The people in the Blood Spirit Territory were now in high morale.
Thanks to the blessing of Toji Hisami’s 50% effect from God’s Reward for Diligence, everyone had made great progress during this invasion.
Originally they could only simply use the power of the blood spirit, but now they were able to use a variety of skills proficiently.
The method Toji Hisami taught them was to condense runes with corresponding functions in the body, and then mobilize power through those runes.
The runes effectively replaced the previous position of the bright red Lord.
Without that divine assistance, even if the blood spirit leaders practiced this method for ten or eight years, they might not have seen any results.
With that help, however, they had already made their breakthrough within three days.
Having made the jump from zero to one, subsequent progress was simply a matter of stacking.
In the Blood Spirit Territory, Enlina had adjusted her population hall and suspended the recruitment of regular population.
Instead, the Blood Spirit Territory’s unique Blood Spirit Tower was used to recruit people, ensuring that those who emerged possessed the Blood Spirit lineage and inheritance.
They lived around the large house where Toji Hisami resided, which had become the central hub of the Blood Spirit Territory.
Before returning to the house, Toji Hisami spoke to Enlina about the Vermilion Bird Guard.
Enlina’s eyes lit up when she heard that the elite Four Guards could be established under Toji Hisami and hold the same status as the Black Tortoise Guards.
By now, everyone knew that the Black Tortoise Guard was an exclusive unit trained by Toji Hisami.
Throughout the entire trial world and even the main world, they were unique military units belonging directly to Toji Hisami.
To Enlina, what mattered was not uniqueness, but rather the status of belonging directly to Toji Hisami!
They were now like fanatics, worshiping Toji Hisami with absolute devotion.
According to Toji Hisami’s description, the four guards were specially designed by him, and even their names had been chosen by him.
The four names represented a mysterious significance, and they were certainly not conceived in vain.
For such an important role to be entrusted to the Blood Spirit Territory, Enlina felt her blood begin to boil.
"Being one of the Four Guards is an honor for the Blood Spirit Territory and an honor for us."
"The name of the Vermilion Bird will be guarded by my spirit from now on."
"I will mobilize the elites from the territory, led by myself, to form the Vermilion Bird Guard."
Enlina saluted Toji Hisami solemnly.
With this step, Toji Hisami had finally settled his second four-guard team, leaving only the White Tiger and Azure Dragon units.
Among them, the White Tiger had already been determined to take the Rui Warriors as its backbone, requiring only an exclusive military book.
As for the Azure Dragon, he also had a vague idea, but the details would have to wait until he returned to the Jiuzhou Territory before he could test them.
After gesturing for Enlina to take charge of forming the Vermilion Bird Guard, Toji Hisami returned to the house.
He laid out the treasured items collected in his storage ring:
A mysterious piece of white jade.
A piece of blood essence stone.
A piece of the backbone of a Behemoth Saint Beast.
Five pieces of divine gold capable of enhancing equipment capabilities.
A gold coin containing the aura of luck.
During this exploration, Toji Hisami knew that these were the only items possessing appraisal value.
The rest were either commercial goods or intended for his own use.
The storage ring he had received as a reward was exceptionally spacious, and the boxes of Five Element Essence given by Max were all stored inside it.
At this moment, he took them out and placed them aside.
Drawing out the gold card, Toji Hisami channeled a trace of magic into it.
The chubby, round face on the gold card became vivid once more, and a moment later, a scroll of civil service characters appeared across its surface.
[Dear distinguished guest, have you prepared the items for identification?]
"Yes, everything here needs to be identified."
[Very well, please wait a moment.]
The eyes of the round face on the gold card lit up, and two beams of divine light shot out from it, scanning the various items on the floor.
During the process, Toji Hisami could clearly perceive the aura of dimensional fluctuations surging alongside a mysterious divine presence.
After waiting for more than ten minutes, the round face on the gold card trembled, and lines of text scrolled out.
[Spirit Jade: White jade contaminated with the aura of the gods. After catalysis, there is a chance of gaining divine enlightenment. Valued at 5000 points.]
[Blood Essence Stone: Capable of purifying the power of blood with miraculous effects on immortal species. Valued at 600 points.]
[Behemoth Spine: A spine containing a drop of blood essence, highly attractive to orcs. Valued at 500 points.]
