Chapter 32: Sky Dome Technology Research Center

The Primordial Sacrifice Altar.

Receiving feedback from the Guide, Qi Sheng immediately switched his perspective to the area where the explosion occurred.

The explosion's power was not great; it merely shattered three bluestone bricks on the ground, and self-repair was completed using only 0. 5 points of Sacrificial Power.

However, he was extremely curious about the cause of the explosion.

With doubt in mind, he had the Guide replay the footage seen by the clone.

Upon seeing the player Qin Ye studying a Grade 1 Spiritual Stone, Qi Sheng felt puzzled, then magnified the view inside the Spiritual Stone.

"Is he rearranging the internal structure of the Spiritual Stone?"

【Boss, I deduced forward based on the structure he arranged, and I think he might be trying to create a Spirit Energy Bomb.】

"What do you mean?"

【Simply put, by changing the arrangement and combination of energy particles inside the Spiritual Stone, it becomes a new structure that triggers an instantaneous energy collapse reaction upon consciousness contact, but this is just my deductive guess and cannot be confirmed as the answer.】

The Guide's answer sparked Qi Sheng's strong interest in this player.

Since the inception of the Challenger System, what he valued most was not the players' fearlessness in the Iron Face of death granted by infinite resurrection, but their creative imagination.

For instance, turning a war game into a farming game, or creating outrageous maneuvers through specific bugs that even the developers never imagined.

Before transmigrating, he was a player passionate about games and had witnessed many players' ingenious ideas within games.

To verify his hypothesis, he retrieved the memory archive information of this player's replicated body in the Monster World.

The conclusion matched exactly what the Guide said: this player wanted to apply Spirit Energy Bomb technology from the real world to the game.

This discovery gave Qi Sheng even greater expectations for the future development of the players.

Stepping out of the game pod, Qin Ye realized that the potential of the game "Land of Darkness" was far more terrifying than he had imagined.

Perfect simulation of reality meant that many extremely dangerous experiments in the real world could be simulated in the game world, and the data obtained would directly drive the progress of real-world technology.

Going to his desk, he sent his findings via email to the "Sky Dome Technology Research Center."

The Sky Dome Technology Research Center was a special agency established by the Human Federation specifically to study alien technologies, and he was one of its members, dispatched to manage the Underground Cave Trading Market.

While waiting for the resurrection cooldown, Qin Ye began reviewing recent information on aliens applying to enter the trading market.

Half an hour later, an email notification popped up in the bottom right corner.

Opening the email, Qin Ye discovered it was actually sent from the headquarters of the Sky Dome Technology Research Center.

【Sender: Sky Dome Technology Research Center】

Content: Hello, Grade D Administrator of the Underground Cave Trading Market; regarding your proposal to test dangerous weapons in a virtual environment, headquarters has received it, and after consulting with my superiors, here is the reply:

1. After the release of "Land of Darkness," the Sky Dome Center immediately began preparations to enter the game, attempting to conduct dangerous weapon experimental tests in a virtual environment.

2. "Land of Darkness," developed by the Eclipse Clan, uses the Star Net real-name subscription system; we have no special privileges to bypass the application process and enter the game directly. Regrettably, to date, no one at headquarters has managed to purchase a game qualification.

3. The Sky Dome Center has submitted an application to the Human Federation Council, attempting to request a batch of game qualifications from the Eclipse Clan that bypass the rush purchase and can be obtained directly (the Federation Council has temporarily provided no response).

After reading the email content, Qin Ye was speechless.

He never expected that the Sky Dome headquarters, which possessed top-level authority within the Human Federation, could not obtain game experience qualifications.

This showed just how insanely manic the hunger marketing for the game "Land of Darkness" was.

In this new era where virtual game pods had become ubiquitous in thousands of households, the Human Federation had a population of 2 billion, yet the Eclipse Clan distributed only one million game qualifications to humans per round, which was merely a drop in the bucket.

At this moment, he thought of the Welfare Officer who had sent the pirated link, and a bold idea surged into his mind:

"Perhaps I can send the pirated download link to the Sky Dome Center, letting them download the pirated version to enter the game."

Without hesitation, he immediately sent the link via email to Sky Dome headquarters.

Four hours later.

Three deafening explosions rang out on the ancient battlefield outside Emperor Tomb Village, scattering flesh and blood in all directions.

【Challenger Notification: Killed Evil Life: Blood Corpse, gained 125 Evolution Points, gained 24 Sacrificial Power reward, Eagle-Headed Demon Form Level +1.】

【Challenger Notification: Killed Evil Life: Blood Corpse....】

Notifications rang out consecutively in his mind, and Qin Ye couldn't help but burst into laughter.

He never expected that an accidental idea would actually come true in the game.

A Spirit Energy Bomb made from a Grade 1 Spiritual Stone required only three units to kill a Blood Corpse of over level 10.

More importantly, Spirit Energy Bombs dealt area-of-effect damage; three bombs killed a total of eight Blood Corpses, raising his Eagle-Headed Demon level to 10.

If bombs were made from Grade 2 or even higher-grade Spiritual Stones, one could imagine how immense their power would be.

Although crafting Spirit Energy Bombs incurred costs, requiring the purchase of Spiritual Stones from the Mall, the profits generated far exceeded the costs.

This discovery gave Qin Ye a wild idea.

Perhaps he could construct a Star Vein Sect build centered around Spirit Energy Bombs.

With this idea in mind, Qin Ye immediately returned to Emperor Tomb Village and entered the Testing Tower.

Over the next few hours, Qin Ye experimented with using Spirit Energy Bombs combined with different Soul Soul combinations.

The first Soul Soul he chose was not the Eagle-Headed Demon, but the Sea Stone Soul Soul.

The effect of the Sea Stone's Primordial Ability was that mental energy could continuously and rapidly recover even under normal conditions.

Crafting Spirit Energy Bombs required powerful mental energy as support; the three Grade 1 Spirit Energy Bombs he had just crafted had drained his mental energy dry, making it impossible to continue crafting in the short term.

However, after embedding the Sea Stone Soul Soul, his mental energy sustainability would be greatly enhanced.

For the remaining Soul Souls, he chose those that increased mental energy or were related to mental recovery, focusing entirely on sustained bombardment.

After simply testing the initial Star Vein combination, Qin Ye discovered a major problem.

There was no friendly fire immunity mechanism in the game, and the immensely powerful Spirit Energy Bombs could easily harm himself.

How to solve this problem? He thought of two feasible solutions.

First: Find Soul Souls capable of withstanding bomb shockwaves to pair with them, increasing his own defense.

Second: Find a Soul Soul capable of ultra-long-range throwing, allowing the Spirit Energy Bombs to be thrown outside the range that could affect himself.

Regarding how to choose between these two solutions, after careful consideration, Qin Ye believed the second solution was more reliable.

There were many choices for defense-type Soul Souls, but to achieve ultimate defense, one had to equip multiple defense Soul Souls; for example, the popular "Stationary Immortal Flow" on the forums used the Gargoyle as its core, paired with a series of Soul Souls that provided healing and increased defense.

However, in the early stages, the number of Star Vein slots was already limited, and increasing explosive power was the key; embedding multiple defense-oriented Soul Souls did not align with the growth path he envisioned for Spirit Energy Bombs.

(End of Chapter)