Chapter 24: Sacrifice in the line of duty
After spending a day exploring the Jade Smoky Mountain, Lu Qing immediately set off again after returning to the retreat room to recover the time he could wander outside.
His target is the other red dots in his family's sphere of influence, as seen in the [Maps] function.
Defeating monsters is definitely the most direct way to harvest karma.
A battle like the annihilation of the Great Cave Fox can be regarded as almost no difficulty, and after it is done, he can harvest nearly 100 points of karma, which is comparable to the last ten years of his death. And for example, the relatively difficult crusade of the Water Ghost Lake, if it is finished, it can directly enter more than 400 karma points, which can be called an overnight rich.
On the map, the red dots in the family's sphere of influence are the places where there may be threats, and they are all very likely to trigger the crusade event.
The two closest places, namely the Water Ghost Lake and the Big Cave Fox Group, had already been explored by Lu Qing five years ago. There are still a few left, but they are far away. Relatively speaking, the most recent one, he estimated that it would take him three or four days to run back and forth.
Under normal conditions, he can only wander outside for a day, and after that, he will spend two points of karma to replenish his 'physical strength'. And with the number of replenishments, the required karma will also be doubled.
Going back and forth to a place that takes four days means replenishing your stamina three times, and the karma required for the third time is eight points.
I used to be poor haha, and I couldn't afford to spend this money. It's different now, with more than 200 points of karma in his hands, he can be regarded as a wave of wealth.
Moreover, the route can also be planned, and it is not necessary to explore only one place every time you go out. After staring at the map interface and studying it carefully, he could explore one place and then immediately move on to another, saving a return trip.
After all, if you go out to explore for a long time, it will also be a very expensive place.
Two points of karma are really not much, how many times do you try to multiply? The power of the power is powerful, and it will cost sixteen points to replenish the karma for the third time, and thirty-two points for the fourth time! Moreover, the consumption of the previous days will also add up, which means that when he replenishes the karma for the fourth time, the total karma he needs to spend is actually sixty-two points!
The huge karmic consumption forced Lu Qing to plan the route well.
In the end, the result of his plan was that he could spend thirty points of karma to complete the exploration of two places, and it would be relatively extreme.
However, now that you have made up your mind, you are done.
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Five days later, when Lu Qing's spirit returned to Jade Smoky Mountain, it was extremely tired.
But he still completed the whole plan very well, and he got the results he needed.
He probed three red locations, all of which were successful in obtaining specific information about the crusade.
Of these three crusades, there are two two-star and one one-star. If you beat them all, you will probably be able to harvest 500 karma points, and there are some additional rewards.
The two two-star crusades are not as difficult as the water ghost lake, as long as they are carefully prepared, they should be able to fight normally.
What made him feel a little pity was that none of the three crusades were like discovering a treasure similar to the myodony water jade found at the bottom of the Water Ghost Lake.
However, in fact, it seems that the marrow water jade can be found in the water ghost lake, which is a very special small probability situation.
After returning to the retreat room, he spent a little more karma, used the sound transmission function, and called Lu Chaoxi.
Lu Chaoxi was very happy when he heard his father's call.
Something he experienced once fifty years ago made him quite scared when he heard that Lu Qing was going to retreat again five years ago. Although my father said that this time it was only five years, what if it was far away?
Fortunately, Lu Qing woke up as scheduled.
Over the years, he has gradually adjusted his psychological expectations and made plans for Lu Qing to not be able to come out for a long time. He just hopes that it will be good to be able to hear his father from time to time, and that he can guide the future development of the family.
You don't see, the Lu family, who was about to end up after his father woke up for a short period of time five years ago and did some guidance, has been a bit of a contrarian re-emergence in the past few years.
Although scientific cultivation of immortals cannot be superstitious, it cannot be denied that the key node of the family's reversal of decline is that Lu Qing woke up five years ago.
Lu Chaoxi always cares more.
When they arrived at the door of Lu Qing's retreat room, the father and son chatted casually about some things. In this way, Lu Chaoxi also reported some of the family's situation to his father.
For example, he has recovered from his injury, and he feels in good condition recently, and he can try to break through to the ninth layer of foundation building in two years. He is one hundred and fourteen years old this year, and his qi and blood have not yet decayed, although his longevity is only ten years old, which is far less than that of ordinary foundation building monks, but he can try to win the enlightenment period in the last period of his life. In case it happens, it's hard to say whether the deficit Shouyuan can make up for it, but the monk Shouyuan of the Qiming Period can reach five Jiazi, that is, three hundred years old, and then Lu Chaoxi himself should be able to carry the family's stall a little.
In addition, Lu Mingchao broke through to the fifth floor of the foundation last year, and Lu Chaohe also advanced to the third floor of the foundation in two years.
It may be more difficult for Lu Chaohe to achieve enlightenment, but Lu Mingchao definitely has hope.
These things can be seen by Lu Qing from the system interface. However, it is also very meaningful to listen to it from Lu Chaoxi's mouth.
After all, how can the cold data compare to the warmth of his own son when he is outside the door and tells the family affairs?
In addition, Lu Chaoxi also talked about some information that Lu Qing could not get in the system interface.
For example, the crusade of the 'wandering monster' was caused by a serial murder case in Pingyao County. The perpetrator's methods were extremely cruel, digging out his heart and lungs, and the condition of the deceased was very tragic.
After more than 20 civilians died one after another, and many county offices were also murdered, they found that the matter was not simple, and felt that the perpetrator was not an ordinary person, and the follow-up investigation was taken over by the monks.
The people who took over were three monks, one from the Lu family and two from the Zhao family, and this one from the Lu family was Lu Tingzhi, a monk who practiced qi at the sixth level.
It took them five days to find out the clues, the murderer was a demon infected by evil spirit, and his strength was very strong, and he didn't know where it came from, and he almost reached the same strength as the Tsukiji monk.
Of course, the three of them were not opponents, but before Lu Tingzhi died, there was still news.
The enemy's strength was too strong for the monks stationed in Pingyao County to resist, so they could only ask for help.
The Zhao family is farther away, and the Lu family supports faster. Lu Mingchao, Lu Chao and the two of them jointly dispatched to capture the demon and eliminate it when the number of mortals killed and injured in Pingyao County reached nearly 100.
This is also the origin of the 'wandering monster' crusade that Lu Qing saw.