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Chapter 60: General Standard of the Realm of the Spirit (Subscription Request)
After the captain left, the atmosphere in [Happy Home] instantly became relaxed.

The tall, burly black man didn't interact with anyone. He gathered up his completely alienated uniform, picked up a blood-soaked cloth bag, and walked alone to the stone pillar. His unconventional behavior instantly attracted the attention of the other five pairs of people.

The black man touched the stone pillar with a single finger. After a few seconds of thought, he untied the cloth bag, turned it upside down, and unleashed a pile of skeletal cocoons stained with green, sticky blood. There were at least 30 of them, tumbling to the ground. Among them were several mummy palms.

"hiss……!"

Seeing this, Lu Rang took a deep breath and was filled with awe. He remembered clearly that the Black Butcher had gone his separate ways when he left the inn and did not even attend the Buddhist ceremony.

Therefore, the opponent was alone, without any teammates to assist him (he could hold his thighs in his arms), and he slaughtered at least 30+ "Crazy Eggplants" and a small number of zombies in just half a night?
Meng Xiyue, who was sure that the other person was just an ordinary person without any trace of extraordinary power, also praised him: "What a ruthless person!"

He had fought his way through the world with nothing more than a uniform, a bone-chopping knife, the cover of night, and his race's stealth talent. He was a true butcher, indeed.

Zhou Chu narrowed his eyes and began to record the other person's characteristics, labeling him as a "murderer" in his heart.

He was originally just an ordinary butcher in Running, perhaps able to suppress his inner demon. But when he was summoned into the bubble world by the "Mao Mao Wang", tasted the taste of slaughter, and even used his blood to feed a uniform, he was probably destined to embark on a path of killing, eventually being polluted and eroding his rationality, turning him into a criminal! A murderous maniac!
I don't know what Huotuo Luo did, but all the Skeleton Demon Cocoons and Mummy Palms were taken away. Afterwards, without exchanging anything for anything, he returned to his private bedroom, carrying the Bone Chopping Knife. Apparently, he had returned to his spirit realm.
Lu Rang's eyes widened with envy, and he said, "Let's go check it out! The captain gave me 400 points. Sister Chu and Mengxi, you know a lot, so please help me decide which training route I should choose to ensure both combat effectiveness and safety."

Meng Xiyue nodded enthusiastically upon hearing this. "Okay, I'm well-read and I won't cheat you. Yuan Zhu, will you come? In return for the gold you gave me, I'll create a personalized enhancement route just for you."

Yuan Zhu shook his head and refused: "No need. My uniform is enough for now. I have to fully understand the various systems and make a choice after careful consideration."

Zhou Chu greatly admired Yuan Zhu's mindset. "This approach is absolutely correct. Keep it up and don't be misled by her. The Headthieves are cunning and deceitful, treacherous and loyal, and untrustworthy. You must carefully choose a legal system that is both controllable and secure. This is responsible for your own life."

The investigator, as usual, instilled her unique anti-fraud philosophy into her teammates. In a nutshell: mindlessly reject all temptations, give up thinking, and you won't be fooled.

"Hey, don't slander me out of thin air." Meng Xiyue was displeased. What do you mean by cunning and treacherous, or treacherous and loyal?
Zhou Chu looked at her bulging backpack, then fixed his gaze on her smooth neck and jokingly said, "So, you're planning to cut off your own head?"

"Hmph, you rigid and dogmatic Law School know nothing about the affairs of the Knowledge School. Lu Rang, come on, I'll pick out a heaven-defying ability for you. I guarantee you'll kill your way through the bubble world, and from now on, whenever you encounter Mengxi, you'll transform into a dragon."

Meng Xiyue is full of fighting spirit and can't wait to enhance the guinea pig with the fastest speed and the most cost-effective configuration to prove it to everyone.

Lu Rang followed her with a nervous look on his face, not daring to refuse, nor wanting to refuse.

After all, apart from this Taixi university student, the only other member of the team who was knowledgeable and could offer him advice was another Taixi investigator. The rest of the team couldn't help him.

As a reserve member of a low-ranking midnight biker, he is naturally afraid of the Security Bureau and is more willing to listen to college students.

Because a university degree on Duling Star is more valuable than a PhD on Earth.

There's no further career path beyond the "undergraduate" level. There's no such thing as graduate students or doctoral students; everyone is just called a "scholar." Only those working in academia are called "professors."

Everyone walked towards the stone pillar, while Yuan Zhu slowed down, opened the small black bag given by the captain, and poured out ten black coins from it. The material of metal seemed familiar.

One side of the black coin was engraved with an intricate and ornate flower, and the other side was engraved with the number 72. He couldn't figure out what the two meant. The moment the black coin fell into his palm, Yuan Zhu understood their purpose.

The essence of these black coins is a key. After returning to the world of the Duling spirit, no matter where you are, as long as the nearby space is not anchored and locked, you only need to spend one coin to return to the [Happy Home].

This was what the captain called interspatial smuggling. Ten coins could be returned ten times, enough to contact the buyer in the real world, clarify their needs, and complete the purchase from the Gods' Dimension.

