Chapter 66
◎ Production ◎
【”Purifier” title activated】
【Rare resources have been generated】
Yu Chi sat on the edge of the deck, her legs dangling in the air, playing with the “Purifier” title badge she had just obtained.
She had received a title before, “Island Pioneer,” but the reward was not as much as “Purifier,” and it did not generate a title badge. This time, it was quite special.
The badge was pure silver, with a gemstone in the center that changed color with the light, refracting a rainbow of colors in the sunlight.
【Choose to wear? (When worn, the title name will appear in front of the player’s ID, and at the same time, the deterrent effect on contaminated creatures will be increased by 10%)】
Yu Chi clicked “No.” She had just chosen to be anonymous a second ago, so of course, she wouldn’t slap her own face now.
She opened the territorial sea map. An unnamed island had appeared in the southeast of the territorial sea, with an area of only 1 square kilometer, and the newly generated resource point coincided with the small island.
“Let’s go, let’s go and see!” Yu Chi touched the silver wolf’s head, and they stepped on the speedboat together.
Since discovering the benefits of the first speedboat, she had bought two more and placed them on the small boat. This miracle speedboat only took more than 30 seconds to travel 1km. The one person and one wolf spent 4 minutes and arrived at the southeast small island.
The small island looked very barren, with nothing but bare gray rocks and a few withered bushes. Yu Chi jumped off the speedboat, and her boot soles made a crunching sound on the rough sand and stones.
She squatted down, her fingertips lightly touching the cracked soil. The touch was rough but with a hint of moisture, as if this seemingly barren land was hiding life deep within. The silver wolf circled around her warily, its nose twitching from time to time, as if it had smelled something unusual.
“Did you find something?” Yu Chi asked softly.
The silver wolf let out a low growl and suddenly rushed towards the center of the island. Yu Chi hurriedly followed. After passing through a protruding rock wall, the scene before her made her stunned.
In the depression in the center of the island, there was actually a patch of strange plants of no more than ten square meters. These plants were translucent and grayish-blue, with stems as crystal clear as crystal, and the edges of their leaves had a pearly luster.
The most peculiar thing was that they were not rooted in the soil, but were floating half a foot above the ground, their roots hanging down like glowing silk threads, gently swaying.
【Item: Floating Fern
Grade: Legendary
Description: A special plant that only grows near spatial rifts. Its roots can absorb spatial energy. It is a core material for making space-type items, and can also be eaten directly to temporarily gain spatial affinity (effect lasts for 30 minutes).】
“Space attribute?” Yu Chi’s eyes lit up. Space magic was one of the most difficult high-level magics to master, but the magic she had transcribed happened to have the magic for making space items.
Whether she needed it herself or not, this was definitely a big business.
She approached the patch of floating ferns and tentatively reached out to touch—
“Hiss!”
The sharp pain from her fingertips made her quickly retract her hand. She saw that fine cuts had appeared on the skin where she had touched, as if she had been cut by countless invisible blades.
“The cutting of a spatial rift?” Yu Chi gritted her teeth and cast a Holy Light on herself.
The silver wolf anxiously circled around her feet. Yu Chi patted its head comfortingly: “It’s okay, we have to find a way to collect them safely.”
She took out a pair of protective gloves from her tail ring. This pair of gloves was made from the skin of some giant lizard and could resist most physical and magical damage.
After putting them on, she tried again. This time, the sharp pain was much less, but small cracks still appeared on the surface of the gloves.
“Consumables…” Yu Chi clicked her tongue in pain, but her movements did not stop. She chose a floating fern on the outermost edge and carefully cut its root with her Silver Moon Scimitar.
The moment it was separated from its roots, the entire plant suddenly trembled violently, and then with a light “pop,” it lay quietly in her palm.
There were probably only 30 floating ferns in this 10-square-meter area, but collecting them was very troublesome. A pair of rare-grade protective gloves was already unusable after collecting 10.
