Immortality begins with upgrading buildings

Chapter 1 Fish Pond lv1

"I'll come again tomorrow. If you're still behind on paying your celestial residence fee this month, you can get out of Zengtou City."

"understood."

"..."

Ji Yuan watched the man in black robes stumble away across the muddy bank, and was just about to close the courtyard gate when another person walked out of the neighboring courtyard.

He was a bald old man smoking a pipe. Looking at Ji Yuan's troubled face, he chuckled and said:

"Brother Ji, why don't we borrow some money from Liu Laizi to pay the Immortal Abode Fee first?"

"Otherwise, with your Qi Refining Level 2 cultivation, leaving Zengtou City would only mean certain death."

Borrow from Liu Laizi?

"Damn, the interest is 80%! Once you borrow it, the interest will snowball, and you'll be ruined for life..." Ji Yuan nodded, "I'll figure something out."

After saying that, he closed the courtyard gate.

Old Huang didn't try to persuade him any further. He had only said that because he was after the referral fee. If it worked out, great; if not, it didn't matter.

Ji Yuan returned to the dilapidated hut, looked around at everything, and couldn't help but curse inwardly, "Damn it, I've transmigrated to cultivate immortality, and I still have to pay rent?!"

"With these conditions, and only three low-grade spirit stones a month, why don't you just rob someone!"

Ji Yuan was furious and lashed out.

He knew the actual situation. Just as Old Huang said, he was a rogue cultivator at the second level of Qi Refining. If he left Zengtou City and went out into the wild, he would be a lamb to the slaughter.

They'll either be robbed of everything and then killed to silence them.

Either they'll be killed to silence them, and then they'll be robbed of everything.

Even in Zengtou City, there are occasional rogue cultivators who disguise themselves as robber cultivators to plunder, let alone in the wild.

In this world, houses are worthless, and land is worthless.

But security is valuable.

Three days ago, Ji Yuan was still working as a slave on Blue Star. After work, he was eating hot pot and singing with his friends. He never expected that when he woke up, he would find himself in this Canglu Continent.

It also possessed the body of a boy with the same name in Zengtou City, which was under the jurisdiction of the Water Dragon Sect.

The Water Dragon Sect is located near the Cloud Rain Marsh, which spans thousands of miles. At the same time, it has built many markets on the shore to gather low-level rogue cultivators from the surrounding area, catch spirit fish for them, and collect rare and precious materials.

These independent practitioners were all called "fishermen".

Zengtou City was one of the markets there, and the original owner, Ji Yuan, was a fisherman there.

The original owner's parents were the same, but they died two months ago when they set sail at the hands of a mid-stage first-tier spirit fish.

With both parents dead and about to be evicted from Zengtou City for failing to pay rent... this is definitely a disastrous start!

However, this isn't always the case; usually, this is when they start using cheat codes.

As Ji Yuan recalled the novels he had read on Qidian in his previous life, a screen of light actually appeared in his field of vision in a daze...

The screen was covered with many words.

[Fish Pond lv0 (Upgradeable)]

[LV1: Spirit Effect: Fish fry growth rate +20%, semi-spirit fish have a certain chance to evolve into spirit fish]

[Upgrade Requirements: 1 Low-grade Spirit Stone, Plant Water-Cleansing Reeds, Clear Waterways (Completed)]

[Chicken Coop Lv0]

[lv1: Spiritual Effect: Spiritual eggs are produced once a day, containing trace amounts of spiritual energy, and can be used for fasting]

[Upgrade Requirements: 2 low-grade spirit stones, 50 catties of ordinary rice (not yet met)]

[Pigsty lv0]

[LV1: Miraculous Effect: The Spirit Pig can increase muscle mass by 100 pounds in seven days. Its flesh and blood contain body-tempering medicinal properties and can accelerate wound healing.]

[Upgrade Requirements: 5 low-grade spirit stones, 50 jin of iron ingots, 10 jin of coarse salt (not yet met)]

[Cave Dwelling lv0]

[LV1: Spiritual Effect: Wall self-healing, basic dust-repelling barrier, nighttime spiritual energy concentration +20%]

[Upgrade Requirements: 5 low-grade spirit stones, 3 buckets of glutinous rice paste, repair broken tiles (not yet achieved)]

【Lingtian lv0】

[LV1: Spiritual Effect: Crop cycle -30%, yield contains a trace of wood elemental energy]

[Upgrade Requirements: 5 low-grade spirit stones, 50 jin of wood ash (not yet met)]

【…】

What kind of decoration is this?

