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Chapter 81 - 71: Black Tide Attacks, Peerless Lawn Mowing (Fourth Update)_3

Chapter 81: Chapter 71: Black Tide Attacks, Peerless Lawn Mowing (Fourth Update)_3

And the Challenger System he created perfectly countered this aspect.

After a player dies, the flesh, material, and energy that constitute the body will be extracted by the Superdimension that master the All Things Extraction Rule, and then reshaped in Imperial Tomb Village through the Power of Space of Yan Ming.

No matter how many players the Evil Spirit kills, it can’t extract even a bit of growth energy.

But the Evil Spirits killed by the players become the nutrients for the players’ growth.

In the first collision between the player’s natural disaster and the Black Tide’s, the players proved through practice that his initial setup was completely feasible.

As the players switched on their unparalleled grass-cutting mode, Qi Sheng saw the sacrificial power earnings in his eyes growing rapidly.

Giving the players 10% more feedback didn’t reduce his earnings at all; on the contrary, his time-split earnings have multiplied.

The players kill to their content, he earns to his fill.

The Black Tide Army led by the Earth Thought Evil Spirit might strut its stuff in other low-intensity areas, after all, the creatures in those areas, facing the rampaging Evil Spirits, will eventually exhaust their strength, and once they fall, they become nutrients for the Black Tide to grow itself.

And the Evil Spirits bred by the Black Tide will rejoin the Black Tide as energy that constituted their life forms upon death, with very low loss, and can soon regroup to form new Evil Life, endlessly killable.

But the two terrifying traits of the Black Tide pose no threat in front of the Player Corps.

When a player dies, Qi Sheng’s loss of earnings is zero, and when a player kills an Evil Spirit, they extract the dead Evil Spirit’s energy, convert it into evolution points, and sacrificial power, and merge it into the player’s body.

In battle, the players become stronger while the strength of the Black Tide is continuously being sapped.

The Black Tide’s natural disaster, which is utterly terrifying in the eyes of other forces, is in Qi Sheng’s view, completely a nutrient for the players’ growth.

The Black Tide is still rampaging, and in less than 1 hour, the number of players online has dropped by half, and the remaining players have all entered a state of exhaustion, with depleted Qi-Blood or exhausted spiritual power.

But Qi Sheng doesn’t care at all.

Even if the Black Tide sweeps across the entire Emperor Tomb Mountain Range, it cannot affect Imperial Tomb Village that stands apart from the world’s barriers.

In the battle against the Black Tide, the Player Corps will eventually achieve the final victory through a process of attrition.

Just as Qi Sheng was joyous over the surge in earnings, the Earth Thought Evil Spirit atop the Evil Eye Tower had already sensed that something was amiss.

"Evil Eye, why can’t these mysterious creatures be decomposed and absorbed by the Black Tide after death, and why can’t the Evil Beings bred by the Black Tide rejoin it when killed by these mysterious creatures?"

Faced with the inquiry, the Evil Eye floating above its head remained silent for a long time before speaking:

"I can’t find any information on this race from the information shared with me by the other nodes; I can’t determine the specific cause. Maybe you can try to capture one and bring it back, and I can use memory reading to find the reason."

"Good." The Earth Thought Evil Spirit nodded immediately, then began to control the Black Tide to take action.

...

Near Stormwave Lagoon.

"I can’t kill anymore, I’m so tired my legs are trembling, how about you?" Zou Feng said and turned his head to look at his teammates.

But where were the teammates to be found? The sight of rampaging Evil Spirits completely obscured them.

Calling up the squad voice channel, he resolved the confusion in his mind.

The squad voice channel showed that all his teammates had entered the Death Cooldown, which is why he never heard their voices, calling for them but receiving no response.

Glancing at his sacrificial power balance, he found that unbeknownst to him, he had actually earned more than 200 points of sacrificial power gain.

"Awesome!"

Facing the Evil Spirits attacking from all directions, Zou Feng gripped the Shattering Blade in his hands, determined to kill as many Evil Lives as possible before entering his Death Cooldown.

In the midst of battle, Zou Feng couldn’t help but marvel at the game’s realism.

The muscle soreness and even thirst that came with continuous combat were all too real sensory feedback that affected his combat ability, not just the changing numbers on his health bar.

Soon after, Zou Feng fought until he was exhausted, collapsing on the ground gasping for air, letting his body be submerged by the Evil Lives:

"No strength left, logging off."

But to Zou Feng’s surprise, the Evil Lives did not gnaw at his body; instead, the nearby Evil Spirits lifted him up and moved rapidly towards the depths of the Black Tide, with all the encountered Evil Lives actively avoiding him, clearing a path for him.

"Where is this going?" Zou Feng was instantly confused.

Too exhausted to struggle and not wanting to know the reason, he immediately called up the function panel to try to log off.

However, due to the severe jolting, the Teleportation Array could not be generated within Zou Feng’s player body, with every attempt to start the Array being disrupted, and a game prompt sounded in his mind:

[Challenger Tips: You are in a state of severe jolting and cannot initiate log-off teleportation.]

"Forget it." Realizing he could not log off directly, Zou Feng simply lay on the Evil Spirit and started browsing the forums for news.

"Holy shit, a Black Armored Snake over ten meters long, Monster Stream is this fierce!"

Watching a video clip on a popular post, Zou Feng couldn’t help exclaiming. In the footage, the huge Black Armored Snake rampaged through the Evil Spirit horde, with each roll or swing of its tail killing a swath of Evil Lives.

As time passed, Zou Feng logged out of the forum to check on his situation and found himself still moving forward amidst the jolting.

Having recovered some physical strength, he didn’t rush to take action, choosing instead to continue lying on the Evil Spirit.

The reason he didn’t resist was that he felt he might have triggered some Hidden Task, and this unknown journey might bring him substantial rewards.

Already, many players had proven that opportunities abound in the Monster World.

For instance, there was a player who accidentally picked up a machine and made a fortune of 38,000 sacrificial power points. When he saw the post, his eyes turned red with envy, cursing his luck that it wasn’t him who encountered such fortune.

This unexpected encounter could just be such an opportunity.

Feeling bored, he continued to browse forum news to pass the time, occasionally exclaiming at the spectacular performance of a player fighting against an Evil Spirit.

After an unknown amount of time, the jolting feeling suddenly ceased.

A lifting force emerged from below, propelling him rapidly upward.

Exiting the forum function, Zou Feng was flung by the Evil Spirit onto a Tower platform, landing hard on the solid black stone slab with a grunt.

Looking up, he was startled by the fierce-looking Earth Thought Evil Spirit in front of him.

Through analyzing the information, he was surprised to find that this was the very Evil Spirit Warrior who had given the God of Wealth a beating.

He had also participated in that battle, and if it hadn’t been for their desperate resistance, the God of Wealth would have had his seven days over.

While he was puzzled about his situation, several black tentacles shot out from the giant eye on top of the Earth Thought Evil Spirit’s head, connecting with his skull, and two of them pierced into his temples, bringing intense pain.

What followed was a strong dizzying sensation, feeling the world spinning around him, his vision becoming blurry.