Chapter 861

Hereditary Enhancement is a skill of Gu Qing and the other two women.

They can control it freely.

Relatively speaking, this skill's effect is stronger.

However, the duration is a bit shorter, only 5 seconds.

If "Blissful Frenzy" can be used as a regular skill,

then this "Hereditary Enhancement" needs to be conserved, becoming a reserved skill only usable at critical moments.

Facing the three smiling faces before him, Zhao Chi nodded: "Of course no problem, after today, let's have a celebration."

Gu Qing raised her eyebrows at them: "Did you hear that? My lord says we should celebrate."

Tang Ruan said playfully: "Heard it, celebrate? Oh my."

Qi Yue bit her lip: "Mm, I'm fine with anything."

The three were chatting and laughing.

The system sounded a notification.

Opening the system to look, it turned out to be collecting a teleportation fee.

【New fee list received】

Zhao Chi clicked it open.

【Temporary Tax List】

【Item】 Teleportation Fee

【Category】 War Tax

【Lord】 Zhao Chi

【Territory】 Taoyuan Village

【Level】 Medium Village

【Amount】 5 gold coins

【Pay tax remotely?】

5 gold coins?

Not cheap either.

His own place is just a medium village and already costs 5 gold coins.

For town-level lords like Su Qin, at least a dozen-plus gold coins will be collected — too expensive!

Although Stream Village is already in Xiao Ning's pocket, she will certainly maintain and protect it.

But she certainly isn't doing it to let the people here live and work in peace.

Rather, to squeeze them better and more.

The previous high tax rate, and now the high temporary tax, are all the beginning of her exploitation.

Clicking to pay the tax, 5 gleaming gold coins vanished.

【Remote tax payment complete】

"My lord? My lord?"

Gu Qing called out to Zhao Chi softly.

"Huh? Oh, what's wrong?"

"My lord, why are you spacing out? If anyone's going to space out, it should be us spacing out while looking at your face."

Zhao Chi smiled: "Look at the message in the system, am I considered properly made up now?"

Gu Qing nuzzled Zhao Chi's cheek again: "That's good, let's leave it like this. With your looks, I'm afraid no woman could resist."

Last time the makeup was made to look ugly.

To prevent Xiao Ning from losing control and doing something outrageous after seeing Zhao Chi.

This time the makeup is made to look handsome.

Battle is about to start, so she must be shown the most stunning, most handsome Zhao Chi.

Gu Qing pulled out two bottles of red wine from the system space.

The packaging was very exquisite.

Just from the packaging alone, one could tell it was absolutely priceless.

Zhao Chi recognized these two bottles of red wine — they had been confiscated from Zhao Ji earlier.

He had been saving them and never drank them.

Zhao Chi suddenly felt a bit感慨.

Zhao Ji had been dead for many days now, yet he himself was still reaping his dividends.

And Zhao Ji was just an ordinary noble.

Now those alien races had surrounded all the nobles, slowly gnawing away at them.

He really didn't know how many supplies those alien races could obtain.

Estimated to be worth at least trillions, right?

If they could devour the nobles' assets, these alien races would grow to an extremely terrifying strength.

How had things developed to this point?

"My lord, are you spacing out again?"

Gu Qing's gentle voice pulled Zhao Chi's thoughts back.

"Mm… then shall I take these two bottles of wine over?"

"Right, this is a farewell drink. Normally baijiu would be better, but this is all we have. It doesn't matter though — as long as you're the one bringing it, even if you brought a bottle of vinegar, that Xiao Ning would still be very happy."

"Alright then, I'll be off."

"Don't be in such a hurry." Gu Qing held him back. "This time, deliver the wine and leave right away—don't linger. And a battle is about to start, so she probably won't force you to stay either."

"Don't I need to say a couple of words?"

"No need! Walk in, deliver the wine, leave once it's done—just let her see you once, and she'll keep thinking about you. By the time Dengdaoyi Society connects to her territory, she'll probably already be unable to wait."

Zhao Chi praised, "Worthy of you, Gu Qing. If you were my enemy, I wouldn't even know how to deal with you."

"Just deal with me hard in bed~ With your abilities, it'd be easy to pull off." Gu Qing covered her mouth and laughed softly.

Tang Ruan and Qi Yue beside them smiled without a word.

The two of them had been led astray by Gu Qing just like this.

"Fine… I'm going."

"Be careful on the road. Go quickly and come back quickly." Gu Qing waved her hand.

Tang Ruan and Qi Yue also waved.

Teleported to the Greater World.

It was now early morning, and the rising sun was dazzling.

Golden light spilled across the road, turning this dirt path into a path of light.

There were very few people in the village.

Even the patrolling ones were few.

Moreover, those sentinel alien soldiers were nowhere to be seen—wonder where they went.

Arrived outside Xiao Ning's family courtyard.

There were only four soldiers on guard here too, far fewer than before.

Those soldiers, upon seeing Zhao Chi, all showed looks of disgust, but no one stopped him.

Stepping into the courtyard, before even entering the house, a forced voice suddenly reached his ear.

【I am Master Mu Chang Ning】

【How is it that someone still hasn't paid the teleportation fee? Is this fee a lot?】

【If you can't even afford this little fee, then don't be a lord—just hand the territory over for someone else to run. There are plenty of people who'd love to be a lord!】

【Dilly-dallying like this—are you worthy of our Holy Clan's experts? They've been painstakingly assisting you, and yet you won't even pay a little money?】

【Pay up within 10 minutes. I want to see who dares not take my words seriously!】

Her voice was very loud.

Zhao Chi heard her forced voice not only through the system, but also from inside the house.

Zhao Chi gave a light knock on the door.

Swish—the door opened.