Chapter 39

Although it's still called the Lesser Mana Potion, its properties have undergone a significant change. The doubled recovery amount is enough to make anyone envious.

Of course, the most critical point in these properties is not the increased recovery amount, but the appearance of Cheng Yang's name. This is a privilege enjoyed by those with unique talent in a secondary profession. A person who cultivates a secondary profession to its peak has the right to be remembered for generations.

If Cheng Yang takes the Lesser Mana Potion he has refined himself, its effect already surpasses that of the Medium Mana Potion bought from the alchemy room by others. The difference is significant.

This time, he successfully refined thirteen bottles, which is slightly higher than the average success rate. Cheng Yang is already very satisfied with this. Most importantly, through the refinement, he has completely exhausted his energy points, which have now been converted into the progression of the alchemist level, reaching 13%.

There's no way around it; for life skills, only successful attempts count towards proficiency. That is to say, although Cheng Yang refined twenty times, only thirteen of them increased his proficiency.

Cheng Yang put the thirteen successful bottles of potion into his backpack and continued to sweep through the jungle.

After all the mana potions were used up, Cheng Yang returned to Luofeng Village. This time, his harvest was even greater, increasing his spirit energy value to 2200 points. However, he also knew that after this night of madness, the nearby monster groups had been almost completely cleared. To find such a dense group of monsters again, he would have to venture further.

However, the further away, the longer the round trip, and the efficiency would naturally decrease significantly.

After returning to Luofeng Village, Cheng Yang immediately began today's cultivation. Now he has his own independent room, and it's on the second floor.

After a night of cultivation, Cheng Yang's cultivation progress reached 7.8%. As for the other combat profession initiators who have activated four times the cultivation speed, their cultivation progress is all close to 20%.

In the morning, Cheng Yang saw Li Wanshan still continuing his cultivation. He then personally went to check the profession statues and found that the Priest statue had successfully upgraded to level 2, with the number of initiates breaking through to 10.

This way, a team can add another priest, which is a great benefit for Luofeng Village. The priests in Luofeng Village are not ordinary priests because they have mastered the Angelic Encouragement skill.

From the crowd, Cheng Yang immediately identified five people with the priest talent and initiated their profession change. This took Cheng Yang nearly half an hour. It must be said that among those with the priest profession talent, women make up the majority. Now, out of the ten priests in Luofeng Village, seven are women.

Next, Cheng Yang upgraded one attribute under each of the five profession statues. For the four main profession statues, he chose to enhance attack power. After this upgrade is completed, these four statues will have three upgraded attributes: mana, life, and attack. It is estimated that by tomorrow afternoon, the level of these five profession statues will reach level 3.

However, by then, 20,000 spirit energy points and life buildings will be the main factors constraining the territory's upgrade. After all, Luofeng Village currently has only 2,500 spirit energy points, and most importantly, the circle of monsters around the village has been completely cleared. In the future, the spirit energy points that Luofeng Village can obtain each day will mainly come from the monsters that respawn, dungeons, and taxes.

The dungeon can provide about 1,500 spirit energy points per day. Taxes, although they will be the main source of spirit energy points for the territory in the future, are currently not reliable. The spirit energy points that the combat initiators in the territory have can barely meet their own cultivation needs, let alone trading with others.

For example, yesterday, many people in the territory chose to become carpenters and alchemists, but none of them had the spirit energy points to buy refinement formulas or production blueprints, or even the tools needed to perform life skills.

Their desire to buy mana potions is not as strong as Cheng Yang's. With their attack power, using potions to recover mana is not cost-effective. Even if it speeds up their attack efficiency, the spirit energy points they actually earn are not enough to buy the mana potions.

Therefore, among these people, apart from buying one or two small bottles of potion for self-defense, there are no other transactions.

As for obtaining spirit energy points by killing the monsters near the territory, the specific amount is not yet clear to Cheng Yang. However, based on his estimation, this amount will not exceed 1,000 points.

After assigning the newly initiated priests to each team, Cheng Yang dove into the difficult-level Blood Church dungeon. It only took him half an hour to clear the dungeon.

Now that Cheng Yang has the mana potion, the efficiency of obtaining spirit energy points in the dungeon is even lower than outside. Of course, the benefit of the dungeon is not the spirit energy points but the equipment. Although this was not the first clear, Cheng Yang still obtained two pieces of Black Iron-level equipment: a wrist guard and a pair of shoes.

