61: Chapter 61 Source Energy Advancement! Fifth Stage of the Origin Realm!

"We were wrong, we were wrong. Please, Miss Song, we were blinded by greed, we..."

Amidst the agonizing screams.

Under Song Jiaojiao's wand control, the raging flames resembled a brutal fierce bear.

They fiercely embraced the last figure, whose body was already charred from torture.

Chu Hong let out a clicking sound of amazement.

"Campus Belle Song's family is truly a prestigious clan that has dealt in magic-side collectibles for a century. How many kinds of magic have you already mastered just after becoming a Pioneer?"

His fake, entirely insincere words of "jealousy" earned him a massive eye-roll from Song Jiaojiao.

The magic at the tip of her wand retracted.

The source energy in her body was also instantly depleted.

She glanced at the chaotic surroundings.

"Besides Cleaver Squad, there must be another squad secretly watching us. Now that we've taken the core area, a fight is inevitable..."

Song Jiaojiao said solemnly.

Chu Hong, however, crossed his arms and leaned against the trunk of a fallen tree, smiling as he slightly jerked his chin toward the northern cliff top.

"Indeed, there's still a team watching us. However, it looks like their people aren't like these fellows..."

Song Jiaojiao turned her head.

And she saw the five members of Falcon Squad standing atop the northern cliff of the core area Chieftains Council Hall.

Donald smiled and tipped his brim at Song Jiaojiao.

Seeing that person, the vigilance on Song Jiaojiao's face relaxed slightly, and she nodded with a smile.

"It's Falcon Squad. Since it's them, it really seems there's no need to have any more meaningless fights..."

Donald and the others dropped a rope and directly rappelled down from the cliff top.

"Miss Song, seeing that you're all right, this old man can rest easy. We certainly wouldn't want a benefactor who is willing to occasionally treat us old fellows to drinks to be kidnapped by those bastards like Lu Mo."

Donald said with a chuckle.

He wore a familiar expression, but his gaze swept over Chu Hong and Wang Suming from time to time.

Just when Lu Mo and his group launched their sneak attack.

He had to admit that the responses and tacit coordination of these two young men in front of him were flawless, even to an experienced Pioneer like him.

Lu Mo was dead, and the entire Cleaver Squad was wiped out!

They died of their own arrogance, and they died under the crushing weight of the luxurious full-gear of Chu Hong and Wang Suming right before them.

Donald led all members of Falcon Squad in just a few casual chats.

They didn't even ask if they could be given a share of the core area.

Donald directly led the group toward the evacuation point.

"These old men are quite free and easy... Classmate Song Jiaojiao, it looks like they are very familiar with your family's chamber of commerce?"

Wang Suming looked at their backs and shook his head in praise.

Song Jiaojiao nodded: "In the early years, some collectible commissions were entrusted to them to gather. Falcon Squad has a very good reputation in the Pioneer circles of Huangshan Base City."

"Their credibility is very high, and their mission success rate is also very high, especially captain Donald. Every mission he personally participated in has never failed once..."

Chu Hong nodded, but his gaze was fixed tightly on the large sniper rifle behind Donald.

Full of envy.

That was a golden-quality large sniper rifle!

He wondered if, by serving this Miss Song beside him well, he could get her to gift him one as well...

Map cleared!

The three of them began their usual routine of container looting and spoils organization.

When the ten-second countdown ended.

The three Chu Hong returned to the mystic realm camp once more.

As soon as they stepped out of the light ring.

A violent energy fluctuation suddenly surged from Chu Hong and Wang Suming.

Seeing this, Song Jiaojiao and the steward Uncle Fu, who had just stepped forward to greet them, both shrank their pupils slightly.

They had promoted!

When the energy fluctuations disappeared.

The source energy fluctuations on both Chu Hong and Wang Suming had obviously become stronger.

Chu Hong, Qiyuan Realm Stage 5!

Wang Suming, Qiyuan Realm Stage 3!

On Song Jiaojiao's fair face, for the first time among her peers, a look of restlessness appeared.

