World version update

Chapter 15 Version Change Value

After ending his first contact with Ji Xingyao, Lu Yan returned home.

In the following days, there was no news about the deaths of Li Zhaoheng and Gongyang Xuanming on the Internet, as if no one knew about this large-scale case in which more than a dozen people died.

Even the Fenglan Hotel, the scene of the crime, remained silent on the matter, and only issued an announcement to the outside world saying that there was a problem with the circuit in the presidential suite and it was temporarily closed.

According to Lu Yan's guess, it was because of Gongyang Xuanming's special identity, and the fact that the deaths of the people at the scene were too strange, that the matter was suppressed by the upper echelons of Luocheng.

At the moment, Los Angeles appears to be calm on the surface, but in fact, undercurrents have long been surging. If similar cases occur again, they will inevitably lead to a large-scale crackdown by the upper echelons.

As the culprit, Lu Yan naturally knew everything, so after resolving the threat from the evil cultivator Gongyang Xuanming, Lu Yan stayed at home to continue his practice and did not go out.

As long as they don't continue to take action and leave any traces, the upper echelons of Luo City will have no way of investigating due to the concealment of the Soul Flag.

After practicing like this for several days, Lu Yan found himself reaching a bottleneck.

However, this bottleneck did not come from Lu Yan himself, but from the environment he was in.

When he just started practicing, Lu Yan noticed that the concentration of spiritual energy in the surrounding environment was very low. It took a lot of time to absorb a stream of spiritual energy, so he used some spirit stones to speed up his practice before he successfully entered the first level of Qi training.

The practice after being promoted to the first level of Qi training also confirmed Lu Yan’s own guess.

After entering the first level of Qi training, one can quickly absorb spiritual energy from the outside world to refine magical power. In the world of cultivation, going from the first level to the third level of Qi training is just a matter of time and there is no bottleneck to speak of.

But Lu Yan could clearly sense that the speed of refining magic power in the past few days was extremely slow. The spiritual energy in the air was so thin that he could only barely use magic and could not support normal practice at all.

Only by using spirit stones can one maintain a normal cultivation speed.

This problem gave Lu Yan a headache. Although he was now worth hundreds of spirit stones, they were all the windfall he robbed from Manager Chu. It was considered good for an ordinary cultivator at the first level of Qi training to have one or two spirit stones.

The main functions of spirit stones are to assist breakthroughs, set up formations, and purchase precious cultivation resources.

Cultivation is a process that requires accumulation of effort over time, and most of the time it relies on the support of the spiritual veins of the blessed land where one lives. Even if it is converted into spirit stones, even a breakthrough from the first level of Qi training to the second level requires dozens of spirit stones, which is enough to buy a decent low-grade magic weapon.

All spirit stones are used for cultivation. Even disciples from large sects would not use them in such a wasteful way.

As a last resort, Lu Yan had to temporarily stop his daily practice.

In fact, Lu Yan had some suspicions that the concentration of spiritual energy might be related to the urban environment. He wanted to visit the urban version of famous mountains and rivers to confirm whether these places had abundant spiritual energy.

Otherwise, if he could not practice the urban version every time, it would undoubtedly waste a lot of Lu Yan’s practice time.

However, the time for version update is approaching, and traveling to famous mountains and rivers will inevitably consume precious remaining time, so we can only wait for the next urban version to explore again.

Unable to practice martial arts to refine his magic power, Lu Yan tried to condense the red lotus fire again.

Logically speaking, after killing more than ten people in one breath at Fenglan Hotel, Lu Yan should have accumulated karma on his body, and had reached the conditions for condensing the red lotus karma fire. But for some reason, Lu Yan still could not successfully use this top-grade spell.

After trying for several days, Lu Yan gave up completely, ended his practice and began to prepare for the upcoming world version update.

Having experienced two version updates, Lu Yan has a certain understanding of version updates, but it is limited to the two versions of urban and fairy tales.

Lu Yan can only choose one of three versions to update, and he cannot be sure whether there will be a relatively stable environment option like the Xianxia version among the three options.

If he encountered a version with scarce supplies and dangerous environment, Lu Yan might not be able to gain an advantage with his strength, so he had to prepare in advance. He did not forget that there had been apocalyptic versions and cyber versions in the previous options.

In the remaining ten days, Lu Yan used his savings to purchase a large amount of supplies and put them all into the storage bag.

These supplies include a large amount of water, food, and daily necessities. Fortunately, the storage bag of Shopkeeper Chu is of high quality, with more than ten cubic meters of space.

These things are enough for Lu Yan's daily life for three months.

In addition, Lu Yan also wanted to get some guns and other things.

Although Lu Yan had a lot of talismans in his hands, they all cost spirit stones and were far less costly and convenient to use than firearms.

Unfortunately, guns are banned in Xia country, so Lu Yan had to give up this idea.

Still in the same old house, Lu Yan stood in front of the window, quietly looking at the progress bar in front of him that had reached 99.9%.

As the numbers jumped again, a string of words popped up in front of Lu Yan's eyes.

[This city version ends, the version change value is: 3%]

Lu Yan couldn't help but raise his eyebrows slightly. This was the first time he saw data called version change value. It had never been displayed in the previous two version updates.

"Version change value? From a literal sense, it seems to be a change to the version?"

Lu Yan's thoughts raced through his mind.

“There was no version change value in the first two times because my strength and influence were too weak to affect the version changes of the entire world.

Then why is there such a big change in the urban version this time? Is it because I killed Gongyang Xuanming, the demon monk?"

As soon as this thought flashed through his mind, Lu Yan immediately denied it.

"No! Gongyang Xuanming is a big shot in Luocheng, and his father has a certain influence behind him, but in the entire urban version, he is just an insignificant ant.

His life or death is of no importance to the world as a whole and is not enough to bring about a 3% version change value.

There seems to be only one explanation.

The source of the version change value is because I broke through to the Qi training stage in the urban version and became the only immortal cultivator in this world!"

Lu Yan suddenly understood, but greater doubts arose.

"But what will this version change bring?"

Unfortunately, the text that appeared in front of him did not answer Lu Yan’s doubts, and the message popped up again.

[The version update progress is full. You can choose one of the following versions to update.

Mysterious version: After the fall of the old days and the slumber of the true gods, only madness remains on the path to transcendence!
Weird version: The world is a huge weird game, and everyone is a player forced to enter the game.

Apocalypse version: What is left in the world after the end of the world? 】

(End of this chapter)