Black Iron Grade Abyss Treasure Chest!

Su Ye looked at the system panel. Aside from the Trading Module, which was grayed out and could not be opened, all the other modules could be used normally.

The Trading Module was unavailable in order to preserve the last shred of fairness among Novice Lords. That fairness meant every Novice Lord started from the same line and had to rely entirely on luck.

Without this restriction, those second-generation lords would have taken off long ago. Who could possibly compete with them?

Among those second-generation lords, quite a few came from families with true gods. If trading were allowed, the other Novice Lords might as well not play at all.

Su Ye directly opened the Chat Channel and began reading.

Most of them were discussing their troop types or talents.

[Hahaha, I'm about to take off! A seventh-tier Wyvern troop type—who else has one?]

[Take off my ass. You probably have no idea how much food a Wyvern consumes every day. Can you even afford to raise it?]

[It's fine during the novice period. As long as you've got the guts, the daily trials won't be much of a problem. Once the novice period ends, any troop type above the fifth tier is a massive money sink.]

[Jealous. You're all just jealous that he randomly got a good Barracks. Big shot, carry us!]

[Big shot, I can help you breed them. Please take me with you.]

[Damn it, why is my Barracks a Farmland? I can only recruit farmers, and they're even weaker than me. What the hell am I supposed to do with this? I'm done.]

Su Ye watched the Chat Channel with interest. Most Novice Lords were still getting themselves situated and had not chosen to begin the Void Trial yet.

After all, this was no joke. Even during the novice period, there was still a good chance of failing disastrously.

After watching for a while,

Su Ye closed the Chat Channel and opened the Live Streaming Module.

Novice Lords could not leave Eternal World within the first thirty days. They could only leave after the novice period ended—or after they were eliminated.

The purpose was still the same: preventing cheating.

One function of the Live Streaming Module was entertainment, while the other was education.

They all charged fees, of course. No one was going to let people watch for free.

Su Ye entered the most popular Novice Lord's livestream.

The moment he entered, he froze.

"Holy shit!!" Su Ye stared at the stream before him.

Well... how should he put it? The streamer was a female Novice Lord from Hans Mao Country. Her troop type was Goblins, and naturally, she was running an explicit stream.

Did they even understand the value of Goblins?

"As expected of Hans Mao Country. They're still far ahead in this regard," Su Ye thought as he watched the scene in the livestream. When it came to appetite, Hans Mao Country was indeed on another level.

A group of green-skinned creatures besieging a blonde.

"To be fair, she's got a really nice figure." The moment Su Ye finished speaking, the livestream went black. To keep watching, he had to pay—one Gold Coin per hour. What a way to squeeze blood money out of people.

Su Ye checked out the other livestreams. At the moment, almost all the people streaming were putting on explicit shows.

Every kind of troop could be found: Goblins, Minotaurs, pig-headed men, Trolls, even Tentacle Monsters.

Of course, some were streaming themselves chopping trees or mining.

After watching for a while, Su Ye closed the livestream panel.

He did not have spare money for entertainment right now. Someone else's one Gold Coin might only amount to a few troop units of some tier, but one Gold Coin for him meant a God Level troop unit—if he was lucky, even a God Level Hero Unit.

He could think about that once he had extra Gold Coins in the future.

Su Ye turned his attention to Lilith and the others' battle.

As time passed, Lesser Demons rushed in from the edges of Su Ye's territory one after another, while treasure chests appeared across the ground.

This was one of the novice period's benefits. As long as one was strong enough, one could continuously accumulate resources. Su Ye roughly estimated there were dozens of treasure chests.

An hour passed.

The system notification sounded.

[Ding: Void Trial ended. Evaluating...]

[Ding: Evaluation complete. Battle losses: 0. Enemies killed: 1,000. Rating: SSS.]

[Ding: You obtained an SSS-grade Abyss difficulty treasure chest!]

"God Emperor!" Lilith's voice rang out.

Su Ye looked at Lilith, who had appeared before him, and smiled. "You did very well, Lilith. Go rest for now."

"I am not tired. But God Emperor, how will you reward me?" Lilith walked to Su Ye's side, her eyes fixed intently on him.

Su Ye: ...

"We'll talk about that later. Let me sort through the spoils first." Su Ye looked at the treasure chests.

Using his Authority as a lord, he stored the treasure chests scattered across the ground in the Territory Warehouse.

There were a total of 400 Black Iron Grade Abyss Treasure Chests!

Black Iron was the chest grade, while Abyss represented rewards from the highest difficulty.

"This drop rate isn't bad." Su Ye looked at the Abyss Treasure Chests, then used his Authority. "Decomposition!"

[Ding: Do you wish to decompose 1,000 Lesser Demon corpses?]

"Decompose." Su Ye looked at the corpses on the ground. There was no use leaving them there anyway; they would eventually rot.

[Ding: You decomposed 1,000 Lesser Demon corpses and obtained 100 Origin Crystals!]

"A ten-to-one ratio? Sure enough, the novice period is a chance to get rich. As long as you're strong enough, getting rich overnight isn't a dream." Su Ye smiled as he looked into his Personal Space.

[Ding: Do you wish to open Black Iron Grade Abyss Treasure Chest x400?]

"Open them all." Su Ye waited expectantly.

[Ding: You obtained Gold Coin x100.]

[Ding: You obtained Gold Coin x100.]

[Ding: You obtained Origin Crystal x10.]

[Ding: You obtained Origin Crystal x10.]

A string of System Logs appeared, and Su Ye could not hide the smile on his face. After tallying his gains—

Gold Coin x20,000

Origin Crystal x2,000

The smile on Su Ye's face immediately froze. Where was his Wood? Where was his Stone? Where were his Resource Cards?

Then Su Ye suddenly realized something. The trial he had cleared was Abyss difficulty, and it was only the first day.

He had earned 20,000 Gold Coins and 2,000 Origin Crystals in a single day. That was something other lords did not even dare imagine, let alone achieve.

For ordinary lords, earning 100 Gold Coins from clearing an ordinary Void Trial was already considered pretty good.

"So, because the difficulty was too high, the rewards didn't include basic ordinary Resource Cards, Wood, Stone, and the like?" Su Ye thought helplessly.

Still, that was normal. He had cleared an Abyss difficulty trial. If he could still get such trash from the treasure chests, that would be the real problem.

"Looks like I'll have to buy them from someone." Su Ye could not help thinking. His territory was grassland terrain, with no forests or mineral deposits. There was no way to develop those resources; he could only buy them.

Su Ye then looked at the last treasure chest. It was also the best chest from the trial. The earlier ones had merely been dropped by ordinary monsters, so they could only yield such items. But the final rating chest was different—anything was possible.

Naturally, it was closely tied to the trial's difficulty and rating. The higher the difficulty and the higher the rating, the better the items it could yield.