Farming adventure?

Before Ji Yuan could think it over carefully, many memories suddenly appeared in his mind. His cheat was called "Building Upgrade Panel". In short, as long as the corresponding conditions are met, the panel can upgrade the corresponding building and thus gain the corresponding ability.

For example, the only building that can be upgraded right now is the fishpond in his house.

The conditions are to obtain one low-grade spirit stone, plus planting water-purifying reeds and clearing waterways.

Every fisherman in Zengtou City has a small fishpond to store the spirit fish caught from Yunyu Marsh, so the conditions of clean water reeds and clear waterways have long been met.

As for a low-grade spirit stone... Ji Yuan really only has one low-grade spirit stone left of all his possessions.

Otherwise, they wouldn't be unable to pay the rent.

The family had some left over, but the original owner's parents exchanged them for pills and talismans during their last voyage.

Unexpectedly, he perished in the Yunyu Marsh.

After the fishpond is upgraded from lv0 to lv1, the ability gained is a 20% increase in the growth rate of fish fry, and a certain chance for semi-spirit fish to evolve into spirit fish.

The first part is easy to understand. As for the half-spirit fish and the spirit fish, Ji Yuan also learned about them from the original owner's memories.

These fishermen mainly catch these semi-spirit fish and spirit fish when they go out to fish. The so-called spirit fish can be simply understood as fish demons or monsters.

Whether it's its flesh and blood, scales and armor, or certain special parts of its body, they are all resources in the cultivation world.

The spirit fish is a first-tier demon beast that has reached a certain level.

In the water, only cultivators at least at the fourth level of Qi Refining could deal with a first-stage spirit fish.

For example, the original owner's father was at the fourth level of Qi Refining, but unexpectedly encountered a spirit fish at the middle stage of the first level, and ended up dying.

The semi-spirit fish is a species of fish that falls between ordinary fish and demonic beasts, and it is also a key target for Ji Yuan, who is in the early stages of Qi cultivation.

And right now, there's a semi-spirit fish in Ji Yuan's fishpond.

It was the Seven Star Perch that the original owner had risked his life to catch three days ago... The original owner died in the vast Yunyu Marsh because of that voyage, which conveniently benefited Ji Yuan later.

Ji Yuan took out his last low-grade spirit stone from his pocket... If he had more, say five low-grade spirit stones, he would have hesitated.

But for this one, there's no need to hesitate.

upgrade!

As soon as Ji Yuan had a thought, the low-grade spirit stone in his hand turned into dust. At the same time, the effect and upgrade conditions of the level 2 [Fish Pond] appeared on his panel.

[Fish Pond Lv2]

[Effect: Produces 1 drop of Water Dew daily, increases the chance of a semi-spirit fish advancing to the next level, and increases its growth speed by 30%]

[Upgrade Requirements: 30 low-grade spirit stones, 5 jin of cold iron sand, and an ice-condensing talisman]

A level 2 fishpond can actually produce Water Dew?

This is a real treasure! It can heal wounds, restore spiritual energy, and even be used for cultivation. Just one drop of this would sell for eight low-grade spirit stones outside.

Before Ji Yuan could even feel a surge of joy, the sound of splashing water came from the fishpond in his backyard.

"not good!"

Ji Yuan rushed into the backyard and saw the small fishpond in the northwest, with water splashing up.

A line of small characters, visible only to him, floated above the fishpond.

[Fishpond: lv1]

A dark shadow, about the length of an arm, appeared in the fishpond. He walked forward, somewhat incredulous.

He was stunned at first glance.

Originally, this fishpond only had one semi-spirit fish, the Seven-Star Bass, worth one spirit stone.

Now, that half-spirit fish is gone.

What appeared in the fishpond instead was a first-stage spirit fish worth at least 15 low-grade spirit stones... the Cold Blood Perch.

Is this the effect of a level 1 [Fish Pond]?!

(End of this chapter)