Let There Be More Love in the World

16:16

Cooldown ended.

Yu Xunge immediately opened her game.

There were only fifty-four minutes left until the third closed beta ended.

After logging in, Yu Xunge first disguised herself as a goblin, then returned to the city. After learning all of Silvermoon City's specialty dishes at its restaurant, she teleported herself to Bloodmoon City, where she had stayed before. She found a wealthy goblin and, after much persuasion, finally exchanged for 10,000 gold. Checking the time and seeing she still had enough, she spent a little more time gradually exchanging for another 800 gold from several poorer goblins.

By then, she had 20,800 gold exchanged from the two elven main cities, plus the 378 gold she had accumulated by crafting three gold a day from June 7 to October 10. After deducting the money spent on teleportation and learning recipes, she still had 21,108 gold left, along with 1,084 gold bricks obtained from the Su Family.

After spending money to learn the specialty recipes from Bloodmoon City's restaurant, she returned to the Undead City where she had first learned alchemy. Entering the alchemy shop and looking at the figure busy behind the crucibles and test tubes, she walked over and typed two words into the chat box: "Teacher."

The undead female mentor did not stop moving, but she suddenly issued her a quest—[Alchemy Master Heqipa asks you to craft ten beginner potions and ten intermediate potions].

She had not specified whether the ten had to be identical, but Yu Xunge understood that she was testing her.

But everything in this game ran on progress bars... There was no way to tell from that.

After thinking for a moment, she selected the twenty different types of potions she had recently made that she felt were the best and submitted them. "Teacher, these are my recent results."

On the screen, the undead female mentor stopped shaking her test tube and accepted Yu Xunge's potions.

A few minutes later, the quest showed as completed.

The quest reward was a book: [Hecipa's Alchemy Notes].

[Hecipa's Alchemy Notes] (A-rank): Notes from Alchemy Master Heqipa, recording her insights and realizations from the period when she advanced from a senior alchemist to a master alchemist. You cannot comprehend formulas from it, but perhaps you can gain something even more precious. (Their alchemical innovations are all for glory, but me? I'm different. I just want to make more money to buy drinks, so my potions are the most special. Potions bearing my name have always sold the best. After all this time, they still don't understand that working for love has no future! —Heqipa)

After silently reading the item description, Yu Xunge took out two thousand gold and handed it to Heqipa. "I might not be able to come back anymore."

Before she could even click send, the two thousand gold had already been taken by Heqipa.

Yu Xunge: "..."

The next second, Heqipa tossed her a dark green cloth bag.

[Heqipa's Potion Bag (0/8)] (S-rank): Heqipa always receives so many orders. This is a little thing Heqipa uses to store ordered potions. Maximum stack size: 999.

The greatest surprise was not merely that items of the same type could stack up to 999, but that it was an item-type object and did not take up an inventory slot!

Then another pop-up appeared: [Bind?]

Yu Xunge was ecstatic and immediately clicked yes!

This time, she had learned her lesson. She first typed, "Teacher, this is only for buying you drinks. You don't need to give me anything else. I really like alchemy," and only after sending it did she generously take out another thousand gold and give it to Heqipa.

Seeing that Heqipa truly had no intention of giving her anything else, Yu Xunge smiled and turned to leave. She still had to hurry to the auction house.

In a few days, it would be Su Yitong and Yu Xunhuan's wedding. Family was different from guests, after all. At an engagement, one could give cash gifts, but for a wedding, it was best to give an actual present.

Besides, Su Yitong had casually given her twenty million last time. She could not appear stingy.

Nor did she feel wronged by this at all. Considering how many attribute points she had plucked from Su Yitong, along with an A-rank item and an ear, while Su Yitong did not even know who her enemy was and still gave her money to spend—and then thinking of how Yu Xunhuan's divinely bestowed talent was basically eighty percent ruined—any grievance she might have had vanished.

Giving something from reality would be difficult if she wanted to "move" Su Yitong, but she was unwilling to give away genuinely good items from the game.

But she had thought of something good.

[Joyful Little Demon's Soft Couch]

A D-rank item, but actually completely useless! It was just a mattress and only cost twenty gold.

Bought! It would be perfect as Yu Xunhuan's wedding gift.

[Binding Stone] (A-rank): After use, you can bind one piece of equipment/item to your soul. It cannot be lost or stolen by anyone, not even if the Thief God personally descended. When your soul dissipates, it too will turn to ash and return to the embrace of the void.

Yu Xunge: Is this aimed at me?!

But other people needed it, and so did she!

At one hundred gold each, Yu Xunge directly bought fifty!

She spent five thousand gold without even blinking.

Then Yu Xunge began buying cooking recipes. So long as the auction house had them and she had not learned them before, she bought them all.

Worried about buying duplicates, she learned each one immediately after buying it.

All of this was preparation centered around the Food God talent. Even if low-level recipes were not very useful, learning more of them would help her create her own recipes in the future.

After finishing with Food God, it was time for the Sharpshooter talent.

[Explosive Arrow] (B-rank): Fires an explosive arrow. Upon striking a target, it explodes, dealing damage to the target and all enemies within two meters of the target. Each use consumes 100 mana. No cooldown.

[Knockback Shot] (C-rank): Weapons you fire generate an energy wave that knocks enemies back. Each use consumes 30 mana. Cooldown: 3 minutes.

[Soul Resistance (Passive)] (S-rank): Permanently provides soul-level defense. Immune to mind-control skills and reduces damage from mental attacks by 30%.

One was an area attack, one was knockback, and one granted immunity to mind control.

Originally, after buying the area attack and the knockback control skill, Yu Xunge had wanted to buy another offensive method. But then she saw Soul Resistance.

Even though it cost as much as 12,000 gold, even more expensive than Phantom Shift, Yu Xunge bought it without hesitation.

What she wanted were high-end skills.

Explosive Arrow cost 450 gold, Knockback Shot cost 130 gold, plus the 3,000 gold she had previously given Mentor Heqipa, 5,000 gold for Binding Stones, 20 gold for the bed, and 485 gold spent purchasing and learning recipes.

She only had 23 gold left.

Yu Xunge was completely satisfied!!!

This was how money was meant to be spent. Passing by the herb shop, Yu Xunge spent her final 23 gold on the herbs needed for advanced revealing potions before leaving Undead City.

Then she logged out, and while she was at it, dismissed the shadow in the treasure room.

It was only 17:03.