Level Six Desolator Beasts!
Even though he was mentally prepared, Ye Yun was still a little stunned. This Myriad Phenomenon Stone was quite a rip-off. The Winged Serpent had dropped 32 spiritual stones, but the Myriad Phenomenon Stone only yielded one. It had to be said that the acquisition methods for the Myriad Phenomenon Stone and the Cloud-Treading Token were rather frustrating.
Experience Pill (Large) - After use, players gain 20% experience.
Half-Dragon Serpent Gallbladder - When used on pets, it enhances some attributes. The first use has a chance to increase its growth base, with random attribute boosts.
Experience Pills can increase one's own experience by 20%. This means the item becomes more valuable as one progresses. Considering the experience Ye Yun needs for leveling up, this item is tailor-made for him.
"System Prompt: Congratulations to Player for using 'Half-Dragon Serpent Gallbladder' on your mount. 'Golden Crow' HP +1000. Golden Crow HP attribute growth base increased from 1.2 to 1.3."
Awesome!
So strong! But there was an element of luck involved. After all, only the first use had a chance to increase the base growth.
An increase from 1.2 to 1.3 might seem like a small margin of 0.1, but with a larger attribute base, the difference in growth becomes more pronounced! If they started with the same attribute, after leveling up into the teens, the attribute gap between the two would be immense.
In addition to the Half-Dragon Serpent Gallbladder, the Level Six Desolator Beast Essence Blood also provided the Golden Crow with 600 defense attributes.
"The road ahead is long and arduous," Ye Yun mused, looking at the Golden Crow's attributes. This little guy's defense attribute had finally broken the 10,000 threshold, following its HP!
With his level reaching 28, Ye Yun's ranking on the leaderboard entered the top thousand! He was no longer a laggard. With a bit more effort in the Desolate World, it wasn't impossible to reclaim the top spot.
Returning to his territory, Ye Yun didn't put the Golden Crow away as he usually did. Instead, he let it roam freely within the territory. Most of the Desolator Beasts within a five-hundred-mile radius had been cleared.
Occasionally, a few scattered Desolator Beasts were attracted by the Golden Crow's aura. Under the long-range attacks of the dwarf guards, they were killed before they could even approach the Cloud Heaven Palace.
Thus, after two days of bustling activity, Ye Yun once again found himself with nothing much to do. He decided to head into the Cloud Forest Plateau with Black Ant.
An hour later, Ye Yun once again annihilated ten nests of Hongxiang Ants, killing over seventeen thousand of them! This caused Ye Yun's accumulated spiritual stones to skyrocket to over 30,000, and his Myriad Phenomenon Stones reached over 4,000.
Unfortunately, the Cloud-Swallowing Ants had already been wiped out, and Ye Yun had not obtained a single more Cloud-Treading Token. Looking at the just over a hundred Cloud-Treading Tokens remaining in his inventory, Ye Yun felt a great headache coming on.
Without enough Cloud-Treading Tokens, the size of his territory and the number of buildings he could construct would be severely limited.
Ye Yun slumped onto the couch in his mansion, his fingers constantly swiping across the virtual screen before him. He scanned through nearly a hundred buildable structures for his territory, examining each one carefully.
Finally, Ye Yun picked out two buildings he could afford to construct at the moment.
Territory Warehouse (Buildable) - When the player is offline or dead, any gains from Desolator Beasts killed by territory guards will be automatically stored in the warehouse. Players can withdraw them at any time upon returning to their territory. Construction Cost: Cloud-Treading Token * 100.
Territory Experience Pool (Buildable) - When the player is offline or dead, 80% of the experience gained from Desolator Beasts killed by territory guards will be automatically injected into the Experience Pool. Upon returning to their territory, this experience will automatically become part of the player's experience. Construction Cost: Cloud-Treading Token * 100.
Both buildings were very appealing, one signifying wealth, the other signifying levels. However, both shared a rather ridiculous commonality: they required guards!
Ye Yun had already witnessed firsthand how difficult it was to train guards. He had spent nine hundred billion attribute points, and even a Level One Desolator Beast required four to five attacks to be killed.
Ye Yun glanced at his own 30 billion-plus attribute points and then at his 30,000-plus spiritual stones, hesitating for a moment.
Invest? Or not invest?
Ye Yun noticed that the "Battle of the Ten Thousand Races in the Game" event card had less than three days remaining. After some thought, he decided against it. Given the current attack power and extreme range of his guards, they were sufficient to handle small-scale beast hordes.
Ye Yun looked at the two buildings before him and, without much further thought, directly chose to construct the warehouse.
As for experience, as long as Ye Yun completed a few more rounds, he was sure to leave the Earthling players far behind. Moreover, a single spiritual stone here was worth tens of billions, while the reward for the top rank on the level leaderboard was merely fifty billion gold coins. They were not on the same level at all.
Level One Territory Warehouse - Can store 5 types of materials, with a maximum of 500 units per type.
Ye Yun unhesitatingly spent seven hundred Myriad Phenomenon Stones to upgrade the warehouse to Level Four. The number of storable material types reached 40, and the quantity limit increased to 4000!
"System Prompt: Congratulations to Player for upgrading the City Wall to Level Five. Consumed Myriad Phenomenon Stone * 800."
"System Prompt: Congratulations to Player for upgrading the Mansion 'Cloud Heaven Palace' to Level Six. Consumed Myriad Phenomenon Stone * 1600."
Ye Yun looked at the remaining just over a thousand Myriad Phenomenon Stones and let out a wry smile. Territory construction was truly a bottomless pit; the consumption of Myriad Phenomenon Stones for each level increased exponentially.
Considering that Ye Yun had killed over fifty thousand Desolator Beasts in the two days he had been here, accumulating nearly ten thousand Myriad Phenomenon Stones, yet he had only managed to upgrade a few of the territory's buildings to Level Four or Five.
And a territory would have at least a hundred buildings at the very least!
"This pace will drive me to madness! System, convert all my spiritual stones into gold coins!" Ye Yun helplessly converted over 20,000 spiritual stones into gold coins again.
He needed to save up some money for the younglings of the Dragon Palace. He didn't want the people he cultivated to be vulnerable when the great era descended.
Another two hundred trillion gold coins were acquired.
"Use all Strength Manifestation Cards!"
"Congratulations to Player for successfully using Strength Manifestation Cards. Strength Manifested 5% * 3. Current Manifested Strength 58%."
Ye Yun used all three Strength Manifestation Cards he held at once. In the real world, the nutrient solution in the full bathing pool suddenly dropped by twenty centimeters. The overflow valve instantly sensed this, and the nutrient solution, like an opened faucet, rapidly flowed into the bathing pool.
This scene was witnessed by Ding Yi, who had come to bid Ye Yun farewell.