Chapter 330: The Prelude to War, No Sense of Achievement

Meng Yuan Chu Altar.

Before Qi Sheng's eyes floated the map scenery that players had already explored and opened up.

The exploration levels of the eight core node regions, from high to low, were: Colorful Mist Coast, Senluo Forest Realm, Sun-Chasing Land, Eternal Silence Binghu, Emperor's Tomb Mountain Range (Winter Snow Plains), Phantom Spirit Wasteland (Bliss Training Camp), Explorer World.

Among them, the Emperor's Tomb Mountain Range region had already connected with the Winter Snow Plains region, belonging to the same area.

Outside the core nodes, players had also explored many small regions.

For example, the Plain of Phantom Flowers where Xiao Xiao Fa resided had already dispersed the fog in a region.

Every player acted in the Monster World according to their own preferred way, only regrouping when major events occurred.

At this moment, Qi Sheng's gaze focused on the Colorful Mist Coast region on the map.

A strand of gaze hung down.

Here, a major event that would change the regional situation was about to happen again.

The view, from a bird's-eye perspective, pierced through the thick cloud layers and descended to the junction of the Cang Star Sea Region and the Ascension Sea Region.

In the presented scene, billions of acres of black fog, like a tsunami breaching a dam, trampled over the sea region junction line, crushing the azure blue ocean.

Completely erasing the boundary line between the Cang Star Sea Region and the Ascension Sea Region.

Like a sinking sky curtain, it advanced without hesitation; wherever it passed, the sky light grew dim.

The surging waves were crushed into pale foam, turning into countless tiny whirlpools.

Deep within the mist, countless figures could be vaguely seen walking upon the waves.

These figures moved forward with the surge of the Ming Fog, like a wandering army of lost souls drifting with the current.

Their forms were blurred, flickering uncertainly in the mist; sometimes coalescing into warriors clad in armor and holding halberds, sometimes dispersing into churning dark currents.

The entire army was like a black sharp blade drawn from its sheath, splitting the sea region and advancing toward the Ascension Sea Region.

The Ming Fog Clan, returning from ancient times, after solidifying their ruling status in the Cang Star Sea Region, finally decided to launch a plundering war against the Ascension Sea Region.

And their target was precisely the Ascension Clan and Shu Yan.

Before the plundering war began, the Ascension Clan and Shu Yan had already realized that a powerful force was descending from the neighboring sea region.

A war lasting two years thus came to an end; both sides were preparing to welcome the challenge.

And the bloodthirsty fangs of the Ming Fog Clan arrived as scheduled.

For the Ascension Clan and Shu Yan, the Ming Fog Clan was undoubtedly an invading force.

But for the Ming Fog Clan, this was a campaign of revival, to reclaim the sea region territories that were once ruled by them.

In the eyes of the Ming Fog Clan, once the hegemon of the three great sea regions, whether the Ascension Clan, Shu Yan, or the Ancient God Clan, were all enemies.

The difference lay in that the true combat power of the Ancient God Clan was unknown; rashly launching a war carried risks.

But taking down the Ascension Clan and Shu Yan, these two forces, was much less difficult.

Picking the soft persimmons to squeeze; this saying applied equally in the Monster World.

As the catastrophe approached, both the Ascension Clan and Shu Yan initiated pre-war preparations.

At the center of the Ascension Clan's island, a rune divine pillar slowly rose into the sky, emitting brilliant light.

This was precisely the Ascension Clan's rule, "Spirit Root."

Surrounding the base of the Spirit Root divine pillar were carved twelve circular grooves; in each groove lay a rune, corresponding to one of the Ascension Clan's elemental Spirit Root systems.

Countless Ascension Clan warriors rose into the sky, gazing toward the Ming Fog Clan's advancing army, standing ready for battle.

Within the Shu Yan Domain.

Floating before Shu Yan were three fused rule manifestations: Zhi, Bi, and Shu.

Its gaze pierced through the domain, seeing the Ming Fog army rapidly advancing.

Under the control of consciousness, "Zhi" gently waved; the rule book floating before it turned its pages without wind, the book pages rustling.

Every page recorded a long story, representing a military system.

When the pages froze, the heaven and earth within the domain suddenly changed.

