Chapter 30: Battle Royale

"This thing can also be considered an otherworld version of the Michelin and Black Pearl list."

"But apart from me, they are all heavy-tasting."

"Only perverted monsters who are full will patronize them."

Li Yu muttered, his gaze sweeping to the top of the list.

Even excluding the grand restaurant opened by the old demon Zhu Can, the so-called "Buddha-Jumping-Over-The-Wall Restaurant" that ranked second, looking at the Spirit Food dishes it displayed,

I reckon that if a real Buddha saw them, he would indeed be unable to help but jump over the wall to chop them up.

After complaining, Li Yu went to flip to the last page.

The content was neither surprising nor unexpected.

Advertisement!

A full page of space was dense with advertisements, almost all from various merchants in Wanfu City, such as the beauty shops under the 【Rouge Society】, or various soul-stirring clubs.

If it were his previous life, Li Yu would only look at these when squatting in the toilet.

But here, it was naturally very different; you must know that these advertisements also belonged to "Transcendent knowledge."

Sure enough, when Li Yu finished reading all the advertisements word for word, the charging progress of the fifth truth bubble jumped forward quite a bit again.

"Good stuff!"

"From today on, I am the most loyal customer of 'Wanfu Daily'. Although there are no secret medicine formulas for me to peek at, the charging efficiency and cost-effectiveness far exceed the mysterious gatherings I painstakingly planned."

"It is also because there are no bookstores in this Wanfu City, otherwise I wouldn't have to be so painstaking."

Li Yu put down the newspaper at will, and then began to ponder his future.

Now he had a chance to wash himself clean, and as long as he wasn't stupid enough to expose the fact that he slaughtered the "Vegetable Collector Yi Ya," he wouldn't have to worry about the pursuit of the Forbidden God Sect in the short term.

Then, what Li Yu needed to do next was only two things.

Cultivate!

Support the family!

What made him feel very headache-inducing was that these two things both required a lot of money.

The former, which was his Alchemy Apprentice cultivation, the most daily thing to do was alchemy.

But the few basic alchemy formulas attached to the Alchemy Apprentice sequence secret medicine, and the rare spiritual materials and terrifying prices required, already made Li Yu's heart ache.

And what made him speechless was that there was a note on it:

"Apart from basic alchemy formulas, any Alchemy Apprentice can rely on the two techniques of Alchemy Fire and Serving Qi to create their own exclusive alchemy formulas."

"Just remember, ordinary objects cannot become pills; only Transcendent strange objects can refine great wonderful spiritual pills."

In Li Yu's view, the implied meaning of this note was very obvious.

It costs money, and a lot of money.

"So I chose a cultivation path that costs a lot of money, and a maid who also needs a lot of money to maintain."

When thinking of this, Li Yu looked at his own mechanical maid again.

Ever since he repaired part of Hong Dou's secret core, this young girl doll, besides possessing killing and fighting abilities, had also restored some intelligence.

Occasionally, she would perform some strange behaviors.

For example, at this moment, she could have forcibly caught that plague-ridden bronze chicken, but she tried to drive it out in a human way.

If it were the maid from before who had no intelligence and could only understand simple instructions, Li Yu would naturally only provide her with the lowest-grade spiritual energy stones.

But now, it was very different.

Thoughts like "It's time to buy a few more sets of clothes for Hong Dou," "The spiritual energy stone cannot be too low-grade, otherwise she won't be able to exert her exquisite chainsaw sword technique," "Later I can also try to continue repairing her, spending more money is also very worth it," etc., which sounded like they would cost a lot of money, directly popped into Li Yu's mind.

"It seems I still can't sit and eat until the sky falls; I have to engage in a business that makes money fast and a lot."

"Since the Spirit Food business is so hot, if I directly take the path of 【Medicinal Cuisine】, wouldn't it be even more popular?"

"Although there are many opponents, if I bring out the means I learned in my previous life, such as hunger marketing, viral marketing, I should be able to stand out..."

Thinking to this point, Li Yu swept toward Wanfu Daily again.

Just as a lot of planning ideas were about to emerge in his mind, suddenly, outside the courtyard gate.

No, it should be everywhere in Wanfu City, chaotic and unbearable movements came.

The noise that made people feel very uncomfortable surged from all directions.

"The refugees from the three kingdoms have started to enter the city?"

Li Yu's heart gave birth to a guess, and then he got up directly and went outside the courtyard.

On the way, voices full of malice drilled into Li Yu's ears from the air.

"Hey, everyone come here, there are many empty houses on this street."

"There are also many poor people, it seems there are not many practitioners, suitable for us to settle down."

"Looking at the traces, this is still an old street with a long history, not bad not bad, I like this sense of vicissitudes and fireworks."

"Don't scare people, they might all be neighbors in the future."

"Of course, it might also be something in my belly, depending on the means of the neighbors."

"That courtyard with the meat shop, I want it."

……

Hearing the last sentence that was clearly aimed at him, Li Yu slowly opened the courtyard gate.

Afterward, he saw an extremely uncomfortable scene.

Starting from the old street in front of him, in every street and alley, there were actually many people appearing, as far as the eye could see, straight to the main street of the Heavenly Machine Workshop.

Almost everyone was sallow and thin, in rags.

