What Bai Xiaowen didn't know was that Bai Yanni's near-collision with him wasn't a scam, but a coincidence.
Because it was a coincidence, Bai Yanni's panicked expression when she fell couldn't be faked, which was why Bai Xiaowen didn't see the problem on the spot.
And the faked injury was Bai Yanni's improvisation after seeing that the driver was Bai Xiaowen. Last night's accident could be said to be real but fake, which left Bai Xiaowen with the impression that she was very scheming.
Therefore, Bai Xiaowen guessed that Bai Yanni might be used by his enemy.
After all, although the Porto Guild didn't seem to have any reaction and everything was calm, Bai Xiaowen couldn't let his guard down. He still had to go to the treasure space of the Dead Soul Lake to explore, so he didn't want to spend extra energy to find out Bai Yanni's true colors.
That night, the gathering with the fans ended successfully. Sister Zheng rented dozens of cars to send the fans safely back to their respective homes. As for the cost of renting the cars, it was certainly not worth mentioning to Bai Xiaowen.
After signing the contract with the Virtual Battle Company, Bai Xiaowen made ten bottles of perfect-grade potions and handed them to the Super God Potion Shop for subsequent marketing and sales.
Under the signboard of Bai Xiaowen, the genius potion master, the Super God Potion Shop's sales were also steadily increasing. It could be said that the shop had a firm foothold in the malicious competition of the Giant God Potion Shop.
After learning that Bai Yanni had a bad start, Fu Hong, who had always been calm, smashed the glass in his hand in anger. After a brief conversation with Fu Qiu, Fu Hong thought that it was time to have a good talk with Zhao Yuting.
Of course, Bai Xiaowen didn't know about Fu Hong's little tricks. He gathered the school team members and announced the news that the Dead Soul Lake was about to open. Then, as before, he organized the team members to enter the psionic training ground to hone their skills and combat proficiency.
It was worth mentioning that Xiang Hui had been promoted to Elite Level 4 through hard work, completing the leap from a beginner to an intermediate Awakened. His strength had improved significantly.
Although Bai Xiaowen's sister, Bai Xiaowen, was only in her third year of middle school, her total attributes had exceeded 10 points with the help of the Grade-A Enhanced Diet and perfect training facilities. She was even stronger than Bai Xiaowen when he was in his third year of high school.
If this continued, Little Jun would have a chance to reach the threshold of 20 points in her third year of high school.
In fact, with Bai Xiaowen's Perfect-grade Strengthening Potion, it was already possible for Xiaojun to consume it, allowing her to reach a total of 20 points in her first year of high school. However, it was not a wise decision to let Xiaojun enter the Spiritual Realm in advance to accept the Awakened Profession Change Test.
When the Awakened entered the Spiritual Realm, it was not only a test of strength, but also of intelligence and common sense. This was especially true for the Class Change Test, which was related to the potential template of the entire Awakened stage.
Generally speaking, it was safer to accept the Spiritual Realm's Class Advancement test after finishing high school and reaching the standard of general knowledge and all the necessary combat specialties.
As for Bai Xiaowen and Xiao Jun teaming up to take the class advancement test? That wouldn't do.
It wasn't that they couldn't team up. It was just that Bai Xiaowen was now a Level-5 Hero. He was too strong and could no longer "bring" Xiao Jun through the test.
If the two of them were to form a team, the difficulty of the test would be raised to a level that would leave one speechless. But that was secondary. If Xiaojun could not even play 1% of her role in the test, the laws of the Spiritual Realm would not allow Xiaojun to pass.
Also, the income from the virtual shop over the past few days had been deposited with Li Beihai. Li Beihai had traded it to Bai Xiaowen. The total was close to 80,000 points of spirit energy. Judging from the shipping receipts, Zhang Bo had been quite diligent. The shipments were very punctual every day.
Bai Xiaowen took out another batch of stock from the territory's warehouse and deposited it with Li Beihai. Then, he continued to be a hands-off shopkeeper.
However, when he was taking out the goods, Bai Xiaowen received some information about the rules of the Spiritual Realm on the Permanent Fief Order.
[The manager of your territory, Viscount Cecilia, the City Lord of Baishi City, has ordered the reclamation of wastelands and the addition of 9 new farmlands. For this government order, food x300 and gold coins x240 were consumed.]
