Chapter 785 - 536: Return to Blue Star, Summing Up Gains (Part 2)
In short, Li Pu’s net worth had just hit a personal all‑time high, so he could finally go all out.
But he was still pretty short on related items.
After all, this whole period they hadn’t been focusing on hunting monsters, and the monster density in the Mushroom Realm wasn’t that high to begin with.
So he set the following short‑term plans for himself.
Plan One: go check out Imperial University’s Points Warehouse.
The S‑rank power‑type inscription was a required item for No. 2’s Strong Breeding Armor reincarnation plan.
Now that he had 300 Points in hand, he felt he had a good shot at getting that inscription Li Fan mentioned, assuming it was still there.
Of course, if there were any other suitable items, he could scoop them up too.
Plan Two: summon beast reincarnation.
The main targets were the Strawman and No. 2.
Reincarnation wasn’t something you could do just by throwing money at it.
You also had to see whether there was an appropriate reincarnation plan and reincarnation materials.
Take Fufu for example—being a martial‑arts beast, there was basically no info on it anywhere on Blue Star.
Especially since it was such a special dual‑type summon beast.
So for its reincarnation, Li Pu planned to wait until he got back to Xidu University and ask Old Lady Dongmen face‑to‑face.
Of course, he’d also asked Teachers Li Fan, Xiu Cangjia, and Guan Heshi to keep an eye out for intel on Fufu, but so far there’d been no news.
Plan Three: run more dungeons and farm related items.
Same as before entering the Mushroom Realm, what he lacked most right now was still related items, especially those used for Sacrifice.
Only with enough related items could the Strawman reincarnate over and over with no worries.
Only with enough related items could No. 2 help him level up the artifact Nourish faster.
So for this period, he still had to run more dungeons.
He’d already burned nearly twenty days in the Mushroom Realm, and there was only a month left before the Huazhong Cup.
Even though he was now flush with both Points and Crystal Coins, it’s not like anyone ever complains about having too much of that stuff.
If he could get a good result at the Huazhong Cup, why wouldn’t he participate?
Besides, he also wanted to meet the elites from all the different universities.
However, judging from what he’d heard and what he’d seen with his own eyes, even counting his own combat power in, he was still far off from Senior Liu Jisheng’s level.
So time was tight and he had to hurry up and get stronger.
After summing up, Li Pu began to carry out the first step.
To save time, he decided to do two things at once.
First redeem the Strawman from the Political and Education Office, then buy the materials, and take it to the training ground for a soak.
Out of all his summon beasts, the most motivated one was definitely the Strawman.
When it came to getting stronger, it was actually pretty proactive.
Mainly because you just had to take a bath to get stronger—anyone would be proactive.
The first materials he put in were that pile of hexagonal rainbow mushrooms he’d always felt would produce pretty good results.
After observing for a bit and waiting until the Strawman fell asleep and confirming it was fine, Li Pu left.
He left Fufu behind to stand guard on site.
From observation, this guy might sleep a lot, but at crucial moments it was pretty reliable.
Don’t look at it sleeping now—if anything weird happened, it would definitely wake up immediately and report to him.
Walking out of the training ground, he got on a campus shuttle, and ten minutes later Li Pu arrived at the Points Warehouse.
This was his first time here; he hadn’t even been to Xidu University’s Points Warehouse.
The exterior of the warehouse was very simple—just a big square building, like a box.
It was just that even the outer walls were made of metal, and there were a ton of complex barrier runes on them, apparently for defense, since the total value of the resources inside was huge.
Before coming he’d listened to Qian Shanshan’s explanation through the cell door—the barriers on the surface of this big iron cube could even make it fly in critical moments.
When he walked up to the warehouse door, before he could do anything, the door opened automatically.
A male Summoner walked out from inside.
He had a human body and appearance in every respect; the only difference was a pair of pointed white-furred ears and a fluffy gourd‑shaped tail.
