Chapter 225-2: Cloud-Player Mom and Dad, Green Source race inheritance (2) |
After the kill, a notification sounded.
The Extraction Inherited soul’s level also reached level 3 at this time.
With the Inherited soul level rising, its lethality greatly increased, and the remaining three Spore-Color Mushrooms were taken down even faster.
Jiang Luo stepped forward to pick up the plant essence masses and tossed them into his inventory. He was about to move on when he saw a barrage slide past.
“Son, did you check the Trading House before killing? Plant-type monsters with nutritional components like these are generally priced quite high on the Trading House. Using Extraction to kill them is too wasteful.”
Seeing that, Jiang Luo said irritably.
“Spore-Color Mushrooms are plant-type life unique to the Boundless Forest Domain. Where would there be such items for sale on the Trading House right now? There is no way to compare prices.”
Just after he finished, another barrage slid past.
“For such items, you can look at the commission board. Try searching, maybe there is one.”
A large amount of information was instantly listed.
It was all kinds of demand information posted by other players.
He typed Spore-Color Mushroom into the search bar. After switching, three entries appeared.
The leading commission was:
[Inquiry: Where can I get the Spore-Color Mushroom, the main ingredient of Spirit Spore Soup in the Spiritual Food compendium? Can any brother provide it? Purchasing at 300 sacrificial power per piece. Paid provision of a place where it can be gathered is also fine.]
“See that, unfilial child, how stupid.” A golden barrage slid past.
Jiang Luo: …
He had not expected his old man to be right. This thing was very valuable.
Reselling it to a Spirit Chef player, one could sell a single piece for 300 sacrificial power at minimum. Four pieces would be at least 1200 sacrificial power in profit.
But now they had all been decomposed into plant essence masses. A huge loss.
Thinking of this, Jiang Luo turned to look at Mahua, then shared the commission board information.
Seeing the screenshot, Mahua immediately pounced, hands gripping his neck.
“Dog Luo, give me back 1200 sacrificial power.”
“Cough, cough… I feel worse than you. That was a tenth of a cultivation combat technique fragment, and now it’s gone.”
After some horsing around, the two continued on their way.
With experience gained, their thinking changed.
They realized opportunities were everywhere, but the key was how to seize them.
With insufficient understanding, many times even when an opportunity arrived before one’s eyes, it was easy to miss.
Jiang Luo now had only one idea: when encountering special monsters he did not understand, look up information. This was also a process of learning and growth.
Six hours of game time slipped by without their noticing.
The Boundless Forest Domain was still under a low-hanging night. The darkness felt especially long.
Having hunted up to level 7, Jiang Luo and Mahua came to a small hillside and gazed into the distance.
On the vast plains, greenery rolled like waves to the horizon.
Blades of grass swayed in the breeze, the wave after wave of rustling whispers especially soothing.
Here the air was filled with even more countless glowing spores drifting with the wind. When the wind aligned, it was like a sky of colored glowing raindrops.
Plant light sources on the grass, spore light sources drifting in the air, and the starlight in the sky, the three kinds of light sources illuminated this plant world shrouded in night.
This was, in Jiang Luo’s eyes, a region second only to the Colorful Mist Coast in environmental beauty.
In sheer colorfulness, it even surpassed the Colorful Mist Coast by a notch.
“Great Luo, look, what is that?”
Mahua’s voice pulled the scenery-enchanted Jiang Luo back to reality. His gaze followed the direction of Mahua’s pointed finger.
At the edge of the western horizon, a mountain-sized mushroom stood majestically at the sky’s end.
Even across a great distance, its colossal body was still clearly visible.
Its cap was incomparably broad, like a giant inverted umbrella, its surface covered in thick glowing patterns like annual rings recording the marks of time.
The purple-brown cap glimmered faintly in the air. Under the starlight, its surface seemed plated with a layer of purple radiance.
The stout stipe supported the cap like a pillar holding up the sky, covered with layer upon layer of plant scales that, at first glance, made it look as if countless stars were inlaid upon its trunk.
Around the mushroom, the glowing spores in the air were especially dense, lightly circling like fireflies, sometimes gathering, sometimes dispersing, adding a touch of dreamlike color to this giant.
The low greenery on the distant plain stood in stark contrast to this great mushroom, as if it were the only ruler of this heaven and earth, quietly overlooking everything at its feet.
“Hiss, if I used Extraction to decompose that, how many plant essence masses would it produce.”
“Good point. We might make a fortune in one go.” Mahua nodded in agreement.
Just as Jiang Luo finished speaking, his parents’ golden barrage slid past.
“Silly son, that’s obviously a scene monster. It is not something newbie players like you can challenge. Decompose it? Even if the big mushroom stood there and let you decompose for a year, you would not chip off even a sliver of health… Stop looking and hurry up to hunt. At your age this is the time to work hard. Take advantage of getting qualification early. Push yourself and strive to defy fate through the game.”
“Go for it, Little Luo. Mom heard the Lunar Eclipse race has life-extension beauty technology, but it is expensive. Our lifetime of hope depends on you now (gold-farmer cheering.jpg).”
With a silent complaint in his heart, Jiang Luo turned his gaze to the green plain ahead.
There were many plant-type monsters on the plain. Before the large group behind arrived, they had to quickly begin hunting.
Following Mahua down the slope, they were immediately met by three plant-type monsters at hunt level 3.
With the divine skill Extraction in hand, he decomposed the three plant-type monsters in no time.
When browsing the forum, Jiang Luo had seen veteran players say that in the early days when only the Three Phantom Gods existed at the start, even farming a small monster outside the village was difficult and required a group of players working together to barely kill it.
Later, when the Colorful Mist Coast and Rimewinter Snowfield regions opened, the difficulty eased slightly.
In this period, all First-Generation Inherited souls were unlocked. Newbies had more Inherited souls to choose from, teams could complement each other, and hunting efficiency increased significantly.
When the cavern world scene opened, the strength of the newbie stage rose somewhat.
Mainly because the intelligence of mechanical life was higher than that of ordinary flesh-and-blood monsters. Even the weakest cleaning robot could block, anticipate, and sweep the leg. Newbie players had to team up to challenge them.
With the Boundless Forest Domain now open, the monster strength at the newbie stage had risen again.
But with the version divine skill Extraction, hunting instead became very easy.
He felt that even a team of four or five damage dealers was not as efficient as him dealing damage with Extraction.
This showed how dominant the Extraction Inherited soul was in this scene.
In other games, an overtuned skill would surely get nerfed once, and if not enough, twice.
But this was Monster World.
Since launch there had been no adjustments to Inherited soul strength, so it was clear the fun could continue.
However, the Extraction Inherited soul had its downside. It only worked miraculously on plant-type life.
Go to the Emperor’s Mound Mountain Range and its damage against Evil Entities would be zero and utterly useless. It was a true-god-tier Inherited soul only within the Boundless Forest Domain scene.
Advancing while hunting along the way, his level quickly reached level 8.
Newbie players began to surge around them, and the on-site atmosphere gradually heated up.
The plain was no longer tranquil, replaced by a noisy spectacle.
More and more players gathered on the plains, the air thick with tension and excitement.
Players formed into small groups of three or five, creating teams to coordinate and hunt the plant-type monsters on the plain.
Having finished another hunt, Jiang Luo looked up. Not far away, a newbie squad was besieging a gigantic man-eating flower. As its petals opened and closed, it spat out corrosive acid. The newbies dodged nimbly, looking for chances to strike back.
Another team was entangled with a swarm of vine monsters.