novelraw Chapter 1717 1721: How Did I Become So Money-Oriented
Chapter 1717 1721: How Did I Become So Money-Oriented
"I told you but you wouldn't listen. When you get yourself killed in the trial, don't blame me for not warning you." The young man didn't really seem that malicious; he just wanted to remind Zhang Menglong. But the way he talked was full of barbs.
"Relax, even if you die I still won't, thanks for the reminder." Zhang Menglong immediately lost interest in him, took out his Heavenly Pride Order and started studying it. His Heavenly Pride Order had already turned emerald green, looking just like a Jade Pendant. He had no idea how this pretentious little recorder was made to have such a magical effect.
"A green Heavenly Pride Order!?" The young man originally didn't want to bother with Zhang Menglong anymore, but the moment he saw the Heavenly Pride Order in Zhang Menglong's hand, his pupils instantly dilated several times over. He sneaked a glance at his own Heavenly Pride Order—although it wasn't fully transparent, it only had a faint trace of light yellow on it.
He of course knew what the Heavenly Pride Order actually did. He wasn't from the direction of the Skyless Realm, otherwise he would definitely have recognized Zhang Menglong. He also came from a Ninth Grade Empire, and on the route they took there was a very special area, occupied by a group of desperadoes who would launch crazy attacks on anyone passing through.
When he passed through there, he made quite a splash by relying on the four Ninth Grade Divine Cultivator experts he brought along, so his Heavenly Pride Order had accumulated a bit of fortune for him—but just a tiny bit.
The density of fortune on Zhang Menglong's Heavenly Pride Order was enough to make his scalp go numb. It was said that if the whole Heavenly Pride Order turned yellow, that meant the person's fortune was one-in-ten-thousand at least!
If it turned green, that basically meant among hundreds of millions of people, this one's fortune was the most prosperous, the most outstanding!
The fortune on a Heavenly Pride Order wasn't decided purely by personal strength; luck actually accounted for the majority of it.
There had once been someone who, on the way to the selection site, obtained a heaven-defying opportunity, and by the time he arrived his entire Heavenly Pride Order had turned deep blue! And his realm was only Divine Breath Fourth Grade. Not exactly weak, but definitely not some peerless genius either.
Later people found out that on his journey he'd met a Dao Realm expert on the verge of death and obtained that man's lifetime inheritance and legacy!
Zhang Menglong's fortune still couldn't compare to that king of luck, but it was definitely one-in-a-billion level. Who knew how many people stronger than him didn't have this kind of fortune? Who knew what he'd gone through on the way?
But from the outside, Zhang Menglong didn't even have the slightest ripple of Divine Breath!
And in the early stages of body refinement, a Martial Artist's growth was much slower than that of someone cultivating Divine Breath. It was mainly a process of thick accumulation and thin eruption. Although body refinement Martial Artists of the same level would be stronger, with the same amount of effort they'd at least be two levels behind. In his opinion, for someone Zhang Menglong's age, having a Third Grade Spiritual Body was already pretty good.
Looking at it like this, his background was probably terrifying. After all, besides a few freaks with heaven-defying luck, before reaching this Hong Yun Empire, what these youngsters were really competing on was background and family.
He immediately reined in his frivolous attitude. "Brother, I was blind just now, I take back what I said. May I ask how to address you and where you're from?"
"I'm Gu Tianle, Crown Prince of the Ritian Empire." Zhang Menglong had absolutely no good impression of this guy earlier, so he didn't really care about his sudden change of attitude.
"I'm from the Longyang Empire," the young man introduced himself. "My name is Long Sen, a Prince of the Longyang Empire. I just saw that Brother's Heavenly Pride Order has already turned green, looks like you've been sweeping through everything along your way here."
"Sweeping through everything is an exaggeration." Zhang Menglong could obviously hear the rainbow farts in Long Sen's tone. "I just went to a place called the Skyless Realm, killed two of the Three Giants, made friends with the last one, and then earned over a hundred million Heavenly Pride transmission fees, that's all."
In just a few words, he'd basically covered what he'd been doing these last few days.
"You came from the direction of the Skyless Realm?" Long Sen's expression grew even more shocked.
There were hundreds, even thousands of routes leading to this Hong Yun Empire. Long Sen had done tons of homework before setting off. He'd directly ruled out some directions because those routes passed through extremely dangerous regions—regions where even with four Ninth Grade Divine Cultivator bodyguards, he couldn't guarantee his safety a hundred percent.
The Skyless Realm was one of those regions!
The Skyless Realm housed three Ninth Grade Peak Divine Cultivator experts. The situation was chaotic and danger lurked everywhere. Not only in Long Sen's mind, but in the minds of everyone who'd received a Heavenly Pride Order, it was a complete trouble zone.
Honestly, if time hadn't been an issue, or the detour too big and energy-consuming, out of those 1.5 billion people, a huge portion would probably have chosen other directions to head to the Hong Yun Empire.
Coming from that place, just surviving was already impressive. If you could even make some kind of name for yourself, the fortune you'd gain would definitely be considerable.
But Zhang Menglong had killed two Giants and befriended the last one—that was basically sweeping the entire Skyless Realm! Long Sen knew he himself neither had the strength nor the guts to pull that off.
If he hadn't seen that green Heavenly Pride Order with his own eyes, he wouldn't have believed Zhang Menglong had that kind of ability.
"With skills like yours, Brother, you're easily in the top thousand among all current Heavenly Prides!"
"Only top thousand?" Zhang Menglong finally gave Long Sen a proper look. He'd thought with his record, even if he couldn't crack the top ten, top thirty or fifty shouldn't be asking too much, right?
"Hahaha, Brother Gu, that's already really good." Seeing that Zhang Menglong was finally talking to him, Long Sen's mouth loosened up. "You don't know this, but my royal brother took part in the last selection for superpower disciples. Although he wasn't chosen in the end, he still came back alive and even brought back a lot of useful intel."
"Their batch wasn't as big as this one, but when they reached the rendezvous point, there were over 1300 people whose Heavenly Pride Orders had turned green, more than 200 that turned blue, and even 7 whose Heavenly Pride Orders turned red!"
"That's actually pretty insane." He'd done all that and his Heavenly Pride Order only turned green. What kind of earth-shattering, heaven-crying operations did those blue and red ones pull off?
"Did they save the world?" Zhang Menglong asked exaggeratedly.
"Not that dramatic," Long Sen said. "I don't know the details either, but according to my royal brother, there was this guy whose Heavenly Pride Order turned red. The hub he passed through was where Heavenly Prides were the most concentrated—no less than 1.5 billion people passed through there on the way to the final competition site—and he did something that made everyone grit their teeth in hatred."
"Spill it, I'm listening." Zhang Menglong was getting more and more interested. Just what do you have to do to make people hate you that much?
"Rumor has it he brought two bodyguards whose strength surpassed Divine Cultivators, and in a single night, turned all 1.5 billion people's hair into Mediterranean style. He directly offended every Heaven's Chosen out there. That wasn't accumulating fortune anymore, that was straight-up courting death!"
"Now that's a talent!" Zhang Menglong said. "That's not accumulating fortune, that's literally destroying your reputation! Is that something a human with actual feelings would do?"
"Holy shit! md!" Zhang Menglong slapped his thigh. "I was too hasty. How did I not think of these insane plays back then? How did I fall into that money trap! I should've stolen everyone's underwear instead!"