Chapter 350: Hacking Life Points
Translator: Mercurial_ Editor: DarkGem
Without anyone noticing, five days passed since Li Yunmu's party had entered Blue Moon Island.
In these five days, the four of them had always been together. They walked around the residential region and gradually became familiar with the struggles within their new living space.
During that time, Li Yunmu also received information from Li Qinghong and Demon through secret summons. Battle Sage Vega had prepared many resources for Li Yunmu before he had descended to the Origin World, and among them were a few summoning crystal cranes.
This sort of precious summoning treasure would be considered a family heirloom used only in the most critical situations on their Earth. But Battle Sage Vega had prepared four of them for Li Yunmu.
Naturally, the purpose of this was so that he would be able to exchange information with the people he knew in the Origin World.
Because of this, Li Yunmu and his followers didn't lose connection even after entering different subsidiary islands.
Li Yunmu was convinced that people like Man Tian, Hai Yue, Ji Wuxin, and others also possess similar methods. From this, he knew that becoming the representative of Battle Sage Vega had been the correct choice.
Otherwise, without the preparations and assistance provided by a quasi deity, it would have been incredibly difficult for him to establish a connection with his followers in the Origin World.
What he hadn't expected was that Li Qinghong and Demon would be able to infiltrate Blue Moon Island's other residential regions from their own subsidiary islands.
Li Qinghong had entered the twelfth residential area while Demon had sneaked into the sixth one. Presently, both of them could already be considered to have fulfilled their first goal. The main reason behind the arrival of their summoning crystal cranes was to inquire about the second objective.
Li Yunmu only gave them a short command, which was to quickly improve their strength and occupy one of the front ten rooms of their residential region.
It has to be said that although the summoning crystal crane was a precious treasure from their Earth, it was also able to tear across the stable space of the Origin World.
However, it consumed up all the reserve energy of the summoning crystal crane. Just one trip was enough to use it all up. Before a few days passed and the crane accumulated its energy, it wouldn't be able to leave to transfer back the information.
In the five days, as more and more people won their battles and arrived at Blue Moon Island, the remaining rooms in the fifteenth residential area filled up.
The several stone rooms which had been empty previously filled with people in the last few days. By then, all the three hundred rooms of the fifteenth residential area had their respective masters.
During this time, challenges became a constant thing. The majority of the newly entered disciples successively challenged the masters of the rooms ahead of them. They weren't willing to lag behind in terms of resources by staying in the rear rooms.
The newly entered disciples comprised of three types of challengers.
The first type was like Li Yunmu's group who were already flux experts. Regardless of whether they lost their challenges or won, they would be accepted as inner disciples.
Origin World's every administrative power or sect didn't pay much attention toward the loyalty of the members to the sect. At least the upper echelons didn't care whether the low level members were loyal or not.
As long as they were flux experts, they wouldn't be rejected. It was almost equivalent to accepting them unconditionally, allowing them to come and go whenever they wanted.
Therefore, this group of people had a certain amount of strength. It was highly likely that a number of them had some problems in their old sects and that's why they had changed sceneries.
Because of all sorts of reason, they had entered Blue Moon Island. This group of flux experts was the most active in the challenging phase. They had a certain amount of strength and were quite powerful individually.
Thus, although these people were newcomers, they weren't the least bit polite and consecutively raised challenges for several days until they obtained the rooms respective to their strength.
The second type of newcomers were naturally people like Suo Lei who were outer disciples related to hall masters.
As long as they satisfied the requirement of physical cultivation, they would be recommended by the hall master to enter the island and thus included in the ranks of the inner disciples.
But these second type newcomers were quite weak and were regarded as the lowest rung in the inner residential region. Suo Lei had appeared to be quite formidable on Azure Dragon Island, but after entering Blue Moon Island's inner residential area, he would only be at the bottom. For the time being, he and the rest in this group could only obtain the rooms at the rear.
The third type of newcomers were quite high profile.
They were extremely few in number, but each one of them was extremely formidable. The direct result of this small group of people entering was changes in the masters of the top ten rooms of the residential regions.
The ten hegemons occupying the top ten rooms had held their positions for three months without any changes and suppressed the entire fifteenth residential region. But after every year's Flux Expert Day and entry of the third type of newcomers, the ten hegemons were challenged repeatedly.
Within a short few days, of the original ten hegemons, three people had already been replaced and suffered tragic ends by the third type of newcomers.
As for why they were so formidable?
