Chapter 87: The Three Great Mo Sects (Second Update)

It has been 39 days since the server opened.

Qi Sheng compiled information on the players' current average level, mainstream Star Vein combinations, and daily Shou Shou Jili output.

While integrating forum popularity data, he discovered something that left him both amused and exasperated.

Since the game's launch, various new Ciliu Sects have constantly emerged.

However, all these sects relate to different combinations of Painful Painful Minghun; by embedding different Painful Painful Minghun into Star Veins, players release the combined traits of the Painful Painful Minghun in their main form.

Only three sects do not develop according to the game's established patterns.

Forum players mockingly call them the Sandamo Sect.

Ranking first is the Apocalypse Technology Guild, also dubbed the Arms Dealer Guild by forum players.

Players joining this guild generally do not follow the hunting growth path; they focus entirely on weapon research and upgrades, as well as earning money.

Guild members daily post advertisements in major hot threads to sell arms; they are also one of the player factions most capable of earning Shou Shou Jili in the game. Their clientele spans major guilds and even many solo players. Their recent development momentum is fierce, with more powerful new products launching every period.

Because they go against the Zhu Liu Wan Fa, the Arms Dealer Guild is labeled a "Mo Sect faction."

Ranking second is the newly formed guild "Gene Ascension."

This guild was founded by "Yu Ze," a player recruited by Qi Sheng half a month ago using an extra slot; all guild members are researchers from the Gene Modification Department.

A post about Gene Seeds pushed this group to the center of attention.

With rapid technological upgrades, the current stage has reduced the harm Gene Seeds cause to the human body, and the body-strengthening experience gained has improved significantly.

However, the problem of excessive, intense pain during the strengthening process has still not been well resolved.

Precisely for this reason, players who consume Gene Seeds to boost body-strengthening experience are called "Gene Muscles" on the forum; this is a method chosen only by the rare few who value money over life.

Like the Arms Dealer Guild, members of the Gene Ascension Guild are not normal players; they all choose a non-hunting, research-based growth path.

Combined with the various "Gene Seed" memes forum players have been playing with recently, the Gene Ascension Guild is mockingly called the "Breaking Bad Alliance" on the forum.

It is the second non-mainstream Mo Sect following the Arms Dealer Guild.

Ranking last is the guild "Fishing Alone in the Cold River Snow," formed in the past few days.

Despite the elegant guild name, it cannot hide the eccentric, unconventional behavior of its players.

Players joining this guild all choose the fishing growth Liu Pai Wan Fa, but their fishing methods differ from those of normal fishing enthusiasts.

The forum has recorded many fishing modes developed by the bizarre brainwaves of this guild's players.

For example: the Lei Ting Fish Tyrant Liu.

This sect was born after the containment of the Rushing Thunder Painful Painful Minghun.

In the strategy videos posted by players of this guild, the preceding content appears quite normal.

A player holds a metal rod, leisurely fishing by the lake.

When the float sinks, a sinister face instantly appears; accompanied by the shout of "Lei Ting Infusion," the player activates the Rushing Thunder Painful Painful Minghun trait. Instantly, a high-voltage current surges through the fishing rod, conducting into the underwater life biting the bait. After the continuous current passes, any underwater life not yet dragged ashore automatically floats to the surface.

Another example: the Bait Exorcism Liu.

This sect was born before the Lei Ting Fish Tyrant Liu.

The demonstration video posted by the player who invented this sect once surged to the top of the forum popularity chart in a short time.

The Liu Wan Fa of this sect focuses on catching opponents off guard; the core of fishing is likewise not dragging the fish ashore.

The player who invented this method combined spiritual energy bombs with bait, creating a "Bait Self-Destruct Hook" that completes the exorcism of life the instant the bait is bitten.

This is also the He Xin Wan Fa of the "Fishing Alone in the Cold River Snow" guild.

Many other similar bizarre methods exist; it is precisely these brainwave-driven fishing Liu Wan Fa that made this group of players famous on the forum.

They are mockingly called the Mo Gate Fishing Enthusiasts by forum players.

These three non-mainstream, bizarre Liu Wan Fa constitute the Sandamo Sect in the eyes of forum players.

Compared with players of other guilds, the Sandamo Sect has another characteristic.

Players of other guilds consume resources to convert them into their own strength, whereas these three guilds, besides consuming resources, continuously produce items beneficial to other players.

Custom weapons made by the Arms Dealer Guild, Gene Potions and Gene Seeds from the Breaking Bad Alliance, and aquatic food spiritual ingredients sold by the Mo Gate Fishing Enthusiasts.

The Sandamo Sect has already carved out a path of positive resource circulation.

By listing Sold Items on the Trading Hall, they earn Shou Shou Jili revenue, then use that Shou Shou Jili to purchase materials for researching better items, which they sell at higher prices.

