Chapter 20: Sacrificial Power Soars

3 hours later.

Inside the cave, flames were burning fiercely.

Taunt's roars were still continuing, and most players had exhausted their sacrificial power and could no longer maintain the output.

Just when the players were about to give up in frustration, the roars of Taunt in the cave gradually became low, and finally, there was no sound at all.

Although they didn't dare to approach, the players had expectations in their hearts.

More than ten minutes later, a notification sound rang in the minds of all players who participated in the battle:

【Challenger Notification: Killed Second Generation Origin Monster "Taunt." Participants share 20,000 sacrificial power reward, obtained permission to unlock the next Star Pulse slot for free (limited to 0-3 level Star Pulses).】

This sound was so pleasant to the players' ears.

They summoned the Star Pulse enhancement panel in the function options one after another to check the newly contained Origin soul.

【Taunt (Second Generation Origin)】

Monster Trait: Release a mental shockwave centered on itself. Targets hit will experience a large number of memory-edited plots in a short time based on their own memories, and the caster will become a part of the edited memory (only effective for intelligent life above level 1).

Guide Hint: After releasing the ability, you cannot imagine what kind of role you play in the target's memory illusion. It could be a murderer of your father, or it could be the neighbor next door, but none of that matters... Watch out, he is already rushing toward you with red eyes, hurry up and parry!

Purchase Cost: 3,000 sacrificial power.

Compared to the First Generation Origin soul, the purchase price of the Second Generation Origin soul tripled, reaching 3,000 sacrificial power.

There was an extra line of guide hints in the introduction information.

Although the price was expensive, the Taunt soul was already a must-have second soul in the eyes of Gargoyle players.

The combination of Petrification + Taunt could be imagined to be how fierce it would be in actual combat.

……

Under Di Zong Village.

From the players' post-battle communication, Qi Sheng collected two important pieces of information.

When players talked about Taunt's monster traits, they couldn't help but complain that there was no experience function for Star Pulse embedding in the game, which could allow them to perform ability combination tests.

This idea seemed fully achievable to Qi Sheng.

He could use Yan Ming's spatial ability to build a simulation scene, allowing players to edit their own Star Pulses at will in the simulation scene, and then use the edited abilities for simulation combat experience.

With the increase in the number of contained Origin monsters in the future, the simulation Star Pulse function could significantly improve players' development, combination, and application of monster ability traits.

The second important piece of information was that players felt that the game needed a function similar to a forum to facilitate communication and even strategy mutual aid.

Qi Sheng felt it was very necessary to add this function.

Compared to the chat modes of regional, team, and other channels, strategy communication could not be saved.

But the forum could archive the strategies and other content posted by players, facilitating later players to read, which would be a huge help to future development.

But before adding these two functions, he needed to prepare in advance.

With the idea, Qi Sheng immediately instructed the guide to create the game's built-in forum function, and then contacted Yan Ming, explaining in detail the need to build a simulation space.

While waiting for Yan Ming to get busy, Qi Sheng, sitting cross-legged on the altar, began to think about a problem.

How to take out the energy crystal in the underground palace of the Gloomy Caverns in advance.

His main body certainly couldn't go; after all, every second of the main body going out was a huge consumption.

Just now, when talking to Yan Ming about the test space, mentioning the need to build a customizable simulation body for players, he suddenly had an inspiration.

It was impossible back then, but now he possessed the Challenger System built by the rule power of the four great servants, and he could fully control the player's body to explore outside.

As for building a clone for himself, it was not feasible.

After fusing with Di Zhao's Solidify My Origin, his consciousness could be released but could not be cut, separated, or even copied.

With the idea, Qi Sheng acted immediately.

Closing his eyes, the Challenger System appeared in Qi Sheng's mind.

He picked a player's flesh and blood body from the players who had entered the death cooldown and consumed sacrificial power to accelerate the reshaping process.

The so-called flesh and blood reshaping was mainly divided into three parts.

First was the extraction of all things function made by the servant Super-Dimension, extracting all the matter of the dead player, then the space system made by Yan Ming sent it back to Di Zong Village, reshaped it 1:1 through the domain trait of Di Zong Village, then the guide re-implanted the datafication system, and finally the power of space transmitted the reshaped flesh and blood body from underground to the resurrection point on the surface of Di Zong Village.

The whole process was like an assembly line, only 10 sacrificial power was needed to drive the reshaping process, and there was no extra energy loss during the period.

Even if the player's monster form reached level 100, the price of flesh and blood reshaping would not change at all.

When he opened his eyes again, his consciousness had switched to the selected player's body.

But this was not perfect control after consciousness fusion, but more like remote control like a marionette.

The main body called Yan Ming, who was in the underground space, and explained the teleportation coordinate location.

Immediately, a spatial teleportation array appeared beneath the player's body, the surrounding space distorted and changed, and after a brief sense of weightlessness, he had arrived in the palace on the fifth level underground of the Gloomy Caverns.

In front stood Ice Blade's remnant body.

Bypassing Ice Blade's remnant body, Qi Sheng came to the Spirit Gathering Array, squatted down, and touched the golden crystal with his palm.

Immediately, surging energy was transmitted to the sacrificial power pool under Di Zong Village through the player's body as a relay station.

The sky above the originally bottomed-out sacrificial power pool seemed to open a floodgate, and surging golden energy flowed down, was purified and transformed into scarlet energy in the air, and blended with other sacrificial power energy.

There was a certain energy loss in the transformation process.

The reason was related to the particularity of sacrificial power.

The energy crystal left by Ice Blade was very pure, but it was far from the purity of sacrificial power that could transform all things, and it needed to be purified and refined before it could be transformed into sacrificial power.

The purification array left by Nine Yin was running at high speed at this moment.

1 minute later, the golden crystal was emptied and turned transparent.

Qi Sheng also received the guide's feedback information:

【Sacrificial Power Pool】:

Stored sacrificial power: 13,333,842.

……

Absorbing the energy crystal brought him more than 13 million sacrificial power income.

The arrival of this wealth meant that the progress of recruiting players could be significantly accelerated.

Standing up, Qi Sheng walked toward the back of the palace.

Crossing the burial ground, the ground was covered with a layer of moss like flesh and blood. In front was the area where the domain node crystal was suspended, and one could see a huge tumor, which extended black tentacles to wrap around the domain node crystal.

Just then, the tumor condensed by the Black Tide corrosion energy seemed to sense his existence, and a black tentacle shot toward him at a very fast speed.

With the physical fitness of the player clone, it was too late. Qi Sheng was hit in the chest by the tentacle, his body was thrown backward, and finally nailed to the load-bearing pillar of the palace.

Then the tentacles spread rapidly to other positions of the body starting from the chest of the player's body.

After a strong sense of nausea and dizziness, the player's body was corroded and dissolved, and Qi Sheng's consciousness was bridged back to the main body by the Challenger System.

【The player body you controlled only had level 8 strength. The task of occupying the domain node clearly cannot be done by this clone.】

Hearing this, Qi Sheng nodded.

The Black Tide core that invaded the domain node crystal clearly had self-consciousness and would attack nearby life. The task of purifying the node could only be completed by other players working together.

This time going out was able to bring back 13 million sacrificial power, and he was already satisfied.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 25 =====