[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-monsters-are-coming":3,"chapter-the-monsters-are-coming-monsters-are-coming-chapter-330":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},2250179,4069,"Chapter 330: Logistics Base, Shaping All Phenomena","monsters-are-coming-chapter-330",330,"\u003Cp>\"Guide Brother, can you let the Soul Beast devour the Finality Behemoth, then fuse the Pseudo-Rule Brand within the Finality Behemoth's body, and finally craft it into a special Minghun similar to a summon?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Facing the inquiry, the Guide gave its answer:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Feasible, but the rules related to Soul Beasts are not within the Challenger System; this portion of rule power must be completely reshaped before connecting to the Challenger System, which requires a significant consumption of Sacrificial Power. Secondly, crafting a Pseudo-Rule also requires an additional expenditure... totaling 4.29 million Sacrificial Power. Essentially, this is crafting the Soul Beast and the Pseudo-Rule into a Minghun; your Finality Behemoth accounts for a very small proportion in the combination process, providing only flesh and blood energy, meaning it only provides attributes.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Secondly, fusing two different rules into one rule creates a severe logical conflict between the Soul-Shaping Rule and the Devouring Pseudo-Rule. You need to possess a Rule-level framework to bind these two logical capabilities. Crafting this framework for you will require an additional expenditure of 7 million Sacrificial Power.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing the Guide's quote, Little Mage was startled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The former was acceptable, but the framework for fusing different rule powers in the latter actually required 7 million; this was simply an astronomical price.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Wait, a rule framework... will this work?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly thinking of something, Little Mage took out a pitch-black fragment from his Spatial Sack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was precisely the Rule Fragment: March of the Dead, which he had purchased for 800,000 Sacrificial Power back then.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Feasible, but this rule framework is not compatible with the Soul-Shaping Rule and the Devouring Pseudo-Rule, so an additional 1 million is needed to simply modify the rule framework, totaling 5.29 million Sacrificial Power.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With feasibility confirmed, Little Mage immediately perked up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Pseudo-Rule \"Devour\" within the Finality Behemoth's body is energy derived from the primordial source of the Lingxi World, collected and refined over days by War Priests.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since the birth of the Lingxi Clan, only eight Pseudo-Rule Brands have been born through the accumulation of long years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They are respectively controlled by the eight strongest leaders of the Lingxi Clan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That is, the current Eight Kings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each of the Super Beasts they ride has fused one Pseudo-Rule Brand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the previous King dies, the Pseudo-Rule Brand is stripped away and fused into the Super Beast ridden by the new King.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What the Pseudo-Rule grants the Super Beast is the ability of \"Devour Optimization.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is completely different from the Soul Beast's Devour and Possession.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Soul Beast's Devour and Possession directly acquires all of the opponent's abilities outside the rule system, including memories, combat talents, logical thinking, and so on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, the Soul Beast has an obvious shortcoming.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although its body can infinitely expand to accommodate external power, its life form cannot achieve complete compatibility.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suppose a Soul Beast devours a bird and a fish.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, in fish form, although it has fused the bird's physical qualities, it cannot possess the ability to flap wings and fly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qi and blood strength, mental strength, memory banks... these can all be fused, but only the structural aspects of the life form will have incompatibilities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In other words, the Soul Beast can perfectly inherit the internal traits of the devoured life, but cannot break through the underlying logical constraints of the life form.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is like a computer capable of installing infinite plugins; although it can continuously expand its database and computing power, it is ultimately limited by the physical characteristics of its basic architecture.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the Soul Beast devours a bird, it can completely inherit the bird's muscle memory, visual nerve responses, and even the talent for perceiving air currents.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After devouring a fish, it can similarly perfectly replicate the fish's breath-holding ability, water pressure adaptation mechanisms, and sensory systems.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But during the use of certain talents, they will still be limited by the specific form of the life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides wings, this includes parts of the internal life structure which, due to compatibility issues, can only exist partially, causing certain special talents to fail to manifest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Taking real-world animals as an example, when the Soul Beast attempts a cheetah's sprint in snake form.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The multi-directional joint structure of the snake's spine is inherently incapable of storing power unidirectionally like a cheetah’s, ultimately resulting only in bone dislocation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, the Soul Beast is a specialized type of devour that makes certain aspects approach perfection under specific forms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It strengthens a single life form by stacking attributes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Different from the Soul Beast's \"Compatible Possession,\" the Super Beast's devour mechanism is an extremely cruel genetic optimization.