"I told you to let me handle it! I'm really good at Gomoku. I know all kinds of killing moves in Pu Yue Formation and Que Yue Formation. Even Zuzu can't beat me. You know better now, right?"
"Yes, yes. I'll let you handle everything next time."
"Let me handle the other games too! I'm really good at games! What reward did we get this time?"
At the Land of Gathering Demons, Yan Qing and Murong Hui stood before a gigantic Gomoku board. When five white pieces connected in a row, the remaining black pieces let out a wail and vanished from the board with a crackle. Playing Gomoku here was surprisingly satisfying.
Yan Qing glanced at his bracelet, his eyes lighting up. "It's a Transformation Card called 'Blood Sacrifice Ascension.' At the cost of reducing a Puppet Card's health by half, it grants half the progress toward ascension."
"What's ascension?" Murong Hui asked curiously.
"We'll know soon enough."
Yan Qing used "Blood Sacrifice Ascension" on the Dragon Attendant. A gruesome wound suddenly burst open across the Dragon Attendant's skeletal body, and emerald-like blood dripped from it. Murong Hui curiously reached out to catch it, but the emerald blood vaporized and vanished the moment it made contact.
Yan Qing wasn't surprised in the slightest. He had already discovered while fighting other puppets that these puppet creatures all possessed a "self-purification mechanism." Whenever they were injured or killed, they disappeared directly without polluting the game environment.
From a coding perspective, reducing the accumulation of corpses also lowered the load on the players' computers. After all, the Land of Gathering Demons was truly enormous. The atmosphere had to yield to optimization.
But to Murong Hui, it was another matter entirely. "Not even the blood can remain... It really is different from the