Yu Chi had to buy protective gloves from the system mall again. An excellent-grade glove could collect 5, and a common-grade one could only collect one.
Although it was troublesome, it was more cost-effective to use common-grade gloves. Yu Chi directly bought 14 common protective gloves from the system mall, throwing one away after collecting one. Finally, she had collected all 30 floating ferns.
Yu Chi and the silver wolf wandered around the small island for a couple more laps and finally returned to the small boat. She had to think carefully about what to do with this island later. With the sea farm, the island didn’t have to be used for planting.
Or build a house on it? After being on the boat for a long time, she would occasionally miss the land.
But these were all things for later.
After returning to the boat, Yu Chi decided to use up all 4 of her Turntable Spin chances. Three were rewarded after she got the “Purifier” title, and one was the weekly reward for being in the top 100 of the rankings.
She rubbed her hands and summoned the turntable interface on the deck. With four lottery chances, she would be able to get something good at least once.
“Let’s try one first,” she took a deep breath and pressed the start button.
The turntable spun rapidly, and the pointer finally stopped on the number “5.”
【Item: Deep Sea Detector
Grade: Rare
Description: Can detect the distribution of resources within a 500-meter range underwater. Limited to 3 uses per day.】
“Good stuff!” Yu Chi’s eyes lit up.
There was a map for the resources within the territorial sea, but it was different outside the territorial sea. Even if she had a mermaid form, she was not willing to spend time on exploring resources.
But with this, she could go and inspect it occasionally.
The second lottery pointer stopped on 6.
【Item: Skill Upgrade Stone
Grade: Rare
Description: Can upgrade any skill by 1 level, up to a maximum of rare.】
Yu Chi whistled.
Skill upgrade stones had always been priceless on the market, and all the major alliances were acquiring them at a high price. What she needed to upgrade the most right now was “Morph,” but this skill was already of the rare grade.
The most valuable to upgrade now were First Aid and Danger Perception. Without much hesitation, she used the skill upgrade on First Aid, and the description quickly changed.
The original description of First Aid was as follows:
【Skill: First Aid
Grade: Excellent
Description: Can automatically produce bandages and adhesive bandages every second.
Can produce one First Aid Pill every day. The First Aid Pill can instantly restore a player to full health.】
The current description panel was as follows:
【Skill: First Aid
Grade: Rare
Description: Can automatically produce bandages and adhesive bandages every second. Bandages restore +100 HP, adhesive bandages restore +50 HP.
Can produce three First Aid Pills every day. The First Aid Pill can instantly restore a player to full health and adds a 30-second damage reduction effect (20% reduction).】
Not to mention the change in the First Aid Pill, just the increase in the HP restored by the bandages and adhesive bandages was enough to surprise her. Her EXP was related to the HP restored by First Aid. The more HP increased, the faster her EXP would naturally be.
Yu Chi was in an extremely good mood and chose the third lottery again.
The third turntable pointer slowly stopped on the number “1” under her expectant gaze.
【Item: Common Fish Bait x10
Grade: Common
Description: The most basic fishing supplies.】
Yu Chi: “…” It’s definitely a backlash!
She sighed and casually threw the fish bait into her backpack. It was the last lottery chance. She took a deep breath, closed her eyes, and pressed the button.
“Ding—”
A crisp notification sound was heard. Yu Chi opened her eyes and saw the pointer steadily pointing at “8.”
【Item: Resource Point Upgrade Blueprint
Grade: Legendary
Description: Can designate an existing resource point for upgrading and transformation, giving it special attributes (Note: each resource point can only be upgraded once).】
Yu Chi’s breathing instantly became rapid. She picked up the blueprint to check. It detailed seven different upgrade directions, each corresponding to a specific resource point type.
