{I, the Great Quadrilateral, can obtain a catalog of my personal past glorious experiences at an investment of 10N per entry.}
“Sir, before you leave, let me see just how much glorious light this short stretch of your time has already nurtured, alright?“
This was precisely what Yang Zicang wanted to know. Having accepted such a valuable gift from the other party for no reason, he had no grounds to refuse.
{I invested 10N in the Sharkfin Agate Guard Belt.}
{Sharkfin Zuma Guard Belt: I-a-m-b-e-g-i-n-n-i-n-g-t-o-w-o-r-k.}
Within the clouded green agate on the guard belt, a faint glimmer slowly flickered, as if reflecting the full moon in the sky.
“This means you can continue extracting more,” Di’an said with some excitement.
Just as expected, the person before him indeed possessed more than one event.
{I invested four 10N into the “Sharkfin Zuma Guard Belt.“}
Inside the agate, a speck of silver-white light the size of a needle tip lit up, followed immediately by another, and then a light spot with a slightly golden hue!
A series of telepathic messages chimed almost simultaneously in his mind.
-{Glorious Radiance: The Passenger Who Slew the Murderer}
-{Glorious Radiance: The Traveler Who Crossed the Storm}
-{Glorious Radiance: The Seafarer Who Cleared His Own Injustice}
Suddenly, a tingling, electric-like sensation swept gently from Yang Zicang’s wrist. He had an epiphany—this was the guard belt alerting him that he possessed an experience capable of yielding a Flash.
-{Heroes’ Flash: The One Who Broke Through the Barrier of Fate!}
“Just as I thought, I knew there would be a Flash!“
Seeing the golden point of light emerge within the agate, Di’an was thrilled.
“Ah, friend, you absolutely must sell it to me, so my career can be considered complete.“
Xue Qi was utterly envious. She asked curiously, “The white ones represent Radiance, right? To think in such a short time you’d have three Radiances plus a Flash. Buchen, you’re too amazing.“
“It’s alright. I hope to gain more later…“
The words had barely left his mouth when the three of them suddenly fell silent, continuing to stare at the guard belt.
Within the dusty agate stone, no larger than half a fingernail, another speck of silvery white light was slowly emerging.
At the same time, the slow, measured telepathic voice of the agate guard belt continued.
{-Glorious Radiance: The Guest Who Deceived a Distributor}
“Wow, there’s even more!“
Di’an looked in delighted surprise at the newly emerged silvery point of light. He exclaimed cheerfully:
“Guest, you actually have four portions of Radiance? How is this possible? Is there anything else about your brief journey that you haven’t told me?“
“Uh… about that.“
Yang Zicang pinched his nose, his eyes darting around the floor for a moment before lifting to meet the astonished distributor’s gaze.
“Just some small, unintended matters.“
“Unbelievable! I’ve never encountered such an outstanding guest before. You absolutely must return later.“
“Still, hmm… Alright. I’ll go visit the Travelers’ Guild first.“
This particular experience could definitely not be sold to the distributor in front of him.
“I’ll go with you,” the woman said, rising to her feet as if the two were already teammates.
“Wait!” The distributor rubbed his hands together and pointed toward the goods. “Mr. Yang changed his name, right? Wouldn’t you like to change your attire while you’re at it?“
A few minutes later, the people from the Travelers’ Guild waiting in the corridor finally saw the door open.
“Hello, sir, madam. I am Kim Tae-cheol of the Weiting Travelers’ Guild.“
As the young man and the beauty, now dressed in local ethnic attire and hats, emerged from the room, Kim Tae-cheol, who had been waiting for some time, immediately approached them.
He glanced at the fresh outfits on Yang Zicang and his companion, as well as their hats and face-concealing scarves, and smiled:
“Sir, did you spend temporal sequence to acquire these clothes? Actually, this world has its own currency. You could just use local money for such things in the future; there’s no need to waste temporal sequence.“
Yang Zicang looked at the robe on his own body. They were indeed items he had purchased just before stepping out, costing 2.8N. Xue Qi’s outfit was even more expensive, costing her 13.6N, and those were already discounted prices from Di’an.
“But we don’t have a single cent right now; we can only use temporal sequence.“
Come to think of it, there was some currency on Aqiang’s boat, but he hadn’t brought that kind of thing with him when he disembarked.
“Of course, we understand,” Kim Tae-cheol said. “Sir, as you’re surely aware, although we of the Weiting Guild are not Moon Realm distributors, we can still acquire events. It’s hard to find another guild like ours anywhere. Would you be interested in taking a look at our place?“
“You can also pay in Moonlight?“
“Ah, we can indeed exchange Moonlight into your Bloodline Statue, though the rates differ for each layer. And you probably don’t have a Bloodline Statue yet, right? We can give you, Mr. Buchen, some nice things from this world.“
Yang Zicang quietly noted this information.
