Chapter Fifty-Five: Can You Believe the Value of Five Million Walking Points? [Four Thousand Words]
[Life Lamp Gem Notification: You have flawlessly slain the Golden Walker Liu Han! You have seized all his treasures and walker points (these spoils of war can be taken independently upon return, unaffected by scoring).]
[Life Lamp Gem Notification: You have absorbed the energy of Liu Han’s Life Lamp Gem! Your Life Lamp Gem’s quality has risen by one sub-tier! When cultivating in the main world, you may use walker points to freely break through to the first stage of Nascent Soul.]
[Life Lamp Gem Notification: You have acquired 232,000 walker points (total now: 740,000 walker points).]
[Life Lamp Gem Notification: You have obtained a Golden-Quality Cultivation Method—Minor Profound Heaven Technique (sufficient for cultivation up to the third stage of Nascent Soul).]
[Life Lamp Gem Notification: You have obtained a Golden-Quality Physique Card—Millennium Flood King Physique (minor damage four times, can still be damaged six times).]
[Life Lamp Gem Notification: You have obtained a Silver-Quality Weapon—Futu Azure Profound Sword (razor-sharp, imbued with Futu Sword Intent, wounds are 10% harder to heal).]
[Life Lamp Gem Notification: You have obtained a Golden-Quality Martial Art—Rhinoceros Gold Spirit Armor. Upon mastering, a layer of indestructible, impregnable Gold Rhinoceros Spirit Armor forms on your body’s surface. However, this martial art conflicts with other defensive arts and cannot be stacked.]
[Life Lamp Gem Notification: You have obtained a Fragment of a Low-Tier Demonic Artifact ×1 (consume ten years of lifespan and sacrifice the artifact to challenge same-tier walkers below golden quality, dragging them into the same spacetime for battle. The opponent may refuse, but doing so increases the difficulty of their next simulated life by one disaster event).]
[Life Lamp Gem Notification: You have obtained a Silver-Quality Wisdom Card—‘Martial Arts Genius’ (minor damage four times, can still be damaged six times).]
[Life Lamp Gem Notification: You have obtained a Silver-Quality Martial Art—White Smoke Step (mastered to perfection, movement ghostly and smoke-like).]
[Life Lamp Gem Notification: You have obtained Formation Foundation Stones ×5 (essential materials for building formations).]
[Life Lamp Gem Notification: You have obtained Golden-Quality Forging Materials—Sacred Bone Secret Gold Stone ×2 (can be forged into weapons to enhance their quality, or used as raw materials to forge golden-quality weapons, but requires golden-level forging skills).]
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A cascade of notifications, crisp and melodious, each word a delightful note. Every reward filled Lin Qiye’s soul with ease and clarity, his spirit refreshed.
Lin Qiye had expected some loot to drop, but he had never imagined twelve entire items would burst forth! Among them, no less than four treasures of golden quality!
At this moment, even Lin Qiye—normally composed and calm—could not suppress the surge of joy welling up within.
“Tsk tsk, truly, murder and arson bring gold belts!”
“Just by killing that fish-mouthed fellow, I snatched twelve treasures! Three times more than my last SSS ranking reward!”
Lin Qiye marveled, his lips curving in a restrained yet ecstatic smile.
Two hundred thirty thousand walker points—a windfall, equivalent to two SSS ranking rewards!
But even more astonishing—on that fish-mouthed fellow, four entire golden-quality cultivation methods and martial arts!
Golden-quality cultivation methods are the foundation for golden walkers—each scroll worth over a million, and even if you offer a million, others may not sell! Lin Qiye had searched the marketplace dozens of times, never finding even a fragment of a golden-quality cultivation method. That alone shows their rarity!
Yet, the golden-quality method taken from the fish-mouthed fellow was intact—enough for a golden walker to cultivate to the third stage of Nascent Soul!
Lin Qiye estimated that if he listed the Minor Profound Heaven Technique in the marketplace, it would fetch at least 1.5 million walker points.
As for the golden-quality martial art—Rhinoceros Gold Spirit Armor—its price might be slightly lower, but no less than 1.1 million walker points.