[The manager of your territory, Viscount Cecilia, the City Lord of Baishi City, has ordered the upgrading of city walls and the addition of 8 new arrow towers. For this government order, food x200, gold coins x400, wood x800, stone x1000, and iron x100 were consumed.]
[The manager of your territory, Viscount Cecilia, the City Lord of Baishi City, has led troops to clean up the ruins of Laya Village. Gold coins x102, wood x65, stone x166, and iron x95 were obtained. For this expedition, no one died. Food x300 and gold coins x300 were consumed.]
[The manager of your territory, Viscount Cecilia, the City Lord of Baishi City, has led troops to clean up the ruins of Drogo Castle. Gold coins x1084, wood x301, and iron x106 were obtained. For this expedition, three longbowmen died. Food x400 and gold coins x430 were consumed.]
[The manager of your territory …]
Bai Xiaowen looked at the accumulated information on the fief order and could not help but be pleasantly surprised. Laya Village and Drogo Castle were territories that belonged to Bai Xiaowen's fief order, but they were already occupied by wandering zombies.
As a result, after Cecilia stabilized the defense of Baishi City, she decisively attacked. From near to far, she cleaned up several zombie encampments. Not only did she bring back a lot of supplies, she also expanded Baishi City's control area. The newly reclaimed wasteland could be used to increase food.
Moreover, as a former lord, Cecilia was not only good at war, but also had experience in how to develop a territory. Things like reclaiming wastelands and building a city were handled in an orderly manner.
From the Lord's control panel, Bai Xiaowen could see that the amount of gold coins, food, wood, stone, and other resources in the territory were steadily increasing.
Other than the lack of progress in trade due to the lack of progress, other data, including prosperity and livability, had also increased.
"I originally thought that I needed to worry about the development of the territory … But now it seems that I only need to be responsible for shouting 666?"
Bai Xiaowen sincerely felt that he was lucky. If he did not have the support of the female lord, Cecilia, even if he obtained this permanent fief, how much could he do? The income would inevitably be greatly reduced, and the territory would become more and more deserted.
Adding up the psionic points earned by the virtual store during this period, Bai Xiaowen's total psionic points exceeded 200,000. As the saying goes, one's heart does not panic with money in hand. Bai Xiaowen's heart was now very stable. He was no longer distracted. While he was training, he used his energy to search for information about the Dead Soul Lake and make sufficient preparations.
Finally, the opening date of the Dead Soul Lake arrived.
On this day, many of the awakened students of Jinghai University had woken up early in the morning. Numerous off-road vehicles had formed a motorcade and were heading towards the Dead Soul Lake in a grandiose manner.
The Dead Soul Lake was located in the Jianghai district, 150 kilometers away from Jinghai Base City.
They did not encounter any danger along the way, only a few scattered mutant beasts. When they saw the convoy, they did not take the initiative to attack. For example, the last rat tide did not appear.
According to Yan Xiaoxin, as New Year's Day approached, the country began to clean up the main roads between the base cities again. That was why it was so peaceful.
Bai Xiaowen also heard about this.
Clearing the main roads between the base cities was allocated by the country and given to the various A-level guilds to organize elite awakened personnel to complete the task in sections. For example, the Giant Gods Guild in Jinghai Base City was responsible for clearing the main roads from Jinghai City to Jiangnan City and Jinling City.
Small guilds like the Super Gods could only apply to clear the less dangerous auxiliary roads near the base cities.
The clearing of roads by the guilds was naturally not free. The country would allocate funds to clearly mark the price of each road section. After the guilds completed the clearing and received the inspection, the corresponding funds — in the form of psionic points — would be traded to the person in charge of the corresponding guild.
The funds for clearing the roads came from various sources, mainly from the freight and taxes of various virtual markets. This was also a relatively healthy operating model formed after a hundred years of development.
Therefore, the large and small guilds were very active in clearing the roads every season and every year. The bidding competition for each road section was also very fierce. Of course, it was basically impossible for small guilds to bid for important roads because the Awakened Association also looked at the strength of the bidding guilds. It was not up to whoever wanted less psionic points.
Without monsters blocking the road, the off-road convoy drove for three hours and arrived at the area where the Dead Soul Lake was located — the Upside Down Mountain.
The Upside Down Mountain could be considered a famous place. Perhaps due to the excessive Yin energy in this mountain area, the sky was covered with dark clouds all year round. It was quite cold and desolate. After entering the mountain area, the north and south points of the compass would be completely opposite. East, West, North, and South would be reversed.
