Chapter 56 Return Settlement
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[World Reward Settlement Complete]
World: Crimson Hidden Era
Difficulty: Hell
Main Quest: Final Stage (Stage 5)
Total Quest Completion: 2100%
Base Rating: A
Side Quests: None
Looking at the staggering 2100% completion rate, Ye Mingqiu couldn't help but sigh inwardly. If the completion rate cap for stages 2, 3, 4, and 5 hadn't been capped at 500%, his total completion rate would have reached 2900%, which might even have pushed his base rating straight to S-rank.
[Additional Bonus Settlement]
[Truth of the World]: Through investigation and research, uncover the truth of the Crimson Hidden Era and successfully survive the pursuit of the Blood Supreme.
[Overcoming Adversity]: Complete all main quests.
[Ripping Through Decay]: Completely slaughter a [Boss-grade] Crimson Hidden One using pure brute force without relying on any special methods.
[Species Extinction]: Kill over 99% of the Crimson Hidden Ones within a fixed territory.
[Pillar Destroyer]: Directly kill seven Blood Pillars and force the eighth Blood Pillar to cripple its own blood energy, completely concluding the encirclement and suppression of all Blood Pillars.
Comprehensive Rating: SSS+
[You have obtained Psionic Points: 3000]
[You have obtained Level EXP: 40%]
[You have obtained Free Attribute Points: 3]
[The Psionic Mall is now open; all items will automatically refresh after the settlement concludes.]
The level EXP gain remained unchanged; 40% appeared to be the maximum cap for level EXP acquisition, rendering any further enhancement impossible.
The amount of Psionic Points acquired had decreased, but Ye Mingqiu wasn't disappointed. After all, this settlement reward surprisingly included a full 3 Free Attribute Points.
A full 3 points!
These were far more valuable than the reduced Psionic Points compared to last time! Absolutely no loss at all!
A smile appeared on Ye Mingqiu’s face. He wasn't in a hurry to allocate his attribute points because the Psionic Mall was now open—he might just be able to purchase items that could boost his base attributes directly from the store.
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Many items yielded greater boosts when the user's base attributes were lower; allocating points in advance and then using the items would diminish the returns. Therefore, checking the Psionic Mall first before allocating points was the strategy to maximize benefits.
Of course, before purchasing any items, he first needed to open his treasure chests. After all, he had taken down quite a few Crimson Hidden Ones in the world of the Crimson Hidden Era. Although their numbers didn't surpass the destruction of Zhaoge, their levels were generally Tier 2 or even Tier 3, meaning the final yield might actually be even higher.
Current Treasure Chests: 76 Iron Chests, 42 Bronze Chests, 3 Silver Chests. Though not numerous in quantity, the quality of this batch of chests was clearly superior.
Ye Mingqiu took a deep breath, pulled out one of the Silver Chests, and opened it with a mixture of anticipation and anxiety.
[Congratulations on obtaining: Camping Tent × 1, Small Umbrella × 8, Mosquito Repellent Spray × 2, Small Riding Crop × 1, Binding Ropes × 2]
The smile on Ye Mingqiu’s face froze, and he immediately pulled out the second Silver Chest and opened it.
[Congratulations on obtaining: Psionic Points 754, Gourmet Seasoning Gift Pack × 1, Braised Beef Tendon Snack Pack × 3, Dark Chocolate Egg-Skin Sandwich Toast Gift Pack × 5, Basque Cheesecake Box, Pine-Scented Chicken Legs × 8]
...You know what? You really, really have to hand it to Silver Chests—they hit differently. The amount of food dropped was vastly greater than that of Bronze Chests, and it actually looked quite delicious... Only, for some reason, his blood pressure spiked a little after opening the chest.
The last one. Open.
[Congratulations on obtaining: Skill Book - Flame Fist]
[Skill Book - Flame Fist]
Skill Tier: ★★★
Skill Effect: Grants the active skill [Flame Fist] upon use, converting psionic energy into flames wrapped around the fists. The flames significantly increase attack potency while providing a degree of protection to the fists.
Description: Deliver a Flame Fist to your enemies!
Ye Mingqiu’s eyes lit up instantly. A 3-star skill book was a fine item indeed. A skill book like Flame Fist should sell quite well on the market; trading it for a basic passive skill book by adding a few Psionic Points shouldn't be much of a problem, as active skills were inherently less valuable than passive ones.
Right now, what he needed most were the basic passive skills: Basic Strength and Basic Agility. Both of these basic skill books were highly contested items since warriors, assassins, and rangers all required these two basic passives. Unfortunately, since those classes made up the vast majority of the player base, most people who acquired them would likely use them immediately, leaving relatively few to flow into the market.
Although the overall haul from the Silver Chests remained somewhat indescribable, at least it produced a 3-star skill, so it wasn't a total blood-loss.
Time to open the rest all at once!
[Batch opening treasure chests...]
[Congratulations on obtaining: Psionic Points 2854]
[Congratulations on obtaining: Ten packs of salt]
[Congratulations on obtaining: Melee Specialty (Skill Book)]
[Congratulations on obtaining: Blood Energy Sniper Cannon (Silver-grade Weapon)]
[Congratulations on obtaining: Pure Source Blood]
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Although there was plenty of miscellaneous living debris and unusable equipment, the chests at least yielded a fair amount of useful things, such as Bronze-grade heavy armor.
Though Ye Mingqiu already possessed heavy armor of the same tier, that piece had been battered to ruins. Rather than spending Psionic Points to repair the old heavy armor, he preferred to simply swap it for a new one—it saved money, and since the stats were roughly the same, there was no real difference.
As for any body parts lacking a replacement, he would simply have to repair them through the Spirit Realm. If a piece broke mid-combat from wear and tear, the impact on actual combat effectiveness would be far too severe.
[Spend 141 Psionic Points to repair the durability of all equipment?]
Yes. It was surprisingly cheap.
[Notice: Equipment durability has been repaired.]
Ye Mingqiu glanced at his current Psionic Point balance: 23,515. Over twenty thousand—this amount was quite respectable, but still far from enough.
Because Psionic Points weren't just for upgrading skills; they were also needed to trade for and purchase basic passive skill books, upgrade weapons, and acquire new items for entering the Spirit Realm early. Items for early entry into the Spirit Realm were particularly crucial—of paramount importance.
Under natural conditions, the Spirit Realm cooling period was one month. However, by using the item, Ye Mingqiu could re-enter the Spirit Realm after a mere 3-day interval and reap massive gains. Although such items had to be used across alternating world cycles, they still possessed extremely high value.
No matter how many Psionic Points it cost, this item had to be bought!
As long as the markup wasn't too outrageous, he had to buy it!
Buy as many as were available!
However... items allowing early entry into the Spirit Realm were likely quite precious, and their prices must have been heavily inflated—perhaps even exceeding the cost of the world trial itself. After all, accelerating one's leveling speed was far more important than world rewards; faster leveling in and of itself was the greatest reward.
Sigh!
Who knew how many Psionic Points it would take to purchase a single early-entry item...
Fortunately, after using [Blood Soul Vengeance] this time, the early-entry item had entered a cooldown state and could not be used again before the natural cycle, sparing him the need to reserve a share of Psionic Points for purchasing an early-entry item.
Unless an item capable of resetting cooldowns popped up... but that thing was even more exorbitant! Better not even think about it!
"Hoo~"
Ye Mingqiu let out a long breath, a brilliant smile blooming on his face as he thought: Better check the mall first, then upgrade my skills and reinforce my weapons!
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