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like the most paranoid engineer, it will ruthlessly dismantle, filter, and reconstruct the life blueprints of all devoured targets, retaining only the gene fragments most valuable to the current form.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When a Super Beast devours an eagle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It might rapidly grow a pair of wings, retaining the lightweight structure of the bone wings and the aerodynamic genes of the feathers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then it discards the bird's weak digestive system and other parts that cannot strengthen the Super Beast's life form.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After successful devouring, the Super Beast gains the ability to fly via wings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Devouring other lives is the same; the Super Beast can implant relevant genes into its body through optimization, transforming itself into a life form with three heads, six arms, and multiple pairs of wings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Comparing the two, the Super Beast is not limited by its original form like the Soul Beast; every devour optimizes itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The downside is that every devour involves severe waste, unable to absorb as thoroughly as the Soul Beast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Soul Beast's drawback is that many abilities are incompatible, but it can strengthen a single life by stacking attributes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Combining the two allows for optimizing the life form while the matter discarded by the Super Beast becomes energy for the Soul Beast to enhance its attributes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Achieving perfect absorption and growth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Simply explained:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Soul Beast is like a library; the more books (devoured lives) it stores, the better. The more books, the higher the efficiency with which the Soul Beast reads them, but it can only open one book to read at a time (limited by current form).\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Super Beast is like a furnace; it burns all books into pulp, removes impurities, and then reprints them into the new books it desires.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These two characteristics can completely complement each other.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Guide's answer made Little Mage feel he had found a brand new path.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Lingxi Clan will inevitably Iron Face countless wars in the future; some targets can be devoured, so perhaps he can craft a super life conglomerate during the wars.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only headache is that the cost in Sacrificial Power is expensive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he did not feel there was any problem with this price.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Years ago, when the President of the Kindergarten Guild, \"The Principal,\" crafted a special Rule-class Minghun, he also consumed over 1.2 million Sacrificial Power, and what he got was not even a finished Rule-level Minghun.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time he intends to fuse three kinds of power, so he must certainly spend even more Sacrificial Power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among them, the Soul Beast, whose main body rule is in the hands of the Hun Gui Clan, also requires a significant expenditure for purification and reshaping.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now that the Lingxi Clan is at a critical moment of development, spending over 5 million Sacrificial Power to craft a special Minghun will indeed affect the Lingxi Clan's development speed in the near future.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After hesitating for a long time, Little Mage ultimately decided to craft this special Minghun.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This portion of profit would sooner or later be earned back through mining.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Spiritual Ore Stones are hot-selling goods in the Exchange Hall; there is no worry about buyers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially Spatial System ores; if listed at normal prices, they would be snapped up in seconds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Furthermore, after the Soul Beast devours the Super Beast, the Soul Beast will inherit the Super Beast's attributes, possessing a Life Rank strength of 112+.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After switching to Mining Machine form, wouldn't the mining efficiency take off?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whose mining tool has a Hunting Rank of 112? At least in the current stage of the Player Camp, no one has encountered such an awesome mining tool.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, excluding the energy beam mining of the Mechanical Overlord.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But before taking action, he must first gather enough Sacrificial Power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Purchasing the Soul Beast cost 800,000; his current balance is only 1.298 million, which is insufficient to pay the fee for crafting the special Minghun.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This problem is not difficult to solve.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire Lingxi Clan produces Sacrificial Power every minute and every second; all he needs to do is plan the future direction and regularly collect the produced Sacrificial Power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Returning to Lingxi City, Little Mage went straight to the Resource Warehouse District located underground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This storage center, constructed from a mixture of living organisms and ore, is divided into three areas with clear functions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first area is the Spiritual Plant Storage Zone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside are dry and well-ventilated stone chambers with racks arranged in neat rows.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Spiritual plants of different attributes are stored here in classified sections.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Divided into low-temperature zones, high-temperature zones, high-spiritual zones, and so on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although he possesses a Spatial Sack warehouse that can perfectly preserve all resources.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he is, after all, not a warehouse manager; often busy outside, he cannot arrive at any time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So he still decided to build a perfect Spiritual Plant Storage Zone here, ensuring that harvested spiritual plants would not suffer quality degradation due to external influences.