Chapter 66: 13 Version Update

Emperor's Tomb Village, Origin Altar.

Qi Sheng stood atop the altar, his mind swiftly sifting through the flood of player-generated data, searching for the content and direction of the next update.

Zhiyin floated constantly beside him, accompanying him.

After these days of experience, the fourth batch of new players entering the game had gradually adapted to the difficulty of the Waning Moon scenario.

The guides posted by earlier batches of players on the forum had provided considerable assistance to new players in understanding the Monster World.

In particular, Lu Xing's compilations, *Monster and Evil Spirit Compendium* and *Spirit Plant and Spirit Mineral Compendium*, offered substantial aid to newly arrived players.

They allowed players to clearly understand the general distribution of evil spirits on the map, as well as hunting level ranges.

This gave Qi Sheng inspiration.

He felt it was entirely possible to add a compendium-like function to the map feature, replacing Lu Xing's simple compendium and providing players greater convenience in exploring the Monster World.

As for Lu Xing's contribution in creating the compendium, he decided to preserve it.

Going forward, all monsters, evil spirits, spirit plants, and spirit minerals recorded in the compendium would be marked with a line of text, such as 【Discoverer: xxx】; this marker would be permanently archived.

Second, Qi Sheng felt the initial basic functions could still be further refined.

At this stage, the player attribute panel displayed limited information, and many details remained inaccessible to players.

Taking the game panel of the first player, Li Zheng, as an example:

【Challenger Name: Game Bricklayer】:

Primary Form: Human

Body Forging Rank: 3 (Perfectly inherited 3 attributes from Painful Painful Minghun)

Star Vein Inlay Rank: 4 (Can inlay four different Monster Painful Painful Minghun):

Slot One: Black-Scaled Snake Painful Painful Minghun Lv24 (Trait: Toxic Venom)

Slot Two: Liman Painful Painful Minghun Lv13 (Trait: Savage Strength)

……

Clicking an inlaid Painful Painful Minghun allows viewing its specific attribute values.

But the attribute panel could not display the exact attribute values of the primary form after reaching the Body Forging rank, when two attributes were perfectly inherited.

Players had already provided feedback on this issue on the forum; Qi Sheng absorbed the suggestions and decided to add display of the primary form's inherited attribute values to the attribute panel.

Second, he decided to add a "Hunger Level" value to the attribute panel.

The Monster World is not, at its core, a game—it merely uses the concept of a game to recruit players—so players in the game also grow hungry and fatigued, requiring them to purchase food from Shangcheng to replenish bodily consumption.

Players could only judge hunger through bodily sensation.

Adding the Hunger Level function would allow players to more intuitively observe changes in hunger levels.

Although this feature seemed trivial—even many players had no need to replenish bodily consumption through food, such as Bone Flame Form, which had no Hunger Level setting, only flesh-and-blood life forms suffered this inconvenience—

In the future, a large number of players would choose builds with multiple Painful Painful Minghun inlaid into their primary form, primarily exploring in human form; adding this setting was to enhance player experience.

With the idea formed, he immediately instructed Zhiyin to arrange it.

Half an hour later, a system update notification rang in every player's mind:

【Challenger Notice (All Channels): The game will undergo 1.3 version maintenance. Update content as follows】:

Update Content 1:

After this update, the forum's feature list will add four compendium functions: Monster Compendium, Evil Spirit Compendium, Spirit Plant Compendium, and Spirit Mineral Compendium. External entities discovered and analyzed by players will be categorized and recorded in these compendiums, viewable at any time (all players share compendium data).

Update Content 2: The map will add a "Details" function; clicking a region's details on the map will display recorded information on evil spirits, monsters, spirit plants, and spirit minerals in that area, synchronized in real time with the four compendiums.

Update Content 3: Added Hunger Level attribute, viewable directly via the main attribute panel.

Update Content 4: Added Primary Form Attribute Display function, viewable directly via the main attribute panel to see the strength of attributes inherited from Monster Painful Painful Minghun.

(Note: This update is online mode; no need for players to log out and wait.)

After the update notice, new setting runes flooded into the Challenger System, swirling around Qi Sheng like dancing characters.

With a gesture, the Challenger System vanished; Qi Sheng switched to the player's perspective.

……

After this update, the most discussed topic on the forum was the map function.

Compared to the previous version, the new map added a highly practical feature.

When a player focused their gaze on a region of the map, a small "Detailed Introduction" tag would pop up above it.

Taking the Ancient Battlefield as an example:

When a player focused on the Ancient Battlefield, their consciousness triggered the detailed introduction tag, and a detailed info box would unfold on the map, showing a miniature depiction of the region's terrain, with descriptive text below.

To the right of the box were selectable compendium categories.

Clicking them allowed viewing the evil spirits, monsters, spirit plants, and spirit minerals discovered in that map region.

For example, clicking "Curse Soldier" in the Evil Spirit Compendium would display its detailed description, approximate distribution area, average hunting level, and more.

This feature received unanimous praise from players on the forum.

Even players who normally raged against the Moon Eclipse Clan offered rare praise, acknowledging that the Moon Eclipse Clan had genuinely considered player experience—but still insisted that the Moon Eclipse Clan's hunger-marketing tactics remained vile, arguing that true concern for players would mean mass distribution of game access, and that hunger marketing was a grave sin.

Qi Sheng paid no attention to these remarks.

After all, players cursed the Moon Eclipse Clan—what did that have to do with Beneath Di Zhao?

……

Crimson Plains.

After slaying Nù Qián, Lu Xing sat panting on the ground.

He glanced at his attribute panel; his Eagle-Head Demon had reached level 15.

He summoned the live stream interface; the comment section still churned out motivational stories, but these words could no longer sway his mind.

"Not going. Not going. I'll challenge Sǒng Huò Dié once I hit level 25."

Flipping through the comments, Lu Xing decisively shook his head, rejecting the live-stream viewers' proposal to fight the Strange Butterfly again.

"You say level twenty-five is too strong, that the Strange Butterfly will run? Let it run; if it runs, I still win."

"If it runs, how can that not count as my victory? Fleeing proves it cowered before me, so naturally, I am the winner."

Facing the live-stream viewers' goading, Lu Xing's Xing De Xiang Fa remained unshaken.

Just then, a comment caught his eye:

Weapon Master: Brother, you absolutely don't need to work this hard. Buy a bunch of Spirit Energy Bombs to challenge the Strange Butterfly; if it dares to get close, pull out the bombs and detonate them. One-hit kill, the process is easy and pleasant. Why bother grinding levels like this?

Lu Xing naturally knew the Spirit Energy Bombs mentioned in this comment.

The player who proposed this idea was certainly a member of the Arms Dealers Guild, characterized by peddling custom weapons everywhere.

But in Lu Xing's view, this idea did indeed seem feasible.

He did not participate in the final battle of purifying the Dark Cave, but he watched the replay video on the forum and witnessed the power of the Spirit Energy Bombs.

Multiple Spirit Energy Bombs detonating simultaneously couldn't even be withstood by a level twenty-five Black-Armored Soldier; theoretically, they could easily kill the cowardly butterfly.

His heart pounded, and an idea surfaced in Lu Xing's mind:

Why not try it?

(End of this chapter)