Chapter 142: The Disaster Army of the Master of Trouble

Source Origin Altar.

Qi Sheng sat cross-legged on the altar, his consciousness following the guidance to descend upon the Evil Eye Gao Ta at the Tianyuan Domain node of the Emperor's Tomb Mountains.

The black tide, under the control of Di Nian Xie Ling, suddenly gained reinforcement—he naturally knew the reason.

He observed the entire battle in the Cangxing Sea from a macroscopic perspective.

During this time, he also detected Di Nian Xie Ling's consciousness descending and using the Evil Eye's projection to control and command the black tide in battle.

He paid attention to Di Nian Xie Ling's acts of stealing resources as well.

What puzzled him was that Di Nian Xie Ling's actions had not been discovered by the black tide's higher command, and more importantly, Di Nian Xie Ling dared to do it at all.

This was extremely unreasonable.

The black tide's military structure had been thoroughly analyzed by the guidance.

It was believed that the black tide army possessed a highly organized, strictly disciplined, and devouring-growth nature—a military system surpassing conventional biological intelligence.

The black tide's core system consisted of three elements.

Among them, the Xie Ling were command-type warriors, possessing independent emotions, and forming the foundational pillar of the black tide.

The Evil Eye was a functional auxiliary, possessing high intelligence while having its emotional functions weakened; all decisions were led by the Xie Ling, responsible for interfacing with other black tide nodes, capable of instantly accessing vast reservoirs of stored knowledge, and equipped with a highly developed spiritual information network capable of rapidly analyzing battlefield conditions, formulating tactical strategies, providing real-time battlefield perception to the Xie Ling, and offering combat and development recommendations.

It was an emotionless strategic unit.

The final components of the black tide were the black tide energy and the Xie Sui troops, the core combat forces of the black tide.

Among them, the Xie Sui troops had a vast corresponding troop library; the exact number of selectable troop types remained unknown for now, but the guidance believed the black tide's troop system might number in the millions, with high-rank troops possessing corresponding attribute systems suited for different battlefields.

These three systems formed a single black tide combat unit; countless such units composed the vast black tide calamity.

In this system, the absolute loyalty of the Xie Ling warriors must be ensured.

They were the only units within the black tide system possessing both high intelligence and emotional capacity.

As for the design of emotions, the guidance had also analyzed them.

Although the black tide could perfectly function like a swarm of insects, establishing a cold, ruthless killing command system.

But from the perspective of adapting to complex warfare environments, emotional and affective response mechanisms significantly aided warfare; if the black tide encountered an overwhelmingly superior force, and the Xie Ling commander exhibited a "cautious" reaction, it might avoid unnecessary black tide energy losses.

Emotions were, at times, a highly sensitive instinct for danger signals and strategic adjustment.

Furthermore, emotions such as the desire for growth, greed for resources, and longing for victory could also aid the black tide's development.

This stood in clear contrast to the insect swarm's characteristic of launching frenzied slaughter regardless of enemy strength.

But the emergence of emotions also introduced uncontrollable variables in the Xie Ling.

Therefore, the black tide army's structural design prioritized ensuring the absolute loyalty of the Xie Ling warriors.

Only when the Xie Ling remained problem-free could the black tide army become the supreme calamity sweeping across countless worlds.

The guidance's analysis identified three factors limiting the Xie Ling.

First, loyalty was instilled during the Xie Ling's growth process—each Xie Ling warrior took pride in the terrifying black tide conquering more worlds.

Second, there must exist an absolute mental imprint, akin to a spiritual steel stamp, ensuring the Xie Ling could never harbor rebellion.

Third, the Evil Eye's supervision—though the Evil Eye, nearly devoid of emotion, assisted the Xie Ling warriors' growth, it fundamentally remained loyal to higher command units and could never deceive them to benefit the Xie Ling warriors.

But Di Nian and the Evil Eye were different.

Di Nian Xie Ling's behavior differed markedly from other Xie Ling warriors, acting in a highly emotional manner.

The Evil Eye accompanying it was the same—possessing high intelligence yet also displaying emotional tendencies.

This reminded Qi Sheng of a piece of information previously recorded by the guidance.

Di Nian Xie Ling had once told the Evil Eye that it was a warrior who had graduated from the Abyss Trial.

This might be one reason why Di Nian Xie Ling was so different.

