Chapter 604: Chapter 332: New Year and the Town Construction Order (Part 2)

Additionally, you only need to complete designated tasks each month to earn a considerable number of points and contributions. Elite disciples who rank high in monthly contributions can rent the legendary Basic Meditation Room for an entire day for free, which for people with low comprehension is a place where you can truly soar.

"Hall Master, there’s one more thing." Hou Fei suddenly remembered something and said cautiously, "According to what my ancestors said, when they left the Restricted Area, it was during the New Year in January. Other teams leaving the First Domain City at that time never received any news upon leaving the Restricted Area. My ancestors believe this time point is crucial and could be key to exiting the Restricted Area."

"New Year, huh?" Lin Qi nodded, "Alright, I’ll remember that."

According to the intelligence provided by Cangyi City, the Restricted Area is indeed very time-sensitive, and not every time point is suitable for exploration. The time points suitable for exploration differ for Restricted Areas in various regions. Entering at unsafe time points makes it as if the difficulty suddenly shifts from simple to hellish; such insights were gained through life-risking information from major top powers.

Hou Fei’s ancestors were undoubtedly very lucky to exit the Restricted Area of the Wraith Mountain Range during a safe time point; otherwise, their outcome might have been the same as other teams that left the First Domain City.

After speaking, Hou Fei respectfully left the Basic Meditation Room and immediately went to find Qin Mu.

With Hou Fei’s departure, Lin Qi finally opened the system panel and focused on the hidden building reward, the Advanced Rest Room.

"Looks like this thing must be used." Lin Qi said with some regret as he looked at the introduction of the Advanced Rest Room.

The Advanced Rest Room can be considered an evolved building of the Rest House.

For Rest Houses, normally every ten thousand units of energy transforms a room into a Rest House that can accommodate ten players.

The Advanced Rest Room is more powerful; one room can bring in five hundred players. The only downside is the use of Energy Crystal Stones, costing ten thousand Energy Crystal Stones per room, essentially a luxury, intended for affluent users.

The only benefit is that it saves a lot of space for the Martial Arts Hall, indirectly saving a considerable amount of time needed for constructing rooms.

Just like now, the Martial Arts Halls in Chasing Light City and Red Moon Town are still expanding continuously because too many Rest Houses need to be built. Especially after bringing in tens of thousands of players, over a thousand rooms have already used up over ninety percent of the rooms built during this time at the Martial Arts Hall, resulting in no available rooms for quick refurbishing to bring in a large number of players.

Now that they know the information regarding the First City, there is an urgent need to quickly increase personnel. After all, the existing players can hardly support Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall in both developing trade routes and exploring Restricted Areas.

Not to mention that with the certain increase in player numbers, energy blood essence needed for those advancing to the Blood Coagulation Realm will also grow, making the transformation equipment of the First City extremely important.

In dealings with Celestial River Domain City, even if they sell equipment to produce energy blood essence, a set costs two million Energy Crystal Stones but produces only twelve Energy Blood Essences a year.

Not to mention whether there are enough cities on his end, with one set costing two million Energy Crystal Stones, the few million Energy Crystal Stones he earns can’t buy many sets, let alone accumulate energy blood essence over time, which is something the Four Domains clearly don’t have much of right now.

Even though further cooperation with Celestial River Domain City by continuously selling Martial Arts Hall buildings could earn energy blood essence, that can’t be achieved in a short time.

And even if it were, the number of players it could supply would be extremely limited.

The numerous Blood Coagulation Realm cultivators trained within Domain City require a lot of energy blood essence just to meet the daily needs of Blood Coagulation Realm martial artists. The amount made available by Domain City comes from years of accumulation and cannot be sustained long-term.

The only enduring solution lies in the transformation equipment of the First Domain City.

The Smiling Skull has long entrenched itself within the Wraith Mountain Range, fated to not possess many cities or significant strongholds, yet the Smiling Skull can sustain a substantial number of Blood Coagulation Realm cultivators similar to the immensely resourceful forces of the Red Moon Commerce and Earth Star Pharmaceutical, indicating the remarkably efficient transformation equipment of the First Domain City. The output simply cannot be matched by the equipment of the Four Domain Cities.

If he could obtain such transformational equipment in large quantities and even produce them himself, future players following the path to the Blood Coagulation Realm wouldn’t have worries, and they would face the major problem of the Restricted Areas with more confidence.

"However, given the current cultivation facilities of the Martial Arts Hall, it’s already very tight and cannot bring in too many players at once. With over half a month until New Year, let’s start by bringing in two thousand people a day and increase the number as cultivation facilities come online."

Lin Qi planned for a moment and then spent a whole million Energy Crystal Stones to modify a hundred Advanced Rest Rooms, allowing other workers to focus entirely on building Intermediate Gravity Rooms, Advanced Training Rooms, Basic Meditation Rooms, Martial Practice Fields, and Basic Cultivation Towers, rather than wasting time constructing Rest Houses.

With the sudden increase in daily player slots, many waiting players were overjoyed, loudly proclaiming that the game developers had finally acted reasonably. However, players already in the game felt the competitive pressure intensifying.

Originally, as Descent of High Martial grew more popular with increasing attention and drawing interest from more gaming studios and guilds, and with skilled players joining the game in larger numbers, the sudden surge in player slots made competition for wild resources even more astonishingly fierce.