Monsters Are Coming
Chapter 169 - 100: Legacy: Special Life Soul (Requesting Monthly Ticket)_3

Chapter 169: Chapter 100: Legacy: Special Life Soul (Requesting Monthly Ticket)_3

A 15% enhancement bonus is enough to make them grit their teeth and persist, let alone when it’s free.

Just then, Ascetic pushed open the door and entered the courtyard.

Approaching them, Ascetic opened his palm to reveal two Crystal Stones with thick golden liquid flowing inside.

The two curious individuals focused their eyes as the analytical information emerged.

[Energy Storage Stone]:

Stored Energy: 937392.

Guidance Tips: Can exchange for sacrificial power 312464.

[Energy Storage Stone]:

Stored Energy: 972855.

Guidance Tips: Can exchange for sacrificial power 324285.

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The analytical information made Jiang Cheng and Xia Sheng’s eyes widen.

"Holy shit, we’re rich, is the old man gonna give us his inheritance?"

"Deserving of a Hidden Task, we’re rich, we’re rich, I’m not jealous of your Spirit Field anymore."

"Don’t show it, we must pretend to be calm and wait for him to give it to us."

Suppressing their surging emotions, their gaze was fixed on the two Energy Storage Stones in Ascetic’s hand.

But then they saw Ascetic standing still, looking down at them with a grin:

"Later, I will inscribe the Pain Imprint inside your bodies. This is the foundation for your future use of Touch of Pain. The process will be quite painful, so prepare yourself mentally in advance."

Upon hearing this, Jiang Cheng and Xia Sheng felt an instant disappointment.

If they could use these 300,000 to enhance their Star Veins and Body Refining Level, they’d probably be able to skyrocket on the spot.

However, they dared not voice such thoughts.

Touch of Pain is the life’s work of Ascetic, and they were following him as inheritors of the Secret Technique; having this opportunity, they were already very content.

"Are you ready?" Ascetic asked in a serious tone at this moment.

"Bring it on." Xia Sheng and Jiang Cheng spoke simultaneously in response.

Ascetic then raised his hand, and instantly two Energy Barytes floated in front of him. Streams of golden mist could be seen being drawn out of the Crystal Stones, converging towards the players’ foreheads.

Upon contact with the forehead, the energy continuously poured inside, then above the Sea of Consciousness, it converged into a spinning golden vortex.

Ascetic’s consciousness followed, penetrating the players’ Sea of Consciousness, guiding the golden energy as it roamed within, tracing complex Spiritual Patterns that intertwined and combined.

Behind the scenes, Qi Sheng was also monitoring this process in real-time.

In fact, if he hadn’t granted permission, Ascetic’s consciousness wouldn’t have been able to penetrate the players’ Sea of Consciousness, and the Purification System would have intercepted it immediately.

The subsequent ability to guide energy and etch the imprint within the players’ Sea of Consciousness was also enabled through his granting of secondary permissions.

Otherwise, a player’s life structure wouldn’t be so easily altered by an external force.

But even with permissions granted, Qi Sheng still saw many issues with Ascetic’s actions.

For starters, the energy used to trace the "Pain Imprint."

Perhaps in Ascetic’s eyes, the energy stored in the two Crystal Stones is very pure.

However, for players whose bodies are composed of sacrificial power, the energy impurities in the Crystal Stones are too abundant, necessitating the removal of a large portion and conversion into sacrificial power to be compatible with the player.

Next is the fact that the tracing of the "Pain Imprint" is too rough.

The explanation of the Guidance is that the traced characters are not neat, with each stroke twisted and turn, hardly pleasing to the eye.

Combining these two factors, Qi Sheng still decided to let the Guidance take action.

In an instant, the trajectory of the Spiritual Patterns traced in the minds of Jiang Cheng and Xia Sheng vanished at a visible speed, but this process did not manifest in the ascetic’s Perception View; he was still intently tracing the Spiritual Patterns, with his perception showing a progressively perfected Pain Imprint.

At this moment, the Guidance acted, activating the All Things Extraction ability in the Challenger System, smashing all the golden energy influx into Jiang Cheng’s Sea of Consciousness and removing the impurities, transforming it into sacrificial energy.

Then, following the ascetic’s traced trajectory of Spiritual Patterns, the Guidance weaved and intertwined the scarlet energy.

Compared to the ascetic, the Spiritual Patterns traced by the Guidance are in harmony with the world’s laws of operation, each stroke incredibly smooth.

As more and more tracings of the Spiritual Patterns were done, they gradually converged above the two players’ Sea of Consciousness into a blood-colored Pain Imprint, with the dissipating energy intensity constantly escalating.

Two hours later, a Pain Imprint brimming with blood light was formed.

The remaining energy was converted into sacrificial power, leaving 17,324 points behind.

However, the ascetic did not take this energy away; his consciousness swiftly retracted from the eyebrows of the two players, and then he sat down weakly on the ground, gasping for air. Suddenly his eyes closed, and he fainted to the ground.

What the ascetic was unable to see was that the two Pain Imprints in the players’ Sea of Consciousness flew out, and under the Guidance’s pulling, they arrived at the players’ spine location.

The place resembled a starry sea, a resplendent galaxy spreading out from the spine at its center.

Within the players’ life structure, the Star Veins are the pillars bearing strength.

Thus, embedding the Pain Imprint into the Star Vein Slot is the choice the Guidance sees as fitting the players’ growth system.

The Guidance extracted a part of the remaining energy, creating the Fourth Star Vein Slot for the two players, then guided the Pain Imprint to embed within it.

The remaining energy, in a thought’s turn, was fully commandeered by the Guidance and poured into the Sacrificial Pool, considered as a service fee for personal intervention.

As the Pain Imprint was interfacing and merging with the Fourth Star Vein Slot along the spine, the Challenger Tips echoed in the minds of the two players, as well as across all channels:

[Challenger Tips (all channels): Congratulations to the players Hit by Me is a Dog, I Beat a Dog, for completing the Hidden Task and receiving the reward: Star Vein Slot Level +1.]

[Challenger Tips (all channels): Congratulations to the players Hit by Me is a Dog, I Beat a Dog, for completing the Hidden Task and obtaining a special reward: Suffering Soul.]

[Suffering (Special Life Soul)]:

Initial Level: 1 (0/10)

Hint: The Suffering Soul is a special Life Soul that cannot increase its power through Evolution Points obtained by hunting.

Life Soul Characteristic: Enduring pain can increase the experience of the Suffering Soul, and pain feedback can be released through the spiritual tentacles manifesting the Touch of Pain, inflicting a spiritual shock on the touched targets, causing double spiritual strikes (specific effects affected by the Life Soul Level, the target’s Spiritual Strength, and the target’s willpower strength; higher Life Soul Levels lead to higher damage from double strikes, higher Spiritual Strength reduces damage from spiritual shock, stronger willpower reduces damage from pain feedback).

Guidance suggests: Adjusting (increasing) pain sensitivity feedback can increase the speed of Life Soul experience acquisition.

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The sudden all-channel tips.

Made the players in the Emperor Tomb Mountain Range, as well as those in the Colorful Mist Coast Region, buzz with shock.

They swarmed different channels with "???", all wanting to know exactly what had happened.

But from the all-channel tip information’s description of the Hidden Task and the Special Life Soul, they could guess that another couple of damned lucky players had gotten a treasure.

After the flood of question marks, wishes and greetings from players of the same faction came streaming in.

After summarizing the myriad of comments, the general translation is: You guys really deserve to die!