For five thousand years, in the central city at the heart of the Sin Continent, no one who did not wish to die had ever dared to kill another person on their own initiative, especially not someone from the Stronger World or the Overlord World.
Yet Ye Chui waved his hand and mercilessly killed them without the slightest hesitation. It was effortless, carrying an overwhelming sense of authority and ruthless coldness.
In that moment, everyone on the Sky Ladder Plaza was stunned. They stared at Ye Chui, his entire body wrapped in blue lightning, as if they were looking at a god.
Ye Chui’s eyes, still crackling with electricity, swept across the surrounding crowd. Anyone whose gaze met his could not help but shiver. Some even dropped to their knees involuntarily, as though paying homage to a divine being.
From today onward, I do not want to see anyone from Windless City or Kane City in the central city again.
Everyone immediately recalled Ye Chui’s earlier words.
Those words would now become the new rule of the central city.
The Stronger World? The Overlord World?
With a single sentence from Ye Chui, they were completely banned from the central city.
Ye Chui stood there, lightning flashing and crackling around him with continuous popping sounds. The terrified people around him gradually calmed their fear, and murmurs of conversation slowly began to rise.
He, he actually fears no heavenly punishment. What kind of power is this?
A god. He is a god!
Someone who can ignore divine retribution actually exists in this world. From today, the central city will belong to him!
Windless City and Kane City are truly unlucky. They offended such a person.
Many essential supplies can only be traded and exchanged in the central city. If Windless City and Kane City are forbidden from entering, those two fragment worlds will suffer badly.
I am not so sure. After all, the central city is just the central city. The foundation of the Sin Continent’s residents is still their own fragment worlds. There is no heavenly punishment in those fragment worlds. I think Windless City and Kane City will definitely join forces to attack Stan Town this time!
Although Kane City’s strength is not high, they have many Bridge Builders. Teaming up with Windless City, they can teleport all of Windless City’s warriors straight to Stan Town in one go!
Stan Town will probably face total destruction.
No, I believe he can definitely help Stan Town resist the invasion from the other two fragment worlds. I do not know why, but I just have this feeling. What is his name?
I think I heard others call him Ye Chui just now.
Ye Chui? What a strange name.
For someone as powerful as him, it is only natural to have a strange name.
He is just too cool. I now believe he can definitely enter the mid-level world, the upper-level world, and even leave the Sin Continent!
The leaping electric light on his body has become my eternal faith!
Amid this atmosphere of discussion, Ye Chui still stood in place, lightning coiling around him, radiating majesty. He occasionally shifted his posture. Half a minute passed quickly, then one minute, three minutes, five minutes.
The people who had originally discussed him with awe began to grow a little restless. Debbie could not help but move closer to Ye Chui and lower her voice.
Ye Chui, have you posed enough yet? Intimidating people also depends on timing. If you keep it up too long, everyone will get impatient.
Yes, President, please withdraw your divine skill already, Green hurriedly added.
On Ye Chui’s face, still covered in electric light, there was an expression close to tears.
It is not that I do not want to. I simply cannot. It seems I can only wait until the lightning on my body naturally runs out.
Ye Chui’s Lightning Body was a special constitution that allowed extreme affinity with lightning magic elements. Lightning magic elements were essentially the essence of lightning itself, and this affinity let the lightning avoid harming his flesh, store inside his body, and be controlled by him.
In the outside world, with his power intact, Ye Chui could easily release the lightning from his body. But now he was basically a large human battery. The electric current surged inside him. How could it be cleared so easily? It could only slowly dissipate on its own.
Hearing Ye Chui’s explanation, Debbie and Green looked at each other in silence, both speechless. After the cool moment came the clown moment?
Well, it seemed this was one of the downsides of killing someone in the central city.
Ye Chui simply gave up all pretence of dignity, sat cross-legged on the ground, then soon lay on his side across the plaza, looking utterly relaxed and idle as he quietly waited for the lightning to fade.
The surrounding crowd watched his behaviour with some confusion. Just when Debbie, Green and the others started to feel awkward, the onlookers reached their own conclusions.
He, he is displaying his power!
Exactly. This is even a provocation to Windless City and Kane City. He just killed so many people from those two places, and now he is waiting here for them to come for revenge!
