Jiang Yuan learned through inquiry that Wen Ding Cang Sheng had spent nearly ten million on his Nascent Soul tribulation!
After tens of thousands of refreshes, Wen Ding Cang Sheng finally rolled these eight attributes at an extremely low probability, then spent over twenty million more to max out each attribute to the limit!
Jiang Yuan compared his own Nascent Soul with Wen Ding Cang Sheng’s and realized that although his eight attributes were also nearly maxed out, they hadn’t reached the absolute peak yet—still about two centimeters short of the final full bar.
Yet those two centimeters would cost several times more than everything before!
"Forget it, I can’t afford it. Let’s leave it at that."
Jiang Yuan equipped the Nascent Soul and shook his head. Even though Wen Ding Cang Sheng’s top-tier Nascent Soul made his mouth water, the price was terrifying!
Just then, the system updated the Nascent Soul Quality Leaderboard, and Jiang Yuan quickly clicked to check.
【Nascent Soul Quality Leaderboard】
1st Place: Wen Ding Cang Sheng Nascent Soul Quality: Supreme True Martial Sovereign Realm
2nd Place: Ao Shi Long Huang Nascent Soul Quality: Dong Ming Gui Xu Divine Ability Realm
3rd Place: Jiang Yuan Nascent Soul Quality: Dong Ming Gui Xu Divine Ability Realm
4th Place: Wen Ding Jian Shen Nascent Soul Quality: Dong Ming Gui Xu Divine Ability Realm
5th Place: Please Call Me War God Nascent Soul Quality: Lian Gang Hua Shen Golden Core Realm
6th Place: Xu Ni Yi Shi Feng Hua Nascent Soul Quality: Lian Gang Hua Shen Golden Core Realm
7th Place: One Blade Breaks All Laws Nascent Soul Quality: Wu Qi Chao Yuan Creation Realm
Wen Ding Cang Sheng firmly held the top spot with his top-tier Nascent Soul. Ao Shi Long Huang’s Nascent Soul slightly outperformed Jiang Yuan’s in attributes, earning him second place. Ranks eight through ten were temporarily empty because no one had yet refined a Nascent Soul above the Chao Yuan quality.
Jiang Yuan knew that Cang Shu Bu Ding hadn’t logged into the game yet; otherwise, the Dragon Kingdom server would likely have another True Martial quality top-tier Nascent Soul!
At that moment, Jiang Yuan opened his character stats panel and checked his current attributes.
【Character Name】：Jiang Yuan 【Character Class】：Nine Spirits Summoner 【Character Level】：123 【Immortal Position】：Ti Xing Si Master 【Immortal Pet】：Bei Luo Shi Men (Kong Ling Yun Ying Cat) 【Character Realm】：Second Stage San Xian 【Character Immortal Base Value】：/ 【Primordial Spirit Level】： 【HP】： 【MP】： 【Immortal Power】：4200 【Magic Attack】： 【Physical Defense】： 【Magic Defense】： 【Strength】：326 (Affects physical attack and physical defense) 【Intelligence】：818 (Affects magic attack and magic defense) 【Constitution】：410 (Affects HP and HP recovery rate) 【Spirit】：614 (Affects MP and MP recovery rate) 【Agility】：360 (Affects physical and magic crit rate) 【Toughness】：510 (Reduces physical and magic damage taken) 【Crit Rate】：85% 【Crit Damage】：714% 【Skill Hit】：15 【Skill Dodge】：36 【Crit Reduction】：19% 【Crit Damage Reduction】：45% 【Ignore Reduction】：7.9 【Attribute Enhancement】：Fire 130, Ice 140, Light 120, Dark 150 【Attribute Resistance】：Fire 60, Ice 60, Light 70, Dark 90 【Equipped Gear】：Extinction Demon-Twisting Gold Staff, Sun-Eclipsing Shadowless Shoulder Guards, Wind-Frost Snow Shadow Robe, Dark Shadow Absolute Grief Belt, Flame Annihilation Trousers, Idle Cloud Leisurely Step Boots, Ancient Archmage Earring, Soul-Devouring Ring, Earth Fiend Star Necklace 【Learned Skills】：Summon Beast Frenzy (Super Mythic Talent), Summon Wild Boar, Arcane Mark, Summon Beast Follow, Fireball, Lightning Bolt, Ice Arrow, Soul Sacrifice, Nine Spirits Summon Cangyuan Wolf, Nine Spirits Summon Mangshan Bear, Nine Spirits Summon Leize Gu, Nine Spirits Summon Longxu Tiger, Summon Beast Enhancement, Summon Beast Evolution, Sacred Beast Summon Xuanwu, Sacred Beast Summon Zhuque
After finishing the money-draining business, Jiang Yuan went to the Sect Trial Envoy to start accepting Golden Core quests. With the update, the rewards for Golden Core quests had doubled, making them worth doing.
Moreover, because washing the Nascent Soul had wasted most of the day, Jiang Yuan failed his daily check-in quest, losing 300 Tai Chi Golden Cores. He needed to make up for it with Golden Core quests.
In no time, he completed the three quests "Skywalker," "Walking the Sky," and "Golden Core Has a Price," earning 150 Tai Chi Golden Cores. Jiang Yuan then accepted the sect Golden Core quest "Achieving Meritorious Deeds."
This quest was simple: he needed to gather materials from different maps and hand them over to the sect envoy. The specific steps were to first chop wood at Nanqiao Mountain and give it to the NPC "Woodworker" at Changsheng Hall Sect, then mine a few ores at the Immortal Stone Mine and give them to the NPC "Miner," and finally fetch a bucket of clear water from the waterfall at Dongzhen Yuan and return it to the NPC "Overseer." Completing these steps allowed him to turn in the quest to the Sect Trial Envoy and receive Golden Cores.
After finishing four Golden Core quests, Jiang Yuan obtained 200 Tai Chi Golden Cores, which increased his cultivation by less than 30%. As his level rose, the cultivation boost from Tai Chi Golden Cores began to diminish accordingly.
"Yuanzi, wanna run a dungeon?"
Just then, Ding Ye’s avatar flashed in Jiang Yuan’s friend list, sending him a message.
"What dungeon?"
Jiang Yuan replied.
"The Phantom Moon Cave dungeon. Completing it gives you 300 Tai Chi Golden Cores, plus materials like Primordial Spirit Orbs, Creation Orbs, and Immortal Base items. Most importantly, you can pick up Victory Stones needed to exchange for equipment! So, in or not?"
After hearing Ding Ye’s explanation, Jiang Yuan was immediately tempted and directly applied to join Ding Ye’s team.
Once in the team, he saw that Ding Ye had already gathered four people, including himself, Wen Ding Cang Sheng, and Chuang Shi Xiao Yun.
"We just need a healer to round it out. How about asking your wife if she’s coming?"
After forming the team, Ding Ye checked the lineup and found they were missing a healing class, so he said to Jiang Yuan.
"What wife? We’re not at that stage yet!"
Jiang Yuan shot back at Ding Ye. Although he and Cang Shu Bu Ding were now in-game lovers, in reality, they were still just friends, far from calling each other "wife" or "husband."
Briefly stepping away from the game and returning to the real world, unsure if Cang Shu Bu Ding’s meeting had ended, Jiang Yuan sent her a WeChat message.
"Almost done, about ten more minutes. Wait for me in the game."
Soon, Cang Shu Bu Ding replied to Jiang Yuan. He put down his phone, put his helmet back on, and returned to the game to inform Ding Ye and the others.