Chapter 16: Challenger Plan

【Player Count: 90】

Number of contained Origin traits: 9

Player daily sacrificial power output: 552 points

Average player monster level: 5

Owned domain node: Di Zong Village (The place where the last strand of Di Zhao's origin is buried, possessing the domain rule trait of reshaping life and flesh)

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After checking today's income, the Origin Altar beneath Qi Sheng's feet glowed.

After a brief spatial distortion, he appeared in his bedroom in the real world.

Glancing at the calendar hanging on the wall, he opened the window, switched to Di Zhao form, and flew into the vast night.

A long time later, Qi Sheng appeared in front of an abandoned cemetery.

It was unattended all year round, many tombstones were covered with plant vines, and nearby was a city rail station under construction.

Qi Sheng's footsteps stopped in front of a tombstone.

The photo on this tombstone was already blurred, and the text carved on it was also mottled.

Looking at the tombstone, Qi Sheng's expression was complex, and finally, he knelt in front of the tombstone and kowtowed heavily.

Maintaining the posture for a long time, he stood up and began to repair the tombstone, during which past events surged into his heart.

As a child, he always fantasized about having abilities beyond ordinary people, but when he really had them, he found that he was already burdened with a heavy mission.

The year he traveled to the Monster World, he was 18 years old.

At that time, the Monster World was falling into violent turmoil, the Monster King Di Zhao had self-decomposed, and various forces were leaderless, falling into a chaotic period of warlordism.

The war had lasted for thousands of years before his arrival, and forces that once pledged allegiance to Di Zhao all wanted to become the masters of the new world.

Among them, four forces were the most powerful.

They were Yan Ming, who held the power of space; Nine Yin, who held the power of purification; Guide, who held the power of analysis; and Super-Dimension, who held the power of extraction of all things.

They were once Di Zhao's most loyal servants. After Di Zhao disintegrated, they all believed that they were the best successors to Di Zhao, wanting to inherit the "Solidify My Origin Power" buried in Di Zong Village after Di Zhao self-decomposed, and become the new Di Zhao.

But the arrival of the terrifying Black Tide changed the originally scorched chaotic pattern.

The Monster World was gradually corroded by the power of the Black Tide, the environmental ecology was destroyed, and space rifts appeared in many places in the world.

If this trend continued, the Monster World would eventually be swallowed by the Black Tide.

The four great servants finally chose to join forces to fight against the Black Tide, fighting against endless evil spirit lives.

The long war made the four great servants increasingly weak, but the power of the evil spirits continued to strengthen following the Black Tide's infiltration into the world, and the defeat was irreversible.

Finally, the four great servants were forced by the evil spirits to the edge of the Monster World, which was Di Zong Village where Di Zhao left the Solidify My Origin, and they cooperated to open the forbidden seal and hide inside.

And Di Zong Village was also the last pure land in the Monster World that had not fallen.

The four great servants originally wanted to try to fuse Di Zhao's Solidify My Origin, inherit Di Zhao's power, and fight the Black Tide again with Di Zhao's power.

But at the critical moment, the terrifying Black Tide struck again, shrouding Di Zong Village.

It was at this point in time that he traveled to the Monster World, was sucked into the terrifying Black Tide vortex, and could die at any time.

At the critical moment, it was the four great servants who joined forces to repel the Black Tide and incidentally saved him back to Di Zong Village.

This action also made the already weak four great servants even weaker, and their bodies also had different degrees of problems in the process of fighting the Black Tide.

The guide was also stripped of its life form at that time and turned into the shape of a water ball.

It was just that what the four great servants didn't expect was that none of them could inherit the strand of Solidify My Origin left by Di Zhao, but he, a mortal who traveled here, inherited the honor they pursued all their lives.

Qi Sheng still clearly remembered the complex expressions in the eyes of the four great servants the moment he inherited Di Zhao's power.

Anger, incomprehension, despair, unwillingness, excitement... various complex emotions intertwined, but finally turned into calm acceptance.

