bestfiction Chapter 91 Late Spring Cold
Chapter 91 Late Spring Cold
There are just too many things that can be exchanged with military merit points. Countless supplies are constantly being added and exchanged. Even a powerful dynasty like the Chen family cannot report orders in real time.
Therefore, extremely precious and rare resources will be subject to a declaration system, and only resources available in warehouses within this base and a radius of 500 li can be acquired in real time.
Zhong Ming arrived at a small room where a huge crystal ball stood before him. It could be opened by injecting spiritual energy into it.
After a little spiritual energy flowed into it, words quickly appeared on the crystal ball.
Among the categories, Zhong Ming decisively chose martial arts, as he desperately needed some fighting skills.
Eight hundred military merit points is a huge sum of money in the Qi Refining stage. If you go out and find any guy at the peak of Qi Refining, he might search all his storage bags and still not be able to find eight hundred spirit stones in cash.
He reached out and touched the crystal ball, then tapped the filter section, which quickly displayed a large number of filter criteria.
I must say, it's quite humane.
Zhong Ming looked at the options, first selecting the Qi Refining stage, and then choosing sword techniques.
This dazzled him; countless bizarre and unusual sword techniques filled the crystal ball in an instant. Some of them sounded incredibly powerful just from their names, such as "Heaven-Defying Dragon-Slaying Sword," "Heavenly Freedom Sword Technique," and "Great Transformation Azure Dragon Sword Art"...
Others are quite bizarre, such as "Three Techniques for Toothpicking," "The Cockroach Sword," and "An Introduction to the Imperial Swordplay of the Heavenly Emperor, Kangbi Kaitian Xingyi Junde Gongcheng Gaoren Zhishen Zaida Da Wen Qiyun Yingming Da Huangdi"...
I recognize each character in these names, but I can't understand them when they're put together.
Zhong Ming thought for a moment and opened the filter to see if there was a difficulty level sorting. Unfortunately, there were only broad categories of difficulty. Since everyone's talent is different, it is difficult to have a universal standard for the level of difficulty.
What has a universal standard? Price, of course.
Please sort by price from lowest to highest. Thank you.
Water attribute is generally better suited to one's own cultivation technique and spiritual energy attribute.
The lower-priced sections are all derived from mortal sword techniques, with virtually no skill in using spiritual energy; you just inject spiritual energy into the sword and swing it.
Zhong Ming tried his best to find simple, powerful, and inexpensive sword techniques. After searching for a long time, he actually found some.
The Art of Drawing the Sword and the Method of Cultivating Qi
These two sword techniques are perfect for Zhong Ming. No matter what, the child sword can always use the "Sword Drawing Technique". The "Qi Cultivation Method" is even better. It emphasizes keeping the sword in its sheath and accumulating sword energy. The upper limit depends entirely on the strength of the sheath. As long as the sheath is not burst by the sword energy, it is enough to accumulate sword energy day by day.
The downside is that there's no follow-up; it's just one sword strike.
Upon closer inspection, it wasn't expensive; both books together cost only 100 military merit points.
Let's switch to a melee combat style first.
As for immortals, Zhong Ming had long wanted to learn some magic techniques for controlling swords to kill enemies and flying through the air. To his surprise, the most basic "Sword Control Technique" was quite cheap, costing only fifty military merit points. It not only allowed him to control his flying sword to fly around, but also included a tutorial on how to fly with a sword.
If other Qi Refining cultivators heard this, they would probably curse Zhong Ming for three days straight without repeating themselves. "Listen to this! Is he even speaking human language?" A normal cultivator would be extremely lucky if they could save up fifty spirit stones in a year of mining. After deducting food, drink, and daily cultivation expenses, they would be lucky to have ten spirit stones left over!
You just casually tossed away 150 military merit points? Think about the mining mole! He risked his life to escape and only got 100 military merit points!
