Chapter 44: Return and Sacrifice
When I saw the tutor's castle from afar, there were only two days left until the big class at the end of the month.
Entering the castle, Li Qing let out a long breath.
After parting with the three Xie Zhu brothers, Li Qing first returned to his residence and then reported to his tutor.
The tutor already knew when he returned and met him in the study.
"What did you learn from this experience?"
Li Qing sat in front of his tutor's desk, thought carefully for a while, and said:
"Difficult and unpredictable!"
Nie Yang smiled and said:
"Tell me."
Li Qing answered seriously:
"This time we discovered a tribe of gnolls. In addition to dealing with these alien indigenous tribes, we also need to deal with other competitors. This is a test of our determination and strength on the battlefield."
Nie Yang raised his eyebrows and asked:
"Did you run into anyone else?"
Li Qing nodded:
"Yes, I met Chu Zaizhong."
"You guys had a conflict?"
"Um……"
Li Qing paused for a moment and took the initiative to answer:
"We had a conflict over the indigenous tribe. Later, he tried to attack me from behind while I was attacking the indigenous tribe, but I saw through his plan and defeated him, causing some losses."
"Is anyone okay?"
"No, I didn't touch a hair on his head."
"Well, that's all right."
Nie Yang said seriously:
"In the wild, friction and fighting are inevitable, but remember to have a bottom line. You must not attack the War Lord's apprentice for any reason or in any direct or indirect way."
"The power of Blackrock Spire can monitor the entire plane fragment group. Any accidental death of a warlord apprentice will be thoroughly investigated. Don't take any chances."
Li Qing nodded repeatedly:
"I always remember it."
"Just remember it."
Nie Yang had no intention of delving into the matter further. He clasped his hands together and asked again:
"Since you successfully conquered the indigenous tribe, what did you gain?"
Li Qing pursed his lips and said seriously:
"Teacher, I found some strange things in the native tribe besides the undead this time. I also got two things after killing the tribe's hero. I would like to ask you to take a look at them."
Nie Yang nodded with interest:
"Show it to me."
Li Qing stretched out his hand and took out the sacrificial array and the damaged magic pattern construction card.
Nie Yang took the card and glanced at it. The next second his eyes paused, a hint of surprise appeared on his face, and he looked up and said:
"Is this what you gained during this experience?"
"Yes."
"No reason!"
Nie Yang pinched his chin, looking puzzled.
Seeing this, Li Qing asked in a low voice:
"Teacher, is there anything wrong with these two things?"
Nie Yang waved his hand:
"The stuff is fine, but..."
"You destroyed a small alien tribe with less than a thousand people and killed a third-level hero. Can you gather spoils of this level?"
“This is not normal!”
Li Qing asked in confusion:
"What's wrong with that?"
"Well……"
The instructor pinched his brows and suddenly smiled:
"That's right. Although it's unlikely under normal circumstances, if you're lucky, it's possible to condense it, but the probability is very small..."
Nie Yang calmed down, raised the two cards in his hand and said to him:
"Since you can condense it, it means you are lucky. You are going to make a lot of money this time."
"Let's take a look at this sacrificial array first. This thing should be the power projection of a Chaos Lord from the Chaos Void Sea. From your description, it should be related to death. This is a one-time sacrificial array. You can prepare various treasures to open the array and communicate with the Chaos Lord's will and exchange."
"Chaos Lord?"
Li Qing suppressed his surprise and asked in a low voice:
"Isn't that the main enemy of human civilization?"
Nie Yang smiled and said:
"You are indeed the main enemy of human civilization, but you are far from being worthy of the Chaos Lord's attention. You are just a tiny thing. The one communicating with this sacrificial array is not the Chaos Lord's true body, but the one who holds the power of exchange. The Chaos Lord is just using the power of exchange, and you will not be noticed by him at all."
"But you have to be careful about one thing. Although the sacrificial array can theoretically exchange anything, including power, you must never exchange power."
Without waiting for Li Qing to ask, the instructor took the initiative to explain:
"The power of exchange comes from the Chaos Lord. If you accept this power, it is equivalent to leaving a mark on your body. It's okay now, but in the future when you are promoted to a formal War Lord, you will be discovered by the Chaos Lord immediately. Once you leave the Eternal Divine Tree, the Chaos Lord can use this coordinate to go to the plane where you descended."
