The Fourth Disaster: People become gods through high martial arts and gaming

Chapter 230 The Curator's Giant Sausage
The City of Light, Obsidian Martial Arts School.

Under the bright midday sun, another group of newbies, summoned by a floating cloud, entered the rented large transport vehicle one by one.

"We're about to depart! Don't miss out if you want to earn points and contribution points!" A Leaf of Clouds shouted through a megaphone across the training ground, "Professional team leading the way, safety guaranteed. As long as you're skilled enough at mining, this is definitely the fastest way for those below the Quasi-Martial Artist level to earn points and contribution points!"

"A Leaf in the Clouds" shouted repeatedly, while the players on the training ground were either envious or cursing the black-hearted factory, feeling that "A Leaf in the Clouds" and his group were simply inhuman and not afraid of being hung up.

Since several teams discovered that the White Feather Gang's stronghold had an energy vein, One Leaf Floating Cloud came up with an idea. Although they were not yet core disciples, could not establish a stronghold, and were not recognized by the martial arts school, it did not prevent them from mining the energy vein.

Therefore, the first thing Yi Ye Fuyun did after being resurrected was to recruit players at the martial arts school and hire them to mine energy veins.

As for the hiring fee, you can get 5% of the energy ore mined, that is, if you mine 100 kilograms, you can get 5 kilograms of energy ore.

The price of energy ore exchanged by martial arts schools has now risen to 200 points per kilogram. However, if you sell one kilogram of energy ore to a martial arts school, the school will only pay you 40 points, with an additional 20 contribution points awarded for every 10 kilograms.

If players were to dig these up and sell them directly to martial arts schools, they would naturally make a huge profit, far more than mining energy ore for martial arts schools. Not to mention that players are no longer allowed to mine in Crimson Moon Mountain and can only cultivate in designated rooms within the mountain.

The only decent quests in Red Moon Town are taking on some defense quests and guarding Red Moon Town with NPCs.

Moreover, this task requires a high level of skill from the player; only those at the Extreme Apprentice level or above can accept it. The good old days are gone forever.

Currently, the "Floating Cloud" skill only gives players 5% of the energy ore. If you sell that to a martial arts school, the profit will be very low. After all, even if a new player mines for a whole day, it's already good if they can mine a ton of energy ore. 5% is only 50 kilograms of energy ore. Selling it to a martial arts school will only get you 2000 points and 100 contribution points. This is simply outrageous.

Of course, if you keep it for your own use, then you'll definitely make a profit, since energy ore is a valuable resource. Once you become a martial artist, you must consume energy ore to cultivate, even if you're incredibly wealthy.

In response, Yi Ye Fu Yun felt that players nowadays are too greedy, thinking that 5% is too low. Where can you find such a conscientious capitalist with a 5% return on an item?

In particular, the energy ore can be used by oneself, earning at least fifty kilograms of energy ore per day. Under normal circumstances, it is impossible for someone below the level of a quasi-martial artist to earn so much energy ore in a day.

After Yi Ye Fu Yun had been calling for half an hour, and more than ten apprentice-level veteran players boarded the bus, Yi Ye Fu Yun reluctantly boarded the bus as well.

"With so few people, renting such a large transport vehicle this time is really a waste. If only this game allowed hiring those NPCs." Looking at the many empty seats, Yi Ye Fu Yun felt that this trip to the White Feather Gang's stronghold was really not worth it.

The rental fee for large transport vehicles is not low. Even if you only rent them for seven days, it will cost 30,000 points. Although 30,000 points is not much to him now, every little bit helps.

As the large transport truck drove out of the Obsidian Martial Arts School, many vagrants on the street outside the school watched with envy.

The disciples of the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy recruited people to mine energy ore, and they could directly receive 5% of the mining commission. This was something they never dared to dream of. Energy ore was quite valuable, and selling just a few dozen kilograms would be enough for them to live comfortably for a month.

Unfortunately, Obsidian Martial Arts Academy only recruits those who wear silver-gray uniforms; they don't even want those who have already joined the academy. If they could recruit from outside, this job would be incredibly popular.

