Chapter 101 (continued)

The journey was lively and Naonao, with everyone excitedly discussing the treasures they had obtained from the Treasure Pavilion.

Upon returning to the Nature Pavilion and seeing the drafty, leaky building, much of the joy dissipated.

The sight of this destitute house is truly heartbreaking.

Unfortunately, they didn't have the money to renovate, so they had to make do with what they had.

Li Yang was thinking about something: people shouldn't stay in the Nature Pavilion for too long.

Although the Nature Pavilion is safe, and the Starlight within does indeed nourish cultivators, everyone's cultivation level is too low. Staying there for too long would be counterproductive.

Properties in the eastern district are undoubtedly the best, but unfortunately, I can't afford them.

Therefore, Li Yang had the idea of moving to the outer city.

There are some existing houses in the outer city that can be moved into with a little renovation.

Even more impressively, there were also vast plantations outside the city.

Li Yang found the Little Ox family and briefly explained his needs. They immediately agreed, saying, "Don't worry, sir, I'll find you a suitable place to stay tomorrow!"

The Nature Department successfully defended against the beast tide, and the Star Wielders had originally evacuated from the outer city of the Eastern District secretly wanted to return.

However, leaving is easy, but coming back is difficult.

Now that the Nature Department has reclaimed the entire outer city of the East District, any future plans for moving here will need to be carefully considered.

Of course, that's a matter for later. For the time being, no one is welcome in the outer city, so as to prevent uncontrollable elements from being planted by those with ulterior motives.

The Plow Ox Clan are very efficient; they selected a place to live early the next morning.

This dwelling was located right next to the inner city wall, so it suffered the least damage from the beast tide.

Unfortunately, the plantations in front have all been trampled and need to be repaired before they can be cultivated again.

The students from the Agronomy Department all came over to check out their new accommodations, and everyone was very satisfied with them.

Li Yang: "This place is great; it's convenient for us to travel back and forth."

The outer city is just a temporary place to live; for cultivation, you still need to go to the Nature Pavilion.

Because the location is close enough, everyone can quickly return to the Nature Pavilion if anything unusual happens.

Zhong Kun said, "I'll go ask someone to build a teleportation array! If the distance is this short, I estimate I can get it for 10,000 merit points."

Everyone: "!!"

Li Yang looked at him. "Kunzi, you... you're really rich!"

Zhong Kun, head held high and chest puffed out, said, "Don't underestimate my pocket money. Although I can't afford a house, a mere miniature teleportation array is nothing to me."

However, he quickly added, "Um, I'm only responsible for building the teleportation array. The subsequent wear and tear on the teleportation array... I can't afford that!"

The cost of building a teleportation array is very high, and the cost of using it is also not low.

Li Yang: "Don't worry, any future losses from the teleportation array will be covered by public funds."

Although the Nature Department currently has zero "public funding," as long as everyone works together with the Plow Ox Clan to cultivate the land, they will soon accumulate a large amount of merit points!

Zhong Kun breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Okay! I'll go find someone. My mom knows a really powerful Star Formation master who can give me a 20% discount!"

The reason this teleportation array is so "cheap" is because this residence in the outer city is relatively close to the Nature Pavilion.

If it's even a little further away, it's not a problem that 10,000 merit points can solve.

Some large teleportation arrays require hundreds or even tens of millions of merit points just to set them up.

Star Formation masters actually have significant limitations in battle, since the enemy won't give you the opportunity to set up your formation.

However, setting up a formation in advance makes it easy for the Spirit Department to detect.

The most powerful aspect of Star Formation Master is precisely their teleportation array.

If some large-scale battles could utilize teleportation arrays, they would result in a continuous barrage of firepower.

However, the establishment and use of teleportation arrays consume a large amount of resources, making the cost ridiculously high. Not to mention that the growth of a Star Formation Master requires a large amount of resources to cultivate.

Many hands make light work, and the house was cleaned up in just one afternoon.

Little Ox was especially diligent, having already planted a batch of Star Plant around the perimeter. He shyly said to Li Yang, "Big Brother, can we not harvest these Star Plant? I can control them to guard the house."

It's hard for him to change his address as "younger brother."

Li Yang didn't correct him, and said with a smile, "Alright, I'm going on a long trip anyway, so I'll leave this courtyard in the outer city to you."

Overjoyed to have gained Li Yang's trust, the Little Ox calf's eyes widened and its face flushed red as it nodded repeatedly.

The location for the teleportation array has been finalized, but it will take another ten days to two weeks to complete.

Li Yang is going to be very busy these next few days.

If she wants to go to the Sword Tomb, she must first break through her cultivation level through battle.

Breaking through to a higher realm is the most difficult, Li Yang needs to challenge a Fourth Grade Realm Astral Realm creature.

Lin Zhaoqin, being knowledgeable and experienced, said to Li Yang, "Senior Sister, why don't you go check out the mission office of the Star Combat Division? The Star Combat Division also advocates breaking through realms through combat. Although they're not as extreme as our Nature Department, those with high talent all choose to break through realms through combat."

Therefore, the Star Combat Division's mission division often has missions related to breaking through realms.

The mission at the Heavenly Palace is different from that at the Zhongdu Military Academy; the difficulty here is much higher.

