LWGP - Chapter 184
Chapter 184: Underground
Currently, the 《Heavenly Channeling Art》 and 《Spirit Body》 were the highest-level skills she had obtained. Adding the Great Witch's Soul Compass from before and the Innocent Token she had just acquired, plus the Undead Badge, she now needed to consider a new attack system.
She didn't browse randomly; she already had a target in mind, so she capped her resource exchange at 280,000 points.
After spending 80,000 points, another top-tier skill book arrived in her mailbox—《Corpse Resuscitation》.
A skill book with a very simple and unadorned name.
Wang Jiu learned all these skills at once, which completely drained her permanent spirit energy.
Top-tier skills consumed too much spirit energy. Learning just one cost over ten thousand, so a few of them were bound to empty her reserves. However, Wang Jiu didn't return to the manor to sort through resources and recover her spirit energy, because it was time to attack Mo Jiang.
For the battle of Mo Jiang, everyone inside and outside Luoyang was craning their necks to watch. Although they had already guessed the outcome, they hadn't expected it to be over in five minutes.
Five minutes, just five minutes.
From the moment Wang Jiu descended upon Mo Jiang and pulled everyone over, to the end.
It was over in five minutes.
At this moment, Fang Cun, drenched in blood, was revived for the first time, but he was sitting on the ground, watching as Wang Jiu took the resources she was due. With a steady hand, he chose to apply to join Gobi Territory.
When the leader sets a straight example, those below won't stray. Perhaps the people of Mo Jiang had long been mentally prepared, so they all joined in an orderly fashion, with not a single person left behind.
"Lord of Gobi, before this war, the people of my territory could have left for other territories ahead of time, but they didn't. I think there's only one reason for that."
Nearby, Xu Baiyan, panting and stained with blood, looked at Wang Jiu. The latter returned his gaze with a smile. "Praising my charm?"
Fang Cun waved a hand and said, "In a post-apocalyptic world, the strong are revered."
This sentence solidified the final power structure of Luoyang City.
Zhengzhou was also a place where talent gathered. When they received the news that Mo Jiang had been annexed, they anticipated that Wang Jiu would eventually make a move on Zhengzhou, but they didn't expect it to be so soon.
The next day, Gobi declared war on Guangqu, the number one private territory under Zhengzhou's official one.
Guangqu had no choice but to accept the battle. Gobi Territory was already level 4. Wang Jiu had already poured a pile of resources into its construction, bringing it to a level 3 standard. Then, by annexing all the territories in Luoyang and fighting the Undead race, the territory's reputation skyrocketed, jumping two levels directly to level 4.
The authority of a level 4 territory was too high, a whole level above Zhengzhou's official level 3 territory.
As long as it declared war, the opposing side had no right to refuse or even counter-declare.
So the battle began the very next day. From start to finish, everyone in the Henan region watched, discussing it animatedly on social circles. The chatter of the spectating masses could be summarized in the following stages.
1. It's starting, it's starting! Quick, bring over a chair!
2. They're fighting, they're fighting! Holy crap, it's so intense! That XXX is so strong! And that YYY is such a damn dog! How are there people flying? Are those flying pets from Nevernight Territory? Nevernight is too good, coming back from the dead to give such generous gifts! But the Lord of Gobi is really generous, just giving them away like that.
3. Generous my ass. I heard that after the fight, she glanced at those twenty people and asked if they were going to return the items now that the fight was over, or if they wanted to keep them for New Year's? In the end, each of those twenty people spent thirty thousand gold to buy them out.
4. It's over, it's over! The Guangqu territory barrier is about to be broken!
5. It's broken, it's broken, it's already broken! The Lord of Guangqu is so valiant, revived with his eight hundred warriors… and then died again.
6. It's over.
7. To summarize, Gobi took an hour and a half to take down Guangqu. The numbers were about the same, but the overall strength ratio was 7:4. Gobi is formidable, with experts as common as clouds, probably due to their brutal annexation methods. But everyone is rich in resources, and their consumption alone was many times more generous than Guangqu's. Their morale was also fiercer.
What finally brought the social topics in the Henan region to a halt, plunging the entire channel into silence, was a single, strangely toned sentence from a member of Guangqu territory.
"Wang Jiu didn't participate."
In other words, Gobi, without its leader, had fought a tough battle and won against Zhengzhou's strongest private territory, Guangqu.
This news went viral, finally hitting the hot search rankings for the Ninth District. It caused quite a stir, at least within the domestic region.
In territories like Shanghai, Hong Kong, Shenzhen, the Capital, and Xi'an, people like those from Cai Market, as well as Tan Yingzhou, Luo Sheng, and Yan Guanqi, were all wondering the same thing—where was Wang Jiu?
Was her absence a move to build Gobi's prestige and intimidate the Henan region for future annexation, or was she simply busy?
"It can only be that she was simply busy. She had something more important than fighting Guangqu, something mutually exclusive in terms of time, forcing her to choose one, hence her absence."
Tan Yingzhou and Xie Jiang reached the same conclusion, but only one person could give a definite answer: Boss Cai.
"There should be an Undead race nest, a cavern, underground near Gobi." Boss Cai hit the nail on the head.
Wang Jiu had indeed returned to the sewers, descending into the abyss she had retreated from in fear that day. This time, she didn't even bring Bai Bai, sending it to fight and gather resources instead.