The reason was very simple, because they were elites who had withdrawn from other administrative powers. They had left their original affiliations and entered Blue Moon Sect when they were unable to seize the top positions in their previous organizations and thus had rushed to become Blue Moon Island's inner disciples.
It could be said that the organizations that these people were related to were more formidable compared to Blue Moon Island.
The people in this group were very strong. Within a few days, they had already replaced three of the original ten hegemons. Perhaps in the next few days, even more people would be pulled down from their high horses due to the continuous challenges.
However, the instability at the top had basically next to no influence on Li Yunmu. If he used the combined power of the ten shadows, occupying one of the top ten rooms wouldn't be difficult.
But he didn't plan to do it for the time being. So in the five days, although he also was part of the army of challengers, he only advanced from two hundred something room to the fiftieth room and settled there. When there were some who were unwilling to accept this, Li Yunmu took the initiative to accept challenges from several people within a day and win.
Those who were unwilling soon realized that the master of the fiftieth room was even more powerful compared to masters of the rooms in the front.
After this, there was no one who came to challenge Li Yunmu, and he gained a bit of fame in the fifteenth residential region, because there was no one who dared to have any ideas for his room.
After becoming the master of the fiftieth room, Li Yunmu received two hundred and fifty life points every day, which was pretty good.
But he didn't pay much attention to the ownership of the room, but rather let his gaze fall upon the channels to quickly pile up life points.
Given that Li Yunmu possessed ten shadows, earning life points was quite easy for him.
Previously, he wasn't familiar with the residential areas and didn't think that the life points which were difficult to earn for other fellow disciples were actually quite easy for him to accumulate.
Chapter 351: Power Grain Croton
Translator: Mercurial_ Editor: DarkGem
The ten shadows were continuously hunting monsters, sea beasts, and other big fish of the mid-sea layer.
Given that the amount of resources in the North Sea was almost inexhaustible, Li Yunmu had not only formed a stable source of earning a large amount of experience and ability points every day, but he also obtained countless corpses of enormous beasts.
"System, how is the research and analysis of the croton going?"
By this time, Li Yunmu hadn't gone out of the fiftieth room for two days. Even if Wang Yan had come to find him with great enthusiasm a few times, a do-not-disturb board had been outside his room, blocking everyone out.
After prevailing over several challengers, no one insisted on challenging Li Yunmu or looked to find trouble for him. After all, it was only the fiftieth room.
Its allure was far less than that of the front thirty rooms. No one was foolish enough to challenge a person whose strength was comparable to masters of the front ten rooms over the ownership of the fiftieth house.
Although no one thought that Li Yunmu's strength was among the top ten flux experts of the fifteenth residential region, but they could still tell that he was a troublesome opponent. Thus, since he was hard bone which was difficult to swallow, the people stopped challenging him in the past two days.
Besides, given that Li Yunmu had taken the initiative to fight against five people in one day, it also meant that he had saved up five times the normal resting and reorganization period. One time resting period between two fights was seven days, so after five fights he had thirty-five days.
Thus, with more than a month at hand, he didn't need to worry about any challengers who would come to find trouble for him. As long as he didn't want to accept their challenge, he could easily hand the tile of resting phase and unwillingness to battle outside his room.
This way, even if others wanted to challenge him, they would be unable to do it.
A person not having to fight during the resting phase was one of the few rules of the sect.
Because of that, Li Yunmu was living quite an ideal life, but at the same time, he was also in an urgent need of a large amount of contribution points.
After investigating for the past few days, he had already found the secret strengthening method to complement the deficiency of his flux points. As he had predicted, there were indeed many methods pertaining to strengthening of the flux points. All of them had been researched for people with weak constitution.
It mainly done by the influential clans. Once in a while, one or two people with innately weak constitution and delicate flux points would appear in the influential clans, making them basically unable to learn any body refining methods, let alone cultivating flux energy.
Because of that, secret methods to strengthen flux points as well as innately weak constitutions, meridians, and so on came into being.
Among these methods, Li Yumu had been able to find two which were relatively suitable for him in the contribution point store of the fifteenth residential region.
However, their price was very high. In fact, it was excessively high. Even if they were mediocre methods to strengthen flux points, their price still reached five thousand contribution points.
Li Yunmu had to accept that this was a method created by influential clans. Ordinary flux experts would never be able to purchase it.
If Li Yunmu didn't possess the ability to shadow hack, his head would probably burst from worry. Yet right then, he was just thinking about methods to earn money.
That's right, methods to earn life points.