"The Obsidian Martial Arts Academy is getting more and more powerful. They've even taken over another energy mine. I wonder when they'll start recruiting. I don't need energy ore; I'd be happy with a thousand bits a month."

"Don't even dream about it. The Obsidian Martial Arts Academy can't even compete with its own disciples right now, how could it possibly give them to outsiders? I heard that the martial arts academy disciples who went to Crimson Moon Town were all scrambling to get the job of mining energy ore every day. Even then, it was good if more than ten out of a hundred people could get it. Most of them were building houses and city walls there."

“I’d be willing to build houses and city walls. I heard that disciples of the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy earn at least two hundred points a day. Those Obsidian Martial Arts Academy points are very valuable in Red Moon Town. One point equals one bit, which means you can earn two hundred bits a day.”

"I've also heard that the merchants in Red Moon Town prefer to buy points rather than Bits, because only points can buy monster meat from the martial arts disciples dressed in silver-gray clothes. If you use Bits, some martial arts disciples might not even agree."

"A disciple of the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy? I wonder if my child can pass the academy's test today. If he can, our whole family can move to Red Moon Town."

The homeless people on the street chatted amongst themselves, looking at the long queue of people waiting to take the exam outside the martial arts school, all filled with unspoken envy and longing.

The Obsidian Martial Arts Academy is no longer an ordinary force. Rumor has it that even many captains of the city's garrison are no match for the disciples of the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy. With a master at the Bone Forging Realm, it is a formidable force in the entire City of Light.

Anyone who can join is guaranteed both safety and income.

"Another energy vein. Maybe in the next update we should just add a hiring system so players can hire vagrants to mine." Standing in the window on the third floor of the martial arts hall, Lin Qi watched Yi Ye Fuyun and the others leave and decided that it would be necessary to add an NPC hiring system in the next version.

He knew that the players attacked the White Feather Gang's stronghold because the White Feather Gang was following them, which led to the players attacking and killing many members of the garrison. This incident has become a topic of discussion among many factions in the City of Light.

Many factions even believe that the Three-Eyed Clan, Crystal Clan, and Half-Scale Clan will definitely hold a grudge against the Obsidian Martial Arts School, and that the human race is currently weak and has lost a top-level Bone Forging Realm expert, so the Obsidian Martial Arts School will definitely be doomed in the future.

He was completely indifferent to this. Let the three races hold a grudge; they can't really do anything to him. As for what they would do to the players, he didn't care at all. After all, only through hardship can one grow.

Surprisingly, the White Feather Gang's stronghold actually had an energy mine, which was a pleasant surprise.

He is currently severely lacking in energy ore. Not to mention the enormous amount of energy ore consumed in building the cultivation tower, the new martial arts school he recently built in Crimson Moon Town also consumes a huge amount of energy ore.

To upgrade a system administrator's privileges from level two to level three, one needs to be a top-tier martial arts school.

Although a top-tier martial arts school occupies the same area as a high-tier martial arts school, a top-tier martial arts school must have ten intermediate training rooms and five beginner meditation rooms.

The rewards for building a top-tier martial arts hall are quite generous, as it unlocks the construction permissions for an intermediate gravity chamber.

The twenty times gravity in the primary gravity chamber no longer has much effect on his second level of the Body Strengthening Secret Technique, leaving him at the entry level of 20%, with no further increase in physical strength. His actual level of the second level of the Body Strengthening Secret Technique is 28% of the entry level.

This result only shows that he would need many times more gravity to improve his physical strength. It's like making an object: you look at the blueprints and finally learn how to make it, but because you don't have enough materials, you can only make that many.

He urgently needs a higher gravity environment to break through the current bottleneck.

However, completing ten intermediate training rooms and three beginner meditation rooms was not an easy task. The beginner meditation rooms were relatively easy to manage. After he increased the reward of 200 reputation points in Crimson Moon Town for Molten Crystals, many members of Lu Fanchen's team finally began to continuously move Molten Crystals into the warehouse.

In just over a day, Lu Fanchen completed two missions to collect 10,000 units of Molten Crystals each. Once he had collected 60,000 units of Molten Crystals and built four beginner meditation rooms, it would take him about three days.

