Their commission was suspicious.

After all, if this happens too often, Chen Luohua's raw stones could probably buy a world-class item; there's no reason why he wouldn't get the item.

Of course, the more times he did this, the more raw stones Chen Luo obtained from Xiao Jiu.

"Next time, if there is a next time, I will definitely choose to directly use raw stones for blessing enhancement!" Chen Luo said through gritted teeth.

However, there probably won't be a next time anytime soon.

Chen Luo vaguely sensed that he only had one more chance to cheat in the near future.

Chen Luo isn't the favored son of the Dimensional Sea, so he's already quite fortunate to receive this level of kindness.

The effect of a +10 enhanced Hand of Fate has also undergone a qualitative change.

In addition to a significantly increased upper limit, the lower limit has also been raised. Moreover, it will only take effect when facing important decisions.

The number of uses also changed from 3/5 to 5/5.

Chen Luo discovered from the beginning that each successful enhancement would increase the number of available uses by 1, but he didn't exploit any bugs or try to maximize the value of this Hand of Fate...

Sometimes, once an opportunity is missed, it can never be recovered. If, when faced with a crucial decision, the Hand of Fate's maximum limit is too low due to insufficient enhancement attempts, rendering it unable to provide effective assistance, Chen Luo might regret it for the rest of his life.

Five opportunities to make major life decisions are enough.

Chen Luo glanced at the armed dolls covering his bed and gently got up.

After being strengthened to the point of shattering one's Dao heart, one naturally needs to rub a cute doll to calm oneself down.

So last night, Chen Luo took Mercury Lamp, Holy Sword, and Durandal to bed.

After getting up, Chen Luo left the third-floor attic, but this time he didn't see any customers on the first floor of the bar.

Chen Luo then returned to his home.

"You actually know how to come back?" Bai Zhi looked at Chen Luo in surprise as he appeared in Chen Luo's living room.

"???"

"Just kidding. But you really haven't been back to your main world much lately. It makes me, the A-rank bodyguard of this S-rank traveler, look like I've been staying home all the time."

"Haven't you been exploring the Dimensional Sea all this time?" Chen Luo said, sitting down on the sofa.

"So that's just how it appears to outsiders," Bai Zhi said.

"Don't you still have your affiliation with the church? Is it really okay for you to stay at home all the time?"

"I resigned."

"Ok?"

"When I was exploring the Dimensional Sea, I resigned from this position. Before resigning, I took advantage of my SS-level talent and went to the Abyss Passage to make a fortune, which I gave to the Church as a resignation fee. So when I came back, I found that the Church had removed me from the list." Bai Zhi blinked and said with some resentment.

"...It's good that you resigned. Anyway, you're not highly regarded in the church because of your Chinese identity. The only reason you didn't resign was because you were being nurtured by the church and were too embarrassed to resign, right?" Chen Luo comforted him.

“That makes sense. Fighting and killing in the main world is nothing compared to exploring the dimensional sea.” Bai Zhi nodded.

In fact, after discovering the treasure trove that is the Dimensional Sea, most of the people Chen Luo knew in the main world were keen to explore it.

The Dimensional Sea is a rich land where the weak cannot survive; its richness is irrelevant to them, but survival is extremely difficult.

While it's not a place where the strong can simply enjoy themselves, it allows them to acquire more things to expand their path forward.

The first person in the bar to want to go to the Dimensional Sea was Xiao Jiu from the main world, and the others from the main world were not far behind.

Apart from Ye Yunshang, who is a "clerk".

Characters like Bai Zhi and Su Yuan would leave a silver version of themselves in the main world before their true selves ventured into the dimensional sea.

Yunxia went to the world of Cardcaptor Sakura, while Liu Wenxuan is still fighting Dio.

However, after Kars stole the arrow and stabbed Liu Wenxuan, Liu Wenxuan also awakened a Stand. Now he no longer had to fight those Stand users hand-to-hand.

Yun Lian'er? Yun Lian'er went to the Pale Witch's magic tower for further studies; Chen Luo paid the tuition.

However, as Chen Luo's senior sister, the Pale Witch didn't ask for much. She only asked for a World Tree doll, but her only request was that Chen Luo reduce the amount of blank space and leave the last stroke for her to carve.

Simply put, it's game boosting.

The less blank space a World Tree doll has, the less valuable it is; but even the least valuable World Tree doll represents the pinnacle of puppetry.

The Pale Witch was well aware of her own limitations in doll-making skills. The World Tree doll had too much blank space, and the Pale Witch was too embarrassed to admit that she made it herself.

