Chapter 479

Let's go, let's keep strolling.

Having changed his own attributes, Xiao Feng took He Er Na and began to leisurely wander around Forest Ancient City.

Now his surface aura is already that of a Middle God; even without He Er Na accompanying him, if he flew alone in the sky, no one would come to bother him.

Forest Ancient City is a relatively large city; its center houses the internal teleportation array of the War God Kingdom, which can lead to various places within the god kingdom.

Many residents of the god realm frequently come and go, using the teleportation array to reach various districts to buy and sell goods, or to cultivate.

In the god realm, there is no rule that Upper Gods cannot use teleportation.

Because the space of the god realm is more stable than that of the lower realm, although Upper Gods are powerful, they do not cause spatial chaos during teleportation that would leave them lost in another world.

However, teleportation fees in the god realm are rather steep: using an intra-kingdom teleportation array costs at least 10 god stones per use, while inter-kingdom arrays start at over 200 and can go up to 1000 god stones.

God power crystals are not mere coins; their value exceeds that of gold by more than a thousandfold. Even if not used as currency, they can be absorbed for cultivation, or used to draw divine elemental power to replenish consumption and heal injuries.

Xiao Feng currently has few god power crystals on hand, so he cannot spend them freely.

Selling godly artifacts might earn some money, but the NPC shops in Forest Ancient City offer low buyback prices.

According to He Er Na, low-grade godly artifacts usually cost tens of thousands of god stones each, mid-grade ones five to six hundred thousand each, and high-grade ones around 1.5 to 2 million.

Such items are unaffordable for ordinary god realm residents; only specialty equipment shops called Godly Artifact Stores will buy them back, and the buyback price is very low—only about 20% of the selling price, a huge loss.

Of course, if one can find a buyer directly and conduct a transaction, it is possible to get a good price.

But it still cannot match the selling price of a Godly Artifact Store—at most about 80%. Because at the same price, people would definitely prefer to buy from a store, where quality and personal safety are guaranteed.

Fortunately, Xiao Feng doesn't have many places to spend money; he has equipment when needed and supplies when needed, so he isn't short on god power crystals.

The only thing he's somewhat lacking is his cultivation.

He wandered around Forest Ancient City for two hours, roughly learning the merchandise and prices of the various NPC shops in the god realm.

In the end, he drew a conclusion.

To make things easier, one still needs a large number of players to support one's economic model.

Because god realm NPCs are really a rip-off! Everything is sky-high priced; if things go badly, one might not even be able to afford medicine.

Only after many players ascend, using their huge population base to dilute the NPC market, can one occupy the main.

leading rights, forming a player-autonomous economic system, with prices determined by supply and demand.

By then, players engaged in life professions will become very popular, and many will form teams to venture into the wilds to gather the raw materials needed for those professions.

It's not hard to imagine that players will gradually replace NPCs, becoming the main productive force of the god realm.

Of course, these are matters for the future.

After they had strolled enough, the two flew toward the teleportation array of Forest Ancient City.

Forest Ancient City cannot directly teleport to the Storm God Kingdom.

Inter-kingdom teleportation arrays are few; the War God Kingdom has only three cities with cross-kingdom arrays: the Capital of War, War Song City, and Holy Ancestor City.

Going to the Capital of War would likely mean a fight, so they chose to go to Holy Ancestor City, then transfer via that city to teleport to the Storm God Kingdom.

【Teleporting to Holy Ancestor City costs 12 god power crystals; confirm?】

The teleportation operation is still carried out by the system; Xiao Feng opened the teleport list, selected the destination from a string of city names, and then a prompt popped up.

He split his god power crystals in half, gave half to He Er Na, and the two vanished together from Forest Ancient City.

Upon arriving at Holy Ancestor City, they didn't go out but directly spent again inside the teleportation array.

【Teleporting to Cloud Mist City (Storm God Kingdom) costs 340 god power crystals; confirm?】

The system popped up a prompt.

