My Apocalypse Territory-Chapter 572 - 508: Consuming Crystal Incident

And so, not even two minutes after Lin Gaoyang’s message had been sent.

[Ding! Your membership card has been credited with 100,000 units of Source Crystals, current balance is 100,400 units of Source Crystals...]

After once again expanding his personal space, Lin Gaoyang looked around with satisfaction and nodded his head.

Previously,

the personal space was only a few hundred square meters in size, originally serving as a transition space for entering various training modes. The area wasn’t considered small, after all, there weren’t many who would stay long in a grey and misty space.

But if one wanted to remodel their personal space, a few hundred square meters? What a joke! At most, they could build a small villa, but it wouldn’t be something to brag about to friends to have them over.

But now,

the space had expanded to several tens of acres, yet the grey mist still made this place seem oppressive.

Consuming Crystals,

first get a blue sky background.

Consuming Crystals,

then create a floating island.

Consuming Crystals,

and then build a luxurious castle.

Consuming Crystals,

and then again summon a few mighty Mutant Beasts, even if just for show, the scene would be unmatched.

Mutant Beasts as guards, have you seen that?!

After the grand layout was set, Lin Gaoyang started on the details, adding various types of furniture to his luxurious castle.

Luxurious crystal lamps, Mutant Beast fur rugs, mutated plant root doorways...

Everything, everything, displaying one thing — opulence!

In the real world, the imposing headquarters of the War Alliance, with its environment, couldn’t even compare to his space.

"Perhaps, I could suggest to Dad that the War Alliance headquarters should be renovated. If unsure about the materials to invest in, we could first try it out in personal space... after all, no matter how many Consuming Crystals we spend, the decorations in the space wouldn’t cost much."

"What a genius idea!"

There’s a saying: Without flaunting your Consuming Crystals, it’s like walking in brocade at night.

After the personal space remodeling was completed, Lin Gaoyang planned to invite a few friends with whom he usually got along to come and see his space.

When he opened his friends list, he suddenly noticed a few flashing characters on the side of the semi-transparent panel.

——Personal Space Decoration Leaderboard.

"There’s a leaderboard for space decoration too? Judging by modules and layout as the criteria?"

Lin Gaoyang became excited.

Inside the "Spirit Space", many modes had leaderboards.

The earliest to have a leaderboard was "Trial Tower", where those big shots fought for a long time to achieve a high score and move up even one place on the leaderboard.

Later, "Endless Mode" got leaderboards such as time rankings and kill count rankings, and so on.

"Battle Space" also had a win-rate leaderboard and titles like Best Kill, Fight Against the Super God, and Consecutive Unparalleled Victories.

All these honors, he... didn’t have a single one.

With such poor strength, no matter how much he battled, he could never get close to the leaderboard.

Lin Gaoyang had once thought that he and the leaderboards were not meant to be, but he never imagined that personal space decoration would also have its own ranking.

Brilliant!

"I have invested so many Consuming Crystals, and my layout methods have also drawn inspiration from our Green Shadow’s Floating Island..."

He immediately opened the "Personal Space Decoration Leaderboard".

His gaze swept through rapidly.

On the first page, he found his own avatar.

[NO.7 Lin Gaoyang’s Personal Space]

[Module score 3966, Layout score 1001, Total score 4967]

"Personal Space" was too plain a name, so he changed it to "Lin Gaoyang’s Floating Castle" right away, and then, his gaze followed the leaderboard upward.

Sixth place, total decoration score 5003.

Fifth place, total decoration score 5216.

Third place, total decoration score 6058.

Second place, total decoration score 6699.

First place, total decoration score 1965412.

"????"

How many digits was the first place’s total score?

He rubbed his eyes.

Then rubbed his eyes again.

With a physical education teacher’s understanding of mathematics, he slowly, counting and recounting, incredulously...came to a conclusion.

It was a seven-digit score! (Voice crack)

How could there be such a high score?!

He left the several names behind him as if they were several Floating Islands away!

Lin Gaoyang’s first reaction was that there must be a BUG.

Because they had just updated, wasn’t the version stable enough?

After all, though he hadn’t reached the ultimate extent, the amount of Consuming Crystals he had invested was substantial, as one could understand by looking at the small difference in total points from second to ninth place.

What kind of talent and strength did the first place have to own a score dozens of times higher than theirs?

Suddenly,

Next to the first place "Chestnut’s Cottage," he noticed a clickable option:

[This space is on a limited-time free display: Remaining time 47:23:56]

(Enter?)

Yes!

In an instant,

With a hum, Lin Gaoyang felt as if his soul had left its sheath, similar to how one would enter the Spirit Space from the outside world.

The scenery before his eyes changed rapidly, and before he knew it, he was in a misty Immortal Realm.

He looked around and realized he had no body.

"Space Display," could only be entered with consciousness to observe someone else’s space, and only from a distance, with viewing limited to the landscape; only friends invited by the owner could truly enter the private space.

But touring with consciousness had its perks, allowing one to easily view the entirety of the space.

First came into sight were the misty clouds, which were actually Source Qi so dense that it formed a fog, fluttering like fairy mist.

Towering mountains rose up into the clouds in a regular pattern, standing firmly on the ground, forming a unique array. A meandering, surging river wove its way through the mountains...

The mountains and rivers orchestrated an unimaginably terrifying formation.

An ancient and vast aura rushed towards him.

In the raging river, Mutant Beasts leaped hundreds of meters high, and birds soared in the sky thousands of meters high, but they were still below the mid-height of the mountains.

In front of the main peak, there were floating white jade steps forming a bridge straight into the clouds.

Lin Gaoyang swallowed hard.

The amazement was beyond words.

...

Just as amazed were the countless Awakeners who had entered "Chestnut’s Cottage" to watch.

While the arrangement of personal spaces offered infinite possibilities, allowing one to create their ideal homestead, the existing modules were limited, with most ranked personal spaces involving custom gameplay.

In Lin Gaoyang’s space, the Floating Islands were part of the system-provided modules; after spending Consuming Crystals, he could immediately incorporate them into his private space.

But the castle... Although the system also provided several castle styles, as someone determined to create a unique homestead, Lin Gaoyang naturally wouldn’t choose a generic castle, but instead crafted his own.

This was no simple task.

Creating custom buildings, environments, objects, etc., required one to continuously construct, adjust, modify with spiritual power, and finally solidify and confirm.

As an Awakening Second Generation, Lin Gaoyang, despite his mediocre talent and just general effort, with many resources at his disposal, had the strength of the Seventh Layer of Awakening.

His spiritual power was not lacking.

Using a generic castle as a prototype, he had constantly modified and perfected it to create his unique castle.

This included the home decor within the castle, many of which were structured after his own imagination.

Thus,

Even he felt utterly exhausted.

And within "Chestnut’s Cottage," the tens of thousands of meters high mountains, the white jade steps soaring into the clouds... these were all modules not found in the system.

They had to be conjured from nothing.

The larger the construction, the harder it was to build.

Moreover, this space was immense, and just touring with consciousness took a long time to fly around the space once...

Just that alone,

Thinking about the Source Crystals needed to continue expanding his own space.

Well,

The true Consuming Crystal tycoon.

He could not compare.

But it was still inspiring; if he spent a little more money on Consuming Crystals, his decoration score would increase substantially, making his future rests in his homestead much more pleasant.

A one-time expense,

Benefitting for life.

This wave of spending on Consuming Crystals was worth it.

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