Their commission was suspicious.

The high cost is not only because it is a mandatory contract, but also because the other party is an S-class talent with great strength. Therefore, the higher the guarantee power required to sign such a mandatory contract, the higher the price.

Seeing this consumption, Chen Luo began to reconsider whether he should tell Yun Xia, Yun Lian'er, and Liu Wenxuan about it in a couple of days.

That's so expensive!

Speaking of which, Mora seems to be a kind of magical medium. So the question is, can Mora be used to pay for the expenses?

Thinking further afield, could we use Mora to pay for the cost of the Void Treasury?

After all, if Honkai Crystals can cover the costs of using Void Archives, then Mora might not be completely incapable of doing so.

Well, it might not work. I'll try again later.

"Your name is Su Yuan, right? Why are you looking at me with that strange look?" Knowing that Chen Luo had made thorough preparations, the Herrscher of Knowledge reluctantly accepted that Chen Luo was bringing a stranger into his home. After all, it was just taking her to the house next door to be a neighbor, and it wouldn't disturb their lives.

Why is it called a "two-person world" when it includes Xiao Xilin, Cangxuan's Book, and Xiao You? Note that it's two people, not the puppets.

"You... I always feel like there's the aura of a demon on you? But it's not a demon, it's so strange. Could it be that you were once possessed by a demon?" Su Yuan's brows furrowed.

If it weren't for the contract she signed with Chen Luo, which prevented her from attacking any of Chen Luo's acknowledged family members in his home, Su Yuan might have actually slashed Shi Bao with her sword if she saw him outside.

"Emmm... A Luo, you need to control your cousin, she's trying to kill me." The Herrscher of Knowledge pointed at Chen Luo and complained.

"Alright, Xiao Yuan, Xiao Shi isn't some kind of inner demon, nor has she ever been possessed by one. She may have become tainted by the aura of an inner demon after consuming the Inner Demon Inducing Food," Chen Luo explained.

"Oh, I see!" Su Yuan suddenly realized.

"Also, after you come down the mountain, don't just think about taking a sword and attacking anyone you see, not just at my house, but anywhere else either. You need to think carefully about the consequences of doing so," Chen Luo said.

"Hmm... I understand." Su Yuan nodded obediently.

“Actually, even if you two didn’t explain, I wouldn’t have made a move, because I discovered that the other party seems to also have a sword heart, or rather, once had a sword heart. But the other party’s sword heart is very strange, and it has already been broken,” Su Yuan said, tilting her head.

As expected, Master was right; there were indeed many strange and unusual things to see after descending the mountain.

Su Yuan was no stranger to the concept of sword heart. As an S-rank sword immortal, Su Yuan could be said to have a natural sword physique. She comprehended sword intent after three months of learning swordsmanship on the mountain, achieved sword heart after five months, and became well-versed in all the sword techniques in the world, making sword practice as easy as playing.

But Su Yuan had never seen such a strange sword heart before.

"Do you need me to help you complete your sword heart? Consider it compensation for my impulse to cut you earlier," Su Yuan asked the Herrscher of Knowledge after thinking for a moment.

Su Yuan's master told her that after she went down the mountain, she should remember to maintain good relations with her family.

Therefore, it is equally important to maintain good relationships with the people around the other party.

"No need, I'm actually quite happy that my sword heart is damaged," the Herrscher of Knowledge immediately refused.

The swordsman's heart, as perceived by the Herrscher of Knowledge, is essentially a pre-civilization human modification technology called "Divine Sound."

Unlike Chen Luo's Taixu Sword Qi, which was modified through talent, the side effects of Shenyin are actually quite significant. If possible, the Herrscher of Knowledge would not want that damned sword heart.

It's not helpful for those who understand the laws of knowledge, and it's also particularly annoying.

"Come on, I'll take you to tidy up the place you'll be staying in. Do you have bedding or anything?" Chen Luo called out to Su Yuan and then asked her.

"It's in the storage space."

"What about other clothes? I mean clothes other than the school uniform, and I mean modern clothes."

"No. By the way, cousin, do you want to learn swordsmanship? I can teach you, as long as you call me Auntie."

"Sorry, I'm not interested. I have some other clothes here, I'll pick out some you can wear later."

"Thank you, cousin. By the way, cousin, are you really not going to learn swordsmanship? Although you're not from my sect, and I can't pass on what I've learned to you, I can teach you the swordsmanship I created myself. I have the authority to teach that. The swordsmanship I created is really powerful. Once you learn it, I guarantee you'll be invincible. Oh, and besides me, I also have my master. Just call me Auntie."

