Chapter 393: New Gains

Ye Feng curled his lips. For such a basic level of allegiance, he would rather exchange it for over thirty supreme privileges.
Worried that Ye Feng might change his mind, the Virtual Realm projection quickly added, “I’m not joking. Actually, for some things, you can’t judge them just by their current low rank—what will happen in the future is hard to say.”
“For example, in the Second Realm, there’s a spiritual beast with the bloodline of ancient wasteland beasts. With the right cultivation methods, it can evolve at least three times to become a sacred beast. It’s also possible to eliminate redundant bloodlines and evolve into a pure wasteland beast. Similar examples exist in the Third Realm as well.”
“There’s also an extinct race in the Second Realm called the Thunder Clan, a branch of the ancient divine race, the Thunder God Clan. If they cultivate in the correct way and their bloodline evolves, they can become mutated Thunder God Clan members—powerful beings beyond the sacred realm!”
“And in the First Realm, there’s the Vegeta Clan. They grow incredibly strong naturally without any cultivation, comparable to experts at the Mahayana stage in the cultivation world. If you give them physical cultivation techniques, you can imagine how powerful they’ll become!”
“All these are resources, and they’re all given to you for free now. As you know, anything purchased from the Virtual Realm—whether people or objects—is absolutely loyal to you because you own them,” explained the Virtual Realm projection.
“Another few supreme privileges would be nice!” Ye Feng said with a sly smile.
“Alright, I’ll give you three supreme privileges—no more!” The Virtual Realm projection looked distressed. “These supreme privileges are actually the highest I can control, and the number I have is limited. But fortunately, every time I’m repaired and my capacity increases by one percent, my number of privileges goes up too. So, if you want more supreme privileges from me, help me recover sooner!”
“Hehehe… Happy cooperation!” Seeing the dialog box suddenly appear, granting him three more supreme privileges, Ye Feng felt the Virtual Realm projection wasn’t entirely unpleasant after all.
“If nothing else, I’ll send you back now!” The Virtual Realm projection said, ready to leave.
“Wait!” Ye Feng called out again. “Did you forget something?”
“Forget something?” The Virtual Realm projection slowly turned around and saw Ye Feng holding the nine fragments of the fake Virtual Treasure. He rolled his eyes. “You really won’t stop exploiting me!”
“This was something you agreed to yourself. I didn’t say anything,” Ye Feng said, handing over the nine fragments.

“Well, what kind of pseudo-void treasure do you want?” the Void Domain projection asked helplessly.
“A soul-defense type!” Ye Feng replied without hesitation, clearly having thought this answer over for a long time.
“You still dare to speak!” the Void Domain projection said resentfully. “A soul-defense pseudo-void treasure is even more valuable than an ordinary low-grade void treasure.”
After hesitating for a moment, the Void Domain projection added, “Actually, you don’t need such a thing at all. The palace of the supreme void treasure in your sea of consciousness is enough to withstand any soul attack.”
“I just don’t want people to see that I possess a supreme void treasure, nor do I want them to know I have a Void Domain,” Ye Feng said, seemingly having considered this issue long ago. “People like my godfather can see the Void Domain, and I have nothing to say about that—they’re not strong enough to compete. But if others with ulterior motives discover it, they will surely try to seize it. After all, both a supreme void treasure and a Void Domain are extraordinary things. As for pseudo-void treasures, even my elder brother can craft them easily, and he won’t even notice that I possess this one. Those stronger than him won’t try to take it even if they see it.”
“You make a good point. But there’s one thing I need to tell you—pseudo-void treasures aren’t something you can just get from a street vendor. You’ll understand when you’ve reached a level where you can fully utilize them!” The Void Domain projection crumpled the fragment in his hand. Two flashes appeared in the sky and struck the fragment. When the smoke dissipated, a black bell-shaped object appeared in his hand. “It’s done. Here you go!”
“A big dumb bell?” Ye Feng thought the design was a bit too unconventional.
“Most soul-defense devices are shaped like this because it’s the most effective shape for absorbing and resisting external soul attacks,” the Void Domain projection said expressionlessly. “Also, this thing wasn’t originally a pseudo-void treasure—it grows as your soul grows stronger. Things closely related to the soul need to be nurtured properly. If you just put a pseudo-void treasure in, even if you own it, you won’t be able to nurture it.”
“I understand. Thank you!” Ye Feng happily took the small black bell, handling it carefully like a child with a beloved toy.
“I’ll send you out.” The Void Domain projection waved his hand, and everything before Ye Feng’s eyes vanished as if it were an illusion. He found himself back in the Third Domain, as if nothing had happened.
He glanced around in confusion, and the Feather Emperor looked his way.

