Survival at Sea: I Became Number One by Growing Mushrooms

The girl replaced all the materials with various high-grade potions. She took the potions and was very satisfied. The quality was the best she had ever seen, without any impurities. As expected of a level nine alchemist, her strength was simply terrifying.

She had tried different high-grade potions before, but the quality varied greatly. Some of the potions were even a bit cloudy. They were called high-grade potions, but they were only slightly better than mid-grade potions.

Although the boss's demands for compensation were demanding, the quality was impeccable, and the price was very reasonable.

This was the first time she had ever seen such a clear potion, with even the liquid shimmering with a bright light. She took a small sip of the stamina potion and instantly felt refreshed. Her fatigue completely disappeared, and her physical condition even improved slightly.

Her eyes lit up. This was such a good deal! This small sip of the potion was equivalent to the effect of buying a bottle of high-grade potion from someone else.

So she took out several more precious materials and exchanged them all for potions.

Xu Jiawei was happy to make the deal. She was still quite short of rare materials. It would be great if all the materials were rare herbs. When the group saw that the girl had exchanged almost all of her wealth for the potion after taking a sip, they were very curious about what kind of magic the potion had.

Judging from the color, the medicine was indeed of very good quality, but it wasn't worth going bankrupt to exchange for it. Some people, out of curiosity, also exchanged a few bottles of the medicine.

He looked pained, regretting his decision. He should have just used the common materials to exchange for some basic and intermediate potions.

These are precious medicinal herbs that he has been saving for a long time and hasn't been willing to use yet.

He took a small sip of the potion and immediately perked up. "Damn, this potion is so effective! Just a small sip each time will last a long time. It's such a good deal! It's even cheaper than buying a mid-grade potion."

But he was out of rare materials, so he shamelessly approached and asked, "Big boss, I'm out of rare materials. Can I trade some common herbs for them?"

Xu Jiawei thought for a moment and said, "Okay, but you can get much less potion in exchange for ordinary herbs."

After a moment's thought, she realized that the amount of herbs needed to make one potion of medicine was enough to exchange for one bottle of medicine, since labor costs were very high, especially now that she was a level nine pharmacist, her price was even higher.

This price is already a concession she made out of consideration for us being fellow Earthlings.

The man was overjoyed, not expecting it to actually work. Unfortunately, he hadn't collected many herbs, enough to exchange for only two bottles. It seemed he would have to collect more herbs in the future. When the crowd saw that even the man had gone bankrupt, they became even more curious and joined in to buy some.

However, they were still somewhat skeptical of the performance of the two people mentioned earlier.

So these people exchanged the common herbs they had collected for the potion. After taking a small sip, they were instantly stunned, and then they went bankrupt to find Xu Jiawei to exchange for the potion.

Even the girl who started at the beginning took out the ordinary herbs she had collected and exchanged them all for potions.

Everyone's smiles were genuine. Although they had spent their most precious resources, this potion greatly enhanced their ability to survive. Wasn't the purpose of collecting these precious materials to craft or exchange for life-saving equipment?

Xu Jiawei had made a small profit; the herbs in front of her were piled up like a small mountain. So she released Rainbow and put these things into Rainbow's belly.

The group stared at the suddenly appearing mushroom. There it was! The big boss's mount! It turned out the big boss had more than one mount. They were so envious they could cry.

As expected of a mushroom master! The group stared at the rainbow with great curiosity, even though it looked like just an ordinary mushroom.

Bai Jian also came over, looking at Xu Jiawei with admiration. As expected of her master, the quality of the potion was worlds apart from hers.

Bai Jian made up her mind to work even harder in the future.

After the transaction was completed, almost an hour had passed, and no new priests arrived until the very last minute. It seemed that these temple guys had basically abandoned these ordinary sources of pollution and focused all their defensive efforts on the advanced sources of pollution.

We need to be more careful in the future. As for these primary sources of pollution, they are perfect for ordinary players to grow.

The system should assign pollution sources based on strength, unless someone like Robert has the Light attribute, in which case it's possible to be assigned pollution sources that exceed her strength.

Robert is now struggling with the high-level pollution source, while Bai Yu and the others have been assigned to the medium-level pollution source. Their difficulty is gradually increasing, and Xu Jiawei, who keeps lowering the difficulty, is practically the first one.

[Ding! Congratulations on solving the low-difficulty pollution source. You have received 2 Diamond Chests and 100 Contribution Points. (How dare you! Tell me, what difficulty level are you going to try next?)]

Xu Jiawei touched her nose. Even she felt that with her current strength, fighting a primary source of pollution was simply bullying them.

So she plans to go to a higher-level island next time. Sigh, there's nothing she can do; she's destined to be a lone wolf. No player is strong enough to be assigned to the same island as her. Si Yunming might be a possibility, but other players shouldn't even think about it, unless Xu Jiawei voluntarily lowers the difficulty, like she is now.

But since the system had said that, even if Xu Jiawei was thick-skinned, she didn't want to continue going to the low-level polluted islands. Besides, the contribution points were ridiculously low. She would have to solve 100 primary pollution sources to equal 1 advanced pollution source.

So what if it's dangerous? Now that she has a life-saving skill, she won't easily fall into the Dark God's trap.

"System, next island, I want to go to a high-level + polluted island," Xu Jiawei said, interrupting everyone's conversation.

Everyone listened intently, and their faces were filled with admiration. He truly deserves to be called a big shot; he's awesome.

I never expected that a pro could even choose the difficulty level. That's amazing! But the pro's choice is truly admirable.

If it were them, they would only choose to loaf around in primary pollution sources and wait to die. No wonder they are big shots; they are different from people like them, actively choosing highly dangerous pollution sources.

This place is called a game, but who can really treat it as a game? After all, people really die here, and the death rate is ridiculously high.

In video games, most people would choose to take a gamble, but here people can really die, so players become more conservative in their choices. Unless it's a matter of life and death, no one will risk their life.

They were also conservatives; they lacked the courage to risk their lives when they still had a choice.

While there was still time, Xu Jiawei sent Caihong to collect herbs. The others, who were dealing with the pollution source for the first time, only now realized that they had three hours to stay after dealing with the pollution source. So they all said goodbye and went to collect supplies.

Now only Bai Jian and Xu Jiawei remained. Bai Jian felt a little lost. She had just met her master, and now they had to part ways again. Perhaps, this natural disaster would make it difficult for them to meet again.