【Guild Token: Price: 100 million Contribution Points.】
【Talent Enhancement Stone: Price: 10 million Contribution Points. Limited to 2.】
【Skill Enhancement Stone: Price: 2 million Contribution Points. Limited to 10.】
【10 points to each of the four attributes: Price: 500,000 Contribution Points per point. Limited to 10 points.】
【Revival Scroll: Price: 10 million Contribution Points. Limited to 1.】
The other items were fairly normal.
But Chu Fu didn’t let any of the first three slip by.
Buy, buy, buy!
【Village-Town Upgrade Blueprint: Upgrades a village into a town, expanding its territory to cover an area of 2,000 × 2,000 meters and allowing up to 100,000 players to enter simultaneously.
The user automatically becomes the town mayor and gains control over the use of all newly added land within the area.
Automatically grants free access to tax collection, return-to-town services, teleportation arrays, and more, regardless of the map’s level restrictions.
Allows the mayor to appoint officials, mine and develop nearby resource nodes, and more.】
This was far too important.
With this blueprint, Chu Fu could completely upgrade Wangxi Village into Wangxi Town.
Moreover, she could shift from a grind-focused game mode to an infrastructure-building mode.
By the time the game invaded reality, Wangxi Village would have already become Wangxi Town.
Her plan to develop the Thornlands could be expanded once again.
Fortunately, when she had fought Li Wei for land, he had approved a large area for her. Now, she could expand her plans.
Chu Fu hurriedly sent the 【Village-Town Upgrade Blueprint】 to Feng Huimin and reminded her to increase the construction area. They were only laying the foundation for now, so it should still be in time to make the changes.
Next came the Second Talent Awakening Stone.
Chu Fu checked its information.
【Second Talent Awakening Stone (Dark Gold Grade): Awakens a second talent. The highest possible awakening rank is A-rank.
The awakened talent will complement the character’s current actions, needs, and other factors.
The awakened talent is random. It will not necessarily be exactly what you wish for. All interpretations are subject to the Origin Gate.】
This thing was truly outrageous.
It allowed a person to possess a second talent.
Chu Fu knew that her brother’s first talent was Plunder, while his second talent was 【Godlike Adaptation】.
In other words, every attack that struck her brother would gradually be converted into a passive ability that adapted to that attack.
Simply put, if he was hit by physical attacks repeatedly, he would gradually become immune to physical attacks.
If he was attacked with frost, he would gradually become immune to ice-based attacks.
It was incredibly overpowered.
Chu Fu wasn’t sure what kind of talent she needed at the moment, but she felt that her damage output was already sufficient.
She wondered whether she could obtain a talent that increased her attribute points.
With that thought, she clasped the Second Talent Awakening Stone in her hand and began to pray. Then, she used it.
In an instant, she saw a green radiance that merged into her body.
A system notification appeared:
【A-Rank Talent—Poisonous Body:
Trait 1: Venomous Mutation: Any plant you activate will undergo a poison-type mutation.
Trait 2: Poison-Devouring Sacred Body: Consuming a poisonous substance increases your Poison Attack by 1 point and your Poison Defense by 1 point.】
Wow!
This was extremely good. For Chu Fu, increasing her Poison Attack by 1 point was no different from increasing her regular attack power.
Based on Chu Fu’s understanding of talents in the game, the closest comparison would be a killing-type talent—for example, gaining 1 point of Attack for every monster killed. Of course, a talent like that would have to be at least SSS-rank.
Although consuming poison was somewhat troublesome, it did provide a steady increase.
Moreover, the effect of Trait 1 meant that many plants that previously couldn’t be considered offensive plants could now attack with the support of poison.
That was another excellent benefit.
As for the Growth-Type Artifact Embryo, Chu Fu installed it in the Spirit Plant Pouch without hesitation.
She should have enhanced the Poison Bottle first. The Spirit Plant Pouch could grow through the use of a Growth-Type Artifact Embryo.
