The Star: "@High Priestess, you mentioned finding a dungeon earlier. Do you want your big sister to go with you?"
High Priestess: "No."
Justice: "If you encounter any ancient bloodlines, let me know."
High Priestess: "Those aren't exactly easy to come by."
Justice: "Someone found some while you guys were out. Apparently, they even created some new races, but unfortunately, the Council couldn't buy them."
The Moon: "Is it just the Council that's disappointed?"
Justice: "Fine, I'm disappointed too."
The Moon: "So, any interest in teaming up?"
Justice: "Hmm?"
The Moon: "You have the Supreme Council's intel, and our Villa has all sorts of muscle. Don't you think that would be a powerful alliance?"
The Sun: "Well, well, The Moon really is a businessman. He doesn't hesitate to sell people out, does he?"
The Star: "It doesn't matter, as long as we get intel on bloodlines."
Death: "Doesn't matter +1."
Righteousness: "I'll lead the charge this time."
High Priestess: "+1, +1."
Just as someone had said before...
Because of the 'example' set by the massive profits earlier, the moment The Moon proposed making a deal with the Supreme Council, these guys were suddenly no longer busy. They had time, and some were even ready to lead the charge.
Humans die for wealth, as birds die for food—it was all perfectly understandable.
Although this wasn't a dungeon, the dungeons had already set a precedent. Coupled with their desire for ancient bloodlines, everyone hoped to get more information out of Justice.
Of course, in return, they would have to give Chu Yuan some benefits.
As for being a Supreme Council member, holding the benefits in one's own hands was the most important thing.
To put it bluntly, the Supreme Council was just another Tarot Villa, only with more people, a bigger setup, and a wider scope of management.
In fact, because its members weren't as pure-minded as those in the Villa, the Supreme Council wasn't nearly as united as it appeared to outsiders.
They spent every day in intrigue, calculation, and power struggles.
So, after thinking it over, Justice accepted The Moon's invitation to cooperate.
The Tower: "By the way, isn't The Moon only proposing this because he doesn't go out himself? He wants to be the one making the proposal just to earn a cut as a middleman."
The Moon: "Look at you, saying exactly what I was thinking."
Facing Lan Qingyou's teasing and exposure, Shang Chuan's expression didn't change in the slightest.
...
Gu Xiaobei left.
She departed with tears in her eyes, clutching a package she had retrieved from her card.
The reason she was holding the package was that she needed a place to store the teleportation circle and the calibrated instruments Lan Qingyou had made for her.
There was a trick to these instruments.
Since they needed to collect mana from the surrounding air to mark a coordinate, the collection process would take a full day to ensure accuracy.
After one day, once the mana was 99.9% consistent, it would mark the location as a destination.
Of course, marking was one thing, and using it was another.
If it was just a one-way teleportation out, there wouldn't be any issues.
So, after spending the night drawing two teleportation circles and connecting the instruments to the composite steel plates, Gu Xiaobei left just as the sun was rising.
Although she was reluctant to go, Lan Qingyou felt quite a bit of relief.
It was that kind of 'sense of freedom' one feels when everyone else in the house has left and they can do whatever they want.
"So! What should I name this node?"
Since the destination could be selected on the instrument, each teleportation site had one chance to be named. Once entered, it could not be changed.
Lan Qingyou was being very cautious now.
The prefix 'Witch' definitely had to be kept. The rest was just a matter of filling in words to make it sound more impressive.
Witch's Home? Witch's Courtyard? Witch's Garden? Witch's Tower?
They all felt like they were missing something.
How about just calling it the Witch's Tea Party?
That definitely sounded high-class.
The problem was that she only drank juice and processed spring water; she didn't really drink tea, let alone host tea parties for multiple people.
Lan Qingyou suddenly envied Gu Xiaobei. Her teleportation point was simply named 'Delight Restaurant' without a single word changed. It seemed so easy.
Why was it so hard for her to pick a name?
First of all, this definitely had nothing to do with her education level.
Secondly, she couldn't possibly ask the people in the Villa for help, because she couldn't bear the embarrassment.
Forget it, she wouldn't overthink it. Whether it sounded impressive or not was secondary.
As long as the person was powerful, any name would command respect.
Having given up on deep thought, Lan Qingyou simply typed in a string of words—The Habitat of the Witch of the High Tower.
Then, she placed the set of teleportation circles under the tree where the World Tree branch was planted, which was intended to be a habitat for avian monsters.
Naturally, she placed it inside after digging out a large, tall tree hollow.
She would come and go from here in the future. Since this place had no other use besides being a habitat for birds, she might as well develop it further.
After finishing, Lan Qingyou checked her work and sent the potions made in the workshop to Chu Yuan.
Because she had been out longer than expected, she had produced quite a lot of potions. Fortunately, she had plenty of containers, so there was no overflow.
In other words, there were no losses.
After handling that, Lan Qingyou ordered a few things from Chu Yuan and went to sleep.
After so many days outside, she hadn't been able to sleep properly, let alone take a decent bath.
Now that she was back and had finished with the teleportation circle, she didn't hesitate to relax. She even sang a children's song in the bathroom that she used to sing when she was little.
Lan Qingyou slept from dawn until four or five in the afternoon.
As soon as she woke up, she immediately threw herself into the construction of her 'habitat.'
Having harvested so many good things this time, she naturally wanted to give her magic circle an epic upgrade.
The items she had ordered from Chu Yuan yesterday had already arrived.
Lan Qingyou only needed to take them out of her card.
What she had ordered this time was an iron-domed gazebo. Its dome was supported by eight Roman stone columns, and at the very top of the dome was a small figure of a witch holding out her hands.
Lan Qingyou flew up and gently placed the Sunlight Stone into the witch's outstretched hand.
In an instant, the magic patterns and circuits of the gazebo were activated, extending from the top down to the Yin-Yang fish below.
With that, both nodes of Lan Qingyou's Yin-Yang fish were fully activated, and the entire magic circle became completely impregnable.
She believed that with the strength of this large composite magic circle—which combined barriers, support, and mana—it could definitely rival the defensive strength of the World Tree Boat.
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