Chapter 367: A Hundred Flowers Bloom, The Venerable of Fate (Request for Monthly Tickets)

The Primordial Sacrifice Altar.

Qi Sheng's consciousness rapidly scanned the forum information.

Recently, the group actions of Pet Stream players had intensified increasingly on the forum.

In just one week, 23 members of the Divine Artifact Clan had been lured to the Emperor Tomb Mountain Range region, focused down by players until near death, and then crafted into controlled pets.

The scheme of luring and ambushing currently showed no flaws in practical application.

Unlike the players in Qi Sheng's eyes, the high command of the Divine Artifact Clan could not locate the specific positions of their clansmen at any time.

After leaving Divine Artifact Valley, the clansmen entered a state akin to complete loss of contact.

Nor did every member of the Divine Artifact Clan specifically return to their clan lands to report on the status of each host, which gave players the space to capture them one by one.

At the request of the Pet Stream players, the United Warband led by the God King had specially created a follow-along group for them.

Whenever a player was marked with the Pain Brand during this period, they would head to the Divine Artifact Clan lands to begin their acting, becoming the most "suitable" host in the eyes of the Divine Artifact Clan members.

As the number of successfully lured players grew.

Many Pet Stream players also saw the benefits of grouping up and joined the collective action one after another.

During this time, a player who was both a Lore Seeker and a Pet Stream enthusiast created a plugin for the Pet Stream: Spirit Contract.

As soon as this plugin debuted, it became a download sensation.

Nearly every player following the Pet Stream downloaded and used it.

It listed in detail the existing pet bestiarum, specific capture locations, and even capture techniques.

For example, Pet Number 1 in the bestiarum.

[Book Speech Warrior]:

Hunting Level: 70-130.

Pet Introduction: A lifeform created by the three supporting rules of Execution, Pen, and Book; one can consume Sacrificial Power to edit it at will, generating any type of life (Hunting Level remains unchanged).

Capture Location: Ascension Sea Domain, Book Speech Domain.

Capture Technique: Camp and wait for the right moment (link to forum capture video).

Besides detailed capture guides and pet introductions.

The plugin also featured a membership function.

The requirement to join was participating in at least five group actions, with at least one required every month thereafter.

The benefit of becoming a member was that whenever one lured a powerful monster near the "Group Teleportation Array" in the Emperor Tomb Mountain Range, other players would lend a hand.

Secondly, this plugin conducted an in-depth anatomical analysis of the pet system, planning attributes for every single pet.

For instance, Ocean Type, Flight Type, Flame Type, Dark Type, Space Type, Vitality Type, and so on, totaling 139 attribute types, with more updates to follow.

It also detailed the advantages of different "Attribute Talents" and suitable combat environments for each.

Furthermore, the plugin included two features particularly suited for newcomers: Pet Recommendations and Pet Combination Recommendations.

For Pet Recommendations, players only needed to input their preferred combat environment, combat power level, Sacrificial Power investment, and other settings into this function to receive recommendations for three relatively compatible pet types based on their current situation.

A single click allowed viewing detailed introductions and capture plans.

The Pet Configuration Recommendation function would assemble a comprehensive Pet Stream team for the player.

Using different pets together could create a complementary effect.

The gradually improving Pet Stream ecosystem attracted many players who were already highly interested in the Pet Stream to join.

Relying on the "Powerful Pet Capture Platform" established through grouping, many players found the courage to challenge monsters they once dared not hope for.

Riding this wave of popularity, Qi Sheng simultaneously launched a new section in the Exchange: the Pet Market.

The appearance of this function received unanimous praise from Pet Stream players on the forum.

The biggest difficulty with the Pet Stream was the cumbersome transaction process.

Besides preliminary communication, one party had to travel across space to an agreed-upon location.

Although the 5% transaction fee was not low, it would undoubtedly save a vast amount of time on transactions in the future.

Most importantly, selecting pets became extremely convenient.

Under the old trading model, filtering for a pet suitable for oneself was not easy.

When posting a purchase request, players with items to sell might not necessarily see it.

When browsing sale posts by other players, the massive number of new posts added daily to the forum's trading section meant players could only manually flip pages or rely on keyword searches, making it easy to miss desired pets.

Moreover, the post-based trading model could only estimate a rough market price.

Prices were not completely transparent, leading to situations where one spent extra Sacrificial Power, resulting in a chaotic trading environment.

But with the Pet Market, the situation improved.

Pet prices listed there were completely transparent.

Players could also use keyword searches to find specific pet types.

