The developers still haven't forgiven the players.

As players become more familiar with the game, more and more players treat leaving their tribe as a major crisis, carrying as much stuff as they can.

It's not the weight that's scary, it's not being able to get something out when you need it; that's when you'll regret it.

Undoubtedly, when a game's death penalty is too severe, it will inevitably cause players to behave like cowards.

Especially when players realize that the results of their hard work over several days will be wiped out due to death, their mindset towards the game immediately changes.

They were extremely cautious, rarely venturing into unfamiliar areas, and walking in the wild could easily make them tremble with fear at the slightest sound.

In the past, when playing games, guiding a newbie would at most mean telling them what to do. In this game, however, to find a place to go, experienced players who have been there before would personally guide you there, and then you would personally guide the newbie there.

Perhaps this is a common feature of small circles; at least for now, players are in this mutual assistance mode.

This is actually the situation that Jiang Chen hoped to see.

He wants players to die more often, but he doesn't want them to die too quickly; ideally, they should die after reaching a level of several dozen.

Admittedly, this setting goes against the original intention of game theory, but there is only one such fully immersive virtual reality game, not to mention that it can replace sleep. Even if players are discouraged by death and want to quit the game, they will not be able to find a substitute.

If you just keep playing like this, you'll get used to dying eventually.

Even now, players mostly complain on the official forum, calling for a reduction in death penalties or, at worst, a reduction in resurrection time. No player quits the game just because they died once.

Let's just say that.

The game has been in closed beta testing for a while now, and the game planner's mother is still around.

Even if the so-called plan didn't actually exist at all.

After reading the player feedback on the official website forum, Jiang Chen stretched and prepared to watch some short videos.

Suddenly, his expression changed: "They've actually collected them all?"

To be honest, he was genuinely surprised.

He suddenly discovered that some players had purchased the recipe for Blood Qi Pills from the game's in-game store.

The player who made the purchase was Taoist Fifteen Dogs.

Jiang Chen actually knew that Brother Gou would go out every day to search for the defeated soldiers of the Beast Tribe, and would buy spiritual essence when he returned to the tribe at night.

But he was caught off guard by accumulating 200 points so quickly, as he hadn't even had time to hide the method for refining the Blood Qi Pill.

How much did this thing actually cost?

So be it.

Since that's the case, he simply directed Dog Brother to come find him.

In any case, the key to this so-called refining method is not the pill formula at all.

It is no exaggeration to say that all human beings in this world can actually refine Blood Qi Pills.

Jiang Chen's two-story villa was located next to an open space, so not long after, Brother Gou came to his door following the instructions on his personal interface.

Dog Brother pushed open the door and entered. Seeing Jiang Chen sitting on the bed, he thought the system guidance had malfunctioned and habitually greeted him, "Respected expert, have you eaten?"

Jiang Chen didn't bother with pleasantries and said directly, "I already know why you've come."

Before Dog Brother could respond, he got up from the bed and, as if by magic, produced a roll of animal hide and handed it to Dog Brother.

"With your abilities, you're qualified to handle this."

Who says economic strength isn't strength?

【Ding! 】

[I have acquired the Blood Qi Pill refining method. Do you wish to learn it?]

A prompt popped up on his personal screen. Dog Brother immediately thought to confirm the learning before respectfully bending down and extending both hands to accept the roll of animal hide.

In fact, the method of refining Blood Qi Pill is essentially just a technique for mobilizing blood qi.

Even without specifically learning this method of refining Blood Qi Pills, most humans can figure out this technique on their own through years of familiarity with the circulation of Blood Qi.

In terms of raw materials, only the outer shell of refined rice needs to be ground and shaped to serve as a container, which can preserve the blood qi pills made for a long time.

There is no difficulty in terms of technique.

To put it in perspective, the difficulty level is roughly equivalent to adjusting your breathing from a normal state to once every three seconds.

As long as you have this awareness, you can basically do it.

The real reason why Blood Qi Pills haven't become widely available is actually an efficiency issue.

The so-called refining process involves humans, during the process of circulating blood energy, not incorporating the blood energy into themselves, but instead introducing the portion of blood energy gained through cultivation into a container.

Once you understand the refining method, you can understand why Blood Qi Pills haven't become widespread.

For ordinary humans, it takes several months, or even more than half a year, to refine a standard Blood Qi Pill, which is enough to increase the amount of Blood Qi.

This efficiency is extremely low. For the refiner, spending so much time without making any progress in cultivation, just to refine a single Blood Qi Pill, is indeed too difficult.

Instead, what about replacing them with geniuses whose cultivation progresses rapidly?

That can indeed significantly shorten the time required to refine a Blood Qi Pill.

But could he have gone mad?

Why doesn't the clan nurture such a promising talent, instead of letting him waste time refining Blood Qi Pills?

Unless they think their own tribe is too strong, they would never do such a thing.

Even if that promising talent insisted on wasting his abilities, the clan elders would not agree.

However, players don't consider these shortcomings to be shortcomings at all.

Players inherited Jiang Chen's talent, which means that if they want to refine a Blood Qi Pill, they only need to spend one or two days.

If a wealthy player offers a high price for Blood Qi Pills, most players obviously wouldn't mind wasting a few days of game time to earn some extra money.

Jiang Chen noticed that it was almost impossible to get players to settle down and cultivate.

Even if they want to level up, players would rather kill monsters and absorb their life force.

That's why Jiang Chen gave away the recipe for the Blood Qi Pill almost for free.

You're impatient, aren't you?

So he changed his approach and had players work in the game.

Since he doesn't charge any fees, it's actually helping to improve economic circulation.

Dog Brother left happily with a roll of animal hide in his hand.

He learned about the refining method and expressed his satisfaction.

He had originally thought that this kind of pill would require some rare and precious materials, and he was worried that he might not be able to gather enough materials to make it.

But since the main raw material for this Blood Qi Pill is human talent, then there's no problem.

Problems that can be solved with money are not problems for him and his buddies.

Rich guys have a path dependency on spending money to buy combat power. If they can't "Pay To Win", they'll feel a bit uncomfortable.

Dog Brother arrived at the open space, immediately threw the roll of animal hide in his hand to the ground, and shouted loudly.

"The freshly made Blood Qi Pill refining method is being offered for free. Those who want to learn, hurry up and come learn."