150: Chapter 150: The Founding of the Knights!

The next day.

Early morning, the first light of dawn broke.

Su Chen stretched and looked toward the kitchen, catching sight of a busy figure.

The young girl's outfit: an apron, white stockings, white gloves, and playful twin tails.

A playful, mischievous smirk curled on Su Chen's lips as he walked over silently... Qin Wanxing noticed the movement behind her and gave him a pretty, annoyed roll of her eyes.

After a bout of passion followed by eating and drinking their fill, Qin Wanxing felt like she was falling apart, collapsing exhausted in the bedroom to rest.

Su Chen calmly crushed a teleportation scroll set for Tianchen Academy, his figure instantly vanishing from the villa.

Upon returning to the academy, he rushed without pause to the Yun City Knight Order Registration Hall.

"Hello, I'm here to apply to establish a Knight Order," Su Chen said directly, his voice steady.

The young lady behind the counter froze for a moment, her eyes filled with astonishment.

She had originally thought Su Chen was there to apply to join an existing group; after all, in her career, she had never seen a lone wolf who dared to start their own organization at only the Fifth Awakening.

"Hello, please follow me this way to fill out the registration form." Nevertheless, she maintained her professionalism and politely guided Su Chen to the lounge area to fill out the form.

Looking at the registration interface, Su Chen found that all the domineering and impressive names had long been taken.

He rubbed his chin and thought for a moment, a sudden flash of inspiration hitting him.

"Jie jie jie... Since I'll be commanding ghosts and the undead in the future, this name couldn't be more perfect—let's call it [Soul Hall]!" Su Chen grinned.

Since he never considered himself a virtuous gentleman anyway, calling it "Soul Hall" was not only domineering but also carried the aura of a big-shot villain.

Under the gaze of the registrar, which practically screamed "this guy is weird," Su Chen signed the two characters for "Soul Hall" in a flamboyant flourish.

As for the location of the headquarters, he planned to deal with that later and chose to skip it for now.

"Please pay the initial creation fee of ten million gold coins," the registrar reminded him with a smile.

Su Chen moved swiftly, transferring the ten million without even blinking.

[Ding! Congratulations to Professional [Su Chen] for officially founding the [Soul Hall] Knight Order!]

He couldn't wait to open the management panel, but what met his eyes were extremely meager attributes:

[Soul Hall Knight Order]

• Rank: Lv1

• Leader: Su Chen

• Members: 1/10

Member Buffs: All Attributes +1%, extremely low dual-recovery (HP/MP) bonus, EXP and drop rate increase of 1% (practically negligible).

Status: No headquarters, no industries, no buildings.

This panel was so pitiful it could make one cry; the member slots were a mere ten.

Su Chen glanced at the upgrade requirements: either rely on members to grind activity points slowly or just smash it with gold coins.

"Level it up, level it up with everything!"

What Su Chen lacked most right now was time.

With a wave of his hand, he directly activated a ruthlessly extravagant pay-to-win mode.

[Ding! Spent 5 million gold coins, Soul Hall Knight Order has reached Lv2!]

[Ding! Spent 10 million gold coins, Soul Hall Knight Order has reached Lv3!]

[Ding! Spent 20 million gold coins, Soul Hall Knight Order has reached Lv4!]...

System notifications rang out like a barrage of cannon fire, with the cost of each upgrade doubling.

Even for Su Chen, who had a substantial fortune, seeing his gold coin pool rapidly empty made his eyelid twitch.

Fortunately, although the recent undead tide had caused instability, the [Ancient Kingdom Secret Realm] in the Duantian Mountains was continuously generating dividends for him every day. Coupled with the Advanced Materials Wen Ruoyun helped him process, his cash flow was still holding up.

[Ding! Spent 1.2 billion gold coins, Soul Hall Knight Order has successfully reached Lv10!]

After burning through a massive sum of over two billion, the Knight Order finally reached a stage of qualitative change.

Subsequent upgrades would require rare Materials; the gold coin path had reached its end.

The panel was now completely transformed:

[Soul Hall Knight Order]

• Rank: Lv10

• Member Limit: 500 people

Core Benefits: All Attributes +50%, dual-recovery (HP/MP) +100%, EXP and gold coin drops both +50%, Hidden Luck +5.

"Jie jie jie..." Su Chen let out a burst of joyful laughter.

These bonuses were simply ridiculous. What was even more insane was that as the leader, he could enjoy triple the attribute bonuses (i.e., All Attributes +150%), the vice-leader double, and elite members 1.5 times.

This was why he would rather burn money to build his own than join the top-tier Lv18 [Golden Dawn] Knight Order in Yun City.

After finishing the procedures and returning to the academy, Su Chen was about to find a high-difficulty dungeon to test his skills when he suddenly felt a rush of wind above his head.

Two figures were walking through the air, heading straight for him.

Those who could fly within Tianchen Academy were no ordinary people, let alone when one of them was Dean Lu Yuan.

As for the other one... that face was far too familiar.

"Holy crap, the Sovereign?!" Su Chen blurted out.

He subconsciously activated the True Sight Eye, but the information fed back was a despairing array of question marks.

[Name]: Qin Zhan

[Rank/Class/Talent]: ???

The name confirmed the other person's identity—the Sovereign of Great Xia, in person!

Not only that, they were clearly coming for Su Chen.

This scene caused the originally peaceful academy to instantly explode into a frenzy.

"Who is that next to the Dean? To actually be able to walk side-by-side with Elder Lu?"

"That's... the Sovereign! My god, why has the Sovereign come to the school?"

"Looking at their path, they're going to Su Chen! They're really going to Su Chen!"

"The Sovereign visiting Tianchen in person just to see a freshman? This is too exaggerated!"

Under the gaze of countless shocked eyes, the two top experts of Great Xia slowly descended and stopped in front of Su Chen.