Chapter 309: The Seas Turn to Mulberry Fields, I Am Still Here (Requesting Monthly Votes)

In the Winter Snowfield region, the Black Tide has already receded.

Players who cooled down and respawned, or logged back on after going offline, stared blankly at each other across the snowfield.

The heavy snow still fell, the aurora still blazed, but the once-bustling Newbie Village was gone.

A-Le's Training Camp had gone bankrupt.

As players, they had truly been hurt.

Although they were fighting the Lord of Bliss, it was they who felt the most pain.

No one ever expected the Newbie Village to be shut down by the Di Nian Bully.

The regional voice channel was filled with wails:

"Wait, how did the neighboring Newbie Village crush ours? Shameless Di Nian Bully, where am I supposed to go to grind mobs now?"

"What I can't understand is that although the war intensity in the Di Zha Mountain Range Newbie Village is higher, our Newbie Village's underlying strength should be greater, right? The Bliss Evil Spirits and Bliss Insect Race may be weak, but they have the Ban Shen Jing Welfare Lord behind them. What does the Di Nian Bully have? This isn't scientific."

"It's too magical. It feels like the neighboring kindergarten class attacked and shut down our kindergarten class. Both are Newbie Villages; how can competition even happen here?"

"A million newbies became homeless in an instant. The era of total unemployment arrived so unexpectedly that even our guild leader has gone into seclusion, saying we might have to temporarily split up."

"A-Le, I can't live without you..."

The incident happened suddenly, catching all the newbie players off guard.

To put it in forum players' words: just moments ago they were passionately brawling in the Winter Snowfield, and in the blink of an eye the Newbie Training Camp had closed, with the shameless A-Le running away with all his assets.

A million newbies were thus left homeless, completely losing this precious ground for early development.

Many players were still in a state of confusion.

They never expected A-Le to leave so decisively.

Even a gym running away isn't as fast as A-Le's Training Camp shutting down.

An hour ago it was still open for business, but before the Di Nian Bully could even make a move, A-Le had already clicked out; now even the Gao Ta has vanished without a trace on the snowfield.

Facing such a cowardly A-Le, forum players erupted in curses.

Especially the newbie players.

The Winter Newbie Village was their starting point to the Monster World; outside, they couldn't find a leveling ground that suited their needs so well.

Now that A-Le has run, what should they do?

Did he consider their feelings before running?

Was the long-standing bond of mutual brawling just severed like that? Was there no prior notice?

The newbie players collectively went berserk.

Unlike the newbie players, veteran players were not affected by A-Le's flight; they were all analyzing why A-Le ran.

Forum players already knew the full story of this incident.

The Di Zha Mountain Range region and the Winter Snowfield region were not too far apart; between them, the only faction with real strength was the Giant Domain.

This time, the Di Nian Bully chose to push east to test the new troop types of the "Tide of Pain" system, preparing to catch a powerful race to train his troops.

After the Black Tide crossed the Giant Domain, it entered the Winter Snowfield region without a doubt.

In fact, contact between the Black Tide and the Bliss Clan would inevitably happen someday, even without this encounter.

But what is certain is that A-Le's strength could absolutely pin the Di Nian Bully to the ground and rub him in it; even the "Five Hegemons United" mode would not be A-Le's match.

Comparing the two, their strengths were not on the same level.

In the players' eyes, the Di Nian Bully had higher development potential than A-Le, but that referred to the future.

At the current stage, the Di Nian Bully was just a small fry before A-Le, not even fitting the term "strong enemy."

By all rights, A-Le should have leaped out of the Bliss Hall, struck back the Black Tide with one palm, and made the Di Nian Bully leave sensibly.

This was already the most conservative tactic players could think of.

If they, the players, were A-Le, upon being provoked by the Di Nian Bully, they would surely follow the vine to kill the melon, march to the Tian Yuan Domain node, and uproot the Gao Ta where the Di Nian Bully resided, even if it meant paying a certain price in resources.

This was also the most logically beneficial approach: cut off the roots to prevent the Black Tide from developing quickly into a hidden threat.

However, A-Le's actions truly shocked the veteran players.

There wasn't even a tentative clash; simply because the Di Nian Bully had the motive to strike, A-Le just packed up and ran away so quickly.

The feeling it gave players was:

One second, A-Le's "doormen" were at the Training Camp entrance, smoking a cigarette, crossing their legs, lecturing the newbie players, conveying A-Le's message:

"Any player above the passing line who dares come here will die."