The most bizarre aspect was the Evil Eye—it now treated Di Nian Xie Ling as its master, deceiving higher command units to secure benefits for Di Nian Xie Ling.

The Evil Eye, meant to supervise, had aligned itself with Di Nian Xie Ling, completely shattering the normal black tide military structure.

It was certain that Di Nian Xie Ling and the Evil Eye were deeply problematic, but the exact nature of the issue could not yet be analyzed.

Di Nian and the Evil Eye's current behavior resembled two turncoats.

They had secretly plotted to consume most of the resources of a newly emerged Xie Ling warrior within their own node, solely to accelerate their own node's growth.

Even deliberately provoking the insect swarm, staging a defensive battle to conceal their actions.

This behavior was truly absurd and violated the guidance's established image of the black tide army's rigid discipline, leaving Qi Sheng and the guidance utterly stunned.

Their impression was that these two black tide system units had somehow broken through some restriction, developing uncontrollable emotions and thoughts.

【Boss, it's not just Di Nian Xie Ling and the Evil Eye that are off—the insect swarm in the Phantom Marsh region north of the Emperor's Tomb Mountains is also highly irregular.】

At this moment, the guidance spoke, interrupting Qi Sheng's thoughts.

Qi Sheng turned his head toward the guidance hovering beside him:

"What else have you found?"

【After days of monitoring and observation, I discovered that during Di Nian Xie Ling's acquisition of enhanced resources from the Cangxing Sea, the insect swarm in the Phantom Marsh also received cross-space energy infusion, growing in strength in sync with the black tide.】

The guidance's words made Qi Sheng frown slightly:

"Cross-space energy infusion?"

【Correct. I now have a bold hypothesis: this sudden arrival of the insect swarm clearly did not come to the Emperor's Tomb Mountains region by accident—it came with purpose, and that purpose is most likely Di Nian Xie Ling.】

The guidance's explanation plunged Qi Sheng into deep thought.

Soon, an idea surfaced in his mind:

"Guidance, could it be this possibility—that the insect swarm's supreme hive-mind is seeking a way to counter the terrifying black tide, so it created a special low-level hive-mind and sent it to appear near a nascent black tide unit, accompanying its growth?"

"During this time, by continuously engaging the nascent black tide in battle, it gradually adapts to the characteristics of all black tide combat units, until it fully understands the entire black tide combat system and creates a perfect unit capable of countering the black tide army structure."

Upon hearing Qi Sheng's analysis, the guidance immediately nodded:

【That's exactly what I thought—the sudden arrival of the insect swarm hive-mind is very likely a tactical maneuver by the insect swarm's supreme hive-mind. Its initial frenzied advance forced Di Nian Xie Ling to its limits to gather detailed data on its overall strength, and only after acquiring the data did it initiate synchronized growth.】

This point was evident before: after the Heavenly Fire Clan campaign ended, the greatest winner was the Earth-Will Evil Spirit, yet the Insect Tide inexplicably kept pace with the Black Tide's growth speed; this time it was even more so. After the Earth-Will Evil Spirit obtained the Black Tide energy in the Cang Star Sea, the Insect Tide again matched the growth progress. Clearly, a hand behind the scenes was controlling the growth speed of the Insect Race Main Brain, providing resources matching the Earth-Will Evil Spirit's strength each time it fell behind, ensuring it always remained at the same combat power level.

The Guide's analysis was exactly what Qi Sheng was thinking at that moment.

The Earth-Will Evil Spirit at least had a struggle process; every resource acquisition was recorded, with a traceable logic.

But the Insect Tide's enhancements were sudden boosts each time, and the Guide sensed spatial fluctuations, clearly indicating some power was delivering growth resources.

The two biggest bullies in the newbie village, each stranger than the other.

But Qi Sheng did not delve deeper into this issue; the Black Tide and Insect Tide indeed affected players' progress in exploring the world, but if they couldn't break through, he could change direction and open an expandable node.

Just like the Colored Mist Coast region, which was a spatial node he newly opened.

As for the Di Zhao Mountain Range, it now resembled more of a leveling ground.

Although the Black Tide and Insect Tide were universally acknowledged by players as poor monsters, their advantage was extremely high monster density, especially suitable for guilds and large groups to level up and grow.

This was an advantage the Colored Mist Coast could not match.

