Chapter 53 End of the text
Time passes exceptionally fast.
After that crisis, I hope the base will enter a period of rapid development.
The mutant creatures and zombies nearby were almost wiped out in that monster wave, and the remaining ones were insignificant and could hardly pose any threat to the base.
Not to mention the threats, compared to the mutants and zombies chasing and killing humans before, after that crisis, the people in the Hope Base were now looking for mutants everywhere.
It's not just for the crystal cores. The crystal cores obtained by those who participated in the war after a huge crisis are also very considerable.
What they are after are mutant creatures with high potential, mutant seeds, mutant beast eggs and the like.
The newly added items in Jiucang Grocery Store, such as cultivation techniques, elementary alchemy, elementary talisman drawing, elementary weapon refining, etc., have all attracted heated discussions, especially the cultivation techniques, who would not want to have them?
In particular, there are spirit stones in the grocery store that can detect whether a person has the talent for cultivation, and will recommend suitable exercises based on their talent.
Even though the test requires crystal cores, there are still long queues every day.
For those who do not have the talent for cultivation, there are also body-building exercises to choose from. Even if success is more difficult than spiritual cultivation, it is still a hope, especially for ordinary people who have not awakened their special powers.
It’s not that there are no people with evil intentions who want to buy the skills themselves and then resell them.
However, all the skills, including various basic knowledge such as alchemy, talisman drawing, and weapon refining, are all engraved on jade slips. They will disappear after one use, and the content cannot be told to others.
Not to mention that different people have different suitable cultivation methods.
In this way, there will naturally be no second-hand dealers.
The skills sold at Jiucang Grocery Store are not cheap. They either require a lot of crystal cores, or they must be exchanged for things with high potential for adventure.
This is why many people, especially ordinary people, take advantage of this time to search everywhere.
Faced with this situation, Lan Lan was somewhat puzzled.
"There are obviously basic techniques that can be purchased with just one level one crystal core, which can at least be used before building a foundation. Why do these people still want cultivation techniques that they won't be able to use in the short term?"
That’s right, in addition to the exercises tailored to each person’s cultivation aptitude, the grocery store also sells general basic exercises.
The basic method is to ask a base to sell the goods to avoid too many people coming to buy and making the grocery store too crowded.
The price of a first-level crystal core is free for people in the Hope Base, even ordinary people, and they can earn it by working for just one day.
Not to mention that during that crisis, ordinary people who were busy with logistics work in the rear also obtained a lot of crystal cores.
"Because of greed and worry."
Gu Qi was not at all surprised by this situation. She had expected this to happen from the very beginning.
Although those targeted cultivation techniques are expensive, they are still within the affordable range for many people in the Hope Base. However, if they can be exchanged for things they picked up, then it would be equivalent to getting them for free.
Even though the probability of picking up something with high potential is extremely low, even lower than the probability of winning the lottery before the end of the world, some people still think that they will be the next lucky person.
Lan Lan still seemed a little confused and asked, "I know you're greedy, but why are you worried?"
"I'm worried that by the time they reach the point where they need more advanced techniques, they'll have already been sold out."
When Gu Qi first learned about this issue, he was a little surprised. Even after an announcement was issued, many people were still worried.
Those people thought that before the end of the world, who could have imagined that the end of the world would really come, and who could have thought that there would still be a chance to cultivate immortality? But all these things happened, and it was possible that the skills that suited them would be sold out.
Moreover, while these people were worried, they also contributed a lot of faith to Gu Qi, which obviously had nothing to do with whether they trusted Gu Qi.
What they worry about and don't believe is that in today's world, no one knows what will happen tomorrow.
Since it didn't have any impact on Gu Qi, he just let them go.
Anyway, she didn't need to make those jade slips herself. They were a function that appeared after the cave was upgraded to level six. It was this function that made Gu Qi determined to release the skills and other things at this time.
And her cultivation level was high enough so that she didn't have to worry about these things attracting other people's greed.
While the man and the plant were talking, there was a sudden knock on the door.
Gu Qi turned to look at the back door of the shop with some confusion.
Who would come to see her at this time?
At this time, she and Lan Lan were resting in the backyard of the shop, which was the backyard of the spiritual weapon shop where she refined spirit weapons. They knew there was a door at the back, but few people could get close to it.
Base Captain Fang and his brother should be busy with various matters at the base, as well as dealing with inquiries from other bases or negotiating cooperation matters.