Based on his present skill, Li Yunmu found it impossible to quickly accumulate contribution points. But if speaking about life points, then he could go on an earning spree.
He could easily sell the countless corpses of sea beasts hunted by the ten shadows at ingredient and butcher shops to make a large amount of life points. This was one of his advantages which other people would never be able to replicate.
After all, who else had ten shadows who didn't need to rest and didn't know fatigue, just earning profit all day long?
[The analysis is already complete. This sort of croton indeed contains a large amount of blood essence filled with enormous vitality which is blessed with some medicinal liquid which has a natural gentle nature. This mixture has been refined with a sort of bean to produce this cereal.]
[Given that we possess the transcending sage tool Refining Pagoda, we should be able to refine a power grain similar to croton.]
After continuous analysis that lasted for two days, the system finally gave him a clear reply.
"Are you certain? Can we really refine this croton-like vegetation?"
Although Li Yunmu was prepared for this in his heart, it was still pounding incessantly because of the excitement after hearing the system's positive reply.
The system pondered over it for a while, but still provided a positive reply. [According to the results of the calculation, there is a 97% possibility of succeeding in refining a croton. As long as we can obtain the required raw materials, it wo't be a big problem.]
"That's very good. Now put all your energy in analysing the various types of raw materials required to refine croton."
After a day and a night, the system with its increased efficiency after being upgraded to level five, was finally able to concretely analyze the raw materials for refining croton, which was always on Li Yunmu's mind.
When Li Yunmu took a look at the information, he was joyous at first, but then his brows knitted.
The ingredients required to refine croton weren't complex. There were only three major ones.
The first ingredient was the blood essence of an enormous vicious beast, the second ingredient was an ordinary bean of the Origin World, while the third ingredient was a medicinal liquid with mild and moderate nature.
That's right, Li Yunmu was currently researching the croton in his hand. It had another name in the Origin World, which was 'Power Grain'.
As the name implied, after eating this food for long time, it would strengthen the person's body, raising their strength and power. This was also the staple food for most flux experts.
It was rumored that in the Origin World, when one reached the limit of physical cultivation, ordinary food would become unable to offer the nutrition required by the body.
Thus came the era of power grain. In this world where humans had innately formidable bodies, power grain became the first-choice food.
As long as one's strength surpassed that of fifteen oxen, they wouldn't feel full regardless of how much of the ordinary food they are. It was gravely lacking in nutrients required for their bodily functions, which would then result in their bodies wasting away and becoming weak.
Among the physical flux experts, this condition was known as a dispersing body and declining cultivation. This was a condition which every cultivator whose strength had crossed fifteen oxen couldn't avoid.
Thus, if they wished to continue improve their strength above that of fifteen oxen, they had to switch to power grain from ordinary food. Therefore, it wasn't like anyone who wanted to cultivate could cultivate because once a person began doing it, they would have to consider the financial problems.
From those in wretched poverty to ordinary citizens and even those of bourgeois class, none of them were able to pay the enormous expenses required to cultivate. Just the power grain alone was a major expense unless one was in a sect.
Thus, sects were very popular existences within the Origin World and never lacked disciples.
However, power grain actually wasn't the only method to obtain the required nutrients.
Chapter 352: Deciphering the Secret Recipe
Translator: Mercurial_ Editor: DarkGem
There were actually many types of power grain in the Origin World, but basically all of them were naturally formed. They more some vegetation or fruit which had accumulated enormous vitality.
Another example would be some vicious beast or sea beast's flesh which had attained enormous vitality. These two were seen as power grains by the people of the Origin World.
Therefore, the term power grain was a general term which included all edible life-forms that contained enormous vitality.
All of the above mentioned were naturally formed power grains. In comparison, there were only a scant few types of power grains which could be mass produced.
Croton just happened to be one of the postnatal power grains which had been refined by the natives of the Origin World after countless years of research. It was considered the most popular power grain among the natives as well as having the best quality-price ratio.
According to Li Yunmu's increased understanding gained in the last few days in Blue Moon Island, croton was used by more than 90% of the flux experts.
The minimum amount required by a flux expert possessing the strength of fifty oxen was around five to ten tons of croton just to keep their body functioning and not develop weakness.
If one wanted to increase their strength to the next step, then every day they had to eat even more croton.
If a flux expert wanted to strengthen their body to the limit, they would have to eat from thirty to a hundred tons. Only then could they reach the maximum limit.
In other words, if one wanted to cultivate quicker and increase the strength of their corporeal body, the amount of croton required far surpasses the measly five to ten tons.
