some cultivation

Inside of a high quality inn room, Alex was currently cultivating. 'have I signed in here yet? The wilderness only gave me poor herbs or beast materials which I just got rid of most of the time. But who knows, the city might surprise me. Sign in.'

[Sign in rewards: top grade spirit stone*1. Earth 3 grade Qi gathering and purification array*1. lowest tier dorment dragon vein*1.]

The spirit stone was nice, all spirit stones had a 1:100 conversion rate. For example 100 lowest tier = 1 low tier. But he had gotten a few from back at the sect. The formation was amazing, it helped with his previous Qi problems and gave him something to study in his spare time.

As for the dragon vein, it was completely unexpected. he assumed he might get something qi related, maybe another peice of qi jade marrow, the core of large qi stone veins.

But a dragon vein? Sure he was on the intersection of several, but that would be like saying if he signed In inside several formations he would get one, and that hadn't happened in the sect where there were several hundred formations set up on top of each other. 'So I just got lucky? Damn. Nice. Now how to turn this tiny gift into the most broken thing possable?'

Alex immediately though of three ways. 1: somehow turn it into a 'seed' and plant it in his herb growing system. 2: put it inside his mind space, body, or where his dantain would be and nurture it from there. 3: fuse it with his dragon bead somehow. 'I'm going to go with 1, that way I can 'harvest' it for more dragon veins, if that would even work. System, how much woukd it cost to turn the dragon vein i have into a seed?'

[5,000 exchange points for a infertile seed incapable of blooming to produce more seeds, and 10,000 for a fertile seed. It is recomended the seed is modified as curent growth time would be 10 to 50 thousand years depending on environmental changes.]

'Damn, and if I wanted to lower that growth time to say, 1 year?'

[An additional 1,000 points per year removed from growth time, for a total of 50,000,000 exchange points. It is recomened host adds the growth speed enhancement function to the [herb garden] as it is more cost efficient at this stage. Exchange point cost to increase growth speed by 50,000 times is 100 points per growth multiplier, for a total of 5,000,000 points at the maximum.]

'Thank you very much. Lets see how many points I have in stock, 6,120? That's, not alot. Not even close to enough to speed up the growth, I am close to being able to get the seed though, just 11 days. Guess I have something to save for, how many days would that take, let's see. 13,888!? Nope, not doing that. That's 38 years. It's about time I got some new hosts for [parasite] anyway, more point never hurt any body. System, how much would I be able to increase the efficiency of [parasite] with my current points?'

[Host would curemtly be able to upgrade the efficiency of [parasite] from one exchange point per 2 hours per parasite host to a 1:1 ratio of hour to exchange points per parasite host. Proceed with exchange?]

'That would double my curent exchange points a day from 360 to 720 Which would take 13 days to colect 10,000 points and 6,940 for 5,000,000. not including new hosts. Sure, go ahead.'

[Exchanging... exchnage unefected. [Parasite] conversion rate increased by 100%.]

'Now, to go say hello to some people.' Picking up nuwa and placing her on his shoulders Alex left his room and went out into the city, purposefully hiding his cultivation so when he 'bumped into' sevral cultivators, he could explain it as 'being clumsy' and saying sorry, 9 times out of 10 the person he bumped Into would warn him not to do that again. and acording to nuwa the 1 out of 10 that didn't watn him tasted sour. By the end of the day he had brought his total hosts from 30 to 75. Meaning he gained 1,800 points a day. So it would take 5 and a half days to gain 10,000 points and 2,777 days, or 7 years, to gain 5,000,000.

'A nice haul, but now its time to cultivate.' Returning to his room Alex set down a few occult circles to assist with cultivation, he coulden't wait to take a look at that formation.

...

5 days later Alex had 10,000 points stored up. 'System, please turn the dragon vein into a seed.'

[Exchanging... exchnage unefected. Host has gained a fertile lowest tier dragon vein seed.]

Infont of Alex a seed the size of a fist apeared infront of him, it looked like a wooden dragon curled into a ball. Planting the seed inside one of his [herb garden] plots Alex checked to see how long it would take to grow, and to his delight it was only 10,000 years, which ment he only needed 1,000,000 points to accelerate the growth to only take 1 year. Ironicly it about that long to collect the points, at 1,800points a day, it would take 1.5 years to colect 1,000,000 points, on the note of growth time, the verdant fire seed had 2 months untill it 'bloomed', and alex was curious to see what would happen when it did.

Sitting back down Alex returned to cultivating for what little time he had left.

...

Two days later Alex left cultivation again, over the course of the week he had gotten a few gaines. His qi strand purity had reached 13,000x, his mind palace had reached tier 4 basic, and most interestingly his bones had completed their basic refiniment. Much to no ones suprise, his bones didn't stop once reaching '100%' refinment. At that point the flow of inner qi became much more violent as his bones went from a dull white color to a marble color. Interestingly his system actually changed to show this, with his body cultivation status showing.

[bone cultivation 3% (marble)]

It was nice to see his progression, but also mean that this realm had its limit, unlike blood amd marrow refinment which just went on forever. 'Ah well, not like I can complain considering how long this is taking anyway.'

Standing up and removing the occult circles throughout the room Alex woke nuwa up form her nap and placed her on his shoulders before leaving the inn and heading towards the east gate. Along the way he saw many diffrent cultivators and their masters or guardians escorting them to the gate, With the trip being uneventful the whole way.

Once at the gate he saw a large flying boat infront that was curently sat in the middle of a large grass plain. Flying above the ship was a young man that alex coudent feel a thing from. 'Must be above nascent soul, I'm curious what that rank is. The sect dosent have anything about it other then the name, soul condensation.'

Opeing his mouth the young man spoke, despite talking in a normal tone his voice reached all the way across the plain. "Welcome contestants. Today you will travel to the top of the left gate mountain, where the 7,536th centennial thousand sect tournament shall be held. The winners of this tournament shall not only bring honour to their sect, but also gain a chance to participate in the central contenents five content and four sea world tournament. The chosen one of each sect shall now board the ship, and we shall head off."