Chapter 655 - 202: Soul Travel at the Village Entrance, Lord Mode
The beach was filled with player avatars of different races.
Looking far into the distance, the horizon shimmered under the sunshine, the seawater was clear enough to reveal the colorful shells scattered across the shallow beach, the seaweed swaying with the waves, and the underwater creatures darting around.
The waves gently lapped against the coastal rocks, creating a pleasant "whoosh" sound and splashing white spray.
Near the shore, a few sailboats made by the Fishing Man rocked on the sea, their white sails starkly visible against the blue sky and sea.
Occasionally, laughter from the Fishing Man players could be heard from the boats.
The comfortable environment is always the main reason why the Colorful Mist Coast Region ranks first in the area recommendation list.
Finding an empty spot, a few people started sunbathing.
Li Zheng looked toward the Gills Fish Clan players setting up stalls not far away, ordered some of the forum-famous spirit food snacks, and then called up the forum interface.
The days in the training camp were all about growing under high-pressure environments.
Such leisure was indeed rare.
Opening the live streaming section, Li Zheng entered the word "Divine King" in the search bar and consciously clicked on confirm.
There are two viewing modes in the live stream.
One is interface viewing, where the interface can be freely dragged and resized within the view.
This viewing mode doesn’t affect activities and is suitable for use during leisurely entertainment.
Multiple streams can be viewed at once, as long as they fit within the field of view.
The second is immersion mode, which switches to the broadcaster’s view or guidance view, for a fully covered viewing experience.
In immersion mode, no activities can be carried out.
But recently there’s been an exception.
If a player is watching a live stream of a "Death Space Dungeon" player, then they can only watch in immersion mode and not in interface mode.
It’s not that they can’t choose to watch in interface mode.
It’s just that in interface mode, the screen in the Death Space Dungeon will abstractly accelerate.
Players have analyzed this on the forum.
They believe it’s because the player’s brain activity frequency in the Death Space Dungeon accelerates, processing large amounts of information quickly, causing the screen to appear abstractly accelerated.
This has also been proven by Guidance.
In fact, the time inside the Death Space has no difference from the outside world, both flowing at the same speed.
Only the speed in the illusion is accelerated.
When a player dies in the illusion, it’s essentially not being attacked by a monster in the illusion, but the Lord of Jile using the Power of Extreme Joy to create injuries on the player, which are fed back in real-time.
Finding the Divine King’s live stream in the list, Li Zheng clicked to enter.
The scene presented was specific to the Emperor Tomb Mountain Range region, a suppressive environment with the Evil Moon hanging high.
In the image, the Divine King was commanding the United Battle Group, clashing with the Black Tide Army led by the Earth Thought Bully.
What surprised Li Zheng was the ability used by the Divine King.
He saw a brown mark appear on the Divine King’s forehead, and instantly the earth at the horizon trembled violently, as if awakened by an invisible force.
It undulated like waves, and huge rocks abruptly rose from the ground, squeezing and piecing together to form a towering Earth Shield in the blink of an eye.
The local offensive under the control of the Earth Thought Bully was immediately resisted by this Earth Shield, and the offensive instantly collapsed.
"Damn, with this ability, mining would probably take off." Li Zheng was instantly amazed by this scene.
In his impression, the Divine King had always been a command-type player, with low combat power himself, but now he had the ability to easily change the earth’s appearance at will.
This reminded him of the hot topic event on the forum two months ago.
The Divine King successfully contained the Sixth Generation Primordial Monster with his team: the Lord.
This clearly indicated that the Divine King had activated Lord Mode, releasing a special ability through the consumption of Lord Power.
The strength of the Sixth Generation Primordial made him truly envious.
As first-batch players, they were only embedded with 1-4 Generation Primordials.
At this moment, a green mark appeared on the Divine King’s forehead in the live stream.
Switching from Earth Lord Mode to Forest Lord Mode.
Dots of green spread from the center where the Divine King’s vision focused, and on the previously barren Black Tide land, countless tender green sprouts sprang up, growing at an astonishing speed.
In just a moment, a dense small forest had grown.
Thick tree trunks interwove to form a natural barrier, their branches covered with sharp spikes, beginning to lash at the attacking Catastrophe series soldiers, shielding the damage-bearing stream players retreating for recovery.
At this moment, the mark on the Divine King’s forehead turned ice blue.
In a localized area of the battlefield, snow began to fall, instantly enveloped in extreme cold...
Compared to 1-4th Generation Life Souls, the Lord Life Soul characteristic gave Li Zheng a sense of a natural-controlling god-like vision.
But this Life Soul had its drawbacks too.
He recalled discussions on the forum, where test players mentioned that each activation of Lord Mode consumed Lord Power, and releasing abilities also required Lord Power consumption.
The larger the coverage area and the greater the changes to the local area, the more Lord Power consumed.
Theoretically, with unlimited Lord Power, one could treat the battlefield as a canvas and rewrite the environment at will with one’s own will.
But this is only theoretical.
Lord Power can only be gained through sustained production by occupying territory.
Earlier players have a huge advantage, while players joining later can only establish Lord Nodes in those monster-infested areas.
Though one could use underhanded tactics, such as attracting monsters to destroy the Lord Nodes set by other Lord Stream players, the outcome of doing so would be dire.
Especially facing a leader of a top guild like the Divine King, an ordinary player daring to use underhanded moves to seize territory nodes might not even be able to leave the village gate in the future.
The war continued, and the clashes between the United Warband and Black Tide on the screen made Li Zheng’s heart surge.
This was the growth model he wanted.
He and his brothers in the Liver Emperor Group all had the War God Seal’s blessing, and war mode could make their combat power leap significantly.
After a few wars, they could create a substantial combat power gap with regular players.
Even though the Star Vein didn’t house life souls above the Fourth Generation, Guidance had stated that the War God Seal rules on them were the top-tier rule-derived power more precious than the Sixth Generation Primordial.
The war continued, and through observation, Li Zheng noticed.
Faced with the version’s epicly strengthened Earth Thought Bully, the Divine King struggled to fight, even with the Lord Life Soul’s blessing, his United Warband found it tough.
Especially in personal command ability, being completely suppressed by the Earth Thought Bully.
Eventually, the war turned into a one-sided defeat.
By the time they finished their spirit food, the United Warband had been scattered by the Black Tide Demonic Spirits.
Unable to reorganize an effective united force, they were forced to enter free war mode.
Before long, the Divine King also perished under the Black Tide’s frenzy, and the live stream was shrouded in darkness.
A few minutes later, the Divine King sent a message:
Divine King: Game Working Party brothers, gather in Imperial Tomb Village in 50 minutes, we’ll fight the Evil Boss again.
Game Working Party: Received, we’ll gather earlier!
Closing the dialog box, Li Zheng stood up:
"Brothers, back to the village, fight the Evil Boss."