Chapter 177: Gao Ta Mode, Super Player

【Challenger Notification (All Channels): Congratulations to the Player Legion for successfully containing the 6th Generation Meng Yuan Chu monster: Gao Ta. You have received a Shou Shou Jili reward of 100,000 (shared among all Warband players), plus an additional 15 6th Generation Painful Painful Minghun (awarded to the top 15 players by contribution in this campaign).】

As the all-channel notification sounded, the campaign officially concluded.

The God King commanded the players to launch a death charge against the Di Nian Bully.

Throughout this entire campaign, the players hardly made a move, blocked outside the whole time by the Di Nian Bully's firewalls.

The killing of Gao Ta was accomplished by the Hei Chao Xie Sui controlled by the Di Nian Bully.

Fortunately, at the critical moment, the God King commanded the assassin-type players to successfully approach Gao Ta, inflicting symbolic damage.

Regarding how to obtain the kill rights, veteran players had basically all asked the Guide.

In non-party situations, the way players obtain kill rights is mainly determined by damage output.

The side with the highest damage output receives the full reward feedback.

Within the same party, the feedback reward is shared among party members.

If members are from different parties, ownership is still determined by the amount of damage dealt.

If competing with external NPCs for kill rights, there is no such worry.

As long as a player has dealt damage output, or even just made contact, and the target being killed is within the range reachable by the Guide's avatar, they can obtain the full reward.

In the players' eyes, this is a setting, but in reality, there is an underlying logic to be found.

The state of monsters can be divided into two types: the living state and the dead state.

The living state is also regarded as a stable life state; at this time, the Guide's avatar using the "Extraction of All Things" ability cannot affect the monster in any way.

But at the instant of death, the structure of stable life collapses.

Extraction of All Things instantly extracts the killed monster into life energy, which enters the Challenger System for purification processing, and finally flows through the Beneath Di Zhao's solid self-origin into the Shou Shou Jili Pool.

And a player's contact with the target can be understood as an information marker; only when a player touches the target can a connection be established with the Challenger System.

Therefore, a player only needs to touch Gao Ta and continue to survive, and as long as Gao Ta is within the coverage range of the Guide's avatar, this rule collective, even if killed by the Hei Chao Xie Sui, they can still obtain the full feedback reward.

A similar situation occurred at the previous Hall of Extreme Bliss; even if the Fallen were killed by the Warriors of Extreme Bliss, players who had dealt output could still obtain the full reward.

Having successfully contained Gao Ta, the Warband players cheered and jumped for joy.

Regarding this, the Di Nian Evil Spirit, located on the platform of Gao Ta, felt very confused.

It did not understand what these stupid players were so happy about.

It could see that this group of players very much wanted to kill Gao Ta, so it deliberately went against their wishes, setting up layer upon layer of firewalls.

Ultimately, it personally ended Gao Ta's life.

It had wanted to see the players' frustration after failing to kill, but it did not expect them to become happy instead.

This was completely different from the result it had envisioned.

Although it did not understand, the Player Legion had already attacked.

It decisively commanded the Hei Chao to generate Disaster-type and Plague-type units, and began to beat the players.

During the process of the players and the Hei Chao fighting each other, their pain points were different.

For the players, it was physical pain; for the Di Nian Evil Spirit, it was mental heartache.

Two hours later.

The figure of the God King appeared in the space of Di Zhong Village.

Having finished his resurrection cooldown, he opened his Xing Nang Jie; the interface displayed before his eyes contained a total of 300 slots.

Except for spiritual food, the rest were all various types of potions.

Especially the Spirit Repair Potions, which could be described as a mountain of them.

After all, every use of the Eagle-Head Demon consumed a great deal of spiritual power, and with the Brain Overclocking Painful Painful Minghun, he drank medicine like flowing water.

The only Painful Painful Minghun that could solve the problem of excessive consumption, "Hai Na," has not yet been contained.

At this moment, in the 276th space slot, a 6th Generation Painful Painful Minghun seal had appeared.

Upon his gaze touching it, the detailed information of the Painful Painful Minghun floated into his mind.

【Gao Ta (6th Generation Painful Painful Minghun)】:

Painful Painful Minghun Trait: Can establish Gao Ta nodes in unoccupied territories through the Gao Ta Painful Painful Minghun, obtaining continuously produced Gao Ta Power (occupying a node requires consuming spiritual power to construct a node crystal, which can be destroyed by external forces; nodes already occupied by players cannot be re-occupied by other players).