Coral Reef → Greatly increases coral output and quality
Pearl Oyster Farm → Pearl breeding speed doubled
Undersea Hot Spring → Healing effect enhanced, new elemental affinity attribute added
Sea Farm → Range expanded, crop growth cycle shortened by 70%
Undersea Volcano → Fire-attribute material quality leaps in improvement
Purification Tower → Dispel effect changed to purification effect
Defense Tower → Attack power increased to level 50 standard
“Damn it!” Yu Chi bit her finger. Each option was extremely tempting, but there was only one chance.
She called up the territorial sea map and reorganized the situation of all the resource points:
Rainbow Coral and Iridescent Pearl were both collection resources. The current output was sufficient, and there was no shortage for the time being. And these two were not of much use to her and were mostly sold to others, so the urgency of upgrading could be temporarily put aside.
The sea farm was about the same. After all, she mainly used her space for planting.
Although the Holy Fire Stone produced by the undersea volcano was extremely rare, it only worked on her Cinnabar Finch form, and it was hard to say what the effect was at the moment.
The other two… if the defense tower’s attack power could be increased to level 50, then she wouldn’t have to worry about the next, and the next, upgrade contamination tide.
But—
Yu Chi sighed. As expected, she was still very concerned about the purification attribute. After all, the reward she had gotten after evolving a contaminated creature once showed the system’s importance.
She had already equated the system with the sea god in her heart. In that case, the final mission of them players might be to restore the marine ecology to normal.
Most importantly, she could also benefit from the purification. Relying on her own Holy Light to evolve the creatures one by one, she didn’t know how many thousands of years it would take to evolve them. But with a purification tower, the efficiency would be much higher.
Thinking of this, Yu Chi had already made up her mind.
【Confirm upgrade of “Purification Tower”?】
【Cannot be changed after upgrading.】
“Confirm!”
The scroll instantly turned into countless golden light spots, which, like meteors, streaked across the sea and flew towards the purification towers in the 4 corners of the territorial sea.
Yu Chi hurriedly rushed over and saw from a distance that the originally pure white purification tower seemed to be emitting a holy light under the transformation of the golden light spots.
The appearance didn’t look much different, but Yu Chi saw a level 8 contaminated small fish accidentally enter the range of the purification tower, and it was purified in just 30 seconds!
However, the current purification tower’s level was too low and could only purify contaminated creatures below level 10. But this efficiency was also much faster than Yu Chi.
She had done an experiment. A level 8 contaminated creature required her to use 8 Holy Lights, and a level 15 required 15 Holy Lights. The Spirit consumed was imaginable—this was simply pushing her towards “dying from exhaustion.”
Yu Chi had the treant help her catch low-level contaminated creatures and throw them into the purification tower. She herself walked into the potion room—this place used to be called a laboratory, but she had changed it to a more suitable name.
She now had very rich resources in both her space and her territorial sea. The spirit plants were also very valuable when sold separately, but it would be even better if she could make potions.
Bandages and adhesive bandages would only increase HP, but as the level increased, the strength of the physical body would become higher and higher, and the effect on the wounds on the body would become weaker and weaker.
For example, even if your HP was full, you might still be covered in wounds and tattered, which would seriously affect the player’s own strength.
Correspondingly, even if half of your body was blown off, as long as you still had a little HP, you would not die.
Of course, in more cases, the degree of the body and the HP were related, so the situation where half of the body was blown off but the HP still existed was rare.
However, this at least showed that there might be two calculation methods for the damage to the body and the HP.
Yu Chi needed to make some wound-healing potions. It was too wasteful to use Holy Light every time, and after discovering the effect of Holy Light, she didn’t really want to use it in front of others.
At this time, potions were very necessary.
Besides potions, she also planned to study magic scrolls during this time.
While Yu Chi was planning to attack in the direction of a life-skill player, the forum and the channel were already in an uproar because of the system broadcast.
