137: Chapter 137 The Settlement of the Middle Gods

Closing the private chat interface, Lin Xiao stepped out of the room. At the doorway, Xuan Liu and the others stood quietly, like four wooden posts.

Seeing him emerge, they did not utter a single word, silently falling into step behind Lin Xiao.

Meng Ning, who had come up after receiving the message, bowed to Lin Xiao.

"Reporting to my Lord, the people sent by those Families to fulfill the wager have already left. They left behind 150 people who are still waiting below. Would you like to meet them, my Lord?"

Lin Xiao nodded upon hearing this.

"We will be spending at least four years together, so naturally, I should meet them. Let's go."

Meng Ning led the way, while Xuan Liu and the other three vanished from sight. It was unclear where they had hidden themselves, but they were definitely still around.

Inside the reception hall, those Divine Beings and deities were whispering among themselves. As for the foreign demigods who had been stripped of their resources, their faces were filled with numbness and dead silence.

"By the way, this is supposed to be a reception room, right? Why does it feel like the Spiritual Qi here is even denser than in the meditation chambers specifically set up within our clan?"

"I felt it too. It's really strange. Why didn't we feel it in the front reception hall earlier? Could they have specially set up a Spirit-Locking Array here?"

"This... Lord Lin is truly generous. Even the Spiritual Qi here is so dense. I can't even begin to imagine what those specially set up meditation chambers must look like."

These Divine Beings who were sent over were all untalented, neglected children from the collateral branches of their Families. Before coming, they had been incredibly anxious and resistant.

After all, no matter how neglected they were within their Families, they were still members of the main household, and their daily lives were usually attended to by dedicated servants.

Now, having been lost as part of a wager, even though it was only for a little over four years, in the end, it turned them from masters who were served into servants who served others.

Naturally, they were extremely resistant to this massive drop in status. Unfortunately, this was a joint decision made by the Family Head and the Elders, leaving them no room to resist.

But feeling the density of the Spiritual Qi in the reception room, they suddenly realized that it didn't seem so bad. If they were allowed to stay in this reception room all the time...

Four years didn't seem so hard to accept after all.

After all, in their Families, meditation chambers were reserved for direct descendants and highly talented clan members. People like them were only allowed to enter for one day a month.

Unlike these Divine Beings, the group of First-order Deities who had been assigned here noticed the difference in the Spiritual Qi as soon as they entered.

After sensing it carefully, their faces grew increasingly shocked. They looked at one another and saw the same expression on their companions' faces.

They immediately began communicating via Divine Thought transmission.

"Such dense Spiritual Qi doesn't seem like something a Spiritual Pool can achieve. Even at the absolute core of a Spiritual Pool, the density of Spiritual Qi is far inferior. Could this be... a Spiritual Vein?"

"Although I really don't want to admit it, there seems to be no other possibility besides a Spiritual Vein. But this is just too..."

After all, a Spiritual Vein was an A-grade strategic resource with a market price of 200,000 divine power points. If one actually wanted to buy it, it would cost at least 250,000 or more. To place such a precious resource in a reception room?

This was simply a reckless waste of precious resources!

This was a Spiritual Vein! Even as First-order Deities, and even for Family Elders, this was an incredibly coveted and precious resource.

Yet, it was just casually placed in a reception room?

"Do any of you find this reception room a bit unusual?"

"Isn't that obvious?! With Spiritual Qi this dense, how could it be normal?!"

"I'm not talking about the Spiritual Qi! Look closely at the chairs in this reception room, and the tea that high-tier being is drinking!"

Prompted by his reminder, the deities carefully observed the surrounding furnishings. Only after a closer look did they notice something about those seemingly ordinary chairs.

Countless tiny runes covered the chairs like natural wood grain.

Trying to sense them carefully with their Divine Thoughts, they discovered that these ordinary-looking chairs actually contained an astonishing amount of Spiritual Qi!

With just a brief contact of their Divine Thoughts, a wave of cool, refreshing energy washed over them.

Looking at the tea in that high-tier being's hand, the water used was actually pure spiritual liquid! And the few "tea leaves" floating in the spiritual liquid were exuding a dense power of Law.

