Simultaneous traversal: All Abyss difficulty.

Chapter 505 Relying on Salt Tax? Everyone in my Great Porridge Company can make salt!

Under the sphere of light, the newcomer Lin Xiaoyu excitedly recounted the benefits she had gained from this reincarnation!
"Three thousand reward points! And a C-level side quest!" She jumped up excitedly, her cheeks flushed with excitement. "This is too good to be true! I didn't do anything and just got a free win!"

As she spoke, her gaze unconsciously drifted towards Fang Yu, her eyes filled with admiration.

Fang Yu was standing under the sphere of light, his eyes closed as he searched for something, seemingly oblivious to the noise around him.

Zhao Yingkong stood quietly beside him, her gaze indifferent, but when she occasionally glanced at Fang Yu, a barely perceptible tenderness flashed in her eyes.

Zhu Wen timidly raised her hand, her voice barely audible: "I...I redeemed 'Spiritual Vision Enhancement' and Basic Mental Power Scan, using up all my reward points."

She lowered her head and twisted the hem of her clothes. "Although I can only vaguely sense the location of the spirits now, I think I can be of help in the future."

She was practically steaming with embarrassment, after all, this ability was nothing to the seasoned veterans.

"Hey! What kind of enhancement is that?!" Lin Xiaoyu grabbed Zhu Wen's shoulder, her ponytail swinging merrily with the movement. "Watch this!" She suddenly spun around three times, her skirt fluttering as she sent out a few ice crystals!
"A C-grade Frost Bloodline! Although it can only serve as a human refrigerator for now." She glanced at the melting ice crystals, "but the description from the Supreme God says that with more enhancements, it can freeze time!"

Zhang Ming suddenly let out an exaggerated sneer: "Freeze time and space? Is that all?" He spread his five fingers, and a cluster of flames suddenly shot out from his palm!
The flames strangely took on the shape of a skull.

"See that? A C-rank Hellfire! I'll unlock the Sulfur Bone Dragon form once I've accumulated enough side quests."

He stole a glance at Fang Yu's back and lowered his voice, "I'll definitely surpass him then!"

Zhao Yingkong, who was standing to the side, rarely showed an expression of being amused.

Surpass Fang Yu?

Even if you watch another fifty horror movies, you still won't surpass Fang Yu.

Because this guy's reward points have always been a mystery.
It's like he got a hundredfold bonus; this guy's reward points don't even support his strength.

"Three thousand? That's pitifully little." Fang Yu smacked his lips as he looked at the ball of light. "Let's check what the next movie is first."

Zhao Yingkong and Li Yingqi waited silently for Fang Yu's answer, while the other three newcomers also watched Fang Yu.

After a long while, seeing no reaction from Fang Yu, Li Yingqi asked, "What's wrong?"

Fang Yu clicked his tongue.

"It's been a long time since I've experienced such a simple, relaxing, and enjoyable film."

As Fang Yu granted viewing access, crimson text slowly appeared on the light sphere.
Freddy vs. Jason

"hiss!"

The three newcomers gasped in shock!
Zhang Ming's legs went weak and he had to lean against the wall: "Are you kidding me?! These two are freaks?!"

“Jason is an undead monster! A monster that can get back up even after being beheaded!” Zhang Ming’s voice trembled. “Freddy is even more outrageous! He’ll drag you into nightmares and dismember you as soon as you fall asleep.”

He became increasingly distraught as he spoke, exclaiming, "Is this even a film a human being should be in?!"

Fang Yu picked at his ear, looking disgusted. "I killed Freddy during my third horror movie."

Fang Yu suddenly turned to stare at Zhang Ming, grinned, and said, "What a coincidence, you're now in the third Freddy Krueger movie. I'll take care of Jason."

"Huh?!" Zhang Ming's face turned ashen instantly. "Then...then forget it!" He waved his hands frantically. "I heard there are side quests for killing bosses, right? You come! You come for all of them!" As he spoke, he shrank behind Lin Xiaoyu. "I'll cheer you on!"

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In the fields of the Great Porridge Kingdom, lush green crops sway in the breeze, but they are not ordinary rice or wheat.

"Master, this is the third batch of pickled vegetable seedlings."

Sun Qian stroked his goatee and pointed to the neat vegetable plots between the ridges of the field. "As you instructed, we planted only mustard greens, radishes, cucumbers, and other vegetables that are suitable for pickling."

Fang Yu was squatting at the edge of the field, using water magic to create artificial rain in a vegetable patch. Hearing this, he grinned and said, "Good! When this batch comes down, we'll serve it with our white porridge." He suddenly lowered his voice and said, "Old Sun, you said that if the people don't have enough to eat, they'll revolt. What if they have pickled vegetables and white porridge with every meal?"

