secret dice.

Chapter 807 Using cheats is fun for a while, but using cheats all the time... is even more fun.
The old master wrote a few lines on a piece of paper and handed it to Luo Jun. Luo Jun looked at it and saw that there were four addresses on it, and below it was a simple map of the mainland with four locations marked on it. There were also a few lines written on the back.

"What is this?" Luo Jun asked curiously.

"These are the locations of the Grandmaster Instructors for the Storm, Fire, and Water elementals," said the Earth Grandmaster. "On the back is a letter of introduction I wrote. Once you reach the corresponding level, you can seek their Grandmaster evaluation. With my letter, they won't give you any trouble."

"The position of Grandmaster Instructor?" Luo Jun exclaimed in surprise, then realized, "So you admit that making me do this mission is making things difficult for me, right?"

"That's not important..." The old master waved his hand: "Your magical power is the most profound I have ever seen. With such talent, it would be a waste not to learn all four major magics."

"Thank you for your high regard, senior!" Luo Jun clasped his hands in a fist salute, then looked puzzled: "Then what is the address at the very bottom...?"

"By the time you've accumulated enough skill points, how long will it take?" The old master sneered. "The address at the very bottom is the legendary Wishing Fountain. Just throw in a thousand gold coins, drink the water, and you can make a wish."

As he spoke, the old master chuckled: "It's called making a wish, but you can't decide what the fountain will give you. It might be experience points, more gold coins, a magical piece of equipment, or an unspecified number of skill points... But conversely, it could also have various negative effects, such as bleeding, weakness, illness, etc... The most serious of these is a direct deduction of 99999999 health points."

"This deduction effect cannot be weakened by any resistance or ability, and theoretically it can instantly kill any creature in this world. Although the effect of using the Wishing Fountain is very powerful, it carries the risk of death at any time."

"I don't know how you obtained such a huge amount of magic power, but magic power is often related to health. If you need skill points, you can try using the Wishing Fountain if you're confident in your abilities. Of course, if you get instantly killed, I won't be responsible."

"There's such a good thing?" Luo Jun's eyes lit up. Although he didn't know exactly how much life he had, the mana he had just used to create so many Earth Rock Ingots was more than 100 million, and he hadn't even seen it decrease. Even if his life was lower than his mana, he couldn't possibly not be able to afford even 100 million.

With this, wouldn't it be like having countless skill points?

Thinking of this, Luo Jun thanked him and left the mage tower.

Watching his departing figure, the old master couldn't help but sigh, "This world has truly welcomed an extraordinary figure..."

Luo Jun flew back to the capital of Red Earth Province and first found a local materials merchant to sell off the earth rock ingots that filled his backpack.

To be honest, when the materials merchant first heard that he was going to sell Earth Rock Ingots, he didn't take it too seriously. Although this stuff is precious, it is still available on the market. However, as a material for forging divine weapons, it is often in short supply, and as soon as it appears, it is snapped up by top-notch blacksmith mercenary groups or even great nobles.

In addition, Earth Ingots are quite expensive, and some highly skilled Earth Mages with abundant magic power will also create some to sell when they are short of money. So overall, it is not a particularly rare material.

But when Luo Jun took out tens of thousands of earth rock ingots, the material supplier's eyes lit up.

The Red Earth Province is rich in minerals. He has been operating here for many years and has seen all kinds of things, but this is the first time he has seen such a generous shipment.

According to market prices, each Earth Rock Ingot is worth about a thousand gold coins. Luo Jun's backpack has a hundred slots, and he bought a high-end expanded backpack, for a total of two hundred slots. Except for a few slots filled with important equipment and items, most of them are filled with Earth Rock Ingots, totaling more than 18,000. If he sells all of these, Luo Jun's assets will approach 20 million.

This is thanks to the rules of the game; once a merchant reaches a certain level, their funds seem inexhaustible, and they can absorb any amount of goods.

Having acquired a huge fortune, he naturally wanted to splurge. First, he went to the Flowing Water Magic Guild, learned magic, and then invested all his remaining skill points into upgrading Flowing Water Magic to the expert level. After that, he visited several other guilds, buying every magic book he could learn, which only cost him a few hundred thousand.

