The hands of time tick away, day and night alternate, and the stars move.

In the blink of an eye, more than a month has passed since the news of the auction was released by Ranhuo Mall.

Oasis No. 2 became visibly lively. Although there were only a few items entrusted by merchants for auction, the revenue of Oasis soared as the number of customers increased.

Everything is going as planned.

Qianqiu worked hard to go out and put up road signs, and Teacher Fang would occasionally come here to inject energy when the CD time of the legendary weapon, the Rumored Phonograph, reached zero.

Two more waves of advertising were launched.

Not only is it propaganda, this mysterious sound that spreads quietly can also serve as a signpost to guide the direction in the eyes of the strong, and can play a role in assisting judgment when passing through the intersections in the inter-domain area.

It's not just Oasis No. 2 that's changed, but also Oasis No. 1 and Blue Star Base Camp.

Spark Oasis No. 1 has now been upgraded to a Level 3 oasis. The area covered by sunlight is slowly expanding, the dead land is growing some green again, and the output of various resource points has increased significantly after upgrading.

According to the information, when the oasis is promoted to level 4, which is the first level of a large oasis, new resource points will be born in the oasis.

...

...

That's still some way off.

Even though the Spark Oasis is still under construction and new people are constantly moving in, it will take at least a three-year plan to operate the oasis to level 4.

The effect may not seem to be significant in the short term, but from a long-term perspective, it is essential to operate a high-level oasis.

It would be better to say that now there are only Oasis No. 1 and No. 2 which are too few.

However, if he had to choose to build Oasis No. 3, Teacher Fang would prefer to choose other large areas. In this way, once the oasis is operated, it can be directly connected to the secret realm passage, so as to quickly cross the large area.

Unlike now, it has to be transported slowly by White Shark-class airships.

"The airship is also a problem. We currently rely on this ship for transportation. If something happens to the White Shark airship, we will be at a loss."

"Well, perhaps we can get this demand from the auction?"

After all, high-level treasures will definitely not be sold with strange crystals, but rather through barter. It depends on which party's item is more valuable and can be used by their organization.

Fang You then turned his gaze to various places on Blue Star.

He knows the situation here very well and can scan the area of ​​thousands of miles at a glance.

"There are 36 development areas that are under construction or have been completed. Most of these areas grow ordinary crops. In this year's environment, crops grow very fast. Those that sowed early have already harvested two crops during this period."

It may seem exaggerated, but it is actually normal.

After the Blue Star was sublimated, the growth rate and yield of the crops planted were already improved. These crop seeds were improved by Liu Chang with her mysterious and natural talents. Many areas also introduced special soil from the Level 3 plantation area, and received the amplification from the branches of the Idora Tree of Life, as well as rituals to assist growth, mysterious fertilizers to promote growth, and so on.

The buffs are fully stacked!

The most important thing is that Blue Star has very vast lands. These vast and fertile lands can be used for planting. Unlike the large oases and super oases, the buildings are crowded with people and it is very difficult to plant anything.

In the Great Oasis, if one is not born into a noble family, a small elite or an elite of the second or third awakening may need to struggle for half a lifetime to buy a decent house in the inner city.

The base city on Blue Star is a bit crowded at the moment, but it is also constantly expanding.

The Shuize base city, which was built the earliest, has already formed a layout of a main urban area and four satellite cities, and has also built a huge wall to protect the entire base city.

The specifications are not as good as Oasis, but they are sufficient.

We have currently withstood two waves of 200,000 to 300,000 people.

In terms of organizational strength, there has been a significant improvement after this period of quiet development.

The legendary skills of Heidao, Xing Jinglei and others have improved and have reached the level of proficiency. An Jianyou has cultivated the third Seven-Star Evil - the Furnace Golem.

At the same time, Sister An leveled up by killing monsters in the shallow level dozens or hundreds of times, and finally accumulated enough mysteries to be promoted to a myth in one fell swoop.

Well, it was a success.

Fang You was watching on site... as a guardian. The days when Sister An screamed incessantly when she awakened as a groundhog were over. Now that she was going through the difficulty of awakening, although she still couldn't help shouting, her voice was much more restrained.

She seemed to be at ease.

