Chapter 177: Chapter 140: Asura Milestones

Boom!

At the moment Pharmacist’s Wish thrust her spear, a fierce tiger shadow leapt from her arm guard, entwining the spear shaft and erupting together!

The earth was pierced by the spear of Pharmacist’s Wish, causing soil to churn and dust to billow as if there had been an explosion.

Ye Kai wasn’t dead, but half of his body was dripping with blood, his left hand nearly severed, and a crescent-shaped bloody hole appeared on his left shoulder.

Facing Pharmacist’s Wish’s leaping thrust, even though Ye Kai reacted to dodge in time, it was futile as Pharmacist’s Wish could change direction mid-air using a secret technique. Avoiding her was useless—especially since this attack wasn’t just a simple thrust, but a ranged strike accompanied by a fierce tiger shadow.

"How can you still move?" Ye Kai gasped with blood, "The poison has spread to your face; by now you should feel dizzy, your tongue numb, and your abdomen with agonizing pain as if your intestines are piercing through——you have no reason to still be moving!"

Yan Qing observed and found Pharmacist’s Wish’s face covered with green veins and her lips ashen white, evident signs of deep poisoning.

"That thief just said the same, ’You’re doomed,’ ’You’ll beg me soon enough,’ ’Why haven’t you fallen yet’... You Demon Dao thieves are truly arrogant and ignorant," Pharmacist’s Wish said calmly, "If that is your only dying statement, then you can die."

"Wait, I, I have secret techniques for refining artifacts!"

Ye Kai quickly said, "I can teach you how to refine powerful Demonic Path Tokens, and it’s not troublesome! If you just do as I say, it requires killing around eight hundred people!"

Pharmacist’s Wish halted, seemingly considering, "What else?"

Ye Kai felt joy within, ignoring Rabbit Heroine for now, Pharmacist’s Wish was clearly deeply poisoned; if stalled a bit more, she might directly die from the poison, "You are heading to Shu Dao Mountain, right? I’m well-acquainted with Prajna, I can introduce you to him! Prajna is one of the three Great Guardians of the Secret Realm, if you want to enter, you must join under the Great Guardian——"

With a sudden roar of thunder, Pharmacist’s Wish abruptly lunged at Ye Kai.

But Ye Kai was prepared; even while speaking, he never let his guard down, immediately dodging the Soul-Breaking Spear.

Since negotiation couldn’t save his life, he could only flee as best as he could, relying on his poison palm and the forest terrain, he didn’t lack hope, possibly even counter-killing one of them——

Clang.

Along with the clear sound of a sword, the Seven-Step Zen precisely pierced Ye Kai’s throat.

He stared wide-eyed at the small girl in front of him, his face showing an expression of sudden realization. No wonder the poisoned female envoy paused to negotiate with him; she was waiting for this little girl to approach him from his blind spot!

He was foolishly waiting for the opponent’s poison to act, while the opponent was patiently awaiting his death!

"You have killed ’Hundred Poison Hands Ye Kai’.

"You have killed a messenger with Slaughter Value exceeding 100 points."

"Based on your level, you receive a 10% + 10 point Colorless Slaughter Value reward."

"Your current Colorless Slaughter Value is 45 points."

"Based on your level, you may receive the following milestone information in the Asura system."

"Enemy of Asura: You have killed ten Asura (1/10)."

"Colorless Asura: You have acquired over 100 points of Colorless Slaughter Value (45/100).

"Blood-colored Asura: You have acquired over 100 points of Blood-colored Slaughter Value (0/100).

"Indistinguishable between Right and Wrong: You have reduced 1000 points of Blood-colored Slaughter Value (0/1000).

"An Eye for an Eye: You, as a Blood-colored Asura, have killed ten Blood-colored Asura (0/10).

"Incorrigible: You, as a Blood-colored Asura, have died ten times (0/10).

"Increase level or unlock milestones to obtain more milestone information."

