Chapter 82: Hoping to meet you all at the peak tonight

Time flies, coming and going in a rush; it felt as if one blink of an eye was all it took for a day to pass.

The voices in the village channel had thinned out significantly, simply because today was the final day of the Newcomer Trial. Over the past thirty days, the vast majority of lords had either sacrificed their lives or fled to the Main World.

The original village of a thousand newcomers was now reduced to just fifty-three people.

Many knew that this number was already quite extreme; most newcomer villages had only a dozen or so people left by this point, and total annihilation was not an impossibility.

"I never thought a loser like me, who awakened a Common territory core, would actually manage to survive until today..."

"666, I'm a bit better off than you, an Excellent territory core. I only made it this far because I was lucky."

"Wishing everyone success in everything today!"

"It's all thanks to the spiritual food provided by Big Brother Yun Shen every day; otherwise, I reckon more than half of us wouldn't have made it this far."

"Sigh, there are fewer people scrambling for spiritual food now; it feels strangely lonely."

"Don't worry, it won't be lonely. Spiritual food is never hard to sell; when it's time to scramble, we'll still have to rely on our hand speed."

Don't let the fact that only fifty-three newcomer lords remain fool you; when noon comes, the scrambling will still be fierce.

Although the number of newcomer lords has decreased, everyone is still constantly recruiting troops, so the market demand for spiritual food hasn't actually dropped much.

Back when there were many people, each person could basically grab at most two portions; any more was impossible.

Now that there are fewer people, everyone is sighing and lamenting on the surface, but in reality, they are already overjoyed inside.

As time passes, the proportion of people "eliminated" by the Myriad Races Battlefield is steadily declining.

The reason is that with fewer people, the share of spiritual food everyone can buy increases, and with more spiritual food per capita, the pressure to deal with monster tides becomes much smaller.

In fact, it's not just the credit of the spiritual food; Yun Shen also sells many things on the trading floor, such as equipment, talismans, and other consumables.

Even the various ores needed for upgrading don't require anyone to worry; they just need to collect source crystals and go to Yun Shen to purchase them.

Compared to spending great effort to find and mine ore, everyone is very willing to spend money to buy it; it saves time and effort.

Yun Shen got up early in the morning to roll traits for his troops.

After so many days, he had truly rolled quite a few Golden and useful Orange traits for his troops.

Ten of the Twelve Beauties of Jin Ling had already been granted traits by Yun Shen.

The scale of the Profound Heaven Iron Maidens had now expanded to one hundred and twenty, and half of them had obtained traits.

Many traits, when applied to them, would manifest as various skills. It was a pity that these skills could not be uploaded to the smart brain chips for sharing; they all had to be used individually, which was quite a shame.

There were also a small number of traits that transformed into bloodlines, causing the Profound Heaven Iron Maidens, who were originally human, to gain physiological characteristics from other races.

For example, growing a pair of dragon horns on their heads, sprouting several pairs of angel wings or vampire wings on their backs, having an extra vertical pupil in the center of their brows, or turning into cat-girls or rabbit-girls...

With these mutated troops, not only was Yun Shen happy, but Teacher Jiang Lan was also in a good mood. With so many gene sequences from different races available for her to study, she was naturally happy.

Many of these bloodline-type traits were very powerful, so powerful that they could even reset the focus of three-dimensional attributes!

For example, a Profound Heaven Iron Maiden who originally focused on spiritual power attributes, after fusing with the Golden [Vampire Bloodline] trait, possessed a legendary bloodline comparable to a vampire duke. She transformed directly from a human into a vampire, and her attribute points were automatically reallocated, shifting the focus to physical constitution.

Currently, the number of such Profound Heaven Iron Maidens who had undergone species transformation was still relatively small, but the effects were quite good; they could basically automatically master some innate skills of various races.

Actually, this was also quite incredible. Under normal circumstances, as long as the quality of the bloodline was high enough, it would cause the troop quality to advance.

After possessing a legendary vampire bloodline, logically speaking, this troop should have advanced to a legendary troop, yet she remained at the Epic level.

Yun Shen also understood why this was: some targets, after being granted traits, would not change their original quality.

This led to this bizarre phenomenon, allowing Epic troops to enjoy the advantages of a legendary bloodline and automatically learn some legendary racial innate skills.

There were many ways for heroes and troops to advance to higher quality, the most common being the use of [Hero Advancement Cards] and [Troop Advancement Cards].

Over these thirty days, Yun Shen had actually obtained quite a few of these two types of advancement cards, but their quality was very low, and the traits rolled were not powerful, which meant they had never been of any use.

The sun, constantly radiating light and heat above the firmament, gradually moved to the zenith day after day. Yun Shen had also prepared the spiritual food early and put it all on the trading floor.

Even though the number of lords in the newcomer village had decreased, the speed at which everyone scrambled to buy spiritual food was as fast as ever.

Yun Shen: "Fellow students, I hope we can all appear at the welcome party tonight and meet at the peak!"

"Hahaha! When the time comes, I must toast Big Brother Yun Shen!"

"Hoping to meet you all at the peak tonight!"

"Meet at the peak!"

"Meet at the peak!"

The village channel was gradually being flooded with messages. Everyone was emotionally charged, possessing the heroic ambition that even if they had to risk half their lives today, they had to pass this hurdle.

Having worked so hard for so long, wasn't it all for this very moment?

If one were to fall before the finish line, how much regret would that be?

At this moment, Zhu Ying sent a private message to Yun Shen.

Zhu Ying: "Good brother, it's the last day already. Do you still have any equipment in stock? I'm talking about the top-tier kind."

Yun Shen: "Of course I do, what's wrong?"

Zhu Ying: "Although I have the Sword-Controlling Tower, I still feel it's not secure. If you have any left over, sell me some?"

Yun Shen: "How many source crystals do you have on hand now? It's the last day, you don't need to be too frugal."

Zhu Ying: "You want source crystals? I have over five million here."

Yun Shen's eyes lit up. Five million, that's not bad at all.

Over these thirty days, the source crystals Yun Shen had rolled, although he hadn't counted them, were estimated to be around one hundred million!

But his expenses were also huge!

When the defense towers and the Profound Heaven Research Institute were outputting, they would constantly consume source crystals, and the higher the level, the greater the consumption.