Chapter 611: World Wonder — Hunyuan Golden Lamp (First Update, Seeking Votes)

Hunyuan Golden Lamp (Damaged): A World Wonder that can manifest an Aura Cloud; one can hide within this cloud, which possesses powerful defensive capabilities. Due to its damaged state, it can gestate one Elemental Crystal every year.

Li Changsheng never imagined that this was actually a World Wonder; even if it was a damaged World Wonder, it remained extremely precious.

No matter how damaged the Hunyuan Golden Lamp is, it is far superior to the severely incomplete Xuan Kun Creation Stele, because being damaged simply means it is not missing parts and can be repaired.

Of course, the difficulty of repairing a World Wonder is naturally immense. From the fragments of Di Zhiyi's memories, he learned that repairing a World Wonder requires paying a massive price.

To be honest, if Li Changsheng said he wasn't coveting this Hunyuan Golden Lamp, he would absolutely be lying. What he values most is not its defensive capability, but the fact that it can gestate an Elemental Crystal every year; this point alone is precious enough.

This is only for the damaged Hunyuan Golden Lamp; if it were repaired, either the time interval would be significantly shortened, or it could gestate multiple Elemental Crystals at once.

Li Changsheng needs a large quantity of Wood Element Crystals to boost Kailan's Elemental Power and provide her with what she needs to complete her evolution.

It is just that as Kailan's Elemental Power reaches the Concentrated Grade, the difficulty of further improvement will definitely increase geometrically; if he were to rely solely on trading, he wouldn't know how much time it would consume.

Li Changsheng spent a year and only managed to get one large and three small Wood Element Crystals, which was still not enough to push Kailan's Elemental Power any further.

Furthermore, once Kailan's Elemental Power reaches the Vigorous Grade, how much time would it take to collect the next batch?

Therefore, Li Changsheng has made up his mind that he must obtain this Hunyuan Golden Lamp and then find a way to repair it.

However, upon seeing the Academic Credits required for the Hunyuan Golden Lamp, Li Changsheng could only shake his head and smile bitterly; this thing costs a full three million Academic Credits, which is truly outrageous.

However, the Hunyuan Golden Lamp is indeed worth this price.

The damaged Hunyuan Golden Lamp can gestate one Elemental Crystal every year, and even if it is only the size of an infant's fist, the market price is over ten thousand Soul Crystals.

According to the cost-effectiveness ratio of Academic Credits to Soul Crystals, it would take about four or five hundred years to break even.

Besides that, unlike other treasures, there is a description following the Hunyuan Golden Lamp: it was accidentally obtained by the first Principal in his early years while exploring a Desolate Secret Realm. Since the first Principal passed away, it has remained on the First Authority exchange list.

Similar to the Barrier Breaking Pill, to exchange for the damaged Hunyuan Golden Lamp, one must be a major contributor. Coupled with that high cost of three million Academic Credits, it is no wonder that two hundred years have passed and no one has exchanged for it.

Three million Academic Credits... with Li Changsheng's current strength, if he were to only do Academy missions, he would probably need to spend several decades to scrape it together.

Li Changsheng naturally cannot wait that long; he decided to use three methods to raise more Academic Credits.

First, exchange Soul Crystals for Academic Credits. With his current First Authority, he can exchange Soul Crystals for ten thousand Academic Credits every year, at a one-to-one ratio.

Second, exchange items that the Academy urgently needs with the Academy, just like the Alchemical Pill formulas Li Changsheng provided to the Academy in the past. However, one thing is certain: the items that can be exchanged are definitely few and far between.

Third, address the urgent needs of students, Instructors, and high-level officials, and pay a price to trade with them or borrow Academic Credits.

The third point seems good, but the cost is not small, and he must find targets who possess large amounts of Academic Credits; the best targets are the various high-level officials.

Li Changsheng plans to have Ning Bizhen help investigate who has accumulated the most Academic Credits in Yuanling Academy.

