[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-monsters-are-coming":3,"chapter-the-monsters-are-coming-monsters-are-coming-chapter-320":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Monsters Are Coming",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2250169,4069,"Chapter 320: Special Soul Soul, Fishing Delivery","monsters-are-coming-chapter-320",320,"\u003Cp>The Primordial Altar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qi Sheng's consciousness swiftly browsed the information generated on the forum.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the previous round of recruitment, the number of players had reached over eight million.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Regarding world exploration, the Pale Continent remained the primary focus, followed by the Earth-Tremor Continent region.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As player footprints spread outward from spatial nodes like ripples, they began contacting an increasing number of races.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wars also erupted with different races due to disputes over resources.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially in the domain node regions, these were occupation points that players deemed essential to capture.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Relying on their undying trait, players held an absolute advantage in wars of attrition against alien races.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Weaker races would collapse rapidly after initial resistance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some chose to abandon their tribal lands and migrate to more distant regions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The few clans that stubbornly defended the nodes would be gradually devoured by players in repeated back-and-forth battles, ultimately perishing in the torrent of war.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The continuous reincarnation of eight million players kept the Flame of Life Reshaping at the Emperor Tomb Village Altar burning eternally.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every minute and second, players would return their souls to Emperor Tomb Village, while others, after their flesh and blood were reshaped, would return to the Monster World to continue their struggle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During this period, the number of collected Soul Souls reached 132.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among them, three Soul Souls were particularly special.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first Soul Soul was the sixth-generation Soul Soul: Oath Space, collected by the warband led by the player \"Raven Magpie Bridge\" in the Sen Luo Lin Jing region.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The characteristic effect of this Soul Soul was to pull a target within sight into the Oath Space for a one-on-one duel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was a completely independent space; the strength of neither side would be weakened or amplified, and the entire space was approximately 300 cubic meters in size.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The maximum strength of a living being that could be pulled into the Oath Space depended on the player's own blood and qi intensity and the level of the Soul Soul.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The duration of the independent space ended upon the death of one party.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The emergence of the Oath Space sent arena-focused players into ecstasy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This meant that arena-focused players finally had a place on the battlefield; they could simply find a squishy target and forcibly drag them into the Oath Space for a duel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The opponent would have no way to escape and could only fight to the death with them until one party died.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As soon as the Oath Space appeared, it was sought after by Warrior-Style and Assassin-Style players.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Furthermore, when facing those difficult enemy units, pulling them into the Oath Space could serve as a delaying tactic, buying time for teammates to make strategic adjustments.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those arena-focused players, previously viewed as merely engaging in small skirmishes in the Ancient God Arena, became targets for recruitment by top-tier guilds once the Oath Space entered the Soul Soul library.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They did not need to learn team coordination; they only needed to constantly activate the Oath Space trait to pick off enemy targets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, this Soul Soul also had two drawbacks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first drawback was its exorbitant price; the selling price of a sixth-generation Soul Soul was 100,000 Sacrificial Power, meaning only top-tier players had the financial means to embed it at the current stage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if ordinary players could save up 100,000 Sacrificial Power, their first consideration would be improving other Soul Souls or functions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The second drawback was that if the released target was a puppet, clone, or similar unit, it could still be successfully pulled into the space.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This meant that if an opponent predicted the move in advance, they could evade it using methods such as clones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Forum players quickly researched many tricky usage methods targeting the characteristics of the Oath Battle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first target was the Calamity Backlash Tactics of the Earth-Nian Bullies; by pulling Black Black Tide units into the Oath Space before the backlash, they denied the chance for recovery and forced a kill.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, this tactic was quickly countered by the Bullies in practical application.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Earth-Nian Bullies' choice was to enhance the combat power level of individual units within the Black Black Tide system; even at the 40% Calamity Backlash threshold, they were not something players seeking a duel could contend with.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Secondly, Tank-Style players, when focused down to low health, could use the Oath Space to heal quickly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The specific method was that when at critical health and difficult for teammates to rescue, a Tank-Style player could find an enemy unit with weak output, or even an allied unit, to enter the Oath Space with them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, within the space, they could consume high-end recovery potions to rapidly raise their health bar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This method was proven entirely feasible in actual combat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The base attribute bonus of the Oath Space was relatively high, making it well-suited for Tank-Style players, but even better suited for Assassin-Style players.