Rapidnovel #280 - Incense conversion points
#280 - Incense conversion points
“My darling!” The Taoist priest hurriedly stepped forward to pick up the precious sword, his voice full of panic.
“Taoist priest, what's wrong with your treasure?” The military general quickly asked with concern.
“That monster has a powerful force of filth, which can even invade divine power. Although my precious sword killed the monster, it was also contaminated by the monster's turbid energy. Without half a month of sacrifice and nurturing, I'm afraid it can't be used again.” The Taoist priest carefully put away the precious sword, then looked at where the Blood God Child had fallen: “I want to see what kind of monster has such a filthy power.”
At this time, the martial artist and the Taoist priest came forward together, but there were no traces of blood stains on the ground. It was impossible to see how the Blood God Child had fallen, as if the Blood God Child had disappeared out of thin air.
“What the hell is this?”
The two looked at the empty ground, looked at each other, their eyes full of bewilderment.
Further away, Zhang Chen thoughtfully said: “My Blood God Child inherited the characteristics of blood and filth, and can actually contaminate treasures. It's really interesting. If the power of the Blood God Child becomes stronger in the future, it won't be the precious sword killing the Blood God Child, but the Blood God Child directly contaminating the precious sword.”
“However, the power of incense and faith cannot be underestimated. Not to mention other methods, just that flying sword technique, coupled with the sword light splitting into dozens of paths, has already surpassed 99% of the methods in the world. I just don't know if my Five-Colored Divine Light can collect the flying sword. If the Five-Colored Divine Light can collect the flying sword, then this technique is not worth mentioning to me. If it can't be collected, I should still avoid it in the future.” Zhang Chen muttered to himself.
Seeing that the soldiers in the mountain had been killed by the Blood God Child and scattered like birds, Zhang Chen disappeared into the mountains. When dawn broke the next day, Zhang Chen returned to the Taoist temple with the first wave of incense-offering pilgrims. When Zhang Chen came back, he saw Xiao Douding was meditating cross-legged.
Zhang Chen silently glanced at Xiao Douding, and said to himself: “Xiao Douding is really hardworking. She probably has also sensed the crisis, right? I just don't know if there are any treasures in this world that can help with cultivation.”
Zhang Chen silently started cooking, then Cheng Yu woke up and saw Zhang Chen cooking beside him, with a hint of surprise on his face: “Zhang Chen, you're back?”
Xiao Douding jumped directly off the bed, her eyes looking at the big pot, and sure enough, it was stewed meat again.
“How did you handle the errand matter?” Zhang Chen scooped out the stewed meat and asked Xiao Douding.
“Don't worry, since you entrusted this matter to your senior sister, I will definitely get it done for you today.” Xiao Douding patted her chest and guaranteed.
Zhang Chen nodded secretly when he heard the words. Just as the two were eating happily, a commotion suddenly came from outside the door. Xiao Douding wiped her hands and walked out. After a while, she returned, her expression nervous, and she leaned forward to Zhang Chen's ear and said: “Zhang Chen, have you heard? Something big happened down the mountain. Last night, two thousand guards from the Pingbian Royal Mansion died, all of their blood sucked dry by a red monster. The abbot is summoning all the elders and disciples to go down the mountain to perform a ritual of salvation.”
Zhang Chen's expression was surprised when he heard the words: “Why did another two thousand people die? Didn't three thousand people already die last time? Didn't the Pingbian Royal Mansion take precautions?”
Xiao Douding shook her head when she heard the words: “I don't know! Who knows where the problem occurred in the Pingbian Royal Mansion. Now the abbot is summoning everyone to go down the mountain to perform a ritual of salvation, and we have to go too. Let's go down the mountain quickly.”
Zhang Chen and Xiao Douding packed up the stewed meat, then walked out the door, only to see the atmosphere in the entire Taoist temple was tense. Everyone walked out of the mountain gate in groups, holding various ritual instruments. From afar, they saw thousands of corpses lined up in front of the mountain gate, looking very terrifying.
Xiao Douding looked at the rows of dead people, feeling a little scared in her heart. She shrank beside Zhang Chen, holding Zhang Chen's hand, and followed step by step.
Zhang Chen glanced around, but did not see Zhang Xiaohua's trace, and was secretly surprised, wondering where Zhang Xiaohua had gone.
“It is said that Zhang Xiaohua was frightened out of her wits and has already hidden in the Ancestral Master Hall in the backyard.” Xiao Douding said.
Zhang Chen's eyes were full of surprise when he heard the words. He never expected that Zhang Xiaohua would be so cunning.
