Chapter 270 Continue Spending Money

Hells Ukiyo-e heard this and also frowned, pondering the feasibility of these words.

"It's not impossible. When the time comes, give her some items to make it look like we value her, then send her to difficult places to grind for materials. This also avoids too many casualties among our own people—killing multiple birds with one stone."

"It really has to be Jiemie; this idea is excellent. It's perfect, and we can also let Lin Xi Yi Meng and that group from Xi Fei Returns to the Palace fight it out, while we sit back and reap the rewards."

"That is exactly it."

Just imagine, if they could win over Lin Xi Yi Meng, would people similar to those in District 7 or District 8 still dare to have thoughts of resistance? They would probably be too scared to even move.

It's just that this move would require losing a little face, but considering the Seven-Star Colorful Protagonist Set, what is face? He, Hells Ukiyo-e, could completely afford to be shameless.

"Of course, what needs to be done must be done. As it happens, this matter with the Competition Tower gives us a perfect opportunity."

Yes, their people—or rather, the guild's high-ranking members—had been taken out by Lin Xi Yi Meng in the arena. Although it was a mutually agreed-upon Competition Tower battle, they still had to apply pressure and demand an explanation. Then, when Lin Xi Yi Meng thought they were coming to hold her accountable, they would cleverly buy her off and absolve her of the crime, making Lin Xi Yi Meng grateful instead and naturally standing on their side.

It simply couldn't be more perfect!

Meanwhile, Lin Xi, the center of the conversation, saw many players leaving one after another after the first large melee. Even those who hadn't left had temporarily used their immunity privileges, so even if Lin Xi Yi Meng wanted to organize another hard-mode large melee, she couldn't gather enough people.

Helplessly, Lin Xi didn't force it. She was already ranked seventh anyway, and the pay-to-win system in her mind had started dinging non-stop as soon as she climbed onto the cross-server Competition Tower rankings. Since no one continued to challenge her, she didn't linger, walking directly out of the Competition Tower and boarding her own mount, the Ghost Mansion Immortal Palace.

[Ding, congratulations to the host for successfully reaching the cross-server Competition Tower rankings. Triggered pay-to-win task sixteen: Upgrade the business-mode Commercial Street to level 12 before the cross-server protection period ends.]

[Ding, congratulations to the host for reaching the top 100 in the cross-server Competition Tower rankings. Triggered pay-to-win task seventeen: Upgrade the business-mode Commercial Street to level 15 before the cross-server protection period ends.]

[Ding, congratulations to the host for reaching the top 80 in the cross-server Competition Tower rankings. Triggered pay-to-win task eighteen: Upgrade the business-mode Commercial Street to level 16 before the cross-server protection period ends.]

[Ding, congratulations to the host for reaching the top 50 in the cross-server Competition Tower rankings. Triggered pay-to-win task nineteen: Upgrade the business-mode Commercial Street to level 17 before the cross-server protection period ends.]

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[Ding, congratulations to the host for reaching the top 10 in the cross-server Competition Tower rankings. Triggered pay-to-win task twenty-two: Upgrade the business-mode Commercial Street to level 19 before the cross-server protection period ends.]

Just like the Home and Guild modes, the maximum level for the Commercial Street in business mode had also increased, rising from level 10 to level 20. Because Lin Xi hadn't reached the number one ranking, the pay-to-win tasks barely stopped at twenty-two, the threshold for upgrading to level 19.

Sigh, it's just like all the other rankings; everything requires reaching first place to unlock the final max-level task.

That said, Lin Xi wasn't idle. Taking advantage of the time while sitting in the Ghost Mansion Immortal Palace, she threw herself into upgrading her Commercial Street.

Compared to the Home and Guild modes, upgrading this Commercial Street was much more troublesome and complex. After upgrading the street to level 11, she first had to upgrade all the shops within the Commercial Street to level 11 before she could continue to upgrade the Commercial Street to level 12. Then, after all the shops on the street were upgraded to level 12, the Commercial Street could be upgraded to level 13.

And so on.

And if you want to upgrade a shop, it doesn't just require gold coins; it also requires various materials, such as wood, bricks, and stones. Some even require tables, chairs, beds, etc., all of which need materials to be crafted.

Although Lin Xi hadn't been lazy about chopping wood and logging while on her home server, the consumption for these cross-server levels was too high—it was simply astonishing. Her inventory bottomed out after just a few upgrades.

Fortunately, even though her inventory was empty, she could still pay to win. As soon as Lin Xi upgraded the Commercial Street to level 11, a dozen pop-up gift packs jumped out, the abacus beads practically popping into Lin Xi's face.

[Congratulations to the player for upgrading the Commercial Street to level 11. Triggered a 6-gold-coin material small gift pack.]

[Congratulations to the player for upgrading the Commercial Street to level 11. Triggered a 98-gold-coin material gift pack.]

[Congratulations to the player for upgrading the Commercial Street to level 11. Triggered a 198-gold-coin material gift pack.]

[Congratulations to the player for upgrading the Commercial Street to level 11. Triggered a 328-gold-coin material gift pack.]

...

Until finally, it was a grand material gift pack for 2,998.

Just like the previous pop-up gift packs, you had to buy the previous one to buy the next one, one after another, until there was nothing left to buy.

With these materials, Lin Xi quickly upgraded all the other shops to level 11, followed by spending 60 million gold coins to continue upgrading the Commercial Street to level 12.

Repeating this process, it sounded easy to operate, but it was time-consuming and laborious. By the time Lin Xi finished tinkering, it was already the afternoon of the third day of the cross-server protection period.

After staying up for half a day, until she had upgraded the Commercial Street to the max level of 20, she didn't care what was happening outside. Lin Xi flopped down onto the soft couch inside the Ghost Mansion Immortal Palace and went to dreamland.

Whatever the rankings were, nothing was more important than sleeping. Everything could wait until she woke up.

However, Lin Xi was asleep, but the people outside were not calm.

The gossiping players who learned that Lin Xi had left the Competition Tower, except for those doing tasks, also left one after another. As a result, not long after they left the tower, they saw the game system start broadcasting Lin Xi Yi Meng's history of pay-to-win.

[Congratulations to District 9 player 'Lin Xi Yi Meng' for successfully upgrading the Commercial Street to level 11. Hereby announced.]

[Congratulations to District 9 player 'Lin Xi Yi Meng' for successfully upgrading the Commercial Street to level 12. Hereby announced.]

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[Congratulations to District 9 player 'Lin Xi Yi Meng' for successfully upgrading the Commercial Street to the max level of 20. Achieved the title of District 9's number one Commercial Street, congratulations, District 9 celebrates together.]

For an entire night and morning, upgrade notifications popped up from time to time. At the same time, everyone watched as Lin Xi Yi Meng's pay-to-win bar rose, starting from VIP 15 and heading towards VIP 16.

"Another max-level Commercial Street?" Hells Ukiyo-e watched the announcement sent by the game, his mind going numb.

This, this, this...

Really should let that group from Xi Fei Returns to the Palace see what a true pay-to-win tycoon is. This is the power of money, a display of 'money power'.

Regarding this, Hells Ukiyo-e no longer felt his previous anger; instead, he was even more excited.

With such a heavily pay-to-win account, when the day that belonged to him came, who else would dare to question his ability?