"The weakest Chaos Lord is comparable to a God's Throne. With your strength as a newly promoted War Lord, can you withstand the Chaos Lord's attack?"
Li Qing immediately said:
"I see. Does the instructor have any good suggestions?"
"You can exchange for high-level troop cards, high-level hero cards, advanced knowledge, spell scrolls, magic weapons, war beasts and other treasures."
"But the exchange is equivalent. If you want to exchange for something good, you must exchange it with something of corresponding value. Think about what you can offer in exchange."
"By the way, your kind of thing has a sacrifice limit. I'm not sure what the exact limit is, so you can research it yourself."
"OK, all right."
"Also, your instructor has three suggestions for this fragment of magic pattern construction. Please refer to them carefully."
"Teacher, please speak."
"The first use is for the instructor to go back to the academy and ask a magic pattern construction apprentice to cut it, cut off the damaged parts, and keep the intact parts. The damaged parts that are cut off will be used as labor fees."
"The second method is to exchange it for a good three-star basic attribute build, or multiple one-star or two-star builds."
"The third method is to keep it for now. When you have money in the future, you can find a real magic pattern construction master to repair this fragment. Once it is repaired, at least the core hero talent of Berserker Blood can be restored. If you are lucky, you can even restore the legacy of the legendary hero 'Divine Warrior'."
"But this method is very difficult. It is extremely rare to find a master who is capable of repairing this magic pattern structure fragment. Even the instructor is not qualified to contact him. In addition, the cost of asking a master to do it is very, very high. Add to that the precious materials required for repair. Even if the instructor's entire fortune is added together, it cannot be repaired."
"So the third method may take a long time before it can be used."
"Of course, you can also use it for yourself and load it on yourself or your heroes now, but this fragment is incomplete and has negative effects and sequelae, so you'd better be careful."
"Well……"
Li Qing thought for a while and said:
"Let me think about it first."
Nie Yang nodded:
"Yes, you can always come to see the instructor if you need it."
"Um!"
"Also, there will be a big class in two days. When the time comes, the instructor plans to change the original test and replace it with an immediate outing to explore the world. You should prepare early."
"OK!"
After returning from his mentor's residence, Li Qing was still thinking.
"If we sell it and exchange it for a few Magic Pattern Constructs, and load them all on Long Shou, Long Shou's strength will definitely be greatly improved. He is a four-star hero himself, and can challenge one- or two-star heroes of higher levels. With a few more Magic Pattern Constructs, it is possible that he can surpass two levels."
"but……"
Li Qing was always a little unwilling.
Although this magic pattern construct is just a fragment among the debris, what it contains is too amazing.
The inheritance of legendary heroes!
What is a legendary hero? It is a quality that goes beyond five stars.
Think about it, Long Shou’s strength is only four stars, and the gap between legend and five stars is so huge, greater than the sum of one to five stars.
What's more, this divine warrior is obviously a legendary hero with a complete heritage and comes with a series of powerful heroic skills, which makes him stronger than the normal legendary template hero.
Li Qing was somewhat reluctant to sell such a template with unlimited potential.
"My head hurts!"
Li Qing pinched his brows, pondered for a moment, and decided to ignore it for the time being.
Keep it for now and wait for a while.
As for the other Death Sacrifice Card, it can be used immediately to enhance strength.
However, he was worried about the sacrificial offerings.
With his current wealth, what valuable sacrifice could he offer?
Those stones, wood, food and so on are not valuable at all. Maybe if he synthesizes them into exquisite weapons, they will be worth a little money, but that's just a little. The Chaos Lord will not be short of such things.
Li Qing checked all his assets and found that the only thing that could be sold at a high price seemed to be the magic pattern construct fragment, which was probably worthy of the Chaos Lord's attention.
Other hero cards and military type cards are not valuable.
But this will definitely not change.
Besides these, there is only...
"Huh!"
Li Qing, who was counting his assets, suddenly saw eleven egg-sized crystals of flesh and blood essence .
"Are these valuable?"
Rubbing his chin, Li Qing prepared to give it a try.
There is no need to expect to save it for the future. If you are poor now, you will most likely still be poor in a few months. There is no point in waiting until then.
Use it first and enjoy it first!
