65: A-level talent, Flame

Asked Zheng Dong: "Hello, I'm from Safe Zone Seven. How exactly are you selling these secret manuals? We can trade with talent upgrade stones."

Tang Ping saw it was from an official Safe Zone and immediately perked up. When it came to wealth, who could compare to these official Safe Zones now? They definitely had a lot of good stuff!

However, what he needed now were only talent upgrade stones.

Tang Ping: "I need B-Rank and A-Rank talent upgrade stones. Do you have them?"

Asked Zheng Dong: "Yes, but we need to trade for ten secret manuals."

Tang Ping: "I don't have that many. Including those already sold, I only have five in total. There are still three that haven't been publicly sold, which I can trade to you."

The other party replied after a while.

Asked Zheng Dong: "Okay, but this can only be traded for one b-rank talent upgrade stone."

Tang Ping: "I want both."

Asked Zheng Dong: "These items of yours can be resold. Trading them for two talent upgrade stones is simply not a matching value."

Tang Ping: "Trading with you is a one-time deal. When you make them public in the Safe Zone, they will likely spread online very quickly. At that point, I will be the only one losing out. So, overall, my secret manuals are most valuable in this first trade, and naturally deserve a higher price. Moreover, with these, the strength of your army will also greatly increase."

Tang Ping: "This is a very fair trade, isn't it?"

Asked Zheng Dong: "Our people are strictly disciplined and would not do such a thing."

Tang Ping: "Do you believe that yourself?"

The other party replied again after some time.

Asked Zheng Dong: "Alright, we agree to the trade, but for these five secret manuals, we will also gain the right to freely trade them."

Tang Ping: "I can't control that anyway."

Asked Zheng Dong: "Alright then, I have sent you a trade request."

Tang Ping also took out the secret manuals. Besides Flame Blade Art and the Water Sword Art that was currently for sale, the remaining three secret manuals he had already traded with Mo Xuanji, so they were considered a second sale.

The trade was completed, and Tang Ping finally obtained a b-rank talent upgrade stone and an A-Rank talent upgrade stone!

"First, upgrade the Talent."

His C-Rank Blazing Flame Talent had now reached level 4. To upgrade to level 5, it required 100,000 experience points. Most of these experience points would definitely have to come from Treasure Dungeons.

Even in later generations, a hundred years from now, very few Talents reaching above level 5 were purely raised through experience stones. Most relied on farming monsters in Treasure Dungeons and cultivating in secret lands.

Secret lands are something only level six shelters possess. Players inside can improve their experience points through meditation and cultivation. This is also the foundation of those top transcendent families.

Of course, besides level six shelters, secret lands can also be obtained through other means, but the size of secret lands varies, and the maximum daily experience points also differ.

A normal level six shelter's secret land has a maximum daily experience point cap of 100. That's 36,500 experience points a year. Theoretically, one could cultivate a Level Five Talent User in three years, but this is only theoretical. Because relying on the meditation method that comes with the secret land, even if one cultivates the meditation method to perfection, one can only gain 50 experience points daily.

The remaining experience points can be saved or used by other Talent Users.

So, normally, in a top transcendent family in later generations, even with a talented prodigy with good comprehension, it would still take ten years to cultivate a Level Five, and several decades to cultivate a level six. Maintaining a continuous stream of level six powerhouses, with Talents no lower than A-Rank, is already quite good.

After all, Treasure Dungeons mostly appeared only in the first thirty years of the Doomsday Game. Most level seven players also successfully broke through to level seven before these thirty years.

It's difficult to break through to level seven later on.

Tang Ping also knew a little about Treasure Dungeons. Those Hegemon-level Powers did have permanent Treasure Dungeons that could be opened periodically.

As for the Doomsday Wasteland in later generations, they were basically no longer seen.

Ordinary Talent Users who wanted to advance mostly had to rely on these major powers.

The experience points from a level six shelter's secret land can also be extracted and condensed into experience stones. However, these experience stones are not like the experience stones produced by the system that can be used with one click for an instant boost. The experience stones produced by secret lands require meditation for absorption.

In this regard, it is very similar to the spirit stones in a cultivation world.

And these experience stones are also called acquired experience stones.

Most wild Talent Users also rely on these circulating acquired experience stones to improve their strength.

In high-level trading places, experience stones are also the mainstream currency.

Various Safe Zones trade with each other, mostly settling with experience stones. As for their own currency, it only circulates within their own jurisdiction.

After using the two talent upgrade stones.

Tang Ping's first Talent finally upgraded to A-Rank.

A-Rank Talent, Flame Blaze!

A pure high temperature, an extremely hot golden-red flame!

Before upgrading his Talent, Tang Ping also used up the b-rank experience stones he had accumulated. As for the a-rank experience stones, he planned to take them back to later generations.

"One hundred thousand experience points." Tang Ping opened his eyes, the golden-red flames at the corners of his eyes slowly dissipating. Looking at the experience points required for his two Talents on his panel, Tang Ping sighed lightly. One needed ten thousand, and the other needed one hundred thousand.

"This is only level 3 and level 4. If it reaches level 5, then it will be a million experience points to upgrade further."

Tang Ping gasped, and as for what came after, he dared not even imagine.

To become a Heavenly King, even he would probably need an extremely long time.

Just as he was about to prepare to cultivate the breathing technique, this transcendent cultivation method that could improve his four-dimensional attributes, a voice sounded in Tang Ping's ear.

This voice was a girl's, like... a prayer to a deity.

Tang Ping was a bit startled, not knowing what had happened.

Then, Tang Ping saw a flower emitting a soft glow appear in front of him. The flower was still in a phantom state.

"Your Magical Girl is sick with longing, and at the cost of severe injury, she picked a rose of light for you and offered it as a sacrifice. Do you accept it?"