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, the spiritual plants had already been classified, facilitating his direct collection and listing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Standing in front of the first row, he waved his hand to store the spiritual plant named \"Divine Fir Wood\" into his Spatial Sack, then opened the Sacrifice Emperor Zhao interface.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was to judge the price.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He felt the valuation formula publicly released by the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce was extremely useful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One only needs to place the spiritual material price on the Sacrifice Emperor Zhao interface, obtain the sacrifice price, and then multiply by a fixed coefficient to skip the judgment of quality and weight, directly obtaining an accurate price without any deviation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for the fixed coefficient, it can be obtained by comparing the latest transaction prices on the Exchange Hall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After pricing and listing this batch of spiritual plants on the Exchange Hall, the next second a Challenger Prompt rang in his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Challenger Prompt: Listed Tier 2 Spiritual Plant \"Divine Fir Wood x203\", gained Sacrificial Power revenue: 39,282 (handling fees deducted).]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Selling resources on the Exchange Hall within the normal price range can basically achieve instant sales.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The volume of resources he lists on the Exchange Hall is huge, so sales efficiency is always the priority; there is absolutely no need to play the Cultivation Mode of hoarding goods and waiting for high prices for ordinary resources.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only thing that pains him is the handling fee; every shipment incurs a large expenditure in fees.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As batch after batch of spiritual plants was quickly listed on the Exchange Hall, the value in the balance column of the Spatial Sack interface began to rise rapidly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After selling all the resources in the Spiritual Plant Zone, he actually received 937,000 Sacrificial Power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The handling fee was 49,300 Sacrificial Power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After clearing the goods, he turned and went to the Spiritual Ore Storage Zone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were no special structures in this resource storage zone; the entire hall had spiritual ore stones of different qualities piled up in classified sections.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were divided into five storage points according to quality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among them, Spatial System spiritual ore stones were placed in a separate storage point.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He first went to the storage point with the highest value, the Star Pattern Stone pile, stored all the Star Pattern Stones into his Spatial Sack, and then sold them at a 10% premium over the normal price.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was also the only resource he sold at a premium.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Spatial resources in the Trading Hall are basically all marked with high prices; any listed at normal prices would be snapped up in seconds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the entire trading list, not a single Void Origin Stone could be found at a normal price.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After his Star Pattern Stones were listed, their quantity rapidly decreased, and challenger notifications constantly rang in his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ultimately, this batch of Star Pattern Stones sold for 568,000 Sacrificial Power; after deducting handling fees, he received 539,600 Sacrificial Power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The remaining ordinary spiritual ore stones were not as easy to sell as spiritual plants.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The scope of usage for spiritual plants within the player faction was far greater than that of ordinary spiritual ore stones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This involved the Alchemy System, Spirit Chef players, Fishing Party players, and so on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially after the Alchemy System went online, vast quantities of spiritual plants were daily fed into alchemy furnaces to produce Evolution Pills and various other pills with different effects.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for the use of spiritual ore stones, aside from infrastructure and equipment construction by several major guilds in external regions, the rest was consumed by the growth-type pet \"Mechanical Guardian,\" making its development and usage far less widespread than that of spiritual plants.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After listing all resources from the spiritual ore storage area on the Trading Hall, he ultimately received 1.39 million Sacrificial Power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, he arrived at the special items storage area.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This area mainly stored various props he had designed for his fellow countrymen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had specifically set up a prop and food production point within the Lingxi Clan; non-combatants who met the age requirement would go to this area to work every day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The types of props produced were numerous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For instance, the silk spun by Firefly Spiders would be made into fishing lines there and listed on the Trading Hall as finished products.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They could sell for several times the price of the raw resources themselves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fishing Party players would continuously consume and purchase them, after all, fishing line itself is a consumable item.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Regarding food, it mainly focused on the \"Specialty Flower Brew Wine\" from the Illusion Flower Plain region, emphasizing high quality and low price.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Other items included poison-quenching potions used by Assassin Flow players, fishing rods, flower brew wine, portable tents, monster-luring sachets, and other props.