Your secret game is absolutely poisonous!

Chapter 204 Fifth Level
A few hours later.

Although most adventurers have left the dungeon.

But now Miracle City has a population of tens of thousands, plus nearly a thousand adventurers who have settled here. Even when the secret realm is not open, the city is still very lively.

At this moment, almost all the adventurers, plus thousands of territory residents, gathered in the teleportation square.

Miracle City has five squares, namely the four secret squares in the east, south, west and north urban areas, plus a large square located in the center of the central area and built around the core of the lord's castle territory.

This large square not only has a teleportation function, but is also a place for hosting various territory activities. Therefore, many important facilities are built on the square, such as the first spirit altar of Miracle City.

As the earliest altar built.

After several upgrades, it has reached the third level.

The routine spirit contract ceremony is being held at this moment.

This is a very important event that is worth noting and boosts morale for adventurers. The lord will also show up at this time, so many adventurers and people in the territory will come to watch just to admire the lord from afar.

"The Lord has arrived!"

Everyone immediately stopped whispering.

All eyes turned towards the direction of the lord's castle.

Qi Ji entered slowly surrounded by his entourage. He was accompanied by the dwarf-looking Nancy Liya and Arnold, as well as Yong Zhen, the Named One of Miracle City, who was dressed in a purple kimono, with his hair tied up, and looked dignified and elegant.

Also.

There are also several maids from the Flower Demon Clan.

Plus a group of guards consisting of kobolds and dwarves.

The people of the territory immediately saluted the lord, and many adventurers took the opportunity to make a fuss, shouting things like "Long live the lord" and "Miracle City will rule the world forever" and other childish words.

Although the adventurers are unruly and eccentric by nature, they all support Boss Qi from the bottom of their hearts, and Qi Ji has now established a high prestige and credibility among the adventurer group.

Yongzhen stepped forward and faced the crowd, her hands naturally folded in front of her abdomen, with her left hand on top of her right. This was a typical Japanese maid's hand-folding gesture, which could show both dignity and humility.

She bowed slightly and announced:
"Today's contract ceremony officially begins!"

"Adventurers, please ascend the altar in order to meet the lord and participate in the ceremony!"

No one was surprised by Yongzhen's appearance, as the named ones were not unique to Miracle City. However, Yongzhen had a very good temperament and image, and the adventurers were very satisfied with her announcing the lord's will.

This is the most beautiful girl in Ashina Country.

Her temperament is introverted and steady, which makes her particularly suitable to represent the Lord's Mansion. She can also enhance the image and style of Miracle City. As the first named person summoned to the territory, she should be more deeply involved in the territory affairs in the future.

The first adventurer walked up to the altar.

This is an octogenarian with white hair and beard.

It was none other than the former number one adventurer of Blackrock Town, Mr. Baihe.

Yongzhen slightly turned sideways and made a gesture of invitation. Baihe Jushi walked up to the spirit altar. When he came in front of the lord, he immediately bowed respectfully.

"Master Baihe pays homage to the Lord!"

Even the big guys who were once close to the peak of the fourth level.

At this moment, the lord did not dare to have the slightest thought of taking advantage of his seniority.

He knew very well, or perhaps he had no idea how terrifying and great the person before him was.

Qi Ji said, "Has he returned to the third level so quickly? This is much faster than initially expected. In my opinion, it's only a matter of time before he returns to the peak, and that time shouldn't be too far away."

Although the speed of dispersing power and starting over will be much faster.

But no one could have imagined that he could return to the third level from the first level in such a short time.

Mr. Baihe is full of excitement and gratitude at this moment!

He quickly said, "I was once a dead tree about to turn to dust. Fortunately, I met the Lord and Miracle City, and now I have a second life."

I won’t waste any more time talking nonsense.

There are many people who want to sign contracts or upgrade their levels today.

Signing contracts one by one and holding ceremonies one by one, this process is quite time-consuming!
In the future, as the territory develops and the number of adventurers increases rapidly, the number of people applying for contracts and breakthroughs every day will also increase. This is not a solution. The lord's time is extremely valuable and cannot be wasted on this.

Qi Ji has already planned it.

This was the last time I would attend a regular spirit ceremony.

He will then distribute the use rights of the Spirit Altar.

In the future, he will ask his assistant Yongzhen or Miracle City hero Nancy Liya to perform the contract ceremony for him.

There is nothing strange about this practice. The authority over most facilities in the dungeon can be authorized to subordinates, as long as enough mental power is injected into the altar in advance.

