"Gu Anlei, I'm starting to regret letting you cook!"

Looking at the pot of mixed ingredients in front of him, Jiang Yuan began to question his life choices.

These are ingredients from the Heavenly Spirit Realm, including top-grade Spirit-level large meat mushrooms, top-grade Spirit-level Poria cocos, top-grade Spirit-level Tremella fuciformis, and so on. Yet, all these precious medicinal herbs were just made into a big stew.

"My mom said that stew might not taste very good, but it's definitely the most nutritious!" Gu Anlei explained, blushing, clearly embarrassed by her own masterpiece.

"Hehehe!" Jiang Yuan chuckled dryly. You think I'd believe that?

"Want some drinks? I'll go buy a few bottles of spirit wine!" Gu Anlei earned over 300,000 low-grade holy spirit crystals today, making her a true little rich girl in Hua Sheng.

"Have you forgotten how drunk you were yesterday?" Jiang Yuan asked with a raised eyebrow and a smile.

"Um, that's when I drink with other people. I've never drunk with you before!" Gu Anlei said shyly.

"Alright, then go quickly!"

Jiang Yuan nodded and turned to look at the smart device. Liu Zhaodi still hadn't sent any messages, or even come online, which made him anxious.

"Is she really angry?" Jiang Yuan thought to himself. "No way, she got along quite well with Ning Yanlan last time, why is she reacting so strongly this time!"

"Looks like I'll have to go to the Chaoyuan Chamber of Commerce tomorrow!"

If you make a mistake, admit it; if you get punished, stand at attention.

Huasheng Academy is only about the size of a city. Gu Anlei returned in ten minutes with two jars of fine spirit wine.

"You're addicted to drinking, aren't you? You bought so much!" Jiang Yuan was also overwhelmed when he saw that there was enough alcohol to make half the table drunk.

"The winery is having a promotion today, buy one jar and get one free!" Gu Anlei looked very happy, as if she had gotten a good deal.

Jiang Yuan scoffed at this argument. He thought that the "buy one get one free" deal was just a case of raising the price first and then offering a promotion, so the merchants might not necessarily lose much money.

"Come on!" Gu Anlei excitedly opened a jar of wine, poured herself a glass, and then urged Jiang Yuan to hurry up, "You should fill it up, we're each taking one of these two jars!"

"Playing this big?" Jiang Yuan was slightly surprised.

"Come on, let me toast you! First of all, I want to thank you for meeting me, otherwise I wouldn't be qualified to study at Huasheng Academy!" Gu Anlei said, downing her drink in one gulp.

"Take it easy!"

Jiang Yuan reluctantly accepted Gu Anlei's drinking because they were drinking at home.

"And this second cup!"

Gu Anlei raised her wine glass very seriously and said with a smile, "Thank you for treating me like a younger sister and taking such good care of me along the way, making me happy with money!"

"Ha!" Jiang Yuan was a little embarrassed by what she said; this woman was quite interesting.

"Don't explain, I know you're just trying to get rid of me with money because you're afraid I'll bother you!" Gu Anlei downed the drink in one gulp.

"You usually seem so refined, but you're quite the hearty drinker!" Jiang Yuan teased after saying that. "You're not planning to get drunk and then have me take care of you, are you?"

"Hehehe, no way! Today it's my turn to take care of you!" Gu Anlei laughed without any regard for her image.

Seeing her like this, Jiang Yuan had no choice but to drink with her.

Just as he had imagined, Gu Anlei got drunk in less than an hour, alternating between crying and laughing, and started chatting incessantly.

"Phew, I actually believed your lies!"

Jiang Yuan looked at Gu Anlei, who was completely drunk, and was speechless. "You're still taking care of me like this? You should be able to take care of yourself!"

Seeing that Gu Anlei was somewhat delirious, he could only carry her back to bed to rest before going back to eat his medicinal meal.

"Gu Anlei just mentioned the Apocalypse World!"

As Jiang Yuan ate, he thought about the Apocalypse World that Zhao Di had mentioned to him earlier that day. A topic that Liu Zhao Di brought up so seriously must be extraordinary.

"Let's try going to Tianqi!"

He activated his AI and began logging into Apocalypse. The Apocalypse Network was open to the entire battlefield. Although he did not yet have a formal human identity, his information was still present in Apocalypse.

He had always regarded Apocalypse as the information network of the past, but the information revealed by Gu Anlei today showed that Apocalypse was not as simple as it seemed on the surface.

This time, he didn't just log in with his ID; he chose to infuse his soul energy into the Apocalypse. Gradually, he was able to sense the entire world vein it was attached to through the Apocalypse. The feeling was extremely strange, as if he had entered another world.

"Another world!"

Jiang Yuan's pupils trembled; he seemed to have found the location of the Apocalypse World!

"Enter!"

The Soul of Mending Heaven received an instruction and immediately began to drill into the world vein to which Apocalypse resided. The next second, it succeeded, but not completely.

"To enter the Apocalypse World, one needs to pay divine blood energy to condense a basic spiritual body. After the spiritual body dies, it needs to be condensed again using divine blood energy!"

Jiang Yuan: "..."

I never imagined that going online would not only require paying for internet access, but now I also have to pay a membership fee, otherwise I can't even enter the Apocalypse World.

"How much divine blood energy?" Jiang Yuan asked directly.

Apocalypse is intelligent because it is attached not only to the entire world vein but also to the entire battlefield rules. In other words, Apocalypse is the embodiment of the will of this battlefield and the control center of the entire Imperial Star.

"The amount of divine blood energy required varies depending on the target's level! The target entity has been detected to be at the True Spirit Realm Stage 1, and the spirit body has no level. One hundred points of divine blood energy are required."

The mechanical prompt made Jiang Yuan frown. He didn't know if this was a one-time entry fee or a lifetime fee, but judging from the battlefield rules, it was most likely the former, otherwise they wouldn't have emphasized that it changed according to level.

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