Chapter 89 - 87: How Fucking Thoughtful
Chapter 89: Chapter 87: How Fucking Thoughtful
On the City Wall.
Chen Fan carefully placed the miniature Incense Burner on a gap in the battlements, preparing to ask the heavens.
No kindling was needed.
With a mere thought.
The stick of incense on the far left ignited on its own, wisps of green smoke drifting into the air and melting into the rainy night.
The scent was surprisingly pleasant.
He sniffed it subconsciously before taking a deep breath, his expression turning serious.
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"I beseech the heavens."
"I want the ’Training Room’ building. What methods are there to obtain the Building Blueprint for a Training Room?"
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Overly simple questions weren’t worth it.
For overly complex questions, he couldn’t afford the price.
So, what he came up with was this:
Don’t ask about the future.
Don’t ask about what comes later.
Just ask questions that were useful right now.
He really needed the Building Blueprint for the "Training Room." It could effectively increase the personal strength of his subordinates in the camp. A camp couldn’t rely solely on buildings; the individual power of his men was also crucial. For instance, when they went out to trade, they needed some skills to ensure their own safety and that of their goods.
Soon, the wisps of green smoke rising from the Incense Burner slowly gathered and formed a line of text.
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"Requires a sacrifice of 10 Ghost Stones."
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Chen Fan’s brow furrowed slightly. The 10 Ghost Stones from the Warehouse shattered, turning into a milky white liquid that flowed into the Incense Burner. ’Only 10 Ghost Stones? Did I ask too cheap a question?’
He had thought it would be a rather Rare building.
After all, he had no memory of a "Training Room" building ever existing. Forget the Chen Family; not even the entire Jiangbei City had one.
The next moment, the wisps of green smoke once again formed a line of text.
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"The Training Room has no Building Blueprint."
"It is a Direction of Qualitative Upgrade with a certain probability of appearing when the white-grade ’Wooden House’ building is upgraded from Level 3 to Level 4. This Direction of Qualitative Upgrade is rated as ’Rare’."
"This is the only way to obtain it."
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"..."
Chen Fan stood there in silence, his face expressionless. He watched the green smoke gradually dissipate and the stick of incense burn down to nothing, not knowing what to say.
This basically meant he had no hope of getting a "Training Room" anytime soon.
Building a Wooden House from scratch and upgrading it to Level 4 would cost 82 Ghost Stones.
It was just like opening a blind box.
Maybe you’d get it after 100 tries.
Or maybe you wouldn’t get it even after 1,000 tries.
There was no specific, clear probability, only that it was rated as Rare. Who the hell knew how many tries it would take.
He was still relatively lucky.
At least he could see the panel.
For other factions, the cost of getting a "Training Room" was much greater. First, the Ghost Stone cost for building a Wooden House was higher for them. They also couldn’t see the panel. Even if they were lucky enough to actually encounter the "Training Room" Upgrade Direction...
...because they couldn’t see the panel, they could only receive one Upgrade Direction at random.
The probability was drastically lowered yet again.
No wonder there wasn’t a single Training Room in all of Jiangbei City.
An ordinary faction simply couldn’t afford to have such a building.
But—
This, however, only strengthened his resolve to get this building. If he could obtain the "Training Room," it meant he could use it to help his subordinates’ Cultivation quickly surpass that of others in Jiangbei City.
’A complete and total domination.’
After a moment of thought, he lit the second stick of incense and asked again.
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"I beseech the heavens."
"How can I obtain the Rare Upgrade Direction for the ’Training Room’?"
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The next moment, wisps of green smoke rose and formed a line of text.
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"Requires a sacrifice of 1,000 Ghost Stones."
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"It worked!"
A flash of joy appeared in Chen Fan’s eyes. He had taken a gamble. If the price for this answer had been low, it would have meant the only method was to keep trying slowly. But a high price meant there was a shortcut!
He was betting on that very shortcut. The worst that could happen was losing one stick of Heaven-Asking Incense.
There weren’t many Ghost Stones left in the camp.
More than half of the Ghost Stones originally in the Warehouse had been used to build that 50-meter-long City Wall just now. However, there were more outside the wall, still within the camp’s range, which he could use as he pleased.
After the 1,000 Ghost Stones were consumed.
The wisps of green smoke again formed a line of text.
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"When the white-grade ’Wooden House’ is being upgraded from Level 3 to Level 4, find the Heaven and Earth Spirit Treasure ’Mountain Remains Embryo’ and place it inside the Wooden House."
"During the building upgrade process, the Wooden House will absorb the Mountain Remains Embryo."
"This will result in a 100% probability of obtaining the ’Training Room’ Direction of Qualitative Upgrade."
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"Worth it!"
Chen Fan breathed a sigh of relief. Those 1,000 Ghost Stones were well spent. He looked at the last stick of incense in the Incense Burner. He didn’t plan on using this final stick of Heaven-Asking Incense now; he would save it for later.
He couldn’t bear to use it.
He’d save it for now.
As for that... Mountain Remains Embryo.
"..."
Chen Fan turned, walked down from the City Wall, and went deep into the cave. He approached a wall. Behind this wall was the Level 5 Ghost Fire, its entrance blocked by the City Wall, making it impossible for anyone to enter.
The City Wall receded into the ground.
The Ghost Fire Base sat within the pit, its cold, white flames swaying slowly.
And within the flames...
...a dark red, fleshy tumor, as large as a human brain, was pulsing slowly. This was the Mountain Remains Embryo.
It could be used for Alchemy, Array Formation, and Artifact Refining.
A true Heaven and Earth Spirit Treasure.
A creation of the heavens themselves.
He certainly couldn’t use this Mountain Remains Embryo to build the Training Room. The stability of the entire cave depended on it. However... according to the information brought by Qian Hu, there was another Mountain Remains Embryo on this Nameless Mountain.
Where it was, he didn’t know.
But perhaps the local natives would know.
"..."
He turned and looked at the crocodile lying outside the City Wall, its eyes full of anticipation. Its front claws were tightly hugging a giant porcelain jar. This jar was used to feed the creature, and it had already memorized that fact. When the Ghost Tide had attacked earlier, even while hiding in a corner, it hadn’t forgotten to snatch the porcelain jar with its mouth.