Exchange

The next day,

Mu Yuan logged directly into the Tai Xuan Covenant platform. While browsing various exchange items, he pondered how to use his three thousand Contribution Points.

"60 units of Black Iron Stone are worth 3 Soul Crystal Coins. The platform also lists an exchange price of 300 points. It's not expensive, but there's no discount either."

Mu Yuan mused.

He hadn't yet acquired his Elemental Orb, so there was no need to buy this batch of Black Iron Stone early. However, he needed to set aside these 300 Contribution Points.

As for the rest, the construction of the various Common Grade miracle buildings had already used up all the subsidized Soul Crystals. He had even added several hundred grams himself, leaving him with not much Soul Sand. And he hadn't even factored in the Mage Tower, which was a huge consumer of crystals.

He definitely needed to exchange for some Soul Crystal Coins.

After thinking for a moment, he started searching for Remnant Souls again, filtering by grade from low to high.

"Gargoyle Remnant Soul (Rare Grade One Star): 300 Contribution Points."

"Imperial Guard Remnant Soul (Rare Grade One Star): 250 Contribution Points."

"Griffin Remnant Soul (Rare Grade One Star): 350 Contribution Points."

Mu Yuan was silent for a while, then changed the filtering option to price from low to high.

What popped up was the Goblin Warrior Remnant Soul, priced at 199 Contribution Points.

Mu Yuan: "..."

And then? What about lower ones? Why were there no lower-grade Remnant Souls?

He had originally planned to exchange for some Falcon Remnant Souls, and depending on the situation, perhaps a few Little Skeleton and Slime Remnant Souls.

However, let alone Little Skeleton Remnant Souls, there weren't even Skeleton Soldier Remnant Souls.

This couldn't be right.

Didn't the Tai Xuan Covenant platform claim that all kinds of rare items could be exchanged here? He couldn't find them at all!

Perhaps, the Big Shot who created this platform never imagined that a Lord would use precious Contribution Points to exchange for One Star Remnant Souls.

Most Lords would only be willing to use precious Contribution Points for exchange when they couldn't buy treasures on the market.

But Mu Yuan was also helpless. If he didn't use these three thousand Contribution Points, was he going to save them for the New Year?

Of course, he could directly exchange for Soul Crystal Coins and then slowly acquire various Remnant Souls using Soul Sand.

He was indeed planning to do that.

In that case, he would exchange for a bit more Soul Crystal Coins.

"However, exchanging all three thousand Contribution Points for Soul Crystals would be too wasteful. Big Shot Jiang also emphasized that Contribution Points are hard to come by, and new Lords don't have many opportunities to earn them."

But at this stage, Rare Grade treasures couldn't be sent into the Eternal World. What was suitable for him to exchange for?

Mu Yuan pondered, patiently searching slowly.

His eyes quickly lit up.

"Right, I almost forgot about breakthrough materials. These things are not easy for players to gather on their own, and the market is always in short supply. It's most suitable to exchange for them using Contribution Points."

He checked, and depending on the category, the price of breakthrough materials ranged from 200 to 350 Contribution Points, including one main material and several auxiliary materials.

Perhaps because Undead-type materials were relatively rare, a set of breakthrough materials required 300 Contribution Points.

Whale Players must have prepared early. If he forgot about this, it would be a bit awkward when he got stuck at his level soon.

Mu Yuan pondered, how many sets should he prepare? Three or four?

After all, when the Lord Trial arrived, if his territory didn't have three or four Professional Grade combatants, could he be stable? He even felt it was too few, but he couldn't exchange for too many either.

What he was relatively glad about was that with the quality of Undead Bone, Bone Two, and other skeletons at that time, breaking through to Professional Grade wouldn't be difficult, unlike the Three Star units of Old Players, which had a chance of failure when advancing to Professional Grade.

Some Old Players had lingered for a long time without being able to step into Professional Grade precisely because of this.

"Exchanging breakthrough materials with Contribution Points is actually a small loss, after all, this stuff can be bought with Soul Sand, at most requiring a period of queuing."

