The King of Black Fog

"Is giving others a sense of safety at the cost of wounding my own heart?" Turquoise Pool said pitiably, clutching her bulging chest.

She had just recovered from the pain of Li Changzhou's death in the instance—the Princess thought the General was dead.

"It's not a cost, it's a premise."

"Premise means it has to be done, it's important," Li Qianxia explained, raising an index finger.

Li Changzhou lightly stroked his sister's leg and then gradually applied more pressure.

Li Qianxia struggled to endure, her expression deeply pained!

"Let's settle this first," Yang Qinglan said, flicking through the holographic screen, "we'll discuss these matters when we return."

Turquoise Pool looked at her settlement interface, letting the words scroll endlessly while images from the instance kept flashing in her mind.

The unease of the Princess was dispelled time and again by the General. If it hadn't been for the Divine Race's accident, the General wouldn't have had a child with the official.

In reality, her situation turned into that of the 'official.' Without any accidents, Li Changzhou would not accept her.

Even so...

Turquoise Pool felt conflicted. Although she was still single, she had already experienced the taste of having her beloved taken away in the instance.

Yang Qinglan, who seemed indifferent, also felt it... To say it was a pursuit and a failure would be an exaggeration. The official was only a bit curious about the General and only developed some affection at the end.

But she somewhat understood the feelings of Turquoise Pool in reality.

For Li Changzhou giving his lover enough sense of safety, she felt both satisfied and...

It's all...

"It's all the world's fault!" Li Qianxia bent over, clutching her fair legs that revealed a hint of blue.

Indeed, the value game is the world, and it's all the world's fault.

When assigning identities, while respecting the players' personal experiences, why arrange such chaos?

Or is there some connection between the Ming Dynasty Jiajing instance's Heavenly Emperor, Heavenly Empress, Gu She Fairy, and the Alien Clan instance's General, Princess, and official?

"Let's see my rewards, see if it's worth selling everything." Li Changzhou shared his settlement screen.

"Holy crap!" Li Qianxia forgot her pain, "A thousand...."

She didn't finish, recalling that there were Divine Race members all around, not in the compartment of an Earth train.

"Buy," Yang Qinglan and Turquoise Pool said in unison.

The two exchanged a glance while Li Changzhou leaned back.

With a smack, Li Qianxia pushed Li Changzhou's body back.

—Men tend to instinctively act like scoundrels, brother, don't be foolish! Whether you marry them all, or just one, you must decide, and then fight for it. Don't wait for women to compromise or turn hostile!

While using Voice Transmission, she shouted, "Straighten your back! Sit properly!"

Yang Qinglan and Turquoise Pool assumed she was retaliating for the earlier pinched leg—and indeed, that was part of the reason.

Li Changzhou glanced at his sister; this was his first time learning something from her.

"Buy it," Yang Qinglan said.

"Buy both the tree and Divine Will," Turquoise Pool said, "Use all the taxes from the Six Great Stars, convert all the money won from ranking matches into copper coins. If there's not enough, we'll scrape together more."

Li Changzhou used "Teleportation" to call Si over, asking her to help purchase copper coins.

The market at the Divine Will Great Wall was enormous, yet buying 100,000 copper coins in a short time still caused market fluctuations.

In the end, they had to buy at a premium, nearly spending all the vast fortune won from ranking matches and also using up the first month's tax revenue from Earth.

The tax revenue was Game Coin, which couldn't be exchanged for copper coins officially, but it could be in the player market, albeit at a premium.

In the end, the four became utterly broke, getting "Rooted" and "Divine Will - Star-devouring Yellow Dragon."

"Thanks to the Alien Clan," Li Qianxia clasped her fingers together at her chest, praying with closed eyes, "It's all thanks to you for turning my brother into a stray dog, too afraid to spend even if he had money, letting us save up this sum, thank you."

"..."

Si smiled and said, "Looks like you've gotten something amazing."

She didn't continue to inquire but instead turned to say, "I have news about the Divine Will Crystal, but—how do you plan to help me after spending all your money?"

"He'll sell himself," Turquoise Pool pointed at Li Changzhou.

"My brother's child is definitely a Divine Body! No reproductive isolation with any race! Absolutely a top-notch cosmic stallion!"

Yang Qinglan looked at Li Qianxia, "The selling Turquoise Pool mentioned refers to skills."

Li Qianxia was about to say on behalf of Turquoise Pool that it wasn't so, but she found Turquoise Pool also staring at her.

She hung onto her brother's arm and placed one leg over his legs: "Brother~ Brother~~, my leg hurts so much~!"

"Be good, I'll cut it off for you, it won't hurt after that," Li Changzhou said.

"Thank you, brother~ brother~~, brother is so caring~"

Li Changzhou looked at Si and said to her, "Can I use this to exchange?"

Sounding as if he was going to sell Li Qianxia, but in reality, he transmitted the general information about "Divine Will - Star-devouring Yellow Dragon."

Si's expression changed immediately.

She glanced around, gesturing for the four to follow her.

Judging by that expression, chances were promising.

After some negotiation, not only did they have the Divine Race bring out enough Divine Will Crystals, transforming "Destructive Hands" into a pure version, removing the 'Ancient God Curse' risks for Yang Qinglan and Li Qianxia, but they also received a planet-class warship for free.

The warship included ten attack ships, twenty escort ships, and a hundred functional ships (exploration, mining, etc.).

The exchange of so many resources involved two high-level reasons for the Divine Will Star people.

First, the Saint above;

Second, the unique Star-devouring Dragon Clan Divine Will.

The first reason certainly holds, whether or not the second reason is true, the majority of the Divine Will Great Wall races believe it to be so.

In that long-duration, large-scale Divine Will expansion war, countless planets were torn apart by the Star-devouring Dragon Clan.