Once the search was complete, relevant pets would be listed in the Exchange list for players to choose from at will.

Every listed pet could be clicked to view detailed attributes.

For example: Hunting Level, Vitality Intensity Attribute, Mental Strength Intensity Attribute, etc.

This gave the pet trading model clear judgment indicators.

One could also sort by amount to find the lowest price for that type of pet.

This made buying or selling pets extremely convenient for Pet Stream players.

As soon as the Pet Market went live, it welcomed a wave of trading fervor.

Many veteran players listed eliminated pets for sale, while newcomers found an opportunity to update their pets.

However, in the newly launched Pet Market, prices were extremely chaotic.

Phenomena of low-level pets being listed at high prices were numerous.

But Qi Sheng did not care about this problem.

Free markets possess self-regulating capabilities; once supply and demand reached balance, prices would tend toward rationality.

The current price disorder was simply because the players in the market had not yet established a consensus.

During this period, many merchant players also conceived the idea of returning to action, wanting to make a fortune by exploiting the chaos and their own understanding.

But this time, Qi Sheng had set restrictions in advance, allowing only players embedded with a Control Soul to trade in the Pet Market, prohibiting other players from participating.

This was done to eliminate meaningless hoarding behavior in the early stages.

Players with genuine needs would immediately transform purchased pets into production tools generating Sacrificial Power, taking them into hunting, dungeons, and various other gameplay modes that expanded the "faction cake."

Merchant players, however, would only buy to hoard, then manipulate things to increase the value of the pets in their hands, profiting from other players.

This was a phenomenon Qi Sheng did not wish to see.

Instead, the changes brought by this round of updates left him very satisfied.

The combat power of many newcomers improved through purchasing pets.

While earning transaction taxes from this, the curve of Sacrificial Power output from newcomer hunting also saw a significant rise.

The emergence of the Pet Market allowed the popularity of the Pet Stream to quickly reverse on the forum, once again suppressing the Summoning Stream system which was still being perfected.

The convenience of circulation also turned pet capture into a business.

Many players wanted to capture pets and then list them on the Exchange to earn Sacrificial Power profits.

Because the number of eliminated pets listed was still too small, it simply could not meet the demands of the new wave of recruited newcomer players.

Hidden within this were numerous business opportunities.

During this period, Lore Seeker players also compiled a popularity ranking in the hearts of Pet Stream players based on the current Pet Market situation.

The pet topping the popularity list was the Soul Beast.

The lowest price for a single one on the market was over 400,000, with the specific price depending on the Soul Beast's Hunting Level.

In fact, Soul Beasts were not rare in the Pale Continent region; the Soul Return Clan scattered Soul Beast seeds everywhere, but whether players encountered them depended entirely on fate.

At the current stage, some players wanted to attempt traveling the route where the Grind God Group's first phase had nearly been wiped out upon graduation.

Soul Beasts were present there, but exactly how many remained was currently unknown.

They were currently in the stage of raising funds.

In the future, this would also become a route for producing Soul Beasts.

The second most popular pet on the list was precisely the currently hot Divine Artifact Clan members.

The market price for a single Divine Artifact Clan member had already surpassed 800,000, with some breaking through the million mark.

There were even Pet Stream players preparing to imitate the famously renowned "Spirit Artifact Players" from the forum's past, wanting to use Control Souls to forge a great army of Sword Spirits for themselves.

Like the veteran players in the Glory Chronicle videos, waving their hands to unleash ten thousand swords simultaneously.

But the price of divine artifacts was too exorbitant; purchasing them solely with Sacrificial Power incurred expenses too great for any player to afford temporarily.

Wanting to construct a great Sword Spirit formation would require embarking on a journey of grinding.

This was destined to be a long and arduous process of grinding.

Through the forum, one could see that the development of the player faction had already presented a posture of a hundred flowers blooming.

Hot posts continuously emerged on the forum homepage; opening any post at random revealed completely different gaming lives experienced by players.

There were Spirit Chef players discussing how to make gourmet food, Lifestyle players showing off small tools they recently crafted, Fishing enthusiasts discussing angling techniques, Arena enthusiasts hotly debating killing techniques in the Ancient God Arena, Dungeon Stream players analyzing speed-run strategies for new dungeons, Pet Stream players showing off monsters they had just tamed, and Trap Stream players posting hunting traps that took days to build, with details hidden in every aspect from the camouflage layout on the ground to the feedback upon triggering.

