If I don’t become the last one, I will be immortal!

Chapter 18: Pavé Stone

Under the leadership of Fan Honghong, Fanxing bypassed several towers and came to a white house.

Fan Honghong pointed to the open door and said, "This is where you can claim your rewards."

Fanxing nodded and said, "Go in."

As soon as the two of them reached the door, they saw Luo Wen and Zhou Wu coming out.

When passing by Fanxing and the others, Luo Wen nodded slightly to Fanxing.

Fanxing was stunned. When she was about to nod and say hello, the two men had already walked past.

Fan Honghong looked at Luo Wen's back and exclaimed, "He's so handsome! And very polite."

"Let's go, stop being such a fangirl." Fanxing walked into the house first.

Fan Honghong followed with a smile.

After entering the house, the two saw that the house was full of shelves filled with many things.

There was a very high counter in the corner of the room, behind which a man in an apron was tidying the shelves.

This man is the janitor who manages this warehouse, and the warehouse is filled with rewards for climbing the tower.

Noticing someone coming in, the man turned around and asked, "Are you here to claim your reward?"

Fan Honghong was the first to answer: "Yes, teacher!"

The janitor asked, "Is it Yu Fanxing?"

Fan Honghong's eyes widened as he asked, "Teacher, how did you know?"

The janitor laughed and said, "When you finished climbing the tower and came out, didn't you all scan the spirit pattern wristbands at the door?"

Fanxing and Fan Honghong nodded at the same time.

The janitor continued, "At that time, the tower's grading system recorded your identities and tower climbing scores and transmitted them to me, so I know your tower climbing scores clearly."

"So that's how it is." Fan Honghong and Fanxing suddenly realized.

Fan Honghong asked excitedly, "Teacher, what reward can our star get? She climbed to the 15th floor."

The janitor replied, "The reward for climbing the tower is one level for every five levels, so Yu Fanxing will receive three levels of rewards."

When Fan Honghong heard this, his face was immediately filled with frustration. "That's a shame. I haven't even reached the fifth floor."

The janitor was immediately amused. "It's very rare for someone like Yu Fanxing to reach the 15th floor on their first try, but there are only a handful of people like you who only reach the 3rd floor. Most people can pass the 5th floor and get the first-level rewards."

He flipped through the records and said, "Your name is Fan Honghong, right?"

Fan Honghong lowered his head and replied, "Yes."

The janitor smiled and said, "You still need to work harder."

"Yes!" Fan Honghong lowered his head even more.

After that, the school worker took out 10 black bags and said to Fanxing, "This is the first-level reward, 10 bags of spirit seed rations. Your spirit seed is a black spirit cat, right? These are suitable for evil spirit seeds to eat."

Fanxing thought for a moment and asked, "Teacher, can you replace five of the bags with Yin-attribute ones?"

The teacher was slightly stunned. "Okay, okay. Are you sure you want to change?"

Fanxing nodded, "OK."

Generally, spiritualists would not focus on training flying mounts. After all, they were just a means of transportation. They had neither strong attack power nor good auxiliary capabilities, and they didn't even sign a contract with them.

But Fanxing's situation is special. The princess's potential is no worse than Yato's, and she wants to raise her well.

"Okay." The janitor took five of the bags away, and then brought back five bags in purple packaging.

After Fanxing put the 10 bags of rations into the Lingwen wristband, the school worker took out a small bag. When he opened the bag, he revealed 10 diamond-shaped crystals inside, each about the size of a mahjong tile.

The crystal is crystal clear and sparkles under the refraction of light, just like the purest gem.

Seeing these crystals, Fan Honghong's eyes widened, "Psychic gems!!!"

The janitor laughed and said, "The little girl is quite knowledgeable."

Fan Honghong laughed and said, "I saw it at my parents' house."

Fanxing asked doubtfully: "Psychic gem? What is its use?"

The janitor replied, “It has many uses.

Firstly, it can assist in cultivation. Spiritual practitioners can use it themselves, and spiritual seeds can also use it by directly absorbing it. It is very convenient, and can also be used as a prop to replenish spiritual energy during combat."

Fanxing suddenly understood what was going on. No wonder she felt such a strong desire to eat as soon as she saw this thing.

Eating this thing is almost like eating spiritual seeds.

However, the spiritual energy obtained by Fanxing by eating the spiritual seeds directly will be more abundant.

The janitor continued, "Secondly, psychic gems are also the universal currency among psychics. Many precious items require psychic gems to be exchanged."

Fanxing nodded in understanding.

At this time, the school worker winked at Fanxing and said, "By the way, if you are short of money in the outer world, you can go to the headquarters lobby and exchange them for cash. One can be exchanged for 1 yuan."

