Chapter 120: The Magnificent Faction Store

The dazzling array of goods blinded Chen Qi's eyes. As a wealthy tyro, Chen Qi directly bypassed all blue-quality items and began browsing straight from the purple quality.

First was a long string of purple-quality equipment:

[Rainbow Cloud Crimson Iron Sword]
Origin: Azure Star Continent, Cloud Sea Sect
Quality: Purple
Category: Weapon (Longsword)
Attack Power: 17-29
Durability: 81/81
Equipment Requirements: Strength 15, Physique 14
Equipment Effect 1: Crimson Iron (Passive)
Crimson Iron: Each attack deals an additional 5-15 points of fire-attribute damage.
Equipment Effect 2: Crimson Crystal (Passive)
Crimson Crystal: The weapon's true qi and blood qi transmission efficiency is increased by 25%. When energy bursts on the weapon, it inflicts an additional 8 points of fire-attribute damage.
Equipment Effect 3: Hardness (Passive)
Hardness: When this equipment collides with items of green quality or lower, it increases the opponent's durability decay rate by 70%, and each collision has a 7% chance to snap it.
Rating: 223 (Note: Purple items range in rating from 220 to 320; higher-rated items are more precious.)
Introduction: A high-end standard-issue weapon of the Cloud Sea Sect, forged from earth fire with crimson iron as the body and crimson crystal as the bone. It gets its name from the rainbow cloud anomaly that appeared when it was forged.
Price: 700 Sect Contribution Points
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Chen Qi's gaze swept across rapidly, landing on the similar [Rainbow Cloud Crimson Iron Saber]. The equipment effects of the two were largely similar, and their ratings were comparable, with only slight differences in attack power and durability.

Chen Qi glanced at them a few more times, feeling slightly disappointed.

Without exception, these purple-quality weapons were merely items that had just crossed the threshold of purple quality. Their equipment effects were negligible, failing to provide any stunning or eye-catching moments.

They could barely be considered pieces of glowing red iron...

In Chen Qi's judgment, this was indeed a tier stronger than the blue-quality [Crimson Blood Longsaber] he possessed, but this minor improvement was not worth 700 Sect Contribution Points.

Chen Qi continued browsing through more precious items.

[Golden Thread Purple Cloud Robe], [Seeking Depths Cloud Haze Shoes], [Bright Haze Radiant Crown], [Python Tendon Rhinoceros Leather Armor], [Floating Cloud Piercing Moon Cloak].

All of these equipment pieces were of purple quality, with ratings ranging from 250 to 300. Each had extremely practical special effects, making Chen Qi's mouth water with envy, wishing he could sweep them all up in one go.

Taking the [Golden Thread Purple Cloud Robe] as an example, which Chen Qi considered to have the best cost-performance ratio and made the wearer look like a noble young master:

[Golden Thread Purple Cloud Robe]
Origin: Azure Star Continent, Cloud Sea Sect
Quality: Purple
Category: Upper Garment
Durability: 76/76
Base Defense: 14
Equipment Requirements: Physique 18, Agility 16, Charm 12

Equipment Effect 1: Nobility (Passive)
Nobility: Increases the wearer's Charm by 3. When targets with a Charm 5 points or lower than the wearer initiate an attack, there is a certain probability of slowing their attack speed by 30%.
Equipment Effect 2: Purple Cloud Shield (Active)
Purple Cloud Shield: Actively generates an energy shield capable of absorbing 80-130 points of damage. While the shield is active, the wearer's movement speed is increased by 15%.
Note: The upper limit of damage absorption by the energy shield depends on the wearer's physique attribute, reaching the maximum value of 130 points when physique is 22.
Equipment Effect 3: Self-Cleaning (Passive)
Self-Cleaning: This equipment remains immaculate with an automatic cleaning function, increasing resistance to movement-slowed effects by 20%.
Rating: 286
Introduction: A high-end uniform of the Cloud Sea Sect, custom-made by hand using high-purity golden threads paired with fine purple cloud fabric. Supplemented by hundreds of procedures, it requires a massive expenditure of manpower and resources to produce, fully showcasing the wearer's noble demeanor.
Price: 1120 Universal Points
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The reason he considered this piece of equipment to have a high cost-performance ratio was, first, that Chen Qi thought it looked very handsome when worn, and second, that the special effects provided by the equipment were extremely practical. In particular, that active skill could preserve his life when retreating at a critical moment or enable a counter-kill when advancing.

Without making an impulsive purchase, Chen Qi dragged the exchange list straight to the bottom, where several purple-quality skill books lay. The handwriting on them was dynamic and flowing, looking extraordinary at a glance.

