Chapter 414 - 176: "A Bit Interesting.

Chapter 414: Chapter 176: "A Bit Interesting.

For example...

"..."

Chen Fan stopped in his tracks, a satisfied look on his face as he gazed at the many Pomegranate Trees near the Port. They were already in bloom, their vibrant red flowers quite a pretty sight. He had planted a lot of trees.

It kept the Mortal Realm from looking so barren.

They were a nice touch.

He thought they were great—very beautiful.

They had all been transplanted from Jiangnan. During this time, many freshly dug-up trees had been moved to the Mortal Realm every day.

They could both flower and bear fruit.

He thought this kind of tree was the best—nice to look at and nice to eat.

Since he had already wandered over here, he figured he should check on the batch of Celestial Pillars. He walked up to the hundreds of pillars standing on the ground and inspected their energy storage panels one by one.

He’d been thinking about a problem lately.

Which was...

Were the Thunderbolts in the Thunderstorm Sea Realm the key to trapping those Ghost Objects? If he stole too much power, would it cause the Thunderstorm Sea Realm to shatter?

But after several months of observation, he discovered something.

The purpose of the Thunderbolts wasn’t to trap the Ghost Objects at all, but purely to torture them, like a form of punishment. If they wanted to avoid being struck, they had to dive into the sea.

But diving into the sea meant they would suffocate. The moment they couldn’t hold their breath any longer and broke the surface, they’d be blasted back down by a thunderbolt.

Coupled with the fact that they couldn’t die, it was pure torture.

He now had a faint feeling that the Thunderstorm Sea Realm might not exist to protect the Eternal Night Continent, nor to imprison it, but simply to torture these Ghost Objects.

But regardless, he was relieved to find that the stolen Thunderbolts didn’t affect the Thunderstorm Sea Realm. Besides, the small amount he took had almost no impact on it anyway.

"..."

Chen Fan turned again to look at the Earth Gold Circuit floating hundreds of meters above the sea’s surface and smiled in satisfaction. After inspecting the Celestial Pillar Cluster, he continued his stroll into the distance.

’What’s so fun about the outside world, anyway?’

’I don’t get it.’

’Isn’t the Mortal Realm fun?’

’There’s so much to do here.’

Before long, Chen Fan had wandered to the back of Nameless Mountain. He looked at the "processing plant" here, next to which were piled large numbers of Ghost Corpses.

Many Mortal Realm Members were here processing the Ghost Corpses.

After collecting the useful Ghost Bones and Ghost Materials, they set the corpses aside. From time to time, they would even find a few Ghost Stones or Exotic Treasures.

Everything was sent to the warehouse.

Lately, the Mortal Realm had been purchasing a lot of Ghost Corpses from the No. 7 Defense Line, and all of them were piled up here.

After being processed, they would be sent to the Sacrificial Tower.

The Sacrificial Tower.

A building where one could acquire special resources by sacrificing Ghost Corpses.

"..."

Chen Fan walked up to the small Sacrificial Tower and looked at its panel. A constant stream of Ghost Corpses was turning into liquid and flowing into the tower, disappearing completely.

The Sacrificial Tower was a non-upgradable building.

Just like the Copper Pipe.

And all non-upgradable buildings, while unable to be upgraded or acquire any Upgrade Directions, also lacked a Max Level Effect. They didn’t even appear in the Max Level Building Atlas on the Eternal Night Lord Panel.

However, they could still use Celestial Dao Stones.

Normally, Celestial Dao Stones could only be used on Max Level Buildings.

The Copper Pipe, for example, had once used a Celestial Dao Stone.

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[999,221 / 1,000,000 Sacrificial Points.]

[Upon completion of the current sacrifice, one Yellow Level special resource can be obtained.]

-

Just a little more, and he would get a Yellow Level special resource.

That’s right.

It required a full 1,000,000 Ghost Corpses—if they were the Ordinary kind.

Back when he was at his old camp, he had only needed 2,000 Sacrificial Points to get a Yellow Level special resource. Now, it required 1,000,000.

When he tried to get a second Yellow Level special resource through sacrifice, the price had increased.

It just kept going up after that.

He wanted to skip the Yellow Level special resources and go straight for the Blue Level ones, but the Sacrificial Tower’s panel reminded him that he had to obtain all the Yellow Level special resources via sacrifice before he could start on the Blue Level ones.

He had tried building a new Sacrificial Tower.

It was useless.

The threshold was shared.

Just then—

The progress bar suddenly filled up.

The third tier of the Sacrificial Tower before him suddenly turned a faint yellow. The sound of whirring mechanisms came from within, and the top of the altar suddenly popped open.

Revealing something placed inside.

A...

A stone that looked so plain, no one would bother picking it up if they saw it on the road.

Chen Fan started to laugh.

He knew what kind of Exotic Treasure this was without even looking at the panel. Sure enough, just as he’d expected, it was another Celestial Dao Stone.

Nice.

At the same time.

The information on the Sacrificial Tower’s panel began to slowly change.

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[Yellow Level special resources have been exhausted. This grade of special resource can no longer be obtained through sacrifice.]

[122 / 10,000 Sacrificial Points.]

[Upon completion of the current sacrifice, one Blue Level special resource can be obtained.]

-

From now on, he could only obtain Blue Level special resources through sacrifice. The price had also reset, returning to 10,000 Sacrificial Points.

Of course, that was just for the first one.

As he tried to obtain more Blue Level special resources through sacrifice, the price would steadily increase until he hit the limit. Then, he would start obtaining High Grade special resources.

Not bad at all.

Moreover...

And perhaps it was due to his own limited experience, but whether it was at the No. 7 Defense Line or on the Guandong-Guanxi Plains, he had never seen any other faction that possessed a Sacrificial Tower.

It was clearly a basic building that came with his Eternal Night Lord Panel.