The size of the territory is growing.

Affairs are becoming more and more numerous.

It is impossible for the lord to do everything himself, otherwise he would be too busy. Therefore, it is necessary to build a management team to be responsible for administrative work and territory affairs, and it is also necessary to distribute and delegate some authority.

It would be more reassuring to let the backbones such as territory heroes who are highly tied to the interests and even the survival of the territory, or the groups such as named persons who are absolutely loyal and will never betray, take charge of various key positions.

The third-level soul of the Baihe Jushi contract is "Ashina Sword Saint: Ashina Isshin"!
The better the quality of the spirit.

The greater the consumption during the contract.

This soul is not only the top-level third-level five-star rare soul, but also a named soul. It requires 3000 mental powers to complete the contract, which is definitely not a small number.

At least the total net spiritual power income of most third-level lords in a day generally does not reach this number.

Although it was nothing to Qi Ji.

But he also didn't need to curry favor with adventurers like some lords.

Therefore, it is definitely not charity. For every point of mental power consumed in the contract ceremony, the adventurer must pay a corresponding contribution point ranging from 1 to 2 points. That is to say, even if Baihe Jushi provides his own spirit, he still needs to pay at least 3000 contribution points.

The value of Miracle City Contribution Points is extremely high.

That's a huge sum of money for any adventurer.

【Contract successful! 】

The moment the contract ceremony is completed.

Mr. Baihe only felt that his body quickly regained vitality and various functions were rapidly improved.

A third-level adventurer can generally live to be one hundred and thirty or forty years old. This successful breakthrough will allow him to live at least forty to fifty years longer.

The other adventurers all looked envious.

"Ashina Isshin" is definitely a top-grade spirit!
In the future, it will not only greatly enhance the strength of Baihe Jushi, but will also continue to shine for the territory.

Mr. Baihe thanked him and left.

The second person to come up was none other than Mr.

It’s Black Stone Town’s new king, Higanbana.

"Greetings, Lord!"

Higanbana is not only recognized as the new king.

He is also one of the Lord's biggest fans.

She felt that every time she came into close contact with Qi Ji, she would feel a fanatical excitement, happiness and nervousness, just like the most fanatical star chaser meeting the idol she had been thinking about day and night.

Let the lord take a closer look at me.

It is one of the important motivations for her hard work.

Qi Ji asked, "You are still a little far away from contracting a fourth-level life soul. Are you planning to contract an auxiliary spirit this time?"

It's more than just some gaps.

It is very difficult to upgrade from level 3 to level 4.

Even if the cultivation speed in Miracle City could be more than ten times faster, it would not be achievable in such a short time.

The cultivation degree of the third-level soul of Higanbana, Sakura Dragon, is only 35%, so it is naturally impossible to contract a fourth-level soul. However, it can continue to contract one to three-level spirits as auxiliary spirits besides the life soul.

For adventurers.

The cost of contract auxiliary spirit is not low.

Support Spirits provide no bonus traits or abilities.

No matter how many such spirit contracts one has, they will not bring cumulative benefits to other spirits, but will only provide adventurers with richer combat forms.

of course.

If you practice to perfection.

That situation is definitely different.

Once an adventurer has cultivated his spirit to perfection, he can summon spirit units at any time through spirit summoning to provide assistance or directly participate in battles.

An adventurer with several fully fused auxiliary spirits can often unleash multiples or even several times the power.

It’s just different from the cultivation of the soul.

This kind of soul cannot be upgraded during secret realm adventures.

Auxiliary spirits can only be cultivated through sacrifice. Every time a soul is cultivated, a large number of souls of the same level will be consumed. The higher the level of the soul cultivated, the stronger the power, and the higher the cost.

Most adventurers wouldn't even dare to think about it.

Because the investment-return ratio is not high for them.

With so many extra souls, it would be better to sell them in exchange for other resources.

Higanbana: "Report to the great Lord, I would like to contract a third-level auxiliary spirit!"

For every 30% increase in the Soul Cultivation Degree, one auxiliary soul can be contracted. If it is cultivated to 100% and successfully contracted with the next level Soul, then the upper limit of auxiliary spirits that can be contracted at this level is unlimited.

Currently, Higanbana can contract countless first and second level spirits and one third level auxiliary spirit.

She had several powerful third-level spirits in her hands. After some hesitation and comparison, she finally decided to prioritize contracting the strongest Black Dragon King.

No nagging.

As long as the adventurer can afford the contribution points.

