Chapter 308: I’m Going To Activate Business Mode!
After inspecting the temporarily unoccupied dormitory, Yuan Zhu and the other two entered the bustling Disease Garden.
At this time, more than ten short and ugly Shadow Goblin laborers with thin frames gradually developing muscles were being bullied by the youngest fifth brother among the five half-blood orc brothers.
One black-skinned bucktoothed muscle man was punching and kicking five gasping Goblin Strongmen. The faces of this group of goblins were bruised black and purple, with bloodstains remaining even at the corners of their mouths and noses.
After a brief rest and catching their breath, the five goblins exchanged glances, nodded to each other, and launched a fearless yet flashy suicide charge and besieged against the disdainful orc fifth brother.
The Goblin Strongmen all let out strange cries. With a “Howl!”, some somersaulted forward in mid-air, others made comical and brain-dead great peng spreading
The raid, which should have been simple and efficient, was mixed with a large number of cumbersome, redundant, and even utterly shameful actions. This bewitching scene inexplicably made people feel a bit hot-blooded.
Several direct consecutive simple blocks and counterattacks followed, and the 5 “Shadow Goblins” screamed hoarsely again before being sent flying backward. They were knocked away, cried out in pain, landed, rolled, clutched their injured parts with heartbroken lickspittle expressions of utter despair, even more immersive and captivating than the previous shame attack.
After brutally beating five half-blood orcs who were ‘shadow goblins,’ he instead felt sullen and unhappy, cursing twice. With an expression like he’d been made to eat poop and got choked on it, feeling not only stuffed by you all but even more disgusted by you.
Then, it stomped its foot in indignation, turned around, and went back to rest. It no longer paid attention to the 5 persevering drama queen warriors behind it, who struck a pose of being gravely injured and unable to fight, with an expression of “I’m in so much pain,” yet still showing resolute determination, gazing at the strong enemy’s back with unyielding eyes.
“Uh…”
Just entering the garden, he saw this scene full of stage play traces, with clumsy acting skills. Yuan Zhu only felt it was a bit stinging to the eyes; the vivid little expressions and eye plays from those five ugly goblins were truly physiologically uncomfortable, yet carried a bit of demonic allure.
He did get hit for real, but those reactions and movements were full of traces of clumsy performance. However, it successfully mixed a bit of ‘dramatic flair’ into the monotonous and dull fighting, allowing the audience to see at a glance that amid the unremarkable beatdown, there were some ‘love-hate entanglements’ mixed in.
Yeah, it’s just like watching one of those crudely made, shoddy short dramas that require checking your brain at the door, with shame hidden within its addictiveness.
Although Yuan Zhu felt various psychological discomforts, Little Girl, who had lacked entertainment from childhood to adulthood by the side, couldn’t help but clap her hands, watching with great interest, even getting a bit excited and carried away.
She and Younger Brother felt no sense of breaking immersion about this; on the contrary, they were deeply immersed. They only regretted that these 5 drama queens had such poor constitutions, were too fragile, and couldn’t keep performing. Even the other orcs and Holy Knight Goblins watching from the side were watching with great interest.
Regarding this, Yuan Zhu only felt extremely speechless: “This……”
Snake Snake hurriedly said: “Didn’t you ask me to organize the content related to ‘WWE, UFC’ from your previous life’s memories, then transplant it onto the Goblin Strongman, and cultivate them into ‘professional performance race contestants’? I took the initiative and screened out quite a few melodramatic scripts from your memories, empowering the monotonous fighting routines by injecting melodramatic plots to enhance watchability. Their acting skills were all pre-input by me, controlled through the [Brain Eggplant CPU] to manipulate facial nerves.”
“In the previous battle, the Orc was not constrained by the [Script], and truly controlled itself, launching serious attacks. As for the Goblins, their potential is too poor and intelligence too low, so there’s no need to cultivate them in the direction of professional fighters. Therefore, they were loaded with the [Melodramatic Script. Performance System], striving to integrate ‘Fighting, exaggerated acting skill, rich facial expressions, script’ comprehensively, and conduct rehearsals.”
Yuan Zhu couldn’t complain about this, feeling very stifled. After all, it was all his own arrangement. The orc physique was strong and had great potential, making it a genuine “Frog System Modification” experimental subject, naturally cultivated in the direction of a legitimate fighter.
As for the Goblin Strongmen, except for the two sacrificial offerings planned to be fed to [Uniform], the remaining ‘Shadow Goblin Warriors’ were all trained as contestants for the ‘Goblin Hegemony Performance Competition’, thus focusing on the direction of fusion as ‘acting skill, stunt performer, martial arts routine performer’.
