“Eh? What’s going on?”

Chai Chai picked up Li Ang's palm, looked at the reindeer skull mark on the back of his hand, and asked, "Why did it change shape?"

"Customized. It's more unique."

Li Ang said succinctly, took back the artificial skin, covered the new divine mark, and snapped his fingers.

Snap.

The wooden chair beneath him surged with countless vines and flowers, automatically weaving into the shape of a soft recliner.

The efficiency of using divine power is now higher; ten points of divine power can accomplish what fifteen or even twenty points could do before.

Li Ang silently pinched a flower petal, his heart peaceful and serene.

If he could accumulate five thousand points of divine power and completely remove the restrictions, to what extent would his personal combat power soar?

Perhaps even Michael would no longer be an unattainable existence...

"Oh, right, there's also the betting thing."

Chai Chai hung the newly woven wreath on the wall of the alchemy workshop and said, "Originally, the system set up a seven-day competition segment, but it ended after only two days, so there weren't many opportunities to bet.

"Moreover, there are so many betting options, and the choices are so detailed, making it very difficult to guess.

"I, along with all the brainworms, only won one."

"What's the reward?"

"A common-quality, blank gun, which can save time when changing bullets. It's worthless."

Chai Chai said, "The brainworm that won is currently in the Pacific. Should I bring it over?"

"No need. It's just a blank item; it's not worth much."

Li Ang can no longer see the value in common or even rare-level equipment, unless it's a prop with particularly magical and unique effects.

Speaking of which, the Venomous Short Blade is still stored in the vault deep within the Zerg Nest. Only the most professional research brainworms are allowed to study the potential of the Venomous Short Blade in a completely sealed and isolated environment.

Now that Li Ang has been promoted to a demigod and has greater control over creating life, it's time to slightly lift the restrictions on the Venomous Short Blade and increase the frequency of experiments.

Li Ang kept this idea in mind, returned to his computer desk, and took another look.

Hmm... the player forum has a very peculiar phenomenon: the more skilled and higher-ranked the players are, the less they post.

On the contrary, players in the Lv5 to Lv15 range particularly enjoy posting discussions,

constantly saying things like:

"Michael's strength isn't as strong as everyone thinks; it's all hype. I looked at the match records, and a Lv20 player, with a reasonable equipment build, is fully capable of defeating him."

"If you give a Lv10 player an epic-level equipment, can they solo a naked Lv20?"

"Shi Kong? I've fought him in the arena. It's a fifty-fifty chance. I often solo-kill him too."

Especially during the past two days of the competition, a large number of classic discussion threads have appeared in the forum.

A large group of players who aren't even qualified to participate in the preliminary rounds of the Doorway Scramble,

are strategizing, dominating, and pontificating,

as if, according to their scripts, the Earth players can easily break through the encirclement of the Moku world's transcendents.

"The Doorway Scramble is indeed a truth serum. The Syndicate guys are good at infighting, but useless in external battles. They're all inferior horses."

"What level is the Special Affairs Bureau at now? Just a few people. You, Hanshui Shi, are just playing support. Can he fight? He can't. He doesn't have the ability, you know? A comeback? Very blue, la."

"Why do I say it's a good random teleportation? I just hope the FBI's Special Incidents Division can help Europe Heavy Industries Group obtain the Heresy Society's items, and remove some obstacles for Europe Heavy Industries Group to win the championship. Of course, it's better to win. The FBI and Europe Heavy Industries Group are brother guilds. As for Prometheus Laboratory Company and other allies, two words: let fate decide. I'm a fan of Europe Heavy Industries Group, a rational fan."

There are quite a few classic posts of this kind, and even quite a few discussing Li Risheng.

Some posts are praising his strength,

some are revealing in detail how much money the Immaculate Furnace shop makes, speculating about the organization behind Li Risheng,

and some are gloating after Li Ang killed the Shichibukai Míng Huáng Chì Yǎn, saying that Míng Huáng Chì Yǎn belongs to Europe Heavy Industries Group, and Li Risheng is probably going to be in trouble.

Li Ang didn't pay attention to the posts about himself.

He focused on the details of the personal combat power ranking and the players' analysis of the system update prompts.

The third stage of the Slaughter Game will officially begin in seven days. Some update content has already gone live.

The upper limit of equipment and item quality has been raised to the epic level.

Players can freely form teams.

The upper limit of guild membership has been further increased. As long as you pay enough game currency, you can provide some nice buffs for all guild members,

such as increasing spirit energy recovery speed by 5%, increasing sanity上限 by 100 points—even for players above Lv20, these buffs are very useful.

The most critical update content consists of three items.

First, in the third stage, all Doorway permissions will be gradually opened. Players who obtain Doorways can freely close and open them, and they can also enter and exit themselves, or allow others to enter and exit.

According to this information, and the information revealed by Huangshi and others in the Doorway Scramble,

players generally speculate that Doorways are very likely to be channels connecting two worlds, like portals or stargates,

capable of directly reaching grotto-heavens (blessed lands), other dimensions, and even complete ecological planets that can be colonized and expanded.

No matter which one it is, the value of the Doorway is immeasurable.

Regarding the players' speculation, those large organizations that have obviously obtained Doorways, such as the Special Affairs Bureau, the Global Supernatural Alliance, etc., have fallen into a strange silence.

It is estimated that they are now holding meetings with think tanks to discuss the value of Doorways and analyze the threats they pose.

Second, the personal combat power ranking will be temporarily closed for seven days, and will be updated along with the opening of the Doorways in seven days.

This update content is very intriguing.

If the above hypothesis about Doorways connecting to other worlds is correct, then the so-called "updated together" is likely to add transcendents from the Doorway worlds...

For Li Ang, this can barely be considered a good thing. At least it won't expose the fact that his strength has improved so rapidly. Even if his ranking skyrockets in seven days, he can use the excuse that he bought a lot of new equipment to barely get by.

Third, increase the frequency of selection, expand the player base, and regular missions in the real world will appear more frequently. There is also a certain probability of refreshing ultra-large regular missions with long time spans that other players can freely join.

If the previous update content had nothing to do with the vast majority of ordinary players, then this last message completely detonated the player forum.

Regular missions take place in the real world.

Ultra-large regular missions with long time spans that can be joined at any time,

mean that huge and far-reaching turbulence will occur in the real world.