Chapter 194: Second-Generation God

194. Chapter 194: Second-Generation God

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Protagonist:

Jiang Xuan

Three-Eyed's three eyes suddenly widened, leaving only fear and panic in them: "You are a Second-Generation God!"

The wolf-tailed youth's eyes, glowing like rubies, showed not the slightest fluctuation; he merely repeated the last sentence: "Twenty Jie Shi!"

The gods around, hearing the name "Second-Generation God," traversed the Void and appeared beside the two, not far from Jiang Xuan.

Among them, someone asked doubtfully: "What is a Second-Generation God?"

"Brother! Knowledge about Second-Generation Gods costs money! How could I possibly tell you for free?"

Upon hearing this, the questioning god began probing for information on Second-Generation Gods, muttering: "It only sells for five Jie Shi volumes anyway; I thought it would be more expensive. So this is what a Second-Generation God is!"

Jiang Xuan raised an eyebrow at the two who had suddenly appeared. Although since arriving in this plane he had never carefully probed the surroundings, only giving them a cursory glance.

But his spiritual power was at the Quasi-Emperor level; even a cursory scan could basically record all information in the surroundings, and in his memory, among the observable people nearby, these two guys were not there!

Hearing the questioner's words, some of the surrounding people who didn't know what "Second-Generation God" meant also bought the knowledge costing only five Jie Shi volumes.

Looking around again, the two who had spoken first had already run off to who knows where.

Jiang Xuan looked at those who had bought the information; each and every one's face darkened, and no one was willing to speak further.

He guessed these two were specifically plants, guiding people to spend five Jie Shi volumes buying knowledge to profit from it. The knowledge about Second-Generation Gods was likely something they had just written and released; the contents weren't necessarily the true explanation, and might just be ambiguous guesses.

One must say, this world really is a world full of false knowledge and deception!

Unexpectedly, Three-Eyed took the initiative to bring up knowledge about Second-Generation Gods: "A Second-Generation God is someone whose ancestors came to this world and successfully left, leaving behind information passed down to him. So he may possess a very solid game construction foundation and a vast amount of knowledge about this world! This situation occurs only once in billions of gods!

Let's work together to control the other party. As long as the other party still wants to increase their strength in this world, they will provide us with vast knowledge! That is a vast amount of Jie Shi volumes!"

Hearing Three-Eyed struggling while laboriously bewitching the surrounding onlookers.

The effect was also remarkably outstanding. Hearing Three-Eyed's rough explanation of Second-Generation Gods, combined with the ambiguous answers those who bought the knowledge obtained, together they confirmed that what Three-Eyed said should be true. Many gazes fell on the wolf-tailed youth, revealing strange looks.

Being able to connect with Jie Shi, the value of Jie Shi volumes could never drop!

Even if Jie Shi volumes could no longer be exchanged back for Jie Shi, the knowledge within still tempted countless people to obtain it. Vast knowledge is also the guarantee for earning vast Jie Shi through building games. So Three-Eyed's words indeed stirred the greed in some people's hearts.

The wolf-tailed youth let out a cold snort. Boundless aura shockwaved outward from his body. The Great Dao Sound, carrying Dao Patterns, was like a universe exploding. The aura impacted in all directions!

This pressure passed through the crowd of gods and reached the exclusive spaces of the players participating in the game before being blocked and dissipating. But everyone still felt the other party's strength!

The aura of a Great Emperor Peak!

The Zhetian Great Emperor Peak has already fused the Five Secrets into One, the Supreme Law transformed into the Imperial Dao Law and fused with the Immortal King Tribulation. Of course, the Unorthodox Path to Enlightenment relies not on the Immortal King Tribulation; the road to proving the Dao differs for each!

And although other worlds walk different paths and have different cultivation systems, that Great Emperor Ultimate Peak, that perfect and unique near-immortal aura, converges on the same destination via different routes.

The surrounding people also looked at the wolf-tailed youth with heavy expressions. The greed in their eyes gradually collected, temporarily suppressing the desire in their hearts, turning instead to warily watch the other party.

With so many Great Emperors present, if they all attacked, even he at Great Emperor Peak would have to lie down. But who would be willing to establish such an enemy? Who would be willing to be the first to charge up? Who could guarantee the other party wouldn't take a few people down with them?

