[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-monsters-are-coming":3,"chapter-the-monsters-are-coming-monsters-are-coming-chapter-93":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},2249942,4069,"Chapter 93: Colorful Mist Coast (Third Update, Requesting Moon Tickets)","monsters-are-coming-chapter-93",93,"\u003Cp>[Newbie player asking everyone a question: Where are you all finding Origin Monsters? My friend and I have crossed mountains and searched everywhere, but we haven’t encountered a single Origin Monster.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Poster: Until my knee got shot by an arrow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Content:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>First, let me vent: as a brand-new newbie player, I’ve noticed a very serious issue in the game.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The game’s resource output is far too low, yet the places requiring resource consumption are excessively numerous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Death resurrection, purchasing Soul Souls, enhancing Body Rank, upgrading guidance, and daily mall consumption (canned food, water)—daily sacrificial power output is critically low and utterly insufficient.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beyond necessary expenditures, there are many potential sacrificial power drains.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For example, listing items on the Trading Market incurs a 5% handling fee—I find this setting hard to understand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If a game suffers from currency inflation, it’s reasonable to use Trading Market fees as an indirect way to recapture currency.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But with sacrificial power output this low, why set a handling fee at all? Doesn’t it just make the already scarce sacrificial power even scarcer? I can’t fathom the Erosion Clan’s original intent behind this feature—it’s pure player torture.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But what I most want to vent about isn’t the Trading Market—5% handling fees aren’t too high; they’re acceptable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What I truly don’t understand is that the Soul Soul Decomposition function also charges a 5% fee.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You might not grasp how terrifying a 5% fee on Soul Soul decomposition is—I’ll give you a straightforward calculation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Take the Black Scale Snake Soul Soul as an example.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A Level 1 Black Scale Snake requires 10 Evolution Points to evolve into a Level 2 Black Scale Snake.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If we decompose the Level 2 Black Scale Snake after stripping it, we obtain 959.5 sacrificial power (Black Scale Snake’s base Soul Soul is calculated at 1000).\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That seems like only about 40 sacrificial power deducted—not too bad, right?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But if you scale up the level intensity, you’ll be shocked by the numbers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suppose years later, my Black Scale Snake Soul Soul reaches Level 200—decomposing it at that point would drain a colossal amount of sacrificial power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It looks like only 5%, but that 5% is not on the same scale as Level 2.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Evolution Points needed for Soul Soul leveling follow an upward curve; 5% at Level 200 equals 10 levels—gaining those 10 levels might cost me a month, or even longer, of time and effort.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The seemingly low 5% becomes exponentially costlier as you progress.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Extend this timeframe to ten years, and this 5% fee could represent half a year’s worth of your hard work.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, I believe the Star Vein decomposition percentage deduction is unreasonable—the cost of changing Star Vein combinations later on is far too high.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the Erosion Clan officials see this, please consider revising the setting. I love this game, so I hope you optimize the details to deliver a better player experience.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lastly, click the title: newbie asking all the veterans—where exactly are you capturing Origin Monsters? This is the core way to earn sacrificial power in the game, yet my friend and I can’t find a single one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Night Approaches: After reading your post, I found your content excellent—all the points you vented about are issues I’ve considered. The game’s low resource output and excessive consumption are indeed real.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But don’t worry too much about the 5% cost of Soul Soul decomposition. Theoretically, your speed of earning sacrificial power and Evolution Points scales proportionally with your own power growth; as long as swapping Soul Souls boosts your combat strength, there’s no real loss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Let me break it down simply: suppose your current Star Vein combination generates an average of 100 sacrificial power per day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After optimizing and swapping your Star Vein, your combat strength improves, hunting efficiency increases, and you gain more sacrificial power—this effectively compensates for your loss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So when swapping Star Veins later on, the primary consideration must be the magnitude of combat strength increase. If the new combination boosts your power by 100%, a 5% loss is negligible—this issue must be evaluated alongside your power growth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The key is, you can’t always fully strip and replace every Soul Soul.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like the Qi-Sucking Soul Soul for magic users—magic players keep swapping, but the Qi-Sucking one always stays.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The 5% handling fee for individually stripping and decomposing one Soul Soul shouldn’t be calculated as 5% of the entire Star Vein combination—that’s two different things.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You have five Soul Souls; if you only strip and decompose one, the handling fee should be 1% of your total Soul Soul cost—not 5% (assuming all five equipped Soul Souls are the same level).\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beaver replies to Night Approaches: Night Brother, no wonder you’re the forum king—your intense forum grinding, and you’re already educating newbies the moment they enter the thread. I can already see your forum reputation soaring, since so many newbies grow up reading your guides (like.jpg).\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boiling Wine and Smoke: I don’t care about the poster’s expenses, but I share the same question: where the hell can we capture Origin Monsters? This is the easiest way to get rich in the game, yet we can’t find a single Origin Monster. I asked the guidance, and its reply was “luck” or “probability-based luck.” But after searching the forum for info on Origins, I found only one Origin spawn since server launch—this probability is absurdly low.