Monster distribution in the Colored Mist Coast region was relatively scattered; before hunting began, there was still a step of "searching."

But hunting in the Di Zhao Mountain Range region was very simple; if lacking Shou Shou Jili or evolution points, just form a team, go out, and kill, engaging in high-intensity combat until death.

Focusing on cheap volume, letting players earn profits through quantity.

But throughout this process, the three sides were always in a state of mutual disdain, each feeling the other two were truly disgusting.

Without pondering this issue further, Qi Sheng decided to launch a new round of player recruitment plans as soon as possible.

For this recruitment, he planned to issue seventy thousand player slots to the outside world, while simultaneously recruiting another batch of non-human players.

But before this, he needed to upgrade the existing Shangcheng.

As player levels rose, many items could no longer satisfy players' needs.

For example, food cans.

Players newly entering the game could use food cans purchasable with 1 point of Shou Shou Jili to replenish body consumption, but after physical attributes improved, the limited nutrition provided by food cans was insufficient to support players in maintaining daily consumption.

Powerful players chose to consume Ling Food for replenishment, but many players, to save Shou Shou Jili, chose to gnaw on food cans wildly, compensating for poor quality with quantity.

This point could refer to the Reverse Tide Training Camp.

While reserve warriors underwent high-intensity training, they had to consume large amounts of Ling Food daily to replenish consumption.

At the current stage, he did not need to worry about Ling Food production; players specializing in the Ling Chef secondary profession supplied various delicious Ling Foods to the Trading Hall every day.

But for quick nutritional replenishment, there was no product replacing food cans.

Regarding this issue, Qi Sheng thought of the quick-energy paste used by Li Zheng and others upon finishing the first-phase training camp and heading to the second-phase training camp.

The Guide had recorded the relevant data.

He could completely replicate the energy paste using the analyzed records.

However, the energy paste used by ordinary soldiers of the Reverse Tide Legion cost 83 points of Shou Shou Jili; the price was too high, and players' current Shou Shou Jili earnings simply could not afford it.

So what he wanted to produce was a low-spec version.

In the future, when players purchased it, it would automatically generate and condense from Shou Shou Jili.

With the idea formed, Qi Sheng immediately began working busily.

After switching to the Beneath Di Zhao form, his body was enveloped in scarlet flames, and the Challenger System runes surrounding him rotated around his body.

After extracting the recorded information, a three-dimensional projection of the energy paste appeared before him.

He reached out to enlarge it; instantly, the structural arrangement of the energy paste was presented in the form of energy particles, where each color of particle represented a type of Ling Plant energy.

Next, he only needed to generate different energy types using Shou Shou Jili and arrange and combine them to replicate the energy paste.

The replication process was effortless, but he trimmed the portion size.

One energy paste was divided into eight portions, with each portion priced at 11 points of Shou Shou Jili.

For every eight portions sold, he could gain 5 points of Shou Shou Jili in profit.

Essential food was one of the core aids for players exploring the Monster World; for such items, he had no intention of setting high prices. If the price was too high, it would severely affect players' growth and development, thereby impacting subsequent Shou Shou Jili production.

Selling at roughly cost price would suffice.

After completing the energy paste production, Qi Sheng began creating templates for other replenishment items.

The second item was the Repair Stone.

Many players did not follow the Artifact Spirit path and instead used template weapons purchased from the Shangcheng.

Such weapons were not damage-free after generation and could be damaged during combat.

Directly replacing one was obviously too wasteful; they could be reused through repair, reducing Shou Shou Jili consumption.

The Repair Stone's settings required no reference to any other item or object; its appearance was a scarlet stone, essentially condensed Shou Shou Jili. Slapping it onto a weapon would initialize and repair it according to the template.

If the weapon's quality was higher, using a few more stones could still complete the repair.

However, the Repair Stone was limited to template weapons sold in the Shangcheng; weapons obtained externally lacked recorded template structures and could not use the Repair Stone for initialization repair.

After listing the Repair Stone, the third category of items was a batch of new Ling Plant seeds.

These Ling Plants were all required for making energy paste; players with Ling Fields could cultivate and raise them, after which he could recycle them to reduce the cost of making energy paste.

Following that was the fourth category of items...

