Chapter 181: Massive Harvest! The Leek Harvester Begins Operating!
The Evil Infant Deng Ai’s abilities were far too bizarre!
The Calamity Army did not even know where the BOSS was or what it looked like. From beginning to end, they were trapped inside a twisted nightmare domain by eerie voices, stumbling around like headless flies. They repeatedly tried to find a way out, yet every attempt ended in failure.
As ti passed—
The damage caused by wave after wave of ntal attacks grew increasingly severe!
The Xinye Survivors continuously erging from every direction also posed an enormous threat!
Under Hang Yu’s Lord’s Vision, players fell one after another. Although they were beaten into complete helplessness, they continuously generated Essence. At the very least, one of the objectives of this trip had been achieved.
This corrupted monster’s abilities were rather interesting.
If it had been so other powerful monster of the sa level, then with the scale of this Calamity Army, even if they could not win, they would still have had a chance to escape. But now that they were trapped inside the Wailing Nightmare Domain, they did not even have the opportunity to flee. One could say they had been completely suppressed.
A total wipeout!
It was practically inevitable!
Even Hang Yu had never encountered such a monster before!
Still, there was nothing strange about it. The higher the lifeform rank in the Abyssal Plane, the more bizarre the creatures beca. Even conceptual existences appearing was not particularly surprising.
Now he finally understood why Zhang Xiu referred to Evil Infant Deng Ai as a “Living Voice”!
Evil Infant Deng Ai possessed a certain degree of spatial affinity.
This was an extrely rare type of monster!
Its core ability was to influence space through sound, ultimately creating a nightmare domain through the effects of twisting, folding, and stretching space. This domain existed as a special space sowhere between illusion and reality.
A bit abstract.
Simply put—
This eerie space was not a pure illusion. The real world had genuinely been twisted, folded, or stretched. Therefore, attempting to break the nightmare domain using thods ant to dispel illusions was useless.
Of course, the Evil Infant did not possess the power to create a subspace from nothing. It could only partially distort space. If players could see through the mystery and find the correct route, they could still escape.
It was just extraordinarily difficult to achieve.
Why was Evil Infant Deng Ai called a “Living Voice”?
It was not because it had truly reached the level of a conceptual existence.
Rather, it was because the Evil Infant continuously influenced the nightmare domain, altering local space according to the prey’s movents, or constantly reversing one’s sense of direction. No matter how one walked, they could never escape. Wails perpetually echoed beside their ears, as though evil spirits clung to them, causing them to sink deeper and deeper into the labyrinth until death.
Thus, in theory—
As long as one found the correct route, one could still escape.
However, because the players’ sense of direction and reference points were completely chaotic, not only did east, west, south, and north randomly shift, but due to the bending of space itself, one could walk in a straight line only to sohow return to the starting point.
One could say—
It was practically unsolvable.
The entirety of Xinye City resembled a giant hunting web.
Evil Infant Deng Ai was like a massive spider sitting at the center of the web. Any outsider who entered this space would be sensed by it and dragged into this bizarre domain to be hunted down.
However—
Hang Yu speculated that although Evil Infant Deng Ai’s abilities were bizarre, its direct offensive capabilities were probably not very strong. Its true body was likely rather fragile as well. This could be inferred from its attack chanisms.
It seed to possess only two thods of attack.
The first was intermittent and periodic ntal attacks and curses.
The second was using the monsters within the nightmare domain as hired killers to hunt targets.
The Evil Infant’s ntal attacks could indiscriminately affect every target inside the nightmare domain, yet the attack intensity did not seem especially high. If it were truly powerful enough on its own, there would have been no need to rely on other monsters as enforcers.
Up until now—
There had only been one type of monster inside the Xinye Nightmare Domain.
These monsters were the Xinye Survivors, giant spider-like creatures. Once killed, they vanished into thin air without leaving behind any loot, leading players to suspect they were illusions or summoned creatures created by the nightmare domain itself.
The truth was naturally not so simple.
Nor was it possible for Evil Infant Deng Ai to summon so many physical entities capable of causing real damage out of thin air.
Every single one of these Xinye Survivors genuinely existed within Xinye City and its surrounding areas. The Evil Infant rely pulled them into the nightmare domain to serve as free labor.
Once they died—
The connection would be severed.
They would automatically leave the nightmare domain and return to their original locations.
That was why players could not find corpses or loot. It was not that these monsters failed to drop loot; rather, the drops appeared outside the nightmare domain, making them impossible for players to pick up.
