If I upgrade, I can win prizes

Chapter 506 Rumors
Li Xuanmiao woke up from his sleep in a daze.

When I opened my eyes, it was still the familiar cave, and the fresh spiritual energy. It was a feeling of power exploding all over my body, full of spiritual energy, and full of confidence.

It really is worthy of being the second-level cave residence of a junior college. It is much better than the preparatory college. It feels so good to be surrounded by spiritual power and to maximize the efficiency of cultivation at all times.

As usual, the first thing Li Xuanmiao did after getting up was to practice. According to his teacher's instruction, it is best for a cultivator to practice intensively for four hours a day, which can not only increase the upper limit of spiritual power, but also avoid over-training and damaging the meridians.

But cultivation is a very boring thing after all, and there are no entertainment equipment in the cave. One can only rely on the slight increase of spiritual power in the body as positive feedback to barely hold on.

Therefore, he would usually divide these four hours into three groups: practice for one hour after getting up, practice for one hour after eating spiritual food at noon, practice for another hour after finishing the game in the afternoon and having dinner, and then practice for another two hours until logging off.

To be honest, after playing the game for so long, Li Xuanmiao does feel a bit bored. Every day is the same old routine of practicing, attending classes, communicating, and playing games, among which playing games is the most interesting.

After all, the experience of each dungeon is almost new, and there are big guys who have mastered the magical powers of the Earth Demon in the team. In addition, everyone's strength is getting stronger and stronger, and now there is almost no damage in the dungeon. Only when encountering the highest difficulty of five BOSSes, there will be casualties if you are not careful.

It’s a pity that each copy can only be played once a week. Only three days out of seven are more interesting, and the other four days are much more boring.

Today is not a day for practicing, so I have to go to class after practicing.

However, junior colleges are much better than preparatory colleges. The courses are not fixed and everyone can choose daily courses according to their needs, as long as they can get enough credits in the exams at the end of the year.

After looking at the class schedule, Li Xuanmiao chose two classes for today, one was "The Practical Application of Water Wave Detection Technique" and the other was "An Introduction to Water Alchemy".

The junior college occupies a much larger area than the preparatory college, with hundreds of classrooms. There is no distinction between spiritual root systems. Teachers choose their own classrooms for classes, and there is no sign-in process. You just need to enter the classroom before the class starts. If you are late, you will be locked outside the classroom.

There were quite a few students with water spiritual roots, and soon, the classroom that could accommodate thousands of people was more than half filled.

The teacher of the first lesson "The Practical Application of Water Wave Detection Technique" is a handsome gray-skinned guy with half-demon features. The "Water Wave Detection Technique" he teaches is a practical technique that is specifically used to detect the enemy's position, number, strength, source of attack and other information in the water. It is not included in the fourth-level technique "Abyss Heavy Water Technique" that he is currently learning.

Although, the "Abyss Heavy Water Skill" that he majored in was the best water-related skill that could be obtained in the current junior college, and it contained hundreds of water-related spells, who would complain that they had too many spells?
Li Xuanmiao was quite smart. After listening to the class for an hour, he found the key in the teacher's rambling and illogical words: the most important thing about this technique is the perception and control of the water flow in the water area, and it requires diligent practice in places where the water flow changes greatly.

The best place to practice water-based skills and water-based techniques is naturally in water.

It’s a pity that for some reason the year before last, the entire sect began a strict isolation period, fully activated the sect protection formation, and strictly prohibited everyone from going into the sea. The students could only practice magic in a small lake not far from the sect.

After the first class, Li Xuanmiao made plans to go to the river to practice skills in the afternoon and quickly came to the second classroom.

The Water Alchemy Class is a popular course. Not only disciples with water spiritual roots, but even disciples with other spiritual roots will come to study. There is no other way around it. The teacher said that the most mainstream alchemy methods in the world of cultivation are fire alchemy and water alchemy. Disciples with the other three spiritual roots can only choose one of them.

Soon, the large classroom that could hold a thousand people was filled up, with people even sitting in the aisles.

The teacher of water-method alchemy was a beautiful young woman with charming temperament and graceful voice, which made her teaching quality drop by more than 30%.

Fortunately, Li Xuanmiao had been attending classes seriously since he was young and was not dazzled by external things. He was also determined to continue with the water-based alchemy, so he listened very carefully and took more than ten pages of densely packed notes in one class.

The class finally ended, and Li Xuanmiao reluctantly put his notes into the storage pocket on the left chest of his shirt.

