NOVEL NEXT Chapter 286: Alchemy Furnace
Zuo Shandiao looked at the person beside him, suddenly took out a dagger, and directly stabbed it into the person's stomach.
That person looked at Zuo Shandiao in disbelief, their pupils suddenly dilating.
Zuo Shandiao leaped up, grabbing the person's collar with one hand, and approached the Profound Maiden.
"Honorable Profound Maiden, this is for you!"
The person lay on the ground, barely clinging to life, their eyes filled with shock, lifting a feeble hand toward Zuo Shandiao.
The Profound Maiden delivered the final blow, the person's head tilted, and they died.
A wisp of gas floated into the Profound Maiden's body.
Huo Yu and the others were also stunned.
So this is how monsters gain life force by killing.
The Profound Maiden saw the confusion of Huo Yu and the others and smiled: "Only low-tier monsters gain it through eating flesh."
After speaking, the Profound Maiden stepped on the back of Zuo Shandiao, who was kneeling on the ground, letting her step on him.
Zuo Shandiao was cursing his misfortune in his heart: "Damn, what rotten luck I have, I originally thought of coming here to take over and claim it as my territory, who knew it had already been occupied by monsters, and they enslaved the people here."
If Zuo Shandiao knew that the Profound Maiden was with these people, he would have been furious.
The Profound Maiden coldly looked down at the 900 people below.
The crowd, once imposing and aggressive, was now trembling in fear at the over a thousand monsters behind them.
Zuo Shandiao, kneeling on the ground, begged: "Honorable Profound Maiden, we know we were wrong, please spare our lives, my brothers are innocent."
The Profound Maiden raised an eyebrow in surprise: "Oh, you easily killed your comrade earlier, and now you're pleading for your subordinates, is this greatness, or what?"
Zuo Shandiao, gasping for breath under the Profound Maiden's foot, said: "Profound, Profound Maiden, the person I killed just now wasn't one of mine, my brothers and I share a life-and-death bond, those other people you can deal with as you please, but could you spare my brothers' lives?"
"Sure, if you have your people kill the others, I'll spare your lives!" the Profound Maiden said icily.
Zuo Shandiao took a deep breath, appearing as if he was making a difficult decision.
Suddenly, Zuo Shandiao stood up and shouted to the people below: "Brothers, kill all those people for me!"
Zuo Shandiao's men below immediately started a war, engaging in a fierce battle.
(Unlike the Pet Tamer, monsters don't need to kill personally, they simply absorb life force after a person dies.)
The Profound Maiden watched the people below battling each other with a smile on her lips.
Huo Yu and the others frowned.
...
Ye Chen was sitting in an office building within a safe zone.
Rakshasa was sitting beside him, reporting on the situation.
"Brother Chen, these are the Law Enforcement Alliance's data, they clearly document each department, every brigade, and the number of people and their levels."
Rakshasa handed a stack of documents to Ye Chen.
Ye Chen picked up the documents and reviewed them.
Zhang Haonan also handed over the Star Alliance member data.
This purge involved not only Wu Shangyin and others but each brigade and even squad members underwent a major cleansing, removing all those with bad intentions and bad apples, sending them all to the Demon Charm Alliance.
Mo Sang had his own ways to deal with them.
Ye Chen combined the documents of the two alliances and said: "You should have your own management methods, you don't need to come to me for everything, you're the heads of your respective alliances, you have the authority and responsibility to handle these matters. Understand how to allocate and discuss among yourselves on how to manage these things."
Rakshasa and Zhang Haonan nodded.
Many newly appointed individuals were present, their emotions inevitably a bit excited.
Ye Chen stood up and said: "Alright, there's nothing else, go about your tasks, upgrade quickly, the world is about to undergo great change. More powerful monsters will appear, and if you don't have the ability to protect yourselves, how will you survive?"
"Yes!"
Everyone responded immediately.
Ye Chen stood up and left with a few people.
Ye Chen still had a Hell Secret Realm Key, and ten Hell Secret Realm Key Fragments on him.
Ye Chen had a plan in mind, saying to Yu Nian and others: "I plan to start going out tomorrow to hunt monsters, obtain more Hell Secret Realm Keys to pass down, allowing others to use them and level up early."
"Sounds good, after all, we can only enter the Hell Secret Realm once every seven days, it's better to kill monsters, gain experience, and give Hell Secret Realm Keys to others," Yu Nian agreed.
This method maximizes resource benefits.
In the afternoon, members of the three alliances had already moved their headquarters over, holding housewarming celebrations in restaurants on the street.
All three invited Ye Chen, but he declined.
Now Ye Chen was holed up in his room researching the System Mall and Monster Shop.
In comparison, one was a conscientious enterprise, the other practically a ruthless merchant.
The items in the System Mall were not only cheaper but had a higher cost-performance ratio.
Take the Alchemy Furnace as an example, the Alchemy Furnace in the System Mall only cost 100 Points and had a 100% success rate.
But in the Monster Shop, they were divided into Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced, with success rates corresponding to 30%, 70%, and 90%.
The prices were, respectively, 100 Gold Coins, 300 Gold Coins, and 500 Gold Coins, and they were all one-time use.
As for the endlessly usable Alchemy Furnace, it was divided into Heaven Earth Profound Yellow four grades, no failure in refining.
Celestial Tier was the highest, with the best efficacy.
Not only was the success rate high, but the efficacy absorption was also the highest,
For example, an item containing 1000 experience, if refined with a Celestial Alchemy Furnace, would yield an Experience Capsule containing 900.
If using a Yellow Tier one, possibly only 300.
The difference could be up to three times.
But the Yellow Tier Demon Refining Furnace needed up to 50,000 Gold Coins, and the Celestial Tier one was astronomically priced.
Ye Chen looked at the items in the Monster Shop and shook his head.
Fortunately, he had the System Mall, where the Celestial Tier Demon Refining Furnace only required 8888 Points.
It was very reasonable.
Ye Chen showed a smile, his advantage was very clear.
As he lay in bed, Ye Chen reminisced about the time before he crossed over, feeling a sense of longing.
He wondered if he could ever return.
With these thoughts, Ye Chen gradually fell asleep.
By eight the next morning, Ye Chen and the others had set off.
In Green Expo Garden, home to a multitude of monsters,
once a place of birdsong and fragrant flowers, it had now nearly become a land of death.
Zhu Qiang pinched his nose and said: "They say Green Expo Garden was full of floral scents and fresh air, how did it become like this, so smelly!"
Lin Nuoyi frowned and said: "The Green Expo Garden covers 560 acres, akin to a small forest. It used to be a leisure sanctuary, but now, it's become a monster's home."