For this type of equipment that does not increase attack power or mana, Cheng Yang does not plan to use it, as it does not substantially improve his current combat power.

Cheng Yang now has 2,100 spirit energy points left. This time, he does not plan to transfer these points to others for cultivation but instead bought twenty sets of logging tools, each costing 100 spirit energy points, almost depleting his account.

He then gathered twenty people who chose the carpenter secondary profession and handed them the logging tools.

Of course, these logging tools are not given for free. They need to cut down 50 cubic meters of wood for the territory for free.

According to the rules of the world, the wood cut by carpenters belongs to them. If the territory needs wood for construction, it must be purchased from them, and the payment is in spirit energy points. However, this price is not entirely determined by the two parties but is derived from the rules, giving a price range within which the two parties can decide whether to trade.

Under normal circumstances, the purchase price of wood fluctuates between 2 and 5 spirit energy points. Cheng Yang asked them to cut down 50 cubic meters of wood, which is a fair deal for both sides. The so-called "free" means that after cutting the wood, the territory will buy it at 2 spirit energy points per cubic meter, and the earned spirit energy points will be returned to Cheng Yang.

At this moment, Li Wanshan walked into Luofeng Village. Seeing Cheng Yang, he immediately said, "Lord, can we return to Xiangcheng City today?"

Cheng Yang looked at Li Wanshan and understood his feelings. He said, "First, go and clear today's dungeon and prepare more spirit energy points to buy potions. Then we will make a plan."

Li Wanshan had a hesitant expression and said after a while, "Lord, there are only seven or eight hundred monsters on that path, right? We have already killed two or three hundred monsters before. This time, it's only twice as many, and we already have mana potions. Why are we not confident?"

Cheng Yang said, "Seven or eight hundred was yesterday's number. Today, it should have exceeded a thousand. Once it exceeds a thousand, there will definitely be a late-stage first-tier monster. If we are not fully prepared, we will suffer heavy losses."

Li Wanshan finally understood. He also knew about the power of late-stage first-tier monsters. All beginner-level apprentice mages can't last more than two rounds against them. If they encounter a monster with an attack power bonus, they will be instantly killed.

Seeing Li Wanshan's stiff expression, Cheng Yang knew he was worried about his family. He comforted him, "Don't worry. It's not impossible to pass through that path, but we need to make more preparations."

"Lord, I will follow your arrangements," Li Wanshan immediately said.

Li Wanshan then led his team into the Blood Church dungeon.

Cheng Yang did not leave Luofeng Village but arranged for the carpenters to go logging in the wild. One kilometer outside the village wall is a lush forest. After several days of rapid growth, some of the originally larger trees now have a diameter of over two feet, making them ready to be cut down.

After receiving the tools, the twenty people did not immediately set out. Cheng Yang also arranged forty combat initiators for them. Some were responsible for transporting the wood, while others were responsible for guarding. After all, monsters would respawn around the trees, and without protection, the loggers could not focus on their work.

Cheng Yang entrusted the transportation and guarding tasks to Niu Bing. Although this might delay their monster-killing and earning of spirit energy points, it was inevitable. Someone had to make a contribution, right? In the future, this situation would improve because when the territory upgrades to a level 3 village, everyone will have an additional contribution value attribute. This contribution value is a reflection of one's contribution to the territory. Some corresponding rights in the territory can only be enjoyed by reaching the corresponding contribution value.

Niu Bing entered the dungeon earlier and was soon teleported out. After receiving Cheng Yang's instructions, he led his team without a word and set off.

About half an hour later, Yu Kai and others successively came out of the dungeon. Generally, the morning is their fixed time to clear the daily dungeon. After all, the dungeon can provide equipment, which is very beneficial for improving personal combat power.

Yu Kai came out of the dungeon with a gloomy face and said, "Yangzi, why didn't you mention that archers need arrows? After you went into the dungeon, I went to the carpenter's shop and saw a bow that increases attack power by one point and costs only 40 spirit energy points, so I bought one. But it turns out the bow needs arrows, and I had to spend another 1 spirit energy point to buy two bags of arrows."

Cheng Yang thought for a moment and said with a smile, "You're just too stupid. Have you ever seen a bow that doesn't need arrows?"

Yu Kai was momentarily speechless and then argued, "Why not? The bow I used before didn't need arrows."

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