572: Chapter 570 Promotion Plan

"The Three-Origin Qi Guidance Technique..."

Chu Xuan murmured softly, "This is equivalent to an additional path of promotion that can lead directly to Rank 18."

For a Transcendent, to level up, one must step onto a God-Ascension Sequence; only when the sequence Rank increases can one's personal Rank be promoted.

Upon reaching Rank 11 after ascending, one needs to master the True Authority of the corresponding sequence. Thereafter, to continue leveling up, the corresponding skill Ranks must also be improved simultaneously.

"The Purifier path I have taken corresponds to the [Fire of Nirvana] skill. Currently, the Rank 7 Fire of Nirvana is sufficient to support my personal Rank reaching 14. As for stepping into Rank 15..."

Chu Xuan checked the requirements for the next Rank promotion.

[Current Rank LV.14. Promotion to the next Rank, LV.15, grants 25 real attribute points. Promotion requirements: Fire of Nirvana LV.7 (Met), 30,000 spirituality value (Met), 20 rule fragments (Met).]

—System, what are the requirements to raise my personal Rank to 16?

[Promotion to Rank 16 grants 30 real attribute points. Fire of Nirvana LV.8 (Not Met), 60,000 spirituality value (Not Met), 30 rule fragments (Not Met).]

"The resources required to promote to Rank 16 far exceed those for Rank 15, especially for the Fire of Nirvana. To upgrade it to Level 8, it requires as many as 3,000 spirituality crystals..."

Chu Xuan squinted slightly. Although these resources were abundant, he could obtain them by completing a few more missions; it would just take some effort.

However, what made Chu Xuan wary was whether consuming resources to upgrade the Fire of Nirvana would fuel the strange consciousness within his body.

"Since the hidden dangers of the Purifier path are clear, it is better to plan ahead and switch to a different path of promotion. This [Three-Origin Qi Guidance Technique] is enough to boost me to Rank 18. Even if cultivating it requires extra resources, it is worth it. As for the road ahead..."

Chu Xuan carefully reviewed the System's annotations on this Cultivation Technique again. Confirming that after Rank 18, he would not be restricted and could seek other methods of promotion, he felt at ease.

"Once the hidden dangers of the Purifier path are resolved, I can continue to Cultivate deeply along this path, or travel to other worlds to find a promotion path beyond Rank 18..."

Chu Xuan pondered for a while, planning ahead for his future promotion path and analyzing the pros and cons, before finally making a decision.

[You have consumed 1,000 Contribution Points and acquired the "Three-Origin Qi Guidance Technique". (This Cultivation Technique is a mission exchange reward; you are not restricted by any darkness rules and can Cultivate it directly yourself, or consume resources such as spirituality value and soul crystals to improve your progress in the technique.)]

Chu Xuan's eyes gleamed as segments of the technique's incantations, cultivation postures, and various cultivation key points all surfaced in his mind, giving him a strange sensation.

With this, the 5,000 Contribution Points from the mission rewards had been fully exchanged.

Chu Xuan looked with some regret at the other rewards on the System page, which had started to fade and eventually disappeared completely—the extraordinary skill promotion scroll, super life recovery potion, increased health points cap, increased spirituality value cap...

Chu Xuan wanted every single one of these rewards.

However, these items could be obtained through other channels, whereas this martial arts Cultivation Technique that could lead directly to Rank 18 was rare and hard to come by. Most importantly, he didn't have to worry about any hidden dangers of darkness rules within it.

At this moment, a message notification appeared on the System page.

[System Notification: A Guardian is willing to sell you soul crystals. Please view the details...]

Chu Xuan raised an eyebrow.

When the System trading mall went online, he had posted purchase requests for "soul crystal" and "exclusive skill synthesis crystal," both valued at 100 spirituality value. Now, there was finally feedback.

—View details.

With a thought from Chu Xuan, a new notification popped up.

[Ling Ling Xi: Big Boss, aren't you too unscrupulous? In the System rewards, 1 Contribution Point can be exchanged for 50 spirituality value, but exchanging for a soul crystal requires a full 5 Contribution Points. Converted, that means it takes 250 spirituality value to buy 1 soul crystal, yet you are only willing to pay 100 spirituality value. How could anyone be willing to sell to you? (Not friends; if you do not reply, the other party can only send one message.)]

Chu Xuan remembered this "Ling Ling Xi." He had previously sold a "vajra bracelet" to her, letting her take advantage of the price, and she had even asked to add him as a friend, but Chu Xuan had ignored her.

After thinking about it, Chu Xuan replied with a message.

[Tian Di Xuan Huang: What price are you offering?]

[Ling Ling Xi: Unit price 800 spirituality value. Give me some time, and I can sell you 1,000 of them!]

[Tian Di Xuan Huang: Heh, who is the unscrupulous merchant?]

[Ling Ling Xi: Big Boss, don't complain that it's expensive. This thing is extremely scarce. Under normal circumstances, you can only exchange for it using Contribution Points after completing missions, and there is also an exchange limit.]

Chu Xuan couldn't be bothered to reply and closed the chat window directly.

Based on the situation with the soul crystals and spirituality value that Xuan Xuan had gifted him earlier, Chu Xuan guessed that the actual value of a soul crystal shouldn't be that high.

It was highly likely that because soul crystals were relatively scarce in their world, they appeared particularly valuable in the System's exchange rewards, and there was also an exchange limit.

After a moment's thought, Chu Xuan adjusted the purchase price and added a new purchase request.

[Purchase "soul crystal": Unit price 280 spirituality value (Negotiable)]

[Purchase "exclusive skill synthesis crystal": Unit price 10,000 spirituality value (Negotiable)]

[Purchase "extraordinary skill promotion scroll": Unit price 3,000 (Negotiable)]

"Based on the ratio of Contribution Points to spirituality value required for mission reward exchanges, I've adjusted them slightly upwards. This way, the probability of successful transactions should increase a bit."

At this moment, the phone rang; it was a call from Qin Shaowu. After connecting, it wasn't Qin Shaowu's voice, but a triumphant, strange laugh:

"Gaga! Boss Chu, why haven't you returned yet? Could it be that you've run into trouble? Do you need this Emperor to go and support you!"

Chu Xuan chuckled: "No need, I'm finished here and will be back immediately."

"Chicken Brother, give me the phone, I have something very important..." Immediately after, Qin Shaowu's voice rang out: "Brother Xuan, if conditions permit, you had better hurry back, preferably before 1 AM. Otherwise, you might miss out on obtaining quite a few soul crystals!"

Chu Xuan's eyes flashed, and he immediately recalled what Zhao Hongchan had just said—there was a way to obtain soul crystals in Haicheng.

Although he had just obtained 800 soul crystals, these resources were far from enough compared to the various skills he needed to upgrade and the "Three-Origin Qi Guidance Technique" he had just acquired.

Having one more way to obtain soul crystals was naturally for the best!

Checking the time, it was 23:48; there was plenty of time before midnight.

"I'm coming back now!"

Hanging up the phone, Chu Xuan stood on the icy plateau and gazed at the incredibly deep dark mist of The Gloom dozens of kilometers away.

Chu Xuan had an inexplicable feeling in his heart.

It seemed like something was summoning him, yet there was also a faint sense of palpitations.

Thinking of Yang Yu's previous warning, Chu Xuan did not rashly enter. He took out the white emperor no. 1 fighter jet, skipped the self-check procedure, and forced it to start immediately.

With a mechanic like Tan Ziming around, Chu Xuan had no scruples and still set it to the maximum power of 16 times the speed of sound.

As the variable-cycle engine erupted with a low hum, a silver streak streaked across the sky.