Chapter 225-1: Cloud-Player Mom and Dad, Green Source race inheritance (1) |
After five hundred thousand newbies were recruited and entered.
The congestion in the starter village space continued to worsen.
From an overhead view of the Boundless Forest Domain, the masses of newbie players entering looked like plant roots extending into the earth from the starting point and radiating in all directions.
From the starting point toward the west.
“Little Luo, listen to your dad’s advice. Let’s first raise your body tempering level to level 1, then open the second star vein slot.”
“You really are dumb. Hoarding sacrificial power to buy a cultivation combat technique can indeed save quite a bit of sacrificial power, but your early development speed will be much slower than others.”
“Raising body tempering can also acquire the Inherited soul attributes and let you fight in your primary form. Isn’t that better than working hard early just to save up for a cultivation combat technique?”
“I can’t stand you. I don’t have a son like you. This qualification should have gone to me. You play too badly.”
“Little Luo, Mom thinks Dad is right. Spending sacrificial power on the body tempering level can also bring attribute boosts. Your parents are doing this for your own good…”
When he first entered the game, he forgot to start the livestream.
As a result, his old man specially called.
He asked why he still had not gone in, told him to get into the game and quickly start the livestream. Watching his own son pioneer was far more interesting than watching other players’ streams.
Jiang Luo did not think much of it and turned the livestream mode on after logging back in.
The result was that his mom and dad, those two cloud players, had all kinds of ideas.
Watching would be fine, but his parents were definitely the most annoying type of cloud players on the forum, especially fond of pointing fingers.
Putting on an air of even without game qualification, I surely know more than you.
Just now he had listed the plant essence masses he had collected on the Trading House. They quickly sold out, earning 639 sacrificial power.
He originally planned to hoard money for a cultivation combat technique and later quickly raise body tempering experience through AFK cultivation.
But his mom and dad were unhappy.
All kinds of persuasion. If he did not listen, he was unfilial.
As a Destined One, he had a powerful rule level ability in the livestream: one-click mute for guests.
He used to hate that game function the most because at the time he was a cloud player. Being muted reduced much of the fun.
But now he felt this function was truly strong.
The problem was that the cloud players causing trouble in his livestream were his parents.
They also possessed an unsolvable rule ability that worked only on him: bloodline suppression.
Family affection gripping his throat, bitterness kept to himself.
He could clap back at netizens, but talking back to his parents would be outrageous.
After the discomfort passed, he still decided to do things his own way.
Choosing a cultivation combat technique or a body tempering level in the early stage had always been a hotly debated topic among newbie groups on the forum.
Directly raising body tempering level meant he could enjoy the attribute bonus earlier. Upon reaching body tempering level 1, he could also acquire the Inherited soul attributes and fight in his primary form thereafter.
Buying a cultivation combat technique would allow him to enable AFK cultivation mode, saving a lot of sacrificial power in obtaining body tempering experience later.
Each had its advantages.
He had originally wanted to take the route of raising body tempering level first, since only with stronger attributes could he hunt stronger monsters.
But the Boundless Forest Domain was a bit special.
Opening the map, he could see an average aura content value for the region at the upper left.
The Boundless Forest Domain was 2.3 times that of the Emperor’s Mound Village space.
This meant the amplification efficiency brought by cultivating combat techniques here was also 2.3 times. The early stage would be bitter, but as long as he had a cultivation combat technique, the subsequent rise in body tempering level would see a qualitative leap.
This was called accumulating thickly to release thinly, bitterness first and sweetness later.
[T/N: Metaphor which means build up a lot of strength, energy, or resources quietly and steadily, then release them in a focused, controlled, and efficient way.]
“Stop making a fuss. I am at least a veteran player. Buying a cultivation combat technique first cannot be wrong.”
As soon as he said that, his old man sent a barrage.
“Are you more veteran than me? How old are you and how old am I? When you were swimming with brothers and sisters you had never met, your dad was already grinding virtual games. Your bit of knowledge does not even amount to a hair compared to your dad. Your old man has played more virtual games than the salt you have eaten.”
“Little Luo, your dad is right. Back in the day your dad was a famous research-party player in ‘Immortal Expedition,’ and guides he posted even made the news.”
Jiang Luo: …
What is a generation gap? This is a generation gap.
He had always felt his parents were open-minded, supporting any decision he made from childhood to now.
But after he obtained Monster World qualification, things changed.
Especially in game understanding, they were simply a version behind the times.
At this moment Mahua leaned his head over and laughed.
“Great Luo, you must understand. Uncle and Aunt really want to play Monster World. Now they are experiencing the game through your perspective. When your actions differ from their ideas, of course they feel extremely uncomfortable.”
“I understand. Let’s hunt first.” Jiang Luo nodded and stopped paying attention to the livestream.
Gazing into the distance, the nearby area was already filled with newbie players. Finding a monster was not easy.
They could only keep moving. Only by leaving the main crowd could they find monsters to hunt.
Before long, they encountered four plant-type lifeforms blocking the road.
Their forms looked like they were pieced together from various fungi, with bodies mainly brown and white, dotted with bright spots.
They were very small. By Jiang Luo’s estimation, about knee-high to himself, with round, chubby bodies that looked adorably silly.
Analysis swept across, and the monsters’ information floated into his mind:
[Spore Color Mushroom (Monster)]
Hunt Level: level 4
Target Analysis: A plant-type monster derived from the dissipated energy of the Boundless Forest Domain’s dominator class Primordial Precognition. It has no combat method and possesses relatively high nutritional value.
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Reading the analysis, Jiang Luo felt this was more like a spirit plant.
After all, monsters that could not fight were indeed rare.
At least before the Boundless Forest Domain opened, even the level 0 little crabs at the Colorful Mist Coast would pinch players with their claws.
Afraid that the newbies rushing up from behind would steal the monsters, they struck immediately.
Once the Extraction trait activated, the Spore-Color Mushroom that touched the green light began dissolving at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Yet the attacked Spore-Color Mushroom did not leave and still stood there blankly.
The other three Spore-Color Mushrooms at its side also showed no reaction, looking completely nonthreatening.
This was, in Jiang Luo’s eyes, one of the bigger differences between plant-type monsters and flesh-and-blood-type monsters. The intelligence level of plant-type monsters was generally low.
But in terms of health bar thickness, plant-type monsters were clearly higher than flesh-and-blood-type monsters.
This made him think of an obscure post he had seen on the forum.
A bored player had posted a bored analysis of monster types, receiving only a few sporadic replies.
Because that player tried to use real world logic in the post to explain why the life strength of same level plant-type monsters was higher than that of flesh-and-blood-type monsters.
He stated that plants have cell walls composed of cellulose, providing additional support and protection to plant cells, thus better resisting physical damage.
Secondly, plant cells have stronger division ability, and their self-repair and regeneration capacity is stronger than that of flesh-and-blood life.
From the perspective of lifespan, some plants live extremely long, even for thousands of years.
So, viewing plant-type life in Monster World from the perspective of life strength, they are tougher than same level flesh-and-blood-type monsters, which accords with real world logic.
Lastly, he said this was a very detailed setting in Monster World.
But for Jiang Luo, with the divine skill Extraction in hand, all plant-type monsters could have their defenses easily broken.
In less than ten seconds, this mushroom monster was decomposed into a plant essence mass.
During that time, his buddy Mahua simply stood by, not even needing to step forward to block the monster’s damage output.
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