The technological civilization creations within the domain—steel armor, energy cannon arrays, mechanical legions... —instantly disintegrated like dust.

Replacing them was ten thousand feet of golden light pouring out from the book pages, like the rising sun, brilliant and fierce, rapidly reconstructing the domain scene.

The opening of the book: Extreme Yin births evil qi, filthy earth erodes the sky; when eternal night swallows the starry dome, when death fog obscures the sun and moon, this world shall have light.

Accompanying the text of the prologue constantly turning into golden light that filled the Shu Yan Domain.

Within the golden light, the holy legions from the novel "Demon Extermination" formed ranks and emerged.

They wore platinum battle armor, ancient holy patterns engraved upon the armor; every pattern flowed with intense purifying power.

Warriors held light-forged spears, the spear tips burning with eternal fire; wherever the light shone, all things revived.

Mountains and rivers rose from the ground.

The golden light continued to surge; ancient characters on the book pages floated into the air like living creatures, turning into burning inscriptions hanging in the sky curtain.

Every character was as heavy as a mountain, every stroke contained absolute suppression against evil demons.

The laws within the Shu Yan Domain were rapidly rewritten; the air, stained by holy power, condensed into liquid light, and the ground was paved with gilded holy pattern arrays.

The first figure stepping out from the golden light was the Holy Flame Avatar of the protagonist of "Demon Extermination."

He wore the Huangji Battle Armor forged from demon-exorcising light; the shoulder armor was inlaid with evil-breaking crystals; every step he took could trigger ripples of light within the domain.

On the thousand-foot light wings spread behind him, the "True Words of Demon Exorcism" recorded in the world of "Demon Extermination" pulsed.

Next to appear was the Holy Radiance Demon Extermination Corps.

They made their entrance reciting an oath with justice as bone and faith as blood; beneath them were holy light pegasi, holding spears of judgment.

At this moment, the sound of chimes rang from the sky; thirty-six sky-patrolling holy statues descended from the golden light.

These war weapons that suppressed evil demons in "Demon Extermination" quickly materialized.

At the very front of the legion, twelve six-winged holy statues slowly unfolded their light feathers; as the feathers spread, a holy hymn echoed through heaven and earth, the sound waves spreading like solid matter.

A line of text immediately floated up on the Rule Book: Extreme Yin entities must be suppressed by extreme Yang.

As the words fell, the Holy Legion roared in unison; their battle formation advanced like a torrent, standing ready at the edge of the domain.

Based on the life auras of the Mingwu Clan detected by its senses, the Rule Book selected a legion that counters extreme Yin power, preparing to welcome the coming cross-realm war.

The entire Rule Book domain had now transformed into the physicalized barrier of the "Demon Extermination" novel; the warriors, weapons, and holy relics surging forth with the Jin Guang all carried special attack attributes targeting extreme Yin existences.

The birth of the Inspiration World gave the Rule Book countless stories.

Every page of the Rule Book carries a legion system; one only needs to flip a page to quickly switch and generate them.

The Rule Book, which could initially barely fight the Ascended Clan, has today grown to a new height.

Had the Mingwu Clan not arrived, the defeat of the Ascended Clan would already have been destined.

The current Rule Book is like a librarian standing upon the history books of war.

A casually flipped page is the thunder of civilization's succession; with every chapter opened, a new era is born within the still-wet ink of the old era.

The thousands of armies and seas of stars solidified between the lines quickly transformed into a concrete storm sweeping the domain in the breeze raised by the turning pages.

Wars with the Ascended Clan in the past were like this as well.

Every tremor of the book pages was like a universe reboot.

In the previous story, the sword-wielding hero still held the afterimage of a charge; on the next page, the mecha legion had broken free from the story chapter where the ink was not yet dry.

Those civilizations imprisoned by words used the will, pen, and book created by the Rule Book as a stage, competing to perform glorious chapters in the gaps between page turns, linking together into an epic story that swallows Shanhe.

And the binding line of the Rule Book is the crack dividing parallel worlds.

At this moment, facing the invasion of the Mingwu Clan, whose strength surpasses that of the Ascended Clan, the Rule Book felt no fear in its heart, only rising battle intent.

Since the day it gained consciousness, it was the Heavenly Dao of the small world, holding sway over the cycle and succession of all things.

One thought could burn the sky; one thought could overturn the seas.

