They were too weak, so they could only grind monsters on the first four floors. Looking at the number of people on those floors, there were far fewer than before, but still too many wolves and too little meat.
The way to break out of this predicament was to grow stronger, and players had two ways to do that. The first was to continuously kill monsters to raise their stats, which was the effect of Divine Blessing.
The second was to spend money.
Players could use the experience contained within Paradise Gold Coins, a form of Soul Energy, to increase the strength of their in-game data.
Because this data body had already been counted as one of Chen Luo's summons and differed greatly from his real body, his true body would not suffer the soul-corrupting effects of experience.
Combined with the Paradise Gold Coins Chen Luo had compensated them with, Aether and Shiro had already made a modest gain, leaving them with two choices.
The first was to use all those Paradise Gold Coins to raise their attribute points.
The second was to use the Paradise Gold Coins to buy equipment, then go on a killing spree in the Simulated Universe to earn more Abyss Gold Coins.
Although killing zombies was boring, low-profit, and tedious, no one competed with them for monsters.
"Friend, we'd like to exchange some Paradise Gold Coins for modern weapons. Is that possible?" After making their choice, Aether and Shiro asked a passing Paradise adventurer whose nickname was visible above his head.
Aether and Shiro abandoned the first option because they did not have enough coins yet. Even if they used everything to raise their attribute points, they could only reach the fifth floor at most. Any higher, and they would be likely to die.
"Paradise