Chapter 70: I Feel Like He’s a Fighter
Now the country knows.
Song Jiulai actually looked forward to them coming.
Unfortunately, the System couldn’t provide any cheats.
According to the System, cultivation is a matter of karma and a bit of luck.
No matter the method, those who first encounter this game are naturally lucky.
Good luck allows the Sect to grow strong in the early stages without major issues.
The player pool is naturally selected as well.
Since most of the old players are still on First Mountain, the task of guiding newcomers falls to the remaining Life Players.
However, Life Players don’t need much guidance now.
Because Song Jiulai has opened up two tasks.
First, newcomers can directly choose to train on First Mountain. After hunting ten Tier 1 Demonic Beasts each month in the Early Qi Stage, all excess materials belong to them. They can choose to donate them or keep them to sell for Spirit Stones, and they will also receive Spirit Stones and Points from Sect tasks.
Second, players who feel they can manage can choose to contract more Spiritual Fields.
For example, the standard is two plots of land per month, but now they can contract three, four, or five plots if they can manage them. The stronger they are, the more land they can naturally contract.
And besides the initial Sect standard, contracted land requires players to purchase Spirit Herb seeds and Spirit Liquid themselves. Of the Spirit Herbs grown, seventy percent belong to the player and thirty percent to the Sect.
If funds are insufficient in the early stages, the Sect can provide loans. The interest is that all Spirit Herbs grown must be one-tenth more for the Sect until the first loan is repaid.
Because the danger of going out for training is different from staying home to cultivate Spirit Herbs, the rewards for killing Demonic Beasts naturally appear more generous.
Most players strive outside so that Life Players can cultivate their fields in peace!
Of course, you can also choose not to get involved with the Sect and research other things.
However, whether it’s purchasing Beast Taming or Artifact Refining secret recipes, players must find their own way to earn the initial capital.
Relying on the meager monthly allowance from Sect tasks is clearly unrealistic.
It would take ages to even afford Palm Thunder.
New Players must also strive actively!
Apart from the old players who went out for training, the remaining old players have all chosen to contract Spiritual Fields.
Fan Guozhou directly chose to contract ten plots of land, requisitioning the plots left by the old players who couldn’t handle them from the Sect.
It’s fine if he can’t manage it alone; he’ll hire new players and old players with less money to work for him, offering better rewards than Sect tasks, though the conditions are harsher, requiring each person to manage more plots.
Since the Sect tasks for Spiritual Fields don’t have strict standards, cultivating Spirit Herbs using A Wu’s previous method to meet the harvest standard is sufficient.
Fan Guozhou’s requirements are more meticulous; if the Spirit Herbs harvested from one plot exceed expectations, he offers a bonus.
However, they have already discovered that Chen Miaomiao’s cultivation method, with its masterful control of Spiritual Energy, can also improve their cultivation, though it’s not as rapid as direct combat.
The tasks of running errands for old players who are out training are only worth one Point, which they now look down upon; leave them for the new players.
They are short on money in the early stages.
And Fan Guozhou’s contracted land isn’t managed by him alone; Zhou Xiao and Chen Miaomiao have also invested.
The System, seeing their clever moves, complained to Song Jiulai: “This is the beginning of primitive capital accumulation and exerting its power.”
Song Jiulai watched silently: “It’s all making money for the Sect anyway.”
She gets thirty percent, so of course, she wouldn’t say anything.
Moreover, Points are a wash; no matter what, players will exchange Points for Spirit Stones, so the money she earns will still be given to the players.
This is called a virtuous cycle.
System: “Also, we can pretend to upgrade now. Players can also post and accept tasks from me, without having to go to the Sect spawn point.”
Although they have tasks, they are actually just posting procurement tasks through the System, with no additional numerical rewards.
There won’t be a detailed task system for players to view.
Because this game is fundamentally free.
The System is more like a marketplace responsible for disseminating information.
Song Jiulai: “OK.”
The System also released new upgrade information to the players.
【Ding, the task system has been updated. Players can now post procurement and recruitment tasks to the System, without needing to go to the Sect spawn point to check.】
【There is a limit to the number of tasks that can be posted. Posting a System task advertisement costs 100 Points. If no one accepts the task within 24 hours, it will be withdrawn. You need to repost the task using Points. Points can also be used to purchase additional ad slots, which are available for rent.】
All players: “…”
You’ve even started this whole ad slot rental thing!
You damn dog planner!
This System is definitely a dog planner!
They absolutely refuse to admit that Song Jiulai could be a planner.
Who could have thought of such a malicious scheme as renting out ad slots?
However, some players didn’t care at all.
For example, Fan Guozhou.
Having planned to recruit new players, Fan Guozhou immediately applied to the System to post a recruitment task.
【Player Fan Guozhou posts a Spiritual Field worker recruitment task: One plot of Spiritual Field urgently needs players to tend to it. Compensation is generous, with bonuses for exceeding standard harvest based on the quantity of Spirit Herbs. Extra rewards will be given for Tier 2 or higher Spirit Herbs. Limited slots available. Interested parties please find me at the Restaurant in Wang’an County.】
“Holy crap, that’s brutal, contracting a whole acre directly?”
Zhen Weida was stunned: “We’re all playing the game together, and he’s already this rich? Doesn’t the System care that he’s becoming a capitalist?”
System: “It’s all fate.”
Zhen Weida: “…”
Other new players also saw this task. Most of their Spiritual Roots had already been opened, and the players who logged in first were chatting excitedly about these tasks.
“No way, working like a beast of burden in reality, and still working like a beast of burden in the game?”
“You can’t say that. This is a virtual game, a second life that’s practically a gift. I’m willing to do anything!”
“You can choose not to be a beast of burden and go hunt Demonic Beasts. Everything extra is yours.”
While that’s true, not many newcomers dare to go directly hunt Demonic Beasts.
At least not many were tempted.
However, Zhen Weida’s eyes darted around.
Farming was out of the question.
Last time, his cultivation was too low, and he fell off a cliff, unable to even fly.
Such a tragic event must not happen again.
He’ll go for some training first.
They can even team up!
Zhen Weida found two rather eccentric girls, Lin Baobao and Lin Yuyu. Unexpectedly, both of them were battle maniacs. Lin Yuyu said first: “What a joke, a cultivation game is definitely about fighting monsters and leveling up. We’ll definitely go hunt Demonic Beasts.”
Zhen Weida looked at her delicate and pitiful face and couldn’t bear to look directly. Then he said: “Let’s wait for that person named Shuitan. He hasn’t logged in yet. His Spiritual Root talent must be very strong. Let’s ask him if he wants to go with us.”
Lin Yuyu readily agreed, but she was a little surprised: “But will he go hunt Demonic Beasts?”
“He definitely will,” Zhen Weida said mysteriously, “I have a feeling he’s the type of combatant.”
After meeting Liu Wenyu, his mind suddenly opened up. He had a radar for people with a certain special aura.
He felt that Shuitan was like that kind of person.