Xin Nan should be helping out, Sister Wen is probably on patrol right now, and Zhang Bei is preparing to go to the central base with Wen Lei and the others to look for someone...
Gu Qi suddenly discovered that he had met a lot of people without realizing it, and was no longer alone like in his previous life.
While thinking, she waved and opened the back door.
When she saw the person standing outside the door, she was stunned. She didn't expect it to be Tiantian.
Tiantian's strength can be improved so much in a short period of time, which is obviously inseparable from her hard practice. As a practice maniac, she is either practicing or going out to gain experience every day. Why would he suddenly come to her?
Under Gu Qi's puzzled gaze, Tiantian explained her purpose: "Sister Xi, I have awakened my superpowers."
Gu Qi didn't ask her what superpower she had awakened. His eyes swept over her and he immediately had the answer in his heart.
Just like in her previous life, Tiantian awakened water-related abilities.
Just looking at Tiantian's expression, she doesn't seem to be very happy, but rather a little conflicted?
why is that?
Gu Qi asked directly: "Is there any problem with the superpower?"
Tiantian shook her head and then nodded.
After hesitating for a few seconds, he finally expressed his thoughts: "I don't want superpowers. It will slow down my cultivation. I heard that Sister Xi can help people melt superpower cores. I would like to ask Sister Xi to help me melt that superpower core as well."
Gu Qi raised his brows slightly, a little surprised.
This was the first person who took the initiative to find her and said he wanted to melt his superpower core. Before this, the reason why people who embarked on the path of cultivation melted their superpower cores was because their superpower cores had been broken.
Being broken is different from being damaged. Even if the energy core is restored, it will still have some impact on cultivation. It is not an impact that slows down the cultivation speed, but an impact that makes it impossible to draw energy into the body.
Those whose only superpower cores are damaged will not have this problem. At most, it will be slower and more difficult.
But no one would want to melt their superpower core, even if it would make their training easier and their physical fitness better.
These people all think that cultivation + superpowers are equivalent to double protection, especially when facing a battle, it is a trump card.
At least for now, this is true.
Thinking this way, Gu Qi also said to Tiantian: "There is nothing wrong with your superpower core. Although it will slow down your cultivation speed now, it will also give you an extra trump card. Moreover, it will be very painful to melt the superpower core when it is intact. Are you sure you want to do this?"
"I'm sure." Tiantian nodded without hesitation, her face full of determination. She said, "I want to focus on one."
"...Okay, I
Help you. "
Gu Qi did not try to persuade her anymore. She could see that Tiantian was very determined about this idea.
However, melting the superpower core is not a bad thing for other practitioners. After all, the technique she practices is quite special and can convert spiritual power and superpowers without loss. Others will consume some energy in the process, and this consumption is not small.
To be honest, improving one's supernatural powers while practicing is actually a matter of getting half the result with twice the effort for most people.
But other people don’t have Tiantian’s decisiveness and determination.
And her perseverance is also very strong. She persisted in the painful task of melting the intact superpower core while staying awake throughout the whole process.
After watching Tiantian leave, Gu Qi suddenly had an idea in his mind.
She could foresee that after Tiantian's body was tempered by the supernatural core, her cultivation speed would be even faster than before. Once this example was put in front of her, it would probably attract many people to come to her.
Gu Qi had other plans and did not intend to stay at the Hope Base for long. Even if she was still at the base, she did not have enough time to help people melt the energy cores one by one.
Her idea was to develop a pill that could help people refine superpower cores!
"If anyone comes looking for me again, just tell them I'm in seclusion."
After leaving these words, Gu Qi's figure disappeared from Lan Lan's sight and returned to the cave through the teleportation array.
…
Ten days later, Gu Qi came out of the alchemy room, holding a white porcelain bottle in his hand, with joy on his face.
She has refined the elixir that can melt the supernatural core!
After inputting the recipe into the alchemy puppets, Gu Qi took the pills back to the Hope Base.
As soon as she appeared in the backyard of the store, she saw Gu Yuan who had been waiting there for who knows how long.
"Brother, why are you here? Are you done with your work?"
Gu Qi was a little surprised. He had the impression that there were quite a few bases at that time, and most of the top leaders in those bases were not easy to talk to. How could they finish the discussion so quickly?
"Not yet." Gu Yuan shook his head slightly, his expression slightly tired, but his eyes were exceptionally bright, as if he had encountered some happy event.
Seeing the joy in his eyes, Gu Qi jokingly guessed, "Are you here to tell me the good news that I'm going to have a sister-in-law?"
