61: Recruitment mission, this is picking up money

Copy Body: Body, stay safe. Whether we can become a God and an ancestor in the future depends on you!

Sanbao Clone: When we're out and about in the future, we'll be your face. You wouldn't want to lose face, would you? So, cultivate diligently, and leave the rest to us.

Lin Chen: … … … …

The Body only needs to cultivate, while the Copy Bodys have a lot more to think about.

This was truly a reversal of roles. Was his entire cultivation just for the Copy Bodys to show off?

That wouldn't do.

In future opportunities to show off, his Body would have to be present.

With the talent now active, Lin Chen and his Copy Bodys felt a bit relaxed. All their previous hard work was to maximize benefits when the talent became effective.

Now that the talent was active, it was like a phase objective completed. The next phase objective node was at 30 years old, which was still ten years away.

So, Lin Chen and his Copy Bodys decided to rest for a day.

Today was their birthday; there was no way they'd be working themselves to death on their birthday.

In the early morning, Lin Chen, after waking up, received birthday wishes from his family.

Sending a message from Blue Star to Sixth Academy cost one million federal currency, and a video call cost one hundred million federal currency per minute. After all, the territory was vast, and achieving communication across the entire territory was quite remarkable.

These were small sums of money. Lin Chen directly initiated a call request to his grandparents. Without even a second's wait, the call was connected.

His grandparents' projections appeared in Lin Chen's bedroom.

"Chener, Happy Birthday."

"Grandpa, Grandma, I miss you."

"Chener, we miss you too."

Having not seen his grandparents for over a year, Lin Chen missed them very much. He wasn't someone who cut off emotions and desires; he could feel the love his family gave him.

Afterward, Lin Chen chatted with the two elders for more than ten minutes, talking about his life at the Academy, his Copy Bodys' experiences outside, and other things they could discuss.

"Chener, you must take good care of yourself at the Academy, don't be reckless, pay attention to safety, and after serving your military service, it would be best if you could return to Blue Star for a position."

"Grandpa, Grandma, I know. No one can say what the future holds. For now, it's like this. You both must also take care of your health; you still have to enjoy a good life with me in the future."

"Good, good, good. We also want to enjoy a good life with you."

Lin Chen was a UR card. When he became a God, he would cause the direct bloodline of his family to transform into a Divine Blood family. Within five generations up and down, they would all be within the scope of transformation. Within twenty generations up and down, they could also enjoy the benefit of a bloodline refinement once.

The premise was that his family could live until Lin Chen became a God. This condition was a hard requirement.

After ending the call with his family, Lin Chen took his Copy Bodys and prepared to go to the commercial district for a big meal and to spend a lot.

A group of five, Lin Chen maintained his appearance, while the Copy Bodys wore masks. It was still necessary to distinguish between the Body and the Copy Bodys.

After eating, having a small drink, entering the Virtual Divine Realm to watch the latest battlefield records, experiencing the shock of blood and fire, and finally moving on to the catgirl foot massage parlor, Lin Chen and his group returned to the dormitory satisfied after a full-service experience.

The time for indulgence and happiness is always short. The sun rises, and it's time to continue forward, towards the goal.

Copy Body: There's a recruitment mission that seems very suitable for us.

Lin Chen: What mission?

Copy Body: It looks like a suicide mission.

Lin Chen: ?

Essence Clone: The Academy has discovered an Eighth Order rift space, which contains a Demigod-grade spatial ore vein with extremely large reserves, but it is occupied by the Bug Clan. So the Academy issued a mission, recruiting students' Copy Bodys to enter and eliminate the Bugs and mine the ore vein.

After hearing the Essence Clone's description, Lin Chen understood why the Copy Body would say it was a suicide mission.

An Eighth Order rift was the entry limit, not that the space behind the rift could only accommodate a maximum of Eighth Order.

It was possible that upon entering the rift, one would have to face Ninth Order, Tenth Order, or even Demigod-level enemies. The enemies were the Bug Clan, and the Bug Clan was a collective organism; it was not difficult for them to pile up resources to create Demigod-level organisms.

This kind of rift world was a unique phenomenon in the starry sky. It had entry restrictions, but the space after entry was essentially no different from the starry sky itself, more like an ultra-long-distance wormhole, with the other side of the wormhole being another part of the starry sky.

Lin Chen: What are the rewards?

Copy Body: One thousand academic points for each Copy Body. If a Copy Body dies once, an additional one thousand academic points are compensated. For every unit of Demigod-grade spatial Original Ore mined, an additional one academic point is rewarded. Other gains are all for the student.

Lin Chen: So, if you participate in the mission, you can get a basic reward of four thousand academic points. If you die once, you get one thousand academic points as compensation. The more you die, the more compensation you get, and there are also rewards for mining.

Copy Body: … … …

Sanbao Clone: … … … …

Copy Body: The Academy has supervisory methods. How could they allow our Copy Bodys to die? Unless it's death due to irresistible factors, other forms of death will not be compensated, but will instead lower the Academy's evaluation of us.

