A mineral vein storing millions of natural spirit stones was completely excavated by Wild Boar Paige in a short time—the efficiency was remarkably fast.
On the way back, Sect Master Jun silently thought: “If I could buy skills for detecting underground minerals in the mall, then use the Spirit Beast Pavilion to imprint it on the little guy, that would be absolutely perfect!”
Wild Boar Paige’s earth-attribute nature made her a natural treasure hunter and mining worker.
The System said: “It exists!”
“I know,” Jun Changxiao said. “I definitely have to grind for it, right?”
The System said: “Or did you think I’d give it to you for free?”
Jun Changxiao shrugged. “I wouldn’t mind if you gave it to me for free.”
“Dream on,” the System said.
Jun Changxiao ignored it and opened the purchased items column, focusing on the Heavenly Treasure Incubation Device given as a task reward.
According to the description, this was a device for incubating heavenly treasures. Its advantage was that it could rapidly mature them, while its drawback was that it could only incubate heavenly treasures.
Whether ordinary or high-grade, the medicinal herbs planted in the medicine garden couldn’t be described as heavenly treasures, so they had no effect inside it.
This left Jun Changxiao somewhat disappointed.
If medicinal herb seeds could be incubated, he could completely buy several more for the Medicine Hall to accelerate the maturation period of pills like the Martial King Pill.
“Ten thousand contribution points?” Jun Changxiao continued reading, and when he discovered the final price, his eyes immediately widened.
If it were a commodity that enhanced combat power, being expensive would be acceptable, but a device that could only incubate heavenly treasures actually reached a price only found in the advanced mall—that was rather infuriating!
The System said: “Heavenly treasures are rare encounters, and their growth cycles are extremely long. With this item you can rapidly mature them. If it were me, forget ten thousand—I’d buy it even if it cost a hundred thousand!”
Jun Changxiao rolled his eyes.
He had long since figured out that this fellow’s reason for existing, aside from irritating him, was to incite him to spend contribution points. Who knows if it was getting kickbacks from the salted fish author!
“Besides, the host still has the Pure Heart Sacred Lotus. This item completely meets the standard of a heavenly treasure and can be planted inside for rapid maturation, making the missing two petals quickly grow back,” the System said.
“That’s right!”
Jun Changxiao’s eyes lit up.
He had nearly forgotten about this heavenly treasure found in the Hundred-Faced Medical Saint’s tomb—if the System hadn’t reminded him. Moreover, the Five Absolutes Evil Saint had said that only by eating all nine petals of the Pure Heart Sacred Lotus could his cultivation be completely restored.
This time, to clash with first and second-rate sects over the spirit stone mine, they had essentially formed a grudge. Who knows—they might come looking for trouble in the future. If this servant could restore his Martial Saint cultivation, they’d undoubtedly have more confidence!
“Buy it!”
“Ding! The host has spent 10,000 contribution points to obtain Heavenly Treasure Incubation Device ×1. It has been transported into the spatial ring.”
“Ding! Sect contribution points: 20,001/50,000.”
The Heavenly Treasure Incubation Device was similar to an incubator, though relatively small in scale—clearly impossible for mass cultivation of heavenly treasures.
At the bottom was a concave slot which, according to the instruction manual, was used for charging.
This item had the same function as the incubator. By planting heavenly treasures inside, it could use various energies for accelerated incubation—medicinal herbs, minerals, crystal cores, and even spirit stones could all be used!
Of course.
In terms of effectiveness, the best energy sources were undoubtedly crystal cores and spirit stones, while the worst were medicinal herbs and minerals. Quality also determined incubation speed.
After flipping through the instruction manual, Jun Changxiao said helplessly: “Another product where you have to frantically throw money at it.”
Naturally.
Do you want your heavenly treasure to grow at 10× speed? Do you want your heavenly treasure to grow at 100× speed? Do you want your heavenly treasure to grow at 1000× speed? Come on, young one, recharge to your heart’s content!
Can you not spend money? Yes, this product puts people first—as long as you purchase it, you can permanently enjoy 1.5× growth speed.
1.5× wasn’t bad—at least it was accelerated—but for heavenly treasures with growth cycles of hundreds or thousands of years, it basically had no effect at all.
“Sigh.”
Jun Changxiao shook his head. “I’ll still choose to pay-to-win.”
After returning to the sect, he first arranged the millions of spirit stones, then went to the medicine garden to transplant the Pure Heart Sacred Lotus into the incubation device.
“Whoosh!”
In a moment, a faint aura diffused inside, then wrapped around the Pure Heart Sacred Lotus.
