LWGP - Chapter 183
Chapter 183: Worldly Dust
Fang Cun still hadn't given up on his sincere attempt to win her over. "Lord of Gobi… I can offer an even more sincere proposal."
The resources he was offering were no less than what could be gained from a territory war, perhaps even more.
He was doing this to trade resources for his territory's construction progress. He didn't want to abandon Mo Jiang's current achievements, and so he was willing to sacrifice profits to preserve it. But Wang Jiu didn't seem to care.
Wang Jiu's final words to him were spoken slowly, as if in a very good mood.
"Allow me to remind you, this isn't the first time you've come uninvited."
Those words were a fatal blow to Fang Cun.
He suddenly remembered that during the rat tide, he had indeed wandered over once.
Realizing this, he was anxious to explain something—for instance, that he was a good distance away from Gobi this time—but he abruptly discovered that any explanation would be useless.
On the other side, the people of Gobi had also noticed the declaration of war against Mo Jiang.
They had just finished fighting the Undead Race and were cleaning up the battlefield, which would take some time. But they weren't in a hurry, because they were confident they could KO Mo Jiang one hundred percent.
The ones who should be panicking now were Mo Jiang.
Once they cleaned up the battlefield, collected all the benefits, and digested the resources, they would go and swallow Mo Jiang.
Very nice.
Lao Wang was, as expected, decisive and didn't like to dawdle.
However, while dragging some undead corpses out from underground, Dao Dao casually asked Wang Jiu, "Do the people from Mo Jiang have bad intentions?"
Wang Shu couldn't help but ask as well, "Yeah, someone from Mo Jiang just contacted me. They wanted to bribe me to put in a good word. Their intel is terrible. To think I have that much influence, are they stupid?"
Wang Jiu glanced at them, took a sip of water, her throat moving as she swallowed. "Do they have bad intentions? Is that important?"
If this were back when she was maintaining her false persona, she might have feigned an excuse or two, but there was no need for that now.
Seeing the bloodstains on Wang Jiu, Xie Lu took out a clean, damp cloth and handed it to her. "You're much more honest now than you used to be."
Wang Jiu knew at a glance that this fellow was referring to the time at the crematorium, to the words she had spoken while kneeling before the old lady's memorial tablet. She hadn't actually said them, but he had fallen for it.
A man as proud as Xie Lu was still holding a grudge?
"It's not that I can't lie, I just don't know who's worth lying to."
She said this casually. For a moment, Xie Lu felt a pang of sympathy for her past again, but he quickly had another realization.
The meaning behind her words seemed to be—What the hell are you lot, worthy of me lying to and deceiving you? You overestimate yourselves.
Xie Lu: "…"
Not far away, Leng Rong and the others, who were worried about their friend Xu Baiyan, also had an epiphany.
So, Wang Jiu was ruthless simply because she was ruthless. It had absolutely nothing to do with whether the other party had offended her or not.
The people of Mo Jiang were indeed in a panic, urgently preparing for war or trying to figure out how to transfer their assets. Unfortunately, there was no way. The vast battlefield in front of the Gobi Territory, those ruins, had long been leveled. It was now a wide-open expanse, like a solitary fortress seated upon a plain.
It was a concentration of power, a manifestation of authority, a new home constructed by players.
Of course, they considered it a home. Wang Jiu had no such concept.
To her, a territory was just a tool.
Wang Jiu equipped everything she could and opened the gift pack, taking out all the high-level buildings inside and placing them.
Two Spirit Cultivation Towers, ten advanced Magic Towers, one hundred thousand advanced Xuanqing building slates, and three thousand bags of Mystic-Gel Mortar.
Some were for renovation, others were for placement.
By the time she was done tinkering, Wang Shu had also helped her loot the Mystic Realm BOSS.
Wang Jiu's participation in the Mystic Realm BOSS exceeded 60%, leaving little for anyone else, but that didn't stop her from entrusting Wang Shu with the looting.
Wang Shu: "Master, I got a new title! My RNG God Lucky Hand has been upgraded to Big Red Hand. This BOSS of yours was amazing."
He was the only one who knew what Wang Jiu had obtained from this Mystic Realm BOSS, but he never spoke a word of it. He only sent a private message about the RNG God title, which was also a hint: Your obedient disciple has his RNG God constitution as always, so you'd better treat him well.
Wang Jiu reached out and pinched Wang Shu's little ear, a faint, charming smile on her face. "Do you want me to reward you?"
"No, no need! To dedicate my good fortune to you, Master, is the honor of three lifetimes!"
After saying that, Wang Shu ran off as if flying to loot the Little Corpse King's body.
After both bosses were looted, combined with the resources from her participation in killing the undead mobs and the golden-grade Four-Directions Corpse, plus the inheritance from those twenty people, Wang Jiu's team inventory exploded. She had to open ten new pages of inventory slots just to fit everything.
Overall, as Wang Jiu encountered more and more good things, only the following items were worthy of her attention.
Heavenly Wolf Chief BOSS Rewards: Heavenly Mystic Realm Set Exchange Voucher, Seal of Heavenly (Purple Gold Growth Badge, attribute increases critical damage), Heavenly Channeling Art (Spirit power control technique, top-tier talent skill), Innocent Token (Bloodthirsty item, an auxiliary sacrificial item for witches), Heavenly Book (Chaos Order lineage book fragment).
Little Corpse King BOSS Rewards: Corpse King's Bone (Top-tier main material for a weapon embryo, Evil Order system), Spirit Body (Top-tier talent skill for Priests), Undead Badge (Purple Gold Growth Badge, attribute increases HP).
