Chapter 56

Origin Altar.

Qi Sheng was surrounded by multiple glowing tracks, with countless complex characters jumping on them. He lowered his head to carefully examine the connection nodes between the characters and the tracks, as well as the path changes of energy running through the trajectories.

The energy tracks and characters were the materialization of the analytical structure of the "Heavenly Talisman Combat Technique" that Duan Xing gifted to the players.

Controlling the sacrificial power energy that can transform the properties of all things, Qi Sheng could completely replicate the operational trajectory of the Heavenly Talisman Combat Technique and make it into a product to be listed for players to purchase and use.

But there was a problem here: the cultivation system of the Heavenly Talisman Combat Technique was not suitable for humans.

The human body structure is different from that of the Heavenly Talisman race, including the internal meridians and organ layout.

The operational trajectory of the Heavenly Talisman Combat Technique running inside his simulated human body did not yield ideal results.

The external energy entering the test human body would uncontrollably run through the meridians, bringing intense pain and discomfort. If the energy could not be channeled in time, it could rupture blood vessels and threaten the life of the test human.

The reason Zhou Xiao could safely use the Heavenly Talisman Combat Technique was that he absorbed a special energy stored in an information stone; it would help Zhou Xiao digest the externally absorbed energy, nourish and transform it, and then spit it out to nourish Zhou Xiao's body, improving his physical fitness.

It was equivalent to having an extra simple energy-absorbing organ inside Zhou Xiao that simulated the body structure of the Heavenly Talisman race.

This discovery immediately interested Qi Sheng.

In his view, it was not difficult to replicate this simple organ, nor was it difficult to replicate the cultivation operational path that had already been fully analyzed. As long as the detailed structure of an object was analyzed, he could perfectly replicate everything by consuming sacrificial power.

He could even embed the replication process into the Challenger System in the form of an automated program.

For example, the spirit stones sold in the mall were made after he had analyzed the internal structure of spirit stones in detail.

During this period, to simplify the production process, he set the process of converting sacrificial power into spirit stones to be automated.

As long as a player clicked to purchase a spirit stone in the mall, the program for converting sacrificial power into spirit stones in the Challenger System would start, and then the converted spirit stone would be transmitted to the player's hand through the spatial system.

With the Guide providing detailed analysis, replicating simple organs and Heavenly Talisman combat techniques was not a difficult task.

What was difficult was that he wanted to create a universal absorption and conversion organ.

The Heavenly Talisman race was just one of the billions of racial forces in the Monster World and could not be considered a top-tier race; their cultivation techniques had no value in Qi Sheng's eyes.

But besides the body-tempering combat techniques of the Heavenly Talisman race, there were various powerful cultivation combat techniques in the Monster World.

These combat techniques could all seize a wisp of heaven and earth energy into the body by conforming to the world's operational trajectory, and then feed it back to the body after nourishing it internally, achieving the effect of nourishing the body.

Among them, there was no shortage of excellent body-tempering combat techniques with extremely high efficiency in seizing heaven and earth energy.

Qi Sheng's purpose in researching body-tempering combat techniques was precisely to create a "universal cultivation organ" for players, allowing this organ to perfectly adapt to all cultivation combat techniques, so that no matter what race's combat technique a player learned, it could be perfectly operated through this special organ.

And the organ could automatically record the operational path of the combat technique the player learned. After the player learned the body-tempering combat technique, it could be activated with one click.

This would allow players to always maintain a cultivation state, and they could gain body-tempering experience whether hunting or mining.

Of course, he would not open this mode to players for free; driving this universal organ would certainly require charging sacrificial power above the cost price.

It was equivalent to adding a cultivation mode that burns point cards under the built-in mall model.

But at the current stage, there were no physical objects to analyze and refer to. Relying solely on the Heavenly Talisman combat technique provided by Duan Xing, Qi Sheng had no way to start for the time being.

Just as he was thinking about how to solve this problem, the Guide water ball emerged from the void and hovered beside him:

【Boss, super-dimensional connection.】

Hearing this, Qi Sheng stopped thinking about the problem of creating a universal organ, and a light screen appeared in front of him in an instant.

In the image, the blank-eyed Chao Wei sat in the lush green plants, merging with nature.

"Boss, the development of the armed vehicle function has encountered some trouble."

"Not enough sacrificial power?"

Hearing this, Chao Wei scratched his head with a silly smile:

"Building this system requires embedding a new energy conversion system on the basis of the original system, so it requires sacrificial power support. The last batch of recruitment consumed 2 million sacrificial power. Added to the income of these days, minus my production consumption, the sacrificial power in your hand has 390,000 remaining. If consumption continues at the speed of my new function production, it is very likely to affect your distribution of rewards."