The next second, as the Di Nian Bully led the Black Tide into the Winter Snowfield, before he had even drawn his blade, merely making a motion to draw it, A-Le was already sliding on his knees, clasping his fists:

"Big Brother, please sit; this little brother will clear the spot right away."

Then he took the Bliss Legion's Bliss Gao Ta and Bliss Mother Nest, packed up, and left.

As a Ban Shen Jing powerhouse, even veteran players felt ashamed for him.

In the Monster World, bearing some risk is actually normal.

Factions with some understanding of the Monster World actively chose to take root in the Monster World precisely to seek higher profits amidst the risks.

A faction unwilling to bear any risk at all; among the races and factions players have encountered since the server opened, only A-Le is unique in this regard.

This action also disrupted the development plans of many rising guilds.

Originally, they wanted to hone their combat skills in the Winter Newbie Training Camp, gradually strengthening their guilds; during this process, they could also absorb many newbie groups developing in the Winter Snowfield and select elite players from among them.

A million newbie players thus had their mental states shattered.

The problem now is that without the Winter Training Camp, where should they go next?

At this stage, besides the Winter Snowfield, the regions that can provide player growth and development include the Di Zha Mountain Range, Colorful Mist Coast, Cang Star Sea Area, Sen Luo Forest Realm, Land of Chasing the Sun, Eternal Silence Binghu, and the Adventurer World (formerly the Di Ku Shi Jie).

The Di Zha Mountain Range battlefield is obviously off-limits.

In the Winter Snowfield, players generally have a Painful Painful Minghun level below 25; the Di Zhong Mountain Range battlefield is far too intense, completely beyond the capability of this group of newbies.

Although there are many derivative evil spirits similar to cursed soldiers beneath the waning moon.

But there are too many wolves and too little meat; it simply cannot produce continuous revenue like the Winter Snowfield region, and respawning requires waiting.

The Colorful Mist Coast scene has long been reclaimed back and forth by veteran players; its current function is more like an outlet to the Cangxing Sea.

Or a transit point to external mining zones.

For new players wishing to explore the mist-shrouded areas of the Colorful Mist Coast, even with vehicle assistance, it takes over ten days to travel.

Dying once means returning to the starting point; the cost-performance ratio for hunting is extremely low.

The drawback of the Cangxing Sea region is instability; although new players can earn growth revenue from it, the problem is they cannot produce stable hunting revenue like in the Winter Snowfield.

Fishing at sea is not an area mastered by players of most races.

As for the Adventurer World, the strength of new players is not suitable; even the lowest-level dungeons are difficult to challenge.

The Blue Lantern Tribe, though generous in spending, also has minimum requirement standards.

The remaining Sun-Chasing Land, Senluo Forest Realm, and the recently opened Eternal Silence Binghu region are actually suitable.

The drawback is that competition is too fierce.

Especially in the Eternal Silence Binghu region, millions of players are reclaiming the map fog; wherever you go, you can see other players.

Many newbies on the Winter Snowfield battlefield came from the Eternal Silence Binghu, preparing to take root and struggle on the Winter Snowfield battlefield.

They never expected that this auspicious land would be scared into collapse by the Di Nian bullies.

Millions of newbies are displaced; where to go has become a hot topic on the player forum.

During this period, many players offered suggestions.

Some were making jokes, while others truly wanted to provide help.

Among them, the more reliable proposal was to head to the Di Zhong Village mining zone, which is also a location that stably produces revenue.

The drawback is that the process is dull and boring; it cannot be as passionate as the Winter Snowfield region, where one can both hone combat skills and make many friends.

And the daily routine of a miner is to stick to the wall swinging a pickaxe, browsing the forum, or watching live streams.

The mining zone has no automatic mining function, nor does it allow the use of the Arms Dealer Guild's mining robots within the village mining zone.

Everything must rely on the players' own efforts, although occasional small surprises can occur.

For example, mining "Empty Yuan Stones" allows selling at a high price on the exchange market, but there is absolutely no possibility of sudden wealth.

After all, the spiritual ores produced in one's own mining zone are of fixed types.

Whatever resource territory was contained before produces that type of spiritual ore; there are no super-rare spiritual ores.

Dull labor plus low expectations; only a small portion of players can experience the joy of mining.

This is also the reason why the number of mining-party players always ranks last among the Ge Da Wan Fa.

