Chapter 10: The Lucky One Revitalizes the Cultivation World (10% Progress)
[It seems so]
996 said uncertainly.
The host seems to know what the cultivation world is, but also doesn't really know what the cultivation world is.
It quickly logged into the system's internal forum and posted, and everyone said they had never encountered this situation before.
Su Xiaoyao took a minute to process this astonishing news, then rallied her spirits and muttered, "Whatever, I have a system now. Consider the suffering I endured before as a test of the protagonist's will."
She quickly let go of that resentment.
Everyone's cultivating immortality, who still cares about palace intrigue? All those scumbag fathers, wicked mothers, and poisonous sisters, get out of my way, you fairy!
After she finished comforting herself, she started asking 996 about the cultivation world.
Based on its friends' suggestions, 996 decided to train its host as an ordinary mortal who knew nothing about the cultivation world, and comprehensively instilled the most basic knowledge in her:
There are eight major realms for cultivators, from lowest to highest: Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Deity Transformation, Body Integration, Mahayana, and Tribulation Transcending.
"So what level is the Saint-grade Marrow Cleansing Pill? It sounds pretty good to be called 'Saint', right?" Su Xiaoyao asked, raising her hand like a high school senior eager for knowledge.
Spiritual artifacts, elixirs, and talismans all have different grades, divided into low-grade, mid-grade, high-grade, super-grade, and holy-grade, with holy-grade being the best. I heard that some players, even with the newbie protection, haven't drawn a single low-grade spiritual artifact. Little Yao has really good luck!
"Wow! I got lucky! As expected of the main character, my luck is amazing!" Su Xiaoyao exclaimed happily.
Amid the cheers, a "coo coo" sound suddenly rang out.
She cupped the source of the sound—her deflated belly—and asked pitifully, "Baby, does the system shop have any food?"
【some】
996 brought up the food page for her.
"Hiss, each ordinary food item costs 1 point. I need at least..." Su Xiaoyao's index finger lingered on the various options, and she swallowed, looking at the pictures making her even hungrier.
"Are points very valuable?" she asked.
【Yes】
Su Xiaoyao opened the panel and frowned at her points, which were displayed as "0": "I can't buy anything now that I don't have any points."
[Clicking on "points" allows you to access the loan function, which is designed for task participants with special circumstances. Task participants without cultivation points have a loan limit of 200 points, but the interest rate is a bit high, so it is generally recommended to avoid developing a habit of overspending unless absolutely necessary.]
"There's a limit based on cultivation level, that's detailed." Su Xiaoyao accepted this well; it's normal for loans to have different limits based on individual credit. "Give me 200 first."
Loan approved
Su Xiaoyao explored the panel for a while and saw the task points that had been lit up.
Main Quest: Severing Ties
Mission: You are Su Xiaoyao, but you are not Su Xiaoyao. You shouldn't bear this karma. Leave the Su family mansion and seek a wider world.
Task Rewards: 10 Experience Points, 10 Points
Su Xiaoyao froze on the spot after reading it: "This...this...only 10 points for completing a task?"
Main quests usually offer smaller rewards, but they are essential to complete.
"Oh, do I have any other tasks?" She couldn't wait to find out how to earn points.
You have just triggered a time-limited mission.
"Tell me about it," Su Xiaoyao said, perking up her ears.
[Limited-Time Mission: Escape from Danger]
Mission objective: You have been trapped on a lone rock by villains. Please extricate yourself from danger as soon as possible.
Task duration: one hour
Task Rewards: 50 Experience Points, 50 Points
Failure penalty: Deduct 100 experience points and 100 points.
Su Xiaoyao was shocked: "That's outrageous! The reward is only 50, but the penalty for failure is a deduction of 100."
Opportunities and risks coexist.
“Okay.” Su Xiaoyao showed a very strong ability to accept things. “Anyway, I have the protagonist’s physique, there’s nothing I can’t do.”
Xiao Yao, why don't you eat something first?
Su Xiaoyao was starving. She originally wanted to exchange for some food so she would have the strength to escape, but while browsing the system shop, she saw a cauldron.
The word "limited" is undeniably tempting for a modern young person.
Su Xiaoyao stretched out her wicked little hand.
Swish.
One hundred points have disappeared.
Do you want to use the magical cauldron?
996, seeing the rock that could sink at any moment, didn't dare to take the things out immediately.
