"Um... City Lord Bai Jie, are these blood煞 crystals enough?"
Lin Bei asked.
"Enough! More than enough! Hahaha—"
Bai Jie laughed heartily: "In the past, it would take me seven or eight years to obtain this many blood煞 crystals! Beiming, you've truly given me an enormous surprise!"
"Don't worry, I'll take all these blood煞 crystals!"
"The price will definitely be fair!"
Hearing this, Lin Bei narrowed his eyes and smiled, saying, "You don't need to pay. Bailing is my friend, and you are her uncle. Consider these blood煞 crystals a gift from me."
"No, no, no, that won't do! Business is business. These blood煞 crystals are extremely important to me. Since you've helped me so much, I can't be stingy either!"
"Tell me what you need. I will do my best to help you achieve it within my capabilities."
Bai Jie said with a serious expression.
Seeing this, the smile on Lin Bei's lips brightened a little: "In that case, I won't stand on ceremony. I currently need two things."
"Tell me."
"First, I need prestige points."
"Second, I need a large amount of star stones."
Lin Bei asked, "Does City Lord Bai Jie have any ideas?"
"This... let me think."
Hearing this, Bai Jie frowned slightly.
After a moment, he slowly said, "I can handle the prestige points. But star stones... I hear that item is a resource from the Survivors' world, and I don't have many."
"However, I can impose a tax on them and make them hand over star stones."
As Bai Jie spoke, a cold smile appeared on his lips: "They can use blood煞 crystals to manipulate me, and I can use taxation to target them."
"These matters are originally permitted by the rules."
"So you don't need to worry; I will keep an eye out for star stones for you."
"Thank you, City Lord!"
Hearing this, Lin Bei cupped his hands toward Bai Jie in thanks.
"Don't be polite, we are just helping each other out."
Bai Jie waved his hand and said, "By the way, do you only need prestige points and star stones? If it's just these, it doesn't compare to the large amount of blood煞 crystals you gave me."
"I don't have any other requests for now."
Lin Bei shook his head and said, "If I had to say, I also plan to open my own shops in the major main cities to exchange resources."
"Hmm, that's no problem. I'll choose the best location for you when the time comes!"
Bai Jie nodded without hesitation.
But soon, he frowned again and said, "As for opening shops in other main cities, I can only help you out with a few City Lords I have a good relationship with. For those I don't know well... I can't help."
"It's alright, just do your best."
Lin Bei said with a smile, "If push comes to shove, I still have some specialty crystals from other main city regions in my hands that I can trade with them."
"What?! You also have elemental crystals that are specialties of other main cities?"
"Yes, I do."
"How many?"
"Just a little bit."
"Uh..."
Hearing this, Bai Jie hesitated to speak.
He really wanted to know if the "little bit" the other party mentioned was a literal "one" bit, or a "hundred million" bit.
A single character difference makes a world of difference.
"Compared to the blood煞 crystals you brought out, is it more or less?"
"Well... it's about the same. Some are a bit more, some are a bit less."
Lin Bei answered truthfully.
Silence descended upon the hall once more.
After a moment, Hei Feng finally couldn't help but speak.
"Um... Esteemed Son-in-Law, look... do you have any spare shadow crystals? Like my Big Brother, I also have a great need for crystals. If possible..."
"Sorry, I did obtain quite a few shadow crystals before, but as you know, I need this stuff too, so I practically absorbed and Refined all of them."
Hearing this, Lin Bei showed an expression of regret and spread his hands: "If you need them, I only have less than a hundred blocks right now, but I can give them all to you."
"A hundred blocks? That works! That's quite a lot!"
When Hei Feng heard this, his eyes first lit up, but after turning his head and seeing the mountain of blood煞 crystals piled up beside him, he became somewhat depressed.
In the past, a hundred shadow crystals would have been enough to keep him awake all night with excitement!
But now... it really proves that comparison is the thief of joy.
"By the way, if you have extra crystals in the future, can you trade them to me?"
Suddenly, Hei Feng had an idea and looked at Lin Bei with anticipation.
Lin Bei heard this and immediately nodded: "I can."
"Hahaha, that's great!"
Hearing this, Hei Feng immediately grinned and laughed: "Don't worry about anything else, but if you are willing to trade the specialty crystals from the major main city regions with the local City Lords, they will definitely be willing to give you the best locations to open a shop!"
"Speaking of which, we Reborn Ones who have reached the extreme are just one final step away!"
"Once we successfully break through, we can advance and become ■■■. At that time... we can directly enter the Sanctuary and truly... come back to life."
Hei Feng said with an excited expression.
Lin Bei, however, frowned upon hearing this.
He dug his ear, confirming that he hadn't heard the name of the advanced rank mentioned by the other party, and couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.
He seemed to have... heard the name "Sanctuary."
If he remembered correctly, the first time he heard the word Sanctuary was from "Da Hei."
It is said that his Great Dark Heaven came from the Sanctuary.
"Huh, doesn't this mean that Da Hei was once a Reborn One?"
"But that doesn't seem quite right. If he had already taken that step before, his Combat Power should be very high. But listening to him brag earlier... it seems his main body only had fifty million Combat Power, right?"
"That kind of strength, in this King-Level Dungeon World, barely reaches the threshold of City Lord-level strength. It doesn't quite add up."
Many mysteries arose in Lin Bei's heart, leaving him completely puzzled.
"Forget it, I'll just ask Da Hei directly later."
"Trying to guess about this matter is just a waste of time."
Soon, Lin Bei stopped letting his imagination run wild and began asking Hei Feng about his doubts.
He hadn't forgotten the purpose of his trip.
"City Lord Hei Feng, I have a question I want to ask you."
"Please go ahead."
"Can a person repeatedly use an Shadow Scroll to continuously refresh the same Shadow Ability they learned?"
"Ah? That question... is a bit strange."
"Is it possible?"
"Hmm... it should be impossible."
Hei Feng frowned and explained, "A Shadow Ability is a scroll for learning a single, fixed ability. Each type of scroll can only be used once by each person."
"However... if you want to increase the level of your Shadow Ability, there are other ways."
"What way?"
"In this world, there are some special items that can be used to strengthen abilities. As long as you obtain those enhancement items, you can strengthen your Shadow Ability."
Hei Feng said seriously: "However, this kind of item is extremely rare. I heard that someone once killed a World BOSS and obtained a similar item."
"But the World BOSS is powerful. Even if the City Lords of our thirty-six cities join forces, we can only barely fight it to a draw."
"What's more, even if the World BOSS is truly killed, the spoils it drops... are unknown."
"So you probably need to look for other avenues."
"However, if you can provide a large number of elemental crystals, I can guarantee that the other City Lords would be willing to help you deal with the World BOSS!"
"If you have the need, you can certainly try."
"Speaking of which, the City Lords of the thirty-six cities haven't joined forces simultaneously in over a hundred years."
Hei Feng said with emotion.
Lin Bei heard this and nodded silently without speaking.
It seems this World BOSS... needs to be eliminated as soon as possible.
As for inviting other City Lords to help?
Lin Bei had no interest in that.
He alone was enough!