【Shocking! Who is the anonymous top player? The Federation has offered a sky-high bounty!】
【The first appearance of the “Purifier” title. Does it mean that the game has entered a new stage?】
【Exclusive analysis: The purification ability may change the entire sea survival landscape.】
The hottest post came from a player with the ID “Ocean Scholar”:
“According to my research, the appearance of the ‘Purifier’ is by no means accidental. The core mechanism of the third stage of the game is purification and reconstruction. This world clearly has normal creatures, but the marine creatures are in a completely contaminated state. I found it unreasonable at the beginning. If the system’s purpose is to let us…”
Yu Chi closed the forum. This player’s analysis coincided with what she had thought, but this was not a secret. She believed that many people had already had their suspicions.
She opened her space and began to sort out the materials in her hand.
“Let’s try the simplest healing potion first.”
Yu Chi stood in front of the alchemy table in the potion room. On the left were the Moonlight Grass and Star Flower with healing effects, and on the right were crucibles, pestles, mortars, and other utensils.
She put three Moonlight Grass plants into the mortar and slowly ground them with a pestle in a clockwise direction. The Moonlight Grass seeped out a lustrous blue juice when it was crushed, which mixed with the powder to form a viscous paste.
“The temperature needs to be controlled at around 60 degrees…” she muttered to herself, pouring the mixture into a mithril crucible and placing it over a magical flame. As the temperature rose, the potion began to bubble, and its color changed from blue to purple.
While the crucible was being fired, she ground the Star Flower into a powder, held a stirring rod in her left hand, and stirred evenly in the dry pot, sprinkling the Star Flower powder in with her hand.
The Star Flower was a material brought back from Giant Island. It was relatively common compared to other materials, but it could improve the stability of the potion.
It was said to be an essential material for making potions.
“Buzz—”
The crucible suddenly vibrated like a bee, and starlight-like specks appeared on the surface of the potion. This was the key signal that the materials had begun to fuse. Yu Chi immediately put down the stirring rod and placed her hands suspended over the crucible.
A faint green magic power flowed out from her palm, like silk threads wrapping around the boiling potion. Under the guidance of the magic, a silver light stream gradually separated from the purple liquid. The two, like living things, chased each other and finally twisted into a spiral-shaped light band.
Fine sweat appeared on Yu Chi’s forehead. Magic control required extreme precision—too strong would cause the medicinal properties to go haywire, and too weak would not be able to complete the elemental harmony. She adjusted her breathing frequency to gradually synchronize her magic power output with the potion’s fluctuations.
“Now!”
The moment the spiral light band reached a perfect balance, she formed a hand seal, and steam rose, condensing into a translucent crescent-shaped crystal in the air, which then slowly fell back into the liquid.
The originally boiling potion immediately calmed down, presenting a crystal-clear silver-purple color, as if liquid moonlight had been sealed in the container.
“Success!” Yu Chi’s face was full of surprise.
She had actually succeeded on her first try. Could she be a genius?!
Just kidding. Yu Chi had known for a long time that she would succeed.
Elves had a natural affinity for plants, so they were no weaker than any other race in potion making.
It was written in their potion book that there was no absolute formula for potions, and it did not require too complicated a stacking of materials. As long as the main and auxiliary materials were guaranteed, and the magic power was guided appropriately, the potion could be easily refined.
The biggest difference was only the strength of the medicinal properties. After all, Moonlight Grass had a natural healing effect. Even if it was boiled into water and drunk, the effect would still exist, but most of it would be lost.
And refining it into a potion was mainly to improve the medicinal properties of the pure spirit plants, so that these spirit plants could exert their greatest effect.
Moonlight Grass could be refined into a healing potion, and other materials could also be the same. Yu Chi had not found Moonlight Grass in the potion recipes she had brought with her, so she had to add materials based on her own feelings.
—Although she had only added two materials in total.
【Item: Moonlight Healing Potion
Grade: Excellent
Description: Quickly restores wounds and increases HP by 200.】
It was said that some alchemists could refine rare-grade potions even with excellent-grade materials, but Yu Chi did not have this ability.
One Moonlight Grass could quickly restore wounds. Three Moonlight Grasses had the additional effect of increasing HP by 200, which was quite a success.
