24: Chapter 24 Extravagant Spending

When Wang Pingan exited his Divine Realm, the Formation in the secret room was still slowly operating.

He did not stand up immediately, instead sitting on the white jade futon and opening the Federal Mall in his wristwatch.

The mall interface lit up, and the familiar categories unfolded layer by layer.

Wang Pingan directly searched for spatial expansion-type cards.

The next moment, the prices refreshed on the page made his eyelids twitch slightly.

[F-grade Micro Spatial Expansion Card, increases Divine Realm area by one square kilometer, selling price 800,000 Source Power Points.]

[E-grade Small Spatial Expansion Card, increases Divine Realm area by five square kilometers, selling price 3,000,000 Source Power Points.]

[E-grade Stable Spatial Expansion Card, increases Divine Realm area by eight square kilometers, selling price 5,200,000 Source Power Points.]

[C-grade Low-tier Spatial Expansion Card, increases Divine Realm area by twenty square kilometers, selling price 14,000,000 Source Power Points.]

Wang Pingan glanced over these cards and directly skipped them.

One square kilometer, five square kilometers, or even twenty square kilometers were merely a drop in the bucket for his current Divine Realm.

His population was already approaching ten thousand, the Heavy Immortal-Martial Legion had expanded to one thousand people, and he would continue to expand the army afterwards.

Adding twenty square kilometers could only buy a brief respite, to no avail; it could not solve the underlying problem of the troop-spawning build.

Spatial expansion cards involved Divine Realm rules, and their production difficulty was extremely high.

This kind of card was not an ordinary resource card.

Spirit Planting cards could be planted, ore vein cards could be buried, and equipment could be bought as finished products.

However, spatial cards had to leverage the boundaries of the Divine Realm, making the mainland expand toward the Void Realm while ensuring the ecology and Spiritual Veins did not collapse.

Because of this, high-tier spatial cards on the market had long been monopolized by major families and federal institutions.

Ordinary students couldn't even bear to look at them.

Wang Pingan pulled the filter conditions directly to B-grade.

After a brief stutter on the page, a few items popped out.

[B-grade Medium Spatial Expansion Card, increases Divine Realm area by one hundred and fifty square kilometers, comes with basic Spiritual Vein stabilization effect, selling price 35,000,000 Source Power Points.]

[B-grade Mountains and Rivers Spatial Expansion Card, increases Divine Realm area by one hundred and twenty square kilometers, comes with small river and hill terrain, selling price 38,000,000 Source Power Points.]

[B-grade Plains Spatial Expansion Card, increases Divine Realm area by one hundred and eighty square kilometers, single terrain, suitable for legion training, selling price 40,000,000 Source Power Points.]

Wang Pingan's gaze lingered on the first card.

B-grade Medium Spatial Expansion Card.

Increases by one hundred and fifty square kilometers.

Comes with a basic Spiritual Vein stabilization effect.

This card did not have the largest area, but it was the most suitable for his current Divine Realm.

Although the Plains Spatial Expansion Card had a larger area, its terrain was single, and the subsequent layout of spirit fields, Spiritual Veins, and Qi and blood areas would be more troublesome.

The Mountains and Rivers Spatial Expansion Card came with richer terrain, but its price was higher, and the area was conversely smaller.

The Medium Spatial Expansion Card was the most stable, able to expand the Divine Realm from one hundred square kilometers to two hundred and fifty square kilometers, directly more than doubling it.

With these one hundred and fifty square kilometers, the residential area could be relocated outward, the spirit fields could be expanded, and the Northern Plains could be entirely converted into a legion training area.

The most crucial thing was that the thousand-man-level Army-Breaking Sword Formation could finally be practiced without holding back.

Wang Pingan clicked on the details and read through them repeatedly.

[Usage Condition: Divine Realm area is not less than fifty square kilometers.]

[Recommended Realm: Divine Being and above.]

[Risk Warning: Spatial oscillations will appear at the edges of the Divine Realm during expansion, requiring the maintenance of Spiritual Vein stability.]

