Monsters Are Coming-Chapter 947 - 263: Something’s Off With This Game! (5)

Compared to Monster World logistics, he still prefers the forum's mainstream Star Vein combination gameplay.

He plans to save up sacrificial power to unlock Level 1 Body Refining, and then consider other Life Soul choices.

The exploration continues.

Opening the map reveals that he is now 17.7 kilometers away from the starting point in a straight line.

Yet even so, there are occasionally rookie players teaming up nearby.

It seems that no matter where he goes, he can't escape the spreading player community.

This half-day of exploration has made him thoroughly fond of this game.

The early slave life in the otherworldly realm made every cultivation session afterwards a painful ordeal, but he has to endure it for growth.

In comparison, the hunting growth in Monster World is pure enjoyment.

Every hunt brings a very tangible growth feedback.

He even feels that it might not take long for his spiritual power strength in Monster World to easily surpass himself in reality.

This timeframe might only need a month.

If later the monster feedback and sacrificial power increase, and the Body Refining Level rises, it might even only take 20 days to complete the efforts he spent over 200 years in the otherworldly realm.

This sense of disparity even makes him feel like he is growing with cheats.

Picking up the Crystal Stone dropped by the lizard monster on the ground, he puts it on the Trading House shelf, setting the price based on similar Energy Barytes.

The next second, Challenger Tips ring in his mind:

[Challenger Tips: Your item "Erosion Map Crystal Stone x2" has been sold successfully, earning a total of 122 sacrificial power (after deducting the handling fee)]

Ji Chen: ...

He fears he might have sold it too cheaply.

No sooner had it been shelved than it was snapped up in an instant.

After shaking his head with a smile, he continues exploring ahead.

After walking a bit further, the path to the left is suddenly severed by a sharp cliff.

The steep cliff face, as if split by a huge axe, falls vertically to form a mist-shrouded deep valley at its base.

At that moment, a player stands before the cliff, hesitating.

Following his gaze, Ji Chen sees a Spirit Plant with a translucent lustrous white body growing amidst the crevices of the cliff, nine semi-transparent leaves sculpted like ice crystals, with an amber-like tear-shaped fruit at its center, its translucent skin revealing the flowing golden liquid inside.

As he sweeps with decomposition, relevant information presents itself in Ji Chen's mind.

[Nine-leaf Red Mist Grass]

Spirit Plant Level: Level 6.

Spirit Plant Introduction: A Spirit Plant variety growing in the Land of Chasing the Sun, commonly found in areas rich in Kasi Divine Blood, holding significant medicinal value, containing traces of Kasi Divine Blood which can be refined into medicine to greatly enhance player's physical fitness (Body Refining Experience), with miraculous effects on repairing damaged bodies and can yield 2938 sacrificial power if offered to the Sacrificial Emperor.

...

After reading the decomposition information, Ji Chen immediately understands why this player hesitates.

Such a precious Spirit Plant is evidently not a Mortal item, just from the scattered spiritual energy waves.

Such a rare Spirit Plant couldn't even be nurtured in the otherworldly realm he traversed.

"Damn it, let's go for it!"

Just then, the player at the edge of the cliff takes a deep breath, steps back a few paces, and then accelerates with a sprint, leaping at the cliff edge, reaching forward with his arms to grab the Nine-leaf Red Mist Grass growing in the cliff crevice.

Under Ji Chen's watchful gaze, this player's body arcs awkwardly through the air, his cloth fluttering in the wind.

But he's at least three meters away from the target, and his body quickly loses forward momentum.

In Perception View, Ji Chen can see the player's resolute expression shifting to an expression of shock.

Although the right hand still remains in the grabbing motion, the body has already begun plummeting rapidly.

Grass!

The altered ending tone follows the fall, quickly distancing, echoing within the gorge below.

Eventually, a dull landing sound arrives, startling a few black-feathered birds shaped like crows that break through the mist at the valley's bottom.

This scene brings a laugh to Ji Chen.

Strolling to the edge of the cliff, he leans out to peer down.

The vapor rises from the valley floor, even in Perception View he cannot see the bottom.