【Gao Ta Mode: 】

Earthquake Gao Ta: Can alter terrain structures by consuming Gao Ta Power, and control the power of the earth to generate rock buildings and barriers.

Ice Plains Gao Ta: Can control ice elemental energy at will by consuming Gao Ta Power; after activating the Extreme Cold Domain mode, the surrounding temperature drops sharply, forming an extreme cold area where all targets within the domain suffer extreme cold erosion damage.

War Gao Ta: Can enhance the combat abilities of perception-marked targets by consuming Gao Ta Power, including increasing attributes such as attack power, defense, and speed, granting attribute buffs to both oneself and the marked (perception-marked) targets; can also consume Gao Ta Power to generate War Golems for combat (the strength of War Golems is affected by the Painful Painful Minghun level and spiritual power strength).

Forest Gao Ta: By consuming Gao Ta Power, can freely control plants such as trees, vines, flowers, and grass; in perception mode, can extend and bend tree branches to form various shapes of obstacles to block enemy advances, or can drive vines to entangle and restrict enemies, causing attacks.

Flame Gao Ta: By consuming Gao Ta Power, can generate a Lava Domain, causing continuous flame damage to all targets within the domain's range.

After reading the introduction to the traits and effects of the Gao Ta Painful Painful Minghun, the God King, who had originally planned to sell the Painful Painful Minghun, suddenly had an idea.

Summoning a vehicle, he immediately went to the Test Tower in the space of Di Zhong Village.

After entering the scene, he dragged the latest "Gao Ta" Painful Painful Minghun from the Painful Painful Minghun Library list into the fifth slot of the Star Pulse Slot.

He then raised the Gao Ta Painful Painful Minghun to level 100.

The elevation of the Painful Painful Minghun brought a powerful amplification feedback.

On the spiritual level, thinking clarity improved significantly, like clouds parting to reveal the sun, instantly becoming clear and transparent.

Attention also became abnormally focused, as if the entire world had fallen silent.

On the level of blood qi strength, the amplification brought a comprehensive improvement in bodily functions; he could clearly feel a surging power surging through his veins, every heartbeat like a war drum beating, strong and powerful, delivering energy-rich blood to all parts of the body, and his muscles became tighter and more elastic during the amplification.

The method of using Gao Ta abilities was imprinted in his mind like breathing.

A look of delighted surprise appeared on the God King's face.

He had not guessed wrong; this was a domain-controlling Painful Painful Minghun.

He selected an island scene, and instantly the test scene warped and changed.

The sea breeze, carrying a salty and damp scent, rushed to his face first, while the sound of waves crashing against the shore rocks, a "Boom—Boom—", reached his ears.

Looking up, the sky was as blue as a gemstone, and sunlight poured down without reservation.

Glancing around, the vegetation on the island was lush and green, with various strange flowers, plants, and trees radiating vigorous vitality.

Switching to Forest Lord mode, a faint green fluorescent mark appeared on his forehead.

In the main mode, using the characteristic abilities would not alter his human form.

The switch completed; his sense of nature became exceptionally clear, and he felt the greenery on the island was like a canvas ready to be painted at will.

In an instant, a thought formed.

The Eagle-Headed Demon's perception perspective expanded outward, covering nearby spiritual plants, as he attempted to control the greenery to grow rapidly.

At this moment, a prompt popped up in his mind:

【Challenger Prompt: No Lord Power available to consume; cannot release Lord characteristics.】

Realizing he lacked Lord Power, he immediately summoned the Star Pulse panel, touched the Lord Painful Painful Minghun with his consciousness, and adjusted the Lord Power value to: 100 million.

Trying again, his consciousness established a deep connection with the natural elements in the forest.

In an instant, the originally still trees shook violently; thick branches intertwined and wrapped around each other, quickly forming solid green defense barriers that surrounded the entire island. Subsequently, vines burst from the ground, winding and slithering like agile pythons, laying layer upon layer of traps around the defense barriers.

"Awesome!"

After initializing the scene, the God King switched to Ice Plains Lord mode.

A phantom crystal crown appeared above his head; within the range of his perception, extreme cold mist spread and expanded.

The originally emerald grass, flowing streams, and towering trees on the island were all frozen solid under the assault of extreme cold power.