Chen Luo admired his senior sister for being bad at the game, playful, and unwilling to admit defeat, yet unable to learn anything and choosing to deceive herself.

Chen Luo originally wanted to say that his World Tree branches were not yet mature, but the Pale Witch directly took out a large pile of World Tree branches for Chen Luo to choose from. After Chen Luo spent an hour carving a doll, she gave him all the remaining World Tree branches.

Anyway, the Pale Witch won't need these materials anymore.

The puppeteer, upon learning of this, said nothing, only lamenting the pale witch's unbalanced approach to her studies.

The other party learned everything except the puppetry technique, but his puppetry skills were so bad that no one wanted to say anything about them.

In a sense, the puppeteer has a very good eye, but also a very bad one.

Therefore, the final title for the other party is the Pale Witch, not the Pale Puppet Master.

When Chen Luo learned of this information, he was surprised that his teacher, the puppeteer, could also use magic, and then he got punched by the puppeteer.

Witch, witch, can someone be called a witch if they don't know a few magic tricks?

After acquiring a considerable amount of World Tree materials, Chen Luo would occasionally carve World Tree dolls whenever he had free time, such as during time jumps in the previous civilization.

As the puppeteer's apprentice, Chen Luo's only valuable resource when trading with the World Consciousness was the World Tree Doll, which was extremely rare and valuable within the World Consciousness realm. Since no one suspected Chen Luo of lying, the transactions were usually successful.

But Chen Luo hasn't paid off any of these debts yet.

Chen Luo was actually considering what would happen if he used the River God's power to replicate the World Tree puppet.

However, considering the professional ethics of puppeteers, they chose to give up.

These world consciousnesses are basically aware of Chen Luo's river god abilities. If Chen Luo really does this, although theoretically no one will suffer a loss, it is hard to guarantee what the other party will think.

It's like if Chen Luo hadn't mentioned the River God's abilities, both the Dimensional Sea and the Starry Sky Railway World would have praised the cheap and fast Paradise Express delivery service. But if the other party knew about the River God's abilities, even if they understood that using the River God's abilities wouldn't affect their original items, they would still feel like they'd lost out.

Chen Luo didn't think there was anything wrong with the other person's idea, because it was just human nature.

Therefore, Chen Luo chose not to speak.

However, now that the resources for the World Tree's growth have been basically gathered, the park no longer uses the River God's abilities when conducting delivery services, especially in the Dimensional Sea.

Within the world, replicas of food are often left behind, and these foods, along with simple industrial products, are sold at extremely low prices, almost free, to those in the world who are struggling to eat and stay warm.

Combining express delivery services with the River God's abilities makes acquiring resources a quick and easy process.

However, the delivery fees have also increased accordingly.

Given the isolation of large safe zones in the Dimensional Sea, the reason why the park's delivery fees were so incredibly cheap was because of the value of the gold and silver items attached to the goods. Now that this hidden benefit has been given up, it's not surprising that the delivery fees have increased.

Although people who had previously used the amusement park's delivery service complained about the price increase, it didn't cause much of a stir; in fact, they felt more at ease.

Because delivery fees in other places are much higher, more than a hundred times higher than the fees charged by the amusement park.

Previously, when the amusement park's delivery fees were so cheap, some people thought the park had ulterior motives. Now that the prices have increased, it's normal.

It's cheap, but not so cheap as to be incomprehensible, which makes it acceptable.

However, in the later stages, the amusement park will offer a courier service not for the delivery fees, but to fulfill the recipient's "wish" to have their package delivered to its destination.

Wishes permeate every corner of the world and society; for every person who wants to buy, there is someone who wants to sell; for every person who wants to give, there is someone who wants to receive…

This may be the best way for newcomers to obtain the power of their wishes.

If both the person packing the package and the person delivering it are wish-granters, then the power of the wish will likely be split 50/50.

"Theoretically speaking, if I had chosen to work part-time as a courier instead of completing commissions when I awakened my talent, would I have awakened it faster?" Chen Luo pondered seriously.

Wake up! There are more steps involved in the delivery process than you think. The package you receive is simply picked up from the delivery station. You didn't receive the sender's wish for the recipient to receive the package. The delivery station is just doing its job; their only wish is for you to finish your work quickly.

What makes Paradise Express different is that both the person receiving the package from the sender and the person delivering it to the recipient are Wish Walkers. After collaborating, each person receives less Wish Power, but there will still be some. However, forget about large-volume delivery services; those won't yield much Wish Power.

