4: Chapter 4 Star-Patterned Tortoise!

Lin Yunfei cut off his visual link, and his consciousness returned to reality.

A warm current of air surged through his limbs and bones.

His sensory perception became extremely acute.

The core laws of the Federation defined boundaries with extreme sternness.

The physical strength and soul resilience of the Creator were absolutely bound to the origin of the divine kingdom.

The deeper the foundation of the divine kingdom, the more massive the power fed back to the Creator.

If the divine kingdom was damaged, the deity would also suffer heavy blows.

Currently, the Wasteland Divine Kingdom accommodated twenty thousand humans, plus tens of thousands of living beasts.

The massive base of living beings spawned a dense power of origin.

The pure energy crossed the dimensional barrier, violently scouring Lin Yunfei's body.

A small amount of grayish-black impurities seeped out from his skin.

His bone density increased significantly.

His muscle fibers were like twisted steel cables, concealing explosive kinetic energy.

Lin Yunfei pressed his hands against the ground and directly began his daily physical fitness test.

The one hundred standard push-ups that usually consumed most of his physical strength now only required the force of a single hand.

His body rose and fell like flying, easily breaking one hundred.

His vital energy and blood flowed without any stagnation.

Rising to his feet, he clenched his fists tightly.

The friction of his joints emitted a crisp, faint sound.

As far as his hearing could reach, he could clearly hear the tiny footsteps of stray cats a hundred meters outside the old apartment building.

His physical strength had already surpassed the physical limits of a mortal body.

Lin Yunfei was very satisfied with this data change.

After experiencing the strength amplification, he restarted the starnet terminal.

The primary task at hand was to solve the predicament of low mutation probabilities.

The objective was clear.

[Tier 1 Special Building: marrow cleansing pool]

Priced at fifty thousand faith points.

His gaze swept across the available balance on the terminal interface.

Two hundred points.

The divine kingdom was currently in a period of high-speed breeding.

The twenty thousand humans consumed massive amounts of rations daily.

If he forcibly extracted stored rye or meat to cash out, it would inevitably lead to the collapse of the fragile underlying ecosystem.

Once the ecosystem collapsed, the repair cost would be more than ten times the sales revenue.

At the present stage, he could only continuously invest resources, and lacked the capacity to demand reciprocation in reverse.

The breakthrough point could only be placed on external capital operations.

Lin Yunfei locked onto the golden entry [Transcendent Breeding].

As long as they were placed into the divine kingdom, any living creature would receive a tenfold prosperity blessing.

He opened the starnet trading mall and set precise search conditions.

The first item: high value.

The second item: difficult breeding.

The third item: living spirit beasts.

Countless commodity cards turned into a waterfall-like data stream, frantically refreshing the screen.

Lin Yunfei quickly filtered out low cost-performance targets and locked onto a perfect option among the astronomical-priced spirit beasts.

[Tier 1 Spirit Beast: Star-Patterned Land Turtle]

[Characteristics: Water-attribute law companion beast, formidable defense. Extremely long growth cycle, laying eggs once every ten years, only one to two per clutch. Extremely high difficulty in artificial intervention.]

[Market price: Ten thousand faith points per pair]

The unit price was exorbitant, and the reproduction cycle was long.

It perfectly matched his needs.

Lin Yunfei opened the shop dialogue box selling the Star-Patterned Land Turtles.

He sent a short message to the stall owner named "Star Ocean Rare Beast Pavilion".

"Borrow a pair of Star-Patterned Land Turtles for a term of three days. All output during this period belongs to me, and the original beasts will be returned in full. If there is any damage, double compensation will be paid."

The other party replied extremely quickly.

"Where did some poor student come from to waste my time? Borrowing living spirit beasts to breed? The Star-Patterned Land Turtle gives birth to a clutch once every ten years; if I lend them to you for three days, you can hatch thin air. Get lost, and stop bothering me."

The stall owner's words were sarcastic, treating this as a poor-quality prank.

Lin Yunfei's face was without ripples; unnecessary verbal arguments were meaningless.

He directly brought up the Federal Law template, drafted a [starnet terminal absolute contract], and sent it over.

The contract was protected by the supreme laws of the Federation.

The cost of breaching the contract was extremely tragic, pointing directly to the deprivation of the divine kingdom's core and the forced seizure of all assets under the Creator's name.

After reviewing the harsh default clauses, the stall owner's attitude changed immediately.

By signing this contract, if the land turtles encountered an accident, the stall owner could directly get double massive compensation.

If returned undamaged, he would effortlessly earn a generous rent.

A business that was a sure win with no losses, with absolutely no risk to speak of.

The other party decisively pressed the confirm button.

The contract was established.

Two Star-Patterned Land Turtles the size of round tables jumped through the starnet and landed directly into the Wasteland Divine Kingdom.

Lin Yunfei descended an oracle.

He carved out an independent stone array at the edge of the permafrost, confining the land turtles within it.