They either stood or squatted, sizing up everything in the city with eyeballs flashing with green and yellow light, their eyes full of greed, hatred, and restlessness, just not friendly. The atmosphere was extremely weird.

Although Li Yu didn't turn on the analysis of all things, he was, after all, a proper Sequence 8 practitioner, and he had a vague sense of "his own kind."

Precisely because of this, his face was quite solemn.

In his sense, among the large number of refugees in front of him, there was actually a considerable number of people who mastered Transcendent strange powers.

Some even directly lost their human form, walking in weird and strange shapes.

Ten neighbors on the old street were slaughtered by Yi Ya earlier, so there were many empty houses, and the rest who survived were all closing their doors tightly, trembling in fear.

Li Yu coming out at this moment was naturally quite eye-catching, and he was surrounded by disgusting gazes in an instant.

But when he swept a circle and deliberately showed the momentum of a practitioner, most of the gazes chose to avoid him.

Li Yu's panic in his heart also went away a lot.

He had already confirmed one thing at this moment:

"The so-called 'refugees from the three kingdoms' are probably all like Jiao Qing and Sun Sun Sanniang, evil thugs and evil cultivators who were expelled from the country by the three kingdoms for some reason."

"Almost all are very cruel, but most are not practitioners, a small part are unranked, and a very small part are Sequence 8."

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"I don't need to care about others, just protect my own courtyard, and wait for the great household registration after the event, then I can be completely washed clean."

Just as Li Yu set his mind and was about to return to the courtyard,

without any warning, the bell tower and drum tower in the city rang out one after another.

Afterward, steam airships and patrol tower ships appeared, walking in the sky above, and used large-volume loudspeakers to broadcast the same warning notice:

"Refugees from the three kingdoms are expected to enter the city completely in one hour."

"Once the Zi hour passes, nothing will be forbidden in the city, and everything can be done."

"All city residents, please prepare to protect your own relatives and property."

"All refugees, please prepare to strive for a household registration."

……

Amidst these warnings that could be said to be completely inhumane, the entire Wanfu City fell into panic and restlessness.

Li Yu didn't look at the horrific gazes revealed by those terrible refugees outside anymore, and directly closed the courtyard gate.

Immediately, his face also became gloomy, revealing some killing intent.

"Good, good, good, the birth point I chose is exciting enough."

"Once the Zi hour passes, the whole city Battle Royale."

"Hong Dou!"

"Immediately issue a reward, requiring a medium-grade spiritual energy stone, as well as killing weapons you can use, and also require ten portions of fire essence and below fire-attribute minerals... all delivered to the door, and accept the use of some strange objects for deduction when money is insufficient."

After Li Yu finished speaking, his face was full of heartache.

Although he was a practitioner, facing a cruel game like "Battle Royale," he naturally had to treat it with caution.

Not to mention that Alchemy Apprentice was not good at killing, and he couldn't guarantee what would happen after the Zi hour passed, such as some unranked practitioners or other Sequence 8s mixing into the refugees surrounding him.

Once an accident happened, it was very likely to be death and disappearance.

Having struggled to survive until now and seeing the dawn of hope, how could he be willing to fall short of success.

This reward was to fully arm the master and servant.

Predictably, the windfall and savings he had just obtained would be at least emptied.

This premonition soon turned into reality.

Accompanied by the familiar steam movement, outside the door, a voice he had heard before came:

"I, Shi Shi Dazhu!"

"All the goods you want have been delivered, please come out to verify."

"Medium-grade spiritual energy stone charges you 1,000 taels of silver, electric blade gun and shield, charges you 2,000 taels, ten portions of fire essence and mineral materials, charges you 3,000 taels... since you are a big customer, I'll give you another 20% off. If you are short of money, Shi also accepts strange objects for deduction, I will calculate the most suitable price for you."

"However, you'd better be fast, I'm afraid these lunatics will come over to rob, this will delay a lot of time."

"Deal!"

……

Sending away this salesman, the heartache on Li Yu's face became even thicker.

The thousands of taels of silver he had saved by cooking Spirit Food the night before last were consumed without accident.

The only comfort was that the strange objects he got from touching Yi Ya's corpse were not all lost, and after deducting the Blue Jade Bone, the money and goods were cleared.

Li Yu directly left the medium-grade spiritual energy stone and a set of killing weapons for Hong Dou.

And he himself, holding a pile of fire essence and minerals, went to the storage room that had been transformed into an alchemy room again.

That's right!

He was going to refine pills.

This sequence of Alchemy Apprentice was indeed not good at killing, but it didn't mean there were no other means.

Among the few basic alchemy formulas attached, there happened to be one that could be refined to deal with the current predicament.

Li Yu recalled while walking:

"With fire essence as the core, supplemented by more than ten kinds of fire-attribute minerals, one can refine a spiritual pill called 【Explosive Flame Pill】."

"This pill contains fire essence spirituality; if an Alchemy Apprentice eats it with the 'Serving Qi' technique, it can make his own body briefly possess a fire-attribute spiritual body, and can walk in volcanoes and magma without hindrance."

"Or, it can be thrown out, and it will burst upon slight collision. Once the fire essence evil Qi inside touches human flesh, it can burn it into coke in the blink of an eye."

"However, what needs to be noted is!"

"Refining Explosive Flame Pill is very easy to cause furnace explosion, so be cautious."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 31 =====