The abyss was pitch-black, and being underground, the air quality wasn't great. But for the current Wang Jiu, it didn't matter. After all, she had pushed her base attributes to an average of fifteen thousand.
Don't ask how. Her entire Purple Gold set was enhanced to +9, and all her accessories and badges were upgraded to Purple Gold and also enhanced to +9.
The method was simple—burn resources and burn money.
With three more Purple Gold badges and accessories, plus another set of Purple Gold equipment, the base was different. The increase from enhancement was exponential, resulting in this terrifying improvement.
Of course, for Wang Jiu, the increase in attributes was actually less of a boost to her strength than the two Order Books, Evil and Undead.
She used the Book of Immortality directly but kept the Heavenly Book because it belonged to the Light faction. With other options available, she didn't plan to use it.
But just the Book of Immortality alone had multiplied her HP, immunity, and armor several times over. She had Bai Bai hit her with a few negative statuses and attacks, and they all missed. This made Bai Bai, who had also improved greatly after digesting its resources, complain that she was more like a BOSS than it was.
Of course, the Evil Cloud Travel Book provided guidance for class skills under the Evil Order, but the Book of Immortality's function was to guide her own survivability. It didn't require skills, only the consumption of related resources and spirit power to effectively achieve a physical transformation.
Wang Jiu tried it a few times and tentatively felt it was similar to the postnatal alienation in Mist Town, which was a form of gene evolution. However, that was a drug-induced postnatal mutation, which inevitably had side effects. The Book of Immortality was of a higher caliber, guiding Wang Jiu toward a congenital, natural evolution.
Wang Jiu's current stats were: 800 HP (from attribute conversion, the Undead Badge, and the Book of Immortality), forty-eight thousand spirit power, average attributes around fifteen thousand, 800% crit damage, and physical toughness comparable to a typical Purple Gold BOSS. She was slightly weaker than the Little Corpse King, but Wang Jiu estimated that if she got the other half of the Book of Immortality, her constitution would be on par with the Heavenly Wolf Chief, which required 100 Mystic Realm Fragments to unlock.
While pondering this, Wang Jiu suddenly received private messages from several people. Xie Lu and Wang Shu told her the territory war was over and they had won.
Wang Jiu had actually already received the notifications, as the rewards had arrived in her account. Still, she replied, telling them to finish shearing the sheep, go home, wash up, and go to sleep. Then she said no more.
In the group chat, Wang Shu remarked that the recent Wang Jiu was so gentle. The members from Mo Jiang and the newly joined Guangqu, still excited from their victory, were a bit baffled—damn, so cold, not even a word of praise. This is called gentle?
Actually, it really was gentle.
Qiao Xuejing: "I'm wondering if she's used up all the uses of her Slave White Paper."
Everyone: "???"
Wang Shu: "I don't know, but I think it's a good item. What do you guys think, Liao Luo?"
The Liao Luo trio: Don't touch me, get lost!
But what on earth is Lao Wang doing? A demon king like her, who would fleece a sheep to death, actually missed out. But she won't say, and we don't dare to ask!
On the other side, only Wang Shu, emboldened by his dog-like courage, secretly prodded: "Master, Master, what are you doing? I ranked fourth among the Flame Arcanists in the territory this time."
Wang Jiu: "Chatting with another man."
Wang Shu: "???"
Master, you've got another damn dog outside? Which one? A new one?
The one Wang Jiu was chatting with should be considered an old one.
Wei Yuan: "Contacting me so rarely, do you have a way to use me?"
Wang Jiu: "Heavenly Book fragment."
Wei Yuan was silent for a moment.
Wang Jiu: "I'll allow you to act high and mighty for fifteen seconds, but if it's longer than that, I don't mind finding someone else."
Wei Yuan replied in a second: "How impressive, to have already obtained a fragment of an Order Book. But you're not using it yourself. Either you have plans for your own Order faction and don't like the Light faction, or you've already used one from the Evil faction and don't want a resource conflict, so you're looking to trade me for a fragment of an Order Book you can use."
Wang Jiu: "I'm here to do business with you, and you're specially deducing why I'm doing business with you. Are you Sherlock Holmes?"
Wei Yuan chuckled lightly: "Still so ruthless. On your end, there can't be many people you trust who have the ability to trade an Order Book with you, right?"
Wang Jiu: "Want to try?"
That woman in the distance, she could contact her.
Wei Yuan replied directly: "I hope Ms. Wang will forgive the mischievous behavior of a member of the opposite sex who uses poor wording in an attempt to interact with you a little longer. If you don't like it, I am willing to change."
Despite saying this, Wang Jiu couldn't feel any emotional fluctuation from this person—including his outrageous actions in the Mist World, like the fountain and turning an umbrella into a rose.
Some women are good at deceiving people, but so are men.
Wang Jiu: "Oh, those words of yours are what's truly mischievous."
Wei Yuan smiled and asked: "What system do you want?"
Wang Jiu: "An Evil Book, or a Book of Immortality from the Evil system."
Her words might reveal that she already possessed two types of Order Books, but she had to obtain one of them. No matter how carefully she concealed it, someone with Wei Yuan's intelligence could guess it or at least suspect it, so there was no need.
She was unwilling to waste extra effort concealing minor details.
Strength was the ultimate principle.
But she didn't know if Wei Yuan had this kind of resource.
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