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the current stage, the most elegant players among the player base were the Assassin-Style players.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their ultra-high mobility allowed them to quickly cut into the enemy backline and perform precise decapitations via the Oath Space; external forces could not interfere with the death match process inside the space.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the Soul Soul intensity voting, forum players voted it as a T3-tier Soul Soul for the current version with a proportion of 68.73%.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The second Soul Soul was the first-generation Primordial: Chaos, collected by the player \"Thunder God Warrior\" in the Eternal Silent Ice Firefly Lake region.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was a Soul Soul very well-suited for Support-Style players or Magic-System players.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The characteristic effect of the Soul Soul was to distort the target's perception, causing effects such as visual distortion, auditory distortion, and olfactory distortion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The specific effects were influenced by the player's mental strength, the target's mental strength, and the level of the Soul Soul.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Chaos Soul Soul had extremely high popularity on the forum.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was because this skill could, like the \"Spirit Seal\" trait used by Assassin-Style players, remotely interrupt an opponent's spellcasting state.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For example, if released on a target that was charging up, the opponent's state would enter a phase of self-perception misjudgment, which could even affect the direction of their attacks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This gave the Chaos Soul Soul very high embedding value in Star Vein combinations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Magic-System players dealt mixed damage; multiple Soul Soul traits could be triggered through a single attack to inflict multiple types of damage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Traits such as Ice Mist Breath, Ink Flame, Void Grip, Running Thunder, and Dissolution could all be fused and used together.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If one added a control or interrupt-type trait like \"Chaos,\" they could restrict the enemy's offense while maintaining output.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Many guide-focused players also proved through testing that after embedding the Chaos trait, the intensity of Magic-System players in small-scale team battles rose by a whole step.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If sustainability kept up, it could even cause an opponent with similar mental strength to die while remaining in the Chaos state the entire time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the Soul Soul intensity voting released by Nightfall Approaching, forum players who participated in the vote elevated the Chaos Soul Soul to the throne of version T1 with a proportion of 79.83%.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The third Soul Soul was the fifth-generation Primordial: Plague Poem, collected by the guild team led by \"Infinite Hard Control\" in the Eternal Silent Ice Firefly Lake region.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was a very distinctive Soul Soul; its characteristic effect was that every attack could inflict stackable Plague values on the target, with different values triggering different stage effects.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was like writing a poem; every instance of output was writing a stanza of the Plague poem.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The disease would advance continuously within the target's body as the length of the poem increased.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was divided into six stages in total.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first stage activated when the Plague value reached 100; this stage was named: Shivering Whisper.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blue, frost-like stripes would appear on the target's body surface, and their movements would begin to become stiff, as if frozen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The second stage activated when the Plague value reached 200 points; this stage was named: Humus Ulceration.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The frost on the target's body surface would turn cyan-black, and wounds would begin to exude pus and blood mixed with ice shards.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The third stage activated when the Plague value reached 400 points; the name of this stage was: Pain of Boiling Blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this stage, the plague would begin to continuously worsen, and blood mist would constantly evaporate from the target's body surface.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fourth stage activated when the Plague value reached 800 points; the name of this stage was: Bone-Rattling Elegy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this stage, the plague would begin to affect the bones, making the target's bones extremely fragile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fifth stage activated when the Plague value reached 1600 points; the name of this stage was: Prelude to the End.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By this stage, the target would basically be unable to act any further, falling into a state nearing death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sixth stage activated when the Plague value reached 10,000 points; the name of this stage was: Eternal Silence and Blooming.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the final stage of the plague, where all pathological characteristics would be fully enhanced and erupt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No matter how powerful the target was, as long as this stage was reached, they would be killed by the \"Plague Poem\" rules.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the testing space, the test subject whose Plague value reached this stage ultimately transformed into a blooming black crystal flower.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was like the final sublimation and curtain call of the poem titled \"Plague,\" drawing a period to an end.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was a Soul Soul trait that could be used for both control and output, and could also achieve terrifying execution effects through stacking progressive damage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, basically, targets would meet their death before reaching the final sixth stage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only if the target possessed extremely high recovery capabilities could they barely hold on until the sixth stage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Furthermore, the stacking of Plague values was not fixed but stacked based on the damage ratio and the level of the Soul Soul.