24: Chapter 24 The Grand Shopping Spree

Inky black night enveloped the earth, and the city's night streets were completely deserted.

In Canglan City's high-end residential area, the Garden District, the housing prices were extremely expensive, costing at least 50,000 faith points per square meter.

In a private manor covering nearly a thousand square meters, inside the bedroom on the second floor of the villa, orange-yellow light shone through a window onto the lawn in front of the door.

It was already midnight, but the owner of the villa still had not rested, and the building was brightly lit.

Fang Yun lay on the bed, his consciousness having long since arrived in the virtual space.

As soon as he entered the virtual space, Fang Yun received a system prompt from the virtual space on the holographic screen before him, showing that he had an unread message. He opened his communication account and found it was a message sent by the Federal Deities Construction Bank.

He was somewhat curious as to why the other party would send him a message.

Opening the email from the Federal Deities Construction Bank, the information inside came into view.

[Respected Mr. Fang Yun, hello! Your current account savings amount has reached 283,657,421 faith points. After system evaluation, your account balance has reached the Diamond II user standard. Congratulations on becoming one of our bank's youngest Diamond-level customers. Click the link to view the following benefits in detail: 1. Faith point interest earnings, 2. Exclusive human customer service one-on-one service, 3. Divine kingdom insurance business, 4. Booking exclusive divine kingdom consultants, 5. Credit loan limit, 6. Special identity identification, etc.]

Fang Yun glanced over it briefly and didn't pay much attention to it. With an SSS-rank talent, his vision was already extraordinary, and these flashy things had little value in his eyes. At his current stage, his only goal was to be admitted to the Top Six!

This was definitely not because of an excessively outstanding fiancée; compared to that, Fang Yun wanted to let his father know that he hadn't misjudged him, and he wanted to prove to his father that he was definitely no longer the unmotivated Fang Yun of the past.

Fang Yun casually clicked on the link below and discovered that the credit limit given to him by the Construction Bank was actually as high as 1 billion faith points. A pensive look appeared in his eyes; the other party really thought highly of him.

Casually closing the page, he currently had no thoughts of taking out a loan. His divine kingdom was developing steadily, and there were daily increases that could be constantly refreshed. As long as he grew steadily, his future would be bright.

Fang Yun opened the Alliance Mall on the holographic screen before him, where a prompt also popped up.

[Citizen Fang Yun, it has been detected that you have broken through to Demigod. A comprehensive evaluation raises your current citizen privileges to Advanced, and permission to view more goods has been unlocked.]

[The operation of the virtual space strictly adheres to the "Federal Supreme Law" Citizen Privacy Protection Act No. 3, and all your personal information will be strictly confidential.]

Fang Yun raised an eyebrow. Advanced privileges?

In his impression, citizen privileges were divided into Low, Intermediate, and Advanced. As for whether there were levels above Advanced, he was not clear.

He had actually skipped Intermediate directly from Low to reach Advanced privileges. It seemed that breaking through to Demigod at his age was indeed unquestionable genius; otherwise, they wouldn't have directly adjusted him to Advanced privileges.

After dismissing the prompt, Fang Yun directly began searching for the resources he wanted to purchase this time.

As for those newly opened divine kingdom areas, Fang Yun temporarily ignored them, as the original one million square kilometers within the divine kingdom had not yet been fully utilized.

Development over the past hundred years had only kept other areas of the entire divine kingdom from being desolate; currently, most believers still lived around city-states.

The vast spaces outside only had weeds, wildflowers, and some unknown trees growing. Fang Yun temporarily decided to purchase resource-type crops to fill these places up.

"Search for resource-type plants of Grade D and above for me."

"The search has been completed according to your requirements, and a total of 2,560 eligible items have been found."

"Grade C spiritual plant [Cyan Jade Spirit Bamboo], priced at 20,000 faith points per plant, with a maturity period of 30 years. It produces cyan jade bamboo timber, which can be used for weapon crafting or building materials."

"Grade D spiritual plant [star-patterned spirit wheat Seeds] × 1,000 catties, priced at 500,000 faith points, harvested once a year. Effect: Basic food for extraordinary creatures. Long-term consumption slowly increases vital energy and blood, enhancing physical strength."

"Grade D spiritual plant [Nine-Sun Spirit Fruit Tree] × 1,000, priced at 2 million faith points, with a maturity cycle of 5 years. The Nine-Sun Spirit Fruit borne after maturity can enhance the life activity of low-tier extraordinary creatures, boost strength, and increase vital energy and blood bursts, making it especially suitable for strength-type martial artists."

"Grade D spiritual plant [Cyan Jade Condensing Dew Vine] × 1,000, priced at 1.5 million faith points, with a maturity cycle of 3 years. After maturity, it will condense [Cyan Jade Spirit Dew], which can be taken daily to slowly improve the physical body and can also be used to recover from injuries."