[Additional Effect: Basic Spiritual Vein stabilization, which can reduce the risk of expansion failure.]

This card was very expensive.

But it was worth it.

Wang Pingan looked at his account balance.

[Current Source Power Point Balance: 63,764,000.]

This sum of money was the remaining part of the Family's one hundred million Source Power Points after deducting all previous purchases.

Ordinary students could get so excited over one million that they couldn't sleep.

Yet he was now going to drop tens of millions all at once.

Wang Pingan didn't feel reluctant in his heart; he was merely calculating the subsequent risks.

Buying the B-grade Medium Spatial Expansion Card, taxes plus platform service fees would push the total expenditure to 39,200,000.

The account would still have more than twenty million left.

However, after the spatial expansion, the Spiritual Qi and Qi and blood would be diluted by the new land.

If the Divine Realm's area doubled without replenishing Spiritual Qi and Qi and blood, the pressure on the original Small Spirit Vein and Mysterious Blood Pool would rise again.

In other words, he couldn't just buy spatial cards.

He also had to buy B-grade resource cards that increased Spiritual Qi and Qi and blood.

Wang Pingan continued searching.

[B-grade Spirit Mist Spring Card, selling price 12,000,000 Source Power Points.]

[B-grade Azure Wood Spirit Soil Card, selling price 15,000,000 Source Power Points.]

[B-grade Blood Jade Earth Vein Card, selling price 13,000,000 Source Power Points.]

[B-grade Crimson Blood Spirit Spring Card, selling price 16,000,000 Source Power Points.]

He quickly selected two.

The B-grade Spirit Mist Spring Card could form spirit mist nodes in the newly expanded area of the Divine Realm, suitable for the expansion of the cultivation district and spirit fields.

The B-grade Blood Jade Earth Vein Card could provide a stable force of Qi and blood for the new land, suitable for the expansion of the martial arts training ground and the Red Blood Ginseng Field.

The two totaled 25,000,000 Source Power Points.

Counting taxes and service fees, it would ultimately exceed 28,000,000.

If bought together with the B-grade Medium Spatial Expansion Card, the sixty-something million in his account would basically be cleared out.

Wang Pingan looked at the settlement estimate, his fingers suspended above the confirmation button.

[B-grade Medium Spatial Expansion Card: 35,000,000 Source Power Points.]

[B-grade Spirit Mist Spring Card: 12,000,000 Source Power Points.]

[B-grade Blood Jade Earth Vein Card: 13,000,000 Source Power Points.]

[Total Commodity Price: 60,000,000 Source Power Points.]

[Total Taxes and Platform Service Fees: 7,200,000 Source Power Points.]

[Total Amount Payable: 67,200,000 Source Power Points.]

The balance was not enough.

Wang Pingan's eyes narrowed.

He rechecked his account and found that the school subsidies, weekly exam credit conversions, and some Family supporting resources had not yet been fully converted into Source Power Points.

He opened the Family resource permissions and exchanged all the low-tier allocations that could be freely converted.

Those E-grade resource cards, ordinary spirit rice subsidies, and training ground subsidies originally prepared for subsequent sporadic purchases were converted into Source Power Points all at once by him.

After the exchange was completed, the account balance jumped.

[Current Source Power Point Balance: 69,120,000.]

Enough.

But after buying, only less than two million would remain.

This was already equivalent to hitting rock bottom for working capital.

If unexpected situations arose later, such as needing to temporarily purchase targeted cards before the Nova Assessment, or a resource imbalance appearing within the Divine Realm, he would not have sufficient funds for emergencies.

Wang Pingan stared at the page, quickly weighing options in his heart.

The safe approach was to buy the spatial card first, then buy an energy card, keeping more than ten million in cash.

But once that happened, the Immortal-Martial Dual Cultivation would become unbalanced again.

Replenishing only Spiritual Qi would slow down the martial arts district.