Yuan Zhu commented: “Your plan is fine, but why is their performance so disjointed? It makes me very uncomfortable to watch.”
Snake Snake: “Ah! Time is limited, so I’ve designed different ‘character scripts’ for each ‘drama warrior goblin’. It looks like five goblins are rehearsing the same play, but in reality, they are five different scripts compressed into one battle. Look at the goblin on the left—his mother was abandoned by the big boss when she was young, and now he’s seeking revenge on his biological father. The drama warrior number 2 on the right was once a resentful couple with the big boss, but now the boss has fallen for someone else. Now look at number 3…”
Snake Snake just gave a simple commentary, and a bunch of hard-to-critique, yet ridiculously absurd and addictively engaging brainless short dramas immediately popped up in Yuan Zhu’s mind.
Damn it, this Spicy Stick doesn’t do any proper work all day, yet it integrates these Earth dregs, innovates by tailoring them specifically for Goblins, and iterates upgrades. It fully demonstrates the superiority of artificial intelligence. As expected of an intelligent lifeform, Navigation Sprite.
Snake Snake sensed Boss’s emotional fluctuations and proudly invited credit: “How about it, am I awesome?!”
“Too melodramatic, got disgusted.”
Snake Snake was not ashamed but rather proud: “Just ask if you’re not getting high? Local natives simply can’t resist. Look at their expressions.”
Yuan Zhu looked over. Apart from Orc No. 5, who felt depressed about being forced to play the big Boss, the other four orc big brothers, as well as the remaining five goblin strongmen who didn’t make it onto the stage in time for the awkward performance, were all watching intently with a strong urge to give it a try.
Snake Snake: “I think our [Goblin Hegemony] has the potential to go viral. We should invite Sister Miao to watch it in advance and give her opinion.”
Hearing this, Yuan Zhu immediately pictured the classic rhetoric in his mind: “My cat can do a back somersault, want to come up and sit?” Thus, he nodded: “This can work!”
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After the inspection, they were taken to Hong Kong, the ‘drama goblin strongmen’ who could immediately impersonate Dragon and Tiger martial artists; Yuan Zhu gave them an evaluation of insufficient acting skill, exaggerated and melodramatic.
But Snake Snake immediately quibbled, saying that although it was a bit low, once makeup was applied, cosplay clothes she designed were worn, combined with the current melodramatic acting skill and real fighting, it would inevitably attract eyeballs, making the audience unable to stop despite physiological discomfort!
She was full of confidence in the script she had written herself!
Subsequently, Yuan Zhu checked the five half-blood orcs again. Compared to the play goblins that were destined for ‘animal performance’, they were the core of Yuan Zhu’s cultivation.
To this end, he did not hesitate to waste all the slots in 【Anti-Law Group A】, solely to enhance their potential.
Compared to goblins whose intelligence is obviously defective and even need 【CPU】 assistance to act, the intelligence of half-blood orcs is on par with that of normal humans.
In everyday communication, no difference can be seen at all. Only when it involves higher knowledge learning or logical thinking can the gap in intelligence be felt.
But in the aspect of body technique fighting, it is not about delving into profound academic subjects. Half-blood Orcs with online intelligence, receiving the blessing of [Brain Eggplant CPU], each trained in cultivation with remarkable speed, achieving rapid and explosive growth.
First, the five orcs preemptively received acquired physical enhancement (muscle, spiritual root, aptitude) from the [Insect System mutated tissue]; then, under Nie Yin’s leadership, they completed orthodox [Frog System Modification], and every day they were injected with higher doses of [Body Tempering Fluid] on schedule to accelerate the excavation of muscle potential.
In the past few days, they successfully mastered a large number of fighting skills and defensive force-discharging methods through [Brain Eggplant CPU] + Yuan Tiao’s dutiful beating-style training.
Although unable to achieve a comprehensive understanding and flexible application. They are all blindly engraved into biological instinct, forming muscle memory.
Just like the performance just now, the Goblin’s attacks and acting skill were all pre-input ‘routines’. But Orc No. 5’s reactions were all the most authentic reactions.
Upon encountering an attack, there is no need for brain thinking at all; the [Brain Eggplant CPU] will instantly retrieve the optimal response plan from the ‘intelligent database’, control the muscle system to make a perfect counteraction, and heavily injure and send flying the playactors one by one.
After being beaten, the drama queen also stimulates the [Brain Eggplant CPU], retrieving the most suitable ‘acting skill template’ from the ‘exaggerated affected acting skill library’, as if divinely assisted, performs crazily, captivating the audience.