"No. I need to go check on the water and electricity at the villa next door later, and I also need to take you to register."

"I understand, cousin. But are you really not going to learn swordsmanship? Cousin, your swordsmanship is probably quite good, but there's no harm in learning more. Besides, I can be your sparring partner, as long as you call me Auntie."

"..."

The reason why Su Yuan was so insistent on Chen Luo calling her "Auntie" was because the experimental contract before the formal contract was signed was about the titles "Auntie" and "Cousin".

The contract made some slight modifications to the initial provisions regarding Chen Luo and Su Yuan.

In most cases, due to the recognition from Chen Luo's mother and Su Yuan's master, as well as their age difference and the fact that Su Yuan owed Chen Luo a favor, Su Yuan should call Chen Luo her cousin most of the time.

However, under certain conditions, Chen Luo will need to call Su Yuan "Auntie".

These conditions include, but are not limited to, special time alone between the two, and Su Yuan's swordsmanship instruction time...

Furthermore, when Chen Luo and Su Yuan call each other "Auntie," Su Yuan needs to listen to Chen Luo's opinions as much as possible.

This last clause was mainly because Chen Luo was afraid that Su Yuan would cause trouble, so he compromised.

Chen Luo had a strange intuition that Su Yuan would likely cause a lot of trouble in the future.

This experimental, mandatory contract cost Chen Luo one Honkai Crystal.

So expensive!

Chen Luo also gained his first sword immortal friend.

Su Yuan

【Sword Immortal】(S-level talent): A sword cultivator talent that is so good it's practically divinely inspired.

Price: 13500 raw stones (9990 raw stones)

Discount: 7.4% off

Prices are subtle, and so are discounts.

This initial discount is as low as 7.4%.

One reason is the increased goodwill towards Chen Luo due to his various achievements, but this isn't a significant factor.

Secondly, it was because Chen Luo had helped her from the very beginning.

Of course, the most important reason is this family relationship.

To be fair, Su Yuan was truly the most valuable person Chen Luo had ever seen, bar none.

Oh wait, that doesn't count Touma Kamijou.

The price of a person's talent does not represent their ability, but rather the value of their talent.

Su Yuan is the most likely talent user Chen Luo has ever seen, besides the Herrscher of Knowledge, to break through to the next level.

The Herald of Knowledge is currently priced at 14,000 Primogems, a rapid increase of 4000 Primogems from 1. Aside from the Inner Demon's Induction, this is mainly due to the opponent's accumulated strength finally unleashed.

Although the Herrscher of Knowledge is young, Fu Hua has a lot of experience.

The Herrscher of Knowledge possesses everything that Fu Hua possesses, and has all the memories that Fu Hua has.

Therefore, it was under the combined effect of these two factors that the Herrscher of Knowledge's talent breakthrough progressed so quickly.

Su Yuan, on the other hand, relied solely on her own efforts.

This clearly demonstrates the terrifying nature of the Sword Immortal, who possesses not only exceptional talent but also exceptional cultivation talent.

At the same time, Chen Luo said that her most valuable asset was her various sword skills.

The opponent's cultivation techniques and the various densely packed sword techniques he knew made Chen Luo dizzy.

Each one of them is quite valuable.

So the saying "If you don't have enough talent, you can make up for it with hard work" is really quite true.

"Their relationship is so strange," the Herrscher of Knowledge said to the Book of Azure Mystery as she sat on the sofa, watching the two figures disappear into the distance.

"So, is that woman who exudes a dangerous aura Chen Luo's cousin or his aunt?" Cang Xuanzhi was completely baffled.

This relationship is really complicated.

......

"So you're not planning to tell your cousin about the bar for now?" After Chen Luo helped Su Yuan handle things and returned home, explaining his thoughts on how to deal with her, the Herrscher of Knowledge asked again.

"No, I don't plan on it. Exposing the bar would bring her little benefit, but it would be too risky for me. Honestly, what can you do in a bar?"

"Uh, food?"

"But I can bring him food from the bar. Is there any difference between that and eating at the bar?"

"It seems not..." the Herrscher of Knowledge said after a moment of surprise.

Upon hearing Chen Luo's explanation, the Herrscher of Knowledge suddenly realized that the reason why the Herrscher of Knowledge had always felt that the bar was important was mainly because the Herrscher of Knowledge needed to travel between the Honkai world and the Honkai world.

But Su Yuan is different. She has no friends or relatives in this other world, so the bar seems to serve only the purpose of providing her with food.