The ritual began. Zhang Chen followed the elders and disciples to recite the scriptures. Soon, a ritual was completed. With an order from the elders, thousands of corpses were directly burned to ashes.
Then Zhang Chen and Xiao Douding, two guys who were just making up the numbers, returned to the Taoist temple. Xiao Douding mysteriously left the small building, leaving Zhang Chen to ponder the matter of cultivation.
Two hours later, Xiao Douding walked back with dark circles around her eyes, her face full of joy: “It's done! Tonight, you go clean the sculptures.”
During the day, there are pilgrims in the Taoist temple, so of course, the sculptures cannot be cleaned. Only after the mountain gate is closed at night can the disciples responsible for cleaning the sculptures go to clean the statues.
Zhang Chen looked at Xiao Douding's dark circles and couldn't help but feel a thump in his heart: “How did you get this? Does it hurt?”
“That grandson played dirty tricks. I don't know where he learned a strange fist technique. I was caught off guard and suffered a big loss, but that grandson didn't have it easy either. One of his legs was directly broken by me.” Xiao Douding's voice was full of pride.
Zhang Chen tenderly picked up white wine to wipe Xiao Douding, rubbing Xiao Douding's wound, which made Xiao Douding grit her teeth in pain, which made Zhang Chen's heart ache.
“You don't have to worry, this is just a minor injury. The previous injuries were much more serious than now, but I still survived.” Xiao Douding squeezed out a smile and comforted Zhang Chen instead.
Zhang Chen felt a tightening in his heart when he heard the words, but he didn't say anything more, just silently treated Xiao Douding's wound, determined in his heart that if anyone dared to bully her again in the future, he would have to tear the other person's bones apart.
Nothing happened all day. Zhang Chen waited until the evening, and when the sky darkened, he carried a broom, bucket, and rag, and came all the way to the Incense Hall.
The entire hall was empty and quiet, with only the eternal lamp flickering in the dim space.
Zhang Chen's Devouring Dharma Eye opened, and his eyes looked at the sculptures above the hall, looking at the incense light pillars that soared into the sky, his saliva was about to flow out.
He took the broom and inadvertently swept around the entire hall. After realizing that there was no one, Zhang Chen's eyes looked at the sculptures. His figure leaped up nimbly, and he came to the back of the statue with a rag. Looking at the incense energy lingering on the statue, Zhang Chen carefully identified it for a while. After confirming that there were no traps, he stretched out his palm, and the mouthparts of the Congenital Mosquito slowly drilled out from his palm, probing into the rich incense little by little.
This sculpture was only refined and consecrated by secret methods, and only has the effect of collecting, gathering, and filtering incense. Zhang Chen was not afraid of alarming the owner of the incense.
Unless the owner of the incense descends his thoughts across time and space, this sculpture is just a dead object.
However, this sculpture is not simple; it has mysterious restrictions protecting it. But in Zhang Chen's eyes, these restrictions were full of loopholes. His innate mosquito proboscis easily pierced through these flaws.
Then, as Zhang Chen circulated his divine power, a vast amount of incense energy was absorbed. After being converted by his devouring skill, it actually transformed into the purest form of mysterious energy.
Zhang Chen felt that after this energy was infused into his body, he had a strange feeling: First, as long as he thought about it, this energy could be infused into his body, turning into innate Yuan Qi, helping him subtly change his foundation and allowing his physical body to transform towards an innate origin.
The second was the effect of his golden finger, which could actually convert that energy into experience points.
The third was to convert it into mana, to help him cultivate.
It's just that his Qi refining technique is already complete. If he wants to cultivate further, unless he finds a higher-level formula, there's no point in progressing, and cultivation would only be a waste of time.
"I still have to grind skills and improve my strength. For me, the most important thing is to improve my strength. As long as my strength improves, what won't I be able to get?" Zhang Chen muttered to himself.
However, what made Zhang Chen happy was that incense energy could actually be converted into experience points. This was definitely great news for Zhang Chen.
Just imagine, Huang Tiandao is now spreading its teachings in the Northern Lands, with countless temples established and countless incense powers gathered. That's all his resources, isn't it?
"Convert to points," Zhang Chen secretly issued the command in his heart.
As Zhang Chen took a breath of incense, the golden finger interface increased by one hundred points.
Looking at the increased one hundred points, Zhang Chen felt it was a bit slow, but he knew it wasn't that the devouring skill wasn't powerful, but that his own strength was too low. His devouring speed was related to his strength. The higher his strength, the faster the devouring speed.
Although he only gets one hundred points for each breath now, as long as his cultivation improves in the future, ten thousand points or one hundred thousand points per breath won't be a dream.
