While Lan Xiaohui and Wu Yulan explore their new ho, taking inventory of what they will have, and noting down any repairs and maintenance that needs to be perford, I study the point exchange.
For the past year, I have mostly allowed my subprocesses to interact with this system and to notify of possible investnts that exceed a certain appeal score items and knowledge relevant to my imdiate situation, like the [Imprint] suggestion I received so ti ago.
I narrow down my so-called wishlist to several entries and capabilities that I will require in the next two years in order to give Lan Xiaohui a chance at catching up to Yu Shun in cultivation depth.
To begin with, the idea that a cultivator in the peak of Foundation Establishnt can reach the peak of Core Formation in two years is insanity. For an average person, entering the Qi Refining realm at the age of fourteen, and then the Foundation Establishnt by the age of twenty is considered to be an average talent. The Core Formation then, according to my stolen mories, can be entered by the age of forty and still be considered average.
This average is derived from the real experience of cultivators who have to navigate their life while also cultivating Qi. If one of these average cultivators were to sit down and cultivate and only cultivate they could cut the ti down to half or thirty percent. If they used dicine as well, then they could possibly cut it down by half again.
When one considers trendous or earth-shattering talent, naturally, the ti it takes becos much lower. Their ability to absorb dicine and to cultivate Qi is much higher, not to ntion that part of their talent includes wealth and cultivation manuals from family or sect inheritance.
However, Qi in an area depletes and diminishes, and dicine requires ti to be absorbed before it will be effective again.
All of these things take ti.
In a vacuum, I am not certain how long it would take for soone to cultivate from the Foundation Establishnt to the Nascent Soul realm, but I imagine Lan Xiaohui could do it with my help within five years. At full output of my [World Eater] breathing thod and with my optimization of Lan Xiaohuis ridians, her progress would be astonishingly quick.
In this place, specifically, with its rich Qi, that number could be reduced to within four years. The suggestion that Lan Xiaohui upgrades the Qi Gathering Array makes more sense in this regard. Ultimately, despite the Qi here being magnitudes richer than average, Lan Xiaohuis speed would increase only by so much; the bottleneck is the dinsions of her internal systems that can process this vast amount of Qi at once and there is little I can do about it with my current thods.
The missing piece in this equation, then, is dicine.
I dont need a deep Dao of Alchemy to know that dicine can improve all aspects of cultivation, temporarily and permanently. From lifespan extensions to modifying the internal configuration of a cultivator to be able to absorb more Qi and with higher efficiency.
Body cultivation also achieves a similar effect, but it is far more difficult to obtain dicine only costs money; body cultivation is painful and difficult.
Sending Lan Xiaohui and Wu Yulan here may have been a calculated decision by the elders; supposedly this place has the raw materials necessary to produce dicine or obtain contributions with which to buy it. This was likely only in consideration for Wu Yulan and her future, and had nothing to do with Lan Xiaohuis goal of eting Yu Shun in battle and killing him though it certainly seed to be a convenient coincidence for them.
With this in mind, I decide to obtain an alchemy and refining manual, as well as the next stage of my body cultivation. Since Lan Xiaohui and I share the sa Physique, we will both be able to benefit from it.
My subprocesses crawl through the list to find a suitable manual for my capabilities and refining fla, and they return with an interesting choice.
I add it to the shopping list.
[ Cultivation Law - Emperor ] Black Jade Emperor Body (250,000 BP)
[ Manual - Supre ] Extre Refining thod (100,000 SP)
It is of the Supre grade and is heavily discounted, just like my body cultivation thod. These discounts likely appear because of the synergy with abilities I already possess. Even though I call it the Point Exchange, it is not as if these things appear out of nowhere they are direct modifications of my internal system.
Next on the list is my internal storage.
I have felt envious at tis of other storage devices with greater capacity than mine but not capability though I have not felt a pressing need to upgrade my capacity because of this.
However, my Inner World upgrades require a vast amount of material and likely storage for this material. Fifty tons of spirit stone, thirty-five tons of spirit tal, and fifty thousand spirit stones.
Iron has a density of around seven tons per cubic ter, and listone has an average density of around two tons per cubic ter. My tiny capacity of ten cubic ters will not do.
This is pure stone and pure iron. When obtained from a vein, the density of the material I want per cubic ter will be quite different.
I estimate I will need around five hundred cubic ters of internal storage to be able to process these materials and to still possess so free space, though I would really prefer twice that amount of capacity, just in case.
For now, I settle on five hundred cubic ters with upgrades to the [Refining] and [Processing] arrays.
[ Array - Heaven ] Dinsional Storage (50,000 BP)
At the Heaven grade, my dinsional storage has a base capacity of 500 cubic ters, which could be upgraded separately, but for now, it will do. The Supre grade version has a capacity of 2000 cubic ters, but it costs considerably more.
[ Array - Upgrade ] Refining III (10,000 BP)
[ Array - Upgrade ] Processing III ( 10,000 BP)
I am not quite certain how much of an improvent the upgrades will be, but I am looking forward to finding out. For once, I share the sa excitent that my sentient core exhibits.
There is only one thing left to obtain. There were many situations in which I wished I had a better ability to analyze things. Even at its basic level, [Critical Analysis] has proved to be quite helpful in combat as well.
[ Talent - Supre ] Critical Analysis II (75,000 BP)
I look over my shopping list with satisfaction. This will cost quite a bit of blood points and the entirety of my soul point reserve. When I consider it this way, it is highly unlikely that I will have this amount of blood points again for a very long ti, considering that a majority of it ca from devouring the snake and the tree.
These nearly half million blood points would likely be the accumulation of half a decade of slaughter, now all about to disappear in a fraction of a second.
I am already familiar with the process of spending a large amount of points at once and I prepare myself for the execution of the trade.
Through [Nooparallelism], I dedicate a small sliver of my consciousness to record and log any changes to my internal system and then execute the trade.
As expected, the vast changes to my internal system cause my consciousness to diminish severely to the point of losing it entirely but my preparations pay off.
[ Analysis: Gained Trendous Insight into the Dao of Arrays after recording internal changes. ]
[ Analysis: Gained Deep Insight into the Dao of ta after recording internal changes. ]
[ Analysis: Soul Perception rank increased from Grade C to Grade B. ]
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