Their commission was suspicious.

However, the Breath of Soil won't let you exploit such a bug; it won't allow you to take a small piece of soil from a modified version of the Breath of Soil and turn it into a completely new one.

If it were possible to exploit this bug, the price of Xirang would have been driven down long ago.

“Then…” Yakumo Yukari opened her mouth.

"I told you to daydream during the day, so don't say anything like you want to move the World Tree to Gensokyo."

"Ahem, how could that be? I just wanted to take a small branch and see if I could cultivate a new World Tree." Yukari Yakumo smiled sheepishly.

Yukari Yakumo is certainly thick-skinned enough, but she was still a little embarrassed that her secret had been exposed so directly.

And even if you're faking it, you have to put on an act!

"Give up your delusion. If it were that easy to cultivate another World Tree, the price of the World Tree would have been driven down long ago. The fact is, apart from those World Trees that have grown to an extremely high level and might produce a World Tree seed every once in a while, it is impossible to take a branch from a World Tree and cultivate a new World Tree. It's impossible in this lifetime."

"Even if there are various coincidences and precious items are used to make that branch grow into a tree, it will only be a little bit miraculous at most." Chen Luo walked up to Yakumo Yukari, squatted down next to her, and flicked her forehead.

Yukari Yakumo wanted to bounce back, but she was buried up to her head and had no hands, so how could she fight back?

It's not that everyone who gets buried has to be buried down to their head, but the larger the proportion of their body volume that is buried, the faster they will grow.

Even if their heads were buried in the ground, the Breath of Earth would keep them alive, but Yakumo Yukari and the others still have to speak, right?

"The price of the Breath Soil must be very high, right?" asked Merlin, who was also buried.

"It's very expensive, extremely expensive. It's worth two shares of the Source of the World. Do you know what that means?"

What does it mean?

"I don't know," Chen Luo said matter-of-factly.

How could Chen Luo know what the weight of legal tender between world consciousnesses meant? Chen Luo isn't world consciousness.

But Chen Luo knew that even wealthy women like Haruhi Suzumiya's sister were furious after seeing Haruhi Suzumiya lose 0.9 shares of the World Source.

Furthermore, a wisp of Root Aura on Chen Luo's body is equivalent to 1% of the World Source, and a wisp of Root Aura can be used to bribe the Abyss Channel's consciousness to blatantly cheat Chen Luo in the arena.

In short, it's extremely expensive!

“Being buried like this does make me feel stronger all the time, but it’s so boring,” Zelrich said.

"Then why not play a simulated universe while you're buried?" Chen Luo took out a pair of glasses.

"When playing the simulated universe, you can earn gold coins in the game while simultaneously growing stronger in the outside world through the Breath of Earth. It's a win-win situation," Chen Luo said.

"...That makes so much sense!"

"But by the way, today is the free trial period for the Breath of Earth. Starting tomorrow, you'll have to pay if you want to be buried in it." Chen Luo reminded Yakumo Yukari, who seemed to have discovered a new world.

"Why should we pay you? We had all our power drained, but only 1/10 of it was returned. We used our power to support the World Tree, so why should we be charged?"

"What are you talking about? The Breath of Earth doesn't take your power. It takes your power, processes it, and returns it all to you. That 9/10 is actually a loss."

"...Do you want to hear what you're saying?"

"Tch, I knew I shouldn't have told you the truth in the first place." Chen Luo curled his lip, then sprinkled a bunch of powder next to Yakumo Yukari's head.

"What is this? Pepper powder?" Yakumo Yukari looked at the falling powder and suddenly had the feeling that she was being stewed as a dish.

"No, it's the powder produced after crushing spirit stones. I'm experimenting to see whether spirit stones are absorbed faster when they're thrown directly on the ground or crushed into powder," Chen Luo said.

"Oh, right, I've found a new excuse. The 10 amusement park coins a day are actually my labor costs. After all, burying you all takes effort. Do you think this excuse will convince you?" Chen Luo suddenly added.

"..." by Yakumo Yukari.

[Yukari Yakumo's eyes seemed to say: Can't you come up with a more plausible excuse?]

"Alright, alright, for the sake of mutual benefit, this service will be free." Chen Luo waved his hand.

