The night was deep... but no one was quiet.
Night had fallen over the Camp, but Monkey and the others still gathered together, too excited to settle down. Their fates were all firmly tied to the Mortal Domain. This was their first chance to stand at such heights, and watching the Mortal Domain rise so rapidly naturally thrilled them.
5
Inside his room, Chen Fan listened to the noise outside. He lay on his bed with his hands behind his head, smiling without saying anything. Gradually, his expression grew distant, and his thoughts drifted away.
This time, he had received exactly five hundred thousand Eerie Stones in cash.
There were more than two million more to come, due to arrive within a month.
Was that a lot?
It was.
Compared to when he first arrived in this world and had to tread carefully just to obtain a single Eerie Stone, or when digging a dung pit for Weiwei during the Rainy Season had filled him with excitement, this was unquestionably an astronomical sum.
But it was not enough. Still not enough.
Holding Jiangbei was merely one small goal of his.
His greater goal was not simply to defend Jiangbei, but to make it an impregnable fortress, packed with high-level buildings that no one could breach, including... That One.
Some people could smash straight through a mountain with a single hammer blow.
His Camp had to withstand people like that.
He admitted that someone who had guarded this remote corner of the Eternal Night Continent for decades did not seem like a bad person. Even so, he could not afford to have absolutely no means of resisting such a person.
He did not particularly like having his life in someone else's hands.
Extend his lifespan + turn Jiangbei into an impregnable