4: Making a fortune in Heavenly Coins by reselling upgraded items; the Platinum Cultivation Array makes experience points flow like water.

Early the next morning, Lin Chen held Lin Qingxue and appeared in the trading area of Hub City No. 1.

The trading area was a huge square, densely packed with stalls where participants of various races were peddling their spoils of war.

[Remaining Resting World time: 6 days 0 hours]

Lin Chen's goal was clear: to make money, to earn a large amount of heavenly dao coins.

He opened his Storage Space; it was still the same 1 cubic meter in size as yesterday.

"Let's sublimate the space first, otherwise it won't hold much."

Lin Chen focused his Spirit and used [Sublimation] on the Storage Space.

[Ding—Storage Space (1 cubic meter, no Rank) successfully sublimated, advanced to black iron-grade Storage Space (10 cubic meters)]

The space expanded instantly, and he could clearly feel the capacity increase tenfold.

"Let's do it again."

[Ding—black iron-grade Storage Space (10 cubic meters) successfully sublimated, advanced to bronze-grade Storage Space (100 cubic meters)]

100 cubic meters of space was enough. Lin Chen nodded in satisfaction and began to sweep the trading area for goods.

He specifically picked the cheapest Materials with no Rank—black-striped wood found everywhere on the roadside, blue stone Ore picked up by the river, furs of low-level beasts... These things were sold in piles in the trading area, and 1 heavenly dao coin could buy a large bundle.

"Boss, how much for this pile of black-striped wood?" Lin Chen asked, pointing to a pile of arm-thick wood.

The stall owner was an alien with sheep horns. He glanced at Lin Chen: "5 heavenly dao coins, take it all."

"Deal."

Lin Chen paid the money, put the black-striped wood into his Storage Space, found an empty corner, and immediately used Sublimation on it twice.

[No-Rank black-striped wood → black iron-grade black-striped wood → bronze-grade black-striped wood]

The originally gray wood became clear and moist, emitting faint energy fluctuations, its hardness and toughness increased by more than a hundred times.

He returned to the trading area, set up a temporary stall, and hung a sign: "bronze-grade black-striped wood, 100 heavenly dao coins a pile, no bargaining."

Just as he set it up, a burly man wearing leather armor came over: "bronze-grade? Is your wood pure enough?"

Lin Chen picked up a piece and threw it over: "See for yourself."

The burly man weighed it, scratched it with a dagger, and his face changed: "It really is bronze-grade! 100 heavenly dao coins, I'll take it!"

Money and goods were exchanged, and Lin Chen instantly made a net profit of 95 heavenly dao coins.

"This money is too easy to earn." Lin Chen smiled secretly and went to sweep up a few more piles of no-Rank Ore and furs.

The operation was repeated: buy at low price → Sublimation twice → sell at high price.

black iron-grade blue stone Ore sublimated to silver-grade, originally 10 heavenly dao coins a pile, was sold for 1000 heavenly dao coins; no-Rank wolf skin sublimated to bronze-grade, bought for 2 heavenly dao coins a piece, sold for 200 heavenly dao coins...

In less than two hours, Lin Chen's heavenly dao coins soared from 100 to 50,000.

The cheap Materials in the Storage Space had all turned into bronze-grade and silver-grade high-quality goods, which were snapped up.

"Brother Lin Chen, we made money!" Lin Qingxue sat on a small stool next to the stall, shaking her nine fox tails, happily counting the heavenly dao coins.

[Name: Lin Chen]

[Race: Perfect Ancient God (Tier 2)]

[Rank: 6]

[experience points: 210 / 600]

[Attributes: Strength 200,000, Agility 200,000, Physique 200,000, Spirit 200,025]

[Skills: Ancient Gods Body, Ancient Gods Pressure, Ancient Gods Divine Sense]

[Storage Space: 100 cubic meters (bronze-grade)]

[heavenly dao coins: 52,300]

"That's enough, let's go buy a Cultivation Formation." Lin Chen packed up the stall and took Lin Qingxue deep into the trading area.

There were shops specializing in selling auxiliary items for Cultivate, including Cultivation Formations.

"Boss, do you have a silver-grade Cultivation Formation?" Lin Chen walked into a shop with a "Gathering Spirit Pavilion" sign.

The shop owner was an old man with a long beard. He sized Lin Chen up: "Yes, silver-grade Spirit Gathering Cultivation Formation, can accelerate the absorption of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi and convert it into experience points, producing 100 experience points per hour, priced at 30,000 heavenly dao coins."

"I'll take it." Lin Chen did not hesitate.

After paying, a palm-sized silver Formation Plate appeared in his hand.

[silver-grade Spirit Gathering Cultivation Formation]

[Effect: Produces 100 experience points per hour, can be shared by multiple people]

[Usage: Inject energy to activate]

"Sublimate it first."

Lin Chen found a quiet corner and used [Sublimation] on the Cultivation Formation.

[Ding—silver-grade Spirit Gathering Cultivation Formation successfully sublimated, advanced to gold-grade Spirit Gathering Cultivation Formation]

The Formation Plate turned gold, and the lines became more complex.

