After looking at the system panel, Lin Qianqian quickly told the others about the new rule.
After listening, everyone remained silent for a while before Luo Zexuan broke the silence first: "The new rules seem simple and clear, but I always feel that they are not so easy."
Chu Zhou chewed on his fingers for a while, thinking, before replying, "After all, the mall has been upgraded, so it's normal for the rules to change. If I'm not mistaken, we should have passed the novice period. Before, when we traded one jin of rice with someone, it was considered a completed transaction, and the calculation was simple. Now, it's not necessarily the case. It might be that 10 jin of rice is only worth one transaction value, or it might be worth 100 transaction values. Different planes, different situations, different values. The definition of transaction value is definitely the result of a comprehensive assessment of multiple factors."
Beginner stage?
Lin Qianqian suddenly remembered something and quickly ran to ask the system, "System, were we in a newbie protection period before?"
"Yes, the host had incredible luck during the trial and drew the intermediate-level plane, Immortal Abyss Realm. Subsequent plane crossings and transactions were all in low-level, low-energy planes. This is the system's protection for novice hosts and the shop. Otherwise, why do you think you were so lucky in the world of superpowers and encountered the righteous and kind Enlightenment Squad?"
"That kind of trial is called having incredible luck?" Lin Qianqian looked incredulous, but now was not the time to bring up the past.
"Now that the mall has been upgraded, does that mean that from this plane onwards, all those traveling to are mid-to-high-level planes?"
"No, host. After the newbie protection period ends, dimensional travel is random. Low-level, mid-level, and high-level dimensional travel—which dimensional you travel to is randomly selected, and the system will not specifically control it. Unless there is a dimensional consciousness that makes a special contact, it's all up to fate. The dimensional you have traveled to now is currently a low-level dimensional."
"Temporarily?" Lin Qianqian grasped a key word.
Is it about to upgrade or downgrade its dimensional level?
"Host, this is not something you should be concerned about. Please focus your attention back on interdimensional transactions."
"Then could you at least give me a brief explanation of the different levels of planes? I'm your host, and you wouldn't want your host to be an ignorant person, would you? That would make you lose face."
Lin Qianqian used a little reverse psychology tactic.
"Alright, let me explain a few more points. As energy is utilized and developed, the plane level will change. What you experienced before, except for the Immortal Abyss Realm, were all low-level planes. Worlds like the Immortal Abyss Realm, rich in spiritual energy or filled with magical elements, belong to mid-level planes. And high-level planes..."
The system paused for a few seconds, then said, "You'll have to experience it for yourself when you encounter it!"
The system only got halfway through its sentence, and Lin Qianqian felt a little upset. Just as she was about to ask more questions, she heard someone calling her.
"Qianqian, Qianqian, what's wrong?"
It turned out that she had been distracted by chatting with the system, which appeared to others as her suddenly spacing out.
As time went on, people started to worry, thinking something had happened.
"It's nothing, I just chatted with the system for a bit longer."
As he spoke, he recounted his conversation with the system verbatim.
Then, with concern, he asked, "With our current strength, can we complete the transaction mission if we travel to a higher dimension?"
No one could answer the question at the moment, and just then, the mainframe announced that the ship had approached the island, and the topic was abruptly ended.
Lin Qianqian instructed the mainframe to find a suitable place to dock, while she and Yunze went ashore to investigate the situation, and the others stayed on the ship.
After the two flew away on their swords, Chu Zhou instructed the mainframe to activate the protective shield and to keep a close watch on the nearby sea area.
The two landed on the beach outside the island, walked a short distance forward, and then unleashed their divine senses.
Yunze immediately realized something was wrong. He took a few more steps toward the island and then stopped.
He slowly raised one of his hands and tentatively stretched it forward. Just as his arm was about to straighten, his palm touched a transparent wall.
Lin Qianqian turned her head and asked, "Can you solve this?"
"It's not a big problem."
Yunze was more knowledgeable and proficient in barrier formations than she was, so the question was naturally left to him.
He placed his hand on the transparent barrier and carefully sensed it, adjusting his own spiritual energy fluctuations to match the barrier, and slowly passed through it.
After Yunze passed through, the scenery he saw was completely different from what he saw outside.
He turned around and stretched his hand out of the barrier, covering Lin Qianqian's entire body with his adjusted spiritual energy, pulling her into the barrier as well.
Upon entering, the two were astonished by the density of spiritual energy on the island; it was far more concentrated than outside.
Yunze felt that the spiritual energy here was similar to that of the main peaks or secret realms of some major sects in the Immortal Abyss Realm, which was the world of cultivation!
Lin Qianqian took a deep breath of spiritual energy, and her cultivation technique quickly began to circulate.
She particularly loved this place teeming with life, even the spiritual energy she inhaled tasted sweet.
Sweet?
She turned her head to look at herself and then realized that the sensation under her feet was wrong.
He crouched down, grabbed a handful of sand, and took a closer look.
"Yunze, look what this is!"
As she spoke, she handed him the pale yellow "sand" in her hand.
Yunze looked at it carefully, then smelled it, and said uncertainly, "Is this candy?"
After saying that, he looked at the ground, still somewhat uncertain. He picked up a little bit with his hand and put it in his mouth, wanting to taste if it was candy, but Lin Qianqian stopped him.
Don't eat random things.
After she finished speaking, she waved her hand, and a golden-brown bear cub, about half a person's height, with smooth fur, appeared at her feet.
This is her pet Earth Bear, Sailor Moon.
When they first came out, Lin Qianqian brought it along, since it was a level nine alien beast that needed to be trained and couldn't be kept as a pet.
When Sailor Moon came out, Lin Qianqian said to it, "Sailor Moon, smell if that's candy on the ground?"
Some of the bear cubs, not quite understanding what was going on, followed the sweet smell, bent down, grabbed a handful of "sand," licked it, then widened their eyes and quickly stuffed all the sand in their hands into their mouths.
"Hey, I let you smell it, not eat it!" Lin Qianqian's intervention came too late.
Immediately, Lin Qianqian heard it calling out through the pet contract: "Sweet, sweet, so delicious."
Lin Qianqian sighed, "This glutton, does she even remember she's a mother bear? Mind your image!"
The reason for letting it out was to let it use its instinct to love sweets to help distinguish whether something is sugary.
It turns out this guy talks faster than he thinks, and he's not even afraid of poison.
Never mind this glutton; at least she has antidote pills on hand, so there shouldn't be any major problems.
Turning around to observe the beach more closely, I noticed a clear dividing line on the ground.
The sand outside the barrier, whether dry or wet, is a darker color; that's normal beach sand.
The sand inside the barrier was light yellowish-white, like sugar.
Lin Qianqian and Yun Ze looked at each other, not understanding why this was happening, and decided to go further in to see what was going on.
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