Selling

[Baron: Basic monthly benefit of 100 Silver Coins; advanced benefits arranged according to specific circumstances.

Application requirement: 100 contribution points to the Yuqi Grand Duchy.]

[Viscount: Basic monthly benefit of 100 Gold Coins/White Crystal; advanced benefits arranged according to specific circumstances.

Meet any two of the following conditions to apply: 1,000 contribution points to the Yuqi Grand Duchy/Advanced Warrior/Intermediate Sorcerer/any Intermediate Sub-profession.]

[Count: Basic monthly benefit of 100 Green Crystals; advanced benefits arranged according to specific circumstances.

Meet any two of the following conditions to apply: 10,000 contribution points to the Yuqi Grand Duchy/Legendary Warrior/Advanced Sorcerer/any Advanced Sub-profession.]

So the author of this book was an official of the Yuqi Grand Duchy.

Yun Xi only read the application requirements for Baron, Viscount, and Count. She did not bother with the Marquis and Duke ranks below, since to her, those were completely outlandish fantasies.

Of course, even if she met the requirements, she would not apply for a noble title.

Once someone joined a large faction, they had to sign a strict contract. This was completely different from simply registering as a resident. If Yun Xi formally became a noble of the Yuqi Grand Duchy, it would be very difficult for her to leave later.

She had joined the Flower Country's official organization before because it imposed almost no restrictions and did not force members to sign contracts.

Even missions such as protecting one's homeland could be accepted freely.

Of course, this was limited to ordinary members.

If a member received strong official support and substantial resource investment, it was impossible for them not to sign a contract. No one would invest in someone who might betray them or leave.

In her previous life, Yun Xi had not joined any faction on the Godfall Continent despite having no money. In this life, she would be even less willing to compromise.

In turn, she did not need substantial official resource support, so there was no question of signing a strict contract with the Flower Country's official organization.

After that, Yun Xi flipped through some other ordinary books, especially going over the common fiends of Shuyu Plains several times.

On the Godfall Continent, the air was filled with spiritual energy and fiendish energy. Fiends were species born from contamination by fiendish energy.

In certain places in the wild where fiendish energy was dense, fiends would grow wildly.

Cities where humans lived were basically places their ancestors had chosen for having the faintest fiendish energy, ensuring that humans could live there for long periods without being affected.

That was also why the distances between cities, and between villages, were so great.

But no matter how faint the fiendish energy was, food contaminated by it still could not be eaten.

If contaminated food was consumed for a long time, one's constitution would permanently decline, while one's body would gradually be devoured by fiendish energy, ultimately resulting in death—or "evolution" into a Human Skin Fiend.

There were two common types of fiends on Shuyu Plains: Animal Fiends and Human Skin Fiends.

Animal-type fiends: "Rat Fiend," "Cockroach Fiend," "Spider Fiend"...

Human Skin-type fiends: "Short-Eared Fiend," "Red-Brow Fiend," "Beautiful Fiend"...

Yun Xi carefully memorized the characteristics of the various Human Skin Fiends, so she would not fail to recognize them if she encountered them in the wild.

Only after a long while did she close the book's final page and slowly exhale.

Seeing that the second closed beta test was about to end, Yun Xi tidied up briefly, put all the supplies she had bought that day into her Storage Bag, and prepared to take them back to Blue Star.

In particular, she had already completely memorized these few basic ordinary books, so keeping them was pointless.

Ordinary books did not have a "Patent Contract," so Yun Xi planned to resell them to the Flower Country's official organization.

Although the Godfall Continent was enormous and not many people would be born in Shuyu Plains, some of the books' contents were universally applicable, such as certain characteristics of fiends.

Yun Xi was not short of money, nor did she intend to make money off the officials' hard work. She would sell them for exactly what she had paid.

As for giving them away for free, that was impossible.

Selling them was an ordinary transaction. Giving them away would make her seem a little crazy, and might even arouse suspicion.

At midnight, the closed beta test ended.

After returning to Blue Star, it was noon.

Yun Xi's phone rang incessantly. She chatted briefly with her friends, then got up and headed for the official building.

As soon as she took out the knowledge-based books, they attracted the officials' attention.

Chen Nana, who had been responsible for inviting Yun Xi before, quickly arrived with a middle-aged man who appeared to be a leader.

When the two heard that Yun Xi had bought all these books for only a few hundred Silver Coins, they were both overjoyed.

Although they had also dispatched some important members to purchase supplies from the Godfall Continent, knowledge-based books were simply too expensive, often costing dozens or even hundreds of Gold Coins.

They could still produce Silver Coins, but Gold Coins were beyond their means.

All the books were written in unfamiliar characters. After Yun Xi gave a brief introduction, Chen Nana and the middle-aged leader learned that these were a complete set of basic books from a certain region of the Godfall Continent.

It was impossible for such a fully developed unfamiliar language to be fake.

"Miss Yun, thank you for bringing these books back. They will be very useful for helping us understand the Godfall Continent. We'll go by the price you gave us." After checking that the books were in order, the middle-aged leader was extremely straightforward and did not even haggle.

Yun Xi was not surprised. She had traveled through so many regions in her previous life, and the books from Shuyu Plains were indeed very cheap.

The transaction went smoothly. After receiving the Silver Coins, Yun Xi did not linger and left directly.

The middle-aged leader watched her back, wanting to say something but stopping himself.

"Director, should we invite this Yun Xi to join the Special Action Bureau? For her to get so many Silver Coins, she must have had some kind of fortuitous encounter in the game." Chen Nana asked.

"Not for now. She isn't from the system, after all. She's a university student who was only recruited a few days ago.

"We still haven't figured out what this game is all about, and now the servers have shut down again, making it impossible to enter. We'll discuss it after we understand more." The person in charge came back to his senses and rubbed his brow.

Chen Nana frowned slightly upon hearing this.

Recently, they had invited many "Formal Sorcerers" and "Formal Warriors" to join the official organization.

She understood the leader's thoughts. There were an enormous number of these people, and their character varied greatly. Anyone who wanted to join the Special Action Bureau and receive substantial resource support did indeed need to be carefully screened.

But she still felt that Yun Xi definitely qualified.

Leaving her strength aside, her character was certainly not a problem. After all, she had not taken advantage of the opportunity to raise the price of such expensive books.

"However, that doesn't stop you from continuing to build a good relationship with her. If convenient, when the servers open again, you can ask her to help purchase some supplies. And don't shortchange her on the commission." The leader seemed to remember something and added this.

"Understood." Chen Nana replied.

After Yun Xi took a taxi home, she unexpectedly found a figure waiting outside her door.

It was Yun Linlin.

"Yun Xi, where did you go? I thought you would be at home since the game servers were shut down."

"I'm here to fulfill the contract!" Yun Linlin waved the contract scroll in her hand.

Yun Xi... Was she really in that much of a hurry?