Yan Qing had been puzzled before; whether it was Ye Si, Jiang Shi, or Rabbit Heroine, they’d killed plenty, but none had triggered the red name system. He thought combat between small accounts and locals might not be protected by the system.

Now, upon seeing the Slaughter Value introduction, he realized the game’s judgment on red names was exceedingly stringent.

Firstly, Slaughter Value is divided into Colorless and Blood-colored. Colorless is acquired by killing Blood-colored Asura, recognized by the game as PvP content, thus not causing a red name; Blood-colored is acquired when players kill non-Asura players, exceeding 100 making the player’s name and display icon turn red, appearing as enemy units to normal players.

Secondly, Blood-colored Slaughter Value rapidly dissipates over time, and players can reduce it by dungeon raiding; only upon reaching one hundred does the dissipation rate become slow.

If a player kills several people a day or spars infrequently over a month, their Slaughter Value rarely exceeds single digits. After all, feeling annoyed and fighting in a game is reasonable, the game permits players to fight within a reasonable scope.

Thus ordinary messengers in this world find it hard to go red; how many people would they kill in a day? Ten or eight? Sleep and the Blood-colored Slaughter Value largely dissipates.

Outside of the Asura Battlefield, acquiring a large amount of Blood-colored Slaughter Value to quickly reach one hundred can only be done by continuously killing in large numbers.

Note that Slaughter Value is linked to level difference. For instance, a Level 20 can acquire about 3 Slaughter Value from killing another Level 20, whereas killing a Level 1 might not even grant 0.5.

Even in reality, those who can become red names in-game are like Three-Season Rice, players who specialize in killing small accounts. Fundamentally, the game does not promote acquiring Blood-colored Slaughter Value outside of the battlefield, though the administration does allow players to choose this path.

Other than ordinary folks, this world has many, with only millions online at peak levels in ’Messenger.’ Just a large Military Town in the Zhou Kingdom could nurture a population in the millions.

Would Ye Kai and Chen Afu really target these defenseless ordinary people, focusing solely on messengers to farm Slaughter Value? Impossible.

Yan Qing previously thought the so-called righteousness and Demon Dao were merely divisions of strength and weakness; after all, the righteous encountered in Mansu Forest Land were just conniving scum as well? But if all Demonic Paths are red name monsters like Ye Kai, then the Court truly embodies righteousness—when competing for the last place, simply being not as bad makes you the champion.

Places with hordes of red name monsters are indeed Demon Path Evil Lands.

As for the benefits of becoming a Blood-colored Asura, Ye Kai’s gloves say it all.

"Hundred Poison Silk Hand (Asura)"

"Grade: Third-Turn Rare"

"Durability: 63/150"

"Equip Requirement: 20 Qi Blood, 10 Divine Soul"

"Equip Requirement: Slaughter Value exceeding 100 points, Ye Kai specific"

"Base Attack: 33~53 points"

"Effect: Cotton Hand: You can use this token to parry and deflect melee attacks, reducing at least 15% damage; each parry costs 1~3 durability points."

"Effect: Purple Luo Poison Smoke: You can strike from a distance of five meters, width of three meters with the Purple Smoke Screen, infiltrate flesh bodies dealing 5 poison damage, poison damage increases over time. Enemies hit or staying in the smoke screen for one second accumulate poison layers, each layer lasts five seconds, can infinitely stack. Initiating Purple Luo Poison requires spending 3 spirit power. This effect penetrates most defensive barriers; poisoning decreases restoration item effects by 70% and increases poison duration by two seconds."

"Evaluation: Poison smoke is merely an aid, fists are true power."

Asura Token!

Ignoring defensive barriers, directly attacking the messenger!

Even though expected, when seeing the detailed attributes of Hundred Poison Silk Hand, Yan Qing couldn’t help feeling tempted. Ignoring defensive barriers is effectively true damage most of the time; if Bingzi Pepper Forest transformed into an Asura Token, perhaps overturning Foundation Establishment becomes possible.