Upon hearing this, Fan Honghong exclaimed, "Wow, this is possible. This is the first time I've heard of it."

The reward for the stars is 10 psychic gems, doesn’t that mean it’s worth millions?
Did you get rich overnight?

The janitor laughed and said, "Of course, but exchanging psychic gems for money is not cost-effective, so almost no one does it."

Fan Honghong nodded in agreement: "Indeed, compared to the wealth of the outer world, cultivation resources are of course more precious."

"In addition, the psychic gem is also an essential item for awakening the characteristics of the spirit seed after it is upgraded to level B." The school worker emphasized.

Generally speaking, spirit seeds need to be upgraded to Class B before they can utilize the awakening properties of the psychic gem.

But there are some exceptions.

For example, the evil god Tai Sui is born in a state of awakened characteristics. Painted Skin has been devouring Tai Sui's flesh and blood for a long time, and its characteristics have also been automatically awakened.

"Just keep it." The janitor stuffed the bag of psychic gems into Fanxing's arms.

Fanxing nodded and put the psychic gem into the spiritual pattern bracelet.

"There is one last reward."

As he spoke, the janitor took out a row of palm-sized boxes. When he opened the boxes, he revealed stones of various shapes and colors.

There are round ones, square ones, oval ones, and irregular ones... There are red ones, green ones, blue ones, and yellow ones...

And each stone is carved with intricate patterns, some look like hexagrams, some like ancient characters, some like leaves, some like flowers...all kinds of strange patterns.

The janitor explained, "These are dense-grained stones. After the spirit seed devours them, it can learn the skills contained within them."

"Is this the dense-grained stone?" Fan Honghong exclaimed.

Teacher Hu just introduced the damascene stone to them during class this morning.

The dense-grained stone is an item that has an extremely small probability of dropping after the death of a spirit species. Even if an S-level spirit species dies, the probability of dropping is less than 20%, and the probability of dropping for F and E-level spirit species is infinitely close to 0.

There are only three ways for spirit seeds to learn skills.

First, upgrade.

There is a 50% chance of gaining a skill when a spirit seed is upgraded from F to E, or from E to D. There is a 70% chance of gaining a skill when a spirit seed is upgraded from D to C, or from C to B.

There is a 90% chance of gaining a skill when upgrading from B-level to A-level, and from A-level to S-level.

When you upgrade from S level to SS level, and from SS level to SSS level, you will definitely learn a skill.

Second, evolution.

When a spirit seed evolves, it will inevitably comprehend a skill.

But except for low-level and common spirit species like small wood spirits and small flower spirits, the evolution of most spirit species is very difficult, requiring either specific conditions or precious props.

The third, of course, is to use dense stone.

After using the dense stone, the spirit seed will definitely comprehend the skills contained therein.

However, the drop rate of dense stone is touching, so it is rare and precious. It is a scarce resource and very difficult to obtain.

Of course, there are also some invisible skill learning methods, such as the skill plundering of the stars, but these methods are mostly secretive and rare, so Teacher Hu did not mention them in class.

Fan Honghong stammered, "Is the school so generous? They're using all the slate stones as rewards?"

The school worker smiled and said, "You are newcomers after all, the hope of the country's future. A generous reward will make your journey on the spiritual path smoother.

This is your only chance to obtain Narrow Stones during your time at school. If you want more in the future, you'll have to exchange them for Merits or Psychic Gems. Just look at these Narrow Stones, each one costs 1 Psychic Gems."

"1...1?" Fan Honghong's jaw dropped in shock.

Even if her parents' combined salary is not enough to earn 1 psychic gems in two or three years.

Her parents' salaries in the league are not low.

"It's so scary." Fan Honghong said, patting his chest.

The janitor laughed and said, "You can also obtain dense vein stones by killing spirit seeds yourself."

Fan Honghong was speechless. "The drop rate of dense stone is so low. How many people do we have to kill to get one? Besides, how can a newcomer have the opportunity to kill a large number of spirit species? We can't go to the battlefield. The spirit species in the city have identity tags and belong to the alliance residents. It's illegal for us to harm them."

Fanxing looked at the row of dense-grained stones in front of him and said, "Give me all of these?"

The janitor said unhappily, "What are you thinking? You think the lapis lazuli is a stone on the street and you are asked to pick one."

Well, actually she guessed it, but she just wanted to ask, what if?

Fanxing thought for a while and decided to choose an offensive skill for Yato.

Yato only has one dodge skill, Evil Mist, which is powerful, but it has no attack skills, so it can sometimes struggle in battle.

"Teacher, can you pick out some skills with evil attributes?"