"So the only benefit of being exposed at a bar, besides allowing the other person to eat with others, is the risk involved," Chen Luo said, shrugging.

Therefore, Chen Luo only needs to let his aunt know that he is not simple, and ask her to keep it a secret. In this way, Chen Luo can freely roam around in the other world.

【Help! Help! Help! Help! Boss, come quick! That woman who came out of your house is trying to kill me! She's holding a sword to my neck! If you don't come to save me, I'm going to die!】 Xiao Ke'er sent out a distress signal in the upgraded group doll network.

"???"

Chapter 385 Raven: One Mora for a villa island? Is that even possible?

"Sigh." Chen Luo sighed.

"What's wrong?" Raven, the bartender who was working diligently, asked.

"My cousin almost killed my little brother just now. Luckily, I told her beforehand that if she was going to kill someone after coming down the mountain, she should think twice before doing so, otherwise she would have really lost this little brother."

Chen Luo was quite glad that he had discussed with the other party whether or not to kill the person directly when drawing his sword after going down the mountain.

Otherwise, Xiao Ke'er might really have been beheaded with a single sword strike.

According to Xiao Ke'er herself, the opponent was very strong and his sword was very fast. Xiao Ke'er only realized that someone was in her house when the opponent's sword was at her neck. Moreover, her ability to reduce her presence was of no use to the opponent.

Su Yuan was quite assertive about this, after all, since someone dared to spy on her nephew, there was nothing wrong with teaching them a lesson.

Besides, I did ask who the other person was, instead of killing them outright.

In the end, in a way that Chen Luo didn't expect, a happy ending was achieved for everyone.

One mid-grade spirit stone.

Hmm, a mid-grade spirit stone was enough to bribe Xiao Ke'er.

Seeing Xiao Ke'er's eagerness at the sight of the spirit stones, Chen Luo even suspected that the opportunity for rapid advancement mentioned by her friend who knew water divination was not actually for Chen Luo himself, but rather for Su Yuan.

Pshaw, it's just a mid-grade spirit stone.

That's only 100 low-grade spirit stones, which isn't even enough for the entrance fee to other abyss passages.

Xinghai City is different. Because the Abyss Passage in Xinghai City is located below the Heavenly Prison, it only requires 100 low-grade spirit stones, which is equivalent to one mid-grade spirit stone, to enter the Abyss Passage.

Even so, not many talented individuals are willing to enter from here.

The main reason is that the Heavenly Prison's presence is simply too strong.

Of course, there aren't many people who can afford to spend 100 low-grade spirit stones.

"Spirit stones can be considered a clean energy source, but it's unlikely they can replace Honkai Crystals," Chen Luo muttered to himself, fiddling with the crystal in his hand that emitted a faint spiritual energy.

Su Yuan gave Xiao Ke'er a mid-grade spirit stone, and then casually gave Chen Luo a high-grade spirit stone.

According to Su Yuan, she didn't know Chen Luo was a gifted individual when she came down the mountain; otherwise, she would have prepared a special gift for him.

This high-grade spirit stone can be considered a small gift for our first meeting.

This can be considered as making up for the lost New Year's money.

Although Su Yuan didn't tell Xiao Ke'er that she was actually Chen Luo's aunt, the New Year's money made Xiao Ke'er doubt that Chen Luo was Su Yuan's cousin.

Chen Luo didn't know if the other party did it on purpose.

Since the experimental mandatory contract was only experimental, some of its contents were rather hasty, so it's normal that loopholes were easy to find. But it shouldn't be necessary to specifically study these loopholes.

"If we convert it using a normal amount of Honkai Crystals, this one high-grade spirit stone is equivalent to 100 Honkai Crystals. And the exchange rate of spirit stones is 1:100, which means that one Honkai Crystal is equivalent to one mid-grade spirit stone. Judging from Xiao Ke'er's high expectations for that mid-grade spirit stone, it should prove that the price of spirit stones is indeed high."

"So, my aunt gave me 100 Honkai Crystals as a gift upon our first meeting? That's really generous."

"So, does having over 300 Collapse Crystals mean I have three high-grade spirit stones?"

"But thinking about it this way, it really is expensive to need 5 Honkai Crystals to enter the Abyss Passage once." Chen Luo looked at the spirit stone in his hand and clicked his tongue in amazement.

While comparing the exchange rate between Honkai Crystals and Spirit Stones is completely meaningless from a purely rational perspective, since the amount of Honkai energy contained in Honkai Crystals may vary.

However, this also clearly demonstrates how dangerous the Abyss Passage is and how high the rewards are.