Monsters Are Coming-Chapter 916 - 256: Despairing Overlord Sword, Pain and Pleasure_5

"Actually, I've been thinking about this too. Since I finished enjoying myself, it's your turn now."

Upon hearing this, Xia Sheng decisively refused:

"The Overlord Sword just burned itself to transfer energy to you, so it certainly won't want to act again. Even if I wield the sword, it's meaningless. However, I have a better idea."

"What do you mean?"

"I just inquired with Brother Guide and found out that the Overlord Sword cannot absorb the negative emotions you produce because anything generated within the player's body cannot be absorbed by external creatures."

"I've known this for a long time; strategy guide players analyzed it on the forum ages ago, so what?"

"What's certain now is that the rule behind the Overlord Sword can absorb negative emotions to gain energy, and we can draw strength from suffering. Suppose we combine our Suffering Soul with the Divine Artifact Rule; we could double our enhancement... by generating suffering, increasing Life Soul Level, and producing negative emotions in the process, then absorbing those negative emotions to obtain Rule Energy."

"This rule fits us perfectly. If we can merge with the Suffering Soul to form a Special Life Soul, we might just soar."

Xia Sheng's analysis made Jiang Cheng's eyes light up: 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎

"Standing on one's own foot, spiraling upwards, your analysis has some depth!"

The mechanism of the Suffering Soul is very strong, with damage accompanied by extreme emotional pain and Spiritual damage.

It can also efficiently execute beheadings through conduction.

The only drawback is that enhancing its strength is immensely difficult.

Ordinary players set their pain feedback on the functional panel to 10%.

But they chose to turn the pain feedback up to 100%.

Doing so allows tenfold speed in enhancing the Suffering Soul.

After all, the enhancement of the Suffering Soul is influenced by the intensity of the pain feedback.

One hundred percent pain feedback is equivalent to opening a tenfold amplifier.

Yet even so, the enhancement speed of the Suffering Soul remains very slow, and compared to players from other factions, apart from a strong mechanism, there is no growth potential.

If the Suffering Soul could fuse with a complete Rule to form one Life Soul, or if the traits of two independent Life Souls could complement each other, their power growth rate would see significant improvement.

The future looks bright.

Thinking of this, Jiang Cheng immediately asked in his heart:

"Brother Guide, can the Suffering Soul merge with the Divine Artifact Soul so that the Special Life Soul could absorb suffering, or even negative emotions, to grow?"

[It can. The Touch of Pain is essentially just a Pseudo-rule. It can fully merge with the Divine Artifact Rule to become a brand new Life Soul, but the prerequisite is paying a high sacrificial power.]

Upon hearing Brother Guide's response, Jiang Cheng and Xia Sheng were both incredibly excited.

The conduction of suffering becoming a conduction of negative emotions has much more upward potential.

Most importantly, the merged Suffering Soul, aside from absorbing its own suffering, could also draw nutrients from others' suffering.

Years ago, meeting the elder at the Colorful Mist Coast, the elder saw them as successors, granting them a lifetime of accumulated wealth and heavy trust and expectation.

Yet the elder had two major regrets in his life.

The first regret was that his life span ran out, leaving him powerless to continue slaying Evil Spirits.

As life faded, the elder chose to burn his remaining Qi-Blood to return to his prime years.

Jiang Cheng will always remember that scene; a youthful form with flowing black hair charged into the sky with delight in his heart, the blood-colored light trail behind like a Blade tearing through the dusk.

"In the future, when your cultivation succeeds, kill a few more Evil Spirits for me." This was the elder's last words left to this world.

The second regret was that despite exhausting a lifetime of effort, he couldn't turn the "Touch of Pain" into a Rule System ability.

But now an opportunity lies before them.

The Divine Artifact Rule can absorb negative emotions to grow, perfectly suiting the growth model of the Touch of Pain. It can also merge with the Touch of Pain to become a brand new Rule.

If they can achieve this, they would fulfill one of the elder's great unfulfilled wishes.

"If we succeed, next year during Qingming, we'll bring Spiritual Wine to pay respects to the elder. We can proudly stand before the elder's grave and say: We've made something of ourselves. We've achieved the goal you couldn't."

Raising his head, Jiang Cheng looked toward the Overlord Sword with intense heat in his eyes.

Now, the Overlord Sword is no longer the only target.

They need to find an opportunity to uproot the clan behind the Overlord Sword and seize the Divine Artifact Rule.

Even if their current strength is limited, obtaining the coordinates and address of the clan behind the Overlord Sword is beneficial.

They have a long future ahead, with plenty of time to grow.

When their strength is sufficient, they will march straight up to seize it.

Yet in the eyes of the Overlord Sword, Jiang Cheng's fervent gaze was mistaken for being perceived as having realized its own power enhancement, thus deepening his reliance and reverence for it.

But what the Overlord Sword didn't know was that Jiang Cheng and Xia Sheng were already discussing how to squeeze out its remaining value.

And also, how to annihilate the Divine Artifact Clan.