This price is roughly equivalent to three to four million gold coins, enough to buy a decent house in the real world.

Confirmed

Although it's expensive, we still have to pay.

The two paid the fee, light flowed before their eyes, and they fell into darkness.

A sensation of the world spinning and traversing the void came, causing the heart rate to involuntarily double and the body to feel slightly uneasy.

After almost ten seconds, this sensation faded.

【You have arrived at the Storm God Kingdom!】

The scene before their eyes became clear again.

Xiao Feng and He Er Na arrived at the third-largest city of the Storm God Kingdom, Cloud Mist City.

Just after arriving, He Er Na's face showed a pleased expression; she took a deep breath, seeming much more relaxed.

She said: "Master, having arrived here, this is already familiar territory for me. Should we first stroll around the vicinity, or go straight to Wind Spirit Island?"

"

The Storm God Kingdom is several hundred thousand kilometers away from Wind Spirit Island.

In the Elemental Sea, such a distance is considered quite close.

Although she does not belong to the god kingdom, she often runs to the Storm God Kingdom, so she knows everything here quite well.

Xiao Feng replied upon hearing her: "I've already strolled around Forest Ancient City; there's nothing much to see, so let's go straight ahead - I'm quite curious what surprise you've prepared for me."

"Then let's go; you'll know when we get there!"

He Er Na gave a mysterious smile, used her god power to pull him, and they shot straight up, flying quickly in a direction.

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The Storm God Kingdom is several hundred thousand kilometers away from Wind Spirit Island.

In the Elemental Sea, such a distance is considered quite close.

Although she does not belong to the god kingdom, she often runs to the Storm God Kingdom, so she knows everything here quite well.

Xiao Feng replied upon hearing her: "I've already strolled around Forest Ancient City; there's nothing much to see, so let's go straight ahead - I'm quite curious what surprise you've prepared for me."

"Then let's go; you'll know when we get there!"

He Er Na gave a mysterious smile, used her god power to pull him, and they shot straight up, flying quickly in a direction.

In the god realm, the conventional method of distinguishing directions by east, south, west, north is ineffective.

Because here is a sea of starry sky; each god kingdom and island are lands floating in the starry sky, lacking a 'gravity core', thus there is no unified direction.

All the lands drift and spin in the void; if one tries to divide them by the cardinal directions, one will surely get lost.

The truly reliable way to tell direction is to take some celestial bodies that basically never move as coordinate reference points, build a 'grid', then use this 'star net' as a reference to judge relative direction.

Players have the 'world map' privilege, which is much simpler; when lost, just open the big map and have a look.

He Er Na was very fast; in just a few minutes the two had left Yunlan City behind and were flying toward the border of the Storm God Kingdom.

Xiao Feng calculated the distance and speed, and found that it would actually take about forty hours of flight to reach Wind Spirit Island, which gave him a headache.

But there was nothing to be done; among all his divine medicines, none were meant for long‑term speed increase.

A short duration wouldn't mean much; that low‑grade 'Speed Potion' is ineffective against Upper Gods, so he could only fly slowly and honestly.

"The road is long and tedious, a bit boring."

After flying for more than half an hour, Xiao Feng began to get a little restless.

He realized that on this route they would basically encounter no other NPCs—just the two of them.

For a forty‑hour journey, if they did nothing but rush, it would feel like a waste of time.

He reached out with one hand and embraced He Er Na's slender waist, which could barely be encircled by one hand.

He Er Na already knew him well; seeing him reach out, she immediately understood what he wanted and hurriedly said, "Master, please don't…… If you move around, my speed will slow down……"

"I'm not moving around, just stretching my hands; you just focus on controlling the wind," Xiao Feng replied innocently.

As he spoke, his right hand slipped down and grabbed a soft, ample mass.

"【Last night I drank too much, didn't finish seven chapters; will add two more this afternoon!】"

(End of chapter)