Chapter 193: Paid Knowledge

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Protagonist:

Jiang Xuan

Withdrawing his gaze, Jiang Xuan looked at the Jie Shi Trading Hall option, and an interface similar to the Famous System's Redeem Treasure System quickly popped up.

At the very top of the trading hall, his simple information was displayed:

Primary Permit: Jiang Xuan

Jie Shi: Zero

Below was a restricted trading area, densely packed with listed sell orders.

Almost all of them were knowledge sell orders — from the most basic knowledge of building games, to ten ideas for element combinations, success rate masterclasses, "you'll never profit without this lesson" type titles; all kinds of eye-catching bizarre titles could be seen, making Jiang Xuan's consciousness feel as if it had returned to that information-saturated society.

Of course, among them were also quite a few useful pieces of knowledge, such as Comprehensive Investigation of Cultivator Bodily Changes Through Dissection, Analysis of the Relationship Between Color Combinations and Fear, On the Direct Impact of Piston Movement on Crisis Awareness...

In short, these knowledge pieces were varied and sundry, but they all shared one common point: they were all settled in Jie Shi Scrolls. The highest asking price was a full one thousand Jie Shi Scrolls, the lowest ranged from several dozen to several hundred Jie Shi Scrolls.

However you looked at it, Jie Shi Scrolls were related to Jie Shi. He took out a Jie Shi from the Hongmeng Treasure Mirror, and the trading hall immediately popped up a Jie Shi-to-Jie Shi Scroll exchange list.

One Jie Shi could be exchanged for one hundred Jie Shi Scrolls, but Jie Shi Scrolls could only be used to purchase knowledge within, and could not be reverse-exchanged for Jie Shi.

That is to say, Jie Shi exchanged out could never be exchanged back out!

Jiang Xuan quickly found the general information and precautions regarding "God's Game" at the very top.

The "Gods" in here were all Great Emperors who bought tickets to enter; everyone knew what this world was for, so almost no one bought this paid knowledge, even mocking the person who wrote it for wasting time.

But the reason it's "almost" is because someone really was bored enough to buy it, and cursed violently in the purchase reviews below; he thought the other party would reveal some hidden information, but what was said was information every God knew — merely a summary of known information, completely useless!

Others saw this review and no one ever purchased this knowledge again.

But isn't this a coincidence?

Seeing this information, Jiang Xuan instead directly chose to exchange one Jie Shi, spending ten Jie Shi Scrolls to purchase this piece of information.

Sharpening the axe doesn't delay the woodcutting; he had snuck in, fundamentally had no so-called "ticket," and naturally lacked the knowledge he should have about this world.

Letting him be a player he could still connect with stories he'd seen in his previous life, but letting him be a "Game God" he truly had no experience!

As the ten Jie Shi Scrolls disappeared, the interface added an "Extract Purchased Knowledge" option, able to extract the purchased knowledge and transmit it directly into his consciousness.

He glanced again at those messages claiming "guaranteed 100% profit on your first try" — every single one was covered in negative reviews. Thankfully purchase reviews could only be about twenty characters long, otherwise the "Gods" selling these posts would definitely have their eighteen generations ascend to heaven.

Moreover, among these fake messages, the most expensive sold for only fifty Jie Shi Scrolls!

Yet those three eyes outside actually opened their mouths demanding two Jie Shi — that's two hundred Jie Shi Scrolls?

And Jie Shi Scrolls cannot be converted into Jie Shi, which makes Jie Shi appear even more precious; Jiang Xuan predicted the true value could reach three to four hundred Jie Shi Scrolls!

Have to say, those three eyes looked quite big and burly, with a square honest-looking face, but their heart is truly black!

Jiang Xuan withdrew his gaze; the other knowledge in here was all related to this plane's theme of "games." He needed to understand this plane first before deciding whether to purchase these knowledge pieces.

"Extract Knowledge!"

Stowing the panel before him, Jiang Xuan could feel a strand of spiritual power transmit from the Processor in the sky into his Sea of Consciousness. The energy did not reveal danger, identical to the power felt when using the interface, except he was not heading toward the eyes but wandering in his Sea of Consciousness searching for his consciousness main body.

Jiang Xuan controlled the automatically operating Concealment Authority to release; this strand of spiritual power finally found its direction, approaching and integrating into the Secret Path Seed.

In Jiang Xuan's mind, some recorded knowledge instantly appeared — all records concerning this plane.

