"Just went through a battle, you must be quite tired now, and since you’ve just bought this house, why don’t you go back and rest for a day? We can talk about anything else later."

Chester’s words warmed Dong Tianyu’s heart, as after all, most people would first inquire about the losses on both sides in such a situation.

But asking directly could very well offend someone.

Regardless, when Chester met Dong Tianyu again, he didn’t pry into the experiences in the Mysterious Realm but was more concerned about Dong Tianyu’s physical state at the moment.

Whether he did this out of sincerity or not, the interaction was fully engaging, leaving Dong Tianyu with no reason to refuse.

Before Dong Tianyu entered the Mysterious Realm, those small Mysterious Ships had been continuously streaming toward the aquatic Platform, but by the time Dong Tianyu came out, the surroundings were desolate.

Seeing that the aquatic Platform was still safe and sound, it seemed that the small Mysterious Ships hadn’t caused too much damage to the Platform.

On his way back, Dong Tianyu curiously asked a question out loud. When they entered the Bloody Mysterious Realm, although they took away a batch of Mysterious Ships, it also made others realize that their situation was somewhat difficult.

Watching those Mysterious Ships that were about to approach the Platform, some survivors who had moved their families to Magic City Number Three felt a bit reluctant.

After all, life in Kyoto had been unstable, and they had barely settled on the aquatic Platform, enjoying a few days of tranquility, only to be faced with such a crisis.

However, fortunately, there were specialized people dealing with the stronger Mysterious Ships, and the real trouble now was the numerous tiny Mysterious Ships, which could generally be handled by Martial Artists of the Inner Breath Realm.

So when Magic City Number Three used the entire Platform’s broadcast to recruit combat personnel, they unexpectedly found quite a few useful talents, of course, many of them were front-line fighters who destroyed the small and tiny Mysterious Ships.

With the addition of these front-line fighters and an abundance of personnel, the tiny and small Mysterious Ships were nowhere near capable of approaching the aquatic Platform.

Thanks to the participation of many Martial Artists, not a single tiny or small Mysterious Ship got close to the aquatic Platform in the end.

They say when a cannon fires, gold comes flowing. The economy of war is the quickest path to riches, and Dong Tianyu found this saying to be true.

The proactive survivors, whether or not they originally used a Mysterious Core to gain a Companion Spiritual Treasure.

If they had one, all the better; if not, it didn’t matter much. As long as they survived the battle, they would at least possess their own Companion Spiritual Treasure.

And if they fought especially hard, they could also save up some Mysterious Cores for their children.

Under normal circumstances, one might encounter two or three Mysterious Ships in a day’s voyage. Considering the number of survivors living on the Platform, it would take three to five years for every individual to possess a Companion Spiritual Treasure.

But the massive assault of Mysterious Ships this time, like monsters attacking in a game, provided a perfect opportunity for the Martial Artists on the Platform to reap the rewards.

If not for the emergence of the Bloody Mysterious Realm, the number of survivors who would have died in this Mysterious Ship attack wouldn’t have exceeded three digits.

Yet the appearance of the Bloody Mysterious Realm meant that only one person could walk out alive, and Dong Tianyu’s final appearance meant that all other survivors who entered the Bloody Mysterious Realm had perished.

On the way back, Chester surprisingly refrained from discussing the Blood-Colored Mysterious Core with Dong Tianyu, which made Dong Tianyu regard Chester even more highly.

After returning to the aquatic Platform, Chester walked Dong Tianyu to his front door. Dong Tianyu turned around to look at Chester, who seemed about to speak but halted, and then invited, "Do you want to come in and sit?"

Chester hesitated at the door for a while, but ultimately shook his head, telling Dong Tianyu, "Let’s not talk about work today, you should rest up. We can talk about anything else tomorrow."

After Chester said this, Zachary didn’t say much else. He bid farewell to Chester, entered his house, lay down on the bed, and then his mind sank into the Sea of Consciousness to check if his Companion Spiritual Treasure had completely devoured the Blood-Colored Mysterious Core.

The Blood-Colored Mysterious Core lay on the deck of the Jade Ship; Zachary wasn’t sure if his eyes were playing tricks on him, but he actually saw it gradually turning into dust. Judging by the current rate of decay, he estimated that the Mysterious Core would be entirely broken down and absorbed in at most one hour.

Lying in his bed, Zachary was unaware that the managers on the Platform above the water were having a heated argument about his affair.

The main point of contention was the Blood-Colored Mysterious Core that Zachary obtained after getting through the Bloody Mysterious Realm.

Some believed that since Zachary had settled down there, during this period, all resources obtained by anyone must be submitted to the logistics department, and then redistributed according to contribution.

Meanwhile, another group insisted that whatever was gained by an individual should belong to them, arguing that forcibly taking from the community members at this time would definitely cast a negative impact.

Besides, Zachary had just completed his residency application, and at this time when he felt no sense of belonging to the Platform, such shortsighted actions would absolutely provoke his disgust.

In fact, there was another unspoken reason: if these people were to break the rules first, given their unseemly greed, when others later ascended to their positions, they might use the same tactics against them.

Therefore, to prevent themselves from encountering others who would flout rules in the future, they had to firmly uphold the correctness of this moral attitude.

Actually, the primary reason was that they or their relatives—brothers, sisters, or friends—had also stumbled upon unexpected adventures.

If they now denied the ownership of the treasures in Zachary’s family, then others could imitate this precedent and target their own homes.

Unnoticed, the argumentative voices in the Conference Room gradually diminished, and eventually, they discussed a few possible solutions.

These solutions either involved trading benefits or using direct financial bribes, but the ultimate goal was to obtain the Blood-Colored Mysterious Core that Zachary had just acquired that day.

However, they were unaware that in order not to make a hasty decision and hand over his newfound possessions, Zachary had already taken that item into his Sea of Consciousness early on.

By the time they thought to ask Zachary about it, the Companion Spiritual Treasure within him had already taken the Mysterious Core into the Sea of Consciousness and fed it to itself.

This time the Companion Spiritual Treasure took much longer than Zachary had anticipated to devour the Blood-Colored Mysterious Core.

However, once the Companion Spiritual Treasure had finished devouring the Blood-Colored Mysterious Core, it once again gave Zachary the opportunity to change the main material of the ship’s body.

As before, any change in the ship’s material required the consumption of a Blood-Colored Mysterious Core, regardless of whether it had been reinforced before.

Given the current rarity of the Blood-Colored Mysterious Core, most people would be granted only one chance to change their ships’ materials, but if they chose to agree, regardless of how glorious the ship once was, the Companion Spiritual Treasure would revert to its original state after the material change.

This was truly a cause for despair: after all, starting over from scratch isn’t easy unless, like when Zachary first obtained a Mysterious Core, the ship had not undergone many enhancements.

Otherwise, if the ship had been through numerous levels of strengthening, Zachary definitely wouldn’t easily change the material of the hull, as each change would incur an immeasurable loss to him.

So, when the Companion Spiritual Treasure devoured the Blood-Colored Mysterious Core, Zachary immediately dismissed the option of changing the hull to wood or metal, given the substantial amount of energy absorbed this time.

Hence, Zachary was prepared to take an unconventional route and directly choose to elevate the level of the ship’s material.

Perhaps it was because there were more participants in the Bloody Mysterious Realm this time, so when Zachary defeated all his enemies and won the Blood-Colored Mysterious Core, it was much more powerful than an ordinary Mysterious Core. Thus, if he decided to upgrade the materials from Jade this time, it would save quite a lot.