novelraw Chapter 549: Level Three Earth Spirit Flame!
Chapter 549: Level Three Earth Spirit Flame!
"Finally got the communicator, let’s see what it’s all about!" With so many gains, Jiang Yuan couldn’t worry about anything else for the moment, and clicked to use the machine with a cartoon style in the storage bag.
[Courtyard Communicator Activated, Please Add Fuel]
The interface now has an extra machine icon. With a thought, he clicked it open and saw various options—the communicator requires fuel which can be added with different quantities of copper ingots, silver ingots, crystal stones, etc., but the simplest and most effective way is to directly burn money.
[One piece of Immortal Jade provides energy to support the continuous use of the courtyard communicator for one month. Fuel can be added again when time is less than three days]
The price is acceptable; in the past, burning ten thousand Spirit Stones for a month would have been heart-wrenching. But times have changed, Jiang Yuan considers himself a bit of a wealthy man now, he can afford it!
After adding fuel, he clicked the communicator again, and several large sections appeared in the view—farmland, mill, alchemy room...
Seeing it, he couldn’t help but be dazed. Isn’t it supposed to be used for contact between the courtyard members? This seems more like a remote controller?
Indeed, clicking to open the farmland interface allows viewing detailed classifications such as ordinary farmland, Level Two farmland, etc. He can view thumbnails to see what’s planted there currently and how long until it’s mature;
Workshops are more intuitive. Upon clicking, the inside view appears, and Jiang Yuan can directly operate through the thumbnail to harvest finished products, place raw materials for processing; similarly, farmlands, poultry houses, and livestock sheds can also feed, harvest, and remotely purchase seedlings for raising.
"The system rewards are absolutely awesome!" He clicked the Ancient Teleportation Array to teleport to the hollow house floating in the void, opening the courtyard communicator again, he could still remotely operate without any lag!
In other words, even if he’s at the farthest reaches of the world, as long as he has time, Jiang Yuan can remotely control everything in the courtyard to function normally, no more worrying about which workshop needs harvesting or adding raw materials, no more rushing back frantically not to waste time.
And all the harvested benefits now are thanks to the initial moment of "meddling" during a day of kindness.
At that time, if he thought it had nothing to do with him, possession deserved possession, and coldly watched, it wouldn’t have caused any loss, but then there wouldn’t be a chance to draw prizes, and where would he get the great gift pack items to quickly upgrade the courtyard level?
The advantages of having a system are straightforward: effort brings reward, kindness and goodwill may not be appreciated by the parties involved, but the system will settle rewards, never extinguishing the enthusiasm of being a good person.
"The main quest rewards are good, but the problem is there are too few; still need to hurry up and trigger more side quests." Jiang Yuan looked at the skill upgrade card just obtained and opened the skill interface.
Skills currently usable with items: Five Elements·Cloud-Piercing Thunder, Devouring Mountains and Rivers, Soul-Devouring Demon Skill, Heaven-Burning Storm, and Level Two Earth Spirit Flame.
Just a glance was enough to decide—other skills can upgrade by farming experience points, only Earth Spirit Flame currently wants an upgrade which is purely a money burner.
Upgrading it to Level Three not only saves 5000 Immortal Jade but also allows Level Three Earth Spirit Flame to be formally used as skill external release, isn’t it wonderful?
Click to use, the flame in sight flashed with slight blue and purple amidst the orange-red, officially entered the skill list.
[Earth Spirit Flame: Level Three, requires devouring 10,000 Immortal Jade for next level. Direct flame release can burn and strike anything within a 3x3 range, upgrading to Level Four provides fireproof buff]
"Upgrade again?" Jiang Yuan looked at the series of zeros, couldn’t help but laugh bitterly, "Waiting for me to get another skill upgrade card then, otherwise even with an Immortal Jade Mine can’t withstand such burning."
He put away the acceleration card to use later, after upgrading the courtyard to Level Six, the rewards finally are checked off except for the areas needing development.
