Chapter 216

The call went through. Su Lingyue made up an excuse and asked her mother to come to the store.

A moment later, Li Qingru hurried to the store. She looked at Su Ping as soon as she entered the store. Surprised to see him sitting there, she asked Su Lingyue, "Didn't you say that your brother lost his mind and suddenly fell into a coma?"

"He just woke up," Su Lingyue answered calmly.

Su Ping rolled his eyes. He was relieved to see that his mother was safe and sound. He believed that if those people found out who he was, they wouldn't go after his family first. Instead, they would go after him.

After all, given the background of the Mysterious Realm, it would be a piece of cake for them to find out who he was. Once they learned that he was a civilian, they wouldn't need to threaten his family. They could just find him and force him to give in.

"What's going on?" Li Qingru asked, looking at the siblings.

Su Ping couldn't explain to her in detail. "Mom, I'm planning to expand our store. This is a big deal, so I asked you to come and take a look in person."

"Expand our store?" Li Qingru was surprised.

Su Lingyue looked at Su Ping, speechless. She went around to her mother's back and mouthed to her mother — stop talking nonsense and think of a way to escape!

Su Lingyue was even more nervous about the unknown enemy that even Su Ping was afraid of. The enemy could come at any time. She didn't have the time to lie with her mother and discuss how to expand the store.

Besides, didn't expanding the store cost money? Could he just ask for it?

Of course, the thought of Su Ping's huge amount of merit points made her heart skip a beat. If Su Ping had so many merit points, it was obvious that he wouldn't be short of money. Su Ping's store's booming business alone was enough for him to make a fortune every day.

"Let's go," Su Lingyue mouthed to Su Ping.

Su Ping gave her a look to tell her to calm down.

Su Lingyue almost vomited blood when she saw how calm Su Ping was.

Weren't you the one who was in a hurry earlier? Why are you sitting comfortably in the shop with your butt glued to the chair as if you've become a Buddha?

Su Ping didn't look at Su Lingyue again. He sat behind the counter calmly.

He was relieved when he returned to the store. His mom and Su Lingyue were with him. He was even more at ease. No one could threaten him anymore. The store was the safest place!

Of course, he knew that they couldn't stay in the store forever. The store was too small. It would be too cramped for three people to live in.

Besides, he still had some system functions that couldn't be seen in public. If he stayed in the same store with them, he wouldn't be able to explain to them if he suddenly disappeared and reappeared in a cultivation plane. Therefore, upgrading the store and expanding its territory was the right thing to do!

With his current financial resources, it was enough for him to buy all the shops on this street.

Once all these shops came under his name, they would belong to the system's shops. At that time, his safe range of activities would increase to the entire street. At that time, he could also renovate the other shops and separate a house for his mother and sister to live in. That way, he wouldn't have to worry about them being kidnapped.

"You want to expand the store? But you need money to expand the store … "

Li Qingru stared at Su Ping. She was both surprised and glad that Su Ping wanted to expand the store. At the very least, it was a positive idea. Besides, the store that Su Ping had given her had been making a lot of money. Su Ping had been doing a good job.

"I've got the money ready. Mom, don't worry. You just need to sit here and take a look for me." Su Ping pretended to be confident so that his mom could see his confidence.

Li Qingru didn't say anything else. She was here anyway. If Su Ping wanted to do something, she would be able to stop him in time.

Su Lingyue was both anxious and angry to see that Su Ping was serious about expanding the store. "You're still expanding at a time like this? Have you thought it through?"

"I know what I'm doing." Su Ping was also implying something.

Su Lingyue's anxiety subsided a bit when she saw the calmness in his eyes. Still, she asked with a frown, "You want to expand the store now?"

"Yes."

"How?"

"To find someone."

"Who?"

"Real estate agents."

At the same time, Su Ping opened a webpage on the computer he had just turned on. He entered the explorer's website and logged in. Then, he went to the explorer's page and found the companies that provided rental and transfer services in the living area.

The companies that could be listed on the explorer's website were all reliable. Most of them specialized in providing services to explorers.

Li Qingru didn't understand this. She thought that Su Ping was just looking for an average agent online. "If you want to expand the store, you'd better think about it first. The agents online are not reliable. How about I ask around for you in the next couple of days?"

"No, mom. I'll take care of it. Think of it as training for me." Su Ping smiled.

Li Qingru thought about it for a moment and didn't say anything else.

She walked to the counter and saw that Su Ping was looking for real estate companies on the explorer's website. Surprised, she asked, "Does this website have such functions?"

She had just registered as a trainee explorer and hadn't had the time to browse the explorer's website. She didn't know that there were so many functions. Things like rental and transfer of property could be done on the website. How convenient!

Soon, Su Ping contacted seven or eight real estate agents. He paid a deposit and asked them to send someone over to negotiate with the other stores on the street for him.

All he had to do was to pay.

The stores on the street weren't qualified enough to be listed on the explorer's website. Some of them didn't even want to sell their properties. Still, that wouldn't stop him from buying those stores through those real estate companies.

