9: Chapter 9 A Space Ring Delivered to Your Door?

"Bang!"

Li Fan reached out and firmly secured the beast core of a white Goblin into his grasp.

In no time at all,

the small bag he brought was already nearly one-third full.

Li Fan felt quite helpless about this.

Judging by the capacity of the bag, the beast cores and materials he could continue to collect would be very limited.

He had miscalculated; he had left in too much of a hurry and failed to bring a larger bag.

"If only I could have a space ring," Li Fan murmured to himself.

If he had a space ring, he could be more relaxed when stocking up on fierce beast meat from the secret realm in the future.

After some thought,

he decided to save up a bit and buy one!

"Cough, cough!"

Just as Li Fan was contemplating, a cough suddenly sounded from behind him.

Turning around, he saw a pair—one fat and one thin—whose expressions were decidedly unfriendly, appearing before Li Fan's eyes.

Moreover, judging by the aura emanating from the two of them, their levels were definitely not low!

Li Fan reacted quickly, guessing their intention almost instantly.

"Alright, little fellow, my brother and I don't have time to watch your performance. Hand over your weapon, will you?"

"That's right, hand over that psychic weapon of yours!

My elder brother said that if you hand it over voluntarily, we can leave you with your corpse intact!"

The twin brothers stated their purpose very directly.

Clearly, they did not take Li Fan seriously.

However, on the other side, Li Fan's gaze, which had initially been wary, gradually turned ardent.

Because he clearly saw that both of them were wearing a space ring on their hands!

He had just been wondering where to get the money to buy a ring, but now, the rings were practically delivering themselves!

Seeing the heat in Li Fan's eyes,

the smiles on the twin brothers' faces gradually solidified.

Li Fan's expression—could it be that the power of his psychic weapon far exceeded their imagination?

The two of them would clearly not have the chance to know the answer to that.

Because in the very next second,

Li Fan didn't even exchange the slightest word with them.

The vitality of the two was directly erased.

The subsequent scene showed Li Fan happily dashing over to loot the bodies.

After a quick inspection,

they found nothing else besides the two space rings.

Opening the rings, they saw several bank cards lying inside.

Apart from the bank cards, they didn't see anything else useful.

It had to be said,

these two were far poorer than he expected; he thought there would be some more valuable materials or beast cores.

But it made sense: if they weren't desperate from poverty, why would two level-forty individuals come to such a low-level secret realm seeking wealth?

But regardless,

two space rings were already a huge profit!

After finishing the looting,

Li Fan felt a trace of lingering fear.

"This Annihilation Eye, it seems I can't use it carelessly. I must make sure there are no tails following me afterward," he thought.

These two were relatively foolish bandits without much cunning.

If it had been someone more insidious, something might have actually happened.

But ultimately, he still needed to keep increasing his stats.

Once his physical body became terrifying enough,

then he wouldn't have anything to worry about.

...

Continuing forward,

he farmed intensely all the way.

In a short while, a small mountain of beast cores was piled up in the space within the space rings.

Glancing at the time,

it was already evening.

After farming for so long, Li Fan was starting to feel a bit fatigued.

After some thought, Li Fan decided not to venture deeper and prepared to exit.

He had to leave for Beizhou City tomorrow afternoon.

He would contact the black market later to deal with those bank cards.

Tonight, he could finally get a good night's sleep.

But just as Li Fan was about to turn and leave,

he suddenly sensed the ground vibrating.

He looked up toward the passage ahead.

In the next second,

a crimson stone axe whistled through the air, instantly flying toward Li Fan.

Li Fan immediately bent backward.

Bang!

The stone axe passed over Li Fan and embedded itself deeply into the stone wall behind him.

With such power, an ordinary person would have likely been decapitated long ago.

"This is..."

Li Fan continued to look toward the direction of the front passage.

Judging by the weapon, this was definitely another Goblin.

However, the aura of this Goblin was far stronger than any he had dealt with before!

Not long after,

a massive figure walked out of the darkness.

Its entirely crimson skin, coupled with tusks over a meter long, instantly excited Li Fan.

Because this was clearly a Goblin Lord!

He originally thought he wouldn't have much chance to encounter one, but it actually appeared!

Without any hesitation,

Li Fan roared and shot out like a cannonball, charging toward the Goblin Lord.

With just one punch,

the Goblin Lord was blasted into pieces!

With Li Fan's current terrifying stats,

a level-twenty Goblin Lord was truly insignificant.

Collecting the golden beast core,

Li Fan was in high spirits.

This way, he should be able to advance to level ten!

Without hesitation,

Li Fan immediately began absorbing it.

However, clearly, a single level-twenty Lord's beast core was not enough to raise him directly to level ten.

Helplessly, he had to absorb all the beast cores he had previously collected in the space ring as well.

Fortunately, after absorbing everything,

his level officially increased to ten!

The feeling of becoming stronger made him unable to resist opening his status panel again.

"Name: Li Fan

Level: Lv10 (102 / 200000)

Strength: 7032

Defense: 6809

Spirit: 6720"

These numbers were already quite magnificent.

Once he reached Beizhou City, he could spend two days training hard to boost his stats further. Entering North Emperor University should then have a very high probability of success!

However, the issue that gave him a headache right now was money.

He had completely absorbed all the beast cores.

Now, all he had left were some materials from Goblins and those few bank cards that hadn't been cracked yet.

Continuing to collect more would truly be time-consuming and exhausting, and his energy wouldn't keep up.

All hope now rested on the bank cards belonging to that pair of twin brothers.

...

Exiting the secret realm,

the sky was already dark.

Li Fan didn't hesitate and immediately contacted the black market, starting to find someone to crack the bank cards.

In this era, an industry like this, though called the black market, had actually developed into a complete industrial chain.

For a service fee of about 5% of the amount in the card,

cracking the bank card and transferring the funds to an anonymous bank card was completely effortless.

As for the risk of being scammed, that was basically not a major concern,

as it was a low-probability event.

Because the black market also valued its reputation; they wouldn't trade a watermelon for a sesame seed.

Not long after,

the black market side delivered an anonymous bank card into Li Fan's hands.

After checking it,

Li Fan was so excited he almost shouted out loud in surprise.

"A full five million!"

Good heavens!

Those twins looked poor, but they actually had some savings!

But it made sense; they were level forty, so it was impossible for them not to have several million.

Moreover, five million was already considered quite poor for high-level Awakened Ones.

Ultimately, it was just that the current Li Fan hadn't seen much of the world yet.

Five million wasn't much for high-level Awakened Ones, but for Li Fan, or even for Li Fan's family, it was an astronomical sum.

Burdened with immense wealth, Li Fan swiftly headed home.

After taking a shower, he originally planned to carefully map out how to spend this money.

But as he planned and planned, Li Fan's eyelids kept drooping, and eventually, Li Fan simply fell asleep.