Yu Chi praised herself with satisfaction. The improvement of the formula could be done later. She made 20 bottles in one go, planning to sell them the next time she went to the central island.
Next was the main event—a space item.
Yu Chi rubbed her hands nervously. The rarity of the floating ferns was far beyond imagination. She only had 30 in her hand at the moment and had to use them with caution.
“Let’s make a space bag first.”
Yu Chi had brought back a lot of things from the Elf Island: dozens of magic spells, a plant compendium, a potion encyclopedia, a magic book, plus the forging manual she had gotten from the dwarf. Basically, it covered everything she wanted to do.
She took out a floating fern and, following the method recorded in the magic book, wrapped its roots around an ordinary cloth bag while chanting a space spell.
A faint blue light flowed from the fern to the surface of the cloth bag, and the cloth bag began to twist and expand strangely…
“Bang!”
With a muffled sound, the cloth bag exploded into pieces.
“Cough cough…” Yu Chi got up from the ground, covered in dust, and patted the cloth scraps off her body. The first attempt had ended in failure.
The second time, she adjusted her magic power output, but the result was insufficient spatial energy. The bag she made could only hold two more items.
It was not until the fifth attempt that Yu Chi successfully made a satisfactory finished product.
【Item: Portable Space Bag
Grade: Excellent
Capacity: 2 cubic meters】
A small portable space bag, 10 on one finger, wouldn’t that be 20 cubic meters!
Yu Chi stared at the thing she had made after wasting five floating ferns, touched her nose guiltily, and silently put the other floating ferns back into her space.
Using a legendary grade material to make an excellent-grade space with only 2 cubic meters. If this got out, she would probably be a figure of some renown.
If those forging masters knew that she had made such a thing with a floating fern, they would probably dig their way out of their graves.
Yu Chi: Haha.
After having a taste of being an alchemist and a blacksmith, Yu Chi lazily walked out of the alchemy workshop and decided to rest for a while. The matter of the magic scrolls could be discussed later. At the same time, she opened her private messages, which had been beeping.
【Mushroom No. 1】: Sister, have you seen the announcements from the Federation and Yanhuang? The price they’re offering for that “Purifier” has already reached a billion crystals.
Yu Chi raised an eyebrow and replied, “So exaggerated?”
【Mushroom No. 1】: Of course. The whole world is crazy right now.
【Mushroom No. 1】: By the way, sister, do you know that anonymous player?
Yu Chi looked at this message and replied with a smile, “It’s you, right? I know.”
【Mushroom No. 1】: ?
【DazedFish】: Aren’t you an angel? The angels in novels all have a purification effect.
【Mushroom No. 1】: …
【Mushroom No. 1】: Many people have come to me, but it’s really not me.
Yu Chi smiled very happily. This guy was actually trying to test her. He still had to obediently take the blame for her.
After laughing enough, she tapped on Zuo He’s chat box and sent over the portable space bag she had just made.
【DazedFish】: You’re welcome~
The other side replied after 10 seconds.
【MortalRealmLittleFairyGrass】: Where did you buy it?
【DazedFish】: Is there a problem?
【MortalRealmLittleFairyGrass】: You were probably scammed. If you bought it from a player, I can go and get justice for you.
Yu Chi: “…”
What a good person.
Yu Chi was hit with another ten thousand points of critical damage.
The silver wolf had just gone with the treant to catch contaminated creatures. When it saw her walk out of the cabin, it immediately ran over and rubbed against her.
“Let’s go. I’ll take you for a hot spring bath,” Yu Chi touched the silver wolf’s head. Although the injuries it had suffered before had been healed by Holy Light, the fatigue in its soul was difficult to disappear.
A legendary grade healing hot spring probably had more than just the effects written in the description.
After the hot spring bath, she would also collect these newly obtained resources at the bottom of the sea.
Yu Chi took out the pink coral, blew a big bubble to envelop them, and then jumped directly into the sea.