Chapter 44

And paying tribute to the nobles...

Zhao Chi had also seen it many times.

Zhao Hong sighed, "How about this, I'll lend you 2 gold coins, your territory has just started, there are no beasts inside, it's very safe, you shouldn't need too many supplies. Don't compare yourself with others, let's just develop steadily."

Zhao Chi smiled, "Thank you, Fourth Brother, but it won't work, 2 gold coins are too few. How about this, lending me 10 gold coins is fine too."

"Why can't you understand my words? No!"

"...Then I'll pay more interest, 10 gold coins loan for 1 month, I'll pay back 12 gold coins."

Zhao Hong was about to refuse.

But he opened his mouth, yet no sound came out.

Thinking for a moment, he asked, "10 gold coins for 1 month? Pay back 12 gold coins?"

"That's right."

Zhao Hong thought again and smiled, "The clan really has no money, but I have some savings here, if you are willing, I can lend it to you privately, however, it requires collateral."

Zhao Chi said helplessly, "I have nothing, what do you want as collateral? I will become a formal lord in a few days, when the time comes, I can take out a loan and pay you back."

Seems like that makes sense...

Zhao Hong nodded, "Good, get on the system, sign the treaty. I'm doing you a favor, don't tell anyone else in the clan."

Zhao Chi smiled, "Don't worry, I have another request."

Zhao Hong looked displeased, "What other request do you have?"

Zhao Chi said, "Fourth Brother, don't you have a 'Self-Select Medicine Treasure Chest'? Can you..."

"No!"

Before Zhao Chi finished speaking, Zhao Hong interrupted him, "That's my family foundation, keep dreaming."

"I'll pay extra to buy it."

"Pay extra?" Zhao Hong's tone softened.

"Mm."

"How much extra?"

"I don't know the market price well, Fourth Brother, you name a number."

Zhao Hong extended his thumb and little finger, "6 gold coins."

"You're too much of a rip-off, aren't you?" Zhao Chi blurted out.

"It's you who's a rip-off, wanting my family foundation, it must be more expensive."

"Fourth Brother, can't you just buy another one? It's not like you can't buy it, it just takes some time, if you say something too outrageous, I definitely won't buy it, and you won't make any money either."

Zhao Hong nodded, "Alright then, 4 gold coins."

Directly cut 2 gold coins...

How is this like playing around.

But 4 gold coins were actually expensive too.

However, buying from Zhao Hong was definitely more expensive than the market price, otherwise there would be no profit to be made, and he wouldn't sell it.

But Zhao Chi had checked the market before, this thing wasn't for sale for the time being, he could only buy it from him.

Expensive is expensive.

The most important thing was that the "Self-Select Medicine Treasure Chest" had the words "Self-Select," so there was a high probability of activating the "Transfer Flowers and Grafting Jade" talent.

Zhao Chi said, "Alright, 4 gold coins it is."

Zhao Hong said, "You don't have the money to buy it now, right? So this gold coin is also considered a loan, same, 20% interest, pay back in a month, no problem, right?"

"...No problem."

"Very good, sign." ===== CHAPTER 109 =====

System prompt:

[Zhao Hong sent a loan agreement]

Zhao Chi clicked to view.

The agreement content was fine.

A total loan of 14 gold coins, pay back 16.8 gold coins after one month, for every day delayed, pay an additional 1%, if unable to pay, go take out a loan to pay it back.

Standard usury.

But there was no choice, sign it.

Zhao Chi signed.

Instantly, 10 glittering gold coins appeared in his system space.

Cold to the touch in his hand.

And a copper treasure chest, very small and exquisite.

Zhao Chi nodded, "Thank you, goodbye."

Zhao Hong said, "Don't you dare tell anyone else."

Zhao Chi said, "Don't worry."

Zhao Chi pushed the door and went out, heading straight for the town.

He borrowed money this time to buy stocking fashion.

After buying it, he would improve it. Let Gu Qing and the others wear it to increase their leg defense.

"Stockings" and "Stocking Fashion" were two different things.

Ordinary stockings were very cheap, had no attributes, and could basically be bought for a few dozen copper coins a pair.

But stocking fashion was different.

Fashion was equipment, had attributes, and could provide bonuses to the wearer.

This was not in the same league.

The price of stocking fashion was about 5 silver coins a pair, although not too expensive, the durability of stockings was too low, so they could be considered consumables.

Calculating this way, it wasn't cheap.

It would be best if he could buy the blueprint.

With the stocking fashion blueprint, he could make them himself, which could save a lot of money.

The price of the stocking fashion blueprint wasn't expensive.

After all, although stocking fashion could provide bonuses, the magnitude of the bonus wasn't much.

And there were many other fashion items that could be equipped.

The fashion-specific equipment slots were limited.

Under competition, the price of the stocking blueprint wasn't too high.

If he couldn't buy the blueprint this time, he could only buy the fashion first.

There were few people on the road.

Zhao Chi took out the "Self-Select Medicine Treasure Chest" and opened it gently.

Radiating light.

24 types of medicines appeared before his eyes.