This kind of adaptability on the fly has nothing to do with the orc’s fighting intelligence, but is closely related to biological instinct. Martial arts literacy is completely equivalent to the richness of daily fancy beatings.
Yuan Zhu simply hired Younger Brother, this martial arts genius, as their coach. Almost every beating was wildly imaginative and never repetitive, greatly enriching the database.
If A Tiao beats them using 100 different combat methods, the [Brain Eggplant CPU] can help them review and summarize 100 rigid countermeasures afterward.
When these ‘counter strategies’ are uploaded to the [Lord of Anti-Law (Yuan Zhu)] through [Anti-Law], and secondarily digested through [Great Desolation Immortal Scripture], compiling a new [Fighting Template]. Then, under the guise of ‘debt, investment, software upgrade’, fed back to all Orcs.
These ‘Orc fighters’ will share ‘Supreme Wisdom’ with each other, gaining an enlightenment upgrade with 5 times the combat experience.
Relying on this set of Evil Cultivator-style cheating upgrade methods, the five brothers caught up to others’ nearly half a year of training and cultivation progress in less than a week, and even came with rich ‘Practical experience’. The flesh transformation reinforcement belonging to the ‘Frog-Type’ was not neglected either.
At this moment, Yuan Zhu judged through the [Anti-Law]’s backend observation that their muscle reinforcement level had reached between [20%-33%]. It was time to consider officially releasing them, letting them fight in matches to earn food for himself.
So he called Snake Snake: “Make a record for me. Remind me later to arrange for this group of rice buckets to participate in underground fighting as soon as possible to earn living expenses for me.”
Snake Snake was somewhat surprised: “Releasing them to work and make money so early? What if they get seriously injured, damaging their foundation? Wouldn’t that be a loss?”
Yuan Zhu: “Start with ordinary events first, mainly to accumulate experience and enrich tactics. An Orc with this physique appearing in the mortal-level arena itself has a lot of gimmick value. After fighting a few more rounds and accumulating enough fame, they can smoothly transition to the underground arena.”
Now, through [Anti-Law.Shadow], he had collected a large amount of data on the initial transformation of the [Power Path] from the five Orcs. Therefore, the value of half-blood Orcs was gradually declining, and keeping them for free was the least cost-effective.
On the contrary, arranging them to fight in actual combat to collect various unexpected ‘combat data’ could enrich the database and force the excavation of their potential, directly recording the [Frog System Reinforcement] process. Even if they couldn’t break through 100% and were scrapped due to premature battle damage, with the [Anti-Law Contract]’s investment going down the drain, he would still profit.
Seeing that the five rapid success Orcs could go out to work, Snake Snake couldn’t help but recommend: “Then, can the [[Theatrical Spirits] that I trained also go online to fight performance matches?”
Yuan Zhu shook his head: “No, their acting skill is too poor and still needs tempering. The half-blood Orcs themselves have lived in the [Plantation] for many years, with intelligence online, and blessed by [Anti-Law], their cultivation is like having divine help. But the [Drama Spirit] are different; they have intelligence defects, relying entirely on [Brain Eggplant] to take over the body, with insufficient spirituality. Without [Anti-Law] cheating, they still need more practice. When the time comes, I will invite Miao Miao to appraise them. If she thinks they can go into business, then holding [Goblin Hegemony] won’t be too late.”
Snake Snake was somewhat excited but also worried about this: “Boss, after Sister Miao Miao sees our family’s ‘Goblin Performance’, will she misunderstand you and cut off contact from then on, never associating with us again?”
Yuan Zhu shook his head: “No! Doesn’t she like fun? Isn’t this fun enough?”
Once adapted to Snake Snake’s ‘Melodramatic Script + exaggerated acting skill’, this thing is like stinky tofu or century eggs—strong aftertaste, the more you eat, the more addictive.
After checking the progress of the half-blood Orcs and the play energy warriors, Yuan Zhu ignored the two normally cultivated ‘limit Goblin warriors’ and also ignored the two Goblins who had not yet received the [Blessing of the Sword]. He went directly to the [Holy Knight] group.
The abdomens of these six healthy Goblins were fitted by him with [Holy Grail], stably burning a portion of their own vitality every day, transforming it into initial [Holy Light] to ignite the pre-stored ‘Disease Pollution fuel’ in the [Cup], releasing massive [Holy Cough particles] to slowly erode the flesh.
