Chapter 265: Seven Foundation Establishment Stages
Although Song Jiulai also gave the other half of the sect’s spiritual fields to the newcomer players, this kind of competition could not be completely fair.
However, this was also a breakthrough developed by Chen Miaomiao’s spirit herbs, and it was her own ability.
There was no other way, with such a difference in tiers, the points ranking definitely couldn’t be fair.
Song Jiulai thought for a moment, “Since there are commemorative medals, next time we won’t do this kind of large points ranking, we’ll make it more detailed.”
For example, each player has different areas of expertise. For artifact refining, compete on artifact refining success rate and quality; for alchemy, compete on alchemy quantity and quality, finely divided into the top few in the early, middle, and late stages of each tier.
It’s suitable to do when there are many players.
It’s a bit more troublesome, but at least it’s more friendly to ordinary players and newcomer players than this kind of competition.
It also increases motivation.
Moreover, the System isn’t afraid of handling these trivial matters.
The System said, “You’re just starting out, and you’re also a newcomer Sect Master. You can’t have a perfect plan, but it will get better and better.”
Hearing the System’s words, Song Jiulai’s eyes widened, “You actually spoke human words.”
System: “What words? How can parents not dote on their children?”
Song Jiulai: “…”
Evil creature.
By the end of today, Song Jiulai will close the top ten slots and issue the qualification to exchange for puppets.
So she decided to go back to Xuanwu City to rent a place for artifact refining and craft the new puppet.
It seems I need to buy some good medicinal powder.
The ratios and materials for different puppets on the market are not a secret, they are publicly circulated, so there’s no need to specifically buy them.
Some merchants even sell puppet spirit materials, telling buyers what abilities the crafted puppets will have.
Tier 2 puppets are just slightly better, and refining them is not difficult.
Of course, she didn’t forget her main job. While cultivating the Step by Step Lotus Kill, she discovered she could multitask.
She could cultivate and mine at the same time, without needing to focus intently like with the Nine Transformations Dragon Bone.
Before, when dealing with that trio, she used two magic treasures at once.
Manipulating magic treasures is not difficult, as long as the spiritual energy is sufficient.
However, controlling several magic treasures simultaneously here requires strong consciousness support.
She had opened up her Sea of Consciousness in advance, so her consciousness was stronger than others.
But with the System’s Soul Cultivation Method’s blessing, she seemed to be able to cheat much more easily than others.
She can now cultivate the Step by Step Lotus Kill while allocating a portion of her consciousness to mining.
Generally, this is quite risky. Cultivating a cultivation technique without full concentration can lead to mistakes. However, this Step by Step Lotus Kill is not as strict as the Dragon Bone Transformation, allowing Song Jiulai to find a new world.
Her mining speed is very fast, not on the same level as ordinary cultivators.
During this time, she also mined a lot of ore.
It wasn’t until she mined the first ore with Dragon Breath Spirit that she understood what Dragon Breath Spirit meant.
A winding, faint light shadow would appear in the ore at that location.
And it emitted more concentrated spiritual energy.
Making this ore even more eye-catching.
It was obvious at a glance that it was different from ordinary ore.
Ores of the same tier also have different sizes, but the difference will not be particularly large.
Most cultivators’ methods for processing ore after separating impurities are simple and crude.
However, when encountering Dragon Breath Spirit, one must be much more careful.
Once the excess ore edges on this piece of ore are separated, the Dragon Breath Spirit might dissipate.
Therefore, extra caution is needed during processing.
However, that’s for newcomers. For ordinary disciples, after becoming proficient, the success rate is generally guaranteed, it’s just that Dragon Breath Spirit ore is too scarce.
This was not a problem for Song Jiulai. With just a little more care, she successfully stripped out the ore containing Dragon Breath Spirit.
She didn’t let the System intercept this piece. When she took it out, the mark on her wrist became hot, clearly recorded by the Guanhai Sect.
This ore emitted a faint glow, it was a Black Profound Stone.
It was completely black, somewhat like meteoric iron, but with a light shadow constantly floating inside, making it look beautiful.
This was a Tier 1.
Song Jiulai didn’t care about being intercepted by the Guanhai Sect.
In less than a week, she had mined the required amount of spirit materials for the Guanhai Sect. Among these, there were only four pieces containing Dragon Breath Spirit, and all of them were Tier 1—she consumed three of them.
If she could mine more later, she would still give two pieces to the Guanhai Sect.
She ate the majority, so what? With such low output, the Guanhai Sect should be grateful to her!
Being able to keep one piece for the Guanhai Sect made her feel like she was doing charity.
The points ranking ended, and the players who obtained the qualification to exchange for puppets were overjoyed.
The top three were Mu Qiu, Honghuang, and An Xiu.
Fan Guozhou and the others seemed to have consciously controlled their points acquisition speed, and in any case, they exchanged them for Spirit Stones and didn’t want points.
Because the top three had special abilities, they probably discussed privately to leave the special puppets for these three first.
This was likely something they discussed outside the game, as it’s no longer a secret that players have contact in reality.
Mu Qiu had officially become Han Tian’s employee.
Clustering together was unavoidable. Fortunately, the players who chose to come in this batch were fundamentally lucky and had good hearts. Other ordinary players accepted the mechanisms of the Cultivation World more readily.
It’s the law of the jungle; it’s not strange that they weren’t strong enough to get more points.
The only pity was that paying to buy points didn’t count as acquisition…
Returning to Xuanwu City, Song Jiulai went to buy materials, but received news that the brothers Jiang Tianya and Liang Xueyao had both reached the Foundation Establishment Stage.
Their Foundation Establishment was similar to Mu Qiu’s, both encountering danger, but their danger came from two Rogue Cultivators in the Late Qi Condensation Stage.
They had brought Life Players to First Mountain themselves.
They encountered these two Rogue Cultivators because the latter had designs on robbing the Longevity Sect’s Life Players.
But as soon as the Life Players called out in the Sect Channel, they were discovered by Jiang Tianya and Liang Xueyao, who had just returned.
Without any hesitation, they started fighting.
If it were ordinary Late Qi Condensation cultivators, it would be quite difficult to deal with two experienced Late Qi Condensation cultivators.
Just like the players were defeated by disciples from other sects last time.
It was hard to beat others without relying on pills.
But Jiang Tianya and Liang Xueyao, both with Purple Spiritual Roots, and having received training in reality before, had terrifying combat synergy when fighting together, even stronger than the brief coordination of Mu Qiu’s trio.
To test their limits, they didn’t take many pills at first. Later, as the fight progressed and their consumption increased, the opponents realized something was wrong and tried to escape, but they didn’t get far before being forcibly stopped by Jiang Tianya and Liang Xueyao.
After all, it would be troublesome if others discovered this matter.
They only had Mortal-grade Magic Treasures, and even those were refined by Liang Xueyao.
After this battle, the two successfully reached the Foundation Establishment Stage.
They had no psychological barrier to silencing the opponents, as the latter had attacked first.
It’s just that they didn’t know which sect the opponents belonged to.
The System then told Song Jiulai, “These two cultivators are a bit like the first person you encountered when you were in the Early Qi Stage.”
