prynovel Chapter 38 : Chapter 38
Chapter 38 : Chapter 38
Chapter 38: Unlocked—Long-Range, Wide-Area Trait Collection!!
Xiao Xuan then went to the betting counter to calculate his gains from this round.
"This time, you used 5.9 billion as your principal and 3 billion as the prize pool. At odds of 17, after deducting the handling fee, your final payout including the principal comes to 95.7 billion! Adding the refunded 3 billion prize pool—”
"The total is 98.7 billion!"
By the time that Martial King-level martial artist finished speaking, his voice was already trembling a little. The Colosseum might have been immensely wealthy, but at his level, this was still the first time he had ever handled such an enormous personal payout.
After all, hardly anyone would ever place that much money on a Grandmaster-level arena.
To win that much, the principal would have to be at least 80 or 90 billion. But if that kind of money were thrown in, the odds would immediately drop close to zero.
If you lost, you would get nothing back. If you won, the return would not even compare to bank interest. Who would bet that much?
It was only because Xiao Xuan had made such an enormous spectacle of things this time that the prize pool had ballooned to the trillion level, allowing odds that high to appear.
"So, you're Xiao Xuan, right? Your strength really is impressive. By the way, do you still want to do another round?”
"Why not leave it at that?"
At this moment, Lu Yuan descended as well and spoke to Xiao Xuan with unmistakable admiration.
"How could I leave it at that? Another round. This time, anyone below the Martial King Realm can come!”
"Raise the prize pool to 10 billion, and bet all the rest on me to win!"
Xiao Xuan did not waste words and spoke proudly at once.
But this time, strangely enough, almost no one found his words surprising anymore.
Because Xiao Xuan truly did have that kind of strength.
Unfortunately, the result left Xiao Xuan completely stunned.
Not a single person came.
There was not one challenger. Not even one.
"What on earth? I set it to anyone below the peak of the Great Grandmaster Realm, didn't I?”
"How is there not a single person?”
"Senior Lu Yuan, did you make a mistake?"
Xiao Xuan was utterly dumbfounded and called out to Lu Yuan in the sky.
"No mistake. And this result is perfectly normal."
Lu Yuan answered calmly.
"Normal? I raised the upper limit by an entire major realm, and still no one came. And you call that normal?"
Xiao Xuan was completely speechless.
"Yes, normal. Did you think Liu Yunhai was some nobody?
"He is Nanhai University's number one prodigy of the past fifty years!
"He already swept through the Great Grandmaster-level arenas long ago. Among those with slightly stronger talents, only a handful can defeat him while standing a full major realm above him.
"And by coincidence, none of those few are here. Even if they were, they probably still would not come, because they could only barely defeat Liu Yunhai.
"But you defeated him without a scratch. Tell me, who would come here just to die?"
Lu Yuan explained.
The moment Xiao Xuan heard that, he was left utterly speechless.
Could it be that he would have to do another Martial King match instead?
But against opponents at the First, Second, or Third Heaven of the Martial King Realm, probably no one would come to fight him.
As for the Fourth, Fifth, or Sixth Heaven, that would be difficult.
Because after reaching the Martial King Realm, each minor realm doubled one's strength. Three minor realms meant an eightfold increase. Six minor realms meant sixty-four times.
And that was sixty-four times the strength of a Great Grandmaster.
And that was only in terms of basic Vitality. Once Cultivation Arts, Martial Techniques, and everything else were included, the difference would become even more terrifying.
Even if Xiao Xuan unleashed his full power, he might not necessarily be a match.
And in a multi-person battle, where he would be facing a whole crowd?
He would definitely lose.
"Forget it. We will leave it here for today.”
"I have already gained more than enough today."
In the end, Xiao Xuan could only speak helplessly.
After stepping down from the arena platform and collecting his prize money, he walked deeper into the Colosseum under the gaze of countless people.
That was right—Xiao Xuan had no intention of leaving just yet.
He could not open another multi-person arena, but he certainly was not going to let the Traits on the one-on-one arenas go to waste.
He was planning to head straight to the top Great Grandmaster arenas and take a look around.
There were bound to be plenty of good things at that level.
But halfway there, Xiao Xuan suddenly remembered something.
"Right, I almost forgot. Doesn't my Telekinesis work like an invisible hand?”
"If that's the case, can that invisible hand pick up Traits too?"
Xiao Xuan's eyes lit up at once.
Without another word, he immediately used his Telekinesis on the nearest White Trait.
Sure enough, the Trait was slowly lifted up by him.
But Xiao Xuan frowned at once.
He discovered that when he used Telekinesis to lift this White Trait, it was astonishingly heavy.
It felt as though it weighed several hundred tons.
"What is going on? Why is this Trait so heavy?"
Xiao Xuan was rather shocked.
When he picked them up with his hand before, all of the Traits had seemed almost weightless.
He then ran a few experiments.
A Green Trait was even more terrifying in weight, more than a hundred times heavier than a White Trait.
As for a Blue Trait, it had already reached such an astonishing level of weight that Xiao Xuan's current Telekinesis could not lift it at all.
"Could it be that these Trait Orbs are condensed from some extremely high-level energy system?
"My physical body has little ability to perceive this kind of high-level energy, but Telekinesis, being a power of the same energetic nature, is far more sensitive to it?
"Or perhaps it is because my own body has been modified by the Scavenger Trait, which is why these Traits—completely invisible to everyone else—feel so light to me.”
"And although my Telekinesis is also mine, it is not my actual body, so its compatibility with Traits is not as high as my flesh body's.”
"That is why they feel so heavy!"
Xiao Xuan's mind raced.
Naturally, the second possibility seemed the most likely.
But no matter what, this was actually a good thing.
At the very least, now that he had Telekinesis, it meant he could quickly pick up the vast swaths of White and Green Traits on the ground with it.
As for the very few Purple Traits and above that his Telekinesis could not lift, picking them up by hand would not take much time anyway.
And as his strength increased, the grade of Traits his Telekinesis could lift would only keep rising.
As for top-tier Traits, there were never many of them to begin with. He could just pick those up himself.
And most importantly, the vast majority of the Traits scattered across the Colosseum floor right now were White and Green anyway.
The Blue Traits were all on the arena platforms, which made them difficult to collect.
After all, they were protected by Energy Barriers.
With that thought, Xiao Xuan immediately began sweeping up the White and Green Traits across the ground.
Because the Traits were so heavy, the range at which he could collect them was also greatly compressed.
White Traits could be picked up from more than two thousand meters away.
Green Traits, however, could only be picked up from within a hundred meters.
As for Blue Traits, Xiao Xuan could only barely move them if they were within a few meters of him, which was not even as convenient as simply stepping over and picking them up himself.
Even so, this was already excellent.
The White and Green Traits on the ground came streaming toward Xiao Xuan without end.
Their grade might have been low, but there were simply too many of them.
【You recycled 3,541 White Traits. Eco Points gained: 10,000】
【You recycled 411 Green Traits. Eco Points gained: 10,000】
【You recycled 3,641 White Traits. Eco Points gained: 10,000】
【You recycled 378 Green Traits. Eco Points gained: 10,000】
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One notification after another rang out in his mind.