Monsters Are Coming-Chapter 915 - 256: Despairing Overlord Sword, Pain and Pleasure_4

The memory of the suffering brought by the gene seed and the toxic potion bath made by the old man is still fresh.

And Jiang Cheng's performance made the Overlord Sword immensely satisfied, but soon it realized something was amiss.

Where is the energy?

Where did the emotion energy born from the host's suffering go?

Originally immersed in pleasure, the Overlord Sword instantly panicked, the blood-colored pattern on the hilt twisting wildly, like a ravenous snake searching for prey.

But no matter how it tried to seize, it couldn't capture a single ounce of negative emotion energy.

"How is this possible?!"

The Overlord Sword was completely dumbfounded.

It watched Jiang Cheng convulsing all over, bleeding from his seven orifices, heard his heart-wrenching screams, and could even feel his muscles twitching from the excruciating pain.

Yet eerily there was no energy feedback.

Unwilling to accept this, the Overlord Sword immediately decided to increase the injection of rule-derived energy.

The sword's body suddenly burst forth with dazzling blood light, the blood-colored energy oozing from the cracks in the sword's body as if alive.

Flowing along Jiang Cheng's head, like countless tiny blood serpents drilling into his pores.

Jiang Cheng's body instantly tensed, muscles twitching violently.

This time, the pain brought was far beyond before, Jiang Cheng went from acting to truly screaming.

During this time, his nails deeply embedded in his palms, blood beads slowly dripping.

Every tendon in his body was visibly bulging, trembling like a tight bowstring.

Observing beside him, Xia Sheng was also shocked to discover the Hunting Level of the Overlord Sword had dropped by one level.

Curiously, he turned to look at the floating Guide:

"Brother Guide, why did the Hunting Level of the Overlord Sword drop?"

Facing the inquiry, the Guide opened his eyes:

[The current Overlord Sword is already exhausted, there's no excess energy left in its body to use. To increase the dosage, it chose to press its foundation, releasing its own potential, wanting to make Jiang Cheng suffer more... You can also understand it as it is burning itself, releasing its strength.]

"So that's how it is, where did the negative emotions go, didn't the Overlord Sword absorb them?" Xia Sheng continued to ask.

[Any output from the player system cannot be obtained by external beings, for example, the blood splattering during player combat can be devoured and absorbed by external beings, but cannot be decomposed and digested. After the player's death, they will return to Imperial Tomb Village as part of Life Reshaping.]

Understanding the reason, Xia Sheng nodded in enlightenment.

In this way, the Overlord Sword is now burning itself, completing its good brother.

Seeing his good brother in suffering and howling, Xia Sheng suddenly felt a bit envious.

Such suffering, usually, they have to pay to buy.

And at this time, Jiang Cheng's temples throbbed with blood vessels, terrifying blue-black patterns formed under his pale skin.

The whites of his eyes had long been invaded by blood color, tears mixed with blood water oozing from the corners.

"Pain... it's killing me!"

Jiang Cheng gritted his teeth and growled.

Even though he embedded the Suffering Soul and promised the old man he would walk down this path.

But essentially, he didn't enjoy pain, nor did he have a masochistic tendency.

Back then, eating the gene seed was entirely for benefits, thinking of saving whenever possible, the pain simply didn't matter.

Comparing to pain, he feared poverty more.

Unknowingly, he had walked further and further down this path filled with suffering.

At this moment, the rule-derived energy released by the Overlord Sword brought continuous growth of Body Refining Experience and Painful Soul Experience.

Making him experience both pain and joy.

His health bar was also rapidly declining in the process.

But as soon as it dropped to about 20%, the Overlord Sword would release energy to drag his health bar back up, ensuring he continued to live.

As time progressed, the Overlord Sword's tremor became more intense, cracks on the sword's body expanded further, more energy forcibly injected into Jiang Cheng's body.

Jiang Cheng's skin began to show an unnatural reddish hue, dense blood beads seeped out from his pores.

Meanwhile, the Overlord Sword's heart was already filled with despair.

No matter how much it tried, it found itself unable to harvest even a trace of energy.

Its own strength was rapidly declining, already burning 1% away.

On the other side, Jiang Cheng's Painful Soul rose by three levels, the intensity continued to climb.

Even the Body Refining Level improved by two levels.

And he had already earned back the 25,000 sacrificial power paid to Qiao Wu.

Just as Jiang Cheng was still anticipating how high he could raise his level under the support of the Overlord Sword, the Overlord Sword unexpectedly withdrew its power.

Jiang Cheng's screams also came to an abrupt halt.

"Kid, you've already become stronger, feel for yourself." A slightly weakened voice from the Overlord Sword resonated.

Jiang Cheng didn't respond, equally weak, lying on the ground, his body still twitching slightly, the breath he exhaled held a faint smell of blood.

At this time, his body surface was covered with tiny blood scabs, like countless tiny blade wounds that had forcibly healed.

Scrolling through the information logs could reveal the aftermath of the Overlord Sword's enhancement wasn't light.

A large amount of energy burn marks remained on the meridian path in his body, completely unable to heal, as long as he lived, he had to endure the sporadic outbreaks of pain.

But in Jiang Cheng's view, this was completely acceptable, any physical issue could be solved by dying once.

For them players, bodily aftermath equals no aftermath.

The village's little black house hospital cures all ailments.

Any and all physical issues, surgery time is one hour, ensured full health and full state resurrection.

"Rebellious child, how do you feel?" Xia Sheng curiously asked in the squad voice channel.

"Feels more painful than death (screenshot)."

Seeing the screenshot information, the smile on Xia Sheng's face came to an abrupt halt:

"Quickly retract the screenshot from my mind, I'm more in pain than you now, you just wailed a few times, Body Refining rose by two levels, Life Soul rose three levels... harder than killing me, why isn't it me wielding the sword."