40: Intimate phone call with the system mom

This week's 0.1 Discount Zone:

Item 1: enslavement scroll x1

Original Price: 100,000 prestige value

0.1 Discount Price: 1,000 prestige value

Description: Can be used on non-human creatures to forcibly establish a master-servant contract.

The success rate is related to the target's resistance; the stronger the resistance, the lower the success rate.

"enslavement scroll... interesting... another way to show off and gain prestige!!!"

"Buy, buy, buy!"

Item 2: Earth Rank Medium Grade Pill Furnace 'purple cloud furnace'

Original Price: 120,000 prestige value

0.1 Discount Price: 1,200 prestige value

Description: Comes with a built-in fire control Formation. Increases pill success rate by 20%. Capable of refining Rank 4 and lower Medicinal Pills.

"I just happen to be missing a Pill Furnace; I can perform Alchemy myself from now on!"

"An Alchemist, that's a rare commodity, one in a hundred!"

"Buy, buy, buy!!!"

Item 3: Rank 3 Talisman 'earth evasion talisman' x3

Original Price: 60,000 prestige value (20,000 per sheet)

0.1 Discount Price: 600 prestige value (200 per sheet)

Description: After use, one can escape underground with a maximum movement distance of five hundred meters. Difficult to detect for those below Martial Ancestor.

"Showing off easily invites lightning strikes; one can never have too many life-saving items like this!"

"Buy, buy, buy!!!"

Item 4: Energy Crystals x100 (Pet Exclusive Version)

Original Price: 500,000 prestige value

0.1 Discount Price: 5,000 prestige value

Description: For pets to absorb, can accelerate their growth!

"Qiongqi Egg!!!"

"Feeding it with blood and Qi every day is too slow. With this stuff, maybe I can hatch the egg immediately!!!"

"Buy, buy, buy!"

Item 5: Mysterious Source Stone x1

Original Price: 1,000,000 prestige value

0.1 Discount Price: 10,000 prestige value

Description: Mysterious Source Stone, containing a world within. Perhaps it has a super-expert sealed inside, or a Heaven-Defying Cultivation Technique, divine weapon, or Martial Skill... "Holy crap, System, did you have a gender swap?"

"How are the items this time all so awesome?"

"Love you, System!"

"Buy, buy, buy! Buy them all!"

[Ding! Consumed 1,000 prestige value to purchase enslavement scroll x1!]

[Ding! Consumed 1,200 prestige value to purchase Earth Rank Medium Grade Pill Furnace 'purple cloud furnace'!]

[Ding! Consumed 600 prestige value to purchase Rank 3 Talisman 'earth evasion talisman' x3!]

[Ding! Consumed 5,000 prestige value to purchase Energy Crystals x100!]

[Ding! Consumed 10,000 prestige value to purchase Mysterious Source Stone x1!]

[Current prestige value: 14,270 points!]

The enslavement scroll was now in hand—a leather scroll shimmering with a dark gold light, covered in contract incantations written in ancient script.

The purple cloud furnace was a palm-sized purple Pill Furnace, exquisitely carved with cloud patterns flowing across its body.

The three earth evasion talismans were earthy yellow Talisman papers, heavy to the touch.

The hundred Energy Crystals were like crystals, filled to the brim with energy.

The Mysterious Source Stone was a humanoid rock over three meters tall.

"Good heavens, I won't end up opening it and finding Emperor Huang Tian inside, will I?"

"System, appraise."

[Appraisal requires 10,000 prestige value.]

"10,000... with such an expensive appraisal price, just how awesome must the treasure inside be!"

"Appraise!"

Clearly, Lin Fan had already fallen into a logical fallacy.

Cheap things are likely not good.

But sometimes, expensive things aren't necessarily good either.

[Appraising...]

The silver spots on the Ore's surface suddenly lit up, emitting faint spatial fluctuations.

[Appraisal Result: A Spirit Stone from the territory of the Aolai Kingdom in the Eastern Victory Divine Continent, which has absorbed the essence of the sun and moon. Its main component is Silicon Dioxide.]

