[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-monsters-are-coming":3,"chapter-the-monsters-are-coming-monsters-are-coming-chapter-325":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},2250174,4069,"Chapter 325: I Am in Reality, Guarding the Northern Border","monsters-are-coming-chapter-325",325,"\u003Cp>Primordial Sacrificial Altar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qi Sheng’s mind flashed with the image of Earth’s Arctic monitoring station.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the instant the Black Black Tide rift showed anomalous fluctuations, his consciousness had already jumped to Earth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had monitored the entire process of the Black Black Tide rift’s gradual expansion, including the subsequent descent of evil influence forces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But after analysis, he found the Black Black Tide power that descended upon Earth posed no threat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because what arrived was merely an exploratory troop type outside the Black Black Tide’s core system, with limited combat power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It could be understood as this invasion being similar to the Soul Return Clan releasing soul beasts into a minor world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides surveying conditions within the minor world, if the minor world’s intensity was extremely low, the exploratory troops would devour its life force to grow rapidly before the War Legion arrived, until they consumed the entire world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then they would carry the energy gained from devouring the world back to the Black Black Tide Legion, where it would be reinitialized into the lowest-tier exploratory troop.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Normally, they were deployed in quantities of billions into minor worlds where Black Black Tide rifts had already appeared; no matter how many died, the Black Black Tide didn’t care.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Most seeds would be destroyed upon contacting the world, but some would rapidly grow within the minor world, eventually becoming cataclysmic disasters that destroyed it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this was fundamentally not the Black Black Tide’s war power—its combat strength was pitifully weak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To the Black Black Tide, an invasion where even evil spirit warriors had not yet appeared could not be called a war.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was like humans casually scattering a handful of grass seeds into the wilderness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whether they lived or died made no difference.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Billions of seeds drifted with the wind; the vast majority landed on rocks, deserts, salt flats (stronger minor worlds), and withered away silently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But if even one or two happened to land in soil suitable for growth, they could frantically absorb nutrients and, in an instant, transform into a thorny tidal wave that devoured the entire plain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Earth was merely one insignificant world among countless others where seeds had been scattered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It hadn’t even earned the right to be officially recorded as a “battlefield.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For Earth, the strength of the Black Black Tide seeds was slightly elevated, but the Eclipse Clan had the capability to handle them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This level of invasion required absolutely no concern.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Earth was still far from the Black Black Tide’s formal invasion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this time, an unexpected situation arose.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Black Black Tide’s invasion force had already made contact with players before the Eclipse Clan intervened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If no action was taken, this player would surely die.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Earth was his recruitment ground; this act was unmistakably a home invasion, and Qi Sheng naturally wouldn’t stand idly by.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His choice was to grant the player a temporary, mandatory transformation into a Player Body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This portion of the Player Body would later become a mobile module capable of shuttling between the two realms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the player was in the real world, this portion of power would feedback from the Monster World to the real world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the player logged in and entered the Monster World, the Challenger System would extract this portion of power and send it to the Monster World.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As long as the player had sufficient sacrificial power, their real-world body would be completely reshaped into a Player Body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One body, shuttling between the Monster World and reality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But some aspects of this setup were still being refined.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, it was only temporarily opened for player use.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he had no intention of withdrawing this power; after all, the player had already spent sacrificial power—let it remain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, he would not reopen the permission for this player to exchange sacrificial power for Player Body power in the future.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only when the Black Black Tide formally invades will he unlock it for all players.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Earth, Arctic Spatial Monitoring Station.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the analysis scan passed, detailed information about the Black Mist life appeared in Yu Chuan’s mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Black Black Tide·Blood Slave (Evil Influence)】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hunting Rank: Level 21.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Target Description: A wandering explorer outside the Black Black Tide’s core system, endowed with moderate intelligence, tasked with surveying different minor worlds connected to Black Black Tide rifts, collecting detailed data, and transmitting it to the Black Black Tide Legion, which then analyzes the data to dispatch invasion forces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon seeing the words “Black Black Tide,” Yu Chuan froze in shock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sudden crisis had caught him completely off guard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before logging into the game, he had checked that day’s spatial fluctuation monitoring data and found everything normal—no anomalies such as spatial rifts existed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet, only three hours after logging in, a crisis erupted in the real world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even more absurd was that the invading force descending upon Earth was Black Black Tide evil influence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A monster that should have existed only within the Monster World game.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Facing such a terrifying creature, he had assumed he would surely die.