Chapter 1 The Beginning

On the evening of March 12, 2022, Jin, an employee of the New World Exploration Department, invited her friends Li and a foreign friend, Ser, to gather at her home. During the gathering, Jin lamented the hardships of life and the shortage of cultivation resources. Li immediately suggested, "Why not get some ourselves?" Jin and Ser responded immediately.

Surveillance cameras in the joint public trading zone of the Nine Profound Realms showed that their mobile grocery stall was set up in the early hours of March 13.

At 7:35 AM on March 13, 2022, a black sedan stopped in front of the grocery stall. Several serious-looking law enforcement officers in black suits got out of the car, walked directly to Jin, and began to chat with her.

At 7:39 AM, Li pulled a sharp long knife from the grocery stall's counter. While the black-suited law enforcement officers were distracted by Jin, she began promoting it to a local customer who was asking if they sold weapons.

At 7:45 AM, while communicating with her foreign friend Ser, the law enforcement officers in black suits suddenly looked nervous. They discussed it among themselves for a while, then frowned and shouted, "Damn it, we forgot the basic trading currency in the special trade zone is exploration points! Can anyone lend me some?"

Jin Qiong was very annoyed today because her well-deserved vacation had been completely ruined by her two friends.

As everyone knows, the work of the New World Exploration Department is either very busy, or it's *very* busy. Like last year, she spent almost the entire year in different worlds, either wandering around in worlds with danger level A with the physique of a golden-winged roc, or fighting against terrifying local monsters.

What's more, Jin Qiong's abilities were extremely strong, and she was often urgently summoned to various worlds to put out fires. Although her handsome and cute figure had won her a lot of popularity, it was obvious that popularity could not be eaten, let alone used for vacations.

But when things are quiet, it's easy to get a vacation just by asking.

Jin Qiong knew that as long as she didn't run into Tang Yuan, that workaholic who would drag people to work overtime with her, Shao Qiming, as a classmate from the academy, wouldn't mind giving her some vacation time to relax.

Recently, it just so happened that the New World Exploration Department was having a relatively quiet period—Minister Su Zhou had returned from the outer universe and became a Celestial Venerable, not to mention he had been burning, killing, and looting all the way through the galaxy, fighting to the limit, and even fought his enemies into the void, destroying the structure of countless worlds. He could be called the worst of the worst.

But so what if he's a villain? Anyway, he got a vacation when he came back.

It wasn't that Su Zhou's work ability was very strong—when had he ever worked in this area? Jin Qiong mainly knew that as long as Su Zhou came back, any proposal the New World Exploration Department wanted would be passed, and any amount of funding they wanted to apply for would be approved.

As everyone knows, a department without money is a sad department. Without money, what can you do? The reason why Shao Qiming was able to come from behind was because he had the Zhuzhao Group behind him, which could unilaterally supply blood and directly be responsible for the performance bonuses of the entire department.

But this kind of money was not comparable to the value that Su Zhou's existence represented. In short, recently, it was the easiest time for the New World Exploration Department. Even if Jin Qiong went to explore another world and fought alien beasts to the death, she didn't have to worry about equipment breaking and not being replaced, or consumable items not being reimbursed. It was simply twice as easy.

After all, not everyone is Li Hanshan, who became a web novelist, and since then, human holidays have had nothing to do with him. Even a divine bird made of real gold and iron has to consider metal fatigue.

In short, Jin Qiong originally planned to take a vacation for this entire week and relax for a while, even if it was just lying at home and not moving. At least she didn't have to use her brain or body.

But who knew that she had only taken a day off when her close friends Li Yeyu and Seros both came.

At first, Jin Qiong thought it was just an ordinary gathering of friends, and she was quite happy—but who knew, perhaps her complaints like 'It's so troublesome for a divine bird to advance, it takes so many rare materials to improve my bloodline' and 'My salary is completely not enough, I have to save for several years to try to break through once' were really heard. Li Yeyu immediately patted her chest and said that she was one of the chief explorers of the Nine Profound Realms and had relevant connections, so she could quickly collect resources there.

And Seros also said that she had channels, and they might be able to cooperate to make a fortune.

At that time, Jin Qiong didn't understand what 'make a fortune' meant.

But when she really arrived at the Nine Profound Realms, the blonde beauty finally understood that this was actually setting up a stall in the Pioneer Space market?