Even though there is a surge during each newbie recruitment phase, the vast majority of "miners" will choose to quit once they possess sufficient strength, leaving Di Zhong Village to start a new growth mode.

The only place that can earn revenue for a long time through boiling-blood team battles like the Di Zhong Mountain Range is the A Le Training Camp, unique to itself.

Unable to find a suitable development model, new players collectively wail on the forum: "A Le, I cannot live without you, A Le, come back quickly; next time I definitely won't use the eye-popping tactic; I will definitely fight well and train your unit AI."

"Once there was a sincere training scene before me; I did not cherish it, and only after missing it did I regret it endlessly. If I had known the A Le Training Camp would close down, I would have trained 24 hours non-stop in the early stages to make up for all future training."

"On the first day the training camp closed, I missed it. Before, I thought A Le's unit strength was getting higher and higher, and the units' AI improved rapidly in battle, even learning our players' eye-poking and groin-kicking tactics. Now I realize the wild monsters outside are even more ferocious... A Le, how can I live without you? (Explorer weeping. jpg)."

"Now newbies across the entire server are searching the world for substitutes, but after going in circles, they discover that either the strength is ridiculously high, or finding monsters is time-consuming and laborious, they don't respawn, and frequent region changes are needed. Looking back at A Le's training camp, it was truly the conscience of the industry. Now the last beauty has collapsed; let the world be destroyed (brick-laying, decadent, gazing at the sky. jpg)."

It is not difficult for players to find a way out.

The Monster World lacks neither hunting scenes nor resource zones that can be mined.

But a scene like the A Le Training Camp, which allows "infinite monster grinding and infinite pleasure," has no substitute at this stage.

At the same hunting level, A Le's units are already the weakest one can find in the areas players have explored.

Just as the forum was in heated discussion and millions of newbies were collectively laid off, where should they go?

A Le in the Extreme Joy Hall was also pondering a question: where to build the Extreme Joy Legion Training Camp next.

For the construction of the new system legion, it has already invested massive resources; naturally, it cannot give up after encountering setbacks.

At this stage, both the Extreme Joy Evil Spirits and the Extreme Joy Insect Swarms have been equipped with combat memories.

They can automatically learn and grow based on the enemy's combat style.

On the basis of being controlled, they can also conduct autonomous combat.

This is also the reason why the Extreme Joy Evil Spirits and the Extreme Joy Insect Race could learn a series of hooligan-style combat techniques from players, such as groin-kicking, eye-poking, and hair-pulling.

Moreover, as long as the combat means used are effective, the combat memory will deeply learn this skill and continuously strengthen it.

Through this combat memory system, the development potential of the Extreme Joy Insect Swarms and the Extreme Joy Purple Swarms has long been different from the past.

It places high hopes on this.

Now that the Winter Snowfield is lost, it must quickly find a new scene to build the Extreme Joy Legion testing ground.

To ensure the construction of the new system legion can proceed steadily.

But to satisfy the environment for the new legion system construction, three conditions must be met.

First, there must be a vast number of monsters, or other types of life, allowing the Extreme Joy Legion units to engage in high-frequency combat; optimization also needs to be carried out during high-frequency combat.

Second, the combat power of individuals cannot be too strong; otherwise, the resource consumption per battle is too high. It is best if they are slightly weaker than the Extreme Joy Purple Swarms and the Extreme Joy Insect Swarms.

Finally, the combat environment must be highly controllable.

Just like the Winter Snowfield battlefield, the addition of the Player Race was completely within the controllable range; the rotating guards of the Extreme Joy Main God could guarantee that no external forces could interfere with the legion's optimization and development.

Regions that can satisfy these three conditions are not easy to find.

Fortunately, after long years of hibernation, it has collected environmental information from many regions of the Monster World.

It remains to be seen whether the environments of these regions have changed, which can only be known after investigation.

The Monster World changes too fast; vast numbers of powers descend daily, and intelligence on many regions is long outdated.

Perhaps those locations once suitable are now occupied by the descending powers.

With a clear thought, the Lord of Bliss, seated upright on the altar, opened his eyes, and his ever-changing face grew blurred.

The power of Bliss seeped out of his body, spreading along the threads connecting to the Zhudian of Bliss toward the branch halls of Bliss.

Every branch hall of Bliss is one of his eyes, allowing him to learn in detail what happens in the outside world, and also serving as a relay station for consciousness to quickly travel to different regions.