[Effect: Can be summoned from the System space to throw at people or something.]

...Lin Fan: "..."

A ten-thousand-word intimate conversation between Lin Fan and System Mom is omitted here.

"System, if I ever believe you again, I'm a dog!"

Twenty thousand prestige value!

How many good things could that have bought!

And in the end, all he got was a broken rock!

A sleepless night.

Too angry to sleep, he bickered with the System all night until the System stingily refunded him 1,000 prestige value.

[Current prestige value: 5,270 points!]

"How much is enough?"—those were the System's exact words... On the morning of the third day.

Having calmed his emotions, Lin Fan continued to expand his business.

He took all the anger he received from the System and vented it on his customers.

For today's rescue business, he increased the price but not the service.

Those who were charged a hundred before were all charged two hundred today.

In one morning, Lin Fan's team's total points reached 1,270, and their rank rose to 5th!

At noon.

The three were resting under a rock wall when a deafening roar suddenly came from the distance!

It wasn't just one.

It was... a pack!

"What's the situation?" Qin Yue stood up.

Su Muyu narrowed her eyes. "At least a dozen exotic beasts are rioting... No, they're hunting something."

Lin Fan's eyes lit up. "Business is here!"

The three quickly approached.

They saw a six-person team—yes, six people, clearly two teams had temporarily joined forces—being chased by seven Rank 3 exotic beasts.

Leading them was a Peak Rank 3 'Steel-Armored Earth Dragon,' over ten meters long, its entire body covered in metallic scales, spitting corrosive venom from its mouth.

"It's a Steel-Armored Earth Dragon! An overlord among Peak Rank 3 beasts!" Qin Yue's expression was grave. "That team is in trouble."

As expected.

The six-person team was already in a life-or-death situation; two were injured, and they could only fight while retreating.

"God Fan! Help! Our two teams are willing to pay 400 points!"

Someone saw Lin Fan and shouted hoarsely.

Lin Fan rubbed his chin.

Seven Rank 3s, one of which is a Steel-Armored Earth Dragon; the market price is at least 3 million.

"500 points," he countered.

"Deal! Deal! Hurry and act!"

Lin Fan nodded and was about to step forward.

Suddenly!

Roar!!!

That Steel-Armored Earth Dragon roared to the heavens, and a dazzling golden light burst from the gaps in its scales!

Its aura... began to skyrocket!

Peak Rank 3... Limit Rank 3... Boom!!!

A pressure far exceeding Rank 3 exploded outward!

The Steel-Armored Earth Dragon... had broken through!

Fourth-Order!

A terrifying aura equivalent to a Martial Ancestor Early-stage swept across the field!

The five-person team's faces instantly turned pale.

"Fo... Fourth-Order?! How is that possible?!"

"Aren't there at most Peak Rank 3s in the Catacombs?!"

"It's over! It's all over!"

Even Qin Yue and Su Muyu's expressions changed drastically.

A Fourth-Order Exotic Beast was no longer something they could handle at their level.

The bullet chat also exploded:

[Fourth-Order! The Steel-Armored Earth Dragon broke through mid-battle!]

[How are they supposed to fight this?! Even a Great Martial Master would have to run!]

[That six-person team is dead for sure!]

[Lin Fan, run! You can't take this job!]

[Yeah, God Fan, those below Martial Ancestor are like ants; there's a difference of two major Realms, run!]

[They're definitely dead, run, run!]

...However.

Lin Fan looked at the Steel-Armored Earth Dragon, whose aura was still unstable from the Breakthrough, and his eyes grew brighter and brighter.

"Fourth-Order... just broke through, aura unstable..."

"Heavily injured state..."

"Perfect!"

He grinned.

Then, under everyone's terrified gazes.

Instead of running, he took the initiative to charge at that Fourth-Order Steel-Armored Earth Dragon!

"Lin Fan!" Qin Yue cried out.

Su Muyu gripped her longsword, preparing to follow.

"Don't move!" Lin Fan said without looking back. "I'll handle this job personally!"