Even though they didn’t travel too fast on the return journey, they still made it back to the Holy City after fifteen days. Long Haochen gave his companions an extra three days to rest. On the morning of the fourth day, he called everyone to the living room on the first floor of the villa.

“So comfortable, it would be great if it could always be like this,” Lin Xin said with a satisfied sigh as he lay on the wide, comfortable sofa.

His flowing hair was gone, making him look much more energetic. Some short, dark green stubble had grown out, making it look like he was wearing a green hat… Sima Xian chuckled beside him, “Hey, Doctor, did you take your medicine today?”

Lin Xin’s expression immediately stiffened. “You’re the one taking medicine, you bald idiot.”

Chen Ying’er and Wang Yuanyuan couldn’t help but giggle beside them.

Han Yu said, “Okay, stop it. Captain, what’s the plan after this?” Although he was just Long Haochen’s squire knight, he was among the strongest in the team. He was also the oldest in the group, and after shedding his previous arrogance, he appeared more mature and truly understood the essence of a guardian knight.

Long Haochen smiled and said, “We encountered many dangers on this trip to Zhennan Pass, but thanks to everyone’s efforts, we also gained a lot. However, we’ve all just obtained our Spiritual Stoves or synthesized Spiritual Stoves, and we need time to adjust. We need to continue the trials of the Eternal Tower. First, everyone should raise their inner spiritual power to the upper limit of 5,000. Then, we’ll try to completely clear the remaining levels of the first floor of the Eternal Tower. Hopefully, there will be more methods to directly increase our spiritual power in the future. Once we clear the rest of the first floor, I believe everyone’s abilities will be well-integrated. Then, we’ll advance to the Marshal rank and continue to complete new missions.”

The others nodded in agreement with Long Haochen’s words. It could be said that the past year had been the fastest period of improvement in their cultivation. Especially inside the Eternal Tower, the speed of spiritual power increase could be described as a leap. Without the experience there, their spiritual power would never have reached 4,000 in such a short time, let alone break through to the sixth rank.

It should be known that the average age of a sixth-rank powerhouse in the Alliance is thirty-seven years old, while the average age of their General-rank Demon Hunt Squad Twenty-One is less than twenty! Cultivating at this rate, they are bound to become eighth-rank powerhouses based solely on their age advantage. As for whether they can break through the ninth-rank bottleneck, no one can say for sure. But with their talent, the ninth-rank bottleneck might not be able to hold them back.

“If everyone has no objections, then we’ll prepare to enter the Eternal Tower for training,” Long Haochen slowly stood up, the smile on his face gradually disappearing, replaced by a solemn expression.

“Captain, wait a moment. Holy Knight Commander said to have you go see him today,” Han Yu said to Long Haochen.

“Ah? Grandmaster wants to see me? Do you know what it’s about?” Long Haochen asked with confusion.

Han Yu chuckled and said, “It should be good news. Didn’t we contribute five Nether Dragon Clan magic crystals to the Priest Temple and the Alliance? Grandpa should be rewarding us with merits. After all, they can’t take our stuff for nothing!”

“Rewarding merits?” As soon as he heard this, Lin Xin immediately jumped up from the sofa, his eyes wide open, his pupils seemingly turning into the shape of gold coins.

Han Yu said unpleasantly, “Look at your lack of ambition. Do you even know how many merits a Nether Dragon Clan magic crystal is worth?”

Lin Xin rubbed his hands and chuckled, “I don’t know, but I can guess! That’s a ninth-rank magical beast’s magic crystal, and from the Demon God Emperor’s clan. One should be worth at least 100,000 merits. Hehe. Looks like we’re not far from legendary equipment.”

“100,000? It won’t be that much, right?” Even Long Haochen was moved by this.

Lin Xin puffed out his chest and said, “Why not? That’s a ninth-rank magic crystal! Boss, why don’t you try selling one to see. This thing is a rare treasure. I’m underselling it with 100,000 merits.”

Sima Xian chuckled stupidly, “Then we contributed five, wouldn’t that be 500,000 merits? That’s awesome.”

Long Haochen was also a little impatient, “Don’t get your hopes up too high. Although the Alliance doesn’t know I brought you into the Dream Paradise, Cai’er and I also completed the synthesis of our Spiritual Stoves inside, so we’ve gained quite a bit of benefits. They might not give us that many rewards. Lin Xin, what you said about the ninth-rank magic crystal just reminded me. How about this, you, Yuanyuan, and Sima, you three go to the trading center and do two things. One is to find the kind of spatial attribute crystal suitable for embedding in Yuanyuan’s Titan Shield. If there is one, consider exchanging it for magic crystals or buying it with merits. The other is to find an alchemist master and ask if it’s possible to replace one of the magic crystals in Sima’s Orb of Radiance with the Nether Dragon’s magic crystal.”