In the next second, countless scenes surfaced in the Lord of Bliss's mind.

In the region of the Endless Magma Abyss, his consciousness descended into a palace floating above scorching lava.

Wherever his gaze fell, exploding fireballs and boiling lava intertwined into a web of destruction.

The environment here is too violent; abandon it.

His consciousness flowed, crossing tens of millions of li in an instant, arriving at a peculiar city constructed from countless mirrors.

The scene once overrun by monsters was now rooted by the Phantom Clan, which had established a Nightmare City here; every mirror displayed a different combat illusion.

After a brief investigation, the Lord of Bliss chose to abandon it once more.

The view switched again: emerald giant trees stood towering to the sky, their canopies layered like clouds, vines coiling like dragons.

This once-barren land, inhabited by vast numbers of Fiend Insects, was now occupied by a clan capable of controlling nature, which had established a forest-sea environment here.

All plants would automatically attack intruders.

A scene absolutely dominated by a home-field advantage was clearly unsuitable for development.

The speed of his consciousness jumping grew faster and faster; images constantly flashed through the Lord of Bliss's mind, his perceptual tentacles streaking like meteors across thousands of scenes.

In a daze, he remembered that the last time he had observed the Monster World so meticulously was long ago.

Now, the seas have changed into mulberry fields.

Territories once familiar have been carved up by strange powers.

Clans once as weak as ants have now become regional overlords.

And those mighty clans that once surged forward, seeking to claim the peak of the Monster World.

The scenes they once ruled now remain only as ruins; wherever one looks, there are broken walls and shattered beams.

The glory that once belonged to this clan perhaps remains only in fragments within its memory.

Every time his consciousness swept across a scene, a segment of memory surged to his heart.

Many images filled him with boundless emotion.

For example, the Fire-Wing Clan that appeared in the Endless Magma Abyss region.

From humble reptiles, they have now evolved into regional overlords capable of mastering lava.

Yet at the very beginning of the memories regarding this clan, they were merely weak creatures in the cracks of molten rock; now they have built magnificent city-states spanning the sea of fire.

The Lord of Bliss silently watched the scenes in different locations; the historical changes proved one thing.

Survival has never relied on momentary courage.

The search continued; memories flashed like a revolving lantern.

He had never interfered in the rise and fall of these clans, serving only as a witness, watching them rise, prosper, and then, with high probability, head toward extinction.

Fortunately, he has always been there.

The Bliss Clan is iron-clad; the clients are flowing water.

Old clients will die, but the Monster World never lacks clients; there will always be new challengers descending with ambition, and one day push open the great doors leading to the Bliss Palace.

Leveraging the Monster World as this super-platform, the Bliss Palace never fears a lack of clients.

Although the Bliss Clan's development method is not as fast as the model of occupying nodes.

But this model excels in stability.

Descending powers arrive in the Monster World batch after batch; each time, he harvests a toll from a tiny fraction of these groups, thereby gradually strengthening the Bliss Clan.

History has proven that his choice is the most correct path.

But he also knows that he will ultimately take the desperate step of entering the Monster World.

The Era of Descent is the Monster World's final carnival.

If he cannot establish himself in the Monster World during this era, when the era of billions of clans competing to cross ends and the era of peak mighty clans carving up the land begins, he might find it difficult even to locate a place to set foot.

This is also the reason he places such importance on the construction of the New Army Corps system.

When the moment comes to reveal his trump card, he will wager everything to fight for the peak of this Monster World.

Comparing past memories with present scenes, seeing so many potential new talents appear now, the corners of his mouth lifted slightly.

"New powers rise together, stars shine brightly... this world is always so interesting."

It is precisely these clans of extraordinary talent that make this game to the peak worth staking all his chips.

He looks forward to what sparks will ignite when his New Army Corps system is perfected, colliding with these potential clans.

Deep within, he anticipates performing the most spectacular final battle alongside the mighty clans of the Monster World.

At the end of hibernation lies flames that burn the sky.

Even if he ultimately fails, he must, in this final battle of billions of clans competing to cross, burn a brilliant trajectory that shocks the entire Monster World.

This is also the lifelong pursuit of his long years rooted in the Monster World.

The roar suppressed in his heart now surges like a violent tide, restless and stirring.

Perhaps in the near future, he will personally roar out the long-prepared declaration to this world that haunts his dreams:

"Monster World, the Lord of Bliss has arrived!"

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