In addition to the basic function of the key, the coin can also open the "Gods Space High-end Encrypted Hidden Transaction Mode" outside the [Happy Home].

There is not only [Maomao Wang] in [Space of Gods], there are other teams as well. They have different natures and purposes, but they can trade on the same platform.

So someone took the lead in creating a high-class small circle, using coins as a threshold fee to screen out poor newcomers like Lu Rang, and making a profit from ticket sales.

Furthermore, coins could be used to issue bounties. Just like the wanted spirit criminals the captain mentioned, they were afraid to return to the mortal world, or even to enter the spirit realm, so they issued bounties, assigning newcomers like Lu Rang to run errands and purchase contraband.

If you are not careful, you will be killed in the real world. This is what is called: people die for money and birds die for food.

Besides these ten coins, the remaining 10 points were intangible, stored in his account and displayed by touching the stone pillar. Yuan Zhu quickly stepped forward, found a deserted side, and reached out to press it. The next moment, an illusory conceptual screen emerged in his mind, completely different from the soul program of the [Immortal Scripture]. It was more like a special spiritual power manifesting, transcending words and language, allowing anyone to understand the message.

The information projected by the stone pillar is simple: the exchange list of the Gods' Space and the communication platform.

The former is divided into two parts: [Gods Space] and [Happy Home], one large and one small. Redemption at the Space listing requires full price; purchases at Happy Home are 20% off.

As for the communication platform, most areas were hidden, requiring coins to unlock. The limited information that remained was either about issuing bounties, purchasing extraordinary materials, bartering, or trading intelligence.

Yuan Zhu ignored the communication platform and focused his attention on the official exchange list. The list showed him two areas: [General] and [Species].

The words above that were blurred and not displayed due to insufficient strength. Just by simply browsing the list, he understood the meaning of "Fan" and "Zhong".

[Fan] refers to ordinary people and the mundane. From the spotless newborn to the frail elderly with extremely high deflection, all are [Fan].

Those practitioners who actively accept a certain type of pollution, step into the extraordinary realm, and master extraordinary powers are still classified as [ordinary].

Through the information preserved in the stone pillars, Yuan Zhu learned that the power systems or pollution sources in the Duling world were diverse. Each had its own level standards, independent and incompatible, with unique promotion rules and realm judgments.

It is difficult to compare and measure power systems with each other, and there has long been a lack of unified standards for strength and weakness.

In the end, people developed a set of standards for measuring strength by summarizing the special natural reactions caused by the strong people from different systems in the spiritual world.

[Species] is the first symbol, the first level.

After officially entering any system, one deeply integrates their spirit and life with the polluting energy, controlling and taming the "polluting power" to form the "foundation" of the system, which is called the "seed". It is similar to the "foundation building" in immortal cultivation novels.

As a practitioner, one can clearly sense that a certain core essence of oneself has merged with the source of pollution, becoming a seed, taking root in the flesh and soul, beginning to take root and sprout, creating one's own skill tree.

To the outside world, or the Duling Planet, if a person with abilities at this stage is killed, the "seed" in their body will not dissipate, but will spontaneously gather and condense, plundering all vitality and soul, and becoming a "true seed" that can be collected and reused.

Whether used as a promotion elixir under the same system, or made into equipment and traded as equivalent currency, it is very good.

This peculiar phenomenon of 'spontaneously condensing power seeds after death' is the origin of the level of [seed].

It has nothing to do with whether you have gathered a seed of power within you and successfully established your foundation. Outsiders don't care whether you have a future or potential, they only care about killing you and harvesting a seed to trade.

The next level after [species] is called [gate].

When a practitioner's strength breaks through to another level, the 'ascension mechanism' will be triggered, and he will be repelled by the spirits into the spiritual realm.

The weak often ascend once, escaping into the spirit world, and it is difficult to return. Even if they are lucky enough to stay in the human world, they still have to endure the repulsion of ascension at all times, and if they are not careful, they will be passively shattered by the void.

The [Gate] is the second supernatural phenomenon triggered by a truly powerful being. Without any deliberate effort, they can spontaneously condense a [Gate] within their own supernatural system, connecting them to the spirit world, allowing them to freely enter and exit the real world and alternate time and space.

If the weak become strong, they will be repelled from the Ascension. However, the truly strong will passively condense a door, returning to the scene for a limited time. In the Immortal Cultivation Universe, this means frequent and free passage between the two realms.

"What a weird standard for measuring strength!"

Yuan Zhu thought it was reasonable to equate [seed] with [foundation building]. But no matter how he looked at it, this [door] had nothing to do with [golden elixir].

"So, my current human body is obviously of the [mortal] level. But what about the Tiger Demon?" Yuan Zhu does not have the obvious feeling of condensing a [seed], nor does he have the passive feeling of condensing a [door], so what level is the Tiger Demon?
"This universal standard is not universal at all."

Xiao La Tiao encouraged him, "This is because you are the only one, Boss! Unique! You are not bound by ordinary standards at all. No one can define you!"

(End of this chapter)