"I'm Eight Hundred. I'll Be Waiting for You in Mortal City!"

Gold-Swallowing Toad after Gold-Swallowing Toad met up with Logistics Pavilion members on Provocateur Continent. They boarded Flying Boats and swiftly gathered the Eerie Stones scattered across the continent. Chen Fan, meanwhile, had already returned to Eternal Night Continent through a Teleportation Formation.

In two days, Mortal Domain's first Spring Examination would officially end, and the results would be announced.

He would reveal the outcome of the battle that day.

For now, news of the fighting had not been released to the people of Eternal Night Continent. He chiefly wanted the candidates to focus on their exams without distraction. The more talent that emerged, the better.

After days of travel,

Chen Fan returned to Nameless Mountain, washed up quickly, then strode into Cave One toward his Stone House. He had not had a proper night's sleep in a long time.

"Did we lose?"

At the cave entrance,

the deputy head of the Heavenly Storehouse Pavilion edged up to Wang Kui and asked cautiously.

"Of course we won."

Wang Kui gave his deputy an odd look. "The Domain Lord went in person. How could he return with anything but victory?"

"Then why does the Domain Lord look like something's weighing on his mind?"

"Ah."

Wang Kui let out a long sigh. "Mortal Domain is severely short of Eerie Stones. We mobilized seventy billion for this battle, and now we have only 29.7 billion we can draw on."

"The Domain Lord is trying to find a way to get more."

"What?"

His deputy stared at him in disbelief. After a long pause, he pulled Wang Kui into Cave One. They took the Mortal Domain High-Speed Rail to the rear of Nameless Mountain, then stepped off the train.

He pointed at the neatly arranged Warehouses nearby.

"Aren't those the Strategic Reserve Warehouses we built