His gaze locks ahead.

Measuring the distance carefully, the location of the Nine-leaf Red Mist Grass is particularly tricky, precisely beneath the outward jut of a rock ledge.

Even with his reinforced Eagle-Headed Demon body, leaping out fully would only cover two-thirds of the distance.

What's more troubling is the jagged crystal clusters on the cliff wall, with a slight mishap, he would end up like that rash player.

He naturally does not want to miss such a precious Spirit Plant.

But in Eagle-Headed Demon form, he cannot fly, making obtaining it problematic.

If it were in reality, he would use Telekinesis to retrieve it, but this is a game...

Ji Chen suddenly pauses.

He thought of a question.

Since the game perfectly replicates real-world physical performance, could his Telekinesis also be used in-game?

"Let's try it."

Closing his eyes, he begins to delineate the familiar Spiritual Imprint within his body.

As his consciousness sinks, the game's spiritual power truly responds as if guiding his hand, constructing the spiritual circulation pathway within the virtual Sea of Consciousness.

Soon, his spiritual power depletes.

Without hesitation, he promptly accesses the mall interface, purchasing ten bottles of Spiritual Recovery Potions.

But this falls short, the 10 bottles are quickly exhausted.

The Spiritual Imprint requires an even larger spiritual energy to construct.

Thus, Ji Chen directly buys 80 bottles this time, emptying his Sacrificial Power Balance, leaving only single digits.

Drinking three bottles rapidly, the surging spiritual power pours like a flood, causing colossal waves in the Sea of Consciousness.

His consciousness remains as stable as a rock, precisely navigating the flood of spiritual energy into the Sea of Consciousness.

The pattern of the Telekinesis mark gradually becomes visible during the process.

The traversing consciousness etches bright blue marks in the Sea of Consciousness.

Then encircling the mark, spirals intertwine, forming an intricate spiritual circuit.

With each spiritual pattern lighting up, spiritual power depletes rapidly.

But the continually consumed potions continually replenish the void.

Gradually, a complex light blue mark fully forms in the Sea of Consciousness.

This is the spiritual imprint Ji Chen mastered in the otherworldly realm for Telekinesis, now perfectly replicated within this dataized body.

As the last stroke is completed, the imprint suddenly emits a dazzling blue light, then subsides, deeply etched in the center of the Sea of Consciousness.

Buzz~

Visible ripples suddenly emerge in the air.

The rubble at Ji Chen's feet trembles, then one by one levitates.

When Ji Chen opens his eyes again, a glimmering blue mark flashes across his forehead, all levitating items begin to orbit his body.

In an instant, the rotational speed sharply accelerates.

Turning into blurred stone shadows, forming an impenetrable protective barrier.

A sharp whistling sounds in the air, the rubble rapidly grinds the air, as though countless blades are slicing through space.

Eagle-headed Demon Perception spreads, expanding Telekinesis' coverage.

​Not just rubble, sand, dried branches, even dust are drawn by Telekinesis. 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝙬𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝒎

Momentarily, centered on Ji Chen, a miniature storm vortex slowly forms, with sand and dust interweaving, twigs swirling wildly within, all materials operate according to Ji Chen's will.

His gaze abruptly locks onto a twisted dead tree nearby.

The blue light flashes in his eagle-eye, and Telekinesis clamps the tree trunk like an invisible giant hand.

Crunch!

The dead tree moans under the strain, its roots forcibly torn from the crevice, pulling up soil.

The trunk suspends at three meters high and halts, the surface displaying cobweb-like blue light patterns, energy veins revealed after Telekinesis permeates the wood fibers.

The next moment, the entire tree quickly disintegrates.

Large chunks of wood separate from the trunk, decomposing mid-air into fine fragments until reduced to powder-like matter.

Then the powder forms a mini vortex of wood dust under Telekinesis.

At this moment, Ji Chen is stunned.

This is the ability use technique imparted by Dragon Descendant, yet unexpectedly perfectly replicated in the Monster World game.

Even under Eagle-Headed Demon perception's enhancement, the usage feels smoother than in reality.

"This game is weird!"