But it was ultimately only the Heavenly Dao of a small world.

Having chosen to come here, its goal was to become the Heavenly Dao of the Monster World, once again standing above billions upon billions of races.

Having once been the Heavenly Dao, it shall be the Heavenly Dao again.

Facing the Mingwu Clan's invasion, both the Ascended Clan and the Rule Book were prepared to face the impact head-on.

The confrontation of the three forces was about to unfold.

Qi Sheng, observing secretly, believed that once the great battle was about to begin, the Ascended Clan and the Rule Book would surely defend their territories, resisting the Mingwu Clan's assaults in different regions separately.

During this period, the two forces would not harm each other.

This was not an alliance, but the wisest choice when facing a powerful enemy.

Sharing the pressure from the Mingwu Clan on different battle lines.

The first round of probing clashes between the three forces began with the Mingwu Clan's vanguard legion attacking the Ascended Island, and the opening of the Rule Book domain.

Data information provided by the Guidance immediately floated up in Qi Sheng's mind.

Among these three forces, the most complete legion system belonged to the Rule Book; the Rule Book it controlled was like a vault freezing civilization embryos.

It could switch legion systems at any time to optimize war power.

However, in terms of war systems, the Mingwu Clan completely crushed both the Ascended Clan and the Rule Book.

This was because the Mingwu Clan also mastered the mode of gathering strength to fight, allowing Mingwu warriors to unleash terrifying combat power through energy connection and resonance.

Neither side deployed Ban Shen Jing combat power, yet in the clash of the vanguard legions, the Mingwu Clan still held the advantage despite fighting two against one.

Ascended Sea Battle Line.

Millions of Mingwu warriors formed a hexagonal array on the sea surface, with the interval between each unit arranged according to a special formation.

When the elemental torrent of the Ascended Clan's great army crashed into the formation, all warriors struck simultaneously.

The elemental torrent instantly completed distribution through the entanglement network constructed by the connected Mingwu.

The elemental torrent, which should have instantly evaporated vast swathes of Mingwu warriors, was decomposed into a million tiny injuries, causing only a few ripples to rise on the bodies of all Mingwu warriors.

When the battle formation rotated, the Mingwu commander at the center of the formation waved a flag.

The entire legion instantly transformed into a resonance cavity, re-concentrating the scattered energy into a single Mingwu spiral cannon that crashed down on the Ascended Island with a boom.

The elemental torrent barrier, which the Ascended Clan took pride in, shattered layer by layer like glass under this bombardment that combined the power of a million Mingwu warriors.

This strike instantly forced the Ascended Clan's top experts into battle.

Rule Book Domain Battle Line.

A storm of light spears from the Holy Legion poured down upon the Mingwu legion.

Just as the Rule Book had predicted, the life structure settings of the Holy Legion possessed characteristics that countered the Death-Speaking bodies of the Mingwu Clan.

But the assistance brought by this counter was very weak.

Mingwu warriors empowered by the Death-Speaking rule were essentially not undead-type lifeforms, but rule-type lifeforms.

Only the extreme Yin attribute inherently possessed by the Mingwu Clan could be countered, yet no counter-effect could be inflicted upon the Death-Speaking bodies.

Whenever a Mingwu warrior was pierced by holy light, their scattered death energy would be immediately absorbed by companions behind them; their life entered the Death-Speaking reshaping stage, transforming into black mist that spread across the battlefield.

For every Mingwu warrior that died, the power of the other Mingwu warriors would increase by a fraction.

This was the amplification brought by the Mingwu rule.

Turning the fallen into new energy nodes, making the living warriors even more blazing.

Death-Speaking plus Mingwu; the two rules complemented each other, unleashing terrifying combat power.

The inability to truly die meant Mingwu warriors had no worries in war.

The front-line Mingwu warriors even chose to use self-destruction to force the Rule Book to reveal stronger combat power.

The resulting Mingwu storm was not only not scattered by the holy light, but instead polluted the holy light power within the domain.

The second wave of Mingwu warriors advanced treading upon the corpse-mist of their comrades; with every step they took, rune power shared by the dead would appear beneath their feet.

Under the successive bombardment of the Mingwu Clan, the light barrier within the Rule Book domain developed spiderweb-like cracks.

