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Chapter 444 Opening up wasteland

Two hours later, the morning class ended and all players were free to move.

Like other players, Li Xuanmiao followed the crowd into the cafeteria of Shuiling Preparatory College.

The cafeteria was filled with wooden tables and chairs growing out of the ground. Looking at the way they were arranged, Li Xuanmiao immediately thought of the school cafeteria.

Even the food windows are the same. Everyone needs to get their own plates and line up in front of each window, giving you a strong sense of going to college.

Today's meal is similar to the previous few days, just a big bowl of spiritual rice, a serving of spiritual vegetables and shredded pork, and a small bowl of tofu soup. One rice, one dish, and one soup, it is as simple as being in prison.

But the taste is really good. The flavor of the spiritual rice, spiritual vegetables and spiritual meat is far beyond that of ordinary ingredients. Just the simplest seasoning is countless times more delicious than the Michelin restaurant takeout I had at Liu Pangpang's house.

Because it is not just the satisfaction of the taste buds and the stomach, but the satisfaction of every meridian and every cell in the whole body, just like a person who has been thirsty in the desert for three days gets a bottle of mineral water and can taste the sweetness in the purest water.

Like everyone else, I finished my meal in no time at all, and a gentle warm current spread from my stomach and slowly radiated throughout my body.

Without saying a word, Li Xuanmiao handed over the plate he had licked clean, ran back to his dormitory, and immediately sat cross-legged to start practicing.

This was a skill he mastered on his first day of eating. Every time he practiced after a meal, his efficiency would more than double and last for nearly an hour, which was no different from the legendary panacea.

Unfortunately, the cafeteria only provides two meals a day for each person, lunch and dinner, and they are fixed in fixed quantities. There is no way to get extra rice or soup, and they are gone after you finish eating.

If you want to order another one, it’s ok. It costs one spirit stone. If you are willing to spend more, you can order other meat dishes. Two spirit stones can be exchanged for a roasted spirit chicken.

Li Xuanmiao had seen others order it before. The aroma of the roasted chicken was so delicious that it could really pull one's soul out of one's stomach.

He has already decided that when he enters junior college and takes the elective course of the Hundred Arts of Immortals, he will choose Spiritual Cooking! Eat 17 or 18 meals a day and enjoy it!

To be honest, he almost lost control at first and ordered a roasted chicken, but he finally gritted his teeth and gave in.

There was no way, he was still too poor. He only had a few spirit stones obtained from the sect joining mission and daily merit mission, and he would only have one spirit stone a day in the future. He really couldn't afford to squander it.

He had visited the sect's secret trial square on the first day, and his first impression was not excitement, nor passion, nor ambition, but consumerism and lack of money.

The first-level secret realm trial itself is free, and each sect disciple can attack the secret realm once a week. This secret realm also exists in Dayu, but it is on an island. Not many players have been there, and it is random, unlike here, where there are three options: "Cultivation of Immortality", "Technology", and "Martial Arts".

However, the buildings and NPCs surrounding the Secret Realm Square are all big spenders of Flower Spirit Stones.

For example, the Kitchen God altar that adds buffs to people also has a mission, but to worship it, one needs to contribute spiritual food, at least one spiritual stone per portion, which can only last for one day.

In order to complete the task and get the spiritual material reward given by the task, Li Xuanmiao also paid a visit and bought a portion of braised pig's trotters for one spiritual stone. As a result, he got a BUFF that increased the movement speed by 10%. The effect can only be said to be better than nothing.

As for the first-level spiritual material, it was also a worthless piece of junk. If it was put in the auction house not far away, it could only be sold for five spiritual stones. It seemed that he had earned four spiritual stones, but this [worship of the kitchen god] could only be completed once! Once it was done, it was gone!

People envy those players who get good stuff and high-quality spiritual materials. It is said that a guy in the Wood Spirit Academy got a spiritual material called Star-Pointing Iron, which is the main material for refining first-level magic tools. Then a small piece the size of a fist was sold for more than two hundred spirit stones. It is really... too unfair.

As for the services provided by those buildings or NPCs, there is no need to mention it. Whether it is the blacksmith workshop, the consecrator Wenda, the black market merchant Jin Bing, the jewelry skill instructor Penny, the alchemy engineer Daji... all of them either require spirit stones or special currency, which is a headache.

Relatively speaking, the auction house is the most affordable. Any ship can have all kinds of elixirs, weapons, armor, spiritual materials and seeds. It's a pity that they are all expensive, which makes people sigh.

Li Xuanmiao has innate strength, supernatural powers, and has made good progress in cultivation, but he has not chosen to enter the secret realm in recent days.

The reason is very simple. It is because there are no spirit stones, so there is no way to buy weapons and elixirs, and there is no confidence in passing the secret realm.

He learned two magical powers, one of which was [Air Blade], which could add an extremely sharp air blade to any object, greatly increasing the attack power. Even if the object was out of the body, the air blade could last for about three seconds.

The other is [Hardening], which can greatly increase the hardness of objects in the hand. Even holding a piece of cloth can block ordinary arrows. It is a defensive magical power, and the effect on objects out of the hand can last for three or four seconds.

These two magical powers were specially chosen by him, and the contribution points required for the spiritual materials are not expensive. They are very suitable for his martial arts style of holding a shield in one hand and throwing darts with the other hand. The effect is not bad in actual combat. When the decisive battle in the imperial capital took place, no less than ten barbarians died from the hardened air blade darts.

However, he now had neither a large shield nor darts, so he could only exert only 10% of his full combat power.

After finishing the training in his mind, Li Xuanmiao came to the auction house again. After waiting in line for a while, he came to the operating table and started operating.

Unfortunately, the goddess of luck did not favor him. The price of first-level magic weapons is still as strong as ever. The cheapest one is still the first-level inferior sharp gold dart, which costs 80 spirit stones. This thing is still a consumable in a real fight. Without thirty or forty darts on hand, you can't fight a battle at all.

As for the first-level magical shield, the price is even more exaggerated. Any side costs two to three thousand spirit stones, and the middle-grade ones cost four to five thousand, which makes people not even think about getting one.

There is no doubt that such a price is unaffordable for Li Xuanmiao. One dart is enough for him to save for several months. It is unknown how long it will take to save forty or fifty darts to go down the ladder.

I heard that these magical instruments were made by the elders of the sect and our teachers. I don't know why they are so harsh to their students and show no humanity at all.

Li Xuanmiao also wanted to go and buy a set of shields and darts made of mundane materials. He used mundane materials in Dayu and the effect was quite good. Unfortunately, after searching for a long time in this preparatory player activity area, he couldn't find a place selling mundane weapons or materials. The lowest price in the auction house was first grade, which was really frustrating.

After leaving the auction house, Li Xuanmiao came to the Trial Secret Realm Square again.

Everyone is new to the new map and starts from scratch, but some people are already organizing teams to enter the secret realm.

Li Xuanmiao knew their fate. There was a 24% chance that they would die in the secret realm, wasting the -hour resurrection cooldown time and gaining nothing.

But Li Xuanmiao could also understand them. What else could they do if they didn't do this?

Starting a new game is always hard, maybe I should give it a try?
Finally, Li Xuanmiao made up his mind and opened the chat window on the player panel:
Download the Immortal Cultivation Book, become a congenital warrior, 1=4, gather at the door of the auction house quickly!
(End of this chapter)