"No need. I don't have any ingredients right now. Even if I threw a piranha in and a dish of food popped out, I wouldn't dare to eat it." She waved her hand and refused.
She bought the magical tripod simply because of its "limited edition" label; its functions and features were secondary.
Having barely escaped death, she decided to live a little more freely.
Originally, Su Xiaoyao just wanted to buy some snacks, but she couldn't suppress her curiosity. Clutching her rumbling stomach, she started exploring the control panel with increasing enthusiasm.
She suddenly noticed something peculiar on the panel.
"You even have a prize pool? What's in it? Is there a guaranteed minimum?" She leaned back warily, asking three questions in quick succession.
With so many lottery scams these days, who doesn't know the power of Pinduoduo's "cut-a-drop" feature? She insisted on checking the drop rates.
[There are different prize pools. If you want to know the rules for one, you can click to view them.]
After searching for a long time, Su Xiaoyao finally found the rules for drawing the low-level prize pool in a very hidden corner, and a realization flashed across her eyes.
Good things are always displayed prominently; hiding them in nooks and crannies indicates something fishy is going on.
Fortunately, she was smart enough to know to check beforehand.
She clicked on the page and carefully read the lottery rules.
Rules for drawing prizes from the lower-level prize pool:
1. Each draw costs 10 points and randomly grants one item.
2. Items of the same quality have the same probability of being sold.
3. Probability Calculation: Common 80%, Low-grade 15%, Medium-grade 4%, High-grade 0.9%, Superior 0.09%, Saint-grade 0.01%
4. Guaranteed Drop Rate Rule: If you haven't obtained a low-grade spirit item in 19 draws, you are guaranteed to get one in the next draw; if you haven't obtained a mid-grade spirit item in 49 draws, you are guaranteed to get one in the next draw; if you haven't obtained a high-grade spirit item in 99 draws, you are guaranteed to get one in the next draw; there is no guaranteed drop rate for super-grade and holy-grade spirit items.
Su Xiaoyao: "...I knew it, the probability was outrageous."
She caught a glimpse of a line of text resembling a bullet screen scrolling by above and subconsciously read it aloud: "The probability of certain spiritual items is temporarily increased in this period's prize pool, which is now a high-level prize pool."
She clicked into the premium prize pool, where the detailed rules were much more prominent.
【Advanced Prize Pool Draw Rules:】
1. Each draw costs 100 points and randomly grants one item.
2. The prize pool has everything imaginable; if you can think of it, you can have it. (It does not include...)
3. Items of the same quality have the same probability of being sold.
4. Probability Calculation: Common 30%, Low-grade 30%, Medium-grade 30%, High-grade 6%, Superior 3%, Saint-grade 1%
5. Guaranteed Drop Rate Rules: If you haven't obtained a low-grade spirit item in 9 draws, you are guaranteed to get one in the next draw; if you haven't obtained a mid-grade spirit item in 19 draws, you are guaranteed to get one in the next draw; if you haven't obtained a high-grade spirit item in 49 draws, you are guaranteed to get one in the next draw; if you haven't obtained a super-grade spirit item in 99 draws, you are guaranteed to get one in the next draw; there is no guaranteed drop rate for holy-grade spirit items.
[Details of the limited-time increased probability of certain spirit items in this period:]
1. For basic lottery rules, please refer to the advanced prize pool lottery rules.
2. For this prize pool, if you do not obtain the special probability-increased item within the first 199 draws, you are guaranteed to obtain it on the 200th draw. This guarantee will only be triggered once during the event.
3. This period's advanced prize pool has a limited-time increased probability of obtaining a Saint-grade Transformation Pill, which can help any rank of spirit beast/demon beast/monster directly detach from its beast form and transform into human form, without the risk of lightning tribulation and without any side effects.
"Honey, your prize pool is rife with corruption! Even Scrooge wouldn't come up with such a shady rule!" Su Xiaoyao exclaimed, cupping her face in her hands. "The drop rate is just too low! How am I going to survive after the newbie protection period ends?!"
She didn't need 996's answer, and muttered to herself, "How can there be 20,000 points to draw from a limited-time prize pool when the server has just opened? This isn't something prepared for us newbies."
As she spoke, a line of large golden characters floated above the prize pool. She rubbed her eyes and watched it float by three times, confirming it a full three times.