“Ding!” Suddenly, a projected display appeared at the bottom, showing digital content reading—Heavenly treasure currently maturing, original time 1000 years, under 1.5× acceleration: 666.666 years.
“…” The corner of Jun Changxiao’s mouth twitched.
Listing both the original time and accelerated time—wasn’t this just forcing him to recharge for acceleration? What difference was there between this and those money-grabbing mobile games boasting “One slash to level 999, kill a chicken and godly equipment drops”!
“Only 666 years,” the System sang in a female voice: “Come on, have fun, after all there’s plenty of time.”
“Get lost!” Jun Changxiao said.
Forget 666 years—he couldn’t wait even 6 years. So to make the medicinal herb mature faster, he had to greatly increase the acceleration rate. 100× wouldn’t work—at minimum it had to start at 1000×!
“Whoosh!”
Jun Changxiao took a deep breath, inwardly collapsing: “It’s just missing two petals, yet it takes 1000 years to grow them back. If I’d known it had no effect on Xi Jingxuan and Old Wei, I wouldn’t have plucked them!”
“So the Heavenly Treasure Incubation Device is your remedy for regret, to make up for mistakes you’ve made,” the System said.
“Sigh.”
Jun Changxiao shook his head, then took out a crystal core and fused it into the concave slot!
Ding!
The display emitted a soft sound.
He watched as the time, accurate to the second, instantly shortened by 60 seconds as the crystal core’s energy fused in.
“Holy crap!”
Jun Changxiao nearly jumped up, clutching his head in distress. “One crystal core only speeds it up by one minute!”
The System said: “The crystal core you inserted is too low-level. If you use only this type, one year has 525,600 minutes, so 666 years would require… well, not that many—only about 300 million.”
Jun Changxiao rolled his eyes, collapsing: “Forget whether Xingyun Continent even has fierce beasts carrying 300 million crystal cores—how long would it take to kill enough to gather them all!”
“So if the host doesn’t want to waste time, insert higher-level crystal cores!” the System said.
“That’s the only option.”
Jun Changxiao took out another crystal core comparable to the Martial Master level, and the result was a time reduction of two minutes.
“Not bad.”
The System said: “This way you only need about 170 million crystal cores of the same level.”
“Damn it!”
Jun Changxiao inserted a high-grade crystal core comparable to Martial Sect level, and the time increased to four minutes.
“Cut in half again!”
“…”
Jun Changxiao tugged at his hair, then steeled himself and threw in a crystal core comparable to Martial King level. The time increase jumped from 4 minutes straight to 60 minutes.
The System said: “If the host uses this level of crystal core, you only need about 5 million.”
Jun Changxiao collapsed directly into his chair.
Xingyun Continent might have several hundred million Martial Disciple-level crystal cores, but it absolutely couldn’t have over five million Martial King-level crystal cores!
“Can’t afford it!”
One Martial King-level crystal core only accelerated it by one hour—this made Jun Changxiao despair.
The System said: “The host can try using spirit stones.”
Jun Changxiao fell silent.
The highest-level crystal core he had was only Martial King level, so to test acceleration, he could only start with spirit stones.
As for medicinal herbs and minerals, he hadn’t even considered them—after all, if crystal cores couldn’t handle it, these would probably require at minimum tens of billions of stalks or tons to start!
“Let me try.”
Jun Changxiao took out an artificial spirit stone. After fusing it in, the time reduction was also 60 minutes, equal to the acceleration provided by a Martial King-level crystal core.
This way, the expenditure could be calculated.
One artificial spirit stone cost ten thousand taels. Inserting 5.8 million would directly mature the Pure Heart Sacred Lotus. The required money was—
Jun Changxiao squatted on the ground, covering his face—whether he was crying or laughing was unclear: “Fifty-eight billion… hahaha… hahahaha…”
“Stop crying!”
The System said: “Try inserting natural spirit stones!”
“Right!”
Jun Changxiao stood up. “I still have natural spirit stones!”
Speaking thus, he took out the natural spirit stones that Wild Boar Paige had just excavated, still warm, then fused one into the concave slot.
Ding!
The notification sound came again.
The time on the display decreased by ten hours!
Ten hours!
Jun Changxiao raised his head, his eyes constantly rolling. “Quick, calculate how many I need!”
“…” The System said: “About 580,000 natural spirit stones.”
This number wasn’t small, but Jun Changxiao had just excavated millions of them, so using them for maturation was still affordable. Thus he spread both hands, waving them undulating, and sang in a female voice: “Come on, have fun, after all there’s plenty of time—”