United Divine Statue, New Ideas on Myriad Aspects

Day 16 of the newbie event.

Ring-Cage Realm.

Atop a towering boulder, Emperor Rider remained seated cross-legged in the same meditative posture as before.

He had shed the plain appearance of the early pioneering days. Countless layers of dazzling halos now swirled around him.

Red, blue, cyan, black, silver—streams of light in every color coiled and flowed around him, varying in shade and intensity.

Each layer of light corresponded to a buff from a different monster.

At this moment, his body had become a world unto itself.

Countless alien energies surged within him. With his former life structure, conflicting attributes would inevitably have caused tsunami-like clashes inside his body. But after gaining a player's body, every buff acquired through Steal could coexist perfectly.

More than ten uninterrupted days of stealing and plundering had transformed his physical attributes.

He had stacked nearly three hundred sustain-type buffs alone.

There was the body-moistening trait from Marsh Spirit, the endless vitality from Wood Spirit Cicada, the earth nourishment from Rock Behemoth, the spirit healing from Thunder Weasel, the Body Tempering and blood recovery from Spirit Salamander, the essence condensation from Xi Fei, and the spirit restoration from Qing Lanbai—an assortment of sustain traits that formed a massive spirit-gathering formation around him.

Sustain was also the buff effect he valued most.

His entire system relied on "San Shi" to keep his divine-sense avatars operating and fighting. Combined with the constant expenditure needed to maintain Steal traits, terrifying amounts of energy drained away every second.

He needed extreme sustain to cover that cost.

Only now, with more than three hundred sustain buffs running in parallel, had his expenditure stabilized.

On top of that, he had countless buffs of other types.

Attack, defense, penetration, stealth, suppression, armor breaking—stacked temporary buffs gave him comprehensive improvements in every dimension.