First, this plane has already been destroyed!

The specific cause of destruction, even they — these people who bought tickets to enter — do not know.

They only know that in their own planes they would encounter a shop selling tickets; just by using a ticket they could enter this destroyed plane to participate as "Gods" in the "Construction" of this world.

Everyone in this plane became players imprisoned in their own Spaces; they must participate in "God's Game" to continue living, to have strength, life, the right to expand living space, etc.!

The most important purpose for these players is to survive, and hope that one day they can break free from the shackles of being a player, to see just who is controlling this death game!

And all the strength, life, and rights these controlled natives gain each time they participate in a game will be paid by the God hosting that game; whether building the game or this expenditure, both require consuming the gifted Jie Shi!

The "Gods" — or rather Great Emperors — who come here have as their main purpose obtaining more Jie Shi!

After successfully profiting five games, one can choose to advance Permit or leave the plane; advancing Permit is literal, while choosing to leave means taking the Jie Shi obtained and being rejected by this world back to one's original plane, and never being able to enter this world again!

And if one hasn't profited five games and exhausts the Jie Shi in hand, one can only stay here forever waiting to die, or deceive others of their Jie Shi to continue trying!

Logically speaking, whether participants or game-designing Gods, neither would be willing to take risks, but participants have no choice — after all, their planes are gone, they can't run anywhere!

The game-designing Gods do it because of greed!

Endless greed for Jie Shi!

The final information records the function of Jie Shi, carrying the knowledge provider's fanaticism for Jie Shi!

Jie Shi, condensed from energy stars salvaged from the Extinction Galaxy, containing within them all the Rules, Daos, and pure Plane Energy of the stars!

Although all who come are Great Emperors, pure Rules and Energy still have great effect on them, but most important is Plane Energy!

As the most basic constituent part of a plane, this energy has high purity, wide range of use, and zero side effects!

Introduced into the flesh body, it can transform into pure flesh energy, reaching true flesh immortality, the level of spanning the River of Time; introduced into the Dantian it can increase Cultivation Level without side effects; fused into the Sea of Consciousness it can help comprehend the Dao, strengthen spiritual power; fused into weapons it can enhance weapon attributes and strength without damage!

Everyone can find a method to greatly increase their strength using this energy!

If it were only this, those peerless geniuses who never encountered bottlenecks in cultivation and lacked no resources would not be attracted by it!

Jie Shi has another ability that drives countless people to madness and greed: if one gathers five hundred Jie Shi, supplemented by large amounts of Time-Space Materials, sacrificing one's own flesh body has a chance to create a Micro-World Seed with the sacrificer's spirit as the world consciousness!

As a true Plane Overlord, even among the Transcendent ranks one would hold the advantage!

Reading the final information, Jiang Xuan couldn't help but blank out a little.

Micro-World Seed? And it requires large amounts of Time-Space Materials and a Great Emperor's flesh body?

Jiang Xuan introspected his own Micro World inside his body, suddenly thinking of the Original Creator's unexplained death in Mystery, and the Micro-World Seed obtained by the Storm Overlord.

He suspected that the Original Creator of the Mysterious World had also participated in this game!

But... why?

The Original Creator was the Overlord of the Mysterious World at that time, right? He already had a world as backing to impact Transcendence, so why did he still need to nurture a new Micro World?

Jiang Xuan read through the last segment of information again and again.

Finally he fixed on that last sentence: "Create a Micro-World Seed with the sacrificer's spirit as the world consciousness!"

The Mysterious World has its own world consciousness, this is beyond doubt! When he used rules in the Mysterious World, he could feel the world consciousness omnipresent in the world.

And in the Micro World inside his body, he and the world consciousness jointly manage this world; he can control most rules and energy for his own use, and the Micro World has undoubtedly been bringing him convenience so far.

What if he himself were the complete world consciousness?

Him walking in other planes would be like a world walking within another world, a humanoid world!

Being able to completely use the world's power, rules, energy, and so on — this is absolutely terrifying!

Jiang Xuan seemed to understand why.

It's just a pity the Original Creator seems to have failed, because when Jiang Xuan first touched the Micro World and saw the Micro World consciousness using earth to fill spatial breaches, he knew this thing was definitely newborn — a normal person could never think of this kind of countering relationship!

This also made Jiang Xuan completely give up the idea of trying to master another Micro World himself.