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What he earned was the profit from his fellow countrymen being too lazy to do it themselves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The categories he chose were all goods with high player consumption that would be purchased continuously, so there was no possibility of them not selling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every morning, warriors of the Lingxi Clan would bring the props made the previous day here; after warehouse guards carefully verified the quantities, dedicated custodians would classify and store them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He only needed to arrive every once in a while to store the items in his Spatial Satchel and list them to complete his work.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the next phase, once the breeding farm became operational, he would also build a slaughterhouse in the western district of Lingxi City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, living creatures could not be listed on the Trading Hall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By then, a preservation warehouse would also be built here to assist him in regularly listing spirit beast meat, spirit beast bones, and even bait needed by Fishing Party players on the Trading Hall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If it weren't for the inability to connect with the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce, he would even want to cooperate with them to take on some material processing, treatment, and infrastructure construction work.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For example, the construction project of Dream Island.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What the Lingxi Clan lacked least at present was human resources.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If they could secure work from the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce, it would create more foreign exchange Sacrificial Power revenue for the Lingxi Clan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This idea could only be implemented on some future day when the Lingxi Clan qualified to join the player faction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He hoped that by then, he could wash away his \"sins\" and lead the Lingxi Clan to integrate into the player faction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was very clear that the Lingxi Clan's greatest reliance at the current stage was never their various technologies, nor the Rule Imprints currently being researched and crafted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was him, as a player.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if the Lingxi Clan possessed rules, they could not compare to his value.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because he, as a player, was himself a collection of rules.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Trading Hall, forum guides, the Player Mall... the player authorities he brought to the Lingxi Clan were the true trump cards that would allow the Lingxi Clan to survive amidst powerful enemies in the future.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But some authorities could not be shared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could be immortal and indestructible, restarting infinitely, but the Lingxi Clan had no margin for error regarding life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only by joining the player faction could the Lingxi Clan completely break free from the shackles of survival, with no further worries.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amidst surging thoughts, the Little Mage listed batch after batch of handmade props and food on the Trading Hall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Notifications of successful sales constantly rang in his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His balance of Sacrificial Power surged rapidly during this period.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some items took longer to sell; although the challenger notifications that occasionally rang out were pleasant, they affected his thinking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He simply blocked the notification sounds for the time being. After listing all the goods, the Little Mage, having gathered enough Sacrificial Power, went straight to the blood pool area at the lowest level of Lingxi City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This giant blood pool, covering nearly ten thousand square meters, had once been the cage of the Lingxi Clan in the old era.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Slaves defeated in the Lingxi Clan's wars of external plunder would be carefully selected, with those possessing the best life structures chosen to be imprisoned in the blood pool.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These slaves would become new host bodies for elite Lingxi warriors when they changed bodies in the future.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But after entering the Monster World, the Lingxi Clan completely changed its development model.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the lowest-tier power in the Monster World, how could they still have the qualification to plunder at will? Thus, they completely lost their targets for replacing host bodies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Reproduction and breeding, which had once been strictly prohibited, were unlocked in this new era.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Lingxi Clan had now returned to the path of reproduction, so they no longer needed the existence of host bodies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The newly crafted blood pool had been completely transformed; churning within it was pure qi and blood that had been refined.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eight massive bronze pillars surrounded the pool's edge, their bodies carved full of spirit patterns; chains extended from the pillar tops to the pool bottom, connecting to eight colossal creatures soaking in the blood water.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among them was the Doomsday Behemoth he controlled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Standing at the edge of the blood pool, the contract imprint on the Little Mage's forehead connecting him to the King Beast suddenly lit up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Memory Sac implanted within his body was activated accordingly, emitting mental fluctuations that spread like ripples toward the blood pool.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instantly, the ground trembled, the blood pool boiled, and the behemoths sleeping within the pool suddenly opened their eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Accompanied by the sound of grinding bones, a colossal creature emerged from beneath the blood pool.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its body was like a mountain range; every inch of skin was covered in living biological armor, with molten-golden blood light flowing through the gaps, and its body was covered in earth-yellow bone spines.