Building ten intermediate training rooms is not easy. It requires 50,000 units of energy and ten energy crystals. He has energy crystals, and the intermediate training room he previously renovated is almost finished. However, the energy ore from Crimson Moon Mountain is now being used to build the training tower, and the martial arts school has no energy ore coming in. In addition, the energy ore that was sent before was used to renovate the rest room, so new players can be continuously introduced.

Currently, the system only has 18247 units of energy left, which is simply not enough to convert the remaining nine intermediate training rooms.

If players were to mine the miniature energy veins near the White Feather Gang's stronghold, it would take an unknown amount of time to mine enough energy ore to upgrade the intermediate training room and the daily upgrade rest area. However, hiring a large number of vagrants would undoubtedly increase efficiency significantly.

Just as Lin Qi was thinking about how to regulate the player hiring mechanism, a system notification suddenly sounded in his ear.

System: Congratulations, host, the primary gravity chamber modification is complete.

"Finally, another one is finished. Now I don't have to compete with others for gravity chambers anymore." Lin Qi looked at the system notification and sighed with relief.

Gravity chambers are incredibly popular these days.

It's not just players who will use it; even martial artists like Qin Mu will need to use it.

Considering the improvement in the strength of Qin Mu and the others, he could only give them the gravity chamber that he had previously renovated, which meant that he could use it for much less time.

While the current basic gravity chamber has little effect on the second level of the Body Strengthening Technique, it has a considerable effect on stimulating energy cells, significantly accelerating the strengthening of the internal organs. Therefore, he now conducts his daily cultivation in the gravity chamber. Giving the gravity chamber to Qin Mu and the others during this period has slowed down the strengthening speed of his internal organs considerably.

Just as Lin Qi was happily walking towards the newly renovated primary gravity chamber, a beautiful figure blocked his way, which made many players on the training ground feel envious and jealous.

"Have you noticed that Donna has been seeing the curator a lot lately, and she seems to be doing it more and more often? Could there be something going on between them?"

“I also think that Jacques hasn’t been coming out of his studio much lately.”

"That's quite possible. I've been passing by Dona recently and I've noticed that she's getting stronger and stronger. Especially the aura she exudes, it's almost suffocating me. I guess the Dojo Master is giving Dona special training, which is why she's improving so quickly."

The players watched as Dona deliberately blocked their way and began to whisper among themselves.

Donna is now a beautiful sight in the martial arts school. There weren't any important NPCs in the school to begin with, but now that there's suddenly a beast-eared girl, many players are wondering if the martial arts school needs to add an important NPC to allow it to develop further.

After all, the martial arts school has developed to this point, and the only NPC that can be considered presentable is the school master, Lin Qi, which is really not enough.

"Master Lin, do you still have any pears?" Donna, who had a pair of snow-white animal ears, looked at Lin Qi expectantly.

"This... is still being procured." Lin Qi looked at Dona, who asked him three times a day, and didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

Donna has already bought up all the Vitality Pears he won in the lottery these past few days, which has also earned him twenty-six Energy Crystals, so he's made quite a bit of money.

I thought thirteen vibrant pears would be enough for Donna to eat for a while, but I didn't expect Donna to be such a big eater; she finished them all in two days.

The martial arts school has enrolled nearly two thousand more people today. Although he has collected three more draws, even if he draws all of them and gets the Vitality Pear, it probably won't be enough for Dona for half a day.

Donna's animal ears twitched, and she asked somewhat anxiously, "How much longer until we can get more stock?"

“I’m not entirely sure about that either. You know how difficult it is to cultivate fragrant pears,” Lin Qi explained, then took out a large sausage and recommended, “Why don’t you try this sausage? It’s a specialty of our martial arts school, a magical sausage. Its effects are much stronger than those of fragrant pears, and the effects last much longer, up to twelve hours.”

"A giant sausage?" Donna looked curiously at the giant sausage that Lin Qi had pulled out from somewhere, and asked seriously, "Is this really more effective than a fragrant pear?"

"Of course, the price will only be higher, never lower, and there will be no deception of the young or old." Lin Qi nodded.

