Hong Meng points, are these the currency of the Myriad Store?
Ye Yun currently only has a few dozen Hong Meng points! This is the reward for all residents of Fengle City worshipping his statue of a saint these past few days.
The calculation method for obtaining Hong Meng points is extremely mysterious; it's calculated based on each player's loyalty. Ye Yun roughly estimated that it takes the worship of about one hundred thousand players to gain one point of Hong Meng points on average!
And how many permanent residents are there in Fengle City? 1.35 million! Even if everyone worshipped him, Ye Yun's daily gain would only be 13 points.
Ye Yun calmed his racing heart and looked up at the first display cabinet radiating a red halo.
Flowing Fire Shuttle (Spirit Grade):
Offensive Equipment: None
Defense (Dual): 10-
Speed: 220 km/s
Energy Consumption per Hour: Equivalent to 10 spirit stones
Price: 1500 Hong Meng points
The first item he saw was a Spirit Grade auxiliary equipment! Spirit Grade is what was formerly known as a spirit artifact. In his past life, Ye Yun had never heard of any player possessing a spirit artifact!
He wondered how many people on Blue Star would be able to reach this level in this life because of him.
The second display cabinet emitted a golden light, similar to the 'Primordial Origin Cauldron' that Xiao Tian had gifted him. It belonged to the legendary tier, but its price was significantly different from the 'Primordial Origin Cauldron.'
Of the remaining nine display cabinets, none were priced below 500 Hong Meng points. Ye Yun couldn't afford any of them!
"Um, Xiao Tian? How many Hong Meng points does it cost for this Myriad Store to move to another area?" Ye Yun found it difficult to address Xiao Tian directly.
"Moving to a higher plane costs 500 points, and moving to a lower plane costs 1000 points," Xiao Tian replied happily when Ye Yun spoke to her.
They still needed three years to become like Ye Yun and the other players. During these three years, they needed to survive as best as they could. Only by surviving could they have a chance to grow stronger and larger.
And for these three years, she had to obey the arrangements and deployments of the Heavenly Dao. The position of shopkeeper of this store was a task assigned to her by the Heavenly Dao.
"Alright, not enough points. Looks like I'll have to wait a few more days!" Ye Yun sighed helplessly and turned to leave. If not for this woman gifting him something, he would have come for nothing this time.
"Oh, right, do you know how many current players have accessed this Myriad Store?" Ye Yun suddenly stopped at the corner, turned back to look at Xiao Tian, and asked.
"I don't know the specifics, but it's no less than ten people."
"Okay, thank you, I understand." Ye Yun said and turned to leave.
No less than ten people, meaning it could be twenty or more, which put Ye Yun under some pressure.
However...
Do those guys know how Hong Meng points are obtained? If not, they should have been much stronger than me by now, right? Or are they not using Hong Meng points? Is it something else?
Worshipping the statue of a saint in the real world yields Hong Meng True Qi, while being worshipped by players in the game grants Hong Meng points. Isn't this similar to the way religions operate?
Ye Yun quickly returned to his courtyard, then directly entered his residence, and excitedly took out the Primordial Origin Cauldron. Since he received it, Ye Yun had been tempted to examine it several times, but he suppressed his urge for fear of losing his image as a master in front of Xiao Tian.
"An item worth 9999 Hong Meng points, its attributes must be explosive."
Primordial Origin Cauldron (Growable · Legendary)
Level Up Value: 0/10000
Function: Can gather the energy of heaven and earth to condense into pills. Currently, it can condense pills below the Spirit Pill level. The efficacy of the pills depends on the energy provided by the player.
Growable equipment!!
Ye Yun was astonished!
He just didn't know how this thing was supposed to grow.
The Primordial Origin Cauldron had a strange appearance. It was completely different from the alchemy cauldrons Ye Yun was familiar with. Its entire body resembled a teapot, similar to his innate artifact, the Heavenly Pot. The difference was that one looked like a wine pot and this one looked like a teapot. On the outer wall of the cauldron were carved clusters of fire clouds, making it look as if flames were engulfing the cauldron and refining pills.
"How do I use this thing?" Ye Yun looked at the cauldron, feeling a sense of helplessness. The teapot-like cauldron had no lid!
Ye Yun took out a spirit stone and was thinking about how to insert it when a system prompt sounded.
"System Prompt: Does the player wish to convert the spirit stone into corresponding energy for pill refinement?"
"Confirm!"
As soon as Ye Yun confirmed, the spirit stone in his hand instantly turned into dust, and a ball of pure energy appeared before him. A suction force emanated from the spout of the Primordial Origin Cauldron, instantly drawing in and consuming all the energy.
"Please confirm if the player wishes to add more energy for pill refinement."
"No!" This was just a small test. He needed to see what kind of pills could be refined using only spirit stones first.
The Primordial Origin Cauldron instantly detached from Ye Yun's hand, suspended in front of him. The fire clouds on its body turned crimson at a certain moment, and with a bang, real flames erupted.
"Remaining time: 4 minutes 59 seconds. Estimated success rate: 50%."
A number appeared on the cauldron.
"Tsk tsk... automated pill refinement mode, not bad! If only the time could be sped up a bit." Disregarding the pill refinement success rate, Ye Yun was quite satisfied with this lazy mode and filled with anticipation.
As soon as five minutes passed, the system prompt immediately sounded.
"System Prompt: Congratulations to the player for successful pill refinement. Success rate: 50%. Good quality rate: 30%. Congratulations to the player for obtaining 2 Inferior Spiritual Qi Pills, 5 Normal Spiritual Qi Pills, 2 Good Spiritual Qi Pills, 1 Excellent Spiritual Qi Pill, and +1 growth value for the Primordial Origin Cauldron."
"Special Reminder: For every Excellent or higher quality pill refined by the player, the Primordial Origin Cauldron's growth value increases by +1."
A single spirit stone could be refined into 20 Spiritual Qi Pills?
The fire source on the body of the Primordial Origin Cauldron began to shrink, extinguished, and floated back before Ye Yun. Then, ten pills were poured out from the spout. One of them was covered with a faint green halo.
Spiritual Qi Pill (Excellent) - Instantly restores 100,000,000,000 HP and 100,000,000 True Qi, permanently increases player attribute points by 100.
Spiritual Qi Pill (Good) - Instantly restores 100,000,000,000 HP and 100,000,000 True Qi.
...Except for the Excellent Spiritual Qi Pill which provided attribute points, the others did not. The Normal Spiritual Qi Pill only restored 100 million True Qi, and the Inferior one only restored 100,000 True Qi. The gap was undeniably frightening.
"My spirit stones, worth ten billion gold coins, were used to refine this garbage?"
Ye Yun almost smashed the Primordial Origin Cauldron upon seeing this, but then he thought better of it, took out the Heavenly Pot and Earth Cup, filled them with three cups of fine wine, and poured them into the Primordial Origin Cauldron...