Thirteen Mission Rewards

Over the course of more than half a month, You Chen completed a total of thirteen missions and obtained a large batch of mission rewards.

However, not every mission was like Jiang Liu's, with additional rewards.

For missions without additional rewards, the best possible rewards came in two forms: a "Beginner Experience Pill" or a "Soul Ring Age Increase Card (Hundred-Year)."

He had obtained three of each.

Of course, "best" only applied to his age at the time...

The former could save him over a year of precious cultivation time, while the latter could significantly boost his combat strength during his youth.

But now? They could only be considered better than nothing.

The Experience Pills could be taken out of the system space, and he had already given them directly to Ge Ruisi.

Ge Ruisi had decent talent, but she had already been in her teens when he bought her. After following him for over a decade, she was now twenty-nine and nearing thirty.

Even if he spared no expense in pouring resources into her, she would at most become a Soul Emperor in this lifetime.

This head maid had always attended him faithfully. Even if she had no great achievements, she had certainly worked hard. Not only did she manage the many affairs of the estate every day, but she was also responsible for attending to You Chen's nightlife at night.

These Experience Pills were of little use to him, but they could still be somewhat useful to Ge Ruisi.

Rather than use them to raise Soul Arena Beasts, You Chen preferred to give them to his little maid who was close to him. Three pills had already raised her Soul Power by another level.

Other than that, most mission rewards were Nourishment Pills, Strength Pills...

It was not as though these pills were completely useless...

With You Chen's current research abilities, if he gathered enough of them, he might be able to develop similar products himself.

But the problem was that, in the short term, he could at best research low-grade pills on the same level as the system's output. As for developing something he himself could use, he had no idea how much time it would take, nor was success guaranteed.

As for Experience Pills, creations with absolutely no side effects and no diminishing efficacy were already far beyond You Chen's current theoretical knowledge. He did not believe he could develop even an inferior version.

Now that improving himself had once again become You Chen's foremost goal, matters that consumed such a great deal of energy naturally had to be set aside for the time being.

In addition, he wanted to study some of the system's patterns.

When You Chen first gave up on missions that offered only ordinary pill rewards, he had not hesitated much.

Naturally, he discovered the rules for abandoning missions.

There was no penalty for abandoning a mission, but the mission would not refresh immediately. He still had to wait until the next day, when it refreshed again at midnight.

After completing more than a dozen missions, You Chen concluded that mission rewards generally fell into several categories.

The first category was cultivation resources in pill form.

Nourishment Pills, Strength Pills, and Experience Pills all fell into this category.

The second category was cultivation techniques and martial skills.

"Aura Concealment Art" and "Soul Shocking Tactic" belonged to this category.

These cultivation techniques and martial skills were bound upon collection. Once claimed, they were directly infused into his mind and could not be forgotten. As long as You Chen recalled them, he could browse their full contents in his mind as though flipping through a book.

The third category was modern creations—or rather, products of modern scientific civilization.

After "Friendly Advanced Candy," he had also received the "Ordinary HaiX Refrigerator," "Mei's Fan," and "Watermelon Flavored Electronic Cigarette"...

These rewards seemed like bonuses thrown in by the system. After all, in a world with supernatural powers, such things could not increase one's strength.

But You Chen quickly realized that they were not meaningless gag items.

They were treasures that could improve living conditions!

Given Douluo Continent's technological level and circumstances, even if You Chen knew about these technological products, it would be difficult for him to manufacture them from scratch.

But having samples was different.

He could completely reverse-engineer them and create substitutes powered by Soul Power.

Improving quality of life was only one benefit. Their true hidden value lay in opening up untapped markets and obtaining vast amounts of wealth and resources!

Then there was the fourth category: special resources that directly improved a Soul Master's attributes.

Soul Ring Age Increase Cards, Adaptive Best Age First Soul Ring, and perhaps the "Soul Bone Enhancement Card" that might appear in the future? All of them could be placed in this category.

Resources of this type were soul-bound and could not be taken out of the system space. They could only be used directly by him.

Lastly came the fifth category: special and miscellaneous items.

That was only because You Chen had currently obtained just one reward that could be placed in this category.

It was called "Flash of Inspiration."

As its name suggested, after using it, You Chen could enter a state similar to enlightenment. His thoughts would become incomparably sharp and clear, producing countless inspirations.

Whether used to solve research problems, optimize Meditation Methods, Soul Skills, cultivation techniques, and martial skills, or improve his ability to wield Soul Power, it would likely be highly effective.

Its uses were endless.

It could be called an all-purpose item, something that would never become outdated no matter when it was used.

It was also the most valuable reward You Chen believed he had obtained from these thirteen missions.

It was difficult to say whether he would receive it again in the future. Judging from the drop rate alone, it was unquestionably an extremely rare item.

For the time being, You Chen had no plans to use it.

Aside from Flash of Inspiration, among the many mission rewards, what You Chen valued most at present were still the cultivation techniques and martial skills rewarded by the system.

In fact, over the past dozen or so days, You Chen had spent most of his free time studying the cultivation techniques and martial skills provided by the system.

Although they were described as "martial skills" and "cultivation techniques," after arriving in the Douluo world, they had all adapted to the constitution of this world, becoming much like Self-Created Soul Skills or certain family secret arts.

Unfortunately, most of them were not as powerful as You Chen had imagined, nor did they make him vaguely feel that something else was hidden within them like the Aura Concealment Art did.

The most valuable among them was the additional reward You Chen had obtained after defeating Jiang Liu: the spiritual-type "Soul Shocking Tactic."

The reason was simple. As mentioned before, You Chen possessed uniquely blessed talent in spiritual cultivation. Accordingly, even at the same cultivation realm, the power of the Soul Shocking Tactic in You Chen's hands would be far greater than in anyone else's.

Most importantly... he cultivated it very quickly!

Yes, that was the key point!

Tang San might have been extremely proficient with Purple Demon Eyes, Controlling Crane Capturing Dragon, Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track, and Mysterious Heaven Skill, but after Tang San began adventuring in Douluo Continent, many readers naturally overlooked the fact that he had already cultivated these techniques and martial skills to a very high level in his previous life.

Aside from the small number of Self-Created Soul Skills with special rank divisions, cultivation realms could generally be divided into Beginner, Minor Accomplishment, Great Accomplishment, and Perfection.

The skills Tang San used had all reached at least the Great Accomplishment stage.

That was why he continued using the skills from the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record even into the late stages of the story.

But what about everyone else? They had to start practicing from scratch. Otherwise, their effects would be nowhere near as good as Soul Ring Soul Skills.