Chapter 119

The Primordial Sacrifice Altar.

Qi Sheng's gaze swept across the exit of the Colorful Mist Coast space.

In merely a few hours, the Black Wind Clan had erected the preliminary structure of their tribal grounds within the rainforest behind the coast.

During this time, under the arrangement of the clan leader Hei Yu, the Black Wind Clan warriors were divided into four batches, respectively responsible for constructing the encampment, felling trees, surveying the environment, and conducting security patrols.

At this moment, Qi Sheng's perceptional perspective swept toward Hei Yu, who was directing his clansmen to build houses.

Standing nearly two meters tall, Hei Yu stood upon a temporarily constructed high platform, gazing out at the busy clansmen, his Iron Face brimming with a smile.

It was unclear whether he was happy about escaping the capture of the Ancient God Clan, happy about easily seizing the Colorful Mist Coast, or both.

But while Hei Yu was happy, Qi Sheng was not.

Statistical data from the Guidance feedback revealed that the arrival of the Black Wind Clan had caused a sharp drop in Sacrificial Power output over the past two hours.

Many players were preparing for battle in both Emperor Tomb Village and the Colorful Mist Coast space, simply not going out to hunt.

Thus, Hei Yu's joy was built upon the foundation of Qi Sheng's loss of interests.

The view switched to the Colorful Mist Coast Novice Village space.

The space, capable of holding only slightly more than twenty thousand players, was already packed to capacity, truly shoulder to shoulder, with a large number of players forced to wait inside Emperor Tomb Village due to the congestion in the Colorful Mist Coast space.

Within the voice channels, the presidents of the major guilds were organizing personnel, preparing to charge.

[Boss, should we open a few more exits? The Colorful Mist Coast space is overflowing; rushing toward the exit all at once will only cause more congestion.]

"No need, just activate teleportation directly; calculate how much Sacrificial Power it consumes to teleport each player out directly?"

[Exiting directly through the exits we constructed requires no Sacrificial Power, but if teleporting out directly, each player must consume 0.3 Sacrificial Power.]

"Then teleport them directly; the losses can be earned back from the Black Wind Clan."

As soon as the words fell, Qi Sheng sent a temporary notification to all players:

[Challenger Notification (All Channels): Special Crisis Mission "Defend the Coast" triggered; Teleportation function temporarily activated for all players.]

Function Description: Players located in the Novice Space of the Colorful Mist Coast region can directly descend to the Colorful Mist Coast region via the function panel (the descent location matches the exits).

Hearing the game notification, the presidents of the major guilds, who had been struggling with how to transport combat power outward in bulk, suddenly saw the light.

They one after another opened their function panels, discovering a new option labeled "Teleport Away."

Clicking it would pop up a prompt:

[Challenger Notification: Do you wish to teleport away from the Colorful Mist Coast Novice Village space? Yes/No.]

Realizing that the bulk charge combat Cultivation Mode could be changed to an airborne tactic, Shen Wang, who had already formed a warband, immediately summoned the warband interface and activated the Permission Mute Cultivation Mode; instantly, the noisy warband chat channel fell silent, and then Shen Wang began arranging tactics:

"Brothers, originally we planned for the Gargoyle players to charge first, with players of other streams following in sequence, but now that we have this airborne Cultivation Mode, let's change our tactics."

"Here's the plan: players using the Domain Output stream, listen to my command for the first wave of the charge; once out, ignore everything else and immediately activate your domains to clear the screen; this first wave will be led by Wo Si Ni Die, the president of the Fan Zui Guild; when the situation is roughly settled, give a signal in the warband channel; the second wave will be launched by the Gargoyle players, led by Da Hui Lang, the president of the Kuang Lang Guild; the third wave..."

"Finally, the brothers of the Sai Fish Clan and Meng Yuan Fish Clan will follow the sixth wave, the Custom Charge Group, responsible for the final charge... your combat power is too low; charging alongside the earlier waves would easily get you wiped out by friendly fire, after all, the game has no teammate damage exemption mechanism; when it's your turn to charge, just attack freely."

"I have now granted warband permissions to the presidents of each charge group; adjust your group members and prepare to hear my charge order."

The guild presidents, who had been dispatching players of different streams into positions within the congested environment, decisively followed Shen Wang's instructions, summoning the warband panel to kick out players of non-Star Vein streams from their groups (though the kicked players remained in the warband), then opening the warband list to enable filter Cultivation Mode, kicking out other groups while batch-inviting players of the streams needed for their own group into the team.

After more than ten minutes of adjustments, Shen Wang quickly scanned the team list information, and upon confirming that all groups were properly arranged, he immediately spoke:

"Players in the Emperor Tomb Mountain range wait for the next round; first round, Domain Output stream, prepare to charge; everyone open your function panels and click the teleport option."

"3... 2... 1, Teleport!"