Instead, the least amount required would be thirty tons or more, depending on the flux expert's ability to absorb the power grain.
If the absorption potential was large, then thirty tons would be sufficient, but if it was small, then a hundred tons would be required.
If someone cultivated an extremely high level body refining method, then even a hundred tons would be far from sufficient. Therefore, it wouldn't be the slightest exaggeration to say that croton power grain was actually a necessary resource for cultivating the body.
Among the natives of the Origin World, there was a popular saying that one grain of croton was equivalent to a ton of rice. The idea behind it was that the price of one grain of croton was could purchase a ton of rice.
The Origin World was extremely vast, close to the extent of being endless. Almost no one had been able to survey its end points, so obviously the large population of life-forms was also unable to fill it to the extremity.
It was said that the human population of the Origin World had already crossed three trillion.
However, this was only after surveying the known cities and towns. As for those people living in the wilderness, heavens only knew how many of them there were. It simply couldn't be investigated.
But even then, three trillion was the known population.
It was extremely shocking for Li Yunmu. However, this allowed him to understand the reason behind why even though the natives of this world had innately formidable bodies as well as a large population, the numbers of flux experts were small.
It wasn't that the natives of the Origin World didn't have sufficient aptitude for flux cultivation, but that they were too poor and most of them weren't able to keep up with their need of power grains.
Li Yunmu also gained a better understanding of why he was only able to attain the power of a dozen oxen even though he cultivated his physical body both from the outside, using the supreme body refining technique Great Sun Thunder Tyrant Body Muscle Marrow Secrets, and inside, using the Devil Dragon Bone Refining Secrets.
The regulations of the world seemed to have silently shackled the natives of the Origin World. When a person broke through the power of fifteen oxen, they would most often not be able to find a sufficient supply of corresponding food that could provide them with enough nutrients.
This was the main reason why Li Yunmu only had the strength of eighteen oxen.
His strength had increased by three oxen because after descending to the Origin World, he had been eating only the flesh of the vicious beasts which had incidentally helped his strength to increase.
Thus, refining croton became his main priority for the near future. It was said that the method was mainly in the hands of an ancient influential clan which had been increasing gradually over generations.
Li Yunmu naturally wasn't foolish enough to pit himself against an ancient influential clan. This was because he had the assistance of the system's great calculating ability as well as the Refining Pagoda which he had swindled from Chaotian Sect.
There was a chance that he would be able to produce a power grain similar to croton, but he didn't want to spread this sort of power grain everywhere to make a killing.
He wanted to control a territory the size of Blue Moon Island, including all its subsidiary islands. The profit gained from this should make him sufficiently wealthy.
This kind of wealth should be enough for him to purchase all sorts of secret methods as well as open the lacking flux points.
That's right, this was the path that Li Yunmu had decided to walk. As for the ten contribution points the masters of front ten rooms were earning? That was just nonsense.
If he chose that path, only god knew how long he would have to wait to accumulate the required amount of contribution points to purchase the things he wanted
He continued to study the research information pertaining to the ingredients of croton, which the system had offered, while sometimes knitting his brows and sometimes relaxing them.
The blood essense of a vicious beast which possessed a certain amount of vitality was the main ingredient which he already possessed.
The ten shadows killed a large amount of sea beasts every day, which could easily be used by the Refining Pagoda to refine a large amount of blood essence. This was the basis behind Li Yunmu's confidence to imitate croton.
After all, he had this transcending sage treasure which could be used for refining.
The Refining Pagoda which he had swindled from Chaotian Sect had nine levels in total.
The first level was for refining essence, the second level for energy, while the third level for soul. As for the remaining six levels, his strength was insufficient to open them.
However, even so the third level of Refining Pagoda was enough to prove its reputation as a transcending sage tool and that it was on a higher level than the Void Disk.
Flux Ancestor had placed a total of three transcending sage tools in Tower of Glory, including the Void Disk at the twenty-fifth level, the Hidden Moon's Constellation at the fiftieth level, and the Refining Pagoda at the seventieth level, making sure that it was considered supreme even among the transcending sage tools. And now, this transcending sage tool was finally reflecting its value.
The requirement of a large amount of blood of vicious beasts was settled, so Li Yunmu's next priority was to find a harmonious liquid with a moderate nature.
He was almost certain that the method to refine croton was largely related to the harmonious liquid with a moderate nature.
"System, can you identify this liquid? Or perhaps suggest something which could replace it?"
