Chapter 162 The Chief Steward's Commission
The old man fiddled on the counter for a long time, placed more than a dozen kinds of herbs in front of him, and finally put them into the alchemy furnace one by one.
After everything was done, he carefully put a lotus seed in it .
Buzz!
With a muffled sound, the alchemy furnace was closed.
"Okay, come back here in four hours."
After saying that, he ignored Xu Youming and turned to walk to the counter, leaving the little girl fanning him.
Seeing this, Xu Youming knew that there would be no results for a while, so he used the cheapest jacaranda flowers to charge up Xuan Meng's skills and then left the medicine house.
Jacaranda is no longer suitable for today's players, but for Xu Youming, it is the most cost-effective thing.
For the same 10,000 mana, using Jacaranda can save half the price. After all, this equipment is not affected by the cooldown of medicines and will accept all items that replenish mana.
After leaving the medicine house, Xu Youming thought about clearing today's trial field first . When he walked to the pavilion, he was stopped by the steward again.
"That's amazing. I didn't expect you to be promoted to the third in command so quickly. I hope you can take good care of me in the future ."
Qiao Jiu congratulated Xu Youming, but there was a hint of imperceptible contempt in his eyes.
"You are too polite, butler. Just call me Youming. I should be the one asking the butler to take care of me."
Xu Youming was not just flattering. He received his daily tasks from the steward. Only when the steward was in a good mood would he give him better tasks.
“Hahaha, fine, I’ll continue to call you Youming, and you don’t have to call me the steward anymore. Just call me Brother Qiao.”
"Youming, I have an unwelcome request. I wonder if you can help me."
Xu Youming's face lit up with joy, this was a special mission.
"Brother Qiao, if you have anything to say, please tell me. I will do my best."
Qiao Jiu had a smile on his face and slowly walked up to Xu Youming.
"It's not a big deal. The statue on the back mountain has been in disrepair for a long time, and the Buddha's head has cracked. I want to replace it with a new one, but the brothers can't get up to that position, so I want you to help me smash the old Buddha's head."
[Ding, do you accept Qiao Jiu's commission: remove the old Buddha head]
Xu Youming thought it was a big deal, but it turned out to be just like this.
He had seen the Buddha statue that Qiao Jiu mentioned. It was at the back of the village, carved on a cliff. The location was indeed quite dangerous.
"accept."
"Brother Qiao, leave this matter to me. I will definitely get that thing down as soon as possible."
"You don't have to take it back, just smash it."
After accepting the task, Xu Youming came to the trial field and cleared the entire trial field.
Through these days of hard work, Xu Youming gained more than 10,000 skill experiences for each skill and obtained more than 20 skill books.
Just wait for the cooldown of the Ultimate Trial Field to end, and you can upgrade new skills.
After emerging from the trial field, Xu Youming immediately went to the trading center and bought some high-quality hemp ropes and iron nails that could be nailed to the mountain wall.
The location of the Buddha statue can only be reached by using a rope to hang down from above.
Xu Youming came to the back mountain, found a suitable location, fixed a few thick iron nails, and then wrapped the rope around them.
After doing all this, he threw the other end of the rope directly off the cliff and it landed next to the Buddha statue.
Xu Youming climbed down the rope and successfully reached the Buddha statue.
It is unknown how many years this Buddha statue has stood here. The stone on top has been severely weathered, and it looks even more devastated when you get closer.
After landing on the stone statue, Xu Youming no longer needed the help of the rope. It was enough for several people to stand on it.
When he arrived at the location of the Buddha's head, Xu Youming saw a very exaggerated crack, which looked like it was cut by a sharp weapon.
According to the task instructions, as long as you continue to expand the crack, you can complete the task.
Xu Youming did it right away. He put on a golden mining pick and started smashing the crack.
Ding ding dong!
As Xu Youming continued to swing the hoe, a progress bar began to appear in front of him.
0.00001%
The string of '0's in front made Xu Youming speechless. He didn't know what material this Buddha head was made of, but it was even more difficult to make than those high-grade ores.
However, it was not without benefits for Xu Youming. He noticed that his proficiency in mining would increase a little with every few swings.
In that case, then just think of it as honing your mining skills.
After working in the back mountain for two hours, the progress bar only reached 35%, but my proficiency in mining increased by more than 1,500 points.
If I continue like this, after the mission is completed, even if my mining skills haven’t been upgraded, they will be almost the same.
It turns out that this task is to improve the proficiency of mining skills. Manager Qiao is really polite and gives me such a welfare task right away.
Is this the hidden benefit of being the third in command?
Xu Youming developed a subtle liking for this steward.
It was not until just before going offline that the progress bar in front of me reached 50%, and the rest would have to be done tomorrow.
Xu Youming climbed up the rope and returned to the martial arts hall as usual. Unlike before, this time he practiced directly on the third floor of the martial arts hall.
After logging off, Xu Youming stretched out his body as usual and stretched his muscles. He found that he felt less tired.
Xu Youming didn't care. After taking a shower, he lay down on the bed and fell into a deep sleep.
The next morning, Xu Youming opened his eyes in the martial arts hall.
The progress bar of the technique has reached 3%. After the basic technique has been upgraded to the intermediate level, the improvement has indeed been much slower.
If it was the previous elementary skills, with my own comprehension and the bonus from the martial arts hall, the progress of cultivation could be increased by at least 5%. But now it was cut in half.
But thinking about it, it was reasonable. Xu Youming stood up and walked down from the empty third floor of the martial arts hall.
The third floor of the martial arts hall is currently only used by him, while other bandits can only reach the second floor at most.
When these bandits saw Xu Youming coming down, they greeted him enthusiastically.
After Xu Youming nodded in response, he walked towards the back mountain.
I originally wanted to say hello to Manager Qiao. After all, he gave me such good benefits and I should thank him very much.
But when he passed by the pavilion, he found that Manager Qiao was not there. Helplessly, Xu Youming could only leave alone.
When I came to the back mountain, the nails and hemp ropes from yesterday were still there. They were inside the village, not in the wild monster area, so these things would not refresh.
Going down the rope, Xu Youming continued his work for today.
Looking at the crumbling Buddha head in front of him, it would soon fall downwards.
The cliff doesn’t look very high and there are weeds growing underneath, so it shouldn’t hurt the people in the village.
