Yi Tian wasn’t in a rush to taste it. Anyway, from now on, he wouldn’t need to cook or clean anymore. He used this ti to cultivate.
Five to six, Body Refining; six to seven, Qi Refining; seven to eight, drink Enlightennt Tea while practicing Heaven-Refining Ice Palm.
This ti’s rcenary mission, at the final settlent, Yi Tian got a B-level mission—it was also his first ti completing a B-level task.
The Celestial Dao Stone’s evaluation of Yi Tian’s strength was Quasi-B-level. Yi Tian’s stats were still far from true B-level, so he could keep freeloading on C-level rcenary tasks for a while longer.
Yi Tian checked the region—there was no news of a locust invasion coming yet.
Liyue and her sister Qixin told Yi Tian that they’d already brewed a batch of Hundred Flowers Spirit Honey.
The Spirit Honey was kept in a ceramic bottle, tightly sealed, so it wouldn’t attract other insects.
The bottle wasn’t big, and only held about 300g. But it could lure the locusts from dozens of miles away into one place.
"Well done. If you two can help minimize the locust damage this ti, I’ll credit you both with a rit." Yi Tian was generous with his praise.
"The Lord took us in, gave us a ho. It’s only right for to do whatever I can." Liyue said gently, her tone not too fast or slow—her voice was very pleasant to hear.
Qixin quietly nodded her head.
"Not bad! All of us are chess pieces on the board, we share weal and woe. We not only have to survive in this world, we have to live better." Yi Tian encouraged them, and asked Liyue and Qixin to transplant all the Spirit Flowers into the flower bed together.
This would make it easier to collect Flower Dew in the future.
Qixin and Liyue had the "Flower Language" talent; tending to Spirit Flowers could make them grow 100% faster and increase dicinal power by 100%.
As for Yi Tian, he was thinking about where to place the Celestial Dao Stone.
"Sealed Level 2 Celestial Dao Stone x1."
Seeing the description of this stone, Yi Tian was a bit surprised.
This Leopard Head, did he often use Mist Scrolls to invade other Lords’ territories?
Or just shalessly extort the Indigenous People?
Yi Tian knew, a Level 2 Celestial Dao Stone must absorb ten normal Celestial Dao Stones, that is, ten Level 1 stones, before it can be ford.
"A ten-square-kiloter mountain, ten-square-kiloter deep lake, ten-square-kiloter grassland, ten-square-kiloter saltwater lake. Ten-square-kiloter premium plain..."
The area this Celestial Dao Stone could generate was equivalent to a starting territory.
"It’s already almost dark. The locusts definitely won’t show up again tonight. I’ll use the Level 2 Celestial Dao Stone tomorrow, after the locusts pass."
This period, the Celestial Dao Rules are targeting survivors’ food. So Yi Tian planned to use this Celestial Dao Stone to expand farmland—enough to make 15,000 mu of farmland. Once the seeds were planted and the Rain Beast Core used, it’d be another big profit.
"But when the territory expands, the mountain barrier to the southwest will get pushed open. By then, I’ll need Divine Stones to fill those opened gaps in the mountains."
"Really hope the natives will launch an attack so I can extort a few more Celestial Dao Stones."
After several rounds of improvents with high-grade soil, Yi Tian already had more seeds than he could plant.
The world’s soil was fertile, with yields three tis of Earth, and with high-grade soil boosting production even further.
The seeds from just one mu of rice and wheat could let Yi Tian plant a thousand mu.
Just ten mu’s harvest would give ten thousand mu for the next round.
The Seed Nurtering Chamber still had hundreds of kinds of vegetable and fruit seeds. With three more rounds using high-grade soil, both levels of the Seed Chamber could be filled to the brim.
He checked in on the Little Kiddo making clothes in the sewing room.
There were ten thousand Human Race cotton clothes in the finished goods warehouse—all lightweight sumr wear, thanks to the Little Kiddos’ collective effort.
Now, clothing prices had dropped sharply. Top-level intelligent creatures learned fast; so Lords had already figured out how to make clothes themselves—not pretty, but wearable was enough.
Compared to the rough clothes selling at dozens of Celestial Dao Coins each at the auction house, Yi Tian priced his cotton clothes at one hundred coins a set—positioned as premium quality.
Just as Yi Tian expected, before ten o’clock at night, all the clothes were sold out: one million Celestial Dao Coins arrived in his account.
Celestial Dao Coin balance: 62 million.
Back to a nice round number again. Earlier in the afternoon, the balance was 60.99 million; after Yi Tian completed a rcenary mission, it’s a clean integer again.
"Bro, you’ve got trouble now. Not just our region, but several other regions I know of are all asking about your region’s location. Word is, all the high-level and top-level races in the Celestial Dao World have labeled you the ’Celestial Dao World’s Fattest Sheep’. I just can’t figure it out—beings from so-called civilized worlds, how can they be this crude? They want to solve everything by force."
Right on the dot at eleven, the Great Emperor, though broke and unable to buy a Five Elents Sacred Fruit, still rushed to reach out to Yi Tian as soon as possible.
The Great Emperor acted like he was a spy for Yi Tian in the High-Level Region—putting on a "When the ruler worries, the minister is shad" act.
"Celestial Dao World’s Fattest Sheep, huh? I didn’t expect to pick up such a nickna!" Yi Tian couldn’t help but laugh.
Thinking of his own net worth, wasn’t he indeed a big, fat sheep!
If not for the fact he was making Elental Warriors, Yi Tian would be even richer right now.