He is determined to go all the way against Windless City and Kane City!
What godly boldness!
By waiting here, he is telling Windless City and Kane City that his words are not to be taken lightly!
Listening to these admiring remarks, Debbie’s face twitched slightly. Hehe, as long as you are happy.
At that moment, a middle-aged man suddenly gathered his courage and walked over to Debbie and Green’s side. This man was Muto, the one who had first spoken to Ye Chui. He came from the Flowing Land fragment world. He spoke cautiously.
So you are such remarkable people. I actually wanted to invite you to join Flowing Land earlier. Hehe, I made a fool of myself.
You are called Muto, right? Debbie waved casually at him. She could see he had something to say, so she asked, Do you have some business?
Well, although Flowing Land’s strength is not great, we have excellent Forgers and Inscribers, and we also do some trading business. I just wanted to know whether the weapons you have can be traded to me? I promise I will buy them at a price that will satisfy you very much.
Muto clasped his hands together with an honest expression.
Trade the weapons we have? Debbie was stunned. She glanced at the Gatling gun cradled in her arms. She already understood how attractive the modified firearms Ye Chui had exchanged for were in this world. Even one gun could greatly boost the strength of an entire fragment world. But she also knew that since these weapons were so powerful, no matter what price the other side offered, they absolutely could not be traded to anyone else.
Even without Ye Chui saying it, she understood this.
So she simply shook her head at Muto. Sorry, we cannot give you the weapons!
Is that so? I was too abrupt. Muto quickly said, afraid of upsetting Debbie, and turned to leave.
But Debbie grabbed his shoulder. Muto’s body trembled, yet he only heard Debbie chuckle and say, Do not be in such a hurry. We cannot trade the weapons to you, but we have other things we can trade to you.
Other things? Muto was stunned and turned back around.
Debbie smiled and beckoned to Green. Green understood immediately. He tore open several magic scrolls, then began pouring items out of his storage space. They were chunks of incredibly fresh meat. Soon a pile towered higher than a person. Everyone around them stared in shock.
Meat was not absent in this world. In fact, some fragment worlds raised small animals to obtain meat. But such food was extremely scarce. Large animals could be raised too, but most were used for combat or transport. Eating them? No one was willing.
And the meat Green brought out looked like barbarian bull meat?
Barbarian bulls were the only low-tier magical beasts present in trials and battlefields. They served as mounts. After completing a trial or battlefield, one could take everything earned out of that world. Yet barbarian bulls, with their robust bodies and endurance, were treasured and raised like precious assets. Who would bear to eat them?
In some fragment worlds, when a barbarian bull died of old age, they would even hold a grand funeral and bury it.
You, you are not planning to sell this barbarian bull meat, are you? Muto swallowed hard, shocked.
Mhm. Debbie nodded. And various weapons, equipment, and scrolls too.
Debbie opened the backpacks they had brought one by one. With a clatter, piles of equipment, scrolls, and weapons formed small mountains. Apart from a few magic scrolls, healing scrolls, and detection scrolls they kept, they planned to sell all the rest. Those attack scrolls were basically useless to them anyway.
Looking at the meat mountain and resource mountain, everyone fell silent at once and began swallowing hard.
Kas frowned, walked to Debbie’s side, and whispered, Resources are very important in this world. These things had better be kept for ourselves.
Town Mayor Kas, do not worry. What we brought out are all useless items. We still have that sense of proportion, Xile Si said with a smile as she walked over.
But that barbarian bull meat. Kas looked at the meat mountain and could not help swallowing again. After entering the Sin Continent, he had not smelled meat for more than half a month.
Seeing Kas’s reaction, Debbie immediately laughed, stood on tiptoe, and patted his shoulder. Relax, I guarantee you will eat your fill later. This is just meat from one barbarian bull. Green and Ye Chui’s storage spaces still have more than twenty barbarian bulls stored away.
Barbarian bulls stored in storage space? Kas frowned. Would they not suffocate?
Do not worry. We slaughtered them before putting them in. They definitely did not suffocate.
…
Good grief. The barbarian bulls that the outside world treats as important resources, you people just killed them and ate them as food?