After all, An Jianyou has used legendary skills to cultivate two Seven Stars, which has brought her huge rewards, and has also killed countless evil spirits. She is no longer the girl who would be scared to tears by a flesh and blood giant.

She, An Jianyou, the evil killer!

It is a mythical existence that possesses strength, heritage, and will!

Because Liu Shang, Xitina, Qianqiu and others practiced legendary skills diligently, Teacher Fang's actual combat power has also improved significantly.

Unfortunately, it is very difficult for him to truly learn legendary skills.

There was no skill fruit to back it up, and it was a legendary skill that was extremely difficult to learn. In theory, it was impossible to learn it, but in reality...

"Tree of Life (Not Started: 2.3%)"

"Nirvana Holy Fire (Not yet introduced: 2.1%)"

「A dreamlike illusion (not yet started: 0.9%)」

It is rather difficult to practice the Dream Bubble, as one must have a target. Fang You has no choice but to choose Xiao Huan, because Xiao Huan is the mythical combat force that he can most easily call to his side.

This is also good for Xiao Huan. Under his **... training, Xiao Huan's combat level has improved significantly. Although it is still weaker than the average level of Xinhuo, with the skills added to the master level and the pinnacle level, Xiao Huan is now a real mythical combat force.

Weaker myth.

Well, but it’s still stronger than the incarnation of God.

Xiao Huan has made progress, Fang You has learned some skills, and everyone has a bright future.

While practicing his skills and handling official business, Mentor Fang also remembered a general of the organization whom he had almost forgotten.

——Minister of Intelligence, Thousand Faces!

Qianmian has always been wearing a gray robe or showing other guises. To this day, no one knows whether he/she is a man or a woman. He/she is listed as one of the top ten unsolved mysteries of the organization. His/her fighting ability is also a mystery. He/she has never burst out at full strength against the enemy. In other words, during the course of Qianmian's work tasks, he/she has not encountered any enemies worthy of his/her full strength, and the number of times he/she has taken action is very few.

This is normal.

Qianmian's mission is to go deep into the enemy camp. Once he encounters a situation that requires him to burst out with all his strength, he will be in danger.

He/she usually investigates, infiltrates, disguises, and obtains information.

Now the position of Qianmian...

Fang You opened the list of apostles and checked. Uh, the main bodies all went to the Falling Star Imperial City? He also obtained several ritual formation diagrams from some great nobles.

"The importance of the Thousand Faces Quest is extremely high. He/she is fully worthy of having a legendary skill."

“Besides, Qianmian’s actual combat power is not weak. Although there is no record of him fully erupting, he just showed off his skills and shocked Cang Yan, the Lord of the Burning Flame Oasis, who is not weak among the six senses. It can be seen that Qianmian is at least the top among the six senses.”

Most of the core members of the organization now possess legendary skills.

As for the rest, Xiao Huan is still practicing hard. Yin Ling and Wang Chui are too weak and are not fighters at all. There is no need for them to fuse a legendary skill, at least, not at this juncture when destiny points are not abundant.

Pei Hongjing's fighting ability was OK, but he was not keen on fighting, and gradually he was demoted from a front-line combatant to a second-line logistics personnel.

Let's just ignore him for now.

He sent a message to Qianmian, and only used the fusion authority when Qianmian's intelligence gathering work came to a temporary end and returned to a safe area.

One after another, skill light balls emerged from the depths of Thousand Faces' body, manifested themselves, floated up and down, and diffused halos of different colors.

Fang You stretched out his hand.

The palm seemed to have crossed endless space, brushing across one skill light ball after another, and finally touching a few of them. The index finger and middle finger were put together and swiped, like connecting lines on a blackboard, linking all the nine selected skills, talents, and abilities.

Ever-changing! Doll clones!

Puppet manipulation! Phantom clone! Thread manipulation! Mind stealing! Trickster control! Disguise! Concealment!

"My turn! Fusion!"

Qianmian's materials are luxurious among many core personnel, and there are two epic skills. Although many of the blue and green skills are epic materials, it doesn't matter if they are used again, and they can probably integrate changes in different directions.

After using the fusion authority so many times, Master Fang has figured out a lot of things.

Add skills, subtract skills, and find out their success rates.

It can be said that this was his first time to fuse Thousand Faces, but he had already tested the connection of the skill materials on the edge of fusion many times.

