The Professional Mall was, at this moment, completely transformed!
On any ordinary day, the entire mall would see, at most, about 2,000 pieces of equipment listed.
Today, however, tens of thousands had suddenly appeared! And they were all of the same type, clearly looted from the same Abyss!
Items like Exotic Beast Fangs, Exotic Beast Claws, Exotic Beast Leather Armor, and the like...
"What’s going on? Could a super-genius be clearing the level?"
"Impossible. This must be the work of a thousand-year-old family; they’ve surely dumped their entire backlog of inventory!"
Numerous professionals were abuzz with speculation. Many had already spotted the opportunity and started buying up stock, as the prices for this equipment were generally lower than the market rate—it was a perfect chance to pick up a bargain!
Inside the Tianshui City Mayor's office, several people had observed this phenomenon. After a quick analysis, they discovered the items were equipment dropped within the City of Exotic Beasts.
A brief investigation immediately confirmed that it was the team led by Bai Ze who had listed them!
"Dispatch people to the Abyss Hall to wait for Bai Ze immediately. There is a Level 2 Abyss that requires his assistance!"
"Yes, sir!"
Meanwhile, inside the Abyss of the City of Exotic Beasts.
Seeing that most of the Exotic Beasts had been eliminated, the group conferred and had the Great Sage gather all the remaining human survivors.
The ground in the city was cracked, and the sky was heavy with dark clouds.
Yet, a spark of hope was quietly kindling. Before Bai Ze, over a hundred children were gathered.
"I believe you are all aware of the terrifying world you now find yourselves in, so I expect you to be strong."
Bai Ze spoke calmly. At the same time, he withdrew the proceeds from all the equipment sold on the Professional Mall and purchased a High-level Awakening Stone.
This was a Legendary-grade item!
It was truly expensive—a staggering one billion! He had even had to take out a loan of two million just to afford it!
Though his heart was bleeding, he couldn't let it show.
"Come forward one by one. It is time to awaken your classes!"
Bai Ze had the children step forward in an orderly fashion, but he never expected that these children would be such heavy hitters from the start!
"Boy Baihe!", "Green-Eyed Golden-Eyed Beast", "Four-Winged Archangel!"...
This awakening was no small matter.
Bai Ze was astonished to find that every single one of these children was awakening to a Rare-grade class, and all of them were classes dedicated to subduing demons and upholding justice!
"This is interesting. Could it be that the Will of the World is aiding these surviving humans?"
Intrigued, Bai Ze decided to let Sun Tai oversee the awakening process while he stood by, watching the children awaken their classes with a sense of bewilderment.
"Lin Feng! Awakened class: Fighting Buddha!"
When Sun Tai shouted this, both the Great Sage and Bai Ze were stunned, staring at the child named Lin Feng as if they had seen a ghost.
Bai Ze even stole a glance at the Great Sage, curious to see his reaction.
"Why are you looking at me? It’s not like I made him awaken as the Fighting Buddha!"
The Great Sage looked a bit restless, scratching his ears and cheeks, and even ran over to examine the boy named Lin Feng.
The Great Sage pondered for a moment, then plucked three hairs from the back of his hand and gave them to Lin Feng, as if acknowledging a predestined connection between them.
"Little fur-ball, if you ever run into a problem you can't solve, hold these hairs tight and whisper 'Great Sage Equal to Heaven,' understand?"
"Yes." Lin Feng nodded naively, signaling that he understood.
As the remaining children continued to awaken, they all gained impressive classes.
Bai Ze began preparing for the next step.
"Great Sage, these children have very low starting combat power. I fear it would take a dozen of them working together to defeat a single low-level Exotic Beast."
"So, I would like to ask you to put in some extra effort. Please go to the outskirts of the city and hunt the Exotic Beasts that keep pouring in. Get some 'experience packs' for these children so they can at least have the power to protect themselves..."
"Can do."
The Great Sage nodded. Being busy didn't bother him; he was doing a good deed, after all.
And so, Master Monkey began his busy hunt...
He slaughtered his way from the east end of the city to the west, from the herb garden to the library...
After four or five hours of non-stop work, he finally gathered a massive amount of experience!
Bai Ze quickly took the experience and distributed it to the children, raising their levels to around 5.
Since they were all Rare-grade classes, a group of four was now basically enough to hunt down a low-level Exotic Beast.
As for mid-level Exotic Beasts, they wouldn't appear for a while, and high-level ones went without saying—there was only one in the entire City of Exotic Beasts.
Bai Ze let the children hunt on their own for now; he would leave once the situation stabilized.
Of course, he also sent Little Diamond Wind out to follow the group, just in case anyone got hurt.
Everyone had their own tasks now. With few Exotic Beasts left in the city—all of which were now prey for the local human children—Bai Ze turned his focus to gathering wealth.
He noticed quite a few jewelry stores in the city, holding items like gold and diamonds.
Bai Ze called on Zhou Tai and the two sweet girls to help search for gold, platinum, and similar items. While these things weren't worth much in the world of total class changes, they were still high-value metals.
After all, he had taken a 2-million-unit loan to buy that Awakening Stone, and he needed to pay it back as soon as possible...
"Sigh, what a pathetic mortal, spending a lifetime chasing gold and silver. Truly pitiful..."
The Great Sage lay sprawled on a lounge chair in front of a cafe, saying this with great ease.
Bai Ze rolled his eyes—or rather, the empty sockets where his eyes should have been—and retorted, "You’d better help, or I'm going to end up in debt! If I get blacklisted for credit, we won't be able to buy anything!"
The Great Sage sat up the moment he heard this, raising an eyebrow.
He curled his finger, his ears twitching, and instantly located the most valuable spot in the entire city.
Without a word, he set off. He arrived in front of a bank in a flash and blasted the doors open, revealing crates upon crates of gleaming gold bricks inside...
"Hey, Whitey! Get your rear over here and collect all this gold!"
"..."
The next day.
All the children returned from their hunt. Bai Ze tallied the results; the children had reached about level 8, and their combat power had improved significantly.
They were still lacking in items and equipment, though...
Fortunately, he still had some equipment left over, which he distributed among them.
Once the gear was issued, their combat power reached another level; now, essentially two of them could handle a low-level Exotic Beast.
"This should be enough. My mission is complete, and I can leave now."
Bai Ze was certain, as the option to exit the Abyss had finally appeared!
"Clearing it in three days counts as breaking a record. But I’ve clearly exceeded the mission requirements. I wonder what the reward will be?"