"However, many Old Players can buy breakthrough materials, but they can't buy Rare Grade Remnant Souls. These are the treasures that should be exchanged with Contribution Points."

"It's just that Rare Grade Remnant Souls are useless to me, and other Rare Grade items... Wait, it seems I can exchange for some precious treasures that don't need to be sent into the Eternal World and can be used in reality."

For example, the most precious treasures among nurturing-type treasures, those that can directly enhance the player's own strength.

Crimson Blood Fruit was just the most Common Grade type. He needed more precious, more significant treasures to get rid of the weakling title of One Skeleton's Strength. This way, he would not only feel more secure in reality but also wouldn't drag the team down when exploring outside in the Eternal World.

And this type of high-level treasure was almost impossible to come by.

Soul Sand was hard to buy, so exchanging it with Contribution Points was precisely worth it.

This was the most valuable treasure to exchange for.

Mu Yuan searched and finally locked onto a nurturing liquid called 'Nine Profound Nurturing Fluid'—a nurturing liquid infused with various Rare Grade medicinal herbs.

"In that case, what I plan to exchange for includes a large amount of Soul Crystal Coins, nurturing liquid, and several sets of breakthrough materials... Wait, three thousand Contribution Points don't seem to be enough!"

Keeping some Contribution Points for future essential exchanges, Mu Yuan directly exchanged the rest for 6 Soul Crystal Coins and nurturing liquid worth 1000 Contribution Points.

He just had to wait for the delivery.

While waiting, Mu Yuan switched back to the game and started today's grinding session.

He controlled three War Falcons to take off in turns, flying towards the north, east, and west.

The main exploration was to the north.

Because he had already received information that their batch of new Lords was located north-east of the Tai Xuan Alliance, naturally, the further north they went, the deeper into the wilderness they would be, and the richer the resources.

But similarly, the deeper they went, the more likely they were to encounter powerful monsters, requiring constant caution and thorough reconnaissance of the situation.

Mu Yuan recorded in his notebook:

"Through the War Falcon's reconnaissance, today the map range was pushed out another three to four kilometers, and some new types of monsters were discovered, including Ghouls, Gnolls, and Harpies."

"Those Harpies are really big... I mean, really fierce. They are Three Star monsters, capable of flight and possessing ranged attack capabilities. The War Falcon was almost killed. That area cannot be revisited."

"Today's reconnaissance of the Goblin Camp to the north was still fruitless. There are too many Goblin Spearmen there, and they are too vigilant. The War Falcon was shot down again, losing some feathers. I've noted this grudge for A Falcon."

"War Falcon Three delved deep into the Poisonous Spider Forest and discovered quite a few large Mottled Poisonous Spiders, roughly the size of cars. Although these Mottled Poisonous Spiders are only Three Star grade monsters, their large size indicates they are likely high-level, possibly peak level nine strong spiders, and they were surrounded by a group of smaller poisonous spiders... War Falcon Three was almost caught by the spider silk and finished."

The War Falcon's day was spent constantly on the verge of being finished. No wonder Falcons are called 'luxury consumables'.

Mu Yuan scribbled on the draft map, marking out important areas. He also had a plan for the next few days' routine.

However, there was also bad news from today's reconnaissance – he had lost track of the Wandering Ogre.

A Rare Grade monster wandering nearby always made one restless, but fortunately...

"Prompt: Arrow Towers have been constructed. Lord, please inspect."

After more than half a day, the two Arrow Towers were finally completed.

These defensive structures, over ten meters tall with a gray lower section and a brown upper section, finally stood on his Territories, giving him a significant sense of security.

After all, the arrows shot from these Arrow Towers were even more lethal than Bone Two and Bone Three's Charge throws, and the arrows could be fired continuously.

It's just...

The arrows weren't free.

Mu Yuan tested it. The cost was roughly one Soul Crystal Coin for 100 shots, which was a bit expensive. He definitely couldn't use them regularly.

"My Territories have clearly become safer, and I just received a large sum of Soul Crystals. This should be double the happiness, but why... do I feel more and more like I don't have enough money?"