Shaking his head, Zhang Xiaoman sighed quietly—it seemed his chuunibyou was acting up again.
Afterwards, having controlled the stones to fly around for quite a while, Zhang Xiaoman finally stopped, still feeling somewhat unsatisfied. After all, having just gained this strange ability, he found it quite novel.
"However... it seems this is all I can do..."
Looking at the scattered stones on the ground, Zhang Xiaoman fell into deep thought again.
Earlier, he had wanted to try changing the shape and material composition of the stones, but he frustratingly found that he couldn’t achieve that yet.
Whenever he tried to issue some other commands, a hindrance would emerge from deep within him. This feeling was peculiar, akin to running in a dream, where you can’t exert any strength.
After several more attempts, he couldn’t help but feel deflated.
Looking around at the barren landscape, Zhang Xiaoman shook his head inwardly, "I plan to use this place as gang territory in the future; it’s inevitable others will come here too. It’s fine now with just me, but it’s hard to say if it will be safe for others..."
His brows tightly furrowed, he continuously pondered countermeasures in his mind, "No, I must transform the Original Realm Space to make it conform to Earth’s ecological environment, then others should be able to come in safely..."
Looking up at the sky not a hundred meters above, Zhang Xiaoman had a thought, and suddenly began floating, slowly drifting towards the top.
"Maybe the extent of my control over the Original Realm is linked to the size of this space? Perhaps I should try expanding this space first?"
Having reached this thought, he felt he might have guessed the truth, and in his excited state, he flew around chaotically for a good while before stopping.
"I can’t believe my first time flying is in this tiny space, but I must say, it feels awesome!"
After flying around in circles in the air, Zhang Xiaoman’s initially uneasy feeling had completely vanished. He was like a child encountering his favorite toy, thoroughly enjoying himself.
Having lost track of time, perhaps growing tired of it, Zhang Xiaoman eventually returned to the ground. He looked around and a satisfied smile spread across his face.
"Although there are many places that are not up to my expectations, overall, I am quite satisfied with this place. It’s only a few acres in size now, but I believe, with my hard work, it will grow, and might even turn into a new universe one day! Then, I would be the Creator God here! Hahaha..."
Lost in his grand fantasies for a moment, Zhang Xiaoman’s gaze unintentionally shifted to the place he had entered from, where there was an area glowing with milky white light.
Yes, he planned to go back.
He had been in this space for several hours now, having looked everywhere.
Although Zhang Xiaoman wielded many miraculous abilities here, the place was ultimately too monotonous—it was all just soil, and staying here too long made one feel bored and stifled.
"Hmm... before going back, maybe I could draw a prize?"
Just as Zhang Xiaoman was about to return the way he came, he suddenly remembered something important—that he could use the secrecy of this space to use up the lottery draws he had been accumulating for a long time.
"It’s been more than ten days since I got on board, and I still haven’t had a chance to participate in the lottery. If I don’t do it soon, I’m afraid I’ll completely forget about it!"
Zhang Xiaoman recalled the time and was also a bit surprised, as he hadn’t realized he had accumulated so many lottery entries.
When he summoned the system interface to prepare for the lottery, Zhang Xiaoman’s originally casual expression froze on his face, and he stared straight at the interface floating in front of him, momentarily forgetting his next move.
"This, this... Is the Ultimate Item really that powerful? The System has actually... really been changed..." he murmured, his face full of disbelief.
In front of Zhang Xiaoman, the system interface, which originally only had "Store, Lottery, and Upgrade" as options, now had an additional new feature—"Gang"!
Clearly, this new feature had appeared only after he activated the gang!
Zhang Xiaoman’s face was blank, and he instinctively clicked on the "Gang" button. Immediately, a new page appeared before his eyes.
At the top of the interface were two characters he was very familiar with—Star Alliance.
This was the name he wrote on the Sect Establishment Order and also the name of the gang he had established.
Beneath Star Alliance, there was a list of gang members. However, there were only a handful of people, including Zhang Xiaoman; in total, there were fewer than ten people.
Among these ten people, besides himself and his mother, the rest were names he had never seen before.
"Aaron Griffin? Caroy Brooks? What... What is going on? Who are these people, and why are they in my gang list?"
Zhang Xiaoman was full of confusion. His eyes scanned over the member list, feeling completely baffled by the names he had never encountered before.
"If it were Su Fu, Xiao Shun, I could understand, but who exactly are these guys... Eh? Is it that, apart from me, the information behind the other people all has a ’not activated’ note? Does that mean they are not yet official gang members?"
Zhang Xiaoman thought to himself and looked at a certain place on the gang’s interface, where there was a count of the number of members—1/1.
"1/1... That’s right, so far my gang actually has only me in it. As for those guys, perhaps they are recruitment suggestions given by the System?" Zhang Xiaoman looked at the attribute panel, making guesses based on his many years of gaming experience.
After thinking for a while, Zhang Xiaoman temporarily put this issue aside and involuntarily looked again at another section of the gang interface, the last section.
Although this gang feature was newly added by the System, it still maintained its consistently simplistic style. Besides the member list, the only other section was the "Gang Store."
"Gang Store... My goodness, can it be any more exaggerated? Why does it feel more and more like a money-pit store in a pay-to-win game? This place isn’t also consuming points, is it?"
Zhang Xiaoman immediately clicked open the gang store, and a window similar to the Store interface immediately appeared before him.
However, unlike the Store page, the items here were no longer just a few cats and dogs.
Instead, there was a dazzling array of products, densely packed and occupying the entire shelf, overwhelming to behold.