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For example, if the defense coefficient of the dummy in the testing space was 100 and the player's attack power was 1.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, with the \"Plague Poem\" Soul Soul at level 1, every attack that failed to penetrate defense would stack a Plague value of 0.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, no matter how many times one attacked, the Plague Poem could not cause any effect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the player's attack power was 101 and the dummy's defense was 100.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then each attack could deal 1 point of damage, and the Plague Poem would stack 0.01 points of value.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The higher the damage dealt with each strike, the stronger the effect of the Plague Poem.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although this Soul Soul had distinctive features, forum players did not see any significant advantages in it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For stacking damage-type Soul Souls, the Physical System had Tear, and the Magic System had Wither.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After stacking layers with these two Soul Souls, the damage was very considerable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The advantage of the Plague Poem was that the disease effect dealt true damage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As long as it stacked to the corresponding stage, the opponent would receive stage damage corresponding to their own life intensity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was like a human cold, which is ineffective against higher life forms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But after the Plague Poem reached its layers, it would inflict a \"cold\" of equivalent life intensity upon the opponent, causing the same effect as when a human has a cold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, the strongest aspect of the Plague Poem had to be its rule-level execution effect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Theoretically, as long as one could penetrate defense, players could even kill Semi-God Realm experts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The premise being... that the Semi-God Realm expert stood still without fighting back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the perspective of practical use, the Plague Poem could only be relegated to the version's sewer; at least at the current stage, there were no particularly compatible Soul Soul combinations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only somewhat compatible option might be Support-Style players; they could use Blood Ignition to deal true damage, then stack the true damage effect of the Plague Poem, inflicting double true damage on the target.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But even among true damage types, Blood-Ignited Soul Ranks sits at the T1 tier of the current meta.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As support-build players put it: Even if the opponent is a Demigod, they must ignite upon taking my Blood-Ignite strike.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is the sheer power of the rules; even a Demigod cannot exempt themselves from Blood-Ignite.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Back when players went to the Hall of Extreme Bliss to slay the Fallen, facing foes far higher in level than themselves, the universally adopted tactic was Blood-Ignite true damage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No matter how strong the opponent's defense, it would crumble before true damage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, on the battlefield, the Blood-Ignite trait is more often applied to allied players.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Applying it to powerful enemy units would only result in greater casualties for one's own side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is only used for offense when facing hostile units incapable of resistance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The arrival of the three special Soul Ranks—Oath Space, Chaos, and Plague Poem—has also opened up many new builds for Star Vein combinations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Death Match builds, Mixed-Damage Control builds, and Dual True Damage builds; various new playstyles are still in the testing phase.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps some of these builds will become major meta favorites on a future day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as Qi Sheng was tallying the embedding data for the three Soul Ranks, feedback from the Guide manifested in his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His vision immediately shifted to the region of the Pale Star Sea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>……\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Pale Star Sea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Viewed from high above, a single-masted small boat floated in the boundless waves, tiny as a forgotten fallen leaf.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sea breeze pushed gentle ripples, the hull swaying lightly, tracing faint arcs within the ocean currents.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sail hung half-lowered, occasionally billowing with the wind before quickly slackening again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The distant horizon had long vanished from sight; nearby there was no land, no islands, only endless water and sky merging at the limit of vision.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The camera descended from the heights, sweeping over churning wave crests to hover close to the rocking small boat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A player on the boat sat cross-legged by the gunwale, wearing the most classic black cloth novice outfit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A homemade metal fishing rod rested diagonally across his knees, the line dangling into the bottomless seawater, trembling gently with the waves and rippling tiny circles on the surface.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His gaze hung low, fixed intently on the fishing line, awaiting an invisible gift of fate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Occasionally, he would lightly flick the rod with his finger, making the bait sway in the deep water to lure nearby marine life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yawning, Jiang Zhou murmured listlessly:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The Pale Sea is boundless, yet my hook waits only for a fate willing to bite... so why haven't you bitten yet? Do you look down on my bait?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As one of the latest batch of newcomers to enter, Jiang Zhou's favorite playstyle was fishing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, he unsurprisingly became a Fishing Faction player.