Hearing him say this, Wang Yuanyuan and Sima Xian’s eyes lit up. Especially Sima Xian, his Orb of Radiance could definitely replace the internal magic crystal. Although Wang Yuanyuan had hope in her heart, her spatial crystal was indeed difficult to find, but there were many good things in the Demon Hunt Squad trading center. Maybe they could find one if they asked around.

Chen Ying’er cheered, “I’m going too, I’m going too.”

Han Yu smiled and said, “Captain, then I and the Vice-Captain will go to Grandpa’s place with you.”

“Okay, then we’ll split up.”

The seven people split into two groups, Long Haochen and his companions went to the Saint Alliance Executive Hall, while Lin Xin’s group went straight to the Demon Hunt Squad trading center.

One hour later.

Lin Xin, Chen Ying’er, Sima Xian, and Wang Yuanyuan returned to the villa in disappointment.

As soon as they entered, they saw Long Haochen, Cai’er, and Han Yu sitting on the sofa waiting for them. Moreover, these three didn’t look too good either. The atmosphere in the hall seemed a little gloomy.

Seeing Lin Xin’s group return, Long Haochen raised his head and said with some depression, “How was it?”

Lin Xin said helplessly, “Let them say it themselves.”

Sima Xian said with a bitter smile, “Mine has a chance. The alchemist master at the mission center said that if the core of the Orb of Radiance is changed to the Nether Dragon magic crystal, it can be upgraded to the level of a legendary weapon. However, simply adding the magic crystal is not enough. There must be a good enough spiritual power conducting metal and many rare materials. Not counting the money for the alchemist master, it will cost more than 100,000 merits. That number is too terrible. Buying a very good legendary equipment generally costs only ten to twenty thousand merits.”

Long Haochen turned his head to look at Wang Yuanyuan and asked, “What about you?”

Wang Yuanyuan shook her head and said, “There is no such thing as a spatial silver crystal at the trading center. It is said that a Saint Alliance auction house has appeared. But it must be a sky-high price. At least a million gold coins. How can we have so much money!”

Chen Ying’er muttered aside, “It’s really starting out happy and ending up sad. I originally thought we had a little confidence, but now it seems we are still far from enough! Captain, let’s take on more missions. The stronger the strength, the more merits are needed to exchange equipment.”

Long Haochen indifferently turned his attention to Lin Xin, “Lin Xin, come here.” As he spoke, he showed the merit badge on his left arm.

Lin Xin walked up to him and attached his merit badge to it.

A faint golden light flashed, and the two completed the transfer of merit.

At the beginning, the expression on Lin Xin’s face was still as depressed as before, but soon, his depression became stiff, and his originally not-small eyes quickly widened, and he was still murmuring something in his mouth.

“This, this is. One, two, three, four, five…”

Wang Yuanyuan asked suspiciously, “What are you doing, Doctor? Does the Captain have to count the merits one by one when he transfers them to you?”

“Don’t bother me, I’m counting zeros.” Lin Xin’s words shocked everyone.

Need to count zeros, what level of number is this?

“One one, six zeros. How much is this?” After the merit transfer was completed, Lin Xin raised his head, looking at his partners with a dull look, and asked a very silly question.

Sima Xian subconsciously said, “One hundred thousand?”

“Bah. How did you learn arithmetic? Did you learn it from a priest? That’s one million, okay.” Chen Ying’er said with disdain.

One million? When these three words came out of her mouth, Lin Xin, Sima Xian, and Wang Yuanyuan instantly petrified.

The atmosphere in the entire hall also suddenly became strange.

Sima Xian exclaimed, “Boss, did you rob the Demon Hunt Squad mission center? One million merits, God!” There is no doubt that this is definitely an astronomical figure for them.

Long Haochen said with a wry smile, “Rob? I have to have that strength.”

Lin Xin still asked with an unbelievable face, “Boss, are you saying that this one million merits are really ours? The reward given to us by the Holy Knight Commander?”

Long Haochen silently nodded his head, and a sly smile finally appeared on his face. Han Yu and Cai’er also smiled in unison. Obviously, the previous gloomy atmosphere was deliberately pretended by them, or rather, they were also digesting the surprise, no, the ecstasy, brought by this one million merits.

“Ah—” A piercing scream instantly resounded in the villa. Lin Xin was the first to cheer, followed by Wang Yuanyuan and Chen Ying’er who suddenly erupted with the screams that only girls have, and Sima Xian foolishly grabbed Lin Xin’s hand and kissed his merit badge hard.

“One million, this is one million merits! God! How can there be so many, Boss, tell us quickly, how can there be so many. This is too incredible.” Lin Xin didn’t even bother to kick Sima Xian, and stepped forward, rushing to Long Haochen’s side, and asked with excitement and curiosity.

(To be continued)

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