Half an hour later, the Challenger notification rang in all players' minds;

【Challenger Notification (All Channels): Shangcheng items updated. This time, 28 new items are listed.】

Newly listed items:

1. Energy Paste (11 points of Shou Shou Jili): Replenishes body consumption, rapidly restores stamina.

2. Repair Stone (10 points of Shou Shou Jili): Repairs damaged weapons, replenishes durability.

3. Earth Spirit Flower Seeds (1 point of Shou Shou Jili): Ling Plants required for making energy paste. After maturing, they can be listed on the Trading Hall or sacrificed to Beneath Di Zhao to exchange for Shou Shou Jili feedback.

After the 28 new items were listed, Qi Sheng began construction on the Main City.

The space of Di Zhao Village is currently too rudimentary; aside from three functional buildings and a spatial teleportation plaza, all other areas are completely vacant.

It lacks the feel of a main city entirely.

The construction of the main city may seem meaningless, but from a long-term perspective, it is an important component of the player experience, capable of significantly enhancing game fun and strengthening the player's sense of immersion in their faction.

The city template was prepared in advance; the moment Qi Sheng's thought turned, the Shou Shou Jili in the underground Shou Shou Jili pool burned with Xiong Xiong flames.

Surging energy erupted from beneath the ground, and the structure of Di Zhao Village changed accordingly.

A breathtaking city rose from the ground, its buildings spreading toward the sky at an astonishing speed.

The architecture of the new city fused Earth modern, ancient, and alien styles, while a bright sun appeared in the sky.

The city was divided into five districts: East, South, West, North, and Center.

In the central district stood a Beneath Di Zhao statue enveloped in scarlet flames; its face was obscured by the burning scarlet fire, and it stood in a pose of reaching out to grab the sun.

Several fountain landscapes appeared near the statue, and the ground was paved with white jade tiles.

Opening the map reveals that the name of the central district is "Central Plaza."

The respawn point will be set in the central district; players will respawn on the plaza after reviving.

Outside the plaza lies the main city's commercial district, where many shops of various designs stand.

However, these shops are not yet open for use.

In the future, Qi Sheng plans to sell these shops to players via auction.

With the Trading Hall system, the existence of shops serves more to advertise goods.

This is also the reason why the shops are located near the heavily trafficked Respawn Plaza; players can see the nearby shops at a glance after reviving.

Arms dealers, the Alchemist Alliance, Spirit Chefs, and other powerful merchants can provide offline services through these shops.

To the west of the city stands a magnificent Gothic building; its spire pierces the clouds as if to stab the firmament, intricate patterns are carved on the walls, and the stained-glass windows refract colorful light under the sun, casting intersecting shadows on the ground.

This building is the Library.

It stores a vast amount of knowledge and information about the Monster World; players in need can enter and consult it at any time, but this building is not a functional structure, no layered space is set up inside, and during consultation, all players share the same Library space scene.

To the north of the city lies a complex of buildings full of Eastern charm, with red walls and green tiles, flying eaves and bracket sets, displaying all the splendor and elegance.

Between the pavilions and towers, small bridges span flowing streams, lotus flowers bloom in full, and fish play in the water, presenting a tranquil and peaceful Jiangnan water town scene.

The southern district of the city features modern high-rise buildings, wide roads, and vehicles can be driven at high speeds.

The production cost of most buildings in the city is less than 10 points; they mostly exist as scenery, and although they can be entered, they hold no practical significance.

As functional buildings are added, he will demolish the old ones to provide space for newly appearing functional buildings.

At this stage, only five buildings are truly useful.

They are the Respawn Plaza in the city center, the teleportation plaza in the city's west district, the test TC city center district to the east, the Armed Vehicle Factory in the city's south district, and the Guild Hall in the city's east district.

There are many new functional buildings envisioned for the future.

For example, a Pet Adoption House, a Forging Hall, a Rune Assembly Hall, and so on.

They will provide players with various customizable functional services.

However, the appearance of these buildings must follow the progress of the players' combat power.

At this stage, the focus remains on the growth of individual player strength; various types of combat power amplification services will be provided only after the scale of the player legions increases.

Just like the Back Tide Legion, warriors are only part of the legion's composition.

Each race has a different role within the Back Tide Legion, and only the most elite portion of each race can enter the Back Tide Training Camp.

The remaining clansmen provide various services around the war legion.

