Swallowing the Stars: The Rise of Emperor Wei

In the virtual universe, above the Qianwu Continent, there are many special planes.

One of the planes is extremely large, containing a vast ocean with a huge island in the middle.

The island is densely packed with buildings, most of them ten-story apartment buildings, with a few leisure and entertainment areas, just like a city on an ordinary life-bearing planet.

In one of the residential buildings, the lights were on in two adjacent apartments.

Gao Sheng and Nan Si each appeared in their own living room.

"Ding!" The doorbell rang, Gao Sheng opened the door, and Nan Si flashed in.

"We're all joining together, and the houses we've been assigned are all in the same area, door to door, which is really convenient," Gao Sheng said with a smile.

Nansi looked around and said, "This house is so small, not even as big as the apartment building I lived in when I was a child."

The entire room consisted of a large living room, a large study, and a small balcony; it didn't even have a kitchen or a bathroom.

Gao Sheng laughed, "This is just a functional location. Do you expect to enjoy yourself here?"

The two sat down on the sofa, and Xiao Ai jumped onto the coffee table and pressed a box-like device on it.

"Whoosh!" The projection screen appeared.

"This box is the core function here," Xiao Ai said. "This place is different from the previous Black Dragon Mountain branch. At that branch, I couldn't access any of the data; I or you had to search for it yourself. But here, I can access the data, so I already know everything as soon as I came in. The only thing I can't take away is the function; it can only be used here."

There is a root menu on the screen.

"introduce"

"personal information"

"teaching"

"Task"

"exchange"

Gao Sheng and Nan Si both studied it carefully.

It turns out that the Qianwu branch of the Cosmic Mercenary Alliance in the virtual universe is called Mercenary Island. It is a place where star-level mercenaries go, similar to the Black Dragon Mountain branch, only much larger.

The entire Qianwu Universe Kingdom has over a billion mercenaries. They all hand over missions and study and cultivate on this island. How could it not be big?

Mercenary Island is divided into administrative areas, teaching areas, leisure and entertainment areas, as well as many residential areas. This is the "Glory Community," which is specifically set up for internal members. All branches of the Cosmic Kingdom are like this.

As for the administrative, teaching, and leisure areas, they are shared by ordinary mercenaries and internal members.

All internal members are assigned a residence in the Glory Community, which has tens of millions of residential units.

This shows that the Cosmic Mercenary Alliance has very few members, averaging less than a thousand per star system, far fewer than the training camp members of other forces.

In families like the Weidi family, the patriarch Pero is just an ordinary two-star mercenary; only Weidi was an internal member before.

Gao Sheng opened his personal information.

Name: Gao Sheng Wei Di

Total merits: 0

Mercenary Rank: 0 Star

Available redemption points:

Points: 0

Honor: 100,000 (100,000)

Merit: 61270

Xiao Ai explained from the side: "One point is equal to 100,000 Glory Points, and one Glory Point is equal to 10,000 Merits. The 100,000 Glory Points you received are equivalent to 1 billion Merits."

"A billion in contributions!" Nan Si exclaimed in surprise. "That's a lot!"

A smile from Gao Sheng grants him 100,000 honors, which is equivalent to 1 point. Luo Feng enters the Primordial Secret Realm and immediately receives 10,000 points.

These points, when converted to Cosmic Coins, are equivalent to 0.1 Hunyuan Units, which should be the same as the points earned by the Virtual Universe Company.

Points can be redeemed for Honor, and Honor can be redeemed for Merit, but they cannot be redeemed upwards.

"Points and honors cannot be transferred, but merits can be transferred, but only to mercenaries of lower stars, not to those of the same or higher stars."

"Do internal members also have points?" Gao Sheng asked.

"You can't get them normally," Xiao Ai said. "Only some very special missions can allow internal members to earn points."

"What mission?"

Xiao Ai said, "That's what the introduction says, but it's not available now. I guess you'll only get it if you become a one-star mercenary."

"oh."

Xiao Ai opened the other menus and introduced them one by one.

"The teaching function mainly allows you to view the schedule and location of recent open classes. Classes are free for internal members, while ordinary mercenaries need to pay for them."

"Only those realm lords who are recognized by the laws can apply to teach courses, and they can earn merit for lecturing."

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"Most missions can be accepted directly here. Only a few missions are team-based and require registration in the mission lobby. Also, internal members have a wider selection of missions to choose from."

When Xiao Ai taps the "Task" button, two menus appear.

Regular tasks, internal member tasks.

Each item is further divided into many categories such as work, combat, collection, and special.

"Look at this." Xiao Ai skipped directly to the end of the regular tasks.

"One-Star Mercenary Assessment Mission"

The text is grayed out and cannot be clicked.

There is a line of smaller text below.

"The One-Star Mercenary Assessment Mission opens once every fifty years. The next opening time is eight years and two months."

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Xiao Ai returned to the main menu and clicked on the "Redeem" option.

"Arcane Techniques"

"Weapons"

"Rare and Precious Items"

"Technological Weapons"

Materials

"Utility Class"

"Biological category"

"Other Special Categories"

It's the same as what I saw at the Heilongshan branch before.

When Gao Sheng opened the weapons category, he saw all kinds of weapons, from the second to the fifth tier, in abundance.

"Xiao Ai, do you have the Ember God Weapon?"

No operation is required; it will be displayed directly.

Of course, this is Xiao Ai's search in the background.

"The Ember God Weapon, exchange price: 500 billion merits."

Gao Sheng shook his head.

Even if his honor and merit were enough, it would be a huge loss to exchange points or honor for these Tier 5 weapons, ordinary items, and cosmic coins. 1 point is only equivalent to the purchasing power of 0.1 Hunyuan. However, the higher you go, the rarer the items and resources become, and the more valuable points and honor become.

We'll have to wait and see if they have it at a future auction.

"Take a look at the resources category."

Numerous lists appeared.

Gao Sheng and Nan Si both watched carefully.

Most of them are common cultivation resources, but there are also some rare and special resources.

The more common the exchange of merit, the less worthwhile it is.

The rarer something is, the more worthwhile it is to exchange merit for it.

However, there are exceptions. For example, Gao Sheng has participated in auctions, and many items that appear at auctions have sold for much lower prices than here.

It's no wonder that three-star clients flock to auctions.

That's normal, since you never know what will be at an auction.

"Let's take a look at the treasures in the secret realm," Gao Sheng said.

Immediately, countless images and texts appeared, and Gao Sheng saw them in a short while:

"Source Blood Crystal, each, exchange price: 1 million merits."

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"Lanko Fruit, 100 fruits per set, exchange price: 3 billion merits."

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"Heavenly Crystal, each one, exchange price: 20 Glory."

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"Fruit of Life, each, exchange price: 500 million Glory."

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There weren't any particularly rare or expensive treasures on the list, and Gao Sheng secretly guessed that they might only be visible to core members.