Chapter 782 - 305: Heaven-Ascending Lock Talisman Array, Unexpected Gains from the Wealth Tower

Chapter 782: Chapter 305: Heaven-Ascending Lock Talisman Array, Unexpected Gains from the Wealth Tower

[ps: There was a mistake last Chapter. There are ten Beast God Pills in total, not five. In addition to two Dark Night Snow Owls and two Eastsea Falcons, six Howling Moon Silver Wolves were selected: Wolf Nineteen, Wolf Twenty, Wolf Twenty-One, Wolf Twenty-Two, Wolf Twenty-Three, Wolf Twenty-Four. Among them, Wolf Nineteen took a Beastly Might Pill, Beastly Might LV.14. The other five Howling Moon Silver Wolves are at Beastly Might LV.12. The correction has been made!]

For breakfast, Yi Tian bought from the Store System, still the Huaxia shop—steaming hot meat buns with spicy pepper soup. In this kind of weather, it was incredibly satisfying to eat.

He thought ten steamer baskets would be enough, but the Kiddos’ appetites exploded, especially the Fourth Child, grabbing one in each hand and munching alternately.

In the end, they polished off twenty baskets at once!

Winter, Day Nineteen: as predicted, Celestial Dao Fortune and Celestial Dao Misfortune are happening in these two days.

Later, Yi Tian needed to inspect the Array Formation progress.

Master Jin Shex, that pitiful wage slave, was being watched by Zhuge Liang and Tai Zhong while setting up the array.

This time, the array is called the Heaven-Ascending Lock Talisman Array.

Although it’s a kind of Gravity Array, it connects up to an altitude of one hundred thousand meters.

If all four sides are set up and activated, the city is under a no-fly ban.

Leaving War Manor, Yi Tian headed first to the Boutique Warehouse to exchange the Cyan Ice Spirit Spring that was stored there.

In the past three days, he stored fifty thousand bottles per day. So, a total of one hundred fifty thousand bottles.

Yi Tian was in a hurry to sell, fearing the price of Wood Spirit Liquid would keep rising.

A few minutes later, the exchange was done.

Currently, there are a total of 231,000 drops of Wood Spirit Liquid.

Territorial Spiritual Qi Density increased, and from today, Cyan Ice Spirit Spring can be collected at fifty-five thousand bottles daily.

Yi Tian went up to Sky Island next, and collected two hundred drops of Water of Life.

The Water of Life on the emerald leaves has frozen into tiny crystals, making it easy to gather.

Today’s the day when Qishan Spirit Rice and Cyan Earth Spiritual Wheat mature.

Qishan Spirit Rice had a bumper harvest—enough for thirty thousand people to eat a hundred meals each.

The greatest advantage of Spirit Rice and Spiritual Wheat is that their yields aren’t affected by cold.

Plant a single seed, and it will grow tenaciously.

Spirit-level Soil helps them both grow faster and increase their output.

Cyan Earth Spiritual Wheat still needs one more planting cycle. The original Spirit Field that grew Qishan Spirit Rice will now switch to planting Cyan Earth Spiritual Wheat.

Additionally, in the open land south of the outer city, a thousand-mu stretch of black soil is opened to grow Qishan Spirit Rice.

Only about ten to twenty mu of Spirit-level Soil exist, mainly used for growing Spirit Fruit Trees and Heavenly and Earthly Treasures.

With Advanced Soil, Qishan Spirit Rice matures every fifteen days.

Add in plowing and harvesting, a cycle is no more than eighteen days.

Now, besides the Qishan Spirit Rice they’re eating, they have enough seeds for planting, and can set some aside in the Seed Spirit Absorption Chamber.

Starting today, all territory members, including the Lushan Treasure Horses, consume only Spirit Rice.

A new Chapter begins!

Yi Tian knows that many indigenous major powers support their soldiers with Spirit Rice, so their troops are impressively elite.

The effects of Qishan Spirit Rice are definitely even more useful than the Cyan Ice Spirit Spring.

Once Cyan Earth Spiritual Wheat is cultivated in Spirit-level Soil, the territory’s Qi Refiners will also greet their own springtime.

"Master Jin Shex, how many more days will it take to finish the entire grand array?"

At the North City wall, Yi Tian saw Master Jin Shex bent over, carving runes on the Female Wall.

"The Heaven-Ascending Lock Talisman is a grand array; how could a few days be enough?" Master Jin Shex muttered to himself, aggrieved. If Demon Lord weren’t threatening his life, he’d never do this.

