One Trillion Dropped from the Sky!

Su Ke lay on his bed, contemplating the results of today's training.

"My force output level still isn't high enough, barely over 2x." Su Ke shook his head.

Physical fitness was easy to improve.

The physical fitness of a ninth-rank Apprentice ranges from 256,000kg to 512,000kg. He had crossed into the ninth-rank Apprentice stage over a year ago, and his current physical strength allowed for a raw punch of about 400,000kg.

Adding in his force output, a punch of one million kilograms was no problem.

However, improving force output and realm was difficult; it depended on talent.

Even with a teacher, one couldn't learn well without the necessary talent.

"Based on my current training progress, reaching the peak of the ninth-rank Apprentice is easy enough, but I estimate I won't have a chance to reach the Planetary Rank until after I'm thirty," Su Ke thought to himself.

This speed... was considered average.

"It seems I'm really not a genius," Su Ke muttered to himself. "Aren't transmigrators supposed to have golden fingers? Where's mine?"

In fact, when he first awakened his memories yesterday, Su Ke had searched for one, but he had come up empty-handed.

Is it that I don't have one, or am I just opening it the wrong way?

For instance, a "marry-a-wife-and-build-a-family" system—do I need to find a wife first?

"Forget it, at least I transmigrated." Su Ke was optimistic. Even if his physical talent was poor, becoming a Planetary Rank wouldn't be difficult. With a thousand-year lifespan and the living conditions of this era, it was something countless people in his past life could only dream of.

Just then, a "ding" startled Su Ke out of his deep thoughts. He felt a surge of joy, but then realized something was wrong. The virtual environment dissipated automatically, and his gaze focused clearly on a dark electronic helmet resting quietly on the nightstand. The screen on the helmet, which was sitting on the bedside table, suddenly lit up. Aside from a voice sounding out, a line of light-text information appeared there.

"An email from the Virtual Universe?" Su Ke blinked.

To connect to the Virtual Universe, one could use an "Induction Helmet," "Auxiliary Optical Computer," "Smart AI," or "Smart Lifeform."

The cheapest consciousness Induction Helmet cost 10 Jialan Coins. The annual network fee for the Virtual Universe was 10 Jialan Coins or 0.008 Liuyun Coins.

It didn't seem like much, but only a very small number of ordinary people on the planet could afford it, and the primary users were humans at the Planetary Rank. One had to know that in the slave market, a "ninth-rank Apprentice" Martial Artist only cost 20 Jialan Coins each!

His family's living conditions were decent, but because his parents' work at an interstellar company required them to stay in touch, the company covered most of the costs. His parents were full-time employees with good benefits, and they usually shared one account, leaving it for their son so they could meet in the Virtual Universe.

"Being able to enter the Virtual Universe really makes for a colorful life, but who on earth sent me an email?" Su Ke wondered.

Aside from two close friends, Su Ke didn't have any other close companions.

And his two friends came from families even worse off than his; the Virtual Universe was only used by their parents, and they rarely logged on themselves.

Su Ke put on the helmet and entered the Virtual Universe. "Connecting to the Virtual Universe..." A deep, vast voice echoed in his consciousness, and his consciousness then sank into darkness.

An ancient city appeared, with countless strange-looking humans walking about. A figure suddenly materialized on an ancient street.

"Tsk, it's the place where I logged off last time." Su Ke, dressed in simple, plain gray clothes, took a look around and clicked his tongue.

Without real estate in the Virtual Universe, one would appear directly on the street, just as he had. If one owned property, they would appear in their home within the Virtual Universe.

Given the situation of Su Ke's family, they clearly had no means to purchase a property in the Virtual Universe. The poor could only look at the surrounding houses and shed bitter tears.

"Let's see whose email this is first." With a thought, a screen appeared in front of him, and he quickly pulled up an email.

"This is..." Su Ke froze the moment he saw the opening.

"Respected customer, hello. Congratulations on the lottery ticket you purchased at our branch..."

A lottery ticket? Su Ke struggled to recall, finally remembering that he had made a purchase in a Virtual Universe game before. Not long ago, on his 16th birthday, the game had held a giveaway for players, and what Su Ke had won was a lottery ticket for the Virtual Universe. He had forgotten about it almost immediately.

After reading the entire email, Su Ke's heart exploded.

"Third prize! One trillion Jialan Coins!?"

Su Ke couldn't believe his eyes.

His eyes turned red, and his body trembled as he read the email carefully once more.

The email was signed by the Virtual Universe Universal Starry Sky Lottery, Floating Cloud Universe Kingdom branch, Jialan Empire sub-branch. As for the date, it was also recorded in the Jialan Empire calendar, spanning hundreds of millions of years. After all, as a medium-level civilization, the Jialan Empire's founder was an ancient and great Immortal God, a figure looked up to by the citizens of countless ordinary planets.

"I won the third prize?" Su Ke felt as if he had been hit by a pie falling from the sky; he felt dizzy.

Don't let the "third prize" fool you; this was issued by the massive Virtual Universe entity to all 1,008 universe kingdoms, and this was just the regional branch for the Jialan Empire, a medium-level civilization. Even the third prize was worth a full one trillion Jialan Coins!

With the vast territory of humanity, billions of planets, and countless populations, who knew how many people won the third prize each draw! And he was just one of the lucky ones.

Su Ke's brain could barely process the thought.

What was the concept of one trillion Jialan Coins?

Buying stunning beauties from various planets and races who were below the Planetary Rank only cost a few thousand each.

If one wanted to buy powerful slaves, a Planetary Rank cost about 10,000, while a Stellar Rank was only about 100 million.

Even a Universe Rank...

A Universe Rank slave was priced in units of "trillions of Jialan Coins." They were more expensive than an entire planet!

Su Ke swallowed hard. "But it seems the cheapest Universe Rank level 1 slave is over ten trillion..."

However, buying a ninth-rank Stellar Rank Martial Artist slave only cost five billion!

If he remembered correctly, the strongest person on their planet was only a fourth-rank Stellar Rank Martial Artist! If he bought a few ninth-rank Stellar Rank slaves, he could walk sideways without fear!

Strength is the only truth in the universe!

If you aren't strong enough yourself, then you rely on others to make up for it.

Take An Tai and his group who clashed with him yesterday; their families might barely have some background in this city, but what do they amount to on the scale of the entire Moon River Planet? If he had a group of Stellar Rank 9 bodyguards? Even if he killed them in the middle of the street, do you think the planetary authorities would dare to arrest Su Ke? They would only choose to smooth things over!

One trillion Jialan Coin is an astronomical figure for an ordinary person on the planet; it would be enough to buy an entire habitable planet!

After Su Ke confirmed the contents of the email message repeatedly, it took him a long time to barely calm down.

As an ordinary person, this trillion that had fallen from the sky had truly left him dazed.

At this moment, another message arrived, and this one actually belonged to the legendary Universal First Bank and Universe Galaxy Bank.

They were inquiring whether Su Ke, whose personal funds were now sufficient to open an account at their banks, would be willing to do so; if the account opening was successful, that massive lottery windfall would be credited immediately.

Universe Galaxy Bank! Universal First Bank! These were institutions that served the upper echelons of the universe and powerful Martial Artists; the threshold to open an account at Universe Galaxy Bank or Universal First Bank was a minimum deposit of 100 million Jialan Coin!

Even the richest people on some ordinary planets didn't qualify to meet the minimum requirements of these two banking giants!

And Su Ke was clearly far wealthier than the average planetary tycoon.