It's not that spellbooks are too cheap, but rather that local magic guilds are mostly branch guilds, and they only sell scriptures up to the Master level. At the Grandmaster level, even a single spellbook can cost several thousand or even tens of thousands of dollars, and fusion magic is even more expensive. Furthermore, not all spellbooks are available for sale; the inventory refreshes weekly, so what you can buy depends on luck.

After finishing his shopping spree here, Luo Jun arrived in the capital city via a teleportation array. There were finally grandmaster-level magics here. However, Luo Jun was not in a hurry to shop. Instead, he used the teleportation array to head to the northern border.

This is the northernmost and coldest province of the empire, with both high latitude and high altitude, and most areas are covered in snow all year round.

After arriving, Luo Jun headed north and came to the frigid land of the far north.

This place is not only a harsh environment, but also teeming with all sorts of terrifying monsters.

However, Luo Jun is no longer the super soldier he once was. Facing the monsters blocking his way, he wields a firestorm in his left hand and a lightning bolt in his right, spews acid from his mouth, and shakes the earth with his stomp. Wherever he goes, monsters are turned into experience and materials...

Finally, amidst the vast glaciers, Luo Jun, following the directions provided by his Earth Master mentor, arrived at a coordinate.

"This should be it." Luo Jun raised his hand and unleashed a fire dragon breath on the ice beneath his feet.

A semi-transparent fire dragon coiled around his arm, growing larger and larger as it faced the wind, eventually transforming into a phantom behemoth with its head opening its massive mouth and spewing scorching flames at the ground.

The flames continued to strike, melting the thick glacier and quickly burning out a huge, deep ice cave. However, the deepest part of the cave was not pure darkness; as one dug deeper, a faint green light appeared.

"Found it!" Luo Jun's eyes lit up. He put away the fire dragon, jumped down into the ice storage, and when he landed at the lowest point, he raised his hand to brush the icy water under his feet. Through the transparent ice layer, he could see a lush green landscape below.

Luo Jun slammed his fist down, shattering the ice layer. Luo Jun then fell, immediately enveloped in a warm sensation.

Upon landing, one finds lush green grass and a flowing stream beneath one's feet. Looking ahead, one sees a fountain gurgling at the foot of an ancient tree, its magical waters flowing across the ground and shimmering light illuminating the entire ice cave.

“Deep within the frigid ice plains, nourished by a magical fountain, lies a vibrant oasis…” Luo Jun smiled slightly. “As long as you offer gold coins and drink the spring water, you will receive a blessing from the gods. However, the god of fate is very cunning; whether it is a blessing or a curse will only be known the moment you drink it.” “There’s no mistake, this is the Wishing Fountain that the Earth Master mentor spoke of.” Luo Jun stepped forward, raised his hand, and scattered a large amount of gold coins—exactly one thousand.

Strangely enough, the gold coins, which are stable and resistant to strong acids and alkalis, disappeared immediately when thrown into the magic fountain.

"Damn it, could this be aqua regia? No wonder drinking it might kill you..."

Luo Jun made a sarcastic remark, but still scooped up the spring water and activated the Heavenly Secret Dice at the same time.

"Gain the maximum number of skill points."

The two pairs of dice were rolled, and one pair ended up with 21 points and the other with 99 points.

"Ding! Event difficulty: 100 points; final score: 99 + 5 points; event successful!"

Is this a maximum difficulty level? Looks like this fountain has quite a few effects.

Luo Jun activated his ability to merge similar entities, and then drank the spring water in his hand.

Strangely enough, the spring water looked just like ordinary water, but it disappeared instantly after being swallowed, without any noticeable effect. If Luo Jun hadn't checked and found he had gained ten skill points, he wouldn't have been sure if he had actually drunk the water.

Since it worked, Luo Jun drank five mouthfuls in a row and then opened the dice again.

With the help of a level 10 Luck rating and various ability bonuses, he succeeded seven out of the remaining eight dice rolls, earning a total of 350 skill points.

These skill points were enough for Luo Jun to level up the other three magic systems to level 20, but he was still not satisfied.

