minghun.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The video confirms that the Painful Minghun requires consuming a Minghun that uses mental power to trigger its attached effects.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Both the Soul-Departing Spear and Bone Fire in the video are like this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Here are three suggestions for you:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>1. Do not follow the single-target output route; follow the area-of-effect magic route. The Painful Minghun is a mental conduction attack; theoretically, area magic can cause group pain effects, equivalent to a group control skill. The area damage of area magic fits the Painful Minghun very well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>2. Do not build your Star Vein combination around output; instead, make control the core. The higher the output, the lower the benefit from pain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Let me explain my reasoning here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The effect of the Painful Minghun is that Pain Feedback causes true damage, which is not affected by the amount of magic-based output damage, but only by the level of the Painful Minghun itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since it is a true damage build, focusing on output puts the cart before the horse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For example, if you throw an Ink Flame fireball with extremely high output at a Giant Claw Crab and it cannot withstand it, dying instantly, then even if the attached Touch of Pain effect activates, it is completely useless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, when pairing Star Veins, consider prioritizing control; the higher the output, the lower the benefit from the Painful Minghun, so you might as well just play a magic output build directly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>3. Tests show that each use of the Painful Minghun consumes very little mental power; the main consumption lies in releasing the mental tentacles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Theoretically, when your mental power is strong enough, you can release multiple mental tentacles simultaneously, also causing group damage. If this can truly be achieved, you could even abandon all magic-based Minghun, including the current magic core \"Qi Devouring,\" and try developing a single Minghun. Instead of attaching pain damage through magic output, you would output directly via the Touch of Pain, pairing all other Minghun with defense Minghun, focusing on the principle that others cannot kill you, while your attacks on others are true damage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Most importantly, choosing the tank build allows you to withstand the maximum limit of pain, accelerating the level increase of the Painful Minghun.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This Star Vein combination will allow you to roam the battlefield, becoming an invincible tank-build Pain Warlock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The above suggestions are for reference only; you can pair them according to your own ideas, but absolutely do not go down the Spirit Artifact sect route or the deadly poison melee route.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Is This Reasonable?: Good heavens, big sister, come recruit people quickly; there's a potential star here. I can't imagine if this guy gets recruited by another Gong Society, and conflicts arise later leading to a Gong Society war, the scene of a tank-equipped Pain Warlock charging over. Before the fight even starts, I'm already imagining the scene of being tortured by pain. It feels like a muscular hunk carrying a box of gene seeds charging at us, forcing us to eat them, with no option to refuse. Too terrifying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Berserk Chick: Oh my god, after seeing Brother Night's true damage build combination, I'm a bit scared. Area magic carrying painful true damage, and a tank build causing group true damage—just hearing about these two sects makes them sound very troublesome. I'd call them the most disgusting special-effect Star Vein combinations of the current version. I suggest executing them on the spot; we cannot let these two lucky bastards enter other Gong Societies. They are simply gods of internal conflict; the pain players fear most has been mastered by you. I suggest the officials ban their accounts; the intensity is too high.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Death Warlock: I suggest sending them to the Ni Chao Training Camp; they'd be gods of mutual beating. A punch carrying the Touch of Pain must feel very sour and refreshing. They would surely be kings in the cafeteria brawl; your cohort will definitely be exciting. I'm already looking forward to it. I suggest consulting Ban Ban Zhuan in advance to see if there's a way to get in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>God King: Bro, you enabled blocking so I can't private message you; contact me when you see this. Consider our Shentang Gong Society; I guarantee the treatment will satisfy you. When darkness descends upon reality and I ascend the Wang Zuo, I will appoint you two brothers as Grand Generals.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The post published by Xia Sheng sparked heated discussion on the forum.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Players who watched the video all envied the true damage effect attached to the Painful Minghun.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But only those directly involved, and Qi Sheng behind the scenes, knew that this sect was not something just anyone could play.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The spiritual rune trajectory of the \"Painful Brand\" that Ku Xing outlined in his mental sea had already been recorded by the guidance system; if he wished, he could completely list the Painful Minghun on the Minghun library for other players to purchase and use.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the problem was that the method for the Painful Minghun to gain growth experience was completely different from other Minghun.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Other Minghun gain evolution points through hunting to continuously increase their intensity, but the Painful Minghun can only gain level experience by enduring pain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To cultivate this Minghun to a high level, one will inevitably be accompanied by pain in the future.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ordinary players complain incessantly even with just 10% pain feedback; even if they embed the Painful Minghun, it would hardly aid their growth, making it far less suitable than other Star Vein combinations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Furthermore, since the Painful Minghun is not Primordial, it cannot be directly replicated and cultivated through sacrificial power irrigation; the cost of forging even a single Painful Brand is simply beyond what players at the current stage can bear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Due to the combination of these various factors, he did not open up a purchase channel for the Painful Minghun.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Misty Coast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the sky gradually brightened, the world by the sea awakened from slumber; the night faded like diluted ink.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Warm sunlight spilled down from the gradient-colored horizon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under the guidance of the elder Ku Xing, Xia Sheng and Jiang Cheng began their training.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ku Xing believed their mental intensity was too low and needed to be tempered through meditation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And mental intensity was the key to releasing Painful Tentacles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The higher the mental intensity, the farther the Painful Tentacles could extend, and the longer one could maintain the released combat state.