The developers still haven't forgiven the players.

A two-story villa on the edge of an open space.

Jiang Chen sat cross-legged on the bed in the room. He did not show up when the new player logged in.

But with his complete control over all the clay figures, he was fully aware of everything that happened in the open space.

He did not intend to stop players from reselling spiritual essence to each other.

To be precise, he was quite happy to see this happen.

Ultimately, the new Spirit Essence system he added for players, where the higher the level, the more Spirit Essence is awarded for daily check-ins, is essentially designed to encourage players to strive to level up.

If a wealthy player is willing to convert the player's efforts in the game into real-world material benefits, why wouldn't they be happy to do so?

Anyway, Jiang Chen doesn't need to give anything substantial in return.

The so-called spiritual essence was actually just a string of numbers he filled in with a flick of his finger; he was too lazy to even make a physical form of it.

As for the items displayed in the mall, you can naturally buy them.

Ultimately, those items were of little use to him. Just like the "Tiger Fiend Technique," which he originally intended to hide and let the players discover on their own, now it's something that players need to accumulate spiritual energy to exchange for.

Even if a player buys it, he won't hand it over personally; instead, he'll just leave it somewhere and guide the player to find it themselves.

Players probably won't complain about this; they might even praise the immersive experience.

Incidentally, those bone swords and spears in the shop were actually just there to make up the numbers, mainly to make the shop look less shabby.

What he truly wanted to give to the players was only the "Qingxi Manual" and the method for refining the Blood Qi Pill.

These two things are what can truly improve a player's overall strength.

Therefore, he did not set the price too high, ensuring that players could save up and collect the money.

Jiang Chen re-examined his arrangements, making sure there were no obvious omissions, and then slowly opened his eyes.

"Now that the player ecosystem is on the right track, it's time for me to make a trip to the Ministry of War."

……

Thick smoke billowed and flames shot into the sky.

Peng Zhi and Keyun busied themselves setting up three giant grills on the open space.

The red leopard's meat was dismembered and laid out on three grills.

Even so, most of the red leopard's body was still left unattended, piled up to the side, still dripping with blood.

"Come and eat! Just 1 point of spiritual essence, and you can eat your fill."

Ke Yun greeted the new players who had just leveled up enthusiastically: "You can still get Spirit Essence by signing in tomorrow, and it's top-grade ferocious beast meat. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity."

If Peng Zhi hadn't reached a high enough level, the two of them would never have been able to carry back such a large red leopard carcass.

But precisely because this red leopard is large enough, the meat yield is quite astonishing.

After removing the bones, it would probably weigh tens of thousands of pounds.

It's more than enough to feed a hundred people.

Moreover, Keyun is very shrewd; when fanning the flames, she deliberately directs the direction towards the location of most players.

The rich aroma of roasted meat is so enticing that it makes your mouth water.

Keep in mind that players will feel extremely hungry after leveling up, so they can't withstand such a test.

Even if it costs 1 point of spiritual energy, they can't care about anything else when they're starving.

Just as Keyun was saying, you can get spiritual energy by signing in every day, but going hungry is something that needs to be dealt with right now.

Therefore, this business is so good that nine out of ten players obediently offer up spiritual essence in order to have a full meal.

Dog Brother and his old buddies stood by, watching with envy, but they didn't cause any trouble.

Instead, he waited until the guests had almost finished eating, and seeing that Keyun had a little free time, before approaching him and asking, "Brother Keyun, you have a good business sense! You must have made a lot of spiritual energy this time, right?"

Dog Bro just started a conversation casually, after all, each player only has 1 point of spiritual essence.

He had been keeping an eye on the barbecue business, and he had a rough idea of ​​how many players came to eat there.

"I don't know, you'll have to ask Brother Zhi. Anyway, we'll split it 50/50." Keyun's face was full of joy at the harvest. This was much better than a college student's part-time job.

Peng Zhi took the initiative and said, "Brother Gou, let's skip the formalities. We have a total of 43 points of spiritual energy. How much are you planning to offer for it?"

Dog Brother's smile remained unchanged: "I told you all heard the price I called out earlier: 100 coins for 1 point of spiritual essence, right?"

Before Peng Zhi could speak, he preemptively added, "But we've been playing together for so long, so how about this, I don't care how you divide it, I'll just put up 10,000 yuan and buy all the spiritual essence you have."

Dog Brother's proactive price increase silenced Peng Zhi's urgency to speak.

He even felt a little like he had taken advantage of Dog Brother.

College students are shy and embarrassed to negotiate prices face-to-face.

And it was indeed a lot of money, and the two of them didn't put in much effort.

Don't be fooled by young people's nonchalant attitude towards money, casually mentioning hundreds of thousands or millions. But that's like the joke about me actually owning a cow.

This 10,000 yuan, if split in half between the two of them, would be equivalent to several months' worth of living expenses for them.

Didn't you see that Keyun was already dizzy from being hit with 10,000 yuan, and she looked like she was about to agree on Peng Zhi's behalf?

Peng Zhi glanced at Ke Yun and said, "Alright, since Brother Gou is so generous, it would be inappropriate for me to hesitate any longer. I'll transfer the spiritual essence to you right now."

After saying that, he directly brought up his personal interface and transferred all the spiritual energy to "Taoist Fifteen Dogs".

With a large sum of spiritual energy coming in, Brother Dog immediately beamed with joy: "Young man, you're so generous! You can always come to me if you need to sell spiritual energy in the future."

After exchanging a few polite words, Brother Dog and his old buddies went to the other side of the open space, seemingly preparing to continue practicing their blood circulation exercises.

As soon as the group sat down, Campus Spring Colors spoke up: "How about it, buddy? I'm pretty good, right? I didn't try to rip you off."

These guys had no trouble coming up with this money.

Dog Bro laughed twice, indicating that he appreciated the gesture.

"But what exactly are you planning to buy? That Golden Stream Technique?" Rou Peng asked casually.

"That's called 'Qingxi Jue'."

Dog corrected the mispronunciation and then turned to his old buddies, dangling a carrot in front of them: "I'm actually planning to buy the recipe for the Blood Qi Pill. Don't you guys think that leveling up by just killing slugs is too slow?"

Once I buy the refining method, I'll refine hundreds of them in one go, and we can all eat them like food.

The entire district was very supportive: "What else is there to say? Brother Dog, you can have my spiritual essence."

Unexpectedly, the campus romance didn't buy it at all: "Tch, when you were playing the Three Strategies, you put on a show to fool everyone into helping you attack Xuzhou, and now you're using this trick again?"

"Exactly, you told us to go head-to-head with the people from Da Bao Jian and King's Landing, but your alliance went and raided our base..."

As Rou Peng was speaking, he suddenly raised his hand and clenched his fist: "I will remember this for the rest of my life."