Qi Ji is fully capable of meeting their needs.

【Spiritual Power -1800!】

[The Spirit Contract has been completed! ]

The contract fee for this soul is not cheap!

The other adventurers were all amazed and envious.

"Big Boss Higanbana is too strong. We ordinary adventurers don't even have a third-level ordinary soul, but she has contracted two such powerful spirits at the same time!"

"Level 3, five-star rare soul cherry dragon + level 3, five-star top rare soul black dragon king..."

"The Sakura Dragon has poor mobility but has strong control capabilities, with wide-area lightning and wind attack capabilities. The Black Dragon King is highly mobile and excels at the Devouring Secret Technique, as well as dark and water spells!"

"Once this double dragon combination is fully developed, I'm afraid that Big Boss will immediately become the strongest third-level combat force in Miracle City!"

"I'm really looking forward to Boss Higanbana's performance in the territory battlefield!"

"..."

The red spider lily retreated reluctantly.

At this time, Qingshan adventurer Meng Yinxue came up.

She is the third adventurer to participate in the ceremony. Although she had submitted her application a few days ago, she had not waited until today to officially schedule the ceremony.

The cost of contracted spirits is not low.

In order to successfully complete this ceremony.

Wanshan Guhong and many adventurers from Qingshan City came to help.

They gave several of the souls they had obtained to Meng Yinxue, and asked her to hand them over to the territory in exchange for contribution points. Currently, Meng Yinxue has accumulated 4000 contribution points, which is enough to complete this ceremony!
"Excuse me, Lord!"

"I have prepared the spirit to be contracted."

Qi Ji took a look at the three life souls prepared by Meng Yinxue.

The first-level soul is the insect-attached warrior.

This is the unnamed Immortal Hanbei.

The first-level spirit of rare quality is very good.

The second-level soul is Shuisheng Alin.

This is the female ghost BOSS in Shuisheng Village of Ashina Province, who is nicknamed "Sword Saint of Shuisheng Village". Not only is she a rare soul, but she is also a named soul.

The third-tier soul is "Elder Yugami: Jing".

It is another named soul. Although its quality is not rare, it is not inferior to the unnamed rare souls of the same level. It can be regarded as a very good spirit.

Probably because the adventurers of Qingshan City are bound to Undercity, and Meng Yinxue's current main secret realm is also Ashina Country, the three major souls are all spirits from the Ashina chapter.

"what?"

"Are they all humanoid spirits?" "Could it be that this powerful figure intends to develop a focus on the physical form in the future?"

"Great!"

"A new master is coming to Miracle City!"

"..."

While others were talking about it with envy.

Qi Ji has completed the ceremony for Meng Yinxue.

A total of 2540 mental energy was consumed to complete this spirit contract.

Qi Ji encouraged him, "Congratulations! From now on, you are a glorious adventurer of Miracle City. I hope your future adventures will go smoothly and that you will make greater contributions to Miracle City."

"Yes, thank you for your encouragement, Lord. I will definitely work hard!"

Encouraged by the lord.

Meng Yinxue was flattered and greatly encouraged!
This well-known top genius adventurer in Qingshan City has only been in Miracle City for a short time, but she recognizes Miracle City from the bottom of her heart and is now proud of her identity as a Miracle City adventurer!
carry on.

Adventurers came up one after another.

One after another, they completed the spirit contracts.

There are new adventurers who have joined Miracle City.

There are also many adventurers who advance from level one to level two, and from level two to level three.

Qi Ji displayed great strength and background. He completed all the rituals in one breath, which would take an ordinary territory half a month or ten days to digest. His mental power seemed to be endless.

This scene.

Let the people of Miracle City be amazed.

Local people such as Nancylia, Iris, and Elsa admired the lord even more and their confidence increased greatly.

Among these adventurers with new contracts and breakthroughs, many are worthy of special attention, such as the new adventurer Hei Yuan from Blackrock Town, whose contract is with the spirit of the ancient god snake from the End Arena.

This soul has great potential for cultivation.

This adventurer has reached the third level at a young age, so his future growth and performance are worth looking forward to.

In addition, many retired or semi-retired adventurers from Blackrock Town, such as Panshi and Tiexin, had reached the second level of perfection before coming to Miracle City. Most of them had reached the third level at their peak, but their cultivation declined due to aging after retirement.

Now they have gradually returned to the third level.

The entire ceremony added more than ten third-level adventurers to Miracle City!
To know!
Miracle City at this moment.