This was also the origin of the name of the Upside Down Mountain.
Experienced awakened ones would deliberately move in the opposite direction of the compass. This way, they would be able to travel unhindered.
"This is the Dead Soul Lake of the Upside Down Mountain," Yan Xiaoxin said.
The convoy stopped at the periphery of the Upside Down Mountain. Because the mountain area was too rugged, even off-road vehicles could not drive in. The group followed Yan Xiaoxin and the other teachers and trekked all the way to the central area of the Upside Down Mountain, the Dead Soul Lake.
The area of the Dead Soul Lake was not large. It looked more like a pool, about the size of two football fields.
The pool was light green, with a thin layer of mist rising from its surface.
"The lake water is so cold." Li Shuyi's hand reached into the lake water and then quickly retracted.
Bai Xiaowen had read the information about the Dead Soul Lake and said, "Actually, the temperature of the Dead Soul Lake is not low. The reason why it is cold is because the lake water has been contaminated by the resentment of the dead souls. This cold feeling directly affects the mind and not the nerves. It is more like an illusion. "
Someone had experimented with the Dead Soul Lake's water. The thermometer showed that the temperature was normal. It was even higher than normal lake water.
Actually, the pool of water in front of them was not the real space of the treasure land.
The treasure land of the Dead Soul Lake was an independent space. Just like the rift valley of the Broken Back Mountain, there was only a crack door that connected to Earth.
The spatial door here was at the bottom of the lake.
Several teams from other universities in the Jianghai division had already arrived. A few teams immediately came over to communicate with the team from Jinghai University.
"Your Jinghai University has a powerful person this time. Even Qi Ruifeng is no match for him. This time, Jinghai University is finally going to make a comeback in the CUAA league. "Xuhuai University's team leader, Wang Jin, sighed and said," Unlike us, we didn't qualify for the national competition. "
The teams from Tongjiang University and Suhang University also sighed.
No one showed any hostility to Bai Xiaowen. Everyone knew that Bai Xiaowen's strength was not on the same level as everyone else. Even Qi Ruifeng was no match for him. The throne of the Jianghai division had already changed hands.
Moreover, the CUAA league's qualifiers had already passed. There was no need to compete. Now that they were going to explore the Dead Soul Lake, it was not wrong to greet them in advance and form good karma.
Even the team from Jin Ling University came over, but Jiang Yi was not there. It was not that Jiang Yi did not want to participate in the exploration of the Dead Soul Lake. He had already lost the qualifiers, so there was no point in hiding his strength. It was just that Jiang Yi felt embarrassed, so he simply stayed in his car.
It was worth mentioning that among the team from Jin Ling University, Bai Xiaowen also saw an acquaintance — Qiao Qi, who was rumored to have a mysterious background.
Bai Xiaowen heard that last time, Fu Hong brought Qiao Qi to the Super Godly Potion Shop to cause trouble. After being scolded by Bai Xiaowen, Qiao Qi did not retaliate. Instead, he obediently participated in the auction and spent a high price to buy a bottle of perfect strengthening potion that he wanted.
This time, the two met again. Qiao Qi looked at Bai Xiaowen with a strange gaze, but there was a hint of reconciliation in his words. "Hey, I bought the strengthening potion you made. It's not bad, my agility increased by 4 points."
Bai Xiaowen smiled and nodded. "Congratulations."
Qiao Qi scratched his colorful hair. "Well … Actually, last time, I didn't do it on purpose. You're very capable … Well, my sister scolded me and said that I can't offend capable people. She told me to apologize to you. My sister also told me to stay away from Fu Hong … "
Bai Xiaowen smiled and said, "Then I really have to thank your sister. There's no need to apologize. There's no need to mention the past. "
Qiao Qi must have been instigated by Fu Hong to cause trouble at the Super Godly Potion Shop last time. In the end, the root of this matter was still Fu Hong. It was caused by the feud between the Giant Gods Guild and the Super Gods Guild.
Qiao Qi was willing to reconcile, so Bai Xiaowen naturally had to give him face. After all, Qiao Qi should have a strong force behind him. One more friend meant one more path. Even if they could not be friends, they should try not to become enemies because of personal feelings.
The team from Jiangnan University did not participate in the exchange. The entire team, from Qi Ruifeng to below, seemed to be holding back.
Of course, Bai Xiaowen did not put on any airs. He chatted with the team leaders of the other universities in a normal manner.
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