Anyway, Chen Luo doesn't need Paradise Coins, and people like Yukari Yakumo who play in the simulated universe have to give half of their profits to Chen Luo for every monster they kill, so Chen Luo can get half of their profits anyway.

Although the vast majority of the revenue is used to maintain the consumption of other parts of the group network, there is still a considerable surplus.

Or, to put it another way, since the group network acquired the concept of "experience," it has been in surplus every day and has accumulated considerable wealth.

I just don't know when it will be available...

The reason I charged Yukari Yakumo and the others was, of course, because... it was fun!

“But…” Chen Luo’s tone changed.

"But what?"

“But this leaf really does cost money,” Chen Luo said after picking a leaf from a lush, green tree branch nearby.

"Don't underestimate this leaf just because it's easy to pluck from the World Tree. It's an extremely precious treasure that can help you resist the constant humanization that happens in this puppet world. It can also be used as a purification relic in the outside world," Chen Luo said.

"Alright then." Yukari Yakumo had nothing to say about this fee.

Because Yukari Yakumo has already experienced the effects of this leaf.

Ordinary people carrying this leaf will not feel cold all over when they go to the underworld.

How did Yakumo Yukari know this?

Of course, I'd like to ask the unlucky soul who accidentally wandered into Gensokyo for help.

However, since Gensokyo has now moved to the Golden Gensokyo, Yukari Yakumo is responsible for sending ordinary people who accidentally wander into the ordinary Gensokyo out, otherwise they will starve to death in the ordinary Gensokyo where there is nothing.

Chapter 1696 The World Tree Becomes the Ultimate Gold-Eating Beast!

"Wow, what kind of performance art are you guys doing?" After entering the bar, Alicia glanced to her right and was surprised to see a group of familiar faces buried in the ground.

And next to these acquaintances was Chen Luo, who was throwing something around everywhere? It looked just like he was sprinkling seasonings.

It's a bit abstract, and also a bit bizarre.

"Oh, they're getting stronger, getting stronger while lying down," Chen Luo said as he continued scattering spirit stones in large quantities.

Chen Luo just observed that whether or not the spirit stones are crushed into powder actually has little impact on the digestion rate.

Anyway, it takes 0.1 seconds to crush it and 0.2 seconds not to crush it, so there's not much difference.

You ask where these spirit stones came from? Well, that's thanks to Xiao Jiu's full support.

Furthermore, Chen Luo made a special trip to the Heavenly Realm to obtain his share of the profits from the Pavilion Master of the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion.

Chen Luo was responsible for bringing knowledge from the lower realm to the upper realm and handing it over to the Master of the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion. The Master of the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion was responsible for turning it into artistic products and distributing them. Chen Luo would receive a percentage of the profits.

This was agreed upon from the beginning.

To be honest, if Chen Luo hadn't suddenly discovered that those spirit stones could be used as tree fertilizer, he wouldn't have planned to take any of the profits.

Anyway, just keep it. The Pavilion Master of Tianji Pavilion wouldn't dare to covet Chen Luo's.

Xiao Jiu was even more generous; aside from the life-saving items, Chen Luo could choose anything else he wanted.

This includes enough faith power to turn the remaining 1/5 of the pre-civilization into puppets, as well as a large number of spirit stones.

Xiao Jiu's request was that Chen Luo must help her travel to the Dimensional Sea.

At least take a look.

At Xiao Jiu's level, it's best to eliminate inner demons and obsessions as quickly as possible.

Once the passage to the Dimensional Sea is opened, going there again will simply be a matter of requesting a favor.

Xiao Jiu saw this very clearly.

But to be honest, Chen Luo really couldn't say whether he made a profit or a loss in this transaction.

Although I have obtained so much faith power and a lot of spirit stones, if I want to reliably ensure that the teleportation anchor is put into the jar and thrown into the space-time tunnel, and that the jar appears in the dimensional sea, I still need to ask the world consciousness for help. At that time, I will probably spend a lot of root essence.

Spirit stones can be earned back, but once the source energy is gone, it's truly gone.

Alas, once the world's consciousness learns that Chen Luo possesses the aura of origin, they will absolutely not hold back. However, Chen Luo has no way to better preserve the aura of origin, because that aura of origin is attached to Chen Luo's soul.

