Chapter 133: “Undercover” Teammates and the “User Experience” of the Ten Thousand Souls Cavern
Deep within the zen monastery, inside a ditation chamber without windows.
Chu Feng t the abbot of the Nirvana Zen Monastery.
It was an emaciated old monk, so thin that he seed nothing but bones, seated cross-legged upon a ritual altar piled high with countless wailing skulls.
His cultivation was unfathomably deep. He was clearly a late–Nascent Soul Ancestor-level grand cultivator, his entire body shrouded in dense deathly qi and soul power, more terrifying than any demonic overlord Chu Feng had ever seen.
The abbot wasted no words. He rely gave Chu Feng a deep look, then pointed to a young man standing in attendance beside him.
“His na is ‘Kong’. He will enter the cavern together with you.”
Chu Feng’s gaze fell upon the young man called “Kong”.
The youth looked to be a little over twenty, with an utterly ordinary appearance, the sort who would vanish forever once tossed into a crowd.
He wore the sa gray monk’s robe as the reception monks, his aura restrained to the extre, like a stone, with no sense of presence whatsoever.
From beginning to end, he did not utter a single word, his eyes hollow, as if nothing in the world could draw his attention.
Chu Feng sneered inwardly.
A disciple hanging around for cultivation credits?
More likely, he was sent to monitor him—or perhaps, at a critical mont, to seize the star chart and silence witnesses. A “foreman”, no doubt.
However, on the surface, he showed no reaction at all and instead smiled pleasantly.
“Abbot is truly compassionate, sending us a guide. Many thanks. Senior Brother Kong, we will be relying on your guidance from here on.”
“Kong” rely nodded slightly, still without speaking.
Zhao Wuji, on the other hand, was naturally sociable. The mont they left the monastery, he slung an arm over “Kong’s” shoulder and said enthusiastically,
“Kong, brother, from now on we’re family!”
“Let give you a little ‘pre-job training’ first. The core of Ascension Group’s corporate culture is—”
“Kong” expressionlessly shifted one step to the side, causing Zhao Wuji to grab nothing but air, then walked forward on his own.
Zhao Wuji ran into a wall, but he did not get angry. Instead, he jotted sothing down in his little notebook:
“New colleague has an introverted personality and lacks team integration awareness. Recomnd strengthening corporate culture imrsion in later stages.”
Led by “Kong”, the five of them soon arrived before a gigantic cavern whose depths could not be seen.
At the cavern entrance, black mist churned violently. The sounds of ghosts wailing and wolves howling rang without end, like a massive maw leading straight to hell.
“Dormant phase. Storm weakened. Entry possible.”
“Kong” spat out a few words sparingly, then took the lead and stepped into the black mist.
“Let’s go! Family mbers, the gates of the ‘new market’ have opened. It’s ti to go in and conduct ‘due diligence’!”
Chu Feng waved his hand with high spirits and led the group closely behind.
The mont they stepped into the Ten Thousand Souls Cavern, a cold, violent soul storm filled with resentnt and despair surged straight at them!
Even though everyone was prepared, their souls still trembled, and countless bloody, terrifying hallucinations instantly flooded their minds.
Walking at the very front, Zhang Daniu bore the brunt of it!
He let out a muffled groan, his eyes instantly turning vacant.
Before his eyes, the rolling black mist transford into a familiar small mountain village. A gentle, kind-looking woman held a steaming bowl of noodles and beckoned to him.
“Niuer, you must be hungry. Co quickly, mother made your favorite egg noodles…”
“Mother…”
Zhang Daniu muttered under his breath and unconsciously walked toward the illusion.
Within the illusion, the corners of the woman’s mouth curled into a bizarre smile. Behind her, a ferocious resentful soul projection opened its bloody maw, ready to swallow Zhang Daniu’s soul in one bite!
“Ha!”
At this critical mont, Chu Feng let out a cold shout, like a thunderclap exploding within Zhang Daniu’s mind.
At the sa ti, he flicked his finger, and a yellow talisman precisely slapped onto Zhang Daniu’s back.
There were no abstruse talismanic patterns on it. Instead, stamped in cinnabar was a large, golden, glittering “Ascension Group” logo, with a line of small text beneath it—
“Clear the heart and illuminate the spirit. Produced by Ascension Group. Serial No. SJT007.”
The mont the talisman attached itself, golden light burst forth!
Zhang Daniu shuddered violently. The illusion before his eyes shattered like bubbles, and he broke out in a cold sweat, only then realizing that half his body had already stepped out over a cliff, with churning soul mist beneath his feet.
“Th… thank you, President!”
Zhang Daniu was shaken to the core, his face deathly pale.
“This is the Ten Thousand Souls Cavern’s ‘newbie welco ceremony’.”
Chu Feng patted him on the shoulder. His expression showed not the slightest tension. Instead, he surveyed the surroundings with keen interest.
He took out a specially made recording jade slip, activated its recording function, and muttered to himself as if hosting a product launch conference.
“Family mbers, we have now successfully entered the on-site environnt of the S-level project ‘Ten Thousand Souls Cavern’.”
“As you can see, the ‘user experience’ here can only be described as extrely poor!”
“The resentnt concentration is seriously over the limit. The soul attack thods are monotonous—basically all illusions of loved ones used for entrapnt. There’s no innovation, no novelty at all.”
“Moreover, there’s not even a ‘newbie guide’ or ‘safety warning’. This is extrely unfriendly to first-ti ‘users’. Bad review!”
Wu Hao and Zhao Wuji were already used to this and even chid in from the side.
“President is absolutely right. This product design completely ignores user retention!”
“I suggest adding a ‘newbie protection period’ and ‘fun guided missions’ to enhance user stickiness!”
Only Zhang Daniu and “Kong” standing nearby listened with their mouths agape.
Zhang Daniu felt that the President’s heart was truly enormous.
At a ti like this, he still had the mood to do all this?
As for “Kong”, within those perpetually hollow eyes, a trace of barely perceptible ripples appeared for the first ti.
He had seen countless cultivators enter the Ten Thousand Souls Cavern—greedy ones, fearful ones, mad ones—but soone like Chu Feng, who treated this place of near-certain death as a “product” to critique, he was seeing for the very first ti.
What kind of structure did this man’s brain have?
At that mont, Chu Feng put away the recording jade slip and took out the black star chart that had already rged into one.
The instant the star chart appeared, it emitted a faint,幽幽 glow, as if responding to so kind of call.
Light flowed across the surface of the chart, finally converging into a weak beam that pointed in a certain direction.
That direction was pitch-black and profound, completely opposite to the relatively safe “official route” with traces of predecessors that “Kong” had indicated!
“Kong’s” gaze locked tightly onto the star chart in Chu Feng’s hand. Deep within his hollow eyes, for the first ti, a clearly visible trace of incredulous shock surfaced.
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