However, the unprofessional behavior of the Sandamo Sect in the eyes of other players is precisely the result Qi Sheng wants to see.

Only a myriad of flourishing Liu Pai Wan Fa can form the player army he desires.

Just as Qi Sheng prepared to check the player counts of each sect in detail, the Guidance's feedback surfaced in his mind.

He decisively switched his viewpoint.

Emperor's Tomb Mountain Range, Burial Bones Wilderness.

This is an ancient region seemingly forgotten by time, vast and desolate. The piercing cries of ugly vultures rise and fall, echoing across the wilderness. Whenever the wind rises, it whips up clouds of yellow sand that sweep across the empty land. Green vegetation is rarely seen within sight; the only things composing this region are bones and yellow earth.

As the gaze swept across the desolate land and rapidly advanced eastward, a massive sinkhole suddenly appeared in Qi Sheng's vision.

Resembling a deep scar on the earth's surface, the sinkhole reaches a diameter of 16 kilometers. Viewed from high above, its shape is nearly circular, with towering edges forming a natural barrier as if the crust had been torn apart by immense force. The pit walls are steep and rugged, with exposed rocks showing distinct layers. Under the light of the Evil Moon, the rocks display mottled colors, forming a complex color spectrum.

At the bottom of the giant pit lies a relatively flat small basin, where a tumor-like Corrosion Core pulses slowly.

This Corrosion Core differs from those players have seen before; its surface is inscribed with complex spiritual patterns and has merged with Hei Chao Xie Sui power. All energy it absorbs is supplied for the growth and consumption of the Hei Chao Xie Sui.

Shifting the gaze several hundred meters away, over a thousand players from major guild organizations are engaged in fierce combat against the Hei Chao Xie Sui controlled by the Earth-Will Evil Spirits.

Detailed information about this Domain Node also surfaced in Qi Sheng's mind:

【Fallen Demon Pit - Domain Node】

Domain Type: Resource Type

Territory Trait: Spiritual Multiplication (Level 2)

Trait Introduction: Continuously enlightens spiritual ore-type resources.

Domain Status: Terrifying Black Tide (Occupied)

By analyzing the information, it can be discovered that this is a resource-type domain node similar to a Dark Cave.

But compared to the Dark Cave, the average grade of the spiritual ore produced here is higher, and the intensity of spiritual proliferation has reached Level 2.

This is also the reason why major guilds have gathered here to advance, wanting to jointly seize this domain node.

At this moment, players and the Hei Chao Xie Sui have been fighting fiercely for over ten minutes.

Facing the Black Tide controlled by the Di Nian Xie Ling, the players participating in this surprise attack appear exceptionally brave; during this time, players constantly speak out in the small regional voice channel to command the actions of guild players:

Shen Wang: Don't mind the casualties, continue pushing forward. We don't have much time left. Once the Di Nian Xie Ling controls the Black Tide power from other regions to attack, this operation will be considered a failure. So, do not worry about casualties; everything must prioritize the advance... Brothers with the Thunder Rush trait, go to the very front line. After switching to the Painful Painful Minghun of Thunder Rush, roll towards the Corrosion Core. Use your bodies to clear the way!

Shen Wang: Brothers from the Fan Zui Tuan and the Shen Yi Guild, when the members of the Kuang Feng Guild come down, you hold the line.

Shen Wang: Who is that Wang Ba? I'm asking who he is. Who recruited such a stupid guy? Our own brothers are opening a Ni Ma Mo Yan Domain nearby. I xxxx. Remember his name for me. Wait until later and kick him out of the guild directly. I cao xxxx. No brain, how can you play the game? Can you listen to commands? I xxxx.

Wo Si Ni Die: Dog Shen Wang, support from the Black Tide is coming from the side.

Shen Wang: I see it. Brothers from the Shen Yi Guild, hold the line for a wave first. Brothers from the other guilds, continue pushing forward. Guild leaders with issues speak in the small regional voice channel. Non-guild leaders, shut your mics for me. Don't affect the command.

Shen Wang, who is commanding this operation, stands at the center of the guild joint legion. His left hand grips a bottle of mental recovery potion. His eyes are tightly closed. The perception perspective of the Eagle-Headed Demon is maximized, real-time observing players from major guilds and the movements of the Hei Chao Xie Sui ahead.

Under his command, the players advance in an orderly manner.

But the players' combat literacy is generally low. There will always be players whose pace is inconsistent, making him feel incredibly headache-inducing.

When he truly cannot endure it anymore, he also curses loudly in the small regional voice channel.

During the observation period, there were also players that made his eyes light up.

At this moment, a small team of players made him exclaim "Awesome" in his heart.

The player leading this team is none other than Li Tie. His performance leading the Veteran Corps in the charge ahead makes Shen Wang's blood boil.

