Chapter 20: Challenger Plan

【Player Count: 90】

Number of Meng Yuan Chu traits contained: 9

Shou Shou Jili produced by players today: 552 points

Average monster level of players: 5

Domain nodes possessed: Beneath Di Zhao Village (the place where the last strand of Beneath Di Zhao's origin is buried, possessing the territory rule trait of reshaping life and flesh)

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After checking today's income, the Meng Yuan Chu altar beneath Qi Sheng's feet glowed.

After a brief spatial distortion, he appeared in his bedroom in the real world.

Glancing at the calendar hanging on the wall, he opened the window, switched to Beneath Di Zhao form, and flew into the vast night.

After a long time, Qi Sheng appeared before a desolate cemetery.

This place had not been tended to for years; many tombstones were covered in plant vines, and nearby was a city rail station under construction.

Qi Sheng's footsteps stopped before a tombstone.

The photo on this tombstone had already faded, and the text carved on it was also mottled.

Gazing at the tombstone, Qi Sheng's expression was complex; finally, he knelt before the tombstone and bowed heavily.

Maintaining the posture for a long time, he stood up and began to repair the tombstone, during which past events surged into his mind.

As a child, he always fantasized about possessing abilities beyond ordinary people, but the moment he truly possessed them, he found he had already shouldered a heavy mission.

The year he traveled to the Monster World, he was 18.

At that time, the Monster World was in violent turmoil; the Monster King Beneath Di Zhao had self-decomposed, and various factions, leaderless, fell into a chaotic period of warlords dividing the land.

War had already continued for thousands of years before his arrival; factions that once served Beneath Di Zhao all wanted to become the masters of the new world.

Among them, four factions were the most powerful.

They were Yan Ming, who wielded the power of space; Jiu Yin, who wielded the power of purification; Zhi Yin, who wielded the power of analysis; and Chao Wei, who wielded the power of extracting all things.

They had once been Beneath Di Zhao's most loyal servants; after Beneath Di Zhao's disintegration, they all believed they were the best successors to Beneath Di Zhao and wanted to inherit the "Solid Self Origin Power" buried in Beneath Di Zhao Village after Beneath Di Zhao's self-decomposition to become the new Beneath Di Zhao.

But the arrival of the terrifying Black Tide changed the originally deadlocked chaotic battle pattern.

The Monster World was gradually corroded by the power of the Black Tide; the environmental ecology was destroyed, and spatial rifts appeared in many places in the world.

If this trend continued, the Monster World would eventually be swallowed by the Black Tide.

The four servants finally chose to join hands to fight the Black Tide, battling against endless evil life forms.

The long war made the four servants gradually weaker, but the power of the evil forms continuously strengthened with the Black Tide's infiltration of the world; defeat was irreversible.

Finally, the four servants were forced back by the evil forms to the edge of the Monster World, which was Beneath Di Zhao Village where Beneath Di Zhao left the Solid Self Origin, and cooperated to open a taboo seal to hide within it.

And Beneath Di Zhao Village was also the last pure land in the Monster World that had not yet fallen.

The four servants originally wanted to try to fuse Beneath Di Zhao's Solid Self Origin, inherit Beneath Di Zhao's power, and fight the Black Tide again with Beneath Di Zhao's might.

But at the critical moment, the terrifying Black Tide attacked again, shrouding Beneath Di Zhao Village.

It was at this time point that he traveled to the Monster World, was sucked into the vortex of the terrifying Black Tide, and was in danger of dying at any moment.

At the critical moment, it was the four servants who joined hands to repel the Black Tide and, in passing, saved him back to Beneath Di Zhao Village.

This intervention also made the already weak four servants even weaker, and their bodies appeared with problems of varying degrees during the process of fighting the Black Tide.

Zhi Yin was also stripped of its life form at that time and became a water ball shape.

It was just that what the four servants did not expect was that none of them could inherit that strand of Solid Self Origin left by Beneath Di Zhao; instead, he, a mortal who traveled here, inherited the honor they had pursued all their lives.

Qi Sheng still clearly remembered the complex expressions in the eyes of the four servants at the moment he inherited Beneath Di Zhao's power.

Anger, confusion, despair, unwillingness, excitement... various complex emotions intertwined, but finally all turned into calm acceptance.

