Chapter 190

Chapter 190: Resource List

Su Mu said: “The place you’re going now, the Hall of Myriad Arts, is where the City Lord posts missions and where you exchange for supplies. As long as you have enough Merit Points here, you can trade for most of what you need.”

Li Shuang nodded, and a bit of excitement rose in her heart.

What Su Mu didn’t know was this: in theory, as long as she had the right materials, she could use the Heaven and Earth Furnace to exchange for anything she wanted.

To her, the Hall of Myriad Arts was more useful for widening her view. It could show her how many techniques and strange treasures existed in this world, so she could pick out what suited her.

In all of Myriad Arts City, the area around the Hall of Myriad Arts was the busiest.

When Li Shuang reached the hall, she saw a huge Water Screen at the gate looping through many missions.

Low tier Soul Beast Crystal, 1 piece: reward 1 Merit Point.

Mid tier Soul Beast Crystal, 1 piece: reward 10 Merit Points.

High tier Soul Beast Crystal, 1 piece: reward 100 Merit Points.

Only these three stayed pinned at the top.

Su Mu said: “Soul Beast Crystal missions are long term. As long as you have crystals, you can exchange them. A thousand years ago it was like this, and a thousand years later it’s still the same.”

Li Shuang nodded.

Right now she couldn’t even leave the city, so earning crystals was out of the question.

She had wondered before where the Merit Points on the rankings came from, since in the Three Grand Secret Grounds they were very hard to earn. Now it seemed that for most people, the most stable source was Soul Beast Crystals.

She would have to visit the Soul Prison sooner or later.

Besides the three pinned missions, all kinds of other missions scrolled past below.

Submit one Fifth-Grade Flame Essence: worth 200 Merit Points.

Find the cause of the disappearances at Wraith Lake on the east side of the Soul Prison: reward 10,000 Merit Points.

Wipe out 100 Wood Spirit Puppets northwest of the Soul Prison: reward 3,000 Merit Points.

Submit a brand-new Way of the Sword manual: value set by the sword art’s grade.

Submit a soul cultivation manual: value set by the manual’s grade.

Submit one Seventh Tier Divine Soul Pill: reward 33,000 Merit Points.

The missions were dazzling to look at.

Li Shuang silently noted several of them.

Her identity here was completely hidden, so she could make full use of the Heaven and Earth Furnace.

Beyond the hall’s official exchanges, both sides of the street were full of cultivators bartering goods.

For others, what you could trade for was fixed by what you held in your hands.

For her, as long as she wished it, she could trade for anything.

Myriad Arts City was the perfect stage for the Heaven and Earth Furnace.

For now, she wasn’t in a hurry to run missions.

Merit Points couldn’t be used to trade with other people. They could only be spent inside the Hall of Myriad Arts.

Her first goal was to turn the Merit Points on hand into real strength.

Inside the hall, Li Shuang first picked up a list of items that could be exchanged.

Su Mu reminded her: “You learned a Soul Method by accident and formed a Soul Golden Core. I suggest your top priority is to find a true Soul Method to use as a reference. Also, your use of the soul is still shallow, so you should buy a matching Secret Art to practice.”

After coming to Myriad Arts City, Li Shuang truly understood: in the Nanlan Continent, Soul Methods were rarely heard of, but in the Central Continent, everyone worked hard to train them.

In some ways, training the soul was even more important than training spiritual power.

Other Secret Arts she could try to get even in the Nanlan Continent.

Only Soul Methods were likely found only in the Central Continent.

So her first goal for exchange should be a Soul Method.

True to its name, Myriad Arts City offered a huge list. There were almost a hundred Soul Method manuals and over a thousand Secret Soul Methods.

Li Shuang’s eyes were drawn to the very top Soul Method.

Heaven and Earth Mysterium Art.

It had only a title and no introduction at all.

But it needed exactly 1,000,000,000 Merit Points.

[One billion?]

Even the Ranking Champion on the Masters Ranking probably couldn’t afford such a terrifying Secret Art.

Li Shuang’s thoughts stirred, and she asked the Heaven and Earth Furnace in her heart: “Exchange for the Heaven and Earth Mysterium Art.”

She didn’t think she would really pull it out. She only wanted to see how many Value Points the Furnace would price it at.

This time, the Furnace gave no Value Points.

“The Furnace has not recorded the Heaven and Earth Mysterium Art. Without knowing its exact tier, no value judgment can be made.”

Li Shuang wasn’t disappointed. This simple test taught her that to exchange items through the Heaven and Earth Furnace, she needed “knowledge.”

Largely, the Furnace’s knowledge was her knowledge.

She had to first understand the item she wanted before it could be made real.

With that in mind, Li Shuang looked at one item: the Catalogue of Marvels.

It was a jade slip that recorded the wonders of the world, with content covering almost everything, which was perfect for her.

But it cost 3,000 Merit Points.

That was very expensive.

For others, spending 3,000 Merit Points on a jade slip like this would most likely not be worth it.

For Li Shuang, though, it was the best fit. In some ways it was even more important than a Soul Method.

Li Shuang was determined to get the Catalogue of Marvels.

That would leave her with only 6,700 Merit Points to use.

She looked over the Soul Methods.

Soul Methods came in different grades.

Even the cheapest Yellow Grade Secret Art cost 5,000 Merit Points.

Slightly better Secret Soul Methods were also very costly.

She had thought her ten thousand or so Merit Points were pretty good.

Now she found they disappeared fast.

Soul Prison.

If she wanted more Merit Points, she still had to go out into the world.

She suppressed the urge to leave the city and quickly scanned the manuals.

Suddenly, she let out a soft sound.

Among the many expensive Soul Methods, she saw one that cost only 1 Merit Point.

Heaven Grade Soul Method: Rebirth Art. The method has three stages, each can be bought separately. Entry stage: 1 Merit Point, can be trained to the Divine Transformation Stage. Advanced stage: 100,000 Merit Points, can be trained to the Spirit Refinement Stage. Final stage: 100,000,000 Merit Points, can be trained to the Tribulation Crossing Stage.

Each stage could be bought on its own.

And the entry stage was basically free.

Li Shuang’s heart pounded.

Noticing her long pause, Su Mu said: “Don’t tell me you plan to buy this Rebirth Art?”

Li Shuang nodded: “Everything else is too expensive.”

After looking and looking, only the Rebirth Art seemed right.

Su Mu gave a helpless smile and said: “Check the number of purchases behind this method.”