Even the small hills on the island were not spared; covered by a thick layer of ice and snow, their originally undulating contours became rounded and smooth, as if giant ice sculptures carefully carved by nature.

In the sky, the originally white clouds were also affected by this extreme cold energy, turning into snowflakes that drifted down in a flurry.

In a mere moment, the once vibrant island turned into a vast expanse of white ice and snow.

Only he stood in the center of this ice and snow world, unaffected by the environmental changes, as if the sole ruler of this Bing Bing Xue Shi Jie.

Afterwards, the God King successively tested the performance of the War Lord, Earth Rift Lord, and Flame Lord abilities.

After several hours of in-depth testing, he could not help but laugh heartily.

This ability, which seemed to be a Painful Painful Minghun for boosting combat power, was actually more suitable for legion command.

He could enhance his side's combat power in war through the Lord Painful Painful Minghun's characteristic manifestations, such as modifying the battlefield terrain, or creating defense barriers via Forest Lord mode to block enemy advances, and so on.

During the testing, he discovered that this Painful Painful Minghun had a very high compatibility with him.

He had carefully analyzed the gap between himself and Di Nian Eba, and the known main gaps fell into three points.

First, Di Nian Eba had the Evil Eye as an assistant, which could provide more detailed data support, and the range of his perception perspective was hundreds of times larger than his, covering an extremely vast area.

Second, Di Nian Eba's command efficiency was far higher than his own command.

Di Nian Eba's command was a stream of consciousness; it required no complex orders, just a single thought to control the evil troops' actions.

Whereas he needed to convey orders verbally, and players could only act after understanding the orders.

Finally, there was the complete system of troops capable of dealing with any complex environment and hostile forces, meaning no situation existed where a powerful enemy could form a capability counter.

Rather than saying Di Nian Eba was commanding, it was more accurate to say he was controlling the Black Tide in battle.

Every thought of Di Nian Eba could change the course of the war; his participation and control over the war were far greater than his.

He had not found solutions for the first two problems, but control over the war changed after the Lord Painful Painful Minghun appeared.

With the Lord Painful Painful Minghun, he could change the environment by consuming Lord Power, and could even enhance the attributes of some players through War Lord Power.

In the God King's view, the Lord Painful Painful Minghun was simply tailor-made for him.

Every Lord form could provide him with opportunities to change the course of the battle, significantly improving his control over the war.

Leaving the test tower, the God King decisively opened the fifth Star Pulse slot and embedded the Lord Painful Painful Minghun.

All of the Lord's abilities required consuming Lord Power to release; he now needed to construct Lord Nodes to generate territories that could continuously produce Lord Power.

Arriving near the exit point of the Di Zong Mountain Range, he squatted down, placed his hand on the ground, and attempted to construct the first Lord Node.

Accompanied by the continuous consumption of spiritual power, a steady stream of energy flowed down his arm into the earth, forming spreading spiritual patterns on the ground.

Just then, a Challenger Prompt popped up in his mind:

【Challenger Prompt: Constructing Lord Node failed; this scene is covered by the Evil Moon and cannot establish a territory.】

The God King's eyebrows furrowed slightly.

The entire Di Zong Mountain Range region was covered by the Evil Moon, which meant it was impossible to establish a Lord Node in the Di Zong Mountain Range region.

He decisively turned back to Di Zong Village, then used the teleportation array to arrive at the Colorful Mist Coast.

Squatting down near the exit, he attempted to construct a Lord Node again.

Energy flowed down his arm into the earth; spreading spiritual patterns appeared on the ground once more, stopping after covering a radius of three meters, and a yellowish-brown node crystal appeared above the ground.

【Lord Node】:

Range: 28.26 square meters

Owner Player: Wang Guan

Lord Power Output (per hour): 2 points.

Prompt: Lord Nodes can be destroyed by external forces; occupied nodes cannot be occupied by other players.

Seeing the prompt, Wang Guan already understood how to obtain the output of Lord Power.

The only thing to worry about was that Lord Nodes could be destroyed by external forces.

He immediately decided to accelerate the speed of his conquest.

After much deliberation, he decomposed the Marked Painful Minghun in his Star Pulse Slot.

All the Evolution Power obtained from the decomposition feedback was added to the Lord Painful Minghun, raising it to level 34.

He then purchased another Marked Painful Minghun and embedded it back into the empty Star Pulse Slot.

After the Painful Minghun's level increased, the construction speed of his territory significantly accelerated, with each release covering an area of over two hundred square meters.