Although he had no more chances to roll the dice, he had plenty of money and lives to spare!
He waved his hands, opened his backpack, and gold coins poured into the spring like a waterfall. At the same time, he stood under the fountain and opened his mouth, letting the spring water flow into his mouth!
Gold coins were being consumed at a rate of one thousand per second, and the spring water was constantly refreshing various blessings and curses on him. Sometimes, he would be healed from disease as soon as he was infected, and he would be given a buff of strength as soon as he was weakened. His experience points would also increase by thousands or tens of thousands of points from time to time. The efficiency was much faster than doing quests and killing monsters!
Finally, after drinking like a madman for a while, Luo Jun finally tasted the legendary instant kill effect!
Health points reduced by 99999999!
After feeling a sharp pain, Luo Jun stopped and checked his panel attributes.

At the very end of the long health bar, a tiny bit was finally missing, barely visible to the naked eye!
"That's it?!" Luo Jun snorted coldly, not caring at all, and continued to gulp down food.

Just as the reward of ten skill points is hard to come by, the probability of an instant kill effect is also low, so it often takes quite a while to trigger it once. And don't forget, in the world of the game, health regenerates automatically. Luo Jun's regeneration rate is 0.15% per minute, so theoretically, he can be fully restored after being at zero health for more than ten hours.

Although he drinks water at an astonishing speed now, the instant kill effect can only be triggered once every few minutes, which is slower than his recovery!
Even if he's struck by bad luck and gets instantly killed several times in a row, causing his health bar to drop significantly, he can occasionally get a full heal effect, which restores his health...

It can only be said that when faced with numerical monsters, sometimes even mechanics are not enough.

Luo Jun drank in this secret realm from afternoon until midnight. Although there was no distinction between day and night in the polar region, the refresh of the dice reminded him that he had been drinking here for nearly ten hours.

With only a few hundred thousand gold coins left, Luo Jun was puzzled. If he drank one sip per second, twenty million coins would only be enough for him to drink for six hours. How could this last so long?
Thinking of this, he took another sip, and with a whoosh, his gold coins increased by 50,000...

So that's how it works! All the blessings and curses are refreshing so fast, I didn't even notice.

Luo Jun shook his head. Although there was no actual fluid buildup in his stomach, he still felt nauseous.

He let out a faint burp, looked down at the mountain of equipment piled up at his feet.

The Wishing Fountain offers a chance to obtain a random piece of equipment, and this effect occurs quite frequently. Initially, the equipment will automatically be added to his inventory, but once it's full, he can only throw it around haphazardly. After ten hours or so, he has thousands of pieces of equipment around him, ranging from dull gray inferior items to dazzling golden legendary items, from small rings and jewelry to heavy full-body plate armor, of all grades and types—you name it, they have it.

Luo Jun simply emptied out all the equipment that filled his backpack, then sorted it by grade from highest to lowest, filling the backpack with only gold and purple items before he was truly satisfied.

After doing all that, he looked at his skills page.

The skill points section clearly shows 11768 points!
Although the previous dice roll resulted in the highest difficulty level (maximum skill points), Luo Jun's condition was "maximum" skill points. In fact, the probability of gaining skill points from drinking spring water wasn't low, roughly one in ten. However, the number of skill points varied, ranging from a maximum of ten to a minimum of one, with three or four being the most common. Therefore, he ultimately obtained over ten thousand skill points.

If you rely entirely on leveling up, you won't even reach 300 levels, let alone 150!
However, now, these skill points are just lying obediently in his skill bar.

"Looking at it this way, being born in this world isn't so bad after all." Luo Jun stroked his chin. "Even if I didn't have these abnormal attributes, with the dice refreshing every day, I could eventually get all these skills. I remember that among those basic skills, there are some that can increase health and mana. If I were born here, I probably wouldn't even need to cultivate. Just by guarding this spring every day, I could become a top expert sooner or later!"

Of course, enjoying himself is just that—enjoying himself. Luo Jun knows that the enhancements he gains in the [game] world may not be able to be brought back to the main world, so he might as well just enjoy himself here!
After checking his backpack one last time, Luo Jun looked at the magic spring and finally left with some reluctance.

"[Games] are fine with some modifications, but excessive modifications only reduce the fun. It's best not to do too much of this cheating-like bug-exploiting behavior... I'll come back when I'm really short on skill points!"

After comforting himself for a while, he finally left the magic spring and flew towards the capital of the frigid North.

(End of this chapter)