Hearing Chao Wei's explanation, Qi Sheng frowned slightly.

After a brief thought, he looked at Chao Wei in the light screen and nodded:

"Don't worry, you continue to research and produce; I will find a way to solve this problem."

After hanging up the connection, Qi Sheng had already thought of how to fill this gap in sacrificial power.

Although he only had 390,000 sacrificial power in his hand, the total amount in the sacrificial power pool was 2.48 million, of which 2.09 million belonged to players.

Although he would not easily touch this part of the players' sacrificial power, it still had to be used at critical moments.

Taking it directly did not seem appropriate to him.

If for some reason the player group needed to consume a large amount of sacrificial power, it would lead to the inability of the inventory of sacrificial power to cover the expenditure, seriously affecting the players' gaming experience.

Therefore, the most correct method was to find a suitable reason to let players voluntarily hand over a portion of the sacrificial power that belonged to them; doing so could avoid the potential risk of a run on sacrificial power.

As for how to implement it specifically, Qi Sheng already had a clear plan in his mind.

He had already thought of this plan when building the Challenger System, just waiting to take it out for use when sacrificial power was lacking.

That is, a lottery!

Before crossing into the Monster World, Qi Sheng had played many games on Earth.

When making the Challenger System, he referred to the settings in many games.

He discovered that various types of games generally have a pay-to-win mode, using lottery forms such as blind boxes, card draws, turntables, opening chests, and flying chess to make players pay money.

This type of pay-to-win gameplay has three advantages.

First, it satisfies the psychological needs of players. Humans are born with a gambler's mentality and will be curious and expectant about unknown results. The pay-to-win lottery mechanism uses this point to let players experience the fun of "winning big with small" through payment.

Secondly, when players obtain rare or precious virtual items through the lottery, they will gain a strong sense of joy and satisfaction. This positive feedback will prompt them to continue participating in the lottery.

Finally, the lottery mechanism usually contains a variety of rewards, from ordinary to rare. The diversity of prizes makes players have more expectations and surprises during the lottery process, satisfying the needs of different types of players.

It is precisely these three advantages that make game manufacturers choose the lottery as the mainstream mode for obtaining player cash top-ups.

But he is different from game manufacturers; he does not need players to provide cash, only the sacrificial power in the players' hands.

Launching a probability lottery can solve this problem very well. As long as the prize-winning probability is adjusted, he can ensure that he makes a steady profit without losing.

After this mode is opened, the sacrificial power in the players' inventory will inevitably be continuously converted into the income in his hands.

Compared with other pay-to-win games, the Monster World opening the lottery mode also has an inherent advantage.

Players will not doubt the probability problem, and will not think that the lottery activity in the game is an official forced-pay or scam-pay behavior.

Because this game, Monster World, does not have a cash top-up channel, and what is consumed is only the currency produced in the game.

With an idea, Qi Sheng immediately contacted the Guide to start building a virtual lottery activity.

That afternoon, the Challenger prompt sounded in the minds of all players, and relevant information was simultaneously posted on the official forum:

【Random activity opened: This activity is "Lucky Turntable". Players can open the Lucky Turntable mode through the function panel. This function will disappear after the activity ends.】

Poster: Guide (Certified Official)

Activity introduction: This round of activity is triggered at a random time. During the activity, players can start the Lucky Turntable by consuming 20 points of sacrificial power to produce random rewards, with no guaranteed rewards.

Activity duration countdown: 23 hours 59 minutes 57 seconds.

Activity rewards are as follows:

The prizes for this activity are divided into six grades, distinguished from low to high by white grids, green grids, blue grids, red grids, purple grids, and golden grids.

Golden grid prizes are as follows:

1. Body-tempering level +2 (only available for body-tempering level below 10; if the body-tempering level has already reached level 10, then 20,000 points of sacrificial power will be directly fed back)

2. Sacrificial Power Gift Pack (after opening, you can directly obtain 18,000 points of sacrificial power)

3. Star Vein Growth Gift Pack (after opening, obtain Star Vein level +4)

4. Power of Growth (after opening, hunting monster evolution points and sacrificial power gains +15%, lasting 30 days) (Note: Power of Growth is limited to hunting gain increases; sacrificing resources and items cannot obtain additional gain feedback)

Purple grid prizes are as follows:

1. Infinite Pickaxe (mall price 5,000 points of sacrificial power, infinite durability, can be automatically repaired if damaged)

2. Ration Gift Pack (mall price 3,000 points of sacrificial power, stores 3,000 cans of food of various flavors)

3. Ground-Splitting Slash (mall price 3,500 sacrificial power, quality: 39)

The sudden appearance of the game prompt immediately attracted the attention of a large number of players.