On Blue Moon Island's west coast, several miles away from the coastline where the seabed was three thousand six hundred meters deep, Li Yunmu was attentively watching his ten shadows kill giant fish in one another's vicinity. Occasionally, when they would encounter a formidable vicious beast, a fierce battle would erupt at the bottom of the ocean.
Li Yunm had found that this ocean bed was the most suitable mid sea region to establish the Refining Pagoda after the system had done a repeated scanning of the surrounding three hundred kilometers.
Once the data was gathered, the final conclusion of the analysis was that few people entered this ocean bed in the mid sea region.
Given the physical strength of ordinary fishermen, they would be unable to endure the pressure at the depth of three thousand six hundred meters.
As for the disciples of Blue Moon sect, they also wouldn't take the risk to reach this mid sea region's ocean bed. The reason for that was very simple, because this mid sea zone's ocean bed was the nest of tiger fish.
These creatures were barely considered to have entered the category of vicious beasts. Each of them was the size of five meters, and their individual strength couldn't be considered formidable.
Perhaps even a physical flux expert who had the strength of fifteen oxen would be able to easily kill this kind of fish if they had a suitable weapon. However, tiger fish swam in large
But the tiger fish formed large schools, thus turning themselves into one of the demons which flux experts hoped to never encounter in the depths of the ocean. This was because regardless of the individual strength, these fish possessed two extremely sharp teeth which could easily rip apart the bodies of flux experts.
After repeated scanning, the system proved this fact, and chose this position as the place to conceal the installed Refining Pagoda.
At this instant, Li Yunmu personally dived into the ocean. Originally, with his strength of eighteen oxen, he should be unable to endure the pressure at the depth of three thousand six hundred meters. It was enough to crush any flux expert whose strength hadn't attained at least thirty oxen of physical power.
However, when all is said and done, Li Yunmu was different from ordinary flux experts. After all, he cultivated many peak level defensive cultivation methods. The terrifying defense of his body, regardless if it was inside or outside, could easily sustain the pressure which far exceeded his physical strength.
The pressure of three thousand six hundred meters wasn't his limit.
In fact, by activating the five times strengthened great heart, he could easily remain underwater for three hours without breathing.
These two points alone could provide him with enough time to attain his goal in the ocean.
Li Yunmu first placed the Refining Pagoda in the position picked by the system.
Then, he used a large amount of his flux energy to hold onto the treasure and thrust it under the ground in the specified position in the ocean floor. Instantly, the forty-five meter long red-coloured ancient pagoda was stably established in the ocean bed.
"Success."
After the Refining Pagoda was installed, Li Yunmu handed over the remaining matters toLi Yun's team, after which there was no longer any need for him to stay within the ocean.
Availing himself with the opportunity that the sky hadn't turned milky yet, he quickly returned to the fifteenth residential area at the foot of Blue Moon Mountain.
After returning to his room, Li Yunmu closed his eyes and calmed down. Soon, the first person view of the ten shadows appeared in his consciousness sea.
He randomly chose Li Lan's field of view and discovered that the shadows had already started working under his command.
The first eight shadows who were named had already divided themselves into two squads with four people per squad and began to kill any monster in their vicinity that belonged to vicious beast category.
So far, the monster they hunted the most was still the overlord of this region - tiger fish.
As their name suggested, they had patterns that resembled that of a tiger on their body and possessed four tiger claws. They also had sharp teeth and an extremely savage nature.
They often appeared in schools of ten or even a hundred.
If the defense of shadows wasn't sufficiently good, then they would have been unable to resist these savage fish monsters of mid sea region. But as it was, these cruel fish could only attack jointly in vain until they were beheaded one after another.
The ninth and tenth shadows didn't participate in the battle of Li Yun's group. Instead, they dragged the corpses away and put them within the Refining Pagoda installed under the ocean floor to refine the blood essence of the fish that belonged to the category of vicious beasts.
Every grain of croton cost one life point in the fifteenth residential region. According to the system's calculation, five grams of blood essence refined from the flesh of vicious beasts was required to refine a single grain of croton.
The ninth and tenth shadows were successively placing one fish monster after another into the first level of the Refining Pagoda where blood essence was refined.
In less than several hours, more than seven hundred grams blood essence was refined. When Li Yunmu saw this harvest, his heart began to pound wildly. This was a truly great development.
Using five grams of vicious beast blood essence with an ordinary beans would create one marble-sized grain of croton. Yet in less than three hours, he had collected seven hundred and seventy grams of blood essence.