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But to fish for marine life in the Pale Star Sea, one needed strength to back it up; coming to the Pale Star Sea to fish directly in 'newcomer form' would not count as fishing, but as feeding.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Anything that would bite the bait could kill him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, before becoming a Fishing Faction member, he had spent his time in the A Le Training Camp.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every day was either spent fighting or waiting in a small dark room for the next round of fighting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That period was incredibly fulfilling; he couldn't recall how much hair had been plucked from him, fortunately, hair could regrow after resurrection.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now that his level met the requirements, he had finally arrived at the Pale Star Sea to begin his fishing journey.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Future level increases could be achieved by killing marine life, or by selling catches to exchange for Sacrificial Power to purchase Evolution Pills from the Trading Row to boost strength.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But today's fishing yield was pitifully low.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although the seabed teemed with vast numbers of marine life, making it impossible to fish them out completely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The problem was that marine life also saw the seabed resources as abundant and looked down on ordinary bait.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, the quality of the bait remained the core 'item' for fishing in the eyes of Fishing Faction players.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lower-grade bait could only attract lower-grade marine life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The probability of catching high-hunting-level marine life with low-grade bait was extremely low.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn't that marine life were picky eaters; they simply despised it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For high-grade marine life, just a couple of casual bites in the sea yielded spiritual fish meat, which was far more delicious than any player's bait.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, bait quality had some correlation with the quality of marine life caught, but it was not absolute.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the fishing plugin, one could still often see cases of 'betting small to win big'; perhaps a marine life passed by and took a casual nibble, though this probability was very low.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He still wanted to save up Sacrificial Power to try the Thunder Fishing build and did not wish to expend too much Sacrificial Power on bait.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So recently, he had been using low-quality bait, the kind only novice-level Fishing Faction players would use.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He hadn't expected the bait to be so disappointing, nor the beasts in this sea to be so picky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After drifting for most of the day, he had only caught three small fish; the yield was far lower than in the A Le Training Camp.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for happiness, without catching fish, where would happiness come from?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Opening the map to take a look, he discovered he had drifted over 300 nautical miles away from the Colorful Mist Coast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among the nearest few islands was Dream Island.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This instantly gave Jiang Zhou an idea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why not make a delivery on the way?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Summoning the Forum, he began checking how to become a courier for the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He soon found the post released by the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Subsequently, he downloaded the delivery plugin provided by the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce from the post. Clicking the function panel and opening the plugin, a plugin interface appeared before his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A confirmation box popped up on it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Register and agree to let the plugin 'Gold Coin Journey' scan your Spatial Sack size? Yes\u002FNo.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Jiang Zhou selected 'Yes', the pop-up window on the interface dissipated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Relevant information manifested.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Player ID: One Leaf Lone Boat (Auto-read).\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Spatial Sack Size: 32 slots.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Remaining Effective Area: 28.2m² (Auto-read; will determine the order specifications the player can accept).\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Delivery Rank: Black Iron Courier (0\u002F1000).\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>……\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Below the personal information was the delivery mission Cultivation Mode, which could be toggled on or off at any time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clicking to view the relevant terms, one could discover that the treatment for Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce couriers was excellent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It detailed the couriers' earnings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Courier Earnings Structure:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Basic Rules]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Per-Order Earnings: 5-10% of the total profit created for the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce by that order (fluctuating based on delivery distance and risk).\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Minimum Guarantee: Even if the chamber suffers a loss, the courier still receives a guaranteed amount of Sacrificial Power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Order Grading Mechanism: The Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce divides all delivery orders into 5 grades; couriers can only accept orders matching their own grade.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Random Acceptance Rule: Blind selection within the same grade; the plugin will randomly assign 3 selectable orders within your eligible grade (orders matching the player's Spatial Sack volume).\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Welfare Orders: While accepting orders, players have a chance to receive Welfare Orders (small volume, high-value delivery items, such as Rule Fragments).