Free Web NovelChapter 459: Chapter 252: Procurement; The Seventh Update
Second was his own strength. In the future, the Immortal City would certainly have to accept newcomers, and there would inevitably be many Innate Experts. He had to have the strength to keep them in check. Whether it was people going to the Cultivation Immortality Realm or returning from it, he needed the power in both places to ensure the stability of the Teleportation Array and the Immortal City.
Third, he still didn’t know what the Cultivation Immortality Realm at the bottom of the East Sea Abyss was like, nor did he know if the Teleportation Array was even usable.
These three problems were the reasons he was currently unwilling to disrupt the newly stabilized situation in the County Town.
’I must speed up the restoration of the County Town’s prosperity, as well as my own Cultivation.’
Cheng Zongyang put away the Collection of Heretical Dao and the Talismans. For now, he would not make a move on the Li Courtyard.
For the time being, Cheng Zongyang’s schedule was set. Besides continuing to improve his Adaptation Talent, he would focus on Cultivation!
With his Cultivation Technique operating automatically, he was breaking through one acupoint per day. Since clearing the fourth meridian and entering the Fifth Grade Realm, all nine acupoints of the fifth meridian, the Heart Sutra, had been opened. The tempering of his heart was completed silently and imperceptibly. This was one of the benefits of his Cultivation Technique—the tempering process was painless.
He had now reached the seventh acupoint of the sixth meridian, the Small Intestine Meridian: the Zhizheng Acupoint.
For the next seven days, he began his cultivation and training as planned.
Whenever his cultivation reached a limit, he would enter the market hut and use the Recovery Chair to restore his Essence, Qi, and Spirit, then continue.
He had no shortage of Qi Essence Pills. He cultivated around the clock, forgoing food and sleep in exchange for significant improvement.
With active cultivation and the hut’s recovery function, he could break through three acupoints a day.
He cleared the entire sixth meridian and reached the ninth acupoint of the seventh meridian, the Bladder Meridian: the Jade Pillow Acupoint.
In just seven days, he had cleared two consecutive meridians, causing Cheng Zongyang’s True Qi and strength to rise another level!
This was all thanks to the hut’s recovery ability. Otherwise, for anyone else, breaking through one acupoint a day would be their absolute limit. Generally, a rate of one acupoint every two or three days was normal.
Breaking Acupoints caused painful shock and damage to the meridians. After a breakthrough, one naturally needed to rest and recover, allowing the meridians time to adapt to the enhancement before continuing.
Of course, taking elixirs could shorten this process, but the medicine still needed time to take effect and be absorbed. Even then, one could only manage one breakthrough a day.
But Cheng Zongyang had a cheat, so there was no comparison.
The automatic breakthrough speed of his Cultivation Technique was methodical and gradual, so it naturally didn’t cause many issues. Therefore, with automatic cultivation, one acupoint a day was not a problem.
Now, with the hut’s recovery ability, if not for the fact that he could only manage three breakthroughs in a single day, he would have been able to push for even more.
He called up his interface to check his progress.
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Name: Cheng Zongyang
Age: 16 (Years)
Lifespan: 16/102 (-453 days; +42 days)
Realm: Fifth Grade (Refining the Internal Organs)
Talent: Adaptation (Beginner Level, 865/1000)
Points: 224,100
Skills: Archery (12,412/20,000, Specialization); Medicine (763/3,000, Middle Level); Array (32/1,000, Beginner Level)
Cultivation Technique:
Turtle Breath-holding Skill (5,254/30,000)
Omitted...
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Seeing that his Cultivation Technique’s progress was over one-sixth of the way, he was quite satisfied.
He had gained nearly 3,000 progress points in just seven days, which was definitely not slow. In just over two months, he could completely break into the Fourth Grade.
’I shouldn’t just focus on my Cultivation Technique; I need to train my Martial Arts, too. It’s about time I started training on the second floor. I should be able to train my Adaptation Talent there as well.’
He remembered that the Wolf King Exotic Beast’s Ability was a Sound Wave Attack. His Adaptation Talent could also adapt to the power of Sound Waves, thus protecting him from harm.
Making a mental note, he left the room.