When Zhong Ming, who had "a huge sum of money in his hands," was deciding which martial arts technique to buy for sustained combat, a sudden inspiration struck him.
How about I check if there are any weapons I like first? Then I can choose a martial arts technique based on the weapons? After all, the Mother and Child Swords can be used for both flying attacks and close combat, so it feels a bit wasteful to switch to another sword technique. Besides, there are... fewer water-attribute sword techniques.
On the dazzling array of product descriptions, countless powerful weapons were on display. Zhong Ming's first choice, which was also the least popular, was "the inferior product."
Defective doesn't mean the item is ruined and becomes an ordinary weapon. Rather, it means that when a high-level cultivator is forging a powerful spiritual weapon (used by Foundation Establishment cultivators), or even a magic weapon (used by Golden Core cultivators) or a spiritual treasure (used by Nascent Soul cultivators), some problems arise, causing the forging to fail and drop to the grade of a magic weapon that can be used by Qi Refining cultivators.
These weapons share several common characteristics: the materials are exceptionally high-quality, as they were originally designed to forge more advanced weapons; and they consume a great deal of spiritual energy, making them unsuitable for use by Qi Refining stage cultivators who lack spiritual energy; therefore, their power is... not very reliable.
Few people would buy this type of weapon, but Zhong Ming is different; he can grind.
Professional knife sharpeners and mirror polishers are best at nurturing objects; who knows, they might restore an object's grade through proper nurturing.
After switching to the water attribute, he focused on filtering and quickly found many options he liked.
The Flowing Water Staff, having failed to be crafted into a spirit weapon, dropped to the rank of a high-grade magic weapon, earning 300 military merit points.
The Frost Whip is also a spirit weapon, but its quality has dropped significantly, barely maintaining its status as a mid-grade magic weapon, costing only two hundred military merit points.
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Zhong Ming considered that he also needed a suit of armor for protection, a leg technique or escape technique to flee, and weapons plus corresponding martial arts skills. He figured each of these should not exceed 170 points.
Then, he discovered a "magical artifact" that caught his eye.
Its owner must have put a lot of effort into making it, and the failure must have been a great pity for the owner. It is a magical artifact that was failed to be crafted.
A hook-and-sickle spear is a long spear with a barb attached to its side. This allows the spear to hook onto the enemy and also prevents the spear tip from penetrating too deeply.
If it were used by ordinary soldiers, it would certainly be a good weapon, but as a weapon used by cultivators, its design has inherently significant problems.
Who says that cultivators' enemies are always humans? In the southern battlefield, they were also fighting fiercely with demonic beasts. A single thrust of the hook-and-sickle spear would only penetrate the tip, leaving the barbs embedded in the opponent's flesh. Against larger demonic beasts, it might not even be able to pierce their skin.
Therefore, its owner added many patterns during the design process, the first of which is to create a visually striking effect in a physical sense.
Monsters have powerful eyesight, which is both an advantage and a disadvantage. Getting too close to them and being blinded by a flash of light must be extremely uncomfortable.
Originally, this blinking ability was supposed to add illusions or something similar. Zhong Ming didn't quite understand it, but it was supposed to pull enemies into illusions and make them go crazy like they'd eaten poisonous mushrooms. However, the failed crafting caused it to lose this function, and now it can only blink.
The red tassel on the spear was also specially made to block the light so that the user would not be blinded or dragged into an illusion.
In addition, the spear tip can also launch an explosive jet attack. Imagine that after it pierces the enemy's body, it is as if the spear tip is covered with explosive runes, suddenly spewing out a powerful torrent of spiritual energy that pulverizes the enemy's body.
Some of the magical abilities that were supposed to be engraved on the gun body are now all broken, leaving only the original tough material.
Its owner rambled on in the introduction, recommending a book called "Spring and Autumn Hook and Sickle Spear Technique," and concluded by writing:
"I hope that the person destined to receive it will not change its original name: Late Spring Cold."