Chapter 93: Sacrifice and Favor
Their plan was not complicated. Before the wind of chaos came, they would first find a suitable place in the plane fragment to build a defensive base.
According to Lan Guilong, when the Wind of Chaos blows over, this plane fragment will be blocked, and even the power of the academy's black stone will be affected. At that time, the academy's main force will be used to monitor the official Lord of Calamity, that is, the Lord of Chaos, inside the Wind of Chaos.
The monitoring within the plane is not that powerful, and the protection of apprentices within the plane is not that thoughtful accordingly.
At that time, the life and death of the apprentices who still stayed in the plane basically depended on fate.
If anything unexpected happens, don't count on the college to come to the rescue.
Just like now, if Li Qing has an accident, the mentor can consume contribution to save him.
But when the wind of chaos blows over, if any accident happens again, the mentor will not be able to save him even if he knows.
They have not yet decided on a location to build their base, and have no requirements for Li Qing for the time being. He does not need to follow them now, but when his divine domain can be put away, he must reunite with them.
It can be seen that although Miss Gu never interferes in other people's affairs, they did not act on their own because of this. Instead, they showed great respect for her in their words and deeds.
Well, it should be a respect for her strength.
After the meeting, Li Qing and Zhao Dingzhen found Miss Gu in the artisan area in the southwest of the Divine Realm. At this time, she was squeezed beside an open-air blacksmith shop, watching with interest a blacksmith who was working with his bare chest.
The crisp sound of hammering, the flying sparks, and the heat wave that hits you in the face.
What's strange is that such a petite and pretty girl like her is squeezed in the crowd, but it seems like no one can notice her.
There were even two heroes in front of the blacksmith shop, but they didn't notice her at this time.
Li Qing walked to her curiously, first glanced at the blacksmith who was forging a very ordinary one-handed sword, and asked curiously:
"Miss Gu, do you like watching this?"
At this time, the little girl looked up at Li Qing with strange eyes and asked:
"Can you see me?"
Li Qing glanced around and said curiously:
"Of course I can see it."
He patted Zhao Dingzhen, who was watching the blacksmith curiously, and asked:
"Can you see Miss Gu?"
Zhao Dingzhen looked up in bewilderment:
"What can you see or not see, huh? Is Miss Gu here?"
Zhao Dingzhen shrugged and shook his head:
"It's normal not to see her. Whenever Miss Gu doesn't want to be disturbed by others, we can't see her."
"Well……"
"So what if you need help with her?"
Zhao Dingzhen raised his head and looked at Li Qing with a strange expression and said:
"Don't you have her contact information?"
Li Qing...
"All right!"
At this time, Miss Gu's eyes had moved from the blacksmith shop to Li Qing. She leaned forward and sniffed like last time, almost sticking to him, and said crisply:
"You're different from them."
Li Qing leaned back subconsciously and laughed awkwardly:
"Maybe I have divinity just like you."
Although she was very beautiful, she was too weird. In addition, a light slap before caused his fracture. Li Qing didn't dare to let her touch him. If she just touched him casually, it would be no different from being hit by a giant dragon.
"no!"
Miss Gu said very confidently:
"It's not because of this, it's because your taste is different from others."
Li Qing couldn't respond to this.
If another beautiful woman said this to him, he would definitely flirt with her.
But this...
He dared not.
It's not that he's ugly, nor that he's cowardly, but every time he has that idea, it's like an invisible force forcing him to lose interest.
This made him feel very uncomfortable, and also very frightened.
If this is true, it means that there is definitely a power protecting her that he cannot imagine.
Combined with what Zhao Dingzhen said about her background, it seems that she is a direct descendant of an unknown god. Now it seems that this may not be an ordinary direct descendant of a god.
So no matter whether this speculation is true or not, Li Qing doesn't want to be too deeply involved with her.
Many people think that eating soft rice can save them decades of hard work. It is difficult to comment on this statement, but one thing is certain, soft rice is not so delicious. Some soft rice is simply inedible and is poisonous.
The Miss Gu in front of me is the kind that cannot be eaten.
The warning from deep in Li Qing's soul made him stay away.
Of course, this doesn't mean he's going to run away.
There's nothing to run away about. As long as you don't have any inappropriate thoughts, there won't be a problem. There's absolutely no problem in currying favor with someone and getting some benefits.