【Spirit Plant Pouch (Dark Gold Rank—Upgradeable):
Additional Trait: Upgradeable
Requirements for the next upgrade: Plant 10 different Dark Gold-rank plants, 300 Spatial Stones, and 30,000 cubic meters of any soil
(Note: Different types of soil provide different conditions for plant growth.)】
The requirements weren’t particularly harsh.
Spatial Stones were precious, but they dropped from Abyss-tier dungeons. She could simply go to the city and farm dungeons.
She could also buy them from players, though everyone wanted to use Spatial Stones to extract equipment, so their price was rather high.
Just as Chu Fu was happily sorting through her equipment, Xie Lin and Jiao Jiao Bu Jiao arrived.
“How much Contribution do you have left? Sell me some so I can buy a Second Talent Stone.”
Chu Fu had already spent 300 million. She still needed to buy Talent Enhancement Stones, Skill Enhancement Stones, and Attribute Points, bringing her total spending to roughly 360 million.
“I still have 71.26 million Contribution Points that I can give you. You two can decide how to split them.”
“Help me put together enough first!” Xie Lin clasped his fists toward Jiao Jiao Bu Jiao.
What could Jiao Jiao Bu Jiao do? She was still far short of the amount required, whereas Xie Lin had a chance of buying the stone outright.
“Fine. I’ll help you gather 100 million first, and the rest is mine. If you still try to spend 20 million on another Talent Stone, I’ll kill you!”
Jiao Jiao raised her shield.
“No, no, I won’t! Just help me gather 100 million!”
Chu Fu traded 37.69 million Contribution Points to Xie Lin.
In return, he traded Chu Fu 37.69 gold coins.
Chu Fu let out a surprised cry. “Why did you give me so much? What’s the exchange rate now?”
Jiao Jiao Bu Jiao let out a mournful sigh. “With something like the Second Talent Stone appearing, how could prices not skyrocket? And then there’s the expansion of the villages and towns. In the past, Contribution was bought at a rate of one copper coin to one point. Now, one gold coin buys 10,000 Contribution Points, which is equivalent to a rate of one to one hundred in copper coins. If you calculate it according to the current exchange rate between copper coins and Huaxia currency, one Contribution Point is worth 1,500 yuan!
“I’m going to be completely drained!”
Jiao Jiao Bu Jiao’s greatest advantage had always been her ability to spend money.
As prices soared, that advantage gradually weakened.
However, thanks to her early investments, she had become the second-largest shareholder of the Thorn Guild, so her dividends were naturally substantial.
Chu Fu said, “What are you worried about? At worst, you can get an advance from the guild. You’ll just receive fewer dividends at the end of the year.”
Jiao Jiao Bu Jiao rubbed her hands together like a fly.
“Then I won’t hold back!”
Jiao Jiao Bu Jiao immediately became wealthy and generous again.
Chu Fu sold all her remaining Contribution Points to Jiao Jiao Bu Jiao, leaving her with a full 9,283 gold coins in her bag.
She remembered that once she had 10,000 gold coins in her bag, she could activate another achievement and summon a Mysterious Merchant.
However, the wares offered by the Mysterious Merchant were also tied to his own level. Chu Fu didn’t want to summon him while she was only level 25, since he wouldn’t be able to produce anything good.
She simply cashed out 9,000 gold and exchanged it for 135 billion, setting it aside as startup capital for expanding Thorny Town.
Afterward, Chu Fu took out eight Talent Enhancement Stones.
Of her two talents, Chu Fu planned to upgrade Plant Human first, raising it all the way to SSS rank.
As for Poison Human, the third trait gained when advancing from A rank to S rank was probably a 100% increase to poison damage. The earlier traits would receive some enhancement as well, but the changes wouldn’t be significant.
With that thought, Chu Fu picked up the Talent Enhancement Stones and began strengthening the talent one after another.
When she used the fifth stone, Plant Human suddenly flashed.
Trait 5 appeared.
【Trait 5: Plant Human: You can merge all the plants under your control into yourself, transforming into a colossal plant humanoid. The plants become your limbs and organs, and your combat power increases by 500%.】
Chu Fu blinked.
Then she blinked again.
She felt as though she had somehow stumbled onto a bug.