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet he never imagined his in-game player attributes had feedbacked into his real-world body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Including the Crimson Gang Qi and Food Qi Ming Hun he had equipped in the game.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Absurd—how absurd!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now there was no time to ponder these things; the evil influence gathered its strength and attacked again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whether he could win, Yu Chuan felt uncertain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to the mental prompt, the game’s feedback ratio to reality was 4.7%.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His main Ming Hun Crimson Gang Qi level in the game was Level 33—he could effortlessly slaughter entire groups of Level 21 Hunting Rank monsters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At a 4.7% ratio, theoretically, it was sufficient to kill one evil influence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But reality was not a game; he had only one life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To truly fight for his life, his inner feeling was entirely different—he felt fear deep in his bones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the Black Black Tide evil influence gave him no time for psychological preparation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Blood Slave’s body suddenly collapsed, then transformed into a dark shadow swiftly closing in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Chuan’s pupils contracted sharply; his right fist clenched violently, and crimson-golden Gang Qi erupted from his pores like a volcanic blast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His entire right arm was instantly enveloped in compressed Gang Qi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Get lost!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He punched forward—the air exploded with a roar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the instant his fist met the claw blade, the Blood Slave’s entire arm exploded into black mist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But its assault did not end; the reformed mist claw attacked again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After this initial exchange, Yu Chuan’s confidence surged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He already knew the answer to his earlier question.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This Black Black Tide evil influence was no match for him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This combat experience came from sparring with Joyful Warriors of similar strength in Le Zhi Training Camp.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whether one could win could be determined upon initial contact.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His own physical attributes far surpassed the opponent’s.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After crushing the evil influence’s mist claw again, Yu Chuan gave it no chance to recover.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stepped forward, the ground cracking beneath his feet; his right leg swept like a battle axe, Gang Qi coalescing into a crimson blade of light along the edge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Crack!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though he kicked the mist body, it produced the crisp sound of shattering bone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The evil influence’s knee shattered; its body knelt. Yu Chuan seized its skull with one hand and slammed it violently into the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His five fingers tightened—his perfected “Hair Pull” skill from Le Zhi Training Camp triggered automatically; he yanked hard, tearing apart the evil influence’s mist-formed head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, his right foot rose naturally and delivered a brutal kick to the evil influence’s lower body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was another special skill from Le Zhi Training Camp: the “Sterilizing Kick.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Followed by a series of slaps, a tackle, a roll into ground control… a fluid combo completed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Chuan’s palm erupted with Gang Qi; crimson flames burst from the evil influence’s seven orifices as its body fully disintegrated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the battle over, Yu Chuan shook his hand and rose; the black mist, burned by Gang Qi, turned to ash and scattered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, a Challenger prompt echoed in his mind:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Challenger Prompt: Killed Black Black Tide Evil Influence·Blood Slave. Earned Evolution Points…】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing the prompt, Yu Chuan’s expression was complex; countless theories flashed through his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He couldn’t understand why an evil influence from the Monster World game had appeared in reality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And why could his in-game power feedback into reality through the consumption of sacrificial power?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were no clues to any of these questions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His gaze turned outward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the Player Body’s attribute feedback, the night was no longer an obstacle—it became exceptionally clear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could see the churning black mist in the distance continuing to spread.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Advancing toward his position.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, the observation station’s outer wall had been breached; he wore no protective suit, his exposed skin subjected to -87°C extreme cold, yet he felt not a trace of chill.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Across his skin’s surface, crimson Gang Qi circled his body under his will.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With each breath, his lungs burned like a furnace; the white vapor he exhaled condensed into tiny ice crystals in the air, instantly vaporized upon touching the Gang Qi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Muscle fibers, reinforced by Gang Qi, had become as tough as alloy; his heartbeat pounded like war drums; he could hear blood surging through his veins, bringing a near-frenzied sense of power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the first time he had ever felt in the real world the exquisite experience only found in games.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although this body was far inferior to his in-game self, it granted him combat power that defied logic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the real world, he was a being stronger than the so-called “super gene warriors,” the strongest humans.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, distant black mist churned and spread like a tidal wave, melting ice and snow wherever it passed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dozens of grotesque evil spirits emerged from the black mist, gradually separating—some resembling rotting giant wolves, others twisted human forms, their torsos inlaid with crimson evil crystals, exuding ultimate evil energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These monsters, if placed in a horror film, would effortlessly annihilate an entire protagonist group.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their near-immortal nature meant even a nuclear bomb could not eradicate them; they could still reform their evil bodies through the rules of the Black Black Tide.