After hearing the first half of Gu Qi's words, Gu Yuan was about to nod, but just as he was halfway through nodding, he heard the second half of her words and said helplessly, "No, not yet."
Gu Qi was not surprised at all. Given her brother's personality, he might not have been able to win over Sister Wen by the time she brought her brother-in-law to him.
Glancing at Jiucang who was hiding beside him, Gu Qi didn't ask about his brother's love affairs anymore. Instead, he asked, "What made you so happy?"
"The test results for the bucket of soil you gave to the base commander last time are out. The soil contains no harmful substances, only energy fluctuations similar to supernatural powers. Edible vegetables have now been successfully grown."
He then asked, "Do you want to go with me to take a look?"
Gu Qi was also curious about what grew in the soil, so he nodded in agreement.
On the way, Gu Yuan also told Gu Qi that after testing, the soil can remain unchanged for at least ten years and can even purify the harmful energy in ordinary seeds.
"Where are the mutant seeds?"
"At present, it seems that mutant seeds cannot be planted and may even contaminate the soil, reducing its usable life." Gu Yuan recalled the test report he had read earlier and added, "It is also possible that there is too little soil to purify the mutant seeds."
Gu Qi nodded in understanding, thinking of the big pit that was struck by lightning, and the branches of the sacred tree sapling in it.
If it is planted in that place, can it purify the harmful energy in the mutant seeds?
The harmful energy mentioned by the researchers should be the dirty energy that can make mutant creatures and zombies mad, and the violent elements in the spiritual energy in the air.
It wasn't just the pit as big as the base city that was struck by the lightning, but also the surrounding soil, which had also been baptized by the Nascent Soul + Spirit Severing Thunder Tribulations.
After arriving at the place and seeing the ordinary plants growing there and the mutant seeds that had not yet sprouted, Gu Qi was certain that the harmful energy the researchers were talking about was actually the dirty energy.
The dirty energy in the mutated seeds is relatively more abundant and more stubborn, and it is obviously impossible to purify it with just the soil.
If the mutant seeds can grow into usable plants, they can alleviate the pressure of food shortage better than ordinary plants, because mutant plants grow faster, larger, and contain more energy.
"Master Xi, I heard that this soil was provided by you. I wonder if you still have it? Or do you have any intention of selling this soil in the grocery store?"
"Master Xi, could you please tell me how you revitalize the soil, remove the harmful energy from it, and keep it in this state?"
"Master Xi, you..."
Facing the heated gazes of many researchers, Gu Qi decisively said, "I won't sell the soil in grocery stores."
The researchers' eyes suddenly dimmed. Some of them were about to say something when they heard the second half of her sentence.
"There's a lot of this soil at the original base. You can dig it up directly if you want to study it, but I suggest you conduct experiments directly there. As for how the soil became like this..."
Gu Qi paused, looked up at Captain Fang Ji at the back of the crowd, and continued, "I guess it's because of the baptism of thunder. Cultivators usually go through the thunder baptism in the Jindan stage."
With this result, I believe that Base Commander Fang and his team will be able to negotiate with other bases more quickly, right?
There are not many high-potential plants or animals available around the base. If you want to upgrade your cave faster, you have to open more branches and go to other bases to collect more resources.
It is not impossible for Gu Qi to open a store directly in other bases, but it will cause a lot of trouble.
If it could save her some trouble, she would rather wait a few more days until Base Commander Fang and other bases could come up with a conclusion.
She hadn't mentioned this before because she wasn't sure, but now that the soil's effectiveness has been proven, it's natural to add another chip to the Hope Base.
Compared with other bases, Gu Qi naturally wants the Hope Base where his brother, Sister Wen and others are located to develop stronger.
Two days later, Gu Qi received news that the Hope Base had reached an agreement with other large and medium-sized bases.
She left behind a few puppets, took the newly refined spiritual weapon shop and set off on a sword.
Gu Qi left for three years.
During this period, he returned to Hope Base, but only stayed for two or three days before continuing to set off to other places to open shops and collect various resources.
Whenever she went to a place, she would be warmly welcomed by that base, and countless senior officials of the base wanted to get close to her.
Because of her strong strength, even if some people were jealous of the things in her store and wanted to use some tricks, they were unsuccessful and could only go to the store to buy them honestly.
During this period, she also encountered some base atmospheres that disgusted her. That base respected people with special abilities, and ordinary people were just their slaves. Women in particular had the lowest status, and even female people with special abilities were reduced to playthings.
