Run Away, This Civilization Is Cheating!

Work had started simultaneously on three hundred locations; this was already the limit that the current production capacity could sustain!

Perhaps the next batch could double, and the batch after that could double again, but it still required time.

However—this was under the premise that no more points were being gained, and the Point Mall was not being upgraded.

Therefore, the project could still move forward, and the council members of the Global United Front had not truly despaired.

Yet, the pressure continued to come relentlessly.

Shen Hao then looked at his current points.

The Level 18 Mall required a whopping one hundred billion points! And with the project confirmed and the simultaneous start of the three hundred Underground City projects, he was gaining a significant amount of points every day.

About thirty billion a day.

And judging from the previous situation, once these three hundred Underground Cities were completely constructed, this would gain him at least one trillion points in one breath!

This was enough to upgrade the Mall to Level 20!

Shen Hao believed that no civilization could easily achieve such a rate of advancement.

After all, he had activated a thrice multiplier hack.

Moreover, all the technology and all the advanced equipment of the entire civilization now originated from him.

The construction of Underground Cities, the points gained from resisting the cities, all would be fed back to him.

The final decision of the Global United Front to choose the Underground City plan likely stemmed from this—they hadn't made a direct comparison to know that Shen Hao's speed of gaining points was abnormal, yet they understood that the upgrade speed of Shen Hao's Store Level always exceeded their expectations.

"I currently have seventy-three billion points, and the Level 18 Mall needs one hundred billion points," Shen Hao pondered, "If I wait normally, seven to eight days should be enough, but I won't wait!"

He quickly made a decision.

"I'll use the reserve in the Ten Thousand Soul Banner, and quickly ascend to the Level 18 Mall first," Shen Hao said to Dong Gong.

The next moment, he was already in the Undead World.

The Undead World had replicated most of the real world's buildings on a one-to-one basis, but it didn't replicate places like the Pocket World Blessed Land, naturally, without any Mage Towers either.

Yet even so, Shen Hao still placed the large amount of Ten Thousand Soul Banners he currently stored at the location of the Chosen One Association headquarters in the Undead World.

The count had reached over one thousand eight hundred!

That is, a total of well over eighteen million Dead Souls!

This was the current reserve.

Although he spread out these Ten Thousand Soul Banners as much as possible, their mere appearance still allowed one to feel a storming yin energy gathering together, even forming substantial black mists, releasing astonishing coldness.

Even a Second Stage Transcendent could not endure here for too long.

Shen Hao briefly checked, under this dense yin energy, the earliest batch of collected Dead Souls had almost leaped to Level 7, or even, Level 8.

The Ten Thousand Soul Banners were all enduring extremely high pressures.

So, although this method could gain more points, it's not something that an ordinary civilization could achieve. The slightest misstep could result in a bomb large enough to instantly explode an entire civilization!

Only Shen Hao had the ability and confidence to suppress it!

"President!"

At this moment, a few Chosen Ones who were in charge of guarding here also noticed Shen Hao.

They all stood up.

Each one of them was pulsing with pale gold Thunder, the power Shen Hao had bestowed upon them, and each one was a Second Stage, already transformed Chosen One, here to supervise during emergencies.

In the past two or three months, Shen Hao had not only cultivated Song Cheng and a few others.

In fact, by now, the number of transformed Chosen Ones in the entire Human Civilization was about forty or fifty.

Each one's cultivation cost millions of points to train.

For a few like Song Cheng, who had golden abilities and Purple Epic professions, training one required hundreds of millions.

Under less advantageous circumstances than Shen Hao's hack, Golden Ability Balls wouldn't be so easy to obtain.

At this moment, Shen Hao nodded slightly at these few.

With a raise of his hand, a Ten Thousand Soul Banner appeared in his hand, and with a flick, tens of thousands of powerful Dead Souls howled out, each emanating a terrifying aura, mingling together, and even sufficient to influence celestial phenomena, much like facing a towering purgatory. Even these power-endowed Chosen Ones showed hints of changing expressions.

But the next moment, the Dominator pressure spread out.

Dead Souls, all howling and rolling in agony, became compliant in mere moments, yet clearly in extreme pain, many disintegrating amidst shrieks of agony.

Shen Hao remained expressionless.

It wasn't that the Dominator pressure was ineffective or that it couldn't control these Dead Souls; it was simply because the Dominator pressure couldn't make other beings achieve what they originally couldn't do.

These undead were born due to the power of the Undead World. This power clearly isn't related to correctly aligned Ghost Cultivators and, from their birth, they were controlled by a desire to kill.