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now… his power came from the Monster World, augmented by the ability to “extract” upon killing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These evil spirits were not beyond fighting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Swarms of evil spirits howled toward him from afar, accelerating rapidly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Chuan did not dodge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He raised his hand, fingers spread, crimson-gold Gang Qi coalescing in his palm into a blazing Gang Qi longblade.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hssst!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The blade sliced through—the first evil spirit to close in split cleanly in midair, its body vaporizing into mist before it could reassemble, consumed by the blade’s intense heat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dissolving mist vanished the next instant, and a Challenger prompt echoed in his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The second evil spirit attacked from the side, driving a sharp bony spike straight toward his waist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Chuan sidestepped, his left hand forming a claw, gripping the creature’s skull with sudden force and yanking hard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The evil spirit’s head exploded into black mist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The third evil spirit struck from the left, its corrupted mouth gaping open, spewing a foul, viscous slime.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Chuan even turned his head to look, sensing the gale approaching—yet his mind automatically conjured the habitual mental image of a Ji Le evil spirit ambushing from the side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he shifted his body, he swung his blade backward; Gang Qi formed a curved blade of light, severing both the slime and the evil spirit, triggering another Challenger prompt in his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More and more Black Black Tide evil spirits surged from ahead; the previously dispersed black mist now converged toward him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“To hell with it!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though he had no idea what was happening, his only goal now was to survive the Black Black Tide’s onslaught.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Within a five-hundred-kilometer radius, there were no other stations—he stood alone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Second, while surviving, he had to protect the station’s database.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The network had encountered an unknown error, preventing any data transmission. It was still unknown whether the Erosion Clan’s implanted crystal in his nape had relayed the situation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had to ensure the data’s safety.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was also the most bizarre part he felt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under normal circumstances, the Arctic Monitoring Station’s database maintained an encrypted real-time connection with the Earth Alliance headquarters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once the biological key activated, the data signal would bypass conventional network protocols via relay devices buried beneath the ice, traveling through the invisible channel constructed by the Erosion Clan using Earth’s magnetic field, directly reaching the equatorial space station to be transmitted to the Erosion Clan and all Earth Alliance races.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This emergency protocol was designed to ignore all conventional interference.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even a nuclear blast’s electromagnetic pulse or a solar flare’s particle storm could not disrupt this transmission.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now, it could not be activated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even the biological key failed to authenticate, displaying a “verification failed” message—as if the password had been suddenly changed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His body could no longer serve as the key to unlock emergency Cultivation Mode.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This might be some unknown interference brought by the Black Black Tide’s arrival.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He glanced at the approaching black mist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the Black Black Tide evil spirits still distant, he had over ten seconds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He decided to try once more—perhaps the network had already recovered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He hurried to the still-intact control console, its red warning lights flashing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His fingers flew across the keyboard, attempting to bypass the system lock and directly access the backup transmission protocol.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the pop-up prompt read: Activation failed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The database’s firewall had been completely locked by some external force; all commands were bounced back, and the error codes flickering on-screen were ones he had never seen before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Undeterred, he pressed his left palm against the biological scanner again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Skin touched cold metal; the biological key’s microcurrent scan spread from his fingertips to his wrist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Biological Key Rebirth Authentication… Failed】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Damn!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Erosion Clan’s biological key was gene-bound; unless he died, the key could never fail.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was precisely his purpose—to serve as the final safety measure in emergencies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now, the system seemed to deny his very existence, utterly rejecting his Xu Kequan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even more bizarrely, the database’s physical isolation protocol had been triggered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the database had never connected to the Earth Alliance—could the Black Black Tide really block signal transmission, let alone directly alter the database’s underlying logic?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He leapt up and ripped open the metal panel beside the console.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The circuit board was intact, but all the main chip indicator lights were extinguished—as if forcibly put into sleep Cultivation Mode by some command.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He pressed the reboot button. Three seconds. Five seconds. Ten seconds… the console remained unresponsive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was like having the most advanced biometric lock on your home’s security door—only his fingerprint and the Earth Alliance’s security center had Xu Kequan to open it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Burglars could break in with lockpicks, force, or even replace the lock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now, the lock displayed: “Locked from inside.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The problem? No one was home.