Chapter 4721: Construction
Chapter 4721: Construction
Ning Shu said to Si Tian, “Can you sell it as quickly as possible? I need the money urgently.”
Si Tian nodded and left the private room. Ning Shu drank tea and waited.
She had more than ten million merit, enough to choose the second plan, but Ning Shu didn’t want anyone else to have a stake in her reincarnation world.
Perhaps the amount of soul power collected would grow larger and larger in the future. If the main system owned a share of the pool’s soul power, then it also had the right to control that share.
The thought made her uncomfortable. She would rather pay more now than feel uncomfortable forever.
If she couldn’t scrape together enough, she would simply wait until she could. Either way, she would choose the first plan.
Having only her own name on the property deed felt far better than having two names.
With a single owner, there would be no future fighting over interests. People became truly ugly when money was involved. Resolve everything cleanly now and there would be no trouble later.
Most importantly, Ning Shu knew herself. Every time she had to give away a portion of something, her heart ached. To spare herself that pain, she was absolutely choosing plan one.
Ning Shu ate pastries and drank tea. She waited for a long time before Si Tian finally returned.
He entered the private room, and Ning Shu set down her teacup to look at him.
Si Tian said, “I notified several people and had them bid against each other. It wasn’t as high as a formal auction, though. Only eighteen million.”
Ning Shu nodded. “That’s fine.”
She had never expected the bead to sell for the old price again.
Si Tian transferred sixteen million merit to Ning Shu after deducting his commission.
Ning Shu thought Si Tian really knew how to make money. Every completed deal earned him a cut. And if an item belonged to the auction house itself, then the entire sale price and profit belonged to the auction house.
She couldn’t imagine how wealthy Si Tian was.
Poverty was making Ning Shu want to become a bandit and wear a golden belt.
Ning Shu blinked and asked Si Tian, “Does your auction house need investors right now?”
Si Tian said, “The auction house isn’t short of capital. Not at the moment.”
Only businesses that needed financing gave outsiders the opportunity to invest and later collect dividends.
Si Tian’s auction house was doing well. Of course he wouldn’t invite others to share the profits while business was booming.
Ning Shu had only asked casually. She hadn’t seriously expected a piece of the pie.
She returned to the system space with the money and told the main system that she chose the first plan. She paid twenty-five million merit for one thousand celestial stones.
The main system didn’t try to persuade her to take the second option. It took the money and delivered the goods.
The thousand celestial stones came in all sizes. The moment they appeared, they filled the system space so completely that Ning Shu almost got buried beneath them.
Her system space felt a little too small. She wanted to expand it.
Ning Shu moved all the stones into the reincarnation world and notified the skeletons to come build the pool.
One skeleton said to Ning Shu, “Learn the formation as soon as possible. Once the collection pool is finished, you’ll need to set up the formation. The formation is basically the mechanism that absorbs scattered soul power from the world and gathers it inside the pool.”
Ning Shu nodded. She sent the skeletons into the reincarnation world, then absorbed mental stones to strengthen her mental strength as much as possible.
Such a complicated formation required enormous mental strength. She didn’t want to reach the final step only to run out.
After absorbing mental strength, she used the fire bead to temper it.
Her mental sphere felt swollen and painful, as though it had overeaten.
Even the fire bead no longer seemed as effective when she used it for tempering.
Ning Shu felt that her mental strength had reached a bottleneck. Absorbing more wouldn’t help. This was probably related to realm or state rather than quantity.
She tempered her mental sphere until it shone silver, then stopped absorbing mental stones.
When she entered the reincarnation world, several skeletons were already stacking celestial stones into a pool. Ning Shu didn’t know how they processed them, but they had somehow polished the stones’ surfaces perfectly smooth.
They had left behind some celestial-stone scraps. Ning Shu threw every scrap into the void ordinance.
The skeletons worked quickly and had already finished the pool while Ning Shu was still forming hand seals and trying to familiarize herself with the formation.
The formation was too complicated to master immediately.
One skeleton asked, “Would you like me to set up the formation for you?”
Ning Shu looked at it in surprise. “You know how to set up formations?”
“This is our job. Of course we do.”
Ning Shu immediately thought of her own skeletons. Some were still blank and stupid even now. Looking at these skeletons was like looking at someone else’s children.
How could they be so versatile? Other people’s children were always impressive.
Like an anxious old mother, Ning Shu couldn’t help worrying whenever she looked at her own children. Why were hers so useless?
Ning Shu shook her head. “No. I’ll do it myself.”
This was an opportunity to learn. She couldn’t rely on other people to set up formations for her forever.
Ning Shu formed seals with both hands. Her fingers moved faster and faster, but she felt genuinely nervous. She had no idea whether she could complete the formation.
Even a genius formation master couldn’t look at a formation once and reproduce it immediately.
Ning Shu was extremely grateful she had studied formations before. Without that foundation, she would have been completely helpless.
Even the most complicated formation evolved from basic formations. As long as someone understood the fundamentals and the structure, they could derive the rest.
Her mental strength drained at an astonishing speed. Not only mental strength, but even soul power was being pulled out.
Soon her mental strength was nearly exhausted, while the formation had reached its final stage.
Ning Shu gritted her teeth and kept supplying mental strength. Her mental sphere shrank smaller and smaller until it was only the size of a peanut.
Almost there.
Ning Shu forced out even that peanut-sized remnant. Under the intense strain, however, her mental sphere suddenly scattered apart into countless points of light and disappeared.
Her mental sphere vanished.
Ning Shu’s heart lurched. The rhythm of the formation broke, and the entire formation collapsed.
Her mental sphere was gone. What the fuck, fuck, fuck!?
Her mental sphere was gone!?
Without a mental sphere, a soul would lose awareness. If a mental sphere were badly damaged, someone could become an idiot. Yet hers had directly vanished.
Was she about to lose her awareness next?
A skeleton asked Ning Shu, “What’s wrong?”
Ning Shu was panicking. Her mental sphere was gone, and she couldn’t continue setting up the formation.
More importantly, what would happen to her consciousness? Would she become a mindless wandering soul?
Ning Shu said to the skeletons, “Please set it up for me.”
Several skeletons took their positions and began arranging the formation. Soon, a complete formation covered the pool.
One skeleton said, “This formation collects scattered soul power and condenses it into soul liquid, which drips into the pool one drop at a time. Your world probably doesn’t have many mindless souls right now, so you likely won’t collect much yet.”