Chapter 1219

"Alright, alright, alright, I won't say more. Go register then. If I don't have enough money, I'll come find you and let you keep me."

Su Qin laughed: "Fine, I'll keep you, you pretty boy. During the day I'll feed you gold coins, at night I'll feed you… mm-hmm."

"Good, I'll go eat tonight."

"Hehe, I'll be waiting for you."

Zhao Chi said nothing more, entered the goods panel, and browsed the supplies.

Sure enough, basic materials, basic equipment, especially these broken pieces of equipment from spoils, had no identity restriction—anyone could buy them.

Only those functional items, special items, rare items, high-grade equipment, special materials, and so on had priority purchasing rights with identity restrictions.

Zhao Chi first navigated to the materials interface.

He filtered out stone materials.

The quantity was enormous; most were ordinary stone materials.

There were also quite a few rare stone materials.

Moon-Glow Stone was a rare stone material.

One unit of Moon-Glow Stone cost 45 silver coins.

Zhao Chi had never traded before and didn't know whether it was cheap or expensive, but compared to ordinary rare materials, it was much pricier.

But now, if he needed to buy, he had to buy.

Zhao Chi had looked at the Spring Breeze Tower's building material requirements.

It needed 150 units of timber and 50 units of stone.

Zhao Chi directly selected 300 units of Moon-Glow Stone—after all, it was only 135 gold coins in total, which he could afford.

The extra would be stockpiled.

It would also be needed for improvements later.

There were quite a few female armors too.

Zhao Chi completely ignored the brand-new ones and went straight to look at those at 90% new, whose durability was basically around 85%–95%.

Prices varied, but averaged about 1.35 gold coins per set.

Quite a bit cheaper than before.

Last time Zhao Chi bought a 90%-new full set of iron armor for 1.55 gold coins per set; now each set was 20 silver coins cheaper.

For 500 sets, he'd only need 675 gold coins in total.

Adding those 300 units of Moon-Glow Stone, it came to 810 gold coins altogether.

Right now he had… 828 gold coins.

Among them, 239 had been seized from Sun Cheng, and this time another 589 gold coins had been seized from Chen Xian—more than enough.

Zhao Chi browsed the other items in passing.

There really were quite a few good things.

Moreover, the registration time was not long ago—they had all just been seized by lords.

But unfortunately, these kinds of things had identity restrictions.

Today, only those with General-grade identity could purchase.

Tomorrow would be Colonel-grade identity.

It would take until the day after tomorrow before someone of Su Qin's rank, Commandant-grade, could buy.

He estimated quite a few good things would be bought up today.

It didn't matter—after all, he had no money right now and couldn't afford them anyway.

Moreover, letting people with General-grade identity buy them could also raise the strength of the World-Breaking Army; the great tree of the World-Breaking Army would grow sturdier.

Zhao Chi could also take shelter beneath it and enjoy the shade.

Su Qin had also finished registering.

Then she quickly picked out the items she wanted. The two of them queued for another half a day before the transaction was finally completed.

"Alright, just wait to collect the money!"

Su Qin said with a smile.

Zhao Chi laughed: "Thanks to you, thank you."

"Hehe, what are you thanking me for? Where to next?"

"I need to head back first; there's a lot to deal with right now."

"Mm, I get it. Same on my end. Then let's both head back. See you tonight."

"Good, see you tonight."

"Mm, I'll be waiting for you."

The two left the trading post and teleported away.

Zhao Chi had bought quite a lot of raw materials this time—large in volume and very heavy—so he didn't pick them up from the trading post.

The trading post gave a coordinate; he could just send people there to haul the goods.

At this moment, the system sent a message.

It was a notice from the World-Breaking Army:

【Good News】:

【Today, our objective of attacking "Copper Rock Town" has been achieved. We have successfully taken "Copper Rock Town"!】

【Each squadron's battle has concluded; we have achieved a complete victory!】

【Each squadron commander is now tallying the total contributions of every lord. Rewards will be distributed based on contributions in due course!】

【"Copper Rock Town" falls within the sphere of influence of the Heavenly King Army. Each squadron, each village and town, please stay alert and guard against a counterattack from the Heavenly King Army.】

【In principle, everyone has two weeks of rest time. Please recover your strength as soon as possible and await the next combat mission.】

【Once again, thank you all for your efforts. I hope everyone can work hand in hand to achieve our ultimate goal!】

It really is good news.

Looks like Li Ruanyu and the others who went to support the other squadrons all won smoothly.

Every lord on every front has won.

Of course, the perfect record mentioned in this notice refers to several battles across the entire campaign, not any single lord.

After all, this time some lords were defeated and killed too.

Right after that, Li Ruanyu's voice came through as well.

【Everyone in the Jade Group, this is Li Ruanyu】

【Everyone worked hard today】

【But no one can let their guard down. Although we won one battle, our situation is still far from optimistic】

【Right now the nobles and the alien races are locked in a stalemate, so this is an extremely rare strategic opportunity. We must take advantage of it to accumulate as much as we can】

【We don't know how long the nobles can hold out, but we can't rely on them for this. We have to rely on ourselves】

【Before the alien races turn their attention to deal with us, we must accumulate enough strength for one decisive battle】

【Wars will likely be very frequent from now on. Everyone grit your teeth and endure】

【Your strength might grow very slowly, or even decline】

【But as long as our territories keep growing and the formation arrays we occupy keep increasing, more lords will become our allies, and our overall strength will grow stronger and stronger】

【Everyone should understand, right?】

【The day after tomorrow at 10 a. m., the commendation ceremony will be held in the central hall. Don't be late】

【Everyone get some rest now】

Zhao Chi listened in silence.

If wars are frequent, even with victories, it might be very hard to accumulate strength, or even decline.

But given the environment they were in now, there really was no other way.

"My lord, what's wrong? What are you thinking about?"

Gu Qing asked gently.

Zhao Chi smiled: "Nothing. I just feel everyone has it really tough."

Gu Qing laughed: "I don't know about others, but I only know you've had it very hard. I heard from Qiyue that you're starting to craft again?"

"Yeah, we're short on equipment again, and all the weapons have been worn out. I need to make another batch."

Gu Qing sighed: "It's a pity I can't help you in that area. Then I can only let you relax more in bed. I've learned a new technique — I don't know if you'll like it, but it's fine if you don't."

Zhao Chi laughed: "You've got new tricks again? You really are dedicated in this area."