Chen Qi followed his gaze to one whose name caught his fancy:

[Purple Intent Profound Origin Technique]
Origin: Azure Star Continent, Cloud Sea Sect
Quality: Purple
Category: Qi Refinement Cultivation Manual Scroll (Tier 2)
Usage Requirements: Physique 18, Strength 18, Agility 18, Intelligence 18
Skill Effect 1: Each attack deals an additional 5 points of true qi damage and applies 1 stack of purple qi residual buff.
Skill Effect 2: When actively activating this skill, all attributes +3, attack speed increases by 15%, and movement speed increases by 15%.
Prompt: Each Chosen One / Contractor can only master one primary cultivation technique corresponding to a specific tier.
Rating: 300
Introduction: A secret inner cultivation manual of the Cloud Sea Sect, which only elite inner disciples and personal disciples of the sect master and elders have the opportunity to comprehend. When cultivated to the realm of great success, one's body can transform into purple qi to traverse the empty air, turning the surrounding miles upside down into a sea of purple.
Price: 1540 Contribution Points
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Just as Chen Qi reached the end, puzzled by the line referring to a "primary cultivation technique," the 'Sprout Space' suddenly chimed with a prompt.

[The Chosen One has made contact with a primary cultivation technique for the first time.]
[Beginning to introduce the primary cultivation technique to the Chosen One.]
[Mastering a primary cultivation technique (Tier 2) is one of the requirements for a Tier 1 Chosen One / Contractor to promote to Tier 2. It can be replaced by mastering any Lv.7 basic mastery, or replaced by possessing #########... (### represents insufficient authority to view)]
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"???" Countless question marks arose in Chen Qi's heart at this moment. He was still a Tier 1 novice, yet he had unexpectedly encountered out-of-bounds content like this, giving him a massive headache.

To a certain extent, this highlighted the value of this skill book, which could serve as a primary combat skill. As the skill level increased, it could serve as the main combat method over a long period.

The crucial point was that Chen Qi could still afford it!

However, Chen Qi had a few doubts about this. First and foremost, the requirements for this skill book were excessively high, especially regarding intelligence—Chen Qi only had 10 points.

"Why do I feel like I'm mentally handicapped?" Mutinously complaining to himself for a split second, Chen Qi thought of his next concern.

That was his worry that this so-called primary cultivation technique might conflict with the basic saber technique he had already mastered, especially in the event of promoting to Tier 2.

If that were the case, upon reaching Tier 2, he would have to make a choice between improving his basic saber technique and improving this cultivation manual.

While upgrading both simultaneously would certainly be nice, even after experiencing just a single world, he could faintly perceive the preciousness of basic skill points, to the extent that calling them a strategic resource would not be an exaggeration.

With so many skill points available, mastering a high-quality active skill would clearly yield greater returns for combat enhancement.

Chen Qi took a deep breath, slowly pressing down the throbbing excitement in his heart, and continued to carefully examine the remaining skills.

Among the long string of purple-quality skill books, he saw [Azure Cloud Finger], [Cloud and Mist Movement Technique], [Cloud-Splitting Palm], and so on.

These also corresponded one-to-one with many moves he had seen in his memory, such as those human figures in the grotto, and the moves mastered by Yun Tianxin.

Suddenly, Chen Qi's eyes lit up as he spotted a rare skill manual.

[Purple Nether Divine Eyes]
Origin: Azure Star Continent
Quality: Purple
Category: Active Skill Scroll
Usage Requirements: Intelligence 15, Physique 15
Skill Effect 1: Significantly enhances the owner's vision and remarkably strengthens dynamic visual acuity.
Skill Effect 2: Increases the owner's hit rate by 5%.
Skill Effect 3: The user can consume 15 MP to actively activate this skill, inflicting 0.1 to 0.3 seconds of dizziness and 0.5 to 2 seconds of deterrence on living targets within the line of sight (depending on the user's intelligence). The basic cooldown of this skill is 20 seconds.
Rating: 315
Introduction: Created by the founding sect master of the Cloud Sea Sect, rumored to be the foundational ultimate technique of a powerful sect. However, because this skill is difficult to practice, very few have mastered it, causing it to be shelved by the elders and disciples of the Cloud Sea Sect.
Price: 1660 Contribution Points
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For this skill book, Chen Qi's mouth was watering so much he was practically drooling.

First lay in its practicality: the casting speed could already be executed instantly, coupled with a slight control effect and a relatively short cooldown. It could be flexibly interleaved into his saber technique, making his strikes nearly a hundred percent accurate.

"Are you still troubled by your weapons frequently grazing past enemies? Are you still in despair over your human-shaped contour-aiming technique? This skill scroll is your best choice, letting you bid farewell to missing by just an inch."

Having already fabricated a long promotional pitch in his mind, Chen Qi decided to claim it, but he did not act immediately; instead, he chose to leave.

He wanted to wait for the reward promised to him by the Cloud Sea Sect Master so that he could make his final plans based on that.

In the worst-case scenario, what if after he made the exchange, the sect master awarded him a similar cultivation technique? Wouldn't he be left crying without tears?

Furthermore, he had a faint premonition that the Cloud Sea Sect's faction store might still possess Lv.3 authority.

Moreover, the threshold for Lv.3 was likely holding 3000 Sect Contribution Points. If what the sect master rewarded was contribution points, then this seemingly out-of-reach figure didn't seem entirely impossible to achieve.

With this thought in mind, Chen Qi forcefully suppressed his skyrocketing desire to make a purchase and diverted his steps toward the outer sect elder's residence where Sun Ruohai lived.

He wanted to check on the current situation of his good brother.