Although everyone is equipped with melee-type Painful Painful Minghun, their combat literacy is very high. Their tacit coordination during battle is perfect, like a sharp knife, tearing open a gap for them to push forward in the surging black fog.

What makes Shen Wang feel most incredulous is the efficient communication method of this team.

When someone in the team whistles, the other members immediately know from which direction the Xie Sui are attacking quickly. Instantly, the whole team turns their direction to focus fire on the direction the Xie Sui are coming from.

It seems different whistle tones represent a clear directional instruction.

After the perception perspective clearly sees the face of the white-haired man at the head, Shen Wang understands the reason.

This player is not unfamiliar to him.

Before obtaining the qualification to play the game in the Dark Land, he was a player of "Zheng Zhan". He had occasional friction with the Fan Zui Tuan led by Li Li Siyu, considered an opposing force under the same camp.

The feeling the Fan Zui Guild gave him was that it was a guild built by a group of rich brats.

But there was one exception. That was Li Tie, whose game name was "Da Tie". He had devastated them multiple times in guild confrontations with his own strength.

He had once thought of offering a generous reward to recruit Da Tie into his own guild. He very much craved top-tier high-level players.

But countless private chat attempts failed. Li Tie didn't even reply to the messages. Finally, he learned that this player with maxed-out combat skills was the grandfather of the Fan Zui Tuan guild leader, so the idea of recruiting him was abandoned.

After all, blood kinship cannot be transferred through money.

What he didn't expect was that upon meeting again, the Fan Zui Tuan had actually added a batch of combat-type players as capable as Da Tie.

While feeling envious, he also didn't forget the matter of command. His perception perspective quickly roamed the battlefield, occasionally roaring out in the voice channel:

Shen Wang: Kuang Chao Guild, those brothers on your guild's left side have fallen out of formation. Hurry and call them back.

Shen Wang: All mages of the Fan Zui Guild, stop firing for me. Wait for my command to fire fireballs forward together. Only by focusing fire to blast out a gap can we advance. Don't Ni Ma cast skills individually. Scattered shots are useless. The Black Tide can fill the gap instantly. Can you understand what focusing fire means?

Shen Wang: Dog Yi, swap your guild brothers down to drink potions. People from the Xing Chen Guild, move up... Retreat in an orderly manner. Don't Ni Ma crowd people. Swap them batch by batch.

As a professional war commander and whale for multiple games, Shen Wang, although short-tempered, has a command rhythm that makes the guild leaders of major guilds feel convinced. This is also the reason he was selected to serve as the overall commander of the guild joint operation.

Under Shen Wang's layout, the joint army advances steadily, and the distance to the Corrosion Core is already less than one hundred meters.

Having discovered the players' Ren De Xiang Fa to occupy this domain node, under the control of the Di Nian Xie Ling, black fog constantly attacks to join the battle, attempting to block the players' advance.

The battle becomes more and more intense as time passes.

At this moment, in a corner of the battlefield, the voice channel of the You Er Tuan, invited to participate in this guild joint operation:

Zui Nai: Brothers, we can roll the dice now. Do you dare to bet?

Tie Chui: Bet! Since we are playing with probability, let's play to the end. Must roll.

Ban Zhang: Let's do it, let's do it. Brother Beneath Di Zhao, bless me with 1000 points.

Meng Wa: Please, give me a high number. I haven't rolled a high number yet. This probability is too low.

After making the decision, the 15 players of the You Er Tuan all activated the ability traits of their Infinite Painful Painful Minghun.

Immediately, rolling dice appeared in front. The complex symbols on them constantly changed as they rolled. After a few seconds, they froze.

Ban Zhang: Hahaha, 872 points. 8.7 times enhancement.

Accompanied by Ban Zhang's arrogant laughter, pale blue spiritual rune symbols surrounded his body, and surging world energy injected into his body.

Raising his right hand, a dark green fireball condensed above his palm, swelling with the wind.

With a thought, the super-large dark fireball flew straight towards the group of Xie Sui. Immediately, a large area of Xie Sui were swallowed by the Mo Yan fireball. The fireball continued to advance without any decrease in speed.

This scene immediately attracted the attention of a large number of players.

Compared to Ban Zhang's luck, the expressions of the other players of the You Er Tuan were helpless.

They all drew a debuff state during the world judgment phase. Only Ban Zhang obtained an enhancement.

But at this moment, Ban Zhang's strength increase is enough to compensate for the team's combat power loss. Even the comprehensive combat power has increased several times.

The 8.7 times increase includes mental strength, mental recovery speed, physical quality strength, and other all-around improvements. The resulting enhancement is very considerable.

Taking super gene warriors in the real world as an example, they possess physical quality strength 4-6 times that of normal people. But even if a hundred ordinary people attack together, they are absolutely no match for a single super gene warrior.