He felt he must seize the safest Colorful Mist Coast region as soon as possible; otherwise, once other players realized the strength of the Lord Painful Minghun, it would be too late.

Although it was a sixth-generation Painful Minghun, the Lord Painful Minghun was not a special Painful Minghun like the Infinite Painful Minghun; it could be purchased in the Painful Minghun Shop for fifty thousand Shou Shou Jili.

This meant the number of players possessing a Lord Painful Minghun would continue to grow.

The scramble for territory would also become increasingly fierce.

Territories in other regions were not very safe.

But the Colorful Mist Coast region was different.

The monsters near the coast had basically been cleared by players, and with players frequently active in this area, the safety level was extremely high.

Seizing this area meant gaining a continuous yield of Lord Power.

As for other more distant regions, even if a Lord Node could be established, there was a possibility of it being destroyed by other forces, or even by passing beasts.

Although the price of fifty thousand Shou Shou Jili was high, some players could still afford it.

Especially as players continued to grow, Shou Shou Jili production would increase, and competitors would also become more numerous.

Just as the God King was about to roll up his sleeves and get to work, a connection prompt sounded in his mind.

After connecting, a guild executive asked him if he wanted to organize a warband to go settle the score with Di Nian Eba again.

The God King decisively stated he would hand over command authority to the guild leaders of other guilds first, as he was busy doing something big.

Cutting the video connection, he took a bottle of Mental Restoration Potion from his Spatial Bag, drank it in one gulp, went to an open space, squatted down, and continued constructing the Domain Node.

Imagining himself commanding the winds and rains in the next round of command, a smile unconsciously appeared on the corner of his mouth.

The sense of frustration brought by Di Nian Eba was alleviated after the appearance of the Lord Painful Minghun.

Facts proved that his command ability still had room for improvement.

The current Star Pulse Slot combination was: Eagle-Head Demon, Qi Eater, Mark, Brain Overclock, and Lord.

Perhaps in the near future, a new Painful Minghun would appear that would greatly enhance his command ability.

Di Nian Eba was not invincible.

Winter Snowfield.

Using the Gao Ta node of Extreme Bliss as a relay, the consciousness of the Lord of Extreme Bliss scanned the battlefield.

The battlefield was divided into two regions.

The Extreme Bliss Purple Tide and the Extreme Bliss Insect Tide were respectively fighting against two groups of player tribes.

The scene was incredibly chaotic, truly a case of amateurs pecking at each other.

Various bizarre combat methods made the Lord of Extreme Bliss feel utterly speechless inside.

Wars of this intensity wouldn't even qualify to pick up chopsticks in the Monster World.

However, the control over the Purple Tide Warriors and Insect Tide Warriors had significantly improved during the war with the players.

Initially, it had envisioned a war mode where, like the Black Tide and the Insect Tide, it would control the whole situation through individual control, performing detailed operations.

Facts proved that the idea of multitasking was valid, but its clan members obviously lacked that ability.

Even with Spirit Power Charging Eyes equipped, they still could not perform detailed operations; often, after focusing control on a single target, large groups of Purple Tide and Insect Tide warriors would disconnect, losing combat capability.

Multiple attempts, repeated failures.

For this reason, it modified the control method.

It changed detailed operations to parallel control, issuing a single command to make the generated warriors act collectively.

For example, upon issuing an attack command, all Purple Tide and Insect Tide warriors would simultaneously advance against the front.

This control mode indeed had miraculous effects; the combat power of the Extreme Bliss Purple Tide and Extreme Bliss Insect Tide significantly improved.

But very stupid performances still occurred.

For instance, some warriors had no player tribe members in front of them, yet after receiving the command, they would still strike the empty space ahead.

The rate of friendly fire under parallel control was also very high.

Sometimes, when players launched a massive charge, the battlefield was cut apart, leaving the warriors controlling the Purple Tide no time to attend to everything.

At this point, when an attack command was issued, the warriors of the Purple Tide and the Extreme Bliss Insect Tide would decisively strike even if friendly forces stood in front of them.

The conclusion drawn from constant testing was that the future growth potential of parallel control was not as good as the previous detailed control mode.

So it considered changing the parallel control back to consciousness flow perception control.

But the problem was, it could not think of exactly how to improve the control ability of its subordinates.