Very stable.

But what skills will be integrated?

He stared.

In the field of vision, Qianmian in the dim hut looked like a statue, with only the flickering candlelight illuminating some of his clothes.

Suddenly, the candlelight trembled slightly, and the thousands of shadows cast by it gradually lengthened and twisted strangely like living things.

"bite!"

"Hint: The fusion created the Thousand Faces' unique skill 'Endless Shadow'."

——

"Endless Shadow (Gold)"

"Explanation 1: Thousand Faces can use his own shadow as a basis to split out 'shadow media'. Through these media, Thousand Faces can manipulate the shadows of others, or quietly erode, devour, and replace targets of lower status than him/her. When the shadow media is integrated into the target's shadow and the target has its back turned, the media can also be used to copy the target, perfectly simulating the appearance and inheriting some abilities and memories. To fully inherit, the target must be devoured. The devoured and replaced replica not only has the abilities of the original body, but can also use his/her own skills when Thousand Faces actively controls it."

"Explanation 2: Within a certain range, Thousand Faces can switch between its main body and shadow through shadow medium. At the same time, Thousand Faces can create no more than three core mediums. After the core medium copies and devours the target, it can exert a stronger combat power than the original body. When Thousand Faces' original body dies, it can also be resurrected from the core shadow medium/core copy."

"Note: There is a limit to the number of shadow mediators that Thousand Faces can split, but when the mediator devours and replaces the target, new splitting slots will be vacated."

While reading the skill description, as usual, Teacher Fang copied the skill to his own column.

Suddenly, a huge amount of information poured into my head like surging waves, hitting me like a tide formed by countless fragments of memory.

“This skill…”

“It’s a bit scary!”

It's not a question of whether he is strong or not. In terms of combat power and future ceiling, he may not be as high as the Nether Lord or the Immortal Legion, but this skill is terrifying!

Imagine that when the leader of a certain force ends his retreat and walks out of the quiet room, all the members of the force have been replaced by Qianmian. Everything seems to be normal, but in fact, there is only Qianmian.

The others are all playing different roles.

One person, a thousand faces!

Oh my god! It’s a bit scary just thinking about it.

Oh, Qianmian is one of us? That's fine.

Qianmian's intelligence gathering ability was extremely high. When he was still young, he was able to blend into the cultists. Now...

Fang You stroked his chin.

"Can the legendary skill Endless Shadow replace the minions of the evil god without being discovered by the minions above?"

"You can try. After all, this life-saving ability is too strong. Even the demigod-level Blood Emperor has no way to deal with Qianmian."

so,

The goal of this try is, of course...

Mix in with the Bloody Emperor's troops who were blocking several passages such as the Falling Star Cave.

As for the task of gathering intelligence and obtaining precise information from the Falling Star City, there is no need to abandon this task and we can proceed on two fronts.

"With the endless shadows of Qianmian deployed, the number of shadow incarnations is endless, and there will be no shortage of manpower. Even when Qianmian advances to mythical status or a higher position, he/she can form an intelligence department by himself."

Of course, Teacher Fang is not a devil, and the intelligence department still needs other personnel.

He was just thinking that if Wang Chui and Yin Ling could also learn this skill, Xinhuo would not have to worry about the production of equipment and potions.

"Perhaps, we can ask Qianmian to find some casting masters to copy it, but we must be cautious when it comes to devouring and replacing. This skill cannot be abused. We need to remind Qianmian of this."

It took hundreds of thousands of destiny points to create a skill like this, which can no longer be described as great value.

As for the rest, there is no general that he has forgotten, right?

Probably not.

It seems like there is?

…

Blue Star, Shuize Base City, Xinhuo Training Camp.

One of them is located in a remote place, in a small attic that all passing students look at with admiration, and crackling sounds are heard constantly.

In front of a high-end desktop computer, on an ergonomic chair, there is a black cat with dark fur and a slightly fat head and body squatting. Its eyes are as gorgeous as gems, and it is staring at the computer screen with constantly changing images.

At the same time, black threads spread out from all parts of the black cat's body, twisting and entwining to form relatively thick ropes, just like human fingers constantly operating on a keyboard, and the crackling sound came from this.

quite a while,

When the picture jumped to show the two big words "Victory" and loud cheers, the black cat squatted and leaned back, swinging its tail back and forth, making a comfortable sound.