That was the power of money and power.

That being said, Su Ping didn't intend to force them to buy the properties. He would pay three times the original price. Even if those stores didn't intend to sell, they would be tempted by such a high price. After all, the stores weren't ancestral homes. Few holdouts would insist on staying.

If there were holdouts who were trying to blackmail him, Su Ping would try to avoid them if he could. Su Ping wasn't a kind man.

Su Ping was more relaxed after he made the payment online. He didn't even have to step out of the store and he could ask the real estate agents to do it for him. All he had to do now was wait for the title deeds of the stores to be delivered to him.

Firstly, I have to expand the space of the store after upgrading it to the third level. Secondly, I have to complete a professional training session. I've already received the professional training session for a month. More than half a month has passed. It's time for me to do it.

Su Ping thought to himself.

If he were to complete the mission, he would inevitably have to go to a cultivation site. It seemed that he would have to enter the cultivation site from the pet room. Luckily, he didn't have permission to enter the pet room without permission. He wouldn't have to worry that his mom and Su Lingyue would sneak in and startle them.

With that in mind, Su Ping turned off the computer and said to Su Lingyue and his mother solemnly, "Later, I will stay in the pet room for a few hours. You stay in the store. No matter what happens, remember, do not step out of the store!"

Li Qingru was confused. "No matter what happens? What will happen? "

Su Lingyue couldn't understand Su Ping's behavior either. At a time like this, not only did he have to go to the real estate agents, but he also had to stay in the pet room. Was he going to train the pets? Would he make it in time to train the pets?

"Remember what I said." Su Ping looked at Su Lingyue with a solemn look. He had a headache when it came to his sister but he knew that she was a cautious person and knew what was important.

It was the first time that Su Lingyue had seen him so serious. She stared at him for a few seconds and then looked away. Her heart skipped a beat. "I understand." Su Lingyue's heart skipped a beat.

"If there is business or if someone asks you to go out, just ignore them. Don't listen to them," Su Ping said.

Su Lingyue nodded. She didn't know why they wouldn't go out if someone really came to call them. Still, since Su Ping was serious, she chose to listen, even though she didn't understand.

Ever since she learned that Su Ping was an advanced teacher in the academy and after what he had done, her impression of Su Ping had changed greatly. She trusted his words more.

Su Ping was relieved that Su Lingyue had taken his advice. He told them to move around in the lobby while he went to pull down the shutter door. Then, he went to the pet room and closed the door behind him.

Phew …

Su Ping heaved a sigh of relief. He didn't know that he would provoke an unknown enemy in the Mysterious Realm. This made him even more eager to improve his combat strength.

Luckily, he had gained a lot from the Mysterious Realm. Both his money and his merit points had reached the level of a titled battle pet warrior. That was only a small part of his gains. The most valuable ones were the advanced treasures that were not on sale.

"I have to improve my combat strength as soon as possible. If the Little Skeleton can reach a high aptitude level, it should be able to display combat strength beyond the peak of the ninth rank …" Su Ping said to himself. That being said, training the Little Skeleton would be too difficult. The Little Skeleton had the half-skeleton king bloodline and its aptitude had dropped from above average to below average.

By the time the Little Skeleton fully transformed into a Skeleton King bloodline, its aptitude would drop to below average.

Since the Little Skeleton had many Skeleton Kings' bloodlines, there were many things that the Little Skeleton had to work on.

Su Ping shook his head. He didn't want to think about such trivial matters. At the moment, his priority was to expand the store and increase his territory. Then, he had to find his own materials and find a way to improve the Little Skeleton's combat strength.

He could take the Little Skeleton with him for the professional training. As for how well the Little Skeleton could be trained, that would depend on the situation and luck.

"I was planning to go to a middle-level cultivation plane for the professional training. It's not a big deal to waste more time. That way, I can save energy points and I can train the Heaven Fragrant Pig to an above-average aptitude. But I'm running out of time …"

Su Ping pulled up the list of cultivation planes.

He browsed through the list for a while and decided to skip the middle-level cultivation plane and go to the advanced one.

The entrance fee in the advanced cultivation plane was around five hundred to one thousand energy points.

Su Ping browsed through the list and suddenly saw a plane.

Demigod Burial.

The entrance fee was 1200 energy points.

That was already the price of some of the low-ranked top-level cultivation planes.

Su Ping read the introduction of the cultivation plane. It was a broken piece of land in the Archean Divinity. It was said that the sun of the God of Divinity had smashed it to pieces and the land fell off from the Archean Divinity, drifting in the void …

"A broken piece of land in the Archean Divinity?"

Su Ping's eyes flickered. It seemed that the Archean Divinity was a fertile land.

Su Ping wouldn't have enough energy points to go to the Archean Divinity directly. After all, he would have to pay for the number of revivals. Each time he revived, he would have to pay one-tenth of the entrance fee. Based on the 9,000 entrance fees in the Archean Divinity, each death would cost nine hundred energy points.

He couldn't afford to die there.