Let them offer their loyalty!-Chapter 1461 - 627: Zhao Ji Arrives!

Actually, Qiu Tu didn't really care much about his own reputation.

After all, "lecherous" was just his public persona.

What he DID care about was this! He'd already taken the blame, but hadn't had a single bit of fun!

When he first crossed over, Yan Chen almost killed him, and he even slept with her wife's clone once!

Now he's just taking the blame, not enjoying anything—what a rip-off!

At this moment, just as Qiu Tu was thinking about this, "Candle Dance" seemed to sense him. The "Uncompromising Simulacrum" that looked exactly like Qiu Tu suddenly froze.

The next second, "he" turned around and glanced at Qiu Tu, then laughed and handed the pipe to a nearby alien beauty. After that—smack!—"he" gave that naked alien beauty a slap on the butt, then said,

"Alright. Someone's looking for me. You guys head out for now."

When they heard "Uncompromising Simulacrum," the alien beauties still wanted to indulge in "Qiu Tu's" charm and wealth, so every one of them looked visibly disappointed.

They gave the jackal standing at the door a plaintive look, then pouted and swayingly made their reluctant exit from the room.

Soon, the room was left with just Candle Dance, Uncompromising Simulacrum, Muye, and the jackal.

Maybe realizing she'd gotten a bit out of hand lately, Candle Dance clearly felt a little guilty.

So once there were no outsiders, her main body quickly stood up from the chair, giggled twice, and called out, "New daddy. You're here?"

Seeing the dancing girls leave and the door locked, Qiu Tu slowly stepped out from the jackal's shadow.

He was already tall to begin with, and on top of that, after holding authority for years, he'd developed an aura, so when he slowly emerged from the shadow, he instantly commanded the whole scene.

As soon as he stood up, the jackal quickly bowed and got out of the way.

Once there was nothing between him and Candle Dance, Qiu Tu looked at the "Heavenly God Reincarnation" standing before him and asked with a poker face, "Your Grace Candle Dance, have you been having fun lately?"

Candle Dance, hearing that, immediately forced a laugh on the face identical to Shen Lingshuang's, "Not bad, not bad."

"In my past life I always wanted to experience all these brothels and pleasure houses, but never had the chance. Now I finally did."

Saying that, she even sighed, "Turns out, a night of love is the best—two hours can work too."

"The only pity is these fleeting loves are all pay-per-use. If only it were free…"

Qiu Tu: ….

This dumbass Evil God, what the hell kind of weirdo is this? What's even in that head? She actually wants to freeload for real?!

With that thought, Qiu Tu grumbled, "So why don't you play with your own true body? Why use my 'Uncompromising Simulacrum' to have fun?"

Hearing Qiu Tu, Candle Dance almost rolled her eyes to the ceiling.

She said, "You think I want to~? It's all to help you keep up appearances!"

"I'm, like, the dignified Deputy Speaker's daughter, a Heavenly God Reincarnation. How could I be doing this sort of indecent stuff? That's so off-brand for me!"

"Compared to that, with your reputation, it totally makes sense."

As she spoke, Candle Dance seemed to get more and more confident. She raised her chin, put her hands on her hips, and said brashly, "Besides. You think coming to 'Shuangxi Building' every night is cheap?"

"Every night after I'm done playing, I have to run out really far during the day, find a few random wild deities in another city, kill them, and bring their corpses back to turn into 'Boundless Divine Crystals.'"

"Otherwise, I wouldn't even have enough for a night at 'Shuangxi Building'."

Qiu Tu: …...6.

The 'core area' is split into four big nations, so there's no unified currency either.

As a result, the lower classes still trade with gold and silver, while the upper circles settle accounts with 'Boundless Divine Crystals'.

The main sources of 'Boundless Divine Crystals' are threefold.

First, when a deity falls.

Compared to the 'Edge Region,' where deities are scarce, the 'core area' has a higher concentration of Cataclysmic Power, making spiritual wisdom emerge more easily, so there are more deities here.

And whenever a deity dies, it'll leave behind 'Boundless Divine Crystals'. This means that the 'core area' continually gets supplied with new 'Boundless Divine Crystals'.

The second source is certain Cataclysmic Materials and Catastrophe beings that possess special positional frames.

The birth of 'Boundless Divine Crystals' requires two things: a high density of Cataclysmic Power, and a positional frame recognized by the world—even a broken positional frame will do.

And given how long the core area has existed, there have always been some beings or Cataclysmic Materials that, for various reasons, got contaminated by or absorbed a positional frame.

So, after they died, they too would become special 'Boundless Divine Crystals'.

Generally speaking, these special 'Boundless Divine Crystals' are even more valuable than the ordinary kind.

The third—and largest—source of 'Boundless Divine Crystals' is… the 'Boundless Divine Crystal' veins.

You heard right. Boundless Divine Crystals have veins, just like ore.

Over the years, all four countries have discovered all sorts of big and small 'Boundless Divine Crystal' veins, and with the gods and various organizations mining them, they've dug up tons of the stuff. 𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂

The quality of these 'Boundless Divine Crystals' varies, but generally doesn't exceed Rank Seven.

As for how the veins form, plenty of organizations have analyzed this.

The consensus is that these veins are often found at ancient battlefields or sites of great disasters from ancient times.

The theory goes: Many years ago, maybe a great war swept the entire 'core area,' causing countless deities to fall.

At the time, all the bodies that turned into 'Boundless Divine Crystals' were scavenged, but those with positional frames but lacking in strength got left behind.

Afterwards, these corpses and the bodies of ordinary Catastrophe beings ended up buried deep underground.

As years went by, the Cataclysmic Power in those corpses built up, and the ordinary Catastrophe beings' bodies slowly got tainted with the "positional frame" aura of the dead deities—eventually, they all transformed into 'Boundless Divine Crystal' veins.

The mass-disaster theory makes even more sense.

That's where an area is suddenly struck by a disaster, and the deities can't escape in time, so they all get buried below. Eventually, they become 'Boundless Divine Crystals.'

And since 'Boundless Divine Crystals' are pretty much the highest-grade Cataclysmic Material in this world—good for paying for Cataclysmic abilities, boosting a Catastrophe being's power, and using in all sorts of Cataclysmic treasures—they're the hard currency of the 'Boundless Heart Sea – core region.' The most precious form of money, too.

That's also why Candle Dance, if she's broke, has to run out and kill a couple Evil Gods for brothel money…

Looking at it this way, the "Heavenly God Reincarnation" really is putting in the effort just to hang out in brothels…