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was precisely one of the strongest weapons of war passed down through generations of the Lingxi Clan, the Doomsday Behemoth, into which a Pseudo-Rule Imprint had been implanted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the turn of a thought, the figure of the Soul Beast appeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its ghostly green mist-like body churned violently; under the Little Mage's control, chain-like energy ripples around the Soul Beast spread frantically, displaying an unprecedented hunger toward the Doomsday Behemoth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Doomsday Behemoth lowered its head to gaze at this tiny existence, its molten-like pupils showing not a shred of emotional fluctuation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although it was a living lifeform, before combining with the Memory Sac, the Doomsday Behemoth possessed no self-awareness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Eat.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Little Mage used his control over the Soul to issue a command to the Soul Beast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Soul Beast's ghostly green mist-like body pounced on the Doomsday Behemoth like a hungry wolf, but the moment it touched the body, it was instantly repelled by an invisible force.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The golden blood light flowing on the surface of the Doomsday Behemoth automatically formed a defensive layer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The chain-like energy ripples crashed against the surface of the barrier, creating tiny sparks, yet they could not even break through the outermost layer of biological armor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The gap in strength between the two was too great; the Soul Beast's hunting level was only level 27.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, the Doomsday Behemoth's combat power assessment was level 112 during analysis.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if the Doomsday Behemoth stood still, the Soul Beast had absolutely no possibility of breaking its defense; it would even be burned by the qi and blood overflowing from the Doomsday Behemoth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Realizing this approach wouldn't work, the Little Mage took action personally.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He released his telekinetic force, lifting himself to the top of the Doomsday Behemoth's head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, the Doomsday Behemoth's head split open, revealing countless writhing crimson nerve cords, like a blooming crimson flower.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon sensing the Little Mage's arrival, the nerve cords inside the Doomsday Behemoth's head, like a flock of hungry snakes, dragged him into the head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the head closed, the nerve filaments of the Memory Sac extended out of the Little Mage's body through his pores, successfully connecting with the Doomsday Behemoth's nerve cords.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Little Mage's vision suddenly switched, replaced by the Doomsday Behemoth's field of view.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Following this was a surge of wild power within his body; this was terrifying power from the Doomsday Behemoth, capable of easily crushing a mountain range.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under his control, the Doomsday Behemoth's giant fist heavily smashed into its own chest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This strike held nothing back; the terrifying impact force exploded on its surface, creating a ring of golden qi waves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The indestructible biological armor broke its defense under this self-destructive attack; spiderweb-like cracks spread from the point of impact, with molten-golden blood seeping from the fissures.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A second punch followed immediately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without releasing qi and blood for defense, the Doomsday Behemoth's finger bones successfully pierced through its own chest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Armor fragments splashed in all directions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Surging qi and blood energy attempted to autonomously repair the fatal wound.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the Little Mage suppressed the qi and blood from pooling at the wound; under his control, the Doomsday Behemoth ruthlessly extended its sharp claws to grip the wound’s edge and violently tore outward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Riiip!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amidst the sound of tearing flesh and blood, the Doomsday Behemoth tore a horrifying gash across its own chest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blood poured down like a waterfall, staining the blood pool.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Soul Beast, having waited for a long time, turned into a flash of ghostly green lightning and drilled into the Doomsday Behemoth's body through the gash.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, with no qi and blood barrier blocking it, the Soul Beast could finally directly drink the blood to grow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its energy-converted mist-like body was like a pack of hungry wolves, frantically gnawing on the Doomsday Behemoth's body, constantly spreading and expanding.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, this speed was extremely slow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each bite of consumption required a long time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During this period, the Soul Beast's strength grew rapidly, eroding into the Doomsday Behemoth's body along the wound channel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first to be devoured were the most vulnerable joint membranes on the Doomsday Behemoth's surface; the translucent connection points melted like syrup, being slowly cannibalized bit by bit by the ghostly green mist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As time passed, the Soul Beast's erosion rate began to grow exponentially.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the first fingernail-sized piece of biological armor was completely transformed, the entire devouring process suddenly accelerated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Golden patterns identical to those of the Doomsday Behemoth emerged within the eerie green mist; the newly acquired power allowed the Soul Beast to easily pierce the powerful defense constituted by blood and qi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Half an hour later, the Soul Beast's Hunting Rank reached level 69.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It had already eroded most of the epidermis on the Doomsday Behemoth's right forelimb.