In the clean and tidy two-world trade market, the crowd was bustling with people, full of Nine Profound people with different statures and special features such as three eyes and four hands, as well as a large number of strangely dressed alien world people who didn't seem to fit into the cultural atmosphere of this world, walking and communicating, watching the items sold by various shop owners.

Li Yeyu's shop was small, but it had everything. Whether it was weapons, magical instruments, magic treasures, talismans, potions, pills, or secret manuals and alien beast materials, everything that seemed to be in this small stall of just over ten square meters was available—Jin Qiong even saw some of the body materials of alien world monsters that Li Yeyu had bought from her, and after being finely processed, those originally rough materials became quite radiant, and their value had also increased a lot.

In just a few minutes, several pioneer explorers came here to buy talismans.

Although the talismans in the Pioneer Space were authentic and powerful, it wasn't that every situation required such powerful talismans. In many cases, this kind of thing was good enough, and buying too strong would waste points. It was better to come to this market and wholesale them.

As for Li Yeyu and Seros, making some talismans and sealing cards was just a daily practice. In the past, they would either be destroyed or used for target practice, but now they could be sold for a high price. It was simply a great profit.

As for the law enforcement officers who came over just now, they were acquaintances of Jin Qiong and Li Yeyu, the New World Exploration Department patrol officers stationed at the two-world fortress. They also saw a material they liked, a thunder-attribute inner core of an alien monster—but they forgot to exchange it for exploration points, so they couldn't trade.

Yes, this special trade market was a 'semi-official Pioneer Space trading post' recognized by the Pioneer Space.

All transactions were fair and just transactions conducted under the certification of the Pioneer Space, and naturally the common currency was exploration points.

As the Nine Profound Realm with a large number of pioneer explorers, and perhaps the Earth with the most explorers in the entire sealed universe, the special trade market between the two worlds was open to the adventurers in the Pioneer Space for resource trade and exchange between the worlds.

No matter what a Pioneer Space explorer does, it will cause extremely huge changes to an alien world.

Not to mention, the price of resource exchange in the Pioneer Space follows the 'average price of the multiverse'.

What kind of concept is this?

To put it briefly—in the Reincarnation World, world dust is sold in abundance. Local residents may use this thing as a casting material to enhance the power of spells, turning a big fireball spell into an extremely effective big fireball spell. It is basically the price of cabbage.

But in the Godwood World with many surrounding new worlds, world dust is enough to be exchanged for an elixir of immortality, and it is still priceless. It's not something you can exchange if you want to!

Anyone with a little brain knows how profitable this is—even science fiction trading flow novels probably wouldn't dare to use such a setting!

The Pioneer Space certainly can't allow its dependents to buy low and sell high, but as long as you find the right sales channels, there is absolutely no doubt that you can make a profit.

Finding out the information of the local world and finding the right trading points is naturally a part of exploration!

As for the people of the local world, exchanging resources that are already surplus for rare materials is naturally a profitable business. It is simply a win-win situation.

You should know that Su Zhou is already a Celestial Venerable, and that little dragon who used to be as famous as her, Jin Qiong, is also a Overlord Earth Immortal. More or less, people of her age have reached this step, but she, a divine bird, is still at the peak of the Overlord, stuck for almost a year. No matter how you think about it, it doesn't make sense, right?

Although many people will be stuck at this step for a lifetime, she is also a Transformation Divine Bird, so she can't be so slow!

Who wouldn't want to make money, get resources, and break through earlier?

In that case, why was Jin Qiong sighing?

"Actually, there are markets like this in Europa too." She could sense someone hugging her right arm.

"How could the efficiency of a market in Europa that has only been established for a few months compare to the fully mature market here in the Nine Profound Realms?" She could sense someone hugging her right arm.

"That's not right. Precisely because it's just been opened, it's the hottest time for multi-world trade. You might meet explorers in need of the same materials there, and they'll buy them at a high price."

"You also said 'maybe', right? Unstable things definitely can't be expected."

The black-haired girl and the brown-haired girl looked at each other across a person. Although they were tit-for-tat, they didn't seem to be angry at all. Instead, they had a sense of habitually teasing each other.

Obviously, this way of getting along had become the daily life of the three.

