System Upgrade in Progress
The system is going to be upgraded!
Ma Feifei thought that after completing this Side Quest, the most he would get was to trigger the next Side Quest, which was the newly released one, 'Hold a Pokémon Championship'.
Who knew there would be an additional system upgrade?
Furthermore, the system panel also provides information about this system upgrade.
System (currently being upgraded)
The upgrade details are as follows:
1: System level upgraded to LV2.
2: After the upgrade, System Shop will be available, and store owners will have the right to purchase books from the store. (Note: Books purchased from the store will be automatically printed; the store owner will not need to copy them.)
3: The Bookstore has been expanded to 400 square meters, with 6 private rooms, a large hall, and 36 long tables, accommodating 150 people reading simultaneously. (Note: Each private room costs 100 Spirit Crystal per hour; reading in a private room greatly enhances a reader's comprehension.)
4: Increases the speed of copying books and adds basic information about the products in the Bookstore. The host can obtain basic information about all items in the Bookstore by concentrating their mind.
5: Added Book Qi Points. The Book Qi Power of Faith that the shop owner obtains from book lovers will be recorded by the system.
6: Increase the rights of shop owners
One Book Multiple Travels: Each month, the shop owner can open one world within a book of Yellow Quality or higher. Once opened, the owner can bring one thousand fellow readers into the world. (Note: Limited to eight hours per world, each world lasts eight days.)
Invincible Mode: Except in specific circumstances, the shopkeeper will receive exclusive system protection upon entering the book's world, becoming immune to any damage within it. (Note: Except in specific circumstances, the shopkeeper can only enter the book's world from a god-like perspective and cannot acquire any items from it.)
7: Increase store owner benefits
Dividend Plan: When readers purchase any item from the world within the book, the system will award the shop owner 10% of the profit as a bonus.
8: Increase employee benefits
Welfare Plan: Employees can enter the book world every month when the shop owner activates 'One Book Multiple Travels', and any items obtained in the book world will be given to them by the system for free, without any cost.
There are eight upgrade items in total, most of which Ma Feifei can understand. The expanded Bookstore area, the System Shop, and the store owner benefits are all easy to understand.
Ma Feifei knew that because he had cultivated the Method of Wish Power, he had obtained the so-called Book Qi Power of Faith. As long as someone had read the books in the Mysterious Bookstore, they would bring Ma Feifei a certain amount of Book Qi. The deeper the understanding of the person, the more Book Qi they would bring to Ma Feifei.
Ma Feifei's current method of advancing his cultivation level has become that the more Book Qi he has, the faster his cultivation level will increase; in addition, there is also a certain amount of cultivation level increase brought by the Main Quest, so Ma Feifei does not need to worry about cultivation.
But what does this record of Book Qi Points mean? Why is it recorded? What is the purpose of recording it? Ma Feifei couldn't figure it out.
Of course, aside from this one point that he didn't quite understand, Ma Feifei grasped the rest perfectly. Ma Feifei was quite happy looking at the Bookstore's updated information after the system upgrade.
For some reason, I also felt a sense of accomplishment.
It's like playing a system-development game where you complete tasks assigned by the system to help it grow and level up step by step.
"I'm really looking forward to seeing what the upgraded system will be like," Ma Feifei thought happily.
Aside from the system upgrade, all that's left are the newly added Side Quest.
Pokémon Championship!
Ma Feifei felt that this Side Quest was relatively easy, with a beginning and an end. The only requirement was that there must be more than a thousand participants. However, given the current popularity of Mysterious Bookstore, it wouldn't be a problem to hold a competition with more than a thousand people.
Having thousands of people isn't a problem, but getting thousands of people to have a Pokémon is a bit difficult.
After all, this is a Pokémon tournament, not a martial arts competition for cultivators; only Pokémon can participate.
The Pokémon manga was just finished today, and although I've successfully caught one Pokémon from it, you have to know that only one person can enter the world of the Pokémon manga at a time. If each person catches one Pokémon per day, then catching a thousand Pokémon would take a thousand days. How many months is a thousand days?
Ma Feifei started counting on his fingers, intending to do the calculations, but then suddenly put them down. He decided it was better not to try to solve such a difficult math problem himself, lest he be ridiculed.
Furthermore, there are certain uncertainties in catching Pokémon, meaning not everyone who enters will be able to successfully catch one. Also, competitions take time, and Pokémon need time to grow. All these factors combined make it seem impossible to reach the standard of a thousand Pokémon participating within six months.
Suddenly, Ma Feifei seemed to remember something and clapped his hands. "That's right! It seems there's a shop owner right in the system upgrade information, which says that each shop owner can bring a thousand readers into the book world of Yellow Quality or higher at once every month!"
One Book Multiple Travels: Each month, you can unlock a world within a book of Yellow Quality or higher, and once unlocked, you can bring one thousand fellow readers into that world.
With this skill, having a thousand Pokémon will be no problem.
The task stipulates that within six months, the time limit for One Book Multiple Travels is once a month, with each travel limited to one thousand readers; to ensure that one thousand cultivators obtain the little sprite, barring unforeseen factors, a maximum of two trips are sufficient.
That means you can gather a thousand Pokémon in one month and one day, and the remaining five months (pay attention, I didn't miscalculate!) can be used to hold competitions, so there's no problem with the time.
The most crucial question is how to organize this competition.
First of all, it would be impossible for Ma Feifei and Yun Qingyang to organize such a large-scale competition on their own. In addition, the Bookstore is about to be upgraded and the expansion of the Bookstore area will lead to more and more customers. Furthermore, they still have a number of books of basic Yellow Quality that they have not finished copying. Therefore, they may not have the time to organize this competition.
To host this competition, Ma Feifei needed to find an organizer.
"Gongsun Qiong can manage such a large chamber of commerce so well, there shouldn't be any problem handing the competition over to her," Ma Feifei pondered.
Actually, this Pokémon Championship doesn't require too much effort.
The reward is given by the system; no one else needs to contribute.
Moreover, Ma Feifei believed that as long as the information about the competition rewards was released, the number of cultivators who signed up for the competition would overwhelm the Wantong Trading Market across the street.
Putting aside the Pokémon of different qualities, the one Yellow Quality book and two Blue Quality books awarded by the system alone are enough to make this Pokémon Championship a sensation throughout the entire Great Chu.
This is a book from Mysterious Bookstore! A magical book with all sorts of amazing effects!
Most importantly, it's being given to you directly!
The kind you can take home!
If word gets out, won't everyone go crazy?
Few people could resist such a great Captivate.
All the organizers need to do is find a venue, arrange manpower, accept registrations from practitioners, and formulate the competition schedule; they can even skip the publicity work.
This kind of thing is a piece of cake for the First Chamber of Commerce of the Great Chu.
Of course, Ma Feifei wasn't worried that Gongsun Qiong would refuse.
From a business perspective, the ticket revenue alone from hosting this competition would be enough to make Gongsun Qiong a fortune, not to mention other profits.
Moreover, Ma Feifei felt that it was actually worthwhile to collect the entry fee!
"Hmm, I'll have to discuss this with Gongsun Qiong later. I need to make a profit from this too," Ma Feifei thought to himself.
The reason he suddenly became so greedy and lost his usual generosity was mainly because there was a piece of information in the system's upgrade message that caught Ma Feifei's attention.
That's the soon-to-be-opened System Shop, where Ma Feifei can directly purchase books.
What did they use to buy it? It certainly wasn't gold coins, so it could only be Spirit Crystal.
In order to ensure the Bookstore could have more amazing books in the future, Ma Feifei felt it was time for her to start earning extra money.