Gao Yuan waited until dusk before he found a quite satisfactory foothold.
This is a small earth mountain with a radius of ten miles and a height of nearly 200 meters. It is about 600 miles away from the border of gray desert and wild forest.
It is covered with vines and bushes, making it easy to hide the entrance to the cave.
After activating the blast spell and circling around the hill for a while, Gao Yuan quickly selected several suitable cave exits.
Then he took out the two mountain rat nails and dug them out quickly using his true energy drive.
He was busy until he hit three poles the next day, and the hole he chose as his long-term foothold began to take shape.
After living underground for a long time, Gao Yuan has accumulated rich experience in digging underground tunnels.
During the excavation process, he not only learned from the layout of the residence in Qingliang City, but also constantly used the spiritual tentacles as a ruler.
Therefore, the structure and layout of the underground stronghold excavated this time are far superior to those before.
Structurally, this underground stronghold is located 60 meters underground, with a living area of more than 200 square meters and a ceiling height of more than three meters!
During the construction process, not only a large number of ventilation ducts were reserved, but there were as many as eight external escape channels!
There are six passages connecting to the hill on the ground, and the other two passages are deep underground, extending to another hill twenty miles away!
In terms of layout, this secret room is divided into eight areas in a 'meter' shape, including bedrooms, leisure rooms, studios, kitchens, dining rooms, storage rooms, exercise training rooms, toilets, etc.!
The most important thing is that when he dug down the sewage pipe from the reserved toilet area, he unexpectedly discovered an underground river!
He immediately adjusted the layout, swapped the positions of the toilet and kitchen, and moved the pipes away from the underground river.
Then he built a well in the new kitchen area that connected to the underground river!
In this way, the facilities of this underground stronghold will become more complete.
After the large framework of the underground stronghold was settled, he only left one commonly used exit, and sealed all the exits of the remaining passages with stone slabs and soil.
In order to cover up the traces, he also traveled more than a hundred miles away, dug up a large number of vines and shrubs and transplanted them to the outside of these exits, covering them up densely.
He then spent another day perfecting every detail, and finally on the afternoon of the third day, this newly built underground stronghold finally felt a little like home!
After solving the problems in life, Gao Yuan sat on the newly made stone chair and briefly took stock of his belongings.
Most of the items on his body are left over from his Qi training period, and not many of them are actually useful to him now.
The most important of them are spirit stones. Including the new batch he redeemed when he left Qingliang City, he now has a total of 167 intermediate spirit stones and 16 low-level spirit stones.
In the account of the Exile camp, there is also a large number of intermediate spiritual stones obtained from selling the spiritual materials of second-level monsters. After deducting the 185 stones he spent on purchasing a hundred bottles of Yuan-Pui Yuan Dan before, there are still 1,759 stones left!
In terms of elixirs, after these days of consumption, there are still 84 bottles of Peiyuan Dan, 5 bottles of Guyuan Dan, and two bottles each of Forbidden Demon Pill and Qingfeng Dan. The latter three pills were bought by him at the Oasis Base Camp and have been purchased to this day.
Haven't used it either.
In terms of talismans, there are 35 evil-suppressing talismans and 10 evil-destroying talismans.
In addition to the oval stone tablet obtained from the ruins of Qingyuan Mountain, two long knives and the crystal used by the puppet guard to form a shield, these are all valuable items to him currently.
The rest of the first-level elixirs, talismans, magic weapons and the like are useless to him now.
After a brief tidying up, Gao Yuan took stock of the items he needed urgently now.
The first is to make the talisman skin of the second-level talisman, followed by the information and even physical objects of Bi Linghua and Magic Silver Grass, and finally the alchemy furnace.
He didn't know how much these things would cost in total, especially the alchemy furnace, and he had no idea at all.
After all, the market price of a first-level magic weapon is around eighty intermediate spiritual stones. With a net worth of less than two thousand intermediate spiritual stones, I don’t know if I can afford it?
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After stacking all the sundries in the storage space into the storage room, Gao Yuan took out his cyan mask and skillfully connected to the exile camp.
Walking out of the thick clouds and fog, he quickly arrived at the trading area.
The trading area of the Exile Camp is a very large square-shaped building complex, which is divided into six areas according to the transaction content.
They are the magic weapon area, spiritual material area, talisman area, elixir area, medicinal materials area, and free trade area.
Each area is a building with a different style. These huge buildings representing their respective functions form a ring and surround the central counter registration area.
Based on the principle of going from easy to difficult, Gao Yuan first visited Fulu District.