The blue and white robe he was wearing was given by the sect after he was admitted to the junior college. The storage bag was not big, only one side, but it was enough for him so far. Moreover, this thing had been recognized as owned by a drop of blood, so even if he died in the copy, he could bring it back, so that he would not suffer heavy losses and lose everything he had invested in a single failure.

Alas, it’s a pity that the dungeon is easy to play but the contribution is hard to come by. I have saved for more than two years and only have more than 8,000 sect contribution points. I don’t know how long it will take to save up 15,000 points to exchange for that first-grade superior pill basin.

Alchemy furnaces are used for fire-based alchemy, while alchemy basins are used for water-based alchemy. Over the past two years, all the players who have completed dungeons have produced four or five alchemy furnaces, but unfortunately there is not a single alchemy basin. I search the auction house every day but cannot find any, so I can only exchange them with the sect.

Hey, why do I have water spiritual roots? If I had fire spiritual roots, it would be great. Not only could I learn the sixth-level skills, but I could also spend spirit stones to buy a furnace. It's not like now, where I have to waste 15,000 contribution points in vain. Wouldn't it be great to exchange so many contribution points for those secret skills and auxiliary skills?

The first-level physical training technique "Iron Body Technique" only costs 5,000! If I practice it, plus the "Wind, Forest, Fire and Mountain" that I have been practicing, I wonder how strong my physique will be.

Unfortunately, spiritual roots are predetermined by heaven and cannot be changed. Even if one wants to change them, there is only an elf NPC who can transform people into mutant wood spiritual roots, and it requires 10,000 contribution points. It is really not cost-effective.

That mutated wood spiritual root is not much worse than my mid-grade water spiritual root. Wood spiritual roots are basically spiritual plants that grow hard in that kind of land, and can only be harvested once every half a year or a year, and they can't be sold at a high price. How can it be as easy as me to make a pot of pills and directly put it up at an auction?

After eating spiritual food in the cafeteria, Li Xuanmiao returned to the cave to practice for an hour. As usual, he came to the door of the auction house.

Today is not the day for fighting, but the team still has to gather together. After a while, the other members of the team arrived one by one and followed Fatty Liu into the auction house.

Liu Pangpang stretched out his hand and clicked a few times on the void above the auction table. In an instant, the spirit stones piled up into a small hill on the auction table.

Obviously, the magic tools and monster materials produced in the dungeon yesterday were all sold, and today they made a small fortune. Fatty Liu was always fair in his work, and he immediately started distributing spirit stones:

"After deducting the handling fee, we sold a total of 3095 spirit stones this time. We won't share the 95 spirit stones. We'll buy some spirit food and have a meal together. The remaining 3000 spirit stones will be shared according to the old rules. Li Yunfei is the main force. He'll be responsible for the boss fight. He'll get 1000 spirit stones, and the four of us will each get 500 spirit stones. Is that okay?"

There's nothing much to say. It was the same way of dividing before. Even if someone else could get more, it wouldn't be as easy and stable as it is now.
Among the three copies, except for the technology copy, the cultivation copy and the martial arts copy that gave everyone a headache, there was nothing that Li Yunfei could not handle as long as he took a move. The biggest casualties were actually the traps in the copy.

After dividing the spirit stones, Liu Pangpang bought a large bag of spirit food at the auction house.

These spiritual foods are rarely dropped in dungeons, most of them are made by the players themselves, and currently the largest number of players are those who minor in spiritual cooking.

The reason is very simple. There is a special spiritual kitchen in the academy with 500 stoves. Other pots, pans, and utensils can be rented. Although condiments and the like need to be exchanged for contribution points, they are not expensive. Players only need to find a way to get the ingredients.

Those spiritual plant husbands have also collected staple food and vegetables several times in the past few years. As for meat, there are plenty of various monsters in the copy, but the meat of some monsters is not very good, and some are even poisonous, which may cause people to hallucinate or even die.

There is no way around it. Even in a junior college, only two meals are provided, lunch and dinner. Rice cannot be added. Everyone is training so hard, and doing dungeons is considered heavy physical work. So little food is not enough. It is not a good feeling to log off with an empty stomach every day.

They found a quiet little pavilion a little way away from the dungeon square, surrounded by lush trees and bamboos. The five people in the team sat opposite each other, eating the food they had just bought while starting to chat, share information, and exchange views.

"I've decided. I want to become a panda." Liu Pangpang was the first to say something shocking: "I've already made an appointment. I'll go tomorrow."

"Ah? No, didn't you say last time that we should wait a little longer?" The short-haired guy was the first to express his confusion: "What's so good about this panda man? He just looks a little cute, fat, and silly, but he can't transform his spiritual roots. He just becomes stronger physically, just like those half-demons. Why spend so many contribution points? A full 20,000!"

