Huh? Isn't this an adventure kingdom building game?!-Chapter 676 - 664: Prajna Hall

The fact proves that the system can be quite cunning; genuine good deeds don’t earn you rewards at all!

After failing once, Jiang Yuan gave up on the idea of negotiating with the Buddhist cultivators to donate again to exploit a loophole for rewards. He sat in a quiet room drinking tea, taking stock of his spoils along the way.

First and foremost is the most important - lifespan.

Firstly, the Soul-Devouring Demon Skill upgraded to Level Two, improving its efficiency; secondly, the realms of these hundred or so evil cultivators varied, with not a short lifespan among them. Some could even endure long enough for him to extract several decades!

When he first acquired the Soul-Devouring Demon Skill, the evil cultivators he encountered were probably quite weak, and they didn’t have much lifespan. Each time, he could only purify a few months, and at most one or two years. The most a whole evil cultivator could contribute was just over a decade.

Now, catching one with a long lifespan and sucking dry, thirty to forty years is achievable.

Over ten thousand years of lifespan, just thinking about it makes one’s mouth curl up uncontrollably. This is solid, life-saving potential, crucial in critical moments!

Next is the Spirit Stones obtained from ransacking.

After donating five million, the current account balance stands at over 17 million Spirit Stones, with plenty in hand once more; then there are the Zhao Family’s three brothers - Fu, Lu, and Gui, and their higher status female families and stewards, from whom a total of eleven storage bags were looted. In twelve hours, once unlocked, they could be opened and inspected;

Finally, the most abundant - various tools rewarded by the system.

The Family Upgrade Card can uniformly elevate the strength of all the members in the courtyard by one realm; however, there is only one Skill Upgrade Card, so to whom should it be given?

The gaze stopped on the two Level Three flames, using the upgrade card on them would surely be the most cost-effective.

However, if the Earth Spirit Flame upgrades, the attack capability and range increase significantly, and it can provide a fire resistance buff; whereas if the Ice Flame advances to Level Four, its ability to purify filth enhances, and it’s most adept in dealing with the bizarre.

Which should one choose?

The system really, couldn’t it have given two upgrade cards? With only this one facing the two eagerly awaiting divine fires, the choice is difficult.

There’s also only one Building Upgrade Card, and in the courtyard so many workshops are interlinked, missing any one wouldn’t do.

Jiang Yuan sighed softly, unwarrantedly remembering a Fu Card event during a certain treasure’s Spring Festival. If the system could learn to distribute Fu Cards, needing whichever you wish, how wonderful that would be.

Then he thought again, with the effort of issuing Fu Cards for a probability draw, why not just give out the upgrade cards directly, wouldn’t that be more practical?

Forget it, just try harder at taking on more tasks to earn tools.

He sat in the quiet room, lost in wild thoughts; Master Zhiming stood beside Abbot Faxuan, letting his mind gallop as well—the Cold Spring Temple, since its establishment, has rarely issued bounty orders, only in times of dire urgency needing the city’s populace to unite against external foes.

Also because the tasks corresponding to the bounty orders were not of Little Karami level, observing the history of all bounty orders, those able to earn rewards beyond one or two orders occupied ninety-eight percent; those surpassing three were exceptionally outstanding, and those breaking into double digits were rare geniuses.

Yet tonight, there suddenly emerged a divine being trading rewards for a three-digit figure, further validating Zhiming’s original suspicion, this young man must have the assistance of a divine artifact!

So what reward should be given?

He looked at the abbot brother with his eyes closed, fingers rotating Buddhist beads, musing to himself, if it were up to me to decide, I would surely have a headache too!

"Since a bounty was issued to request external assistance to slay evil cultivators, there’s no need to question one’s methods. Even if he devoured and ripped apart the evil cultivators piece by piece, it’s still Patron Jiang’s capability." After a good while, Abbot Faxuan spoke: "For slaying a few evil cultivators, gifting the golden fountain and cold jade suffices;

But for slaying over a hundred, it seems like entering the Cold Pool to take gold and jade would seem like an effortless task for Patron Jiang, and offering them as gifts would not show sincerity. How about..."

He slowly opened his eyes, his voice growing increasingly solemn, "Invite Patron Jiang to the Prajna Hall, where the head of Prajna Hall, Zhi Xian, will lead him into the rear hall. As for what Patron Jiang can comprehend within, it depends on his fortune."

Upon hearing this, Zhiming couldn’t help but be stunned, as the Prajna Hall is where returned wandering monks of Cold Spring Temple report their sightings of other cultivators’ techniques and skills from outside.

The Buddhist cultivators in the temple do not deliberately steal learning, but record what they see only for the study, compilation, and collection of cultivation techniques, accumulating over the years, it harbors countless theoretical resources about external cultivation techniques, making it a great treasure of Cold Spring Temple.

Though unrelated to the temple’s technique inheritance, allowing Patron Jiang entry to the rear hall of Prajna Hall to freely peruse, this treatment is indeed akin to an elder of the temple!

"Patron Jiang returned the Jade Throne Golden Buddha first on this trip, which is a great favor to Cold Spring Temple;" Faxuan patiently explained, seeing his hesitation: "Then, he actively responded to the bounty order and charged forward to slay the evil cultivators.

Taking on one against a hundred, with lightning speed that left no room for the evil cultivators trapped in the city to rally and form a threat.

Consequently, almost all evil cultivators were eradicated overnight, and the city’s populace suffered minimal casualties in this chaos. Patron Jiang has done great deeds for Cold Spring Temple and Cold Spring City, and since we have been favored, we should certainly repay it with all our might."

Zhiming agreed, "Yes, I’ll make the arrangements now."

Watching his retreating back, Faxuan, who was originally worried that the city’s revolt would result in a bloodbath, finally breathed a sigh of relief; the timely appearance of Patron Jiang tonight was truly a blessing for Cold Spring City!

Hopefully, he will gain something and the trip will not be in vain.

"What is the Prajna Hall?" Jiang Yuan, upon hearing that the reward was not gold or jade but rather entry into a temple’s rear hall, was suddenly filled with question marks.

He didn’t know much about Buddhist temples, and being able to correctly pronounce "Prajna" was thanks to a certain mobile game.