Jia Xu appeared on the ridge of the field at some unknown time, his blue robe stained with mud: "Immortal Master, this plan is brilliant. If Chen Sheng and Wu Guang had even half a piece of pickled cucumber to eat with their porridge back then, they probably wouldn't have been able to start the Dazexiang Uprising."

A rare smile appeared on his usually gloomy face. "But the most brilliant thing is still the new policy issued this morning."

Sun Qian exclaimed, "Speaking of this! Immortal Master, you are truly... Forgive me for not knowing what words to use to praise you! You are the person I have ever met who cares most for the people of the world!"

At the city gate, a corner of the newly pasted silk on the blue brick wall was dampened by the morning dew, and the ink-stained character for "salt" stood out prominently.

A man dressed in black and wearing a straw hat stood in front of the notice, the hoe on his shoulder clattering onto the bluestone slab.

A pale chin peeked out from under the straw hat, and his Adam's apple bobbed violently: "Smuggled salt... legal?"

Beside the man in black clothes and a straw hat was a farmer, with a little girl sitting on his shoulders. The little girl blinked her big eyes and tugged at the farmer's ear: "Daddy, what's drawn on that cloth?"

The farmer scratched his head and chuckled憨厚ly, "Girl, your father can't read either! I just heard Old Li from up ahead say that it seems like private salt smuggling has been legalized?"

"What is smuggled salt? Why was it illegal before?" The little girl tilted her head, with half a pickled radish stick still in her mouth, and asked indistinctly.

Upon hearing this, the man in black clothes and a bamboo hat slightly raised his head, revealing a pair of deep eyes in the shadows beneath his hat.

He bent down to pick up the hoe, his voice low but gentle: "Little boy, salt is a necessity for people to survive, but since ancient times the government has always held onto it."

He pointed to the word "salt" on the notice and continued, "The imperial court monopolizes the salt industry, selling it at high prices, which accounts for more than 60% of the government's revenue. Only the government is allowed to sell salt; ordinary people cannot afford it and can only secretly boil seawater and mine salt."

"This is what is known as 'smuggled salt'."

The little girl, not understanding, asked in return, "Then why don't people do it themselves?"

"Whether it's making or selling illicit salt, if you get caught," the man in black and a straw hat made a throat-slitting gesture, "you'll lose your head."

The farmer gasped in shock and couldn't help but interject, "No wonder Old Zhang from the east end of our village suddenly made a fortune the year before last; it turns out he was smuggling salt."

The man in black, wearing a straw hat, stroked his beard: "Now that the new policy allows people to produce and sell their own salt, the price of salt will surely fall."

He looked at the lush green fields outside the city gate, his tone complicated, "That 'immortal master' really dares to touch the lifeblood of the royal family."

The little girl seemed to understand, but she held up the pickled radish and cheered, "Does that mean I can eat this every day from now on?"

A slight curve appeared under his chin beneath the straw hat: "Yes. Perhaps in a few years, not to mention the people of the world, even the citizens of this Great Porridge Kingdom will be able to eat and drink their fill every day."

The little girl asked in confusion, "Then why weren't the high-ranking officials and emperors like this in the past? What a bad emperor! So bad, so bad, sob sob! Daddy! Why are you covering my mouth!"

The farmer smiled sheepishly, "Little girl, you don't know anything, please don't take it to heart."

"Don't worry." The man in black, wearing a bamboo hat, spread his hands. "Children may speak without thinking, but since the child asked, I'll answer it."

Just as he was speaking, Fang Yu and the others, who had just finished planting and returned to the city, heard the man in the black hat say, "If the country lacks salt collection, how can it manage the country and benefit the people? Where will the army get its weapons and food then?"

Hearing this from afar, Fang Yu shouted in response, "We have no guns or cannons, the enemy will make them for us!"

The scholar in black turned around, saw Fang Yu's extraordinary bearing, and cupped his hands in greeting, asking, "What are your insights, sir?"

Before Sun Qian and Jia Xu could speak, Fang Yu quickly cupped his hands in response, "I wouldn't call it insightful, but I possess special martial arts skills, and I can provide food with a wave of my hand. Tell me, if I can solve my own food and safety problems, why should the people have to live a hard life?"

The scholar in black hesitated for a long time upon hearing this answer. After a long while, he burst into laughter: "The people of Zhou Kingdom are blessed to have such a wise ruler."

Fang Yu cupped his hands in thanks: "Thank you for the compliment. May I ask your name, sir?"

The man took off his straw hat, revealing an extremely ugly face: "I have no name, just an ugly person. I'm leaving now."

(End of this chapter)