"Awesome! Awesome!"
Xi Wei hugged the seven gems and rolled around his Divine Kingdom without a care for his image. "I'm rich!"
Previously, his self-directed performance was very successful, and the traditional art of shadow puppets from the Celestial Empire played a considerable role. Even though he and the fake murloc god didn't really show up, the players in the Frogmen Village were still shocked by his performance.
That's right. It was an illusion after all, and to save divine power, Xi Wei had even limited the area of effect of the image to the Frogmen Village, with only the Players who were there at the time being able to see it.
And it was even simpler for the Players to keep losing HP at the enemy's roar … With all the System in his hands, wouldn't it be a piece of cake for him to change the values?
And it was thanks to that brief performance that Xi Wei easily tricked the Players into giving him the gems.
What, the interlude was too short and not satisfying? Nonsense, CG doesn't need divine power!
Shi Feng didn't know where the Sea God had obtained these Sea Sapphires. They weren't particularly tough, and even an ordinary player could destroy them with their full strength. Yet, like Rotten Bones' skulls, they were able to contain powerful divine power.
After all, the Ocean Eye did exist at the bottom of the sea, but it was basically a portal that connected the oceanic plates, and most of them were naturally formed.
Unlike Xi Wei who could use his Transmigration Authority to create portals such as the Lifestone, the Ocean Goddess's Authority had nothing to do with portals. In fact, as a natural phenomenon and a form of magical technology, it was the Authority of Magic Violet, one of the Ocean Goddess's nemesis in the Divine War and one of the Seven Divine Fathers.
Moreover, with the World Barrier acting as a barrier, the Ocean Eye set up over the fishmen island was actually forcefully created by the Ocean Goddess. It was a pseudo portal that used divine power to break through space to teleport, and it required substantial divine power to operate.
And the seven sea sapphires were the batteries used to power the portal.
To make an inappropriate comparison: if Magic Violet's teleportation authority was an impassable wall, and anyone who wanted to teleport would have to enter it, Xi Wei would have to use the iron wire known as the Transmigration Authority to quietly open the door on the wall, while the Ocean Goddess simply brought a barrel of dynamite to blow up Magic Violet's wall …
That alone showed how unscrupulous the Ocean Goddess, whom Aslan the Great Lion called the Mad Lady, was.
Since the quality of the Ocean Goddess's divine power was vastly different from his own, Xi Wei could hardly quantify the divine power in the sea sapphires according to his own standards.
Still, he realized that the divine power inside was not violent after touching it for a while.
Even if the sea sapphires were destroyed by an external force, the divine power that leaked out would simply dissipate instead of exploding. Naturally, he could not absorb the Ocean Goddess's divine power and could only use it as a battery like before to open the Ocean Eye to release some fishmen onto the fishmen island. Perhaps the Ocean Goddess believed that Xi Wei would only become her subordinate god even if he passed the trial, and the believers of a subordinate god were her believers, which was why she would not let her divine power go berserk and blow up the powerful believers who could find the sea sapphires.
Moreover, since the Ocean Eye's teleportation was essentially tearing through space and had nothing to do with the individual being teleported, the divine power consumed was the same whether it was a fishman commander or a fishman slave.
If the divine power needed to release one fishman was calculated as one point, the total amount of divine power in the seven sea sapphires was around 980,000 points … it far surpassed Xi Wei's own divine power in both quantity and quality.
Xi Wei couldn't help feeling a wave of envy and jealousy when he thought about how the Ocean Goddess could casually throw away so much divine power in a trial that he did not pay much attention to.
Fortunately, just like Rotten Bones that was stuffed into a juicer and continuously squeezed dry, Xi Wei was not completely out of ideas.
He just had to keep releasing some fishmen through the sea sapphires and call upon the Players to farm, kill, and sacrifice them to him. Wouldn't that be equivalent to converting the Ocean Goddess's divine power into his divine power?!
"Releasing a hundred fishmen every day would give me 980,000 points of divine power for nine thousand and eight hundred days. Divided by three hundred and sixty-five, it would be around twenty-seven years of adulthood … No, a year in this world is only around three hundred and twenty days, which means it would last almost thirty years!" If Xi Wei had eyes right now, they might have turned into the shape of coins. "Beep, beep, it's all beep!"
Thirty years was nothing more than the flick of a finger for gods who had almost eternal lifespans. Still, Xi Wei felt that if he could repeatedly jump around the edge of death in the divine realm for thirty years without being killed, he wouldn't fear any god.
There was an old saying that the river flows east for thirty years before it flows west for thirty years. Don't bully a ball of light for being poor.
"In thirty years, becoming a Divine Father from a noob god is just a small goal! I don't believe that the Ocean Goddess could still beat me when the time comes! If she's really that awesome, I'll do a handstand right here and now! "
Be that as it may, a bright future had yet to arrive. For now, Xi Wei had to obediently farm and strengthen himself in his divine kingdom.
After all, there was basically no point in climbing the technological tree in this world. If any god related to physics or chemistry were to get constipated, the technological reserves accumulated over decades of industrial revolution would be rendered useless. The power of the gods themselves was more trustworthy.
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