Those people even set their sights on her, wanting to kill her and steal her treasures, and used those women as bait to lure her into a trap.
In the end, his plan naturally failed and he was killed in return.
It wasn't Gu Qi who fought back, but the woman they despised the most who fought back.
After that base, Gu Qi changed his plan and chose to enter other bases in a stealth manner, observe first, and then decide whether to open a store outside that base.
If I encounter something I can't stand, I will still take action.
After her actions, some bases began to make changes when they discovered that she could avoid bases with bad practices when opening stores. This unexpectedly allowed many chaotic bases to gradually restore some order.
As for the top leaders of those bases who were unwilling to change, there were even cases where they were assassinated by the masters of the base, or there was a large loss of personnel in the base. They chose to leave these bases and go to the bases with Jiucang Grocery Store.
Before this, these oppressed people were afraid that going to other bases would still be a den of wolves and tigers.
After Gu Qi started opening stores in various places and her store opening standards spread, people knew that as long as there were branches of Jiucang Grocery Store, ordinary people would not become slaves and women would not become playthings of the strong. It was a place where the light of hope existed.
The result is——
Gu Qi received more faith power, and from time to time, golden light of merit fell, which allowed her cultivation to improve rapidly.
Good things should be kept within the family, so whenever she was about to make a breakthrough, she would go back to Hope Base to weather the storm.
Three years later, her cultivation had reached a new level, her cave was almost repaired, and she had also found the mutant creature with culinary talent that she had been looking for.
It was the green round egg that Tiantian took out at the beginning.
When the egg hatches,
A cat was accidentally hatched, a white cat with wings.
When it grew up a little, Gu Qi realized that it was not a cat at all, but a tiger.
But no matter what race it is or why it was hatched from an egg, the final result was that it was sent to Wan Shiwen as an apprentice, and now it has become a delicious cook.
There are more and more cultivators in the last days, and some people with talents in alchemy, drawing talismans, refining weapons or forming formations gradually appear.
There are even people with space-related abilities who really create space equipment using the same excuse as Gu Qi had given before!
There are also people with awakened control abilities who, after switching to cultivation, are found to be suitable for practicing plant or beast control techniques.
In the large pit at the original site of the Hope Base, the mutant seeds were successfully planted and grew into edible, non-toxic and harmless plants.
Everything is moving in the right direction.
That day, Gu Qi and Jiu Cang had just returned to the backyard of the grocery store outside the Hope Base through the teleportation array when they saw thunderclouds gathering in the distance.
"Has someone reached the Golden Core stage?" Gu Qi was a little surprised, and at the same time, a candidate emerged in his mind.
Tiantian.
If she were to ask who in the base she hoped could break through to the Golden Core stage so quickly, the first person she thought of would be Tiantian.
He has excellent talent for cultivation, and his character and understanding are also good. He is walking very steadily on the path of cultivation.
As it turned out, her guess was not wrong.
The person who is undergoing the tribulation is Tiantian.
Gu Qi's situation was rather special at the time and she did not pass the Jindan thunder tribulation, but later she increased the number of thunder tribulations in the Yuanying thunder tribulation, which enabled her to eliminate so many zombies.
Others do not have magical artifacts such as caves, so they will naturally face thunder tribulations when they break through to the golden elixir stage.
Gu Qi also saw that outside the range where Tiantian was undergoing the tribulation, many familiar-looking researchers were recording something.
When Tiantian successfully overcame the tribulation and the spiritual rain fell, the researchers quickly collected the soil from the ground and packed it up in different categories.
The final test results were the same as before. The harmful energy in the land struck by the thunderbolt disappeared completely. After the spiritual rain fell, the soil became stable and would no longer be invaded by harmful energy in the short term. It also had a slight purification effect.
However, whether in terms of duration or purification effect, the land where Tiantian underwent the tribulation was far different from the land where Gu Qi had previously undergone the tribulation.
It can roughly achieve 20% to 30% of the effect of her Nascent Soul Tribulation Thunder.
After confirming that his guess was correct, Gu Qi no longer paid attention to this matter.
because--
She is going to face tribulation again!
After Tiantian successfully passed the tribulation, another larger ball of golden light of merit fell on her.
As Gu Qi successfully overcame the tribulation, a familiar line of ink calligraphy appeared again.
Jiucang Cave
Repair progress: 100%
Gu Qi did not read the long list of details that followed, but quickly returned to the backyard of the grocery store and asked Jiu Cang beside him with a smile.
