My Crazy Upgrade System

The Hundred-Change Mask helped put Shi Xueyun’s mind at ease, and she wasn’t as worried as before. However, she felt bad for making Yi Tianyun constantly run around and work so hard.

After putting Shi Xueyun’s mind at ease, Yi Tianyun began a frenzy of Artifact Refining and Alchemy while Merak Palace was in the middle of relocating. He used all the materials he had previously acquired to create a large batch of weapons and Elixir Pills, but instead of giving them to Shi Xueyun, he sold every last one!

"Superior-grade Spiritual Artifact. Sale price: 5,000 Madness Value. Confirm sale?"

"Sell!"

"Third-Grade Elixir Pill. Sale price: 3,000 Madness Value. Confirm sale?"

"Sell!"

"Superior-grade Spiritual Artifact..."

He sold every last one, leaving nothing behind. It was all for Madness Value!

’Madness Value! I need a massive amount of Madness Value!’

Yi Tianyun was about to go crazy. He wanted to upgrade his Dragon God Bloodline and Madness Mode, but the amount of Madness Value required was just too high. So, he sold off all the weapons and Martial Arts he had previously acquired in exchange for Madness Value.

After clearing everything out, he checked his stats.

Player: Yi Tianyun

Level: 30 (Tenth Level Core Formation Stage)

Experience Value: 1,887,532 / 8,500,000

Madness Value: 298,728

Merit Points: 230

Cultivation Technique: North Nether Divine Technique, Dragon God Technique, Profound Celestial Divine Technique

Skill: Star Absorption Technique, Blood Evil Ascending to Heaven

Weapon: Frost Fist, Blood Evil Divine Spear, Sword of Endlessness, Chaotic Celestial Saint Axe

Armor: Celestial God Armor, Shadow Cloak, Chaotic Heaven Divine Armor, Chaotic Heaven Battle Boots

Divine Skill: Madness Mode, Luck Aura

Bloodline: Dragon God Bloodline

Accessory: Forging Divine Hammer, Power Bracelet, Power Ring, Power Belt, Blood Evil Bracelet

Item: Recovery Elixir Pill (x18), Level 31 Gift Pack, Life x1, Bad Luck Divine Pill, Fivefold Experience Card, Gale Divine Pill

Treasure: Purple Fire Divine Furnace

Title: Guardian

Flame: Immortal Fire

Seeing how much Experience he still needed, he shook his head with a wry smile. Breaking through to the Spirit Pill Stage would undoubtedly require a horrifying amount of Experience. Therefore, he had no other choice but to go to a more powerful region to slay Demon Beasts and cultivate.

There was another option: leveling up through Artifact Refining and Alchemy! Truthfully, he had considered this, but it just wasn’t a viable strategy. First off, materials weren’t infinite. He would have to wait a long time to get a new batch of materials to work with, and the amount of Experience he gained from it wasn’t all that much.

Unless he had a massive stockpile of materials, waiting for them to trickle in just to level up via Artifact Refining was not a worthwhile trade-off. The threat from Cyan Profound Mansion was imminent; ’can I really afford to sit around and wait for materials?’

’Upgrade, Dragon God Bloodline!’

"Ding! 100,000 Madness Value has been deducted. Dragon God Bloodline successfully upgraded to Level 3! The next upgrade requires 500,000 Madness Value."

Just like that, 100,000 Madness Value vanished. That was the amount he would get for selling twenty superior-grade Spiritual Artifacts. In truth, he didn’t even have enough materials to forge that many in the first place.

’With only 200,000 Madness Value left, I can’t upgrade anything else...’

Yi Tianyun shook his head, a glint in his eye. A plan had already formed in his mind. ’It looks like my only option is to buy Tenfold Experience Cards. At 50,000 Madness Value each, I can buy almost four! As long as I go on a killing spree against Demon Beasts, my level is bound to skyrocket!’

He immediately opened the Shop, selected three Tenfold Experience Cards, and hit purchase. To his surprise, a message popped up: "Insufficient Madness Value to purchase the third card. Please revise your selection."

’What!?’ Yi Tianyun’s eyes widened. ’A Tenfold Experience Card costs 50,000 points, and I have almost 200,000. I can’t even buy three of them?’

After he changed his selection to two cards and completed the purchase, he was left with just under 50,000 points. The price for a Tenfold Experience Card in the shop had now skyrocketed to a staggering 150,000 Madness Value for a single card!

"What the hell!!"

Yi Tianyun was stunned. He thought he could buy three, but now he realized how naive he’d been. The price actually increased!

He checked the fine print: Consumables: Each purchase doubles the price of the next. No upper limit.

’This is a total rip-off!’

Yi Tianyun felt like cursing. This meant that after buying the third card, the fourth Tenfold Experience Card would cost a whopping 200,000 Madness Value! He knew that the Madness Value dropped from monsters would be substantial later on, but for now, this was just a total scam.

’Forget it. I’ll use what’s left to buy some lower-multiplier Experience Cards and a Madness Value Card too. This is just too much of a rip-off...’

Yi Tianyun shook his head. Without Madness Value, making any progress was next to impossible.

By this time, all the disciples of Merak Palace had finished relocating. They were stunned when they learned they could come and go from the Celestial Sinking Ruins as they pleased. To think they would be living in a place they had only ever dreamed of—how could they not be astonished?

It was now time for Yi Tianyun to depart. He had only lingered to see if any unforeseen problems would arise, but now that Merak Palace had finished relocating, it was time for him to leave.

"Aunt, I’m leaving now, but I’ll be back soon. I’ve already transferred control of this place to you, so you’re effectively its second master." Yi Tianyun could grant control rights to Shi Xueyun, but he remained the primary owner; there was simply more than one person with control now.

"Okay... you must be careful!" Shi Xueyun looked at him, her beautiful eyes holding so much she wanted to say, yet the words wouldn’t come out.

Yi Tianyun nodded. After one last glance at her, he turned and vanished into the distant forest. Shi Xueyun gazed after him for a long, long time, losing track of how long she stood at the entrance before finally, and reluctantly, she went back inside.

After saying his goodbyes, Yi Tianyun made a beeline for another region: the Celestial Realm Continent.

The place he had been was known as the Earth Realm Continent. However, the region he occupied was only a small part of it. The factions there generally peaked at the Second-Grade level; there were essentially no Third-Grade factions to be found.

The Celestial Realm Continent was different. It was much vaster, with more factions and more abundant resources. Cyan Profound Mansion was located here, but it was merely one faction among many other powerful ones.

His purpose for coming here was simple: to slay Demon Beasts! He had no plans to join any sect; he was here for the sole purpose of killing Demon Beasts.

The level of Demon Beasts in any given region was more or less fixed. Considering the amount of Experience he needed at his current cultivation level, he would have to kill tens of thousands of them just to level up. Even if he had the patience to do so, there simply weren’t enough Demon Beasts in his previous region for him to kill!

Therefore, his only option was to hunt Demon Beasts of a similar or higher cultivation level. That was the only way he could level up. And combining that with a Tenfold Experience Card was undoubtedly the most insane method of all.