Some races are responsible for monster breeding, some for spirit plant cultivation, some for spirit medicine production, some for weapon and equipment forging, some for the production of spatial bracelets, some for rear-city infrastructure, and so on.

Various supporting services guarantee the combat power of the Back Tide Legion, and the stable environment in the rear can continuously produce elite warriors.

In fact, every faction in the Monster World has such supporting services.

The Black Tide is no exception.

It is just that the Black Tide's warrior training, evil eye breeding, troop system design and optimization, and a series of other supporting services were not carried out in the Monster World.

Those deployed into the Monster World are all very mature warriors.

In the future, the construction of player legions will also unfold toward diversification; both combat power and logistics are indispensable.

The rising of the new city sparked heated discussion among players on the forum:

Salted Fish That Can't Turn Over: What's going on? I returned to the Di Zhao Village space and almost thought I teleported to the wrong place; why has the city changed so much? Is this an incidental function from recently fusing three domain nodes?

Self-Destructing Truck: Damn, the city's cool factor has shot straight up; there's actually a tavern near the Respawn Plaza! I went over to check just now; they offer a service of one free drink per day. Looking at the menu, they have all the wines that exist in reality, but no Spirit Wine is provided.

Mo Ling: qvq Can players buy the shops near the respawn point? I want to buy one to sell various spirit foods and provide dine-in service; I just don't know how the prices are. If they are very expensive, I'll forget it and sell by the beach instead.

Midnight Moon Shines on the Bed Strings: So cool! Every district of the city has a built-in teleport array; from now on, traveling to other districts of the city can be done instantly. This function gets a thumbs up. If the city scale continues to expand, running everywhere without built-in teleport arrays would be exhausting. Also, I'd like to suggest building a teleport exit channel near the respawn point; from now on, leaving the village will be convenient, just teleport directly without needing to run to the village entrance.

I Am a Superior Horse: I also have a suggestion; why not merge the teleportation plaza and the respawn point to form a plaza that can both revive and teleport, which would save even more time.

Believe in the Holy Light: Can you build some houses for players to live in so we can feel like we have a home in the game? Also, add a permission-based entry mode to the houses to prevent strangers from breaking in and ruining the good times between me and my girlfriend.

Qi Sheng paid attention to the heated discussion among players on the forum.

He recorded many ideas with reference value to improve them during the next update.

While players were deeply discussing the drastic changes in the main city, Qi Sheng began to busy himself once again.

With new player recruitment imminent, he needed to open another spatial node, find an environment suitable for beginners to start, and simultaneously establish a new exploration channel.

This way, if the other two channels were unexpectedly blocked, players could still obtain Shou Shou Jili through the new channel.

"Guide, set out."

【Got it.】

As the voice responded, the Guide's consciousness carried him through the Di Zhao Village barrier, flying toward the east of Di Zhao Village.

For the new spatial node, Qi Sheng still chose the Pale Continent region.

This was also, in his eyes, the starting point for the player legion's journey to the world-class battlefield.

During the flight, his consciousness seemed to transform into a wisp of light wind, unbound by time and space, freely shuttling through various scenes of the Pale Continent to embark on a search journey.

Vast golden sand seas, towering continuous mountain ranges, brilliant starry rivers and lakes, emerald forests with layered canopies, misty purple flower fields... countless scenes flashed before his eyes.

Occasionally, amidst the different scenes, he could see towering Evil Eye Gao Ta and the raging, expanding Hei Chao Xie Sui.

They were like tumors parasitic on the Monster World, rapidly growing by siphoning the Monster World's energy; all living beings near the Hei Chao would suffer a catastrophic disaster.

This expansion was nearly irreversible.

Without the ability to purify nodes, once the Evil Moon covered an area, that area could not be dispersed.

Even if the Evil Spirits were slain, the Evil Moon would still shine over the covered area, continuously generating derivative Evil Sui and corrosion cores.

Passing through multiple scenes, Qi Sheng's gaze was drawn to a golden ocean.

This ocean clearly did not belong to the Monster World scenes; it was an externally integrated scene.

Countless beasts over a hundred meters in length could be seen swimming in the golden ocean.

After the Analysis Ability was activated, scene information flooded his mind.

【World Rule: Gigantification】:

Target Analysis: A core world rule scene originating from the Giant Beast World; the rule controller can use the scene to bestow the power of Gigantification upon targets, granting a significant boost in combat power and nurturing the birth of a Giant Beast Power.

