[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-monsters-are-coming":3,"chapter-the-monsters-are-coming-monsters-are-coming-chapter-385":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},2250234,4069,"Chapter 385: A New Legend Is Born Here!","monsters-are-coming-chapter-385",385,"\u003Cp>For the doubts posted in the thread, Ming Hou replied publicly with only one message:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Watch me perform.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he pinned this reply at the very top of the teaching thread’s comment section.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before challenging the Ancient God Arena, Ming Hou began researching relevant materials about the Ancient God Arena.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He studied in detail the combat styles under the Ancient God Arena Cultivation Mode, as well as numerous arena-focused players’ battle videos.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After hours of research, Ming Hou had gained a thorough understanding of the arena-focused playstyle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since he had decided to challenge, he would make a stunning debut.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wanted forum players to witness the real-world effectiveness of his elemental transformation technique.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To overturn the forum players’ cognitive logic regarding spell-based playstyles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Simultaneously, he intended for this upcoming livestream to become a live combat tutorial.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To pave the way for future forum teaching.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To silence all doubters, and make the four characters “Ni Ming Zhi Hou” a new legend in the eyes of arena-focused players.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The stage of the Ancient God Arena had long been set; now it waited only for him to step onto it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But one problem remained unsolved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he fought with his main body, even if he wasn’t a match for the Ancient God, he could still easily clear the Ancient God Arena.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could crush the arena’s champion fighters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now he was still a player who had only entered the game a few months ago—his life strength was a severe weakness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While exquisite elemental transformation could grant tactical advantages, to achieve the absolute domination and devastating obliteration he envisioned, he needed a baseline attribute gap as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before absolute power suppression, tactical advantages would be severely diminished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So for this challenge, his power level must not fall too far behind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This required external assistance to dramatically boost his strength.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only way to rapidly raise his Ming Hun level was to spend real money.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He summoned the trading market interface and used his consciousness to click on “Medicines.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The interface instantly switched to the medicine trading category.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He then typed “Jin Hua Dan” into the search bar, and related medicines immediately appeared on the page.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His gaze fixed on one particular Jin Hua Dan; its detailed description materialized in his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Jin Hua Dan】:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Quality: 28.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Effect: Consuming grants Life Evolution Points (Ming Hun experience).\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His gaze shifted to other Jin Hua Dan; each had a different quality and a completely different price.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After checking the prices corresponding to each quality, Ming Hou initiated bulk purchasing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This expenditure would temporarily be covered by his stored sacrificial power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Next came.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Spend money, grow stronger!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>……\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two days later, Ancient God Arena.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Arena Ladder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was a path stretching straight into the clouds, composed of fifteen arena platforms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Serpent Arena, Flame Arena, Tidal Arena, Thousand Forest Arena… The ladder was woven from countless intersecting rule runes; each level was an independent arena scene with unique environmental traits.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every fighter had to begin from the lowest arena, challenging increasingly stronger opponents.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the bloody battlefield in the eyes of all living beings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Defeat meant death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was also the temple where players honed their techniques—only the strongest could stand atop the ladder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, at the lowest level of the Arena Ladder: Serpent Arena.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As teleportation runes surfaced on the ground, two figures appeared simultaneously above the platform.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One of them was Ming Hou, barely selected to enter the arena.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wore a flowing silver-threaded robe, his silver hair tied back, with a few strands hanging down at his temples.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Merely standing there, he clashed utterly with the killing aura permeating the Serpent Arena.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He radiated an otherworldly aura.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked nothing like a warrior about to enter a bloody duel; rather, he resembled a divine incarnation who had accidentally descended into the mortal realm, gazing down with detached eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His opponent was an alien warrior, his body covered in dark scales, wielding a serrated bone blade.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon appearing, he let out a threatening roar toward Ming Hou, unleashing a wave of thick malevolence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two stood facing each other—one like a cold moon high in the heavens, the other like a monstrous beast from the deepest abyss—forming a stark standoff in the livestream frame.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The atmospheric tension before battle prompted many viewers to take screenshots.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All watching players’ gazes ultimately focused on Ming Hou.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They all wanted to see whether this forum legend, who had recently sparked heated debate, truly had the ability to carve out a name in the arena.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though they knew Ming Hou’s abilities were certainly not weak—he had ranked first in this round’s novice leveling event.