In other words, every hour he was collecting two hundred and fifty grams of blood essence, or fifty grains of croton.
If he kept doing this every day for twenty-four hours, he could refine a thousand and two hundred grains of croton.
Given that the price of one grain of croton was one life point, it would be equal to twelve hundred life points. Since the exchange rate of life points to contribution points was a hundred to one, this would result in twelve contribution points.
Compared to the masters of the front ten rooms who received only ten contribution points every day while receiving multiple challenges, Li Yunmu's harvest was better.
This rate of collecting contribution points shook Li Yunmu's spirit. Sure enough, his thoughts had been correct.
But this refining speed was still insufficient. It was far from his plan to collect a large amount of contribution points in a short time.
It was only that with just ten shadows killing the monsters, the efficiency was low. If he wanted to get more work done, he needed to add more manpower so that the Refining Pagoda could be supplied with an even larger number of vicious beast corpses. Only then would the rate at which he was collecting the ingredients would increase.
At that moment, Li Yunmu made the decision to use the three hundred six-limbed ape gods. It was time to display their proper usage, as how an army is trained for a thousand days only for an hour's use.
Even the quasi deities wouldn't have thought that the three hundred something Ape Gods which Li Yunmu had collected after braving countless trials and smuggled to the Origin World after great difficulty wouldn't be nurtured into his guardian beasts, but get used as physical labor to increase the output of production.
Chapter 353: Iron Pistil Wood's Aqua Armor
Translator: Mercurial_ Editor: DarkGem
The strength of an individual ape god was quite formidable. In the Fifth Dimension, they could be considered as one of the few peak rainbow crystal monsters.
Once they consumed a drop of divine blood and awakened their ancestral bloodline, which allowed them to transform into six-limbed ape gods, their strength had increased even more.
Not only had they obtained another pair of limbs, the tyrannical bloodline flowing through their bodies had become even more powerful. Because of that, the six-limbed Ape Gods easily adapted to the sixty-six times higher gravity.
The reason why Li Yunmu had taken the risk to smuggle them into the Origin World was because he saw three major advantages to their bodies.
First was their physical strength as well as their almost undying state. As long their head and brain weren't shattered, their limbs and other body parts would regrow due to their bloodline.
Second, ape gods were one of the few species of monsters in the Fifth Dimension which possessed intelligence. In regards to it, they only lost to humans and could be trained with relative ease.
The third factor was also the most important oneape gods were one of the few species who could learn to cultivate battle skills and cultivation methods. Because of this, four-limbed ape gods were nurtured by many sects as the guardian beasts of their sects on Earth.
The six-limbed ape gods under Li Yunmu's command were much more formidable compared to four-limbed ape gods.
Regardless of whether it was their physical strength, bloodline, or the extra pair of arms, they surpassed them in all fields. But the most important thing was that they also cultivated the Great Sun Secret Technique of Chaotian Sect which allowed them to use the sungod flame energy, a type of dark flux energy.
Apart from this, they also cultivated Chaotian Eight Steps which allowed them to display their explosive strength.
It could be said that the current six-limbed ape gods were extremely formidable existences.
According to the system's evaluation of their present strength, they already possessed power of ten oxen while their flux energy reached forty-five points.
This level of combat strength was equivalent to that of formidable fluxers who had stepped upon the seventieth level within Tower of Glory. Although their strength couldn't be compared to that of descenders, their large numbers were enough to compensate. What made Li Yunmu even more happy, though, was that these Ape Gods could also live underwater.
As long as their brains weren't damaged, they wouldn't die.
After thinking about this, a question gradually arose in Li Yunmu's mind.
"System, if I released all the ape gods in the ocean to assist the shadows in hunting monsters, what would be their survival rate?"
It was obvious that if all the ape gods were used then the hunting of the sea beasts would be accelerated, but he didn't dare to make the decision lightly.
After all, not only had he invested a drop of divine blood on each ape god to awaken their ancestral bloodline, he had also racked his brains and taken all sorts of risks to smuggle them over.
It was a certainty that if they were nurtured to become more powerful, they would definitely become a hidden trump card in Li Yunmu's struggle for supremacy in the Origin World.
Let alone speaking of losing eight or ten, even if two or three of them died, Li Yunmu would feel his heart hurt. Therefore, the prerequisite of using the Ape Gods for him was that their survival rate should be more than 90%.
Otherwise, the losses definitely wouldn't make up for the gains.