The detailed control of the Black Tide and the Insect Tide was smooth and fluid; if its Extreme Bliss Purple Tide and Extreme Bliss Insect Tide faced these two forces directly, even if their strength was superior, they would be nothing but toys.

While scanning the battlefield, the Lord of Extreme Bliss fell into deep thought.

He could think of three solutions, but none were perfect.

The first solution was to create a Perception Enhancement Crystal, allowing subordinate warriors to connect to this enhancement crystal to strengthen their Spirit Power intensity.

This method could significantly improve control over the troop types, but the problem was it still did not solve the core issue of detailed control.

The underlying logic was wrong; the path of piling up Spirit Power intensity like creating miracles through brute force simply could not be taken.

To ascend to a world-class battlefield, in the future, a single subordinate would have to control combat units numbering in the millions, or even tens of millions.

If a subordinate could truly perform detailed control over a force of such scale, it would be better to directly act by consuming Spirit Power; the effect caused would be far stronger than control.

This solution was theoretically feasible, but it had no technical merit, and the resources required to consume were also terrifying.

The second plan was to split the consciousness of subordinates, achieving the goal of division and control, with each consciousness controlling multiple troop types.

But the problem was that a subordinate's consciousness could be split once, twice, three times; however, if split too many times, the subordinate would simply have their consciousness dissipate and die.

It had no technology to repair damaged consciousness; this plan was only theoretically feasible, with no practical significance.

The third plan was to create a rule that could generate consciousness, granting primary intelligence to the Bliss Black Tide warriors and Bliss Worm Tide warriors, allowing the warriors to understand commands.

This plan had the highest theoretical feasibility, but compared to the Black Tide and Worm Tide, it had an extra process of understanding commands, making it noticeably weaker in war intensity.

Most importantly, there was no clue whatsoever on how to generate the rule for creating consciousness.

Watching the course of the war, the Lord of Bliss grew more and more irritated the longer he watched.

He felt that what he had created was all garbage; not only had he failed to learn the essence of the Black Tide and Worm Tide, but it was also a particular waste of Bliss Power.

To update his technology, he connected all the resources of the three Bliss branch halls to the Frost Winter Snowfield.

The Bliss Power produced daily by the three branch halls was all subsidized here.

But progress was very slow, completely failing to reach the expectations he desired.

The Lord of Bliss, growing more and more irritated the longer he watched, withdrew his consciousness and returned to the Bliss Main Hall.

He sat cross-legged on the teleportation altar, falling into deep thought.

"Creating spirit crystals, consciousness splitting, shaping consciousness…" The three plans' concepts switched in his mind.

Just then, he suddenly thought of the Player faction.

Through contact during this period, he had gained a fairly detailed understanding of this faction.

Fearless of death, eager for slaughter, terrible technology… these were its fixed impressions of the players.

Especially the trait of being fearless of death left him very puzzled.

Hei Chao Xie Sui and Worm Tide warriors were also fearless of death in war mode, but the deaths of troop types from these two factions essentially did not affect the commanding warriors in the rear.

For example, the Black Tide's trait of post-death backlash meant that the deaths of Hei Chao Xie Sui did not involve much energy loss.

They only needed to be reshaped to rejoin battle.

But the Player faction was different; their behavior seemed very unconventional, completely filling the line with their lives.

It could understand the racial diversity of Monster World.

Different cultures and histories would give a race cognition and behavior different from other races.

But what puzzled it was, how had this faction fearless of death not yet been exterminated?

In the current Monster World, factions descended every second of every minute, and competition intensity grew ever higher. A faction like the Player faction, weak in strength and fond of provoking everywhere, should logically have been exterminated long ago.

Could it be that their reproduction ability was especially strong?

The Lord of Bliss did not dwell on this question; what he cared more about was a series of traits on the Player faction.

If he could create combat consciousness similar to the Player faction's fearlessness of death, and then implant that consciousness into the Bliss Purple Tide and Bliss Worm Tide, it would be perfect.

Hmm?!

The Lord of Bliss's expression froze.

He suddenly realized he seemed to have fallen into a mistaken way of thinking.

Why must one create?

Could he not collect the consciousness of other lives and directly implant it into the Bliss Purple Tide and Bliss Worm Tide warriors?

This idea made the Lord of Bliss's heart pound.

He felt he seemed to have found a very reliable feasible plan.

Collect consciousness, implant it into warriors.

Create a group of warriors that could possess intelligence.