It is still a nominal second-level territory!
Of course, such a grand and high-quality contract ceremony also consumes a lot of energy. Half of the net mental energy income today was used in the ceremony.

Even with Miracle City's hematopoietic capacity, it felt a little pressure.

It’s no wonder that many territories have not made much progress after ten or twenty years of development.

The cost of training high-level contract adventurers is too high, even if the adventurers bring their own spirits, the expenditure is still so high.

If you finally persuade an adventurer to sign a contract for a territory, and then another territory offers better conditions to poach him, a lot of the cost will become sunk costs, which is a common occurrence in territory competition.

Qi Ji was not worried about this at all.

On the one hand, Miracle City has absolutely strong competitiveness.

On the one hand, he did not pamper the adventurers at all. Every adventurer brought his own dry food. He did not want some lords to provide free contracts to cover the expenses in order to retain the adventurers. In more extreme cases, they even had to pay for their spirits for free.

Although the cost of training adventurers is high, it is worth it.

The higher the quality of the contracted adventurer, the stronger the territory's military power will be, and they can also create more value for the territory in secret adventures. During the ceremony, Qi Ji also recovered a large number of contribution points and gave them a higher value.

Qi Ji not only spared no effort in training adventurers.

He also invested a lot of resources in territory construction and the creation of secret realms.

This resulted in the dungeon having high income, rich income structure and sources, but all resources earned were quickly spent in a short period of time, resulting in not much being saved and being unable to upgrade smoothly.

Shake.

Two days passed.

Miracle City opened two more times.

The popularity of the three main secret realms and the three secondary secret realms is becoming increasingly hot.

In the past two days, Qi Ji continued to increase the construction of the territory, not only upgrading many hotels, bars and workshops, but also building a batch of infrastructure for Jinxi City and Blackwater City, and at the same time developing the second batch of territory residences.

The number of residential houses supplied in the second phase is twice that of the first phase.

The auction is expected to officially open in a few days.

The four lord allies of Miracle Territory played a significant role in the construction and development of the territory. They purchased at least ten important blueprints for Qi Ji, greatly accelerating the upgrading efficiency of the territory's facilities and buildings.

In addition, Qi Ji also obtained the "Soul Sacrifice Formation" and "Soul Resonance Tower" that he wanted to build.

[Construction Blueprint: Spirit Sacrifice Formation], a third-tier rare blueprint, construction cost: 1 soul crystals, 6 materials, and 3 mental power.

[Construction Blueprint: Tower of Soul Resonance], a third-tier rare blueprint, construction cost: 1.2 soul crystals, 7 materials, and 4 mental power.

Except for these two buildings.

Ran Tianyun even bought a facility called "Soul Reincarnation Room".

[Construction Blueprint: Soul Reincarnation Room], a third-level rare blueprint, construction cost 3 soul crystals, 2 materials, and 2 mental power.

There is no need to elaborate on the first two buildings.

Qi Ji had not expected the reincarnation of spirits and souls.

This is a very rare and expensive third-level precious building.

It is also an important accessory to the Spirit Altar. Once this facility is activated, all sacrificed spirits will leave a wisp of residual soul to enter the reincarnation room and be preserved for a period of time. The lord can repair it by consuming mental power.

Before the soul reincarnation function was available.

The spirits sacrificed by adventurers will be completely lost.

With this facility, the spirits sacrificed by adventurers can theoretically be reused.

Many territories have poor ability to recover spirits from adventurers. The lords will encourage adventurers to sacrifice their spirits for cultivation, allowing these spirits to enter the reincarnation room and then be collected in their hands to become territory reserves.

Therefore, this is also an important way to recycle resources.

It is also very useful for the Miracle Territory, greatly increasing the territory's resource reserves and greatly enhancing resource utilization.

but.

Then again.

Three high-value third-order facilities.

Not only do their construction costs far exceed those of ordinary buildings of the same tier.

The drawings themselves are also quite expensive, costing more than 100,000 yuan in total.

If we add in other second and third level blueprints, the soul crystal expenditure just on purchasing blueprints during this period would be as high as 250,000.

Miracle City currently has three main sources of soul crystal income.

The first is the basic income, which is naturally the income from the secret realm operation, which can earn 40,000 to 50,000 soul crystals every day.

The second is the trading business, selling various low-level souls and various specialties to the four major partners in the lord's market. This part of the income is quite considerable. More than 100,000 soul crystals can be earned every day by cashing in the resource output of the territory.

