Chapter 167 Body Tempering Pill
Except for a lot of troubles in the first month, life in winter was basically stable afterwards.
Ever since Xuantian City helped a sick child in Jile City last time, professional players from other city-states have come here specifically to purchase supplies.
They have almost adapted to winter life.
Now in the entire Jinjiang District, there are only two most famous city-states, one is Jidu City in the north, and the other is Xuantian City in the south.
However, judging from the conversations in the dialogue channel, Xuantian City is still better than Jidu City.
Lu Jiu has also gradually heard about Jidu City recently. The life there is completely opposite to theirs. Xuantian City is more free, and professional residents and ordinary residents live in harmony.
Jidu City is like a place where rules are supreme. It seems that there is an iron-fisted rule. The city lord forcefully buys food from the residents and offers a very low price.
The professional residents there also have to hand over a certain amount of meat, and even the materials they sell have to be sold first to the city lord's shop.
However, the prices there are not high, all the NPCs in the shops have high-level talents, and the equipment and props they produce are of good quality. Compared with the neighboring city-states, Jidu City is the best choice for many residents.
At least the city lord's actions did prevent any major conflicts from occurring in the city.
Too many city lords didn't pay attention to the importance of NPCs at the beginning, and even treated them as errand boys, only to realize what a stupid thing they had done later.
But not everyone can afford the cost of hiring a high-level talent NPC.
Today is the NPC payday again. Lu Jiu feels like a money-giving boy, giving the NPCs dozens of gold coins every month. Even the professional teams that go out to collect and mine need supplies.
The pharmacy manager was the last one to collect his salary and report on the pharmacy's revenue this month. However, Lu Jiu didn't care much about this matter, as Shen Jufeng took care of it all.
Lu Jiu handed the correct amount of gold coins to the store manager NPC, but the other party did not take the money and turn around and leave like before. Instead, he stared at her.
She felt uncomfortable being stared at, "What's wrong?"
The store manager seemed a little hesitant. He opened his mouth and spoke after a while, "Can I return one of the gold coins? Can I exchange it for a Refining Fruit?"
Lu Jiu was stunned for a moment, looking at the gold coin the NPC handed her, "Do you still need this? Isn't this for food and potions?"
She was not afraid of embarrassment. When she first heard the name of the Tempering Fruit, she knew it was non-toxic and ate one, but she didn't feel anything special. The taste was similar to that of a grape.
It tastes very good.
The NPC seemed to have made up his mind. "I just think it's a waste for you to eat it directly. Besides, I recently learned a new way to refine pills. I can make body-hardening pills to improve my qualifications in all aspects."
After saying this, Shen Jufeng ignored the things at hand and listened attentively to what she said.
"The uses of Tempering Fruit are more than you can imagine. Moreover, the batch you collected earlier was low-grade Tempering Fruit, the first batch of fruit produced by these trees. The more times these trees bear fruit, the greater the chance of producing intermediate or high-grade Tempering Fruit."
Lu Jiu was stunned. A single Tempering Fruit could have so many tricks. "So, what the Tempering Pill improves, for example, is the total value of our physical attributes, just like when we kill wild monsters, we'll be rewarded with an increase in the total value of our attributes."
The store manager NPC nodded. "Almost, but there are other benefits. For example, those who have skills can also use the Tempering Pill to improve the skill level. Skills can be upgraded. Otherwise, with the current skill quality, it will be difficult for you to deal with the high-level monsters that appear in the future."
Lu Jiu knew that what the NPC said was correct. For example, the wild monsters they encountered now already had a HP base of over ten thousand, but their attack attributes were still in the hundreds.
Even if the attack value is increased, the few seconds of control are not enough to deal much damage. They can't imagine what the situation will be like when they encounter silver and gold level monsters.
"Then do you take the Body Tempering Pill to improve the quality of the medicine?" Lu Jiu asked.
"That's right. Although I have a talent for advanced alchemy, superb alchemy skills need to be honed and improved. Talent doesn't mean I will definitely become a master alchemist. It's just that if there is that opportunity, I also need to improve my physical fitness and mental strength in order to refine potions with better properties."
Lu Jiu didn't quite understand what she needed to do to refine the medicine, but it seemed that whether she was fighting outside or refining medicine, she needed excellent physical fitness and mental strength.
"Actually, I've been growing, just not fast enough. But when I saw the Quenching Fruit and the geographical environment of this area, I knew this was my chance."
Lu Jiu could understand what the NPC meant by growth. For example, the potions sold in the store at the beginning did not increase much health and physical strength, but after the Tempering Fruit appeared, the quality of the potions had a qualitative leap.
This is not only the effect of the tempering fruit, but also the NPC in the pharmacy has indeed become stronger, but not as powerful as their enhanced attack attributes.
Shen Jufeng was still looking down in thought, and when he saw that the NPC stopped talking, he knew that this was all she could say.
Lu Jiu made a decision immediately. "Then I'll pay you a thousand Tempering Fruits first, and I'll give you half of my salary thereafter. As for the Body Tempering Pills, you just need to refine them, and I'll provide the materials."
The store manager NPC wants the Tempering Fruit only to make Tempering Pills for his own use. They will not take anything from the store, and only their wages are considered their supplies.
The store manager took the tempering fruit and went back, leaving Lu Jiu and Shen Jufeng still digesting what they had just said.
Lu Jiu tilted his head and took out a Tempering Fruit. "I originally thought it was just a fruit with good effects, but I didn't expect it to be so useful."
What’s even more terrifying is that giant trees can be seen everywhere, and when these fruits are ripe in the future, anyone who has the ability to reach the top of the tree can pick them.
If everyone knew about this effect, picking the tempering fruit would not be as easy as before.
"But this also answers my previous question. I originally thought that the current attributes of the skills were easy to deal with ordinary monsters, and they were okay for Brown Iron level, but it was hard to say for higher levels. It turns out that they can really be upgraded."
Today this question has been solved, and it’s good that I can upgrade.
"I did think about it, but I was wondering if there were cards that increased skill attribute values, but I just didn't get them yet. Or maybe they appeared after the beast tide besieged the city."
It has been reminded during the major game updates that after each global beast tide siege, new forces will come again.
Shen Jufeng also thought so, "It is undeniable that such a card is likely to appear. The game world will not give us too many things at once."
If you give everything at the beginning, it will disrupt a certain balance.
It might be okay for players who take the lead, as the game world needs such people to be strong so that they can rule the city-state more easily. The prosperity of a city-state also requires the city lord himself to be very powerful.
However, there are also equipment that is prohibited for players to use first. Lu Jiu has said before that the magic sets and ultra-high-level equipment such as the Ultimate level that she had synthesized before are all unusable.
Give players like them a high starting point, but not an unlimited ceiling.
(End of this chapter)
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