10: Chapter 10: A whopping 30,000 yuan is spent to activate the chapter with a single click, accelerating 5 years of time.

After Zhao Tianze left, the gazes in the classroom remained fixed on Lin Yuan.

Some felt sympathy.

Some shook their heads.

Others thought he had lost his mind.

An F-grade Wasteland starting point, a five-thousand loan limit, and a Grey Goblins kin.

With these three labels combined, let alone competing for the top ten in the school, it was hard to say if he could even survive the first wave of Abyssal Monster projections.

Lin Yuan did not explain.

Explanations were something only the weak needed to do.

Once the rankings came out, many people's mouths would shut on their own.

Fatty Wang leaned in and lowered his voice: "Yuanzi, what you said just now was too intense. Although it felt satisfying to hear, that grandson Zhao Tianze is definitely going to hold a grudge."

"Let him hold it then."

Lin Yuan's tone was calm.

Fatty Wang's mouth twitched: "Your mindset is exactly like those ruthless people on the forums who say, 'I'm already bankrupt, why would I fear debt collectors?'"

Lin Yuan glanced at him: "How much of a loan did you get approved for?"

"Eighty thousand."

Fatty Wang sighed, the joy on his chubby face fading significantly.

"My dad transferred another 120,000 to me, totaling 200,000. It's enough to buy a few breeding cards and add a fence around the meat pig herd. The problem is, can this stuff block an Abyssal Monster?"

He was silent for two seconds, then added: "I seriously suspect that what I'm raising isn't a kin, but a buffet."

Lin Yuan couldn't help but chuckle.

Just then, Class Monitor Li Xiuqi stood up and walked to the podium.

Class Monitor Li Xiuqi possessed the B-grade Divine Realm [Fertile Oasis], and his parents were both high-ranking demigods in Jiangcheng, belonging to the typical elite class.

As soon as he spoke, his tone was gentle, carrying a smile as refreshing as a spring breeze.

"Everyone, don't lose heart. The Federation's assessment is indeed cruel, but there are always more solutions than difficulties." Class Monitor Li Xiuqi's gaze swept over several commoner students who had awakened E-grade and F-grade Divine Realms.

"The Oasis Divine Realm in my possession has just finished forging a batch of basic refined iron armor. As you all know, my Half-Elf Archers don't need heavy armor."

He paused, then extended an olive branch: "If any classmates are willing to sign an affiliation contract with me, during the assessment, this batch of refined iron armor will be lent to your kin for free."

"We will split the points earned on a three-to-seven basis. I take seven, you take three."

Compared to Zhao Tianze's high-and-mighty, condescending attitude, Class Monitor Li Xiuqi's demeanor could be called amiable and approachable.

Several dejected commoner students looked at each other, struggle flashing in their eyes.

A moment later, a male student gritted his teeth and stood up: "Class Monitor, I'll sign! My Slimes can't withstand a single hit from an Abyssal Monster; having armor at least means they can survive a few seconds longer."

With a leader, two more commoner students stood up and walked toward Class Monitor Li Xiuqi.

Lin Yuan watched this scene coldly.

Boiling a frog in warm water.

The core logic of an affiliation contract is to bind the law nodes of the affiliated Divine Realm to the main Divine Realm.

Once danger is encountered, the main Divine Realm can forcibly conscript the kin of the affiliated Divine Realm to sacrifice their lives.

It can even directly extract the source power of the affiliated Divine Realm to repair itself.

A three-to-seven split?

Once they put on that refined iron armor, these commoners' kin would just be meat shields for Class Monitor Li Xiuqi's Half-Elf Archers.

The time it takes for the monsters to tear through the meat shields is enough for the Half-Elves to output damage safely from the rear.

A few commoner classmates had already signed their cannon fodder indentures in advance.

But Lin Yuan did not speak up to stop them.

Do not advise others to be kind without having experienced their suffering.

In the face of survival laws, dignity is worthless.

Lin Yuan stopped watching, moved his consciousness, and exited the virtual campus.

Returning to his dim bedroom, Lin Yuan opened the [Spark Student Loan] interface.

A 5,000-point limit hung on the screen.

Lin Yuan did not hesitate and decisively clicked to sign the agreement.

Even a mosquito's leg is meat, not to mention an interest-free loan backed by the Federation military.

It would be a waste not to take it.

The 5,000-point loan arrived.

Adding the money earned from reselling wasteland poison crystals on the black market earlier, Lin Yuan's current account balance reached 33,450 points.

For a commoner student, this was an unimaginably huge sum of money.

Lin Yuan opened the Pantheon Trading Network and dove straight into the black market section.

The defensive simulation battle was imminent.

Conventional training methods were no longer enough to significantly improve the combat power of the Petrified Goblins.

He needed an efficient building that could allow his believers to achieve automated mutation without requiring constant micromanagement.

He entered "Building Blueprint" in the search bar.

He clicked on the advanced filter options and checked the following in the tag bar: extremely dangerous, Abyssal pollution, extremely high lethality, and unsalable contraband.

Lin Yuan quickly flipped through the list.