"How should I put it... I've been thinking about it for a long time." Fatty Liu expressed his opinion: "As you know, I have exchanged for the "Iron Body Skill" before. Among the "Wind, Forest, Fire and Mountain", I am the best at the Mountain Chapter. The Earth-based "Mountain and River Returning Meridian Skill" also has a great bonus to the physique. So, I have decided that I want to switch to physical training."

"What's the good of this physical training? The team already has Lao Zhao as a tank, it's unnecessary." Li Xuanmiao didn't quite agree.

"Of course, it's not just because of the reasons above." Fatty Liu continued to explain: "You all know that I was very fat before, almost 250 pounds. Since I entered the Mingzun game and practiced martial arts, I have lost weight. I have been a fat person before, and I know how many inconveniences fat people have and how much they will be ridiculed. I really like the feeling of being strong and powerful now!"

"You've seen me fight against the bosses before. I wasn't too scared of the first two bosses. I was able to block their attacks several times without any defensive weapons. It was definitely painful, but the feeling of blood rushing and fists hitting the flesh is really addictive."

"And I've checked with my teacher. After I advance to the foundation building stage, there will be a second-level "Barbarian Beast Body" that can be exchanged. It is also a very powerful physical cultivation technique. At that time, there will be no problem in advancing through the physical cultivation stage."

Seeing that Liu Pangpang was so sincere, Li Xuanmiao had to give up the idea of ​​borrowing contribution points.

"By the way, did you hear about the commotion caused by that group of half-demons yesterday?" The guy with the flat head changed the subject while eating roasted beef leg.

"No, I logged off early yesterday. What happened?" Li Xuanmiao asked.

"What else could it be? A few more of them have gone crazy!" The crew-haired guy looked terrified. "Luckily, the higher-ups discovered it early and resurrected them right away. Otherwise, who knows how many people would have been infected."

"Everyone should try to log off as early as possible in the future." Liu Pangpang's face turned serious: "Didn't the Garrison Bureau issue a notice? This kind of mental contagion is more likely to occur at night, so now there are not many people staying at the research institute at night."

"What's going on with this game?" The usually taciturn Old Zhao couldn't help but interrupt. "He suddenly went crazy for no reason. Obviously there's something wrong. Everything in this sect seems to be in order. How come it's been more than three months and we still haven't found the cause?"

"I heard that it might be related to the countless black shadows that attacked the sect's protective formation three months ago!" Li Xuanmiao said the gossip he saw on the forum: "It is said that there is a possibility that one or more black shadows have sneaked into the sect, hidden their identities, and are causing trouble!"

"This madness is not serious." Li Yunfei also put down the beef ball soup and joined the discussion: "All abnormal conditions can be cleared after death, but it is too frustrating to waste 24 hours of resurrection time."

"I think it's a powerful area illusion that makes everyone see some scary scenes and then controls everyone's body." The flat-headed guy explained, "I talked to a few players who went crazy, and they said that. They also said that these scenes are just ordinary, far worse than those high-scoring horror movies. I don't know how it controls people."

"I don't know what those big shots in the sect are thinking. They haven't found the culprit for so long." Old Zhao was still angry: "Speaking of which, does this sect have high-level officials? What does the sect master look like?"

"Never mind, maybe it's a big plot, and we players need to find the reason." The flat-headed guy made a lot of guesses: "Wait until we eliminate the culprit, and then reward everyone with a large amount of contribution points. Haha, then I will immediately give you a foundation-building pill!"

"You're dreaming. The Foundation Building Pill requires 100,000 contribution points. How can the reward be so much?" Fatty Liu laughed: "You are only at the level of refining now, do you need the Foundation Building Pill?"

"Ah, this game is good in every way, except that the upgrade is too slow." Li Xuanmiao wiped his greasy hands. "My mid-level spiritual roots are pretty good, and I've only practiced to the second level. According to the introduction of the exercises, if everything goes well, it will take me twenty years to practice one level every two years. Above the foundation building, there are the golden elixir and the Nascent Soul, and the speed is even slower. It's really impossible to achieve it even if you practice to death."

"This kind of slow-paced immortal cultivation game with time synchronization..." Li Yunfei joined the topic again: "Have you ever thought about what would happen to the characters in the game if we died of old age outside?"

"Maybe he's dead too..." The guy with the flat head stopped talking halfway.

Everyone's actions also paused.

The sky suddenly became bright, and when I looked up, I saw six suns in the sky!
(End of this chapter)