Monsters Are Coming-Chapter 1078 - 291: The Answer Is About to Emerge
In the valley, the Evil Wind collided against the jagged rock walls.
Whipping up finely ground sand and stones, it densely pounded Li Zheng and the others.
Leaving marks of black and blood color on their skin.
The sounds of wailing like slaughtered pigs echoed one after another, as if performing a symphony of suffering.
The conductor, dubbed a "beast" by the other reserve students, was the Liver Emperor Group players.
At this moment, Liver Emperor Group members who had already shared the pain with their good brothers, showed expressions of agony yet felt at ease inside.
"Brother Li, honestly, I feel like I'm conducting a concert. Whichever side I want the tune to rise, it will. How about we try to perform a piece?" Chi Tu said in the team chat channel.
"Beast (x9)."
Li Zheng and Liver Emperor Group players all expressed their rebuke towards Chi Tu's idea.
But jokes are jokes; the harm brought by the Evil Wind was real. They would rather choose to die themselves than let their brothers take the risk.
They could respawn in Imperial Tomb Village, but their brothers had only one life.
This continuous damage wouldn't affect their good brothers in the short term, but over time, something bad would happen.
This is why they ultimately chose to embed Scattered Arrow to disperse the damage.
During this time, they also took big gulps of air.
White streams gathered at their mouths, being filtered and purified, then surged as pure Life Energy and Spiritual Energy into their bodies.
And then, through Life Connection, they transferred it to their fellow brothers who were also enduring suffering, ensuring their life safety.
So, essentially, they only transmitted the pain.
At this moment, Li Zheng and Liver Emperor Group players once again felt the beauty of being players.
The core of Evil Wind Body Refining training, aside from testing Willpower, also required them to learn how to extract energy needed to maintain body operation in a murky and thin environment.
Achieving this is extremely challenging.
The process of enduring continuous pain makes it difficult to concentrate.
But to separate pure energy from murky, thin air, they need to focus completely, and any slight mistake would remix the separated energy.
But things were different for the players.
Since the server opening, the Essence Devourer, still at version T0 Level, was like using cheats here.
The passive trait granted by the Lifeforce Inhalation on players is bound to breathing, with each breath possessing the food inhalation's automatic filtration and gathering effect.
Evil Qi is a double attack with physical and spiritual damage.
The trait effect of Essence Devourer is to restore the life state and spiritual power state, perfectly neutralizing the killing power brought by Evil Qi.
Most importantly, the killing power of Evil Qi isn't strong; otherwise, Mo Dun wouldn't have set here as an assessment point.
And the recovery effect of Essence Devourer isn't particularly strong either, but it still suppresses Evil Qi.
Therefore, the trait effect of Essence Devourer perfectly countered the damage brought by Evil Qi, except the pain.
But to Li Zheng and Liver Emperor Group players, pain is no longer an issue; now, it's all endured by the training camp brothers, and they have utterly liberated themselves.
Still, in appearance, they have to act as if they're enduring immense suffering.
When the brothers wailed, they had to scream a few phrases along.
If they suddenly went silent, it would surely raise suspicion among the brothers.
The act must be complete.
"Oh my, this Evil Wind is tearing my bones apart, killing me with pain."
"Feels like my skin is being scraped away, hurting to the point of turning black before my eyes."
"Hiss~ Hiss~ Ha~ Damn."
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Though they felt no pain at all, the volume of screaming from Liver Emperor Group players remained the loudest in the venue.
Their theatrical performance made Long Gen's mouth twitch, causing him to roar again, urging them not to shout and to try enduring.
This is also the aspect which Li Zheng and Liver Emperor Group players admire most about Long Gen.
Even when the endured pain has significantly increased, Long Gen remained silent, truly a brave man among brave men.
"Speaking of which... I discovered something strange." Just then, Ghost Pupil raised his head, revealing a painful face with bulging veins on his forehead, and continued with a hoarse voice:
"I feel... there's a stream of pure Life Energy and Spiritual Energy... continuously pouring into my body, though it's minimal... but I don't understand where this energy is coming from."
"So you also have this situation; me too." Domain City Clan member raised his head in confusion at this moment.
"It turns out you all felt it too; I have it on me as well." Li Zheng decisively connected, showing an expression of utter confusion.
"Me too."
"I have it on me too."
Liver Emperor Group players, along with other students, responded one by one, indicating it happened to them too.
But no one knew the answer to this question.
Rule Power is something beyond the training camp brothers' comprehension, even analytical paths of energy flow were unattainable.
As time passed, Li Zheng and the brothers from Liver Emperor Group started browsing dramas on forums to kill time.
The screams grew increasingly perfunctory, occasionally changing into laughter when distracted by a post on the forum.
For example, when Chi Tu was browsing the forum, he kept an eye on the Explorer's live broadcast room.
Watching the Explorer creepily crouched in the bushes after encountering a monster crowd, along with the playful banter in the comments, couldn't help but chuckle.
The sudden laughter instantly attracted the attention of other students.
Realizing the awkwardness, Chi Tu quickly played dumb, feigning a state of not quite normal, with a scattered gaze.
This made other students extremely worried, fearing Chi Tu had been invaded by the Evil Wind into his Spiritual Sea, showing signs of consciousness disorder.
