[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-monsters-are-coming":3,"chapter-the-monsters-are-coming-the-monsters-have-arrived-chapter-359":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},2221864,4069,"Chapter 359: Fate Throat starts a class, you go if you can","the-monsters-have-arrived-chapter-359",359,"\u003Cp>The \"Gold Power Travelogue\" published by Bo Yan triggered a wave of exploration enthusiasm on the forum.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Past history proved that although exploration-party players were usually poor, as long as they found opportunities, they could get rich overnight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just like the saying circulating on the forum: don't open for business for three months, eat for three years after opening.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bo Yan's encounter undoubtedly proved the gold content of this sentence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two days ago, he was still an exploration-party player living on cheap pet food; after returning from the Gold Power Space, he could afford high-performance flying swords, batch evolution pills, and spirit food... completing a leap-style surge in wealth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Similar experiences were often staged by exploration-party players on the forum, only Bo Yan's encounter this time was more typical.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Short experience, earned 338,000 sacrificial power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The whole process was destructive, which could be called the most refreshing \"brushing monster\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This also attracted more players to join in the exploration gameplay.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For other players, the growth in the number of exploration-focused players could indirectly bring them wealth as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For instance, the early Snake Ancestor Temple, the Darkborn Space, the Game Space... including establishing a deep mutual-farming friendship with the Lord of Bliss, were all opportunities unearthed by exploration-focused players.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the Gold Power Space discovered in this exploration was also viewed by A-Lan as an opportunity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once the time was ripe in the future, he would make a move to take it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as A-Lan was clarifying his new future goals, Ming Hou, who was preparing the casino plans on Dream Island, also had a new layout.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, he was browsing the heated discussions on the player forum regarding the \"Gold Power Travelogue,\" and then keenly realized a key point.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beyond information exchange and discussion, the player forum was also the heart of public opinion within the player faction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those exploration discussions, combat analyses, and even gossip posts pinned to the top of the hot list were invisibly shaping the public opinion trends of the player community.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The legend of Bo Yan’s overnight wealth, and other major events that ignited the forum, were all accompanied by the rapid rise in the influence of the original posters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He also noticed that the player IDs that frequently posted high-quality guides had a following no less than that of some top guild leaders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The most famous was the very active early-game guide expert, \"Night Approaches.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After becoming a player, he had already learned to change his thinking patterns in the way A-Lan taught.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He also began to think about the meaning behind many of A-Lan’s layouts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During this period, he discovered that A-Lan would frequently post on the forum to provide various forms of help to players in the faction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even creating gold coin plugins to help players understand market prices, and launching various welfare projects.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These actions seemed like giving, but in essence, they were enhancing the influence of the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce within the player faction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Multiple trading centers that imitated the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce’s model failed to make any splash.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was related to the influence of the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The output of dungeon-running players, and even the output of other groups, considered the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce as their first choice for cooperation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if other guilds were willing to offer higher prices, players were only willing to cooperate with the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This resulted in many imitators being unable to catch up to the influence of the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aside from the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce’s effective sales channels, this was also bolstered by the influence of its reputation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, within the player faction, influence was extremely important.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because influence was the right to speak, and the right to speak meant being able to mobilize more resources within the player faction, including combat power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just like when A-Lan recruited major top guilds last time to help a player protect the safety of the Dragon Wing race.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was a way of monetizing influence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking through the forum information, Ming Hou suddenly realized that he also needed to start a layout for forum influence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he wanted to lead the Fate race to become a top power within the player faction, relying solely on the \"Fate Casino\" resource acquisition channel was not enough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He also had to plant seeds in the public opinion battlefield of the player forum and cultivate his own base.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for how to do it specifically, there were many reference cases on the forum.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The most convenient way was to become a giver of knowledge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was also how many guide-focused players gained player fans.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After clarifying his thoughts, Ming Hou immediately decided to publish his first guide post on the forum.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The content had already been thought out in advance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He intended to teach players combat techniques through this post.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This included techniques for using spiritual power conversion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The most popular technique on the forum was the use of telekinesis, but this technique was still too basic, far inferior to the spiritual power conversion into baleful wind that he used.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides baleful wind, spiritual power could also generate various elemental energies by communicating with heaven and earth elements.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These techniques could significantly improve the combat power of his side's players.