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hand Over Your Spicy Strips: The most insane thing isn’t the Origin spawn probability—go check the Soul Soul Library in the Star Vein function. Every captured Soul Soul has a suffix recording the capturing player’s name and exact time. You’ll discover a bizarre phenomenon: the time intervals between Origin captures are growing longer. Even more absurd: right after server launch, one player captured five Origin Monsters. Newbies are crying in the bathroom—veterans have too much of an advantage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Game Bricklayer replies to Hand Over Your Spicy Strips: Don’t say you’re jealous, newbie—I’m a veteran who joined on day one, and I’m jealous too. Back then, “smelting iron” relied on raw power—challenging Origins above your level wasn’t something just anyone could do. I respect him for capturing five Origins.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Origin Altar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qi Sheng is discussing the next update content with the Guidance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After days of observation, he realized players have hit a bottleneck in development.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More precisely, they’ve hit a limit in capturing Origin Monsters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There are only so many Origin Monsters in the Emperor Tomb Mountain Range—capture one, and one less remains.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To find more Origin Monsters, players must leave the Emperor Tomb Mountain Range and explore broader realms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the Insect Black Tide and Black Black Tide are like two immovable boulders blocking the path—neither can be resolved in the short term, and both have plunged the player clan into a prolonged war.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The player clan is growing, and so are the Insect Black Tide and Black Black Tide.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Monster World isn’t a game—it has no newbie zone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Both these blocking forces are immensely potent factions, far from easy to defeat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This has caused the time intervals between Origin captures to grow longer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How to solve this problem has become Qi Sheng’s pressing challenge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After discussion with the Guidance,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>an idea emerged in his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Build a spatial teleportation array and establish a sub-node in a region suitable for player development, allowing players to explore broader realms via teleportation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, the speed of capturing Origin Monsters would increase, and players would gain fresh experiences.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another reason: resources in the Emperor Tomb Mountain Range are extremely limited.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although the Rule Node can generate unlimited resources, the Black Black Tide and Insect Black Tide—two devouring forces—consume resources at an astonishing rate; players can hardly gather spiritual plant resources in the Emperor Tomb Mountain Range anymore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Establishing a new battlefield node would also help players discover and utilize new resources.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This idea gradually matured through discussion with the Guidance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon after, the Guidance carried his consciousness beyond the Emperor Tomb Mountain Range, beginning to explore broader realms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pale Continent, Colorful Mist Coast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sky, a golden wheel suspended high.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The coastline stretches with fine, endless white sand, like a silver ribbon hugging the azure sea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sea breeze blows, carrying the salted scent of seawater across the land.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Distant waves roll in layer upon layer, crashing against the shore with a rhythmic splash, composing a unique symphony.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seabirds glide serenely through the sky, their wings shimmering silver-white under sunlight, sometimes skimming the glittering sea surface, sometimes soaring straight into the clouds, weaving with blue sky and white clouds into a magnificent scene.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But at the sea’s horizon, a blood-red evil moon hangs suspended.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under the evil moon’s glow, the world is shrouded in a dim crimson light, cleaving the same world into two sharply divided scenes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The coastline teems with life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beyond the sea lies eternal night, stars hidden.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This sharp boundary line is slowly advancing toward the shore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The foreseeable future: the coast will be swallowed by the evil moon, becoming part of its domain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qi Sheng’s consciousness, guided by the Guidance, swept across this region.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Spiritual resources, monsters, Origins, underwater spiritual entities—vast amounts of information flooded his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His consciousness, about to depart, halted at this moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Guidance, this place seems quite suitable—backed by rich oceanic resources, ideal for player development.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Indeed. Although players lack any water-element Soul Souls, I just scanned the seabed and found numerous underwater Origin creatures. If you can capture even one, future development will become much easier.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【But this location has one drawback: the evil moon at the sea’s edge is advancing, and it will fully engulf this region in at most three months.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What the Guidance said was precisely what Qi Sheng hesitated over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Go take a look.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Got it.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Consciousness, guided by the Guidance, flew toward the sea’s end, piercing through the blood-red curtain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The scene before Qi Sheng made him frown slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sky was shrouded in thick black clouds; occasional pitch-black lightning tore across the heavens, splitting the clouds to reveal the dark red, hanging crescent moon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His gaze swept downward—a massive oceanic island appeared, its landscape dead and twisted in Qi Sheng’s perception.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Decaying plants, gnawed remains, dark creatures locked in battle, tentacles bursting through the earth… the island was covered in twisted, entangled corruption cores.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even the surrounding ocean was controlled by corruption cores spawned by the evil moon—the seawater had turned crimson; through the surface, countless underwater evil spirits swarmed rapidly around the island.