The price they paid for their tickets was all the resources they possessed. Even fixed resources would be completely taken away. Being sent back now was something no one could accept.

No one was willing to be the first bird out. The scene fell into silence once again.

Three-Eyed, seeing no one willing to act, his body already invaded by Dao Patterns, resignedly said: "Fine! Twenty Jie Shi!"

"I've changed my mind! Thirty Jie Shi!" The wolf-tailed youth laughed lightly, the force in his hand growing greater.

Three-Eyed's face flushed red from holding his breath. He stared wide-eyed at the other party.

After all his hard work swindling and cheating plus building games along the way, he had only managed to save thirty-five Jie Shi. If he gave thirty at once, he would only have five left for startup capital!

But the moment the wolf-tailed youth made contact with him, the power inside his body had already been completely suppressed. He had no qualification to resist at all!

The wolf-tailed youth was like he was toying with prey, merely giving him a feeling of imminent death, yet not actually killing him!

After a long while, the three-eyed man gritted his teeth and nodded heavily: "Deal! Thirty!"

Saying this, he took out thirty Jie Shi from his pocket and handed them into the wolf-tailed youth's hand.

Although thirty Jie Shi nearly bankrupted him, at least he was still in this world. Relying on his trustworthy face plus a whole set of swindling and cheating skills, he would definitely be able to earn them back one day.

But if he was sent out of this plane, not a single one of these Jie Shi could be kept. And he would be sent out of this plane. That was the real loss!

Receiving thirty Jie Shi, the wolf-tailed youth finally withdrew the Rule Power and let go. The emitted pressure also vanished in an instant.

The moment the three-eyed man regained his freedom, he merely gave the wolf-tailed youth a cold look before instantly disappearing into the Void.

This Void universe is vast, vast. Even with Jiang Xuan's current soul probing power that can cross Star Systems, he cannot probe its boundaries. In the center are densely packed player spaces. Outside are the gods responsible for designing games, surrounding them. Judging by the cosmic curvature he observed, what he can observe is not even one ten-thousandth.

The three-eyed man merely appeared twice in Jiang Xuan's hidden perception before completely vanishing from his perception limits.

The wolf-tailed youth stuffed the thirty Jie Shi into the backpack on his back. Sensing Jiang Xuan's gaze also looking over, he gave Jiang Xuan a slight nod, then sat cross-legged, as if beginning to design his own game.

Jiang Xuan noticed that at this moment, the Blood Light in the youth's eyes had already dissipated. That blood-colored aura had also quieted down.

He estimated that the other party must have used some Secret Art at the time, forcibly raising his strength to Great Emperor Peak. Because now his hidden probing clearly sensed that after the other party's blood-red eyes gradually returned to normal, there was a slight trembling on his body, though it couldn't be felt without careful probing.

Thinking it over, Jiang Xuan still didn't choose to strike while the iron was hot. First, the other party was definitely a Second-Generation God; it was impossible he would use all his trump cards right at the start. He didn't know what powerful guarantees the other party's elders would have prepared for him. Second, he had learned he was nearly extorted by Three-Eyed. At the time, he also wanted to extor... "educate" Three-Eyed a bit. This wolf-tailed youth had at least avenged him, so he couldn't act for now!

Watching the other party immediately start observing information without stopping, seemingly to build a game, Jiang Xuan also didn't probe and wander idly anymore. He opened the Jie Shi Trading Hall again.

【Game Construction Foundation】 Value: Thirty Jie Shi volumes!

【Game Profit Methods】 Value: Thirty-five Jie Shi volumes!

Just two most basic pieces of knowledge cost Jiang Xuan sixty-five Jie Shi volumes. Adding the ten Jie Shi volumes previously spent understanding this world, the freshly exchanged Jie Shi volumes now only had twenty-five left!

But after reading these two books, Jiang Xuan felt these sixty-five Jie Shi volumes were spent quite worth it!

If he had to explore this knowledge himself, he might have wasted quite a lot of Jie Shi energy building useless things.

Overall, the construction of "God's Game" is the construction of a world!

That's right! It is building a world! A game world!

This world can be defined in size by a god's will; the larger and more complete the world, the more Realm Stones it costs, and the benefit is that a Great World will affect the Game Rating settled for the Real-Person Game when the game ends.

The Game Rating is the key to determining whether this game can turn a profit!