He’s lived over a thousand years and never seen such cold weather.

He ought to be sipping his Flower Fragrance Dew, watching beauties dance.

Now he’s stuck doing this drudgery.

Still, this is much better than when he was setting up the Illusionary Tiger Concealment Array last time.

Back then, Tai Zhong kept him under non-stop surveillance, worked him through the night, didn’t let him rest even a moment—completely exhausted, mind and body.

This time there’s a heroic young man; not only doesn’t make him work overtime, but also gives him wine. Even if it’s just the cheapest hard liquor.

But for a wine-addict like Master Jin Shex, to get a bottle of hard liquor in this frozen world already feels like luxury!

Zhuge Liang is extremely smart, asking Master Jin Shex about array issues, able to infer many things from one point, which astonished him.

This young, and already such understanding and talent with arrays—who knows, maybe in the future not just an Array Master, but even an Array Grandmaster!

Though Zhuge Liang seemed easy-going, he was actually very vigilant of Master Jin Shex. After deducing the Heaven-Ascending Lock Talisman Array, every hundred meters of Array Stone, Array Flag, Beast Core was personally prepared by Zhuge Liang, not leaving Master Jin Shex any wiggle room at all.

"Another twelve days, and the Heaven-Ascending Lock Talisman Array will be finished for sure."

Seeing Yi Tian smile silently, Master Jin Shex realized he might’ve said something wrong, and quickly promised.

He saw the changes happening in the territory.

Demon Lord, in Master Jin Shex’s eyes, is terrifyingly mysterious.

Living such a long life, to suddenly be in a place with such high Spiritual Qi Density—it’s enough to inspire awe after comparing to the Great Wei Dynasty’s density.

Yi Tian didn’t reply to Master Jin Shex, but instead looked toward Zhuge Liang.

Zhuge Liang nodded to Yi Tian, indicating it was pretty much on track.

"Before the night of the thirtieth, it must be finished! If that’s impossible, do overtime! But if you can finish on time, I’ll reward you with five bottles of S-level hard liquor."

Yi Tian patted Master Jin Shex’s thick old coat.

Before the end-of-month assessment arrives, Yi Tian needed the full Heaven-Ascending Lock Talisman Array.

"Deal!"

Master Jin Shex’s cravings were stirred. Ordinary booze is nothing compared to the fine wines brewed from Spirit Rice, Spirit Medicine, and Spirit Fruit.

Unknowingly, Master Jin Shex had become rather humble.

Yi Tian then asked Zhuge Liang about some plans for the Eight Array Map and territory development.

Back on Earth, doing Dujiangyan was his forte, so Yi Tian asked Zhuge Liang to brainstorm about territory planning for spring.

On the way back, Yi Tian made a trip to the SS-level Celestial Prison.

Fire Dragon reported to Yi Tian that the three Demon Race Unparalleled Celestial Prides still hadn’t revealed their Martial Skills.

Stubborn as hell—Fire Dragon had no way to deal with them!

Demon Abyss Pool was close to getting smashed up, yet still no surrender.

Yi Tian was stumped too!

Even if Demon Martial Skills are no use to Yi Tian, who knows if there’ll be Demon Cultivators in the territory later.

Yi Tian was unwilling to just sell them off.

So they’ll just stay locked up for now!

Territory’s Danu Beastmen were escorted out to the southern mountains beside the outer city to reclaim new Qishan Spirit Rice fields.

These brawny Danu Beastmen are the perfect pioneers.

Yi Tian’s not strapped for cash, so hasn’t sold them off for now.

He’s hoping the Danu Beastmen will buy their freedom back, ideally with some Spirit-level Stone to replenish warehouse stock.

Yi Tian’s main extortion target is the even wealthier Great Wei Dynasty.

Young Master Jin and twenty-four Great Wei Dynasty Celestial Prides are Yi Tian’s bargaining chips.

Yi Tian learned that these Celestial Prides can involve many King-level bosses from the Great Wei Dynasty.

Leaving the SS-level Celestial Prison, on the way back to War Manor, Yi Tian passed Wealth Tower and remembered something.

The Rose Sisters are still running auctions up on the third floor!

Last time, he bought several pills that gave him a nice power boost, quite good.

Yi Tian went up to the third floor of Wealth Tower, where Black Rose was busy scrolling through the control panel, not slacking off.

The other three sisters were absent; they run shifts, sometimes all together.