However, logically speaking, the accumulations of newly promoted high-level officials like Lu Qian, Xu Fanghua, and Qian Yuanfei are likely not as high as those of Zhang Kaishuo and Ning Wei.

One thing is certain: even if Li Changsheng uses these three methods, it will still take a considerable amount of time.

"How many Academic Credits can those three top-tier Alchemical Pill formulas be exchanged for?"

In order to raise a large sum of Academic Credits, Li Changsheng subconsciously set his sights on the three top-tier Alchemical Pill formulas.

But the next moment, he dismissed this idea. Yuanling Academy is an academy of the Langya Kingdom, and the Imperial Family could easily copy a set.

This can be seen from the Imperial Family's Yuyan Pavilion and the Secret Technique Pavilion; Li Changsheng discovered that any Demon Taming Art or Secret Technique possessed by Yuanling Academy is also possessed by the Imperial Family, without any omissions.

Because of this, whether it is top-tier Alchemical Pill formulas, top-tier Demon Taming Arts, or top-tier Secret Techniques, Li Changsheng has no intention of exchanging them.

In this way, he is more inclined to exchange treasures, with the Red Fire Dragon Scale Fruit being his first choice.

"A Barrier Breaking Pill can sell for two hundred thousand Academic Credits, so a Red Fire Dragon Scale Fruit should be able to sell for at least five hundred thousand, right?"

Thinking of the Barrier Breaking Pill, Li Changsheng remembered the Red Fire Dragon Scale Fruit, which has significantly better efficacy.

The Barrier Breaking Pill can only increase the breakthrough probability by less than twenty percent, while the Red Fire Dragon Scale Fruit offers a full fifty percent; the gap is naturally not small.

Unfortunately, Li Changsheng only has two Red Fire Dragon Scale Fruits left in his hands.

One is to be given to the Crowned Blazing Bird to consume, and the other he plans to give to Ning Bizhen, as the latter also has a red dragon, though it has not yet reached Lord 9th Rank.

Besides the Red Fire Dragon Scale Fruit, Li Changsheng has many other treasures available for exchange, especially the Wanxiang Guiyuan Pill and Bloodline Potion produced by Kailan.

Among them, the Wanxiang Guiyuan Pill is a high-level Alchemical Pill used to assist in breaking through to the Leader rank.

"I should inquire first; if anyone has a large amount of Academic Credits, I can also trade for them using Divine Beast Essence Blood."

For Li Changsheng, this is the best method. In addition to the Divine Beast Essence Blood he needs for himself, Li Changsheng has inadvertently accumulated the essence blood of other Divine Beasts, and some types even exceed one jar.

Of course, doing this occasionally is fine, but doing it too much easily invites suspicion.

After making his decision, Li Changsheng began a two-pronged approach: on one hand, he had Ning Bizhen investigate the Academic Credits accumulated by various high-level officials, and on the other, he headed to Xu Wenhua's office to exchange some surplus items with the Academy.

The Principal's office!

Li Changsheng stated his purpose to Xu Wenhua and took out a large pile of items.

Looking at this pile of items, Xu Wenhua was also amazed and began to pick and choose.

Soon, Xu Wenhua finished selecting; in the end, only a few items met the requirements.

The time spent picking was very short, but conversely, the pricing was much more troublesome.

Xu Wenhua spent quite a bit of time before he spoke: "Green Dragon Scale Armor for five thousand Academic Credits, Ancestral Black Dragon Scale Armor for thirty thousand Academic Credits, Yinhun Wood Pendant for one thousand Academic Credits each, Wanxiang Guiyuan Pill for five thousand Academic Credits each, Bloodline Potion for twenty thousand Academic Credits per portion... do you want to exchange all of them?"

"Yes!"

Li Changsheng nodded; he had kept some of the Ancestral Black Dragon Scale Armor and Yinhun Wood Pendants.