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sitting cross-legged beside him, listening to the sound of waves crashing against the beach, Jiang Cheng and Xia Sheng struggled, their faces turning red with effort, trying to enter the meditative state described by the elder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet they could never find the way in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Eliminate distracting thoughts, slow your breathing rhythm, and try to feel the natural environment.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ku Xing's hoarse voice rang out beside Xia Sheng and Jiang Cheng.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After trying for a long time, Xia Sheng opened his eyes, looking at Ku Xing with an expression of helplessness:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It's no use; it's simply impossible.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing this, Ku Xing stepped forward to stand before them and placed his palms on the crowns of their heads.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Continue doing as I said.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon hearing this, Xia Sheng had no choice but to close his eyes again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could clearly sense the elder's palm gradually becoming scorching hot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As his breathing gradually steadied, Xia Sheng felt his consciousness sinking step by step, as if traversing layer upon layer of mist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, his consciousness entered a strange world, filled with interwoven light and shadow and endless colors.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each color represented a type of energy: some blazing like fire, some cold as frost, some gentle as wind, some sharp as swords, with light points of different colors circling and roaming around his consciousness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Open your eyes!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing this, Xia Sheng and Jiang Cheng immediately opened their eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They instantly discovered that the world had undergone a marvelous change; what they saw was no longer the seaside scenery, but a brand new world composed of countless lines and light points.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is the manifestation of the world's structure after mental perception has been refined to the extreme; it can also be called the Meditation World. Every particle of light represents a natural element, and the colorful lines interwoven together represent the laws governing the world's operation. You can also understand it as every colorful thread being a part composing the world; all laws in the world operate according to the trajectories along which these lines roam.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Now, use your consciousness to wrap around the roaming white light points and try to devour them.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under Ku Xing's guidance, they began using their consciousness to capture the white light points.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With continuous devouring, they vaguely felt that their mental intensity seemed to have changed slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After summoning the attribute panel and continuing to devour and observe, they discovered that for every ten white light points roaming in the air that they devoured, they could gain a 0.001 increase in the mental intensity attribute.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This discovery left Jiang Cheng and Xia Sheng speechless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The process of tempering mental intensity indeed felt novel to them, but the growth process was too slow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It would be better to return to Emperor Tomb Village and fight a hearty battle against the Black Black Tide or an insect swarm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The increase in mental intensity brought by raising the Minghun level was far greater than the increase brought by cultivation; wasting time cultivating here was simply putting the cart before the horse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But thinking of the expectation revealed in Ku Xing's eyes when he looked at them, they still patiently continued their cultivation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a long while, Ku Xing spoke again:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Now, I will take you to the mental sea.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As his voice fell, an invisible force guided their consciousness toward their brows.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Passing through the barrier of flesh and blood, a colorful world appeared before their eyes, below which lay a pond filled with golden liquid.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is your spiritual sea of consciousness; for every particle of spiritual energy you devour, the capacity of your sea of consciousness expands. Whenever you use abilities or cast techniques that consume spiritual power, energy is drawn from this sea.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The process of tempering the strength of your spirit is constantly expanding the capacity of this golden ocean; the higher the capacity, the greater the strength, the more spiritual power it can hold, and the faster your spiritual power recovers.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The perspective of consciousness shifted again, returning to the outside world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A new round of cultivation began once more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During this time, Xia Sheng asked Ku Xing what would happen if they devoured the colorful elemental particles wandering around them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In response to this question, Ku Xing provided the following explanation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Devouring elemental particles would not enhance the strength of the spiritual sea of consciousness; it would only cause an elemental seed to gather above the sea of consciousness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For example, continuously absorbing crimson fire elemental seeds would, upon reaching a certain quantity, form a fire elemental seed in the sky above the sea of consciousness; this seed could help him control the fire elements of the natural world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The higher the strength of the fire elemental seed, the faster the speed of accumulating fire elemental energy when releasing fire-based abilities, and the greater the power upon release.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The same principle applied to other elemental seeds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Furthermore, spiritual power was the energy consumed when the fire elemental seed communicated with the outside world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xia Sheng's understanding of this was that the fire elemental seed was like a mobile phone that could only make calls to fire elements.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The stronger the seed, the more expensive the phone, the better the signal, and the more convenient the communication.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, the spiritual energy in the spiritual pool was the phone bill consumed when calling to gather fire elements; the more fire elements summoned, the higher the bill.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If spiritual power was exhausted, the phone would be out of credit, unable to establish a connection with external fire elements, making it impossible to release fire-based abilities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, there was one aspect of this system that Xia Sheng found utterly useless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The speed of gathering fire elements depended on the strength of the fire elemental seed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As players, they had no such worries whatsoever.