The more primordial energy you have, the more wealth you possess. The more wealth you have, the more the world's consciousness will exploit you. The more the world's consciousness exploits you, the less primordial energy you have. Therefore, the more primordial energy you have, the less primordial energy you possess.

"...Aba aba?"

While Chen Luo was still in a daze, Alicia had already walked out of the bar through Gate 2 and stepped into the golden Earth.

Seeing this, Chen Luo picked a leaf from the World Tree next to him and handed it to Alicia.

"What's this for? A souvenir? Sue should like it."

"It can also be considered a souvenir, but it's not something you hold; it's something you stick on your forehead," Chen Luo reminded him.

"Like this?" Although Alicia didn't know why she had to stick the leaf on her forehead, she still chose to believe Chen Luo.

Chen Luo was actually quite helpless, because Chen Luo Xian's doll collection library had only been used to store dolls since it was S-level. Even after it was upgraded to SS-level, the area was expanded, but it was still used to store dolls.

And it gets even worse after it becomes SSS-class; whoever comes to this puppet world will be turned into a puppet!

The only way to stop this continuous transformation process is to directly use temporary dollification to turn others into temporary dolls.

Using the "You Are My Puppet" ability also consumes Chen Luo's magic power, and Chen Luo cannot maintain it at all times.

Now things are much better, we have the World Tree.

As the saying goes, poisonous creatures will always have a natural enemy within seven steps (it's hard to say if this is true). The World Tree, which grows in the world of dolls, has leaves that can resist this dollification.

Its purifying effect can also be used for other purposes, such as resisting inner demons and fighting off forces that invade the body.

So Xiaoshi doesn't really like this leaf.

But there's nothing Chen Luo can do about this.

Fortunately, Xiao Shi's composition is quite complex, not just inner demons, otherwise Xiao Shi would have already fought with the World Tree.

Xiao Shi is really capable of doing something like this...

Chen Luo himself has even less to worry about, as his background is even more complicated than Xiao Shi's.

However, when Alicia came into this world, Chen Luo still gave her the title "You are a doll".

Because Alicia has always lived in the Paradise of the Past, although there are some subtle differences between her essence and the memory body, she is indeed unable to leave the Paradise of the Past.

So Chen Luo was wondering whether he should create a body for Alicia and the others.

"Would you like to try it out?" Chen Luo invited Alicia.

"Huh? Lolo, we're such good friends, and you actually want to bury me?" Alicia looked somewhat surprised.

"I've already said, this is just a way to get stronger while lying down," Chen Luo reiterated.

“However, due to the special nature of your physique, you probably won’t feel stronger, but you should feel very comfortable, at least more comfortable than soaking in a hot spring,” Chen Luo said.

"real or fake?"

"Of course it's true."

The essential pursuit of living beings is evolution, and the 1/10 of energy returned by the Breath of Earth is enough to nourish the World Tree, making it an exceptionally high-level resource.

It's not difficult to trigger evolution through this energy feedback.

However, since the purpose of the Breath of Earth is not to enable these people to evolve, but to enable them to maintain their vitality and provide more energy to the World Tree, they are comfortable, but their evolution speed is not high.

If the Breath of Earth could return all its energy, its evolution speed would be unimaginable. However, even Chen Luo, the owner of the Breath of Earth, cannot control it; this is the underlying setting of the Breath of Earth.

But this is still better than sitting in meditation all day long. Although the quantity is not high, the quality is high.

This is especially true for those who have reached the point of no further advancement.

And so, Alicia was also bewitched by Chen Luo, and then she jumped into the pit that Chen Luo had dug.

"Phew..." Chen Luo wiped his sweat, then looked at his acquaintances who had been buried with satisfaction.

There's a strange sense of accomplishment in it.

Just like the cabbages that have been planted have grown up.

"So, Othinus, are you going to give it a try or not?" Chen Luo asked, holding a shovel and looking at Othinus, who was eating fries next to him.

"..." Euthinus remained silent.

Chen Luo could tell from the user-friendly plugin that Othinus was actually quite interested.

Although Othinus has indeed reached the pinnacle of a world and is known as a demon god, there are still differences between demon gods.

Othinus is certainly not weak, but the World Tree's energy essence is much higher than Othinus's.

Because the amount of energy a person provides is determined by the amount of energy they give back, the stronger the person, the greater the degree of energy they provide back.

In any case, Euthinus definitely didn't lose out.