[To acquire wish power in bulk through this kind of service, you need to look at private courier services, not general merchandise delivery services. Like Xinghai Logistics, that's where you get the most wish power, because those who use Xinghai Logistics definitely have very strong wishes. After all, Xinghai Logistics' fees are really high.]

"Hmm... No wonder those transcendent beings need to do business before they transcend to increase their speed of acquiring resources, but after they become transcendent beings, they often close down or shrink their businesses." Chen Luo said thoughtfully.

This is the norm in the Dimensional Sea: the innovations initiated by generations of those who haven't transcended, in their quest for resources to achieve transcendence, end once the other has become a transcendent. This is partly because the effort and reward are disproportionate, and partly to leave enough room for future generations to acquire resources. Perhaps that transcendent who belongs to Star Sea Logistics once used spatial abilities to deliver packages.

"..."

Once you've transcended this stage, the best place for your Paradise Adventurers, besides the delivery service available to new Wish Walkers, should be the Odd Jobs Shop. Alternatively, they could join the Adventurers' Guild and offer one-on-one hiring services.

In short, after becoming a Transcendent, their businesses either become more basic or more high-end. The former includes adventurer guilds that are ubiquitous in every safe zone, while the latter includes Starship Logistics, which you'd feel the pinch even after using it once.

After considering the humanized plugin, Chen Luo realized that after transcending, the transcendents did not completely detach themselves from the dimensional sea, but rather completely integrated into it. This often led people to forget that some very basic things were built by the transcendents.

The dimensional sea seems to be constructing rules on another level.

The Dimensional Sea seems to be playing a grand game of chess.

“It’s not like Morax, the Geo Archon, who builds all sorts of rules for his country and manages the development of the entire country himself, exhausting himself. Instead, it’s like Venti, the Anemo Archon, who only builds the framework of a country, and then leaves everything to the people of that country to solve themselves, correcting things when they’re about to go wrong, and letting himself go the rest of the time…” Chen Luo suddenly looked up.

This time, Chen Luo wasn't looking at the world consciousness, but at the higher-level dimensional sea.

"The former is the world consciousness. Because the rules of the world are already perfect, there is no room left for the world consciousness. Therefore, it can only work for countless years without any time to rest. It needs to work diligently as the Heavenly Dao, much like a chosen worker or 007."

"The latter is the consciousness of the Dimensional Sea. Countless transcendent beings actively manage the Dimensional Sea and construct its framework in order to prevent it from overturning. With the help of generations of transcendent beings, an alternative yet fully functioning ecosystem has been formed, while the consciousness of the Dimensional Sea can do nothing."

"In this case, rather than saying that the Transcendent Ones are extraordinary individuals who exist independently of the Dimensional Sea, it would be more accurate to say that they are implicit collaborators with the Dimensional Sea. Perhaps the importance and authority of the Dimensional Sea's consciousness far exceed the imagination of ordinary people."

"..."

"Your words have been somewhat presumptuous."

"Oh, so you've emerged as a world consciousness? Can I ask you a question? When was this mechanism of world consciousness perfected? Is it innate or was it developed later?" Chen Luo asked with some curiosity.

"...I know what you want to ask. Theoretically speaking, if nothing unexpected happens, the Dimensional Sea will only evolve into a larger world consciousness. Each world within the Dimensional Sea, like every living being within it, will be subject to the Dimensional Sea's arrangements, subtly fulfilling its mission and being born and perishing according to a predetermined destiny."

"The ancient behemoths in the Dimensional Sea, terrifyingly powerful, act as hunters. They are indiscriminate in their actions, causing more destruction than construction. The entire Dimensional Sea is like a complete ecosystem on a grassland—both chaotic and orderly."

"And the other beings in the Dimensional Sea can, under the rules subsequently woven by the Dimensional Sea, use these rules to outwit and outmaneuver these ancient behemoths, in a continuous cycle."

"But clearly, the final outcome was that the first Transcendent appeared before the rules were even established. Unable to tolerate the chaos of the Dimensional Sea, he began to build order; for example, those 'safe points' were his masterpiece—the following is my guess, not factual—the path of the first Transcendent was protection, because before the rules were born, living beings were indeed weak in the face of ancient behemoths. But this Transcendent's path perfectly replaced the protective rules that the Dimensional Sea should have established."

"The second Transcendent One possesses the strongest destructive power. If the first Transcendent One is the shield, the second Transcendent One is the sword. They wiped out those unbridled, powerful ancient behemoths, leaving the Dimensional Sea a river of blood... What you see now are only the weaker ancient behemoths that survived. This is also a good thing for the [World]. After all, these ancient behemoth hunters prey not only on the creatures of the Dimensional Sea, but also on the [World] itself."

