Sacrificial Power

Biodata

Nature and Mechanics

• Universal conversion: Sacrificial Power is an exceptionally pure energy capable of transforming into all things. Even highly pure Energy Crystals require further refinement before becoming Sacrificial Power 24.
• Structural reproduction: Once Qi Sheng has fully analyzed something’s structure, he can reproduce it with Sacrificial Power and automate that process through the Challenger System. Shop Spirit Stones are manufactured this way 62.
• Life Soul fuel: Ordinary Life Souls generate rule-derived energy according to their own logic; within the Challenger System, their rule logic becomes Sacrificial Power 631.
• Visible form: It manifests as scarlet or crimson energy during sacrifice, purification, and direct expenditure 10 24 531.

Central Pool and Player Balances

• Players’ displayed balances are accounting records, not energy stored inside their bodies. Their earnings enter the central pool; purchases and upgrades draw energy from that pool and transmit the resulting items or effects to them 43.
• Qi Sheng controls the entire reserve but ordinarily leaves players’ portions untouched apart from his own cut, reserving exceptional intervention for special circumstances 43.
• The initial status panel records 130,428 stored Sacrificial Power, 30 per hour from the Containment Wall, and 1,000 per day spent resisting the Dark Tide 7.
• Refining Ice Blade’s Energy Crystal raises the pool to 13,333,842. Nine Yin’s purification array converts its golden energy into crimson Sacrificial Power, with some energy lost during refinement 24.

Acquisition

Sacrifice Valuation

• Material value is not combat value: Finished equipment is accepted as scrap rather than rewarded according to its usefulness. Recovering its original spiritual materials without manufacturing losses would produce a higher return 285.
• Rules can carry high sacrifice values: The March of the Dead Rule Fragment dropped in Bone Throne is worth 468,000 if sacrificed 289.
• Damaged items can remain valuable: A broken shipwreck weapon that cannot be charged or used still yields 9,738 Sacrificial Power 548.
• Rule preservation is possible: Guide can break a rule down into Sacrificial Power while retaining its core structure for later regeneration. This service carries a 10% processing fee 529.

Applications

Player Advancement

Sacrificial Power supports the core growth systems of Life Souls, Star Meridians, and Body Tempering 43 206.

• Purchases Life Souls and raises Star Meridian levels 10 24 60.
• Raises Body Tempering levels, with costs multiplying after successive ten-level bottlenecks as stronger physiques become necessary to accommodate additional traits 60 117.
• Purchases cultivation techniques and powers autonomous cultivation organs that absorb environmental spiritual energy 117 201.
• Buys experience directly, though this is more expensive than gaining it through hunting 259.
• Improves pets, weapons, enchantments, and other optional systems, requiring players to prioritize their spending 156 206 229.

Rule Integration and Comprehension

• Outside rules: The Challenger System can absorb external world rules by spending Sacrificial Power, allowing defeated factions’ advantages to strengthen the Player Legion 145.
• Special Life Souls: Guide uses it to fuse the Game Space Rule with Fate Throat’s Fate Rules imprint, creating Fate City 398.
• Inherited techniques: It accelerates integration with sword momentum. Guide offers Tu Hu either complete reconstruction of the Sword of Protection or a cheaper, progressively unsealed Life Soul 494.
• Personal pressure: It supplies missing insights, emotions, and momentum when unlocking pressure. Better compatibility reduces the cost 415.
• Long-term rule development: The pressure system uses Sacrificial Power as fuel and catalyst for a player’s emotional core, creating a potential route toward a uniquely personal rule 415.

Resurrection and Support for the Dead

• Ordinary resurrection consumes Sacrificial Power and can leave a player with a negative balance 16.
• Ye Ming spends 5,000 to resurrect Mingwu Emperor, who returns as a powerless new Player rather than retaining his former abilities 441.
• Dead players in Conquest Land can revive instantly but incur revival costs. Ironhide estimates that one death would leave Li Tie nearly 3.5 million in debt 733.
• Memorial offerings can transfer Sacrificial Power to deceased players. The living receive no reward for these offerings, while recipients need usable resources to repay debts 735 736.

