44: City Construction Order

Huang Chen and the others chatted as they walked, and this time, not a single bone soldier appeared.

The bone soldiers were originally a benefit arranged for the remnants of the Eight Great Royal Clans, and Chris, who hated Huang Chen to the core, naturally wouldn't provide any more benefits to Huang Chen and his companions.

Several hours later, Huang Chen and his group finally arrived at the altar again.

Chris was unfazed by their arrival; he still sat on his throne with his eyes closed, like a clay statue.

They stopped about 200 meters from Chris.

"Hubby, are we just going to go over like this?" Chen Yichun asked with lingering fear, looking at the giant sword in Chris's hand that emanated a chilling aura.

"Will he suddenly attack us?" Bai Zhaoning also asked with some concern.

"I think, probably not!" Huang Chen wasn't sure either.

Since Star Abyss had pointed out the path to him, there shouldn't be any mistakes, logically.

"Get out..."

Just then, Chris opened his eyes, his voice cold.

As the master of the Land of Skeletons, the Land of Skeletons was his domain, so Huang Chen's words naturally reached his ears.

And as a main god, he had his pride; once words were spoken, there was no turning back.

[Ding! Congratulations on clearing the Land of Skeletons dungeon. Reward: one city building token.]

The moment Chris's voice fell, a system notification rang in Huang Chen's mind.

At the same time, Chris angrily looked up at the sky and roared, "This belongs to the Eight Great Royal Clans..."

Hadn't the Eight Great Royal Clans exhausted their efforts to send him into the abyss precisely to leave city building tokens for their descendants?

Now that one was gone, how would he explain it to the Eight Great Clans when he got out?

But Chris's roar received no response.

"Hmph~"

A powerful pressure suddenly erupted from Chris, and his body glowed with Dark Blue (Ethereal Blue) flames. He turned and looked coldly at Huang Chen.

Seeing this, Huang Chen quickly retreated with All the women.

He thought to himself, this old man really is going back on his word.

Just as he was about to activate his Teleportation Ring, the flames on Chris's body receded like a tide.

Chris appeared to have suffered a heavy blow, and his entire being became listless.

He knelt on one knee, using the sword in his right hand to support his body and prevent himself from collapsing, his face etched with unwillingness and horror.

He had indeed harbored murderous intent just now, but in that instant, both he and his main body were severely wounded by the rules of the Source Universe.

Then, Star Abyss's cold voice rang in his mind: "Violating rules and interfering with Trial Takers. First warning. Repeat offense will result in immediate obliteration."

The Trial Grounds were generated by the will of the Source Universe, and within them, all non-Trial Taker beings had to obey the Source Universe's rules.

The Eight Great Royal Clans guarded the Source Universe, and the Source Universe was willing to open a small back door for them by generating such a dungeon in the Novice Village.

Although this small dungeon was prepared for the Eight Great Clans, if other Trial Takers cleared it first, Chris still had to hand over the reward.

Chris struggled to raise his head and extended his left hand, from which an ancient token floated, inscribed with "city building token."

Once the token appeared, it flew directly towards Huang Chen.

"It's a city building token!"

Huang Chen's eyes couldn't hide his wild joy.

In the Trial Grounds, each clan would obtain a main city.

The struggle for supremacy among billions of clans also revolved around the offense and defense of main cities.

If a main city was breached, it meant elimination from the trial.

However, in addition to main cities, a small number of sub-cities also appeared in the previous life.

If a clan with a sub-city had its main city breached, they could move their entire clan to the sub-city and continue the struggle for supremacy.

Moreover, the location of a main city was easily found; as the saying goes, it's easy to dodge an open spear, but hard to guard against a hidden arrow.

In the previous life, several clans would often unite to attack and destroy a particular clan.

But having a sub-city was different; the location of a sub-city was self-selected and generally not disclosed casually except to core personnel.

Therefore, a sub-city was almost equivalent to a clan's second life.

Huang Chen put away the city building token, planning to study it slowly when he had time.

Afterward, the group directly left the Land of Skeletons through the altar.

Chris watched Huang Chen and the others disappear from the altar, his face incredibly sinister.

"You all, had better stay alive..."

A moment after Huang Chen left, a white light flashed, and Feng Wu of the Vermilion Bird Clan appeared with a team of 300 people in a corner of the Land of Skeletons... at the entrance of the 10086 Novice Village mine.

With a flash of white light, Huang Chen and the others appeared at the cave entrance.