Following Shen Wang's command, countless beams of white light rose from within the Novice Village space.

At this moment, at the Black Wind Clan's temporary encampment.

Countless beams of white light appeared densely, instantly attracting the attention of Hei Yu and the Black Wind Clan warriors.

They all turned to look at the flashing white light, their expressions filled with immense confusion.

When the white light dissipated, they were astonished to find that the figures within were actually the alien lives they had slaughtered by the shores of the Colorful Mist Coast.

Before they could react, the players rapidly scattered, activating their domain modes one after another.

"Flames from the Abyss, heed my summon: Ink Flame Domain!"

Accompanied by a player's slightly chuunibyou shout, raging flames instantly enveloped the nearby area with him at the center; large quantities of wood were ignited by the ink flames, and the Black Wind Clan warriors within the domain's coverage also suffered speed restrictions from the Sluggish Domain during this period.

"Brothers of the Black Wind Clan, how about learning about electroconvulsive therapy? Free treatment for arrogance."

A player activated a Thunder Domain under the Thunder Run Cultivation Mode, and violent electric currents instantly raged outward from his center.

Various output domains unfolded instantly, leaving the Black Wind Clan completely stunned.

On the spot, several Black Wind Clan warriors, subjected to continuous suppression from a series of Soul Soul characteristics including fire, lightning, and binding, were killed before they even had time to make a move.

"Recall all the survey teams we dispatched; counterattack!"

Seeing the tribal grounds they had worked hard to build disintegrate under the raging elemental domains, Hei Yu's eyes nearly split with rage, and he immediately leaped down from the temporary watchtower.

Steadying his stance, Hei Yu charged through the raging Ink Flame Domain to stand before a player, drew the crescent moon blade hanging at his waist, slashed across the player's neck, and crushed him into a cloud of black mist:

"Kill!"

Hei Yu let out a cry, then lunged again at another player nearby.

Apart from being caught off guard initially, the Black Wind Clan quickly organized their forces and began clearing the descending players.

Facing a one-sided rout, Li Siyu spoke in the voice channel:

"Brothers who can, form a self-destruct mine before leaving; get ready to exit the stage."

After speaking, Li Siyu switched the team chat channel to the warband chat channel:

"Shen Wang, things are about to end over here; get ready."

"OK, received."

Shen Wang, located in the Colorful Mist Coast Novice Village space, immediately responded and then began organizing the next round, the charge of the Gargoyle players.

This round of the charge would unfold in relay with the third round.

First, the Gargoyle players would descend and scatter to activate Taunt, drawing aggro, followed by the appearance of Spirit Artifact Output stream players to pick off the Black Wind Clan warriors.

After waiting five minutes, Shen Wang issued the charge command once again.

Immediately, players of the Gargoyle stream chose to teleport one after another, vanishing into white light within the Colorful Mist Coast space.

On the other side, the Black Wind Clan warriors were cleaning up the messy open ground.

The ensuing white light made them instantly tense; realizing that this group of mysterious aliens had descended again, they all lunged toward the white light, intending to strike first.

The Gargoyle players, already prepared, decisively activated their Petrification ability.

The scene once again became incredibly chaotic.

The aggro-drawing Taunt impacts even caused some Black Wind Clan warriors to lose their minds, falling into a frenzied state.

Accompanied by a new round of flashing white light, the Spirit Artifact stream players appeared, taking advantage of the Black Wind Clan warriors' frantic attacks on the Gargoyle stream players to unleash slaughter.

"So satisfying; being arranged in the group charging right after the Gargoyle stream gives such a full sense of security."

"Kill! Being blocked at our doorstep is simply a disgrace; I want to kill until they're screaming."

"Gargoyle brothers, watch out for your own people; control the coverage range of your Taunt; don't torment our own brothers; let's all work hard together!"

From Qi Sheng's perspective, the second and third rounds of the charge delivered an extremely impressive performance.

Especially the newly debuted Special Effect Divine Arrow stream.

Facing dense Black Wind Clan warriors, the Split Shot of the Scattered Loss Bow could easily hit targets, applying Binding, Deadly Poison, and Blade Ban special effects to the struck targets respectively.

Since this was essentially a relay suicide run, many players were outputting with the Extreme Speed characteristic active, focusing on maximizing their output within a short timeframe.

The violent output killed swathes of Black Wind Clan warriors, and large quantities of Qi blood orbs flew toward the players, merging into their bodies.

Various cheers rang out in the team voice channel; many Black Wind Clan warriors who had been beaten to low health in the previous round were successfully harvested in this one.

However, the Black Wind Clan's combat power also continued to rush toward the battle site.

Part of them were warriors stationed near the coast warships, and another part were warriors dispatched to survey the surrounding environment.

The brief advantage was quickly reversed by the Black Wind Clan warriors led by Hei Yu, and the players fell into a bitter struggle.