"Grade D spiritual plant [Scarlet Flame Spirit Pepper] × 1,000, priced at 1 million faith points. It stimulates vital energy and blood circulation, making it suitable for daily consumption by Blood Refining Realm martial artists."

"..."

Fang Yun furrowed his brows. The price difference between Grade C spiritual plants and Grade D spiritual plants was actually so huge. What was the situation?

Afterwards, he came to the Deities Forum — finding a related post in the Demigod section.

The Deities Forum was a large-scale communication platform for deities, but most of those active on it were low-tier gods, demigods, and divine creatures who had awakened their divine domains.

Those who failed to awaken naturally were not among them.

This was a post from ten years ago, but its popularity was still very high. The ID of the poster was "Snow Milk's White Child". According to his description, not only Grade C and above spiritual plants, but all other Grade C and above supplies were at least a hundred times more expensive than Grade D supplies.

The reason why supplies of Grade C and above were expensive was because these spiritual plants, spirit beasts, and buildings could often only be obtained through the god cultivating them themselves within the divine kingdom, or acquired through secret realm exploration.

They could also be seized from the opponent's divine kingdom resources in divine kingdom wars, or plundered by heading to other plane worlds during plane wars.

In short, apart from honestly leveling up and cultivating them oneself after becoming a god, other methods of acquiring high-tier resources were inseparable from war and risk.

This also led to high-tier resources being extremely difficult to acquire, and they were often of extremely high value.

Fang Yun also learned from the post that after breaking through to a god, one could independently build and cultivate buildings.

He had previously seen descriptions related to buildings in the enhancement of the golden dice [Golden Age]: construction speed of all buildings in the divine kingdom +100%.

At that time, he hadn't realized this point. Now it seemed that his talent might possibly refresh the ability to accelerate building construction?

Fang Yun didn't think too much about this question. After all, upgrading and cultivating buildings were things that only needed to be considered when he broke through to a god; there was no need to experience premature anxiety now.

Oh no, right at this moment he suddenly remembered that the auxiliary materials needed for the primordial dragon-elephant pool seemed to be all Grade C and above!

Facing such expensive market prices, he did not have the ability to purchase them in a short time, let alone the main material, dragon-elephant essence blood. It seemed his plan to use the dragon-elephant pool to rapidly enhance the strength of his divine kingdom was temporarily ruined.

In the end, after much picking and choosing, Fang Yun chose to purchase all Grade D spiritual plants. Resources of Grade C and above were too expensive, had low cost-performance ratios, and were not suitable for him at present.

He spent 50 million faith points to purchase 100,000 catties of [star-patterned spirit wheat Seeds], 10 million faith points to purchase 10,000 plants of [Scarlet Flame Spirit Pepper], and 20 million faith points to purchase 10,000 trees of [Nine-Sun Spirit Fruit Tree].

As a food crop within the divine kingdom to replace Grade E spiritual plants like qingyang spiritual ear rice and White Pulp Potato, star-patterned spirit wheat had a huge demand, so Fang Yun directly bought a large batch of seeds. Scarlet Flame Spirit Pepper served as a side dish to stimulate vital energy and blood.

At the same time, considering that enhancing believers' strength could not rely solely on simple food, martial arts potions were also needed to improve faster.

Between vital energy and blood potions and bone-tempering potions, Fang Yun chose bone-tempering potions for his believers, because the ways to enhance vital energy and blood within the divine kingdom were already enough.

The main materials for the bone-tempering potion were [Obsidian Bone-Tempering Grass] and [Jade Bone Flower].

Thus, he spent another 40 million to purchase 10,000 plants of [Obsidian Bone-Tempering Grass] and 10,000 plants of [Jade Bone Flower] respectively.

For the subsequent breakthrough of believers into the First-Order Blood Refining Realm and out of the idea of early investment, Fang Yun spent another 100 million faith points to purchase 10,000 plants of [Xuanyang Blood Ganoderma] and 10,000 plants of [Century-Old Red Blood Ginseng] respectively.

Xuanyang Blood Ganoderma and Century-Old Red Blood Ginseng belonged to the relatively scarce and expensive spiritual plants in Grade D, so their prices were on the higher side. Many martial arts civilizations, and even those walking the paths of witchcraft civilizations and beast civilizations, also had a huge demand for these two resources.

The total consumption for the procurement of the above spiritual plants cost 220 million faith points, and currently Fang Yun had about 63.65 million faith points left in his hands.

Fortunately, these expenses were all worthwhile. With these spiritual plant resources, he could ensure that he wouldn't need to worry about his believers' cultivation resources before breaking through to a First-Order God.