So many loot drops could not be collected in ti.
Before long, the Essence within them would dissipate.
Would that not be a waste?
Waste was shaful!
Hang Yu imdiately took out the Abyssal Relic, the Treasure Gathering Spirit Pearl.
This relic had been one of the rewards obtained after defeating the Dragon-Lizard Lord Chi Lin.
Once activated, any loot generated within the territory could be directly collected regardless of distance or space. In other words, loot players could not obtain—Lord Hang Yu could collect on their behalf!
He first picked up the loot from one Xinye Survivor to examine the drop rate.
【You have collected loot: Essence 12000, Abyssal Magic Stone Fragnts 15000, Xinye Survivor Ring 1, Soul-Calming Heart Protection Talisman 10!】
A re Tier-Two Elite monster—
Yet it had exploded with 12,000 Essence in one go!
Although this was under the tenfold drop-rate effect of Heavenly Dao’s Blessing, the number was still absurdly high!
After all, Xinye Survivors were not rare monsters. There were huge numbers of them within Xinye City. There were probably at least eight hundred, if not a thousand. Added together, the total would beco an astonishing figure!
The Abyssal Magic Stone Fragnt drops were equally generous.
Equivalent to 1,500 Abyssal Magic Stones or 150 Abyssal Magic Crystals!
Killing a single monster for 150 Magic Crystals was not unprecedented, but such rewards generally only appeared on Commander-class monsters. Even Tier-Three Elite wild monsters like the Thousand-Eyed Centipede dropped far fewer Magic Stones.
Yet the difficulty of killing Xinye Survivors was vastly lower than fighting Thousand-Eyed Centipedes.
One monster alone dropped 12,000 Essence and 150 Magic Crystals. One hundred monsters would an 1.2 million Essence and 15,000 Magic Crystals. If Xinye City contained a thousand Xinye Survivors? Then that would beco 12 million Essence and 150,000 Magic Crystals!
If this operation could wipe out all the Xinye Survivors, the output generated by the “small mobs” alone would already reach an astonishing figure!
And Xinye City was not small!
There could not possibly be only Xinye Survivors!
There were definitely stronger monsters—
As well as the existence of the major BOSS, Evil Infant Deng Ai!
Coming here had truly been the correct decision. This battle could greatly replenish the territory’s Essence reserves, which was precisely what Hang Yu urgently needed at the mont.
Aside from Old Wan City, the core corruption zone personally guarded by Dian Wei, it would probably be difficult to find a better grinding location than Xinye among all the towns within Wan Territory.
Hang Yu continued examining the loot.
Like most humanoid and semi-humanoid creatures, Xinye Survivors had high Essence and Magic Stone yields, but rarely dropped production materials. However, they did have a chance to drop equipnt and consumable items.
They were:
【Xinye Survivor Ring】, Tier-Two Equipnt, White High-Grade. Spirit 10, Will 10, Spell Attack 12. Cos with Skill: Demon Spider Sticky Silk. Durability 18/30.
【Soul-Calming Heart Protection Talisman】, Tier-Two Consumable, White High-Grade. Consus 50 Mana to activate a Soul-Calming Heart Protection Spell, granting 50 ntal Damage Immunity and 100 resistance against abnormal ntal states for 120 seconds!
Heart Protection Talismans were talisman-type consumables. Such items were already widely used among players—for example, Taiping Protection Talismans that increased damage immunity, or Yellow Turban Blood Sacrifice Talismans and Yellow Turban Strongman Talismans that enhanced attributes.
These talismans could temporarily boost offense or defense, effectively strengthening overall combat capability.
Every one of them was an extrely practical consumable.
The talismans dropped by Xinye Survivors could effectively increase resistance against ntal attacks and ntal control, preventing players from being instantly crowd-controlled or suppressed by montum whenever facing major BOSSes.
Very practical.
Very good.
As for the equipnt dropped by Xinye Survivors—
Tier-Two White High-Grade equipnt held limited appeal to the absolute top-tier players.
After all, elite players like Little Bell, Ye Li ng, Lone Boat, and Black-Eyed Rui Ge already wore mostly Green-Grade equipnt. That was precisely why they could unleash combat power comparable to top-tier Tier-Two Elite units.
However—
The ring’s attributes and skill utility were extrely useful.
It greatly enhanced Spirit and Will while also increasing Spell Attack Power, making it highly suitable for Warlocks and Monks.
The Xinye Survivor Ring’s “Demon Spider Sticky Silk” sounded unimpressive, but it was actually an excellent control skill. For players lacking crowd-control abilities, it served as a superb supplentary skill.