Additionally, the silver-quality martial art and wisdom card could sell for over 300,000 combined.
The four spoils alone were worth 3 million walker points!
And that’s not counting the golden physique card and silver weapon Lin Qiye intended to keep for himself.
If he sold the golden card, that would be at least another million walker points!
Moreover, the fragment of the demonic artifact, formation stones, and golden-quality forging materials together would easily exceed a million in value!
In other words, from this single kill, Lin Qiye had earned at least five million walker points!
What is true wealth? What does it mean to profit from murder and arson? This is fortune! A single sweep, five million walker points—utterly overflowing!
At this moment, Lin Qiye felt light-hearted, his spirit soaring. His lips involuntarily curved in a delighted arc.
“Thanks to having the Dao Canon, I could quickly grow to fourteen years old, then crush other walkers with overwhelming advantage.”
“If I’d waited until fourteen to cultivate, letting other golden walkers grow, I might not have taken them out so easily.”
Lin Qiye shook his head and muttered.
He had purchased knowledge related to duels. According to the knowledge, battles among golden walkers are generally extremely brutal. An anomaly like Lin Qiye—who reached ‘six divine gear’ seven years early and then swept through—was exceedingly rare!
“This is my advantage! I must hurry and eliminate the other two golden walkers within the Qin Empire!”
“Two golden walkers will provide at least ten million walker points!”
With that, Lin Qiye took out the golden-quality Samsara Physique Card and placed it in the Life Lamp Gem’s slot.
“Crack!”
The Dragon-Elephant Physique Samsara Card shattered, the card that had accompanied Lin Qiye through three walks turning to dust…
From within the card, robust blood energy surged into the Millennium Flood King’s phantom, making it more substantive. Yet only the head of the Flood King appeared lifelike, scales intricate—the dragon claws, body, tail, and spine remained quite ethereal.
“The golden card’s upper limit is high. The first-turn Dragon-Elephant Physique’s blood energy is only about one-third that of the Millennium Flood King Physique.”
“In other words, my physical strength can still triple.”
“With three times more physical strength… my combat power will rise by forty percent!”
After a rough calculation, Lin Qiye’s brows rose in surprise.
“No wonder it’s a golden card! The effect is extraordinary!”
Lin Qiye was thoroughly satisfied.
Just then—the Life Lamp Gem’s notification sounded again.
[Battle Announcement: A golden-quality Grand World Walker has been utterly slain!]
Hearing this, Lin Qiye’s eyes flashed with contemplation.
“Is this announcement sent to all walkers?”
“But it doesn’t reveal the identities of the slain or slayer—only the outcome. The other golden walkers know the battle, but can’t guess what happened. I’m still hidden.”
“But… they’ll surely grow wary. I just hope they don’t flee prematurely—that would be far too dull.”
Lin Qiye glanced toward the Hall of Asura and the Dragon-Serpent Sect.
There, two grand mines worth five million walker points each awaited!
At that moment, all golden walkers received the battle announcement.
Nine golden walkers, whether of the martial or academy factions, were struck with awe. All frowned, halting their actions as if frozen.
As golden walkers, they had participated in more than one duel, but deaths appearing after just seven years was a first. They were utterly perplexed.
“Only seven years passed, and already a duel? Even a death? Isn’t this too fast?”
“Such impatience—or perhaps two happened to be born in the same sect?”
“Probably two appeared in the same sect, and the one with higher status used elders to kill the unlucky lower-ranked one.”
“Golden walkers display genius from childhood—dying is truly unlucky!”
“Still, who knows if the unlucky one was an enemy or an ally?”
The martial and academy factions speculated.
Though they fought in teams, sensing allies required meeting face-to-face. After only seven years, aside from Lin Qiye the anomaly, none of the other golden walkers had reached the half-step Nascent Soul stage. Meeting was extremely difficult.
Thus, they had no idea who died.
Of course, as golden walkers, their pride would not falter due to a single death.
After a brief shock, their expressions calmed.
Asura Hall’s chief disciple, Chen Jie, laughed and shook his head.
“The unlucky one just had bad luck.”
