Chapter 886: Who's Making a Killing

Xu Zhi sat in his huge study. As he turned off the internet, his expression instantly became peculiar.

Why did everyone want to attack Reinigen?

What had he ever done to them?

The Mechanical Pillar God felt that he had developed sufficiently. He believed victory would be effortless as long as he, as a member of the Iron-Based Race, could stabilize the opponent and then consume the land to transform its inhabitants into zombies.

The players also felt very capable, thinking they could win by tricking and consuming this land to convert the entire race.

Xu Zhi's expression remained calm. "They truly believe that the civilizations here are all country bumpkins, and that a mere native Ninth-Tier trash can be defeated in minutes."

But what about the civilization from over 100,000 years ago in this area?

Xu Zhi didn't know.

While the current civilizations here were indeed not strong, that was true, but...

Xu Zhi left the large study, walked out of the villa, and looked towards the Cosmic Garden.

This thriving land, larger than Earth, was now extremely prosperous, with lush flora and rampant exotic beasts, resembling a deep, ancient forest fraught with extreme danger.

Endless turbulent storms swept through, occasionally bringing cosmic rays from shattered spacetime, while violent electromagnetic fields constantly scoured the sky.

Clusters of plants, adapting to this harsh environment, were ready to uproot themselves and move away from impending energy storm zones at any moment.

Xu Zhi narrowed his eyes slightly. "Creatures evolved in this environment are truly mobile... Medusa is here, playing with the Plant Pillar God, and those few little guys brought in from outside..."

Medusa's era was too distant; although she had never encountered the Pillar God virus before, she was now studying it with great interest.

After all, the structure and knowledge of the Pillar Gods were enough to keep her engrossed in research for a while, and deeply immersed, she couldn't be bothered with what was happening outside.

Throughout the Cosmic Garden, many mobile plants had been infected, and this plant-type Pillar God was almost becoming the gardener of the entire garden.

"Such plants are good plants."

At this moment, the Plant Race Pillar God watched the plants running everywhere, dodging spacetime electromagnetic storms, and thought that perhaps being controlled by that terrifying evil demon god wasn't necessarily a bad thing.

"If my plants back then could also have escaped and hidden in inner space, they wouldn't have been hit by the planet-destroying cannon, and I wouldn't have been destroyed so quickly."

Xu Zhi watched them develop quietly, not paying too much attention.

His avatar detached, left the Cosmic Garden, and flew towards the entire Superlative Planet Byrd.

His avatar was now human-sized.

After all, this was the normal size for a proper avatar; previously, it had been suppressed. Although an avatar of this size required massive energy support, Xu Zhi no longer lacked energy, as he was already on the path to the Ninth-Tier, requiring only self-breakthrough with no further energy demands.

Whoosh.

Xu Zhi gently passed through the atmosphere, silently descending onto the planet.

It was a city with black stone walls, towering to the clouds, more than thirty stories high, reaching straight into the sky when looked up at.

This was truly a city of a transcendent world.

Sturdy, tall, and massive, it could be called a continuous mountain range rather than just a city wall. Even ordinary gods could not breach or tear down the wall in an instant.

Walking down the street, Xu Zhi saw from a distance a dazzling white beam of light, within which stood the magnificent and heroic figure of a beautiful woman.

Along the streets, nobles rode on massive, ferocious beasts, while armored war knights occasionally passed by.

But the atmosphere was already different.

"This Gatling Buddhist staff seems interesting."

"The Tesla Coil Headband, a Dharma artifact of the Buddhist Beast Taming Sect, can actually hunt giant beasts. Perhaps I should try it."

In front of the War Guild, many people were excitedly conversing.

"Anyone want to team up and go to the Edge of Forbidden Mountains to hunt fierce beasts and level up?"

"We need a warrior!"

"Monster grinding for leveling up" was a term from the online games of the adjacent technological planet.

Don't let the ancient appearance fool you; the nobles here knew how to enjoy themselves. They could secretly acquire various single-player games and novel items from the other planet for entertainment and relaxation.

It was just that life for the lower classes was very difficult and arduous.

After all, this was a transcendent civilization that valued individualism and worshipped heroism; the "wealth" gap could no longer be described merely as huge.

At the same time, "monster grinding for leveling up" was also a fashionable term pursued by the nobles.

After all, there was no need for strenuous cultivation; "grinding monsters" could yield energy, allowing them to purchase levels and advance their realms.

This was simply a god-like miracle!

In front of the War Guild, someone shouted:

"Our young master wants to hire a five-person team to hunt monsters and level up! The reward is generous. We require Fifth-Tier and above, with priority for stronger individuals! Since we'll be hunting Venommist Spiders, priority will be given to those with Agility above 160! If you're here to check, please display your system panel and character attributes first!"

"I'm in!"

Instantly, countless people surged forward.

Xu Zhi was slightly taken aback.

"Even some nobles were hiring others to help them level up by monster grinding."

"It's as if I'm seeing wealthy players in online games hiring studio boosters to help them level up." Xu Zhi's face darkened slightly.

This was practically transforming into a "data-driven" reality, moving towards the direction of a real-life online game.

In reality, it wasn't that these nobles' families couldn't afford the energy; they wanted to hunt for energy while also practicing combat skills and so on.

"I even bothered to come to the library here to research before the players arrived. This was a perfectly serious transcendent world, and suddenly it's..." Xu Zhi was helpless; as soon as these players started messing around, the entire style was bound to go completely awry.

Monster grinding, leveling up, teaming, combat.

Buying from the system shop...

"After all, compared to arduous cultivation, monster grinding for leveling up is much faster. Nobody wants to work that hard..." Xu Zhi's expression was calm.

"But do they not realize that 'leveling up' results in a very weak realm? Of course, they know, but most ordinary people believe they have no cultivation talent... Leveling up is naturally better. What if they break through at a weaker state compared to their peers? They can simply overpower lower-ranked opponents!"

However, there were still some highly talented individuals who chose not to level up, as that would make their realm unstable and too weak; instead, they cultivated step by step.

But it must be said, this had opened up a new cultivation system: the monster grinding and leveling-up system.

"Looking at it this way, this batch of players made a huge profit... A large number of them must have reached VIP8 and become gods... They really hit the jackpot." Xu Zhi's expression grew even calmer.

They profited immensely, turning those people into gods for their entire race...

But did Xu Zhi lose out?

Xu Zhi was the biggest winner.

Because by pulling them into high-dimensional spacetime, it was equivalent to transforming them into Zerg...

And with the addition of so many Zerg gods...

"They thought they made a killing, draining blood, flesh, and property, and by VIP8, even turning people into their own... But in reality? They were turning into my Zerg."

Xu Zhi was extremely calm, so he allowed them to be drawn into the Zerg.

And at this moment, Xu Zhi felt for the first time that it wasn't so bad for this group of individuals to arrive in a world, drastically change its style, and cause all sorts of chaos...

"At least they're not messing with my world, but rather these natives..." Xu Zhi took a deep breath, his eyes flashing as he looked towards a certain palace. "The technological side next door has already been explored; naturally, I should also take a look at the transcendent side. Perhaps I can find some records and remnants concerning Reinigen."

Even the technological side had remnants and fragments of Reinigen. What about here?

Xu Zhi was quite expectant; after all, a bit of research was always good. He was also contemplating how to resolve the issue with his Iron-Based Life Giant avatar.