"If previously the Dimensional Sea's consciousness needed to constantly check for loopholes after the rules were established, now that the Dimensional Sea's consciousness is idle, there are transcendent beings maintaining the rules to prevent the Dimensional Sea's destruction."

"And with the emergence of each transcendent being, the Dimensional Sea's consciousness can become increasingly at ease. After all, anyone who wants to destroy the Dimensional Sea must first get past the transcendents. Moreover, the Dimensional Sea's consciousness isn't worried at all about being replaced by a transcendent. This is because a transcendent could indeed use their authority as the strongest authority in the world, achieving the feat of substituting their own will for the will of Heaven, and replacing the Dimensional Sea's consciousness. But the problem is that such a 'Heaven' is too one-sided, too extreme. Such a world cannot last."

"To give a simple example... suppose you replaced the consciousness of the Dimensional Sea and became its Heavenly Dao. The right to wish fulfillment became the highest rule. If everyone's wishes could be granted, the Dimensional Sea would be in chaos within a year. If other transcendent beings did the same, regardless of their authority, the outcome would be similar."

Ultimately, only two outcomes will occur: either the other transcendents will have to dedicate a hundred times the usual time to cleaning up the mess, or their own authority will merge into the chaotic dimensional sea, restoring balance.

Neither outcome is good, and both will offend all those who have transcended worldly concerns.

"..." Chen Luo felt that the world consciousness's words actually made a lot of sense and didn't seem like a guess at all.

"Anyway, the final outcome is good. The Dimensional Sea Consciousness, which should have become like the World Consciousness, working like 007, now doesn't have to worry about anything; the Transcendent Ones maintain order in the Dimensional Sea. The creatures of the Dimensional Sea also have a tiny chance to become Transcendent Ones. The only unlucky ones are those ancient behemoths that should have been hunters; after the Transcendent Ones appeared, they became much more obedient, because the disobedient ones were all killed. However, no one cares about the feelings of the ancient behemoths."

A rare instance of schadenfreude emerged from the voices of global consciousness.

"..."

After listening to the explanation of the world consciousness, Chen Luo had only one feeling.

Isn't the consciousness of the Dimensional Sea the mastermind behind everything? And the biggest one at that?

It's true that the Dimensional Sea needs to give birth to order, but there's no requirement for what kind of order it should be.

Whether it's Liyue, the land of contracts and trade originally ruled by Morax, or Mondstadt, the land of freedom ruled by Venti, aren't they both forms of order?

The only difference is that the former, Morax, is very tired, while the latter, Wendy, is very idle.

So, the matter of the Dimensional Sea is left to the transcendent beings of the Dimensional Sea to handle, right?

Chen Luo originally thought the consciousness of the Dimensional Sea was naive and innocent, but now it seems that the consciousness of the Dimensional Sea is more terrifying than he imagined.

Isn't this just a larger version of a puppeteer?

The puppeteer views Pinocchio as if he were watching a stage play, and the consciousness of the Dimensional Sea views the entire Dimensional Sea as if he were watching a stage play, yet he can keep the play exciting without leaving the stage himself.

"Then another question arises. Is the appearance of the transcendent beings arranged by the consciousness of the dimensional sea? Or does it mean that the transcendent beings have not actually transcended?"

"No. The consciousness of the Dimensional Sea only decides who cannot become a Transcendent, not who will. If, when someone transcends, the consciousness of the Dimensional Sea deems that person's appearance a scourge to the Dimensional Sea, causing chaos or even destruction, it will notify the Transcendent, who will then eliminate the offender. History has proven that the consciousness of the Dimensional Sea's judgment has never been wrong."

"Oh, so that means before a person transcends, they will be assessed by the Dimensional Sea. If the person is not a good person, the consciousness of the Dimensional Sea will complain to the transcendent, and the transcendent will kill the other party in order to prevent the Dimensional Sea from being destroyed."

"Pretty much. That's why the existing Transcendent beings aren't inclined towards Chaotic Evil. Although chaos is also part of order, the destructive power caused by Transcendent beings is simply too great. The Dimensional Sea and the Transcendent beings can tolerate Chaotic Evil beings in the Dimensional Sea, but they cannot tolerate Transcendent beings who possess Chaotic Evil."

"Oh no, am I going to be in trouble? After all, having a wish granted is a good thing. But wishes can sometimes cause destruction. If everyone could have their wishes granted, the dimensional sea would be thrown into chaos." Chen Luo suddenly became a little nervous.