Am I the old man who's always by my apprentices' side?

Chapter 75 Continues to Upgrade
As darkness fell completely, the people in the Sword-Wiping Garden gradually dispersed.

Zhang Chengdao had left long after Chang Ping'an finished his competition, so when he returned to Baishi Mountain that evening, Murong Ruyan and Chang Ping'an went back together.

Dinner was still prepared by Anche Hexiang. Since Anche and his sister came to visit these past two days, everyone's meals have become simpler.

The food that Master would pull out from who-knows-where each time was delicious, but it always had a sense of unreality; the taste was exactly the same.

On the contrary, the dishes made by Anche Hexiang sometimes had a charred aroma due to the high heat, and sometimes had a slightly darker color due to the extra sauce. But it was precisely these differences in taste that gave the entire Baishi Immortal Sect a more down-to-earth feel.

Zhang Chengdao did not come out for dinner; he wasn't even in the courtyard of his thatched cottage.

Because after collecting all the white wood today, he finally had enough materials to upgrade his cheat code!
The materials required to upgrade to level 12 are not as painful as those required to upgrade to level 10 and 11, because the newly unlocked buildings are the [Iron Workshop] and [Iron Mine].

Both buildings only require a small amount of planks, but a large amount of stone and dozens of iron ingots—luckily, he had anticipated this and had bought two hundred iron ingots to keep in his backpack as a backup, otherwise it would have been difficult to take them out in a short time!

As for the [Iron Workshop], although it also has a furnace, it is different from the [Weapon Refining Room] in that the fire in the furnace of the [Iron Workshop] is much higher grade than that of the [Weapon Refining Room], it is a mid-grade Six Jia Yang Fire.

This strange fire is extremely powerful, one of the most powerful strange fires in the forging industry. If it is pure enough, it can even be called a high-grade strange fire, and it can be called the Six Jia Divine Fire. There will be almost nothing in the world that it cannot refine.

Few people may have heard of the Six Jia Divine Fire, but the Yin Fire, which is similar to it and shares the same Yin and Yang, has a great name: the Six Ding Divine Fire. It is said to be the fire in Laozi's Eight Trigrams Furnace.

Zhang Chengdao even lamented that the furnace only contained the Six Jia Yang Fire—if there were another furnace with the Six Ding Divine Fire or the Six Ding Yin Fire, with one Yin and one Yang fire, it would probably be able to forge anything!
The city walls, city gates, and towers had already been upgraded, with the first two currently lying in his inventory. So, after Zhang Chengdao chose a location on Hundred Forging Peak to build the iron mine and iron workshop, he immediately upgraded his cheat system to level 12.

There's nothing particularly special about reaching level 13. The buildings you need to construct are the currently useless [Pigpen] and the [Pharmacy], which should be quite useful.

The reason why the pigpen is useless is that there is simply no one to raise pigs now! In addition, piglets are very expensive in the mall, costing 300 peach blossom stones each.

And just like chicks, this thing needs two ends to continue breeding and form a perfect breeding ecosystem... That costs 600 peach blossom stones!
He's only saved up about a thousand peach blossom stones so far. 600 peach blossom stones would be the death of him!
The pharmacy is different. According to the original game settings, the pharmacy can unlock intermediate medicines, namely [Wound Medicine] and [Cattail Soup].

Although these two medicines treat the same things as the basic medicines [Ge Gen Tang] and [Die Da San], their therapeutic effects can be quite different.

For example, if a villager in the game is seriously injured and their health drops below half, they might need to use basic medicine several times and wait a day or two to recover. However, if they have intermediate medicine, they can recover completely in just an hour or two, and only need to use the medicine once.

Of course, Zhang Chengdao has already accumulated hundreds of [Ge Gen Tang] and [Di Da San] just by opening membership red envelopes. He is not short of medicine at all, and can even sell them out at high prices every now and then. The "distributor" is still the most familiar Liu Dahu.

The main reason is that Liu Dahu knew when to advance and retreat, and did not do anything like the Sword Casting Manor, which liked to monopolize. Zhang Chengdao strongly condemned the Sword Casting Manor's initial act of packaging all the spirit wheat, which frightened Wan Qizhongqiu so much that he did not dare to purchase spirit wheat on the market for half a month, which allowed the spirit wheat to gradually spread out.

In addition to the least valuable items, such as Ge Gen Tang and Die Da San, Zhang Chengdao has also obtained some good items from member red envelopes, such as another blue-grade treasure called Bi Fang Yu.

[Bi Fangyu: Wearing Bi Fangyu will prevent you from feeling cold.] To be honest, this treasure is rather useless. It might be more useful to an ordinary person, but if I give it to my two apprentices…

What cultivator would be afraid of the cold of an ordinary winter?!
Cultivating immortality isn't for nothing—during the cultivation process, cultivators use spiritual energy to temper their bodies. While the "enhanced" cultivators can still sense hot and cold, they won't experience the same fear of both cold and heat, or the frequent colds and flu that ordinary people do.

Such a useless treasure, no wonder it's only blue grade!

Every time Zhang Chengdao saw it in his backpack, he couldn't help but make a few complaints.

Under the cover of night, Zhang Chengdao secretly took the [City Wall] and [City Gate] out of his backpack, upgraded them, and then, like a thief, put them back in his backpack before continuing to build the [Pigsty] and [Pharmacy].

The two buildings were not troublesome and were completed quickly, and the cheat code was successfully upgraded to level 13.

Level 14 buildings become more numerous, including the original three, as well as upgrades to the Stone Tile House, Academy, and Warehouse.

But after building the pigpen and pharmacy, the materials ran out again, so Zhang Chengdao had to give up on upgrading his cheat system and instead look at all the crafted items he had already unlocked.

The medicines [Healing Medicine] and [Cattail Soup] have been unlocked. No new food items have been unlocked, and the cloth, clothing, and equipment remain unchanged. However, a new batch of weapons has been unlocked. For example, previously you could only craft items like [Stone Sword], [Bamboo Bow], [Wooden Knife], [Plain Whip], and [Stone Hammer], but now you can craft [Iron Sword], [Leather Bow], [Iron Knife], [Iron Whip], and [Iron Hammer].

Since these weapons all required iron ingots, Zhang Chengdao was reluctant to forge them carelessly, so he only forged one [Iron Sword] for self-defense.

However, besides these items with practical functions, there is a special category in the crafting panel called "Decorations".

Zhang Chengdao hadn't paid attention to it before because he was always short of materials and didn't have any extra to build things that wouldn't help upgrade the cheat.

But this time, as Zhang Chengdao flipped through the various decorations in the display case, he was struck by a particularly unusual "decoration".

【Crane Pond Reflecting the Moon Lantern】, although it is called a lantern, it is actually a "small scene".

It consists of a pond with lotus flowers and leaves, and three "cranes" in different poses stand in the pond.

Of course, these three "cranes" are not real cranes, but three lamps. But Zhang Chengdao's real focus was not on the cranes, but on the pond in the decoration!

This is the only water source he's ever found in any of the buildings and synthetic decorations!

(End of this chapter)