But new problems immediately surfaced: where to collect consciousness, and how to collect consciousness.

The various factions of Monster World were terrifyingly strong; even small races were not easily controlled, making it too difficult to form a consciousness group of large scale.

But this idea indeed possessed feasibility.

Thinking of this, the Lord of Bliss spoke in a deep voice:

"Xie Yu, gather the 32 Route Gods; I want to hold a meeting."

The purple-skinned figure hidden beside the Lord of Bliss appeared, nodded respectfully, then vanished.

Not long after, 32 figures materialized beside the Lord of Bliss, and a discussion began on the idea of how to collect consciousness.

The meeting lasted several hours. After the 32 subordinates departed, the Lord of Bliss still had not obtained a feasible plan.

While unable to suppress a sigh, it felt that if it made no further progress, it would probably have to return to the small world to retire.

The moment the small world surfaced in its mind, it suddenly froze.

Small world?!

If the beings of Monster World could not be controlled, could it instead Du Xiao Shi Jie beings, drawing their consciousness into the Purple Tide warriors and Worm Tide warriors, making them fight for it?

Let's try!

With an idea in mind, the Lord of Bliss's mood instantly became excited.

But before recruiting small world beings, it needed to solve two problems.

The first problem was how to Du Xiao Shi Jie.

Ji De Xiang Fa was to consume Bliss Power to create a consciousness relay station, and establish it within the Bliss Main Hall.

The second problem was how to retrieve the consciousness of deceased small world beings and send it back to the small world.

After pondering for a long time, the Lord of Bliss shared his thoughts with Xie Yu beside him.

Xie Yu, Biao Qing Ning Zhong, was silent for a long time before speaking:

"My Lord, why retrieve them? If they die, we can simply Du Xiao Shi Jie new lives."

Lord of Bliss: ……

"Only those who cannot die can charge fearlessly like players. If they can die, the first thing they think of when facing war is fleeing. What use do I have for cowardly warriors?"

Evil Tongue nodded in sudden understanding:

"Perhaps we can start by recruiting a small number to test the results. During this period, I'll personally guide the consciousnesses of deceased beings from the small worlds, and then we'll consider how to protect and guide the consciousnesses of fallen warriors."

"Good, we'll do as you say." After speaking, the Lord of Bliss paused briefly, then continued:

"I wonder how the small worlds have developed during the years we were away. Come back to the small worlds with me first and take a look."

……

Blissful Realm.

A teleportation vortex appeared in the air, and two figures descended upon the small world.

This was a world fifteen times larger than Earth.

After descending upon the small world, the two figures immediately began investigating the life-form intensity of this world.

But to the Lord of Bliss's disappointment, the homeland world seemed to have severely weakened after their departure; the life intensity of newly born beings was pitifully weak.

Especially their spiritual strength — it was simply unbearable to look at.

Passing through the towering skyscrapers, the Lord of Bliss was in a foul mood.

Evil Tongue said nothing, his perception still scanning the surrounding scene.

Before long, the Lord of Bliss landed in front of a bookstore.

With a light wave of his hand, a breeze swept through, and all the books in the store flipped open on their own, the text leaping about like sprites.

The Lord of Bliss read the text on the books — from current affairs to the lives of the people, from sporting events to arts criticism — gaining a more detailed understanding of this world's beings' values and the rules governing its society.

Afterwards, the Lord of Bliss's gaze swept toward a television that was playing.

In an instant, the television channels switched wildly against its will.

Having gained a preliminary understanding, he walked straight into the bookstore, came to the counter, and reached for the computer.

"Hey, what are you doing!" The bookstore owner abruptly stood up, his crocodile-like massive head looking somewhat ferocious.

Smack!

Evil Tongue merely glared, and the bookstore owner's head instantly exploded.

Screams immediately erupted from all around. The Lord of Bliss couldn't even be bothered to glance, and walked up to the computer at the counter.

Once his consciousness touched the computer, web pages opened automatically, constantly jumping, and a flood of information came pouring in like a tide.

Through the homeland world's beings sharing, discussing, and expressing opinions on the internet, he gained an in-depth understanding of this world's current situation.

From this information, he learned that the homeland world had undergone earth-shaking changes after his departure.

According to historical records, after the Bliss Race departed, the homeland world was plunged into a prolonged war for the position of World Lord.

Through cycles of division and reunification, history advanced rapidly.