In regions unseen by the Ascendant Clan and Shu Yan, Qi Sheng also observed.

The energy ripples from two battlefields were conducting through gray veins beneath the deep sea.

Every surge of elemental torrent unleashed by the Ascendant Clan, when exceeding intensity thresholds, would conduct to the Shu Yan domain front line.

This resonance tactic transcending space gave the Mingwu Clan full capability to fight on two fronts with the strength of a single clan.

The war potential displayed by the Mingwu Clan already possessed the preliminary framework of the Reverse Tide Legion, a true war system forged through countless trials of fire.

The Guide had once said that the system construction of a war legion divides into two modes.

The first mode is: the weak nourish the strong, and the strong fight.

This system is essentially an elite-centralized war system.

It requires concentrating all clan resources to nourish a few strong ones, crushing the enemy army with absolute individual might.

The lower clans are responsible for resource collection and logistical support; the middle-tier warriors screen for elites; while the supreme strongest at the very top carry the entire civilization's war potential.

Under this system, a peak strong one can become an army alone, causing heaven to collapse and earth to crack with a wave of the hand, even deciding the outcome of an entire battle through personal combat power.

This mode requires sacrificing the weak to gain an upper limit; the weak become nourishment, while the strong devour the entire clan's fortune to grow.

Ultimately, it births war machines surpassing conventional life levels.

The Insect Clan follows this war system; all resources plundered by Insect Clan nodes are kept only partially by the Main Brain, with the rest transmitted to the Supreme Main Brain.

As for the Insect Clan warriors, they are essentially not independent, complete individuals.

They possess no independent thought but are war forces bred out, extensions of the Supreme Main Brain's power nodes.

The entire Insect Clan can be viewed as one massive individual.

Only the Main Brain in the Emperor Tomb Mountain Range region is special; not only does it not need to transmit plundered resources to the Supreme Main Brain, but it can also obtain resources from the Supreme Main Brain without limit.

Shu Yan's development mode is similar to the Insect Clan.

Shu Yan warriors are essentially not independent individuals; all are extensions of Shu Yan's power and will.

It is just that current Shu Yan is too weak, far from reaching the height of the Insect Clan; it can only optimize legion strength but cannot optimize the growth potential of combat units through collecting pheromones.

The second mode is the one Mingwu currently uses: the many become one, defying heaven against the odds.

The core logic is that the weak connect through battle formations, rules, resonance, and other means, exploding with collective combat power far exceeding the individual.

Under this system, the weak are not cannon fodder but network nodes of the whole.

Through precise coordination, their power can be stacked and amplified, thereby triggering a qualitative change.

For instance, under the blessing of the Mingwu Clan's Death Utterance and the two major Mingwu rules, the power of the fallen is inherited by living warriors, forming a snowball effect that grows stronger with every battle.

These two systems can coexist.

The Reverse Tide Legion is the perfect template for the coexistence of both systems, balancing the weak nourishing the strong and the many becoming one.

The underlying architecture of the Reverse Tide Legion is: the weak as the foundation, nourishing the strong. Resource collection and logistical support are all handled by lower clans; the Four-Eyed Clan, Dragon Spine Clan, and other clans players are very familiar with are all members of the logistical support.

It is just that the trainees they see are elites screened from these clans.

These lower clans do not need to participate directly in war; their survival safety is fully guaranteed, maintaining the Reverse Tide Legion's operation through production, construction, and energy transmission.

Meanwhile, the elite screening mechanism constantly selects talented individuals from the lower levels.

They are sent to the "Reverse Tide Training Camp" for trials; the strong survive and the weak perish, ultimately birthing true warriors.

At this stage, they can be regarded as the middle tier.

The middle architecture of the Reverse Tide is: battle formation resonance, the weak defying the strong.

The battle formation system covers the entire Reverse Tide Legion; even the most ordinary warriors can conduct and stack power through the battle formation network, exploding with combat power far exceeding the individual.

Thus, the individual is merely part of the collective power, with no possibility of becoming cannon fodder.

The high architecture of the Reverse Tide is: the strong rule, masters of the battlefield.

Every legion commander of the Reverse Tide Legion possesses Ban Shen Jing combat power; above them stands the Reverse Tide God, a peak combat power.

The entire Reverse Tide Legion possesses an incomparably perfect war deployment.