Never mind the World Stones needed for creation, just how gold-devouring a Micro World is — no one who hasn't raised one knows!

This Micro-World Seed's world consciousness piled up and expanded the world's life force for tens of thousands of years, and only barely managed to make the inside look like a small world; in Shrouding the Heavens, tens of millions of Source only increase a few dozen strands of World Life Force — ordinary people simply can't afford to raise this kind of thing!

And if Jiang Xuan replaced the world consciousness, he himself would have to personally do those boring, tedious actions of collecting Void energy and condensing life force day after day, sitting for hundreds of years at a time!

To not be bored, he could only continuously earn World Stones in this plane to supply his own Micro World!

But he still has quite a few things to do; he can't stay in this world forever.

The current mode between him and the Micro World inside his body is quite good — the world consciousness handles internal affairs, he handles external affairs!

As the saying goes! Men and women paired... no wait! It's the story of two monks carrying water to drink!

Withdrawing his gaze, after learning the huge role of World Stones, Jiang Xuan also estimated the quantity of World Stones temporarily needed!

To advance to Great Emperor, all the Great Saint Weapons inside his body must thoroughly advance to Emperor Weapons — this is a not-small World Stone expenditure!

Then there's letting the Micro World absorb some too, striving to give birth to life, expand to a position where a sun can be placed, and best of all let the world consciousness metamorphose into a Heavenly Dao.

As long as a sun in space can be put up, simultaneously make a moon orbit it, then fabricate an illusion of myriad stars at the boundary, and grow a Human Race inside — that would be another pirated version of Earth; in the future, just slowly fill and expand the information!

This made Jiang Xuan think of the world he was in in his previous life; there was scientific research showing that the information observable by humans is expanding every moment, expanding dozens of kilometers every second! Therefore humans proposed various conjectures!

But now thinking about it, his world might also be expanding its territory, driving the universe to grow ever larger with life force!

One day, the world of his previous life will also have a cultivation system, and cultivators might appear too.

Carefully calculated, his demand for World Stones is many times more than others'!

Although he can keep sneaking in via world coordinates, not afraid of being kicked out of the world and not allowed to re-enter.

But this also makes him eager to see the so-called build-game and profit mechanism.

Regaining his senses, Jiang Xuan saw Three-Eyed with a simple honest smile on his face, receiving two World Stones from that wolf-tailed youth's hand, the smile on his face about to overflow!

But then Three-Eyed still didn't stop; as if feeling this wolf-tailed guy before him was easy to fool, he coaxed again: "Little brother! The game I created is about to start! A large-scale game that cost dozens of World Stones to build! You only need to invest five World Stones now, and I'll give you thirty percent of the final profit! Guaranteed floor of fifty World Stones too!"

"This is ten times the profit! I'm doing this because you look like a good person, so I decided to bring you along!"

The wolf-tailed youth lowered his head, thoughts unreadable, voice carrying a trace of curiosity and caution: "Really? But you haven't given me the information I purchased yet! How can I believe you?"

"Ha ha ha! Of course!" The three-eyed man laughed heartily, transmitting a good amount of knowledge into the other's Sea of Consciousness.

These knowledge were all carefully selected by him; superficially they all seemed quite reasonable, but in actual operation they were just a pile of garbage knowledge — added together they weren't even worth fifty World Stone scrolls!

Before the youth could properly gain insight into these knowledge, Three-Eyed urged: "How about it! I'm full of sincerity! My game is about to start; if you want to invest, hurry up! No time to hesitate! This is a fifty World Stone big deal!"

The wolf-tailed youth lifted his head, face bearing a sinister smile: "Sure!"

The next second, Wolf Tail extended a hand, densely condensed with endless Dao Patterns on it — Dao Patterns that would make one dizzy just from a glance!

Three-Eyed secretly thought it was bad; all three eyes simultaneously emitted Gray Fog wanting to leave this place, yet discovered Wolf Tail youth's hand had already pierced through the Gray Fog and grabbed his neck.

Wolf Tail youth's eyes flashed with a bizarre blood red: "Twenty World Stones! Otherwise I'll make you thoroughly lose the chance to stay in this world!"

"You're just a newcomer who just arrived, how do you know the knowledge that dying in this world leads to exile! This knowledge clearly requires four hundred World Stone scrolls to buy!" Three-Eyed exclaimed in shock. (Chapter End)