Monsters Are Coming
Chapter 71 - 66 Version 1.3 Update

Chapter 71: Chapter 66 Version 1.3 Update

Imperial Tomb Village, Primordial Altar.

Qi Sheng stood on the altar, with a torrent of player-generated information quickly passing through his mind, in search of content and direction for the next update.

Guidance remained floating by his side throughout.

After these days of experience, the fourth batch of nascent players had gradually adapted to the difficulty of the waning moon scenarios.

Strategy posts left by the first few batches of players on the forums provided quite a lot of help for the nascent players to understand Monster World.

Especially the Monster and Evil Spirit Atlas and Spirit Plant and Spiritual Ore Atlas produced by the Exploration Faction player Lu Xing, which significantly aided new players entering the game.

It clarified for them the general distribution of Evil Life on the map, as well as the range of Hunting Levels.

This gave Qi Sheng inspiration.

He felt that a similar atlas function could be added to the game’s map feature, replacing the rudimentary atlas created by Lu Xing, to facilitate players’ exploration of Monster World.

As for Lu Xing’s contribution to creating the atlas, he decided to preserve it.

In the future, any monster, evil spirit, spirit plant, or spiritual ore recorded in the atlas would be tagged with a line of text such as [Discoverer: XXX], a mark that would be archived permanently.

Furthermore, Qi Sheng felt that the initial basic feature settings could be further perfected.

At the current stage, the player’s attribute panel displayed limited content, and many details were not accessible to players.

Take the game panel of Li Zheng, the first player, as an example:

[Challenger Name: Game Working Party]:

Main Form: human form

Body Refining Level: 3 (Perfect inheritance of Life Soul attribute count: 3)

Star Vein Inlay Level: 4 (Able to inlay four different Monster Life Souls):

No.1 Embedding Position, Black Armored Snake Life Soul Lv24 (trait: Fierce Poison)

No.2 Embedding Position, Power Barbarian Lv13 (trait: Barbaric Force)

...

Clicking an embedded Life Soul will display the specific attribute values.

However, the attribute panel does not show the specific attributes of the Main Form once the Body Refining Level is met and the two attributes are perfectly inherited.

This issue has already been raised by players on the forums, and Qi Sheng, taking player suggestions, decided to add the display of inherited attributes on the Main Form to the attribute panel.

Next is adding the "Hunger Level" value in the attribute panel.

Essentially, Monster World is not a game; it simply cloaks itself in the concept of a game to recruit players. Hence, players will also experience hunger and fatigue in the game, requiring them to replenish their bodies by purchasing food from the in-game store.

Players could only judge their hunger through bodily sensations.

With the addition of Hunger Level functionality, one can more clearly observe the hunger level changes.

Although this feature might seem quite superfluous and many players don’t need to replenish their bodies with food at all, such as those in Bone Fire Form, which doesn’t have a Hunger Level setting—only flesh life suffers from this worry.

But in the future, a large number of players will choose to embed multiple Life Souls in their Main Form, and their main exploration would mostly be in human form. This setting is intended to offer players a better gaming experience.

Having these ideas, he immediately directed Guidance to arrange it.

Half an hour later, a system update notification resounded in the minds of all players:

[Challenger Tips (All Channels): The game is about to undergo a 1.3 version update and maintenance. The content of this update is as follows]:

Update Content 1:

After the update, the forum function list will include the Monster Encyclopedia, Evil Spirit Atlas, Spirit Plant Atlas, and Spirit Ore Atlas—four major atlas functions. Discoveries analyzed by players will be recorded in the corresponding atlas category and can be viewed at any time (atlas information is shared with all players).

Update Content 2: An additional "Details" function will be implemented on the map. After players click on a region’s details on the map, they can see the recorded information of evil spirits, monsters, spirit plants, and spiritual ores of that region. This function is also synchronized with the real-time updates of the four major atlases.

Update Content 3: A new Hunger Level attribute will be added, which can be directly viewed through the main attribute panel.

Update Content 4: A new feature to display Main Form attributes is added. Players can directly view the strength of various attributes after inheriting a Monster Life Soul through the main attribute panel.

（Tip: This update is an online update mode, and players don’t need to log off and wait.）

After the update prompt, the Challenger System introduced new setting Runes, circling around Qi Sheng like dancing characters.

With a flick of his hand, the Challenger System disappeared, and Qi Sheng switched to the player’s perspective.

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After the update ended, the hottest topic on the forums was the map feature.

Compared with the previous map, the current map has added a very practical feature.

When players focus their gaze on a certain area of the map, a "Detailed Introduction" mark will pop up above that area.

Take the Ancient Battlefield as an example.

After players focus on the Ancient Battlefield, they can click on the Detailed Introduction mark that appears, and a detail box will unfold on the map, showing a miniature landscape of the Ancient Battlefield with introduction text at the bottom.

On the right side of the attached box are selectable Atlas categories.

Clicking will allow you to view the Evil Spirits, Monsters, Spirit Plants, and Spiritual Ore discovered in this map.

For example, clicking on the Curse Soldier in the Evil Spirit Atlas will display a detailed introduction, approximate distribution area, average Hunting Level, and other content.

This function received unanimous praise from players after its release.

Even players who usually curse the Moon Eclipse Clan on forums gave rare praise, admitting that this time the Moon Eclipse Clan really considered the player experience, but they still insist that the Moon Eclipse Clan’s ugly face of hunger marketing hasn’t changed, and that truly considering the player experience would mean distributing game access en masse, as the behavior of hunger marketing is a great sin.

Qi Sheng was indifferent to these remarks.

After all, the players are cursing the Moon Eclipse Clan, what does that have to do with him, Emperor Zhao.

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hours after the version 1.3 update ended.

Blood-Colored Plain.

After killing the Angry Clamp, Lu Xing sat on the ground gasping for breath.

He glanced at his attribute panel; his Eagle-Headed Demon Level had reached 15.

Summoning the live streaming interface, the comment section continued to tell inspirational stories, but these comments could no longer shake his own thoughts.

"I’m not going, I’ll take on the coward butterfly when I’m level 25."

Browsing the comments, Lu Xing decisively shook his head, refusing the live stream audience’s proposals to fight the Qi Die again.

"You say level 25 is too strong, and the Qi Die will run? Let it run, if it runs, that counts as my win."

"How can it not count as my win if it runs? Running away proves it got scared facing me, so naturally, I’ve won."

Facing the provocations of the live streaming audience, Lu Xing’s thoughts remained unshaken.

Just then, a comment caught his attention:

Weapon Master: Bro, you don’t have to tire yourself like this. Just buy a bunch of Spiritual Bombs to challenge the Qi Die, pull out the bombs and detonate them close-by, a one-hit kill, the process is relaxed and joyful, why bother leveling with so much effort?

Lu Xing of course knew about the Spiritual Bombs mentioned in the comment.

The player who came up with this idea he was sure was a member of the Arms Merchant Guild, characterized by promoting custom weapons everywhere.

But to Lu Xing, this idea seemed actually feasible.

He did not participate in the final battle of Purifying Dark Cave, but he watched the replay video on the forum and witnessed the power of the Spiritual Bomb.

Multiple Spiritual Bombs detonating simultaneously could be unstoppable even by a level 25 Black Armored Soldier; in theory, it could indeed easily kill the coward butterfly.

His heart pounding, an idea emerged in Lu Xing’s mind:

Why not give it a try?