The next morning, Lin An and Lin Xiao had breakfast together.
Although the two have stopped fasting, they still sit down to eat together whenever they have time, which can be considered a tacit understanding between father and son.
"Are we going to Ten Thousand Books Tower again today?" Lin Xiao asked.
"Yes, I read quite a few classic texts yesterday, which broadened my horizons," Lin An said with a smile.
Lin Xiao nodded. If the other party hadn't been foolish for ten years, he would have arranged for someone to teach him many things, and he wouldn't be only starting to understand them now.
"I won't go today. You can keep this card."
Lin Xiao handed a gold card to Lin An, saying, "If there's anything you want to buy, just go ahead and buy it."
Lin An examined the gold card; he had heard of it on forums in his previous life.
You need to have one million gold coins to get the gold card.
"Father, how many gold coins are in this gold card?" Lin An asked curiously.
"Not much, just five million," Lin Xiao said calmly.
Lin An's eyes widened. Five million gold coins wasn't enough?
Moreover, judging from the other party's expression, it's clear that the Lin Family's wealth is much greater than that.
"Luckily, I have a city lord as my father."
Lin An couldn't help but laugh, saying that five million gold coins was already a huge sum of money, and if converted into copper coins, it would be equivalent to 50 billion copper coins.
After breakfast, Lin An also left the clubhouse and, escorted by Han Chen, arrived at Ten Thousand Books Tower.
First, he found Wang Li and bought the basic books on spirit plant masters and spirit chefs before leaving the fourth floor to continue reading the books.
In the days that followed, Lin An spent every day in the Ten Thousand Books Tower ), expanding his knowledge by reading various books.
Before we knew it, it was the end of December.
December 31st, Sin Abyss Calendar 3214. This is the last day of the year. Once midnight arrives, we will enter Sin Abyss Calendar 3215.
"I transmigrated here on June 4th and have been in this Myriad Spirits Realm for half a year. My cultivation level has reached the Gold Ninth Grade Perfection, and I can step into the Platinum Realm at any time."
"Once tonight is over, it will mean that there are only nine months left until the players arrive."
"My goal for these nine months remains the same: to become stronger and advance my cultivation level as quickly as possible."
"There are three days left until the Competition Ceremony. Try to acquire as many attribute points as possible in the Spirit Realm, and then head to the Royal City."
Lin An was planning his next move when it was already past midnight.
When the time came to January 1, 2015 in the Sin Abyss Calendar, the game system's voice sounded.
[Leaderboard rankings are being calculated... Calculation successful.]
[You are ranked number one on six leaderboards. Please select the type of reward you wish to receive.]
"Attribute points," Lin An said.
The reason there are six leaderboards is because he previously spent another 100 attribute points to learn the Spirit Plant Master skill.
[Selection successful. Congratulations! You have gained a total of 6300 attribute points.]
In the Realm Ranking, because Lin An is currently in the Gold Realm, he can obtain 3000 attribute points.
The secondary profession rankings show that all four secondary professions are only at the Bronze Tier. One of them can grant 700 attribute points, which is 2800 attribute points in total.
Then there's the fact that the Spirit Plant Master is only at the Black Iron Tier, meaning they can only obtain 500 attribute points.
[Attribute Points] 6300
Seeing his attribute points rise to over six thousand, Lin An nodded in satisfaction.
"Now we can start allocating attribute points to upgrade all our secondary professions."
Thinking it over, Lin An took out a book, which was the basic book for spirit chefs.
[You spent 100 attribute points to learn the Spirit Chef Basics Manual, gaining the secondary profession: Spirit Chef.]
[You have become the first Spirit Chef in the entire server, and have received a special reward: Heart of Spirit Cooking.]
[ Heart of Spirit Cooking ]: A unique item that increases the effectiveness of all spirit foods you cook by 25%.
[Server-wide announcement: Player Lin An has become the first Spirit Chef in the entire server.] x3
[Your Eternal Heart of Spirit Cooking has been detected. Do you wish to merge it with your Heart of Auxiliary Cultivation?]
"Integration."
[Fusion successful. Your Heart of Auxiliary Cultivation talent has been enhanced.]
[ Heart of Auxiliary Cultivation ]: Awakened One Talent. All minor cultivation items you create have their effects increased by 50%, their creation time reduced by 50%, and their creation success rate increased by 50%. You can continue to fuse new Heart of Auxiliary Cultivation further enhance their effects.
When Lin An fused with the Heart of Spirit Planting before, he found that it could only increase the effect by 5%.
He estimated that the improvement would be based on a 25% increase, not the 10% increase he had previously thought with each auxiliary cultivation core.
"Six side jobs now, I'll be able to collect another pension payment next month," Lin An said with a smile.
He then continued to allocate attribute points, starting with upgrading the formation master.
[You have spent 100 attribute points to raise your Formation Master proficiency to Silver Tier.]
[Formation Master]: Silver Tier 0/1,000,000 Proficiency
[You have spent 1000 attribute points, raising your Formation Master proficiency to Gold Tier.]
[Formation Master]: Gold Tier 0/10 Million Proficiency
I originally wanted to upgrade my formation master to Platinum Rank, but unfortunately I don't have enough attribute points.
"Then let's upgrade the Spirit Gathering Formation."
Lin An's gaze fell upon the Spirit Gathering Formation.
For the past two weeks, he has been trying to set up Spirit Gathering Formation in his body every night using Spirit Mark, and he finally completed it yesterday.
However, it was only Black Iron Tier Spirit Gathering Formation, which was of little help to him. The little spiritual energy it gathered was less than what he could gain from taking pills.
Now, all we hope is that upgrading the Spirit Gathering Formation will be of greater help to him.
[You have consumed 100 attribute points to successfully upgrade the Spirit Gathering Formation to Bronze Tier.]
[You have consumed 500 attribute points, successfully upgrading the Spirit Gathering Formation to Silver Tier.]
[You have consumed 1000 attribute points, upgrading the Spirit Gathering Formation to Gold Tier.]
[ Spirit Gathering Formation ]: Gold Tier (0/3 million proficiency), Perfect.
Upgrading to Platinum Rank requires 3000 attribute points, so I have to give up on that for now.
Lin An then carefully sensed the surrounding spiritual energy and discovered that as the Spirit Gathering Formation was activated, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was being frantically drawn in.
"Not bad. Activating the Spirit Gathering Formation at the beginning will consume some power of the Spirit Mark, but the absorbed spiritual energy of heaven and earth will first charge the Spirit Mark before flowing into my dantian."
"While the cultivation speed isn't as fast as directly consuming pills, it has still increased by about 35%."
Lin An was fairly satisfied, and then stopped the Spirit Gathering Formation. He was afraid that if he continued to operate it, he would be unable to suppress his cultivation level and would directly break through to the Platinum Realm.
"Next is the Aura Concealment Formation; this is an essential item for the sixth brother."
Lin An smiled, then spent another 1647 attribute points to fully activate the Aura Concealment Formation.
[ Aura Concealment Formation ]: Gold Tier (0/3 million proficiency), Perfect.
" Gold Tier Aura Concealment Formation is still somewhat insufficient, after all, I myself am only at the Gold Ninth Grade Perfection."
"However, we don't have enough attribute points right now, so we can only continue to improve them after entering the Spirit Realm."
Thinking about it, Lin An glanced at his remaining attribute points.
[Attribute Points]: 1853