In his conception, these [Holy Knight Goblins] could temporarily control the ‘Holy Cough particles’ to bless the flesh for reinforcement by diligently adjusting their breathing method, aided by the [Holy Light Breathing
Yuan Zhu was in this state back when he was at the Star Realm Bank. Physical body strength and physical qualities both received significant improvements, the drawback being that it was temporary reinforcement and could not be permanently retained.
Now these six experimental subjects are repeatedly igniting themselves, relying on the Holy Grail to produce a large amount of Holy Cough Particles, then operating the Breathing Method in various ways to extend and retain the reinforcement effects as much as possible, even turning them into permanent flesh modifications.
Due to the time being too short, these Holy Knight Goblins couldn’t even proficiently master the Holy Light Breathing Technique, let alone achieve any substantial breakthroughs or insights.
To accelerate, Yuan Tiao, under Big Brother (Yuan Zhu)’s instruction, selected the 4 strongest from the six [Holy Knight Goblins], signed them into the [Anti-Law. Group D] under his control, and granted them [Anti-Law. Cheat].
The drawback is that the association between 【Anti-Law.Shadow】 and 【Holy Light】 is extremely low. In order to ensure its own ‘Holy Light purity,’ even if Yuan Tiao forcibly signs the contract, it does not grant too much investment to the ‘Holy Knight Goblin’.
The benefit is that he can use Anti-Law to more intuitively observe the cultivation changes of the Holy Knight Goblins, obtain the detailed changes of the Holy Light Breathing Technique, and bestow Brain Eggplant CPU through Anti-Law, anytime and anywhere instilling his cultivation insights on the Breathing Method, as well as new conjectures and inspirations, into the Holy Knight Goblins in forms such as Boon and Investment, thereby deepening the Anti-Law favor debt.
In other words, Yuan Tiao can completely avoid personally cultivating the Holy Light Breathing Technique, directly use Anti-Law to control the four experimental subjects, freely verify “cultivation methods” for himself, and continuously test and receive feedback through trial and error, allowing him to gain new inspiration and new insights, then bestow the iterated “cultivation technique” again.
This cultivation method can also be considered a misuse of 【Anti-Law】. The drawback is that after signing the user with ‘Anti-Law’, there is no return visible, and instead, sunk costs are continuously invested.
The advantage is that, while giving up substantial revenue, it allows verifying various hypotheses, providing huge help to one’s own improvement. As long as you can afford the loss and pay the sunk price, you can infinitely trial and error, exchanging one batch for another at a cost.
At the same time, the 【Anti-Law Master】 may undergo faction shift, gradually transitioning from ‘Benevolent God’ to ‘Evil God’.
Finally, Yuan Zhu inspected the growth of those 10 Disease System (Eyeball) Polluted Goblins that were being cultivated as [Seal Casting Fuel].
They rely on the Holy Grail within their bodies to continuously suppress and temper the spread of Disease Pollution inside them, allowing the quality of the Pollution Crystal to continuously rise, ensuring that the Soul Ember burned out is inevitably purer and stronger!
They still haven’t seen the limit yet, and they can probably hold on for another day or two.
Although Yuan Zhu cannot immediately obtain Seal Casting materials, as the quality of the ‘fuel’ continues to improve, the efficiency of Seal Casting will inevitably greatly increase. Transforming from the original quantitative Seal Casting that relied on piling up numbers and wasting time, into the brand new ‘qualitative change route’ of today, which is more concise and more efficient.
Regarding this, he was full of anticipation and instructed A Tiao to take good care of this batch of ‘cultivation spiritual materials.’ Feed them more ‘Eyeball Fruit’ and temper them into Fiery Golden Eyes, so that the [Holy Seal] can nurture stronger ‘Holy Light System pupil techniques’!
“This batch of ‘Disease Goblins’ is raised well. Later, you select another batch of Eggplant Goblins from the [Haunted House]. I will personally cast the ‘Holy Flask Great Blessing Technique’!”
Mere 10 [Spiritual Materials] might not be enough to cast 2 seals. After seeing their promising growth, Yuan Zhu decided to add another 20 Eggplant Goblins. This thing is way more cost-effective than roasting Little Pumpkins!
A 【Disease (Eyeball) Crystal】 transformed from a ‘Flask Goblin’ is at least equivalent to a dozen ordinary goblins swallowing ‘Eyeball Fruit’ and then producing miscellaneous ‘Pollution Crystals’.
All of these changes stem from the Holy Grail he comprehended after his second Seal Casting. As his strength realm improves, the efficiency of his cultivation also skyrockets. Plus, being able to freebie the resources from the Disease Garden, the rhythm of Seal Casting gradually starts spiraling to the heavens.
[3 Seals] Promising.