What surprised Qi Sheng was that this entire scene was actually an evolution of rule power.

Compared to the smaller volumes of world rule powers in other worlds, or even fragments generated after a world shattered... the Supreme Rules grasped by the Guide were more akin to a concept, capable of being carried by anything or transforming into formlessness to merge with consciousness.

This was the first time he had seen such a super-large condensate of rule power.

It was very similar to the rule domain nodes of the Monster World, but judging by the area, it was much larger than any rule node he had seen before.

However, Qi Sheng had no Li De Xiang Fa to examine and grasp the faction controlling this rule domain in detail.

He hadn't even sorted out the factions at his doorstep yet; as for the distant factions, let's see when the players encounter them.

Under the Guide's guidance, his consciousness passed through the magnificent golden ocean scene and flew straight toward the next Pale Continent scene.

Shuttling through different scenes, besides the original lands of the Monster World, he could also see many descended factions.

Besides strong clans, there were also weak clans.

The starting point of a weak clan determined the future development of the race.

If they descended onto a domain node not covered by the Evil Moon, they could still extract the node's energy, convert it, and use it, gaining an opportunity for rapid development.

For descended factions with bad luck, their debut meant extinction.

Descending before a faction possessing rule abilities that broke the game meant the opening was hell difficulty.

The Sky Fire Clan was a very good reference example.

The characteristic of such factions was that they possessed the ambition to expand and develop, and also the ability to construct large spatial channels, but they could not penetrate the world barrier with sensing tentacles to understand the situation of the Monster World.

They only knew the Monster World was a higher-level world, possessing higher-quality resources to use, which could significantly accelerate the race's development.

Thus, they descended with ambition, and by the time they discovered there was a problem, it was too late to return.

Qi Sheng could completely understand the Li De Xiang Fa of such factions.

The root of all problems lay in limited cognition.

They might have been invincible in their small world, even revered as supreme gods; long years of rule made them crave a higher growth platform, but their cognition of the higher world was very limited.

They even believed the technology mastered by their race was excellent and that they could show off their skills in a broader world.

This could no longer be described as a frog at the bottom of a well.

A frog at the bottom of a well could at least look up and see the moon outside, but factions invincible in a small world could not see even a corner of the Monster World.

Confidence and ambition made them choose to leave their small world and advance toward the Monster World.

The result was becoming fodder for the growth of other factions.

Scenes flashed by quickly.

Finally, Qi Sheng and the Guide arrived at a scene of heavy snowfall.

Here, the night sky was filled with brilliant stars, and Bai Bing Xue covered the ground like a huge white velvet carpet.

In the distance, mountains were continuous; atop the peaks, Bai Bing Xue was white and pure, majestic and solemn.

At the foot of the mountains, trees were covered in Bai Bing Xue, branches hung with crystal-clear icicles, and monsters of low hunting levels lived nearby.

When the consciousness scanned a purple Gao Ta at the foot of the snow mountain, Qi Sheng and the Guide stopped their exploration steps.

"What the hell is this?!"

The moment he saw the purple Gao Ta, Qi Sheng's heart was shaken.

The Guide consciousness body following beside him also had a dazed expression, as if struck by some visual shock.

Sensing consciousness swept over the Gao Ta.

The surging purple mist below, the conversion furnace at the center of the Gao Ta, the purple figure standing atop the Gao Ta, and the purple eyeball floating beside the purple figure.

It seemed to be a Hei Chao unit, but the fact was otherwise.

Qi Sheng spotted the problem at a glance.

This building was like a creator conducting a farcical experiment in the crack between replication and innovation, resulting in the birth of a "four-not-like" that was neither this nor that, making one laugh and cry.

The Gao Ta only replicated the appearance of the Evil Eye Gao Ta, but lacked the corresponding internal structure.

The seemingly surging furnace converter was merely a counterfeit Ban Cheng Pin.

What made Qi Sheng unable to hold back was the purple-skinned figure standing on the Gao Ta; it was clearly a replication of the Hei Chao's Evil Spirit Warrior. As for the purple eyeball floating beside it, it replicated the Evil Eye.

And this figure, without needing analysis, could be recognized by its origin at a glance.