With the resource support of the chamber of commerce behind her, she was only at Qiyuan Realm Stage 3 now.

She never expected.

It was one thing that she couldn't compare to the mysterious Chu Hong.

But even the strength of Chu Hong's lackey, Wang Suming, had actually caught up to her!

"Holy crap! Brother Hong! The two of us promoted just like that?! I'm at Qiyuan Realm Stage 3! Isn't this a guaranteed admission to a prestigious Source Energy University?"

Wang Suming was full of joy.

The melancholic mood he had moments ago—because this run didn't loot anything decent and even gold items were only one or two—was instantly eased at this moment.

At Qiyuan Realm Stage 3, he had more source energy in his body.

His strength and endurance were also stronger.

And he could hold back and block more enemies and attacks for Brother Hong just like today...

Arriving in front of the trading post.

The person in charge had been waiting here early. When seeing Wang Suming and the others walk over, he immediately had people clear out a large open space in front of the counter.

"Mr. Chu, I have already made an appointment for you to go to the guild headquarters tomorrow to apply for the establishment of a Pioneer Squad. At that time, you just need to bring your ID card and go over..."

The person in charge wore an eager smile and stood respectfully beside Chu Hong.

However.

Regarding such preferential treatment, none of the surrounding Pioneers present had any objections at all.

Next was the collection valuation time, which the camp Pioneers never tired of seeing.

It still started with the most cost-effective purple-grade collectibles.

[kali fruit (Purple)] * 67 pieces.

The current market price of a single kali fruit was 80,000 source energy points.

This basket of kali fruits, brought out as casually as a normal person visiting a fruit store, instantly caused a chorus of sharp intakes of breath.

"Holy crap! So many, just how many containers did they loot? Even though this thing is abundant in the Thunder-Horned Lizardman Tribe mystic realm, you can't count them by the basket, right?"

"Hiss... That's already over five million source energy points! Damn it, are young people nowadays all this exaggerated? Casually pulling out a pile of items catches up to the earnings of my entering mystic realms several times!"

Chu Hong wasn't very keen on this segment.

After all, no matter how many source energy points there were, they were just a number.

At this moment, he was standing smilingly beside Miss Song, lowering his voice.

"Campus Belle Song, look, this wave of ours harvested over ten to twenty million source energy points. Don't you have any intention of fighting for some for your chamber of commerce?"

He winked and made faces, yet his purpose was almost written all over his face.

This left Song Jiaojiao utterly speechless.

"Want gold bullets?"

Chu Hong's eyes instantly lit up, and he nodded repeatedly like a chick pecking at rice.

"If we could get a production line for golden-quality ammunition, that would be even better. Uncle Song is so awesome in our base city, he surely must have a way, right? I..."

"You still want a production line?!" Song Jiaojiao looked as if she had seen a ghost.

Looking at Chu Hong, who wore a sincere and eager expression, she wished she could take a bite out of him right on the spot.

"There is only one such thing in the entire Huangshan Base City, and it's heavily guarded. The ammunition produced every day is even numbered and warehoused. And you still want a production line? You..."

The elegant temperament Song Jiaojiao had cultivated since childhood was almost driven to curse words by Chu Hong's appetite at this moment.

She took a deep breath.

To barely calm herself down a bit, biting her silver teeth.

In the end, she couldn't stand Chu Hong's sparkling gaze.

"Fine, fine... At most I'll give you one more box. Any more and we really have to find a way to go to Shangcheng Base City to trade for it."

A box!

Isn't that sixty rounds!

Using six to deal with Lu Mo, and one to kill that other person.

When killing those last three, they didn't even use gold bullets.

That meant...

Chu Hong secretly counted on his fingers.

"Counting this box of sixty gold bullets that hasn't arrived yet, that's 180 - 7 + 60 =... 233 rounds!"

Chu Hong's eyes instantly lit up.

"We're entering the Cliffside Epidemic Hospital tonight! I'm going to clear the map!"