\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Closing the terms information, Jiang Zhou used his consciousness to tap the 'Accept Order' option on the interface.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Immediately, a rotating waiting icon appeared on the interface.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Subsequently, three orders listed themselves on the interface.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Order 1:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Goods to Transport: Soul-Falling Iron Ore (28m³).\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce Profit: 8200 Sacrificial Power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Courier Earnings: 820 Sacrificial Power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Delivery Region: Storm Island (Red dot area on the map).\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Required Time: Delivered within 72 hours.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Order 2:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Goods to Transport: Crimson Flame Spiritual Copper (12m³), Crimson Sky Heavenly Wood (12.8m³).\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce Profit: 12500 Sacrificial Power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Courier Earnings: 1250 Sacrificial Power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Delivery Region: Molten Fire Island (Red marker area on the map).\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Required Time: Delivered within 72 hours (10% deduction from actual received earnings if overdue).\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Order 3:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Goods to Transport: Profound Ice Heavy Armor (8m³), Wuji Fork (7m³), Dark Command Claw (2m³).\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce Profit: 25200 Sacrificial Power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Courier Earnings: 1500 Sacrificial Power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Delivery Region: Frost Fortress (Requires breaking through the Biting Wind Barrier).\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Required Time: Delivered within 72 hours.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>……\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The earnings for these three orders were not considered high.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But for a newcomer like him, he was not qualified to demand accepting large-value trade orders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, the prerequisite for large-volume trade orders is that the spatial inventory capacity must be sufficiently large; capable players can deliver nearly a shipload of goods in a single order, yielding substantial profits.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, the initial investment is also staggering.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Veteran players have fully reaped the early benefits; back then, the price of Void Origin Stones was extremely low, and few players were rushing to buy them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, player demand for spatial resources is growing higher by the day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides top-tier societies wanting to craft various spatial items and even teleportation arrays, ordinary players also have needs for spatial expansion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The standard capacity of a spatial inventory can be expanded by consuming Sacrificial Power, making the cost-performance ratio of Void Origin Stones too low.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But for special spaces, such as pet spaces (for controlling pets or growth-type pets), the expansion cost is exorbitantly high, making purchasing Void Origin Stones the more cost-effective option.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This has caused the prices of Void Origin Stones and other spatial resources to continue climbing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although they had absorbed Void Origin Peak, a special node producing spatial resources.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The number of players also expands with every recruitment, bringing in a large batch of players with demands, causing the idea of \"driving the price down\" to remain unrealized.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Players who hoarded Void Origin Stones in the early days have already made a fortune.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is even foreseeable that the prices of spatial resources will continue to rise in the future.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Players who currently possess large-capacity spatial inventories invested huge costs in Sacrificial Power during the early stages.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is said that those several players serving as warehouses for the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce each invested millions of Sacrificial Power points to expand their inventory spaces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at the three order options on the interface, Jiang Zhou selected Order No. 3, which offered the highest profit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After successfully accepting it, he opened the map and saw the delivery location flashing with red light; its straight-line distance from his current position was 392 nautical miles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before long, a member of the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce sent him a private message.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After receiving a clear confirmation that the order had been accepted, the other party sent a trade request, handing over the batch of goods via cross-space transaction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having obtained the delivery goods, Jiang Zhou then adjusted the sails; the small boat lightly sliced through the azure sea surface, heading toward the destination.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He lazily leaned against the boat's edge, took a fishing rod from his inventory, casually attached low-quality bait purchased from the Mall, and cast the line into the sea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sound of the hook hitting the water was crisp and pleasant; the float bobbed gently with the waves, creating rings of tiny ripples on the azure surface.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the distance, several seabirds skimmed over the water, emitting cheerful cries.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Occasionally, silver flying fish leaped out of the water, drawing a bright arc under the sunlight before diving back into the sea with a \"plop.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Zhou narrowed his eyes, enjoying this moment of tranquility.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He then summoned the Forum, opened the Explorer's livestream room, minimized it to the left side of his vision, and placed the list of Forum posts on the right.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The pleasant and comfortable journey had officially begun.