They discussed one after another in the comments under the official post.

Night is Coming: Hiss~ I smell a strong scent of scam-pay... Oh, it's the Dark Land, then it's fine, this game has no pay-to-win channels.

Cherry Little Calf: Looking at the activity introduction, it says there is no guarantee mechanism. Doesn't this mean that in the case of extremely bad luck, it might be a white grid every time? I just wanted to scold, but suddenly thought that this game has no built-in cash pay-to-win channel at all. Can the Moon Eclipse official still cheat the sacrificial power on me (awkwardly scratching head.jpg)

Sleep after dying once:

Brothers, after my analysis, this wave of activity can be rushed, the reasons are as follows.

1. The lottery mechanism in other games is to obtain players' cash top-ups, but the Dark Land does not have this problem, so the winning probability must be reliable.

2. Besides scam-pay, the lottery mechanism is also generally present when game currency is flooded. This is a means for game officials to recycle game currency and ensure normal prices, but the sacrificial power output of the Dark Land is terribly low, and there is no currency inflation problem at all. I instead feel that the currency output is too low and needs to be increased, so this activity is definitely not to recycle sacrificial power.

3. The Moon Eclipse race's previous game also launched a lottery activity. Judging from past practices, the probability is very fair and reliable. Everyone has a chance to win the big prize... Of course, there are also players with particularly bad luck. In the case of no guarantee, bad luck really cannot blame the official.

Most Annoyed by Taking Screen Names: Looking at you analyzing back and forth, you should draw first, and then come to the forum to talk about your feelings (funny.jpg)

Regarding this lottery activity, players expressed their own opinions.

Although the vast majority of players believed that there was no problem with the lottery, some players still maintained a cautious attitude toward the lottery and dared not try it easily.

They did not suspect that the official was cheating, but were worried about the loss of sacrificial power.

Although sacrificial power is produced in the game, in the eyes of all players, this is an important game resource that can be exchanged for cash.

The price of one draw is too expensive, and they dare not act rashly.

Just at this moment, a prompt sounded on the full channel, triggering heated discussions among the player group.

【Lucky Turntable activity prompt (full channel): Congratulations to player "Don't Tell Mom Your Worries" for winning the golden reward, obtaining random content: Sacrificial Power Gift Pack.】

This prompt immediately exploded in the voice channel.

"No... brother, you are too fast. The activity has only been up for less than 5 minutes, and you drew a Sacrificial Power Gift Pack, 18,000 points of sacrificial power. Are you playing the game with your lifespan? You really deserve to die!"

"It made me clench my fists. If it weren't for the fact that this game doesn't open a cash top-up channel, I would definitely scold it as a dog-shill scam-pay. My good mood for the day was ruined by you. I'll go draw one too, and if I don't win, I'll come back and scold."

"I'm afraid my red-eye disease can't be cured. Why can't this opportunity for sudden wealth take me with it? Please, official, turn off the full-channel prompt, or change the prompt content to how much sacrificial power a player lost because of a certain behavior. Don't always prompt other people's good news; I don't want to hear it."

"I originally wanted to save money to buy a mockery soul, but seeing the lottery activity, I knew I couldn't save it anymore. The gambler's happy turntable, here I come, give me a golden one!"

"Frantic, seeing the prompt, I quickly opened the turntable and drew twice, consuming 40 points of sacrificial power to get 2 cans of food with a mall price of 1 point of sacrificial power. Moon Eclipse race, damn you, pay me back 38 points of sacrificial power (rolling on the ground.jpg)."

"Hahaha, luck is not bad, one draw hit the blue prize pool, gave a weapon worth 120 points of sacrificial power (attached: Frost Sword)."

Qi Sheng added a setting to this lucky lottery activity.

As long as a player draws a purple quality or higher reward, a prompt pinned for 3 seconds will pop up on the full-area voice channel.

Doing this is precisely to attract those players who are still hesitating.

Not long after the lottery activity opened, everything was as expected, and more and more players participated in the lottery.

During the period, although some players were very lucky to draw high-value items, the winning probability set by Qi Sheng ensured that he was always in a profitable state.

The total sacrificial power did not decrease; it just nominally belonged to the players and was transferred to his own account by Qi Sheng through reasonable means.

For Qi Sheng, who has complete control over the sacrificial power pool, he can indeed use the part of the sacrificial power that belongs to the players at will, and even if there is a problem of inability to pay, he can find a reason to explain it.

But in his view, this kind of behavior of fooling players is very stupid.

Even if the players accepted the reason he gave, he would have to fill the sacrificial power gap of overspending as soon as possible, and it also ruined the players' gaming experience.

So, since you can rely on cheating, why rob?