Yet, in the hearts of all the players, they were incredibly calm.

The tactic formulated by Shen Wang was divided into six rounds, basically one round every ten minutes, adopting a circular combat strategy.

Once the six waves of offense concluded, the Domain Output stream players from the first round would resurrect and re-enter the battlefield.

The focus was on non-stop action for twenty-four hours; no matter how strong the Black Wind Clan was, they were merely ordinary lives, unlike the Black Black Tide and Insect Black Tide who could play infinite circular tactics with them.

The current disadvantage proved nothing; their torment had only just begun.

The second and third rounds of the charge soon met total annihilation under the Black Wind Clan's counterattack; upon receiving the news, Shen Wang immediately instructed the players of the fourth round to begin preparations.

This round of the charge consisted of two streams: Magic System Output players and Magic System Functional players.

Just as the Black Wind Clan achieved victory in battle and hadn't even had time to clean up the battlefield, a new round of descent arrived.

It began with sheets of light shields covering the descent location, followed by Binding Soul Soul immobilization, while the Magic System Output players channeled their spells, preparing to launch an offensive.

When the light shields were broken, Shen Yi, who was commanding this charge group, issued the fire command.

Instantly, ink flame fireballs interwove with lightning, and a violent elemental torrent swept from the descent point toward the Black Wind Clan warriors.

Large numbers of Black Wind Clan warriors were swallowed by the elemental torrent, turning into charcoal and collapsing dead before they even had time to struggle.

"Ahahaha, killed two right at the start; so satisfying!"

"This Extreme Speed Soul Soul is too fierce; it drained my health and mana bars in 13 seconds; I'm just waiting to die now; eating Qi simply can't recover it fast enough."

"Our Magic System Charge Group is indeed the strongest round; how can the killing power of the other charge rounds compare? Brothers, drink potions and do another round; let's show the momentum of our version's answer."

"It is satisfying, but without the Gargoyle stream tanking in front, I'm afraid we can't withstand a single charge from the Black Wind Clan; I hope we can collect Soul Souls that help recover mana and health soon; the Magic System is great in every way, but drinking potions is too intense, making it somewhat costly to play."

"I'm dying of laughter; that Black Wind Clan warrior actually tried to dodge my guided fireball, but I just smashed him into the dirt with consecutive fireballs and insta-killed him; the Extreme Speed Soul Soul is truly too strong."

Once the violent output of the Magic System Charge Group ended, it was met with the Black Wind Clan's vicious counterattack.

Although their output was powerful, the Magic System players, with their fragile bodies, possessed no power to resist under the close-quarters suppression of the Black Wind Clan warriors and were soon slaughtered to the last man.

But when the Magic Sect warband had only about one-tenth of its original numbers remaining, the fifth wave of the Charge Warband descended from the sky.

This wave brought the Monster Flow players.

Compared to the previous waves, the Monster Charge Warband's momentum was terrifying; the moment they appeared, they startled the Black Wind Clan.

After a flash of white light, fierce beasts were unleashed, causing the ground to tremble violently.

A black-armored great serpent, over ten meters long and clad in black armor, charged actively toward the area where the Black Wind Clan warriors had gathered, ramming straight through everything in its path; every Black Wind warrior it struck was afflicted with the Fierce Poison trait, falling into a poisoned state.

A roaring giant bear, five meters long and nearly three meters tall, launched a savage charge after the white light flashed, its sharp claws swiping directly at nearby Black Wind warriors; it occasionally let out deafening roars, trampling the battlefield at will.

A Bone Fire player, three meters tall, was wreathed in dark green flames like an emissary from hell; opening its mouth, it spewed pillars of dark flame fire, activating Death Harvest Cultivation Mode.

Players in their Gargoyle native form had muscles knotted like steel; standing there, they resembled black iron towers, and when charging, they transformed into indestructible battlefield bulldozers, withstand the close-quarters slashes of the Black Wind warriors head-on.

Players with the Thunderbolt Soul Root native form transformed into large spheres of electricity crackling with arcs, rolling freely across the battlefield.

The scene of giant beasts unleashed possessed far more visual impact than any monster special effects movie.

Many players in the forums and the Colorful Mist Space saw this through the live streams of the off-field charging players and exclaimed in unison, "Awesome!"

"This charge wave definitely deserves a Best Visual Shock Award; it's too fierce—the Black Wind Clan's battle formation was smashed apart directly."

"Hahaha, that Thunderbolt Bear is so wild; it bit a Black Wind warrior and, mimicking a beast tearing apart its prey, kept shaking its head. So brutal!"

"Damn, suddenly I want to play the Monster Flow; it feels so joyful."

"I don't want to play it, but I want to catch one as a mount; riding it would be explosively cool. I'm so envious of those bros playing the Monster Flow. I hope my cousin grabs a qualification soon; if he doesn't let me ride it as a mount, I'll go to his house and beat him until he cries."

