“The Beast Taming Sect has Void Soul Crystals? And Lu Ze came out fine after absorbing one?”
Beneath his mask, the Heart Demon frowned.
As one of the few cultivators in the world to have absorbed a Void Soul Crystal, he knew better than anyone just how terrifying the thing was.
Even with his formidable strength, he had no way of sensing where his own limit lay.
Void Soul Crystals tempted cultivators to continue refining and absorbing them. Once they exceeded their limit, their bodies would explode and they would die. They were extraordinarily dangerous.
And yet Lu Ze had survived?
“I’m afraid the Heavenly Dao intervened in secret once again…”
the Heart Demon said in a low voice.
That was the only explanation he could think of.
Though another plan had failed, the Heart Demon was not particularly dejected.
It was unfortunate that they had failed to kill Lu Ze, but given Lu Ze’s aptitude and natural talent, the benefits he could obtain from a Void Soul Crystal were practically negligible.
He was merely starting from zero again.
What truly piqued the Heart Demon’s curiosity was something else.
“Since he survived absorbing it, he should naturally know that he’s reached the limit of what he can absorb from the Void Soul Crystal…”
The Heart Demon rubbed his chin and muttered to himself.
“Then why is he still going to such lengths to obtain Void Soul Crystals from the Beast Taming Sect?”
“Heh, isn’t it obvious? He must be afraid that after we elders absorb the Void Soul Crystals, we’ll surpass him in the Dao of Illusions!”
White Crane snorted coldly, gnashing his teeth as he spoke.
“That day, I was about to obtain a Void Soul Crystal from the Beast Taming Sect, yet that brat just had to come meddle at such a critical moment… If that wasn’t deliberate, what was?”
“Perhaps.”
The Heart Demon massaged his temples, suppressing the unease buried deep within his heart.
“By the way, Alliance Leader. Have you deduced the method behind that brat’s illusion-crafting technique?”
White Crane looked at the Heart Demon expectantly.
“Of course.”
The Heart Demon nodded, an eerie smile spreading across his lips.
“Perhaps I should have realized it sooner. How else could he make the people inside his illusions so lifelike, as though they were real?”
“The characters in Lu Ze’s illusions are all refined from the souls of living people!”
“With this method, our illusions will certainly be no weaker than his!”
…
…
The fourth day since Palworld went live.
[Mission complete!]
[The host successfully guided righteous cultivators into slaughtering spirit beasts, causing the mental states of countless spirit beasts to collapse!]
[Reward obtained: Spirit-Taming Art]
“Spirit-Taming Art? A technique for controlling every spirit beast in the world? I don’t tame beasts—what use is this to me?”
Lu Ze curled his lip.
He had to admit that his expectations for the system’s mission rewards seemed to have been too high.
Based on the system’s usual behavior, he had assumed that the Spirit-Taming Art would allow him to control all spiritual entities. If so, perhaps the performance of his cyber souls as laborers could have been improved even further.
“If I’d known, I wouldn’t have put so much effort into completing the mission… Whatever. I was going to do it anyway.”
Lu Ze paid the matter no further mind.
Whether or not there had been a mission, he had intended to fulfill the Beast Taming Sect’s commission and use it to secure the Void Soul Crystal reward.
The mission had merely been a side benefit.
[+0.01 Demonic Dao Points]
[+0.01 Demonic Dao Points]
…
Just then, an endless stream of system notifications began pouring in.
They came so densely that Lu Ze nearly thought the system had crashed.
“What’s going on?”
Lu Ze was completely dumbfounded.
He opened the system interface and checked. There really were tiny amounts of Demonic Dao Points being added.
But he had never before seen such a sudden and concentrated influx of points.
“Let’s see who they’re coming from…”
Curious, Lu Ze casually selected one of the system notifications recording the income of Demonic Dao Points.
As the system continued to upgrade, he had gained the ability to trace each source of Demonic Dao Points and view information about the contributor, allowing him to estimate the other party’s cultivation realm.
Back then, his ability to pinpoint Qin Ming, a powerful expert, from among tens of thousands of cultivators and summon him to save the day had also depended on this function.
[+0.01 Demonic Dao Points (Source: Palworld, Blazamut)]
[+0.01 Demonic Dao Points (Source: Palworld, Jetragon)]
“？？？”
Lu Ze’s eyes widened, and his heart filled with wild delight.
“Holy crap! I knew the system’s rewards wouldn’t be useless!”
After obtaining the Spirit-Taming Art, the deaths of spirit beasts within the illusion were now counted toward his Demonic Dao Points.
Even though they were in the form of cyber souls!
This was insanely overpowered.
Lu Ze even felt as though he had discovered a bug in the system.
The souls of these spirit beasts were not even living beings, yet killing them through the players still increased his Demonic Dao Points?
In that case, he needed to seriously reevaluate Palworld!
Originally, he had thought that Palworld increased his Demonic Dao Points too slowly.
No matter how powerful the enraged Pals became, how aggressive they were, or how absurdly overpowered the bosses’ attributes were, Palworld was, at its core, still a feel-good game.
The players were destined to sit at the top of the food chain, able to kick low-tier Pals to death with a single blow.
Its killing efficiency was on an entirely different level from his other illusions.
If he had not been trying to obtain the Void Soul Crystal, Lu Ze would never have created an illusion like this.
He had originally planned to restrict the cultivators’ playtime in Palworld once he obtained the Void Soul Crystal and they gradually cleared the game, lest it interfere with his ability to earn Demonic Dao Points.
But now, it seemed there was no need for that at all.
The Pals killed players, and he earned Demonic Dao Points.
The players farmed Pals, and he still earned Demonic Dao Points.
He was making an absolute killing!
“Wait… Are the cyber souls of cultivators useful too?”
Lu Ze suddenly had an idea.
He had never considered this kind of bug before, but the Spirit-Taming Art had given him a flash of inspiration, and his imagination immediately ran wild.
Without a second thought, he entered the illusionary world.
With a wave of his hand, he summoned the cyber soul of Elder Rakshasa, one of the elders of the Illusion Alliance, then erased it with another motion.
There was no reaction…
“Perhaps it has to be killed by someone else?”
Lu Ze thought for a moment. Unwilling to give up, he summoned the cyber soul of Elder Blood Crow.
When enemies met, their eyes blazed with hatred.
The moment Elder Blood Crow saw Elder Rakshasa, the old bastard did not even need an order from Lu Ze. He immediately unleashed his full strength and killed him.
Unfortunately, no Demonic Dao Points were added.
“So it only works on spirit beasts… It’s all because of the Spirit-Taming Art.”
Lu Ze nodded to himself, arriving at the answer.
For him, this was fantastic news.
It wasn’t just useful for Palworld. From now on, he could use the souls of spirit beasts in other grinding-style games as well, earning an additional stream of profits.
Thinking that his grand plan to achieve immortality had taken another step forward, Lu Ze couldn’t help but grin.
“Excellent, excellent!”
“If only the system would give me something like a ‘Human-Taming Art’ as a reward next time…”
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