From lower to high tiers is a growth channel, not a fixed class.

Even the weakest warrior, if they can endure until the end in high-intensity war, can become a Ban Shen Jing strong one.

The Reverse Tide Legion has already forged an assembly line for cultivating strong ones; every living being in the legion has its value.

Strong ones, elites, and the weak all have clear positions under this system; none are dispensable.

The similarity between the Mingwu Clan and the Reverse Tide Legion lies in the utilization of the weak's power, letting individuals contribute to the collective through resonance.

But in other aspects, it falls far short of the Reverse Tide Legion.

Precisely because the weak can also provide aid to war, the Mingwu Clan previously followed a pure war plunder mode.

There existed no mode of logistical support or upward nourishment; resources were obtained to nourish the entire clan by constantly launching wars, plundering wherever they went.

Of the two modes, Shu Yan occupies one, but is still in the starting stage.

The Ascendant Clan occupies neither.

It has neither the "defying heaven against the odds" war system that gathers strength, nor the nourishment system of the weak feeding the strong.

It only has an elite cultivation mode, with a relatively shallow understanding of war.

Placed in a small world, this system is viable.

But in the Monster World, where the span of strength intensity is extremely high, the weak can only become cannon fodder, utterly valueless.

Before the war machine forged by countless trials of war that is the Mingwu Clan, the Ascendant Clan presents a one-sided rout.

Shu Yan can at least gain a slight advantage in war structure by changing systems, while the Ascendant Clan is at a disadvantage in every aspect: numbers, war mode, and system suppression.

In the initial clash, the Ascendant Clan could only dispatch its internal strong ones to hold the line.

In this initial contact stage of the war, Qi Sheng could already roughly judge the future trend.

Only two retreat paths remain for the Ascendant Clan.

Abandon their clan lands and farming world, even the resources stored on the islands, and flee to the outer seas.

Or march toward destruction beneath the torrent of the Misty Fog.

As for Shu Yan, Qi Sheng always felt it was a very promising small faction.

From the weak side back then to the dominant side now, crushing the Ascendant Clan, plus possessing the Inspiration World, a fully developed base system.

In terms of future potential, it might even be stronger than the Misty Fog Clan.

Although Shu Yan follows the path of war to sustain war, pursuing self-breakthrough in desperate situations, it is not stupid.

After failing to resist the Black Tide back then, it jumped to the Ascendant Sea to seek development.

If it cannot defeat the Misty Fog Clan, Shu Yan will very likely cut the book and flee again, switching to a new region to fight.

When Shu Yan chose the Ascendant Clan as its target back then, it seemed rash, but in reality, it had already investigated relevant information about the Ascendant Clan, even penetrating into the Ascendant Clan's farming world.

It only launched the war against the Ascendant Clan when it believed it had the confidence.

Since it has not left for now, Shu Yan is obviously also testing the war potential of the Misty Fog Clan, looking for the possibility of a fight.

As long as Shu Yan finds a plan for a protracted war, it will, just like when it fought the Ascendant Clan back then, absorb the Misty Fog Clan's nutrients and grow rapidly.

If Shu Yan truly withstands the pressure, the "Ascendant Clan," the great villain in the Rule Book story, will at that time become the Misty Fog Clan.

News of the three-way war quickly spread to the player forum.

Players have three major hobbies: eating melons, picking up scraps, and stumbling upon opportunities.

Facing such an important major event, players from all sides rushed out to sea, and war correspondents quickly switched on their live broadcast commentary mode.

This is a war of civilization rising and continuing in the eyes of other races.

But in the eyes of players, this is a delicious big melon, preferably one where blood flows like a river.

The more intense, the better; absolutely do not stop.

Some players even formed battlefield scavenger squads to set out, wanting to get a share of the spoils amidst the chaotic situation.

Players nowadays are far from the weak players of the past who could only watch the Ascendant Clan and Shu Yan fight while hiding in the Domain Mist to lie low and pick up scraps.

The first-tier players already possess the strength to join the fray.

Although they cannot confront the three major factions head-on, players never intended to fight head-on; scavenging relies on the principle of the snipe and the clam fighting, while the fisherman profits.

Finishing off low-health targets, scavenging the battlefield, stealing chickens in the chaos... this is where the fun for scavenger players lies.