Lin Chen: That's true. Condensing a Copy Body also requires a price, and the Academy won't let students exploit them.

Without hesitation, Lin Chen signed up for the recruitment mission.

As soon as the application was submitted, the backend displayed that the application was successful and a recruitment order was obtained.

As long as one held the recruitment order, they could use the Academy's teleportation array to directly teleport near the Bug Clan rift. After registering with the instructor, they could happily carry out the mission.

The Copy Body and Sanbao Clone had nothing to pack and could enter combat readiness at any time. They took the recruitment order and set off. A tense and exciting adventure was about to begin.

At this time, the Body should do whatever he needed to do, without worrying about the Copy Bodys' affairs.

Upon arriving at the Academy Camp, Lin Chen (Copy Body) first went to register his information and then obtained detailed intelligence on the Bug Clan behind the rift from the Camp, as well as a device that could store Original Ore.

The world behind the rift was tentatively named the Original Ore Insect Domain.

The Original Ore Insect Domain was one light-year in size, filled with countless ore mountains and veins, with only a small portion being Demigod-grade spatial ore veins.

On countless ore mountains and veins, countless insects resided. These insects fed on ore and had evolved the ability to decompose and extract ore veins, and their bodies had transformed towards a metallic direction, belonging to the metallic Bug Clan.

The overall strength of the Bug Clan was very strong, with a lower limit of Sixth Order and an upper limit of Tenth Order. They possessed one Demigod Peak Bug Mother and hundreds of Demigod-grade Bug Kings and Bug Generals.

This was the norm for starry sky exploration. There was no such thing as evenly matched; there was only the strong crushing the weak. To acquire resources, one had to snatch food from the tiger's mouth.

Good resources were always occupied by the strong.

The weak who wanted to acquire resources had to take risks.

It was only when Sixth Academy encountered such a resource point that they could, without violently expanding the rift's upper limit and triggering a larger-scale regional war, recruit students' Copy Bodys to plunder the resource point's resources through a fearless human wave tactic.

The storage device issued by the Academy contained a teleportation array, which could batch-teleport resources placed inside to the collection point in the Original Ore Insect Domain.

Finally, the Demigod-level instructor's Eighth Order Copy Body at the collection point would forcibly take them through the rift and return to the Academy Camp.

As for the students' Copy Bodys, their role was defined as consumables, cheap labor for mining. There was no consideration for the possibility of them returning alive.

With everything ready, Lin Chen (Copy Body) took the Sanbao Clone and entered the rift.

"This place is really far from Sixth Academy. My mirror connection with the Body has been weakened by ninety percent, and the energy consumption for transferring resources between us has increased by at least a hundredfold."

Upon landing in the Original Ore Insect Domain, Lin Chen and the Sanbao Clone immediately entered a state of extreme Spiritual Stealth.

They then contacted the Body and found that the connection was much weaker, but they could still transmit information and materials through the mirror space.

The Sanbao Clone, however, directly severed its connection with the Body. This connection was linked to the Copy Body, through whom it maintained a slight connection with the Body.

The essence of the Sanbao Clone was, after all, a bit lower, just a subordinate version of One Qi Transforms into Three Purities. It was normal for it to have limits.

"Let's get to work. I have old dengs book, and mining is exactly its specialty."

Lin Chen summoned old dengs book, infused it with spiritual power, and its inherent appraisal technique activated, covering a range of three thousand kilometers. Any valuable items within this range were displayed on the appraisal map.

"Good luck. There's a spatial ore vein near us that isn't guarded by the Bug Clan, meaning it's a hidden ore. The strongest Bug Clan member here is Ninth Order, which we can handle, but there's no need to start a conflict. We'll mine quietly, no shooting."

The four of them, Lin Chen included, in their Spiritual Stealth state, had such a low presence that they were practically negligible. Unless a Bug Clan Demigod activated area perception, Bug Clan members below Demigod would not discover their existence unless they were practically touching them.

The Spiritual Stealth Technique was simply too divine.

With this technique, ninety percent of the dangers during exploration were completely avoided. The remaining ten percent of dangers could also be avoided if possible, offering a very high fault tolerance.

Just like now, the four of them, Lin Chen included, quietly approached the spatial ore vein without alarming any Bug Clan members.

The spatial ore vein was hidden within a mining mountain several hundred kilometers high. There were clear signs of Bug Clan excavation on this mountain, but despite digging for a long time, the Bug Clan failed to penetrate the rock and reach the ore vein.

This completely benefited Lin Chen and his group.

They used the Bug Clan's mine tunnels to get closer to the spatial ore vein, passing through the rock in a shorter time and reaching the main body of the spatial ore vein.

This spatial ore vein did not have a large reserve. After full extraction, they could obtain four thousand units of Original Ore, and after refinement, only four units of spatial stone.

But this had nothing to do with Lin Chen and them. They only knew that they easily gained four thousand academic points, a bountiful harvest. This was no different from picking up money.