But in addition to being numbly accustomed to it, Jin Qiong could only sigh: "I really just wanted to rest..."

However, I don't know if someone heard the sigh of this divine bird girl, who had done too many good deeds and helped too many people in too many different worlds, resulting in too many fans, which instead aroused a sense of crisis in the people around her.

March 13, 2022, 1:15 PM.

In the entire Nine Profound Realms' two-world special trade market, whether it was merchants or customers, everyone who was related to the Pioneer Space sensed a great shock.

Buzz—buzz!

In just an instant, the originally bright sky of the Nine Profound Realms instantly dimmed, and silver stars filled the sky, as bright as a long river, hanging above the sky and slowly surging.

"A sea of stars?! What's going on with this phenomenon... What's the situation with the appraisal terminal?"

"Tsk, it's useless at this time!" Yun Wang Bai Yuntian currently had a confused expression, and then slapped his pocket watch-shaped Pioneer Space terminal hard.

Although this thing was not an old appliance, it was impossible to recover because of this action, but his behavior did prove one thing, that ordinary means could not make this suddenly snowy screen terminal better.

This Nine Profound king revealed a serious expression.

"Strange, strange, the last time this happened... It was during the 'Twilight Draws Near' incident!"

Because the matter had not passed for a long time, both Bai Yuntian and other Pioneer Space explorers still remembered that violent disturbance.

At that time, no matter what the task was, whether it was an advancement task, a punishment task, a special plot task, or a world task, all pioneer explorers were either sent back to their old homes or were forced to stay in the task world.

According to the current situation, the high-level adventure groups in the space have always believed that it was the prelude to the subsequent frequent turmoil in the multiverse—because the great being Twilight was awakening, the Twilight dependents in the entire multiverse began to activate. Those wandering void fleets were proof that they intended to meet their master and were now searching the entire multiverse for the primordial world of Twilight.

This guess was certainly not correct, but it did sort out the causal relationship.

But this time...

"This aura..."

Nine Profound Candle Sun, Bai Yuntian raised his head thoughtfully, looking at the other end of the space-time channel.

Just now, he sensed an extremely majestic and dignified aura, coming from the 'Celestial Heaven' beyond the space-time, and at the same time, there was a pure throbbing in his bloodline.

"Could it be... the original Candle Sun Venerable?!"

Lightly saying his guess, His Majesty Yun Wang was startled by his own thoughts: "The vibration just now, could it be the fluctuation of the original Candle Sun Venerable, being invited by an explorer to go to the Pioneer Space?!"

"But I also remember that there was a Venerable who was invited to join the Pioneer Space. Although there was indeed a sky full of colorful clouds and a strange phenomenon of the moon rising from the sea, it was not as exaggerated as this!"

In fact, it was far more exaggerated than Bai Yuntian imagined.

At this moment, Earth, outer space orbit.

The galaxy was brilliant, rotating around the planet.

Su Zhou stood on the outer orbit of Earth, inexplicably looking around at the almost endless silver starlight floating around him, and the pure white space-time vortexes that were constantly generated and annihilated around him. The young Venerable was a little confused.

The endless starlight surrounding him seemed like a guiding beacon, running through the universe and time. Its power was so vast and majestic that it had now brought a bright band across the planet in the entire Earth orbit, which was probably not comparable to the brilliance of the sun.

And this phenomenon even spread along many space-time doors to at least hundreds of different worlds.

The authority of the pioneer agitated space-time, causing all worlds to shine.

"What's going on? Didn't I just activate the Pioneer Space invitation beacon given to me by Funiya? Theoretically, I should be able to enter the Pioneer Space the moment I activate it, right?"

Reaching out and actively touching the space-time vortex that was flickering beside him, the young man's expression seemed very helpless—because the moment he reached out, the space-time vortex suddenly couldn't withstand the spiritual power above him and directly collapsed!

How could there be such a thing!

"Yala Yala, what exactly is going on?"

"Hmm... this question... simple!"

And the red snake spirit heard the call of its contractor, naturally it appeared on its head, Yala narrowed its eyes, looked at it seriously, and immediately understood: "I understand, Su Zhou."

Shaking its head, the snake spirit simply gave a comment: "Your level is too high, and you have a Celestial God scale, the little thing of the pioneer can't transmit you."

"I guess you have to go there yourself."

"What?!"