Exaggerated Security and Lin Chen's Wealth

"Where are you planning to set the initial location of the small world? Are you from Eastsea City?"

"I wouldn't dare call myself anything special—the richest man in Eastsea."

"So do you want to place the small world inside Eastsea City, or beneath it?"

Lin Chen immediately shook his head at those words.

"Eastsea City isn't some small city. It's considered one of the larger cities in the Federation, with experts everywhere. The slightest disturbance would be noticed, so I want to place the small world's anchor point out at sea. The sea is the safest place."

Of course, Lin Chen would not tell Di Tian that he was doing this because he was worried about the Blue Silver Emperor.

There simply wasn't a safe place anywhere on Douluo Continent. The Tang Family was downright insane!

"Open it up at sea?" Di Tian's eyes immediately lit up. "That's not a bad idea. Opening up such a large space will inevitably cause quite a commotion."

"Besides, after opening the small world, we'll have to consume countless amounts of energy and resources to create an environment suitable for soul beasts. If it's at sea, I can just merge an uninhabited island into it."

"Still, while building it at sea is safe, the only drawback is that it'll be difficult to create a spatial passageway. The meager resources you brought clearly won't be enough."

However, after giving it some thought, combined with the wealth he had accumulated over the past hundred thousand years, it should be enough.

"You brat are getting off easy. Come on, take me to the spatial node you designed long ago. Let's make this quick."

Di Tian truly did not want to delay even a minute longer. Wasting one day meant wasting three soul beasts. And what he valued had never been those three soul beasts themselves, but the fact that once they reached adulthood, they could reproduce on their own.

They might not possess Transcendent Reproduction, but the ability to accelerate growth was enough to rapidly multiply countless soul beast populations.

Lin Chen had not expected Di Tian to be even more anxious than he was. Thus, he immediately led Di Tian toward Eastsea City.

Eastsea City was the second-largest city on the eastern coast of the Sun Moon Federation. It was a major city for ports, maritime transportation, and marine resource development, with a permanent population of over three million. Thanks to its exploitation of marine resources, Eastsea City was extremely prosperous. Even within the Sun Moon Federation, it could be considered a second-tier city.

Di Tian teleported with Lin Chen all the way there. Only after entering the human world did he gradually rein himself in, following Lin Chen as he experienced the feeling of riding a Soul Tool train for the first time in ages.

After leaving the Star Dou Great Forest, they boarded a Soul Tool train, passed through the Spirit Pagoda and Shrek City, crossed more than half of the Sun Moon Federation, and finally arrived at this large city on the eastern coast.

This was also Di Tian's first encounter with human transportation, and he found it quite novel. It also made him feel that humans were truly unfathomable.

He had visited the human world many times, but every time, he had come to slaughter and destroy. He had never quietly experienced the ordinary lives of human soul masters and commoners like this before.

"You humans certainly know how to enjoy yourselves. Even I, if I didn't use spatial traversal and relied solely on flying, would need a long time to travel such a distance. Yet this train can reach somewhere so far away so quickly."

Lin Chen understood Di Tian's reaction. Though this fellow had lived on Douluo Continent for so many years, he was an old fossil who never left the Star Dou Great Forest. Other than knowing that human soul masters had battle armor and mech pilots, he knew very little about these everyday Soul Tools.

"Your Lord should have told you that humans are the most creative race. It took us only a few tens of thousands of years to go from being livestock raised by you soul beasts to where we are now. Yet your kind has existed far longer than humanity and is now on the verge of extinction. Uh... sorry, I didn't mean to."

Lin Chen knew he had said too much. He always could not help mocking soul beasts, completely forgetting that he still needed to rely on Di Tian.

But soul beasts really were too stupid for him not to mock them. Could the extinction of soul beasts really be blamed on the Spirit Pagoda? They had let Gu Yuena become one of the upper ranks, and she had even controlled seventy to eighty percent of the soul masters. Yet Gu Yuena had still managed to lose in such a situation. What more was there to say?

His intolerance for stupidity was acting up. He genuinely felt they deserved it! Letting Gu Yuena rule the soul beast race was simply the tragedy of all soul beasts.

That was why he felt no guilt whatsoever about poaching Di Tian and the others. They would never have a future following Gu Yuena. They were better off following him.

Just as Lin Chen and Di Tian stepped off the Soul Tool train, a sleek Soul Tool car slowly drove over. Behind it followed a giant black-grade mech, dozens of purple mechs, and countless yellow mechs, blocking up the entire station.

Countless soul masters and ordinary people from the Soul Tool trains stared at the breathtaking sight, and no one dared move recklessly.

Those were purple-grade mechs and a black-grade mech.

When the locals of Eastsea City saw this, they knew who had returned—the richest man in Eastsea, the youngest wealthy man who was both fortunate and pitiful. He had returned from his trip, and this was the sort of display he commanded.

They just did not know when he had left.

After getting off the Soul Tool train, the butler dressed in a suit walked straight toward Lin Chen and Di Tian. He gave an elegant bow. "Young Master, it seems you succeeded."

Lin Chen gave a soft hum. "Fortunately, it was uneventful."

Although Lin Yaozu dearly wanted to show respect to an expert of Di Tian's level, Di Tian was currently posing as Lin Chen's bodyguard, and his appearance had become extremely ordinary. Lin Yaozu naturally ignored him outright so that no one would notice anything unusual.

No one else paid attention to Di Tian either. They all watched the young master guarded by a black-grade mech.

"Who is that guy? Why does he have such an extravagant escort? A mech formation of this level is practically a Federation division-level mech squad."

"And isn't a black-grade mech tightly controlled by the military? Why would it be guarding a child only a few years old?"

"You just said it's tightly controlled by the military, so it must have been sent by the military! You're from out of town, so of course you don't know. That kid is Lin Chen, the richest man in Eastsea.

"A year ago, his parents died in an accident. Some desperate criminal went on a random killing spree, and he was the only one left. After that, the kid threw out half the money from the entire group, sparing no expense to build a mech squad like this.

"You know that becoming a Battle Armor Master requires both talent and money, but becoming a top-tier mech pilot requires not only talent, but also massive assets to support it.

"There are plenty of soul masters in this world who have talent but no money. With the way he throws money around, would building a guard unit like this really be difficult?"

"Good heavens, just how rich must he be?"

"Heh, rich isn't enough to describe him. That kid is impressive—I'm convinced. He's only six years old, yet he handles matters with remarkable maturity. He's absolutely a prodigy.

"Within a week after his parents' accident, he licensed every profitable formula in his family to all kinds of capital across the three major Federations.

"Looking at your clothes and listening to your accent, you're from the Star Luo Federation, right? Mixue Ice Cream & Tea and Haidilao should have opened over there recently!

"It's the height of summer now, so your Star Luo Federation must be sweltering. When you're out and about, instead of carrying a little Soul Tool fan, wouldn't it be more refreshing and cost-effective to buy a cup of Mixue Ice Cream & Tea?"