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But hunting monsters was entirely different from arena duels.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In hunting, one could choose opponents easily crushed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in the arena, the opponent’s strength increased exponentially with each victory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The battle began; the floating “Duel Imprint” above the platform dissolved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two messages simultaneously entered the minds of both combatants.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The alien warrior lunged forward, opening his mouth in a roar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His muscles tensed, scales clanging, his blood qi coalescing into a solid form, manifesting as a hazy monstrous shadow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In an instant, his legs exploded with force; cracks briefly appeared on the arena floor as his body shot forward like an arrow released from a bow, blade slicing through the air with Xingfeng  and full strength, aimed straight at Ming Hou’s Iron Face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This strike was fast, brutal, precise, radiating savage, violent aesthetics.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was also the most common opening move on the Serpent Arena—a headlong charge to swiftly decide victory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Facing this thunderous assault, Ming Hou’s reaction was utterly calm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His eyes didn’t flicker; he merely slowly raised his right hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the instant his fingertip curled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zzz~!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The hot fire element instantly responded to his call, coalescing from thin air into a thin, cicada-wing-like crimson crystal radiating terrifying heat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It precisely intercepted the bone blade’s trajectory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clang!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bone blade, charged with frenzied power, struck the thin flame crystal—sparks flew, yet it didn’t move an inch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The alien warrior’s fierce expression instantly turned to shock; he felt as if he had slashed at a mountain, the counterforce numbing his arm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ming Hou’s finger curled again, as if plucking an invisible string.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The indestructible flame crystal instantly dissolved; the blazing red faded, transforming into a flowing stream of clear water, like a suddenly awakened spirit serpent, surging forward along the serrated blade.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The change was too swift—the alien warrior, still numbed by the counterforce, instinctively tried to retract his blade.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But before he could react, the surging water had already passed through the thick blade body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next instant, Ming Hou’s cold silver eyes flashed with a glint of frost.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The water coiling around the alien warrior’s chest and neck solidified in an instant!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Crack!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Extreme cold erupted violently; the flowing water turned instantly into countless sharp ice shards.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like an ice thorn blossom blooming in an instant, it erupted from the alien warrior’s body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The alien warrior remained frozen in his posture of pulling back his blade, his body completely locked in place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His pupils dilated wildly, filled with disbelief and horror.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sharp ice spikes pierced through his scales, erupting from his chest, throat, and eye sockets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No blood sprayed—the extreme cold had frozen everything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ming Hou slowly lowered his raised hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instantly, the ice entangling the alien warrior shattered into a storm of glittering ice dust, scattering with the wind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The battle was over before it had truly begun.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire sequence flowed like water—from flame block to water entanglement, to the final ice kill—all in the blink of an eye.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No wasted motion; to the livestream viewers, it offered only a cruel, poetic sense of grace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A sensation of weightlessness struck; Ming Hou, having ended the battle, was teleported to the preparation room of the 2-win arena.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Man Nu’s notification echoed in his mind, announcing his victory and the initial reward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A low-grade Wu Soul Pearl emitting crimson light, its sacrificial price around 2500 points.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ming Hou reached out and stored it in his spatial satchel, with no intention of lingering in the preparation room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He decisively requested to initiate the next round of combat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shortly after, the Man Nu responded to his will.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Next, on the ladder of the Ancient God Arena, a silver figure began ascending at an astonishing speed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>2nd win, Giant Sword Arena.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ming Hou’s opponent was a two-headed giant with the power to manipulate explosive flame, roaring as it hurled massive fireballs capable of melting rock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During the battle, Ming Hou did not move a single step—only extended one finger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The roaring fireballs, rushing toward him, suddenly grew docile, as if encountering a sovereign.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, the violent elemental energies hovered before Ming Hou, stripped layer by layer and transformed, finally condensing at his fingertip into a more refined white ember, which he flicked back with casual ease—its speed and power multiplied severalfold, obliterating the two-headed giant into fragments.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>3rd win, Flame Arena.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The arena was surrounded by swirling flames.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The opponent was a sea beast priest from the “Heaven Shell Clan” of the Death Sea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this battle, Ming Hou stood atop the flame-wreathed arena, his silver hair flowing like moonlight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the battle began, the sea beast priest unleashed the power of the ocean, creating a favorable combat environment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ming Hou’s choice was to turn the sea beast priest’s own mastery over water against him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a subtle clasp of his hands, he instantly calmed the seawater domain the priest had summoned, then compressed it into a trembling, high-pressure water sphere brimming with terrifying energy—trapping both the priest and the water within, refining them together.