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The assimilated tissues continuously detached, only to recombine within the mist into new energy structures.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, the Soul Beast seemed to be playing a puzzle game, dismantling the colossal Doomsday Behemoth piece by piece and splicing them into its own body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One hour later.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Doomsday Behemoth's body began to collapse, its flesh and blood transforming into a pure torrent of energy that the Soul Beast swallowed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, the Soul Beast completely replaced the Doomsday Behemoth, completing the possession and devouring.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Soul Beast Cultivation Mode, the golden spirit patterns on the Doomsday Behemoth's surface turned into eerie green spirit patterns.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the traits fused, the eerie green spirit patterns reverted to gold, revealing not the slightest flaw.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, the \"Devouring Pseudo-Rule\" within the Doomsday Behemoth had not yet been fused, and its operational logic conflicted with the Soul Shaping Rule inherent to the Soul Beast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This logical contradiction was like a file read conflict.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only by shutting down one could the other operate normally.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To maintain a stable life form for the Soul Beast, the Devouring Pseudo-Rule had to be excised.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Guide Brother, then I leave it to you,\" Xiao Xiao Fashi said, turning his head to look at the Guide Water Orb hovering beside him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Coming.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Guide Water Orb opened its eyes, and instantly, the balance column in Xiao Xiao Fashi's Space Sack plummeted rapidly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Crimson Sacrificial Power surged forth continuously, transforming into brilliant beams of light projected onto the Soul Beast in its Doomsday Behemoth form.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under the illumination of this beam, the Soul Shaping Derived Rule and the Devouring Pseudo-Rule imprint within the Soul Beast were forcibly smelted together.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire process was like forging a scattered mass of matter into a precise clock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But mere reconstruction was insufficient; at this moment, the Guide took out the Rule Fragment \"March of the Dead\" and poured the two types of rule power extracted from the Soul Beast into the March of the Dead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instantly, the entire smelting process suddenly became orderly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The eerie green and pale gold energies, like surgical sutures, began to re-weave according to the Guide's will.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The new Special Fate Soul grafted the memory bank function of the Soul Shaping Rule onto the Devouring Rule to serve as a material library.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It modified the optimization module of the Devouring Rule into a plugin system for the Soul Shaping Rule.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It used the rule-level architecture unique to the March of the Dead as the main framework to carry both systems for compatible operation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the last wisp of energy completed its transformation, the eerie green, pale gold, and gray-white forces condensed into a dark golden new imprint, inside which resembled three interlocking gears.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zooming in on each part revealed layers of nested spirit pattern structures, operating according to specific laws like small gears.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Guided by the Guide's consciousness, this newly born Pseudo-Rule imprint slowly merged into the Soul Beast's chest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In an instant, the Soul Beast's body trembled violently, and dark golden energy ripples spread from its chest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wherever they passed, scales and armor reorganized, bones reshaped, and energy circuits reconstructed; the Fusion Beast's form began evolving toward greater perfection.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When everything subsided, the Fusion Beast still maintained the form of the Doomsday Behemoth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, its Hunting Rank not only failed to rise but actually dropped by two levels.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Regarding this, Xiao Xiao Fashi did not feel anything was amiss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The optimization of life form had nothing to do with the growth of strength; it might even consume combat power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Take a monster from the Underground World in the past called a \"Stitched Beast\" and compare it to a player.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With identical combat power, the life forms of the Stitched Beast and the player were not even on the same dimension.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One was a stitched monster devouring and fusing multiple powers, while the other was a player's body possessing a perfect and pure life structure; their growth potential was incomparable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, the Guide also began the final step: the creation of the Fate Soul.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The beam enveloping the Fusion Beast suddenly contracted, like quicksand pinched by an invisible hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under the compression of crimson energy, the Fusion Beast's dark golden body continuously collapsed and condensed, strike after strike of spirit patterns landing upon it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the final spirit pattern embedded itself into its surface, the light vanished completely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A pigeon-egg-sized dark golden bead floated into Xiao Xiao Fashi's palm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking down, a miniature version of the Soul Beast's true form was clearly visible within the bead's wall, as if sealed in amber; it maintained the majestic appearance of the Doomsday Behemoth, yet its entire body circulated with the eerie green halo unique to the Soul Beast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just then, the bead merged into Xiao Xiao Fashi's palm and dissipated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Challenger Notification: Original Special Fate Soul \"Source of Sin\" has been decomposed and reconstructed; Star Vein Slot automatically vacated.