Exchange

As for going out into the wild to fight monsters and level up now, gaining Freedom Attribute Points? Yun Xi had never even considered it.

With her current strength, she could take a stroll around the wilderness, but choosing to fight monsters would simply be suicide.

Although she had unlimited revivals, the Rebirth Divine Stone came at a price. Wasn't staying alive better?

Perhaps, aside from the twenty days after the closed beta, she could try studying on Blue Star?

A rumbling came from her stomach, and Yun Xi came back to her senses.

Since eating in the Godfall Continent meant buying Coarse Wheat Cakes and black bread, which were not only awful but also cost money, Yun Xi simply chose to log out and return to Blue Star.

After eating a simple meal, Yun Xi also recharged 648 yuan for the day. The system account increased by 641.52 Copper Coins.

Yun Xi's current Copper Coin balance was 651.42 + 9.99 [Main Quest One Reward] + 99.9 [Main Quest Two Reward] + 641.52 = 1,402.83.

That was right. Whether they were Copper Coins awarded by the system or Copper Coins she had recharged herself, all currency entering the system account was automatically deducted by one percent.

After checking the time, she saw that it was noon in game time, which corresponded to the middle of the night on Blue Star.

From noon on Blue Star until now, Yun Xi had not relaxed for a moment. Now that she had eaten, her brain felt even sleepier.

She did not force herself to stay awake. After washing up and changing into pajamas, she buried her head in the pillow and fell asleep.

Yun Xi woke early, ate an egg, then opened her phone to check the news about the Godfall Continent.

After what had happened yesterday, all the Godfall Continent players had fallen silent—or rather, the authorities had completely blocked all news related to "The Truth of the Godfall Continent."

All ordinary people thought it was merely a game.

That included Yun Xi's biological parents in this life. They had not replied to her either, so they had probably ignored anything related to the matter.

After carefully scrolling through her phone, Yun Xi was surprised to find that Gu Shian had sent her a text earlier.

[Yun Xi, you should register an account and log in to this game. I won't hurt you.]

A picture followed: it was the Godfall Continent game icon.

Gu Shian had sent her the text before the Godfall Continent opened yesterday. At the time, Yun Xi had been focused solely on Yu Jinxiang and Tu Jiaojiao, so she had overlooked his message.

There was a great deal of information contained in Gu Shian's text.

First, he had sent her this message before the game opened. That meant he was very likely a regressor as well.

Second, in this timeline, Yun Xi was the fiancée who had just abandoned him, yet he was still willing to offer her a kind warning. Perhaps their future relationship would not be bad?

Not to mention that before Yun Xi's own regression, she and Gu Shian had also been comrades with a good relationship.

Having made up her mind, Yun Xi silently placed Gu Shian in the same category as Yu Jinxiang and Tu Jiaojiao.

[Gu Shian, I've logged into the game. Thank you for the warning.] Yun Xi sent him a reply, attaching her game ID.

He did not reply, and Yun Xi did not mind. Gu Shian probably had not logged out yet.

Putting away her phone, Yun Xi did not hurry to log into the Godfall Continent. She sat cross-legged on the living room carpet and tried to learn the Light Control Technique.

She had to determine whether Blue Star could currently support the learning of sorcery. Only then could she better arrange her time for the coming month.

To Yun Xi's delight, the Inheritance Crystal was already bound to her. She could open it and view its contents on Blue Star, including the Sorcery Patterns for the Light Control Technique.

She could also mobilize the spiritual energy within her body. The difference was that, unlike in the Godfall Continent, Blue Star currently had no spiritual energy. After exhausting her own spiritual energy, she would have to log into the Godfall Continent to replenish it.

That was indeed a problem, but replenishing it was simple enough: absorbing the spiritual energy within spirit crystals would restore what she had consumed.

Spirit crystals were the universal currency of the Godfall Continent, such as Yun Xi's Red Crystals.

Yun Xi opened the system panel directly. Earlier, to obtain the system's soul protection, she had recharged 10,200 Red Crystals in one go. After the service fee was deducted, 98 Red Crystals remained in her system account.

In the system account, currency could be exchanged downward, but not upward.

In other words, one Red Crystal could be exchanged for one hundred Purple Crystals in the system account, but Purple Crystals could not be exchanged back into Red Crystals.

Her system account balance was currently 98 Red Crystals - ... - 1,402.83 Copper Coins.

Without hesitation, Yun Xi selected one Red Crystal for downward exchange.

Although Red Crystals were incredibly precious, equivalent to a year's worth of the system's soul protection, Yun Xi could not afford to regret it now. For her current self, increasing her strength as quickly as possible was the most important thing.

After a series of operations, Yun Xi's currency balance became 97 Red Crystals - 99 Purple Crystals - 99 Blue Crystals - 99 Green Crystals - 100 White Crystals - 0 Gold Coins - 0 Silver Coins - 1,402.83 Copper Coins.

By consuming just one Red Crystal, she had obtained a collection of crystals in every color.

Each White Crystal contained one hundred points of spiritual energy. One hundred White Crystals would be enough for her to use for quite some time.

Of course, since she could log into the Godfall Continent and recover her spiritual energy during the ten-day closed beta, Yun Xi would not waste her White Crystals during that period.

After logging in again, it was morning on Blue Star, corresponding to nightfall in the Godfall Continent.

The moment she opened her eyes, Yun Xi noticed something wrong, because there was no light before her.

The wooden cabin had windows. Last night, the bonfire outside had illuminated nearly the entire room.

But now, everything outside the window was pitch-black.

Although Yun Xi did not know much about the Shuyu Plains, "there must be firelight at night" was common knowledge throughout the Godfall Continent.

If the spirit flame at the center of a village or town went out, that meant...

Yun Xi shuddered at the implications.

Just as she was about to click logout for safety, the firelight suddenly flared up again, and faint arguing came from outside the door.

"Hada, didn't I tell you to replenish the bonfire fuel in time? Where did you just go?"

"Father, I really didn't do it on purpose. Just now, the flames suddenly started burning faster, and I didn't have time to react."

"Suddenly started burning faster?"

"Father, the spirit flame only went out for a moment. It should be fine, right? Grandfather is so powerful. Surely nothing will..."

The young man's voice gradually weakened, slowly revealing a trace of despair.

"You'd better pray that nothing happened." The middle-aged man's voice was filled with exasperation.

"I'll go find your grandfather. You stay here and keep watch. Remember, you absolutely cannot let the spirit flame go out again!"

Yun Xi fell silent.

From the father and son's conversation, it could be inferred that a relatively high-level strange creature had definitely approached the village just now. Otherwise, the spirit flame would not have suddenly burned faster.

As for the "grandfather" mentioned by the middle-aged man, he should be the most powerful person in the village—the Village Chief.