The reason why the exchange rate of sacrificial power for cash is set around 175 is due to the game’s currency being in high demand and short supply.
Belonging to a market with scarce commodities at a valuable price, many grinding players have even established stable sales channels with various guilds, and the sacrificial power they produce does not circulate externally.
This makes it difficult for average pay-to-play players to acquire sacrificial power.
In the foreseeable future, alongside the increase in player strength and resulting rise in the production of sacrificial power, the exchange rate of sacrificial power for cash will not only remain high but could also continue to trend upwards. This is because later stages will feature an increase in the consumption of sacrificial power.
On this matter, Qi Sheng did consider a question.
Given the high earnings from game production, supposing Monster World fully opens up gaming qualifications, who in the future would be willing to continue working in reality? They could completely meet their real-life needs through the earnings produced from the game.
Regarding this issue, after analysis, Guidance provided an explanation.
It suggested that the real world has already entered the age of artificial intelligence, with robots responsible for all manual labor. It is a trend of the times for ordinary people to enter the virtual world to create real earnings, and it is also a phenomenon that has already emerged in this era.
The jobs still existing in the real world are primarily AI technicians, mechanical engineers, and maintenance staff, high-end technology research personnel, and the like—jobs that AI alone cannot complete.
Thus, driving ordinary people into the virtual world and providing virtual employment opportunities has been an action taken not only by the Human Clan Federation Government but also by many Alien Race powers.
Through these virtual positions, work is exchanged for relief.
This is also why the pricing for virtual game hubs is incredibly low, and in some regions, they are even distributed for free—allowing for widespread accessibility, which is one of the primary reasons.
The evolution of the times has led to the complete disappearance of the ancient concept of the "demographic dividend."
With artificial intelligence robots capable of satisfying societal production needs, population growth brings more burden rather than benefits.
Hence, a player mentioned on the forum that this game might bring about the concept of redistributing wealth, which makes some sense.
Pay-to-play players distribute real wealth to grinding players in exchange for game resources, allowing the almost solidified social wealth to circulate downwards, indirectly reducing the real-world wealth disparity and achieving a redistributive effect of wealth.
After pondering this problem briefly, Qi Sheng no longer paid attention to it.
Because whether it is pay-to-play players or grinding players, their trading of sacrificial power does not affect his cut.
Both pay-to-play and grinding players are spending their money on improving their strength.
And the amount of sacrificial power he draws will neither decrease nor increase.
After briefly discussing this issue with Guidance, Qi Sheng no longer focused on the fluctuations in the price of the sacrificial power.
At this moment, his consciousness switched to the perspective of the Guiding Avatar in the Colorful Mist Sea Area.
He could see the mysterious blue Spiritual Patterns on the ground, starting from the center point of the formation’s eyes, moving about as if with their self-awareness, weaving and intertwining with each other, joining on the ground to form intricate and complex exquisite patterns.
Accompanied by the continuous infusion and pulling of Yan Ming’s Power of Space.
All the Spiritual Patterns seemed to be endowed with life, creating one beating Rune after another above the Space Spirit Patterns, abiding by the operating rules of Monster World, echoing each other, their released Energy waves connecting to slowly sketch out the massive framework of the Space Transmission Array.
During the process, each flicker of the formation’s eyes releases flowing Energy to sustain the expansion of the Spiritual Patterns.
Through observation, it can be determined that the completion of a stable Space Transmission Array is not far off.
At this time, his consciousness switched back to the Player Forum.
According to feedback from Guidance, a newly posted thread was rapidly gaining popularity.
[Discovered recently that the forum has lots of new faction combinations, all claiming to dominate over the Magic System Star Vein School, but I’m here to tell you that the combinations of the Magic System Star Vein have always been the true gods of the game. Those who disagree, come and see my combination, and ask yourself, is it strong or not?!]
Poster: Melee Magic God.
People say that after the Insect Tide emerged, the strength of the Magic System Star Veins was weakened due to the high Resistance of Insect Warriors to elemental damage, impacting the efficiency of Magic Output. But I’m here to tell you that the Magic System faction remains the true god of the game. It only takes a new combination in accordance with the version changes to adapt to the new alterations.
Let’s get to the main point and talk about my Star Vein Combination.
My set of Star Veins only requires three core Life Souls, and if you have extra Star Vein Slots, you can decide what to embed.
First Star Vein Slot: Energy Absorption
Trait effect: Automatically filters Energy particles from the air through breathing, replenishing Spiritual Strength and Qi-Blood consumption.
Second Star Vein Slot: Flowing Shadow
Trait effect: Can create an Avatar with 20% of the original body’s strength by consuming Spiritual Strength, controllable by consciousness (the strength and number of Avatars are affected by one’s own Spiritual Strength).
Third Star Vein Slot: Light Shield
Trait effect: Uses Spiritual Strength to construct a freely scalable Energy Shield, defending against all types of attacks.
Seeing my combination, some brothers will definitely think I’m an idiot, this combination has no output, and the defense is not as good as the melee Life Soul.
You might even imagine a scenario where I summon multiple Flowing Shadow Clones and use Energy Shields to hit the enemies.
Because it seems that apart from the Light Shield, there’s no other means of attack in this combination.
Summoning Avatars to fight without matching with melee Life Souls.
Summoning Avatars for ranged output without matching with elemental damage Life Souls, no matter how you look at it, it seems to be an extremely foolish Star Vein Combination.