"18 consecutive wins, worthy of me~!"

"Days like this are so wonderful, meow~!"

It used its invisible hand to open the refrigerator not far away and took out a can of Fat House Happy Water. It unscrewed it skillfully with its invisible hand and brought it to itself, drinking it.

Eating, sleeping and playing games, this is the life a cat should live!

Fighting evil spirits is too tiring, meow.

…

…

Oasis No. 2, Burning Mall.

After two months of development, the city gate on the south side of the mall has now become a fairly large market. There are many awakened people wearing armor and carrying swords, shouting like ordinary vendors, trying hard to fill their wallets.

Most of them are free mercenaries, or Chamber of Commerce guards who are on vacation and looking for ways to increase their income, or strong men from an oasis.

There aren't a lot of them.

The current permanent population of the entire shopping mall may not be as large as that of the Oasis in the neighboring Streetlamp Town, but the bustle of this simple market is ten or even a hundred times that of Streetlamp Town.

After all, there are less than a handful of awakened people in Streetlight Town who are capable of exploring the oasis far away.

Here? Almost everyone has the ability to go deep into the Gray Mist. They hunt evil spirits and look for resources. When they return to the Oasis Mall, they try to sell their gains or sell them directly to the Burning Chamber of Commerce.

That is, the price when selling to the Chamber of Commerce is pushed down too much.

“I didn’t expect that in just two months, this place would become so lively.”

Lot, the leader of the War Mercenaries, exclaimed.

There were many scratches on his armor, his hair was messy, and the sword in his hand was not sheathed. He had just returned from outside and had just crossed the domain.

Well, he took on another business.

Escorting a caravan back to the Broken Sea Red Lotus Empire, and then escorting another caravan to this place. After running back and forth twice, Lot can be said to be experienced.

"When I left, there was no trace of the market. I didn't expect it to change so much. It looks like many people are planning to settle here?"

"But the development of the Burning Mall will also benefit me. We can continue to undertake the escort work from the Red Lotus Empire to the Burning Mall... It is much safer to repeat the same route than to open up a new one."

He saw a business opportunity.

After seeing off the escorted caravan, Lot started chatting with the stall owners in the market, where he found a few familiar faces.

"Captain Lotte, has he made another fortune?"

"It's a small profit, but it can't compare to the big business that Boss Wang does."

"Which caravan are you escorting this time?"

"It can be revealed that they are from the Wutie family and the Vincent family of the Red Lotus Empire. Both families are great lord families with strong financial resources. They are probably here for the auction... Oh, if the auction schedule wasn't so tight, I would have to make a few more trips."

The Broken Sea is different from the Caverns of the Fallen Star.

There are only super oasis countries there, and all large oases and ordinary oases are territories under the jurisdiction of various empires and dynasties, so they are mostly called families and lords.

Although these lord families need to pay tribute to the empire, they have a long history and rich heritage, and their wealth is far greater than that of the Sword Flower City, Wave City-State and other large oases.

The Broken Sea region is a symbol of power.

While they were discussing, the gray fog was rolling in the distance, and another well-equipped team slowly stepped into the oasis area, followed by dozens of cavalrymen. The airship hanging dozens of meters in the sky was shining brightly in the sun.

"It's the Burning Heart, the people from the Kallen family are here!"

"Is that the Kallen family that holds a pivotal position within the Red Lotus Empire? It is said that they have a mythical ancestor!"

"Another powerful caravan has arrived. Judging from the emblem, it's the Guyue Lin family!"

"The Seven Star Alliance, people from the Sixth Star Island are here."

"That must be the Pale Cemetery from the Boneyard Domain. I didn't expect them to come all the way across the domain given their cold personalities."

It seemed as if they had made an appointment. As the two-month deadline approached, one powerful team after another arrived at the Ranhuo Mall.

There are many people with the title of Six Awakening who have made a great name for themselves in various major domains. However, today, these well-known strong men are gathered in this small oasis.

Many mercenary captains were surprised.

The items put up for auction by the Ranhuo Chamber of Commerce seemed... more important than they had imagined.