—Congratulations to mission taker 1818! You've drawn a Saint-grade Transformation Pill in 200 draws!
"Holy crap, 200 pulls is the pity system, right? This guy is a hardcore player! Wait, I saw this 1818 in the newbie leaderboard. The leaderboard hasn't been updated yet, so it's sorted by number. 1818 sounds like 'want to get rich,' so I remember it very clearly."
Su Xiaoyao was dumbfounded.
They're both newcomers, so the difference between people shouldn't be as great as the difference between a person and a ghost, right?
996 provides timely answers:
[The host of 1818 claimed all the side quest rewards in one go. The side quests were all about cultivation. The host's cultivation level was relatively high, so the specifics cannot be revealed. In short, the host claimed a lot at once, enough to draw 200 times directly.]
"I'm so envious I'm drooling." Su Xiaoyao's eyes were practically glued to the screen.
Looking at the pitiful 100 points remaining on the panel, she suddenly felt weak, helpless, and pathetic.
Don't worry, Xiao Yao. As long as we persevere and work hard, we will definitely surpass them.
"Okay, okay." Su Xiaoyao replied casually, not particularly bothered by the question of whether it surpassed or not. She then asked the crucial question, "Is there food in the low-level prize pool?"
Yes, there are many kinds of food in the "Ordinary" category, and other categories also have food that carries spiritual energy.
I also did a little science popularization on the 996 work schedule:
The low-tier prize pool has a limited variety of items, all displayed on the wheel's labels; the mid-tier prize pool contains more items and is drawn via gacha; the high-tier prize pool has everything, distributed in the form of blind boxes, where participants can feel the weight of the box and choose whether or not to keep it, increasing the probability of that box appearing in front of them.
"The high-level prize pool is a long way off for me. Anyway, there's food in the low-level prize pool. I can't waste my newbie protection period while my luck is good. Let's start drawing!"
She rubbed her hands together and used 100 points to redeem ten chances to draw prizes from the low-level prize pool.
[Exchange for 10 low-level lucky draw chances]
Gazing expectantly at the colorful spinning wheel of the lower prize pool, the pointer stopped and started again and again, spinning endlessly until it was dazzling.
Su Xiaoyao clasped her hands together, held her breath, and prayed that she would draw the prize she wanted.
[Drawing items...]
"Eat, eat, eat, holy food, holy food, holy food." Her lips moved incessantly as if chanting a spell.
As the pointer paused for the last time, she shrank her neck, so nervous that she closed her eyes, unable to look.
She only looked up in a panic when the blinding golden light pierced through her tightly closed eyelids.
[Drawing complete. Congratulations, host, you have obtained: 1 piece of armor that is impervious to water and fire but smells terrible (and even more so to beasts than humans), 1 mung bean cake, 1 sweet potato, ... 1 piece of low-grade armor, and 1 five-star body cultivation technique]
Hearing a series of ordinary items, Su Xiaoyao's mood sank involuntarily. She felt a little better when she heard about low-grade armor, but she was stunned when she heard about the five-star body cultivation technique.
This time, without her even asking, 996 thoughtfully informed her:
[The Five-Star Body Cultivation Technique is equivalent to a Saint-grade spiritual item, Xiao Yao... you're really... lucky!]
Su Xiaoyao's lips trembled slightly, and it took her a while to react: "Baby, I remember the forum for mission participants to communicate has been unlocked, right? Does it have a function to take photos and upload pictures?"
Yes, as long as you don't expose your surroundings, it's an anonymous forum.
"It's okay, there's no need to expose the surrounding environment."
Su Xiaoyao took a deep breath, her confidence overwhelming: "Take a picture of me and upload it! I'm going to make them so envious! What's a whale who's done 200 pulls? I'm blessed with incredible luck, who can compete with me?!"
[Xiao Yao, um, Lv0 doesn't have unlocked posting privileges.]
Su Xiaoyao came to her senses, her gaze sweeping over the suddenly dispersed school of piranhas and settling on the "armor that is impervious to water and fire but reeks of foul odor, and which smells bad to humans but even worse to beasts" at her feet.
"Heh, a mere fathead fish can't stop me from leveling up? Honey, just wait and see how I settle my limited-time mission rewards."
She silently stepped back, took a running start, raised her foot, and finally kicked with all her might!
Stinky fish, eat her smoked fish!
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