Almost every mission requires signing a waiver of life or death, especially between different Combat Department. If you want to sign a waiver between different Combat Department, you also need the approval of your own Combat Department's instructor.

This stumped Li Yang.

Her teacher is in seclusion, and there are no other teachers in the Nature Department. How can she get her teacher's approval?

However, there are always more solutions than problems.

We really need to find a way to address this. Other people in the Nature Department will need to take on cross-departmental tasks in the future, and we can't keep leaving them without anyone to sign off on them.

After thinking for a moment, Li Yang contacted Major Kong Ling.

Kong Ling personally came out to greet her, and upon hearing her troubles, immediately patted his chest and said, "No problem! I'll help you with your studies!"

Li Yang said, "Major Kong, I'm not from the Star Combat Division..."

Kong Ling said, "Rules are rigid, but people are flexible. We can't bother General Si Kui, who is currently in seclusion, with such a trivial matter!"

Kong Ling took on the task wholeheartedly, and seeing his confidence, Li Yang entrusted it to him without worry.

Firstly, Kong Ling himself was a member of the Star Combat Division, and secondly, his military rank gave him the authority to endorse others.

Although Li Yang is not a Star Combat Division, he has the rank of Second Lieutenant and can temporarily be affiliated with Kong Ling.

Now that she could accept missions, Li Yang didn't waste any time and started looking for suitable breakthrough missions.

Upon seeing this, Li Yang was also greatly impressed.

The Star Combat Division has many missions, and they are clearly marked with the corresponding level and difficulty.

For example, even within the same Third Grade Realm mission, the difficulty can vary from one star to five stars.

Li Yang first set a limit on the cultivation level, since she could only accept those at the Third Grade Realm.

One-star missions are relatively easy, mostly involving running errands within the Heavenly Palace or perhaps returning to the Huaxia Realm Domain.

The difficulty of two-star missions is not too bad; most of them involve scouting information in the Astral Realm.

Once you reach the three-star level, the difficulty begins to increase, often requiring certain specific materials that must be collected in dangerous main cities.

There are generally two types of four-star missions: one is still about collecting materials, but the corresponding Astral Realm creatures are more ferocious, so the difficulty is higher; the other is bounty missions issued by the Huaxia Star Wielders, for example, after a named Astral Realm creature kills Huaxia Star Wielders, a bounty is placed on its head to hunt it down.

Five stars is the most difficult, and the reason it is so difficult is that the targets are often those who are at the Early Stage of the Fourth Grade Realm.

Logically, this should have been released in the Fourth Grade Realm.

However, there is often a shortage of manpower in the Fourth Grade Realm, so these tasks are posted as five-star tasks in the Third Grade Realm.

And this is undoubtedly the task that Li Yang is looking for.

She looked closely and found that the types of tasks could be roughly divided into two categories.

One method is to travel to a specific coordinate in the Astral Realm, ambush an Early Stage of the Fourth Grade Realm Astral Realm creature, and kill it.

Another thing that surprised Li Yang was something he had never encountered at the Zhongdu Military Academy...

"Star-Hunting Battlefield." This was the first time Li Yang had heard this term. The mission department hadn't provided any details, and the mission requirements were very simple: go to the Star-Hunting Battlefield and earn ten points.

These ten points often require killing an Early Stage of the Fourth Grade Realm.

However, the mission details page emphasizes. "It is not recommended for the Third Grade Realm to accept this Third Grade Realm, as the Star-Hunting Battlefield is still too dangerous for them."

Instead of accepting the mission, Li Yang first searched for information on the Heavenly Palace Forum.

Because Kong Ling granted her access, Li Yang was able to see the Star Combat Division forum.

The first discussion thread that caught my eye was. "What a disaster! Since the Descending Star Cult is gone, the difficulty of breaking through realms has increased dramatically."

"Is this something a human would say? How many ordinary people did the Descending Star Cult harm? It's a blessing for all of Huaxia that the Marquis of the Long Night and Si Kui were able to eradicate it completely!"

The original poster was relentlessly attacked online, but the thoughts he inadvertently revealed were quite intriguing.

When Li Yang was in Central Capital, he had come into contact with the Descending Star Cult.

She utterly despised this sect.

They also knew that the City Defense Army had been fighting them for many years and had suffered heavy losses.

But if the Star Nexus Pavilion puts in the effort, is it really impossible to eradicate it?

As it turned out, it worked. With the help of Marquis of the Long Night and his teacher, the entire Descending Star Cult vanished like scattered sand.

Li Yang also knew that the Summoning Ritual was the key to the Descending Star Cult.

But as I said before, if even two marquises were to make a move, they could slay this Divine Venerable in the Kongzhi!

For so many years, the Star Nexus Pavilion has allowed the Descending Star Cult to run rampant; they probably have some other motives involved.

On the one hand, they genuinely didn't want to attract the attention of the Upper Three Realms; on the other hand, they probably intended to keep them around for training.

Even... conservatives might pessimistically believe that even if the Descending Star Cult is eradicated now, a new cult will soon emerge.

Li Yang disagrees with this view.

Cults are like insects that gnaw at crops; even if they reappear after being eliminated, they must be eradicated time and time again.