The world origin continued to spread within Bone Guard One’s soul, soon filling it evenly.
Once Bone Guard One finished digesting this world origin, he would have accumulated enough energy. This portion of world origin was certainly enough to allow Bone Guard One to touch the threshold of the eternal-tier.
As for the rest, it would depend on whether Bone Guard One had the comprehension to take that final step.
Seeing that Bone Guard One had entered a state of digestion, Chen Xu left the Necrotic Dao Court and arrived in the Land of the Undead.
It wasn’t that he didn’t care about Bone Guard One; on the contrary, Chen Xu valued him immensely.
As the first great general of the skeletons and the undisputed leader of his forces, Chen Xu held great expectations for Bone Guard One.
Therefore, even if Bone Guard One failed to promote to the eternal-tier this time, Chen Xu would seek out other resources to help him reach that realm.
After all, he only had this one unique commander under his command. It was only right and natural not to mistreat him.
The moment Chen Xu stepped from the Necrotic Dao Court into the Land of the Undead and the spatial gate closed, Sindragosa let out a roar and lunged at Kunpeng in the sky.
Seeing this, Kunpeng immediately transformed into his Roc form. Relying on his extreme speed, he flickered away, dodging Sindragosa’s pounce.
“Jie! Jie! Jie!”
After letting out a strange laugh, Kunpeng opened a special spatial gate and dove through it, ignoring Sindragosa entirely.
Sensing the aura of Blue Star on the other side of the spatial gate, Sindragosa restrained her anger and did not follow. She merely spat a blast of breath into the Inverted Sea above, freezing the surface, before returning to her territory. She intended to begin processing the ten golden dragons who had utterly disgraced the dragon race.
This small interlude in the Necrotic Dao Court did not escape Chen Xu’s notice.
He didn’t bother to manage the duo of Kunpeng and Sindragosa. As the saying goes, competition breeds motivation; letting the two of them compete like this might actually be a good thing.
For instance, Kunpeng had been frequently returning to Blue Star lately to seek out the sea race. He seemed to have been inspired by something and was working on something mysterious, even going so far as to tell Chen Xu not to peek, saying he wanted to give him a big surprise.
Seeing Kunpeng so proactive, Chen Xu naturally agreed and did not investigate his mysterious actions.
However, Chen Xu still secretly revealed Kunpeng’s mysterious experiments to Sindragosa to give her a sense of crisis.
Seeing Sindragosa shift her primary focus away from the Nephalem to concentrate on those ten golden dragons—planning to use divine power to transform them into subordinate gods—Chen Xu gave a satisfied smile and nodded slightly.
The so-called emperor’s art lay in balance. The secret of a boss was not about how big a pie one could promise, but about promising only one pie and letting two or more people compete for it.
Chen Xu withdrew his attention from the Necrotic Dao Court and turned it toward the four ultra-massive gold mountains before him.
Oh, right, there was also that massive Golden Holy Dragon Egg. He decided to put the egg back into the Necrotic Dao Court for now, letting the power of creation slowly permeate it. He would deal with it when he had time.
Chen Xu hadn't decided yet what kind of undead he wanted to transform this dragon egg into.
Opening a spatial gate and tossing the dragon egg through, Chen Xu then manifested his invisible blades, cutting dense networks of cracks into the four ultra-massive gold mountains.
This exposed the dragon nests within, allowing him to extract the treasures buried inside.
Chen Xu’s mental strength swept through, finding that most of the treasures in these nests were precious metal coins and jewelry. There were also some glowing metals, which Chen Xu carefully put away.
In a transcendent world, radiation was still a highly lethal thing. Chen Xu didn’t want a bunch of skeletons with osteoporosis appearing in the Land of the Undead because he had carelessly tossed around trash.
While Chen Xu was sorting through the dragon hoard, Big Boss arrived.
The moment the God of Trade heard about a world made of gold, he had rushed back without stopping. Since he lacked the permissions of Kunpeng or Bone Guard One, he couldn't directly open a spatial gate to return to the Land of the Undead.
He had to jump through multiple teleportation arrays, first returning to the City of Miracles, and then using the Wanbao Pavilion teleportation array to reach the Land of the Undead.
As soon as he entered the Land of the Undead, Big Boss’s keen sense for treasure caused him to instinctively look up at the four ultra-massive gold mountains floating in the air.
“Good heavens! By the undead, what a miracle this is!”
Big Boss’s mouth hung open. Even though he had traveled far and wide for years, he had never seen such a sight.
After calming himself slightly, Big Boss approached Chen Xu.
“My Lord, the quantity of this gold far exceeds imagination. I suggest we release it slowly over time. If we dump it all at once, it will cause market fluctuations and lead to a price crash.”
Chen Xu nodded indifferently, his attention still on the pile of messy treasures before him.
“Do as you see fit. Also, take this pile of miscellaneous treasures and handle them as well.”
“These dragons have plagued who knows how many worlds. There are hundreds of different casting styles from various transcendent systems here alone.”
“Remember, the most important thing is the matter I discussed with you earlier.”
“My Lord, I understand. I have already established contact with the target. It is a Beast Tamer world, one that possesses several eternal-tier experts and even a Dao Lord-tier Beast Tamer.”
“They are famous for their plant-based beasts, and their world contains a vast amount of supernatural fertilizers suitable for plants.”
Hearing this, Chen Xu paused his sorting and looked over.
“Fertilizer?”
“Yes. It is said that this Beast Tamer civilization has over a hundred million types of supernatural fertilizers. The most extraordinary kind can even allow supernatural plants to be born directly in a magic-less world.”
“However, while this Beast Tamer civilization has a good reputation across the myriad worlds, its drawback is also obvious. Due to a lack of competitors, their products are quite expensive.”
“Expensive? Let it be expensive. Money is earned to be spent.”
Chen Xu never worried about money. In his view, only money that could be converted into strength was truly money. Money that couldn't be converted into strength was just saving up for one's enemies.
In his previous life, when Chen Xu was a child, he had played an RTS game. His favorite thing was mining, until one day, the ore he had worked so hard to collect was stolen by a spy in black.
From that moment on, Chen Xu had an awakening. He realized deeply that if your neighbor hoards soldiers while you hoard grain, you are just your neighbor’s granary.
“How about this: buy some first and let Zhenyuan try it. If it’s suitable, we’ll buy in bulk.”
In Chen Xu’s memory, fertilizer didn't seem like something that could be absorbed directly and rapidly.
But on second thought, this was a transcendent world where anything could happen, so he didn't bother overthinking the logic.
Besides, Zhenyuan was a Ginseng Fruit Tree, a Heaven-Earth Spiritual Root; it should be able to eat anything.
“Understood, my Lord.”
Big Boss looked at the four ultra-massive gold mountains in the sky and suddenly realized a problem.
With gold mountains this large, he didn't have a storage item big enough to hold them.
Big Boss had to search through his collection of communication tokens until he found a contact for a technological civilization. He urgently placed an order for a batch of astral mining ships to be used for cutting the gold mountains.
By this time, Chen Xu had finished sorting and had picked out a few items of interest from the massive dragon hoard.
A white jade bone, a black-and-white wooden fan, and a green jewel that periodically emitted a strange energy.
After putting these three things away, Chen Xu waved his hand, pushing the rest of the treasures toward Big Boss.
He opened a spatial gate and returned to the Necrotic Dao Court, leaving Big Boss to continue the cleanup.
Chen Xu picked up the white jade bone and sent his mental strength into it. The bone turned out to be a uniquely shaped jade slip, containing a legacy within.
“Secret treasure, the Bone Path?”
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