"With the Ink Flame Enchantment in the Bone Fire Form, physical damage naturally comes with elemental damage."
After explaining his combat strategy, Steel Giant Arm changed the topic:
"However, relying solely on Shattering Blade, Power Barbarian Axe, and Bone Fire, there’s a severe flaw: the stamina is extremely weak, and within less than five minutes, one would be drained of spiritual power and fall into a dizzy state."
"After all, our primary path is not as a Magic Soul but as a melee combat-oriented one; the issue of weaker spiritual power prevents us from utilizing Ink Flame abilities for extended periods like players focusing on the Eagle-Headed Demon, resulting in incredibly weak stamina."
"That’s why I’ve added Lifeforce Inhalation as the fourth Life Soul option... It’s essential to emphasize that Lifeforce Inhalation is not solely suitable for magic players..."
Upon hearing this, Qi Sheng had already understood the combat pattern of this Star Vein School.
The left hand wields the Shattering Blade for Defense Break and applying Shattering Marks, the right hand wields the Power Barbarian Axe for heavy output, while the Bone Fire Life Soul enchants the Artifact Spirit; both weapons carry the entwined elemental damage of Ink Flame, plus the addition of Lifeforce Inhalation taking care of Qi-Blood and spiritual power recovery, maintaining the enchantment effect of Ink Flame continuously.
After explaining the construction idea of the Star Vein Combination, Steel Giant Arm, in the demonstration environment, summoned the test panel to call forth monsters.
Wielding dual weapons, he shuttled through the crowd of monsters, showcasing an impressive performance, continuously opening his mouth to draw in air, with white energy streams forming a vortex in his mouth.
The post received a lot of upvotes from players, and the comment section was bustling:
word麻鸭: Thanks for sharing the Star Vein School, bro, looks good, much more practical than those brothers sharing advanced schools, when could we even use those uncollected Life Soul combinations, I prefer these practical Life Soul combination strategies, post saved.
天命主角: Thanks to the big bro for sharing this strategy, I absolutely love the combination of magic and martial arts.
氪金没有,氪命一条: So thankful, I was just worrying about this problem, how to deal with special monsters like shadow attackers as purely melee, and I see your strategy post on the forum right away, I’ve decided to follow this school. But I don’t like dual-wielding, fusing with an Artifact Spirit suits me better (Tip: 1 point of sacrificial power)
黑夜将至: Nice idea, but this school has a serious issue. Once the Body Refining Level is up to par and attributes are inherited, the Power Barbarian Axe and Shattering Blade mainly enhance physical fitness attributes, but Lifeforce Inhalation and Bone Fire Life Soul primarily increase spiritual power attributes. There’s a conflict between these two types of Life Souls. In theory, players who choose four melee Life Souls would be far stronger in terms of physical strength, making this school look fancy but actually less powerful than players with four melee Life Souls. I find it impractical.
Steel Giant Arm (poster) replies to Hei Ye: Damn, it’s Brother Hei Ye. The problem you pointed out indeed exists, but to deal with special monsters, sacrifices are inevitable. This school’s physical fitness indeed won’t be as strong as that of four melee Life Souls mix. Does Brother Hei Ye have any good suggestions?
While browsing the replies, Qi Sheng discovered a previously unnoticed issue with the settings.
The player "Dark Night Will Come" from the Strategy Party pointed out an issue with this Star Vein Combination, prompting Qi Sheng to think about the setting flaws in Star Vein Combinations.
Currently, players hunting Evil Spirits and monsters share the evolution points among all the embedded Life Souls.
For example, if a player embeds three Life Souls and kills a monster to gain 120 evolution points, the points are distributed evenly, hence, all Life Souls are strengthened synchronously.
This creates a problem in focusing development.
The Star Vein School provided by player Steel Giant Arm has this issue; the levels of Bone Fire and Lifeforce Inhalation Life Souls only need to be sufficient for the recovery speed of spiritual power, and pouring too many evolution points into them becomes an obstacle to improving strength. Excess evolution points could instead be focused on enhancing the Shattering Blade and Power Barbarian Axe.
As more Star Vein Combination options emerge in the future, this problem will become even more severe.
Even distribution becomes a hindrance.
Having identified the problem, Qi Sheng immediately thought of modifying the setting.
How to modify it becomes clear to him as he reads through the comments.
He decided to add a "regulation function" to the acquisition of evolution points, allowing players the freedom to allocate these points.
Without overthinking it, Qi Sheng immediately began the practical test.
Summoning the Challenger System, countless flashing characters emerged, whirling around his body.
Almost instantly, the Guidance beside him started helping him simulate a new evolution point distribution system.
Ten minutes later, a brand-new panel appeared in front of Qi Sheng, bearing the words "Evolution Points Distribution."
In the center was a Life Soul embedding column with five simulated Life Souls displayed, each with a percentage progress bar below that could be dragged to freely allocate the percentage.
It could be set to a maximum of 100% and a minimum of 0%, with a "One-click Balance" button at the bottom.
Selecting One-click Balance, the progress bars below the five Life Souls automatically adjust to 20%, evenly sharing the evolution points obtained from hunting.
After testing the function panel and its feedback connection with the Challenger System, Qi Sheng nodded in satisfaction.
The appearance of the new function would completely solve the problem of not being able to focus on developing specific Life Souls, giving players more freedom in strengthening choices. A specific Life Soul, once reaching a certain level, can have its distribution adjusted to 0%, no longer sharing the evolution points from hunting.
It completely solves the issue of enhancement being overly balanced and resulting in reduced combat effectiveness mentioned in the post.
After completing the tests, Qi Sheng decided to start a new round of updates immediately, making this new function available to players.
And this is precisely the significance of continually collecting player information; each update is for a better gaming experience for the players, more convenient access to functions, and then creating more sacrificial power profits.
Achieving the True Body of Emperor Zhao begins with taking care of the players.