Four figures knelt before him, swearing loyalty to him, and serving him forever as servants.

And he also shouldered the obsessions of the four servants, promising to save the Monster World with Beneath Di Zhao's great power and dispel the endless terrifying Black Tide.

In the years that followed, he first fused with Beneath Di Zhao's Solid Self Origin and slept for 300 years.

Subsequently, under the guidance of the four servants, he underwent a hundred years of cognitive learning, teaching him to understand Beneath Di Zhao's various abilities and to understand the affairs of the Monster World.

But to become a true Beneath Di Zhao God, he still needed to walk out of Beneath Di Zhao Village, explore the Monster World, and contain the Meng Yuan Chu power lost by Beneath Di Zhao.

It was just that this process was extremely difficult; besides possessing Beneath Di Zhao's Solid Self Origin, he had no other power support, and Beneath Di Zhao's body could not be strengthened through any cultivation method; only containment could grant power.

His strength at that time was only slightly stronger than the weakest creatures in the Monster World; plus, evil forms ravaged outside, making growth a difficult journey.

Beneath Di Zhao's Solid Self Origin had an extremely strong attraction to evil forms; the four servants believed that if discovered by high-level evil forms, it would inevitably bring disaster, so every time he went out, he needed to continuously consume Shou Shou Jili to cover the Beneath Di Zhao aura on his body.

Every time he went out was a considerable Shou Shou Jili expenditure.

During this period, he contained the Eagle-Head Demon, the Gargoyle, and the Black-Armored Snake, and his strength gradually increased.

But this speed was still too slow in the eyes of the four servants; every time he went out, the Shou Shou Jili expenditure was far higher than the income brought by hunting and containment, and they had already injected their remaining divine power into Beneath Di Zhao Village to maintain Beneath Di Zhao Village from being destroyed by the Black Tide, unable to provide him with combat assistance.

If this trend continued, before he became strong enough, Beneath Di Zhao Village would fall due to the exhaustion of Shou Shou Jili.

Just as the four servants felt despair about the future, Qi Sheng proposed a concept.

This plan was the prototype of the Challenger Plan, which was the player recruitment plan.

The four servants each possessed different rule powers.

He had Zhi Yin, who wielded the power of information, create the data system in the Challenger Plan, which could allow challengers to read the data information of things seen in the Monster World.

He had Yan Ming, who wielded the power of space, create the reception system; this system could receive challengers from different worlds into the Monster World, and could also send the challengers' consciousness back when the challengers chose to exit.

He had Jiu Yin, who wielded the power of purification, create the purification system, which could purify the mental trauma challengers suffered in the Monster World, or other various negative states.

He had Chao Wei, who wielded the power of extracting all things, create the growth system, which could help players refine the life force of dead monsters, allowing it to merge into the players' bodies and become part of the players' strength.

These four systems combined together, plus the territory trait "Life Reshaping" of Beneath Di Zhao Village, made the player recruitment plan feasible.

To achieve this goal, the four servants spent 50 years constantly perfecting and modifying it, and finally the Challenger System was completed.

At that time, the Shou Shou Jili pool of Beneath Di Zhao Village had only over 10 million Shou Shou Jili remaining, which could maintain the operation of Beneath Di Zhao Village for at most ten years, and the maintenance consumption was still increasing with the rising intensity of the Black Tide, having strengthened from the initial 500 Shou Shou Jili per day to 1000 Shou Shou Jili per day.

The Four Servants handed the choice to him, and he made his decision.

He wagered the remaining Shou Shou Jili on a future, causing Yan Ming to burn the Shou Shou Jili and use spatial power to search other Dimensional Worlds for lives that could be recruited as Challengers.

During the years of cross-space searching, Qi Sheng's consciousness remained by Yan Ming's side.

In that time, he saw countless Dimensional Worlds corroded and devoured by a terrifying black tide, where all things withered and only innumerable evil spirits roamed the heavens and earth.

Just as the Shou Shou Jili was about to be exhausted, Qi Sheng saw a familiar place.

It was a blue planet.

When the view on the planet zoomed in, though there were too many changes compared to his memories, he could still be certain.

This was his former home.

At that moment, Qi Sheng smiled very happily.

He knew he had succeeded; the Challenger Plan had finally found its use.

The National Day holiday is over~

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(End of this chapter)