Astral Express - Stelle: "March, isn't that your usual online name?"
Martch 7th: "Even so, how can someone chat with friends using an online name?!"
Martch 7th: "And from what I know about you, you must have changed your name. Before, you were definitely called something like Galaxy Baseball Man, right?"
Stelle instantly broke out in a cold sweat. As expected, March still understood him too well, and March's retorts were still so sharp.
At the same time, Stelle felt a little relieved. His efforts in cultivating her hadn't been in vain; this was much more interesting.
After Paimon's explanation, everyone else also successfully changed their names.
While everyone was busy changing names, New Eridu - Suzuran made a new discovery.
Congratulations! New Eridu - Suzuran has successfully signed in and received 67 points.
A line of small text suddenly appeared in the group. Everyone had been so focused on understanding the other worlds before.
They had forgotten that the chat group also had other basic functions they hadn't tried yet.
Astral Express - March 7th: "Points? What are these?"
New Eridu - Suzuran: "They should be like the currency of the chat group."
New Eridu - Suzuran: "After all, the basic functions also include a Points Mall and a Cultivation Room. It looks like points will be used for both."
Astral Express - Stelle: "In that case, let's all try it. Let's see who is the King of Luck!"
Congratulations! Stelle received 60 points, March 7th 88 points, Dan Heng 50 points, Wise 65 points, Paimon 72 points, Jing Liu 76 points.
Astral Express - Stelle: "Darn it! How can this be? Is the Great Demon King March 7th going to rule this group?"
Astral Express - March 7th: "Wow! That's enough of you! Stop clowning around and go check out the mall. See what we can buy."
Dan Heng, who instinctively opened the Cultivation Room to read the detailed description, mused, 'As expected of March 7th, the temptation of shopping is still too hard for her to resist.'
'The functions of this Cultivation Room are indeed worth studying.' Dan Heng fell into contemplation after reading the Cultivation Room's description.
For just 100 points, one could use the lowest-grade Cultivation Room for one day. It had built-in time acceleration, where one day inside the Cultivation Room equated to only one minute outside. And there was also an enlightenment bonus.
Dan Heng speculated, 'Manipulating time? Or is its essence another world with a faster flow of time?'
'And the principle of that enlightenment bonus is still unclear... Lacking effective information, it's best not to jump to conclusions without actual use.'
The others also made discoveries in the mall.
First was the eye-catching gacha page. The beginner gacha event cost 160 points per pull, with the first two ten-pulls for new users at an 80% discount.
The embedded items had the following probabilities: White quality (95%), Green quality (4.4%), Blue quality (0.5%), Purple quality (0.1%). The guaranteed pull was one of five self-selected blue quality items after 80 pulls.
The intermediate and advanced gacha pools cost 280 and 800 points per pull respectively, with the item quality increasing by one tier each time, in order: Purple, Gold, Rainbow.
These gacha pools inexplicably gave everyone a feeling of liver pain, though they didn't know why.
Next was the dazzling product page. White quality items were generally 10 points, Green started from 500 points, Blue from 20,000 points, Purple from 200,000 points, Gold from 500,000 points, and Rainbow???
They had come excitedly, only to find that they couldn't even afford a single pull, and could only buy some everyday white quality items.
Although everyone's enthusiasm for the mall greatly diminished, it didn't stop them from looking at the high-level items they couldn't afford.
After all, if they couldn't buy them, couldn't they at least look? It was good to broaden their horizons.
Some of the items were indeed very attractive, such as various martial arts of green quality that allowed one to walk on walls and fight a hundred enemies.
Blue quality items were even more appealing, offering complete cultivation systems from other worlds, such as immortal cultivation methods up to the Golden Core stage, or magic systems up to the Archmage level, and so on.
Purple quality, on the other hand, involved partial rules, such as soul secret arts, Void-Piercing immortal cultivation methods, and so on.
The higher gold and rainbow qualities were too distant and somewhat incomprehensible.
Astral Express - March 7th: "For a moment, I don't know how to describe it. Everything looks great, but it's all so expensive! Darn it!"
New Eridu - Suzuran: "Exactly! The price jumps by who knows how many times for just one quality tier higher."
New Eridu - Suzuran: "My brother and I usually have to be so careful with our electricity bills because of Fairy, and now we have to do the same here. We're having such a hard time!"
Everyone, who had been a bit downhearted at the thought of needing to save up points for a long time to get good items, laughed at New Eridu - Suzuran's clowning.
Ding! System Notification! Due to the difficulty of members acquiring points, daily quests have now been opened.
By completing four daily quests, you can earn an additional 60 points beyond your sign-in bonus.
Additionally, world events will be opened later to help group members obtain more points.
New Eridu - Suzuran: "Ah~, there it is, that familiar game-like feeling. Why does it feel like a game?"
Astral Express - Stelle: "Suzuran, your retorts are already sharper than March's. Would you consider becoming my dedicated retorter instead of March in the future?"
Astral Express - March 7th: "You're really too much, and when did I ever become your dedicated retorter?"
Astral Express - Stelle: "You always have been. Otherwise, what are you doing right now?"
March 7th was instantly speechless.
Teyvat - Paimon: "These daily quests look pretty easy to complete. One sign-in, one send a message, and the remaining two are both about tasting delicious food. Great!"
Teyvat - Jing Liu: "It looks like a suitable quest for Paimon. However, everyone's last two quests should be different. Mine is to clear out monsters."
New Eridu - Suzuran: "It seems so. The first two are the same, but for the last two, my brother and I both have to manage our video store."
Astral Express - Stelle: "Isn't this good? My quest is to rummage through trash cans, excellent! Now, March, you have no reason to stop me, right?"
March and Dan Heng were still defeated by Stelle's persistence, but these quests indeed seemed tailor-made.
March 7th needed to complete filming tasks, while Dan Heng needed to organize the archives.
Astral Express - Stelle: "By the way, what's that 'world event' at the end? Is there really a chance to visit your worlds and play?"
Teyvat - Paimon: "Maybe. Jing Liu and I will definitely prepare lots of delicious food to welcome you to Teyvat."
Paimon, as Jing Liu's divine mouthpiece, continued to perform steadily.
New Eridu - Suzuran: "My brother and I welcome everyone too! And we'll offer free rentals of other-world videos as a thank you!"
Astral Express - Stelle: "You're all too kind. Then I also welcome you to visit the Astral Express anytime. I'll take you on a tour of the Stelle sea."