The third is local business. For example, many adventurers will use soul crystals to pay for basic services such as hotels and bars. There are also many people who will exchange soul crystals for contribution points. When the contribution point exchange quota is not enough, they would rather pay high minting taxes to buy miracle coins.

Among the three incomes.

Basic income is already a small amount.

The latter two are just starting out, but there is still a lot of room for development.

of course.

Although the income is high.

But the expenses are also very high.

Not only did Qi Ji not save any money in the past few days, but his debts to the four major territories were increasing. So he decided to make every effort to digest and integrate existing resources and reduce the debt level of the territories.

A blink of an eye.

Another seven days.

The dungeon has changed a lot during this period.

First of all, in terms of adventurers, the number of adventurers in Miracle City has exceeded 10,000, of which there are as many as 100 third-level adventurers with contracts. If the number without contracts is included, the number will double!
Even in most of the third-level territories, there are not so many third-level adventurers!
What's more, Miracle City is currently still only a second-level territory in name.

Among these one hundred contracted adventurers, nearly forty are adventurers from Qingshan City, and the other sixty or seventy are from Black Stone City and Huangcao Town.

Blackrock is no longer a town.

It is now officially called Black Rock City.

Because the number of adventurers in this adventurer town has increased nearly three times compared to before the advent of Miracle City, the fame of Miracle City has spread to all the adventurer towns within hundreds of miles of Blackrock Town.

These adventurer towns.

are merging into one city.

Naturally, many third-level people poured into the Miracle Territory.

Miracle City itself has also cultivated a group of native third-level people, such as Feng Zhongmian, Lonely Swordsman, Wangchuan Sanren, etc. They are now very close to the third level and will soon break through.

As for territory management.

Miracle City has successfully auctioned off its second batch of commercial housing.

In addition, new facilities including soul sacrifice, soul resonance, and soul recycling have also been completed.

As for the secret realm?

Of course it is thriving.

The exploration progress of the Sui and Tang Dynasties chapter of the Ten Kingdoms is approaching the late stage, and it is expected that the grand finale of this secret realm will be reached in the next two days.

Among them, the continent of Arad is particularly worth mentioning. The first batch of adventurers are approaching level 18 and are about to open the first map, the Forest of Torgran, and are also about to complete the first transformation of each profession.

This is an important breakthrough.

The maximum number of online users in the Arad continent has reached 3,000, and 5,000 adventurers have created characters in the secret realm. At the same time, this secret realm is rapidly gaining influence in Thousand Lakes City.

This is also because of the fermentation over the past week or so.

Recently, more and more adventurers and businessmen from Qianhu City have flocked to Miracle Territory.

This allowed Miracle City to receive population traffic from outside the Adventurer's World for the first time, and local business, commercial trade, and cultural influence were all budding.

Finally, it is territory development.

Although the poisonous trolls from Xiemu City have attacked the territory several times.

But none of them posed much threat to Miracle City, and Qi Ji would focus on developing himself in the short term, so he did not launch a counterattack against the city. However, the adventurers carried out several attacks in private.

However, there is no unified coordination of the territory.

The power of self-organization among adventurers is limited.

Although they captured several towns and strongholds, they were soon recaptured by Xiemu City.

This dark dungeon belongs to the Eternal Night Dragon King. Its background and strength far exceed those of the opponents we have dealt with in the past, so the difficulty of conquering it will increase a lot, and the impacts that need to be considered will be much more complicated.

However, maintaining the status quo for the time being is beneficial to Miracle City.

Because Miracle Territory is developing rapidly, the later the decisive battle breaks out, the more advantageous it is for Miracle City. Time is completely on Qi Ji's side, and this is why he is so calm.

……

now.

Inside the lord's mansion.

Qi Ji checked the current resource reserves.

Soul crystals 28, materials 8, mental power 15.

Although the current resource reserves are not too much considering the territory's current daily income, Qi Ji has basically completed the current stage of construction and has initially paid off the foreign debt.

within a short period of time.

No more major expenses.

Everything is ready and the time is ripe.

Given the current situation of the territory, it is time to take a further step.

However, compared to the advancement of the territory, Qi Ji prioritized his own breakthrough.

【Spiritual Power - 10! 】

[Upgraded successfully, current level is level 5, number of Spirit Sea awakenings +2! ]

Up to this point, Miracle Territory was still only a quasi-third-level territory, but now Qi Ji, Ran Tianyun and others were all fifth-level beings.

(End of this chapter)