Furthermore, Demon Spider Sticky Silk could not only restrain monsters or people, but could also function like Spider-Man’s webbing for grabbing or mobility assistance. In certain situations, it could produce miraculous effects.
As for the issue of the equipnt quality not being top-tier enough?
To elite players, that was not really a problem. Several top-tier players already possessed Quality Gems. Smashing a few gems into White High-Grade equipnt to upgrade it into Green Grade was not difficult for them at all.
Once equipnt quality underwent enhancent and upgrading—
The attached skills would also beco stronger!
One had to know—
The equipnt system in This Twisted Three Kingdoms Ga was extrely freeform!
Players could create completely unique equipnt according to their own needs. Different gems granted different abilities upon enhancent. As long as one had sufficient materials, theoretically any piece of equipnt possessed nearly limitless room for growth and modification.
Take Ye Li ng’s signature weapon, the Thousand-Skull Demon Hamr, for example.
Compared to when it first dropped, it was practically no longer the sa weapon.
Ye Li ng had not only upgraded the Thousand-Skull Demon Hamr to Tier Two and raised its quality to Green High-Grade, but had also enhanced it all the way to Enhancent Level 8. Even its attached skill effects and skill quantity had changed.
Nowadays, a single swing of the hamr could shatter three to five ordinary Thousand-Skull Demon Hamrs.
In the future, Ye Li ng would certainly continue using rare materials and rare gems to improve and modify it further, eventually cultivating it into a completely unique weapon made solely for himself.
One could say—
The longer this ga was played, the stronger its personalization beca.
Whether equipnt or skills, both possessed imnse creativity and plasticity.
Not long afterward—
The first battle ca to an end.
The entire ordeal had lasted for over an hour.
Players had to simultaneously withstand endless group ntal attacks while also facing endless waves of monsters. In the end, there was no suspense whatsoever—they suffered complete annihilation. From beginning to end, they failed to find any thod of escaping the Xinye Nightmare Domain, much less even eting the BOSS.
However, throughout the battle—
They had eliminated a total of 105 Xinye Survivors.
Using the Treasure Gathering Spirit Pearl alone to recover the dropped Essence yielded a net profit of 1.26 million Essence!
Hang Yu took all the Essence for himself. As for the remaining loot, he only took one-third of it, leaving the remaining two-thirds behind. He still had to leave the players so at to eat.
There was no way to leave the Essence behind for players. This stuff began decaying after just ten-plus minutes, and after several hours would most likely dissipate completely. If Hang Yu did not collect it in ti, massive losses and waste would occur.
Physical items like Magic Stones and loot would never disappear.
Therefore, Hang Yu only collected a small portion while leaving the rest behind. Once the Calamity Army cleaned up the battlefield afterward, they would naturally find those drops. It could at least serve as consolation for the players.
This wave of Treasure Gathering Spirit Pearl collection had recovered roughly 1.2 million Essence, while harvesting the “leeks” generated another 3.6 million Essence. Combined together, that already reached 4.8 million Essence!
Adding the nearly 3 million Essence reserves already on hand—
That totaled approximately 7.8 million Essence!
Absolutely refreshing!
This was no small figure!
It greatly alleviated the territory’s resource shortage!
At the very least, it was enough to satisfy the distribution of rewards for this mission and push the Calamity Army’s strength to yet another level!
As for Magic Stone inco, Hang Yu collected Abyssal Magic Stone Fragnts worth around 5,000 Magic Crystals, while the total current drop value had reached as high as 15,000 Magic Crystals. This was unquestionably a substantial fortune!
Regarding equipnt inco—
A total of 152 pieces of Xinye Survivor-series equipnt had dropped, primarily rings, necklaces, longswords, staffs, and cloaks.
Hang Yu again selected only one-third of them.
These equipnt pieces all possessed solid attributes and were Tier-Two White High-Grade items. They could enrich the territory inventory while also being exported. Stockpiling more of them would strengthen the territory’s overall foundation.
The gains were plentiful.
Extrely satisfying.
And yet the Xinye Campaign had only just begun.
Most likely, the truly massive profits still lay ahead!
Hang Yu felt extrely excited. This operation had indeed been the correct decision… only by constantly stirring up trouble and endlessly causing chaos could the Legion and territory develop faster and better!
Choosing Xinye City as the mission location—
Was undoubtedly the right choice.