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His vehicle did not sail fast, but its advantage lay in its cheap crafting cost; delivering to the target location within the stipulated time was no difficult task.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Time flew by swiftly during the delivery.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Half a day later.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sea surface was plated with shattered gold from the setting sun; Jiang Zhou sat cross-legged at the bow, the fishing rod leaning against his shoulder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, the fishing line suddenly trembled, and the float plunged violently underwater.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ho, we've got a bite.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He adjusted his posture, flicked his wrist, and the fishing rod bent into a full moon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Come up.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moments later, the water surface split open with a \"splash.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A pale red spiritual fish leaped into the air; its scales refracted the halo of the evening glow, and water droplets flicked from its tail splashed onto Jiang Zhou's Iron Face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A scan of analysis revealed this was a Red Glow Fish with a Hunting Rank of 17.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He summoned the Fishing Log plugin interface created by Fishing Party players, entered \"Red Glow Fish,\" and immediately, relevant information appeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides the information available in the analysis, the processing methods for the Red Glow Fish were also clearly written.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing the plugin note that it was suitable for sashimi, Jiang Zhou immediately felt hungry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wouldn't sell this fish; first, he would fill his stomach.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He took a Mall dagger from his spatial inventory and looked around.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, he selected a flat section of the stern gunwale, wiped it with a rag, and used it as a makeshift cutting board.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Red Glow Fish was placed on the gunwale, its tail still flapping.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Zhou pressed the fish head with his left hand while his right hand guided the dagger to slice diagonally behind the gills.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, the blade tip traced along the spine, splitting the fish meat into two halves like unfurled silk.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The semi-transparent fat in the fish belly shimmered with a honey-colored luster under the setting sun; pressing a finger against it revealed a texture full of elasticity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Scrape!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dagger pushed horizontally across the fish body, and a slice of fish meat, thin as a cicada's wing, curled up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Zhou gently lifted a slice with the dagger tip and held it up to the setting sun to inspect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fish meat was translucent like amber, with faint spiritual light flowing between its fibers, as if the evening glow had been crushed and hidden inside, whetting his appetite greatly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he did not rush to enjoy it yet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sliced fish pieces were arranged on the gunwale; a sea breeze blew, causing the edges of the fish meat to curl slightly, emitting a fresh, sweet aroma.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, he opened the Exchange Row, found the Spiritual Food category, and filtered for: Condiments.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a novice, he did not expect too much; he selected a basic condiment priced at 150 points of Sacrificial Power, named: Flame Pepper Brew.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is the one.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Zhou tapped to purchase with his consciousness, and a crimson ceramic jar appeared in his spatial inventory the next second.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Taking it out, he found it was only palm-sized.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment he lifted the lid, a scent of spiciness mixed with fruity fragrance rushed to his Iron Face; the sauce inside flowed slowly like molten lava, with several grains of some golden-red plant seeds floating on the surface.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He squatted down, used his finger to scoop out the sauce, and spread it onto the fish slices thin as cicada wings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The instant it dipped into the sauce, tiny sparks rose from the surface of the fish slice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sending the fish slice into his mouth, Jiang Zhou suddenly widened his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first thing his tongue touched was the crushed seeds in the sauce, resembling grains of wasabi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A clear, stimulating sensation instantly exploded on his taste buds, while his tongue was wrapped in the rich oil of the Red Glow Fish.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His teeth bit through the fish meat, and the condiments hidden within the fibers made a faint \"crackle,\" like holding a small bonfire that wouldn't burn.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the second slice, he deliberately dipped it in more sauce.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, the spiciness rolled down his throat but transformed into a warm current in his stomach, spreading to his limbs and hundreds of bones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Challenger prompts kept sounding in his ears; his Body Tempering experience increased while he enjoyed the delicacy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By the time he ate the seventh slice, fine sweat seeped from Jiang Zhou's temples.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He casually pulled open the collar of his Starter Suit, letting the sea breeze rush in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the last slice, coated in sauce, disappeared between his teeth, Jiang Zhou licked the sauce remaining in the tiger's mouth of his hand with lingering satisfaction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Forum players had once discussed the \"Levels of Enjoyment\" in the Monster World.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to feedback from the vast majority of players, the Connoisseur Party divided enjoyment into five levels.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ranked first, without a doubt, was Hunting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With every successful hunt, players could feel their bodies evolving.