The janitor nodded and said, "Of course, but there are fewer evil-attribute skills. I only have three."

As he said this, he put away the other dense-grained stones, leaving only three black dense-grained stones with different shapes and patterns.

The janitor pointed to a tooth-shaped dense stone on the far left and said, "The skill recorded in this dense stone is called Vicious Food. It bites the opponent, causing damage and a tearing effect. Once the wound is torn, it is difficult to heal, and the effectiveness of healing skills is greatly reduced."

Fanxing's eyes lit up when he heard this. This is a good skill.

The janitor continued, "But it's best to have sharp teeth or a sharp beak to learn this, otherwise it will be difficult to achieve the desired effect."

Learning skills by spirit species also requires adaptability. For example, if you ask a fish to learn a skill that requires the use of claws, it would be a waste of time because it won't be able to perform it even if it learns it.

This evil food skill is very suitable for crocodile-type, lion-type, tiger-type, and falcon-type spirit species to learn.

Forget about the cat.

Although Yato's teeth are quite sharp, they cannot be opened too wide and their teeth are not long enough.

This skill is really good. If it was of Yin attribute, Fanxing would ask the princess to learn it, but unfortunately it is not.

Even if the princess learns the evil-attribute skills, the power will be greatly weakened, just like the golden flying blade skill used by Fanxing.

The flying blade skill Stars will only be used temporarily. If there is a chance in the future, she will definitely plunder a new skill to replace it.

Seeing that Fanxing seemed uninterested, the janitor began to introduce the second one.

He pointed to an oval-shaped dense-grained stone and introduced, "The skill recorded here is called Ripple of Evil. It's a debuff skill. After being swept by the ripple, the opponent's attack power is greatly reduced."

This skill is very versatile and can be learned by almost all spirit species, even those with non-evil attributes.

Fanxing wanted an attack skill and was not interested in this Evil Ripple, so he shook his head.

Then the janitor began to introduce the last dense-grained stone.

This is a long, densely-grained stone with a tail-like pattern engraved on it.

"The skill recorded in this dense stone is called Tail Attack. As the name suggests, it uses a tail wrapped in evil power to attack the opponent. The attack has a knockdown effect and can ignore most shield skills. The prerequisite for learning it is to have a flexible tail."

Fanxing's eyes lit up when he heard this. Doesn't Yato have a flexible tail, two of them!
"Teacher, this is what I want." Fanxing said.

"Are you sure?" asked the janitor.

"Yes, that's it." Fanxing nodded in affirmation.

"Okay!" The janitor nodded, put away the other two dense-grained stones, and then handed the box containing the Tail-Strike dense-grained stone to Fanxing, "Keep it."

Fanxing nodded, solemnly took the box, and put it into the spiritual pattern bracelet.

This is valuable stuff!

"Okay, the rewards have been distributed, you can leave." The janitor waved his hand.

Fanxing nodded and pulled Fan Honghong out of the warehouse.

After climbing the tower and receiving the reward, the two planned to return to the classroom.

On the way, Fan Honghong said with envy, "That's great! Both psychic gems and lapis lazuli. The rewards are too rich."

Fanxing said: "Why don't you just work harder?"

"Me?" Fan Honghong's face was filled with self-deprecation. "Forget it. I'm a newbie who can't even get past the 3rd level. I'll be thankful if I can pass the 5th level before the end of the training and get a few bags of spirit seed rations."

Fan Honghong quickly changed the subject mid-sentence. "Let's not talk about this anymore. Xingxing, what do you think the reward will be on the 20th floor? The tower has 50 floors!"

Fanxing shook her head, "How would I know?"

Fan Honghong said with a look of longing, "Then work hard and try to get through the 20th floor, then the 25th floor, the 30th floor... then you'll be rich!"

As she said this she started laughing.

Fanxing shook her head and said, "How can it be that easy? In just one month, the improvement in strength is very limited. I remember hearing someone say that since the establishment of the academy, the highest tower climbing record before the end of the newcomer training was 30 floors."

Fan Honghong said confidently, "Xingxing, I believe in you. You will definitely be able to break the record."

Fanxing said, "No, don't brag for me. If I can't climb up, I'll be laughed to death."

Upon hearing this, Fan Honghong immediately covered his mouth and said, "Then I won't say it anymore. Keep a low profile! Keep a low profile!"

When the two returned to the classroom, the class time had already passed and Teacher Zhao had also arrived early.

It wasn't just Fanxing and her classmates who were late; many other students were late.

However, considering that everyone went to climb the tower, Teacher Zhao did not blame them. Instead, he waited patiently until everyone arrived before taking the students to the playground.

(End of this chapter)