Although the Calamity Army’s core mbers had experienced diocre leveling speed recently, they had learned increasingly more skills, raised their skill training levels higher and higher, and spent huge amounts of Contribution Points and materials crafting equipnt. Their overall equipnt level had continuously improved as well.
Moreover, with the number of high-level players steadily increasing—
The Calamity Army’s overall combat power had grown significantly.
Top-tier players such as Lone Boat, Rui Ge, Ye Li ng, Mad Blade Old Wang, and Salted Fish Thrust were only around Level 16, yet they could easily defeat Level 20 Elites. Even when besieged by several Xinye Survivors, they could still hold out for a long ti without falling behind.
Without a hard bone like Xinye—
These increasingly durable “leeks” would truly beco difficult to harvest.
…………
At this mont—
On the official forums.
Several updates had already been posted to the Xinye livestream thread.
Cloud Players were greatly shocked upon learning that the Calamity Army had suffered defeat and complete annihilation.
When they saw photos of the bizarre oil-painting-like twisted space, countless people praised the area’s design in amazent, feeling that the ga designers were unbelievably incredible!
“What the hell?”
“They got wiped before even seeing the BOSS!”
“Although everyone already knew this campaign wouldn’t be easy, nobody expected it to be this difficult!”
“This wave was a total loss. No loot, no understanding of the BOSS chanics. The elites really dropped the ball this ti!”
“You can’t bla the elites. The difficulty is just too insane. This ga isn’t sothing you can brute-force mindlessly.”
“Damn, this twisted art style and insane environntal design are completely my thing. Once again, massive praise for the ga’s art direction and aesthetics!”
“What should the Calamity Army do next?”
“Everyone brainstorm together! Maybe soone can find a breakthrough thod!”
“……”
After news of the Calamity Army’s disastrous defeat spread, Cloud Players and Lore Enthusiasts closely following the Xinye Campaign all began posting opinions and suggestions on the forums.
The Calamity Army also completed its regrouping.
This battle, combined with regrouping afterward, had consud three to four hours in total.
Although there was still ti remaining, a sense of urgency had already ford within the players’ hearts.
The Calamity Army did not fear total annihilation.
What they feared was this kind of clueless, muddled failure—
It made them realize that conquering Xinye City would be far more difficult than they had imagined!
“So what now?”
“We still haven’t found a way to escape the bizarre space!”
“Could it be impossible to break free once trapped inside?”
“From what we’ve seen so far, walking in any direction is useless.”
“……”
Just as everyone felt utterly stumped—
“Lord!”
“Feather God has arrived!”
“Hurry and pay respects to the Lord!”
Hang Yu arrived at the Calamity Army’s gathering point with Zhou Cang. The players who had been discussing strategy imdiately stopped and rose to greet him respectfully.
Hang Yu waved his hand, indicating there was no need for formalities.
He asked, “How goes the battle?”
Black-Eyed Rui Ge answered honestly, “We were discovered by Evil Infant Deng Ai before even entering Xinye City. It seems to possess so bizarre ability capable of creating illusions or twisting nearby space. It’s extrely troubleso to deal with.”
Salted Fish Thrust also spoke up. “Yeah, that guy is way too sinister. No matter how we moved, we couldn’t escape those lingering attacks, and it constantly summoned monsters to attack us. We’re currently discussing counterasures.”
Hang Yu replied, “Is that so? Then have you already discussed a breakthrough thod?”
Hearing this—
The Calamity Army looked sowhat embarrassed.
Mad Blade Old Wang frankly admitted, “We still haven’t thought of a way to break it yet!”
The Calamity Army had already brainstord extensively, combining ideas from the Lore Enthusiasts on the forums. They had indeed co up with a whole series of possible solutions.
For example, sneaking close to Xinye quietly—perhaps if they were not detected by the Evil Infant, they would not be dragged into the bizarre space.
Or using diversion tactics—
One team would attract the Evil Infant’s attention while another attacked from a different direction.
Players had gathered over a dozen plans like these.
However, every single one had issues of one kind or another, making it impossible to decide confidently.
Little Bell said guiltily, “The Calamity Army has failed in its duties and brought sha upon you, Lord. But please rest assured—we will definitely work hard and find a solution as soon as possible!”
The Calamity Army’s attitude was highly satisfying.
Players naturally possessed masochistic tendencies.
The more brutally they were abused right now, the stronger their imrsion beca. Both online and offline, everyone actively proposed ideas and strategies. Their competitiveness and sense of honor had been fully ignited.
Very good!
However, ti was limited.
As the saying went, every inch of ti was worth an inch of gold.