"Lord, all the items up for auction are in the storeroom; you can inspect them anytime."

Seeing Yi Tian, Black Rose stood up quickly.

Yi Tian told them, whenever they bought something, to put it in the storeroom next door—he’d check it when available.

"Mhm! Thanks for the hard work!" Yi Tian greeted her.

"Lord, one more thing: the Celestial Dao Coins you put on the control stone are running low. Next time there’s something we need to buy, we might not be able to afford it!" Black Rose said, blushing.

In just this short month, they realized what a brilliant decision joining the territory was.

They might’ve seemed unshackled before, but they were really living on the edge, licking knives, perilous and always at risk amongst the grasslands.

In this era of fierce competition, at best they’d break through to S-level and become respected S-level Qi Refiners—but that’s as far as it goes!

Ten days ago, they all broke through to S-level one after another.

Most of their Mysteries of Spirit have reached Level 9; they swapped in a Celestial Mountain Dao-breaking Crystal, bumping Fourth Sister’s Mysteries to Level 11.

In Swordsmanship Mastery, thanks to the Martial Tower and Celestial Soldier Platform, they’re all at Level 10.

Here, there are SSS-level Martial Skills, and even the coveted Divine-level Martial Skills.

Points Tower has the Spiritual Objects they crave.

Cultivation Speed is now dozens of times faster than before.

Their faith has changed!

Dagu Realm—how tiny and insignificant...

They adore the Lord, feeling endless gratitude...

"That’s good news!"

Yi Tian glanced at the control panel, then transferred fifty billion Celestial Dao Coins to Points Tower on the third floor.

They’d already spent the last two hundred billion, meaning they bought plenty of good stuff.

Celestial Dao Coin balance: 320.4 billion.

In the storeroom, Yi Tian discovered over a hundred assorted treasures and pills.

All bought by the Rose Sisters from the auction house recently.

Mostly A-level pills and A-level Spirit Fruit—the Lords selling these are legion.

These auctioned items are also stored in Points Tower.

Seven S-level Spirit Fruits to boost cultivation.

One SS-level Spirit Fruit to boost cultivation.

Five S-level Pills to boost cultivation.

Ten Elemental Spirit Beads for boosting Power of Mystery below Level 10.

Four Spiritual Objects for boosting Power of Mystery below Level 10.

One Dream-Entering Stone.

One True Intent Fire Stone.

Yi Tian asked Black Rose—True Intent Fire Stone cost fifty-three billion Celestial Dao Coins.

Yi Tian nodded—acceptable!

The surprise was, there was even one Thunder Bead.

Black Rose told Yi Tian this was the most expensive item they bought, and it’s the reason they finished spending all the money.

Yi Tian had told the Rose Sisters before, any of the six known Celestial Beast Special Items must be purchased at all costs.

Yi Tian urgently needed the Thunder Bead to fuse the last Hundred Tribulations Thunder Origin.

Now that he’s got a crew full of Little Moons, once they master thunder, their combat power will skyrocket.

Especially at night.

Twenty living S-level Spiritual Flowers, five living SS-level Spiritual Flowers.

Seventeen living S-level Spirit Herbs, five living SS-level Spirit Herbs.

All kept in wooden basins.

Yi Tian’d already said, if any living S-level or above Spiritual Flowers and Spirit Herbs appear, buy them all.

That’s all for now.

Few Lords are interested in hosting auctions in winter. Next year will definitely pick up.

Now it’s still the confrontation stage; as long as Lords aren’t strapped for cash, they keep their best stuff for themselves.

Everyone knows the rules for Lords.

If a Lord gives away items crucial for boosting their own power, sooner or later they’ll end up as a corpse in the wild.

Those few S-level Spirit Fruits and S-level Pills are all useful for Yi Tian.

Yi Tian said something to Black Rose, took the Spiritual Objects, and left.

His first move was to find Little Moon and let Little Moon swallow the Thunder Bead.

Half-Thunder Body, Three-dimensional Power +50.

Now the Howling Moon Silver Wolves are at three-dimensional power 6200+.

An hour of refining later, the Howling Moon Silver Wolf gained another Special Talent—Hundred Tribulations Thunder Body. Attack Power up by 60%, Defense Power up by 60%. When attacking, the claws’ lightning strikes directly at the enemy’s internal organs.

Autumn Beast’s Spirit—Yi Tian has three clusters, acquired from Mo Chujun, Demon Abyss Pool, and Demon Flame last time.