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was a region utterly dominated by the evil moon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, the evil spirits here were far stronger than those in the Emperor Tomb Mountain Range, with average hunting levels at 40+.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only thing that brought Qi Sheng relief: the terrifying Black Black Tide had not yet arrived.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Guidance had once explained to him the difference between the Black Black Tide and the evil moon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though the evil moon is part of the terrifying Black Black Tide, its advance pace differs from the Black Black Tide’s.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Think of the evil moon as the domain field of the Black Black Tide—when invading a world, the evil moon’s power seeps into that world, creating a home-field advantage for the Black Black Tide, after which intelligent evil spirits descend and construct the Black Black Tide under this advantage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This process usually proceeds smoothly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All regions covered by the evil moon generate massive corruption cores, absorbing local energy to pre-store explosive troop-generation power for the Black Black Tide’s arrival.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Additionally, worlds under the evil moon’s glow continuously spawn unconscious evil spirits like Blood Corpses and Curse Soldiers, attacking life in the region to clear obstacles before the Black Black Tide’s arrival.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the Guidance’s words: the Black Black Tide’s three-step tactic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Step one: evil moon illumination.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Second step: Evil spirits descend.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Third step: The black Black Tide sweeps across.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is precisely what makes the terrifying black Black Tide so fearsome.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ordinary living beings have no way to dispel the Evil Moon; they can only watch helplessly as their region is infiltrated and corrupted by the black Black Tide’s power, ultimately facing the black Black Tide’s onslaught led by evil spirits.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this problem does not exist for Qi Sheng.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As long as he dispels the core of corruption, he has the power to repel the Evil Moon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Here, there is no terrifying black Black Tide led by evil spirits—only the Evil Moon, which is not worth fearing, making it truly ideal for players to develop and grow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With this idea in mind, Qi Sheng began planning where to place the spatial teleportation array.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unlike Emperor Tomb Village, which can exist independently of the Monster World and ignore external infiltration and interference by merely consuming sacrificial power, the location for establishing the spatial teleportation array must first prioritize safety.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because the territories players establish near spatial nodes are at risk of being destroyed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In other words, this spatial node has no concept of a safe zone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, when players die, their souls return to Emperor Tomb Village, and they can only return via teleportation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After scanning the area with his awareness, Qi Sheng realized this region had no such thing as a safe zone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without the territorial protection of Emperor Tomb Village, it seemed no place was any different.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ultimately, Qi Sheng’s awareness settled at a point 530 meters inland from the coastline.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was a natural barrier formed by dense fruit trees—tall, upright, and lush with foliage, effectively blocking sea winds and rain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qi Sheng, far away in Emperor Tomb Village, switched at this moment into Emperor Zhao’s form.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His head transformed into a blazing, crimson flame, and at the same moment, the Guide connected him to Yanming.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not long after, Yanming’s voice echoed in Qi Sheng’s mind:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Leave this to me. I’ll notify you once it’s done.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Yanming’s voice sounded, a wandering, You blue spiritual rune appeared on the ground, outlining and stabilizing the teleportation array.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“How long will this take?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“My current strength is too weak to complete it quickly. To accelerate, I’d need to burn ten times the sacrificial power,” Yanming replied immediately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing that rapidly sketching a stable teleportation array required ten times the sacrificial power, Qi Sheng decisively shook his head:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Take your time. Notify me when it’s done.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Understood.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After assigning the task, the Guide left a fragmentary avatar above the array to interface with Yanming, then returned Qi Sheng’s awareness to Emperor Tomb Mountain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Compared to the picturesque scenery of Misty Coast, Emperor Tomb Mountain under the waning moon appeared especially gloomy and oppressive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was certain that the breathtaking beauty of Misty Coast would attract a large number of Exploration Faction players.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its proximity to the sea would also make Fishing Faction players eager to come.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But to get there, one must pay.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the stable teleportation array is established, it requires continuous consumption of sacrificial power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to the Guide’s calculations, daily expenses would be roughly 3,000 points of sacrificial power, though the exact consumption would need to be recalculated after Yanming completes the array.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He would inevitably pass this fixed cost onto the players.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for how much sacrificial power to charge per teleportation, he would decide after the array was complete.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>16,000 characters, third update complete. Requesting monthly tickets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thank you to “Appearing Right Before My Eyes” for the 3,000 Qidian coins donation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",2565,"2026-06-19T09:20:35.554Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","a26cb095bc7380df04107f77e96d586d6cb8ef9b939ae4f9a81213ab5c424c36","monsters-are-coming-chapter-94","monsters-are-coming-chapter-92",393,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fmonsters-are-coming-cover.jpg"]