Under the primary-level time acceleration and the golden entry Transcendent Breeding.

The long cycle of laying eggs once every ten years was greatly shortened under the blessing of tenfold prosperity.

Divine Kingdom Calendar Year 1.

The two land turtles frantically fed on the ryegrass provided by Lin Yunfei, and their sizes rapidly expanded.

The female turtle successfully laid ten crystal-clear turtle eggs.

Several months later, all of them hatched successfully.

Divine Kingdom Calendar Year 3.

The newborn land turtles broke away from their infancy, grew profound star patterns on their shells, and quickly joined the breeding army.

Divine Kingdom Calendar Year 5.

The turtle eggs inside the stone array piled up like mountains, and the newly hatched baby turtles crawled all over the ground, piling on top of each other.

The expiration of the tenth year of the Divine Kingdom Calendar.

The stone array was crawling densely with Star-Patterned Land Turtles.

The hard star-patterned turtle shells refracted a cold luster under the sunlight.

A rough count showed that there were over a hundred adult bodies.

Lin Yunfei decisively made a move.

Exercising creation authority, he forcibly extracted eighty adult Star-Patterned Land Turtles.

Laws circulated, and the living bodies were all converted into sealed material cards.

Cutting back along the original path to the starnet mall, he placed pending orders to sell.

In order to rapidly recover funds, he chose the most brutal pricing strategy.

The unit price was directly slashed in half.

It was set at four thousand faith points.

High-tier defense spirit beasts had always belonged to extremely scarce strategic materials.

The first batch of ten was listed on the anonymous trading zone.

Within a few minutes, they were snapped up by major chambers of commerce.

Forty thousand points of huge funds were transferred into his terminal account.

Lin Yunfei accepted everything in full and continued to sell in batches.

The second batch of twenty entered the market.

The third batch of fifty was entirely thrown into the market.

As the Star-Patterned Land Turtles poured in in large quantities, the ironclad rule that rarity makes value was rudely smashed.

The values of the trading market fluctuated violently.

Major chambers of commerce keenly sensed that someone was maliciously dumping.

The cargo-sweeping actions stopped uniformly, and all members turned into a wait-and-see state.

Panic emotions spread, and the selling price plummeted all the way.

Three thousand points.

Two thousand points.

One thousand five hundred points.

Lin Yunfei accepted all orders as they came, without any reluctance.

As long as there was a purchase order, he immediately confirmed the transaction.

After selling off the eighty land turtles, the market was basically saturated.

The price of Tier 1 defense spirit beasts directly fell through the bottom line.

Countless merchants who had hoarded goods at high prices lost everything and cursed loudly in the trading hall.

The stall owner of "Star Ocean Rare Beast Pavilion" stared at the cliff-like plunging market values, their eyes red.

The stall owner completely failed to figure out why the Star-Patterned Land Turtle, which was rarely seen in decades, would suddenly become cheap and common everywhere.

The goods hoarded by themselves depreciated by more than ten times on the spot, suffering bloody losses to the extreme.

Lin Yunfei stopped in time.

He cleared away all selling traces, closed the trading window, and cut off all anonymous network tracking nodes.

Continuing to sell would inevitably attract the tracking and positioning of high-ranking Federation inspectors.

Hiding and developing was the ultimate truth.

He checked his terminal balance.

[Current balance: 85,200 points.]

Lin Yunfei returned the initial land turtles he borrowed to the stall owner.

He paid the rent according to the agreement and lifted the terminal contract.

Then he clicked on the special building zone.

He locked onto his target.

He decisively bought [Tier 1 Special Building: marrow cleansing pool].

Fifty thousand faith points were deducted on the spot.

An ancient blueprint flowing with a light purple halo fell into his backpack.

The panel refreshed with detailed attributes.

[marrow cleansing pool purchased]

[Prompt: Please select the placement coordinates. This building covers an area of one mu and requires the consumption of one thousand faith points to activate the spring.]

Lin Yunfei switched his perspective back to the divine kingdom.

The twenty-thousand-strong human tribe attached themselves to the psionic bonfire and developed vigorously.

A large amount of ironware was forged and came out of the furnace, and the sound of weapons clashing resounded through the camp.

The bronze smelting furnace never ceased day and night, and billowing thick smoke rose straight up.

Mortal warriors draped in rough animal skins holding fine iron spears were drilling in formation at the edge of the camp.

The outer perimeter of the wooden fence was piled high with the skeletons of beasts obtained from hunting.

The tribe's population base had completely reached the standard.

Lin Yunfei carefully checked the data of the mortal warriors below.

Their strength limit was stuck at the peak of a mortal body, and not a single person in the entire clan had mastered psionic battle qi.

The class barrier was like a natural chasm, tightly locking the upward passage of the human race.

Lin Yunfei hung high in the firmament, looking down at the working mortal dependents.

His fingertips touched the purple light blueprint, and a grand divine might descended upon the permafrost.