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>4th win, Thousand Forest Arena.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ming Hou’s opponent was a hunter whose racial Tianfu  allowed him to alter biological structure for short-range blinking, wielding a dagger coated in neural poison.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the battle began, the hunter vanished from his spot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next instant, multiple blurred afterimages struck simultaneously from different angles—at Ming Hou’s spine, heart, and head, where his life energy was most concentrated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ming Hou did not move—only lightly tapped the ground with his toe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A ring of clear water instantly spread outward from him, rippling precisely to reflect the position of every afterimage and the true body’s movement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the target identified, the air around him warped, and heat waves materialized out of nowhere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The approaching hunter crashed into an invisible furnace of flame, his stealth instantly broken, his movements distorted by the intense heat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the hunter revealed his true form, a droplet splashed from the water sphere—guided by Ming Hou’s will—condensed midair into a thin, willow-leaf-like ice shard that sliced soundlessly, piercing the hunter’s neck with perfect precision.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The battle ended.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fifth battle: Ming Hou’s opponent was a sorcerer with powerful mental assault capabilities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sorcerer immediately levitated, his eyes blazing with blinding violet light as an invisible storm of mental force roared toward Ming Hou.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ming Hou calmly raised his left hand, fingers slightly spread.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A barrier woven from whirling winds appeared before him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The violent mental assault crashed into the wind vortex barrier—like mud sinking into the sea, sliced, deflected, and dissipated by countless rotating air currents.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Simultaneously, he pointed his right hand at the sorcerer in midair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sorcerer’s body instantly stiffened; Ming Hou flicked his finger, launching a highly compressed “mental assault projectile” that struck the sorcerer from afar, knocking him unconscious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next second, his falling body was engulfed by whirling winds, instantly reduced to dust.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>8th win: opponent was a thunder giant wielding a rune-etched warhammer, possessing terrifying strength—each swing of the hammer carried thunderous power, and his roars shook the soul.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the battle’s start, the giant charged forward with a furious roar, his warhammer descending with the force of ten thousand thunderbolts, awe-inspiring in its might.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Facing the ferocious charge, Ming Hou still did not move—his silver eyes flickered slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ground beneath the giant instantly softened into quicksand, then transformed into a swamp.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was a lesson in combining water and earth elements.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The thunder giant’s violent power crashed into the swamp—most of it absorbed and dampened, trapping him deep within.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, Ming Hou raised one hand upward, palm open, forcibly redirecting the thick lightning erupting from the giant’s warhammer—like a docile stream, it converged into his palm, compressed into a dazzling, crackling lightning sphere, then imbued with the trait of thunder, instantly becoming furious, brimming with destructive force.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The giant struggled to pull his legs free, only to see Ming Hou gently push the lightning sphere forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sphere shot forth, striking the giant’s chest, turning his body charred black before he collapsed with a thunderous crash.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His vitality was entirely consumed by the lingering rampage of the lightning sphere…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One victory after another, one level after another.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ming Hou’s combat style completely overturned players’ understanding of spellcaster battle patterns.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Distance equals safety—that was the universally accepted logic for spellcasters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In players’ own class-based understanding, spellcasters were meant to hide in the back, “biu~biu~biu,” while melee fighters were simply asking for death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in Ming Hou’s hands, elements shifted effortlessly—capable of offense or defense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was like an elemental symphony—he was the sole conductor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wherever his will reached, earth, water, wind, fire… all became loyal musicians, performing a symphony of destruction for him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Throughout, beyond merely commanding elements, he continuously transformed and reshaped them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Flame could become an unbreakable earth shield; flowing water could solidify into an unstoppable ice spear; howling wind could be woven into binding chains—or into the cutting wind of death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The earth itself, at his thought, could shift from solid rock to quicksand or unyielding stone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even more, he could rapidly analyze the elemental energy used by his opponents, siphoning their attacks at a discount, converting it into his own.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amid his streak of victories, Ming Hou, with an invincible demeanor, elegantly crushed one opponent after another.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each battle ended in an extremely short time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact, he never allowed any opponent to so much as brush against his sleeve.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During this time, the number of viewers and spectators in the live stream exploded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Forum threads about “Nì Mìng Zhī Hóu” flooded endlessly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All players realized they were witnessing the birth of a new legend.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, beneath countless stunned and disbelieving gazes,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ming Hou stepped onto the arena for his thirteenth victory.\u003C\u002Fp>",2395,"2026-06-19T09:20:37.851Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","10522c4449aa76ff907b76ab51343c93911222388b00ec06afbf2d894252a801","monsters-are-coming-chapter-386","monsters-are-coming-chapter-384",393,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fmonsters-are-coming-cover.jpg"]