“I’m the chief’s personal disciple—impossible to be so unlucky.”
“Besides, who could kill me, the chief’s disciple? Does anyone think the Asura Hall chief is a pushover?”
Chen Jie chuckled.
Asura Hall’s chief, a veteran Four-Heaven Gate powerhouse—even the old emperor of the Qin Empire was helpless before him!
With the chief’s protection, Chen Jie faced no mortal peril.
Could someone kill the chief first? What a joke!
Not even the legendary Wolf Lord could enter Qin Empire and slay the chief!
“So, I have no mortal danger. My situation is perfect!”
“The invincible path awaits me!”
“The SSS ranking awaits me!”
Chen Jie grinned, his eyes ablaze with confidence.
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Dragon-Serpent Sect!
Core disciple Wang Liu, after a brief shock, likewise smiled and shook his head.
“I am the core disciple of the Dragon-Serpent Sect in Qin Empire. As long as I don’t stir trouble, no one can kill me!”
“Could anyone possibly wipe out the Dragon-Serpent Sect?”
“Who has such power?”
“The Qin Emperor? He wouldn’t dare. If he attacked, the six major sects would unite—would even ally with the wolf tribe against the old emperor. Qin Empire is merely the seventh sect.”
With such analysis, Wang Liu smiled lightly, his features showing no fear.
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Elsewhere.
The fiftieth son of the Wolf Tribe’s young lord—Tang Song, a golden walker of the martial faction—was drinking with Xiao Can.
Upon hearing the notification, he set down his wine cup, his eyes flickering.
“What bad luck—someone died at seven years old! A disgrace to golden walkers!”
Nearby, Xiao Can, son of the Wolf Tribe’s third king, frowned.
“Let’s hope it wasn’t one of our martial faction allies—otherwise we’ll have four versus five…”
Tang Song waved off Xiao Can’s concern indifferently.
“Losing an ally doesn’t matter, after all, we have an unbeatable opening!”
Tang Song’s spirit was high, his brows dancing.
He seemed to see his own triumphant future.
He laughed heartily.
“My father, the Wolf Lord, is in seclusion to ignite the Six-Heaven Gate. Upon success, he’ll be invincible. With his protection, we can rise freely—even break through our main world cultivation and earn SSS ranking and beyond!”
“As his favored offspring, I’m sure to inherit the Young Wolf Lord title!”
“Then, the entire wolf tribe’s advantage will be in my hands! Who could rival me?!”
Tang Song laughed, draining his amber wine in bold gulps.
He tore off a chunk of lamb, stuffing his mouth, savoring the golden fat.
After Tang Song’s analysis, Xiao Can laughed heartily.
“Yes, yes, Tang, you’re right—we’re too advantaged! How could we lose? Just tell me—how could we lose?!”
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Elsewhere.
The five academy faction golden walkers also murmured to themselves.
“A death in just seven years? Looks like this battle is unusual!”
“If I haven’t reached half-step Nascent Soul, I should lay low—avoid mishap!”
Many guesses surfaced in their minds, their eyes flickering with caution.
Clearly, Lin Qiye’s premature kill had shaken them.
Still, as golden walkers, they were not overly worried. Their openings could be called ‘perfect’—as long as they matured for a dozen years, they’d stand atop the universe!
So after brief caution, the nine golden walkers resumed their own affairs…
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As for Lin Qiye…
The instigator who left nine golden walkers simultaneously puzzled and wary—was plotting even more dangerous schemes.
“Each kill gets a Life Lamp Gem announcement. Without doubt, they’ll grow more vigilant!”
“They might even flee early, so I must accelerate!”
“And I should deduce the identities of those five academy faction guys. If they’re up to no good, I’ll eliminate them!”
Lin Qiye’s eyes flashed sharply.
Ultimately, Lin Qiye was not a merciful person.
“If those five academy faction guys are of poor character, I’ll show no mercy.”
After all… every golden walker is a treasure vault of five million walker points!
Five kills—twenty-five million walker points!
Ten kills—fifty million walker points!
Fifty million walker points equals the rewards of one hundred SSS rankings!
Who wouldn’t be tempted?!
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