"They’re all saying you have countless treasures, enough to fill the entire Wealth Tower. So people even want to capture you, torture you, and force you to transfer your Celestial Dao Coins."
"Bro, be careful. In the High-Level Region, there are lots of wolves, little at. In my understanding, in one region at most, three people can eat their fill. Many powerful Lords have already gone mad from poverty. They’re hungry wolves, eyes bloodshot, all staring at your massive wealth."
The Great Emperor’s words were sincere, full of righteous indignation at evil.
As for what he really thought inside—it was anyone’s guess.
Yi Tian still rembered his first chat with the Great Emperor—how overbearing he’d been. Like an Emperor above the masses, toying with hearts.
Adaptable, able to yield or stand tall—that was Yi Tian’s first impression of the Great Emperor.
The Great Emperor’s strength was far inferior to Purple Phoenix Moon Dance. Compared to her, Purple Phoenix Moon Dance was as naïve as Little White in terms of ntality.
With the nickna "Great Emperor", you could see his overbearing aura and ambition.
"Careful of what? You telling those High-level Races can break through the regional barriers? I believe they’ll be able to in the future, but not right now. At most in ten years’ ti, it’s still up in the air who’ll co out on top." Yi Tian replied to the Great Emperor.
"Bro, there’s sothing you don’t know. Once those High-Level Regions find out where you are, they’ll bribe top-tier experts within your region through the auction house. Or they’ll just gift Mist Scrolls, so after the top dogs in your subregion find you, they can then descend as rcenaries to plunder you. Many people in our region have already drafted several plans for dealing with you. This is the most practical thod." The Great Emperor explained slowly.
"Fuck, so that’s possible too."
Yi Tian smacked his forehead. He’d really overlooked this one.
First, buy off soone from the subregion. Use Mist Scrolls to search for him.
So number-crunching experts could even estimate a Lord’s position based on their ID.
Once the territory’s found, hire a "rcenary" to attack the "Wealthiest in the World" territory—it all seems reasonable enough.
Employers hiring rcenaries to attack other territories isn’t even against the rcenary Manual.
So many sharp brains together—it’s no wonder other regions thought of this way too.
After a while, Yi Tian cald down—it’s not like anyone in his subregion actually knew he was "Wealthiest in the World".
Originally Yi Tian even considered, if there was a food crisis, selling a batch of cheap grain to the subregion.
That idea was now imdiately scrapped.
Yi Tian was afraid that if Wealthiest in the World started dumping large quantities of grain at auction, and he did the sa in the subregion, soone would connect the dots.
People’s eyes are black, but their hearts are red. When envy burns, the heart turns black too.
There were plenty in the subregion who either hated Yi Tian, or were jealous of him.
Even those who called him big bro all day might stab him in the back one day.
If a food crisis really hit, he’d just join everyone whining about being broke in the subregion.
"Disgusting. Soone in our subregion actually made rcenary codenas like ’Sheep-Killer’, ’Sheep-Seeker’—that’s just straight up disrespect. If I ever find them, I’ll grind their bones to ashes." When Yi Tian didn’t reply for a while, the Great Emperor sent another random ssage.
Yi Tian just gave a faint smile at this obvious attempt to gain his trust.
His relationship with the Great Emperor was nothing but mutual benefit. No trust at all.
He was never so vain as to fall for the Great Emperor’s "bro here, bro there" act. If he gave away his ID, probably the first one to turn on him would be the Great Emperor.
Yi Tian was certain the Great Emperor had asked the captives he sold him about his region and ID.
But the captives didn’t know shit.
They usually couldn’t even get into the city, let alone know anything else.
Yi Tian, through the Fire Dragon, knew those captives didn’t even know the coordinates of the Fierce Beast Gang. That kind of info and teleportation was handled only by the tribe’s High Priests and Wizards.
Let alone captives—even War Manor mbers didn’t know Yi Tian’s ID.
And they didn’t dare ask either.
The native tribes who knew his ID only knew he was Yi Tian, from Zone 10086, subregion 66.
But they didn’t know he was Wealthiest in the World!
Plus, the native tribes didn’t really understand the Lords’ internal affairs.
Anyway, from now on, Yi Tian would never auction off slaves via the auction house again.
If, by chance, a slave hid "deep undercover" and knew the native tribe’s coordinates, that’d basically reveal the rough location of Zone 10086. Yi Tian couldn’t afford not to be cautious about that.
"Live or die by fate, wealth is up to the heavens. Still, I think this ’rcenary map-run’ thod is actually pretty solid. If I get a chance to go harvest in a High-Level Region, I’m curious to see if those so-called ’gods’ will actually die." Yi Tian finally replied.
Yi Tian decided: if there’s a chance, he’ll definitely invade the High-Level Region and make those Lords who look down on the Human Race regret it.
"I support you, bro. Those Lords who insulted you—your little bro has already written them down. The day you ascend the throne is the day they die." The Great Emperor wasn’t fazed; he thought Yi Tian was just talking big, but was happy to play along.
"Mm! Anything else? If not, I’m off to bed." Yi Tian was very satisfied with tonight’s intel. He needed to hurry up and deploy the Elental Warriors.
Once the Warrior Pavilion was full, give it a year or two—even if S-level shows up, they’d be blasted to bits.
In this world, the Strongest Lord is S-level. For S-levels to break through to SS-level, it’s hard as ascending to heaven, even in this Celestial Dao-favored world.
"Bro, I have one more request."
The Great Emperor suddenly spoke, making Yi Tian pause before hanging up the chat.
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