After the system announcement ended, all players started looking for places to prepare to log off.
Although everyone complained about the system update, Divine Realm was about to fall into night; even in Divine Realm there was nothing to do but trade the day's gains and chat with companions, just for fun.
Shi Feng took this opportunity to rush to the Red Leaf Town Auction House to sweep up goods—ores, herbs, various materials; he bought any rare materials, purchasing everything he could, filling his entire inventory, and even wanted to go deposit them in the bank warehouse before buying more.
But the system reminder indicated less than three minutes left until logout time, and it was already too late.
“Alright, I can only buy this much.” Shi Feng glanced at the time and sighed helplessly.
Fortunately, he had earned quite a bit of money from earlier trades, enough to buy over ten gold’s worth of various materials.
Afterwards, Shi Feng headed to the inn to prepare to log off.
Along the way, many players were excited about the system update, discussing it eagerly, each looking forward to what benefits this update would bring.
Shi Feng just wanted to say “heh” twice.
The evolution of Divine Realm certainly had benefits, but many were unexpected.
After arriving at the inn, Shi Feng spent 10 copper to stay for a day.
Other players saw Shi Feng extravagantly spending 10 copper on lodging—10 copper coins were what they earned after five or six hours of grinding monsters—it seemed like he had money to burn. However, seeing Shi Feng’s level reach 7, they dared not gossip, because level 7 in Red Leaf Town was an absolute top‑tier figure; if they provoked him and got killed back to level zero, it wouldn’t be impossible, as such things often happened in Red Leaf Town, so they could only silently look down on him.
Really, money makes one reckless!
Shi Feng entered his room on his own, ignoring those players; he wouldn’t bother explaining why he chose to stay at the inn instead of just finding any random place to log off.
Dawn rose, Shi Feng got up and took off his advanced virtual helmet; it was already 8 a.m., exactly the usual time for morning exercise.
At that moment his phone rang; the caller ID showed it was Hei Zi calling.
“Hei Zi, what’s up?” Shi Feng answered the phone, puzzled, since Hei Zi normally wouldn’t contact him unless there was a big matter.
“Brother Feng, something big happened—quickly turn on the TV, the news is broadcasting now, almost every TV program has it.” Hei Zi panted, his tone extremely excited; if you didn’t know, you’d think he was doing some intense exercise.
Shi Feng turned on the old small TV in his rented room, switched channels casually, and indeed every channel was inserting news.
“At 5 a.m. today, most of the world’s top‑1000 conglomerates announced they were entering Divine Realm to promote virtual‑economy development, and they also set up their own Divine Realm studios.”
“Latest Divine Realm report: according to official statistics, because a large number of conglomerates worldwide have flooded into Divine Realm, in under three hours the points selling Divine Realm virtual helmets were packed, Divine Realm players suddenly surged by 800 million, and concurrent online users reached over 18 billion, breaking the world record for simultaneous players in a virtual game.”
……