Chapter 74: Crazy Shopping (Third Update, Please Collect)

  Yang Tong also gained some insights from the two major civilizations' alchemy techniques in the past two years, particularly in terms of the differences in flame refinement. The ancient civilization did not only focus on the high temperature and timing of the flames, but rather on the different properties of various flames, especially the naturally occurring fire kind. These properties were bestowed by heaven and earth, each with its unique rules, and being able to utilize them was one of the reasons why the ancient civilization's alchemy techniques were so powerful.

  If one desires to improve his craft, he must first sharpen his tools. Yang Tong needs to repair the furnace tripod treasure and find a suitable fire seed before it's truly time to refine the ancient immortal treasure.

  Yang Tong took out the mercenary guild's auxiliary spirit tool, connected to the guild network, and searched for a fire seed in the resources. After searching, Yang Tong actually found some fire seeds on the mercenary guild's list.

  Superpowers are different after all, even innate fire types have thirty or so options to choose from.

  There are also differences in the quality of fire starters, and although there are many types, each one is not ordinary.

  The cheapest one also requires 40 contribution points. Zhū Shēng Huǒ, a kind of fire born from the thousand-year-old Ling Bamboo, this kind of fire is not difficult to find, it's just that there aren't enough people and resources to search for it. The Mercenary Guild's influence spreads across the continent, so on the list, there are more than 100 Zhū Shēng Huǒ fires.

  However, modern civilized spirit masters are accustomed to using artificial flames or directly using earth fire to refine spiritual instruments. In terms of temperature, both types of flames can exceed the bamboo fire, and they are cheaper. The value of bamboo fire is 4 billion contribution points, if put outside it's worth at least 1 billion spiritual coins, no spirit master would buy it because it's not cost-effective.

  Yang Tong actually had 34 contribution points in the Mercenary Guild, which was a reward from the upper echelons of the guild for his recent progress in cultivation and obtaining the Spiritual Artifact Master qualification certificate.

  Yang Tong gritted his teeth and exchanged 1 billion spiritual coins for 10 contribution points at the Mercenary Guild, then bought a spark of Zhu Sheng Huo's fire and some rare materials used to repair magical artifacts from the guild resources.

  Yang Tong's contribution points were completely cleared in an instant.

  "Beep, purchase complete. Goods will be directly transported to the Adventurer's Guild in Luoxing City. Please collect at the guild, master." The auxiliary spirit tool's spirit asked stiffly.

  Yang Tong was speechless for a moment.

  As soon as he came out of the training room, 3170's voice rang out: "Congratulations, Master, on breaking through to Earth Level 4. Shall I report the data to the school?"

  "Report." Yang Tong currently had very few study points available, and now Yang Tong was cultivating with high-quality crystal stones. After the second turn of Yuan Gong, using mid-quality crystal stones for cultivation was too slow.

  "The data has been reported." 3170 replied after a while, "The reward has been issued. Congratulations, Master, you have received a reward of 300 learning points."

  A collective notice was sent to all students below the fourth grade: "Third-year student, Yang Tong. Broke through the fourth level of the earth, with a score of super excellence. Because Yang Tong is the fastest student to advance to the fourth grade since the establishment of the Luoxing Branch School, he will be rewarded with 4,500 academic points. This notice is specially issued, and we hope that all students will take this as an encouragement."

  The new students who just entered the school were all envious after hearing this announcement.

  "Who is Yang Tong, that he can get such an excellent score?" Many freshmen had this question.

  Some news-savvy freshmen got some information from seniors and said, "This Yang Tong senior is not simple. He was a student in our previous session, and he stood out just four years after entering school. In just one short year, he was promoted to the third year."

  The news spread far and wide, becoming more and more sensationalized as it went. Amidst the commotion, a group of Yang Tong's fans emerged.

  The school also received the news that Yang Tong's promotion to Grade 4 of the Earth was not as stunning as his consecutive promotions in one year, but he also broke the fastest promotion record in the Luoxing Branch School.

  First and second year students are relatively calm, but third-year seniors are depressed. A newcomer who has just been promoted to the third year in about three years will be promoted to the fourth year, and they have struggled for so many years, and only a few can be promoted to the fourth year.

  Fourth-grade students received a notice: "Third-grader Yang Tong, promoted to fourth grade." This news was too ordinary for the fourth graders. The final assessment for fourth graders is once every ten years, not like the three-year assessments for first, second and third grades. So over the past decade, they had seen this kind of notice many times.

  Yang Tong was overjoyed, unexpectedly breaking through to the fourth level of the Great Earth Realm, and suddenly earning nearly 5,000 study points. Now his study points have become rich all at once. Indeed, the higher one's cultivation is, the better it is to earn study points.

  Yang Tong happily went to Director Huang's office and asked for a three-day leave. Originally, the school did not allow casual outings, even if you wanted to go, you could only go to the wilderness for training, not return to the city to enjoy yourself. However, Yang Tong had special privileges, and this time he broke through the fourth level of the earth, which made all the leaders of the school very satisfied. Director Huang approved Yang Tong's three-day leave, citing the reason that it was to make up for the three days of free vacation during the school's opening period.

  After leaving school, Yang Tong first rushed to the Mercenary Guild.

  Li Fangxin was over the moon at this moment, his cultivation had improved by a level compared to a few years ago. After hearing that Yang Tong had arrived, he personally came out to greet him: "Yang Tong, my old brother, it's been a long time! Ah, you've actually broken through to the fourth level of the Great Earth? That's incredibly fast!" Li Fangxin was shocked and took half a day to recover. He knew that Yang Tong had become a Spiritual Artifact Master, which was understandable since Yang Tong had the innate attribute of a Spiritual Artifact Master. But his cultivation... he had to study spiritual artifacts and also improve his cultivation, yet he was progressing so quickly, it was truly enviable and made one feel jealous.

  "Brother Li is also doing well, I see. I've come to retrieve something." Yang Tong replied with a smile, previously his cultivation was too weak and he couldn't sense it, but now he discovered that Li Fangxin actually possessed Earth Five-level cultivation, which wasn't weak at all.

  "Have you bought something online?" Li Fangxin said.

  "The auxiliary spiritual tools issued by the guild can be connected to the mainland guild headquarters network, and generally, things bought with contribution points are stored in the treasure warehouse of the mainland headquarters." Li Fangxin added.

  "Yes." Yang Tong nodded. This is reasonable, if a large number of treasures were placed in Luoxing Fenhui, that would be abnormal.

  "Alright, come with me." Li Fangxin took Yang Tong to the underground secret room alone. After strict identity verification, he retrieved a large amount of supplies from the mercenary guild's vault that Yang Tong had purchased from Central Tian Chao. These supplies were all stored in a spatial ring.

  Yang Tong recognized the spatial ring and carefully checked it. In addition to a large batch of refining materials, there was also a sealed box inside. When he opened it, he found that it contained the fire seed of Zhu Sheng Huo.

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  The third update is here, and tomorrow will continue with three more updates, if you think it's good-looking, give some support.

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