After a simple analysis, the system determined that the survival rate of the ape gods in the mid sea region would be 24% at most.
This meant that out of a hundred ape gods who would have to face the attacks of tiger fish at the ocean floor, seventy-six would die in a day. This would mean that only twenty-four would be left to meet the day after.
This sort of low survival rate sent a chill down Li Yunmu's spine.
When all was said and done, the strength of individual six-limbed apes placed them at the top of the Fifth Dimension. They could even be said to be comparable to eight rainbow light devil kings.
However, they were about to confront the sea beasts of the mid sea region in the Origin World, all of whom were enormous monsters that belonged to the category of vicious beasts.
Ape gods were much weaker when compared to the ten shadows, each of which had the same strength as Li Yunmu. Yet those shadows died occasionally, so how could it be that the ape gods which were weaker wouldn't die?
"Is there no way to improve such a low survival rate?" asked Li Yunmu, not willing to give up on this line of thought.
[If host could prepare a set of heavy armor for each of them, then perhaps their survival rate could be increased to 80% or higher. As long as their head is protected, then given their numbers and almost undying bodies, they would suffer heavy injuries but wouldn't die completely] the system replied after some pondering.
As always, it provided the most apt suggestion for Li Yunmu.
This suggestion focused on the hard to destroy bodies of the ape gods. As long as the brain was protected, Li Yunmu's worries wouldn't come true.
Even if the ape gods were heavily injured, they would heal after a good meal.
This suggestion immediately settled the worry which had plagued Li Yunmu. He then quickly acted to put this plan in action.
The next day, he walked to the Mission Plaza of the fifteenth residential region. There, he randomly took a few missions and even rented a sea beast to leave Blue Moon Island.
After ten days, he appeared in the vicinity of a subsidiary island known as Ocean Pavilion Island.
This place was famous for its blacksmiths. The weapons and armor created by them were unique in the territory of Blue Moon Island. This came to because Ocean Pavilion Island had the best material for creating armor, iron pistil tree.
Its timber was even harder than the hardest type of iron and was exclusive to Ocean Pavilion Island. Among the natives of this island, the usage of iron pistil wood was very large.
Whether to create a several hundred meters large cruise or an iron pistil bow or any other sort of weapon, there was a variety of applications.
But the true reason behind the reputation of the iron pistil tree was that the armor created with it was most suitable one for physical flux experts. Not only was the iron pistil tree harder than any type of iron, it was also lighter than even pig iron.
But this wasn't the true reason why it was considered as the most optimum material to create battle armor. The true reason was that iron pistil wood possessed a certain amount of buoyancy, so both physical and not flux experts could also fight underwater.
It was not only lighter but also allowed the user's body to maintain its agility underwater, thus it wasn't a wonder that the natives considered it a unique natural resource.
Without any hesitation, Li Yunmu ordered five hundred battle armor made of iron pistil wood which were especially thick around the head. Iron pistil armor was five centimeters thick, which was enough to protect against the attacks of the tiger fish.
In order to pay for the batch of iron pistil aqua armor, Li Yunmu had to give away almost all the corpses of sea beasts he had deposited in his heavenly world as payment.
Chapter 354: Secret Base
Translator: Mercurial_ Editor: DarkGem
After wantonly procurement of a large amount of iron pistil aqua armor, a major transformation happened at the depths of Blue Moon Island's west coast.
The ten shadows had divided into five groups.
Every two shadows formed a group with one becoming the leader and another the vice-leader. Every group had fifty ape gods in their hunting squad. Altogether, five hunting squads roamed in a hunt for a large amount of sea beasts that belonged to the category of vicious beasts.
They only hunted these, not bothering the ordinary ocean life-forms. Over a period of time, this caused the mid sea region to have increasingly more shoals of fish as well as other aquatic life-forms.
This caused new sea monsters that belonged to the vicious beast category in the surroundings to come over in an attempt to obtain food. They were steadily being lured in like moths to a flame.
Li Yunmu could clearly see that after the addition of three hundred and fifty ape gods, the efficiency of hunting went up by a notch when compared to the ten shadows hunting alone.
Although the strength of individual six-limbed ape gods was far from that of the shadows, their large numbers complemented this deficiency.
On top of that, because they possessed three pairs of powerful arms, each ape god would use six weapons, which allowed them to display their monstrous power.
The amount of blood essence refined from the flesh of sea beasts using the Refining Pagoda explosively rose from seven hundred grams to more than ten thousand grams.
A day's harvest was sufficient for Li Yunmu to refine two thousand grains of croton which made him go mad with joy.