Not surprisingly, there is no information on how to make talismans here. They are basically various finished second-level talismans, with some items for selling talisman skins and second-level spiritual blood mixed in.
"No. C-137, fifty dozen high-quality talisman skins, one price of 48 mid-level spiritual stones, no retail sales accepted."
"No. C363, high-quality talisman skins, starting from ten dozen, for every mid-level spiritual stone, there are two hundred and thirty dozen left."
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Seeing the selling price of these talismans, Gao Yuan couldn't help but take a breath. The unit price of the talisman skins for making second-level talismans is dozens of times higher than the talisman paper for making first-level talismans!
The so-called dozen is twelve pieces, and the price of a dozen talisman skins in the talisman area is basically around one mid-level spiritual stone. Doesn't this mean that the unit price of one talisman skin exceeds eight low-level spiritual stones?
Even though we know that this thing is made from the soft belly skin of a second-level monster, the price is still a bit ridiculously high.
After all, a piece of talisman skin is only about the size of a palm. If you kill a second-level monster at random, the skin you peel off is probably enough to make thousands of talisman skins!
Although he was a little unhappy, Gao Yuan still pinched his nose and admitted it for the sake of future Fu Hai tactics. After all, he had no other way to obtain talisman skins except here.
He went straight to the counter area and bought the fifty dozen talisman skins numbered C137.
After leaving the Talisman area, Gao Yuan turned directly to the medicinal materials area.
But unfortunately, although there are many medicinal materials that are not recorded in the "Common Low-level Materials Illustrated Book", there are no traces of Biling Flower and Magic Silver Grass.
Unwilling to give up, he wandered around the free trade area for a while, but still found nothing.
In the magic weapon area, there was no mention of anything related to the alchemy furnace. Gao Yuan was really helpless.
As time went by, he gradually got better when exercising according to that set of body-building exercises. He had made rapid progress in the past few days, and it would take less than a month for him to be able to perform a full set of exercises.
But he still has no clue about the refining of the body refining elixir.
The trading area in the Exile camp is currently his largest source of channels. He originally had great expectations for it, but the actual results have made him very disappointed.
Do you just want to give up on this body-training technique?
Gao Yuan thought a little depressed. His eyes subconsciously looked into the distance and landed on a building complex that was comparable in size to the trading area. Over there was the alliance mission area.
At this moment, a flash of light suddenly flashed across his mind.
No, I still have a way!
Gao Yuan subconsciously remembered the scene when he first entered this illusory space and browsed the jade slip.
Members of the Exile Alliance are divided into four levels. The authority level is distinguished by the color of the mask. From low to high, they are cyan, black, red, and gold.
Cyan permissions: Consign items, purchase items, and receive corresponding tasks in the Exile camp.
Black permissions: Based on the cyan permissions, new permissions for publishing tasks and exclusive level trading areas are added.
Red permissions: Based on the black permissions, new permissions are added to participate in high-level trade fairs and personal butlers.
Gold permissions: Unknown.
Not to mention anything else, Black Mask's new permissions to publish tasks and exclusive level trading areas sound much higher, and I think it can greatly expand his channel sources.
Then he recalled how Black Mask was promoted:
1. Alliance members who have reached the Hunyuan realm will automatically obtain the black mask permission.
Second, use 10,000 alliance contribution points to redeem it.
The first one should not be considered for the time being. According to his current cultivation progress, even with the master-level skills and a large supply of elixirs, it will still take several years before he can advance to the Hunyuan realm.
Then you can only accumulate 10,000 alliance contribution points. This is difficult to say and easy to say.
To put it simply, it is because alliance contribution points can be directly exchanged for intermediate spiritual stones, and ten intermediate spiritual stones can be exchanged for one point.
If you contribute 10,000 alliance points, it will only be 100,000 intermediate spiritual stones!
The cash-strapped Gao Yuan simply ignored this, so there was only one way left for him, which was to complete various tasks issued by the alliance task area to accumulate alliance contribution points!
The tasks issued by the alliance task area are divided into two types, namely alliance tasks and private tasks.
The so-called alliance tasks are tasks issued in the official name of the alliance, while private tasks are tasks issued by alliance members with Black Mask and above authority.
Whether it is an alliance mission or a private mission, the mission forms and rewards are varied, including alliance contribution points, spiritual stones or other valuable items.
Gao Yuan hesitated for a moment, but decided to go to the mission area first to see the specific mission situation.
If it is a task that is not too difficult or dangerous, it is not impossible to do it.
With this thought in mind, he walked straight out of the trading area and headed towards the mission area in the distance.