All-out Tower Defense: My Card-Drawing Talent is a Bit Strange

However, the merchant only accepts transactions in silver coins, gold coins, and spirit stones, and there is a necessary minimum transaction amount. All my copper coins combined don't even amount to a single silver coin, so summoning a merchant is still a long way off.

"Sigh, I'm restricted everywhere~" Gritting his teeth, Yang Fei temporarily gave up the idea of ​​using the token and turned to look at another item in his backpack, the basic building construction card - Lumberyard.

Lumber Mill (Initial): A basic resource building that can be rebuilt at a low cost after being destroyed, but requires upgrading. It can produce ten units of basic wood per day and requires one resident to work there. The resident works for 8 hours a day and must be paid at least one copper coin per week. Increasing the salary will further increase the resident's favor and loyalty.

Lumber Mill (Upgradeable): Upgraded to level 2 for 100 copper coins, 100 wood, 50 stone, and 10 iron ingots. This increases daily production to 20 units and provides an additional job.

Note that this is a basic building and currently has no color quality. However, its level cap can be increased as the core building is upgraded. Once the corresponding level is reached, its quality can be improved, and it can randomly produce higher quality wood.

Yang Fei walked to the vicinity of his core thatched hut and looked at the unremarkable wooden hut next to it, which was called the "Citizen Recruitment Hut". He already had the lumberyard construction card. After it was built, he would need to send people in to work so that he could harvest wood every day. Therefore, this Citizen Hut would have to come in handy.

Citizen Recruitment Hut (Initial): A special basic building that can be rebuilt at a cost after being destroyed, but requires upgrading. It can recruit citizens from all realms. A random recruitment can be conducted for 50 copper coins.

Note: At this stage, this building is of a low level and has no quality. The race, physical condition and loyalty of the randomly recruited citizens cannot be selected. A random lottery system is used.

Citizen Recruitment Hut (Upgradeable): Costing 100 copper coins, 100 spirit stones, 100 gray energy crystals, and 100 gray magic cores, this building can be upgraded to level two. This adds the option to select the general races of the citizens to recruit, and there is a small chance to recruit citizens with special skills.

"Damn it, 50 copper coins per resident, and the attributes aren't even fixed. I might as well just rob them." Yang Fei opened the door of the resident recruitment hut, and before he could even see what was inside, the system panel popped up. Although he had heard that this thing was a rip-off before, he had never actually seen it before, so he didn't really understand. He didn't expect to experience it firsthand today and realize how rip-off it really was.

Yang Fei also temporarily abandoned his plan to recruit people. Not only was it expensive, but it was already 11 p.m., and the people probably wouldn't be working anyway. Plus, he would have to provide them with food and lodging.

Providing meals is fine, but providing lodging means being left out in the open. It doesn't matter if you have two loyal subordinates, but these randomly recruited troublemakers will definitely lower their loyalty, so it's not worth it.

Looking inside the small wooden cabin, the space was not large, probably only ten square meters. Behind the door was a blue light screen displaying recruitment options, including recruitment methods and the number of people to be recruited.

I heard that after making a choice, the light screen will gradually form a blue door, and the people will walk out of it and become one of the people of your sky island. Yang Fei didn't want to try it, so he withdrew to avoid seeing it.

After thinking it over, Yang Fei still built the lumber mill. After all, the daily quests were about to start, and his system inventory was running out of space, so he had to clear out some of the unused items for the time being.

The logging camp is also a wooden hut, except that there are two small pine trees, each five meters tall, growing outside the hut. An axe hangs in front of the door. The hut occupies about 20 square meters. Opening it will reveal a blue wormhole. Workers take down the axe hanging in front of the door and enter the wormhole, which is considered the start of work.

Yang Fei liked the design very much. He stepped forward and tried to take the logging axe, but the axe didn't budge. It seemed that only the commoners could take it down, and he, as the lord, couldn't do the work himself.

Now Yang Fei was completely out of options and could only hope for more resources from tomorrow's gacha pulls or today's daily challenges. He hoped to get a white defense tower from the gacha pulls and more silver or even gold coins from the daily challenges so he could continue to challenge the extreme difficulty.

After using up the basic building card, Yang Fei looked at his backpack, took out the True Qi Rice Seeds, and put them in the core cabin along with farm tools, kitchen utensils, fishing rods, and bait. Then, feeling that it wasn't safe enough, he hurriedly used his beta tester privileges to return to the real world.

The passage of time in the real world is exactly the same as in the tower defense world. It is now late at night and all is quiet outside. Yang Fei is still in the same sleeping position as before. He carefully gets up and searches in his storage room.

They quickly found a dozen folded cardboard boxes and a dozen plastic bags. These two items were classified as Level 1 miscellaneous items and could be placed in the system space and brought back to the Sky Island.

The more important items—the True Qi Rice Seeds, the Gray Arrow Tower Card, and the three Gray Crystals—were placed in one cardboard box. The relatively important items—the Gray Fishing Rod and Gray Bait—were placed in another large cardboard box. The 66 pieces of bio-rubber were placed in a separate cardboard box, and the 100 jin (50 kg) of white rice was stored in batches in tightly sealed plastic bags.

He put the remaining plastic bags into the remaining cardboard box and piled them aside for later use. Looking at the remaining tokens, Qi Rice, and copper coins in his system space, Yang Fei's slight obsessive-compulsive disorder subsided, and he nodded with a smile.

I finally felt a little better. I watched as my two subordinates were still diligently absorbing the true energy within their bodies, and the white arrow tower had not yet fully recovered its energy. I checked the time; there were still forty minutes until midnight.

Yang Fei didn't speak. He walked to his two subordinates, sat cross-legged, and began to absorb the remaining true energy in his body. The number of monsters killed in the last wave was quite large. He had only absorbed a little bit, and he couldn't waste the rest.

According to the explanation of the universal cultivation method "True Qi Technique" publicly released by the Heavenly Dao, before the formal stage of cultivating immortality, there is a realm called the Martial Seeking Realm, which is the martial artist. At this realm, the cultivator has not yet transcended the overall boundary of humanity, and the growth of strength and breakthrough of realm are relatively easy. As long as there is sufficient true qi and the ability to understand is not bad, everyone can enter this realm.

The Martial Realm is further divided into three main stages: Qi Sensing, Unranked, and Ranked Seven Peaks.

Sensing Qi is the first major stage that Yang Fei wants to achieve. As mentioned before, the most important step in sensing Qi is gathering Qi, which means gathering the surrounding environment or absorbing external Qi for one's own use by supplementing with food rich in true Qi. When one can mobilize a trace of true Qi at will, one enters the stage of sensing Qi.

For those who do not advance to the next level, it is a process of continuing to accumulate true qi. They still rely on external supplementation to build up true qi within their bodies, gradually improving their physical condition and ultimately achieving the ideal state of a perfect human being.