Chapter 978: RICH BEYOND IMAGINATION! EVERY SECOND COUNTS!

The Void Stone is completely transparent, imbued with spatial power, and does not reflect light.

Yet when he saw so many Void Stones, Xu Jingming felt his eyes were about to be blinded!

“This… how many Void Stones are here?” Xu Jingming swallowed hard.

“13.31 million.”

Su Tianrui smiled and replied, “They’re everywhere in the Spatial Chaos Layer.

I originally planned to save them until I got out, but I just kept accumulating them until now.”

Inside his space ring, besides these Void Stones, there were also some pieces of equipment.

All other usable pills, potions, and resources had long since been used up.

“13.31 million? That many?!” Su Qingli was also stunned.

She knew that even after all their efforts, she and her group had only accumulated 2.87 million Void Stones total.

That was even after acquiring some from Qiao Lin and the others—otherwise, it would’ve been even less.

“Adding ours to this, we now have a total of 16.18 million Void Stones!” Xu Jingming’s eyes blazed with brilliance.

Wealth beyond imagination! Undeniably, they were filthy rich!

Just these Void Stones alone could be exchanged for enough resources to evolve four abilities into SS rank!

“Bad! Our Void Stone count has been exposed!”

Su Qingli looked up at the sky and cried out in alarm.

Xu Jingming followed her gaze and saw the ranking changes above.

“Rank One, No. 344, Void Stones: [empty].

Rank Two, No. 1, Void Stones: [empty].

……”

“I’m number one now! Is this Void Tower’s surveillance really this powerful?” Xu Jingming’s expression darkened.

The Void Stones weren’t all concentrated in his hands—Su Qingli and Eva also held significant amounts.

Originally, he had only been ranked second.

Now, his rank had shot straight to first!

Most critically, the exact number of Void Stones in his possession had been exposed!

“This is trouble—fifteen million Void Stones! Everyone else will definitely notice!”

Xu Jingming’s expression grew anxious. “Teacher Su, we must leave now—we have to reach the teleportation portal as quickly as possible!”

One or two million Void Stones were still within normal range.

Each of the top five on the leaderboard held over a million Void Stones.

But over ten million? That was abnormal—more than ten times their amounts!

Xu Jingming was certain that the other powerful cultivators on the ninth level had already noticed the anomaly.

Without doubt, these powerful beings would rush forward to block the teleportation portal.

At that point, he’d have no chance to exchange resources.

Any exchange would reveal his identity!

And with his current strength, he couldn’t crush everyone.

He would be surrounded and attacked by other powerful beings.

So he had to exchange resources before they blocked the portal, then open the teleportation gate and enter the next level!

“We’re over seven hundred kilometers from the teleportation portal—flying directly won’t be fast enough.”

Su Qingli clearly realized this too and hurriedly said.

“Use the fighter!”

Xu Jingming immediately pulled out the Obsidian-class fighter from his space ring.

“Senior Su, no time left—I’ll store you in my space ring first.”

“Alright.”

After stowing Su Tianrui in his space ring, Xu Jingming and Su Qingli entered the fighter, and he barked orders:

“Eva! No holds barred—activate maximum performance mode!”

“Eva understands!”

On the fighter’s cockpit display appeared the pale, clean face of the little girl, Eva.

“Hold on tight! Eva-class fighter, taking off now!”

Eva excitedly activated the fighter.

BOOM!!

The fighter’s engines were pushed to their limit, accompanied by a piercing sonic boom.

The massive fighter vanished instantly, as if teleporting.

This was the Obsidian-class fighter’s maximum performance mode—top speed: ten times the speed of sound!

Of course, this mode could only last half an hour.

Otherwise, the entire fighter would collapse under the extreme speed…

“Fifteen million Void Stones?! Who?!”

On the ninth level of the Void Tower, somewhere.

Wind howled fiercely; at the heart of a massive hurricane, a delicate-looking man stared in surprise at the ranking screen above.

Mick!

A ninth-rank peak elemental mage of the Ersk Family, possessing an S-rank elemental wind ability.

“Someone’s gotten an incredible haul,” Mick licked his lips.

“Too bad I’m still over three thousand kilometers from the finish—will I make it in time…?”

He ignored the other Ersk Family powerful beings around him.

Mick’s body was engulfed in howling winds, instantly turning into a phantom and vanishing from sight.

As a ninth-rank peak elemental wind cultivator, his maximum flight speed reached a terrifying sixteen times the speed of sound—nearly the absolute limit short of a supreme expert!

“No. 344! It’s you!”

Leo of the Lei Ding Family also noticed the ranking shift.

“Fifteen million Void Stones? Stole my fortune, yet still managed to gather this much?

Looks like you’ve had good luck—but in the end, you’ll just be making my path easier.”

Leo let out a cruel laugh.

“We’re less than a thousand kilometers from the finish—we’ll get there soon,” chuckled another Lei Ding Family powerful being beside him.

“Of course.”

Leo laughed heartily.

He took a fighter from his space ring.

The fighter had a streamlined body, entirely black.

It was also an Obsidian-class fighter!

“Let’s go!” Leo and the other powerful beings boarded the fighter and sped toward the finish.

Though he was a ninth-rank peak martial saint, his maximum flight speed was only nine times the speed of sound.

Still slightly slower than the Obsidian fighter’s maximum mode.

This scene wasn’t unique to Leo and Mick.

Many other ability users, upon seeing the top-ranked Void Stone count, were also racing toward the finish.

They didn’t intend to block Xu Jingming—fifteen million Void Stones were more than enough to open the teleportation gate.

They wanted to enter the next level the instant the portal opened.

“Sis! We’re lucky—we’re close to the finish!”

Somewhere about a hundred kilometers from the finish.

A young woman with fluffy fox ears on her head and a mixed-race face stared at the ranking screen above, delighted.

Beside her stood a woman with seven or eight tenths of her resemblance, but far more mature.

This woman wore a tight combat suit, her figure curvaceous.

Around her swirled blazing, deep purple flames, and a crimson sword coiled like a living serpent around her.

These twin mixed-race beauties were none other than Leng Yuexi and Leng Yuechan.

They had just been searching for Void Stones nearby when they noticed the ranking change.

“Looks like our luck’s holding. Let’s go—we might be among the first to enter the next level.”

Leng Yuexi nodded with a smile.

Before they could leave, a piercing shriek pierced the air!

A black fighter, like a phantom, shot toward them from afar.

“That’s… Xu Jingming’s fighter?” Leng Yuechan’s beautiful eyes lit up in delight.