Chapter 487 - 51: Celestial God’s Fortune Bag

Chapter 487: Chapter 51: Celestial God’s Fortune Bag

The Space-Time Ripple’s draws were no longer limited to just building blueprints. With only one modifier, it was hard to narrow down the search to what he truly needed.

After the upgrade, the Space-Time Ripple became:

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[Space-Time Ripple IV]: The World Tree possesses the ability to acquire information from the All Heavens and Myriads of Realms.

Each time the Lord Core levels up, you can acquire one item related to the World Tree itself from the All Heavens and Myriads of Realms.

When drawing blueprints, you can define the scope of the search. Current modifiers available: 2.

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Just as Lin Yu had hoped, the Space-Time Ripple now had two modifiers. This meant he would be able to better select what he wanted when he used it later.

Finally, there were the special territory traits offered for reaching level 10:

[1. Special Territory Trait: Sub-base II]

[2. Special Territory Trait: Slime Home]

[3. Special Territory Trait: Guardian Spirit]

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[Sub-base II]: Use a Free Territory Heart in Unclaimed Land (outside the influence of other Lord Cores) to establish a new territory with a Free Territory Heart level of -1.

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You can use the energy of the main Lord Core to create a level-two sub-base Lord Core.

A sub-base Lord Core can be used to establish a new territory.

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[Level Enhancement]: When using a Free Territory Heart to establish a new territory, the territory’s level is only reduced by one. When using the main Lord Core’s energy to create a sub-base Lord Core, the sub-base territory will be level two, and the energy cost remains the same.

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[Slime Home]: Alters the territory’s environment to make it more suitable for Slimes.

Slime EXP gain +100%

Slime attributes +50%

Slime mutation chance +5%

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[Guardian Spirit]: The souls of deceased territory residents living in the Netherworld will gradually be strengthened until they can manifest a physical form and interact with the material world, even outside of Fengdu City.

Afterward, these souls can choose to become Guardian Spirits for their living blood relatives, helping them in their daily lives.

Powerful Guardian Spirits can even assist their hosts in battle.

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Seeing these three traits, Lin Yu felt his luck was exceptionally good at this moment.

The three randomly generated traits were all very useful, almost on par with what he might get from using "Enlightenment."

Before upgrading, Lin Yu had already decided that if "Sub-base" was offered as a special territory trait at level 10, he would definitely choose it.

But the appearance of [Guardian Spirit] made him hesitate.

(Lin Yu completely ignored [Slime Home].)

The enhancement of [Sub-base II] merely increased the sub-base’s level; it wasn’t a qualitative leap.

’However, if I don’t upgrade "Sub-base" to level two now, the next upgrade for it will still only be to level two. I won’t be able to pick any qualitative-leap options that might appear later.’

On the other hand, [Guardian Spirit] offered the souls of the deceased a new path, besides reincarnation or simply living in the Netherworld.

’Regardless of the specific effects of "Guardian Spirit," its very existence would diversify the territory’s population and introduce a new variable.’

’Perhaps these Guardian Spirits could grow stronger through their duties and eventually become one of the pillars of the territory.’

Caught in a dilemma, Lin Yu mulled it over for a long while before finally deciding to choose Guardian Spirit, making his "Netherworld" even more useful.

After selecting [Guardian Spirit], Lin Yu immediately "looked" toward the "Netherworld" beneath his territory. Next to the "Netherworld’s" Ghost Gate, a rippling vortex, similar to a Teleportation Gate, appeared.

Lin Yu instantly understood the vortex’s function.

Souls from the "Netherworld" could pass through this vortex and be teleported near their blood relatives in the territory. As long as they found and attached themselves to a relative before dissipating, they could become that relative’s Guardian Spirit.

After that, the Guardian Spirit would no longer leak energy. The price was that their host relative would consume a certain amount of energy each day to sustain the Guardian Spirit.

Lin Yu did a quick calculation. Generally speaking, given the current concentration of Spiritual Energy in the territory, any resident who had learned a Cultivation Technique could easily support a Guardian Spirit without hindering their own growth.

Since the residents could afford it, Lin Yu was relieved.

With a thought, a stone stele shot up from the ground beside the Ghost Gate.

Words then appeared on the stele: "Pass through this gate, and you will be teleported near your living blood relatives. As long as you..."

Lin Yu had inscribed the method for becoming a "Guardian Spirit" on the stele, along with a brief introduction to their abilities.

The rest he would leave for the residents of the Netherworld to decide for themselves.

Having dealt with the Lord Core upgrade choices, Lin Yu turned his attention to the main event—the Space-Time Ripple.

After the Lord Core reached level 10, the number of uses for the Space-Time Ripple increased by three, for a new total of four.

Because he had upgraded the Space-Time Ripple another level, he could now use two modifiers to constrain the item draw.

This time, Lin Yu chose the modifiers: "Mythical-grade" and "Resource-type."

The combination would target Mythical-grade resource-type items. His goal was to strengthen the territory’s foundation.

Ever since the territory acquired the "Space Stone Vein," many subsequent "Enlightenments" had been related to space in some way. If he could get another resource on par with the "Space Stone Vein," future "Enlightenments" would offer more diverse options.

Moreover, he could then develop some unique technologies.

Although the territory’s current utilization of "Space Stones" was almost zero (a few were used when building the Teleportation Array), the research institute had already begun preliminary exploration of them. They had successfully unlocked a key technology on the Rune Technology branch of the Technology Tree: Principles of Space Runes.

Upon unlocking it, the territory gained a complex Composite Rune—the Basic Space Rune.

Furthermore, the next technology after "Principles of Space Runes" was now available for research: Space Rune Carving Technology.

The basic material required to carve Space Runes was Space Stone.

Only a Space Rune carved onto a Space Stone could be successfully activated.

Guided by the Technology Tree, the researchers at the institute were slowly advancing this technology.

Lin Yu had also seen many faded-out special technologies on the Technology Tree that couldn’t be activated and researched simply because the territory lacked the special resources.

This was why Lin Yu wanted a special resource. At this point, the bottleneck for his territory’s development had become the lack of them.

To ensure he drew something good this time, Lin Yu even gave up drawing other types of items.

He went for the trifecta, using all three of his Space-Time Ripple charges to draw Mythical-grade resources.

Amid a seven-colored radiance, three spheres of light appeared before Lin Yu.

Before the light could even fade, Lin Yu eagerly picked up the spheres to inspect them.

Inside the first sphere was an exceptionally ornate bag, upon which was the large character for "Fortune."

Then, Lin Yu saw the bag’s information.

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[Celestial God’s Fortune Bag]: In a world created by a colossal World Tree, Immortal Gods dwelling above the Nine Heavens are celebrating the arrival of a new era. They have distributed countless fortune bags across the infinite Multiverse, and these bags will find their way to fated individuals.

Open the fortune bag and you will randomly receive an item from the treasury of the Immortal Gods.

Note: This fortune bag contains a message: "O, young World Tree, I have received your wish. The draw from this fortune bag has been fixed to Treasury Number Seven. Treasury Number Seven primarily contains all sorts of rare resources. I hope this will be of help to your growth."

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"Huh?"

Lin Yu was stunned when he saw the fortune bag. According to the note, it was highly likely that he was fated to receive this bag when using the Space-Time Ripple, unless he had restricted the item type.

’No, wait. Even if I had restricted the item type, it probably would have just designated a specific treasury and drawn the specified item type from there.’

’Looking at it this way, restricting it to a resource-type seems like a bit of a loss!’

But there was no use crying over spilled milk. With a hint of regret, Lin Yu set the Celestial God’s Fortune Bag aside, planning to open it later.