The Dark Cuisine King's words made the excited players even more thrilled.
Gu Du, Li Taibai, and the others had the advantage of being right there.
They stepped forward and surrounded Ye Yu, leaving him no room to escape.
"Brother Yu, Brother Yu, I want to exchange for a skill!"
"Hahaha, good thing I had plenty of Contribution points. Even after leveling up, I still had a lot left. Otherwise, wouldn't I have missed out on a billion?"
"Brother Yu, do you have sword techniques? My swordsmanship! Ahhh!"
"Brother Yu, Ye Yu, do you remember me? I'm Bao Lao Er! Do you have a cultivation path that's right for me?"
Gu Du, Li Taibai, Bao Lao Er, and the others surrounded Ye Yu, firing questions at him nonstop.
When playing a game, who didn't want to stand out from the crowd?
Especially high-level players like them. They didn't want to be like everyone else.
So when the announcement mentioned unique cultivation paths, Gu Du and the others were naturally overjoyed.
The clamor reached Ye Yu's ears.
He was still a little dumbfounded.
He'd only asked the system to put out an announcement.
Why had the system added that new Cultivation Methods and skills were now available?
He didn't have any Contribution points left to let players exchange for skills!
"Host, there's no need to be surprised!"
"This is the system's compensation to you!"
"When the Immortal Path first opened, all sorts of basic Cultivation Methods and skills should have been made available!"
"The system was negligent!"
The electronic voice sounded, bringing Ye Yu back to his senses.
So that was it!
Did that mean he'd gotten another freebie?
After all, if he had to make the basic skills and Cultivation Methods available now, it would cost him a lot of Contribution points.
As he pondered this, Ye Yu glanced at the player exchange interface.
He saw that, besides the basic Qi Refining Method and Collapsing Fist already listed on the panel,
a whole lot of basic skills had appeared!
Basic swordsmanship, basic saber techniques, basic poison arts, basic spear techniques... There was a bit of everything.
"Hahaha, that saved me a lot of Contribution points!"
Ye Yu was delighted.
He immediately enabled players to exchange for them.
In an instant, exchange panels appeared in front of Gu Du and the others.
Most basic skills weren't expensive.
They only cost 100 Contribution points, though that was still more than the basic Qi Refining Method and Collapsing Fist had cost at first.
However, as the number of players grew, the system had already adjusted the exchange prices for the basic Qi Refining Method and Collapsing Fist accordingly.
"I'll train in palm techniques!"
After thinking it over, Gu Du exchanged for a basic palm technique.
He planned to cultivate both fist and palm techniques!
Li Taibai, meanwhile, eagerly exchanged for basic swordsmanship, then happily ran off to practice.
Of the others, King Grey Wolf chose basic poison arts.
Xiong Da chose basic physical training!
Cannot Eat Peach chose basic spear techniques. He thought spears were cool!
A man had to learn to use a spear, of course!
A long spear in one hand and a short spear in the other—that was the way to go!
Only Bao Lao Er flipped through the exchange page several times without finding a basic skill he liked!
His face fell.
They were all good, but none of them suited him!
He'd almost lost his mind just practicing Collapsing Fist.
He didn't want anything that hard.
Ideally, he wanted a skill that could kill enemies with nothing more than a few words. That would be right up his alley.
"Forget it. The announcement said that meditation and comprehension could also help me find a cultivation path that suits me!"
"Why should I cling to these basic skills and try to figure things out from them?"
Bao Lao Er shook his head and gave up on exchanging for anything.
He decided to try something else first.
As players swarmed over to Ye Yu to exchange for basic skills,
his Contribution points, which had been completely depleted, began to soar once more.
"I'm really milking them!"
"The system's finally grown a conscience. It didn't take any of my Contribution points this time!"
Ye Yu chuckled to himself.
While Ye Yu was busy growing stronger,
Wodema wasn't idle either.
Within his Divine Domain,
in a gloomy tomb chamber,
dozens of Blood Bat Race Believers had taken on human forms.
They knelt on one knee before an Ancient Coffin, praying devoutly.
"Great Blood God, master of slaughter and the bright moon!"
"Ma Ya Chi Da Yi Ma Wod!"
"The supreme being of the Blood Bat Race!"
"Please accept the offerings of your most devoted Believers!"
After reciting the prayer, an elderly Blood Bat Race member, his face full of the marks of time, stood up.
He slowly reached out and pushed open the lid of the Ancient Coffin.
"Present the offering!"
The old Blood Bat Race member gave a low command.
As soon as he spoke, the Blood Bat Race members made a strange sound.
Then, someone handed the old man a vessel filled with crimson blood.
"O great Blood God!"
"This is the Virgin Menstrual Blood you love most!"
"Your most devoted Believer wishes to offer it to you!"
The old man murmured as he spoke, then slowly poured the crimson blood from the vessel into the Ancient Coffin.
Inside it was a stone-carved statue.
The statue was unmistakably carved in Wodema's likeness!
As the blood dripped onto the Stone Statue, it burst forth with immense Divine Power!
In only a few breaths,
the Stone Statue had devoured all the blood in the vessel.
"Burp~"
Wodema's Stone Statue let out a burp, sounding utterly satisfied!
Wodema, floating above his Divine Domain, suddenly shuddered.
The next moment, a terrifying aura erupted from his body!
"Heh heh heh, I've advanced?"
"One-star Demigod—what incredible power!"
"Ye Yu, in three days, the great Wodema will tear you to pieces!"
A savage smile appeared on Wodema's pale face.
Before, he'd still been somewhat wary of Ye Yu.
But now, he didn't take Ye Yu seriously at all!
He was now a One-star Demigod!
And Ye Yu?
He was probably still hovering at Zero-star Demigod, wasn't he?
Even if he had some hidden trump card that could kill Ma Baoguo,
it would be completely useless against a powerful One-star Demigod!
Wodema was utterly confident!
The gap between a Zero-star Demigod and a One-star Demigod might not be an insurmountable chasm,
but it wasn't something that could be bridged just like that, either.
"After I kill Ye Yu, I can take over his Believers!"
"The Blood Bat Race loves human blood most of all!"
"If I raise those stupid Two-legged Sheep like pigs and dogs, my Believers will keep growing in number!"
"Then, advancing another rank and becoming a Two-star Demigod won't be impossible!"
"If that happens, the Divine Envoy will value me even more. Hahaha..."
Thinking this, Wodema let out a wild, unrestrained laugh.
He waved his hand, and a wash of silvery moonlight poured down.
The moonlight passed straight through the tomb chamber and fell on the Blood Bat Race members.
Pleasure showed on every Blood Bat Race member's face.
The old Blood Bat Race member shuddered, then released a terrifying aura.
He'd become a viscount and gained a noble title of his own!
"O great Blood God, thank you for protecting your devout Believer..."
The old viscount was overjoyed. He bowed low before the Ancient Coffin.
The other Blood Bat Race members watched, a trace of envy in their eyes.
The Blood God is always protecting us!
We need to work even harder to find better offerings for the Blood God!
Perhaps then we, too, can earn noble titles!
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