Chapter 1292: Chapter 339: Value of Existence, Return of the Evil Eye

Primordial Altar.

Qi Sheng’s consciousness scanned over the Emperor Tomb Mountain Range.

He paid close attention to the experiences of the Earth Thought Evil Spirit all along.

A strand of Avatar from Guidance also monitored it nonstop, 24/7.

This time, the Earth Thought Evil Spirit’s encounter wasn’t caused by recklessness, but more due to the limitations of the Black Tide System itself.

This warfare logic, based on devouring as its creed, teaches Evil Spirits to measure strength by force, never caring about unknown factors beyond the current context.

The Perception of the Evil Eye can accurately scan the current enemy’s energy levels, warfare modes, system structures, etc.

It can even assist Evil Spirit Warriors in accurately deducing the opponent’s tactical logic.

But these deductions are ultimately based on current information.

If the current information predicts they cannot be defeated, the Earth Thought Evil Spirit will also retreat.

For instance, when the Earth Thought Evil Spirit, newly emerged, faced the Giant Domain amidst the Golden Ocean’s numerous giant beasts, it decisively chose to avoid the confrontation after preliminary inspections.

But this time, the situation was different.

The Holy Hall Guards hidden behind the Monument Abyss Clan are "unknown factors" completely beyond the limits of Evil Eye Perception.

No matter how powerful Evil Eye’s computing power is, it cannot capture any unknown factors that have no link to the information provided by the current scene.

Unless there is more detailed investigation provided by Guidance’s Decomposition ability.

But the Earth Thought Evil Spirit clearly lacked this.

This means the Earth Thought Evil Spirit’s warfare mode always harbors a layer of unknown risk.

This issue is not unique to the Black Tide System; in Monster World, besides players, and a few forces with foreknowledge-level abilities, most forces face similar risks.

The Black Tide Army’s risks in this regard are particularly severe.

As a natural disaster that devours everything, they are always the aggressors.

Evil Spirit Warriors under the Black Tide System are all forces within the devouring flood.

Expansion, devouring, growth, this is a cycle within the Black Tide System, inherently unable to avoid warfare.

Among forces players have contacted, the only one that managed to avoid risks completely was the Jile Clan under the rule of the Lord of Jile.

Years of accumulated experience allowed the Lord of Jile to realize one core issue.

Every seemingly weak opponent might hide formidable and unpredictable war powers.

Instead of facing risks in battle, it was better to decisively choose to flee.

This survival experience enabled the Lord of Jile to perfectly avoid all risks, even if doing so impacted developments of the Jile Clan, leading to real resource losses.

This is the core reason why the Lord of Jile continues to thrive in the Monster World despite the passage of ages.

However, the Black Tide System destined the Earth Thought Evil Spirit not to walk the path of the Lord of Jile.

The survival method’s core logic is: upon encountering an opponent, whether they can be defeated or not, flee first to avoid potential risks.

Applying this issue to the Earth Thought Evil Spirit and other Evil Spirit Warriors, it morphs into: no battle here, no battle there—what, then, is my existential purpose?

Backing down in situations of advantage, because of the inability to ascertain unknown risks, entirely negates the existence of Evil Spirit Warriors.

Extreme caution akin to the Lord of Jile’s approach fundamentally contraindicates their philosophy and system.

Therefore, facing the unknown is an inherent potential risk that Evil Spirit Warriors under the Black Tide System must bear.

If they don’t bear it, development will barely advance.

Thus, the death risk encountered by the Earth Thought Evil Spirit essentially represents environmental risk, an inevitable result of clashes between the Black Tide System and various forces in the Monster World.

The core logic can be summarized in one sentence: either evolve through devour-warfare accepting risks or stagnate in retreat.

In this battle, the Earth Thought Evil Spirit faced the unknown risk.

Determining current readiness for battle already constituted an executable answer.

Yet the result was the appearance of an enemy beyond Evil Eye computing limits, crushing the Black Tide under Earth Thought Evil Spirit’s control with overwhelming force.

As for player involvement, Qi Sheng anticipated it entirely.

Because Guidance’s information confirms the Star Network will soon intervene in this matter.

Switching the perspective to Star Network makes the reason why it intervenes easily understood.

Guidance analyzed Star Network’s thought process and its logical deductions.

Its choice to intervene in this matter relates to two key issues.

The first issue is, why is the Earth Thought Evil Spirit still alive?

Based on past wars, Star Network noticed that in wars with significant threats or those where players can directly extract benefits, there was always a prompt for full-player task participation.

For instance, when Skyfire Dharma King descended with the Skyfire Clan, it triggered a full-play task.

Two years ago, the Evil Spirit Warriors landed on the island northward from the Colorful Mist Coast, also triggering full tasks, urging all players to set sail participating in the hunt, snuffing them out while in the cradle.

There are numerous other similar full-play tasks.

Yet the Earth Thought Evil Spirit is an exception.

Even when it was being crushed overwhelmingly by the Civilization Army, with players free to grab a share, still no full-play task emerged.

This proves that perhaps the Earth Thought Evil Spirit holds value in the eyes of the High-dimensional God overseeing players.

The second issue is what is the value of the Earth Thought Evil Spirit.

This issue, upon shallow analysis, reveals that the Emperor Tomb Mountain Range under Earth Thought Evil Spirit’s control is a unique scene capable of continuously producing benefit.

It has fostered the Divine Hall, along with numerous top guilds and elite players.

It can be regarded as the advanced version of Ah Le Training Camp: a strong incubator pool.