Thinking of this, Li Qing opened his mentor's communication and left a message for him, asking about the precautions for using this sacrificial wizard.
You have to be careful with things like this involving the Chaos Lord. It's easy to fall into a trap if you just operate it aimlessly without any control.
When faced with an evil being like the Chaos Lord , once you fall into his trap, you won't even have a chance to cry.
Nie Yang responded quickly:
"There's nothing to note. Just activate it in your own divine domain and a sacrificial array will unfold. You put the sacrifice on it and the other party will estimate the price. Just remember not to exchange any power."
"I remember."
Li Qing felt relieved with his mentor's words, and couldn't wait to open the door to the divine realm and return to his own divine realm.
He summoned his two heroes and three professionals, flipped his right hand and took out the sacrifice card, activated it with a thought, and the card shattered into a spreading blood light, which quickly condensed into a super complex magic circle composed of blood light and slowly opened.
Then, wisps of blood and energy rose from the magic circle and quickly condensed into a distorted shadow whose appearance could not be seen clearly.
"Everything in the world has a reasonable price. Human, please place your goods on the magic circle!"
Li Qing looked at the distorted shadow curiously. He had learned from his mentor that it was just a shadow, a projection of the will of a powerful Chaos Lord.
However, there is no need to worry about what the will of this unknown Chaos Lord will do, because it is just an unconscious projection. Unless what he exchanges involves power and the transaction involves reality, there is no need to worry about whether the will of this Chaos Lord will suddenly descend.
Or to put it another way, this sacrificial array belongs to a certain rule and authority.
This authority is held by a certain great being. The projection of the Chaos Lord in front of Li Qing only uses this authority to trade with other beings in the Chaos Void Sea. This authority does not belong to him.
So according to the rules, as long as he does not involve those aspects, this Chaos Lord will not be able to break through the restrictions and descend at a huge cost.
So as long as the value of the treasure he sacrifices is not too outrageous, there will be no problem.
After pondering for a while, Li Qing stretched out his right hand, and a crystal as big as an egg, with blood and golden light shining inside, appeared in his hand.
A pure crystal of flesh and blood essence!
This pure crystal of flesh and blood essence was placed on the magic circle. The crystal was wrapped in a clear light. The blood-colored distorted shadow suddenly changed and turned into a blood-colored light curtain, which displayed an exchange list with many items with prices already marked on it.
Li Qing noticed that there was a number 10 in the lower right corner, which represented the estimated value of this pure crystal of flesh and blood essence.
Looking at the exchangeable items again, he saw a first-level, one-star Orc Warrior hero that could be exchanged for just 15 points.
“So valuable?”
Li Qing looked at the crystal of flesh and blood essence in his hand with some surprise. After thinking for a while, he felt that the main value of this thing lies in the word "pure".
The crystals of blood and flesh essence should not be valuable. It is very simple to refine them. Just throw a pile of corpses into the furnace and refine them.
However, the crystals will contain a lot of impurities, and there are many things that cannot be purified or removed at all. Eating too much may affect the purity of your body, commonly known as pollution.
However, pure crystals of flesh and blood essence like his without any impurities are extremely difficult to obtain, so they are inevitably expensive.
One piece was worth 10 points, and Li Qing had 11 pieces in his hand. After thinking for a while, he kept 3 pieces as backup and took the remaining 8 pieces, exchanging them for a total of 80 points.
Then he took out a pure soul essence and placed it on top. He saw the number below instantly jumped from 80 points to 100 points.
"Yo!"
Li Qing's eyes immediately lit up. Seeing that he now had 14 pure soul essences, he kept 4 and put the remaining nine up in one go. His points instantly jumped to 280 points.
"Awesome!"
A second-level one-star hero only has 15 points. How much can these 280 points be exchanged for?
Li Qing rubbed his hands excitedly, this wave was going to be big.
I didn't expect that this sacrificial array could bring me such great benefits. I didn't expect that these pure flesh and blood essence crystals and pure soul essence were so valuable. I underestimated them.
This gave Li Qing an idea. He could pay more attention to it in the future and accumulate more pure essence for a while. Then he could find a way to set up a sacrificial array and make another big profit.
"Let me see what good stuff I can get with these 280 points!"
Li Qing directly changed the display of the exchange page and arranged it according to price.