Moreover, one hundred points per breath is definitely not a small amount, it just can't stand the fact that he absorbs it quickly. He takes a breath every two breaths, and Zhang Chen is happily absorbing behind the sculpture.
He absorbed until the second half of the night, and the incense energy on the sculpture had dimmed by 10%. Zhang Chen secretly calculated the time and felt that it should be time. If he continued to absorb, he wouldn't have time to clean the hall. When the morning class starts, if someone notices that the hall hasn't been cleaned, they will definitely make trouble for him.
Zhang Chen looked greedily at the rolling incense energy on the sculpture, and secretly sighed at the Great Virtuous Teacher of the Huangtian Dao, wondering what level of strength he possessed to absorb such a massive amount of incense. His strength had already exceeded his imagination.
Zhang Chen looked at the points he had absorbed overnight, a full one million points. Calculating at thirty breaths per minute, Zhang Chen had absorbed for less than six hours, just about one million points. Adding the points he had remaining before, Zhang Chen now had just one million two hundred thousand points.
"One million points overnight, it's like a dream. This is like picking up money. Huang Tiandao is really a good place. I won't need to bother to scavenge for points in the future. As long as I settle down here, sooner or later I will upgrade all my skills and become a twelfth-order existence," Zhang Chen muttered to himself.
Now that he has found a stable source of points, Zhang Chen is no longer stingy and calculating. Instead, he turned his attention to the skill interface, staring at the skills on the skill interface, wondering where to invest the one million two hundred thousand points.
Skill 1, Light of the True God, Tier 4, currently requires two million points. Zhang Chen temporarily chose to give up. He had no intention of saving points. Anyway, after the points stabilize, there will be a steady stream of income. It's better to upgrade all the skills together, so as not to leave any shortcomings.
Zhang Chen turned his attention to Dragon Qi. The Dragon Qi skill is currently Tier 2. To upgrade, it requires two hundred thousand points. Then, without thinking, Zhang Chen directly clicked it. One million two hundred thousand points instantly evaporated. The interface information representing Skill 2, Dragon Qi, was disrupted and reorganized, and the interface was refreshed:
[Skill 2 (Tier 2): Dragon Qi (0/200000)] --\u003e [Skill 2 (Tier 3): Dragon Qi (0/2000000)]
[Note: Changes brought about by Tier 3 Dragon Qi: Beast Control skill, can be activated six times a day, each time for one hour. Can control Tier 3 beasts and monsters (within a radius of 1100 meters).]
"The changes in Skill 2 are huge. First of all, the skill range has increased from 500 meters to 1000 meters. Secondly, it can be activated six times a day, each time for one hour. That is to say, if Zhang Chen continues to activate it, he can activate it for six hours, which is a morning's worth of time, enough to complete a battle." Zhang Chen's heart was pounding. This Skill 2 is a bit interesting and worth continuing to invest in.
The most important thing is that he can control Tier 3 monsters. What if he spends two million to upgrade to Tier 4? Tier 5? Tier 6?
The Bone Great Wall is his back garden.
"Not bad, not bad!" Zhang Chen praised, and looked at the remaining skills. He still had one million points, and he was very generous now, not wanting to keep any, and squandering them all.
He, Zhang Chen, will be a balanced, all-around hexagon warrior in the future.
Skill 3, Blood Control, is out of the question. Two hundred billion points, Zhang Chen doesn't even want to think about it.
Then Zhang Chen saw Skill 4, Water Control. Water Control is only Tier 2, and the most important thing is that it only requires 100,000 points. Water Control is very important to Zhang Chen. He can travel through the River of Forgetfulness, all thanks to the wonders of Water Control.
Without thinking, Zhang Chen directly clicked the points on it. Then, in the next moment, Zhang Chen's Water Control interface was refreshed and changed:
[Skill 4 (Tier 2): Water Control + Weak Water (0/100000)] --\u003e [Skill 4 (Tier 3): Water Control + Weak Water (0/500000)]
[Note: Controls all Tier 3 water flow within 200 meters. Can freeze Tier 3 monsters within two meters in front.]
[Points: 900000]
Zhang Chen's eyes fell on Water Control. After Tier 3, Water Control only had a larger control range and didn't derive any other surprises.
But looking at his remaining 900,000 points, Zhang Chen didn't hesitate to click it.
In an instant, 900,000 points became 400,000, and at this time, Water Control was upgraded again.
[Skill 4 (Tier 3): Water Control + Weak Water (0/500000)] --\u003e [Skill 4 (Tier 4): Water Control + Weak Water (0/5000000)]
[Note: Controls all Tier 4 water flow within 500 meters. Can freeze Tier 4 monsters within five meters in front.]