He originally planned to give the big sausage to Luo Qi so that Luo Qi's skills could be improved, but now Luo Qi is busy repairing another batch of B6-level battle armor sent by Luo Wushang and others, so he can only put it aside for now.

He's desperately short of energy crystals right now, so he'd like to earn as many as he can from Dona, since none of the people he knows are as rich as Dona, who spends energy crystals without batting an eye.

"Okay, I'll have one to try." Donna thought for a moment, then decided to try one anyway. "How much?"

"Forty energy crystals, no bargaining." Lin Qi held up two fingers.

The Magical Sausage is a green-quality reward for two stars, and it's not easy to get it by drawing it, let alone having to specifically draw it. It's worth twenty times the price of the Vitality Pear, which is quite generous.

"Here you go, these are forty energy crystals." Donna didn't haggle or doubt, and simply took out the energy crystals. She then happily returned to the primary gravity chamber with the magical sausage in her hand.

This scene left all the players present stunned.

"Holy crap! The guild master is amazing! He sold a sausage for forty energy crystals! That's faster than robbery!"

"Good heavens! The shopkeeper's sausages sold forty energy crystals! Spread the word quickly!"

"Are sausages really that valuable in this world? Is it too late for me to become a chef now?"

……

As everyone watched Donna leave happily with the sausage, they suddenly realized that the owner, Lin Qi, truly lived up to his title and was their role model.

Lin Qi, completely unaware of this, took the forty energy crystals to the newly built primary gravity chamber and began his training for the day.

"Currently, there's no need to extract the Body Strengthening Secret Technique before we get an intermediate gravity chamber. Apart from the three training methods, the extraction of the six martial arts techniques has also reached a bottleneck. However, the Mental Secret Technique and the Stellar Explosion Visualization Technique are not far from 100% proficiency, so we can improve them properly this time." Lin Qi looked at his attribute panel and directly selected some players with the highest proficiency in the Mental Secret Technique and the Stellar Explosion Visualization Technique.

After his administrator privileges reached level two, his extraction privileges also reached level three, and the number of extractions increased to ten. This allowed him to significantly improve in all aspects these days, instead of being able to focus solely on training methods, martial arts, and body-strengthening techniques as before, without any extra extraction opportunities to improve other aspects.

Currently, his mastery of the first level of mental techniques has reached 83%, and his mastery of the Stellar Explosion Visualization Technique has reached 91%. These two techniques are the most popular among players, and their mastery levels are all very high, with many reaching over 60%. They are the most suitable for players aiming for perfection.

"Let's start with the Stellar Explosion Visualization Technique." Lin Qi looked at Ye Qinglu and the others, who had reached over 70% proficiency in the Stellar Explosion Visualization Technique, and then chose to extract it.

System: Congratulations, host, your Star Explosion Visualization Technique has reached 95% proficiency.

System: Congratulations, host, your Star Explosion Visualization Technique has reached 97% proficiency.

System: Congratulations, host, your Star Explosion Visualization Technique has reached 99% proficiency.

System: Congratulations, host, your Star Explosion Visualization Technique has reached 100% proficiency.

……

System: Congratulations, host, your Star Explosion Visualization Technique has reached 100% proficiency.

"Is it really that difficult to perfect this Star Explosion Visualization Technique?" Lin Qi was quite surprised as he watched as his proficiency remained at 100% for five consecutive attempts.

The player proficiency he extracted was all above 70%. Under normal circumstances, two or three extractions would be enough to go from 100% proficiency to perfection. Now, after five extractions in a row, it is still 100% proficiency, which is simply unbelievable.

"One last time." Lin Qi thought for a moment and decided to try one last time.

If that doesn't work, then we'll have to wait for the player's skill level to improve further before they can extract the stellar explosion visualization technique.

Lin Qi then chose Ye Qinglu, who had stayed all along and was also the player with the highest proficiency in the Stellar Explosion Visualization Technique.

My current proficiency level is 81%, almost on par with his.

"extract!"

Lin Qi clicked on Ye Qinglu's name directly.

System: Congratulations, host, your Star Explosion Visualization Technique has reached the Perfect Realm.

(End of this chapter)