Its shape was similar to a human, with two deep purple eyes, and a pair of huge purple wings on its back.

It was no one else, but a member of the "Extreme Joy Clan," an old friend of the players.

【Boss, it seems the Lord of Bliss has big ambitions. It actually wants to replicate the Black Tide's combat system, and even built a Bliss Gao Ta. How interesting.】

"The question is, is this Gao Ta even useful?" Qi Sheng said, looking at the purple Gao Ta with a slightly speechless expression.

【Obviously it only replicated the form, but the internal structure is a mess, and there's no corresponding rule power blessing. The Gao Ta built purely from the power of Bliss is more like a decoration. But you can see the Gao Ta has a trend of further updates and upgrades — many slots for adding spirit runes were left inside. Looks like it's in the improvement and upgrade stage.】

【The most interesting thing is that a massive spiritual radiation grand array was constructed inside the Gao Ta. The Bliss Clan seems to want to use this spiritual radiation grand array, like the Black Tide evil spirits, to control troop types in combat through spiritual connection.】

"What about the troop type templates?"

【There really are some. Don't forget the Bliss Grand Hall captured Monster World, and even all kinds of alien lives that descended upon Monster World. These are all subjects for the Bliss Clan's research and reference. Then, by condensing the power of Bliss, like an assembly line kneading clay, they replicate simplified versions of energy beings.】

【I sensed 120 crafting paths inside the Gao Ta. After energy is injected, the corresponding template can be generated, but all templates are shoddily made — they can't replicate the racial talents different beings should have. At best they only replicate a few ability traits.】

Saying so, the Guide switched the viewpoint to the inside of the Gao Ta.

Qi Sheng immediately saw the intricate energy paths. Under the Guide's deduction, the energy circulated along different paths, ultimately condensing into specific troop types.

They appeared before Qi Sheng's eyes as three-dimensional images.

【Stone Forest Beast】:

Analysis info: Incomplete Stone Forest Beast template, generated by injecting the power of Bliss, possessing a weakened version of the Stone Forest Beast's physique strength.

【Shadow Giant Wolf】:

Analysis info: Incomplete Shadow Giant Wolf template, generated by injecting the power of Bliss, possessing a weakened version of the Shadow Giant Wolf's physique and weakened speed traits.

……

At a glance, all were weakened replica templates.

Regarding this, Qi Sheng could completely understand.

How easy could it be to replicate a complete combat troop type template? First, two major difficulties must be solved.

The first difficulty is analyzing life structure.

The Guide mastered analysis rules and could assist him in presenting the structure analysis of any life or item.

But the Lord of Bliss clearly couldn't do this. His process of studying life structure required scanning with spiritual power, even dissection and testing, which would inevitably miss many hard-to-detect life structure nodes.

The second is material usage.

He possesses the Shou Shou Jili that transforms all things. Consuming Shou Shou Jili can generate perfectly replicated lives — this can no longer even be called replication, it's completely 1:1 creation.

Clearly, the Lord of Bliss couldn't do this either.

The power of Bliss, in the Guide's analysis info, is likewise a rule energy with very high plasticity.

But it's still far from reaching the trait of transforming all things. What is generated along the troop type template paths isn't any flesh-and-blood life, but energy lives purely simulated and constructed from the power of Bliss, unable to provide the racial traits flesh-and-blood lives should have.

Having only a framework, but no racial talents of living beings — such replication can't be said to have no combat power, but the gap with the original is huge.

Loving to learn is a good thing, but the Lord of Bliss clearly failed to learn well.

Just as Qi Sheng wanted to learn more, the Bliss Clan warrior standing on the Gao Ta platform raised his hand and pointed ahead, and surging power of Bliss poured into the tower body.

Various beings gestated and generated within the purple mist.

Under the Bliss Clan warrior's control, they swept toward the polar-bear-like monsters on the snow plain.

But what made Qi Sheng feel utterly ridiculous was that the process of the purple tide sweeping under the Bliss warrior's control was truly abstract.

Some beings broke away from the main force and went in the wrong direction.

Some beings had the upper body of one creature's template and the lower body of another's, limping as they walked, appearing extremely uncoordinated.

Some beings, after being created due to incomplete life structure, stood dazed on the spot, unable to receive the signal transmitted by the Bliss Gao Ta.

