Let the World Have a Little More Love

16:16

Cooldown ended.

Yu Xunge immediately opened her game.

There were only 54 minutes left until the third closed beta ended.

After logging in, Yu Xunge first disguised herself as a goblin, then returned to the city. After learning all of Silvermoon City's specialty dishes at its restaurant, she teleported to Blood Moon City, where she had stayed before. Then she found the wealthy goblins and, after much persuasion, exchanged for 10,000 gold. Seeing that she still had enough time, she spent a little more time trading with several other poor goblins for another 800 gold.

At this point, she had the gold exchanged from the two elf main cities, plus the 378 gold she had accumulated by crafting 3 gold per day from June 7 to October 10. After deducting the costs of teleportation and learning recipes, she still had gold left. She also had 1,084 gold bricks taken from the Su Family.

After spending money to learn the specialty recipes from Blood Moon City's restaurant, she returned to Undead City, where she had first learned alchemy. Entering the Alchemy Shop and looking at the figure busy among crucibles and test tubes, she walked over and typed two words into the chat box: "Teacher."

The Undead Female Mentor did not stop moving, but she suddenly issued Yu Xunge a quest—Alchemy Master Hechipa wants you to craft ten basic potions and ten intermediate potions.

She had not said whether the ten needed to be the same kind, but Yu Xunge understood that she was testing her.

But everything in this game used progress bars... There was no way to tell from that.

After thinking for a moment, she selected the twenty different potions she had recently made and felt best about, then submitted them. "Teacher, these are my recent results."

On the screen, the Undead Female Mentor stopped shaking her test tube and accepted Yu Xunge's potions.

A few minutes later, the quest displayed as completed.

The quest reward was a book: Hechipa's Alchemy Notes.

Hechipa's Alchemy Notes (A-rank): Alchemy Master Hechipa's notes, recording her insights and realizations from the period when she advanced from a senior alchemist to a master alchemist. You cannot comprehend formulas from it, but perhaps you may gain something even more precious. (They innovate in alchemy for glory, but me? I'm different. I just want to make more money to buy booze, so my potions are the most special. Potions bearing my name have always sold the best. After all this time, they still don't understand that working for love has no future! —Hechipa)

After silently reading the item description, Yu Xunge took out 2,000 gold and handed it to Hechipa. "I may never be able to come back again."

Before she could even click send, the 2,000 gold had already been taken by Hechipa.

Yu Xunge: "..."

The next second, Hechipa tossed her a dark green cloth bag.

Hechipa's Potion Bag (0/8) (S-rank): Hechipa always receives so many orders. A little thing Hechipa uses to store ordered potions. Maximum stack size: 999.

The biggest surprise was not only that items of the same kind could stack to 999, but that it was an item-type object and did not take up an inventory slot!

Then a pop-up appeared, asking whether she wanted to bind it.

Yu Xunge was ecstatic and immediately clicked yes!

This time, she had learned her lesson. She first typed, "Teacher, it's just for you to buy drinks. You don't need to give me anything else. I really like alchemy," and only after sending it did she generously take out another 1,000 gold and give it to Hechipa.

Seeing that Hechipa truly had no intention of giving her anything else, Yu Xunge smiled and turned to leave. She still needed to hurry to the Auction House.

In a few days, it would be Su Yitong and Yu Xunhuan's wedding. Family was different from guests, after all. Cash gifts were fine for an engagement, but it was best to give an actual gift for a wedding.

Besides, Su Yitong had casually given her twenty million last time. She could not appear stingy.

She did not find this humiliating at all. She had taken so many attribute points from Su Yitong, as well as an A-rank item and an ear, yet Su Yitong did not even know who her enemy was and still gave her money to spend. And Yu Xunhuan's God-Bestowed Talent had basically been crippled by 80%. Any grievance she might have had had long vanished.

Giving something from reality would be difficult if she wanted to "move" Su Yitong, but she was unwilling to give away truly good things from the game.

But she thought of something good.

Joyful Witch's Bed (C-rank): Increases intimacy between couples and married partners, allowing lovers who sleep in this bed to enjoy supreme pleasure. No one is allowed to say they can't.

What a great thing. Completely useless, but it was a C-rank item!

And it was super cheap, only 20 gold.

Bought!

Let the world have a little more love!!!

Binding Stone (A-rank): After use, you can bind one piece of equipment or item to your soul. It cannot be lost or stolen by anyone. Not even if the Thief God came in person. When your soul dissipates, it will also turn to ash and return to the embrace of the void.

Yu Xunge: Is this aimed at me?!

But other people needed it, and so did she!

At 100 gold each, Yu Xunge directly bought fifty of them!

She spent 5,000 gold without even blinking.

Then Yu Xunge began buying cooking recipes. As long as the Auction House had them and she had not learned them before, she bought them all.

Worried about buying duplicates, she learned each one immediately after purchasing it.

All of this was preparation for the God of Cooking Talent. Even if low-level recipes were not very useful, learning more of them would help her create her own recipes in the future.

After finishing with the Food God, it was time for the Sharpshooter Talent.

Explosive Arrow (B-rank): Fires an explosive arrow. Upon hitting a target, it explodes and damages the target and enemies within a 2-meter radius. Each use consumes 100 Mana. No cooldown.

Push Shot (C-rank): Weapons you fire generate an energy wave that knocks enemies back. Each use consumes 30 Mana. Cooldown: 3 minutes.

Soul Resistance (Passive) (S-rank): Permanently provides a layer of soul-level defense. Grants immunity to Mind Control Skills and reduces damage from mental attacks by 30%.

One was an area-of-effect attack, one was knockback, and one gave immunity to mind control.

Originally, after buying an area-of-effect attack and knockback plus control, Yu Xunge had wanted to buy another offensive method. But she had not expected to find Soul Resistance.

Even though it cost as much as 12,000 gold, even more expensive than Phantom Shift, Yu Xunge bought it without hesitation.

What she wanted were high-end skills.

Explosive Arrow cost 450 gold, Push Shot cost 130 gold, plus the 3,000 gold she had previously given Mentor Hechipa, 5,000 gold for Binding Stones, 20 gold for the bed, and 485 gold spent purchasing and learning recipes.

She only had 23 gold left on her now.

Yu Xunge was completely satisfied!!!

This was how money should be spent. Passing by the Herb Shop, Yu Xunge used her final 23 gold to buy all the herbs needed for advanced Revealing Potions before leaving Undead City.

Then she logged off and, incidentally, dismissed the shadow in the treasure room.

It was only 17:03.