Chapter Ninety-Six: Seventy-One Trillion Cosmic Credits

After Luo Yuan completed the transaction, he and Luo Feng, Hong, and Thunder God found a hotel to stay in. Then Luo Yuan wasted no time putting on his consciousness helmet and entering the virtual universe.

Within the virtual universe, on the Black Dragon Mountain Island, in the ancient-style palace in Nine Star Bay that belonged to Luo Yuan.

The moment Luo Yuan’s virtual body appeared in the palace, a graceful figure suddenly sprang toward him. He recognized her with a faint smile and caught her securely.

“Luo Yuan, are you happy to see me?” Jiang Fang asked, leaning against his chest.

“Of course I am. Why do you have time to come see me?” Luo Yuan said with a smile, his arm around her slender waist.

“I used to serve as both the inspector and the parliament speaker. With you and the hall masters all away, I was so swamped I was nearly driven mad. If it weren’t for the three personal guards of the hall master helping me, I would have thrown in the towel long ago. Some of the students under me have finally grown up recently, and once they graduated, I dumped all the work on them. From now on, I can keep you company often, even if it’s only here in the virtual universe.” Jiang Fang spoke like a wronged little woman, and when she finished, she pinched Luo Yuan hard at his waist.

“Ow, ow, that hurts. Be gentler.”

Luo Yuan pretended to cry out in pain, earning him a cute glare from Jiang Fang. He stroked her short hair, inhaled the fragrance of her locks, and felt a deep sense of contentment. He had to admit it: the hundred-percent-realistic simulation technology of the virtual universe was truly astonishing.

The two had not seen each other for a long time, and what followed was a lively interlude in the palace.

Three hours later, in the study of Luo Yuan’s palace, a screen stood before him.

“So many emails,” Luo Yuan said as he sat in the official hat chair and opened the first message.

“Dear customer, hello.

The account bound to your consciousness at our bank has just received a transfer of 719,800 billion universe coins. Your account balance has reached the threshold of 10 mixed-origin units, and has been automatically upgraded to a three-star account. You have also automatically become one of our Galaxy Bank’s honored three-star clients. As a star-rated client, you are entitled to many special privileges.

A list of these privileges and their descriptions is attached below this email.”

The first message was the notification of the incoming transfer.

“More than seven hundred thousand billion universe coins?” Luo Yuan’s gaze shifted to the balance in his separately registered anonymous account, and he felt a little numb. The figure was just too absurd.

What did more than seven hundred thousand billion universe coins mean?

In the universe, the usual value of a star system territory ranged from 100 billion to 1 trillion universe coins. In other words, Luo Yuan’s assets were roughly equivalent to more than a hundred star system territories. Typically, a realm lord could obtain a star system territory simply by joining an empire, and if he put his mind to it, acquiring several star systems was not difficult. Luo Yuan’s current wealth was already at the level of a realm lord’s full fortune.

In the universe, there were really only two hard currencies. One was universe crystals, or universe coins, formed by a realm lord refining the energy of the universe’s origin. The other was immortal crystals, or immortal coins, strange energy crystals condensed by immortal beings and imbued with the power of the universe’s origin laws. They were even more precious.

However, universe coins were the currency used for ordinary transactions, while immortal crystals were strategic reserves. Neither the human race nor any other race was willing to sell immortal crystals.

Including the message he had already read, there were seven emails on the screen in all. The first five were from Galaxy Bank, the sixth was from the Virtual Universe Company, and the seventh was from the Great Axe Combat Arena.

Luo Yuan read the first five in succession, and they were mostly advertisements introducing their services and hoping he would invest money. He paid them no mind.

The sixth email was from the Virtual Universe Company.

Luo Yuan raised a finger and opened it.

“Hello.

From the moment you became a three-star client, you gained the qualification to step into the Qianwu Auction. Throughout the universe, many precious items are restricted goods, and there are also many things that cannot easily be bought even if you have money. The auctions held by our Virtual Universe Company provide an opportunity to purchase many such precious items.

The Qianwu Auction is held once every three years.

The minimum requirement to attend is to be a three-star client of the Universe First Bank or Galaxy Bank.

The next Qianwu Auction will be held in two years. For detailed information, please refer to the attachments in this email.

Virtual Universe Company.”

Luo Yuan looked solemnly at the screen before him. The threshold for this Qianwu Auction was high indeed; the minimum requirement was actually three-star client status with the two super banks. And three-star clients were generally realm lords, along with some extremely wealthy figures backed by superpowers.

An introductory auction attended by a group of realm lords...

Luo Yuan tapped the armrest of his chair with a finger. He was very interested in this Qianwu Auction; there would surely be many good things inside. It was a pity he could not bring anyone along, or he would have taken Luo Feng, Hong, and Thunder God in to have a look. As for the middle-tier auctions for immortal beings and the high-tier auctions for the giant powers, those could be attended later once his strength and wealth reached the necessary level.

“The next Qianwu Auction will be in two years and one month.” Luo Yuan looked forward to it in silence. He could go and have some fun at such an auction.

The final email, from the Great Axe Combat Arena, was about life-and-death duels. One could take part personally or pay to watch others fight. However, Luo Yuan was not very interested in such a bloody platform, and the useful attributes he could pick up there were limited. It was like opening blind boxes. Even if he wanted to watch a duel that interested him, he would have to wait a long time. It was far less efficient than going to the decisive battle space in the Slaughter Grounds and deliberately collecting the attributes he lacked.

Still, when he was bored, he could watch some of those life-and-death battles, treating them like live-action films, and it would also let him see just how powerful those mighty figures of higher realms truly were.

“Luo Yuan, what are you thinking about?”

Jiang Fang walked into the study wearing loose sleepwear. Coming behind Luo Yuan, she placed her hands on his shoulders and began to massage them.

“I just made a fortune, and I was thinking about how to spend it,” Luo Yuan said with a smile, closing his eyes and enjoying her kneading.

“Ha. Just how much did you earn to leave even you at a loss?” Jiang Fang teased.

“Hmm, enough to buy more than a hundred star systems like the Milky Way, probably,” Luo Yuan said calmly.

“What?” Jiang Fang’s hands trembled as they kneaded his shoulders, and she let out a startled cry.

“Were you frightened? That’s nothing. I currently have one hundred thousand life planets under my name. A domain lord gave them to me. In the future, if there are any promising planetary-level talents from Earth, send them to those planets to temper themselves. I’ll make the arrangements. If you have time, you can also come and help me manage these assets,” Luo Yuan said with a smile.

“This... I only just escaped a sea of bitterness, and now you’re planning to have me manage an even bigger territory? You heartless man. I’ll have to think about this carefully.” After her shock faded, Jiang Fang complained a little.

“It’s fine. You can search for talent across all of Earth and build a strong management team. We’ll need it in the future,” Luo Yuan said.

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