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This Xu Kequan could not have been locked internally by the Earth Alliance—the issue clearly lay outside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet he could not find any logical explanation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wanted to test further, but a chilling wind had already arrived—the evil spirit Black Tide was closing in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had no time for further testing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Kill!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He turned and roared, rallying himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like during his training at A Le’s camp, he charged toward the Black Black Tide evil spirits with reckless determination. The cold wind howled; black mist churned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Chuan’s figure tore through the evil spirits, leaving a crimson-gold trail; Gang Qi erupted like a volcano, each step melting the ground into blackened footprints.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Three rotting wolf evil spirits lunged from left, right, and center, fangs dripping corrosive slime.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He spun, the Gang Qi longblade reforming in his hand, carving a half-circle—crimson blade-light bloomed like a crescent moon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hssst!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The rotting wolves’ bodies disintegrated midair, black blood evaporating before it could hit the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, a humanoid evil spirit roared, coalescing misty claws from beneath the black mist. Yu Chuan lifted his foot, his battle boot wrapped in Gang Qi, stomping down hard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Crack!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The evil spirit’s head burst like a watermelon; its headless body staggered two steps before he delivered a whip-like kick, sending it flying and knocking over three other evil spirits.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Black Black Tide evil spirits surged like waves. He gritted his teeth and roared:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Come on!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blade-light surged like a dragon; each strike sent black mist scattering, burning rotten flesh and black blood, filling the air with an indescribable stench.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Chuan, fully committed, fought with his life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He constantly opened his mouth, gulping deeply.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Gang Qi drained his blood energy too rapidly—he realized his blood supply wouldn’t last long; he needed to replenish external energy through ingestion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unlike in the Monster World, where every breath brought abundant blood energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the real world, breathing yielded almost no energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He tried opening his spatial satchel to retrieve several stored potions to restore stamina and blood energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the next second, a prompt flashed in his mind:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Challenger Prompt: Spatial Satchel Xu Kequan not unlocked. Opening failed.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Damn!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet the number of Black Black Tide evil spirits showed no sign of decreasing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hssst!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blade-light flashed—a rotting giant wolf evil spirit was sliced in half; black blood splattered across the snow, sizzling as it corroded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the next second, the severed body writhed in the black mist, reconnecting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Damn it, endless!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Chuan spat out a mouthful of blood, slashing aside a bone spike from the side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sharp spike grazed his cheek, leaving a shallow cut on his cheekbone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another evil spirit seized the chance to pounce, its rotting mouth gaping wide, spitting black slime like arrows.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Chuan twisted sharply—the slime skimmed his shoulder, striking the station’s metal debris behind him, instantly melting a bowl-sized hole.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His pupils contracted; his left hand formed a claw, crimson-gold Gang Qi coalescing into a cone in his palm, driving it deep into the approaching evil spirit’s chest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ploosh!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The evil spirit convulsed violently; the crimson evil crystal embedded in its chest shattered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Black mist surged from the rift, the evil spirits’ bodies rapidly deflating like punctured bladders before collapsing into mist, transforming into Challenger Prompts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet more evil spirits had already surrounded him—too many to kill.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A humanoid evil spirit launched a surprise attack from behind, its sharp bony claws lunging straight for his spine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Chuan, overwhelmed and struggling to defend himself, sensed the wind’s rush—but it was already too late to turn.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Riiip!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bony claws left five deep gashes across his back, so severe they exposed bone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the instant blood gushed forth, Gang Qi violently erupted; crimson flames spread along the claws, burning the entire arm to charcoal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The evil spirit shrieked in agony; Yu Chuan whirled around and slashed, shattering the creature into a Challenger Prompt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Chuan grunted, his back wounds burning with searing pain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A violent emotion suddenly exploded from deep within his heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Might as well die.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this desperate situation, he lost all fear, grinning as he spat out a mouthful of blood; his blood-stained teeth gleamed grotesquely under the moonlight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gang Qi compressed furiously within his body, then erupted like a volcano.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Crimson flames burst from every pore, turning him into a blazing, blood-red war god.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gang Qi on his blade reached its peak; Yu Chuan roared as he charged into the horde of evil spirits, his blade cutting through all in its path.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Puff! Puff! Puff!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Several evil spirits simultaneously dissolved into mist—at the cost of his skin cracking open, blood seeping from the fissures.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was true life-burning combat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Warrior system’s consumption differed from that of the Magic system players.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the Star Vein system, Soul Soul traits were divided into passive and active types.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Active Soul Soul traits consumed resources in different ways, categorized into three types.