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This included improvements in vision, muscle strength, senses, and so on; this is also the core reason why the number of Hunting Party players surpasses all other playstyles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ranked second, but capable of rising to first in the eyes of many players, was enjoying Spiritual Food.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was a saying on the Forum: \"One bite of spiritual food captivates the soul; real-world delicacies are but dust.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Monster World offered taste experiences that the real world could never replicate, a veritable explosion of flavor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fresh sweetness, rich mellowness, lingering aftertaste... these layers of flavor that required delicate appreciation in reality became sensory bricks smashing directly into one's Iron Face in the spiritual food meals of the Monster World.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Basically, after eating food from the Monster World, everyone felt that offline food was like chewing wax; it could no longer be described merely as bad-tasting, and one might even develop a physiological resistance to it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Early veteran players now mostly survive on nutrient fluids, having moved their enjoyment of gourmet food entirely into the game.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, enjoying spiritual food is also one of the most luxurious consumption areas for players in the Monster World.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For high-quality spiritual food meals, the value of the ingredients themselves is expensive, and they become even more costly after being made into spiritual food.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A very famous Spiritual Chef Party player on the Forum—the very chef who opened up the Spiritual Chef playstyle—spent over half a month seeking many rare ingredients to create the spiritual food meal \"Starry River Scroll\"; the Sacrificial Power required to purchase it could even buy a house in reality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the moment this spiritual food meal was listed on the Exchange Row, it was snapped up instantly by some player.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a novice, he naturally would not dare to expect experiencing top-tier spiritual food meals.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eating a spiritual fish meal was quite good; previously caught spiritual fish were basically all listed on the Exchange Row to exchange for Sacrificial Power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, only when one's own strength and even the quality of fishing gear improved could one fish for higher-quality catches in the future.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suffering a bit in the early stage allows one to enjoy high returns in the late stage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finishing his meal with lingering satisfaction, Jiang Zhou continued to activate the Fishing Delivery Cultivation Mode.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Half an hour later.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zeng!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fishing rod suddenly bent into an arc, the line tightened instantly, emitting a friction sound.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Zhou gripped the fishing rod tightly, only to find he couldn't budge it even a fraction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hiss, it's a big one; hope I get rich.\" He raised an eyebrow, activated the Mighty Axe characteristic, and exerted force with both hands simultaneously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the fishing line remained motionless, yet no counter-pulling force was transmitted either.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Something's wrong; could it be that I've hooked a massive rock on the seabed?\" Jiang Zhou tried to exert force again, but the result was still motionless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fishing line was the highest-quality part of this vehicle set; it was sold to him by a veteran player after being discarded, so he was reluctant to give it up just like that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Tsk, looks like I'll have to go down and see for myself.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, he halted the vehicle's navigation, ordering it to hold its position.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this Cultivation Mode, the vehicle would hold its position based on coordinates, drifting neither far away with the waves nor requiring manual control, thanks to its adaptive cruise function.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having done all this, he leaped into the sea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Icy seawater instantly enveloped his entire body, while a dazzling underwater landscape unfolded before his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Following the taut fishing line, he swam deeper into the darkness; after diving more than fifty meters, his vision gradually grew dim.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he reached the end of the fishing line, the scene presented before him made him freeze in surprise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He saw that the fishing line was caught on a bizarre array pattern formed from coral, with the hook itself submerged within the pattern as if swallowed by it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was also the reason he had been unable to reel the line back in all along.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Observing up close, he discovered that the array pattern had indeed swallowed the hook whole, rather than the hook merely being stuck in a crevice of the pattern.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Filled with curiosity, he activated his analysis scan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Power Supply Space]:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Target Description: A semi-independent resource production space crafted by the long-extinct \"Abyssal Crystal Clan,\" which semi-isolates and conceals a Domain Node. It opens daily for twenty-three minutes to allow the Abyssal Crystal Clan to collect internal resources, automatically closing once the time expires. Special lifeforms created by the Abyssal Crystal Clan guard the interior of this space.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A Domain Node?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Reading the analysis content, Jiang Zhou felt he might have stumbled upon a great opportunity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Today's 8,300 words are now served~\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",5677,"2026-06-19T09:20:37.851Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","719c63afe1d1b7f59182b00c3f0c2d6f95ac43b064b1edc061e503fc45a08d75","monsters-are-coming-chapter-321","monsters-are-coming-chapter-319",393,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fmonsters-are-coming-cover.jpg"]