Upon appearing, Huang Chen and Xie Chunyan's communication panels flashed frantically.

Huang Chen opened it to see that all the messages were from Shu Xi.

After browsing the messages, Huang Chen's face instantly turned so dark it could drip water.

"Hubby, should we go back and kill them now?" Li Ruo asked, her expression furious.

She hadn't expected Chen Ling to rebel so completely in just a few days.

"Mm!"

Huang Chen nodded grimly, about to initiate a teleport.

"Wait!" Xie Chunyan pressed Huang Chen's hand, and in the confused gazes of the others, slowly said, "No rush, we can let the bullets fly a little longer."

"Shu Xi mentioned in her message that over 30 squad leaders realized they had been tricked by Chen Ling and have now pledged allegiance to her.

So Shu Xi and the others are temporarily out of danger.

Shu Xi also mentioned that there are still more than twenty squad leaders who are wavering.

Perfect, there are two more days until the monster siege. We can use this opportunity to filter out those who are loyal to Hubby."

It must be said that among all of Huang Chen's women, Xie Chunyan's strategic vision far surpassed everyone else's, including Huang Chen's.

"Should we not contact Shu Xi either?" Bai Zhaoning asked.

She was still a bit worried about Shu Xi.

"No, if too many people know, it's inevitable that a flaw will be revealed."

Huang Chen nodded, adopting Xie Chunyan's suggestion.

Then, with a thought, the ten of them appeared in Huang Chen's original room at the inn.

When they stayed at the inn before, Huang Chen had paid a 1 gold deposit for his room, so the room still belonged to him since he hadn't checked out.

Upon arriving in the room, Huang Chen eagerly took out the city building token.

[city building token]: Can be used to construct a city at any unowned location in Star Abyss.

[Usage Requirements: Requires an application from a Level 6 guild leader to the Star Abyss Main City Lord, construction cost 100 million gold coins]

Huang Chen gasped.

In his previous life, he was a lone wolf, but he knew what a Level 6 guild meant.

That alone required a minimum of 1 million members.

And 100 million gold coins, what an astronomical figure that was.

A Battle Chicken in the Novice Village only cost 1 copper coin; 100 million gold coins was equivalent to one trillion Battle Chickens.

Although the higher the level, the more gold coins monsters would drop.

But even for Level 100 monsters, they would only drop about two or three gold coins.

It would take an eternity to earn 100 million gold coins.

Seeing Huang Chen take out the city building token, All the women also gathered around curiously.

Huang Chen sent the city building token to the chat panel, and All the women, except Xie Chunyan, exclaimed in surprise.

They had no concept of a Level 6 guild, but 100 million gold coins was definitely a huge shock to them.

After all, they had been frantically farming Level 30 zombies for the past few days, and Bai Zhaoning only had a little over a thousand gold coins even now.

Seeing Xie Chunyan's unchanging expression, Huang Chen asked curiously, "Don't you think this requirement is too outrageous?"

Xie Chunyan smiled, "Is 100 million a lot?"

"Sister Chun, that's 100 million! Even if you earn 10,000 gold coins a day, it would take you 27 years," Li Ruo said, her eyes wide.

"Hehe!" Xie Chunyan shook her head with a smile. "Of course, a laborer can't earn 100 million.

I remember a capitalist once said,

'To become a billionaire, you first need a small goal,

For example, today I'll earn 100 million...'

"Damn capitalists!"

Xie Chunyan's words drew a chorus of disdain.

Huang Chen fell into deep thought after hearing Xie Chunyan's words.

His initial intention for establishing Forbidden City was simply that experience dictated he must build a team.

However, he was utterly clueless about team management and operations.

Moreover, after reaching the main city, there would be too many opportunities for him to contend for; he couldn't spend too much time managing the team.

Referring to the previous life, the apparent spokespersons of various forces were actually just puppets pushed to the forefront.

The true controllers of the forces were all busy contending for various opportunities.

And the forces were merely tools for the controllers to gather resources.

Coincidentally, Xie Chunyan had displayed extraordinary talent during this period.

Therefore, having Xie Chunyan as the apparent spokesperson was most suitable.

Thinking of this, he directly said to Xie Chunyan, "I'm leaving the money-making to you!

The Forbidden City's city-building plan will be entirely implemented by you, and everyone will be under your command from now on!"

Xie Chunyan nodded in surprise upon hearing this, her eyes sparkling with excitement.