Immortal in Horror Game: She is the Fortune Teller!-Chapter 144 - 141: Awakening Beastification

Ma Qi captured a screenshot from the game instance: "And this Sea God, you all need to be careful. Especially you, Josh. Next time you encounter these kinds of monsters with mental pollution attributes, don’t use Super Sensing to avoid getting trapped by your own skills."

Josh nodded, about to speak when his eyes caught the image of the Sea God, raising an eyebrow curiously: "Wait a minute, is this the Sea God?"

The image Ma Qi captured seemed to be a replay of their game instance, but the Sea God’s face in the picture was entirely different from what she had seen.

The Sea God she saw in the instance was clearly the Mermaid King. The Mermaid King’s face was almost identical to Yuze’s, which was why she mistook Yuze for someone else the first time she met him and got in the wrong car.

However, the Sea God in Ma Qi’s screenshot didn’t have that kind of face at all.

This resurrected Sea God in the image had a face with wide cheeks and nose, appearing righteous and dignified. Most importantly... it was the face of an absolute stranger.

Completely unrelated to the Mermaid King.

So her guess in the instance was correct, the Sea God she saw, including the Mermaid King, was different from what others saw!

Josh frowned and asked, "Coach, why would NPCs from other instances come to a new instance with save data memory to find me? Is this normal?"

Ma Qi reassured her by patting her shoulder: "Don’t worry, when you awakened the Mermaid King, we reported the situation to the game officials. They replied it was a system bug and it’s being fixed. This won’t happen again, so rest assured."

Yet Josh couldn’t relax. She felt this kind of thing might happen a second, third time.

Moreover, the Mermaid King’s eyes were also strange, somehow like him, but sometimes not.

A very contradictory feeling.

The content to review wasn’t much, basically just that.

Ma Qi didn’t have the heart to keep them, so after briefly going over the issues, he let them go back to their rooms to sleep.

*

The following week.

Josh finally experienced what was called hellish extra training.

Ma Qi scheduled a whole bunch of solo practice sessions for her.

This was a personal competition training mode, with only solo players in the instance, and it was a mutual combat mode.

In other words, there was no suspense, no instance storyline, pure arena-style fighting.

The time flow rate in this type of solo instance was different from the outside world.

Josh battled inside for several hours, while only an hour passed outside.

She inexplicably felt the frustration of finally leveling up to max, only to be knocked back to the newbie village to start gathering equipment from level one.

Her master trained her the same way back in the day, throwing her into secret realms to clear eighteen in a row, a feat that shocked the entire cultivation world.

Praised as a novice role model, a cultivation prodigy, diligent and hardworking, heaven rewards diligence.

Driven by the desire to survive, either make it out of the secret realm alive or die with no one to retrieve the body...

But thankfully, in solo instances, for each fight won, the first place gets 30 attribute points, second place 15 points, and third place 5 points.

This is an excellent training method for quickly accumulating combat power, which is how Yuze and Rob built their high battle power through hellish training.

A week of torment, she gained 420 attribute points, reaching the standard required by her coach, so she could finally rest.

Fortunately, every night Yuze brought her snacks, or she felt she would have wasted away.

But in solo battles, only the top three can earn attribute points. If you’re fourth or lower and don’t place, it’s like having shown up for nothing.

Once you manage to place in the top three, the time cost to gain attributes in the solo battle is much lower than outside.

However, solo battles are only for accumulating combat experience and gaining attribute points.

To obtain more items and skills, team battles are necessary.

Moreover, only team battles are included in the "God Creation Game" competition.

Josh finally had some downtime and wasted no time, locking herself in her room, quickly starting her cultivation.

Originally, her time out of the instance was limited.

But Ma Qi meant well, and compared to other teammates who easily hit eight or nine thousand, her battle power was indeed too weak. She diligently practiced extra without complaint.

It’s just that her cultivation speed would be much slower.

But there’s no helping that.

Since she benefited from their convenience to cultivate on Central Star, keeping up with the team’s pace without falling behind is her duty.

Josh glanced at the late-night snacks she had just finished on the table. Yuze had brought her small wontons, milk, fruit, and two fried eggs with chicken breast, all eaten.

She burped contentedly, closed her eyes, and promptly resumed cultivation.

Though the spiritual energy on Central Star wasn’t extremely dense, it was for her alone to use, so it was sufficient.

The surrounding spiritual energy continually drew toward her.

She was born with a Void Spirit Body, her Spirit Root had no attributes, and various attributes of spiritual power like metal, wood, water, fire, earth, lightning, and wind could all be utilized by her.

This was also why her master trained her so rigorously.

For those who achieve success too easily, it’s often challenging to develop a resilient temperament.

Her master feared her success would come too easily, making it difficult to appreciate.

Her speed of cultivation had always been faster than other senior brothers and sisters since childhood. She was indeed somewhat proud and overconfident in the matter of cultivation.

So in the end, all her senior brothers, sisters, and master ascended, leaving her alone as the unlucky one, failing at each tribulation, knocked back each time. The heavens only sent her four words, "unstable temperament."

She was used to being in control, occasionally carrying a bit of pride and confidence in her actions, often resulting in situations where she could have achieved full marks, she only scored nine.

Josh steadied her mind, patiently channeling the surrounding spiritual power into her body, directing it into her inner core, and then using the core to guide the power through all her meridians.

She wondered if it was her illusion, but she felt something in her Spiritual Sea was stirring, ready to burst forth as the power flowed through.

It was like casting a fishing line, with something below eager to take the bait.

Josh patiently continued circulating the spiritual power.

Cracks seemed to appear in her inner core.

She was overjoyed but quickly steadied herself, maintaining calm, continuing to guide the spiritual energy into her body, channeling it into her inner core.

Suddenly, with a crack, the surface of her inner core split open, and the ash-colored shell shattered like the clay covering on a beggar’s chicken.

A white and pink inner core immediately radiated brilliant light, hungrily absorbing the surrounding spiritual energy.

Suddenly, the core felt as if guided, channeling all the spiritual energy in her body in one direction.

She only felt a flash of white light in her mind, with a boom, a tiny white, powdery spider emerged from the well of her Spiritual Sea, swiftly consuming all the spiritual energy.

Josh suddenly opened her eyes, which were large and bright, now filled with intense white light, like two 5000-watt light bulbs illuminating the entire room.

Her hands were brimming with power, with an irresistible urge to extend infinitely into the distance.