There were also Lore Seeker players dissecting information from the library word by word, with every paragraph in their lengthy analysis posts revealing a meticulous attention to the worldview.

There were merchant players showing off their achievements in the auction house for the day; although flipping had been heavily nerfed after the auction Cultivation Mode debuted, some players could still profit from the Exchange, with the comments section filled with emoticons begging to be led to make money.

There were Exploration players traveling mountains and rivers to photograph scenery, such as the sea of clouds at 5 AM or the brilliant rainbows after heavy storms, with every screenshot looking as beautiful as a wallpaper.

And there were newcomer players, holding a hundred thousand whys, posting to seek help from veteran players.

The player ecosystem has developed to this day like a lush forest, with unique scenery growing in every corner.

From the early days when he had to disguise himself as a welfare officer and leverage the popularity of "Dark Land" to recruit players to work for him, to now, where he earns a fortune daily without lifting a finger.

The efforts made by the players have ushered in a transformation for his life, making it radiate a different kind of brilliance.

Looking back on the misery of those years when sacrificial power was exhausted and supplies had run out.

Turning around suddenly, Qi Sheng realized he was already standing in a new world entirely different from the past.

And he would continue to accompany the development of the player faction.

Witnessing more players write legends in the Monster World.

After the surge of thoughts subsided, Qi Sheng turned his gaze toward Dream Island.

Through efforts over this period, Brother Ming Hou had finally saved up enough startup capital.

He had already begun negotiating with A Lan, the person in charge of the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce, to establish a Fate Gambling City on Dream Island, relying on the customer traffic of the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce to earn rule energy and sacrificial power profits.

Dream Island.

The morning light first bloomed.

The azure sea surface unfolded, stretching all the way to the horizon, merging with the pale cyan sky.

Waves crashed against the reef rocks on the shore, splashing up fine silvery foam, which was then swept up by the sea breeze and scattered into the air.

In the distance, several seabirds circled before diving down, their sharp beaks piercing the water's surface, only to quickly snatch up sea fish and soar away, shaking off crystal-clear water droplets with every flap of their wings.

In one corner of this tranquil sea area, however, the dock on Dream Island was bustling with noise and excitement.

Wooden trestles extended out toward the sea, where various alien ships were moored nearby.

Some aliens, for the sake of trade, had even built giant cargo ships specifically to transport resources to Dream Island, then exchange the gold coins obtained from sales for resources needed for their clan's development and ship them back to their homeland.

Besides the giant cargo ships, the dock also held the mottled small boats used by weaker clans, and there were even races that relied on sea beasts to carry resources; what they docked at the pier were living, moving sea beasts.

Various modes of transport were packed densely, filling every berth.

On the shore, staff of the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce shouted instructions as aliens unloaded goods; heavy wooden crates were hoisted onto the aliens' shoulders, steadily carried to the dock, and set down with dull thuds.

Fish catches, spiritual plants, fruits, spiritual ores, and spirit crystals... their scents mixed with the salty fishiness of the sea breeze, permeating the dock.

Several statisticians from the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce stood on the shore, conversing with the aliens before opening crates to inspect the goods, counting the resources, and then issuing Gold Coin Chamber tickets.

Dream Island, as it stood now, was a universally recognized safe zone in the Cangxing Sea Region.

No faction entering Dream Island would proactively stir up trouble.

Even if two races held a grudge against each other, they would never erupt into direct conflict on the island; at most, they would just exchange verbal jabs.

However, when it came to trade dealings with the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce, many races would still try to play little tricks.

This was especially true for clans that did not know much about the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce and had only recently joined the cooperation.

Take the Rock Shell Clan, who had just made contact yesterday; the spiritual ore stones they delivered were wrapped in a layer of glittering mineral crust, and at first glance, rosy light seemed to flow within them as if they contained rich spiritual energy, but after the statisticians of the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce placed some of the spiritual ore stones on the interface for sacrificing to Emperor Tomb Village, they realized something was wrong.

They naturally knew the general price range for Grade 2 spiritual ore stones, but the price offered by Emperor Tomb Village wasn't just cutting at the ankles; it was slashing straight through them.

It was practically treating them as scrap for recycling.

The problem obviously did not lie with Brother Emperor Tomb Village.

Puzzled, the statistician tried knocking open a spiritual ore stone to inspect it.

Except for a thin outer shell, the inside was entirely mountain rock meant to deceive ghosts.

This was clearly an attempt to fleece the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce.

They thought the rules of the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce explicitly stated that once resources were counted on the shore, they would not undergo a second inspection.