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first type consumed mental energy, represented by Ink Flame, Thunder Rush, and Hawk-Head Demon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The second type consumed blood qi—the stored energy within one’s own body—each strike reducing the health bar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thanks to enhanced physical resilience enabling rapid recovery, blood qi-based combat could sustain far longer—several times longer—than mental energy-based combat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The third type was mixed consumption, requiring both mental energy and blood qi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the Monster World, he followed a close-combat path, consuming blood qi energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While releasing Gang Qi, his life force was continuously draining.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the Monster World, the sensation of consuming blood qi was not intense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in reality, it was equivalent to burning his life to fight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Chuan panted heavily, his Gang Qi-formed longblade never pausing in its swings—he was completely surrounded by evil spirits.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After shattering another evil spirit, the Challenger Prompt rang again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Challenger Prompt: Soul Soul level increased.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A scorching torrent exploded from his spine!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Chuan involuntarily threw his head back and roared; the crimson-gold patterns beneath his skin suddenly blazed bright.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His previously depleted Gang Qi revived like a volcano, bursting from every pore to form a blazing ring of flame around him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>New power flooded his body, granting his exhausted frame a final reserve.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though the crisis remained unresolved, it gave him the strength to keep fighting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This is insane—I leveled up killing evil spirits in reality.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even as he mentally mocked himself, the slaughter continued.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Chuan’s breathing grew heavier; each swing of his blade made him feel his blood qi draining rapidly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Not enough.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He suddenly opened his mouth wide, sucking in like a black hole, attempting to snatch energy from the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Earth’s spiritual energy was so thin it filled him with despair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the Monster World, every breath felt like drinking strong liquor—thick blood qi energy poured through his nostrils into his lungs, instantly transforming into surging blood qi, easily converted into Gang Qi and expelled from his body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But on Earth, the spiritual energy in the air was as dry as desert sand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though he hadn’t activated Hawk-Head Demon’s perception, he could indirectly sense through breath absorption that the spiritual energy here was so sparse it was nearly undetectable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After inhaling, he felt almost no change in his blood qi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could only rely on rapid, high-frequency breathing to gather more blood qi energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it was like trying to fill a bucket with a teaspoon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Damn!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Chuan gritted his teeth, sweeping his blade horizontally to cut a charging evil spirit in half; black blood splattered across his Iron Face, burning with corrosive heat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t bother wiping his cheek, swinging his blade backward to cleave open another evil spirit’s skull, reducing it to mist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But his movements had slowed considerably.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The glow of his Gang Qi dimmed; the blade formed from it grew dull.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each exertion felt like squeezing dry a body already on the brink—barely a drop of extra blood qi remained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Black Black Tide evil spirits seemed to sense his weakness; their assault grew wilder—rotten claws, sharp bone spikes, and toxic spittle attacked from all sides.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Chuan’s body grew weaker with each collision; a trickle of blood seeped from his lips, yet his eyes burned with greater madness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Fuck, let’s see who dies first!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this final desperation, Yu Chuan abandoned all thought of self-preservation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, he had only one goal: fight with all his strength—kill one more, and it was a gain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To die like a warrior.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He squeezed the last of his blood qi; Gang Qi erupted violently, crimson flames blazing to their limit along his blade as he launched an unyielding charge into the surging Black Tide of evil spirits.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This scene, frozen in time, carried profound artistic resonance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the freezing night, the Black Black Tide churned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Chuan’s silhouette carved a crimson afterimage across the snowfield, like a burning meteor, charging headlong into the overwhelming darkness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His body, though like a candle flickering in the wind, was nearly exhausted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet that single streak of crimson blazed brighter than ever—a final, furious burn of his life force.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Three colors intertwined in the scene.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Crimson, the lone charge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Black, the dark Black Tide drowning all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>White, the drifting snow over the frigid snowfield.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These three hues wove together into an image of “resolute death.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Footsteps shattered frozen earth; the blade tore through the icy wind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Crimson-gold Gang Flame, compressed to its extreme, erupted violently, propelling Yu Chuan’s body into a blazing line slicing through the Black Black Tide.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the instant his blade fell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The collision of crimson and darkness exploded into a visible shockwave; evil spirits within a hundred-meter radius disintegrated collectively, the black mist briefly cleared into a void.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Yu Chuan had finally reached his limit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He knelt on one knee, his Gang Qi dissolving; his body exposed to the bitter cold, barely holding himself upright.