Early the next morning, Ding Ren yawned, opened his phone, and checked the current auction price of the heavenly thunder staff he had listed.

He searched through his listed items column and discovered that he couldn't find the heavenly thunder staff he had listed at all!

"Huh? Where is the item I listed?"

He suddenly felt nervous, carefully recalling the details of listing it on the Trading Market. He had indeed entrusted the heavenly thunder staff to the trading house and chosen to auction it.

After searching carefully, he found the heavenly thunder staff in the sold items column. Looking at the selling price, the nearly one million views on the product page, and the countless private messages—which included not only various individual players, merchant guilds, and official institutions, but even organizations he had never heard of—Ding Ren couldn't help but hold his breath.

In the sold price column, it clearly stated two hundred thousand, with a small note marked outside: Ceiling acquisition!

"Am I still dreaming?"

He rubbed his eyes and looked at the bottom right corner of the screen, where his account balance showed an increase of exactly two hundred thousand credit points.

This sudden influx of credit points left Ding Ren stunned. He stood there blankly, and it took a long time for him to react. He hurriedly transferred the credit points to Qi Ye's account and sent a message.

In the Sacred Lake District, by the lake, several Green Water Lizards were floating on the surface of the Sacred Lake, swimming happily. A younger Green Water Lizard was playing by the shore with a few Flame-tailed Fox pups.

Qi Ye was standing at the bridgehead, preparing to see off a group of Animal Warriors heading out to hunt.

There were twenty animals in this group, all of whom had reached Tier 3 or above and wanted to further improve their strength. They included Azure Ice Rats, Flame-tailed Foxes, Horned Bunnys, and the Green Water Lizard that had recently joined the territory, Green Skin.

With the Follower teleportation Skill, the animals in the territory could travel far from home to farm stronger monsters and level up.

To avoid the Corrupt Dragon's prying eyes, they chose to head northwest of the territory.

Unlike the territory defense work, they were all going out to grind levels.

Green Bean had specifically posted special quests for Tier 3 animals to accept. All animals participating in the expedition would receive a sum of contribution points as a reward.

According to Chocolate's scouting, about three hundred kilometers northwest of the territory, there were many Tier 3 and higher monsters, and quite a few Tier 4 ones as well.

These were all experience points for the animals.

Green Skin was large and could easily knock aside the trees along the way, making it suitable for clearing a path. the animals were all sitting on its back. Various bags of dry rations and abundant water supplies were hung on both its sides.

Although they could open a teleportation gate to return to the territory to replenish food and other resources at any time, the supplies needed for the expedition still had to be prepared in advance; after all, going back and forth would still take some time.

"Hiss! Is everything we need to bring ready?" Green Skin turned its head and said to the animals sitting on its back.

"Everything is ready!"

"Oh no, wait, I forgot to bring my favorite dried radishes!" A Horned Bunny suddenly slapped its head and was about to jump off Green Skin when its companion reached out and grabbed it.

"All you think about is eating! I specifically brought double the dried radishes; that should be enough for you. Next time we teleport back to replenish resources, you can just bring your own share then."

"You're so good to me!" The Horned Bunny looked at its companion with teary eyes.

"Hmph! I'm like this with everyone!" The companion turned its head away, acting aloof.

The other animals sitting on its back all wore meaningful smiles.

Rat One sat on Green Skin's head and waved his little hand at Qi Ye, who was seeing them off: "Lord, we are setting off!!"

"Go on!" Qi Ye replied with a smile. Because they had the Follower teleportation Skill, they could return at any time. If they really encountered danger, they could also return to the territory to ask for help at any time, so Qi Ye was not worried about their safety.

The number of uses for this Skill was related to the charging of the territory's teleportation gate. The entire territory shared the number of uses for Follower teleportation, which could be activated one hundred times a day. Given the current situation of the territory, under normal operation, there was no need to worry about the teleportation gate overloading.

This restriction, it was said, was only known to Qi Ye because a few little brats had gone wild yesterday, constantly using the teleportation Skill to play some kind of hoop-jumping game, which caused the teleportation gate to temporarily crash.

Of course, the little brat who led it was grabbed by the ears and severely disciplined by its Horned Bunny parents, who then took it around to apologize to everyone.

the animals that saw it all said its bottom had been whipped red, and its eyes looked much clearer than before.

For the long-term development of the territory, Green Bean issued a new regulation: do not use the teleportation gate indiscriminately unless necessary. The other animals all agreed.

Watching this first expeditionary force of animals leave the territory and head toward the monster gathering place in the northwest, Qi Ye nodded in satisfaction.

He flapped his wings and flew north along the stone bridge, arriving at the Enhancement Facility.

Since the territory rules were promulgated, the enthusiasm of the animals had been much higher than before, but the various expenses of the territory had also risen significantly.

Daily maintenance, item distribution, and procurement, etc., all required the consumption of resources.

Now the territory only had two thousand credit points left, and the item inventory was depleted.

He wondered how the matter he had entrusted to Ding Ren was progressing.

Without capital, he couldn't afford items, couldn't dismantle them to obtain otherworld essence, and ultimately couldn't enhance items to make money.

Qi Ye was a bit worried. He hopped to the large cauldron in the Enhancement Facility and took out the trading box he carried with him, wanting to ask Ding Ren about the situation with the heavenly thunder staff.

He urgently needed these thirty thousand credit points as initial capital to get the territory's funds flowing.

Just as he opened the trading box, he saw the message Ding Ren had sent at a glance.

"Lord! The heavenly thunder staff you entrusted me to sell has been sold! A full two hundred thousand credit points!" The message Ding Ren sent could not hide his excitement.

Looking at his account balance turn into 202,000, Qi Ye gasped. He had never seen so much money before.

"Holy crap, I've become rich overnight!"

He felt as if his whole bird body had entered a whirlwind, and he was happily soaring through the clouds.

Hehe! With two hundred thousand credit points, he could buy hundreds of c-rank items to dismantle. The otherworld essence and crystals obtained from dismantling could then be used for enhancement and sold again!

After a quick calculation, so many items could be dismantled into 400 to 500 units of otherworld essence, as well as a large amount of otherworld crystal.

Enhancing an a-rank item required ten of each essence, totaling 50, while an s-rank required 500. If he sold the excess otherworld crystal and then traded and dismantled, leaving only the portion needed for enhancement, it should be enough to enhance five a-rank items and one s-rank item.

A single s-rank item, the heavenly thunder staff, was worth this much; how much would a sellable supreme-class item be worth?