After five consecutive waves of attacks, Black Wind Clan warriors fell in droves.

Seeing this scene, Hei Yu's eyes nearly burst from their sockets in rage.

He did not understand what was happening at all.

There were no spatial runes on the ground of this open space, so clearly they had not descended via teleportation.

There were no torn spatial rifts in the sky either, so cross-space descent was impossible.

So how exactly had this group of lifeforms appeared?

Such a bizarre descent exceeded Hei Yu's comprehension; he could only keep shouting orders, organizing his clansmen to launch a counterattack.

Reinforcements from his clansmen kept arriving, but throughout this process, clansmen also kept dying.

The pleasant mood from easily capturing the Colorful Mist Coast vanished completely; Hei Yu's eyes turned bloodshot, a flame burning fiercely within his heart.

The rampage of the giant beasts lasted for seventeen minutes; when the Giant Beast Charge Warband withdrew, the sixth wave of attacks arrived.

This wave featured players in Custom Cultivation Mode.

The Arms Merchant Society's free-fire sweeping, the Fatal Alchemist Alliance's toxic bottle throwing, the Demon Sect Fishermen's lightning-infused pole sweeping... players from the Three Great Demon Sects and some bizarre Star Vein combinations all appeared together.

For example, after activating Flowing Shadow Clone, one could split into a dozen clones carrying pickaxes, forming a Mining Brigade; upon activating Extreme Speed, the pickaxes swung so fast they seemed to fly.

Or perhaps a Flowing Shadow Clone combined with Mud Demon (Dissolution) acting as a battlefield spitter, ignoring friend and foe alike to begin creating battlefield dissolution pools.

The arrival of the sixth wave, the Custom Cultivation Mode players, instantly maxed out the joy factor, causing forum players to laugh continuously.

"Oh my god, that brigade of pickaxe-wielding clones wearing straw hats made me spit out my drink; they're treating the Black Wind Clan like a mine, right? They even embedded an Extreme Speed soul root; those pickaxes are almost being swung until they smoke! One round of DPS and durability hits zero, hahaha!"

"The Arms Merchants are really rich; bullets and bombs are like they cost nothing, just tossing them out clank after clank."

"The Twilight Shadow Bomb Flow is so interesting; sneak over, drop the bombs, and run. So thrilling! Assassin Flow players, take note."

Although their combat modes were bizarre, the Custom Charge Warband's combat power was not weak.

Various bizarre Star Vein combinations that went against mainstream gameplay dazzled the forum players, who only then realized Star Vein combinations could be paired this way.

Compared to the serious style of the previous round, this round's combat style was extremely abstract.

All sorts of tricky tactics emerged endlessly; the only drawback was the complete lack of organization, with many players' damage output even affecting their own allies.

This round lasted less than ten minutes before coming to an end.

Meanwhile, the first wave, the "Domain Output Warband," had already arrived sequentially in the Colorful Mist Space to prepare for battle, awaiting the God King's command to launch a new charge.

At this moment, Qi Sheng, situated behind the scenes, could not help but smile.

Under the players' relay attacks, the Black Wind Clan had effectively turned an invasion war into a tower defense game.

But unlike a tower defense game, the Black Wind Clan had no defensive structures to upgrade; they could only have their combat power constantly depleted under wave after wave of player charges.

When the new wave of the Domain Output Warband descended, despair filled Hei Yu's eyes.

He had no idea how much combat power the opposing race still possessed; if the fighting continued, only more and more of his clansmen would die.

Realizing that continuing like this would mean the complete end of the Black Wind Clan, he roared with bloodshot eyes:

"All Black Wind warriors, retreat toward the coast with me!"

Hearing Hei Yu's order, the warriors, mentally exhausted from the continuous charges, began retreating toward the coast one after another.

The players watching this scene in the live stream immediately refused to accept it.

Their torment had only just begun, and the Charge Warband had only finished the first cycle; how could they possibly let them escape? They all spoke up in the voice channel to scold them.

Seeing this, the God King decisively issued a pursuit order, demanding that all players on standby in Emperor Tomb Village enter the Colorful Mist Coast space immediately to kill out and pursue the Black Wind Clan attempting to retreat, with no need to continue attacking in the Charge Warband formation.

Subsequently, the God King personally descended from the Colorful Mist Space and began organizing a temporary pursuit group.

Just as the Black Wind Clan had easily captured the Colorful Mist Coast before.

The players' united charges over several rounds had also crushed the Black Wind Clan in a short time, forcing them to choose retreat.

The God King also issued a new combat order at this time:

"All Assassin Flow players, activate Twilight Shadow to flank and cut off their retreat; if you can't cut them off, go ram their ships! These bastards came with resources; do you think we'll let them take them away?"

(End of Chapter)