The system’s reward for a Seventh-level Home is quite interesting, Void Detector blueprint? Get the blueprint to create an instrument to reach the void? Or similar to a signal search instrument?
He temporarily set aside the questions and teleported back to the courtyard, directly entering the Treasure Forging Workshop recently upgraded to Level Six.
With building upgrades and the communicator, the storage bag seems somewhat low-level; items gathered quickly filled it up, taking advantage of the free time at the Treasure Forging Workshop now, upgrading the storage bag itself!
Initially bonded system had gone through the beginner tutorial and provided a broken storage bag with only thirty-six grids to store not many things, in the early phase, without Treasure Forging Workshop, he only made more storage boxes to store supplies.
Later, he built the Treasure Forging Workshop and upgraded it a bit, turning it into a regular storage bag with forty-eight grids. With both warehouse and loot storage bags used in coordination, it didn’t feel insufficient, so Jiang Yuan hadn’t upgraded again.
With ten minutes to go before Wilderness Ascension, he decided to collectively raise the configuration of the storage bag today!
[Would you like to spend 1000 Spirit Stones to upgrade the regular storage bag to an excellent storage bag?]
Not expensive, he clicked upgrade without hesitation.
System equipment indeed, ten seconds later the progress bar completed, the storage bag expanded with golden light to sixty grids, clicking upgrade consumed 5000 Spirit Stones...
[Level One Immortal Grade Storage Bag: Contains 288 storage grids, can set tags for one-click organization, can associate with warehouse for more convenient data storage and retrieval]
"Phew! Upgraded to Immortal Grade now, for a long time no need to worry about storage capacity of the storage bag." Jiang Yuan looked at the account interface displaying a remaining balance of just over nine million Spirit Stones after a series of spending behaviors like submitting orders, upgrading buildings, using the communicator, and upgrading the storage bag, feeling it’s time to hold.
Next, he must quickly develop new areas, aiming to open new land and plant crops before six in the morning tomorrow, so that during the Wilderness Ascension moment when system data refreshes, it counts as a day’s growth, very cost-effective.
After upgrading to a six-level courtyard, he can spend three million Spirit Stones to purchase a starry sky mushroom landscape, deciding to wait for his disciple to complete side quests and promote, then buy when back.
Using a Teleportation Scroll also consumes quite a bit each time, now that he’s here, he might as well finish developing the new territory, then tomorrow morning visit the Old Dragon Cave to give gifts to the elf, and upgrade the World Tree.
After everything’s done, teleport to Wangshi Ridge, see if side quests can be triggered.
Lushi father and son rode the Ice-winged Eagle to Celestial Sword Sect. Without the Eagle Fifty-Third to command anymore, returning from Celestial Sword Sect to Wangshi Ridge will surely take one or two days, plenty of time!
[Dusk has arrived, Wilderness now descending]
At six in the evening, with rolling clouds holding magnificent scenery, it descended as usual, merging with the Human World.
Jiang Yuan held the axe, first hacked the shabby railing at the junction of the new territory behind the fish pond, light green dots dissipated, and three pieces of wood picked automatically into the storage bag.
Silver Crystal Ore mined in the second layer of the World Tree cave are forged into Silver Crystal Stone Ingots, the upgraded Silver Crystal Axe is entirely crystal-clear, with a very comfortable grip, only needing three strikes to chop down a regular large tree, then a supplementary strike to cut off the roots, almost effortlessly the huge obstacle is gone without a trace.
Similarly, the Silver Crystal Pickaxe handles regular stones, small ones just by scraping, larger ones at most two or three strikes, the whole pioneering work besides being time-consuming isn’t tiring.
"Boom!"
Just cleared a piece of ruin, and as something fell with a soft sound, a familiar box appeared in the storage bag.
"That senior’s diary?!" Jiang Yuan’s eyes lit up, he quickly took it out to check, it’s been a while since tracing the senior’s whereabouts; he’s very curious what might be written in the diary.