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With his thoughts clear, Ming Hou immediately began recording the teaching content.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One hour later, Ming Hou’s first combat technique teaching post was published on the forum.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ming Hou’s game ID, \"Throat of Fate,\" was already somewhat famous on the forum.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first time it sparked heated discussion on the forum was during the previous round of newbie recruitment, where this ID took first place on the newbie leveling leaderboard with an absolute advantage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The second time was for capturing the Game Space rules and self-crafting a special soul: Fate City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But before this, no matter how much forum players @-ed him or asked for detailed processes, Ming Hou never paid any attention.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, upon suddenly seeing \"Throat of Fate\" post, many players immediately clicked to view it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The post's popularity, along with the growth in views and replies, quickly sparked heated discussion on the forum.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the post, the content shown in the teaching video was also a field that players had never understood in detail.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The video title was [Dragon Sparrow Casino: Absolute Authority Spiritual Power Usage Tutorial, Lesson One: Basic Methods of Using Spiritual Power.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the beginning of the teaching video, Ming Hou stood on the deserted beach on the west coast of Dream Island and extended a finger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next second, massive spiritual power condensed into a tangible black baleful wind, howling like an angry dragon, instantly eroding the distant reefs into a sky full of dust.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finishing the demonstration, Ming Hou looked at the camera and said with a calm expression:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What we need to understand is that spiritual power is not brute force, but an extension of one's own will, and it is also the bridge for us to communicate with heaven and earth elements. When you learn to use consciousness to guide heaven and earth elements, it can be converted into any elemental form you want.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After speaking, Ming Hou held his palm upward, and a wisp of intangible spiritual power flowed out from between his brows, permeating the air like a thin mist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Before starting the formal teaching, I need everyone to forget all the posts you have seen on the forum regarding elemental affinity. This part of knowledge is meaningless; many posts have misleading viewpoints that make you think resonating with elements is the best path for spiritual power conversion.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So, from this moment on, your judgment on spiritual power usage techniques shall be based on me; my teaching content is the authority.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without any beating around the bush or humble pretenses, Ming Hou in the video, after expressing his thoughts, went straight to the dry goods:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Now, let's get to the point. First, we need to understand a concept: what is spiritual power.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So-called spiritual power is essentially a currency. You pay as much currency as you can to acquire as much elemental energy. The higher the spiritual power intensity, the greater the purchasing power of the same amount of currency; the more spiritual power you have, the more reserve currency you have on you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"After we monetize spiritual power, we can very intuitively understand a truth: spiritual power conversion into elements is actually an interactive process of spending money to buy elements. Whatever element you want to buy, you can obtain it by paying spiritual power.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"As for elemental affinity, you can understand it as the intimacy with a single element. If the intimacy is high, you can purchase this type of elemental energy at a discounted price.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And the reason I say elemental affinity is useless is because we players purchase elements at the lowest discount price to begin with, so increasing spiritual power is the core. Increasing intimacy is not important; what you need to do is issue the command for what element to buy, and then trade money for elements with the world.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Once you understand this concept, you will know that the essence of elemental gathering is equivalent exchange. You can use spiritual power to purchase almost all elemental energy in the monster world, and the price required for each type of elemental energy is also different.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As his voice fell, Ming Hou began to demonstrate the process of converting spiritual power into elements.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The black baleful wind rotating on his fingertip was suddenly dyed with a touch of scorching red.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The surrounding fire elements gathered proactively like moths to a flame, condensing at Ming Hou’s fingertip into a leaping lotus-shaped flame; every petal was clearly visible, yet it did not burn his skin at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He flicked his finger, and the fire lotus rotated into the air, suddenly bursting into countless flowing flames, only to extinguish gently before hitting the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is the conversion of fire elements.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ming Hou changed the rhythm of his spiritual power release, and the sparks dissipating from his fingertip instantly turned into a blue halo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Damp water vapor was drawn from the sea surface, condensing at Ming Hou’s fingertip into an ice crystal prism, refracting a seven-colored halo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is the water element. Unlike the explosive characteristics of the fire element, the water element has higher plasticity. When using the water element, you can endow it with more forms.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After speaking, the ice crystal suddenly melted into liquid, then instantly froze into a dense array of ice needles:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is the process of changing its structure.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ice crystals shattered, turning into water mist suspended in his palm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He raised his hand to draw an arc, and the water mist in his palm suddenly contracted, condensing into a transparent water ribbon in mid-air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Countless light spots were vaguely visible within the water ribbon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Ming Hou’s narration, at this moment, spiritual power was undergoing high-speed exchange with the water elements; every flicker represented a portion of spiritual power being converted into an equivalent amount of water elemental energy.\u003C\u002Fp>",1866,"2026-06-17T19:03:10.805Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","b4980a01f86228d61e27dbb41c5a74f08db8498e55af70d88bea20cb0d47d37d","the-monsters-have-arrived-chapter-360","the-monsters-are-coming-chapter-358",373,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fmonsters-are-coming-cover.jpg"]