Chapter 167: Body Tempering Pill

Life in winter was stable, except for a lot of chaos in the first month.

Since Xuantian City assisted a sick child in Paradise City previously, professional players from other city-states have been coming here specifically to make purchases.

They have almost adapted to winter life.

Now, in the entire Jinjiang District, there are only two well-known city-states: Jidu City in the north and Xuantian City in the south.

However, based on the conversations in the dialogue channel, it appears that Xuantian City is still better than Jidu City.

Lu Jiu has recently heard about Jidu City. That place is the opposite of their life here. Xuantian City is relatively peaceful, with professional residents and ordinary residents living in harmony.

Jidu City is a place where rules are paramount. It seems to pursue an iron-fist rule. The city lord forcibly purchases food from the residents at extremely low prices.

The professional residents there are also required to contribute a certain amount of meat, and even the sales materials are given priority at the city lord's shop.

However, the prices there are not high. The NPCs in all shops have high-level talents, and the equipment and props they produce are of very good quality. Compared to neighboring city-states, Jidu City is the best choice for many residents.

At least what the city lord did prevented any major conflicts in the city.

Many city owners did not pay attention to the importance of NPCs in the beginning and even considered them as mere handymen. Only later did they realize the foolish actions they had taken.

However, not everyone can afford the cost of hiring a high-level talented NPC.

Today is another payday for NPC employees. Lu Jiu feels like a girl who gives money. She gives dozens of gold coins to NPCs every month. Even a professional team that goes out to collect and mine still needs supplies.

The manager of the drug store was the last person to come and collect her salary, as well as report on the drug store's revenue for this month. However, Lu Jiu didn't care much about this matter, and Shen Jufeng took care of it.

Lu Jiu handed the correct number of gold coins to the store manager NPC. However, instead of accepting the money and leaving as usual, the other party stared at her.

She felt uncomfortable being stared at. "What's wrong?"

The store manager appeared slightly confused and paused before speaking, "Can I return one of the gold coins and exchange it for a tempering fruit?"

Lu Jiu was momentarily stunned as she looked at the gold coins handed to her by the NPC. "Do you still need this? Isn't this used for food and medicine?"

She was not afraid of embarrassment. When she heard the name of tempered fruit, she knew it was non-toxic and decided to try one. However, she didn't experience any special sensation. The taste was similar to that of grapes.

It tastes quite good.

The NPC seemed to have made up her mind. "I just think it's a waste if you eat it directly. And recently, I learned how to create new elixirs. I can refine body tempering elixirs to enhance my qualifications in various areas."

After saying this, Shen Jufeng didn't care about what he in his hands. hand. Regarding the matter, listen attentively to what she has to say.

"The role of tempered fruit is more significant than you may think, and the batch of tempered fruits you collected earlier are still low-level tempered fruits. These are the first fruits produced by these trees. The more times these trees bear fruit, the more likely they are to bear fruit. A tempered fruit of intermediate or high quality can be produced."

Lu Jiu was stunned. There are many methods for a tempered fruit. "Then, what the body tempering pill improves is, for example, the overall value of our physical attributes, including our skills. The wild monsters will reward the increase in the total attribute value."

The store manager NPC nodded and said, "It's almost the same, but there are other benefits. For example, individuals with skills can also improve their skill levels by using body tempering pills. Skills can be upgraded, otherwise, they can rely on their existing skills. With the lack of skill quality, it will be difficult for you to deal with the high-level wild monsters that will appear in the future."

Lu Jiu knew that the NPC was correct. For example, the wild monsters they encountered now already had tens of thousands of health points, and their attack attributes were still in the few hundred range.

Even if the attack value is increased, the few seconds of control are not sufficient to inflict significant damage. They can't imagine what it will be like when they encounter wild monsters at the silver and gold levels.

"Are you taking the Body Tempering Pill to enhance the quality of the medicine?" Lu Jiu asked.

"Yes, although I possess high-level alchemy talent, my exceptional alchemy skills still require refinement and enhancement. Talent does not guarantee that I will become a master of alchemy, but if given the opportunity, I also need to enhance my physical fitness and mental strength. To refine potions with better properties."

Lu Jiu didn't quite understand what she needed to do to refine medicine, but it seemed that whether she was fighting or refining medicine, she needed to possess excellent physical and mental strength.

"I have been growing, but the speed is not fast enough. But when I saw the tempered fruit and the unique geographical environment of this area, I knew this was my opportunity."

Lu Jiu could understand what NPC meant "growing." For example, initially, the potions sold in the store did not provide significant boosts to energy, blood, and physical strength. However, after obtaining the tempering fruit, the quality of the potions experienced a significant improvement.

This is not only due to the tempering fruit's effect, but also because the pharmacy NPC has indeed become stronger. However, their attack attributes are not as strong.

Shen Jufeng was still lost in thought, his eyes cast downward. When he saw the NPC stop talking, he knew that she would only say this.

Lu Jiu made a decision immediately, "Then I'll pay you a thousand tempering fruits upfront, and I'll give you half of your salary afterwards. As for the body tempering pill, you just have to refine it, and I'll provide all the materials."

The store manager NPC wanted to temper the pill. The fruit-refining people just want to refine the body-tempering pill and keep it for themselves. They will not take anything from the store. Only their wages are their materials.

The store manager took the tempered fruit and went back, leaving Lu Jiu and Shen Jufeng still processing what she had just said.

Lu Jiu tilted her head and took out a tempered fruit. "I initially thought this fruit was merely useful, but I didn't anticipate its significant usefulness."

What's even more frightening is that giant trees can be found everywhere. Anyone who is able to climb to the top of the tree can pick it.

If everyone knew about this effect, picking tempered fruits would not be as easy as before.

"But this also resolved my previous doubts. Originally, I thought that the attributes of the current skills made it simple to deal with ordinary wild monsters. The brown iron level ones were also okay, but it was difficult to say for higher level ones. It turns out that it can be upgraded."

Today, this question has been solved. It would be great if we could upgrade.

"I have considered it, but what I was thinking about was whether there would be cards that enhance skill attribute values. However, I had not obtain them, or they would appear after the beasts besiege the city."

The game has already prompted a major update, and each time the world encounters the tide of beasts in the city, new powers will come again.

Shen Jufeng also thought this way, "It is undeniable that such a card is likely to appear. The game world will not provide us with too many things all at once."

If everything is given at the beginning, it will disrupt a certain balance.

Players who have the advantage may be content, but the game world requires such people to possess strength in order to govern the city-state more easily. The prosperity of a city-state also requires the city lords themselves to possess power.

However, early players also have equipment that is prohibited from being used. Lu Jiu has previously stated that the magic sets she synthesized, as well as ultra-high-level equipment like the ultimate level, are all unusable.

Give players like them a high starting point, but not an unlimited potential.