[Sacred Gold: Ultra-rare metal, valued at 50 points per piece, totaling 250 points.]
[Lucky Gold Coin: A gold coin minted by a lucky gambler. Only one thousand coins exist. It carries the power of fortune and is valued at 500 points.]
[Five Elements Essence Crystal: Pure energy crystal, one unit is worth 1 coupon, totaling 500 coupon points.]
As the identification results for the five items and the Five Element Essence were displayed, Toji Hisami studied them for a long time, feeling a sense of wonder.
Here, anything associated with the gods commanded an extremely high value.
The most expensive among them was the piece of white jade, as the mysterious aura clinging to it was actually the presence of the gods themselves.
While the identification results could not specify which particular deity it belonged to, that would likely only become apparent after catalysis, making it somewhat akin to gambling on rough stones.
Even so, it was still valued at five thousand points.
These coupons served as the transaction currency units of the auction, meaning the white jade’s value was twice as high as the other four items combined.
As for the lucky gold coins, they were crafted by the divine lucky gambler. Only a thousand of them existed, and a single coin was worth five hundred points.
The lucky gambler was an interesting deity; although his divine status was not exceptionally high and no records of great destructive power surrounded him, he was among the many gods who most enjoyed wandering the human world.
Back then, he would incarnate and travel across human society, taking particular pleasure in participating in high-stakes gambling games. Every time, he would seal his divine power to partake in the thrill.
If someone managed to defeat the lucky gambler in a game of chance, they would receive a gift from him.
Even simply providing him with the spectacle of a brilliant gambling match could earn his blessing.
Lucky gold coins were among the playthings created by the lucky gambler. Once used, they could temporarily enhance the user’s fortune.
Luck was an intangible concept, difficult to describe in detail.
A lucky gold coin would automatically vanish after a single use, reappearing somewhere else in the world.
For Toji Hisami, he never placed his hopes on mere luck.
After acquiring the talent of God’s Reward for Diligence, he opened card pools far more casually, rendering the lucky gold coins truly useless to him.
The remaining items were conventional treasured items that exerted a powerful energy-attracting effect on specific races.
The total value amounted to 6,850 coupons. Including the Five Element Essence, the total reached 7,350.
He wondered what he might be able to purchase at the auction.
[Dear distinguished guest, do you wish to include your items in the auction catalog?]
[The divine jade is eligible to enter the auction catalog, while the other items may enter the standard sales catalog.]
[For items entered into the auction catalog, the starting price will be set at the appraised estimate.]
New text materialized across the surface of the gold card.
As expected, the status of the divine jade was unique. It was admitted directly into the auction catalog with a starting price of 5,000 points.
Once presented at the auction, the final return would undoubtedly be even higher.
Toji Hisami did not hesitate and decisively chose to submit it.
The gold card flared with intense light, automatically slipping free from his grasp.
A golden beam surged outward from the card, enveloping the five items and the box of essence crystals on the floor.
Toji Hisami felt a jolt of awe.
At that moment, he could clearly sense the immense intensity of power transmitted through the gold card.
The card functioned merely as a dimensional beacon, while the entity truly exerting the force resided in an entirely different dimensional realm.
The opponent’s power traversed countless dimensions, ultimately arriving within the trial world to collect all five items.
During the process, Toji Hisami also felt a gaze sweep over him.
Curiosity and exploration lingered within that glance, as if the entity was surprised that a lord still undergoing the trial was capable of participating in the auction.
Toji Hisami maintained a calm expression, offering no outward reaction to the probing gaze.
Given that the entity could transmit power across multiple dimensions, its strength was conservatively estimated at the semi-divine level or above; he was hardly surprised to find a god on the other end.
The power vanished the moment the items were retrieved, and the gold card drifted back down into Toji Hisami’s hand.
Compared to its prior state, the gold card felt noticeably lighter.
Evidently, penetrating the trial world governed by the highest dimension required that entity to consume a significant amount of energy.
Whether that consumption matched the value of the items he had gathered remained uncertain.
[Dear lord, please look forward to the opening of the auction.]
[At that time, we will activate the remote live broadcast function for you so that you may observe the entire auction.]
[If you spot any items you wish to acquire during the event, you may conduct transactions directly through this card.]
[Countdown to the auction: 23 days.]