Spatial Functions and Creation

• Creates additional Spatial Inventory slots without a numerical limit on expansion 121.
• Pays teleportation fees and funds portable pet spaces, land purchases, and Independent Spaces 156 345 791.
• Substitutes for Ink Power to animate and reshape a Hunting Level 89 body-refining cultivator. Its material cannot be changed, and it cannot resurrect after death 155.
• Converts into Ink Power to fuel Shuyan’s story world; Ink Power can also be extracted and converted back into Sacrificial Power 804.

Ascension to Godhood

• Fuels reincarnation and recultivation experiences designed to complete weaknesses in combat strength and temperament 631 633.
• Supports the reconstruction needed for a true life leap beyond level 499. The initial Player Body is described as a structure created with 1,000 Sacrificial Power that must be reforged for higher-dimensional development 631.
• Pays for Apotheosis Trials, reincarnation illusions, and star ring upgrades through the Ascension to Godhood system 632.

Real-World Benefits

• Pays for Eclipse Race technology and medical services, including preferential access unavailable through ordinary currency alone 345.
• Purchases spiritual products that address lifespan, disease, health, and physical fitness through the real-world marketplace 352.
• Temporarily enables Yu Chuan to synchronize 7% of his Player Body’s power into his real body for 32,931 points. Qi Sheng does not immediately make this permission generally available 342 343.

Documented Costs

Currency and Economy

Scarcity and Exchange Rates

• Farming players must reinvest much of their income into their own strength to keep pace with threats, limiting what they can sell 95.
• Major guilds reserve professional farming teams’ output in advance, removing substantial supplies from public circulation 81 95.
• Speculators buy and hoard Sacrificial Power in anticipation of further price increases 144.
• Additional grinding players from the Gillfish and Abyssal Fish races ease supply pressure without eliminating the shortage 112.
• Later, the Eclipse Race purchases unlimited quantities, and casual earnings can cover a player’s living needs 586.

Exchange Infrastructure

• The Challenger System introduces remote currency transactions linked to players’ bank accounts, with a final confirmation lock to prevent input errors 167.
• Insufficient bank funds cancel the transaction. A fee is charged to the recipient of Sacrificial Power; Qi Sheng takes no share of the real-world currency payment 167.
• The exchange interface includes a Sacrificial Power consignment box 167.
• The Eclipse Race officially recognizes it as a “hard currency bridging virtual and real worlds.” It can buy technology, secure priority Game Pod purchases, and bypass ordinary medical appointment queues 345.

Large-Scale Expenditure

System Administration and Limits

Revenue and Development

• Qi Sheng takes a documented 30% cut from the 8.26 million in resources yielded by captured Black Wind Race warships 121.
• Official events can recover currency for system development. The Lucky Wheel is created to fund the Armored Vehicle Function while remaining profitable for Qi Sheng 62.
• Players have no official cash top-up option; they mistakenly assume developers can create unlimited Sacrificial Power as game data 95.
• Recruitment, domain partitioning, events, and new functions compete for the same reserves. Features must be designed around the output players can actually sustain 117.
• Major operations also consume the pool directly: Universal Analysis burns Sacrificial Power to project future scenarios, and Emperor Zhao’s intervention across causality drains it even faster 545.

Restrictions and Trade-Offs

• Negative balances disable functions: Li Tie loses access to the shop and Star Meridian enhancement after resurrection leaves him at −7 16.
• Conversion does not guarantee compatibility: Qi Sheng can reproduce Heavenly Talisman circulation pathways, but the technique’s cultivation system is unsuitable for humans 62.
• Some conversions are deliberately withheld: Sacrificial Power could produce Enlightenment information energy at roughly two energy points per point spent. Qi Sheng refuses to offer this because repeated temporary buffs would divert resources from lasting growth 179.
• Equal spending need not produce equal results: Pressure development depends on personal emotional compatibility, unlike standardized upgrade systems 415.
• Expensive options can be poor early investments: Pressure and Four Gods’ Blessings offer weak immediate returns for beginners compared with foundational development, despite their importance to later top-level builds 550.
• Combat recycling has an opportunity cost: Freedom Particle teleportation costs five points per particle, making repeated transport of a million particles a five-million-point burden each time 619.