So when Miss Gu asked him to take him out for fun, Li Qing took her on a tour around the divine domain in a very proper manner, without looking around or moving his hands, and was a very well-behaved person.
They didn't stay in his divine domain for long, and the four younger brothers left first the next day.
After another day, Lan Guilong and others also left and prepared to travel around the plane to find a suitable place.
It was not until the third day that Zhao Dingzhen came to say goodbye to him and left.
Until Miss Gu, no one knew when she passed away, or even whether she had passed away.
No one was worried, because given her situation, no one could hurt her before the Chaos Wind invaded.
However, after seeing everyone off and returning to the tower, Li Qing saw Miss Gu sitting on the stone steps at the entrance of the tower, covering her delicate face with her white hands and shaking her head from side to side. She looked quite playful and cute.
Li Qing quickly stepped forward and asked:
"Miss Gu, you haven't left yet?"
She looked up at Li Qing. Her extremely delicate face was right in front of her, so pink and rosy that she made people want to peck it.
But as soon as this thought came to my mind, I suddenly felt cold and shivering all over, and the thought disappeared in an instant.
"Fine!"
Li Qing lowered his eyes honestly.
At this time, Miss Gu patted the side and said:
"Please sit down."
Li Qing glanced at the stone steps that were cracked by someone, the corners of his mouth twitched, and he sat down obediently.
These stone steps are made of high-density stone that he re-synthesized. Their hardness is much stronger than granite and is not inferior to steel, but in her hands they are like tofu.
The key point was that he knew she was being extra careful, so he patted her gently.
She looked Li Qing up and down as if she hadn't noticed, her delicate face showing a thoughtful expression, and asked:
"Why can you see me?"
Li Qing spread his hands:
“I don’t know, but I can see it.”
“How strange!”
"I'm going to ask Dad!"
As soon as she said this, she pulled up her skirt and stood up, wanting to pat Li Qing on the shoulder, but when she saw Li Qing leaning back subconsciously, she smiled and withdrew her hand, saying:
"Then I'm leaving. I'll come play with you next time."
Li Qing nodded with a smile:
"You can come anytime."
Then, the next second her figure became illusory and transparent and quickly disappeared.
"call!"
Li Qing exhaled lightly and was about to speak when the figure that had just disappeared quickly solidified again. The girl took out an exquisite embroidered bag from her bosom and rummaged through it. She quickly took out two cards and threw them to him:
"Thank you for talking to me. This is for you."
Then the figure disappeared again, leaving Li Qing standing there motionless with two cards in his hand.
Almost a minute later, Li Qing let out a sigh of relief when he was sure that she would not come again.
Li Qing was slightly stunned when he looked down at the two cards.
One is a 20-type military upgrade card, which can forcibly upgrade 20 types of military units to the upper limit of the military units regardless of combat experience, and the maximum number does not exceed level 5.
One is the Empire Elite Strange Blade Soldier Card Pack * 50, which contains 50 fifth-level Empire Elite Strange Blade Soldier promotion rights.
“This is such a great gift!”
In the following days, Li Qing returned to his original state of hard study.
This continued until twelve days later, when Li Qing suddenly received a communication from his mentor, asking him to get ready as the passage to the Eternal Tree was about to be opened.
Li Qing got ready immediately and waited for nearly half an hour. He suddenly looked up in a certain direction.
He was in the core tower of the divine realm and could not see outside, but at this moment, he suddenly saw that the void in that direction suddenly began to ripple, and then a phantom of a towering divine tree made of light was spanning between heaven and earth, filling his entire field of vision.
Li Qing knew clearly that this was the projection of the Eternal Divine Tree.
With the help of the power of the Black Stone Tower of the Academy, a channel was opened, allowing them to briefly communicate with the Eternal Divine Tree.
The communication time was very short, and Li Qing did not study anything. He just silently recited the name of the Eternal Divine Tree in his heart.
After reciting it silently five times in a row, Li Qing heard a crisp ding-dong sound in his ears, followed by a dazzling crystal light before his eyes.
Then……
There was no sound, no prompt, but he naturally knew that it was time for him to take out the sacrifice.
Without hesitation, he took out two snake civilization fortune cards.
The only things he was qualified to offer as sacrifice now were the two Snakeman Civilization Luck Cards, two heroic treasures, the broken fragments of the Divine Warrior's magic pattern structure, and that relic. Nothing else was qualified.
The relics and treasures are all for his own use, and the fragments of the magic pattern construction of the divine warrior are definitely for his own use as well, so only the snakeman civilization fortune card can be taken out for sacrifice.
