Master of Kaidan-Chapter 524 - Constructing

Feng Xue paced back and forth in front of six stalls, and before long, he had acquired six booklets in his hand.

Yes, booklets.

Contrary to what Feng Xue had thought, each cultivation method was priced at only one dollar, ridiculously cheap compared to the prices of spiritual bodies and cursed items on the periphery, which were no less than a hundred thousand dollars. It was an extreme contrast.

But after some inquiry, he roughly understood the reason.

These six booklets were only basic versions, the type one could slowly figure out even without studying (for players who survive the newbie tasks), the type where even if one wanted to collect royalties, it wasn’t clear whom to pay. The real crux lay in the derivative branches of these six major systems.

According to the merchant, the six major systems resembled the fundamental classes in Diablo, where how one tapped into the potential of the classes depended on the build design (referring to gameplay where skill points are limited and must be strategically allocated). It also involved how to cultivate the most functional ghost with the least resources, how to choose newbie ghosts to maximize the starting advantage, and what to feed a ghost to increase the mutation rate, among others.

For example, all three Ghost System books mentioned a formula—if a hundred wandering souls devoured each other, a resentful spirit would inevitably be born, but if one simply bought a hundred random ghosts, the likelihood was that the result would be a useless high-level trash. How to adjust the type of ghosts to manipulate the strength and functionality of the final ghost product was information one had to pay for.

Feng Xue flipped through all six books and found that indeed, there was not much content. Besides the highly overlapping teachings on "controlling ghosts" and "controlling insects," the rest were merely specific methods of individual branches.

For instance, the Spirit Control System involved direct control of ghosts; the Spirit Communication System allowed one to have ghosts possess oneself; the Spirit Attachment System involved attaching ghosts to items or tools.

Correspondingly, Cultivating Insects involved breeding insects within one’s own body; Controlling Insects used one’s own insects to manipulate others’ insects, and Bug Cutting was about extracting insects from one’s body for control.

For players who planned to purchase subsequent paid features, they naturally could choose a system by actively selecting their ghosts/insects, while for wild players, they used whatever ghosts/insects they had.

"So, are there still people who play solo?"

Feng Xue grinned, but quickly realized he was overthinking it.

Because everyone had a limit to how many ghosts and insects they could carry; if one harbored too many ghosts, controlling them became difficult and they were likely to backfire, and nurturing too many insects could lead directly to losing control and becoming a monster.

Although these were not issues for Feng Xue, he did not want to choose either of those paths.

Insects aside, no matter which path one took, one had to awaken the insects within oneself. Although the Ghost System involved external entities, it also required establishing a connection at the soul level with the ghosts to be able to control them.

In Feng Xue’s view, the ghosts and insects of this world were likely derivatives of Kaidan, and establishing a connection with them was essentially akin to establishing a connection with the Kaidan of this world.

"Everything makes sense, but why hasn’t anyone been resurrected yet?"

The more Feng Xue understood the game mechanics, the more curious he became about this matter, especially since even player families had appeared. The mysterious game must have been around for decades, right?

Surely so many years couldn’t pass without any celebrity players emerging? Or was it that no celebrity player had ever died?

Glancing at his game countdown of 29 days, 23 hours, and 17 minutes, Feng Xue figured he really needed to go into the game to see for himself.

But before that...

"I really do need a disguise."

After some thought, Feng Xue applied a "Hard to Understand" on himself, ensuring he would hardly become a celebrity player, then approached the desk of the "Spirit Control" stall and said to the salesperson,

"Advanced knowledge of the Spirit Control System, one of each type, please!"

"???"

Watching the salesperson’s clearly skeptical expression, Feng Xue casually produced a pouch of gold coins and tossed it onto the table, nonchalantly saying,

"Cash or transfer, just give me a total."

"!!!"

The clerk was totally thrown off by Feng Xue’s aggressive attitude. Looking at that bag full of shiny gold coins, he reached out to feel their weight but realized they were too heavy to lift and quickly said,

"No problem, please wait a moment, I’ll have someone fetch the items."

A short while later, Feng Xue left the stall with a USB drive containing over thirty types of spirit control system ghost crafting diagrams and began a mad shopping spree across the entire player platform.

Wandering soul-level spiritual bodies weren’t worth much. Feng Xue just shouted out, and a mass of possession items were delivered to him. By the time he left the platform, he needed a burlap sack to carry all the possession items.

...

"I actually did it! I’m freaking brilliant!"

Three days later, Feng Xue looked at his achievements and sighed.

In those three days, he had used up over three thousand wandering souls, but the final products were just two.

This wasn’t because the tutorials he bought were wrong, but because, based on those tutorials, he had improvised a bit—

Considering the previous example of the pen spirit, Feng Xue transformed the ghostly possession items into illusion items.

Since the possession items were mostly likely to contain terms like "ghost" and "mysterious" because of the ghost’s attachment, although a lot of base materials were ruined, he still managed to get about a dozen illusion items, two of which met his requirements.

Afterward, following the pen spirit’s methods, Feng Xue used the feminization filter to give them ghostly forms and then, following the tutorial’s techniques, he cultivated them in a specific direction and actually succeeded in cultivating two illusion-derived wraiths.

"Equipment’s all set, time to get started."

Feng Xue equipped the two illusion items and took out an expensive steel pen, clipping it in the pocket on the front of his chest.

After learning the combat style of the ghosts in this world, the pen spirit’s combat abilities were also quite impressive and he was no longer just a pretty but dumb thing.

Glancing at the Public Security Bureau, still waiting for his return, Feng Xue silently apologized in his heart and then summoned his panel, selected the blue button, and with a flash of darkness, he was back at the player square.

"Boss, I’ve got some new wandering souls, nine percent off for you!"

"Nine percent off? Come on, boss, eight percent discount over here! All fresh!"

"Boss, this batch is all female ghosts! Top-notch figures and looks! You won’t regret raising them!"

"Don’t listen to him, boss. Those female ghosts he got are all scooped up from a gynecological hospital, as complicated as they get. Take a look at mine instead!"

...

Watching a flood of ghost sellers surge toward him like a tide, Feng Xue’s lips twitched as he reached into his chest pocket and gently caressed the silver pocket watch.

"Hey, where did he go?"

"It’s your fault, always competing like this."

"As if you weren’t competing too!"

...

The sellers scrambled away, cursing and muttering. Ten meters away, now in a different outfit, Feng Xue altered his facial features and then approached the notice board, ignoring the well-intentioned warnings from other players, and pressed the red button...

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