[gold-grade Spirit Gathering Cultivation Formation]

[Effect: Produces 200 experience points per hour, can be shared by multiple people, comes with calming effect]

"Do it again!"

[Ding—gold-grade Spirit Gathering Cultivation Formation successfully sublimated, advanced to platinum-grade Spirit Gathering Cultivation Formation]

The Formation Plate turned into a platinum luster, emitting rich energy fluctuations.

[platinum-grade Spirit Gathering Cultivation Formation]

[Effect: Produces 400 experience points per hour, can be shared by multiple people, comes with calming and gathering amplification effects]

"400 points per hour, 6 days is 400 × 24 × 6 = 57,600 experience points!" Lin Chen's eyes lit up; this efficiency was too exaggerated.

He immediately returned to the bronze-grade residence and placed the Cultivation Formation in the courtyard to activate it.

Hum—

The platinum Formation Plate released a soft light, forming a light shield with a diameter of ten meters, and the Spiritual Qi between Heaven and Earth frantically gathered into the light shield.

Lin Chen and Lin Qingxue stood inside the light shield and immediately felt strands of energy pouring into their bodies, converting into experience points.

[Ding—platinum-grade Spirit Gathering Cultivation Formation takes effect, gaining 400 experience points per hour (shareable)]

[Ding—Pet Lin Qingxue gains 400 experience points per hour]

The experience bar began to jump rapidly.

Lin Chen's experience points: 210 / 600 → 610 / 600

[Ding—Congratulations to the host for reaching Rank 7! Gained 5 free attribute points!]

Lin Qingxue's experience points: 110 / 400 → 510 / 400

[Ding—Congratulations to pet Lin Qingxue for reaching Rank 5! Gained 5 free attribute points!]

Lin Chen added all 5 attribute points to Spirit, and Spirit reached 200,030.

Lin Qingxue added 3 points to Agility and 2 points to Spirit as usual, Agility 162, Spirit 208.

The two sat on the gold-grade sofa in the courtyard, watching the experience points rise continuously; it was simply getting stronger while lying down.

"Brother Lin Chen, this is so comfortable, we can level up without fighting monsters." Lin Qingxue leaned into Lin Chen's arms, her small face full of contentment.

"This is just the beginning." Lin Chen smiled, his eyes falling on the remaining 22,300 heavenly dao coins in the Storage Space, "There's still money, let's go buy some more things to sublimate."

He went to the trading area again, this time specializing in various low-level skill books and Medicinal Pills.

The no-Rank [Basic Boxing] skill book sublimated twice into silver-grade [Powerful Punch]; black iron-grade [healing pill] sublimated into silver-grade [Strong healing pill]...

These things were resold, and he made another profit, with heavenly dao coins breaking through to 80,000.

Back home, the Cultivation Formation was still generating experience continuously.

Lin Chen's Rank improved steadily: Rank 7 → Rank 8 → Rank 9 → Rank 10... The numbers on the attribute panel were constantly refreshing.

[Name: Lin Chen]

[Race: Perfect Ancient God (Tier 2)]

[Rank: 15]

[experience points: 800 / 3200]

[Attributes: Strength 200,000, Agility 200,000, Physique 200,000, Spirit 200,055]

[Skills: Ancient Gods Body (Enhanced), Ancient Gods Pressure (Enhanced), Ancient Gods Divine Sense (Range expanded to 60 km)]

[Pet Name: Lin Qingxue]

[Race: Ice and Snow Nine-Tailed White Fox (mythical-grade)]

[Rank: 12]

[experience points: 600 / 2500]

[Attributes: Strength 100, Agility 183, Physique 80, Spirit 232]

[Skills: Ice and Snow Control (Enhanced), Nine-Tails Power, Charm, Shapeshifting, Ice Arrow (Enhanced)]

Looking at the rapidly growing Rank and attributes, Lin Chen felt moved; with the Cultivation Formation, leveling up was as simple as drinking water.

He even began to ponder whether to take the Cultivation Formation to the mission world when the rest time ended.

A platinum-grade Cultivation Formation should be able to play a huge role even in a bronze-grade or even silver-grade world.

"Brother Lin Chen, our Rank is so high now." Lin Qingxue looked at her panel, her small face full of excitement.

"This is not enough." Lin Chen touched her head, "In Survival in Ten Thousand Realms, the stronger you are, the longer you live."

He looked out the window; the sky of the Resting World was as clear as washed, who would have thought that everyone here was fighting desperately to survive and become stronger.

And he, relying on the Heaven-Defying talent [Sublimation], was already ahead of everyone else.

In the remaining 6 days, he must hurry to improve his Rank to prepare for the next mission world.

As for what the next world would be like?

A confident smile curled up on the corner of Lin Chen's mouth.

No matter what world it is, with [Sublimation], nothing is a problem.

Experience is still rising, Rank is climbing, the legend belonging to Lin Chen and Lin Qingxue has just begun.