"Now, can you tell me what's in the innermost part of the core warehouse?"
The cave has been completely repaired, and the innermost part of the core warehouse will be opened.
Meeting her gentle smiling eyes, Jiu Cang's face flushed again. He didn't dare to look at her, but he was reluctant to leave.
Finally, he followed his previous promise and took out the things that he had carefully stored in the innermost part of the core warehouse.
They were a pair of wooden figures.
A pair of wooden figurines carved by Gu Qi in the likeness of her and Jiu Cang.
The carving is not very good, and can even be said to be a bit rough, but you can still see that the two little figures are very similar to Gu Qi and Jiu Cang.
Gu Qi was a little surprised when he saw this pair of wooden figures, but after thinking about it carefully, he felt that it was expected.
Jiucang's face became redder and redder, especially his earlobes.
He held the wooden figurine in his left hand and nervously clutched his sleeve with his right hand, not daring to meet Gu Qi's eyes.
The smile on Gu Qi's lips deepened.
"You're going to tear my sleeves."
She reached out and took his right hand, smoothed his sleeve, and shook it.
Fingers interlocked.
Feeling her movement, Jiu Cang looked up in surprise, and met a pair of gentle eyes full of smiles. He also saw the emotions in her eyes, which were the eyes he had seen countless times in his dreams, but dared not recall.
The sight of the two of them holding hands like this was a scene he had imagined countless times but had tried hard to suppress in the deepest part of his consciousness.
"Aqi, I..."
Jiu Cang wanted to say something, but didn't know what to say for a moment. It seemed as if fireworks were blooming in his mind.
"What?" Gu Qi moved closer and asked, "You broke the bond with the cave, do you want to leave me?"
"Of course not!"
Jiu Cang quickly denied it and said seriously: "I will never leave Aqi."
"Then what do you want to do?" Gu Qi looked at his earlobes which were getting redder and redder, his eyes filled with smiles.
She didn't know when it started, but she got used to having Jiu Cang around.
She didn't know when it started, but she no longer regarded him as a mere spirit or a tool, but as a person like herself, and began to not want him to do things that would damage his origin.
And when did Jiu Cang start to have the idea of becoming a human?
Gu Qi thought, it should have been before he traveled back from the world of immortal cultivation?
"I want to become a person like Aqi." Jiucang couldn't help but move his fingers and gently held her hand.
"I also want to tell Ah Qi that I like you."
From a long time ago, before he was bound to her, he had been secretly paying attention to Aqi, and came up to her and took the initiative to sign a contract with her.
The contract between him and Aqi was never a coincidence.
Gu Qihui held his hand and was about to say something when he heard a light cough from the side.
"Xiaoqi, what are you doing?"
Gu Yuan held a stack of information in his hand, his eyes fixed on the two people's clasped hands, and his scrutinizing gaze swept over Jiu Cang from head to toe.
Is this the person who named Xiaoqi's mutant creatures?
Gu Qi lifted up their clasped hands and shook them, then smiled softly, "Brother, let me introduce him to you. He's your future brother-in-law."
It was exactly as she had thought before.
She brought the person to her brother, but her brother still hasn't caught up with Sister Wen.
Seeing the mockery in her eyes, Gu Yuan felt a little helpless. At the same time, he was also very clear that Xiao Qi had introduced herself to him in this way, and it was obvious that she had made up her mind.
Gu Yuan pursed his lips and handed the information in his hand to Gu Qi. Without replying, he said, "This is the observation result of the contracts between humans and mutant creatures recorded in the past three years. According to the test results, the harmful energy in the bodies of all mutant creatures that have reached a contract with humans is gradually decreasing."
After saying this, he looked at Jiu Cang and asked, "Shall we talk?"
Let's talk about how he stole his own cabbage, and then examine whether this person is worthy of his sister.
"good."
Jiu Cang nodded.
Gu Qi followed up by saying, "Let's chat together."
Without waiting for Gu Yuan to refuse, she said, "Or I can go talk to Sister Wen."
"I won't eat him." Gu Yuan rolled his eyes at her helplessly, but still nodded in agreement.
Gu Qi followed with a smile. At least now it was not appropriate for Jiu Cang to talk to his brother alone. Even if he behaved like an ordinary person in front of him, it might not be the same for others.
However, what surprised her was that Jiu Cang performed better than she expected, at least his brother didn't notice anything unusual.
Obviously, it was not only her who grew along the way, but Jiu Cang as well.
There is still a long way to go.
She will continue to walk with the people around her.
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