Today was Lord Hang Yu’s great day for harvesting leeks.
He did not want players wasting most of their ti on tactical discussions.
Besides, this was only the beginning. Evil Infant Deng Ai definitely possessed more tricks than this, so players still needed encouragent to hurry up and continue dying. Only in this way could Hang Yu better understand the monster’s characteristics.
Hang Yu said, “Your performance has already been quite good. You simply have not truly grasped the key point yet.”
Every player imdiately perked up.
Chira Wraith hurriedly asked, “Lord, have you seen through the Evil Infant’s thods? How can we avoid becoming trapped inside the bizarre space?”
Hang Yu replied, “Do not attempt to eliminate the sound itself, nor try to escape the sound’s influence. What you should do instead is calmly search for the source of the sound, then eliminate or weaken that source from the root.”
After hearing the Lord’s words—
The players first fell into thought, then suddenly felt enlightened.
Black-Eyed Rui Ge exclaid, “That’s right! Since the BOSS uses sound to influence space, we just need to make it shut up! Eliminating sound itself may be difficult, but we can cut off the source!”
Street Slayer said, “Cut off the sound? How? Cover our ears?”
Chira Wraith replied, “It’s not that simple. The Evil Infant’s influence isn’t purely subjective—it also affects the objective environnt. It’s not sothing we can avoid just by refusing to listen.”
At this mont, Toasting the Moon spoke up. “Think carefully. Every ti the crying appeared, wasn’t it coming from a different location? Perhaps there’s a moving sound source inside the bizarre space!”
“That does seem true!”
“That ans the BOSS might actually be hidden inside the bizarre space itself! As long as we find it, we can cut off the sound source and break the bizarre space!”
“That makes sense!”
“Instead of trying to escape or avoid the bizarre space, we should directly figure out how to destroy it. As long as we kill the sound source, the entire bizarre space should collapse automatically!”
“Aweso!”
“Hurry and test it!”
“I feel like this plan can work!”
“……”
The more the players discussed it, the more feasible it seed!
The chanics of the Xinye Nightmare Domain were actually not that complicated.
The Fourth Calamity consisted of clever, cunning, and unbelievably greedy individuals.
Hang Yu had rely offered a slight hint, and they imdiately grasped the key chanic and found the correct line of thinking!
Inside the Xinye Nightmare Domain—
Sound interfered with everything.
All physical reference points were unreliable.
But was sound itself not also a reference point?
No matter how chaotic or reversed one’s sense of direction beca, as long as they continuously moved toward the direction of the sound, perhaps they could find the source and destroy the bizarre space at its root.
Little Bell’s eyes sparkled with stars. “Thank you, Lord!”
Chira Wraith also said, “Without your guidance, we would’ve been trapped by our own perspective. We probably wouldn’t have noticed this detail so quickly.”
Hang Yu calmly replied, “Go. Evil Infant Deng Ai may indeed be troubleso, but our cause is to purify the entire Abyssal Plane and rescue countless living beings from suffering. Along the path ahead, we will undoubtedly encounter existences thousands or even tens of thousands of tis more terrifying than this. You must remain steadfast, unyielding, and never retreat!”
For a mont—
The players were filled with awe.
At the sa ti, they felt a profound sense of mission.
Their gratitude and respect for Lord Hang Yu rose to an even greater level.
Feather God’s personal charisma was simply overwhelming!
Not only was he a great leader and an invincible powerhouse—the stabilizing pillar of the territory—but he was also an incredibly kind, warm-hearted gentleman!
Even though he clearly knew the Calamity Army possessed immortal bodies, he still could not bear to watch them suffer setbacks and pain. He personally ca to provide guidance and illumination!
For the Lord!
For the honor of the Calamity Army!
The players all declared themselves willing to die ten thousand deaths without regret!
Watching the Calamity Army charge into Xinye City once again—
“Good, very good, full of spirit!”
Hang Yu revealed a satisfied and gratified smile.
Would the thod he suggested to the Calamity Army work?
Most likely, yes.
However, as a monster transford from Deng Ai, Evil Infant Deng Ai was absolutely not simple to deal with.
As a Lord—
Hang Yu hoped the Calamity Army would perform well.
At the sa ti, he hoped Evil Infant Deng Ai would also perform well.
The sound of the nuclear-powered leek harvester restarting seed to already echo beside his ears.
Whether the Calamity Army or the corrupted monsters—
At this mont, both were contributing to the territory’s developnt and to the Lord’s grand ambitions!
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