Monsters Are Coming

Chapter 1473: Chapter 380: This World Is Too Abstract (Part 2)

Outside is an artificially crafted mountain within the city, shrouded in a thin mist, with glimpses of countless palace outlines at the mountain peak.

At the foot of the mountain, a waterfall cascades down, plunging into a lake that emits a blue glow, with several boats anchored on the lake’s surface.

The sight before him made Bao Yan realize he had arrived at a secluded paradise.

This civilization is likely parasitic in Monster World by connecting through space, extracting resources from Monster World without directly participating in the resource conflict wars of Monster World.

It’s somewhat similar to Ah Le.

The speed of descent is becoming faster, and the details within the city are becoming clearer.

It can be seen that the entire city is divided into two parts.

With the white Tower at the center, the buildings to the west of the city are predominantly black, while to the east they are predominantly gold.

Bao Yan decisively released spiritual power, transforming it into telekinesis to support his body and slow down the descent.

His concern now is that the city might have a defense system.

He feared that before entering the city, he would be killed by invisible barriers and hidden defense mechanisms.

Fortunately, the worst-case scenario did not occur.

While continuously descending, he noticed two factions engaging in battle in the east-west boundary area of the city below.

To avoid being killed, Bao Yan decisively activated "Dusk Shadow", one of the Life Souls necessarily embedded by Exploration Faction players.

His figure transformed into a shadow, collecting his aura into his body.

Once again looking towards the direction where the two factions were confronting each other, the scene that appeared made Bao Yan’s mind freeze.

On the stone road at the east-west boundary of the city, groups of figures were confronting each other.

One side was dressed in black robes, while the other side wore gold robes.

Suddenly, a humanoid life form leading the black-robed faction stepped forward, flicked his finger, and a rhombus-shaped crystal coin was ejected.

The crystal coin exploded in mid-air, transforming into energy that surged into the leading figure’s body.

Someone in the gold-robed faction immediately responded by waving a string of copper coins; the coins linked in mid-air, and then also followed by transforming into beams of energy surging into their body.

The two figures connected fists in mid-air.

Immediately, a series of complex characters appeared above each person’s head.

As the characters twisted, they transformed into clear numbers in Bao Yan’s mind.

They were: -13048 and 12839.

As soon as the two numbers materialized, the figure from the gold-robed faction, with a number of 12839 above his head, seemed to be struck by an invisible Giant Hammer, let out a groan, and his body flew backward, then his legs weakened, kneeling on the ground, face as white as paper, seemingly without even the strength to raise his hand.

Meanwhile, the black-robed person remained motionless, landing steadily.

"Huh?"

The sight bewildered Bao Yan.

He completely failed to understand what was happening.

Thinking he had missed some details, he retrieved the recorded footage, slowly replaying it repeatedly to check if he had missed anything.

Was it possible that both sides engaged in countless collisions in moments too quick for his naked eye to capture?

But the fact is, there were no magic duels, and no physical exchanges.

Both sides simply touched physically for an instant, revealing their numbers above their heads, then the gold-robed figure seemed drained of all strength, collapsing to the ground.

What kind of battle is this?

But the subsequent conflicts were all similarly abstract.

Every time either side made a move, a series of numbers would appear above their heads.

As soon as one side’s number was lower than the other’s, the contact would result in dissolution.

The so-called battle doesn’t require magic duels or weapon clashes; victory is solely determined by the numbers above their heads.

Setting foot in a small grove at the boundary area, Bao Yan decisively turned to look at the Guiding Water Ball floating beside him:

"Brother Guide, I don’t understand, what are they doing?"

Facing the inquiry, the Guiding Water Ball slowly opened its eyes, explaining:

[This is a Cultivation Civilization world, but different from the Ascension Small World under the control of the Ascension Clan... You can understand it as a world purely competing with numbers under the rules’ shroud, unlike the outside where multiple factors like skills, talent, Life Strength, etc., are compared. Here, everything’s existence is quantified into specific numbers, with cultivation base numbers being the core combat power. They refer to cultivation base as wealth, and the stronger the wealth numbers, the higher the power level; even resources and industries can be converted into adjustable wealth numbers.]

[What you have just witnessed is essentially a collision of financial power, when the numerical gap surpasses a threshold, the weaker side is directly suppressed by the rule without any unnecessary actions, and the side with lower numbers will inevitably collapse... These are the world’s rules and laws, which the sentient beings of this world cannot defy...]

As he spoke, the Guiding Sphere conjured an arm, gently pointing.

Immediately, a light curtain appeared in front of Bao Yan.

It listed the cultivation realm (financial power) progression table.

Bao Yan finally understood what the abstract scene he had just witnessed was all about.

In the guidance explanation, the Golden Power Space is a wealth-dominated world with a growth system similar to a Cultivation Civilization, but what’s cultivated isn’t the realms but wealth.

Everything a cultivator possesses, including magic artifacts and cultivation base... are measured as wealth numbers and wealth realms.

The way both sides engage is simple; the moment they contact, they display their wealth numbers to each other and then compare the sizes of those numbers.

The side with higher wealth numbers is definitely stronger than the side with lower wealth numbers.

Therefore, increasing one’s wealth numbers is the growth direction pursued by all beings in this world, simply amassing numbers to become stronger.

Because here, there is no possibility of winning through skills.

The entire world is enveloped by the "Golden Power Rule," and external beings entering it must also operate according to this set of rule logic.