If the rating at the game's end is insufficient to offset the number of Realm Stones spent, then there will be no profit whatsoever, and the Realm Stones consumed to build the game will not be returned in any amount.

In other words, only by turning a profit will the game recover the Realm Stones invested in development and gain even more Realm Stones; otherwise, it is a total loss!

Therefore, controlling Realm Stone consumption and obtaining a higher Rating is what all participating "gods" must pay attention to!

Besides the world's size, factors determining the Rating include the game's completion degree, the fear emotions provided by players, the intensity of player confrontation, the number of player deaths, and so on.

Interestingly, the more intense the player confrontation, the higher the Rating, but the number of player deaths is inversely proportional to the Rating — that is, the more people who survive playing the game, the higher the Rating.

Next, look at the issue of building the game.

To build a complete game world requires using Realm Stones!

Realm Stones contain complete Plane Rules and pure energy; two Realm Stones can build a space the size of a Courtyard and generate some constructed life within it.

But to endow these lives with unique behavior patterns and thoughts, or grant them more powerful strength, requires additionally expending energy from the Realm Stones.

And the more players the world can accommodate, the greater the Realm Stone energy that must be spent; this seems to involve the Stability of the constructed world.

Note that no matter what game is created, the created world's Bottom-level Rules cannot be changed; a setting like using Soil to fill Space loopholes is impossible!

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After reading the two parts of Knowledge, Jiang Xuan pondered the current key to setting up a game.

To make the built world profitable, several points must be watched:

Design a complete game within limited space, make players generate massive fear, make players confront as much as possible, let players have no death danger, and minimize the number of Realm Stones needed for construction as much as possible.

Those who often act as gods building games all know that among the emotions humans can provide, the cheapest and fastest emotion is undoubtedly fear!

Absolute fear can crush a person, making them provide it continuously, but fear and the requirement to lower player deaths don't mesh well; a fragile balance must be found in between.

Jiang Xuan opened his eyes and looked at those fragmented spaces in the distance, like matchboxes large or small sealing away one person each.

Some are decorating their little nests, watering green plants, wiping ornaments until they shine!

Some have shuttled into others' Rooms, a man and a woman whispering and rocking the bed edge, not knowing the god providing their game can see all this.

But these people are only a small portion; the vast majority either just stay quietly in place with no movement, staring blankly at the ceiling until tired then falling asleep; or frantically tearing at everything they can see, even making small animals appear out of thin air for them to torture and kill!

Judging from the observable life states of these people, although a few still retain emotions, the vast majority have already approached numbness.

Gods will think of every way to use fear to drive some people mad, providing massive emotions; no one cares whether their game's fear will thoroughly drive players mad — they only care whether they themselves can profit.

So every god will desperately exploit everyone participating in the game, making these people go as thoroughly mad as possible!

Jiang Xuan withdrew his gaze, took a long breath, and looked at everything before him with a deep, calm gaze — those gods busy building games, and those players in the distance about to be or currently having their spirits manipulated.

He suddenly felt this world become twisted; gods, for the sake of gain, actually scheme how to scare players to death but not truly scare them to death! And these native players, like manipulated puppets, survive again and again by participating in games.

But he cannot change anything; even he needs Realm Stones to raise his Cultivation Level, after all, great trouble still awaits him in the Zhetian World.

He is selfish, unable to reach the level of worrying before the world worries; he can only help others within his ability when his own interests are not harmed.

Collecting his thoughts, Jiang Xuan began conceiving his first game world!

At this moment, many horror stories or movies he had seen flashed through his mind — Uncle Ying, Space Alien, the drowned sister crawling out of a TV, Thirteen Didi Rides, and so on.

He does not know whether anyone knows similar stories and has built them in this Universe, so these stories can only serve as references for the worldview, and then he will design the game based on them.

This way he does not need to build a complete world bit by bit; many settings can be directly moved into the designed game!

With a Target in mind, Jiang Xuan prepared to build a game first to try it out; he does not believe he can succeed in profiting in one go, but such an attempt is necessary.

Only by truly building once can he clearly recognize the restrictions on gods and the general state of those players inside.

No one is willing to tell this Knowledge for free; the Realm Stones needed to purchase it are not necessarily fewer than what personal trial costs, and the Knowledge's accuracy and completeness are not guaranteed either.

Experiment is the sole criterion for testing truth! (Chapter End)