Four figures knelt before him, swearing allegiance to him, serving him as servants for all eternity.

And he also shouldered the obsession of the four great servants, promising to save the Monster World with Di Zhao's great power and disperse the endless terrifying Black Tide.

In the years that followed, he first fused with Di Zhao's Solidify My Origin and slept for 300 years.

Then, under the guidance of the four great servants, he experienced a hundred years of cognitive learning, teaching him to understand Di Zhao's various abilities and understand the things in the Monster World.

But to become a true Di Zhao god, he still needed to walk out of Di Zong Village, explore the Monster World, and contain the Origin Power lost by Di Zhao.

It was just that this process was incomparably difficult. Besides possessing Di Zhao's Solidify My Origin, he had no other power to add, and the Di Zhao drive could not be strengthened by any cultivation method; only containment could obtain power.

His strength at that time was only slightly stronger than the weakest creatures in the Monster World, plus the evil spirits running rampant outside, making his growth difficult.

Di Zhao's Solidify My Origin had a great attraction to evil spirits, and the four great servants believed that it would inevitably lead to disaster after being discovered by high-level evil spirits, so he needed to continuously consume sacrificial power to cover up Di Zhao's aura every time he went out.

Every time he went out, it was a significant sacrificial power expenditure.

During this period, he contained the Eagle-Headed Demon, Gargoyle, and Black-Armored Snake, and his strength gradually improved.

But this speed was still too slow in the eyes of the four great servants. The sacrificial power spent each time he went out was far higher than the income brought by hunting and containment, and they had already injected their remaining divine power into Di Zong Village to maintain Di Zong Village from being destroyed by the Black Tide, unable to provide him with help in combat power.

According to this trend, before he was strong enough, Di Zong Village would fall because the sacrificial power was exhausted.

Just when the four great servants felt despair about the future, Qi Sheng proposed a concept.

This plan was the embryonic form of the Challenger Plan, which was the player recruitment plan.

The four great servants all mastered different rule powers.

He had the guide, who held the power of information, build the datafication system in the Challenger Plan, which could allow challengers to read the data information of things they saw in the Monster World.

He had Yan Ming, who held the power of space, build the bridging system, which could bridge challengers from different worlds into the Monster World through this system, and could also send back the challengers' consciousness when they chose to quit.

He had Nine Yin, who held the power of purification, build the purification system, which could purify the mental trauma or other various negative states suffered by challengers in the Monster World.

He had Super-Dimension, who held the power of extraction of all things, build the growth system, which could help players refine the life force of dead monsters, let it integrate into the player's body, and become a part of the player's strength.

These four systems combined, plus the domain trait "Life Reshaping" of Di Zong Village, made the player recruitment plan feasible.

To achieve this goal, the four great servants spent 50 years constantly perfecting and modifying, and finally, the Challenger System was completed.

At that time, the sacrificial power pool of Di Zong Village only had more than 10 million sacrificial power left, which could maintain Di Zong Village for at most ten years, and the consumption of maintenance was still increasing with the intensity of the Black Tide, from the initial 500 sacrificial power a day to 1,000 sacrificial power a day.

The four great servants gave the choice to him, and he also made a decision.

Bet on a future with the remaining sacrificial power, let Yan Ming burn sacrificial power, use the power of space to search for other plane worlds, and find lives that could be recruited as challengers.

In the years of cross-space searching, Qi Sheng's consciousness always followed Yan Ming.

During this period, he saw countless plane worlds corroded and swallowed by the terrifying Black Tide, all things withered, and only countless evil spirits ran rampant between heaven and earth.

Just at the moment when the sacrificial power was about to be exhausted, Qi Sheng saw a familiar place.

It was a blue planet.

When the image on the planet was enlarged, although there were too many changes compared to his memory, he could still be sure.

This was his former home.

At that moment, Qi Sheng smiled very happily.

He knew he had succeeded, and the Challenger Plan finally found a place to be useful.

The National Day holiday is over~

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(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 21 =====