“Ye Feng, why have you come? Is there something?” Yu Huang looked at Ye Feng with curiosity.
“Nothing.” Ye Feng then lowered his head and saw the small black bell in his hand.
“This top-grade divine artifact is quite exquisite. It’s also a soul-type defensive artifact—such things are rare.” Yu Huang’s gaze also fell on Ye Feng’s hand.
“Hmm, I’ll be going now!” Ye Feng said before exiting the virtual realm and entering Liuluan.
“Little master, you’re back!” Liuluan and Cangqiong seemed to have been waiting for a long time.
“Mm!” Ye Feng glanced at the large screen he had been watching earlier. The battle between those dozen people and the magical beasts was still going on, but it was nearing its end. Of the dozen people, only six had broken through the magical beasts’ encirclement and killed all the pursuing beasts. Among the remaining seven, five had died in battle, and two were still being chased by a large group of magical beasts. Out of the original three hundred-plus magical beasts, only a little over two hundred remained, suffering heavy losses. Thus, they kept pursuing the two escapees.
At this moment, the screen was divided into eight sections. The six who had escaped the magical beasts’ pursuit each found a secluded place to set up formations and took pills to heal themselves.
The other two were fleeing while taking pills, with a large group of magical beasts in their pursuit.
“Sigh, reaping what one sows!” Ye Feng shook his head helplessly.
“Little master, let’s take the treasures from them as well. And you need those magical beast cores, right?” Cangqiong, having the awareness of a storage ring, had an inexplicable desire for treasures.
“Mm, you’re right!” Ye Feng smiled. “I’ll go get them now!”
“I’ll send you out!” As soon as Liuluan finished speaking, Ye Feng was already back at the battlefield. With a wave of his sleeve, he gathered all the loot and divine essences from the corpses into his ring. Then he collected the bodies of the magical beasts into the ring as well, as it would be too slow to extract the cores one by one. The few survivors from the group that had been chasing him, as seen on the screen, had hidden far away and wouldn’t be able to return in a short time.
Nearly eighty magical beast corpses piled up in Liuluan’s hall, and then Ye Feng calmly extracted the cores one by one.

“A total of seventy-eight crystal cores—these are all magical beasts at the peak of the divine level. One core can be exchanged for 10,000 points. I’ve made a huge profit this time, more than in the past few days combined,” Ye Feng said with a smile. “But those guys will probably suspect that I took them. When they ask, I just need to deny it firmly. In a place like this, if someone finds magical beasts in the vicinity, they’ll surely make a fortune and leave.”

On the screen, the two men being chased by the magical beasts eventually perished, and the beasts, divided into two groups, calmed down and returned to their nests from different directions.

“Little master, let’s take the items from these two!” Cangqiong suggested again.

“No,” Ye Feng shook his head. “It’s enough to take the items from those five. If they ask, I can claim I knew nothing about it. Then they’ll think someone passed by and stole them.”

“But if I take the items from these two too, they’ll know it must be me! With items taken from locations thousands of kilometers apart, it’s obvious someone is targeting them, and I’m the main suspect.” Ye Feng also knew not to go too far.

“Oh!” Cangqiong naturally didn’t understand such human complexities. In its view, anything useful should be taken for oneself—never suffer a loss. But since Ye Feng had given orders this time, it couldn’t say much. In fact, it didn’t even find these items valuable; it was only because Ye Feng could use them.

Ye Feng first stored the crystal cores and divine essences, then retrieved the seventy-eight corpses of the magical beasts, earning hundreds of thousands of fourth-tier domain points—though not converted into third-tier domain points this time. He guessed it was because he could already unlock the fourth domain, so the fourth-tier points were automatically stored.

Ye Feng took out the five rings from this loot and the ring of the true god-level warrior he had killed in the square earlier, examining them one by one.

“Among the six storage rings, there are quite a few that can be exchanged for domain points. Just the high-quality magic crystals amount to nearly ten million, along with several mid-tier divine artifacts, some pills, and low-tier divine artifacts. Combined, they’re enough to exchange for millions of fourth-tier domain points.”

“It seems there’s nothing really valuable!” Just as Ye Feng was disappointed, a token on one of the rings caught his attention. On the completely black token, a red character for “martial” stood out sharply.

Ye Feng took out the token. “What is this?”

At this moment, one of the six who had escaped carefully returned to the place where they had fought against the magical beasts. Seeing that all the bodies of the beasts had disappeared, his expression changed. He immediately rushed toward one of the bodies and, finding that the ring in his hand was gone, frantically searched over it. After a while, he slumped down beside the body, muttering to himself, “Without the God of War’s Token, how am I supposed to explain this back in the Divine Realm???”