The more chaotic it is, the more profitable it becomes.

During this period, the number of inlays in the Oath Space increased significantly.

Because this Painful Painful Minghun is nothing short of a divine artifact for battlefield scavenging.

A large number of Assassin-style and Competitive players inlaid and used it, then headed to the battlefield to find low-health targets.

Especially Assassin-style players; in the past, when launching surprise decapitation strikes, they had to worry about whether they could kill the target and whether they could escape unscathed after the kill.

But with the Oath Space, this problem no longer needs to be worried about.

With the newly launched "Quantification" rule support, anyone who is low on health is immediately obvious.

All that is needed is to quickly rush in, release the Oath Space to forcibly drag the low-health target into an independent space, and then it is the time for harvesting.

As for whether they will be ambushed and killed after coming out, this problem also does not need to be worried about.

In the chaotic battlefield, combat units from all sides move every minute and second; even if a member of their own side disappears, it is impossible to lie in wait at a specific spot.

After ending the battle, the Assassin-style player returning to the battlefield only needs to activate Twilight Shadow, enter stealth mode, and search for the next low-health target.

The only thing that gives players a headache is the direction of the main front line, where some Misty Fog warriors possess a damage-sharing trait similar to life connection.

This makes it very difficult to find low-health targets on the main front line, forcing them to abandon the most intense main front line and choose other battle lines to scavenge.

Misty Fog warriors, Shu Yan warriors, Ascendant warriors... these are all scavenging targets in the eyes of players.

To quote an Assassin-style player on the forum: As long as they are low on health, they all belong to me to kill!

This is also the reason why players like chaotic situations.

Besides low-health units, weapons and equipment that fell into the sea during the war, and wreckage of war machinery floating on the sea, are also components of the profits.

The arrival of the war allowed many players to see the opportunity to become wealthy.

The great battle continues, but it is still too early to determine the winner.

Without paying much attention to the sea battlefield of the three-way melee, Qi Sheng's gaze quickly rose, piercing through the clouds and returning to the map interface.

His gaze then turned to the Emperor's Tomb Mountain Range region on the map.

His vision, from a bird's-eye view, pierced through the thick black fog and descended upon the Xie Yan Gao Ta platform.

The Earth-Will Evil Spirit and the Evil Eye were like two mascots, forever staying in this small patch of land, only observing the outside world through perception.

【Boss, it seems we are the same.】

Qi Sheng:...

At this moment, three allied war groups were simultaneously launching yet another charge against the Xie Yan Gao Ta.

Indomitable perseverance is not the nature of players; the reason is the ability to gain Shou Shou Jili benefits.

Fundamentally, failure never defeated players because every failure also resulted in Shou Shou Jili being credited.

Facing the attack of the three player legions, the Earth-Will Bully combined with the Evil Eye and activated combat command mode.

In an instant, the black fog surrounding the Gao Ta surged and swept across the land, and evil spirits fell like raindrops.

After the tactical upgrade, the Earth-Will Bully's level of disgust in the eyes of players increased again.

Especially the newly appeared Demon Seed Legion (Tide of Pain).

Players suspected this was a new evil spirit troop created by the Earth-Will Bully just to disgust them.

Although its killing power was not strong, it possessed the ability to inflict continuous painful emotions on the target.

Despair, pain, sorrow, anger... the Demon Seed Legion is an existence in the eyes of players that is even more beastly than the Disaster-type troops.

Although the influence brought by emotions would be completely erased by the purification system after a player died, and even recalling it would not evoke any negative emotions, the process of combat was incredibly torturous.

The stacking of various emotions doubled the players' suffering.

Originally, the Tide of Pain tactic was still somewhat bearable.

Although emotional damage was terrifying, the players themselves possessed a mental safety line.

As long as they gritted their teeth and endured the initial torment, they could trigger the Purification System's protection, completely exempting them from the pain caused by emotional damage.

It was like the fatigue felt during a long-distance run; once the breaking point was surpassed, one could instantly feel at ease.

But the most terrifying aspect of the Di Nian Bully was that it would collect war data and then improve its battle plans.

It would make mistakes, but it would not make the same mistakes continuously.

After observing that players suffered from "pain overload" and completely negating the issue of emotional damage, the Di Nian Bully initiated a pain testing experiment.