Replenishing only Qi and blood would hold back the cultivation district.

His core advantage was advancing Immortal and Martial simultaneously.

Weakening one side just to keep cash was equivalent to cutting off one of his own legs.

Wang Pingan thought of Wang Chengyue's words.

Burning money was not scary; what was scary was burning money in the wrong place.

This time, the money was not burned in the wrong place.

Space, Spiritual Qi, and Qi and blood—these three things must be replenished together.

There was only half a month left until the Nova Assessment; keeping the money looked reassuring, but it couldn't immediately turn into combat power.

Smashing it into the Divine Realm was the only way to get the population, legions, training grounds, and resource areas running again.

Wang Pingan no longer hesitated.

He first clicked the purchase button for the B-grade Medium Spatial Expansion Card.

[Confirm purchase of B-grade Medium Spatial Expansion Card?]

Wang Pingan directly confirmed.

[Payment successful.]

The account balance instantly decreased by nearly forty million.

He did not stop and opened the B-grade Spirit Mist Spring Card.

[Confirm purchase of B-grade Spirit Mist Spring Card?]

Confirm.

[Payment successful.]

The balance slid down again.

Finally was the B-grade Blood Jade Earth Vein Card.

[Confirm purchase of B-grade Blood Jade Earth Vein Card?]

Wang Pingan looked at the final confirmation box, his mind conjuring up the crowded houses, blocked barracks, and the thousand-man legion unable to deploy within the Divine Realm.

He decisively clicked confirm.

[Payment successful.]

The wristwatch interface popped out the final balance.

[Current Source Power Point Balance: 1,920,000.]

Nearly 70,000,000 Source Power Points were left with only a little over 1,000,000 in the blink of an eye.

Looking at this number, Wang Pingan actually felt a bit more relaxed.

The money was gone.

But the path was opened.

The spatial teleportation Formation in the corner of the secret room began to glow violently.

The first teleportation light pillar descended, and a silver-white card floated above the Formation Plate.

There were no complex patterns on the surface of the card, only overlapping spatial textures continuously contracting and expanding, with slight Void Realm fluctuations at the edges.

As soon as Wang Pingan approached, he felt his divine core vibrate slightly.

This was the B-grade Medium Spatial Expansion Card.

It was not an ordinary resource.

It could directly change the area of the Divine Realm, expand the continental boundaries, and leverage the Foundation of the micro Divine Realm.

The second light pillar descended.

A cyan-white card appeared in the Formation Plate, spiritual mist surging on the card face, with a faint spring continuously spewing out mist.

This was the B-grade Spirit Mist Spring Card.

The third light pillar descended accordingly.

A blood-red card emerged, depicting a blood jade earth vein buried underground on its face, with heavy Qi and blood power spreading outward along the edges of the card.

This was the B-grade Blood Jade Earth Vein Card.

The three cards suspended in front of Wang Pingan.

Spatial Law fluctuations, Spiritual Qi fluctuations, and Qi and blood fluctuations intertwined with one another, illuminating the Formation patterns in the secret room alternately bright and dim.

Wang Pingan raised his hand and put away the three cards.

At this moment, he knew very well that his working capital had nearly hit rock bottom.

But he knew even better that once these three cards integrated into the Divine Realm, all Bottlenecks within the Divine Realm would be opened.

The crowded town could expand outward.

Spirit fields and medicine fields could be re-planned.

The Mysterious Blood Pool and the martial arts district could be separated.

The Northern Plains could be entirely converted into a legion training ground for thousands or even several thousand people.

Most importantly, his troop-spawning build path could finally continue to push forward.

Wang Pingan closed his eyes, and his Divine Thought sank into the divine core.

The three cards were enveloped by Divine Power and slowly integrated into his consciousness.

The Void Realm mist at the edge of the Divine Realm seemed to sense the upcoming expansion and began to roll in the distance.

Wang Pingan did not hesitate, his consciousness bringing the cards to descend directly upon the firmament of the Divine Realm.