Elemental Selection

The family and the territory are the primary sources of Mall points.

The amount of points that can be earned daily is extremely small. Each Level 7 Warrior provides Karl with 1 point per day, while those with strength below Level 7 provide significantly fewer points.

A Level 3 Warrior provides 0.01 points daily. There are over twenty thousand Level 3 Warriors in Spark Town, which also serves as the main backbone for various teams, such as the Security Team, where the minimum requirement is to be a Level 3 Warrior. Most of these are veteran soldiers from the battlefield, with a small portion being talented young men.

Within the Security Team, there are other departments, such as those responsible for patrols, those handling daily civilian affairs, and armed members who clear out scattered Magic Beasts around the town.

These are the cornerstones of the town and the key to Karl earning points. Above the Level 3 Warriors, Level 4 Warriors generally serve as squad leaders or minor leaders, providing 0.03 points daily; there are only about a thousand of them in Spark Town.

As for Level 5 and Level 6 Warriors, their numbers are even scarcer.

After all, in Karl's development plan for the town, anyone who reaches the strength of a Level 3 Warrior receives sufficiently generous treatment. Naturally, there are far fewer people willing to endure bitter training under such conditions.

Level 6 Warriors are the limit for mortals. Those who can reach this level are one in ten thousand, and it is precisely because of the scarcity of Level 6 Warriors that the value of a Level 7 Warrior is highlighted.

A Level 7 Warrior is someone who can be granted a title within the kingdom and is enough to become a minor noble.

Just like the captain of the Spark Town Security Team, he is a Level 7 Warrior.

Do not be fooled by the title of Security Team captain; his status within all of Spark Town is enough to rank in the top five. This is a large town of hundreds of thousands of people; if compared to the bureaucratic system of his previous life, he would likely be no less than the third or fourth-in-command of a county.

Even within Spark Town, the only people above the Security Team captain are the few Level 7 Warriors within the Taros Family. This is only out of respect for the lord's bloodline; if one were to judge by actual responsibilities, his status is likely only below Lin Taros.

Karl set the high-treatment threshold at Level 3 Warriors to maximize his points.

After all, for a Level 3 Warrior, a six-year-old child can become one after twenty years of hard training. Going further would likely require thirty or forty years of effort, yet they would only provide twice as many points as a Level 3 Warrior, so setting the bar too high is not cost-effective for Karl.

He earns about three hundred points a day, which is a drop in the bucket compared to the millions of points required for Elemental Power, but he can grind it out over time.

However, while daily point acquisition is low, there is also daily consumption.

For instance, the 2% cultivation bonus he applies to himself—Karl paused this daily AFK process once his cultivation reached its peak. Beyond this, applying cultivation bonuses to family members also requires points, and the same applies to providing cultivation bonuses to the residents of the territory.

Karl is quite selective in this regard, focusing on those whose natural talent is already decent. After all, while a Level 6 Warrior is the limit for mortals, it does not mean everyone can reach that limit.

Karl does not skimp on residents with good talent, granting them short-term cultivation bonuses. Furthermore, he provides comprehensive cultivation bonuses to all Level 6 Warriors in the territory, with the goal of helping them break through to become Level 7 Warriors.

A Level 7 Warrior provides 1 point daily, and since they have a lifespan of two to three hundred years, it is only a matter of time before Karl earns back his investment.

Beyond cultivation bonuses, reducing disease in the territory, ensuring favorable weather, and increasing yields—all of these require points to initiate.

In reality, the amount Karl can actually save is very small, averaging only a little over one hundred points per day.

He would need over twenty years to afford that million-point Elemental Power.

Without a good living environment, the population of Spark Town would not reach nearly a million. Without a sufficient population, the number of Level 3 Warriors would decrease sharply, which would in turn reduce the points Karl earns.

"It won't be long now."

Watching the points gradually approach one million, Karl is already considering his subsequent cultivation.

Karl is well aware that his own talent is low. Without his Golden Finger, he would never have had the chance to break through to a Level 7 Warrior in this lifetime, so he gave up on his own cultivation over a hundred years ago.

His daily cultivation mainly relies on the AFK System to improve his Battle Qi, while he spends his time practicing Battle Techniques. However, after reaching the Saint Realm, one must cultivate the power of Laws while accumulating Battle Qi.

Possessing knowledge of the Coiling Dragon Universe, Karl knows clearly that complete Laws are the power of the Grand Perfection level, and only High-Gods can utilize even a fraction of them.

These shallow applications are euphemistically called Mysteries, but in reality, they are just the complete power broken down into parts to make it easier for those with insufficient realms to understand.

Cultivation in the Saint Realm requires comprehending the Elemental Power between heaven and earth and relying on this Elemental Power to form Mysteries.

"Future cultivation will likely be even harder."

Karl is still clearly aware of his position: he is just an ordinary human with powerful strength. He has the ability to use it, but not the ability to study it in depth, so the existence of the territory is indispensable.

"There are seven Elemental Laws and four Rule Powers. How should I choose my path?"

If he were even a slightly useful genius, Karl would certainly choose to comprehend multiple types of Elemental Power to eventually become a multi-attribute God-level powerhouse. But in reality, he is a blockhead; without his Golden Finger, he is nothing.

Moreover, in the Coiling Dragon Universe, Elemental Power is clearly demarcated—wind is wind, water is water. Unless one has a soul mutation, there is no such thing as the fusion of different elements.

This is a form of fairness for those lacking talent; after all, becoming a God with an extra element is only useful for having an extra life.

However, even for eternal God-level powerhouses, resources are limited. Even with multiple clones, one can effectively only afford to cultivate one strongest God clone.

Once the strongest God clone is lost, one's status will plummet, and one might not even have the chance for revenge.

"So for me, what I truly need is one sufficiently powerful Elemental Power."

Fortunately, Karl's memory improved significantly after he achieved the level of a Level 9 Warrior, and events from over two hundred years ago feel as if they happened yesterday.

Among the eleven Laws, some are strong and some are weak. Some are proficient in all aspects but cannot reach the ultimate peak, while others reach the peak of their Elemental Power but have flaws in other areas.