He was relatively lucky as he had a few items, but most of the other apprentices had none. Now they could only use this channel to contact the family in the Black Stone Realm to get support.
As soon as the two cards were taken out, ripples spread out in the space centered on the cards.
Then the card began to glow, gradually melting into the void, and slowly formed a ball of white light.
Then Li Qing understood that the white light before him was worth 3+1 points of favor from the Eternal Tree.
3 points of this amount are the value of the two Snake Civilization Fortune Cards themselves, and the extra 1 point is the novice gift package.
All Warlord Apprentices gain an extra point on their first sacrifice.
Only for apprentices. If you don't have the chance to obtain valuable treasures during the apprenticeship period, you can wait until you are promoted to a formal war lord to make sacrifices. At that time, there will be no novice gift pack.
"Four points of favor..."
Li Qing sighed at the tooth flower, feeling that it was a little too little.
Typical greed.
But there was nothing else on hand to offer.
All the relics and treasures can be used, so it is impossible to sacrifice them.
The magic pattern will be more useful in the future and it will be even less likely to be sacrificed.
Apart from these, nothing else is worth sacrificing, not even the wizard tower.
This thing is expensive, but not rare. There are so many fragments of this plane alone. How could it be favored by the Eternal Tree?
"Oh, my head hurts!"
Li Qing rubbed his head and ended the sacrifice.
Four points of favor is four points, it is much better than most apprentices having no favor at all.
After the sacrifice, a huge light curtain appeared in front of Li Qing's eyes, and then densely packed exchangeable items appeared in front of him.
There are hundreds of redeemable items on the page in front of you alone, and this is just one of them. There are more than forty such pages in total, representing more than four thousand redeemable items.
Moreover, these exchangeable items are based on Li Qing’s current identity and the number of favor points he currently possesses that can be exchanged.
If he is an official war lord, if he has more than ten favor points, this redeemable number may be more than ten times.
There was plenty of time in a day, so Li Qing was not in a hurry and slowly checked the rewards.
After more than half an hour, Li Qing, who had only read one page, couldn't help but sigh:
"If only I had a hundred favor points!"
The functions here are very comprehensive, covering almost everything you can think of. As long as you have enough favor from the Eternal Tree, you can be forcibly promoted to a formal war lord in just a few days.
It would be even more amazing if one had divine grace, and it would be easy to ascend to become a god instantly.
But unfortunately, he only has four points of favor.
Then most of the functions are unusable.
With a long sigh and putting aside some unrealistic thoughts, Li Qing began to seriously consider how to distribute it.
First, spend a little favor to increase the population limit of the Divine Realm by 10,000.
More people means more truth, the more believers the better.
Then……
After spending a little bit of favor, I got a complete set of production drawings for the Iron Golem.
I spent another two points to buy a complete set of wizard tower construction blueprints.
A complete blueprint for building a modern wizard tower, not the scaled-down and low-profile version of the wizard tower in the snakeman civilization.
To be precise, this is also called the Divine Realm version of the Mage Tower, because it can perfectly match the Divine Realm core tower.
Two points of care, including a complete set of system design drawings, not a loss.
Just like that, a total of four points of the Eternal Tree's Favor were used up.
After finishing all this, Li Qing contacted the family through the Black Stone Tower. Soon, an old man who claimed to be the family's head housekeeper appeared in front of him and said:
"The head of the family knew about your achievements a month ago and was very happy. He decided to increase his support for you to the limit of what he could support. You will receive 10 million in support every quarter, including a full compensation for the fourth quarter of the previous year and an early withdrawal for the next quarter."
"According to the standard, the first quarter of the first year is 10 million, and the fourth quarter is a total of 40 million."
"The upper limit of the second-year subsidy is 20 million per quarter, and the fourth quarter is 80 million, a total of 120 million. Please accept it."
This was definitely a pleasant surprise. Li Qing knew that his tutor would inform the family and that the subsidy standard would be raised, but he did not expect it to be directly the top standard.
I can only say that the head of the family still has some courage.
But it’s still slightly not perfect.
Because they just give money, and there is no other support, such as heroes and treasures.
But it's normal when you think about it. After all, he is not a direct descendant, but just a side branch of a side branch, and there is no elder in a high position in the family to help speak for him.
The family can only invest so much, if we give it to him, it will be gone for others.