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing the notification, he summoned the Star Vein interface.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Subsequently, using his consciousness, he dragged the \"Special Fate Soul\" from his backpack sack and embedded it into the last Star Vein Slot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instantly, surging power injected into his body, and the method of using the Fate Soul was mastered in an instant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His fingertip swept across the void, and the Fate Soul imprint manifested on his forehead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A dark golden spirit pattern spread out from beneath his feet, quickly outlining and perfecting itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Space was violently torn apart; accompanied by the sound of interlocking bones, a colossal creature crawled out of the void.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Fusion Beast made its entrance as a summoned beast; on its forehead was imprinted a dark golden mark shaped like three interlocking gears, proof of the perfect fusion of the March of the Dead Fragment, the Soul Shaping Rule, and the Devouring Pseudo-Rule.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a mere thought from Xiao Xiao Fashi, the Fusion Beast's body suddenly collapsed and switched forms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dark red carapaces writhed and reorganized like living things, spinal bone spines retracted and deformed, and limbs transformed into thick outer skin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Within mere three seconds, this war behemoth transformed into a biological mining machine of the same volume; spiral drill-like biological structures extended from its head, while conveyor belt-structured organs split open on its abdomen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was precisely the super mining machine he desired.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the upcoming testing phase, he only needed a single thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Fusion Beast could freely switch between four forms: Doomsday Behemoth, Biological Mining Machine, Firefly Spider, and the Soul Beast's true form; in the future, after devouring other creatures, it could possess even more switchable forms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every form could perfectly retain all attributes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among them, the Soul Beast form was the absolute main body; its life structure had fused with the other forms, making its appearance even more ferocious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hahaha, it's done!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having finally crafted a new Fate Soul with greater potential than the Source of Sin, Xiao Xiao Fashi could not help but burst into loud laughter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This Fusion Beast could now be used as a summoned beast, controlled by consciousness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It could also fuse with his body, utilized in the form of Super Beast Armor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Summoning the log interface, he saw the Challenger Notification:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Challenger Notification: Special Fate Soul embedded: Unnamed (Naming Permissions opened).]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiao Xiao Fashi fell into deep thought, pondering what name to give this Special Fate Soul.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The new Fate Soul's trait effects were Devour, Optimize, and Inherit (Memory, Talent); he decided to brainstorm along this direction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Doomsday Soul Beast... no, too chuunibyou.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Dead Soul Doom... taking one character from each of the three powers... still no, it sounds terrible.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While pondering, inspiration struck Xiao Xiao Fashi, and the corners of his mouth curled up slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"From today on, your name shall be: Wan Xiang.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wan Xiang represented the Fusion Beast's traits of devouring all things and undergoing myriad transformations, and also symbolized the rule architecture capable of embracing all rivers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, this was merely a Pseudo-Rule; in the future, it still held the potential to advance into a true Rule.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The cultivation of the Special Fate Soul had only just begun.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Previously, the Source of Sin was crafted from a single Doomsday Behemoth; now, it was a Special Fate Soul crafted from a fusion of three, possessing even greater potential.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Next time, perhaps new abilities could be added on top of this foundation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as Xiao Xiao Fashi confirmed the new Fate Soul's name, a channel-wide notification rang out in the minds of all players.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Challenger Notification (Channel-wide): Congratulations to player \"Xiao Xiao Fashi\" for successfully creating (reshaping) a new Fate Soul: Wan Xiang.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sudden Challenger Notification caused the Player Forum, the World Channel, and even various regional channels to explode into an uproar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Usually, channel-wide notifications concerned the containment of Primordial Monsters, resource nodes, or updates to new functions and the like.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every time a channel-wide notification appeared, all players would genuinely feel happy, as everyone could benefit from it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No one expected that this time it would be news of \"Traitor Little Fa\" achieving growth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Forum and chat channels in various regions immediately erupted with all sorts of curses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All players acted like repeaters, spamming across different channels in the same manner:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Don't notify us next time, it's bad luck!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",5583,"2026-06-19T09:20:37.851Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","ca5247a1196d341d5e26fc98de7c8b9e0788c8001c95f982ef3291ac1a7f89d8","monsters-are-coming-chapter-331","monsters-are-coming-chapter-329",393,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fmonsters-are-coming-cover.jpg"]