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His vision blurred; his ears rang incessantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The distant black mist still churned—something even more terrifying seemed to be approaching.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Heh… never thought I’d become a battlefield god in reality… cough cough… turns out fighting the Black Black Tide… requires strong teammates.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, Yu Chuan could no longer distinguish reality from the game.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He even believed the scene of his desperate slaughter was merely a hallucination before death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He grinned, his mouth stained with blood, voice hoarse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he collapsed, unable to hold his body up any longer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Chuan’s consciousness teetered on the edge of unconsciousness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before his vision plunged into total darkness, he vaguely saw the nearby Black Black Tide surging, evil spirits’ twisted forms rushing toward him like a Black Tide, engulfing his body and rapidly devouring it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Black Black Tide, capable of easily devouring metal, could not easily breach his body’s defenses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he had no strength left to resist—he knew death was inevitable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, the sky suddenly brightened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Three blinding blue-white beams pierced the heavens, like divine spears, crashing down from above the clouds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the beams struck the Black Black Tide, evil spirits within a radius of several kilometers vanished instantly in extreme heat—no screams, no ashes, nothing left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, a deafening roar echoed from the heavens.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Three blue warships tore through the clouds, diving downward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their shapes were jagged as blades, their hulls covered in complex spiritual runes, surfaces flowing with dark-blue energy patterns.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No conventional engine nozzles—instead, warped spatial ripples surrounded their bodies, making them fly as if gravity didn’t exist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The slaughter began.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the bottom of the lead warship, dozens of honeycomb-shaped launch ports suddenly unfolded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next second.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Countless thin beams of blue-white light rained down like a storm, each precisely piercing the skull of a Xie Sui.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One by one, the Xie Sui devouring Yu Chuan were eliminated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The struck Xie Sui didn’t even have time to struggle—their bodies instantly froze, then shattered like fragile glass into a thousand ice crystals, which finally dissolved back into black mist and merged once more with the Hei Chao.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The warship on the left was even more brutal—its bow suddenly split open, revealing a massive pulse cannon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the instant of charging, the surrounding space began to warp.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The target was precisely the region where the Hei Wu energy was most concentrated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOM!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A crimson beam, over ten meters in diameter, swept across the area where the Hei Chao Xie Sui had gathered; wherever it passed, whether Xie Sui, frozen earth, or snow, all were vaporized into a charred trench.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the Hei Chao’s nature made it far from easy to utterly destroy with ordinary force.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dispersed black mist quickly reassembled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet the warship’s second barrage followed immediately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Third, fourth… the warships could not, like Yu Chuan, kill and then extract and absorb.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even the lowest-grade Hei Chao Xie Sui possessed near-immortality—each death required only minimal energy to reform.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All the warships could do was continuously shatter them, keeping them perpetually in a state of healing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This bombardment continued for forty-eight rounds before the Hei Chao force that had descended upon Earth was fully destroyed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, the frozen tundra of the North Pole station was crisscrossed with charred trenches.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The residual heat from the pulse cannon still radiated waves of warmth; the air still carried the scent of burning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The warships’ roars gradually faded, leaving only the low hum of cooling energy circuits.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Initiate full-spectrum scan.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A command descended from the Moon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The lead blue-white warship deployed a ring-shaped array beneath its hull; dark blue ripples spread like waves, covering the entire battlefield.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Where the ripples passed, microbial activity beneath the frozen soil was marked as green dots.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Residual radiation appeared as flickering orange parameters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The scan lasted a full seventeen minutes, revealing no trace of residual Hei Chao energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Restore the environment.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A new command descended from the Moon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two of the warships simultaneously turned their bows and fired silver-white nanomist agents at the pockmarked glaciers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The nanoclusters began reassembling the damaged frozen soil structure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ionosphere generators were deployed into the atmosphere to neutralize residual radiation from the battle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The final warship silently hovered directly above Yu Chuan’s head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The underside of its hull slid open soundlessly, and a soft white light curtain descended.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Within the light curtain, Yu Chuan’s mangled body slowly rose, ascending into the warship’s interior.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A figure appeared in the warship’s entrance corridor, gazing at Yu Chuan, grievously wounded and on the brink of death, within the light beam.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The figure wore a silver uniform, adorned with a Yue Shi Zu badge on the chest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",4942,"2026-06-19T09:20:37.851Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","ead48e1f6fd326324100fead908675e50ecd79bde1c5bcdd6c0de756f6685abb","monsters-are-coming-chapter-326","monsters-are-coming-chapter-324",393,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fmonsters-are-coming-cover.jpg"]