11: Chapter 11: Rich and Powerful!

The night was deep, and the neon lights of the outer city flickered in the cold wind.

Lin Yunfei double-locked the iron door of his old apartment, completely shutting out the hustle and bustle of the outside world and the shock from Tianwu No. 1 High School.

Without a moment of pause, he walked straight to the desk and sat cross-legged.

Closing his eyes, his spiritual power surged like a rushing tide, slamming violently into the terminal interface.

"Load the divine kingdom."

His vision inverted as space shifted.

The familiar feeling of looking down from high altitude struck him once again.

Suspended high above the firmament, Lin Yunfei looked down upon his ten-square-kilometer F-grade Wasteland like a supreme deity devoid of sorrow or joy.

His gaze was cast toward the Far North Ice Field of the divine kingdom for the first time.

At this moment, the ice field no longer bore its original desolation and barrenness.

Driven madly by the first-tier ten-fold prosperity rule of Transcendent Breeding, a mere single day in the outside world translated to a decade passing within the divine kingdom.

On the ice field, hundreds of Dark Ice Snow Camels were leisurely grazing on the accompanying cold-resistant weeds.

Through years of excretion and natural infiltration, those high-tier fertilizers rich in extreme Yin spiritual power had completely integrated into the permafrost of the ice field.

The originally dark-brown, barren soil was now covered on its surface with a layer of deep-blue ice crystals, radiating rich spiritual qi fluctuations.

And above this thoroughly transformed fertile soil lay a breathtaking sea of deep-blue flowers.

soul-condensing flowers!

Nourished by ample foundations, these originally delicate special medicinal herbs ushered in an unprecedented massive outbreak.

All the flower buds bloomed, and the deep-blue halos connected into a single piece, illuminating the night sky of the Far North as bright as day.

Lin Yunfei brought up the creation terminal and checked the panel data.

[Spirit Plant Name: soul-condensing flower]

[Rank: Tier-1 Spirit Plant]

[Maturity: One Hundred Percent (Has entered the optimal harvesting period)]

[Current Living and Fully Mature Quantity: Ten Thousand Plants]

Ten thousand plants!

This was a number sufficient to drive any newborn deity insane.

According to the minimum guaranteed acquisition price of fifty faith points on the starnet mall, the value of this sea of flowers was a solid five hundred thousand points!

However, Lin Yunfei's brow furrowed slightly.

He acutely perceived the fatal flaw in the underlying architecture of the F-grade Wasteland.

"The quantity is stuck at ten thousand plants, unable to break through any further upward."

Lin Yunfei gazed at those saplings at the edge of the ice field that had just broken through the soil but quickly withered and turned yellow because they could not absorb enough spiritual qi.

The crux of the issue was obvious.

Although the excrement fertilizer of the Dark Ice Snow Camels was high-tier, it could only improve the surface soil.

The core origin of the F-grade Wasteland remained dried up.

The breathing and respiration of ten thousand Tier-1 spirit plants had already reached the carrying capacity of this ten-square-kilometer plane.

If seeds were forcibly continued to be sown, not only would it fail to increase yield, but it would instead trigger a reverse surge of the spiritual qi tide, causing a large-scale withering of the existing sea of flowers.

"If I want to continue expanding the planting scale, I must perform a source upgrade on the divine kingdom from the inside out."

As Lin Yunfei was pondering, his vision was suddenly attracted by a trace of unusual color in the center of the sea of flowers.

Surrounded by ten thousand deep-blue soul-condensing flowers, an extremely special flower body stood proudly erect.

Its stem presented a translucent state resembling top-grade jade, and its petals were not deep-blue, but a profound dark purple.

The extreme Yin spiritual qi within hundreds of meters around was crazily pouring into the stamen of this flower in a visible vortex form.

[Warning: Benign mutation detected in the spirit plant!]

[Name: Purple Frost Soul-Condensing King Flower]

[Rank: Tier-1 Peak (Half-step Tier-2)]

[Characteristics: A king-level plant mutated by absorbing massive amounts of extreme Yin spiritual qi. Its medicinal efficacy is a hundred times that of ordinary soul-condensing flowers, and it can be used as the core main material for refining the 'Tier-2 Spiritual Breakthrough Potion'.]

[Estimated Market Value: 50,000 faith points / plant (Extremely scarce)]

A flash of sharp light crossed Lin Yunfei's eyes.

"Good stuff."

Ordinary soul-condensing flowers could only be mass-produced to exchange for basic funds, while this mutated king flower could become a top-tier chip to knock open the doors of the high-end black market.

Not only was its medicinal efficacy astonishing, but it was also a clear sign of the divine kingdom's ecosystem evolving toward higher tiers.

Shifting his gaze away from the Far North Ice Field, Lin Yunfei cast his focus toward the human tribe in the center of the divine kingdom.

Inside the towering stone city walls, flames soared into the sky.

The bronze furnaces of the forging camp never went out day or night, and the heavy sounds of blacksmithing intertwined into a rough industrial symphony.

On the wasteland outside the city walls, the human heavy armor legion was conducting brutal actual combat drills.

Chieftain Yanyi stood proudly at the very front of the military formation.

