Chapter 919: Chapter 294: “With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility.”_4

Up until now,

he had not seen a single survivor.

“I guess I’ll never want to eat a strawberry cake again.”

Fat Long followed closely behind Chen Qiu with a slight frown, “This is too tragic, isn’t it? The most important thing is that such events happen without any warning, no matter how strong your Cultivation is, you’re doomed.”

“What if this had just happened on the Jiang Taiping Continent? Would we have ended up like those below, turned into a pile of minced meat?”

“Yes.”

Chen Qiu nodded, sighing softly without saying much more; these kinds of incidents couldn’t be solved by having high Cultivation. It was fate, and when your fate dictated such an end, no level of Cultivation could help.

It was like some people who could choke to death just by eating or drinking water–when it’s your time, it’s your time.

What he could do was to improve his Cultivation as much as possible, and move on to a higher Grade continent. After all, such chaotic incidents often occurred on lower-grade continents, and he had never heard of such things happening on a high-grade continent.

Oh, except for the First Grade Immortal Realm, where the sudden death of “Zui Hua Fu” also caused panic in the Immortal Realm. Clearly, everyone was also worried that the Immortal Realm might suddenly become contaminated like the First Grade Continent and experience such events.

When his Cultivation was high enough, he would return to Xuantian Continent and extract the people of Da Xia Country.

As for the other continents, he couldn’t afford to care that much.

There were far too many First Grade continents in this world, an astronomical number. Every moment, it seemed that First Grade continents were collapsing; it was a situation beyond saving, and moreover, he lacked the ability to do so.

…

Soon–

Chen Qiu and his group arrived at a city on the very edge of the continent. He took out the “Traction Stone” Ba Dan had given him from his bosom, and after activating it with Spiritual Energy, a flash of white light followed.

A huge quantity of Spirit Stones surged toward him from within the city.

He opened his small world and absorbed them all.

“…”

Chen Qiu looked toward the mountain of Spirit Stones piled up like a small hill in the back of his small world, each stone smeared with blood. His mouth twitched slightly, feeling that maintaining a serious demeanor was basic respect for the deceased.

But…

But there were really a lot of Spirit Stones!

Facing so many Spirit Stones, it was truly hard to not feel excited!

After a while,

he took a long breath, thinking back to his days in Da Xia Country; earning a single Spirit Stone had been so difficult. To earn tens of thousands of low-grade Spirit Stones, he had failed in Foundation Establishment 999 times, but now, these were all Mid-grade Spirit Stones.

At a glance, there were probably millions of them.

It was just like picking them up for free–as they say, there’s no such thing as a free lunch, but this free lunch had indeed fallen from the sky.

For a moment,

he no longer had the mood to reflect on anything else, and began quickly looting the Spirit Stones from city to city.

He was responsible for looting the surface Spirit Stones,

while Fat Long, Xing Dou, Shopkeeper, and the others were sent out by him to scavenge the wealth from the forces and shops in the cities, which was also a considerable amount, just more troublesome to collect.

Not as convenient as the Traction Stone.

…

“Forget it,”

Chen Qiu, after looting several cities and finding that Fat Long and the others hadn’t even finished looting the first city, frowned and pondered for a while before calling them back. Then, a torrent of Spiritual Energy surged out.

He uprooted the entire city.

Forcefully making the city hover in mid-air.

Then he flipped the city over, shook all the flesh and blood out of it, and tentatively prepared to load the city into his small world. He had never tried to fit something so large into his small world and didn’t know if it would work, but it was worth a try.

The small world wasn’t very large, and around Chao Tian Sect was a void.

Although there were limitations on width and breadth, there were none on height.

He planned to see if he could pile up the cities like building blocks above Chao Tian Sect’s head, after all, he truly couldn’t bear to just leave so many treasures here.

However…

The next moment—-

Chen Qiu suddenly froze on the spot; just as he was about to take the city into the small world, his mind received a message from the blue: to expand the small world, it would cost 1 million mid-grade spirit stones.

The small world could be expanded?

How did he not know that?

And that voice sounded somewhat familiar, wasn’t it the voice of the Artifact Spirit from either the second or fourth round at Chao Tian Sect?

It could be because he had never tried to put something so large into the small world before and it defaulted to not needing expansion.

But he also didn’t know how much area the 1 million mid-grade spirit stones could expand… There wasn’t a specific standard or anything. If it were before, he might have hesitated and considered it, as 1 million spirit stones wasn’t a small sum, and it would be quite a strain on him. The most important thing was that a slightly larger small world area didn’t have much use for him.

But now it was different!

Expand!

As a portion of the huge amount of spirit stones piled up behind the small world’s mountain turned into dust and disappeared into the air of the small world, the void around the whole Chao Tian Sect suddenly began to surge. Shortly after, the void gradually condensed into a huge expanse of land.

Barren land.

There were no plants, no flowers or grass, just barren land that seemed so infertile that even planting flowers would lead to their demise.

But it was enough.

After the surging stopped, Chen Qiu looked at the expanded area and grinned, the newly expanded area was actually not small. It was a bit larger than the area of a city, which was completely a gain.

The spirit stones one could pick up in a city were worth more than a million.

Moreover, the deep wealth within a city far exceeded 1 million spirit stones, and on top of that, he could expand the small world; the deal was still worthwhile.

The First Grade Continent actually wasn’t that rich.

He had scoured the First Grade Continent for so long, and when leaving, he had only gathered a million spirit stones. But the difference was that when he was collecting spirit stones on the First Grade Continent, he was targeting the big powers to gather from.

The targets were few.

But now it was… a total collection.

With the hundreds of thousands of living creatures in this city, as long as each person had a spirit stone’s worth of savings, that would amount to millions of spirit stones.

What followed was much simpler.

Chen Qiu crammed all the cities he had already scavenged into the small world, and now the area inside the small world had expanded enormously.

“Hey.”

Fat Long’s face was brimming with an unstoppable smile, he nudged the shopkeeper with his elbow, “You look like you’ve got something on your mind.”

“…”

The shopkeeper, his expression complex, remained silent for a long while before murmuring, “Reporting to the Great Elder, I have no concerns, just the feeling that these many enchantments might only be broken in the next life.”

“Uh…”

Fat Long stiffened on the spot, gave a dry laugh, then sheepishly said, “With great power comes great responsibility, huh.”

You can say that again.

All these cities, with the enchantments on the storage rings, the Treasure Vault’s enchantments, all sorts of enchantments, were enough to keep the shopkeeper busy for the next few hundred years, breaking enchantments city by city.

“Besides, didn’t you say before that your favorite thing to do is to break enchantments? As long as you have enough enchantments to crack, you don’t even need food or drink.”

“Ha…”

The Shopkeeper’s face was somewhat stiff and he gave a dry, forced laugh, “Yes, indeed…”