It seemed the higher the layer of Moonlight, the greater its value. So should he find a distributor from a higher layer of the Moon Realm to sign a long-term contract with?
The two were led upward by the Travelers’ Guild members.
The Travelers’ Guild’s rented space in the lighthouse was one floor up. The two followed Kim Tae-cheol and the others, chatting as they walked toward the fourth floor.
Just as Yang Zicang was heading to the fourth floor, at the staircase on the second floor, a man in a snow-white suit and a wide-brimmed hat stepped up into the lighthouse tower.
“Oho! So it is this moment in time. Hah, a man who creates a ‘Flash’ right from the start? As expected of…“
The man removed his coat, revealing a powerfully built arm tattooed with a goddess. He raised his head to look at the rock ceiling looming above, half-visible in the lamplight.
“…Yang Zicang, huh.“
The man who had once appeared not long after Yang Zicang first got off the vehicle now seemed to be here again by some twist of fate, silently emerging at this very place.
……
The oil lamps cast overlapping shadows of the group. Yang Zicang followed Kim Tae-cheol up the stone stairway, barely wide enough for two people.
“This is our shopfront.“
A clamor of noise reached them.
“Now that we heard Mr. Buchen was coming, a bunch more enthusiastic friends have shown up.“
Outside the door of this room rented by the Weiting Travelers’ Guild, a noisy crowd had gathered.
“Mr. Buchen is here!“
“Creating a Flash right upon arrival—how enviable!“
After fermenting for a full hour, although the people here might not yet know its exact purpose, no one was unaware of the preciousness of the “Heroes’ Flash.“
While Yang Zicang handled their flattery, his amplified temporal sequence silently guarded his internal organs beneath his skin.
This was a new Track of Fate where a casual strike could potentially inflict up to a hundred thousand temporal sequence in amplified damage! Even if most of these people of varying builds and ethnicities before him had only just arrived in this world, he could not afford to be careless.
{The advanced effect of Rational Radiance is in effect, I, the Great Quadrilateral, am certain.}
Xue Qi moved a little closer to him, subconsciously regarding this person who had brought her up from the sea as a reliable teammate.
“Make way! Everyone!“
The Travelers’ Guild members cleared a path through the crowd. Kim Tae-cheol led the way into the room.
“This is the shop we’ve rented. Over the years, we’ve come here often and dealt with the Maritime Bureau many times. Otherwise, an ordinary merchant caravan wouldn’t have been able to rent this spot.“
Another person nearby laughed, “After all, if something went wrong, it’d be tantamount to slapping the Maritime Bureau’s face.“
Yang Zicang nodded with a smile, his inner vigilance undiminished.
“How do you collect Radiance?“
“We have a special method!“
“Specifically?“
“It’s very simple. In the inner room, we have a recorder. Once you narrate your past glorious experiences and they are recorded by our specially licensed recorder, it counts as trading that Radiance to us!“
“So there’s such a thing.“
Yang Zicang lifted his gaze. From the doorway, he could see the room’s several stalls displaying an array of goods: military coats, belts, various blades, hooks, and locks, firearms, and even scrolls and oddly shaped items of unknown purpose.
The Weiting Travelers’ Guild had rented a suite with both an outer and inner shop area, one had to pass through the outer room to reach the inner room. At that moment, several people were still waiting at the door of the inner room to narrate their strange experiences, but most were just bragging with spittle flying, nowhere near the level of being sellable.
Kim Tae-cheol turned his head apologetically:
“But after all, we’re not distributors of the Moon Realm, so the Radiance we acquire is very little. Each time we come, we only manage to collect one or two portions.“
“I see.“
Hearing this explanation, Yang Zicang felt it was understandable. If everyone had the ability to extract Radiance, then these so-called Moon Realm distributors would be far too common.
If the goods at Di’an’s place were a curated selection of necessities required by newcomers, then the goods at the Weiting Travelers’ Guild were like browsing an old flea market or antique shop.
More people emerged from the inner room of high-end goods, filling the outer room and calling out greetings.
It was hard to believe that such an upper floor could hold forty or fifty people, as packed as a bathhouse giving away free pomelos.
“Mr. Buchen, do you still need teammates?“
“Beauty, need a partner for when we hit the mainland?“
“Ignore them.” Kim Tae-cheol turned his head. “The Vice President is waiting for you personally!“
Yang Zicang raised his hand, revealing the guard belt: “Do you have anything better than this?“
“We don’t carry these goods. However…“
On the Sharkfin Zuma Guard Belt, the speckled glimmers within the small agate stone had mostly faded, but Kim Tae-cheol, being who he was, immediately noticed the faint points of light still shimmering.
“You already have this much Radiance?!“
And among them was a faint, dim golden spot of light—wasn’t that a sign of a “Flash“!

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