It conducted detailed observations using different players as reference targets.

Ultimately, it found the players' pain safety threshold line.

It discovered that as long as the threshold was not touched, the pain inflicted upon the players could persist indefinitely.

The next step for the Di Nian Bully was to weaken the output intensity of the Demon Seed Legion.

It did not seek to bring players ultimate pain; what it wanted was a steady, enduring flow.

As long as the players dared to invade, they had to endure pain that could not be stopped.

In response, the players cursed loudly, angrily denouncing the Di Nian Bully as too disgusting, asking what difference this behavior had from that of a beast.

Hundreds of factions had already clashed with the players.

In the eyes of other races, kill efficiency was always one of the highest priorities in war.

But in the eyes of the Di Nian Bully, it was different; knowing the players could not be killed off, it was willing to sacrifice output efficiency to make "disgusting" the number one priority.

Abandoning the method of killing players through emotional shock was precisely to make the players feel continuous pain assaults.

This was also one of the reasons why, in the players' eyes, no other faction was as terrifying as the Di Nian Bully.

The Beast Bully truly had a "Player Guide."

And it was a guidebook that followed the development of the player faction, updating in sync.

No matter what the players had, the Di Nian Bully could always quickly find a countermeasure plan.

While both sides felt the other was disgusting, their mindsets were actually quite similar.

In the players' eyes, they were the chosen ones of the Monster World game, born with built-in cheats, destined to rule this world.

The monsters in the starting village should be easy to kill, with reasonable loot yields, capable of helping newcomers grow quickly.

Yet they had been entangled with a starting village boss for two years and still hadn't won.

What kind of shit monster was this? Its strength was way too overpowered.

Only the two words "disgusting" could most aptly describe the Di Nian Bully's growth.

Looking at the Di Nian Bully's mindset, it was the same.

In its eyes, it was a member of the Black Tide Legion that devoured billions of worlds, born as a calamity bringing death and destruction to countless worlds.

As one of the strongest new-generation evil spirits to graduate from the Abyss Trial, pride was carved into its very bones.

Although it knew the Monster World was vast and boundless, filled with countless terrifying lives and powerful clans.

The player race was merely its first small goal upon entering the Monster World; it should have been easily crushed, then it could begin the peak path of climbing to the top of the Monster World and competing with various powerful clans.

But who would have thought that so much time had passed, and it was still fighting the players.

It was simply endless.

This first threshold, it had crossed countless times, yet stubbornly could not cross it.

Its own abilities were improving, the Black Tide's strength was improving, the Evil Eye's perception and calculation abilities were improving... but the opponents were still those beastly players.

Every time the Black Tide's strength increased, there was no sense of achievement whatsoever.

Because the moment it improved, it knew the opponents were still the same bunch, with no changes whatsoever.

Compared to the stage of being an Evil Spirit Warrior who had not yet taken command, as its strength grew, it would challenge stronger opponents in smaller worlds.

Killing opponents who were once difficult to defeat brought it a full sense of achievement.

Different levels of strength would have different opponents.

But in the Di Zhai Mountain Range region, when the Black Tide under its control was at the First Palace, it was fighting stupid players; now that it had advanced to the Ninth Palace, it was still fighting stupid players.

So, its strength had improved for nothing.

Disgusting, disgustingly broken!

Both sides felt the other's strength was unreasonable, that this setting had a problem.

In the players' eyes, a starting village boss shouldn't be this strong; the officials should have nerfed it ages ago.

In the Di Nian's eyes, this was its first battle as a command-type evil spirit; a monarch should have assigned it a reasonable growth environment, just like Gui Ya, Tie Ji, and Bing Xue Wen, where growth followed a gradual process.

Yet what it encountered was a heaven-defying monster.

Being difficult to deal with was one thing, but it produced not a single bit of resources; every war resulted in negative returns.

Even if it won, it brought only negative emotions.

Especially within the player race, there was a commander stronger than the Evil Eye.

Was this an opponent a new commander could handle?

Screw you!

Every time it compared its starting treatment with other allies, the Di Nian Bully always felt incredibly aggrieved.

There was a sentence it couldn't hold back:

Stupid Monarch, where the hell did you send me? Screw you!

(End of Chapter)