[Please choose any 3 types, you can choose repeatedly]

[Primary Life Pill] x100

[Primary Life Potion] x100

[Intermediate Life Pill] x25

[Intermediate Life Potion] x25

[Advanced Life Pill] x5

[Advanced Life Potion] x5

[Primary Stamina Pill] x100

[Primary Stamina Potion] x100

[Intermediate Stamina Pill] x25

[Intermediate Stamina...] x25

[Omitted]

These 24 types were all life, stamina, energy, and spiritual power medicines. ===== CHAPTER 110 =====

Divided into potions and pills.

Potions took effect very quickly, recovering all medicinal effects within 5 seconds of drinking.

Pills took effect more slowly, requiring 100 seconds after eating to recover all medicinal effects.

Whether primary, intermediate, or advanced, and whether pills or potions, all had a 10% drug resistance.

This determined that the higher the medicine level, the more worth using.

After all, no matter what medicine you eat, it accumulates 10% drug resistance.

Eating low-level medicines appeared to have very low cost-effectiveness.

However, correspondingly, the price of advanced medicines was more expensive.

So there were only 5 advanced medicines, while there were 100 primary medicines.

What Zhao Chi was concerned about at this moment was not these.

But whether he could use his talent.

He reached out and clicked wildly.

Swish!

Golden light lit up.

[Current treasure chest options have met the "Transfer Flowers and Grafting Jade" condition, transfer information?]

Zhao Chi's hanging heart was finally put down.

Very good.

Otherwise, it would be a loss.

Now he needed to choose 3 types from these 24.

Primary and intermediate medicines didn't even need to be looked at.

Just choose the advanced ones directly.

The types still needed to be considered.

Life medicines were definitely needed.

Although there was Gu Qing now, she was only one person after all.

By the day of the test, there would be a total of 80 female villagers, it would be hard for Gu Qing alone to take care of everyone.

So life medicines were a must.

Stamina medicines were also good.

Whether moving or attacking, stamina was consumed.

Especially when fighting enemies in close quarters, stamina would be consumed extremely quickly in a short time.

If both sides had armor and shields, it was hard to kill with one blow, often needing to break the opponent's armor first before attacking the enemy's body.

At this time, it was a battle of stamina.

However, although stamina was consumed quickly, it was also the fastest to recover.

Just resting for a few seconds could catch one's breath.

Resting for a dozen seconds could allow for another attack.

Looking at it this way, it was better to choose life medicines twice.

And energy was also important.

With sufficient energy, combat naturally performed well, and one could also unleash beautiful attacks and timely defenses.

However, for combat, the biggest use of energy was using martial arts.

Neither Zhao Chi nor Gu Qing knew martial arts, so the help of energy medicines wouldn't be great.

Although energy could also help with production, he could buy some primary energy pills later, so he wouldn't consume this precious opportunity.

As for spiritual power... almost a must-choose.

Both Zhao Chi and Gu Qing knew spiritual arts.

And spiritual power could only be recovered slowly over time.

So medicines were very needed.

Both of their skills were single-target skills, which could only be cast one after another.

In this world, there was no such thing as cooldown time.

As long as there was spiritual power, spiritual arts could be used at will.

Just like as long as there was stamina, one could keep running and keep attacking.

And the healing spiritual art Gu Qing used was completely unaffected by drug resistance.

Every time it was used, it was 100% effective, and the recovery speed was faster than potions.

So spiritual power medicines also had to be chosen.

Zhao Chi finally decided to choose life medicines twice and spiritual power medicine once.

Were they pills or potions?

Let's go with pills.

Potions took effect quickly, which was the best choice in some situations.

But although pills took effect slowly, the overall recovery amount was large, suitable for various situations.

So Zhao Chi decided to choose advanced life and spiritual power pills.

The golden light was still flashing.

[Current options have met the "Transfer Flowers and Grafting Jade" condition, transfer information?]

Choose to transfer.

[Please choose transfer target]

Choose:

[Advanced Life Pill] x5

[Advanced Spiritual Power Pill] x5

[Please choose transfer effect]

He randomly transferred the x100 of two primary medicines to these two advanced medicines.

After the transfer, these two advanced medicines became:

[Advanced Life Pill] x100

[Advanced Spiritual Power Pill] x100

[First time transferring treasure chest option data, restriction lifted, success rate 100%, confirm?]

The system prompted again, this time also lifting the restriction, so the success rate was 100%.

Next time, it probably wouldn't be like this.

Wanting to use this to get rich, maybe it wouldn't work?

But he didn't care about that now.

Zhao Chi clicked confirm.

[Please choose any 3 types]

Zhao Chi didn't choose.

Closed the treasure chest.

After all, he was in the big world now.

If he opened it now, 300 advanced medicines would appear, and he would have to pay a large amount of tax before bringing them back to the territory.

That would be a big loss.

Better to wait until he returned to the territory to open the treasure chest.

However, he could still see the effects of these two advanced medicines.

(Advanced Life Pill: After taking, can recover 200 life within 100 seconds, drug resistance 10%)

(Advanced Spiritual Power Pill: After taking, can recover 200 spiritual power within 100 seconds, drug resistance 10%)

The effects were not bad, after all, they were advanced, the values all reached 200 points.

In this world, there were many skills, talents, and equipment that could increase attributes like life.

For advanced lords, having several hundred life or spiritual power was very common, and could even reach over a thousand.

High-level soldiers could also reach these values.

Zhao Chi still needed time to reach those realms. ===== CHAPTER 111 =====