Moreover, once the hunting squads became more experienced and made some adjustments to improve their tactics, the efficiency began to grow even more. However, it was a matter that progressed slowly.
The three hundred and fifty ape gods currently adorned iron pistil wood's aquatic armor as well as held a total of six harpoons.
Apart from this, after two hundred and fifty ape gods were entered into hunting squads, the remaining hundred were given other duties under the system's adjustments.
Li Yunmu ordered fifty ape gods to form a rescue squad.
Their main responsibility was to rescue their comrades who were seriously injured during battle. They then were to retreat from the frontline with the injured parties while making sure that their heads didn't receive repeated injuries which would result in death.
As long as the brains of the ape gods weren't shattered, they would be like cockroaches, only injured but not dead.
Once they were supplied with a large amount of flesh as food, their shattered bodies would heal, and even their limbs would regenerate.
Due to the independent rescue squad of fifty, several severely injured ape gods were saved.
After continuously working for more than ten days, they became proficient with the division of labour and cooperative work. In the last few days, very few ape gods had been devoured by the sea beasts.
Li Yunmu felt extremely glad that he had successfully protected his hidden trump card which could be used in future power struggles.
Before long, the last fifty ape gods were also bestowed a missionthey established an offshore patrol.
The group of fifty divided into ten small squads who patrolled the region round the clock to make sure that the secret would never be revealed.
With such continuous systematic adjustments, Li Yunmu gradually discovered his secret base for refining the blood essence of vicious beasts had turned into an effective ordinary workplace.
At the moment, even he had no wish to intervene. Every day, eight to fifteen kilograms of refined blood essence would be harvested, providing him with materials to gain a large amount of wealth.
Time kept passing, and with such a busy schedule, three months went by since Li Yunmu entered Blue Moon Island.
Zheng Quan and the other two descenders came to find Li Yunmu every few days, giving him a feeling that what they were planning wasn't small.
By then, they had roped in some powerful natives, but Li Yunmu happened to be their earliest and most important chess piece. This was especially so given that Li Yunmu had silently seized the fiftieth room and kept hold over it for three months, making him even more mysterious in the eyes of Zheng Quan and his group.
Three months had passed without an event. Under the pretense of being of noble birth, Zheng Quan's group had lured quite a few powerful native flux experts, gradually forming a small faction.
If Li Yummu's guess wasn't wrong, then these people from another plane were going to move soon. They were only waiting for their small faction to become a little more powerful, or maybe a little more stable.
However, Zheng Quan and his followers had no idea that the 'native' with extraordinary strength whom they had lured the earliest was actually a viper hiding among them, waiting for them to reveal their secret before attacking.
One day, Wang Yan knocked on Li Yunmu's door once more.
In the past few days, Zheng Quan and them had become increasingly more puzzled by Li Yunmu's mysterious disappearances.
However, the more he acted this way, the higher they regarded him. At the same time, Wang Yan was more and more attracted toward this mysterious but confident native who had extraordinary strength.
Upon coming over, she didn't have many illusions about a positive answer regarding her knocking. After all, nine out of ten times, Li Yunmu wouldn't be in his residence, but busy with some secret mission. However, the next instant the door opened.
Wang Yan's charming face then betrayed her emotions, pleasant surprise overtaking her features.
"Elder Brother Yunmu, you have finally returned?"
After the door opened, Li Yunmu appeared with the usual calm expression on his face. Wang Yan almost subconsciously entered his room, but then suddenly remembered about ladylike manners, and it caused her face to turn a little red. Outside the room, she asked, "What happened?"
Li Yunmu didn't feel anything about the seductive movements of Wang Yan. He stepped aside and politely asked her to enter.
He had maintained a relationship with Zheng Quan's group, but also kept a certain distance from them, never taking the initiative to offer anything which caused them to take the initiative to rope him in. This was the attitude which Li Yunmu had taken toward these descenders in the past few months.
Only the indepence coupled with willingness to negotiate made his position in the mind of Zheng Quan's group to become even more important. Similarly, it also caused them to lower their guards in front of him.
The interesting thing was that Li Yunmu's guess was pretty good.
In the past few days while he had been busy with the production of croton, his actions had dispelled the last bits of suspicion toward him in the hearts of Zheng Quan and his group.
Li Yunmu had a feeling that Wang Yan had definitely come to him this time to discuss something serious. He, who was a chess piece with extraordinary strength in their minds, was certainly going to be pulled into the center of action.