Besides the gap in combat skills, there is also absolute crushing superiority in physical quality.

Assuming a normal person's attack strength is 1 and body defense is 0.5, even a brawl between two ordinary people can break the other's defense and cause damage.

Meanwhile, the average physical stats of a Super Gene Warrior are 5; an ordinary person punching a Super Gene Warrior feels like scratching an itch, posing no real threat. Coupled with the self-healing ability gained from physical enhancement, a Super Warrior completely overwhelms ordinary people; it is not something simple numbers can counter.

Applying this setting to the Monster World is the same.

With an 8.7-fold enhancement, the Squad Leader's strength instantly topped the player legion, and it was a gap-closing level of power.

The restoration efficiency of the eight-fold enhanced Breath-Eating Painful Painful Minghun was terrifying; the Squad Leader decisively split into six clones and activated the Mass Fireball mode.

He accelerated the advance of the Guild United Army with his own strength.

This prompted the God King, who was in command, to praise him repeatedly and sparked the idea in his heart to recruit this luck-dependent combat team.

Twenty minutes later.

With over half the Guild United Army players dead or injured, they finally approached the area where the Corrosion Core was located.

The resistance of the Evil Tide became exceptionally fierce.

Beneath the surging black mist, corruptive energy spread wildly; the air was filled with an indescribable stench, and hoarse whispers occasionally emanated from the black mist, causing large-scale mental shock damage.

Continuously, new Evil Spirits with a Hunting Level of 8 or higher condensed their bodies and joined the battle.

Facing the increasingly intense terrifying black tide, the God King in command made a decision: let players who lost combat power leave the formation and clear the path by self-destructing.

This decision accelerated the team's casualty rate.

Yet it also provided new momentum for the continued advance; time moved to fifteen minutes later.

The players finally saw the twisted flesh tumor shrouded in black mist, which was the Corrosion Core occupying the domain node beneath their feet.

At this moment, the God King issued the final charge order.

The remaining one-third of the players no longer worried about sustainability and followed the crowd to enter the final moment of madness.

When the Corrosion Core shattered under the players' focused fire, scattering flesh fragments, the Beneath Di Zhao power belonging to Qi Sheng wrapped around the node crystal originally enclosed by the flesh ball.

Accompanied by the infusion of power, a black dot appeared beneath the node crystal, expanding rapidly as it rotated.

Until it completely enveloped the players present and the sky pit.

Boom!

The ground suddenly sank; the sky pit and the players vanished instantly, and the empty ground was subsequently pulled back to its original state by the power of the world.

At the same time, a Challenger notification rang in the minds of all players:

【Challenger Notification (All Channels): The global mission Purify the Demon Fall Pit has been completed. Rewards distributed according to contribution are as follows:...】

Accompanied by the notification, the Di Zhao Village trembled, and its area expanded after merging with the domain node.

Originally, Qi Sheng planned to set this mine pit in the southern edge area of Di Zhao Village to give players a new mining option.

But the Guide's suggestion changed his mind, stating that domain nodes of the same type could perfectly merge and complement each other.

If a new area were opened to place a domain node, Di Zhao Village would have a large number of mining districts in the future; it would be better to merge the two mining districts.

This idea indeed seemed feasible to Qi Sheng.

So he merged the Demon Fall Pit with the Dark Cave; after the two domain nodes intertwined, a new underground mining district was formed. Whether it was the speed of Spirit Ore production or the quality of the Spirit Ore, both improved after the fusion was complete. Most importantly, the mining area expanded by more than double, and all narrow passages disappeared.

While informing the players of the specific update content via the notification, Qi Sheng took the opportunity to release a new function.

Honor Album.

Opening the Honor Album through the function panel, the cover presented a golden main tone, with a scarlet Beneath Di Zhao fire in the center.

Opening the album, a line of golden text that shone brilliantly was printed on the preface page:

In the long river of time, every player writes their own story in their own way, and some stories are worthy of being recorded in history books, becoming legends.

This merely records the exciting milestone moments on the player legion's path of growth.

Opening the preface page edged with golden stripes, the center of the first page of the album contained a video clip that could be clicked to open, and beside it were photos of exciting moments that could be slid through to view; these recorded the high-octane moments of the player legion purifying the Dark Cave after fighting with blood.

Below were specific times, as well as an Honor Contribution Ranking for the Purification Mission that could be opened.

The video clip and exciting moment photos on the second page were precisely the entire process of just now containing the Demon Fall Pit domain node.

Launching the Honor Album was an idea Qi Sheng had by chance.

The purpose was to boost the players' collective sense of honor, record their exciting performances during combat for later generations to observe and learn from, and understand every important historical node in the development of the player camp.

(End of Chapter)