"Hello, student."
"Here to redeem treasure tools?"
The fox‑eared guy was holding a paper fan, giving off a slightly old‑school vibe.
But his clothes and styling were very modern, the two styles blended together on him without seeming out of place.
Because he was just that handsome.
Li Pu’s first reaction on seeing him was thinking he was looking in a mirror.
But his second reaction was that he had to admit this was the first time he’d seen someone even more handsome than himself.
"Hello, yes."
Li Pu handed over his student card.
The fox‑eared man also had a wrist‑watch device, and he swiped the student card across it.
[Beep beep]
Then Li Pu’s relevant data popped up.
After confirming there was no discrepancy, he gave Li Pu a warm smile.
"Hello, Li Pu. I’ll be your guide from here on."
"Oh, right, you can call me... Shuai Shuai."
When Shuai Shuai mentioned his own name, he paused slightly.
You could clearly feel he wasn’t very satisfied with the name his Summoner had given him.
"What is wrong with this world..."
Li Pu muttered under his breath too, feeling that the teacher behind Shuai Shuai had zero naming sense.
What’s with all these reduplicated names, seriously lame.
Following Shuai Shuai through the door, Li Pu saw a corridor.
The corridor was about fifty meters wide, extending left and right as if circling the warehouse.
On rows of neatly arranged cabinets, various monster materials were stored in different ways.
He gave it a quick scan—these were all not‑so‑high‑grade materials, the kind you could find pretty easily at the trading post with a high probability.
What drew his eyes even more was the thing directly facing the entrance.
A smaller metal square building, giving off kind of a matryoshka‑doll feel.
"This is your first time here, right, Li Pu?"
"Do you need me to give you an explanation?"
Once they stopped, Shuai Shuai turned to ask him.
"Sure, I’ll trouble Teacher Shuai Shuai then."
Li Pu nodded.
He didn’t know whether the actual guardian of the Points Warehouse was this Summoner or the teacher behind this Summoner.
But there was at least one thing he was sure of.
This Summoner’s aura was strong, the kind of strong where he and all his summon beasts together still wouldn’t win.
Luckily the other side had reined in his pressure, or Li Pu might even find his movements suppressed.
"As you can see, this side is the monster Material District."
"While they’re not exactly rare materials, teachers often come here to redeem stuff for breeding or feeding."
On that point, Li Pu was aware.
Teachers also earned corresponding teacher Points from what the school discovered.
These Points couldn’t be used to redeem summon sigils like students; their only use was to exchange for things at the Points Warehouse.
Even though these materials didn’t look high‑grade, Li Pu was actually quite interested.
Mainly because of that small portion of materials he’d never seen or touched before—who knew, maybe they’d yield some good related items.
"The Material District takes up the most space. Besides that, there’s also an Inscription District, Skill District, and Card District."
Shuai Shuai pointed to the two sides of the corridor.
Li Pu carefully checked the materials on the cabinets; below each item there was a price tag.
Some were exchanged by weight, some by volume, some by piece.
He didn’t know how many Points teachers usually brought in here to redeem stuff, but right now he felt like a rich man.
Three hundred Points—enough to clean out at least ten cabinets.
"Teacher, then what’s behind that door...?"
Thinking for a bit, he pointed at the smaller metal building.
"That? That’s the Intermediate Exchange Zone."
Shuai Shuai smiled.
The Intermediate Exchange Zone naturally had better items than the Low‑level Exchange Zone.
It was just that normally, students coming here had no way of setting foot in the Intermediate Exchange Zone.
"You need to have fifty Points to be allowed in there."
He gave the reason.
First‑years who could have fifty Points were very rare.
And at this stage, any serious person was hoarding Points to exchange for summon sigils; basically no one would come to the Points Warehouse.
"Fifty Points, I happen to have that."
That was what Li Pu said.
"Hm?"
Shuai Shuai froze for a second.
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