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Possessing the Bone Fire form, they could condense ink-flame fireballs with a mere raise of their hands, without needing the redundant step of using a fire elemental seed to connect with fire elemental energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The process was truly too cumbersome.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Condensing a single fireball with a raise of the hand required multiple steps.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They, as players, could conjure fireballs with a single thought, easy and convenient.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Xia Sheng did not voice this thought; instead, he obediently proceeded with the training as Ku Xing required.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During this time, Ku Xing also mentioned a shortcut for tempering spiritual strength.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stated that one could transform their consciousness into a vast net to rapidly devour external spiritual energy particles, rather than consuming them one by one slowly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, this required extreme control over one's own consciousness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although Ku Xing explained it in great detail, in Xia Sheng's view, it still could not compare to the benefits gained from passionately slaughtering insect swarms and evil spirits outside Emperor Tomb Village.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was evident that the speed of cultivation and growth for lifeforms in this world was not fast, or rather, the cultivation methods Ku Xing mastered were too weak, fundamentally incomparable to the cheats players possessed innately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If one cultivated according to Ku Xing's methods, the improvement in strength could be described as crawling like a turtle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, NPCs also had shortcuts for rapid growth, namely consuming spiritual resources.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Take Ku Xing, for instance; he possessed both energy crystals and various spiritual plants, all of which could be converted into strength.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The difference from players was that Ku Xing consumed resources very slowly, needing to coordinate with cultivation to gradually devour resources and convert them into strength.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Players were different; upon finishing spiritual plants, they could immediately convert them into body-tempering experience.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Furthermore, increases in body-tempering experience also brought growth in attributes such as spiritual strength and physical constitution.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the perspective of native lifeforms in the game, their growth could be described as cheating.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, there were exceptions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Back in their hometown of Emperor Tomb Village, there were two factions that similarly cheated: one that grew upon devouring, and another that strengthened upon fighting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They could be called the dual cheats of the novice village.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was also the point he found most incomprehensible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Based on his years of gaming experience, Emperor Tomb Village should have been an area for early transitional growth for newcomers, existing to allow players to familiarize themselves with gameplay mechanics.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As player levels increased, the difficulty of the novice village would quickly fail to keep pace with player growth, necessitating travel to other regions for exploration.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, regarding the design of the novice village, the Eclipse Clan's \"Land of Darkness\" held a completely different philosophy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The difficulty of the novice village could be described as torturous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two hostile factions, the Black Black Tide and the Insect Swarm, would steadily increase in strength; despite the player faction fighting for so long, they had only managed to contain three domain nodes, never able to completely eradicate these two forces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In contrast, the recently opened region of Colorful Mist Coast featured monsters whose strength did not change over time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or rather, the degree of change over time was negligible, almost ignorable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unlike Emperor Tomb Village, where players might sleep and wake the next day to find that the levels of the evil spirits and insect swarms had increased again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Comparing the two regions, although the monsters on the Colorful Mist Coast were stronger, it felt more like a true novice village.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially for new players entering the game in the late stages, the Colorful Mist Coast was obviously more suitable for growth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if they could not defeat the powerful monsters in the jungle, killing crabs by the seaside or diving to catch small fish without a hunting level requirement could still yield evolution points to raise their Soul Fate levels.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for Emperor Tomb Village, with the Black Black Tide and Insect Swarm acting as cheating roadblocks, it would become increasingly unsuitable for newcomers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the future, level 1 newbies might Iron Face level 50 Black Black Tide evil spirits or level 50 insect warriors, which were simply not on the same scale.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, there was also a possibility.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps soon they would overthrow the Insect Swarm and the Black Black Tide, launching explorations into a wider world, meaning new joiners would no longer need to worry about the threats posed by the insect swarms and the Black Black Tide.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a bout of wild speculation, Xia Sheng began looking forward to the alchemy session following the conclusion of cultivation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Free body-tempering experience was simply too appealing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this rate, their strength would soon pull far ahead of the main force.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Recently, many guild managers or guild masters had privately messaged him, wishing to invite them to join their guilds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, he was not considering this issue for the time being.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At least until completing his cultivation under Ku Xing, he would not consider joining any guild, nor could he participate in guild-organized team battles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking of the generous conditions offered by the major guilds, a silly smile floated across Xia Sheng's Iron Face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They said games could change lives, and he had truly achieved it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Slap!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A palm carrying a gust of wind slapped fiercely against the back of Xia Sheng's skull, startling him into a shiver.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Slacking off again!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Old man, I was wrong, I'll work hard immediately.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",3670,"2026-06-19T09:20:35.554Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","81ee1dd1cc95affbd5fff2caf18f103dccc921a12652af3be1b08bc6299f65a6","monsters-are-coming-chapter-103","monsters-are-coming-chapter-101",393,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fmonsters-are-coming-cover.jpg"]