The refined iron spear in his hand burned with blazing crimson battle qi, and with a casual wave, he flicked away an Iron-Bristled Wild Boar weighing several hundred catties.

After a decade of nourishment from spiritual rice and uninterrupted life-and-death battles, Yanyi's combat power had steadily stepped into the mid Tier-1 stage.

The [Legion Command] halo on his body grew increasingly brighter, condensing the morale of the 20,000-strong army into an ironclad unit.

However, after reviewing the data of the entire army, Lin Yunfei discovered a new dilemma.

[Ding! Among your dependents, four individuals have broken the shackles of mortal flesh and advanced to early Tier-1!]

Under the superposition of a massive base and the marrow cleansing pool, the human race finally ushered in a class breakthrough once again.

But when Lin Yunfei clicked on the detailed panels of these four newly advanced Tier-1 warriors, he secretly shook his head.

These four warriors were nearly two meters tall with knotted muscles all over their bodies, resembling towering iron pagodas.

With their bare hands, they could tear apart a Shadow Wind Wolf alive, and their single-arm strength exceeded a terrifying several thousand catties.

However, their strength had merely increased.

"They haven't awakened any elemental battle qi, nor do they have companion talents."

Lin Yunfei saw through the human race's current evolutionary bottleneck at a glance.

Yanyi's fire-type battle qi belonged to an extremely low-probability mutated miracle and could not be replicated.

The rest of the human warriors, limited by the mediocrity of their bloodline, even if pushed to Tier-1 forcibly by massive resources, would only degenerate into pure "muscle brutes".

In the laws of the Star Sea, brute force subduing ten techniques only applied to low-end matches.

Once they encountered high-tier magical civilizations or alien dependents mastering bizarre laws in plane wars,

these heavy infantry with only brute force, without the protection of battle qi, would only become living targets for high-tier spells, being harvested in large swaths.

"Brute force ultimately has its limits; only a system can endure forever."

Lin Yunfei no longer hesitated and directly opened the creation terminal's inventory.

His fingertips clicked on the scroll card exuding an archaic halo.

[Confirm Use: Primary Qi Gathering Art]

Boom!

Above the firmament of the divine kingdom, the wind and clouds suddenly changed color.

Golden law runes all over the sky broke through the clouds, turning into a dazzling rain of light that poured over the sky of the human tribe.

A grandiose divine voice exploded in the depths of every dependent's soul.

"I bestow upon you all the method of cultivation, to gather the qi of heaven and earth and forge a transcendent body!"

The 20,000 human warriors, whether farmers from the reclamation camp or fierce soldiers from the hunting camp, threw down their weapons and farm tools at this moment, instinctively kneeling to the ground and kowtowing frantically toward the firmament.

The divine decree entered their minds.

The circulation path of the Primary Qi Gathering Art was deeply branded into their meridians like a red-hot iron.

"Everyone, form up, sit cross-legged, and circulate the method of divine grace!"

Yanyi raised his spear and let out a heaven-shaking roar.

The 20,000 warriors who had just undergone the rebirth of the marrow cleansing pool immediately sat cross-legged uniformly on the wasteland.

The moment the cultivation technique was activated,

the entire Wasteland Divine Kingdom produced a violent resonance!

The extreme Yin spiritual qi overflowing from the Far North Ice Field and the vegetation essence contained in the thousands of acres of spiritual rice fields seemed at this moment to be pulled by some huge gravitational force.

Transforming into visible white airflow, they poured crazily into the bodies of the 20,000 warriors.

Especially those four newly advanced Tier-1 "muscle brutes", the vital blood within their bodies was the most majestic.

Under the guidance of the Primary Qi Gathering Art, the disorderly and violent power within their bodies began to be combed and compressed.

The originally pure physical strength was transforming within the meridians into a faint, substantial-like layer of white true qi armor!

[Record: Your dependents have successfully mastered the prototype of the transcendent system.]

[Record: The human legion's energy utilization rate has increased by three hundred percent, and magic resistance has been greatly enhanced.]

Watching the army below swallowing the divine kingdom's spiritual qi like a vortex, Lin Yunfei hooked his lips into a satisfied arc.

One plus one was indeed greater than two.

The marrow cleansing pool gave them a perfect bone-structure vessel, while the Primary Qi Gathering Art gave them a way to fill the vessel.

This was no longer a group of brutes who only knew how to melee, but a terrifying legion transforming into "all-member cultivation warriors"!

After the army initially mastered the cultivation technique and entered a state of meditation,

Lin Yunfei withdrew his gaze and opened the financial overview panel of his personal terminal.

It was time to plan the grand blueprint for the next step.

[Current Account Funds (Cash Flow): 585,200 points.]

(Among them, 500,000 is an interest-free loan specially approved by the school, and 85,200 is the surplus from selling land tortoises (more land tortoises will be sold later).)

[Assets Awaiting Liquidation: 10,000 mature soul-condensing flowers (approximately 500,000 faith points), one king flower (approximately 50,000 faith points).]

Lin Yunfei's brain, like the most precise supercomputer, rapidly coordinated this terrifyingly massive wealth.

"Added together, the total assets I can mobilize in my hands have already broken through 1.1 million faith points!"