Although they didn't recognize it, they could clearly tell from the dense power of Law alone. What kind of tea leaves were these? This was freaking life law fragments!

"soul-nourishing wood! These chairs are all made of soul-nourishing wood! Heavens, I've only ever seen a single bracelet made of soul-nourishing wood in the hands of the Family Head."

"It's said to be a Nascent Soul Realm resource! Wearing it on one's body has the effect of calming the mind and focusing the spirit. There are actually so many here?!"

"The tea in that high-tier being's cup seems to be liquefied spiritual liquid?! And that teacup seems to be a special Magical Artifact with quite a large space inside."

"Could there be a Spiritual Spring inside his teacup? Drinking from a Spiritual Spring as tea? What a spendthrift! This is simply too wasteful!"

"Although a Spiritual Spring was only a C-grade resource, it still cost a full 2,000 divine power points. If the younger Divine Beings in their clan could have a Spiritual Spring..."

"The strength of their Believers could be boosted much faster. Yet, this person was actually drinking such a precious resource like ordinary tea?!"

"Why don't you look at the 'tea leaves' that being is brewing? Don't tell me you can't feel the power of Law on them!"

"life law fragments! A single piece of that can heal thousands of heavily injured Qi Refining Realm Believers, and even a heavily injured, dying Nascent Soul Believer can be completely restored!"

"Such a precious resource is actually... actually being used to brew tea?!"

"We always knew that kid had a lot of divine power points, but no matter how many he has, he shouldn't squander them like this, right?!"

Although these resources didn't belong to them, it didn't stop them from feeling pained. Such great resources—whether used to nurture subordinates or sold—

Would be ten thousand times better than squandering them like this, right?

Lin Xiao naturally couldn't feel their heartache. With his daily income of 1.6 billion, what he sold were just some common resources, keeping those that were currently useful to him and his subordinates.

For instance, Medium to High Grade, and even Supreme Grade Magical Artifacts, Puppets, Talismans, Medicinal Pills, Law fragments, Nascent Soul Realm Yao Beast flesh, precious spiritual plants, spiritual Materials, and so on.

He had actually kept all of these, and even Golden Core and Foundation Establishment Realm resources. He only sold off the excess after meeting his own and his subordinates' daily needs.

Only then would he sell the surplus.

Not to mention, he now had the payout resources of an Intermediate God!

[Shi Mu: Fourth-order Peak (Intermediate God)]

[Void Refining Realm Believers: 400,000; Soul Transformation Realm Believers: 1.3 million; Nascent Soul Realm Believers: 5.7 million; Golden Core Realm Believers: 14.2 million; Foundation Establishment Realm Believers: 42.6 million; Qi Refining Realm Believers: 2 billion; Mortal Realm Believers: 10 billion. Reward: 376.5 million divine power points.

Void Refining Realm Spirit Beast flesh: [X] tons; Soul Transformation Realm Spirit Beast flesh: [X] tons; Nascent Soul Realm Spirit Beast flesh: [X] tons (omitted)

Void Refining Realm spiritual plants and Spirit Fruits: [X] catties; Soul Transformation Realm spiritual plants and Spirit Fruits: [X] catties; Nascent Soul Realm spiritual plants and Spirit Fruits: [X] tons (omitted)

Low Grade Magic Treasures * 10,000; Medium Grade Magic Treasures * 3,000; Low Grade Magic Treasure Puppets * 10,000; Medium Grade Magic Treasure Puppets * 1,000 (omitted)

Void Refining Realm Medicinal Pills; Soul Transformation Realm Medicinal Pills; Nascent Soul Realm Medicinal Pills (omitted)

Various Law fragments: ***.

Special Resources: Golden Parasol Wood * 10 cubic meters (one of the important Materials for building a divine temple (Purple)); Five Elements Soil (one of the important Materials for building a divine temple (Purple)) * 10 cubic meters]

Most of these resource rewards from Shi Mu were things Lin Xiao had never seen on the trading network! He had asked Meng Ning about this, and the answer he received was: resources above the Soul Transformation Realm are not sold on the network.

If one wanted to acquire them, they either had to fight on the Battlefield of Deities or spend a massive price to travel to high-order Star Domains to conduct face-to-face transactions.