And the Bliss Clan warrior responsible for controlling the purple tide also had a ferocious expression, appearing extremely pained.

Multitasking control, without the Black Tide's perfected spiritual connection system — the scene was chaotic.

Just then, the purple eye suspended behind the Bliss Clan warrior extended tentacles and connected with the Bliss warrior's back.

As spiritual power was injected, the control feeling immediately improved considerably.

But it still couldn't effectively control the Bliss army. The whole way they stumbled and fell forward, and more than half fell out of formation before even entering the giant bear's territory.

This scene made Qi Sheng laugh out loud.

He finally understood what was going on.

The Bliss Clan clearly had studied the Black Tide's legion system, believing this legion system's construction was very powerful, and wanted to imitate and replicate it.

But they only replicated the surface — the internal architecture was a mess.

Even the spiritual connection was unstable, and there were coverage range issues. It could be called a magical army.

The most outrageous thing was that the troop type template architecture wasn't even complete.

All kinds of chaotic troop types had no system to speak of — more than half disconnected before even fighting.

There was also the setting of the evil eye.

The evil eye is a functional auxiliary of the Black Tide system, but the evil eye the Bliss Clan built is more like a spiritual power charging pack — you could also understand it as a power bank.

When controlling the purple tide caused the Bliss warrior's spiritual power to be over-consumed, connecting the power bank provided spiritual power endurance.

As for information database retrieval, battlefield analysis, perception viewpoint — a whole series of core functions — not one existed.

It had no intelligence whatsoever; its only reason for existence was charging.

What disaster was this? It was simply pure clownery.

Finally, under the Bliss warrior's control, the purple tide approached the giant bear.

What followed was an extremely uncoordinated combat scene. While the Bliss army beings constructed from purple energy struck at the giant bear, they also beat up their own army's beings along the way.

As for controlling beings to release abilities, the excessive number caused the Bliss warrior to be completely unable to precisely control them.

【Hahaha, this Bliss Clan is interesting — they actually control beings purely through spiritual power. You should know the Black Tide's spiritual connection control is more like a mind control, not this brute-force-miracle pure spiritual power control. What were they thinking, to actually come up with this kind of legion system?】

Hearing the Guide's words, Qi Sheng also couldn't help but laugh.

The Bliss warrior's behavior was like remote control — needing to operate different remote controllers simultaneously, the process was truly laborious.

And the way evil spirits controlled the Black Tide could be understood as "thought projection."

For example, when the Earth Corrupted Spirit controls the Black Tide to attack, it doesn't need to issue any command—the Black Tide will act according to its thoughts.

In between, the Evil Eye provides thought transcoding, generating countless connected action directives.

The entire process is silky smooth, without any restriction—thought itself is the command.

The way a Bliss Warrior controls things is the exact opposite.

As the guidance says, it's purely brute force creating miracles—no technique at all, all hard operation.

It's like a person needing to generate countless arms: one arm draws circles, one arm draws squares, one arm draws triangles… needing to simultaneously control different arms for detailed operations.

Controlling the Bliss Legion through a single mind with n uses.

This is also why the battle scenes of the Purple Tide army are overly abstract.

During the battle, one portion often freezes while another suddenly moves—you can see the Bliss Warriors on the Gao Ta platform having their brain cells nearly squeezed dry, fundamentally unable to group-control, only able to constantly switch screens.

If you absolutely have to name an advantage, it's not like there isn't one—the only thing the Lord of Bliss's replicated Purple Tide has that's decent is the backlash.

After units composed of Bliss Power die, they get reabsorbed and reused, but the conversion rate is only 45% of the Black Tide's.

This ratio looks very low, but it's actually already extremely high.

The Black Tide's rule characteristics are far beyond what Bliss Power can compare to—being able to reach close to 45% of the Black Tide would be an extremely outstanding existence even in the Monster World.

But apart from this advantage, every other aspect is a complete mess.

You can see the Lord of Bliss very much wants to improve, and is trying hard, but there's still a long road of exploration before success.

Can only say courage is commendable.

【Boss, look what I found.】

Just then, the image before Qi Sheng's eyes jumped westward.

A few seconds later, the image froze in front of a creature that was entirely purple, constantly writhing, and as massive as a small hill.

"This is, the Worm Tide Main Brain?!"

【No, more accurately, this is the Bliss Main Brain.】

(End of chapter)