117: Chapter 117 Discontent in the Dark

After listening to Lin Xiao's description, Magistrate Mei Fang nodded thoughtfully.

"According to your description, an internal independent network can achieve the privacy you want. Ordinary ones are sold outside, but you also requested that it would be best if it could cover more areas.

That kind of top-tier network covering the entire Human Federation area costs 1 billion divine power points. It can accommodate up to one hundred thousand people, and requires ten thousand divine power points daily for maintenance.

As for the contract you mentioned that can bind an Intermediate God, those do exist. The effect of a Death Contract is similar to a Slave God Contract. It also requires the signing party to be completely willing.

One Death Contract costs 2 billion divine power points. My nephew, don't blame your uncle for speaking too much. Once this kind of thing is brought out, it will directly trigger the fury of High Gods..."

Lin Xiao naturally heard the magistrate's concerns, and he couldn't help but smile and speak to reassure him.

"Uncle Mei, you might have misunderstood. I wouldn't dare use this Death Contract on a High God. After all, I haven't lived long enough yet.

I mainly plan to buy it as a backup. What if one day I encounter some destitute Third-order Deities? If they are willing to become my subordinates for the sake of resources, wouldn't this come in handy?

After all, they are Third-order Deities. Who knows when their Opportunity will arrive and they will promote? I must have some backup plans in my hands, right?"

Hearing this explanation, Magistrate Mei Fang secretly breathed a sigh of relief, while also unable to help but laugh self-deprecatingly.

What was he thinking? Even if the other party was a third-generation direct descendant of the Lin Family, it was impossible to make a High God submit based on reputation alone.

As for buying them over with resources? Magistrate Mei Fang secretly shook his head. To buy over an Intermediate God, even three hundred million divine power points per month was far from enough.

"Your uncle is just casually reminding you. It's best not to let the High Gods see this thing. After all, this kind of thing is quite taboo. Even just possessing it will make the High Gods uncomfortable.

Of course, your concern is not wrong either. If a Third-order Deity has the conditions, a Death Contract is still the most reliable, lest your subordinate accidentally promotes and backlashes against you."

Magistrate Mei Fang's words were actually nothing new. Not only within the Human Federation, but such things also frequently happened among the foreign races outside.

When a Slave God's strength is inferior to their master, there is naturally no problem. But once a Slave God quietly makes a Breakthrough to an Intermediate God, the master is often the first to suffer backlash.

If the master had not treated the Slave God too harshly before, it would be fine; at most, the other party would just extort a sum of divine power points and resources and leave it at that.

If their relationship was already bad before, once the Slave God makes a Breakthrough, they would often directly slaughter all of the master's relatives.

Because of this, generally, after a Slave God reaches the third order, their master will become much more polite, and any matter will be handled with a consultative attitude.

Of course, this does not include those top-tier great clans. After all, those great clans have High-rank Gods suppressing them.

"Then I'll trouble Uncle Mei to first purchase an internal network on my behalf. As for the Death Contract, I will buy it in a few days."

Looking at the full one billion divine power points that had suddenly appeared in his divine kingdom, Magistrate Mei Fang actually contemplated absconding with the money for a brief moment.

Fortunately, reason ultimately prevailed. With a trace of regret in his heart, he spent 950 million to purchase a Tianxin Base Station through internal channels.

Yes, 950 million. Although he claimed he was purchasing it on his behalf at cost price, that was merely superficial politeness.

When it came to purchasing on someone's behalf, he still hesitated not to keep a portion of the price difference for himself. In fact, for this kind of purchasing agent business, even though he was the magistrate, he rarely had such an Opportunity.

After all, those who could afford these special resources had their own channels for them. And those who couldn't even find channels often didn't have so many divine power points to buy them in the first place.

Therefore, even though he had been the magistrate for hundreds of years and had the desire to be a middleman, after all these years, he had only helped purchase some "small items."

The unit price of those purchases was less than a million divine power points, so the price difference he could pocket was naturally not very high.

After packaging and sending the item to Lin Xiao, looking at the fifty million divine power points added to his divine kingdom, a satisfied smile appeared on Magistrate Mei Fang's face.

"It's rare to meet such a suitable candidate. I hope this Nephew Lin can buy more resources in the future. Maybe I can even rise a bit higher..."

Thinking of this, Magistrate Mei Fang did not hesitate. He directly bought five portions of void condensation divine soil through internal channels, at a price of ten million divine power points per cubic meter.

As one of the important Materials for building a temple, even if the scale of the temple is small, it requires at least a thousand cubic meters of void condensation divine soil.

Lin Xiao looked at the palm-sized glass product in his hand. After understanding it through the manual, the base station instantly disappeared from his hand.

At the same time, a continuous ten-thousand-meter "high mountain" appeared within his divine kingdom. Regarding this suddenly appearing new thing,

the Believers seemed to have long grown accustomed to it. After all, every once in a while, many new high-grade resources would appear in the divine kingdom.

Lin Xiao had already made plans for this internal network. It was prepared for those Intermediate Deities. To maintain his high status, he had no intention of pulling his subordinates into the group for the time being.

It wouldn't be too late to pull them into the group after his subordinates' strength reached that level.

Just as Lin Xiao was making plans for the future, inside the Fang Family's discussion hall on the other side, the atmosphere seemed somewhat somber.

The powerful clans, who usually only gathered at the end of the year for summary meetings, had clearly met much more frequently recently because of Lin Xiao.

A First-order Deity Elder let out a heavy, cold snort.

"I knew that kid surnamed Lin was up to no good. Why should we give him subsidies just because he opened a temple?"

"Exactly! He's slapping his own face to look fat, willing to distribute so many resources. Now that he feels there are too many people, he wants our families and forces to subsidize him. On what grounds?!"

"If he can't afford to run it, he should close down! Anyway, I won't accept the resources in his hands. If he wants to buy resources from me, then it's original price! I won't give him any subsidies, don't even think about it!"

"There's no point in saying these angry words. The magistrate spoke personally. Although strictly speaking, we are indeed using our resources to subsidize that kid,

on the surface, this practice indeed doesn't have much of a problem. We are still buying resources at the previous prices, and the divine power points we get from selling those resources also remain unchanged.

Who knows how many benefits the magistrate received from that kid. If we openly oppose it, we will inevitably be resented by the magistrate..."

"No matter what, we can't just endure this. Back then, our Fang Family also fought our way out of a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood. We paid so much for our current status.

Why should this kid be able to just casually interfere? The magistrate suddenly pulled this stunt. To put it nicely, he is supporting that kid.

To put it bluntly, isn't this just reshuffling the forces in the entire county? The reason our Family forces can have our current status is because of our channel monopoly, isn't it?

Now, with just a word from the magistrate, we are forced to stock up from that kid's hands. This is disrupting the county's market, isn't it?

If this opening is made, and everyone gets used to buying resources from that kid in the future, what will happen to our Family forces? Will we all go starve?!"

Hearing this, an Elder immediately spoke up in agreement.

"It is indeed the case. This move by the magistrate can be said to be shaking the Foundations of our respective families. A large portion of our annual resources has to be used to grease palms above.

What is left in our hands is not much to begin with, and now another competitor has appeared to snatch food. Should we cut the monthly salaries of us Elders, or cut the cultivation resources of the younger generation below?"