His gaze finally stopped on a tattered parchment scroll in the corner of the page that emitted a dim, dark red light.

[Bronze-grade Contraband Building: Abyssal Blood Pool (Wreckage)].

[Description: Extracted from an abandoned blood pool in the territory of a low-level Abyssal Demon General. The building comes with Abyssal demonic energy; placing it within the Divine Realm will cause the blood pool to continuously emit pollution. Believers soaked in it will have their physical bodies strengthened in an extremely brutal manner.]

[Negative Effects: This blood pool lacks a purification core. Users have a 99% probability of undergoing irreversible Abyssal mutation, completely losing their sanity, becoming manic creatures that only know how to kill, and attacking all living beings within their line of sight.]

[Price: 10,000 faith points.]

Below the item, there was a message in bold, bright red font: "Don't buy it! Whoever buys it is an idiot! My Orcs went completely crazy after soaking for ten minutes and tore half of my Divine Realm apart! I'll just consider this piece of junk a lesson I bought for 10,000!"

Lin Yuan looked at this message, a smile curling at the corner of his mouth.

A normal Divine Realm that dared to put this thing inside would indeed be inviting a wolf into the house.

The Abyssal demonic energy would pollute the soil, and the mutated kin would destroy the ecosystem.

But Lin Yuan's Divine Realm was already a barren Wasteland where not a blade of grass grew!

The law of the Wasteland was to accommodate all extreme harshness.

As for the 99% mutation and madness rate?

In front of [Creation Extraction], all negative traits were just raw materials that could be stripped away.

As long as "mutation" and "madness" were extracted, what remained would be a pure physical strengthening machine.

"Purchase."

The account deducted 10,000 points.

A card fell onto the desktop through a spatial rift.

The blood pool was acquired, but starting materials were still needed.

Lin Yuan continued to sweep the black market.

He entered "Deep Abyssal Materials".

Spending less than 1,000 points, Lin Yuan bought a bulk package of two full tons of "low-level Abyssal Monster bone fragments" and a large batch of stinking "rotten flesh".

These were all industrial waste from cleaning up the front-line battlefields; apart from feeding certain special poisonous insects, they were useless.

But in Lin Yuan's eyes, this was the perfect fuel for the blood pool.

The main combat barracks were settled, and the ecological chain also needed an upgrade.

The original Ash Spore Mushroom and mutated cockroach system could no longer satisfy the appetites of the evolved Goblins.

Lin Yuan allocated 2,000 points to buy 30,000 [Mutated Black Rock Mushroom] spores.

This mushroom was extremely hard, contained trace amounts of geothermal fire poison, and tasted like chewing raw iron, but it could significantly increase the bone density of his believers.

Subsequently, he spent another 500 points to buy 1,000 [Ash Worms].

This was a low-level Abyssal creature with zero attack power.

They were photophobic and timid, but their breeding speed was ten times faster than cockroaches.

They fed on the fire poison in the scorched earth and various excrement, and the feces they excreted could greatly increase the stickiness of the Wasteland soil.

This enriched the ecological chain.

What remained was time.

Previously, to accelerate the growth of the spore mushrooms, Lin Yuan had relied on exhausting his own mental energy and burning faith points to communicate with the Divine Realm core and distort the flow of time.

That crude operation not only consumed mental energy but was also inefficient.

Now that he had money, there was no need to stay up late grinding.

Lin Yuan switched back to the regular trading area and directly searched for auxiliary cards.

Spending 5,000 points, he acquired a [Low-level Time Hourglass Card].

[Effect: Crush this card to forcibly accelerate the time flow within the Divine Realm. Duration: Five natural years of the Divine Realm.]

Five years was enough for that group of Petrified Goblins to complete a thorough evolution under the torture of the blood pool and the Wasteland.

After all that, his account balance still had 14,950 points left.

Lin Yuan closed the card section and opened the special potion section.

He entered into the search bar: Divine Spark stabilization, expel Abyssal aura.

The light screen flickered, and several test tubes emitting a soft white light appeared.

[Black Iron-grade Holy Purification Potion].

[Effect: Can briefly purify mild Abyssal erosion, alleviate nerve pain, soul burning, and low-level curses.]

[Price: 14,500 faith points.]

This item was quite useless for ordinary gods.

It couldn't purify severe pollution and couldn't heal cracks in a Divine Spark.

But it could alleviate pain.

Lin Yuan remembered the sight of Old Lin sitting in the living room in the middle of the night, his mechanical prosthetic limb set aside, pouring cheap liquor down his throat.

The old man was stubborn.

Even when sweating from pain, he could still complain that the liquor was watered down.

Lin Yuan did not hesitate at all and pressed the purchase button.

With a flash of white light, a glass tube containing a milky white liquid appeared in his hand.

Lin Yuan tucked the potion away close to his body.

By now, the huge sum of over 30,000 had been squandered, and his account balance was left with a pitiful 1,450 points.

Lin Yuan looked at the empty account, but his eyes were surprisingly bright.

Only when money is spent does it become a resource.

Leaving it in the account is just a string of numbers.