Chapter 3

One of the distinctive features of the Doupo Continent is that all players have access to eight life professions, allowing them to choose which ones to advance. Advancing life professions also requires a significant amount of gold coins, which must be purchased with real money. Therefore, most people only advance one or two life professions; more than that would be too expensive.

Moreover, different professions have different demands for red and blue potions. Generally, it is enough for a player to focus on two life professions. Before, Zhan Fei also only practiced farming and alchemy.

However, if these eight life skills could really produce items in reality, Zhan Fei would have a way to make money! What is the purpose of going to school? Some people do it for the rise of the country, but for Zhan Fei, it is simply to make money.

With money, Zhan Fei could help his mother buy the leased clothing store. With money, Zhan Fei could dress himself up as a rich and handsome guy and take the girls from school to get injections. With money, Zhan Fei, who majored in the obscure field of mathematics, would have no difficulty finding a job and could directly secure a stable government position.

So, money isn't everything, but out of ten thousand things, nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine can be solved with money. This is the charm of money. Then, Zhan Fei began to browse through the eight life skills: farming, hunting, mining, skinning, alchemy, cooking, blacksmithing, and tailoring.

The first four are raw material skills, and the last four are synthesis skills. Since Zhan Fei had nothing in his hands, he naturally chose the raw material skills. However, raw material skills also require production tools, such as farming, hunting, mining, and skinning.

In the dormitory, Zhan Fei felt that the farming skill was more reliable. He then directly clicked on the store with his mind, and a large number of dazzling items appeared before his eyes, including the production tools for raw material life skills.

Soon, Zhan Fei found the plants that could be grown with Level 1 Farming. Level 1 Farming can grow three types of plants: Blood Thistle, Calming Flower, and Silverleaf. Each plant has different effects.

Blood Thistle can be refined into Blood Thistle Pills, which increase the attack cap. Calming Flower and Silverleaf, when used together, can be refined into a basic healing potion. These two are also very common alchemy materials. Zhan Fei naturally wouldn't plant Blood Thistle. The pills that increase the attack cap have no market and are considered controlled items.

In a fight between two adults, both sides usually have an attack and defense of around ten. Without weapons to increase the attack, nothing serious would happen. However, Blood Thistle Pills can increase the attack cap by ten points. With an adult's fifty health points, using Blood Thistle Pills, it would only take five attacks to kill the other person.

In the game, Blood Thistle Pills are quite popular at low levels, but in reality, Zhan Fei wouldn't dare to sell them.

On the other hand, the basic healing potion is much better. It can restore thirty to fifty health points and is quite useful. The seeds of Silverleaf and Calming Flower together cost ten gold coins. Zhan Fei had twenty gold coin tickets in his bag, so he could only buy two sets.

Zhan Fei wasn't sure if his cash could be directly exchanged for gold coins, so he had to be careful with the gold coin tickets. He directly bought one set of Calming Flower and Silverleaf seeds and saw that his bag now contained two sets of seeds.

A hint of excitement flashed in his eyes. Whether he could plant them or not would be seen later. For now, he wanted to see if the game items in his mind could really be brought into the real world. Thinking this, Zhan Fei opened his eyes and silently said, "Take out the Silverleaf seeds."

As soon as he spoke, Zhan Fei felt something heavy in his hand. Then, a white cloth bag appeared in his hand, containing the Silverleaf seeds he had just bought.

Zhan Fei cautiously glanced at his two roommates. Guo Xin was engrossed in the game, and the fat guy was chatting with his online girlfriend, Nini, in a sickly sweet tone, completely oblivious to Zhan Fei's strange situation.

Zhan Fei breathed a sigh of relief, then put the Silverleaf seeds back into the space. He closed his eyes again and waited for three seconds. The panel appeared before his eyes again. He directly clicked on the life profession category and then on the farming option.

Sure enough, four empty slots appeared. Zhan Fei used his mind to drag the two types of seeds into the slots and then clicked the "Plant" button. The slot where the bag of seeds was located turned into a small plot of land. Zhan Fei suddenly felt a bit tired, as if he had just run over ten kilometers.

It seemed that all eight life skills in the game consumed vitality. Zhan Fei's current level was low, and his vitality was also low. He could feel that with the lowest-level farming skill, he could only use it three times a day before his vitality was depleted. However, vitality would be fully restored the next day, so Zhan Fei wasn't too worried.

After planting, a countdown timer appeared below the slot. Low-level seeds mature quickly. When Zhan Fei was Level 89, his life skills were at Level 50, and it only took ten seconds for these seeds to mature.

However, Zhan Fei's current life skill level was only Level 1, so it would take half an hour for the seeds to mature. His life skill proficiency also increased by one. Advancing life skills is very troublesome and time-consuming. Each level requires ten times the proficiency of the previous level.

Although higher-level plants yield more proficiency points than lower-level plants, the increase is not as significant. Therefore, advancing life skills in the early levels is manageable, but it becomes more difficult than advancing combat skills in the later levels. Thus, everyone directly uses experience and gold coins to advance their life skills.

Then came the long wait. Although it was only half an hour, Zhan Fei felt like it was a year due to his eagerness. Finally, the half-hour countdown was over, and Zhan Fei directly clicked on "Harvest."

Then, Zhan Fei's bag contained fifty Silverleaf and Calming Flower. He then directly opened the alchemy skill, and a flask-shaped container appeared. Zhan Fei dragged the fifty Silverleaf and Calming Flower into the container and clicked the "Alchemy" button.

Synthesis skills are different from production skills. Production skills require a lot of time, and the results are fixed. However, synthesis skills only take one second per item, so fifty items would take fifty seconds. However, the results are not always certain.

For example, while most of the time, Silverleaf and Calming Flower would successfully synthesize a basic healing potion, sometimes they might produce a variant, which could be good or bad. Of course, Zhan Fei hoped for a variant.

Because the basic healing potion is the lowest-level potion in the Doupo Continent, it only restores twenty health points. Any variant would be more valuable. However, Zhan Fei was destined to be disappointed.

Fifty seconds quickly passed, and Zhan Fei's bag contained fifty basic healing potions, none of which were variants. Zhan Fei then focused his mind on the newly synthesized basic healing potion, and its properties automatically appeared before him: Basic effect: Increase thirty to fifty health points. Additional effect: Slightly heal external injuries and diseases.