For the past seven days, he had spent practically all his time cultivating, aside from using the bathroom. He hadn’t paid any attention to outside affairs. Of course, there was nothing that required his attention at the moment.
He found Zhang Zeyu and asked for an update. He learned that the only matter that required his attention was the eight hundred death row inmates sent by Zheng Tianhai. Cheng Yuanfeng had placed these prisoners in their previous location, waiting for Cheng Zongyang to emerge and deal with them.
In response, Cheng Zongyang had to go out and handle it, sending all the personnel into the transit station to be taken away. Afterward, he had a meal with Chen Kaishan and Zheng Tianhai to catch up on the construction of the Commerce Association.
Everything in the County Town was developing and being built rapidly and systematically. There was no need for him to make any further changes.
That night, he entered the Wilderness World to check the new update for the market hut.
Appearing in the hut, he closed the hunting notifications from the gathering and hunting teams one by one until he finally saw the new update notification.
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Market Hut Seventh Update Complete:
①: For the safety of the host and the Jade Stone Ring, the connection to the Jade Stone Market is now closed. The item bar function is also disabled. Duration is unknown and will depend on future hut updates. All other existing functions remain unchanged.
②: New Function Added: Analysis Tab. Spend Points equal to the value of an item to perform a detailed component analysis. Spend ten times the item’s value in Points to generate a detailed formula. (Can be authorized)
③: New Function Added: Disassembly Tab. Spend Points equal to the value of an item to completely disassemble it. After disassembly, the item’s constituent materials will be obtained. Disassembly is irreversible. (Can be authorized)
④: Consignment and Purchase Request tabs have been expanded, current slots: (0/7). The transaction fee has been reduced to 8%. The three-day time limit for the Consignment and Purchase Request tabs has been removed.
⑤: The market hut’s interior area has been expanded to 100 square meters. The location restriction for taking items out of the Wilderness World has been removed. The functions of the treatment bed and Recovery Chair remain unchanged.
⑥: Points required for next update: (0/1,200,000). Only Points spent in the Analysis and Disassembly tabs, and fees from the Consignment and Purchase Request tabs, will count toward this total. Other expenditures will not be counted.
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Looking at the update, Cheng Zongyang sighed softly. It was a mix of good news and bad.
He had thought that even if the connection was closed, the item bar would still refresh. After all, there was a difference between the two.
The former was like being "online," allowing him to trade with other hosts after connecting. The latter was like being "offline," refreshing with items from the Wilderness World and occasionally some technological products of unknown origin.
But now, both were gone.
’To be this cautious... the Ring Spirit must be truly terrified.’
However, the addition of the analysis and disassembly functions seemed like compensation, in his opinion. But they were also functions that cost Points.
After studying them for a bit, he understood how the Analysis Tab’s fees were calculated. For example, if a sword was worth 500 Points, the Analysis Tab would deduct 500 Points and provide a detailed breakdown of the sword’s components. If he then spent another 5,000 Points, it would generate the sword’s forging formula and process. The same applied to Elixirs.
It was safe to say this was a feature that consumed a lot of Points. But it was also worth the cost, since formulas were quite valuable. This function was similar to Zhang Jinquan’s Antidote Talent, but Zhang Jinquan was limited to Elixirs, whereas the Analysis Tab could analyze any non-living object.
As for the Disassembly Tab, as the name implied, you could spend Points equal to an item’s value to break it down directly, with no option to reverse the process.
The last piece of good news was that the time limits on the Consignment and Purchase Request tabs were gone, and items from the Wilderness World were no longer restricted to being taken out only from the market hut. That was much more convenient.
Cheng Zongyang made a note of it to give to Luo Dingran later, at which point he would also grant Luo Dingran authorization.
As for the final 1.2 million Point requirement, that would probably take a very long time.
Cheng Zongyang didn’t dwell on it. For now, he needed to continue improving his Cultivation, enter the Upper Three Grades as soon as possible, and then make a trip to the East Sea Abyss.
After instructing Luo Dingran to continue earning more Points, Cheng Zongyang entered the Cultivation Level on the second floor.
From now on, his time would be split evenly between improving his Cultivation and training his Martial Arts. Although this would slow down his Cultivation progress, it would also increase his combat power.