Indeed, that was exactly what happened. Along the way, Ye Chui and the others had encountered several barbarian bulls. After killing other hunters, they also obtained quite a few. Although others treated them as precious resources, their endurance, speed, and carrying capacity were far inferior to Ye Chui’s modified cars. They did not want to release them casually, so they simply slaughtered them and tossed them into storage space.
Although this barbarian bull meat was only from a low-tier magical beast, its flavour, texture, and rich aroma were genuinely excellent, comparable to some third- or fourth-tier magical beasts. Ye Chui and the others all agreed it was delicious.
Town Mayor Kas, what is the usual price for this kind of barbarian bull meat? Also, do gold coins, silver coins and such circulate here? Debbie continued asking Kas.
Kas broke into a sweat as he explained. This world had no strict currency. It was all barter. Blank scrolls were the most commonly used medium. As for barbarian bull meat, good grief, the stuff had never appeared on the market before.
As for the price…
Five blank scrolls per pound should be about right? Kas pondered, then felt the price was still a bit high. Actually, three blank scrolls per pound was the fairest rate.
However…
Ten blank scrolls per pound. Buy five pounds and get the bones free. Perfect for making soup. First come, first served! Debbie shouted at the top of her lungs.
Kas: …
Facts proved that although the luxury-item barbarian bull meat was sold at a profiteer’s price, after a brief hesitation the surrounding people swarmed forward and scrambled to buy it.
Even buying just one pound to try was worth it.
The Sky Ladder Plaza instantly fell into a buying frenzy. This was not a proper trading area. Selling things here carried the risk of robbery or theft. Such acts would not attract heavenly punishment, but with a giant human battery like Ye Chui standing guard nearby, no one dared take advantage.
Besides the barbarian bull meat and various weapons, Debbie saw how eagerly everyone wanted their goods. She quickly had Green pull out some pastries from his storage space.
These are delicious pastries we brought from outside the Castro Continent. Supreme invincible ultra-delicious royal-exclusive pear-sugar rice cakes. Just one blank scroll gets you a piece. Do not miss out! Debbie fully displayed the commercial talent of the Anduin family. Sir, would you like one? Our supreme invincible whatever rice cakes are exclusively for royalty, you know.
Behind her, Lesa, Xile Si, Guni and the others could barely look.
Guni, ever straightforward, asked Lesa, Sister Lesa, are not those rice cakes the street speciality we bought in the Haichao Empire? The ones that were so awful we left them untouched in Green’s storage space the whole time?
Mm. Lesa covered her face and nodded. Profiteer!
After selling out the rice cakes, Debbie got a few pieces of dark, lumpy bread from Green. In her words, these were royal-exclusive super healthy delicious unique-sour black bread, priced at three blank scrolls each.
But Lesa and the others quickly recognised them. These were the coarse rye black breads Debbie had prepared when they first left Stan Town years ago. Because they were extremely unpalatable, they had stayed in Green’s storage space ever since. Even the preservation function of storage space could not stop the bread from going sour, yet it was too wasteful to throw away. The unique sour taste came precisely from spoilage.
When the lightning on Ye Chui’s body finally diminished, Debbie had traded more than thirty-five thousand blank scrolls. Apart from the equipment and barbarian bull meat, she had also sold off every useless food item and miscellaneous thing in Green’s storage space at high prices. Nothing was wasted.
Looking at the wall of white scrolls piled beside Debbie, Ye Chui could not help but sigh. The ancestors of the Anduin family did not become the richest man in the empire starting from a mere clown for no reason. Their bloodline was simply infused with the talent of profiteers.
Looking at the dazzling array of scrolls, Kas was close to tears.
Adding the more than three thousand scrolls he had won from Messi, they now had nearly forty thousand blank scrolls in total. Thinking back to how recently he had haggled with a peddler over three or five blank scrolls, Kas felt the unpredictability of life.
After that, Ye Chui’s group followed Kas, carrying the blank scrolls, and traded for large amounts of food and supplies on Trading Street according to Kas’s guidance. They also learned the current situation of Stan Town from Kas’s mouth.
From Kas, Ye Chui and the others understood that Stan Town was currently in very bad shape.
When they followed Kas through the Bridge and returned to the Stan Town fragment world, Kas suddenly sensed something. His body trembled.
Oh no, there are outsiders invading!
