Mystery Descends: My Exchanges Are Not Equal

On one side of the great hall is the Spiritual Eye Spring.

All around the great hall, various Spirit Flowers and Herbs are planted.

The entire space is arranged like a small garden, with the fragrance of flowers and herbs permeating the air, particularly refreshing and pleasant.

Seeing this scene, Wang Teng felt especially at ease.

This little girl really put her heart into it!

He planted the Spirit Flowers and Herbs he exchanged for, and even watered them with some Spirit Liquid.

This made the growth of all the flowers and herbs very gratifying.

"Xue'Er did a really good job!"

Wang Teng silently praised in his heart.

Then, he walked along a small path among the flowers and herbs towards the great hall.

A moment later, Wang Teng entered the great hall.

"Master, you're back!"

Qian Lingxue was overjoyed at the sight of him.

"Xue'Er, this is for you."

Wang Teng directly took out a Time Jade Bracelet and handed it over.

Qian Lingxue instinctively took the jade bracelet, looked at it carefully, and then exclaimed.

"Wow~! It's a Red Mythical Level jade bracelet! So beautiful! Master, is this really for me?"

The little girl seemed somewhat incredulous.

This bracelet was extremely precious.

Wang Teng smiled slightly and said, "This is indeed for you!"

"Master, you're so kind!"

Qian Lingxue's pretty face turned slightly red, her heart filled with delight.

This was the first time her master gave her a gift, making her extremely happy.

"Xue'Er, put it on and see how it works?"

"Mm~!"

Qian Lingxue obediently nodded and put the Time Jade Bracelet on her smooth, jade-like wrist.

As soon as she put it on, Wang Teng could clearly sense a significant change in the time flow around them.

Qian Lingxue's eyes lit up with surprise: "Master, this jade bracelet is amazing! With it, my time force field's speed increased from twofold to threefold, and its coverage area doubled!"

Wang Teng's eyes brightened: "With a threefold speed, three hours here equate to one hour outside."

"Yes, indeed~!"

Qian Lingxue nodded happily.

Wang Teng nodded and smiled: "That's great. With this force field, we can save a lot of time. Xue'Er, you did great!"

Qian Lingxue happily said, "As long as I can help Master, I'm very happy. By the way, Master, these are two Gold-level Blind Boxes I just acquired."

Qian Lingxue took out two Gold-level Blind Boxes from her Storage Ring.

Wang Teng casually accepted them, in high spirits.

"Master, Xue'Er's home has reached Level 4. I've divided it into three rooms! I specifically set up a room for you. If you find it more convenient to stay in the same room with Xue'Er, I can rearrange it."

Qian Lingxue's cheeks turned red with shyness.

In her mind, she was Wang Teng's personal maid, prepared to attend to whatever needed attending.

Whatever the master required, she would do willingly.

Wang Teng knew Qian Lingxue's little thoughts, but he said nothing, only smiled.

"A separate room for me will be perfect."

"By the way, Xue'Er, continue purchasing the other materials for creating the Teleportation Array. I will go create it in a little while."

"Sure thing~!"

Qian Lingxue willingly agreed.

Immediately afterwards, Wang Teng entered the independent room arranged for him by Qian Lingxue.

Inside the room, he took out ten Gold-level Blind Boxes and directly synthesized two Platinum-level Blind Boxes.

Now, he had three Platinum-level Blind Boxes and three Gold-level Blind Boxes.

He was very satisfied with this.

After finishing these, Wang Teng sat cross-legged in the room.

Then, he took out the 42 Buddha's Karmic Fruits he hadn't fully extracted before and exchanged for over a thousand pieces of White Ordinary-Level Equipment.

Next, he began the grand plan of extracting the Buddha's Karmic Fruits and equipment...

With Qian Lingxue's time force field, tripling the flow, Wang Teng saved a lot of time.

In the blink of an eye, one hour had passed in the outside world.

But inside the great hall, three hours had gone by.

In these three hours, Wang Teng extracted more than seventy thousand pieces of White Ordinary-Level Equipment, earning over 220,000 Contribution Value points.

Apart from that, all forty-two Buddha's Karmic Fruits were fully extracted.

His Great Sun Saint Body blood concentration also reached 15.3%, and his Combat Power soared to 40,830 points.

Finally, he achieved his small goal of reaching 40,000 Combat Power.

He was in great spirits because of this.

"It's been a while! It's time to act!"

At this moment, Wang Teng let out a long sigh of relief and rose happily.

The harvest in these three hours greatly satisfied him.

Next, he planned to create a Teleportation Array.

Once it was completed, it would be about sunset, the right time to undertake the lake-bottom bounty task.

Wang Teng felt the arrangement was perfect and prepared to find Qian Lingxue to inquire about the progress of collecting the resources for the Teleportation Array.

Just then, a familiar mechanical voice delivered new information.

[Hint: The number of Level 3 Homes in the Celestial Court has reached 100, meeting the standard required for upgrading to a Level 4 World.]

Wonderful!

The condition for upgrading to a Level 4 Celestial Court was met once more.

Speaking of which, the upgrade speed of the Celestial Court is getting faster and faster, even though the difficulty is double that of others, it's still much quicker than other world dungeons.

This is not only due to the Celestial Court's rich resources but also because of its significant advantage in member numbers.

In other world dungeons, members barely reach a thousand, mostly ranging between seven hundred to nine hundred people.

But the Celestial Court has over fifteen thousand members, almost twenty times more than other world dungeons.

With nearly twenty times the members, they can kill enemies, chop trees, mine, and quarry, gathering basic resources in abundance.

Therefore, the speed at which the Celestial Court collects resources is something other world dungeons can't even imagine.

Even if other world dungeons work themselves to death, they can't catch up to even one-tenth of the Celestial Court.

This is the benefit of having a large population base.

With this realization, Wang Teng's mind sparked.

With this in mind, if he captures ten thousand prisoners of war and converts them all into slaves, the Celestial Court would greatly benefit.

Because members consume resources to upgrade their homes, whereas slaves don't since they live in the public building "Enslavement House" and don't consume extra strategic resources.

Their only privilege is exchanging Contribution Value for essential supplies.

Thus, they primarily produce resources without consuming them.

This way, the resources they produce can be continually supplied to Wang Teng and the Celestial Court Members, accelerating the Celestial Court's upgrade speed.

It's not that pitiable for the slaves because, in this world, Wang Teng knows that if the Celestial Court doesn't develop well, they might be enslaved by other world dungeons in the next moment.

This is something he absolutely cannot allow.

Thinking this through fires Wang Teng up, filling him with anticipation for upgrading to Level 4 World.

Because only in a Level 4 World can there be Prisoner of War Collars, allowing for slaves.

"Stop thinking about these for now, let's handle the Teleportation Array business first!"

Wang Teng muttered to himself and went to find Qian Lingxue...