New technologies were born during this period, and the construction of combat power systems had taken a different path from what he had originally established.

Until the Arrival Era came, and war began anew.

In this era, three forces descended upon the homeland world. One of them, a force called the Zero Mechanism Race, brought technology that would guide the world's development.

But this force was not long in descending before it was wiped out by the various factions of the homeland world. However, the technical data they carried transformed the world into its current form.

The flood of information continued to pour in.

Games?

Upon seeing information related to virtual games, the Lord of Bliss was first stunned, then a smile appeared on his face.

"Interesting."

"My Lord, what have you discovered?" Evil Tongue asked curiously.

The Lord of Bliss did not answer, turning to look at the enforcement forces that had already surrounded the bookstore.

Facing the enforcers' loud shouts, signaling those inside to surrender and come out, Evil Tongue, standing beside the Lord of Bliss, revealed a ferocious grin, his gaze suddenly sweeping toward the outside of the bookstore.

A psychic shockwave instantly swept forward, and all living beings had their heads explode and die.

"What are you doing?"

"My Lord, the way they looked at you held no reverence. They deserved to die."

The Lord of Bliss did not pursue this matter further:

"Evil Tongue, stay in this world. I have a task for you."

"My Lord, please speak."

"I need you to take control of the management of a company called Black Iron Game Company." As he spoke, a book from the shelf flew over, hovering in front of Evil Tongue and flipping pages on its own, stopping at the introductory information about Black Iron Company.

"Understood." Evil Tongue did not ask why, nodding immediately.

"Don't kill anyone." The Lord of Bliss reminded him emphatically.

"Understood."

As if still not at ease, the Lord of Bliss continued:

"Starting now, you are not to kill in the homeland world — not a single one. They are all useful to me."

"Understood." Evil Tongue nodded again.

……

Before long, the Lord of Bliss returned to the Blissful Grand Hall.

This trip consumed a considerable amount of Bliss Power, but fortunately the gains were substantial.

The concept of games from the homeland world gave him an idea for a potentially viable plan.

But before that, he had to create a consciousness-guiding device.

Bliss Power was consumed violently during this period, and a consciousness-guiding crystal stone materialized above the altar.

Millions, tens of millions, hundreds of millions, billions, tens of billions… several days later, the crystal for guiding consciousness was completed.

(PS: Last time it was mentioned that the Lord of Bliss's reserve resources had reached 130 billion Shou Shou Jili, but this is the value converted into Shou Shou Jili; the Bliss Power calculation value would be even higher.)

After multiple tests, it has already proven feasible.

Although cases of consciousness guidance annihilation still occur, the error rate is extremely low and entirely fit for use.

It rose at this moment, deciding once again to head to its homeland world and lay out the subsequent plan.

……

Several days later, a news report sparked heated discussion in the Bliss World.

【Black Iron Corporation's latest developed VR game officially launched, game title: Monster World · Endless Adventure.】

The news detailed the game's settings and background.

It emphasized that the game possessed perfect realism and a grand world background, and stated that this game would be distributed free of charge to players worldwide.

The appearance of this news filled "adventurers (players)" all over the world with anticipation for the game Black Iron Gaming Corporation was about to release.

But voices of doubt also arose.

Many players stated that it was impossible for a VR game to achieve one hundred percent realism at the hardware level — this was purely Black Iron Gaming Corporation's exaggerated description to promote its new game.

Regarding this series of doubts, the Lord of Bliss did not care in the slightest.

It couldn't be bothered with whether hardware or software could support it; whoever in this world dared to obstruct its plans, Xie Yu would step in and execute them.

This world does not need too many clever people.

Especially argumentative trolls!

What it wanted were fearless, frenzied warriors like the Player Clan.

That evening, the Lord of Bliss arrived at the game's promotional venue.

Just as it entered the venue, it heard a voice on the broadcast introducing the game's content.

"Welcome to Monster World: Endless Adventure. This is a super virtual reality game that lets you immerse yourself in lifelike scenes."

"Step into the game and you will find yourself in a dangerous Monster World, with dense, gloomy forests, where massive ancient trees blot out the sky… The game features a rich and diverse quest system…."

After touring for a while, the Lord of Bliss mentally connected with Xie Yu, demanding that the game begin its first round of internal testing as soon as possible.

Xie Yu's understanding of "fast" had only one concept: immediately, right now.