Wang Jiu used the exchange voucher and was surprised to find that it contained all Purple Gold sets.
Although she felt that a gold-grade set exchange voucher would be unworthy of a super resource like 100 Mystic Realm Fragments, she wouldn't have been surprised if its value had been diminished because of the Heavenly Book. She hadn't expected it to be for Purple Gold sets.
Wang Jiu browsed through the available set systems and ultimately chose the Black Witch set, which was usable by witches. Her old set was replaced. She then equipped three badges: the Seal of Heavenly and the Undead Badge. They all needed to be strengthened, but she wasn't in a hurry.
First, she used the Corpse King's Bone and the weapon embryo. This was where the treasure box came in handy again.
After placing the items inside, the treasure box displayed a prompt, which was essentially a list of options.
The simplest option was to directly fuse the current Corpse King's Bone and weapon embryo. This was the lowest level of crafting, but the resulting weapon would still be of Purple Gold quality. There were also higher-end, but more expensive, plans.
Wang Jiu scrolled down to look at the other required materials. Hmm… another money sink. "So many plans, they can probably be divided into three levels. 1. Bouncing around within the Purple Gold tier, with a minimum guarantee of a rare Purple Gold weapon that has bonus damage against the Undead Race. 2. Add high-level material resources worth about twenty thousand points in the goblin shop. This guarantees a top-tier Purple Gold potential, with a 10% chance of mutation, potentially exceeding the Purple Gold tier to reach near-Legendary potential. 3. Add top-tier material resources worth about one hundred thousand points. This guarantees a 100% stable path to Legendary potential."
The system asked Wang Jiu which one she would choose.
Wang Jiu replied, "The fourth one, of course."
The fourth? There was a fourth?
Oh, right, there seemed to be one.
The growth-type path.
The system then watched as she locked in the final plan—add three types of top-tier resources worth about 50,000 points, without requiring a specific tier or potential, but locking in a category.
This category was its innate talent, which was to say, its Order.
Oh ho, as expected of the player I'm watching. Her goals are fast, ruthless, and precise.
The new expansion was all about Orders. She had already obtained three Order Book fragments, so of course she would follow this path to the very end. As for whether the weapon was Purple Gold or Legendary, that wasn't the top priority right now.
System: "The tier can be raised later with more weapon embryos and Corpse King's Bones, but this kind of innate talent is very difficult to change. It's like how a child can be educated and raised after birth, and you can get plastic surgery if you're ugly, but changing from male to female requires gender reassignment, which is far too difficult."
Its example was quite vivid, but unfortunately, it was met with Wang Jiu's light mockery.
"Such a high-dimensional, super-tech system still doesn't understand gender equality. So I guess technological level really doesn't represent moral quality."
System: "???"
What the fuck.
Wang Jiu had plenty of resources and no shortage of Goblin Trader's Invites. She used one right there on the battlefield.
The moment the Goblin Trader appeared, Wang Shu and the others' eyes lit up, and they immediately ran over, hoping to browse the shop. However, just as they greeted him, the Goblin Trader ignored them. He directly slung a box over his back, eagerly ran up to Wang Jiu, and greeted her, "Hi, beautiful and charming Ms. Wang, we meet again! It's only been a few days, but you've become even more radiant."
Wang Jiu, who was patting the dust off her clothes, looked up. "I haven't bathed yet."
Goblin Trader: "Even this sky full of worldly dust cannot hide your magnificent beauty."
Wang Jiu smiled faintly. "That term, 'worldly dust,' is quite a good choice of words."
Goblin Trader: "…"
Who told you to summon me last time while wearing those pajamas with that super worldly-dust vibe? Is that my fault?
Everyone thought that after that exchange, the atmosphere would surely sour.
But the Goblin Trader, being a swindler at heart, quickly smoothed things over. "All the words in this world used to describe a goddess are absolutely applicable to you. Unfortunately, I am but a goblin of meager learning and cannot find more words to match you."
Wang Shu: "…"
I feel like this guy is trying to steal my business. How annoying.
Seeing the Goblin Trader being so flexible and amiable, the others took the initiative to greet him in a friendly manner.
But the Goblin Trader just glanced at them, his facial features contorting as if he'd had bad plastic surgery. He pinched his nose, his expression changed, and his voice became androgynously shrill.
"Well, well, I just saw you lot tonight. Why is it you again? Struck it rich digging in the sweet potato fields? Don't come any closer, look at you, you stink. Did someone in your family die and you forgot to bury them? Don't touch my treasure chest. Do you have gloves? Or perhaps I could sell you some?"
Everyone: "…"
They suddenly realized that while the highest goal in the apocalypse was survival, they could first set a small goal of one hundred million—in the future, they would kill a certain NPC to avenge this slight and make a fortune.
Wang Jiu had already started her exchanges. She cleared out sixty percent of her personal inventory, keeping only territory resources, manor resources, resources she would need later—like those for improving her strength or for future dungeons and battles—and some materials that could be used for lifestyle crafting recipes.
After she was done, her points jumped to two hundred and eighty thousand.
Wang Jiu also purchased the three top-tier resources mentioned in the plan—Dark Polishing Fluid, Corpsefeather, and Witch-Spirit Gold—and placed them in the treasure box. Once all the materials were collected, she initiated the fusion crafting.
A seven-day countdown appeared on the interface.
Wang Jiu ignored the treasure box and proceeded to buy the TK-18 Boundary Breaking Scroll for traversing dungeon scenes.
With eighty thousand points remaining, she started browsing the skill books.
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