Their hatred for living beings stems from an uncontrollable instinct, and even those Ghost Kings who developed their own consciousness, despite their souls originating from humans, are merely puppets in the Civilization Trial.

The Civilization Trial fundamentally eradicates any potential for communication and coexistence through this method.

In such a situation, a conflict emerged between Shen Hao's control and the essential nature of his power, leading self-destruction to be the only outcome.

However, Shen Hao didn't expect to be able to control these undead for fighting or labor; he only wanted to earn points.

And the result was quite a surprise.

Seventh and eighth-level undead, individually, earned about thirty times more than a Level 1 undead!

Even after accounting for the earlier control issues, this still yielded about eighty percent!

Six hundred times thirty, times the tripling effect of the hack, then multiplied by eighty percent, resulted in a staggering number.

— Forty-three thousand!

On average, each undead provided forty-three thousand points!

In fact, these ten thousand undead provided a total of 450 million points!

The various items they dropped were mostly Blue Ability Balls or seventh and eighth-level equipment.

Just from the earnings perspective, it indeed turned out to be a huge profit, especially with the influence of the points hack.

"Over eighteen hundred rods, all cultivated to their limits, together they now total eight hundred billion," Shen Hao calculated and was somewhat astonished.

Initially, some were worried that the requirements of the Point Mall would become too inflated, but now it seemed, with the constant increase in strength levels and the intensification of the Trial, the quantity of points available for collection also ballooned accordingly.

However, this actually made sense.

If points were seen as a currency that could be used across civilized worlds of various levels and the goods within these civilizations were compared according to a certain standard, then a massive gap naturally exists between weak primitive civilizations and powerful interstellar ones.

This isn't actually inflation but rather the illusion of a swift leap in civilization levels in a short period.

Regardless, the points hack was still playing a crucial role!

"Upgrading to a Level 18 Mall requires thirty rods," Shen Hao said, lifting his hand and claiming over thirty of the earliest placed Ten Thousand Soul Banners, the gesture remaining the same.

Some weren't cultivated to their limits yet, but there wasn't time to care too much about this as it was better to advance the Store Level as quickly as possible.

With a total of one hundred billion points, the Level 18 Mall was officially upgraded!

"You guys continue to defend this place, and be careful," Shen Hao once again bolstered the forces of the Chosen Ones responsible for defending the area, then returned to the Main World.

He carefully examined the various products within the Level 18 Mall.

Starting from Level 10, the technology within the mall had already begun to tentatively venture into space, stepping into the universe.

By Level 15, even civilian personal space shuttles were capable of long-distance voyages within the Solar System.

By Level 18, various technologies had indeed reached the interstellar level, even though the products provided were only of the most basic White Quality, but the impact was still tremendous.

The various goods for construction and production fields were significantly improved from Level 17.

Clearly able to further accelerate the construction and production efficiency of the Underground City.

However, Shen Hao's attention at this moment was drawn to a particular item.

— High-powered anti-gravity engine for spaceships!

Though it wasn't a spaceship itself, it was indeed the core component of a spaceship!

According to the description, just by fitting this device into a sufficient strength sealed shell, it could be used as a temporary space shuttle.

Of course, the Level 18 Mall also had complete spaceships, though they were quite expensive.

Moreover, Shen Hao seemed to suddenly think of something and directly contacted Dong Gong, "I remember, the previous discovery of an alien relic, was it a large migrant spaceship?"

In the last reward they received, Magic Secret Realms and the Pocket World Blessed Land didn't need to be elaborated on — their nature was similar, and they significantly filled the gaps in the basic infrastructure of Human Civilization on these two avenues, each accommodating a considerable number of Cultivation Geniuses.

But only the alien relics seemed somewhat less consequential.

There were many reasons.

The highest level of these relics was only Level 14; even though their technical level indeed surpassed Human Civilization, they didn't surpass the Store Levels.

In the fields of technology, where Human Civilization excelled, their assistance wasn't as significant.

However, some high-quality, equivalent to at least Blue or even Purple Quality in the mall, especially production-related devices still played a significant role.

Work on them continued.

One of these relics was a large space shuttle displayed in a crashed posture.

"The engine of that shuttle was damaged," Dong Gong said. "Although its other functions were relatively well preserved, even having the spaceship's blueprints, which are of great help in designing and manufacturing our own spaceships, it won't fly anymore."

"In the current mall, there are anti-gravity engines suitable for large spaceships, a large number of spaceship intelligent maintenance machinery, and other various parts suitable for spaceships. Let's see if we can fix it," Shen Hao said. "Even if it means adding an additional shell over it, as long as it can fly and isn't too slow, it should work."