"A total of two hundred and thirty-eight thousand Academic Credits."

Li Changsheng handed his Golden Student Token to Xu Wenhua. Since this was a large amount of Academic Credits, the procedures required were relatively cumbersome, such as needing other high-level officials to supervise to avoid the possibility of embezzlement.

Not long after, Xu Wenhua completed the procedures and returned the Student Token to Li Changsheng.

Adding his previous accumulation and the fifty thousand Academic Credit reward, Li Changsheng had a total of just over three hundred thousand Academic Credits.

Xu Wenhua began to entice him: "Changsheng, do you need to exchange for any items?"

"I have no thoughts of exchanging for anything for the time being."

Li Changsheng still resisted the temptation and temporarily dismissed the idea of exchanging, deciding to wait until he had gathered 1.5 million Academic Credits before exchanging for the Hunyuan Golden Lamp.

He plans to have his three channels go all out to acquire high-level demon corpses and other materials for making Bloodline Potions and Wanxiang Guiyuan Pills after he returns, and once Kailan produces the finished products, he will exchange them with the Academy.

Although the cost of materials is also not small, there is a large gap between the material price and the cost price; once Li Changsheng produces the Imitation Demon Refining Pot, the cost of making Bloodline Potions will inevitably drop further.

After leaving the Principal's office, the sky had already darkened, and Li Zhangsheng headed straight for the Treasure Pavilion.

At the entrance to the Treasure Pavilion Third Floor, Li Zhangsheng took out his voucher and, ignoring the Restriction at the entrance, stepped forward.

Pop~

The moment he made contact with the energy Restriction, the voucher emitted a glimmer of light, allowing Li Zhangsheng to enter the third floor without obstruction.

In the room, Li Zhangsheng looked toward the only desk, upon which were placed over a dozen sealed Treasure Boxes.

Compared to last year, not only had the number of Treasure Boxes here not decreased, but there were actually two more, which was very likely the work of Xu Wenhua.

Just like last year, it was still impossible to project Mental Power here; Li Zhangsheng could only shake his head and use the voucher to open the first Treasure Box.

The instant they made contact, the voucher and the Treasure Box simultaneously emitted a seven-colored light, which vanished in the blink of an eye.

At the same time the Restriction on the Treasure Box disappeared, the light on the voucher also dimmed significantly.

This type of one-time-use voucher became useless after being used once, but this time Li Zhangsheng had three in total, and he did not know what kind of treasures he would be able to open.

Li Zhangsheng impatiently opened the Treasure Box; the box was large, but the item inside was only a fruit shell submerged in green liquid.

"To be placed here so carefully, this shouldn't be a prank, right?"

Li Zhangsheng thought to himself, and casually picked up the piece of Wood beside the fruit shell, which contained a detailed description of the fruit shell.

This was a fruit shell obtained by the ninth-generation Principal in some Ruins, and because it contained powerful Starlight Power, he brought it back.

It was just that the ninth-generation Principal had absolutely no interest in cultivating Top-tier Spiritual Plants, so he left it here.

It was fortunate that the fruit shell was encased in Life Water; otherwise, after so many years, even a Top-tier Spiritual Plant's fruit shell would likely have been ruined.

As for what kind of Spiritual Plant could be cultivated, there was no record at all on the piece of Wood; clearly, the ninth-generation Principal had not taken the fruit shell to heart.

Li Zhangsheng shook his head, stored the fruit shell in his Space Ring, and prepared to investigate it with his Mental Power after returning, before opening the second Treasure Box.

This time, a golden, multi-angled scale lay quietly inside the Treasure Box.

The key was its size; this scale was larger than a water bucket, and it was significantly larger than the Dragon Scale of an ancestral black dragon, so it was clear its owner was a big fellow.

Furthermore, Li Zhangsheng could feel that the scale was still faintly emitting a sense of Pressure.

(End of this chapter)