So not long after the new game was announced, Black Iron Corporation held a second launch conference, stating that ten internal testing slots would be released to the public that evening.

……

That evening, the ten internal-testing "adventurers (players)" entered the game via consciousness transfer.

But the expenditure of transporting ten players made the Lord of Bliss wince in pain.

It felt that once the game officially opened, it would need to build a stable spatial tunnel connecting to Jie Xiao Shi Jie — only this way could transmission loss be reduced.

As for building a spatial passage with zero transmission cost, that was simply impossible.

Constructing a spatial passage is essentially a process of tearing space; even a stable-type spatial tunnel would suffer self-healing wear generated during the world's operation, requiring continuous investment of Bliss Power for maintenance.

To create a lossless spatial tunnel, one would have to completely alter the spatial structure; it felt that perhaps only a spatial-type deity among the Four Gods of Monster World could accomplish this.

Once glimpsed from afar, still unforgettable to this day.

Thinking of the Four Gods of Monster World who had contended against the Black Tide Demon God, the gloom buried deep in its heart surged up once more.

Suppressing its emotions, it turned its gaze toward the ten players who had entered the consciousness relay station.

The consciousness transmission process was relatively slow — this was an area it needed to improve later. It waited fifteen minutes before delivering the ten internal-testing players to the relay station.

At this moment, the ten players who had logged into the game were also dumbfounded.

After waiting fifteen minutes, their vision was still black, and there was even no logout function.

The silent darkness filled them with intense fear; they wanted to log out but there was no logout option.

They tried calling out to log out, but received no response.

The soundless silence even made them feel they might have become brain-dead.

Just then, Xie Yu's voice rang out in their minds:

【Welcome to the game. Begin character selection. Available characters: Insect Race, Evil Spirit. Please choose.】

Before their eyes was pitch black; the ten players' minds crashed.

"You said it was a virtual reality game — at least pop up the character selection screen! It's pitch black, what the hell am I supposed to pick?"

A player complained on the spot.

【Please select your game character.】

The prompt sounded again, and Xie Yu's voice carried a hint of killing intent — clearly growing impatient.

The ten players cursed inwardly; wanting to escape the pitch-black environment as soon as possible, they immediately chose their characters.

Four of them chose the Insect Race, their consciousness projected to the Bliss Main Brain in the Frost Snow Plains.

Six chose Evil Spirit, their consciousness projected to Gao Ta in the Frost Snow Plains.

As for background introductions, game instructions, Shangcheng functions, and so on — the Lord of Bliss simply hadn't set any of them up.

The internal testing phase was meant to test the feasibility of the consciousness-transfer mode; as for the experience of these ten players, it was not within consideration at all.

If they dared to go out and say the game was bad, kill them all.

Bliss Power constructed their bodies at this moment; the first batch of players received extra preferential treatment, entering the game at an initial intensity of Hunting Level 30.

What appeared before their eyes was a scene of heavy snowfall; the realism before them left them feeling it was hard to believe.

At this moment, Xie Yu's voice rang out once more:

"Main quest activated: Kill Player Clan warriors (0/10)."

After the quest prompt appeared, there was likewise no quest panel, nor could they check quest progress.

The excessive freedom once again crashed the players' minds.

But they still followed the main quest's requirement and charged toward the frontline battlefield where they were locked in fierce combat with the Player Clan.

A hunting level of 30 was already considerably higher than that of many newbie players.

After entering the battlefield, their enhanced bodies had a series of adaptation issues, but compared to other Bliss Evils, their combat power was stronger by more than a notch.

As for how to find players, it was also easy — every player had an enlarged "Player" label hovering above their head.

Before long, these ten players had completed the kill mission.

But there was no reward, only a single prompt: "Mission Complete."

The ten players, who had wanted to continue experiencing the game's content, were forcibly ripped from their consciousness by the Evil Tongue at this point; after fifteen minutes of darkness, they were sent back to their homeland world.

The preliminary test — the performance of the homeland world's inhabitants left the Lord of Bliss very satisfied.

Although the Ferry Plan still had many aspects needing refinement, the scheme had already proven its feasibility.

It also gave this type of warrior a new name.

The name Bliss Black Tide came from the Black Tide.

The name Bliss Bug Tide came from the Bug Race.

And the inspiration for this batch of warriors created by the Ferry Plan originally came from the fearless-of-death Player Race.

Then this group of warriors shall be called: Bliss Players.

(End of this chapter)